Comment Re:Nope. (Score 2) 355
But soon every fridge will be smart and have a screen. You will then have to accept the terms of service or the icemaker won't work.
Risked everything. Gained nothing.
Snowden.
Bunny: "Bless me father, for it has been 3 years since my last confession. I confess that I have not been attending Mass regularly and have had impure thoughts about proprietary technologies!"
Father O'Reilly: "Why that is fairly serious. I suggest you say a Hail Mary twice a day for two months."
Bunny: "OK, Father."
Father O'Reilly: "Oh, and can you make a Novena?"
Bunny: "Why sure, Father! Give me the schematic and I can make anything!"
And Fluke is out for support, too. Those people who get free Fluke meters from Sparcfun aren't going to call Sparcfun when they need help with the meter. They're going to call Fluke because Fluke's name is on them.
.
People call Fluke for support on a frickin' DMM???
The main problem with this is that with going out in grand style, you don't just disappear over the ocean....
I am starting to think of what has happened as "diabolical", with someone creating a sick mystery worth of Moriarty.
Sick people get their kicks in different ways. This really could be "grand style".
First, I'll stipulate that Snowden is a hero to me. Half my age. Twenty times the guts.
What really bothers me, though, is how the Administration bungled this. Amateur hour! The moment we arrogantly, petulantly forced Evo Morales airplane down in Austria, we pretty much guaranteed that Snowden would need to hole up and that Putin would take the opportunity to stick us in the eye. This is beyond amazing. We've put ourselves in the position where a vicious thug gets to posture as the nice guy and leave us with very little to do. We are depending on a thug to protect the fate and future of a man who initiated one of the most important discussions in our nation's political history. All because we couldn't think straight and realize that Ecuador or Venezuela or *anywhere" would be a batter outcome than what we got.
It's one thing to get poked in the eye with a stick, but quite another thing to run into the stick full tilt. Amateur hour.
Woosh?
Yeah, Whoosh me. Sigh.
Obama isn't the retarded Bush that could barely read. Obama actually has an Ivy League degree.
And Bobby Fischer was a really smart guy. What's your point?
No, unlike in the Bush era, I don't cringe when I hear the President speak. I just get very depressed.
Maybe not the worst President in this country's history, but certainly a leading contender for the most disappointing.
Yet another simplistic "smart cards would have prevented..." article. Do we really believe these glib summaries from MSM "Experts"? Will we simply accept the premise?
Time for a reality check. In an earlier thread after the breach, there was an entry from a @girlintraining that was at minimum though-provoking, and arguably much more credible than a lot of the puff pieces on offer. Take a moment and read it:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4574335&cid=45733709
A conspiracy theory, for sure. But more sophisticated than any other Target analysis I have seen.
I mean, we're Apple!
So, "he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the NSA".
Ho, hum. Wake me up when he gets that whole "right and wrong" thing figured our and schedules a welcome home dinner for Snowden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Trap full -- please empty.
