Re: Post Quantum Security
Did you just threaten humankind with extermination?
You're hard to understand at the best of times but I'm buying tinned food just in case.
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I have a Yammer license at work, and I get emails about Yammer groups I am a member of (apparently) but I have no idea what use it could possibly be.
My boss pays $11 per month for the license (I think) which seems mental, but I don't care because it is just one huge voracious corporation passing money to another.
Where is Stephen Elop, the Microsoft man who headed up Nokia, working now?
Good question. I did a little checking, and it looks like after Microsoft sacked him he got a job at Telstra in Australia, but they seem to have figured him out fairly quickly, because he only lasted a couple of years there, then he was sacked by some aviation company I had never heard of.
He'll be fine though. He has a vast pile of cash to keep him company.
What some don't realise is for foreign companies to trade in their market over there...
Anyone who doesn't realise that has not been paying attention for the last 35 years and deserves everything they get.
China has used the greed of the capitalist West against itself, and didn't even make it a secret.
In the 1990's, when China decided to start to open itself up to trade, the greedy bastards who run the vast corporations that run the West looked at a huge, cheap labour supply they could exploit, and a huge new potential consumer market they could profit from and China gave them some rules they had to follow.
China also made it clear that the rules might change at any time, but they dived in anyway and they're reaping what they sowed.
The vast corporation I work for (for instance) makes nearly $1 billion in profits every year from China, and if the locals steal some stuff along the way, well the shareholders don't seem to mind.
China's economy is entwined with the economies of the west by design.
That was done in the 1990's and is not for your benefit, but the benefit of the shareholders both in China and the west.
Xi has nothing to worry about as long as the money keeps flowing.
I think the endless configurations available in KDE is what put me off the last time I made a serious attempt to use it. It just seemed to keep getting in my way when I wanted to do stuff.
I can absolutely understand why people like it though. One of the many joys of Linux are the choices we get to make.
Oh, that's a great idea!
I have been offered the standard 2.5% raise in our company, along with a small bonus which is obviously a pay cut with inflation in my country at well over 7%.
Along with everyone else I have decided that someone is going to pay me more and it will either be my current boss or another one.
...could we put a damper on all these pseudo-Earth-like planets we are finding until we find a planet that is actually Earth-like in size and density ?
Are you suggesting we ignore any exoplanets we might happen upon if they are too big to be useful?
Kepler 1708 is 5,436 light years from Earth. We're not going there anytime soon.
At no point was the Soviet Bloc totally economically and socially isolated from the West.
A friend of mine worked for a print shop in Austria in the 1960's and 70's whose biggest clients were all in Hungary and the USSR.
He used to go the both places regularly to tell them they were doing it wrong.
Yes, the downvotes are probably going to be Americans.
They still think they're the good guys despite all the evidence to the contrary.
You are exactly right about America's need for an enemy. I'm old enough to remember the existential despair from the US military after the Berlin Wall fell, and the terrified casting about for a new one. I also remember the attempt to use India for the role but I'm not sure why it failed. India seems like a pretty good choice.
Meanwhile, here I am working for a huge American corporation that makes nearly $1 billion in profit from its Chinese holdings every year, and these idiots think the US (or anybody else) wants to stop doing business with them. Capitalism cares not a jot about human rights and they should stop pretending differently.
Nonesuch is correct.
The vast American multinational I work for makes nearly $1 billion in profits every year from its various businesses in China and the shareholders would throw a huge tantrum if management put that in jeopardy.
None of them really care what China does as long as the money keeps rolling in.
I was laid off when the drooling idiots who ran the company messed up the integration of a company they had bought.
One of said idiots made the mistake of turning up to one of the branches to make the announcement in person, and he was so rude that several hot-heads decided they would beat the living snot out of him in retribution. Cooler heads restrained them, so no blood was spilt unfortunately.
That put the wind up the company so badly that they fired the rest of us by email.
I paid a lawyer $400 to write a threatening letter and wound up getting nearly $10,000 worth of training for free in return for promising not to drag them through the employment courts.
The moral of the story? Don't live in America.
Go out of business ASAP and do all of us a favor.
I agree with the sentiment, but unfortunately we have had 40 years of being told that regulation is bad and have wound up with a whole bunch of "markets" that are only theoretically competitive.
The vast multinational I work for (as an example) buys any competition as soon as it looks like they might grow into a problem.
I'm pretty sure they can point to a competitor in every market segment they operate in, but the reality is that they send out a price increase to their customers every year.
Now that there is a labour shortage the boss is trying to figure out why he can't get new staff (hint: offer more money) and he doesn't know that ~50% of his current staff are actively looking for a new job.
However the company will continue to make money hand over fist because what are the customers going to do? Buy from someone else? Ha!
"an investigation against anybody would be turned into an open, public process before any decision is reached against them."
I'm not sure I have a problem with that. The justice system ought to be public.
Also "Mr Schrems maintains his present position that he must be given access to all materials on the basis that it will be for Mr Schrems alone to decide what (if anything) he may publish or use, and retaining the right to change his position at his sole election and at any time of his choosing."
Public documents are public. Again, what's the problem?
Maybe. It depends on whether New Zealand or Australia (but mostly New Zealand) decide the corruption is getting out of hand.
New Zealand and Australia fund most of those Pacific countries through aid and there is an expectation there will be a certain amount of palm-greasing. However when it all gets too blatant a quiet word is had with the interested parties and things calm down a bit.
The exception being of course the Tongan Royal Family who continue to exploit their people with impunity.
...the USA's decision to adopt the Call "reflects the Biden-Harris Administration's priority to renew and strengthen America's engagement with the international community on cyber issues".
The problem being that the republicans are going to take over fairly soon and again all bets will be off.
The United States can no longer be considered a reliable ally