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“Director of National Intelligence James Clapper blatantly lied to Congress about the activity of the NSA, and there seems to be no ramifications. Yet the Washington establishment wants to put Snowden in jail and throw away the key for telling the truth.”
—The Sickening Snowden Backlash - The Daily Beast
June 2013
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“If transparency would lead to widespread public opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States.”
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Senator Warren Presses White House to Release Pacific Trade Text - Businessweek
Warren nails it. Again.
“… imagine what guts it took to fire him. Forstall is, more than anyone on the planet – including Jobs – responsible for the iPhone (for this reason alone I found the potshots taken at Forstall, particularly by Craig Federighi, to be in poor taste). He is an incredible engineer – legend has it he could write, or rewrite, nearly any part of the iOS source code on command, and would routinely do so to win disputes in managerial meetings – and a NEXT man, and the closest thing to a Steve Jobs 2.0. Yet Cook fired him anyway.”
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stratēchery by Ben Thompson | Tim Cook is a Great CEO
After seeing the WWDC video, this move, firing Scott Forstall, as capable and as smart as he is, demonstrates just how right Tim Cook is as the CEO of Apple. Apple is on the role in a new and powerful way.
I actually feel like Apple has almost been loosed from the hold of Steve Jobs (and his padawan learner Forstall), able to do more now than ever before.
“One thing that became very clear to me early on in today’s keynote is that Apple was having fun again. They were really enjoying themselves.”
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After watching the keynote, I concur.
“shock |SHäk| noun
• a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience.” —
• a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience.” —
Those of us who’ve been around awhile had a similar experience 13 years ago. Apple switched from the Classic interface in Mac OS to a new Aqua interface. As fate would have it, I was in the room with some of my colleagues when Steve Jobs introduced a UI “that you wanted to lick.” We all left that keynote in the same state of shock as we experienced yesterday.
I think it’s useful to look at the history of Aqua while thinking about the future of iOS 7.
“The top speed of a cheetah hunt had no correlation to the successful outcome of the hunt. Instead, Wilson found that success depended more on how fast the cheetah could slow down rather than on how fast it could speed up. It’s this last phase of a hunt—when the cheetah slows down—that was critical for success.”
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To kill, cheetahs use agility and acceleration, not top speed | Ars Technica
This is why I drive good handling cars with great brakes.
I was a cheetah in another life. Either that or I will be next.
“Given what we now know about the U.S. military’s unwillingness to pursue prosecutions of rape in its own ranks, its eagerness to pursue Manning to the edge of the grave should be considered striking. We’re talking about a national security state that — as recent revelations have made clear — can imagine just about no boundaries when it comes to surveilling its own population and none whatsoever when it comes to protecting its own actions from the eyes of the public. In that sense, Manning truly crossed a red line. Rape? A mere nothing compared to his crime. After all, he was aiding the most dangerous enemy of all: not Osama bin Laden, but Americans who want to breach the ever-expanding secrecy of the National Security Complex.”
—Tomgram: Chase Madar, Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6 | TomDispatch
“Did Manning violate provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice? He certainly did, and a crushing sentence of possibly decades in military prison is surely on its way. Military law is marvelously elastic when it comes to rape and sexual assault and perfectly easygoing about the slaughter of foreign civilians, but it puts on a stern face for the unspeakable act of declassifying documents. *”
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Tomgram: Chase Madar, Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6 | TomDispatch
*or it involves a kickass movie or book deal
“But what gets people killed, no matter how much our pols and pundits strain to deny it, aren’t InfoSec breaches or media leaks, but foolish and clueless strategic choices. Putting the blame on leaks is a nice way to pass the buck, but at the risk of stating the obvious, what has killed 1,605 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan since 2009 is the war in Afghanistan — not Bradley Manning or any of the other five leakers whom Obama has prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917. Leaks and whistleblowers should not be made scapegoats for bad strategic choices, which would have been a whole lot less bad had they been informed by all the relevant facts.”
—Tomgram: Chase Madar, Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6 | TomDispatch
“The top speed of a cheetah hunt had no correlation to the successful outcome of the hunt. Instead, Wilson found that success depended more on how fast the cheetah could slow down rather than on how fast it could speed up. It’s this last phase of a hunt—when the cheetah slows down—that was critical for success.”
—To kill, cheetahs use agility and acceleration, not top speed | Ars Technica
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On the WP story, that means one of these things must be true:
1. The NSA presentation is fake and the Washington Post got duped, or
2. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. are lying, or
3. The presentation is real, and the companies are carefully drafting responses so that they aren’t technically lying.
I believe the third option above is truth.
” —Triangulating On Truth – The Totalitarian State | Uncrunched
“Design isn’t just the way something looks. It’s the whole thing, the way something actually works, on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience. I think there’s a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity, in clarity, in efficiency. It’s about bringing order to complexity.”
~ Sir Jonathan Ive” —iOS 7: Instead of Flatness, We Got Depth
~ Sir Jonathan Ive” —iOS 7: Instead of Flatness, We Got Depth
“The Liberation Daily in China has harsh words for President Obama: “Five years ago, Obama came to power waving an anti-George W Bush banner. Five years later, he is still exactly the same as George W Bush on invasion of privacy issues.”
—BBC News - Europe alarmed by US surveillance
