It's inconceivable that Russian Intelligence is ignorant of the realities of encryption or of the internets' infrastructure. My assumption is this is concrete message to anybody in the space that they are expected to do whatever they can, meaning to pro-actively implement the appropriate infrastructural back doors into their systems to allow for data exposure upon demand. It doesn't have to be very well defined to change the status quo. Corporate Russia will figure out how to orient itself into compliance with the Kremlin. And corporate America won't die on this hill. If your aim is to decrease privacy in your domain of control, this makes a lot of sense.

It is one of the most one sided issues in modern history. Everything he said is 100 percent true. There was never palestinian arab identity and it was manufactured and nurtured with the express intent of eradicating Israel. They didn't even hide it. At the same time the arabs waged 2 full scale wars of aggression and the victors were 'required' to act in ways never dreamed about in the history of warfare. At the same time Israel has made deadly concession after deadly concession for naught agains a backdrop of ever increasing non-Jewish hostility. Empathy? For the arabs from the Jews? That's rich. You need to do a bit of investigation into the standard curriculum in gaza and the west bank schools.

Ok serious question, why wouldn't you just hire someone with clearance with enough knowledge to be trainable. Either by current employees or by contracted (who wouldn't need the same clearance). I'm certain that wasn't realistic but I'd like to know why.

I know for a fact that 40 years ago large companies had internal training programs. Someone close to me who is now retired but had a long career in programing was hired by TWA as his first job. He was hired because he was smart and responsible but he had never programmed. So he entered as a trainee, and had badge with that designation until he got up to speed and was promoted to standard programmer.

Things were different then, because companies were more likely then to have their own home rolled set ups but when corporate America has as need they have proven resilient.
 

fair enough, I misunderstood the argument. thanks for clarifying.

"Religion is for people whose minds are too small to handle ambiguity..." You agree with that? In that camp you place the entire history of humanity, the giants on whose shoulder's we now stand. I'll say, that some flat earth stuff right there.

Have you ever read Newton, or the founding fathers the United States of America? Did they have small minds? Could they not deal with ambiguity? Really? That's your hypothesis? Because that's the claim I'm responding to. Do you know any living religious people? Are they all more small minded than you? Don't know where you live but I find that hard to believe, unless you really only stick to your own.

You are correct, the pace of scientific discovery has increased, though how much of that advance was made by by athiests is debatable. Calculus anybody? Do some reading into Euler. This is slashdot, where we talk about ipads, so I'll just leave you with that old saw about correlation/causation and invite you to consider theories that better fit the entire body of available evidence.

... that's what you're claiming? "Religion is for people whose minds are too small to handle ambiguity..." You agree with that? In that camp you place the entire history of humanity, the giants on whose shoulder's we now stand. I'll say, that some flat earth stuff right there.

Have you ever read Newton, or the founding fathers the United States of America? Did they have small minds? Could they not deal with ambiguity? Really? That's your hypothesis? Because that's the claim I'm responding to. Do you know any living religious people? Are they all more small minded than you? Don't know where you live but I find that hard to believe, unless you really only stick to your own.

You are correct, the pace of scientific discovery has increased, though how much of that advance was made by by athiests is debatable. Calculus anybody? Do some reading into Euler. This is slashdot, where we talk about ipads, so I'll just leave you with that old saw about correlation/causation and invite you to consider theories that better fit the entire body of available evidence.

right which is why everyone one and anyone who ever accomplished anything before the past 100 years or so was a believer. Because they weren't as smart as we are. You keep telling yourself that. You've plenty of company.

Yep, so it's about managing the beast.

Keep facebook or whatever off the phone and have a stationary social machine to keep in touch. Right now the trade off for mobile social networking is worth it for most people but this may well be pushing the envelope too far. It's quite a trial balloon, this first overt use of GPS tracking by the silicon valley KGB and I'm hoping that it's enough to wake a significant amount of people up. Because the next step, if we aren't there already is per person time/place profile which is really just wow.

The assertion is inane and the rebuttal is wordy. Some comments on the original thread had it correct, it's just a brain fart from some higher up at a brain fart of a company.

Facebook will die, at least in its current relatively (and I mean relatively) benign incarnation. It's a matter of time. They have managed to remain where they are in social because they just up and buy any potential competitor. One day someone will say, no thanks.

Then they will become a government contracted data mining operation for real which is when the mask come off. Shadow profiles.

not every department need access to the internet nor do the departments that do need access need it to the extent that one might imagine.

I am increasingly finding that I can with forethought identify the domains hosting the information I need, e.g, stackexchange or wikepedia or javadocs or safari, there is no reason the prime aggregations of useful domain specific information can't be aggregated and downloaded with diffs maintained, the noise to signal ration on the internet is growing in the wrong direction and you could in theory have dedicated personal to keep on top of this.

That said I doubt this will end up as draconian as the statement suggests.

For me Nexus was owner friendly way towards unlock and flash a custom rom. they provide all the vendor binaries for download, and rooting is a click or two away.

I don't even install gapps because I'm googled out, frankly.

I've always suspected this nexus was too good to be true for much longer because since what's in it for them besides street cred. Yeah enhancements, I get it, but the moment they start getting 'more opinionated' this devolution, I fear, is simply a matter of time.

Oh but credit where it's due. Thank you, Google for the nexus phones, and for providing the vendor binaries for download (hope that lasts, but wouldn't bet on it)

I've just flashed cyanogen without gapps, bought an account on .fastmail and am searching with duckduckgo. I don't know where any of this is going but I will do without googles wonderful services (and they are top notch) before I allow this instance of this abomination of a business model to take a further role in my day to day. I'm also building android and learning the source code because we tech people need to hurdle this learning curve so that we can be of service to our friends and family when in 10 years down the line all but the dummies who are okay with having adds served to them in their windows start menus will want to cut the chord to.

I may not or not be a professional programmer. I am whatever you call someone who gets paid to program computers. But I can read in good faith...thought experiment: what might "if you're not thick in sinks in after while" mean in this context...(hint: I know syntax)

I'm self taught and have the same problem. My solution was and is to keep reading. I rarely do exercises and I can't bring myself to code to no end, because of
opportunity costs, I've done some stuff here and there as I needed (scripting mostly) and just kept reading. Read textbooks, OS stuff, computer architecture, algorithms and math. The problem is that the stuff I need has been done and is at my fingertips, and though I could re-invent a wheel or re-implement a library, I learn well through reading books, and books open up new vistas and raise my ceiling. I've always thought, that when the time comes, I'll have a good enough background to go deeply into what ever I'm being paid to do.

If you are looking do it for a living, this method can if fact work. I didn't know that until recently.

I had been working in app support when started learning this stuff, after a couple of years I got access to the code base and would read it to solve bugs that hit the help desk or answer obscure questions about how things worked when we got them, at some point I felt confident to ask for some write access and a mandate to spend time working on stuff. It took a long time to get that but at some point it happened and now, guess what, I am professional programmer. I am still reading though. Now I see that the lack of practice didn't hurt me at all. Sure I had look up syntax, but the IDE either writes or reviews all that stuff for you and unless you are thick it seeps in after a while.

Learning by doing is critical but if you only learn by doing you will end up learning very little (unless you have much more time than I do). You'll get the practice when you'll need it and you'll get good quickly if you have the right background.

so if my experience speaks to anyone out there, try to get a job in support, a stones throw away from the development. As soon as you can read code, try to get read access to the code base. When you are comfortable, agitate appropriately for some write responsibilities in down time, even for no extra pay.