To me, none of Snowden's revelations were particularly surprising. The NSA is a spy agency by charter.
Weren't you surprised by a revelation that a single person working at NSA could get that much data and walk away with it?
They pay plenty of taxes, including payroll taxes,
H1-B employees get a significantly lower salary. That very much reduces the payroll taxes that they end up paying. If H1-B employees actually received comparable salary and could easily jump ship to another company, the problem would resolve itself (i.e. they would only be hired when local talent is indeed unavailable)
Almost 100% of all coal is shipped to electricity providers. Reliability and Economies of Scale.
You can buffer a supply of coal and survive a shipping delay
What happens with your Cloud data access during internet outage on either side?
This submitter has the typical Slashdot FOSS douchebag attitude. This case has NOTHING TO DO with open source software, yet you can always find a way to jam it in there eh?
I am sure that timothy (not the submitter, btw) had done due diligence research and verified that Apptricity offerings are also available or nearly-available in a viable FOSS project. Because otherwise it would be irresponsible to make such statements:
$50 million in tax money could have paid for a whole lot of open source software development, instead.
they think they know what they're doing, but when you ask them an SQL question they use a sequence of nested queries without any join statements.
And what exactly is wrong with that?
Query optimizer will generally convert a nested query into a join when necessary. And for a non-correlated nested query (and possibly some particularly shaped indexes) nesting is probably a better answer to begin with.
The company said it has no plans to sell any information collected through a cloud service connected to the devices
And you'd be an idiot to think they won't silently change this in an EULA update.
They don't have to!
There currently are "no plans", mostly because they first need to collect the data before they can properly price it.
It would also be able to restrict talking or texting on a smartphone while a vehicle is in operation.
Ok, that is just creepy. How about extending that to forced ads?
"Watch this commercial and you can talk on your phone for the next two days while you are driving"
They should assume that hostile agencies (foreign *and* domestic) have tapped every last network link they own.
I am sure they knew all along. They were fine with it
Everyone is making noise now, because it became public and there is some concern over backlash from the users.
Please, oh please(!), try this shit with me. I really need the money and wiping you off the internet would not only be profitable, but highly satisfying as well. Love, AC
And those of us with real names and addresses should admit that we do not actually have the resources to fight a court battle with a company, regardless of how right we might be.
Snowden may likely say show that it was used abused in practice, and the NSA likely wants to say that they prevented a suspected domestic terrorist.
NSA will also probably claim that they were going to release/review this material anyway, and Snowden just forced them to do it too early (thus jeopardizing security, etc, etc.)
I found it fascinating when Obama made these claims -- that he was going to review and fix the entire NSA program any day now and that Snowden just forced him to do it in a rush instead of carefully.
Zynga, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Skype, and the list keeps on growing.
I think you forgot Facebook
Investors know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Big investors that got preferential price (and early access to all relevant information) made out just fine. The mere mortal investors might lose money, but that's a feature, not a bug.
... and I am glad I never waste any of my time in fb
Don't worry -- at least half a dozen of your friends are working hard to make sure you are not forgotten (posting and tagging fotos, marking "I know this person from..." questions, etc.)
No, the plan doesn't suck. You can't know that without actually having some real information about it. You're willingness to declare something in the absence of any actual real information
You are right that I should have been clear that this is my educated guess and not a fact. However, I think it is a good guess, junk health insurance is (apparently) a real thing. I would have expected they were illegal already but they were not.
"You can't be trusted to decide for yourself. We will run your life for you."
I believe in the "social contract" theory advanced by many. You should be able to decide for yourself, sure.
But if you decide to forego insurance that will actually cover you in case of an emergency, then you should also decline your right to be treated at any emergency room for free. And since we do not consider the latter to be acceptable...
(note that all of this applies to anyone who prefers "affordable" insurance to the real kind. If you cannot afford any insurance, that's a different story)
Blue Cross had a plan that they liked. Blue Cross had a plan the customer liked. Both were happy.
Indeed -- and this idyllic utopia was going to be maintained until the customer needed some significant coverage. I am sure the plan was great until you had to use it to actually cover stuff.
People are notoriously bad at reading fine print (or their contracts in general, in fact). I think no matter what else ACA did, instituting a minimal requirement of what counts as "health insurance" is definitely a good thing.
He tried to spin this as "removing the under-insured" but no... People had plans they liked.
These two statements are not in contradiction. I just read an article about one of those "plans" that people liked which had a payout cap of $50 for any medical expense, no matter what how high it was. The plan was really cheap, so of course people liked it, but it was also useless (which people would only truly learn after they had to use it)
all of us were "ok" with the companies collecting this information. When an intelligence agency combines this info, we suddenly scream for privacy.
Google does not have the ability to put us on the no-fly list. "Ok" or not, the threat level just isn't the same.
I just don't understand all of these companies with names that take some word and stick 'ly' at the end.
It's simple -- they are the companion websites to all those "-ster" websites everywhere.
I wonder what Feedster is doing!
WHOIS feedster.com
Registration Service Provider:
Dotster.com, support@dotster-inc.com
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
