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Submission + - US pressuring Hong Kong to arrest Snowden while Snowden has flown to Moscow (scmp.com) 2

Taco Cowboy writes:

Is the United States of America a country which still obeys the Rule of Law ?

In an irony twist, the government of the United States is reminding Hong Kong to follow the
Rule of Law while itself has violated the Constitution of the United States of America

The United States is publicly putting pressure on Hong Kong to arrest Mr. Edward Snowden.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-publicly-increases-pressure-on-hong-kong-to-arrest-snowden/2013/06/22/2254bbde-db66-11e2-9df4-895344c13c30_story.html

“If Hong Kong doesn’t act soon, it will complicate our bilateral relations and raise questions about Hong Kong’s commitment to the rule of law,” said a senior administration official

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/06/2013622203229445392.html

In the meantime, South China Morning Post of Hong Kong also releases information regarding US's hacking on China's cellphone companies and the prestigious Tsinghua University

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266777/exclusive-snowden-safe-hong-kong-more-us-cyberspying-details-revealed

China is furious about the revelations, accusing the US actively engaging on illegal cyber hacking activities on other counties while publicly identifying itself as a "victim"

http://rt.com/news/snowden-nsa-china-hack-120/

Latest development: The South Chinese Morning Post has reported that Snowden has aboard a plane flying to Moscow

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1267261/snowden-leaves-hong-kong-commercial-flight-moscow

Comment Re:I disagree (Score 1) 126

Having worked for three retail chains at various points in my career, pricing mistakes are usually of two varieties. First someone at the central office typos a price that is pushed out to the store. The other problem is when the new price is pushed out to the stores, but the communication line is down to a particular store. The new price doesn't register at the store.
Twas real fun at one chain I worked for with 1000 stores, and I admin'd that network/pricing system. Think we were successful in communicating to all of them every day? Not hardly. If you notice a pricing mistake, most check out people will correct for it at the register if you point it out, in my experience.

Comment Re:Have any of the people griping USED COBOL? (Score 1) 256

Dang that brings back memories. MPEX was the 3rd or 4th OS I learned. That was back in the early 80s. But the IBM OS's even now have their roots back into at least the 70s, and it's still applicable now.
I learned COBOL back in the 70s as the second language I learned, after BASIC. If I wanted to, I could probably still get a decent job doing COBOL now, I would think. Some things don't change enough for it to matter. But I wouldn't want to do COBOL. I always considered it boring after learning assembler.

Comment Re:Anyone? (Score 1) 256

A few off the top of my head; car registration and renewal notices, bank statements, credit card statements, paper checks for people who don't like direct deposit. Pretty much any organization with thousands or millions of customers (mostly banks, insurance companies, governments, etc.)

Comment Re:...targets for black spray paint (Score 1) 321

My Android phone yesterday afternoon uploaded photos to Google Plus without my telling it to. I happened to notice there was a notification icon on my Google home page, after I'd signed into gmail. Clicked on it, and it showed me photos on my phone, some older, some taken a few days ago. I expect since my phone is signed into gmail as well, that's how the photos got there. There's probably some setting I agreed to allow photos to be uploaded automatically somewheres, but I don't remember seeing it. So Google now knows I have photos of plum trees flowering.

Comment Re:Deep (Score 1) 225

I presume this comment reply will get emailed to you. Mine are, but it's a seldom used email box of mine. Anywats, we use 8 IFLs and despite what wikipedia says, our in house hardware experts say they are faster then general ones. And cost less.
As far as is it more cost effective? Trust me when I say our organization was under immense pressure to cut costs. Our customers are very happy.
Comments will be cut off on this article, and I'm on vacation. But my nick at gmail, and you can email me. Meantime, I'll copy/paste to my work email and give you a more detailed answer if you wish. I'm currently sorta the z/os side, but AIX and HP-UX i the past.

Comment Re:Deep (Score 1) 225

EC12 using IFLs. Also, the SAN is the same drives for servers and the mainframe, EMC. Just the mainframe is way superior for IO. http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/its_the_io_stup.html Also, you can't just install vanilla SUSE Linux on a mainframe. When it was first attempted, performance was dreadfully slow. That's when IBM went, oh, you need to do some tweaks to improve performance.

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