> Michael Morell, a top C.I.A. official, called it “the most serious compromise of classified information in the history of the U.S. intelligence community”
Well, I'm sure if they had respected our right to privacy, Snowden would have respected theirs.
If you're disappointed in Obama over the USA PATRIOT Act, that's your own fault - he was very clear about his opinions on USA PATRIOT from long before he ran for office, as early as 2003 (or 2006?). Obama has voted in favour of expanding/extending the USA PATRIOT Act's powers from the earliest possible time that he had US lawmaking influence.
There are many reasons to be disappointed in Obama perhaps, but he was clear about this from Day 1: He supports unchecked US domestic spying.
2007 — A Promise on the Road to the White House
By 2007, Obama is campaigning for the White House and making government transparency a central part of his platform. He tells an audience in Washington that the Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.”
As president, Obama says, he will provide U.S. intelligence agencies the tools they need to defeat terrorists without undermining the Constitution. “That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime … No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.”
There were some options during the primaries (like Dennis Kucinich), and this is why the primary elections are so important. None of the No-to-USA-PATRIOT options made it past the primaries, so we were left without much real choice.
Oh, I didn't realise, it was the top result for my search. I'll fix it with a proper link soon, there are many legitimate sources for that data. Sorry about that.
Yes, Obama is a tremendous liar (not to mention a piss-poor president). However, Crypoz is correct. Obama didn't lie about this. He has always been for a centralized government and a police state. Of course, he flowers those words up and puts sugar on them to make them palatable to the masses, but he has stated he supports this type of intrusive government behavior all along.
To you defence, it was "Yes we can". Nothing about actually doing something. And the alternatives weren't really, hand-on-heart, any real alternatives, at least not within the two big parties.
I really don't think this is a better experience than Netflix or pay-per-view on my tv. The only thing that is better is that I don't have to pay for it. The movies actually take a lot longer to load on this.
A lot of people who run Wordpress have clients who need a nice, easy user interface to be able to update their site. Do you have any suggestions for software that fulfills that need and is "secure, not bloated and easier to develop with".
> A lot of people who run Wordpress have clients who need a nice, easy user interface to be able to update their site.
This is clearly opinion, and should be taken as such, but I absolutely loathe Wordpress' admin interface. I'm sure at some point it was a nice, easy user interface but those days have passed. Anytime I have the misfortune of being thrown into a Wordpress backend I have no idea how to get anything done.
The WordPress admin interface hasn't changed all that much over the years. Unless the change to a darker admin theme tripped you up, I'm not sure where anyone that has any experience using anything on the internet would have much problem getting anything done with it.
Not for everyone, but I rageported my wordpress site over to pelican one too many instances of it running slowly for no apparent reason. It's great if you're willing to author content in markdown or restructured text.
After the second Drupal flaw in two weeks that enabled anybody to log on my server, I've decided to remove anything wrote in PHP from it. I'm not here to babysit software.
As a bonus, if you want anything too fancy in Mezzanine, you can just escape away to Django. Beats being thrown away in PHP by miles.
With a tin ear no less. It seems that these types of statements focus on a small world vision devoid of a taste for, or experience, within the walls of mid and larger corporate entities whose systems are windows 10x over. Knowing that a massive client like a retailer, financial institution, etc. could put heat on an app developer to bring it to Windows because of the bigger savings that way for the client is big. This isn't about Candy Crush. This is about integrating that app which some business unit loves into the larger IT structure of bigger orgs.
Consumer myopia misses the billions related to "boring" apps that corporations use. Today's keynotes definitely balanced target markets. This wasn't a consumer-only sampling.
