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A friend of mine became extremely good at build systems and hacking them by making Xamarin's stuff build. They put so many tricky roadblocks in to prevent easy builds.

WTF does this have anything to do with China?

> Don’t we want Apple to be able to say that they can’t help China track the communications of dissidents or other repressive regimes?

People are more worried about the US' being the "repressive regime".

The poll released is telling of how power is kept in the US. You don't have to have 100% support, just over 50%. Here we see that the FBI is far more sophisticated than they let on, and supported by a more cohesive program considering support for them is just north of 50%.

Instead of the NSA going to your company's network and illegally tapping into it, your company signs up to an NSA promoted company to tap into their network.

Because network tapping is fast becoming expensive, they provide the out-of-bands tapping as a service. An out of bands tap is like having a splitter on the wire that copies the signals that pass through the wire but does not interact with the data in any other way other than to copy it.

Attackers cannot see the out-of-band tap, but they can try to attack or detect its presence.

The infamous NSA tapping of AT&T's entire communication network in California was an out of bands tap. It copied all of the communication passing through the AT&T central comms node in California to a NSA controlled data site through an out-of-bands tap installed into AT&T's network in the form of a fiber-optics splitter.

They don't actually care if the person is innocent. The point is to intimidate their population. They use this metadata to fit into the system of law so they can cover their ass.

How about getting a police force and law enforcement infrastructure that actually works you bums.

On the other hand, instituting UBI will decrease the people's willingness to accept immigration. The Nordic countries are notoriously homogenous in respect to diversity. A country like the US is extraordinarily far more diverse than something like a Nordic country. Countries like Norway, etc... that institute these welfare programs for their population are also among the least welcoming of immigrants.

If Donald Trump were smart he'd likely pursue the UBI dependent on how much money the US makes versus the number of citizens. This would definitely trigger the same kind of mentality resident in welfare states like the nordic countries to resist immigration.

How would this be addressed in the US? Would it signify a change in the immigration trend in the US?

Japan for one. When it comes to national defense why would one let another country dictate the defensive posture? That is suicide.

Atleast Japan is trying to actually have a viable solution:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/01/28/japan-first-steal...

Its engine is relatively tiny for its required power output. Being a turbofan, that thing has to be seriously noisy. Forget radar stealth if you can just use acoustic radars and sensors.

Yea, the suckers (or 'allies') in Asia and the Middle East that weren't even part of the "program" or development will buy these white elephants and subsidize the cost!

Unbelievable. Fighter jet industry is only six or seven decades old at most. The navy on the other hand has been around for hundreds of years. What does the airforce think they can do the navy hasn't already tried?

The F-35 program is the biggest scam in history. The people in charge of it need to be put in jail.

Did anyone read this? There was so much buzzwords and bullshit I couldn't slog past the first page.

Who do they write these things for anyways? It's not like we're college admissions or professors, just give us the straight deal. Unless you're pitching to schools and naive undergrads of course.