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Comment Re:It's not a minor accomplishment... (Score 4, Insightful) 408

OP literally dedicated a paragraph to point out that a DSLR is better overall, so I don't get your snark. He'd clearly not do what you propose.

But the best camera is the one you have with you, and 99% of the time, for 99% of people, that's the camera on the phone. Most photographers had long ago figured "decent depth of field needs a real lens and a wide aperture. It's physics and optics." which is 100% still true, but Apple managed to approximate the effect on a phone in a good enough way that, while the technical quality (pixel count, optical sharpness, optical clarity, etc) isn't too different, the aesthetics of many pictures just got a notable kick.

Cool is cool, regardless of platform. I'm still sticking with my Nexus, but i'll give Apple a tip of the hat when appropriate.

Comment Re:Looks like Gartner has a new client now. (Score 4, Funny) 408

This guy, btw, is the guy behind Google+.

The very same Microsoft which was so dismissive of choices became an ardent supporter of competition and consumer choice when it came to standards. With straight face it argued its deliberately misnamed OOXML "standard" is a good because you need competition between "standards"!

According to Wikipedia:

"Gundotra joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications.

Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement.

So given the dev cycle for Office 2007 and OOXML, it very much could have been THE SAME GUY pushing OOXML.

Which just makes your post awesome!

Comment Re:Main reasons. (Score 1) 181

That just means they don't need to persist across "reboots" (and how often do you unplug your fridge?)

The devices would still have a CPU and RAM, which is all a hacker needs to take control. And if the machine never gets patched, its easy to reinfect if the power ever does get cycled.

Comment Re:Nothing to see. (Score 1) 741

"I'd ask the same thing about Condeleeza but I actually believe that about her, after all she was in the NSA. "
Condeleeza Rice was never in the NSA. Your arguments lose serious credibility if you can't differentiate between the National Security Agency (the intelligence agency) and the National Security Advisor (the person who advises the president on national security issues, including but not limited to, intelligence matters, who has no authority over any of the Intelligence Community)

Comment Re:State doing the CYA thing (Score 1) 261

I'm not accusing her of a crime. I'm accusing her of either incompetence or horrible judgement, given her position as one of the few Original Classification Authorities in the executive branch ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/the... SecState is the first Department mentioned. ). She should have known better. Maybe she did know better, but chose not to do better - that'd be worse.

Further, she was expected (one could even say "ordered by the President") to take Classification Training annually: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the... section 1.3d:
"All original classification authorities must receive training in proper classification (including the avoidance of over-classification) and declassification as provided in this order and its implementing directives at least once a calendar year. Such training must include instruction on the proper safeguarding of classified information and on the sanctions in section 5.5 of this order that may be brought against an individual who fails to classify information properly or protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure. Original classification authorities who do not receive such mandatory training at least once within a calendar year shall have their classification authority suspended by the agency head or the senior agency official designated under section 5.4(d) of this order until such training has taken place. " You can't argue that she was unfamiliar with this issue.

Even more, as a former FLOTUS, as a former Senator, and ESPECIALLY as Secretary of State (analogous to a Foreign Minister in other countries), she should CERTAINLY expected that her communications would be a primary target by foreign adversaries. She had high-level conversations with advisers, communications with/about other foreign leaders and diplomats, national policy issues, internal State Department policy issues. We already know the NSA is interested in this kind of stuff for other countries (most recently the shit with Israel) ; pretty much everyone else would love to have this information on the US as well. We're all self-important geeks here who think the NSA is watching all of us as we play video games and post on Slashdot and Reddit. How can anyone give a pass to a Secretary of State, who has real, LEGIT reasons to suspect she'd be targeted?

And then there were the political games she's been playing in the aftermath, instead of handing shit over, lawyering up and taking her lumps if necessary, and moving on. If it cost her an opportunity at the Presidency, oh well, that's what accountability at that level means; its not as if she didn't have POTUS aspirations back then. The world knew it. (More of a reason to suspect she'd be targetted by other intel services, actualy). Instead, she avoided having to turn stuff over as long as possible, tried deleting stuff, hand-selected things to turn over, plays this stupid shrugging game, insults our intelligence by saying "“It was on property guarded by the Secret Service and there were no security breaches. So I think that the use of that server certainly proved to be effective and secure.”". (Yes, she said that. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/h... )

Even if every single email she had on there was born and legitimately unclassified, they were at very least sensitive. And a bunch of unclassified things can be considered classified in aggregate. "(e) Compilations of items of information that are individually unclassified may be classified if the compiled information reveals an additional association or relationship that: (1) meets the standards for classification under this order; and (2) is not otherwise revealed in the individual items of information." (from one of the Executive Order links above as well)

So incompetence or bad judgement: I don't know which. Criminality aside, there are other very strong reasons for her to NOT be a leading candidate for presidency. The same reasons Trump shouldn't be a leading candidate either, actually: Character and judgement.

Comment Re:State doing the CYA thing (Score 4, Informative) 261

I posted this link elsewhere but:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

The whole thing is interesting and relevent, but in particular:

"(d) All original classification authorities must receive training in proper classification (including the avoidance of over-classification) and declassification as provided in this order and its implementing directives at least once a calendar year. Such training must include instruction on the proper safeguarding of classified information and on the sanctions in section 5.5 of this order that may be brought against an individual who fails to classify information properly or protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure. Original classification authorities who do not receive such mandatory training at least once within a calendar year shall have their classification authority suspended by the agency head or the senior agency official designated under section 5.4(d) of this order until such training has taken place. A waiver may be granted by the agency head, the deputy agency head, or the senior agency official if an individual is unable to receive such training due to unavoidable circumstances. Whenever a waiver is granted, the individual shall receive such training as soon as practicable."

Rarely or not, she should have had annual training, and to dodge this is to say that a person who reaches that level of government has no responsibility to uphold the more "mundane" things of their job.

A person who dodges this responsibility is not fit to lead others who are held to the same responsibility (the entire Executive branch)

Comment Re:State doing the CYA thing (Score 2) 261

Someone gets it. Also, as an Original Classification Authority (In fact, the first Department head mentioned in the Executive Order that defines who OCAs are (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-original-classification-authority) ), she should have had specific training and a very good understanding of this stuff. ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/the... )

Fron the second link:
"((d) All original classification authorities must receive training in proper classification (including the avoidance of over-classification) and declassification as provided in this order and its implementing directives at least once a calendar year. Such training must include instruction on the proper safeguarding of classified information and on the sanctions in section 5.5 of this order that may be brought against an individual who fails to classify information properly or protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure. Original classification authorities who do not receive such mandatory training at least once within a calendar year shall have their classification authority suspended by the agency head or the senior agency official designated under section 5.4(d) of this order until such training has taken place. "

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