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US population 318.9M:

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

Bill Gates $79.2 B:

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

= $248.35

Please, don't pull numbers out of your ass when they are so easily accessible.

According to Google, Trump is worth $4 Billion:
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
The US population is 318.9M
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

I think your numbers might be a bit off, it looks like about $10/person. I could buy lunch with that, if I went cheap.

According to Google, Trump is worth $4 Billion:
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
The US population is 318.9M
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

I think your numbers might be a bit off, it looks like about $10/person. I could buy lunch with that, if I went cheap.

You can do it but that would cost you a lot of money as the amount of data stored is limited to 80 bytes per transaction and the transaction fee is proportially of the size of the transaction.
1 gig of data would be 12.5 millions transactions.
If you spend 0.00001 BTC in fee per transaction that would cost you 125 BTC or 28 426$ :)

There is really only one reason that women's volleyball gets viewers (other than family members)... https://www.google.com/search?...

this is pathetic as fuck research.

DOD patent from 1974 describes how to remotely map out and remotely alter brain/neurons in the body.

the technique uses traditional radar and satellites, or interferometry, to do it.

been deployed and in use since 1976.

the standard initial design envisioned using radio frequencies from 1MHz to 40GHz.

modern designs are thought to use terahertz frequencies.

obamasweapon.com

https://www.google.com/patents/US3951134

Trump is completely against this outsourcing thing.

I'm curious. What do you think a POTUS can do about outsourcing, except be against it?

How do you stop a transnational corporation from moving jobs to other countries in an age of big-dollar corporate lobbying? You think Trump is gonna call for a boycott?

The president can stop bad laws from passing.

Additionally, Trump in particular is an expert at negotiations and making deals.

For comparison, note that our current ambassador to Japan is Caroline Kennedy, who is largely a poor choice.

That last link was from the State Department's internal audit of our Japanese ambassador.

We have a long list of trade deals which supercede the constitution and make Americans miserable. We're currently working on the Trans Pacific Partnership, which extends copyright protections, jacks up the cost of medicine, magnifies income inequality, and threatens the climate. (See Wikipedia for more detail.)

A president who has the interests of the *people* as a goal, and who wants the country to become strong again, could veto this treaty and negotiate better terms.

The President...shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur... Constitution of the United States, Art. II, Sec. 2

Wow, you people really are ahead of the times.

In other words, this is clearly and primarily a Republican thing. If you are in a Republican-leaning state, you are much more likely to need photo ID.

That is exactly the opposite of what your stats say, and what I was saying. I was pointing out that it is not solely a Republican thing, and you just confirmed exactly what I said.

Also, I DID NOT state photo IDs, that was your invention. Only 17 states require no identification, and even that is changing.

There is no way to determine without requiring photo IDs the scale of voter fraud. Every article I have read has shown that fraud is pretty rapant, and photo IDs prevent people from voting who aren't eligible, how is this a bad thing? You need to prove you are a US citizen to register to vote (it is after all a requirement), how does it change anything to then get a free ID at the same time?

Carson is currently polling as number 2 behind Trump. Together they have 48% of the polls: https://www.google.com/search?...

So why would I care one whit about Cruz who seems to have 7% of the polls:
http://www.pollingreport.com/w...

How is pointing out facts racist? The guy is huge right now, and I have real hopes of him taking the nomination. He is a damn site better than Hillary. If a guy polling at 33% or 20% has no chance of nomination in your mind, I would love to see how you feel about Hillary's chances.

Well, they built the National Corvette Museum in a place prone to sinkholes.

Conversely, the Salvador Dali Museum in St Pete was built to resist hurricanes. Time will tell on that one.

dagnbbit, my first link got eaten. https://www.google.com/search?...

It was half arse-pulling and half knowing how to type into google.

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+average+broadband+speed&oq=us+average+broadband+speed&aqs=chrome..69i57.6984j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?... Both of those come up with around 10Mb (using nice round numbers). My original comment was related to someone saying 50Mb was becoming pretty much useless, so I went with that.

But Von Neumann was something special.

A polymath and a polyglot, his early work with chess is not to be scoffed at.

This is all great, but it's not exactly news. The most recent commit to that project is over six months old and the majority of the commits are from two years ago. I doubt it will work properly with KitKat or Lollipop. An alternative is Amplify. It isn't smart, but it does give you the power to suppress wakelocks at will. You can seriously børk up your phone with it, but that's all easily fixed.

You are a liar. Mussolini and the Catholic church were best buddies.

So? He had to get their support early on in his reign.

His both children were baptized, Catholicism was the state religion and marriage was controlled by the church.

Fascists and Nazis had a lighter touch when it came to religion than the Communists did. They often went through the motions of public religious observance. None of that stuff indicates a belief in Christianity.

For example, Mussolini supposedly advised some visiting Nazi leaders (in early 1937):

"The Catholic Church is like a rubber ball, if you don't keep up the pressure, it will return to its original shape."

Both Mussolini and Hitler repeated discoursed on the absolute nature of their ideologies. For example, this quote by Mussolini in the aftermath of the Italian retreat from North Africa.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Notice the Christian-like appeal to God? I don't either.

Hitler played that game even more. There are plenty of quotes where Hitler played lip service to religion. In private, he had different things to say.

Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7)

To put that into context, being a Jew or a Bolshevik was a thing that could get you killed in Nazi Germany. So what fate would fall on those who clung to Christianity over the coming decades?

My take is that the various Fascist leaders planned on getting rid of religion at a later date when it was more politically convenient because just like the Communists, they saw religion as a rival power for the minds and hearts of their subjects. But it was a power that they wanted to get to acquiesce to their rule. Hence, the superficial displays of religious favoritism.

You are a liar. Mussolini and the Catholic church were best buddies.

So? He had to get their support early on in his reign.

His both children were baptized, Catholicism was the state religion and marriage was controlled by the church.

Fascists and Nazis had a lighter touch when it came to religion than the Communists did. They often went through the motions of public religious observance. None of that stuff indicates a belief in Christianity.

For example, Mussolini supposedly advised some visiting Nazi leaders (in early 1937):

"The Catholic Church is like a rubber ball, if you don't keep up the pressure, it will return to its original shape."

Both Mussolini and Hitler repeated discoursed on the absolute nature of their ideologies. For example, this quote by Mussolini in the aftermath of the Italian retreat from North Africa.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Notice the Christian-like appeal to God? I don't either.

Hitler played that game even more. There are plenty of quotes where Hitler played lip service to religion. In private, he had different things to say.

Night of 11th-12th July, 1941:

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things. (p 6 & 7)

To put that into context, being a Jew or a Bolshevik was a thing that could get you killed in Nazi Germany. So what fate would fall on those who clung to Christianity over the coming decades?

My take is that the various Fascist leaders planned on getting rid of religion at a later date when it was more politically convenient because just like the Communists, they saw religion as a rival power for the minds and hearts of their subjects. But it was a power that they wanted to get to acquiesce to their rule. Hence, the superficial displays of religious favoritism.

Two apartheid states working hand-in-hand. Quelle surprise.

Muslim states aren't apartheid because they kill every non-Muslim they find..

What happened to it? It's at http://books.google.com/

If you want pizzas out of your router firmware, go buy https://on.google.com/hub/

Meanwhile, OpenWRT doesn't spy on you, and for the time being is secure.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

I'm not going to address the first part, because you know damn well how to quote. I referred to your text, which I quoted from you. You did not have this quoted, which makes it your text.

I am still not clear what you are talking about. The message I posted just had a link to another poster giving a list of quotes. My only statement in the comment was:

Lies? What Lies?

http://politics.slashdot.org/c... [slashdot.org]

https://www.google.com/webhp?s... [google.com]

So, what exactly was being lied about? There were WMD found in Iraq, so it couldn't be that, maybe that Saddam wasn't willing to use them?

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

Naa, couldn't be that. So, please explain yourself.

So what other post or what quote are you speaking about than?

I wonder if morphological computation can solve prion folding.problems.

If not an outright solution, such models may provide insight: "Soft is as soft does."

Another thought:

Perhaps these morpho-squishy computers can run competitive genetic algorithms.

Think Robot Wars meets Fight Club.

I would pay to see that.

Looks like they will work now. https://support.google.com/and...

Lies? What Lies?

http://politics.slashdot.org/c...

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

So, what exactly was being lied about? There were WMD found in Iraq, so it couldn't be that, maybe that Saddam wasn't willing to use them?

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

Naa, couldn't be that. So, please explain yourself.

That's an interesting idea. Do you have any practical examples?

I do.

https://scholar.google.com/sch...

The digital divide is real.

Nobody knows if you post to Facebook (or /.) from a shiny new iPhone or an old computer in the library.

How do you text someone in order to network for jobs from an old computer in the library? It's not the hardware, it's the milieu.

The digital divide is real.

BZZZT WRONG! if you are going to call out someone for being wrong, at least get your own facts right.

miracle whip does indeed have eggs.

kraft miracle whip label

hellman's mayonnaise label

except for the spices the labels are pretty close.

miracle whip isn't mayonaisse because it doesn't have enough oil to meet the FDA's definition like the gp said. it is also tends to be sweeter.

There is free app Linux Deploy on the Google Play, which installs Linux into chroot on android device, and allow it to be accessed with VNC protocol. Combine it with some VNC player android (preferrable one which handles physical keyboard well) and you'll easily get ubuntu or Debian on android stick. nd no problem with proprietary video drivers and so on, because hardware would be handled by Android.

Or you can save some money and just get a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 . Built-in Wacom screen, integrated stylus, and it works great with Autodesk Sketchbook for those digital sketches. It also includes the assorted notepads and such. I've had mine for a year and no complaints.

This isn't clear from the summary or article, but the adblock offering on the Google play store (which you can find here: https://play.google.com/store/... -- WHY don't they have the link in the summary?!) is a BROWSER, not a plug-in (which I guess doesn't exist on Android Chrome anyways).

I'm not sure I want a full browser.

Cheap.

As most of you are aware, there are important cloud based extensions in the popular web browsers. I'm speaking, of course, of the "Cloud To Butt" extensions, which replace all instances of the word "cloud" with the word "butt". This replacement is truly revolutionary, and it discriminates not- even the text "clout to butt" becomes "butt to butt"!

There is a version for Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
And the functionality is also on Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

So here are some highlights from THIS thread:

...I think the other butt limiter is WAN connectivity...

After all, the butt company has to pay for all the same things *and* make a profit (often a very substantial profit), ...
 
...Butts are going to eliminate the need for Corporate IT...

A huge chunk of sys admins will be absorbed into butt providers.
 
...the butt is simply incapable of delivering...
 
...you pretty much can host, colocate or rent your own stuff cheaper than an entire butt stack...

Many large corporations who haven't (and won't) embrace the butt...

With services going to the butt, the role of the network engineer is only going to become more and more important...

Butt is cheaper up front, but almost always more expensive in duration.

And our winner...

If you think it can be done in the butt, then assume it is being done in the butt- and forget doing that as a job.

There is no voter fraud and the GOP has yet to provide any evidence of even a single campaign being put in jeopardy based on it. There's literally more people hit by lightning than committing voter fraud.

Let me google that for you

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

Ah yes, "salubrious pus". A massive infection is always the best treatment for an injury; unless it kills you.

Um i have seen Google Express cars around here for years now, presumably doing mostly grocery deliveries. Not sure what we are talking about ?

https://www.google.com/express...

You could always read the article if you want to know more about what the summary is about:

Google Inc. will start testing a delivery service for fresh food and groceries in two U.S. cities later this year, stepping up competition with online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and startup Instacart Inc.
The trial will begin in San Francisco and another city, said Brian Elliott, general manager of Google Express, which already delivers merchandise, including dry foods, to customers. Whole Foods Market Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. will be among Google’s partners for the new service, he said.

(emphasis mine)

Um i have seen Google Express cars around here for years now, presumably doing mostly grocery deliveries. Not sure what we are talking about ?

https://www.google.com/express...

Re lemonade stand: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/...

and instead of thinking I was bull$hitting you could have googled it: The following will give you a good list.

https://www.google.com/webhp?s... Re 1970s - I agree in a large part of everday life - except for the ridiculous laws on drugs, sex.

But the overwhelming mercantile regulations were bad then too. You are a big corporation (airlines) you get protected. You make money. No competition. And prices are out of reach for everyone but the wealthy.

> enough goodness, smartness, built into the language that if you can just avoid the bad parts,

That's incorrect. There a million and one ways JS can bite you in the ass.

When one is forced to use fucking hacks like

"use strict";

just so that one can get warnings about using mis-spelt variable names it tells me the designer learnt nothing from BASIC and all the shite that went along with it for the past 20 years.

I can't believe you're actually defending the retarded automatic semi-colon insertion. This is almost as stupid as Python. A language should NOT impose presentation (whitespace layout), only representation (semantics.) Mathematics doesn't. Spoken languages don't. So WTF should Javascript?? At the very least it should give you a WARNING about doing something "dangerous" or "unintended" like any good ol' C/C++ compiler will do with -Wall -Wextra. In JS? Nope, no errors / warnings / or diagnostic messages. This is one of the reasons Javascript sucks ass.

Javascript's automatic type coercion is likewise crap. When one is forced to do crap like

return "" + foo

in order to force the language to _actually_ return a string, it means you need to _manually_ inspect the _rest_ of the codebase for these undefined time bombs in your code. All this dumb shit could be easily be caught at "compile time" instead of blowing up, or worse, being silent at run-time.

More dumb shit like browsers treating leading zeros as octal (which NO one uses) in parseInt( "0#" ) is typical of how fucked up JS was. Mozilla and Chrome made excuses for years for why they didn't fix their broken crap:

* http://code.google.com/p/v8/is...
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...

There is a reason we moved to statically type languages -- because they catch stupid mistakes. We moved away from retarded languages like BASIC for professional programming because we have better things to do then to hand-hold a broken interpreter written by a moron.

Javascript uses `double` internally. This means it is impossible to get a native 64-bit int. Oh look, I can bit-wise OR a number with ZERO to get a "native" int32. More stupid hacks to work around the lack of a proper type system:

return foo | 0; // cast to int

Javascript's equality operator is so broken it is fucking useless and complete joke. Gee, why doesn't == even work for array and objects ?? WTF is the point of having == when any sane programmer will just use === and !== ?? http://dorey.github.io/JavaScr...

Javascript's 'scoping' is likewise dumb. Or I should say "complete lack of it." What the fuck is the point of braces if the language is just going to ignore block scope??

Every time you turn around the fucked up language adds yet another stupid "gotcha" that you have to be extra defensive about, and/or use a different work-around per-browser because the rational behavior is no where to be found. I means seriously:

typeof( [] + {} )

returns "string" ???

> But programmers can get used to anything, and it doesn't take any more or less discipline to work around these

The problem is that you don't _know_ about the quality of code written by the rest of the people on your team. There is no guarantee to catch broken JS code and that's even WITH running some sort of 'lint' and minifier program.

For the record, I _do_ use Javascript for my day job, which is WebGL.

Javascript is a the biggest piece of shit right before PHP; both languages are full of idiotic design kludges made by the typical beginner Co

better yet, just upload the .epub or PDF to google play books.
https://support.google.com/goo...

you can upload up to 1000 books have it sync'd, and available in their e-reader app (which is as good as amazon's reader app AFAICT).

Kind of looks like the hope and change helped pull us out of the hole based on your info, as the total number of jobs is more than what it was before the recession.

I really don't give a crap about the total number of jobs, I am concerned about unemployed American citizens, and there's a hell of a lot more of those.

also the years you're seeing spikes in foreign labor beyond what was there before the recession are the ones where Republicans were in control generally

Yeah 2008, to 2015 the Republicans were really in control then. Here let me google this for you

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

Anyway I see why you posted anonymously.

Kind of looks like the hope and change helped pull us out of the hole based on your info, as the total number of jobs is more than what it was before the recession.

I really don't give a crap about the total number of jobs, I am concerned about unemployed American citizens, and there's a hell of a lot more of those.

also the years you're seeing spikes in foreign labor beyond what was there before the recession are the ones where Republicans were in control generally

Yeah 2008, to 2015 the Republicans were really in control then. Here let me google this for you

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

Anyway I see why you posted anonymously.

https://translate.google.com/#...

He used Google Translate.

And great-great-great-great-etc-grandpa died of "an imbalance of the humors" or "struck down by a demon/witch posing as a human" (who the village then hunted down and killed). You wouldn't find cancer in many books centuries ago (as shown in this Google NGram chart).

• It is not undocumented. It uses Arago, an actually open GNU/Linux distribution as firmware (so it is more open source than your average android device!), and the ability to root it via telnet has been available since day 1, with a widely known password.
• It is not remote, since to access it you need to join the NAS WLAN, and for that you need to passphrase created by the user. If you've managed to guess the passphrase/break that layer, then you've already crossed the airtight hatchway: at that point you can already view all the files on the disk, install adware, viruses, etc.
• This was being used by plenty of people to install custom Linux distributions such as Debian or Arch on relatively inexpensive hardware. There's even a user focused distribution for the device

Basically, another group of security ``researchers'' (use of quotes intentional) manage to force a company making a relatively open embedded product to close it down for tinkerers, while not improving the security of the product at all.

I hate this world.

Some other AC wrote some time ago:
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

Out of all the people who responded to my comment here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

I'll respond here. Really, this shit should be put on the front page of Slashdot maybe some old school readers would actually be interested.

That link hairyfeet added above is the last piece of the puzzle. The Czech guy checked here http://localghost.org/posts/a-...

In that article is this:

Information transmitted

All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:

oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com

Ok so you look for whois nsatc.net

NSATC.NET - Domain Informationnew
Domain NSATC.NET [ Site Info Traceroute RBL/DNSBL lookup ]
Registrar MARKMONITOR INC. MarkMonitor, Inc.
Registrar URL http://www.markmonitor.com/
Whois server whois.markmonitor.com
Created 27-Sep-2001
Updated 01-Dec-2014
Expires 27-Sep-2015
Time Left 30 days 0 hours 4 minutes
Status clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clien... clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clien... clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clien... clientUpdateProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited) clientTransferProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited) clientDeleteProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited)
DNS servers A.NS.NSATC.NET 199.93.44.45
B.NS.NSATC.NET 8.12.212.49
C.NS.NSATC.NET 64.152.2.44
D.NS.NSATC.NET 205.128.93.51
E.NS.NSATC.NET 212.187.162.134
G.NS.NSATC.NET 205.128.88.25
L.NS.NSATC.NET 8.255.48.47
g.ns.nsatc.net 205.128.88.25
e.ns.nsatc.net 212.187.162.134
d.ns.nsatc.net 205.128.93.51
a.ns.nsatc.net 199.93.44.45
b.ns.nsatc.net 8.12.212.49
l.ns.nsatc.net 8.255.48.47
c.ns.nsatc.net 64.152.2.44

Now who is MarkMonitor, Inc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.popsci.com/technolo...
https://torrentfreak.com/torre...

Ok so what happened? Microsoft took consumers money for decades of virus-laden shitware. Botnets, anti-virus suites, ransomware, all that shit.... you bought it hook line and sinker. They profited. Now they used the money consumers gave them to hire career lawyers. World gov's said hey, what the fuck? Anti-trust, etc.. then they started fuckin.

You will want to uninstall your Windows 10 "The Spyware of all Spywares Edition" because the only anti-virus that will work is Linux or other *nix.

If you installed Windows 10 because of lies about being free, or DX12, your homework is:
https://www.google.com/#q=roll...

You have 30 days after you took the spyware upgrade to roll back or it self-deletes the backup files.

You may or may not decide to keep any Windows at all... but you won't want any new ones. Microsoft surely should by fried for this gig, but they used consumer money to buy lawyers so you can see how they do shit. You can't buy a ticket to the Resurrection according to Tony Montana in Scarface.

distrowatch.com
KDE on Linux for anything that's not a Windows game.

Assuming you're running one of the new builds of Android with TRIM support

Actually it doesn't much matter what build you're running. Modern Android (I thought around Jellybean) is supposed to TRIM itself automagically but doesn't. But you can get any of a variety of "trimmer" apps which run fstrim. I am using a simple old one called Trimmer (fstrim) which is free and permits scheduling.

Woz is an order of magnitude away from being a billionaire... https://www.google.com/search?...

Fundamentally it's a chicken and egg issue. GNG is Not GNU, but GNG is not GNG.

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

'The nice thing about GNG is that it's completely GNUtard-free, GNG said.

Ya'll must really enjoy sucking on that Right Wing elephant d*ck...

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

5 terabytes, $150.

The state of Washington, and the Mythbusters would tell you that roundabouts are safer (for cars and pedestrians), cheaper to build, and more economical for drivers than either a 4-way stop, or light controlled intersection. There seem to be multiple other studies with similar results, a search for "safety of roundabouts vs. 4-way stop" brings up pages full.

I'm from MA where we have rotaries all over the place, and while I agree that in theory they are a good idea, in practice nobody knows how to use them. People routinely refuse to yield when entering, don't move left to let others enter, and ignore exit-only lanes. And that's with people who for the most part grew up with them, never mind introducing them in a new area. You can also end up with monstrosities like this, which aren't really that small compares to a couple of intersections.