Not during our founding, fool, during the war that founded it. England declared what were then English citizens to be terrorists.
Our country was born from war and terrorism (refusal to follow rules of warfare, ambushes, guerrilla tactics.) This is pure unstated fact. Morons that need citations didn't pay attention in school or received a very poor education.
'That is a false statement. Terrorism is not a birthright, whether one is American or not."
Our founding fathers were considered terrorists when they created this country. It is most certainly our birthright, terrorism against our oppressors, against those that would do injustice to us or our country. We have the inherent right to revolt as stated by many founding fathers and even our first elected president. Did you fall asleep in history class, or did you just have the misfortune of attending one with revisionist books?
Sure, keep the people totally out of the loop, so when shit goes down they're totally ill-equipped to deal with any situation.
I see someone fails to see what real security is - being able to do anything openly without fear. If you're afraid to do it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
"I am pretty sure, the answer is a resounding "Yes"."
You need to leave our country, then. Take ONE look at what our government has done to our own people FIRST (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, MK-ULTRA, etc.) and tell me they need the power to make secrets. FUCK THAT NOISE.
Anybody that refuses to use some common sense and see that HUGE POWERFUL ENTITIES keeping secrets is a bad thing should probably just get out of this country. We don't need dead ignorant weight slowing us down.
"it truly is a matter of life or death in many circumstances. "
Yes, the government's life or death. The government keeps secrets so we don't string them up by their fucking necks.
That's about to happen anyways. Civil war is brewing in the USA and it's about to come to a head. Silent meetings, etc. about 50 million people are about to rise up and end this bullshit once and for all.
Thank god the US Military is only about 1.7 million people and a fair majority of the type of citizens that would fight the government far outnumber those, almost 40:1.
"Prove the above with references from reputable, neutral sources."
How about... I'm an American, and terrorism is my birthright? Torture wouldn't stop me from doing anything, and in fact it would make me more likely to seek revenge in a destructive manner. in fact, my very criminal record could very likely go towards proving such a thing.
"However, since there are some things that must legitimately and justly be kept secret a blanket rule of non-secrecy is not possible."
If the government needs to keep it secret from us - it is inherently wrong and immoral, and unethical. We are their bosses - they report to US. WE should have the secrets, not them.
Ah, but I don't live in LA, I live an hour and a half away, out in the boonies/desert. Maybe 50K population, if that. Overpopulated is a huge misstatement for this area.
"And then there are a number of conservative urban areas"
"San Bernardino,"
I live here, and it is nowhere as conservative as you make it sound. We just had a CANNABIS CUP held here, for crying out loud! Cypress Hill, vape bags flying around, the works!
Conservative? Only with the elected officials, and they're not going to be around much longer now that the area has tasted the money legalized and regulated medical marijuana brings in.
Having lived in both Tennessee and California, let me say Tennessee is more expensive.
What I couldn't live on in TN I most certainly can in CA.
Public smoking bans I can approve of and I'm a freight train when it comes to smoking. If the place is a place meant for smoking (hookah bars, cigar shops) let smoking exist there. Otherwise, confine it to the home or in your vehicle. Auto requirements, FUCK YES, half the shit from LA settles into our area and hangs there for a few days until either a strong sea breeze blows it away or rain comes and washes it out of the air. WE NEED MORE AUTO REGULATION. Trash sorting, I'm kinda iffy about. We have things that could easily determine/sort automatically by capacitance or conductivity, why make us do it when there's more efficient technology to do it for us? Can't speak about the curriculum (So glad I have those years behind me) and while the list goes on and on, most of the problem lies with the PEOPLE, not the state itself.
As often as cable modems break and cable networks switch IP addresses (unless you pay extra for the static IP) I pretty much fail to see how they'll build any reliable database from the cable side of things, as far as IP addresses are concerned (which are not reliable identifiers anyways.)
I'm on my 10th IP address in two days and my THIRD cable modem in two months, just to give you an indication.
"MobileMe + ActiveSync is highly discouraged by all of the Apple support reps I've spoken with, and to date, my boss has had nothing but nightmares involving the combination of the two."
Getting those two to work together is as easy as controlling two computers with Synergy.
Boss needs to be fired if he's not that competent.
"The iPhone has enterprise tools available for anti-theft, too. "
Every single one of them useless the moment I turn off the phone and clip the antenna wires so it can't get a signal or just add more wire to completely fuck the antenna. Then it's free reign and I can take all the time I want breaking the encryption.
Been there, done that, give me something that's actually new and interesting. I have many friends with iPhones and they're always bringing them to me. Anything Apple can do I've already got circumventions around. Until they physically make the inside of the case inaccessible, their software is totally fucking useless.
"Overall, AT&T's 3G coverage is faster than Verizon's."
Really? I doubt that, considering AT&T's network has been clogged and hasn't expanded much for the past decade while Verizon has been constantly expanding.
Oh, and I never got more than 50K/s in NY on AT&T 3G network - never under 122K/s with Verizon 3G. Here in California, it's almost the exact same issue.
"With apples current approach the buck stops with apple."
No, it actually stops with ME. I can exploit the iPhone OS software and all it takes is you connecting to my Wireless AP. Already having fun pissing off people that come to my house and realize their iPhone QUIT WORKING.
Apple better let those guys get security software made, or Apple is not going to be happy when I sell my exploit.
The OS is rarely exploited, and in fact Windows is fairly secure.
ADOBE is the fucking issue, as noted by the consistent hack-a-mac contest winner. Always Adobe which gets compromised. Always some THIRD PARTY NON-STANDARD that fucks everything up.
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"Apple don't have any proprietary audio or video formats."
Excuse me? ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) is 100% proprietary and belongs to Apple. Of course, it has been reverse engineered.
"It's not for everyone, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it"
The fact it costs about as much as a netbook with about half the hardware and no multitasking, I'd call that an obvious inherent flaw.
Not during our founding, fool, during the war that founded it. England declared what were then English citizens to be terrorists.
Our country was born from war and terrorism (refusal to follow rules of warfare, ambushes, guerrilla tactics.) This is pure unstated fact. Morons that need citations didn't pay attention in school or received a very poor education.
'That is a false statement. Terrorism is not a birthright, whether one is American or not."
Our founding fathers were considered terrorists when they created this country. It is most certainly our birthright, terrorism against our oppressors, against those that would do injustice to us or our country. We have the inherent right to revolt as stated by many founding fathers and even our first elected president. Did you fall asleep in history class, or did you just have the misfortune of attending one with revisionist books?
Sure, keep the people totally out of the loop, so when shit goes down they're totally ill-equipped to deal with any situation.
I see someone fails to see what real security is - being able to do anything openly without fear. If you're afraid to do it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
"I am pretty sure, the answer is a resounding "Yes"."
You need to leave our country, then. Take ONE look at what our government has done to our own people FIRST (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, MK-ULTRA, etc.) and tell me they need the power to make secrets. FUCK THAT NOISE.
Anybody that refuses to use some common sense and see that HUGE POWERFUL ENTITIES keeping secrets is a bad thing should probably just get out of this country. We don't need dead ignorant weight slowing us down.
"it truly is a matter of life or death in many circumstances. "
Yes, the government's life or death. The government keeps secrets so we don't string them up by their fucking necks.
That's about to happen anyways. Civil war is brewing in the USA and it's about to come to a head. Silent meetings, etc. about 50 million people are about to rise up and end this bullshit once and for all.
Thank god the US Military is only about 1.7 million people and a fair majority of the type of citizens that would fight the government far outnumber those, almost 40:1.
"Prove the above with references from reputable, neutral sources."
How about... I'm an American, and terrorism is my birthright? Torture wouldn't stop me from doing anything, and in fact it would make me more likely to seek revenge in a destructive manner.
in fact, my very criminal record could very likely go towards proving such a thing.
"However, since there are some things that must legitimately and justly be kept secret a blanket rule of non-secrecy is not possible."
If the government needs to keep it secret from us - it is inherently wrong and immoral, and unethical. We are their bosses - they report to US. WE should have the secrets, not them.
"What the fuck is "crowdsourcing"?"
See "The Price is Right" and you have your answer.
Any other shit you read on wikipedia is nonsense.
SCO *IS* dead, if you want it *GONE* you need to toss a Phoenix Down at it!
Tell me - do you live in an area with constant brownouts where you constantly lose your IP lease and power surges fry your equipment?
Those aren't too nice for equipment, and the UPS stays dedicated to my servers and the router - the internet can die AFAIC.
Ah, but I don't live in LA, I live an hour and a half away, out in the boonies/desert. Maybe 50K population, if that. Overpopulated is a huge misstatement for this area.
As soon as I saw both moderations in my e-mail, I couldn't stop laughing. I'm an insightful troll, am I?
"And then there are a number of conservative urban areas"
"San Bernardino,"
I live here, and it is nowhere as conservative as you make it sound. We just had a CANNABIS CUP held here, for crying out loud! Cypress Hill, vape bags flying around, the works!
Conservative? Only with the elected officials, and they're not going to be around much longer now that the area has tasted the money legalized and regulated medical marijuana brings in.
Having lived in both Tennessee and California, let me say Tennessee is more expensive.
What I couldn't live on in TN I most certainly can in CA.
Public smoking bans I can approve of and I'm a freight train when it comes to smoking. If the place is a place meant for smoking (hookah bars, cigar shops) let smoking exist there. Otherwise, confine it to the home or in your vehicle. Auto requirements, FUCK YES, half the shit from LA settles into our area and hangs there for a few days until either a strong sea breeze blows it away or rain comes and washes it out of the air. WE NEED MORE AUTO REGULATION. Trash sorting, I'm kinda iffy about. We have things that could easily determine/sort automatically by capacitance or conductivity, why make us do it when there's more efficient technology to do it for us? Can't speak about the curriculum (So glad I have those years behind me) and while the list goes on and on, most of the problem lies with the PEOPLE, not the state itself.
As often as cable modems break and cable networks switch IP addresses (unless you pay extra for the static IP) I pretty much fail to see how they'll build any reliable database from the cable side of things, as far as IP addresses are concerned (which are not reliable identifiers anyways.)
I'm on my 10th IP address in two days and my THIRD cable modem in two months, just to give you an indication.
"MobileMe + ActiveSync is highly discouraged by all of the Apple support reps I've spoken with, and to date, my boss has had nothing but nightmares involving the combination of the two."
Getting those two to work together is as easy as controlling two computers with Synergy.
Boss needs to be fired if he's not that competent.
"The iPhone has enterprise tools available for anti-theft, too. "
Every single one of them useless the moment I turn off the phone and clip the antenna wires so it can't get a signal or just add more wire to completely fuck the antenna. Then it's free reign and I can take all the time I want breaking the encryption.
Been there, done that, give me something that's actually new and interesting. I have many friends with iPhones and they're always bringing them to me. Anything Apple can do I've already got circumventions around. Until they physically make the inside of the case inaccessible, their software is totally fucking useless.
Here's your sign, pal. Software won't stop me from JACKING THE FUCKING PHONE FROM YOUR HANDS (what REAL theft entails) after I pound your face in.
Anti-theft is a misnomer and bullshit - Anti-data breach would be more appropriate.
Hope that sign isn't too heavy around your neck, I know it's a mighty big one.
NOD32.
Owns Kaspersky in every test i try.
"Overall, AT&T's 3G coverage is faster than Verizon's."
Really? I doubt that, considering AT&T's network has been clogged and hasn't expanded much for the past decade while Verizon has been constantly expanding.
Oh, and I never got more than 50K/s in NY on AT&T 3G network - never under 122K/s with Verizon 3G. Here in California, it's almost the exact same issue.
"With apples current approach the buck stops with apple."
No, it actually stops with ME. I can exploit the iPhone OS software and all it takes is you connecting to my Wireless AP. Already having fun pissing off people that come to my house and realize their iPhone QUIT WORKING.
Apple better let those guys get security software made, or Apple is not going to be happy when I sell my exploit.
"corporate ie6 users don't let their browse the rabid filled web from their internal network."
Bullshit. Flextronics, Solectron, Hewlett-Packard, ALL of them allow browsing on the internet with IE6 to non-work related sites.
The OS is rarely exploited, and in fact Windows is fairly secure.
ADOBE is the fucking issue, as noted by the consistent hack-a-mac contest winner. Always Adobe which gets compromised. Always some THIRD PARTY NON-STANDARD that fucks everything up.