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GNU tools are required to have a usable system

How so? These reddit users find BusyBox/Linux usable. It's what you get when you replace glibc with uClibc, Newlib, or Bionic, and then drop Bash and Coreutils (GPL) in favor of BusyBox (also GPL, but not part of GNU).

the need for the GNU Compiler Collection to compile the kernel

Clang has been compiling Linux for seven years.

Indeed. The sobering thing though is the Sphinx, claimed to be 4000 years old exhibits the weathering of a structure 35000 or more years old and erosion from thousands of years of rain when there hasn't been rain on the Giza plateau for about 8000 years(IIRC).

According to whom? The last I read about weathering of the Sphinx was not due to rainfall but runoff of rainfall which is different.

Rod Serling had to smoke on camera as product placement because the Twilight Zone -- like many other popular TV shows -- was sponsored by the Chesterfeld cigarette company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Liggett & Myers [who produced Chesterfeld cigarettes] sponsored Dragnet, both on radio and on TV, during the 1950s. The 1954 theatrical version of Dragnet also had Chesterfield product placements, such as advertisements in scenes taking place at drug stores and news counters, or cigarette vending machines. Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday was seen smoking Chesterfields in the movie and TV series. Also in the 1950s, Gunsmoke on both radio and TV was similarly sponsored primarily by Chesterfields and L&Ms. At the end of The Twilight Zone, for several seasons Rod Serling frequently smoked and promoted Chesterfields. In the 1940s and 1950s Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, and Arthur Godfrey were among Chesterfield's official spokesmen; Chesterfield being one of the primary sponsors of the radio and TV programs of these stars during that time."

Sad how then and now so much evil addiction is foisted on the world in order to make a buck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.paulgraham.com/addi...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Smoking may have contributed to Sterling's tragic early death of heart attack at age 50.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"On May 3, 1975, Serling had a minor heart attack and was hospitalized. He spent two weeks at Tompkins County Community Hospital before being released.[66] A second heart attack two weeks later forced doctors to agree that open-heart surgery, though considered risky at the time, was in order.[67][68] The ten-hour-long procedure was carried out on June 26, but Serling had a third heart attack on the operating table and died two days later at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.[69] He was 50 years old.[63] His funeral took place on July 2."

https://www.webmd.com/heart-di...
"About 20% of deaths from heart disease in the U.S. are directly related to smoking."

Was promoting smoking in order to make the Twilight Zone was in a way Serling's own deal with the devil? Was it a good deal? I enjoyed the show and learned some important thought-provoking moral lessons from it. I admire Stirling for making it. But the deal perhaps took decades away from his life and the lives of many viewers. It's perhaps yet another cautionary tale from ... the Twilight Zone.

Actually the court ruled that hosting the copyrighted content and, while under an injunction, actively emailing out instructions on how to infringe is infringement.
How to Start an Urban Legend: the Reporting of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Inc.

Do you have a source of the video that is not YouTube?

Try Archive.org

Maybe not the only factor but the single biggest factor.

According to the Confederacy, it was the only factor.

Obligatory response to "rampant layering violation".

To be fair, that statement was made a decade ago; more than enough time for one to appreciate being wrong, which does happen to the best of us. However the Linux maintainers feel today, Jeff Bonwick's reply is worth repeating.

> Because Linux normally lets you use your choice of file system on top of your choice of volume manager, on top of whichever RAID implementation you choose, with your choice of IO scheduling options, ZFS isn't exactly the best fit. ZFS mashes all those different things into one big blob. That's not really how Linux is designed.

Criticizing ZFS for "rampant layering violation" has been discussed to death before

"Dumb" API's, such as the ones implemented in Linux, have a STRICT layered approach like this:

* Volume Management
* File Management
* Block (RAID)

Problems start when each layer needs information at the layer above it. This is epitomized with the design flaw in hardware RAID via the write-hole. Link to English version

In contradistinction ZFS takes a holistic, unified approach:

* Volument Management <--> File Management <--> Block

e.g.
The original RAIDZ implementation was written in 599 lines of code in vdev_raidz.c -- less code equals less bugs.
https://github.com/illumos/ill...

> That's the same issue as systemd

No it doesn't. You are comparing apples to oranges. ZFS works because it intentionally "Flattened the stack" -- Yes, this runs counter to the layered Unix approach -- but sometimes that is NOT the best design decision.

Meanwhile Oracle keeps flailing about with Btrfs.

Yeah, right, because Gavin Long was what, a judge in a court?

Face facts, Black Lives Matter doesn't trust cops and they certainly don't trust courts or judges. Haven't you heard? All white men are evil and need to be killed, from their point of view:
https://archive.org/details/youtube-iB5lirVJtwE

They're just another destructive leftest group- like EVERY OTHER left wing group of terrorists out there, including the alt-right, which is full of fiscal liberals and libertarians (thus, just more people believing in liberty- the right to harm others).

Yes, and uploading copies of all the various renderings of the document to archive.org would have given them this, time-honored robust hosting via an ordinary HTTP GET request, from a secure site that doesn't require Javascript to use (contrary to the Mega download link someone else posted to /. elsewhere in this story), made a "download" URL available one could put anywhere (even their own website without alerting most users the data was actually coming from archive.org such as a requirement to go through a separate download page), and done it all gratis. Perhaps the IT admins involved should look into doing this now.

I think this should be looked at as a problem that modern Internet use was designed to create for non-technical users: instead of making videos available in many places (so when some are in some way disabled, even temporarily, other copies remain), people are encouraged to think that it's right and proper to host everything in one spot. This makes censorship easy and effective for the admins of that one service.

Metaphorically speaking, don't put all your eggs in one basket. License your work to share, and host copies on multiple servers including your own, and host copies via decentralized file sharing systems such as BitTorrent. One effective way to do this is uploading to archive.org—each archive.org upload is also available via BitTorrent. As long as the material is mirrored by other users individuals can keep copies available even if archive.org disables or deletes their copy.

This story make me remember the Credit Card Prank (Zug Website doesn't exist anymore, I had to search into web.archive.org).

Meanwhile, archive.org is scanning a thousand new books every day and nobody's writing news stories about it...

> (Clinton Uranium deal investigated by the FBI,

No. And shame on you for lying about it.

It was not the "clinton uranium deal" that was investigated. It was a bunch of russians doing kickbacks and money laundering, going as far back as 2004. As for Clinton's involvement, this is what the article says:

Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation,

The millions went to a company that also worked with the clinton foundation, but note that the article explicitly avoids saying the millions were passed through to the foundation rather than being spent elsewhere, like aforementioned kickbacks to russians.

Furthermore, whenever the Uranium One deal is mentiond, everybody should remember this key fact: Russia was never given an export license, thus the uranium could never leave the US (and in fact barely any of it even left the ground because importing uranium from abroad is cheaper than mining it here). Here's the official statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency:

Neither Uranium One nor ARMZ holds an NRC export license, so no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.

> and Comey wrote the Hillary conclusion months before interviewing Hillary.)

Another half-truth that is a full lie. Interviewing her was basically a formality, especially if you believe the narrative that she's a master manipulator. The FBI investigation began no later than August the year before, 9 months before Comey began drafting the statement. All of the evidence gathered by then was already exculpatory that the writing was already on the wall.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/comey-clinton-investigation/index.html
A person familiar with the matter pushed back on the notion that Comey had already reached a conclusion that affected the investigation.
The person said back in spring 2016, agents and Justice Department officials were talking about how the investigation would end and there was a belief that the evidence was going in a direction to not support bringing charges. This individual said by April 2016 the FBI had reviewed most of the evidence and didn't find evidence suggesting that Clinton had violated federal law. The person said the FBI wanted to interview her but didn't believe it was going to change the outcome.
The source also said Comey was not involved in the day-to-day steps of the investigation, so even if he reached a conclusion it wouldn't have affected the result of the investigation.
A second person familiar with the matter told CNN that Comey had not already made up his mind, and that it did not influence the investigation. The second source says the FBI had already reviewed much of the evidence by spring and it was becoming more clear that it was not likely to support bringing charges.

> If we can't abide the truth, then we're no different from the media talking heads.

You are different from the media talking heads. You are an unabashedly hyperpartisan liar, they are just poorly informed. You, on the other hand, know the whole truth because it takes exceptional discipline to write out all the parts that don't support your ideology of idiocy.

Oh, not this again...

The victims "admit" nothing of the sort. Stop rehashing talking points that had already gone through about six layers of exaggeration before they got to you, go and do some basic research.

To be fair, the Shuttle had 2 losses with 135 launches.

Only because of extreme luck.

See 'A Pattern Of Abuse', https://web.archive.org/web/20... Pattern Of Abuse

Food for much thought, there.

Among sites that appear in Google Search results displayed to me, I have perceived the noarchive value as noticeably correlated with conditional access methods, such as paywall or anti-adblock. If there were no desire for conditional access, a rational site operator would allow archiving even if only to shift the hosting burden for old documents to archive operators. For an example of such shifting, see here:

The old OurPla.net is archived here (and the most active part, my wiki-weblog here). (Thank you, archive.org.)

Your experience appears to differ from mine. Which sites using noarchive that lack conditional access do you commonly see in results from Google Search?

Among sites that appear in Google Search results displayed to me, I have perceived the noarchive value as noticeably correlated with conditional access methods, such as paywall or anti-adblock. If there were no desire for conditional access, a rational site operator would allow archiving even if only to shift the hosting burden for old documents to archive operators. For an example of such shifting, see here:

The old OurPla.net is archived here (and the most active part, my wiki-weblog here). (Thank you, archive.org.)

Your experience appears to differ from mine. Which sites using noarchive that lack conditional access do you commonly see in results from Google Search?

Among sites that appear in Google Search results displayed to me, I have perceived the noarchive value as noticeably correlated with conditional access methods, such as paywall or anti-adblock. If there were no desire for conditional access, a rational site operator would allow archiving even if only to shift the hosting burden for old documents to archive operators. For an example of such shifting, see here:

The old OurPla.net is archived here (and the most active part, my wiki-weblog here). (Thank you, archive.org.)

Your experience appears to differ from mine. Which sites using noarchive that lack conditional access do you commonly see in results from Google Search?

The end of the Cold War is part of it, but to be honest the seeds were planted before that and the ball started rolling in the aftermath of Watergate. It was somewhere around the 1970s that a phase change happened.

Between the end of WW2 and the 70s, society was optimistic. The leader who got elected was the one who could give us the greatest vision. Science, technology, and the new economy would make everyone's lives better. Everyone would get a piece of the pie.

After that, society became pessimistic. Science was no longer the solution, it was now the great problem. It could actually destroy the world thanks to nuclear fallout or ecological disaster. No longer was the would-be leader's job to create a better and more equal society, it was to protect us from disaster (be it terrorists, illegal immigrants, cancer, or what have you). The leader who gets elected today is the one who can manufacture the worst nightmare that they will save you from.

When we gave up on utopia, dystopia became rampant.

Adam Curtis has done a number of documentaries exploring the idea that many of the thinkers and technocrats on all sides who were responsible for getting us to now (and, of course, those who were influenced by them) have constructed a world based on theories and frameworks which only work up to a point and fail to take into account the real world in all its complexity. The upshot is that most of our leaders are living in an elaborate constructed fantasy world populated not by people, but by over-simplified models of people like "conservatives" and "liberals", "good guys" and "bad guys", "Islam" and "the West", and homo economicus.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it actually isn't. Conspiracy theorists believe that the shadowy forces are running the show. Curtis' point is that nobody is in charge, and we are actually governed by a tangled web of self-reinforcing fantasy, incompetence, wilful blindness, and sheer bloody-mindedness.

The Trap probably lays the argument out the best, although The Power of Nightmares may be worth watching first. HyperNormalization brings it up to the "fake news" era.

I want to stress that this is just one strand of thought, and it's not even close to the whole story. But it has a lot of explanatory power.

As for the civil war, it was less about slavery and more about economic freedom

Yeah, the economic freedom to own slaves. Nice dodge, asshole.

It was certainly a part of their economy, but the 39% and later 47% import tariffs which basically only applied to the southern states (little industry) without a single southern vote in congress (the north had a larger population), to collect money that was later used for northern development projects, such as a railway (whose hub was based on land Lincoln owned, thus increasing its value), was far more important than slavery, particularly when compared to the minuscule tax increase on tea which was a spark for the American Revolution.

As for the civil war, it was less about slavery and more about economic freedom

Yeah, the economic freedom to own slaves. Nice dodge, asshole.

http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"Now, there are many people out there (including computer scientists) who may raise legitimate concerns about privacy or other important issues in regards to any system that can support the intelligence community (as well as civilian needs). As I see it, there is a race going on. The race is between two trends. On the one hand, the internet can be used to profile and round up dissenters to the scarcity-based economic status quo (thus legitimate worries about privacy and something like TIA). On the other hand, the internet can be used to change the status quo in various ways (better designs, better science, stronger social networks advocating for some healthy mix of a basic income, a gift economy, democratic resource-based planning, improved local subsistence, etc., all supported by better structured arguments like with the Genoa II approach) to the point where there is abundance for all and rounding up dissenters to mainstream economics is a non-issue because material abundance is everywhere. So, as Bucky Fuller said, whether is will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race to the very end. While I can't guarantee success at the second option of using the internet for abundance for all, I can guarantee that if we do nothing, the first option of using the internet to round up dissenters (or really, anybody who is different, like was done using IBM [tabulators] in WWII Germany) will probably prevail. So, I feel the global public really needs access to these sorts of sensemaking tools in an open source way, and the way to use them is not so much to "fight back" as to "transform and/or transcend the system". As Bucky Fuller said, you never change thing by fighting the old paradigm directly; you change things by inventing a new way that makes the old paradigm obsolete."

Construction Costs:
Nuclear: $14 billion (Vogtle units 3 & 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Solar: $2.2 billion (Ivanpah Solar Power Facility) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wind: $1.5 million (typical 1 megawatt windmill in USA) https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/all/...

Power produced:
Nuclear: 2 GW (2 units x 1.2 gigawatts each x 0.85 expected capacity factor)
Solar: 80 MW (400 MW capacity x 0.2 measured capacity factor)
Wind: 0.33 MW (1 MW x 0.33 typical measured capacity factor)

Expected Operational Lifespan:
Nuclear: 60 years
Solar: 25 years
Wind: 20 years

CO2 emissions: https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Nuclear: 60 g/kWh
Solar: 40 g/kWh
Wind: 21 g/kWh

Someone check my math but this is what I came up with. Wind produces 1/3rd the CO2 of nuclear but costs twice as much. Solar produces 2/3rds the CO2 but costs *TEN TIMES* as much. I'm taking into account installed capacity, operational lifespan, and capacity factor. You can take into account things like cleanup costs after the power plant is retired, lifetime operational costs, etc. Some people just love to point out the extreme costs of building a nuclear power plant but if the actual potential for producing power is taken into account it looks real cheap.

Trying to find actual historical costs of energy of these energy sources has been difficult. Lots of people like to "estimate", "project", or just plain leave things out of their study. A study by what people might assume to be biased pro-nuclear shows electricity costs around the world: https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/p... It shows solar to be quite expensive compared to anything else in the study.

By my estimates wind and nuclear really win out here. Solar might look marginally better than nuclear for reducing CO2 but the costs are just outrageous.

https://archive.org/details/in...

I recently got a new iPad and I'm loading it up with scanned PDFs of Byte Magazine from the early 1980's that I've read as a teenager. Remember when interfacing a data acquisition device with device drivers written in C to a data acquisition program written in Pascal meant writing your own code to make the two play nice?

Steve Jobs famously wrote about the inanity of DRM in 2007.

His push to remove DRM from downloaded music purchases was noble and probably the best thing he ever did. But then he turned around and exposed himself as a complete hypocrite by refusing to do the same for movies. Could it possibly have been due to his large stake in Pixar? Hypocrite.

The argument that movies are somehow different from music and therefore should have DRM is complete and utter bullshit. Both are consumable media that can be played on a variety of devices and exist in a variety of formats. In both cases, DRM encumbers this for the legitimate paying customer, and is always circumvented by the pirate. There is simply no valid argument in favor of DRM for movies if you are against it for music. None.

I'd have a lot more respect for the man if he'd applied the same anti-DRM pressure to movie studios but lost. However, he argued that it wasn't the same thing, and that DRM for movies was ok. He was with them the whole time. Fucking goddamn hypocrite.

> That's because intuition is, from an engineering standpoint, crap -- only to an idiot engineer.

FTFY.

Emotions are not logical either but that doesn't make them crap.

Mathematicians have been using intuition for thousands of years to solve problems.

Just because _you_ don't understand it, now how to use it reliably, doesn't make it crap. Intuition is just another tool, like Logic, to solve problems. Only a complete idiot dismisses a tool because he doesn't understand how to use it.

Maybe you should pay more attention to history (Handymanâ(TM)s Invoice, Engineer marked X)

Specifically why did Henri Poincaré publish Intuition and Logic in mathematics (page 11) as part of La valeur de la science (The Value of Science) in 1905 if intuition wasn't important???

> It's common sense to be afraid of something that moves at hundreds of mile per hour thousands of feet in the air.

Hmm, let's compare:

* 700 MPHs vs 70 MPHs -- the speed is an order of magnitude in difference, and
* traveling at a height of 30,000 feet vs surface level,

Gee, ya think there _might_ be some rational fear to flying !?

Even if it takes 9 yeares. If I had wanted your website to make noise I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across the monitor.

They took it down, but of course the Wayback machine has it. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

I've been hearing about Artificial Intelligence since I read it in BYTE Magazine in the 1980's.

So despite knowing that Microsoft is an early NSA collaborator, forcing and tricking users into "upgrading" to Windows 10, distributes proprietary software (all of which is untrustworthy by default which prevents even technical users from fixing problems and distributing improved software to others), and Microsoft blatantly disregarded user choice and privacy, shipped with bad defaults for privacy, got caught lying to users about how Windows 10's euphemistically named "privacy controls" worked, you believe the headline that Microsoft "will soon give users more control over app permissions" and therefore want to talk about this in the context of the rose-colored vision of the past for Windows users? Microsoft has made so many choices against "giving users more control" over anything there's no reason to believe they'll ever make such choices, just like any other software proprietor.

Forget the past, history begins now.

As a long-standing member of the computer security industry, having done vulnerability research my entire career [0], there's exactly two sentiments in the industry:

1.) This is cool! I'll do this in my free time, it's fun!
2.) Fuck you, pay me.

The problem with #1 is that as soon as you hit any real resistance, it stops being fun. Have you tried landing a patch at GNU.org or in the upstream kernel? Biggest pain in the rear, ever.

The current state of affairs is that you can remain a White Hat and report vulnerabilities to Google in any open source software [1] or even Android specifically [2] and earn TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER BUG. You can find even more companies / projects to assist through BugCrowd or HackerOne.

Alternately, if you don't mind your bugs being sold to any number of nation states, just take your research to Apple iOS, and either Exodus [3] or VUPEN-nee-Zerodium will pay you A MOTHER FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS [4] for the right bugs.

All of this whining is coming from the same open-source community leader (Torvalds) that has publicly shunned GRSecurity [5] one of the groups that has been trying to help for 20 years, and has stated that infosec industry members should "Please just kill yourself now. The world would be a better place." [6]

So to you, Mr. Torvalds, I say:

FUCK YOU, PAY ME.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/za...
[1]: https://www.google.com/about/a...
[2]: https://www.google.com/about/a...
[3]: https://rsp.exodusintel.com/
[4]: https://zerodium.com/program.h...
[5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/2...
[6]: https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Search on "oncologists would not have chemotherapy".

Boosting the bodies own defenses against cancer in various ways (including nutrition, intermittent fasting, immune-system tuning, etc.) is another approach at least generally without negative side effects -- wonder if Watson has been fed enough alternative data to recommend it (especially for prevention)?

Example: https://www.drfuhrman.com/lear...
"Cancer screening is promoted as preventive health, and while this may detect early forms of cancer so it can be treated earlier, it does not prevent the development of cancer and has minimal effects on reducing cancer deaths. A Nutritarian diet has the power to repair defects that can lead to cancer, detoxify carcinogens, cause cancer cell death, cut off blood supplies to growing tumors , and stimulate the immune system to recognize, repair abnormalities, and even fight and kill cancer cells. The vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants found in a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, and seeds is the key to prevention and even can play an important role in the treatment of various cancers."

Good luck with your own health care choices. It is hard to wade through all the conflicting information and conflict-of-interest. I wanted to make free software to help people make sense of conflicting health information -- but just not enough time given a need to earn money in other ways. What I could do with Watson hardware and that project's budget... (When I was at IBM Research around 2000 I proposed making an interactive display wall powered by an AI-like system to help people make complex decisions and better designs -- but as a contractor the idea did not go that far beyond a proof-of-concept with nine old Thinkpads that looked a lot like a Jeopardy screen, made when my supervisor went on a long vacation...)
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

It's marketing, not intent.

If they had no intent, why did they have a listing of web apps? And kept it updated years after the App Store was opened?

https://web.archive.org/web/20071011225255/http://www.apple.com/webapps/

I see that link was JUST published (Aug 30 2017). Because after all, what we have seen this year is larger than average storms.

That's the date last revised. It's been there for longer than that.

Ah, the classic Ad Hominem fallacy -- nothing constructive to say so one resorts to childish insults.

Gee, even a Mathematician is saying that rote learning is a HORRIBLE way to "learn".

* A Mathematician's Lament aka Lockhart's Lament.

But go ahead and keep sticking your head in sand over how shitty the education system is.

* The Underground History Of American Education Book

--
Atheism, noun, a blind mad trying to tell the rest of the world that color doesn't exist.

I wish we could give up on this left/right bullshit. The terms are so vague and contradictory as to be useless for political discussion.

Ponder for a moment that V.I. Lenin, leader of a successful Communist revolution and founder of the Soviet Union, wrote a book *against* leftism. https://archive.org/details/Le...

See what I mean? Making left/right arguments just adds confusion to whatever is being discussed.

How about we all just discuss the actual policy issues we find interesting? Instead of saying "fuck you leftists", say "fuck you authoritarian social elitists". Instead of "fuck you rightists", say "fuck you greedy big business fat cats".

But maybe that's too much to hope.

Nonfree software didn't recently "add spying/telemetry/etc". The malware was a part of nonfree OSes (such as Windows, iOS, MacOS) for a long time in both the OS and various apps. Here are a few examples concerning Windows: the backdoor in Windows by which Microsoft can impose any change it wants and when this was used, and who can forget Microsoft's choice to trick or force Windows 7 and Vista users into Windows 10 "upgrades". Since that software was nonfree even technical users and developers couldn't legally remove the malware and distribute the improved malware-free variant to help others.

When it came to spying, Windows 10 gave users a UI that apparently deceived them into believing that the user had a say in how much their OS ratted them out. Windows 10 shipped with bad defaults for preserving user's privacy and continued "talking to Microsoft" (as Condé Nast put it) "even if a user turn[ed] off its Bing search and Cortana features, and activate[ed] the privacy-protection settings" (quoting the GNU Project). So now Microsoft assures Windows users things are better, but one has to wonder for whom and what users are legally allowed to do if they discover the proprietor's words aren't how the software behaves.

You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of law-breakers-and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

It seems to enbody the principle of your post, but is always quoted out of context. The book talks about a different era - an industrial era - but, despite its moral defense of capitalism and the necessity of an independent mind, Atlas Shrugged's discussion of 'secret law' is directly relevant to the concept of a device that can exfiltrate an individual's life secrets to a state power.

It's really funny how the websites are blocked by the Indian government.

In the past, when a huge list of websites where blocked in a single day (which included Github and others), the block was just at DNS level. So if you were using some public DNS (eg.: Open DNS), you were still allowed to visit those websites.

Several other websites are blocked only when non https websites are visited. Say for example http://archive.org/ is blocked, while https://archive.org/ is not (try it with lynx or w3m, you might get redirected to https in the popular browsers)

And not all providers block, only some.

It's really funny how the websites are blocked by the Indian government.

In the past, when a huge list of websites where blocked in a single day (which included Github and others), the block was just at DNS level. So if you were using some public DNS (eg.: Open DNS), you were still allowed to visit those websites.

Several other websites are blocked only when non https websites are visited. Say for example http://archive.org/ is blocked, while https://archive.org/ is not (try it with lynx or w3m, you might get redirected to https in the popular browsers)

And not all providers block, only some.

Looking at their past website you can at least see one problem.

getkanoa web

Unless it is on another page of the website, there's only the option on their website, to pre-order. No data on how many people backed or how much funding is there.

Basically, this crowdfunding was very likely to fail with the backers very likely to have a high risk simply due to not being able to see how the startup is doing. There's no way to know if they've reached their goal, had enough backers or anything at all. Let's say they got 100 backers but they really need 1000. At least if they showed the backers their goal, the backers and the startup knew from the start that they cannot deliver their promise and product. The startup can review their funding and drop their promise before any heavy investment.

Their failure seems to be right from the start.

I specifically paid for "hands free on-ramp to off-ramp driving" per Tesla. They never delivered on that functionality, but they did remove much of the parts they had delivered after purchase. I've included a small sample of the lies Tesla made to make the sale, along with proof of the claims, and a description of what they've actually delivered:

Claim #1: Tesla claimed that an alert driver could use the “Autopilot” feature to drive along a highway without touching any controls, as long as the driver was paying attention and ready to take over at any time.
Examples of claim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Elon Musk (CEO Tesla Motors) demonstrates the feature to a journalist in October 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... A Tesla employee demonstrates the feature to attendees at the Tesla “D” event in October 2014
http://www.stuff.tv/in/feature... Elon Musk (CEO Tesla Motors) in an interview in March 2015 states “We want you to go from highway on-ramp to highway off-ramp, without touching the controls, in the next 12 months”
What Tesla has delivered: In October 2015 Tesla released a software update that enabled “Autopilot”. This included a feature called “Autosteer” which came with a disclaimer that you must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times. If your hands were not detected exerting torque on the steering wheel at road curves, the vehicle would pop up a warning asking you to place your hands on the wheel. This warning would intensify until either you applied torque to the steering wheel, or Autopilot would be disabled. In subsequent software updates the frequency, and intensity of the popup message was increased, and if the message occurs a certain number of times per drive the feature is completely disabled for the remainder of the drive. Additionally restrictions have been placed on it such that on some roadways the speed you can travel while on autosteer is limited to what the vehicle believes the speed limit to be.

Claim #2: Tesla claimed that drivers could use the “Summon” feature (part of the “Autopilot” suite) to call the vehicle and it would drive to them wherever they were on private property. Additionally Tesla claimed that the vehicle would check your schedule and pull out of your garage and meet you at your front door on private property.
Examples of claim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Recording of the Tesla Motors “D” event where the “AutoPilot” functionality was initially revealed. Elon musk (CEO Tesla Motors) states at 9:55 “You’ll be able to summon the car, if you’re on private property, you have to be on private property to do it, you can actually summon the car and the car will come to wherever you are and, it will use the ultrasonic sensors kind of like an insect antenna, because it can detect even small soft objects with the ultrasonics, and it will just sort of slowly make it’s way to you and then stop and be ready to go. It can go even a step beyond that, if you have your calendar turned on, it will meet you there. So if you’re getting ready to go to work or something and it knows you’re going to need to leave half an hour before work and you say ok I’d like to just come out and have the air conditioning done and everything done, your music playing, everything just ready to go and it will just come and be there.”
http://web.archive.org/web/201... Snapshot of the Tesla Motors website from July 16 2015, in the “Autopilot” section states “With calendar syncing enabled, Model S checks current traffic conditions to determine how muc

Uhhhhhh, some variant of that page has existed since 1999, and possibly even before then!

The "Release Info" link on the Debian home page links to it. In 1999 it was in the left side bar. Today it's in the horizontal bar of links under the header.

I don't know how you couldn't have found it. It really couldn't be much simpler to find.

Furthermore, we've had Radar for People since the 70's. Built right into TV and Radio towers. The current model is called CELLDAR.

DB Cooper is a PSYOP designed to foster mystique of criminal mastermindery and convince you that we don't have the technology to know where everyone is at all times. See also, "Total Information Awareness".

Buncha dumbasses round here, don't know shit about tech. I bet they slashmorons don't even know about holographic UFO PSYOPS. Even though that tech has been in the patent office and various consumer grade versions exist.

Nope, instead the "science" loving fools here would call "UFO" chasers crazy for seeing that shit in use. As if disney hasn't demonstrated "cloud projection tech" publicly for decades Ooooh Aaaah! There's no military application for this at all! Next you'll tell me that 9/11 wasn't an inside job, or that it's possible for naval strategists to fuck up as bad as Perl Harbor on accident.

The real problem with this world is that it's full of morons who trust by default professional liars then think they know shit about anything, rather than people who question narratives and seek the truth.

Hell, I bet you morons don't even know about protecting brands with "clones". Lookalike understudies who get plastic surgery and take the place of people if the situation calls for it. The term "lifetime actor" probably doesn't even exist in your vocabulary. I bet you still think that beamforming can't be used to microwave anyone in any city using the cellular network. Fucking ignorant idiots, I swear.

One place to find the story online is in the Galaxy Magazine April 1954 issue at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ga...

Starts on page six.

The story was made into a large novel later called Midas World:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

ProPublica is not "Journalism in the Public Interest." It is a leftist propaganda outlet funded by the Sandlers who became wealthy from their subprime mortgage scam. You can see them portrayed by SNL in this video. https://archive.org/details/Pu... That Google should be involved with them means I will be using a different search engine.

And Obama outright asked the people to turn in names of people they knew who weren't on board with Obamacare.
In addition his IRS attacked individual citizens based on their political affiliations

Things that never happened for $200, Alex. Stop with the #fakenews.

Right here are the citations for you — something the anonymous OP should've included in his post, of course:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov

After people got outraged about this solicitation, the above text was eventually removed.

In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes.

Two out of two things you dismissed as "fake news" are in fact true and indisputable. Good score, keep it up!

I'm sorry, but no....

The original accusations were...

- Obama outright asked the people to turn in names of people they knew who weren't on board with Obamacare.

This is False. Even the quote that you provided proves that it's false. The Obama administration request was to provide copies of articles, news stories, etc. that seemed to be inaccurate or questionable. This was so that they could develop a marketing program to address false rumors. At no point did the Obama administration ask for names, email addresses, etc. Granted, most people would not have been smart enough to scrub the email of personal identification which causes privacy issues. But the fact is that they didn't request names, just stories.

- The IRS attacked individual citizens based on their political affiliations

This is badly worded or deliberately misleading. The IRS did discriminate against certain political groups by performing deeper audits. But, to the best of my knowledge, they didn't target individual citizens.