Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
If they had sold it to you then no.
If, as they claim, they merely sold you a non time-limited license then you get to use it as long as you like.
If it had security bugs when you got it then you then they should fix the design defects, if they introduced them with other fixes then they fix them
At least they don't charge this for transit passengers. The US doesn't do transit so you have to have a $131 VISA to change planes - and need to be permitted through US immigration.
And since a lot of S America is out of range without refueling in the US this means they have effectively a blockade of an entire continent.
The purpose of three-letter-agencies is principally to protect their budget/remit/authority from other three-letter-agencies.
If they have any time left, they do what-they-know-to-be-right (tm).
Since what they have been doing is right (because they have been doing it) they do more of the same thing.
The concern isn't that the NSA has your details - it's that they pass these on to immigration, the taxman, bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms (also known as a damn good party).
If you have 28 separate intelligence services spying on you then nobody is going to find out what you are really upto. Since all these agencies spend 100% of their effort spying on each other there is no way that GCHQ is going to grass you up to the Germans fro pirating David Hasselhof CDs
> Or indeed of the difference between a gift of capital (offloading half a mill to your spouse) and revenue transactions (IP royalties).
So instead of giving your spouse all your money when you become a cabinet minister, just pay them for the IP rights to their name ?
Rule 1, No poofters.
Rule 2, No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "Abos" in any way whatsoever—if there's anyone watching.
Rule 3, No poofters.
Rule 4, I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.
Rule 5, No poofters.
Rule 6, There is no... rule six.
Rule 7, No poofters.
The point is that you can have an unlimited number of encrypted volumes within encrypted volumes with no way of proving that they are there.
Of course that plausible deniability is only useful in countries with legal systems - not those that will simply bundle you onto a plane to boratistan anyway,
No the wombles was all about the Thatcherite vision of a race of sub-humans genetically engineered (well they only had one female) troglodyte morlocks, never to be seen and clean up after the waste of the consumer society. It was typical facist BBC propaganda of the ultimate tory contempt of the working class.
I believe Chorlton and the wheelies directly influenced TopGear
And fortunately we know that the global "fall off a cliff" of PC sales and the even heavier fall of high value server chips will have no real impact on Intel now that they are more interested in internet connected lightbulbs than shipping Xeons
Southwestern/Westjet are low cost airlines.
They are also generally a more pleasant experience than anyone short of Singapore.
Easyjet bring the British attitude to customer service and general incompetence to the mix.
I assume Ryanair just choose staff with a personal grudge against the English for potato famine.
Anyone in the market for an iPhone and willing to spend the money already has one. Apple are interested in the rest of the population.
The question is whether they "do a Porsche" and make a cheap Boxter in the hope people buy this rather than a competitor - but risk alienating their real customers.
Or they "do a VW" and offer to sell them a Skoda, a Golf, or an Audi - it might be worth doing this in a market like Africa with a phone that has access to iTunes but doesn't run iOS.
Then would you mind sending me a list of all the stores you visited last week and what you bought - I'd like to sell that information to their competitors?
If you are black I just want to make a note of anywhere you went at the same as anyone we suspect of dealing - so we can add you to the list. If you are brown we want to do the same with suspected terrorists. If you are white we will just add you to both lists - just in case.
That's simple. If the DoD are using Oracle's software then they can't let control of Oracle fall into the wrong hands so they must control the Oracle shareholding and appointment of managers and staff - by taking it into direct government control.
Just nationalize Oracle
Not just the USA. If I were ARM, BAe, BP - I would be asking the government if GCHQ spied on me and passed information to the NSA knowing that it would be handed over to Intel, Lockheed Martin and Exxon.
I don't think the NSA funds as many tory MPs as British industry does.
Or to unrecap. A US general who believes he is the last line of defence between homeland, mon and apple pie is given the technical means to spy on all those potential terrorists.
He chooses to give up this power because it just wouldn't be cricket to potentially also spy on some innocent citizens along with the godless fundamentalist commie muslim hoards waiting to overthrow the USA
Piece of p*** to enforce. Break the law and the eu levies unlimited fines, seizes all Google and Microsoft assets in europe, bans them from operating in europe, prosecutes anyone who advertises with them etc etc
All those nice new blanket "anti-terrorist" laws they introduced to deal with file-sharing sites might come in useful
