Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
This does make one wonder, doesn't it. All the support for Apple and zip for the FBI. Even if they don't crack the phone, just an announcement that it's been cracked should slap Apple hard in their security claims.
There's an awful lot of game playing going in DC lately what with the election coming up, the Cuba trip (and some surprises from that), Wheeler's little happy dance about net neutrality, and now this. Has the world (or at least the US) gone mad?
Nothing like spilling the beans on a quiet or backroom conversation, then. I would have thought that Google would have been the ones to announce this or at the least, not seem surprised or maybe even a joint announcement. The way this was done gives it a bit of a sleazy edge to it.
I really don't believe some the stuff I'm seeing being pulled by the government lately. This is just one them.
I'm having a hard time with this.... a former Telco Lobbyist, and logically if we follow what goes on after their time in government, he'd be at another one with a larger salary. And here he is slapping down his old bosses and gloating about it. I guess stranger things have happened but I'm not sure what those would be.
So when do the dancers show up at your door to induce you finally download and install Windows 10? Looking at the apparent desperation that MS is having with not just Windows 10 on PC's, what will be next?
Their history is filled with manipulation and dirty dealings. I find their double-standards and overall underhandedness to be despicable.
They're just not lobbyists anymore, are they? That bit about tool almost smells like Google is a secret contractor or the trading of favors. The question would be: "for whom are they a contractor or doing favors for? State Department? CIA? NSA, other governments?"
If they can track defectors, who else can and are they tracking?
It's been a long time since I've watched a live launch due to work and other obligations. It's still a thrill to watch it leave the pad and all the inside shots were great.
They looked relaxed during this launch. One reading a somethingPad, the second following what looked like a checklist, and the third one just looking like he's on the morning commute.
They can still look at themselves and know they're trying to do the right thing. This is one of the those battles that will keep raging and when the government wins, everyone loses.
I'm more worried about miscreants than what the government might find on my equipment, but if they get the backdoor (and we know they will), then any non-encrypted product is doomed and the company that made it will go with it.
I do believe that many/most of these employees understand and support the Constitution and trying, in their own way, to defend it.
And to those who would argue that the employees should go along with this.... would you? Would you do this knowing the implications in the long term? I wouldn't.
I have to wonder with all these security firms claiming they've spotted other corporate's info on the web along with some of the malware that show up. One would think that the market driven by miscreants themselves would be large enough without the FUD being added to it by some companies who have the "only" solution for a given bit of malware.
I doubt we'll ever be rid of this virus. I expect that at some point around EOL for Win7, every pc with Win8.1 or lower will wake up in the middle of the night and install Win10. It will be unannounced, no known update, it will just happen.
MS has shown no concern for anyone, even those who are disabled <see above comments>.. They've not been honest but have pumped out the PR BS at max. I would hope that hell* has a very special place reserved for them.
*Not knowing if there really is a hell, there should be one just for them.
It's playing an infinite game of Whack-A-Mole when you can't even see the board to whack the moles when they appear. =-(
It is apparent that even those of us with working eyeballs can't see all the moles. MS has become even more devious than previously proved and imagined.
ULA's forthcoming Vulcan rocket will be much more practical, since the first stage of the rocket will parachute down to earth and be caught mid-air by a helicopter.
That must be one big helicopter then. I remember development done along that line using a C-130. It turned out to be very impractical and I don't know if it was actually ever tested.
Where I worked back then, IT for admins, sales, etc. came under HR. The computers used in Engineering came under the Engineering Manager. The mainframe people (real IT back then) came under Finance and they wouldn't touch a PC to save their lives. It was a real clustertruck when the company decided to network all the PC's, etc.
Indeed it is, even POTOUS has bought into it. Did you catch Obama's take on this ? To whit: •Actual quote: "Everybody’s walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket. So there has to be some concession for the need to get into that information."
Now if that doesn't scare the hell of everyone in this country (and/or worldwide), nothing will. That "concession" allows any agency and any miscreant access to your "Swiss bank account".
You're right and that's the saddest part of all. Politics took away the hopes and dreams of a generation who followed Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo in the news. We lived it. It gave us something to aspire to. It was a sad day when they announced they were going to concentrate on the Shuttle and we heard about thousands being laid off because "moon rocket" skills weren't needed for the Shuttle.
Somewhere, we as a civilization got sidetracked by the quest for power and profit. I hope the goal of landing people on Mars comes to pass. I'm 67 and I doubt that I'll live to see it. But I hope humankind makes it there.
That also applies to anywhere here in the States that the benevolent Google hasn't approached. IOW, about 99%. Even then, I doubt if anyone not in a major city will ever see this. I know folks around me but out in the sticks about 10 miles are living with either dialup or some sort of wireless that's intermittent has hell.
There's only one problem with this.. it's the companies running this show. We know what they want and they will lobby heavily both here in the US and the EU.
We, the people, have a snowball's chance in hell.. Sure, we can vote in a new guy.. but he/she will be just like or end up just like the old one. With the way Congress is set up, it take a minimum of 12 years to invoke massive change in that body. With the attention span of the average voter, that change will never occur.
I wonder what would happen if Amazon or E-Bay decided no more sales to the UK as they don't want this burden? I know that they won't because profit and all that.
I suppose FB, Google and others could also do the same thing with various countries...
Reality... all companies should follow the tax codes as well as all applicable laws in the countries where they do business... sales, services, etc. But, they hire the best lawyers to weasel out of many things, including taxes.
You've hit it with the stigma of mental illness. It's a disease. But all this goes back to some protests and lawsuits about unwilling incarceration of the mentally ill. There was a reason for many of the practices of the asylums and they were used as a dumping ground. The system was abused as were patients. But they tossed out the baby with the bath water on this . There are those that should be kept in a secure place for their protection and society's.
The system is now so small that it's basically useless. In this case, even a large, well-run system wouldn't have worked as it appears from the reports that he just snapped and went right off the deep end.
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