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Re:Sounds like the perfect time...
I'm shocked — shocked! — to discover that WordPerfect Office X8 is available for download. I thought WordPerfect disappeared decades ago.
cap: installs
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Little Heros
Made me think of Little Heros
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Re:2017: The year that a fad replaced another fad
Only if you get the complete Battlestar Galactica Blu-Ray set. So say we all.
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Re:Yay! There's a new TLA
You probably want the first book on this subject: "AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages: Create lightning-fast mobile pages by leveraging AMP technology" by Ruadhan O'Donoghue.
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Re:Run Away!!!
Move to Mars!!!
Pick up a "Get In Loser This Planet Blows" shirt to commemorate your stay on Earth.
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New history book about Open Source Software...
Check out "For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution (History of Computing)" by Christopher Tozzi and Jonathan Zittrain (The MIT Press).
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Until the patent gets approved...
Store your batteries and devices inside explosion- and fire-proof storage bags.
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Re:Because fuck you, that's why.
Why do so many people (other than the 1% expecting their tax cuts) continually vote against their own best interests?
Because that's the way the elites have set it up, education is ignorance and science on human reasoning shows human reasoning is much poorer than thought. These links will take a while to digest.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Education as ignorance
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Rd wolf on economics
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Crisis of democracy
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK
Education as ignorance
Overthrowing other peoples governments
Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list
Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
Manufacturing consent (book)
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Testing theories of representative government
Democracy Inc
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
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Re:Because fuck you, that's why.
Why do so many people (other than the 1% expecting their tax cuts) continually vote against their own best interests?
Because that's the way the elites have set it up, education is ignorance and science on human reasoning shows human reasoning is much poorer than thought. These links will take a while to digest.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Education as ignorance
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Rd wolf on economics
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Crisis of democracy
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK
Education as ignorance
Overthrowing other peoples governments
Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list
Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
Manufacturing consent (book)
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Testing theories of representative government
Democracy Inc
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
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Re:Because fuck you, that's why.
Why do so many people (other than the 1% expecting their tax cuts) continually vote against their own best interests?
Because that's the way the elites have set it up, education is ignorance and science on human reasoning shows human reasoning is much poorer than thought. These links will take a while to digest.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Education as ignorance
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Rd wolf on economics
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Crisis of democracy
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK
Education as ignorance
Overthrowing other peoples governments
Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list
Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
Manufacturing consent (book)
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Testing theories of representative government
Democracy Inc
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
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Re:Upgrades?
A secure laptop should have verified boot because it addresses an attack model that has become more important after the Snowden revelations. We learned that:
- NSA wants to keep their best exploits secret. For example, it uses more valuable exploits on less technically sophisticated targets who are less likely to discover them.
- NSA goes to great lengths to achieve persistence, for example hard drive firmware attacks that expose the exploited code the first time a sector is read, at boot, but the original code from then on, when the system is scanned for malware or checksum mismatches.
- NSA has many BIOS- and firmware-level attacks because it wants persistence even if the OS is wiped and replaced.
- It's unrealistic to expect we will ever patch all the bugs the NSA knows about.Verified boot is very powerful in this scenario because, even if you don't know about a bug, it can stop that bug from permitting secret persistence. It drives persistence techniques into the open. For example, to attack ChromeOS and survive a reboot, they may need to install a malware extension, which can be audited from cloud side thus making everyone a technically-sophisticated target.
Intel breaks verified boot with their FSP blob. Verified boot starts with "read only" firmware which contains the verified boot key(*), checks the signature on the read-write firmware and jumps to it. But the processor must be fed the FSP blob before it runs the first instruction, so there's no way to check a signature on the FSP blob. A variety of CPU errata are fixable by updating the FSP blob, so it's prohibitively costly warranty exposure to leave the FSP blob un-updateable by linking it into the read-only firmware.
This undermines the defense ecosystem / attack recovery benefits described above. To get them, all state on the machine needs to fall in one of three categories:
1. not verified but impossible to change without physical access (ex. "remove the developer screw" on Chrome OS, or the trivial solution of replacing the entire CPU with a backdoored one)
2. auto-updateable, but verified by boot signature chain
3. wipeable user dataThe first verified-boot key in the chain is in bucket 1, and other keys are in bucket 2. But Intel FSP inserts step 0:
0. CPU and RAM bring-up code: auto-updatable and not verified by boot signature chain.
It undermines the entire purpose of verified boot.
Disabling the ME is not very convincing unless there is some verified-boot way to make sure it stays disabled. The hypothetical persistent attack would simply un-disable the ME, so part of the problem is that it's there at all for an an attack can turn it on: it's a perfect hardware rootkit that can surveil without detection. There is no verified-boot way to disable the ME because of the FSP, so this Purism promise is pretty close to snake oil. They have hand-wavily reduced the attack surface somewhat, so it's not worthless, but it's not enough to fundamentally unbreak Intel's platform security-wise.
AMD has a similar blob called PSP. Many ARM chips also have this problem. FWIH Rockchip does not, so currently I would suggest a Rockchip Chromebook over Purism if security is the goal.
(*) You may have heard verified boot uses TPM. This is to prevent rollback from a current patched version of the OS to an old exploitable version without wiping user data first. The TPM starts in "willing to roll back counter if asked" mode, but before the program running on the CPU exposes its full attack surface, it either wipes userdata or sets the TPM into "only willing to roll forward the counter" mode. The read-only firmware obviously cannot maintain state. The purpose of the TPM is to maintain state with rules, and in this case the "rule" is a fuse that's reset on each reboot.
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Exploding the Phone
For a good read on phone phreaking history and culture read Exploding the Phone. The forward is written by Woz.
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Re:The Story Already Told...
This is the real link: https://www.amazon.com/Albanes...
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The Story Already Told...
Captain Crunch's story can be found in "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy.
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The story already told...
Captain Crunch's story can be found in "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy.
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Re:To Table something - US vs Brits
This one? https://www.amazon.com/Large-F...
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Re:The future is NoOps
Ha!
Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...Beanstalk is free, though!
Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...
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Re:The future is NoOps
Ha!
Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...Beanstalk is free, though!
Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...
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Re:The future is NoOps
Ha!
Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...Beanstalk is free, though!
Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...
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Re:The future is NoOps
Ha!
Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...Beanstalk is free, though!
Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...
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Cheapest platform for Android development...
Is the Fire HD 10 tablet still the cheapest platform to develop Android on?
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But the testing goat said...
I just started reading "Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript" by Harry J.W. Percival. Now CI/CD is obsolete.
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80085 is my favorite number...
Kids today don't know what a calculator is unless someone wears it on a shirt.
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Re:Que Randezvous with Rama
You didn't Google hard enough:
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Brits need to buy a clue...
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Re:Que Randezvous with Rama
"Rendezvous with Rama" was a great book.
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In other news...
What did you expect from a technology company founded by accident, four founders more interested in the CEO position, and a fired founder pulls a Steve Jobs out of his ass?
Souce: Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
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Need for speed...
You can now buy motherboards with 19 PCIe slots for crypto currency mining.
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Re:In Russia antivirus hack you!
In America, the Goat C shirt wears you!
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Re:Goodbye Florida
Make sure you have a hand-cranked/solar-powered radio/flashlight/iPhone charger on hand when the Florida goes under. Too bad it doesn't include an inflatable life raft.
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Re:Fix the REAL fucking problem.
the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.
If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
This is a project of american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
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Re:Fix the REAL fucking problem.
the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.
If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
This is a project of american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
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Re:Just say no to Engare
why did it take so long before someone thought to make a digital spirograph?
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Re:Again....
Yes, history repeats.
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Re:Happened to me
Read the book: "Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript" by Harry J. W. Percival.
Or get the Goat C shirt.
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Re:Happened to me
Read the book: "Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript" by Harry J. W. Percival.
Or get the Goat C shirt.
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Tsk, tsk...
Solar City employees shouldn't have been blindsided if they were wearing solar eclipse glasses.
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Forget the Russians...
Just stick to McAfee anti-virus scanner for your PCs.
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Weapons of Math Destruction
A good read for the harm "AI" and Big Data are already causing is Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction.
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Nothing to see here, move along...
Amazon has been selling child-proof tablets for years.
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Paul Allen, others, wrote the code, or most of it?
See Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Original Source Code [1978].
My understanding from reading a book by Paul Allen, Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft and from other sources, is that others wrote the code, or most of it. However, that was never openly stated, apparently.
Quote from that Amazon page, taken from the book:
"While much has been written about Microsoft's early years, Allen has never before told the story from his point of view. Nor has he previously talked about the details of his complex relationship with Gates or his behind-closed-doors perspective on how a struggling start-up became the most powerful technology company in the world. Idea Man is the candid and long-awaited memoir of an intensely private person, a tale of triumphant highs and terrifying lows."
My impressions: The book is definitely NOT "candid". Allen's relationship with Bill Gates was definitely "complex". Allen is definitely an intensely private person.
Paul Allen's relationship with Bill Gates was so intensely unfriendly at times that Allen decided to disconnect from Microsoft. Allen had a lot of Microsoft stock; that's why he is rich. -
Happening at Amazon, tooThe circle fraud you describe is absolutely happening over at Amazon. I had thought it was only to farm positive reviews and get products boosted to #1 seller status in a category, but now I suspect the manufacturers may be benefitting in other ways. As an example, do a search on Amazon for "pico projector"-- you'll find a bunch of cheapie ~$100 video projectors with hundreds if not thousands of 4 and 5 star ratings. This item is the "best seller" in the category. Check the reviews. There are two thousand reviews written by 'verified purchasers' who simply relate a few of the product features likely printed on the box and offer no comparison with competing products nor mention any possible drawbacks (like that these projectors don't display true HD resolution), and English does not seem to be the authors' native language.
i like this mini projector very much! it has really good quality and works really well~ it shows very clear and also with sounds by itself. This projector is very good, It's worth to get this!
I love this projector. when it will be in 20 ft or 10 ft image is clear that when it is in 4 to 5 ft otherwise it is really good quality in dark.
Projector is good value for money. Small, lightweight and does the job effectively. The cables and remote control are added plus. And the USB interface is really cool. You don't even need to connect is to a computer. Just plug in the USB and enjoy.
If you click through on any of these profile names, you'll see hundreds of reviews written on cheap, Asian-sourced gadgets. Never any expensive, name-brand products. And the reviewers are so prolific, they write the reviews almost every day and usually upwards of five reviews per day. It's common to see one of these fake reviewers purchase two or three knock-off fitness trackers over the course of two months, yet none of their reviews compare the multiple trackers they seemingly have recently purchased.
I can imagine that when they boost a product up to "#1 seller" status, they can get loans against projected sales volume just like these scammers did via their Newegg fraud. -
Re:The problem
> That's why we have checks and balances built into law enforcement, to keep them from running rampant.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but fail to see where the checks and balances are for "law enforcement". Not from the executive branch, which has been "tough on crime" since Nixon in the 60s. The militarization of the police has gone completely out of control since 2001. (See "Do Not Resist (2016)" or "Rise of the Warrior Cop" 2014 by Radley Balko for some examples). And not from the judicial branch, which usually cheers on the police and fails to hold even the most rampant police brutality accountable.
I cannot elect my local police chief, nor hold him or his staff accountable for their crimes. Around 1100 people die at the hands of US police every single year. Police and other agencies steal billions of USD every year through civil asset forfeitures (see the Washington Post article series from 2014). The whole police and "law enforcement" as an institution, at every level, from local to federal, is now so corrupt and rotten through and through that there seems little hope in reforms, short of a complete purge and very radical new implementation. It is of course never going to happen.
The US police state is here to stay, and with technology, government and "law" on their side, it will only get a whole lot worse. I fail to see how it can get better.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt55...
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Wa...
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This isn't real AI...
If people were working on real AI's, they would be doing it in isolation. For example, in "Destination: Void" by Frank Herbert, an entire island disappeared from a rogue consciousness (artificial intelligence). Clones were sent on spaceships with the mission to colonize a distant star and develop a consciousness for the ship before leaving the solar system. Six missions ended in failure. The seventh mission got destroyed when it turned around at the solar system's edge. The book makes me wonder if computer scientists today are doing AI wrong.
Source: "Destination: Void"
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Re:How can this even be an innovative invention?
The stupid part of doing this with a VTOL aircraft of any kind is the weight involved. Batteries sufficient to move your car to the next charging station would start around a pound:
https://www.amazon.com/WPS-Fea...
that's going to require a scary big drone to carry it and the drone's own power source.
Exactly. This would be highly inefficient. It would use much less energy to just have an autonomous vehicle trailer behind it and provide charge.
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Re:How can this even be an innovative invention?
The stupid part of doing this with a VTOL aircraft of any kind is the weight involved. Batteries sufficient to move your car to the next charging station would start around a pound:
https://www.amazon.com/WPS-Fea...
that's going to require a scary big drone to carry it and the drone's own power source.
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Re:Should be an easy way to submit dash cam video.
Recommended dash cam please?
I got this one and hung it from my rearview using a third-party bracket. So far it seems to work fine. https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
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Key loggers for $55+
Amazon has key loggers for $55 and higher.
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Here's the solution!
Store your batteries (or devices) inside explosion- and fire-proof bags.
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What's a signature?
My signature is so bad that I bought a stack of cursive writing paper to learn how to do a proper signature.
