Would you kindly expand on that comment? Because as it stands, it is a non-sequitur. In order to have oil, you need to buy it on an open market. Exactly where do the army, navy and air force come in here?
Unless you actually meant to say that in order to have oil, the US and UK must take it by force. Please clarify.
New York Times already runs on that particular business model. They sat for a year on the story about NSA's illegal (at the time) surveillance, came out with it only after the 2004 elections. No-one needs Wikileaks to provide services they already have catered for.
As you said, the guy brought the gun in, and got arrested. This is the story:
Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/news/Ex-soldier-faces-jail-handing-gun/article-1509082-detail/article.html
I've already said what I think about Kaspersky's views here and I won't be renewing my license but... do you have anything other than anecdotal evidence (your own)? I switched from ESET Security Suite (essentially nod32 + firewall) to Kaspersky specifically because it uses significantly less memory, less CPU, and its on-access scan is much faster. Still a relative hog, like all av software today, but not nearly as bad as other things I've tried.
And anyway, it's really beside the point how good (or not) their products are. The man has just lost me as a customer even though I *like* what he makes.
> Security expert wants a more secure system. Freedom experts want a free system.
> Unsurprisingly these two views clash
And there are technical reasons why they do - that's fine, that's tough, we understand the constraints. This isn't the problem.
The problem seems to be that some (many?) "security experts" do not **value** freedom - at all.
When you hear a government or a corporate official say "security", think "control". It makes things much clearer.
I was born in communist Poland, early enough to remember it well but like you, too late to have endured any particular hardships or to have faced tough political choices. So without judging or justifying Kaspersky either way, let's note than in Russia in the 70s there would have been precious few career avenues for a kid gifted in maths and cryptanalysis.
The views he's expressing today are a completely different affair. Today he really talks as if the KGB thinking is catching up with him. (Not that you won't hear US or EU officials express like sentiments!) I've switched just recently from nod32 (s-l-o-w on-access scan!) to Kaspersky AVP, but I don't think I will be renewing the license when it expires in under a year. Wish there was more I could do.
"informal surveys show that many scientists would be willing to go on a one-way mission into space"
A one-way mission to Mars.
Space geeks.
Makeshift weapons.
Welcome to...
DOOM 4!
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
