And round about now, someone in microsoft and sony just woke up thinking... f.k.u.c.

I believe that most of the 3rd world do not listen to CNN or do they listen to president speeches. Rhetoric and rebuttle is a problem as I am certain that societies that fully understood the arguments would be disgusted by their leaders ignorance. Unfortunately it is the masses, the lowest common denominator, the idiocracy, the mob, that feed the irrational organized terrorism and they have little desire to get educated when confronted with the breadline and minimum wage.

So what does this mean...?

Terrorists will use twitter and other forms of social media. Obtain universal damnation and subsequent richeous retaliation will just feed the flames. Not much will change.

But it is a great mass-market testcase.

There are two problems. (a) arrogance on behalf of management thinking that they dont need to pay their staff, (b) arrogance on behalf of rockstars who think that they can disrupt the company as a result of their ego.

Now...while this sounds obvious, what about those rockstars who do not disrupt the company? Personally.... I'd rather have 10 rockstars who can work together than 10 average people. Yes... its unlikely... whoever is posting this is short-sighted.

FACT: Rockstars will find creative solutions to the impossible - if you will let them.

FACT: A good team of average people, working together, will accomplish more than a single person over the course of two months.

FACT: Not have both working together is a result of POOR MANAGEMENT.

Read the agreement. Perfectly construed agreement - if someone read IV.B.2 you'd understand that whoever wrote the agreement fully understood the intention of the shared agreement. They are probably sharing radar traffic and cable traffic within the region. To extrapolate that to the entire globe is somewhat ludicrous and is someone trying really hard to be stupid.

Hmm... I dont believe they are thinking correctly. I suspect they are looking for rocks. With nanotech they will have to search for sand. Hell - I'd create brick antennas.

Well... its all relative. Before the CIA brutality wasn't reserved only for the US. At this point, you just hope that the dog is on the leash on the right side of morality. In that shade of the world, its a very dark corner. Unfortunately they don't have a great track record.

You know who else doesn't have a good track record?

Everybody Else!

Look... Its a good thing that they are becoming more accountable to their people. I don't see that happening of Mugabe or many other governments. I actually thing corruption - in general - is getting far far worse around the world.

No need for that anymore... guess he saved them alot of effort trying to get in.

Visual Basic was the nail in many coffins as it made building applications "dead simple". I am shocked that they lost their way with Zune and, by extension, Windows Phone. Now, I am happy with the idea of .NET however to create applications there needs to be a layer of simplicity added to allow someone from a non-technical background to create a really simple application. VB6.

Get more spies of course. Call it the NSA Safety Agency.

So thats how that happens.....

Zune... Such a stupid strategy. They should have stuck it out with a more consistent lifestyle approach. They should never have killed Zune and should have built it into their XBox and windows phone software.

What a waste

Well *thats* going to work. Say that to the rest of the world. While I agree with the sentiment, this is done by every good government and every bad government. People are getting upset at one or two countries that are effectively now the focal point for the mob.

I'd rather lobby for better oversight.

Its like arguing that Iran/NK should give up their nukes. Hehe.... *thats* successful.

Fact, that tech isnt going anywhere and its already in use by the side stealing IP from your endorsed pyramid scheme... er pension fund.

The only point that can be influenced is oversight to ensure that the middle class doesnt get undermined by corporate interests. Hell, that has the republicans scared (and they seem to be the advocate of small government). Even if it were to be shut down, it'd start up sometime in the future but under some other guise of a different technology (someone somewhere will lose the plot - damn fanatics).

Unfortunately this type of tech has been put to use by far more calculated governments (china, etc).

So banking regulation will apply to bitcoin wallets.... hehe.

Until you are the only shop left in town... then you hike prices.