It would be nice to think that Apple was somehow concerned with users privacy but the evidence is to the contrary as Snowden showed they are in it for the money. The information and access the feds are looking for is something they want to be reimbursed for. Usage data and access is seen as the next big thing by everyone in tech which is why they are all getting into the act.
One wonders if this same professor is making sure his dalliances with the throttle are censored out. It would be rich if this idiot forces the town to place a speedcam and he became one of its earliest victims.
The Neo Con shuffle
1. Use quid-pro quo with connections to get into the board or at least an executive gig at a tech company.
2. Outsource as much as possible to (incompetent) head shops.
3. Layoff everybody you can.
4. Reap the rewards!, pay yourself and other executives/board members huge bonuses!
5. As the company begins to sink see step 1.
Most of the time philanthropy is a good thing, money goes to where it is needed. Since the 90's some of it is about tax payer funding through tax deductions and break granted to wealthy doners who use their philanthropy to influence and many case outright control an industry or market.
They will not be software engineers they will be asking folks if the want fires with that. One of the many fails with outsourcing and H1B is that after destroying an industry the visa people can go home and outsource slave shops can just lay off. Regardless, the cost of living will make sure they kill off any interest inworking in an industry they target in the US.
BillWG in his greed is trying to create a self fulfilling prophecy.
Look at the state of CS at US universities. CS has gone from being a major pillar of many universities back to nothing but a math curiosity.
Who would want to spend 60k on getting a degree so you could struggle against some foreign worker with made up credentials to be paid less then most executive assistants.
If the politicians don't do anything about the visa abuse and rein in outsourcing you can kiss IT goodbye in the US.
Silly China Telecom, Cisco net boxen are made in the good ole PRC.
Maybe China Telecom doesn't trust Cisco PRC boxen with back doors built in for free so why should anyone else.
If selling their PC business off could save it, that would be because it would finally release it from the string of aggressively stupid CEOs HP seems to get saddled with.
Paying record bonuses or top of massive layoffs is no way to run a company.
So what will be the next teleporting hammerdin?
I hated that about D2, players taking advantage of the system, Blizzard saying it's not a bug but a feature and then not doing anything about it.
If anything was done about it it took the form of nerfing the ability making the class ability next to useless.
It and engineering pay has suffered badly because of outsourcing and visa abuse.
According to Love to Know here:
http://jobs.lovetoknow.com/Facts_and_Figures_on_Outsourcing
It seems that if the Obama administration was to take job creation
seriously and curb outsourcing of American jobs to cheap foreign
contractor slavers it would save close to 1.5 million jobs for
Americans.
Most of those in IT are familiar by now with the visa abuse that
takes place in the US. Many unscrupulous companies are playing games
and pulling stunts to meet even the lax standards setup for foreign nationals
to obtain work visas in the US.
If the Obama administration were again to take job creation seriously
then they could come up with almost 5 million US jobs by simply
denying visas per the US State Department.
http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/FY09AnnualReport_TableXVII.pdf
If you stop to think about it what purpose does the Iraq and Afghanistan wars serve the US?
It is not about "Democratization" as some have said as both countries have been allowed to reform under demagogues.
Iraq could have been about oil but the PRC has most of the contracts.
It could be about Billions to be made by insider contractions "servicing" the war.
It was more or less common knowledge that in China (as I'm sure it must be elsewhere) that if the military saw a technology it liked it would just take it.
If anyone at the factory complained they became organ doners.
If the IP owner complained they usually ran into delivery problems, workers strikes or were just kicked out.
Think of Lucent's fiber optics fiasco and the observation that most Chinese domestic router manufacturers seem to use router code that looks suspiciously like IOS.
It goes without saying that this also applied not just to things that were taken out of a factory but also to things that were brought in.
If this were a real concern which it should be, then the different governments who should be concerned about it should implement a standard where this kind of thing is checked for and those clearing it bear a seal of some type.
Considering the way the PRC is buying campaigns in the US I doubt it will happen here.
The problem with DRM is that the studios, syndicate and pipes got greedy. They tried to use DRM and the law to extend existing copyright rather than just enable existing protections.
Between Ford making them slow down and stuff like this new adult will not know how to be responsible for anything. Never mind that schemes like this are doomed to failure as hacks for them reverberate around the Internet.
The rest of the US should not have to pay for an agency that is outside US law and was built to skirt the Congress of the US and the Constitution so that the top 10% can make more money.
A determination of the top beneficiaries of edicts of the WTO should be made to pay for the fees imposed by their monster.
Not that it would ever happen because in the US these days rich people do not pay taxes, fines or fees and no law affecting however they increase their wealth ever be made.
The problem is that American higher education favors minority and foreign students becuase they can get more government subsidy from minority status students. Those from Indian and China are granted minority status ( historical minority not actual, actually there are more Indians and Chinese then there are on any other "kind" of people ) and thus favorable treatment with regards to quotas and access to financial aid. Furthermore India and China among others have huge subsidized lobbies in Washington that maintain access to free education for their people and they have financial aid programs in addition to those footed by the US taxpayer. If you really care to look up EOP, Equal Opportunity Professional, INAPAC, the list goes on.
"The Internet? We are not interested in it" -- Bill Gates, 1993
Or maybe this?:
Bill Gates even stated flatly at a press conference that the Internet was a passing fad and unimportant. He said this at the announcement for its new BBS, Microsoft Network (MSN).
Slashdot Mirror
It would be nice to think that Apple was somehow concerned with users privacy but the evidence is to the contrary as Snowden showed they are in it for the money. The information and access the feds are looking for is something they want to be reimbursed for. Usage data and access is seen as the next big thing by everyone in tech which is why they are all getting into the act.
One wonders if this same professor is making sure his dalliances with the throttle are censored out. It would be rich if this idiot forces the town to place a speedcam and he became one of its earliest victims.
The Neo Con shuffle 1. Use quid-pro quo with connections to get into the board or at least an executive gig at a tech company. 2. Outsource as much as possible to (incompetent) head shops. 3. Layoff everybody you can. 4. Reap the rewards!, pay yourself and other executives/board members huge bonuses! 5. As the company begins to sink see step 1.
I suppose OZ will next ban nylon chopping blocks on there way to banning fire.
Most of the time philanthropy is a good thing, money goes to where it is needed. Since the 90's some of it is about tax payer funding through tax deductions and break granted to wealthy doners who use their philanthropy to influence and many case outright control an industry or market.
They will not be software engineers they will be asking folks if the want fires with that. One of the many fails with outsourcing and H1B is that after destroying an industry the visa people can go home and outsource slave shops can just lay off. Regardless, the cost of living will make sure they kill off any interest inworking in an industry they target in the US.
Look out, M$ is firing in the US and EU and hiring in Vietnam and India or anywhere else where employees can be had fora bag o' beans.
Google wants to sell us your sploits now?
Must be Loki's doing?
BillWG in his greed is trying to create a self fulfilling prophecy. Look at the state of CS at US universities. CS has gone from being a major pillar of many universities back to nothing but a math curiosity. Who would want to spend 60k on getting a degree so you could struggle against some foreign worker with made up credentials to be paid less then most executive assistants. If the politicians don't do anything about the visa abuse and rein in outsourcing you can kiss IT goodbye in the US.
The wages are substandard in conext with the cost of living in the US but not so much in India, Vietnam, China, etc.
Silly China Telecom, Cisco net boxen are made in the good ole PRC. Maybe China Telecom doesn't trust Cisco PRC boxen with back doors built in for free so why should anyone else.
If selling their PC business off could save it, that would be because it would finally release it from the string of aggressively stupid CEOs HP seems to get saddled with. Paying record bonuses or top of massive layoffs is no way to run a company.
To protect people form their privacy
Han shot first
So what will be the next teleporting hammerdin? I hated that about D2, players taking advantage of the system, Blizzard saying it's not a bug but a feature and then not doing anything about it. If anything was done about it it took the form of nerfing the ability making the class ability next to useless.
It and engineering pay has suffered badly because of outsourcing and visa abuse. According to Love to Know here: http://jobs.lovetoknow.com/Facts_and_Figures_on_Outsourcing It seems that if the Obama administration was to take job creation seriously and curb outsourcing of American jobs to cheap foreign contractor slavers it would save close to 1.5 million jobs for Americans. Most of those in IT are familiar by now with the visa abuse that takes place in the US. Many unscrupulous companies are playing games and pulling stunts to meet even the lax standards setup for foreign nationals to obtain work visas in the US. If the Obama administration were again to take job creation seriously then they could come up with almost 5 million US jobs by simply denying visas per the US State Department. http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/FY09AnnualReport_TableXVII.pdf
If you stop to think about it what purpose does the Iraq and Afghanistan wars serve the US? It is not about "Democratization" as some have said as both countries have been allowed to reform under demagogues. Iraq could have been about oil but the PRC has most of the contracts. It could be about Billions to be made by insider contractions "servicing" the war.
It was more or less common knowledge that in China (as I'm sure it must be elsewhere) that if the military saw a technology it liked it would just take it. If anyone at the factory complained they became organ doners. If the IP owner complained they usually ran into delivery problems, workers strikes or were just kicked out. Think of Lucent's fiber optics fiasco and the observation that most Chinese domestic router manufacturers seem to use router code that looks suspiciously like IOS. It goes without saying that this also applied not just to things that were taken out of a factory but also to things that were brought in. If this were a real concern which it should be, then the different governments who should be concerned about it should implement a standard where this kind of thing is checked for and those clearing it bear a seal of some type. Considering the way the PRC is buying campaigns in the US I doubt it will happen here.
The problem with DRM is that the studios, syndicate and pipes got greedy. They tried to use DRM and the law to extend existing copyright rather than just enable existing protections.
Between Ford making them slow down and stuff like this new adult will not know how to be responsible for anything. Never mind that schemes like this are doomed to failure as hacks for them reverberate around the Internet.
The rest of the US should not have to pay for an agency that is outside US law and was built to skirt the Congress of the US and the Constitution so that the top 10% can make more money.
A determination of the top beneficiaries of edicts of the WTO should be made to pay for the fees imposed by their monster.
Not that it would ever happen because in the US these days rich people do not pay taxes, fines or fees and no law affecting however they increase their wealth ever be made.
Gene (Chaim) ought to lay off the stuff.
Kiss was a great band at one time but The Beatles?
He used to be a school teacher in Israel so Chaim should be able to do maths.
Maybe he is talking about T shirt sales.
I don't think The Beatles sold allot of T-shirts.
The problem is that American higher education favors minority and foreign students becuase they can get more government subsidy from minority status students.
Those from Indian and China are granted minority status ( historical minority not actual, actually there are more Indians and Chinese then there are on any other "kind" of people ) and thus favorable treatment with regards to quotas and access to financial aid. Furthermore India and China among others have huge subsidized lobbies in Washington that maintain access to free education for their people and they have financial aid programs in addition to those footed by the US taxpayer.
If you really care to look up EOP, Equal Opportunity Professional, INAPAC, the list goes on.
This:
"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
-- Bill Gates, 1993
Or maybe this?:
Bill Gates even stated flatly at a press conference that the Internet was a passing fad and unimportant. He said this at the announcement for its new BBS, Microsoft Network (MSN).
MCP Magazine