The origin of the term was in a report by Raymond Clapper of United Press, describing rumors of the process by which Warren G. Harding was nominated as Republican candidate for the 1920 Presidential Election. After many indecisive votes, Harding, a relatively minor candidate, was, legend has it, chosen as a compromise candidate by Republican power-brokers in a private meeting in room 404[3] at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago after the convention had deadlocked.
"That's fairly incredible. You'd expect Microsoft and other tech companies to be focused on fixing the bugs first, not letting the NSA exploit the vulnerabilities on foreign computers."
So when (not 'if' unfortunately) this law passes, we should make it our mission to find these little informational tidbits and use them against the backers of this law. Fight fire with fire.... live by the sword, die by the sword. Personally I would love to see sony.com taken offline.
They will just die off faster. If this is REALLY what they think can save them... let them have it and let them die. There ARE other sources of information out there..and more will come along and see the opportunity to replace these dying dinosaurs.
They don't need new laws... they need to learn to adapt and innovate... but I guess buying politicians is easier.
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Exclusives lead to
Piratebay. If I can't buy it for my platform, I'll get it some other way.
Backdoors...
I'm pretty confident that the chances of their being backdoors in Huawei equipement is as high as the chance of backdoors in Cisco equipement.
Smoke-filled room
From the wikipedia link :
The origin of the term was in a report by Raymond Clapper of United Press, describing rumors of the process by which Warren G. Harding was nominated as Republican candidate for the 1920 Presidential Election. After many indecisive votes, Harding, a relatively minor candidate, was, legend has it, chosen as a compromise candidate by Republican power-brokers in a private meeting in room 404[3] at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago after the convention had deadlocked.
Pretty funny, room 404, democracy not found!
ya right....
"That's fairly incredible. You'd expect Microsoft and other tech companies to be focused on fixing the bugs first, not letting the NSA exploit the vulnerabilities on foreign computers."
Sure...."foreign" computers.
Lemme guess....
The list of agencies that DON'T have access is MUCH smaller....
verdict
Hmmm I kind of hope for a nice verdict against them and "Monster" compensation awards.
Re:
Would not be surprised. The MPAA and RIAA probably think The Onion is as reputable a news source as FOX news.
Fine then...
So when (not 'if' unfortunately) this law passes, we should make it our mission to find these little informational tidbits and use them against the backers of this law. Fight fire with fire.... live by the sword, die by the sword. Personally I would love to see sony.com taken offline.
Police and government
I see police and governments buying into this rather quickly.
buying ads
The way I see it, the more ads they feel that they need, the more the movie must not be worth seeing.
EasyDNS
I've done business with EasyDNS and they are top notch, sucks that this happened to them because of fact checking, lack there of I mean.
so let them...
They will just die off faster. If this is REALLY what they think can save them... let them have it and let them die. There ARE other sources of information out there..and more will come along and see the opportunity to replace these dying dinosaurs.
They don't need new laws... they need to learn to adapt and innovate... but I guess buying politicians is easier.