Part of tommorow's "Terms and Services" which for the last 3 years have been legally binding and a felony to breach is that you must only say and think positive things about the product.(drink your verification cans)

To the American public and our daily lives, the impact has been slight, but its done somethings like inspire TLS 1.2 implementation, and other organizations to seriously re-check and resecure their systems.

the people who work in technology noticed and many companies are seriously not trusting the government anymore

The NSA has lost some operational capability and fired a whole bunch of sysadmins because it no longer trusts its people, this limiting its operational capabilities. Morale is low.

Less people are joining law enforcement across the board. The NSA isn't getting the recruits it wants. The crucial people who it needs to continue its technological operations know, and they care.

The leaks have degraded its long term capacity to function.

Now, if you buy something in a foreign country, and then bring it back to your home country its stealing, even if you legally bought it.

This is like how police charge people with "assaulting an officer" for bleeding on them after they beat the crap out of them at a traffic stop for doing 5 mph over the speed limit.

When you steal something you deprive someone else of using it. End of story.

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If you knew something about capitalism, you'd know something about Porter's Five Forces. With the exception of union labor, and some form of labor movement doing negotiating, the power of labor to negotiate is mostly less than the power of the owners to negotiate, hence the long term decrease in wages and conditions. Every now and again there is a temporal reversal of the situation where the labor holds the bargining power, but that is almost as quickly reversed by agreements between the bosses.

and yes, its always been like this. Wages only remained high because of regulation. Regulation also can create unneccary rules and power to be abused.

you can't have capitalism that is not abusive somehow. Solving one problem introduces another until you throw the system out altogether.

Wake up, this is capitalism. Americans won't have access to American jobs next generation because college will cost too much, and they will import labor from less capitalist countries to make up the diffrence. Free market my ass.

but but "muh markets".

for the people who'd rather we loose our jobs to the chineese.

Having creationists do what advertising has done should simply highlight an existing problem.

There is a secret trade agreement, and Obama is supporting the secrecy. If you look at the Democrats supporting it, its going to be the most powerful ones that are running in 2016 for president and have the most sway and favor with party leadership, and detemine party dirrection.

This is what happens when you vote party line instead of looking at the issues.

unfortunately no. all phones pull a satellite or two starting a generation before the razr as required by law(not user accessable). even with smart phones you can turn the GPS for the same effect.

That said, cell network location is not exactly reliable. If you are in a major city, there can easily be half a million people in resolution radius. E911 is notoriously poor for location as well.

Of course there are more ways to track you besides E911 which only activates durring a phone call to 911. Government backdoors like the ablity to turn on your phone's mic and listen are present in phones of this era.

Even if you could find a phone with no spying capabilities, which is hard because all the GSM/CDMA chips are closed source, and every chip and ever device needs to be approved by the government, you'd stand out on the network as the only device without such capabilities.

Its simple, you use somthing like the Affero license so no one can make changes that you can't access. Since anyone can try, whatever good ideas other people have you can re-incorporate, so you can potentially have a far bigger unpaid developer base. If your product is known to attract hacker types as customers, they can act as force multipliers, easily. As compared to a closed program, you'll have more eyes on the code. Its also your code, and you know it better than anyone else.

Then you simply focus on having the best quality of service. You can copy software, you can't copy quality of service.

Combine these two, its not as easy as you think to compete against someone else with their own software.

You also have your brand name and reputation. which is built on that quality of service. Despite the fact that CentOS is given away for free, people pay good money for RHEL subscriptions, and RH is an economicly viable company.

The support is where the money is. The actual product is a loss leader.

Motorola Razr v3xx is probably one of the best handsets of all time.

That said, its old, uses a now non-standard charge port, and all the hacked tools are no longer readily available.(Motorola PST, Qualcom's tool, etc...)