Well that should get interesting in the Business Subscription market since currently an Office 365 E1, E3, or E5 subscription is for office products and a Microsoft 365 E1, E3, or E5 license is for the Enterprise version of the Operating System plus other features (including Office 365). I wonder if this is a move toward incorporating all licensing into the Microsoft 365 realm so you are effectively buying a subscription for both the OS features as well as the Office Product features combined instead of separately.

Well, my understanding is that only members of the Democratic party in the US are sophisticated intellectuals, but what do I know? It's worth pointing out that every person who is a reporter is being paid to say something and it's understood that if they say something wrong they may have to find someone else to pay them to talk. That's true of any investigative piece, or even historical documentary. Every professional gets paid to do something.

And yes, we should look at a person's words, while also attempting to have an idea of the point of view that skews those words. Everyone talks through the lens of their own background, point of view, etc. But at the end of the day each one of us is responsible for discernment. Ideally, we wouldn't pass on information that we haven't done at least some work in verifying, but we all know that's nowhere near the reality.

When people can't logically, with facts and evidence, argue against a point of view, they inevitably attack the character of the person espousing the facts. That happens from every side of every argument. It's just an unfortunate part of human nature. Since we know this, we can do our best to not be part of the problem, and learn to recognize it when others do it.

The "unnamed intelligence official" didn't even claim ZeroHedge was working FOR a hostile foreign power. From the article "The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia." The claim is only that Russian propaganda is being spread through the site. This is clearly just another hit piece on a site that allows articles that go against the official narrative (which is really just a nice way of saying US propaganda).

Well if PolitiFact says it's not true... How about reading what an article in the American Journal of Therapeutics has to say about it? Funny thing, apparently drugs can have more than one kind of effect on the body. Who woulda' thunk?

https://journals.lww.com/ameri...

Yeah, I realize the short game is Enterprise but like you said, eventually they make Enterprise features to the public. In this case, I think it strengthens their push to getting folks accustomed to paying a subscription for everything they do on or with a computer.

This actually makes perfect sense in tandem with their release of Windows 365. Having a very small and secure kernel on a PC that is then used to "stream" a Windows 365 cloud-based desktop environment would be a big winner for them. They could hike up the price for OEM installations of Windows 11 and offer "free" 6 month subscriptions for new PCs. Then people would have to pay a subscription to Microsoft to keep using their own computer.

Fantastic Firefly reference!

It's possible that it was just a change in political strategy and he made use of something that he knew would eventually happen. It's pointed out that he was ejecting and heckling hecklers until that night. It would be interesting to know if he went back to the old strategy after all the publicity that one event got or if he kept up the new strategy. Either way, it was interesting how easy it was to find that one incident where he was nice to the heckler despite that not having been the norm until that night.

I have no more trouble watching Obama than I do Trump. They're both politicians who say they are great and their opponent is awful. Obama is just slicker in his presentation.

So, a single old white guy with a Trump sign managed to garner enough attention in a huge auditorium that it caused Obama to stop and deal with the matter? That seemed a bit strange to me. Then I found a Times article about the incident which mentions:

"But on Friday, instead of calling for the man’s removal or heckling him back as he’s done in the past, the Obama told the crowd he deserved their respect and urged them to vote instead of boo."
https://time.com/4559072/barac...

Call me a tin foil hatter but that looks like a staged incident to me.

Actually, I can't find any trace of that claim anywhere. All I see is chanting 4 more years from a distance. Now, the line may very well have gone past the perimeter required by that State. But even at that there's nobody saying there was actual confrontation or blocking. Just support of their candidate.

Not to mention Democrats expel Republicans from their rallies too. None of this is one-sided.

From your article:

"At least two dozen supporters of the US president held “Trump - Pence” placards and waved American flags, about 100 feet from the entrance to the polling location."

Note the distance. That is standard protocol. Every election there are people for and against candidates at the prescribed distance from polling stations to make their last stand. That's why the article was full of "qualifying" words like "appeared" to be blocking. If people are "afraid" of seeing support for a different candidate than their own then they need to grow up. I walk past Democrats doing the same thing all the time because I'm in a heavy Democratic area. But I don't go asking to be escorted despite the fact that Democratic officials have actually publicly encouraged harassment of those who disagree with them. It's a non-story.

But even having access to the data stream of the carrier does you no good unless you either have the key used by the receiving party to decrypt the message or the computational power to try to brute force it.

That appears to be the consensus as far as Signal itself goes. But the real vulnerability with these apps is the OS they sit on. We are seeing an increase in the number of security compromises that allow a rogue app to access what should be segregated memory and access the data for these apps before encryption and after decryption. The device is the real security risk at this point.