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1. Comment - Vista users greeted with an unexpected surprise: MobileMe

   (Jul 18, 2008 - 9:18 PM)

   Hmm.

2. Comment - NSA Monitoring Net Communications

   (Dec 24, 2005 - 2:06 PM)

   By the same token, if those same news agencies were to reprot on their front pages that "2 + 2 = 4!", then this commonly accepted, age-old mathematical fact would be newsworthy as well, just because they reported it.
   
   A given topic is not newsworthy merely by the fact that a news agency has reported it. A given topic is newsworth relative to the reporting agencies based on the sensationalism of it, and by how much it will get people to buy the paper, or read the article. I'd think this would be reasonably obvious.

3. Comment - NSA Monitoring Net Communications

   (Dec 24, 2005 - 1:52 PM)

   Yes, well, we may feel this way, but as long as the average citizen remains unaware of the totality of that which transpires, and the full reasoning behind it, there will always be an outcry against it.
   
   Usually, those directly involved with the IC have the clearance and deductive logic to accept that, since we open our borders to nearly everyone, then even those that consider themselves to be archenemies of the United States can operate within our own borders, and thus the functionality of communications intelligence within our own borders, directed to our own citizens. Not, mind you, with the prevailing thought that *every* US citizen is a member of a terrorist group, but that by monitoring the communications of every person, can we isolate those that are. And thereby, take the preemptive actions that the average US citizen demand we take.
   
   Bear in mind that many that believe this is a massive crime are also of the opinion that they can download some cryptosystem to safeguard their "private" conversations against the government. After all, it's not as though the NSA specializes in applied cryptography, or anything of such a nature. Mind you, if you are a highly gifted theoretical mathematician that can also write your own code, it may be a different story. However, given the massively parallel computer systems designed outright to break even the most sophisticated non-reverseable fractal crypto algorythm, breach of said code, at some point, would seem inevitable.
   
   In another vein, we must also consider the fact that those Americans outraged at such an age-old occurence are also aware of activities of our very own Central Intelligence Agency, and have no qualms about our sending operatives out to other countries to collect intelligence, thereby effectively violating the "privacy" of other countries. As long as no country, including our own, does it to the average American citizen, they are amenable to such a concept.
   
   The depletion of common sense, rationality and lotgic in current American society, and the resultant ramifications, is truly an amazing phenomenon to behold.