the CIA has been breaking laws for quite some time. It will take a GIANT public stink before the CIA stops blatantly breaking laws in the name of well...whatever it wants to justify it's behavior with at the time. (Now it's "national security" back in the 50-60's it was "fighting communism"). When Kennedy tried to get the CIA on more government reins...well we know what happened to him.
This is getting into anti-trust law violation borderline. Even in the USA, they could get burned for this like they did with the Internet Explorer. Some people never learn. We should all just switch to Linux.
I wonder if India is planing on draining the brightest minds from the USA in retaliation. Get a few of the best, and it's worth the other few thousand so-so minds they bring in.
To be fair, Trump dictatorships were not that effective. His businesses were mostly lacklustre at best or bankrupt at worse. He may owe 300 mil (possibly to a russian bank by proxy). Trump university was hoot (total scam). And his buildings are not exactly great quality when they are built (a few problems with falling glass panels in Toronto, Canada as I recall. I'm not sure he "embraced "China either. Remember, he was telling President Xi Jinping that he wouldn't recognize the "One China" policy. A few days later he's publically declaring he recognizes it. quite the reversal. (wonder what words took place..) It seems true that Trump doesn't care of democracy or rule of law and you are correct that we could get into the situation Turkey is now. Cool bit of insight. It's amazing how much we COULD learn from our neighbours....but don't.
Yes, at the highest prices/benefit that Amazon can sell. (without getting slapped on the wrist by regulators of course..there was a Canadian slap on the wrist earlier: http://business.financialpost.... )
Actually, I didn't believe in either candidate. (Clinton, more experienced, but not sure it's effective experience) But let's see...Ivaka's qualifications as an "advisor". I can't really find any. Jared? What are his qualifications besides being in the family. Trump himself isn't even a great business person by all accounts. To be clear, I didn't favor either candidate. But this isn't about personal opinion on candidates. Generally I prefer a president to have some experience in international or national politics before being president. Trump was never an elected official. But okay, let's give an untried politician the benefit of the doubt. Academic qualifications, Not really stellar from what I can see. Obama wasn't the best president in history by any stretch of the imagination, but no one can say he wasn't a good speaker or at least moderately educated at the very least. Certainly he refrained from phrases like "very, very badly". Okay, maybe it's Trump speech writers (or maybe he's ignoring his speech writers entirely). He has already violated the constitution in his immigration act, and that is an absolutely historical first in US history. Trump is direct, no question, but subtlety is not his strong suit or knowledge of basic government topics like, say, the constitution, which one generally needs to "Uphold and defend the Constitution of the United states of America. (as per his required oath...which unfortunately he has technically broken. ) I don't think you necessarily need a degree ( Lincoln didn't have one, but he understood the dynamics of government and the people in it ). The understanding of the system into which he's inserted himself is not showing at the moment in my view.
Trump's idea of a "modern government" is medieval: put all your family and friends into key positions as much as possible and hope you can run it like a monarchy. problem is the family has no real qualifications in national or international politics. So this will be fun, fun, fun.
For me I suppose it's okay because I'm old school and have proven I can continually expand my skill sets. For whatever reason, many people in IT seem to stop learning after their certification/university degree courses. Not all of course, but many I've encountered. Perhaps this is in part because of false starts. The people who started (and in many, many cases ended) their careers with MS Visual Basic and database template gui's like crystal reports. In my opinion, any IT person who doesn't know how to get around Linux/BSD/Unix (including MacOS ) is just waiting to get axed and those are most often the people I encounter having trouble keeping work. I guess my recommendation is similar to a stock market portfolio: diversify, diversify, diversify. right now, the big markets (pardon the pun), seem to be Big Data (marketing analysis primarily), AI, Robotics, and OO Programming (Java is there but may be on decline in a few years in favor of Python or improved JavaScript and possibly C/C++). Ruby is also on the rise. anything that makes coding more readable is definitely a big one to be part of these days. We need to train others in how to watch trends and update accordingly. that was one thing an old mentor gave to me that was invaluable. He predicted Java's rise before Java was cool.
Amazon was great when it was just into selling books at the best prices. Now it's into market fixing, misleading people through skewed ads and search results, and stealing markets from people naive enough to use their services to make a store only to have Amazon take over the same market once it sees it's profitable. Looking at their prices and tools they are clear trying to manipulate markets in favors of sellers (aka companies selling) who then in turn buy their advertising/marketing services. And with the new server service, the data Amazon is mining now, it's trying to rival Google, and given Google's cross over into the category of "evil" through it's data collection , well, there is a new movie "The Circle" that may spell all this out. Google and Amazon are most likely going to be in direct competitors to each other soon. I truly hope to see someone compete with Amazon working with the consumers again. Would be a nice touch. It won't be Ebay who is basically doing the same thing.
All it takes is a CIA order to confirm any information, whether true or not, and kind of like Monopoly, you can't pass go, you can't consultant a lawyer, you can't breath a word of it to ANYONE....or else...
Even if the blogger's "attach" was local, the fact it came with outdated components means it is vulnerable to unpatched vulnerabilities that are know on the Internet. That alone is pretty bad. The Blogger just didn't make the attempt remotely yet. Doesn't meant it can't be done, especially with outdated security (OpenSSL , for example) components.
Sorry, I should have said OpenBSD. Think OpenBSD may be better than FreeBSD both are still good but OpenBSD had move specifics for security. Sorry about that slip.
Just learn the basics of postfix or qmail on a FreeBSD server (you could use Debian or CentOS but, FreeBSD is supposedly best for security applications).
Sure, I always wanted to send/transmit what I do in the bathroom to the world. Great opportunities for people pitch hair removal, hair growth, various enlargement products, dating services (complete with a hygiene rating index) as well as taste in perfume/cologne to consumers worldwide. It's a brave new world and EVERYTHING is up for grabs. Just take a good HOT shower and you have a smoke screen I guess.
Windows 7 is a better, has more user control, and no ad servers, with less privacy invasion. You can get Windows 7 on Lenovo laptops as well as Fujitsu and Toshiba business laptops. Or if you get a desktop/tower, insist on Windows 7 from your builder (or do it yourself..it's not that hard). You could also get Linux Mint. Free, easy, privacy and no bloatware. Windows 10 not only reduces (nearly eliminates) the ability to stop updates (you can shut the service down I believe in the "Services" screen) windows updates are not reliable, some descriptions are disturbingly vague, and others are strictly to add things of no use to use, but are in the business interests of MS. Of save yourself a lot of pain..try Linux Mint.:D
Okay, we've got file header data being sent to MS (who recently disclosed the data collected confirming this), pushing ads through it's "live tile" interface, the Superfetch (whose effectiveness is in doubt but it's use of memory is not) and monitoring services to ensure you don't copy media data MS partenrs don't like. Come on. This was bloatware before Adobe. Now Adobe has long had more bloatware and adware, plus the new ad javascript tags Adobe is putting out on websites. MS windows takes a lot of your control from the updates (which is really dangerous as you could get a bad update, 3 times so far MS...) ensuring they can push even more adservers on your OS whenver they want. If we want this to stop we need to cut these guys off by the knees: Just stop using it MacOS or Linux (Linux Mint is the best or new users http://www.linuxmint.com/ ) can do wonders.
We've had stuff shoved up our butts that benefit MS at our expense for long enough. Let's all tell MS to stop. Many of us use tablets and phones anyway. Unless you are a gamer, we don't need windows 8-10. Wait, you can do gaming on consoles or Steam on Linux/MacOS who game library is rapidly expanding. So.....we don't need Windows 8-10 even as a gamer.
Come on. We've seen enough of this, see the Trump deregulation of broadband providers to see people's data. We have to assume that anyone having our data is selling it unless there is a written statement indicating no data will be given to 3rd parities without the customer explicit consent. There are VPN companies who will put in writing "no traffic logs kept". Hopefully such companies honor those words. Free services have to be used with extreme caution. The irony is you can get you own email for as little as 5-10/month and you get your OWN domain.
http://www.namecheap.com/http://order.1and1.com/http://www.name.com/
I've left out GoDaddy because they seem to have regular (if brief) service interruptions (probably from overload plus cyber attacks as GoDaddy is very, very large).
There are other of course. Of course I suggest reading the privacy policy in full. Perhaps we'll start taking privacy more serious, given we have so much effort in business and government to eliminate it for profit.
It's bullying! Let's call it what it is. If you use stand along version of office, we'll cut you off. In other words, pay us monthly fee in perpetuity, or we penalize you. The Anti-trust groups should be getting involved in this one. Libreoffice is free and has worked well for me for years. SO does Jitsu for Internet calls. Skype just throws ads at you while it's open.
I suspect Microsoft will launch counter measures as the whole idea is to push people to "upgrade" to Windows 10. This could become like youtube-dl and google: one side makes it possible to download data, the other side tries to block it.
Not sure that article is a clear indicator on how much was spent or by whom. It only says what Trump CLAIMS to have spent. (and he's not the most honest individual out there as his business ventures have shown)
Uh, how about calling for police, medical or fire department services in emergencies? How about relaying critical information in a crisis where speed is crucial? Humor aside, I fail to see how the ability and popularity of essential tool for non-essential purposes makes the service itself non-essential. For example, are scalpels unessential for because more people use them more often for cosmetic surgery than for life saving operations? You don't invalidate the life saving operations by doing cosmetic surgeries.
this is all true, but I'm hoping these issues are no longer party affiliate, but national issues with a united front regardless of party. the Republicans are fragment so you cannot say all Republicans are equal (not that you ever could...but it's painfully clear now). By that definition, I wonder if the Republican party is truly a party anymore (or basically a set of factions to the point they are really separate entities). Voting all one or all the other won't fix anything. Its fixing people's priorities and positions based on basic common sense (towards mutual future prosperity rather than basically eating your young) that should be our focus.
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the CIA has been breaking laws for quite some time. It will take a GIANT public stink before the CIA stops blatantly breaking laws in the name of well...whatever it wants to justify it's behavior with at the time. (Now it's "national security" back in the 50-60's it was "fighting communism"). When Kennedy tried to get the CIA on more government reins...well we know what happened to him.
This is getting into anti-trust law violation borderline. Even in the USA, they could get burned for this like they did with the Internet Explorer. Some people never learn. We should all just switch to Linux.
I wonder if India is planing on draining the brightest minds from the USA in retaliation. Get a few of the best, and it's worth the other few thousand so-so minds they bring in.
To be fair, Trump dictatorships were not that effective. His businesses were mostly lacklustre at best or bankrupt at worse. He may owe 300 mil (possibly to a russian bank by proxy). Trump university was hoot (total scam). And his buildings are not exactly great quality when they are built (a few problems with falling glass panels in Toronto, Canada as I recall. I'm not sure he "embraced "China either. Remember, he was telling President Xi Jinping that he wouldn't recognize the "One China" policy. A few days later he's publically declaring he recognizes it. quite the reversal. (wonder what words took place..) It seems true that Trump doesn't care of democracy or rule of law and you are correct that we could get into the situation Turkey is now. Cool bit of insight. It's amazing how much we COULD learn from our neighbours....but don't.
Yes, at the highest prices/benefit that Amazon can sell. (without getting slapped on the wrist by regulators of course..there was a Canadian slap on the wrist earlier: http://business.financialpost.... )
Good Point! I wasn't aware of that.
Actually, I didn't believe in either candidate. (Clinton, more experienced, but not sure it's effective experience) But let's see...Ivaka's qualifications as an "advisor". I can't really find any. Jared? What are his qualifications besides being in the family. Trump himself isn't even a great business person by all accounts. To be clear, I didn't favor either candidate. But this isn't about personal opinion on candidates. Generally I prefer a president to have some experience in international or national politics before being president. Trump was never an elected official. But okay, let's give an untried politician the benefit of the doubt. Academic qualifications, Not really stellar from what I can see. Obama wasn't the best president in history by any stretch of the imagination, but no one can say he wasn't a good speaker or at least moderately educated at the very least. Certainly he refrained from phrases like "very, very badly". Okay, maybe it's Trump speech writers (or maybe he's ignoring his speech writers entirely). He has already violated the constitution in his immigration act, and that is an absolutely historical first in US history. Trump is direct, no question, but subtlety is not his strong suit or knowledge of basic government topics like, say, the constitution, which one generally needs to "Uphold and defend the Constitution of the United states of America. (as per his required oath...which unfortunately he has technically broken. ) I don't think you necessarily need a degree ( Lincoln didn't have one, but he understood the dynamics of government and the people in it ). The understanding of the system into which he's inserted himself is not showing at the moment in my view.
Trump's idea of a "modern government" is medieval: put all your family and friends into key positions as much as possible and hope you can run it like a monarchy. problem is the family has no real qualifications in national or international politics. So this will be fun, fun, fun.
For me I suppose it's okay because I'm old school and have proven I can continually expand my skill sets. For whatever reason, many people in IT seem to stop learning after their certification/university degree courses. Not all of course, but many I've encountered. Perhaps this is in part because of false starts. The people who started (and in many, many cases ended) their careers with MS Visual Basic and database template gui's like crystal reports. In my opinion, any IT person who doesn't know how to get around Linux/BSD/Unix (including MacOS ) is just waiting to get axed and those are most often the people I encounter having trouble keeping work. I guess my recommendation is similar to a stock market portfolio: diversify, diversify, diversify. right now, the big markets (pardon the pun), seem to be Big Data (marketing analysis primarily), AI, Robotics, and OO Programming (Java is there but may be on decline in a few years in favor of Python or improved JavaScript and possibly C/C++). Ruby is also on the rise. anything that makes coding more readable is definitely a big one to be part of these days. We need to train others in how to watch trends and update accordingly. that was one thing an old mentor gave to me that was invaluable. He predicted Java's rise before Java was cool.
Amazon was great when it was just into selling books at the best prices. Now it's into market fixing, misleading people through skewed ads and search results, and stealing markets from people naive enough to use their services to make a store only to have Amazon take over the same market once it sees it's profitable. Looking at their prices and tools they are clear trying to manipulate markets in favors of sellers (aka companies selling) who then in turn buy their advertising/marketing services. And with the new server service, the data Amazon is mining now, it's trying to rival Google, and given Google's cross over into the category of "evil" through it's data collection , well, there is a new movie "The Circle" that may spell all this out. Google and Amazon are most likely going to be in direct competitors to each other soon. I truly hope to see someone compete with Amazon working with the consumers again. Would be a nice touch. It won't be Ebay who is basically doing the same thing.
All it takes is a CIA order to confirm any information, whether true or not, and kind of like Monopoly, you can't pass go, you can't consultant a lawyer, you can't breath a word of it to ANYONE....or else...
Even if the blogger's "attach" was local, the fact it came with outdated components means it is vulnerable to unpatched vulnerabilities that are know on the Internet. That alone is pretty bad. The Blogger just didn't make the attempt remotely yet. Doesn't meant it can't be done, especially with outdated security (OpenSSL , for example) components.
Sorry, I should have said OpenBSD. Think OpenBSD may be better than FreeBSD both are still good but OpenBSD had move specifics for security. Sorry about that slip.
Just learn the basics of postfix or qmail on a FreeBSD server (you could use Debian or CentOS but, FreeBSD is supposedly best for security applications).
Uh, this feels like something posted by a Nomx employee...
Claims like that are just hacker bait. First point of security, don't broadcast the strength of your security.
Sure, I always wanted to send/transmit what I do in the bathroom to the world. Great opportunities for people pitch hair removal, hair growth, various enlargement products, dating services (complete with a hygiene rating index) as well as taste in perfume/cologne to consumers worldwide. It's a brave new world and EVERYTHING is up for grabs. Just take a good HOT shower and you have a smoke screen I guess.
Windows 7 is a better, has more user control, and no ad servers, with less privacy invasion. You can get Windows 7 on Lenovo laptops as well as Fujitsu and Toshiba business laptops. Or if you get a desktop/tower, insist on Windows 7 from your builder (or do it yourself..it's not that hard). You could also get Linux Mint. Free, easy, privacy and no bloatware. Windows 10 not only reduces (nearly eliminates) the ability to stop updates (you can shut the service down I believe in the "Services" screen) windows updates are not reliable, some descriptions are disturbingly vague, and others are strictly to add things of no use to use, but are in the business interests of MS. Of save yourself a lot of pain..try Linux Mint. :D
Okay, we've got file header data being sent to MS (who recently disclosed the data collected confirming this), pushing ads through it's "live tile" interface, the Superfetch (whose effectiveness is in doubt but it's use of memory is not) and monitoring services to ensure you don't copy media data MS partenrs don't like. Come on. This was bloatware before Adobe. Now Adobe has long had more bloatware and adware, plus the new ad javascript tags Adobe is putting out on websites. MS windows takes a lot of your control from the updates (which is really dangerous as you could get a bad update, 3 times so far MS...) ensuring they can push even more adservers on your OS whenver they want. If we want this to stop we need to cut these guys off by the knees: Just stop using it MacOS or Linux (Linux Mint is the best or new users http://www.linuxmint.com/ ) can do wonders.
We've had stuff shoved up our butts that benefit MS at our expense for long enough. Let's all tell MS to stop. Many of us use tablets and phones anyway. Unless you are a gamer, we don't need windows 8-10. Wait, you can do gaming on consoles or Steam on Linux/MacOS who game library is rapidly expanding. So.....we don't need Windows 8-10 even as a gamer.
Come on. We've seen enough of this, see the Trump deregulation of broadband providers to see people's data. We have to assume that anyone having our data is selling it unless there is a written statement indicating no data will be given to 3rd parities without the customer explicit consent. There are VPN companies who will put in writing "no traffic logs kept". Hopefully such companies honor those words. Free services have to be used with extreme caution. The irony is you can get you own email for as little as 5-10/month and you get your OWN domain. http://www.namecheap.com/ http://order.1and1.com/ http://www.name.com/ I've left out GoDaddy because they seem to have regular (if brief) service interruptions (probably from overload plus cyber attacks as GoDaddy is very, very large). There are other of course. Of course I suggest reading the privacy policy in full. Perhaps we'll start taking privacy more serious, given we have so much effort in business and government to eliminate it for profit.
It's bullying! Let's call it what it is. If you use stand along version of office, we'll cut you off. In other words, pay us monthly fee in perpetuity, or we penalize you. The Anti-trust groups should be getting involved in this one. Libreoffice is free and has worked well for me for years. SO does Jitsu for Internet calls. Skype just throws ads at you while it's open.
I suspect Microsoft will launch counter measures as the whole idea is to push people to "upgrade" to Windows 10. This could become like youtube-dl and google: one side makes it possible to download data, the other side tries to block it.
Not sure that article is a clear indicator on how much was spent or by whom. It only says what Trump CLAIMS to have spent. (and he's not the most honest individual out there as his business ventures have shown)
Uh, how about calling for police, medical or fire department services in emergencies? How about relaying critical information in a crisis where speed is crucial? Humor aside, I fail to see how the ability and popularity of essential tool for non-essential purposes makes the service itself non-essential. For example, are scalpels unessential for because more people use them more often for cosmetic surgery than for life saving operations? You don't invalidate the life saving operations by doing cosmetic surgeries.
this is all true, but I'm hoping these issues are no longer party affiliate, but national issues with a united front regardless of party. the Republicans are fragment so you cannot say all Republicans are equal (not that you ever could...but it's painfully clear now). By that definition, I wonder if the Republican party is truly a party anymore (or basically a set of factions to the point they are really separate entities). Voting all one or all the other won't fix anything. Its fixing people's priorities and positions based on basic common sense (towards mutual future prosperity rather than basically eating your young) that should be our focus.