No, it appears that YOU know nothing about IT.
Or more, likely, the shill is strong in this one.

It is a pretty normal and well understood process these days of requesting user permission for a specific upload of information to a vendor (for exmaple 'this program has crashed, can we please send the crash report back for analysis'

Them being allowed to scrape anything they damn well feel from your computer without any direct permission is, as anyone with a functioning brain knows, a HUGE step beyond that.

So, you are saying that China and Japan rule?

So.. Tell me
How is the pay as a teachers union rep these days?

That's quite a good collection of complete rubbish.. But hey what ever you need to rationalize increasing teachers benefits and protections at the cost of children's education.. Right?

You have forgotten that the principle under your theory is looking after all the kids in the school.. They must be underpaid even more! And I just realized! Obama is in charge of the whole population right? My god that man needs a pay rise!

The fact is these days teaching has become more and more secure (bad teachers are not only not removed.. They are almost impossible to even identify any more). Schools are spending more and more on their internal staffing and management and facilities and teaching 'aids' ( most of which are designed to reduce teacher effort rather that increase quality of actual teaching) at the direct cost of actual education.

I truly feel sorry for the last few true teachers holding on in the system as they watch this show motion train wreck destroy what was one a highly respected profession.

Sad.. Bit that's the end game of the paranoid knee jerk media driven frenzy that modern American life has become.

Think of the children.. Start making teachers and schools actually responsible for their Poor performance.

You need to learn some basic comprehension I am afraid.

An Advocate is someone actively pushing for something.
Not being an advocate in NO way means you are apathetic to something or against something.
You can be a supporter without being an advocate.

However what you have done is demonstrated your actual bias by trying to tar anyone who is not a feminist as being against women, a common dirty trick.

Or do you really believe that you are against everything in this world that you dont actively work to support?
When was the last time you actively worked to support starving africans? homeless people? abused children? abused animals? male rape victims? (yes, they exist) the land rights of Austalian Aborigines?

See how it works? not being an advocate for something does not mean you dont support it.

Journalists are also in a position of power and trust, and as they are quite willing to dig in to the 'background' of others and public report it from that position of power, they should be willing to accept the same.

Neither party should enter in to any kind of smear campaign, or falsely report anything, or hopefully sensationalise anything, however there must be balance.

And part of that balance is that journalists should be willing to be held up to the same level of scrutiny as the people they report on.

From what I could tell there was no reported evidence that their private life was going to be investigated, just their background - and that IS entirely valid, in the
same way that it is valid for a journalist to investigate the background of those they report on. It is quite clear here that there are suspicions, quite possibly valid,
that certain people in the media are intentionally targeting a company - it is ENTIRELY valid for the company to put similar effort in to investigating those
journalists to see if there is an underlying reason for the targeting - of course hopefully they will find nothing.

It is rather precious for a journalists to cry foul about having their 'private lives' attacked when they are reporting comments that were made in a private context,
especially when the journalists in question have reported also on a number of details of the CEO in questions private life themselves.

All part of the poisonous angry world of distrust and low morals that is the public face of the US these days, I guess. Deal with it.

Its also a mini cab.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom

Is it only America that hasnt realised this trick shortly after the invention of the car? or thought that you needed a phone 'app' to use one?

Increasing diversity in THE TEACHING OF OUR CHILDREN would be pretty damn good also.
Unfortunately, no one seems to care about this.

After many decades of chasing just about any man out of the teaching profession, we are left with a huge bias presented to children at their very most sensitive age.
And we are worried about diversity in Tech? why not ponder the elephant in the corner, instead of the mouse hole.

How do we expect to develop a well balanced and unbiased society when our children are taught, almost without exception, by women?

I am NOT claiming, of course, that women cannot teach well - that is far from the truth.
I AM claiming that having only women teachers IS A BAD THING.

Of course the knee jerk reactions will not flood in - but face it, it is an inexcusable situation.
Where are the big well funded pushed to get more men in teaching? ha! they are being actively excluded.. Many schools now actively
avoid employing men 'as it makes the parents uncomfortable'.

What a sad state of affairs.

I dont think you quite understand...
Why would they use it to craft who wins elections?
They only need it to drop a few hints to the politician of choice at the time, that they know all their secrets, so they better vote X on Y.
You think any career politician is going to stand up to them with that hanging over their heads? Not a chance.

The interesting thing with all of this is how much evidence of criminal activity must they be IGNORING in this data, to keep their capabilities quiet.

They are of course now solidly and effectively above all laws, including international law (thanks to their cooperation).

Have a nice day.

Or JUST POSSIBLY it could be like all the 60s/70s end of the world nuclear Apocalypse fiction..
Or in fact the 70s 80s 'big freeze' Apocalypse fiction.
Or, well, zombie plague fiction, etc, etc.

Its 'insightful' that in their own description of the book they appear to complain about the limits of non-fiction for discussion of 'scientific ideas'
Damn those limitations of, you know, actually having true facts and not just making shit up.

Really, this is one step below gutter science, its embarrassing to the whole debate.

no, SOME of the chips are marked FTDI...
Many of the chips are not - they are differently marked or in fact not marked AT ALL.
That makes them FTDI compatible, not counterfeits.
Care to try again?

WHO says they are fake?

It is entirely legal to produce a FTDI USB/API compatible chip - as long as it is not branded with FTDI, or containing FTDI owned design.
Or are you claiming that somehow USB IDs are legally protected? because they are not.

Many of the chips that have been found affected do not carry FTDI branding, they are COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS, not 'Fake Chips'
Some are of course fake chips - that is another matter, however most certainly not all.

No, you are not.

FTDI supplied Microsoft with an autoinstalling patch that you have no control over that that breaks devices that commit no more sin that be USB API/ID compatible with FTDI devices (which is NOT illegal in any way). This patch modifies your FTDI device inoperable intentionally - a device that quite possibly (as loing as it was not falsely labeled with a trademarked FTDI label) is entirely legitimate.
I can think of at least 2 or 3 laws that crashes straight through.

This has big lawsuit written ALL over it.

I assume you do realize what it means when one completely arbitrary number equals another completely arbitrary number, right?
its called a 'coincidence' at the best.

Really, this is either a desperate attempt to shill for the M8, or a huge statistics fail that someone has decided to run with.

And, not only that.

If you look at, for example, the Oneplus One, it has basically the same performance but much more battery life.
In what way is that less good that the M8? Of course there is none - it is better.
NOTHING AT ALL is conveyed by these graphics or figures - they are purely arbitrary.

Hell, multiple the battery number by 2 (which is may as well be, as it has no physical meaning) then the Note III is suddenly 'the most balanced'

This.

Nuclear is safe and cheap - it has killed far less people than ANY other form of power generation per output (including wind and solar, due to the high incidence of installation fatalities).

It has been politically buried in a mountain of oversight and penalty 'costs' for political reasons - basically a cost created by the cold war 'fear the enemies radiation!' propaganda that was brainwashed in to everyone.

the REAL negative things about nuclear power these days are:
The NRC, an organisation that has for far too long held back sensible improvements in this critical part of infrastructure.
The old, outdated, and unnecessarily less safe reactors being kept live due to the political impossibility of replacing them with modern ones (and even THEN their safety history is pretty damn good compared to alternatives).

Any TRUE environmentalist should be screaming at the top of their lungs, protesting in the streets, to have more nuclear power built and shut down the damn coal plants that ARE spreading radiation everywhere!

THIS crap got modded up? Scary.

I assume you do realise that that amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been MUCH higher than it is no previously, yes?
And of course that ran away didnt it, making earth venus like and all.. at least until the magic pixies came and magicked it back I guess.
And yes, of course, that half a billion yars worth of carbon - because as we know carbon is continuously produced (I can only imagine by those
same magic pixies) and so accumulates..

Oh, sorry - there I go again with damn damn pesky critical thinking.

No, you are right! the sky is falling! we had better empower those fantastic politicians who only have our best interests at heart to grab more power!