Comment Re:Please pick Elop.... (Score 1) 292
It's a crying shame because I heard good things about their latest crop.
That moron completely destroyed Nokia, he will do the same to Microsoft.
He didn't destroy Nokia. It was doomed before he showed up. They had slept through the smartphone revolution for quite some time before and spent most of the time infighting or directionlessly redoing the Meego/Maemo UI over and over again.
He failed to turn the company around after the market had already been neatly divided between iThings and Androids.
From a business point of view Microsoft had used the XBox to get a foothold "in the living room" and has sunk quite a lot of money into that and the competition is fierce. It might very well be that they should do just that.
Whatever. I don't care either way.
Sociopaths are, for the most part, charming. The ones who do not get thrown in prison or institutionalized have adapted to demonstrate the proper behavior at the right time, simply to get what they want.
No, those are psychopaths. Sociopaths are in fact those who can't even simulate being sane in public.
But , honestly, couldn't the whole thing be solved with instituting a hunting season w/ no limits? They still have hunting weapons over there don't they? A list of registered offenders and a box of 12 ga. shells. All that's left is to call for an appt. with the taxidermist. Personally I'd love a hunting season. I already print off the I.D. pages from the local registry and tack them to lampposts near the offenders home, in case the neighbors didn't know about the registry. What FUN! If they get torn down, I just put them back up again , wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Sneakernet LIVES! Webpages on poles.
That is actually a bit creepy.
Unfortunately, we even have to import the bananas.
...and the monarchs.
Let's not forget the Windsors rebranded themselves from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha when being German was considered somewhat unpopular during WW1. So they named themselves after a German brand of Danish cookies.
It's a rightful mess, innit?
So you think leaking confidential documents *doesn't* damage security in some way? Have you just landed from Planet Naive?
In this case, pretty much no.
In this case, pretty much yes.
It is a severe threat to the job security and budget of those parasites who lost a sense of proportion of what is acceptable and those who were supposed to oversee them.
National security is still exposed to the usual threat by those who are supposed to run the country for the benefit of all. Which justifies a permanent orange threat level. If the current bunch were vikings, Alfred the Great would rise from the grave and drive them back into the sea. Although that might not be possible due to the current international treaties concerning pollution of the North Sea.
(Copied from a Techdirt comment): I wonder if the CIA distributes pedo material the same way they get Swiss bankers to drink-drive?
Imagine you are a UK minister. Like most men you look at porn because you're biologically programmed to like pictures of woman doing stuff. Like most ministers you pretend porn is vial and evil, because that's how you get elected.
CIA wants to turn you into an apparatchik, so they do their 'redirect' attack, the one they use to MITM Google in one of the leaks. CIA redirects them to a kiddy porn server in Orlando, now the logs of both GCHQ and NSA show them visiting a kiddy diddling site.
CIA man visits minister and explains the shock and outrage at finding this, but assures minister that he's a good man and therefore the CIA won't tell.
Minister can't go to MI5 because Parker could be a CIA apparatchik (he is doing an attack on the free press FFS). Indeed he can't get help at all, because all it takes is ONE apparatchik among the people in the know and he is gone.
It may sound fanciful, but the mechanisms are already in place. Also read a few leaks. The plan to attack Greenwald & Wikileaks.
http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack -against-WikiLeaks/12751/
The leverage they got over a Swiss Banker:
http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-describes-cia-tricks-2013-6
The weird way ministers are behaving.
This practice goes way back. That's how they got Thatcher to do Reagans biddings...
We need to break the law and spy on law abiding citizens FOR THE CHILDREN and to STOP TERRORISTS.
They're going for broke.
...time to call for another badger cull. That should keep The Guardian occupied...
Nevermind we're not quite done with the current one.
'Nuff said.
...who in no way, shape or form was affected by the Snowden leaks.The only thing he has in common is that he was a practicing pedophile and child molestor.
Your point being?
You are aware it it the British police saying this? You know, where the strictest of gun laws in the USA is orders of magnitude more permisive than what is allowed in England?
The rozzers currently have so much egg on their face a brain-fart like that won't misdirect the current attention they gained for being corrupt, lying and brutal bastards.
Take money from the yellow press, be caught lying about an incident that forced a senior politician to resign and demonstably be disonest why they shot a guy who posed no threat and you will have some yolk dripping down your collar. Sprinkle this with a misplaced esprit d'corps and obfuscation and feet-dragging and suddenly you will think of their uniform as nothing more than gang colours.
These wankers in Britsh govt (and civil service) know very well how much are their sleezy sicko tricks are exposed
The kind of sleaze like running ads on vans for "illegals" to turn themselves in? If UKIP says something like this is going too far then you know they absolutely crossed all lines including the date-line. Calling them wankers is an insult to all masturbators everywhere.
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"