Finally the line "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" can be used against law enforcement. Since law enforcement agencies across the country are adopting ever more invasive tactics to monitor citizens, it's refreshing to see that we can finally monitor them without fear of reprisal.
Didn't this game have page turning animations in it back in '83?
At some point the light should go off in everyone's head to see where governments are going with this. It'll probably be too late, but at least we will realize what happened... But then what?
Immediately after the Symantec/Huawei joint venture in 2007, backdoors and trojans began to appear that targeted Symantec products. Symantec products have been a staple of DoD environments for a number of years (http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030527a.html), so something like this likely raised more than a few eyebrows. I'm honestly surprised that it took this long considering how much trust we have in the Chinese (extremely little) and the fact that Huawei products had already been blacklisted by the DoD.
Surely we can all agree that "Facebook Privacy" is an oxymoron.
As I've stated below, I know who he is, but why should that even matter? This was about as newsworthy as RNS tweeting what he ate for breakfast or Miguel de Icaza blurting somewhere that he's on his way to Ecuador for some R&R.
His contributions to FOSS don't make him above a bit of criticizm or someone poking fun at a post on his blog.
I know exactly who Bruce is. Doesn't negate the fact that this was not "News", and it's STILL the ramblings of a guy (Bruce Perens, male = guy) on the internet (his blog = on the internet).
... that I'll never get back.
This was not "News For Nerds", it was "the ramblings of a guy on the internet".
Unless Microsoft is keen to take heed to the mistakes made by their Kin phones (HA!), this may well fail just as miserably. Kin phones didn't even make it two months before getting pulled off the shelves.
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes. Is anyone surprised? After all, there is a pretty strong, positive selection pressure among our society for sociopathy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gysGCrZTXQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwADg0OZso
The above video illustrates what CAN happen when an internet shit talker is discovered and confronted in real life. As many would think, said shit talkers turn out to be 130lb skinny guys who mouthed off to the wrong person online.
did I do it right???
On the internet, you can be whatever you want including that which you could NEVER bring yourself to be in real life (yes, this includes "online pedo/offline proud parent" types). Many choose to be rude, filth spewing slagmonkeys because they want to be.
... quietly, somewhere at the Apple offices all records of and references to the iPod Touch are being destroyed.
I'm going to leave this here as a placeholder for the inevitable...
I just left AZ a bit over a year ago and lived in Maricopa County. Joe Arpaio started his b.s. first, but even before that he and his office were a menace to the Latino populace of the county. Don't get me wrong, there ARE illegals there, no one will ever dispute that claim, however he's been less than truthful when he repeatedly states that they're responsible for all the crime there. Take a look at the mugshots his office posts daily, plenty of black and white faces to go along with the brown ones he singles out.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
