Slashdot Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 01:56 · Score: 0 · on How Putin Tried To Control the Internet (vice.com)

"Wow that's a lot different then how the US is trying to control the internet. Yay for thinking out of the box!"

The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Crisis of democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg

Re:Why don't we just say it? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 01:36 · Score: 0 · on How Putin Tried To Control the Internet (vice.com)

"who else would there be to ensure contracts are enforced and not just useless words on paper? without courts, who would determine if people have been injured or mistreated and ensure justice for those people?"

Sorry to tell you but the real world is very much not like what you just stated. When corporations can strip of us of our rights to own shit and have been doing so for roughly 200 years now.

Science on reasoning:

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Manufacturing consent:

Economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 09:02 · Score: 0 · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

See the science on reasoning:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:People who think economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 08:13 · Score: 0 · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

"People who think economics is not a science usually have no understanding of economics."

No we know its bullshit...

I can tell you the facts and the figures and you won't reason to the right conclusion, it's science:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

What about this? More evidence against your religion...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

So, no you just believe the propaganda, that's all economics is - propaganda for the masses. We can go back in time to when people lived in tribes, before such ideas and concepts were invented. That's the real world, aka just humans and nature. Everything else is a human invention. By reducing mankind (as a system) to its simplest state, we see the outgrowth of artificial structures as a result of one group of primates attacking another and forcefully imposing their culture upon them. AKA real science, to determine what is real and true you go back to the beginning before all these artificial structures were invented. Laws of nature don't need the NSA to protect them or former national security advisors worried about "radicals" and "heretics" (aka disbelievers in "economics").

Am I going to believe some podunk slashdot poster/puppet, or the former National security advisor of the United states?

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

Re:People who think economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 07:50 · Score: 0 · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

"People like you would become smarter if you picked up an economics textbook."

I can tell you the facts and the figures and you won't reason to the right conclusion, it's science:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

What about this? More evidence against your religion.

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

So, no you just believe the propaganda, that's all economics is - propaganda for the masses. We can go back in time to when people lived in tribes, before such ideas and concepts were invented. That's the real world, aka just humans and nature. Everything else is a human invention. By reducing mankind (as a system) to its simplest state, we see the outgrowth of artificial structures as a result of one group of primates attacking another and forcefully imposing their culture upon them. AKA real science, to determine what is real and true you go back to the beginning before all these artificial structures were invented. Laws of nature don't need the NSA to protect them or former national security advisors worried about "radicals" and "heretics" (aka disbelievers in "economics").

Am I going to believe some podunk slashdot poster/puppet, or the former National security advisor of the United states?

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:People who think economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 06:44 · Score: 0, Interesting · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

"Economics is a science, and it has a useful body of knowledge."

Sure... it is... not.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

The Citibank memo

Wikileaks, parallel legal system for the corporate world to sue governments and the public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

The elite push behind this is... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 02:04 · Score: -1 · on The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are (techcrunch.com)

... they fear us, that's why they are trying to lock down everything. They are trying to strip us of our rights and control us, via the payment and information channels we engage each other with because they are at their weakest.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=10

Brezinski at a press conference

Science on reasoning:

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465027261

Re:Who are these people? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 18:25 · Score: 0 · on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org)

" Now I completely understand. Globalization is more and more just bullying on a national scale."

Not quite... This is a project of empire.

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2NVX3KKHJONPW/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0465027261&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books

Speech by former National security Advisor of the US about Global domination of the atlantic powers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs&feature=youtu.be&t=406

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They also are using it to try to lockdown the internet because they fear us politically waking up...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

Science on reasoning:

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Manufacturing consent:

http://vanishingnewyork.blogsp...

Re:Unlike SF Seattle is *not* trying to keep its s by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-08 10:03 · Score: 0 · on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul

Here it is if you like to be depressed, start with a recent post about the Greenwich Village Ghost Town:

Well, at least there's an opt-out. by c · 2015-10-05 00:42 · Score: 1 · on Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data

From the announcement:

Users can control the ads they see, including Customer Match ads, by opting out of personalized ads or by muting or blocking ads from individual advertisers through Google Ads Settings.

Opt-out rather than opt-in sucks, and it does appear that my browser settings were independent of my Android Google Settings, but the option is there.

I'm ad blocking, so in theory my account ad settings are irrelevant, but belt and suspenders, etc.

Re:Heard this before by quantaman · 2015-09-24 06:16 · Score: 1 · on Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs

Specifically, it's the reaction the body has to the carbohydrates (sugar): spiking insulin levels, blocking the release of fat as a fuel source, and encouraging the body to store energy as fat.

Or not

The carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis of obesity states that carbohydrates (particularly refined carbohydrates and sugar) are the primary cause of obesity due to their ability to increase circulating insulin, and that the solution to obesity is to restrict carbohydrate intake. Numerous studies have tested this hypothesis, more or less directly, in animals and humans. Despite the fact that many of these studies undermine the hypothesis, it remains extremely popular, both in the popular media and to a lesser extent among researchers.

But why believe decades of peer reviewed research when a science journalist like Gary Taubes writes a book with a bunch of misrepresented cherry-picked data? (True there's a few researchers who go along to varying extents as well, but they're not the consensus)

Re:name and shame by doconnor · 2015-09-22 08:08 · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web

Google announced a while ago that they would take into account page load speed in search ranking.

Re:How it was done by axlash · 2015-09-10 07:20 · Score: 5, Informative · on Ashley Madison's Passwords Cracked, Soon To Be Released

TFA was uninformative. Instead, from http://cynosureprime.blogspot....:

Instead of cracking the slow bcrypt hashes directly, which is the hot topic at the moment, we took a more efficient approach and simply attacked the md5(lc($username).”::”.lc($pass)) and md5(lc($username).”::”.lc($pass).”:”.lc($email).”:73@^bhhs&#@&^@8@*$”) tokens instead. Having cracked the token, we simply then had to case correct it against its bcrypt counterpart.

Or this:

http://arstechnica.com/securit...

How it was done by sinij · 2015-09-10 07:08 · Score: 5, Informative · on Ashley Madison's Passwords Cracked, Soon To Be Released

TFA was uninformative. Instead, from http://cynosureprime.blogspot....:

Instead of cracking the slow bcrypt hashes directly, which is the hot topic at the moment, we took a more efficient approach and simply attacked the md5(lc($username).”::”.lc($pass)) and md5(lc($username).”::”.lc($pass).”:”.lc($email).”:73@^bhhs&#@&^@8@*$”) tokens instead. Having cracked the token, we simply then had to case correct it against its bcrypt counterpart.

LBJ on Global Warming - 50 years ago. by Layzej · 2015-09-03 15:10 · Score: 1, Informative · on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate

http://davidappell.blogspot.ca... "Johnson's remarks arose from a 1965 report to his Administration, “Restoring the Quality of Our Environment,” by the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, which had a chapter on CO2’s potential to cause warming.

Flash is only good for one thing by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-18 05:56 · Score: 0 · on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player

http://konashion.blogspot.ca/

Password guessing attacks are a fact of life, so by badger.foo · 2015-07-22 07:06 · Score: 1 · on Bug Exposes OpenSSH Servers To Brute-Force Password Guessing Attacks

we hit the max title length, but the second part is "and so is the existence of bugs in any non-trivial piece of software".

Re-using the existing connection is of course useful to fend off the traditional killing techniques for rapid-fire password guessers (such as http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/... and similar), but you still have to come up with the set of bytes that will let you authenticate. Which leads to the other thing --

The clowns I have been writing about ("The Hail Mary Cloud" -- http://bsdly.blogspot.ca/2013/... and links therein) used a totally different approach, but the general advice re passwords and other issues given in the conclusions apply here too.

Re:well, no. by GiordyS · 2015-07-17 21:03 · Score: 1 · on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record

Skeptical Science does publish and 'create' its own scientific research.

http://richardtol.blogspot.ca/...

So like Google Code? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-25 09:43 · Score: 1 · on Google Tests Code Repository Service

So something like Google Code, which they are shutting down?

Can anyone else say "vaporware"?

Re:Monster Business School by KozmoStevnNaut · 2015-06-17 00:37 · Score: 4, Informative · on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats

There are still plenty of analog connections around. Headphone jacks, RCA outputs and so on. None of them sound any better through Monster cables than through cheap dollar store cables, and they never did.

http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2...

Note that by far the largest difference was stereo crosstalk, and that has a lot more to do with cable geometry than with price or "quality". You can make any cable measure exceedingly low crosstalk by physically separating the wires, but no one can head crosstalk at -84dB anyway, so it's pointless.

Re:Fear of guns by jklovanc · 2015-06-05 08:00 · Score: 1 · on Stormtrooper Arrested

The storm trooper blaster is actually a conversion of a Sterling L2A3.

Re:Billions by ArcadeMan · 2015-05-30 04:03 · Score: 3, Funny · on Google Chrome Tops 1 Billion Users

Let the RIAA count those numbers again, because I'm pretty sure the total should be around 600 billion users.

Then again if you let Verizon do the math, Google only has 60 million users.

Re:Good thing climate change isn't real! by tbannist · 2015-05-22 14:36 · Score: 1 · on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years

Unfortunately, Dr. Spencer has a history of getting these graphs wrong.

Additionally, it should be noted that Dr. Spencer is a signatory to An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, which states that "Earth and its ecosystems – created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting". His use as an expert on climate matters is significantly diminished by that public declaration that "god will fix it for us". If his signing of that declaration is sincere, he is no longer performing scientific research.

Re:Good thing climate change isn't real! by GiordyS · 2015-05-22 05:34 · Score: 1 · on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years

I find it amusing that you are still capable of defending Sks after the travesty they produced. Much of the content on their blog is the same - but at least it's not masquerading as a scientific study!

Here's what IPCC reviewer Richard Tol had to say on the paper: http://richardtol.blogspot.ca/...

The IPCC report is not MY source. It's YOUR source. Indeed it should be your primary source since you align yourself with the consensus. I'm just informing you of what YOUR source says. Evidently you prefer extreme advocacy blogs like Sks. (I'm what they call a 'luke-warmer'.)

I do agree that there seems to be some ambiguity in the report. Why did they say that "It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in GHG concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together", but then say their "best estimate" is similar to the observed warming? "More than half" means somewhere between 50% - 100%. Why did they phrase it that way if that's not what they meant? Why didn't they say "at least 90% of the warming"?

I tend to take things at face value, so when they say "more than half of the observed increase" I'm going to assume that's what they mean, especially since it's the statement they were willing to quantify @ 95%-100% probability.

You are free to assume they mean something other than what they say.

Speaking of their "best estimate", lets take a look at how their many "estimates" are holding up against observation:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp...

The 'blog' post I referred you to was actually an article from the Wall St Journal reposted on the author's personal site (the first part of IPCC report was released btw). I couldn't find the original article at first but here it is. Here's a video with the author, based on IPCC scenarios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As to your comment about "single data points", you wanted sources so I provided some as examples. And now I am criticized for that too? Really? There is more if a person would care to look, but it is clear you are unaware of what your own "side" even says, apparently preferring extreme advocacy sites like Sks to the IPCC, so I doubt you are willing to listen to differing views anyway.

I am going to hammer this final point: most of the predicted warming is due to climate sensitivity estimates, and NOT due to the warming radiated directly by CO2. These estimates are unproven, vary widely and are highly uncertain. The IPCC claims that climate sensitivity produces up to an additional 3.5 degrees of warming per additional degree of warming from CO2. I find that absurd. And if climate sensitivity is indeed lower as is suggested by recent research, then there is no global warming catastrophe.

TSTO (Two-Stage to Orbit) by sanman2 · 2015-05-22 05:20 · Score: 1 · on India Targets July/August To Test Its Space Shuttle

This vehicle is a low-cost testbed, which will be use to validate the technologies required to build a larger vehicle: the TSTO (Two-Stage To Orbit)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/...

http://antariksh-space.blogspo...

The eventual holy grail is to design, build and fly an SSTO (Single-Stage to Orbit) vehicle called AVATAR which would use scramjet technology. The scramjet-to-orbit concept is considerably more difficult, and may take much longer to accomplish.

Meanwhile the TSTO would just use regular rockets (semi-cryogenic booster & fully cryogenic for upper stage). Multiple copies of the cheap RLV-TD have been built, and will test different technologies across multiple flights, including the scramjet (on a later flight).

Re:Mathematics, Pen, and Paper by catchblue22 · 2015-05-19 11:30 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students

Here is a typesetting comparison between Word and LaTeX. Here is some more discussion. Really, I think LaTeX was created by people who are passionate about the 2000 year old art of typography (Roman). For a long time, MS has ignored far too much of that history in the way it typesets. In my experience, I can always tell a Word document from a LaTeX document, even if the fonts are substantially identical. There is something sub-consciously beautiful about proper typesetting.

Re:Missing the point. by catchblue22 · 2015-04-04 07:29 · Score: 1 · on Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think

range anxiety, ability to recharge cross-country, cold weather conditions

Here is a blog about someone's trip in a Tesla across the US in winter. I think that pretty much takes care of all of your points. But you might also be interested in the fact that Norway is one of Tesla's best customers. Here is a video of a Tesla P85D beating a snowmobile in a drag race on ice. And for your convenience, here is a google search with the query "Tesla cross country road trips".

I'm not sure why you have been marked "interesting" when your post is counter-factual or at least deceptive.

Re:other stuff matters also? I claim it does by catchblue22 · 2015-04-04 07:16 · Score: 1 · on Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think

Electric cars (the ones you can get right now) are terrible when it is really cold or really hot.

Really? Were you aware that Norway is one of Tesla's best customers. I think Norway is a cold country? Here is blog about someone's trip across the US in winter. Here is a video of a Tesla P85D passing pulled over SUV's after a bad snowstorm. I don't see any blankets.

Oh, and Californians buy many Tesla cars. California is kind of hot, isn't it?

Re:Jerri by quax · 2015-03-02 17:49 · Score: 1 · on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions

The US won against Germany and Japan while obeying the Geneva convention. Japan did expressly not, Germany at least to some extend.

The US did not obey the Geneva convention at Abu Ghraib.

Not playing by the rules worked out just swimmingly for you, didn't it?

Now for the first time the US finally faces an enemy that really makes America good look in comparison. And they are also morons that can be easily defeated.

But no ... for America's learning challenged winning the heart and minds is never an option, even in a beauty contest with barbarians from the 9th circle of hell.

Re:Not Censorship by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-24 04:09 · Score: 0 · on Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View

http://konashion.blogspot.ca/

Re:Backpedalled? by BarbaraHudson · 2015-02-13 14:00 · Score: 1 · on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations

Go look it up yourself. It's all over the web, and I've also replied to it elsewhere.

Wearing a mask is a false security. Touch something, instinctively rub you eye, oops!

Further we don't criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections

Having unprotected sex if you have HIV and don't inform your partner(s) in advance will get you a visit to jail. This guy got 5 years. 12 year sentence here. In Arkansas, this guy got 12 years.This guy in Texas, 15 years in jail.

And then we have this loser

A 31-year-old man who infected a teenage girl with HIV two years ago was sentenced to 75 years in prison Wednesday.

But Matthew Louis Reese could face 20 more years in prison if a judge decides Thursday to add the sentence from a third charge to his punishment.

Earlier this week, Reese pleaded guilty to three charges: aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury and sexual assault of a child.

The charges carried sentences of 55, 20 and 20 years in prison, respectively, and Dallas County prosecutors had asked visiting Judge Pat McDowell to make the sentences run consecutively.>more

So we do criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections

Re:Backpedalled? by BarbaraHudson · 2015-02-13 14:00 · Score: 1 · on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations

Go look it up yourself. It's all over the web, and I've also replied to it elsewhere.

Wearing a mask is a false security. Touch something, instinctively rub you eye, oops!

Further we don't criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections

Having unprotected sex if you have HIV and don't inform your partner(s) in advance will get you a visit to jail. This guy got 5 years. 12 year sentence here. In Arkansas, this guy got 12 years.This guy in Texas, 15 years in jail.

And then we have this loser

A 31-year-old man who infected a teenage girl with HIV two years ago was sentenced to 75 years in prison Wednesday.

But Matthew Louis Reese could face 20 more years in prison if a judge decides Thursday to add the sentence from a third charge to his punishment.

Earlier this week, Reese pleaded guilty to three charges: aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury and sexual assault of a child.

The charges carried sentences of 55, 20 and 20 years in prison, respectively, and Dallas County prosecutors had asked visiting Judge Pat McDowell to make the sentences run consecutively.>more

So we do criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections

Re:90 days may be a little short by plcurechax · 2015-01-16 05:37 · Score: 1 · on Google Releases More Windows Bugs

but in principle I agree with what Google is doing. In effect they are trying to destroy the market for zero day exploits and forcing the companies involved to not site on their hands and hope nobody uses them.. like cybercriminals and the various three letter agencies.

From the article:

In the bug tracker for the impersonation vulnerability, Google said it had queried Microsoft on Wednesday, asking when the flaw would be patched and reminding its rival that the 90 days were about to expire.

"Microsoft informed us that a fix was planned for the January patches but [had] to be pulled due to compatibility issues," the bug tracker stated. "Therefore the fix is now expected in the February patches."

The next Patch Tuesday is scheduled for Feb. 10.

So 90 days is an appropriate time to wait but not 106 days?

Here is what Google use to say (circa 2010) from most of the same people who make up the Project Zero team (Chris Evans, Michel Zalewski, and others) AFAIK.

Rebooting Responsible Disclosure: a focus on protecting end users:

Update September 10, 2010: We'd like to clarify a few of the points above about how we approach the issue of vulnerability disclosure. While we believe vendors have an obligation to be responsive, the 60 day period before public notification about critical bugs is not intended to be a punishment for unresponsive vendors. We understand that not all bugs can be fixed in 60 days, although many can and should be. Rather, we thought of 60 days when considering how large the window of exposure for a critical vulnerability should be permitted to grow before users are best served by hearing enough details to make a decision about implementing possible mitigations, such as disabling a service, restricting access, setting a killbit, or contacting the vendor for more information. In most cases, we don't feel it's in people's best interest to be kept in the dark about critical vulnerabilities affecting their software for any longer period.

Somewhere along the way they appear to have lost their senses, and enshrine 90-days as some written-in-stone deadline that makes no sense, and is counter to their stated objectives.

Announcing Project Zero

... Our objective is to significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks. ...We will only report bugs to the software’s vendor—and no third parties. Once the bug report becomes public (typically once a patch is available), you’ll be able to monitor vendor time-to-fix performance, see any discussion about exploitability, and view historical exploits and crash traces.

Re:90 days may be a little short by plcurechax · 2015-01-16 05:37 · Score: 1 · on Google Releases More Windows Bugs

but in principle I agree with what Google is doing. In effect they are trying to destroy the market for zero day exploits and forcing the companies involved to not site on their hands and hope nobody uses them.. like cybercriminals and the various three letter agencies.

From the article:

In the bug tracker for the impersonation vulnerability, Google said it had queried Microsoft on Wednesday, asking when the flaw would be patched and reminding its rival that the 90 days were about to expire.

"Microsoft informed us that a fix was planned for the January patches but [had] to be pulled due to compatibility issues," the bug tracker stated. "Therefore the fix is now expected in the February patches."

The next Patch Tuesday is scheduled for Feb. 10.

So 90 days is an appropriate time to wait but not 106 days?

Here is what Google use to say (circa 2010) from most of the same people who make up the Project Zero team (Chris Evans, Michel Zalewski, and others) AFAIK.

Rebooting Responsible Disclosure: a focus on protecting end users:

Update September 10, 2010: We'd like to clarify a few of the points above about how we approach the issue of vulnerability disclosure. While we believe vendors have an obligation to be responsive, the 60 day period before public notification about critical bugs is not intended to be a punishment for unresponsive vendors. We understand that not all bugs can be fixed in 60 days, although many can and should be. Rather, we thought of 60 days when considering how large the window of exposure for a critical vulnerability should be permitted to grow before users are best served by hearing enough details to make a decision about implementing possible mitigations, such as disabling a service, restricting access, setting a killbit, or contacting the vendor for more information. In most cases, we don't feel it's in people's best interest to be kept in the dark about critical vulnerabilities affecting their software for any longer period.

Somewhere along the way they appear to have lost their senses, and enshrine 90-days as some written-in-stone deadline that makes no sense, and is counter to their stated objectives.

Announcing Project Zero

... Our objective is to significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks. ...We will only report bugs to the software’s vendor—and no third parties. Once the bug report becomes public (typically once a patch is available), you’ll be able to monitor vendor time-to-fix performance, see any discussion about exploitability, and view historical exploits and crash traces.

Re:simple game, complex players by j-beda · 2015-01-10 07:42 · Score: 1 · on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player

Imagine you played 4x4 tic-tac-toe but put pictures on the board - one corner is Hitler, another corner is Beyonce, one is the prophet Mohamad, another is Obama. The pictures would likely affect your opponent's play if they don't have the exact optimum strategy memorized. Recognizing their psychological bias would CHANGE your optimum strategy. The psychology would be different playing against an Isis member vs against Jay-Z, so the optimum strategy would be different for each opponent.

I don't think you use the phrase "optimum strategy" the same way I would. While it is true that psychology could infleuence how your oponent might play, if you have the game solved, the oponent's play does not matter. For 4x4 TTT, a winning strategy is outlined here http://all-r-math.blogspot.ca/... which also references Zermelo's theorem showing that "For any finite two-player games of perfect information in which the players move alternatingly and in which chance does not affect the decision making process, one of the players will always have a non-losing strategy. If the game cannot end in a draw, then this non-losing strategy is a winning strategy." Physchology does not enter into it for these types of games.

It seems as though the term "optimum strategy" is being used in the context of "Perfect Play"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But I digress. If in fact the robot is using a "perfect play" strategy, as defined above, then knowing it's strategy won't help. The optimal strategy against "perfect play" is by definition also "perfect play" - any other strategy against perfect play is sub-optimal. It is true (as referenced above) that "perfect play" will never exploit the weaknesses of non-perfect play, but that does not mean that "perfect play" provides any weaknesses that can be exploited by some other strategy.

So, it looks like the site has recovered - have you played yet? Have you been able to consistently win? http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/

Re:tropical thailand by Tough+Love · 2014-12-29 18:22 · Score: 0 · on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health

Perhaps something to do with the gluten factor?

Re:Fucking Hell, Harper needs to go! by BarbaraHudson · 2014-12-14 10:01 · Score: 1 · on Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems

Perhaps you've never worked in a startup. Or worse, Microsoft (read the comments). Even in 1990, Microsoft had a really bad reputation. An engineer friend warned me off when they called.

Re:.50 WHAT? by ArcadeMan · 2014-12-08 06:51 · Score: 1 · on Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested

If the price was set by Verizon, it probably means "0.50 cents" per GiB.

Re:why would I write to that? by ArcadeMan · 2014-12-05 10:23 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core

I can name alot too.

Re: Concern for high values? by ArcadeMan · 2014-11-10 03:32 · Score: 1 · on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again

http://xoxpedia.blogspot.ca/20...

Re:please no by Kernel+Kurtz · 2014-10-06 01:50 · Score: 3, Informative · on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming

A paper published today in Nature Climate Change finds climate models have greatly exaggerated global warming over the past 20 years, noting the observed warming is "less than half" of the modeled warming.

A new paper by prominent German climatologists Dr. Hans von Storch and Dr. Eduardo Zorita, et al, finds "that the continued [global] warming stagnation over fifteen years, from 1998 -2012, is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2% confidence level

Re:please no by Kernel+Kurtz · 2014-10-06 01:50 · Score: 3, Informative · on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming

A paper published today in Nature Climate Change finds climate models have greatly exaggerated global warming over the past 20 years, noting the observed warming is "less than half" of the modeled warming.

A new paper by prominent German climatologists Dr. Hans von Storch and Dr. Eduardo Zorita, et al, finds "that the continued [global] warming stagnation over fifteen years, from 1998 -2012, is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2% confidence level