@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/nsas_partnershi.html

There were several news sources reporting this weekend that documents have been leaked that indicate that AT&T (and Verizon and others) have voluntarily worked with the NSA to connect private information for years.

The only part of this that is "news" is the amount of willing help given, not that help was given.

Every single carrier will have done this to some degree or they would not be in business right now.

I'm not sure if they wouldn't be in business, but I agree, they all have participated. Also agree the only new part is the willingness.

That means that we have hit the tipping point. The world's largest SSD (at any cost) is now 60% larger than the world's largest spinning rust legacy style Winchester drive (at any cost.) So while SSDs remain more expensive per GB, they are no longer smaller in capacity!! We were told to expect that this year, but now it has happened.

A SpiceMember at our local SpiceCorps just got back from DEF CON. Got some official swag, always good. That bit about controlling a car is something I was waiting to happen. Pretty messed up.

So far, I am liking what I see...some "coolness" factor is coming back...and I am one of the 3% that simply prefer the Windows Phone/Mobile...

I just got vbox 5 installed last night. I might give this a whirl if yawl want me to. 🙂

It looks beautiful, but I have a hard time leaving gnome every time I try. It's just so easy to use. Plus you can make it look half decent with some extensions.

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Well the people ultimately in charge that are allowing them to operate this way are the shareholders. And they are definitely being punished now. You can't change the shareholders but you can make sure that they are not getting your money.

Solus Website

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fantastic.. I was thinking I needed something like this the other day then I .... Squirrel ...

@StrongBad said:

I think that this is just standard repositioning of a company. It doesn't hide anything or change any litigation or investigations. That stuff carries on as usual. It just makes managing, bookkeeping, selling or whatever much easier for the different business units since each one is quite large and many have very little to do with each other.

I would not call it standard, as there are not that many companies that grow into something like this. But nothing here should affect lawsuits at all.

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