Don't worry. The wheels will eventually come off, as sustaining Pax Americana will utterly and completely drain the coffers down to where the whole thing just collapses, just as they did with every other two-bit empire in the past.
A good read on the subject is Chalmers Johnson's The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
To the bunkers!
If you have to have an admissions exam for a university, ~.
Let me distill down a Quarter of College-level Econ for you:
Of course, one (i.e., you) could claim that the simple fix is to increase the number of spaces at the university, or perhaps build more universities. Then you run into the issue of scarcity of competent professors. Would you wish to staff your university with the first bumblefnck that was able to stumble through your doors, clutching a freshly-minted Masters or PhD?
* Discrimination, in this case, means "a method of choosing". It could be the first 500 students in the door, those whose last name starts and ends with a vowel; or those who passed some godawful test.
Scenes I'd like to see: implement national driver's license test standards so that 70% automatically fail their first try, and boost the penalty for driving without a license. Then we'd finally have a nation of good drivers, I mean good test takers. Wait...what?
LOL.
Why be a victim? Use Greasemonkey and all that ugliness will just melt away.
Oh, don't know how to write javascript code? Yes, that's a problem.
Help, help!
How do I cut and paste without a mouse?!
Sincerely,
PEBKAC
Excellent question. Here's what I would do.
Treat a desktop like a desktop. Perhaps share elements of the Windows OS between platform (.NET framework, kernel, DirectX, etc) but the UI must be diffirent. In case of a hybrid device; let the user pick the experience he/she wants.
Continue the Home Server concept; partner with a company (D-Link) to create a stand-alone box. Don't screw this up. If you want a media box, do it properly. Get some content; pick a movie studio or two to back you up. Get an American TV channel. GET LIVE SPORTS, especially SOCCER!
Realize that you lost the smartphone market. Work towards creating a presence on the incumbents. Price the competition out of the water. Do a proper Office version.
Lower the OS price. Create three versions tops; Lite, Regular and Corporate.
They want an app store. Okay, that's fine. Create a "certified by Microsoft" program that provides some perks and allow people to buy stuff online. Fully-tested software (a proper QA process), no malware/spyware, backups, more generous licensing,
XBoXOne - give a free online experience. Support the indie community more. Don't release 20 variants of the console.
Forget doing a hardware media player like the zune. Do something that allows you to play music on existing smartphones. An app that allows you to stream the music from your media box (as mentioned above).
Pick another commercial product area. Perhaps education? Perhaps extend messaging.
Look at more reasonable pricing for CALs in the corporate market. Give better volume discounts.
So why were you endangering national security?
Every time you use teh interwebs, you are endangering national security.
Every time you leave the house, you are endangering national security.
Every time you stay at home, you are endangering national security.
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Consider that they are tracking everyone.
Which means everyone is a suspect.
And they wouldn't be suspects if they weren't guilty.
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Q. What do you call an innocent civilian?
A. A criminal who hasn't broken the law yet.
...because with all that radioactive water dumping into the Pacific, any fish from that ocean will start absorbing radioactive elements. Bart's three-eyed fish will seem tame in comparison, because at least you can see the problem.
Even better? Radiation is cumulative, so propensity for tissue damage rises with each exposure and the radioactive elements build up in the animal's body. There is no safe level of radiation exposure (source: Hellen Cadicott)
Still even better? Expect the higher-order fish (the ones that eat other fish) to end up will even more radiation exposure. Guess what's at the top of the food chain? That's right: those hairless chimps are flocked.
Try the fish!
On the other hand SSH can't be compromised,
Do tell! So some malware/virus couldn't snatch the SSH keys from an infected box and then ssh into another? Or simply ssh into an improperly-secured box (say, with easy-to-guess passwords for easy-to-guess accounts)?
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So, it has come to this.
No, they're missing the boat, as usual. They need to port PHP to their craptaculous phone, then they'll have all the apps they could ever dream of.
The market will become flooded with Windows Phone "Developers" just as the Web space now is, then the inherent technical debt will increase past the point of breaking and millions, nay BILLIONS will be spent trying to maintain and extend all the in-house apps clueless businesses have written.
And that means more money for me when I come in and fix their problem with clean, maintainable (and noob-proof) code. *cackle*
Thanks; that's good info.
So the underlying convenience is at fault.
How about the fact that Chrome can import passwords stored in Safari to begin with?
So Safari has some security issues as well. Where is the "master key" to export passwords?
I guess the underlying message is that if you leave a computer unattended the information is accessible to anyone. E-mail, passwords, documents, MP3s, etc.
This is a convenience feature and 99% rather have the convenience of a cached web passwords on their personal computer then worrying about something walking by.
Well, at least it's not "man-in-the-middle" because that would be bad.
Would be one
US patent office
FIFA
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
