That is maddening, especially when you email a software company about a bug that is hindering your use of their software and all you ever get back is that autoreply garbage... I have purchased paid versions of apps simply because of the great customer support. Ti Backup is an excellent example of this. Prompt response = I pay them money.
NAFTA has ISDS provisions, does it not? Wouldn't it be rather amusing if all of the tech companies went after the federal government for robbing them of billions of USD? Maybe it could be arranged that the NSA budget actually has to pay whatever sum is awarded to the companies. Is that like fighting evil with evil?
I have a really hard time giving the NSA, or any government agency, the task of securing private networks, such as Target and Adobe etc. Investigate criminal activity after the fact? certainly. But being responsible for stopping breaches in those private networks would insert government agencies into a place they need not be.
I had previously enjoyed owning a Dell laptop as well, but that is over now. Dell used to be on my short list of acceptable preassembled computers. HP has horrible customer service ("Would you like to pay $50 for me to read you the troubleshooting section from the manual we should have included with your device?"), Toshiba's always seemed to burnout too early, but Dell always seemed to stand up to my abuses...
But seriously, this has to be a knife to Dell's jugular (much like the one in the backs of their customers...). Can there be a less forgiveable crime in the netsec industry? You label your product as a antidote when really it is a poison. To me, this means game over for Dell. Smfh...
Maybe this is wrong, but that looks like a bot response to me, not a person reading a script. Like the email you get from most customer service centers acknowledging that they have received your correspondence.
Deciding what citizens can and cannot have access to seems to be the sole purpose of government these days. Soon parliment will be telling the Brits whether to fold or crumple their TP. Anyone who crumples is a degenerate and must certainly be filtered.
Well, thank you for digging into that, Sir. That answer is much less unsettling than an organization aggregating my health info independently. It appears to be not much more than a platform for use by those who CHOOSE to use it, which is very different than what I imagined.
How exactly does Blue Button aggregate my PHI? I was not under the impression that any centralized system (the government) had at will access to this data. Hell, my current physician (about 2 years) only knows what I have told her.
Didn't the article say he worked for a government contractor? That would mean you automatically get more attention, wouldn't it?
This kind of stuff makes ME paranoid. When I imagine someone who has gone through extensive surveillance and abuse, I imagine they would behave much like the stereotype of a crazy paranoid person. Not all of this guys stories have to be literally true. If he was surveilled for some time by some means and he was made aware of it, this would certainly lead to him beginning to see it everywhere. The human brain is pattern oriented and planting that seed can have severe results.
Just as Jeremy bentham's Pent Octagon would not require full time jailors, because the inmates would not know if they were being watched. The idea of being persistently watched affects people's behavior. All it would take is a timely confirmation (legitimate surveillance on this guy by some government spook) every now and then to keep this guys mind wrapped up in the feeling/idea that he was being watched.
This is what makes me worry about this sort of government abuse. I do not believe any outsider or anyone not intimately involved in the situation could reliably judge the validity of these type of allegations. I would even be skeptical to dismiss them if a Psychiatrist declared this guy insane. Because that diagnosis was made after years of possible surveillance and abuse.
I am not quite sure why yet, but I KNOW that this guy needs to patent something. That is the only way people can innovate. If he does not file for a patent soon, he will likely just fade from existence. Maybe he can patent a way of adjusting screen resolutions without prompting the user? It sounds like he could corner the market. Then he could just ride the licensing revenue and he wouldn't have to fix ported games anymore :)
Personally, I couldn't give a fuck less about Verizon having to disclose some trade secrets. American Telcos are the bane of our existence. I mean, I am just jealous that I can't convince a bunch of people to pay for the infrastructure needed to conduct my business, only to be able to turn around and fuck them with it...
The game "included some code that tracked the IP address of anyone who attained the game through unauthorized channels."
Isn't that lovely. Certainly the same code would be in the retail copies.Not a fan of that BS. But I am also the guy that made sure his calculator app on his phone didn't have any special permissions...
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Re: Fixed that for you.
That is maddening, especially when you email a software company about a bug that is hindering your use of their software and all you ever get back is that autoreply garbage... I have purchased paid versions of apps simply because of the great customer support. Ti Backup is an excellent example of this. Prompt response = I pay them money.
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Re: NSA Scumbags
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Re: Who will buy used Dell servers?
But seriously, this has to be a knife to Dell's jugular (much like the one in the backs of their customers...). Can there be a less forgiveable crime in the netsec industry? You label your product as a antidote when really it is a poison. To me, this means game over for Dell. Smfh...
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That is the governments self appointed job...
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That answer is much less unsettling than an organization aggregating my health info independently. It appears to be not much more than a platform for use by those who CHOOSE to use it, which is very different than what I imagined.
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But wait...
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And the moral of the story is...
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This kind of stuff makes ME paranoid. When I imagine someone who has gone through extensive surveillance and abuse, I imagine they would behave much like the stereotype of a crazy paranoid person. Not all of this guys stories have to be literally true. If he was surveilled for some time by some means and he was made aware of it, this would certainly lead to him beginning to see it everywhere. The human brain is pattern oriented and planting that seed can have severe results.
Just as Jeremy bentham's Pent Octagon would not require full time jailors, because the inmates would not know if they were being watched. The idea of being persistently watched affects people's behavior. All it would take is a timely confirmation (legitimate surveillance on this guy by some government spook) every now and then to keep this guys mind wrapped up in the feeling/idea that he was being watched.
This is what makes me worry about this sort of government abuse. I do not believe any outsider or anyone not intimately involved in the situation could reliably judge the validity of these type of allegations. I would even be skeptical to dismiss them if a Psychiatrist declared this guy insane. Because that diagnosis was made after years of possible surveillance and abuse.
Scary business...
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I know it is here somewhere...
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Signed
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Isn't that lovely. Certainly the same code would be in the retail copies.Not a fan of that BS. But I am also the guy that made sure his calculator app on his phone didn't have any special permissions...
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Re: Wow.
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