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Windows 10 is growing at a crazy rate. So, it is Slashdot anecdotal "I don't know anybody using this", against independent reports about well over 100 million users (!) already several months ago.

Microsoft Edge just passed Safari (and all Linux use combined) in market share, but if you don't bother to test web sites for Safari then Edge would be in the same category right now, yes.

A lot of security bits start off that way, here's one from 1979
http://www.google.com/patents/...

here's its impossible to find illegal spanner
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

welcome to 36 years ago
 

A lot of security bits start off that way, here's one from 1979
http://www.google.com/patents/...

here's its impossible to find illegal spanner
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

welcome to 36 years ago
 

A member of an advisory group to President Barack Obama said about surveillance, "There can be serious negative effects on other U.S. interests". -- From the Reuters article, Russian researchers expose breakthrough in U.S. spying program.

Another quote from that article: "The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives."

"China is seeking to make its own secure smartphones, in an attempt to insulate its handsets from U.S. surveillance." -- Wall Street Journal
Links: Direct, possibly paywalled, also through Google Search.

How will China react to Windows 10, which gives Microsoft complete control over any computer connected to the internet?

Articles about Microsoft spying:

Microsoft's Software is Malware. "Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user." -- Gnu.org

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? -- Computerworld UK

Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages -- The Guardian

In a democracy, citizens are allowed to participate in government. Secret government projects in the U.S. make the U.S. less of a democracy and move toward hidden control.

Articles about secret agencies often assume they are managed well. But an employee of an NSA sub-contractor, Edward Snowden, was able to copy huge amounts of data. What would stop NSA employees from listening to telephone conversations of CEOs to find inside information for profiting from buying stock, for example?

NSA = No Sales for America.

Question: Other producers of spyware have been put in prison. How does Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella avoid a court case?

page 172-173:
A the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird asked the assembled group, "What shall we call the program?"
Someone suggested. "De-Americanization."
"No! for God's sake," I protested. "That would really prove to the world that you have been fighting the war." So since it had always been our war, we settled finally on "Vietnamization."

Imagine, Pentagon Defense Secretary Ash Carter asked the assembled group, "What shall we call our militants?"
Someone suggested. "Moderate Terrorists"
"No! for God's sake," imagined-me protested. "That would really prove the world that you have been support the terrorists." So since it had always been our terrorists, we settled finally on "Moderate Rebels."

page 172-173:
A the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird asked the assembled group, "What shall we call the program?"
Someone suggested. "De-Americanization."
"No! for God's sake," I protested. "That would really prove to the world that you have been fighting the war." So since it had always been our war, we settled finally on "Vietnamization."

Who bothers with emulators? I just transcompile the GameBoy code by parsing the machine code into C and then compiling the parsed output on the target hwrdware with a native C complier. Much more efficient (10x) over emulators.

I have a Yahoo email account, because the ISP I had when I started in florida -- BellSouth -- later AT&T -- outsourced their email to yahoo.

I still have an ATT account, which is still my BellSouth email address.

I'm paying for this so-called Yahoo email.. Which is why Yahoo can go fuck themselves into oblivion, they seem to be very good at that.

I wonder if they'd be able to detect this for FireFox Mozilla Yahoo Ad Hide Plugin or for Chrome

Yeah, I use that on top of AdBlockPlus.

Corporate taxes are not really an issue, in the grand scheme of things.

It doesn't take much google prowess to see all the kids who were arrested for bringing toy guns to class. https://www.google.com/search?... That doesn't include the one(s) suspended for pointing a finger http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

How is a toy bomb any different?

Bla bla bla. Singling out Muslims is pure bigotry. The only difference between Christian Terrorism and Islamic terrorism is that Christian Terrorism never makes the evening news..

Bwaaa HAAA HAAAA!!!

You're downright fucking risible.

And full of BULLSHIT.

How many people have your "Christian" equivalents of ISIS murdered - in the hundreds of years some have been around? How many have the KKK murdered in 150 years? At MOST what? 3000?

3000 is just ONE good day for Islamic terror.

Or 3,000 is a mere 10 percent of just the number of CHILDREN ISIS alone has killed in Syria alone in just the past couple of years:

Current Total Death Count in Syria: 250,000+
Children: 30,000

Again - crawl up out of Mommy's Basement Intellectual Shelter, grow a MAN'S intellectual balls, and read this UN report:

UNAMI/OHCHR has received reports of serious violations of international humanitarian law and gross abuses of human rights that have been perpetrated by ISIL and associated armed groups, with an apparentv systematic and widespread character. These include attacks directly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, executions and other targeted killings of civilians, abductions, rape and other forms of sexual and physical violence perpetrated against women and children, forced recruitment of children, destruction or desecration of places of religious or cultural significance, wanton destruction and looting of property, and denial of fundamental freedoms.

There are fewer and fewer journalists, every year.

"all your news is belong to us" (yahoo, facebook, google...)

Yes, I am aware of the irony of using google in my link.

You make a most excellent useful idiot, believing every bit of propaganda that comes across your face. Jolly good show,old chap!

Or rioting and murdering because of Piss Christ.

Oh wait.

My bad.

That would be MUSLIMS rioting and MURDERING because someone DARED MAKE FUN OF MUHAMMED, the pedophile desert brigand who was at least smart enough to come up with a religion that requires his follows to die for him.

Did you miss Charlie Hebdo? You know, where MUSLIMS deliberately murdered innocents?

Did you miss ISIS beheading Christians? Where MUSLIMS deliberately murdered Christians for the CRIME of being Christian?

Who's the useful idiot? Those links don't point to "propaganda", they point to the FACT that radical MUSLIMS will murder you for NOT BEING MUSLIM.

You're the idiot for believing that Islam is a "religion of peace". At its fundamental core, it's anything but. It's a religion based on the MURDER of non-Muslims.

Because unlike Christianity, Islam has never had any equivalent of the Renaissance and Enlightenment to drag it kicking and screaming from its Medieval Dark Ages.

Don't like it? Radical Muslims will still kill you for not being Muslim.

Care to try and actually REFUTE that, or are you going to crawl back into your Mommy's Basement Intellectual Shelter where you put NAMES on things that hurt your pathetic feelings and hide from reality?

You make a most excellent useful idiot, believing every bit of propaganda that comes across your face. Jolly good show,old chap!

Or rioting and murdering because of Piss Christ.

Oh wait.

My bad.

That would be MUSLIMS rioting and MURDERING because someone DARED MAKE FUN OF MUHAMMED, the pedophile desert brigand who was at least smart enough to come up with a religion that requires his follows to die for him.

Did you miss Charlie Hebdo? You know, where MUSLIMS deliberately murdered innocents?

Did you miss ISIS beheading Christians? Where MUSLIMS deliberately murdered Christians for the CRIME of being Christian?

Who's the useful idiot? Those links don't point to "propaganda", they point to the FACT that radical MUSLIMS will murder you for NOT BEING MUSLIM.

You're the idiot for believing that Islam is a "religion of peace". At its fundamental core, it's anything but. It's a religion based on the MURDER of non-Muslims.

Because unlike Christianity, Islam has never had any equivalent of the Renaissance and Enlightenment to drag it kicking and screaming from its Medieval Dark Ages.

Don't like it? Radical Muslims will still kill you for not being Muslim.

Care to try and actually REFUTE that, or are you going to crawl back into your Mommy's Basement Intellectual Shelter where you put NAMES on things that hurt your pathetic feelings and hide from reality?

Agreed on the remote. I thought I would like it, but it's hard to use and I do often find myself fast-forwarding unintentionally.

The Google TVs that I had (I still have one) are both standalone boxes made by Sony. You can run them by themselves or hook your cable TV or whatever into them. One of them even had an IR dongle thing so that you could remote control other devices that needed infrared. A quick Google search shows that the ones I have were discountined. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-NSZ... There are some new ones: https://www.google.com/tv/get....

I'd buy another one though, I really liked it.

Outside U.S., there are plenty of options available. bit-x does optional on-the-fly Bitcoin to fiat conversion and has a neat system, but others may have better fees and whatnot.

Within (almost half of) U.S. I suspect Coinbase might actually be the first, but I didn't look too deep.

During test runs, a number of security features are disabled, in particular parts of the TVM system, which would have prevented any overspeed during normal service. This leaves the train speed under the sole responsibility of the driver.

Why are we still using humans to drive the trains? We already have computer-driven cars on the roads — and driving a car is a lot harder for a computer both because of the complex terrain and human-only signalling.

Trains operate in a one-dimensional universe (most of the time) — they don't need cameras and radars on the sides. The signalling they use is entirely under control of the rail-road too and in most cases is already interconnected and centralized. Moreover, driving a train is usually a very tedious process, which puts the human drivers to sleep — quite often — a problem severe enough to warrant special systems to try to prevent it.

I wonder, what is it? Is it a fear of protests by union-thugs? Engineers' own inertia?

And all the farmers driving their tractors on the road. And bicyclists. And the Amish.

All of those are banned from the interstate. They are limited to slower and smaller roads, ones appropriate to that type of vehicle.

Do you think the fastest 15% of the people on the road (the speeders) should determine the speed limit? That sounds like an extremely bad idea to me.

I'm telling you what the traffic safety experts recommend after years of study. That you object to reality will not change it.

Common sense is rarely right when applied to a subject you don't have actual knowledge of. That you think it's a bad idea is proof that you are both ignorant of the topic, and arrogant about your ignorance at the same time. A lethal combination.

I'd like to look at the data. Could you provide a link to this information?

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Where to start? Go to http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS and run 1000 or so search queries on every topic you want. Most of the "studies" are re-statements or analysis of FARS data, as it's one of the most complete databases of its kind in the world (yes, much of the rest of the world builds local law based on US-only data, as it's the best source for the data). Then go to https://www.motorists.org/ and see what they have on how to set a proper speed limit. The NMA will have lots of cites, no need to repeat them all here for someone that's demanding "citation needed" as a dismissive, rather than an honest query. If it was and honest question, why did't you google https://www.google.com/search?... or https://www.google.com/search?... ?

The answer is, you don't actually want an answer, you just want to argue. When the two most obvious search strings I think of give first links to TXDoT and USDOT manuals recomending setting the limit at 85% for optimal safety, why would you question it? Where did you get your traffic engineering degree? TTI, as an engineering extension to Texas A&M is a good place to start.

There, cites, and hundreds of hours of work to educate yourself. Thousands of hours of work if your mind is as closed as it appears.

And all the farmers driving their tractors on the road. And bicyclists. And the Amish.

All of those are banned from the interstate. They are limited to slower and smaller roads, ones appropriate to that type of vehicle.

Do you think the fastest 15% of the people on the road (the speeders) should determine the speed limit? That sounds like an extremely bad idea to me.

I'm telling you what the traffic safety experts recommend after years of study. That you object to reality will not change it.

Common sense is rarely right when applied to a subject you don't have actual knowledge of. That you think it's a bad idea is proof that you are both ignorant of the topic, and arrogant about your ignorance at the same time. A lethal combination.

I'd like to look at the data. Could you provide a link to this information?

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Where to start? Go to http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS and run 1000 or so search queries on every topic you want. Most of the "studies" are re-statements or analysis of FARS data, as it's one of the most complete databases of its kind in the world (yes, much of the rest of the world builds local law based on US-only data, as it's the best source for the data). Then go to https://www.motorists.org/ and see what they have on how to set a proper speed limit. The NMA will have lots of cites, no need to repeat them all here for someone that's demanding "citation needed" as a dismissive, rather than an honest query. If it was and honest question, why did't you google https://www.google.com/search?... or https://www.google.com/search?... ?

The answer is, you don't actually want an answer, you just want to argue. When the two most obvious search strings I think of give first links to TXDoT and USDOT manuals recomending setting the limit at 85% for optimal safety, why would you question it? Where did you get your traffic engineering degree? TTI, as an engineering extension to Texas A&M is a good place to start.

There, cites, and hundreds of hours of work to educate yourself. Thousands of hours of work if your mind is as closed as it appears.

Except it isn't true. And it is stupid. In fact, it's dangerously stupid.

A couple of seconds spent on an internet search shows that speeding is, in fact, a safety concern. Apparently a big one. There are literally reams of data showing that speeding contributes to a significant number of accidents.

Not to mention the fact that for anyone who's ever driven a car, the notion that speeding is dangerous IS COMMON FUCKING SENSE.

so don't go spreading misinformation yourself "that is - at best - partially true". Not to condone their actions, but the incidents (as revealed by Google) where ELF et al. released animals that were subsequently subject to fatal run-ins with cars, predators, and/or humans, involved industrial fur farms, not labs.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Because clearly that was never an issue with taxis.

If a real rape happens, you go to the police, and you do it as soon as you can

Yep, because the police have such an impeccable record. I was going go post individual links, but it's easier to just go here http://www.google.com/search?i...

Oh what the hell, here's a nice link for you:

http://registerguard.com/rg/ne...

Carnegie Mellon is one of the biggest academic military contractors in the US. They've been developing surveillance tools for the NSA for decades, as well as developing weapons for the purpose of "crowd control" and other aspects of domestic policing..

Look at this article, and when you read the word "cybersecurity" be aware that it's being used as a synonym for "surveillance".

https://thetartan.org/2015/8/3...

https://books.google.com/books...

Yeah. The college administration will lynch the guy on the college green.

You are such an idiot.

Nah, they'll just "suspend" EVERY SINGLE FRATERNITY over fabricated anti-white-male SJW BULLSHIT .

Who's the idiot?

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to idiots, you anencephalic howler monkey.

Yeah. The college administration will lynch the guy on the college green.

You are such an idiot.

Nah, they'll just "suspend" EVERY SINGLE FRATERNITY over fabricated anti-white-male SJW BULLSHIT .

Who's the idiot?

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to idiots, you anencephalic howler monkey.

$229 is for the Chromebox only, from Google. You can actually get the same thing for $150 or so at Newegg, and elsewhere. The meetings package also includes speaker, microphone, camera and a remote control. I'm not sure why that stuff adds over $700 to the price. I expect you could buy the parts yourself and configure it for considerably less. I'd guess the package price is set based on comparing with competitive options, rather than on the cost of the components. Most companies wouldn't blink at $999 to equip a conference room.

Every single thread like this some idiot like you pipes up with this. Every time someone goes and digs out the numerous links about people pointing out this is a serious problem and attempts to remedy it.

I've done it many times.

I can only assume now, you're an idiot who's impervious to learning or an idiot who's incapable of using google.

I'm fairly sure it's the former and that you actually have a strong desire to not change your beliefs on the matter. If you're merely an ignorant, lazy dumbass as opposed to a nutjob dumbass, then you can correct it by going here:

http://www.google.com/

and entering words relating to men in nursing. I'm 99.5% sure you won't do that however.

College used to be a place for the rich kids to go (back when it first got started) with the well round stuff and others did trades / apprenticeships (learning real skills)

Then WWII was over, the soldiers came home, and were restless. There were not enough jobs, because the economy was transitioning to peacetime employment. To fix the problem of an excess of unemployed ex-soldiers, the GI Bill was passed. College prices have been going up steadily ever since.

My one grandfather was already a Dentist, so he used his GI Bill funds to get his pilot's license. The other was already 30 when the war was over, and wasn't interested in going back to school.

Ref: The Screwing of the Average Man

The ability to add a USB webcam and USB Microphone. This device would be the PERFECT way to get Google Hangouts into the corperate world of small "Huddle" type meeting rooms.

Perfect? I doubt it. It's kind of low-powered for that application. You can add the webcam and microphone, but I doubt the result would be particularly outstanding.

Why is it that Apple and Google never ever thinks of the corporate and company uses for their products?

You mean like Chromebox for Meetings? I have this setup in my home office. Audio and video quality is excellent, automatic integration with Google calendaring is slick, it's very nice. The background photos when not in use are a nice bonus. If you take a look at the photo I linked, you'll notice the on-screen keyboard. That's there only because I popped it up to hide some meeting names; I hardly ever use it. Mostly I just schedule meetings on my calendar and the Hangouts display notifies me when one is coming and I tap the meeting description to join. I can also type meeting names if they're not on my calendar, or I can make phone calls. On the rare occasion I do an audio-only teleconference, I still use the Chromebox system because it's convenient and very high quality.

It could be done with a Chromebit rather than a Chromebox, but it wouldn't be much cheaper ($85 vs $229; not a substantial difference in the corporate world), and I doubt performance would be as good.

He lives in a mansion and flies around in his own personal jet, so it must have been pretty lucrative. When climate scientists have their conferences over videophones, maybe we can take them seriously.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Gore went from a net worth of $1.7 million to $200 million in a matter of 13 years...I wish my net worth grew like that.

You're supposed to run a cutting edge machine learning algorithm on a football-field-sized datacenter for years. Silicon Valley is doing its part because Google managed to crack French. They even put a decrypting tool online.

... making excuses for for ad blockers:

Jul 19, 2015 - For the record, I don't run any ad blockers. Basically, I consider them unethical (the full explanation is longer, but that's the thumbnail).ï

and when someone points out his stupidity:

So going to the bathroom when an ad appears is "unethical" ??? What about going to kitchen?? Because using technology to block ads has the exact same effect. It is not my job to support your broken business model. Furthermore, the last time I checked, my eyes belong to me so kindly fuck off with your bullshit "ethics" justifications.

TL:DR; I guess only stupid people watch ads -- the rest of us are too busy doing something else.

... only to get get censored then this issue is far from settled.

Even Mozilla has this stupid mindset WRT Do Not Track:

The Do Not Track feature is turned off by default. /blockquote

https://www.google.com/doodles...

Apparently you don't know the meaning of the word "based". Heck, some vegatable-based foods (such as gluten, often used in Chinese cooking) are nearly pure protein. Most meat substitutes are based around things like TVP, which is overwhelmingly protein. Seitan is 80% protein.

Even common things like tofu have far more calories from protein than carbs (your standard). But really, that's the wrong standard: it's calories from protein vs. calories from "everything else". The majority common vegan ingredients are in the 20-50% protein range - your green leafies (lettuce? 36%; broccoli? 33%; spinach? 50%; collards? 38%; etc), legumes (peas? 33%; lentils? 31%; beans? ~25%; etc), some grains, etc, plus tons of secondary products) are in the 20-50% protein-calories range. While lean fish and skinless chicken cooked in non-fattening manners around 80%-ish percent of their calories from protein, most meats are much lower. A hamburger patty, 80% lean, 20% fat, broiled? 38% from protein. Batter-dipped fried chicken? also 38% protein. Bacon, fried? 27%. Etc. These are just the first "common" things that come to mind, do your own searches. Common meat dishes have the same sort of percent of their calories from protein as common vegetarian dishes.

But they're not, and the year-over-year benchmarks of performance, features and battery-life prove it.

AKA free benefits from upgrading to the latest Intel chip.

The last big change to OS X was the addition of the app store and the security model that surrounded it (which is a joke, as shown). I think Apple is either afraid to improve OS X or they simply are not trying too, for fear of cannibalizing their iOS market.

The SJWs have already confirmed that ISIS isn't that bad. As they've repeatedly said over the past year, GamerGate is "literally worse than ISIS".

Not only that, the #Black(only)LivesMatter twits are bitching about ISIS - because ISIS "stole the spotlight".

Sometimes I think I should be cheering for ISIS - because if ISIS wins such campus crybabies will be the first one up against the wall.

Hmm... In hindsight, we could say that that was the end result of D-Day. So, yeah.

The first Crusade was largely about Muslim expansion. Yes. However, they took anyone in that territory who was converting to be considered expansion. The 2nd through 9th were about them trying to maintain their power. The Aragonese and Northern were absolutely about nothing but power. And with all of the crusades we had lots of power changes, land expansions, and politics.

So, to use WWII, it was more like Germany trying to keep their territory against the onslaught of the Russians.

https://books.google.com/books...

See? I have links too.

I would shop in a store that had a "regular-tacular" protest ad campaign on black friday. (I mean, I wouldn't shop there on black friday, I'd shop there later. Only crazy people go shopping on black friday.)

here's no "Decline forever" option.

You can disable it. See 'Turn app verification on or off' on https://support.google.com/acc...

Note that this is a bad idea, unless you're really careful about the apps you install.

but do the Muslims do that . . . I think not!

Many of them do, it just doesn't get the same kind of airplay wherever you get your news. For example, you have to scroll to page 6 on that Google search to find the first result from Fox News, and it is a segment asking when Muslim clerics will denounce ISIS, posted several months after Muslim clerics were denouncing ISIS.

In case you still believe that all Muslims support things like this, just walk up to one and ask their opinion, see what they say. Ask them if running into a restaurant and killing a bunch of people inside is or is not sanctioned by Islam. They will probably think that it's a fairly stupid question, exactly the same as if you walked up to a Christian and asked them if killing dozens of school children was sanctioned by Christianity. They probably just sort of assume that you already know the answer to that question, and wonder how you became so confused that you even have to ask.

There is an apparently large number of people who are willing to commit violence and self-identify as Muslims, but I think that you'll find that the majority of Muslim scholars will be happy to point out why Islam forbids what they're doing.

I'm not trying to defend any of these people, innocent or otherwise, I'm just responding to your claim that "you think not" that Muslims do not disassociate themselves with terrorists. If you pay any attention to the news, for example, you'll notice that ISIS and other terrorists are killing Muslims right now, in addition to anyone else that they think is not religious enough or doesn't otherwise correspond to the so-called correct way to live. It's the same thing that has been going on forever. "You think differently than me, so I'm going to kill you." That has been happening ever since there were 2 people who disagreed.

Terminal.app uses Monaco by default. There is a better font called "Source Code Pro" you should try. https://www.google.com/fonts/s...

What about terminal emulating apps?

https://play.google.com/store/...

I've been using Readability Extension for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Firefox has Reader-View button in the address bar.

This is indeed a great product, especially for longer article when the page layout doesn't scale with the textsize and we end up with 4 words per line.

You are only redeemed if you toe the party line. Once you disobey you are oppressing women, probably more so because you are gay!

I've been using Readability Extension for Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox has Reader-View button in the address bar.

You can already attach money in Gmail.

That goes right along with the Supreme Court decision that you don't have a right to fly without being searched (groped) by the TSA. As the decision says, you can always travel via a bus, a train, or drive; and you won't be searched there. Oh wait.

As TheMeuge notes above, being willing to give up one right sets the precedent that you will be willing to give up others, and our Masters will demand that we give up others, "to be reasonable", "to fight terrorism", "for the children", etc. We need to fight to keep the rights that don't affect us personally, so that when it gets to the ones that do affect us personally, we aren't losing them as well.

Forbes: "The two sectors currently most affected by the regulatory environment in the U.S. are healthcare and financial services."

Regdata: "Regulation on Credit Intermediation and Related Activities has grown 517.73% since 1997."

Can you point to any data which shows the financial industry isn't heavily regulated? Simply googling the question is the financial industry heavily regulated seems to have a pretty broad consensus of answers in the affirmative. Why do you think otherwise?