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Boomers do not operate in conjunction with battle groups: they go out in to the vast ocean and disappear. Their biggest defense is that they are virtually impossible to find.

The ICBM's... well everyone knows where they are (ever notice how on google maps they all are oriented identically? It is neat in a morbid way.) Good luck trying to damage one however. A 2000 bomb would quite possibly mar the cover the the point that it would have to be repainted.

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Boomers do not operate in conjunction with battle groups: they go out in to the vast ocean and disappear. Their biggest defense is that they are virtually impossible to find.

The ICBM's... well everyone knows where they are (ever notice how on google maps they all are oriented identically? It is neat in a morbid way.) Good luck trying to damage one however. A 2000 bomb would quite possibly mar the cover the the point that it would have to be repainted.

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Boomers do not operate in conjunction with battle groups: they go out in to the vast ocean and disappear. Their biggest defense is that they are virtually impossible to find.

The ICBM's... well everyone knows where they are (ever notice how on google maps they all are oriented identically? It is neat in a morbid way.) Good luck trying to damage one however. A 2000 bomb would quite possibly mar the cover the the point that it would have to be repainted.

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Boomers do not operate in conjunction with battle groups: they go out in to the vast ocean and disappear. Their biggest defense is that they are virtually impossible to find.

The ICBM's... well everyone knows where they are (ever notice how on google maps they all are oriented identically? It is neat in a morbid way.) Good luck trying to damage one however. A 2000 bomb would quite possibly mar the cover the the point that it would have to be repainted.

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And the Russians! Aren't they the chief troublemakers? How can we push our pre-emptive cyberwarfare withouth a boogeyman foreigner?

Nah; today the term is "terrist". ;-) And them terrists can live nearly anywhere. There are lots of them in China, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Brazil, and all those Muslim countries that are our current Enemies of Choice. And you can even find them in Canada.

In Russia, "cyberwarfare" (aka "hacking" to the MSM) is becoming a public, respectable industry. They're into it as a way to systematically make a lot of money, putting them in essentially the same class as most of management in the corporate world. But in other parts of the world, it's more often a case of causing trouble for your victim, rather than just making money off them.

Canada doesn't start wars. It ends them. We have committed more troops to UN peacekeeping efforts than any other country.

Sorry for nitpicking - and I'm really not trying to trivialize any country's peace contributions - but I can't find anything to back up this claim. Canada doesn't even seem to be in the top ten in terms of troop contributions.

I've checked:

• google
• UN's site

Here is your study:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

FYI, I was using "scheduling" in a very broad sense. You allude to that in your post. 10 or 20 years ago when researching a big ticket purchase, one might hit 2 to 4 big box retailors. Now I can do that comparison online and see if the local store has it in stock. The number of big block stores are falling.

But there are also the subtle things. Less driving to grandma's house to get the latest gossip, that can be done by Facebook. People used to drive to the mall to hang out. Facebook. Now the malls are going empty. People used to wait in lines for the latest blockbuster movie only to be turned away because it sold out. Now they can buy their ticket in advance or, if they wait a few months, watch it at home. etc.

If you work on your own cars (and friend's cars), then an out of place device is pretty obvious. I can tell you the function of every part. If there was some mystery part, it would definitely get my attention. Trackers require visibility of the sky, and power.

If you want to know how weak GPS can be, play Ingress for a while. My phone mounted up on the dash always has a good lock. The phone of a passenger holding it in their hand frequently loses it's GPS data, or it's not accurate enough to play. Passengers riding in the middle of the vehicle can have a really hard time playing. We've all learned the tricks, like waving our phone by the window to (hopefully) get a location.

A device behind the glove box may be a valid receiver, and may get data service to upload telemetry data. It will probably never get GPS data.

She attacked millions of gamers and threatened to take away some of the features of their games. The threats she made are credible, since there are plenty of game companies that listen to people like her and might actually implement or partly implement her ideas. She is, of course, legally entitled to shame individuals and companies for doing things she considers unethical -- nevertheless, doing so is an attack on many people's social standing and a threat to something they value; such attacks always make people angry and incite a counterattack. In the case of Brianna Wu, some those attacks went beyond acceptable and protected speech and into libel and death threats (somewhat credible ones, with her name and address).

While few of us will miss a couple of angry idiots on the internet should she manage to catch some, if she was surprised by what happened she may get herself in trouble again. When someone's social standing is attacked, they treat it as a physical attack, including activation of the fight-or-flight response. This is because throughout our evolutionary past, an attack on someone's social standing is frequently followed by immediate or delayed physical violence against them. This remains true even today, for example how America verbally attacked Iraq before bombing them, or how Hitler verbally attacked the Jews before executing them. However, most people only know that "she made me angry". And people do stupid things when they're angry. And evolution has killed off anyone who ignores attacks on their social status (this is true in other social animals as well as humans). Long story short, calling a large group of people immoral is and will continue to be a dangerous thing to do.

As to whether her efforts will help women: I don't know. Games could desensitize people, or they could act as a harmless release that would otherwise be applied on real people. Some research shows that immoral behavior in a video game can lead to nicer real-world behavior, although that may only work when the game forces you to act in a way you feel guilty (most games let you choose), and who knows if the long-term effects are similar to the short-term effects. But mostly, I think that games contain sexism because the real world contains sexism.

On that note, why focus on video games? Is there any indication that improving the conditions in video games will lead to better real-world conditions with less effort than directly working to improve real-world conditions? My opinion: go after the fashion and cosmetics industries. These industries thrive on making women sex objects, damage their health (see high heels) and self-esteem, and most importantly almost all their customers are women, so you should have "no trouble" organizing a boycott. Even better, the backlash you will receive from them will greatly improve your opinion of male gamers.

You would be surprised at how popular a topic this is amongst economists

There is a PDF report on the main website for Unit42 about the malware, but it has a fairly invasive registration process. Signed up with bs info and uploaded to public google drive for everyone.

Link to the researchers website for those cautious about the gdocs link

Straight Link to the report (requires registration)

Have not read the technical details yet, but it looks fairly comprehensive.

In Australia, however, "Country Pricing" has gone "full retard"
https://www.google.com/search?...

The usage of "United States of America" as either singular or plural has shifted over the years. The guidelines you provide are good for the general case of collected objects, but "USA" seems to be a particular case that (sometimes, maybe, mostly) breaks the rule.

you mean this parking lot, bro?

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i think there is a TON of misinformation here from butt-hurt sanfran residents.

Ooh! I love Tea and Kittens. Thanks for giving me my fix of Daily Fail.

Got any evidence this time?

That's not anything like a Mies van der Rohe building. Rohe was a form-follows-function glass box architect. He did some of the best glass boxes of the 20th century, notably the IIT campus in Chicago. His work is very rectangular.

Wright did more unusual forms. In his later years, he designed the Marin Civic Center which Lucas, being from Marin, would have seen. It's been called the Martian Embassy. It's so alien it's been used in several science fiction movies. Like most Wright buildings, it's nicely integrated with the terrain.

Here's the park that must be destroyed to build to satisify Lucas' ego.

I think XPrivacy is a tad bit better. One does need Xposed installed on a rooted device. Also be warned when installing this system as if done wrong it can soft brick your device.

I'm not sure what the future looks like for XPosed though... I recently updated my Galaxy Note (i717) to a custom KitKat 4.4.4 ROM from its stock 4.1 ROM. In investigating and learning things, I took a look at the ART runtime that optionally replaces Dalvik. I learned that XPosed evidently doesn't work with ART. Lollypop switches the runtime by default to ART and evidently deprecates Dalvik, so unless the developers change things, XPosed won't work on Lollypop.

AppOp turns out to be cooked into the custom ROM I got along with an insane pile of other awesome.

Would've been nice if TFA linked to the patent application, for the sake of completeness.

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Geezers will remember the race between USSR & USA to develop 'mind control' technology through much of the last century. America got a late start and rushed to catch up to the decades old Soviet research. Similar to the 'space race' but less publicized. [It is said that-] This research ended in 2003. You may find interesting information with a search for the MKUltra program. Traditional media tend not to report such things but here are some links:
http://www.news.com.au/technol...
https://sites.google.com/site/...

I think XPrivacy is a tad bit better. One does need Xposed installed on a rooted device. Also be warned when installing this system as if done wrong it can soft brick your device.

That's why you should always root and use https://play.google.com/store/...

No. That's the style of site built by marketers who don't know what the fuck they're doing with Bootstrap. "Oooh...that's a nice feature, throw it in. I like how that moves, throw it in. What? Organize thoughts into actual informative pages? Screw that, we'll just put everything we have out there on one page and make the user scroll for miles and we'll just dazzle them with all the cool moving images and eye candy! Beats having to work to actually compile information." And it's not just start ups that fall victim to this bullshit. Google, Apple, and Microsoft are just as guilty, though MS shows a bit more restraint on the flashiness. It shows a complete lack of self control and critical thought in their product message. Seriously, dude, I've seen geoshitty sites that were built better and actually conveyed meaningful information about what they were selling.

How does a blind person see the touchscreen?

touchscreen isn't the only e-voting possibility. And a "blind" person can read. At least in most cases. Completely blind (everything black) is pretty rare. I know "lots" of blind people that can read. They just need each letter to be 6" high, or thereabouts. Easier on a screen than printing out papers of variable size.

How is this an improvement over a paper ballot with fixed braille next to each option?

I've never seen a braille ballot. Where are you where those are available? http://www.accessiblesociety.o... Though theoretically required, 20,000 polling places are violating the law by not having them available.

And the improvement is when the electronic ballot will read the names so that they can clearly select from the choices, and have them read back. https://www.google.com/search?... I couldn't even find a single example of a braille ballot used in the USA. Can you point me to a search that shows more of them?

It must sting a bit for the guys who work on Google Code when Google releases a project on Github...

University of Michigan does this with their Google Apps, though it's a specific contract and not just the generic GAFE. You might want to try contacting ITCS to see if they can provide any advice: https://sites.google.com/a/umi... (And just to show that I understand what you're talking about: http://www.itcs.umich.edu/itcs...

Well, GAFE accounts aren't normal google accounts. Function wise they're the same, but Google promotes that they are not put through the same advertising analytics that normal gmail accounts are.

From the GAFE website:

Google Apps is governed by a detailed Privacy Policy, which ensures we will not inappropriately share or use personal information placed in our systems. Google complies with applicable US privacy law, and the Google Apps Terms of Service can specifically detail our obligations and compliance with FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) regulations. Google is registered with the US-EU Safe Harbor agreement, which helps ensure that our data protection compliance meets European Union standards for educational institutions

FERPA is the big stickler here, as google really couldn't offer the service without being FERPA compliant, and they couldn't run Google Business as usual and still be FERPA compliant.

Now, as to whether you choose to believe their claims, that's another story, but you're approaching it with a lot of misinformation, it seems.

Google has a solution.

https://support.google.com/a/a...

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I googled it.

https://www.google.com/search?... Some people get carded. Often the clerks are told to card *all* women. The older ones find it flattering. Most guys don't get carded. You mentioned your wife gets carded. Do you? Did she ever get turned away if she said she didn't have it on her, or did they let her through? The "exceptions" are the supermarkets selling wine that card 100% of people, even George Burns would have been carded. The transaction won't work unless it has a birthdate entered, and the clerk gets in trouble if 50% of the people in her line shared her birthday.

Full report on the paper here.

Some selected examples of Republican opposition to monopolies; note that both Republicans and Democrats have opposed them at various times, but you asked for Republican examples, so here are some Republican examples:

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
IBM Consent decree
http://news.cnet.com/40-year-o...

Richard Nixon, 1972
Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Richard Nixon, 1973
United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U....

Reagan, 1983
Barry Wright Corp. v. ITT Grinnell Corp.
http://scholar.google.com/scho...

Reagan, 1984
Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

George W. Bush, 2001
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U....

George W. Bush, 2007
Weyerhaeuser Company v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

There are some problems with this.

1. This is not optional for videos that support it. If it was processed as 60fps video, then 1080p and 720p streams will only be served as 60fps.
2. Chrome has an outstanding crippling bug for months now in H/W decoding: https://code.google.com/p/chro... with the only viable workaround "disable HW decoding"

Those two combined together mean that 1080p60 is unwatchable on decent but not sparkling-new laptops under Windows, dropping frames / freezing constantly.

A lot of people with similar histories have asked Google the same thing, and have been denied.

http://www.google.com/transpar...

We received multiple requests from a single individual who asked us to remove 20 links to recent articles about his arrest for financial crimes committed in a professional capacity. We did not remove the pages from search results.

An individual asked us to remove links to articles on the internet that reference his dismissal for sexual crimes committed on the job. We did not remove the pages from search results.

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I don't recommend hiring the OP here; not only do they not realize its DMARC, but they don't seem to realize what DMARC and DKIM actually accomplish.

Luckily there are easy-to-read summaries like this one: https://support.google.com/a/a...

If you don't know how it works, it's only because you haven't bothered to look it up.

Here's the patent and the Wikipedia article also gives a reasonable description. Otherwise I believe they've also published the basics behind the algorithm.

Then how come I don't know how it works?

Google doesn't patent it - they keep it secret.

Google PageRank is patented. http://www.google.com/patents/..., by Stanford where Page developed it, and which licensed the patent to Google for shares worth $336 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

Here's proof that the IPCC has been uncritically promoting AGW ever since the IPCC was created solely to promote AGW:

IPCC 1990: "... The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more..."

IPCC 1995: "... Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is currently limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors. ..."

See? The IPCC hasn't ever been assessing AGW. Ever since it was created, the IPCC has just been uncritically promoting AGW because that's the entire reason the IPCC exists. Exactly like alien abduction organizations uncritically promoting belief in alien abductions.

Yeah, dxmak is so little known that googling for "dxmak mail" doesn't bring up anything useful.

Surely a Chromebook won't prefer wifi when it can get it, no?

Google expects you to start paying after 2 or 3 years

https://productforums.google.c...

Chrome Remote Desktop. Full password protected access from anywhere in the world, even if she's NAT'd behind her router. Chrome Web Store

It's a Celeron CPU. Office 365 is a rental. It's 2GB of memory. It's Windows. vs. http://www.google.com/intl/en/... and the OS is ChromeOS which is automatically updated. And it's not a rental. And you can install Ubuntu/Debian if you want in a chroot using crouton if you want a fully functional OS for programming.

I hadn't heard what you were talking about so I did this Google search which gives a lot of news media covering a study where survey results included people claiming both to be non-citizens and to have voted. I provide the link because it's entertaining (in a horrifying way) just how different the right- vs. left- wing media is covering the story. It is interesting for no other reason than that I've often seen voter ID laws attacked with the assertion that there is zero evidence of voter fraud, so it's surprising to see any evidence of voter fraud at all.

If you were paying attention, you'd see that legislation aimed at making sure that liars and illegals can't cast votes include provisions for photo IDs paid for by the state in question. Who, by the way, has no form of ID? You can't cash government checks without it. You can't use social services without ID. You can't sit at the library and use taxpayer provided computers and internet access without ID. You can't live in subsidized housing without ID, or get Medicare coverage (or Medicaid) without one. But thousands of people can cast votes without them, and millions in Colorado can now make a complete circus out of the idea.

I'm not going to address those specific reasons for needing ID, but even before that, there's a very important constitutional issue here: the 24th amendment forbids making voting a right contingent on paying a tax. Of course, it's up to the courts to decide whether the fee for government ID is a "tax", but it seems pretty absurd to claim that it isn't.

It turns out that people without ID are surprisingly common (all of the articles I could find at a quick glance were focused on Texas because their recent voter ID law has made a lot of noise). Looking for reasons why that would be the case, I find a lot of mentions of disable people who are unable to drive and people who are unable due to logistics or money* to obtain an updated ID and therefore are using an expired driver's license.

Here's a list of state ID costs from 2008. The $10.50 cost appears to still be accurate for Colorado. The situation for Maryland is more complicated. The $15 in that list matches the cost for a non-license state ID for under 18; it's $24 for over 18 but there's also a comment about it being free for people with qualifying disabilities. Anyway, food costs ~$3-5/person/day (assuming you are being careful with cost cutting and have the time to cook), so that comes out to a Colorado ID costing 2-3 person-days of food or a Maryland ID costing 5-8 person-days of food. For a poor person living paycheck-to-paycheck, that is almost certainly the computation they are making when they decide to get by without valid ID.

Thanks for the reply, especially explaining "locally" (I was starting to wonder afterwards if it indeed was about 3D transformations not variables). Interesting point on commas vs. parens for clarity; I'll have to think about that.

Could not easily find a Google ref for "Buddda". :-)

On JavaScript, it is a frustrating language to work with, with several major design flaws. I'm using it right now for a mid-size project (dozens of pages in a single-page app, collecting 500+ different pieces of data, using Dojo) and it is painful and dragging on (even in just Java, it would have been done much faster). But, inspired in part by Dan Ingall's work on the Lively Kernel, plus what many other peopel say and do who all agree how badly JavaScript sucks, the fact that it runs (in theory) everywhere with one click is the big win. The URL is the biggest innovation there. As I've said before, if it does not have (or run from) a URL it is broken.

Everyone agrees JavaScript sucks:
https://www.google.com/search?...

There are many such things on the web:
"Why JavaScript Sucks And You Should Use It Everywhere"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

It mentions asm.js, BTW.

Check out where the implementer of Smalltalk (Dan Ingalls) is doing now (very dynamic JavaScript): http://www.lively-kernel.org/

Perhaps the fairest thing to say about JavaScript though is:
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
"[JavaScript] is actually a very strong language with a few very well known warts (like every other language on the planet has). The problem is that people try to use it as if it were Ruby, PHP, Python, Java. One can do that, but just know that it is an exercise in futility. It will cause frustration and one will come to the conclusion that JavaScript sucks when in fact, it is just that most people don't really take the time to _understand_ JavaScript."

A big issue with JavaScript in practice for simulation (typical to go with 3D) though is that, by default, it is essentially single-threaded (yes, other things are possible with webworkers and separate processes and such, but not in practice for most users). Having spent years debugging subtle issues with Java threading in a huge real-time-ish high-visibility high-availability app, I'm not fully sure that's a bad thing though. :-)

BTW, I think there are lots of value to making a big project FOSS, but rapidly getting contributors to do major changes right away (like a move to a web browser via JavaScript and emscripten) is generally not one of them. The big win is often when being free and available brings in small polishing changes and add-ons and also, if the software is written in a modular way to begin with, getting major new modules as part of an ecosystem -- as well as getting broader adoption by being free and open to increase demand for the core developers' other services and related books and training and other addons and so on. In practice, the learning curve for any major project is just too high for a casual use to make a significant core change, and even if they do, the core maintainers may reject the change or make other changes separately that cause bitrot in the change. If emscripten would just run on the core code, maybe someone would try it. But my guess is it require some code changes to the C++, changes to XL as mentioned elsewhere to output JavaScript, other changes to work with OpenGL as you mention on the page, and some JavaScript glue code to have an app, so non-trivial enough that few people will try it as a first thing (unless maybe they already have used emscripten several times). With an expected big effort, then the question is, what is the payoff for taking the risk? That payoff is going to be much bigger for the original authors probably than for some ra

A thread started by me in 2000 to comp.lang.lisp: https://groups.google.com/foru...

A site on indentational Lisp by someone else: http://readable.sourceforge.ne...

Not to mention crashes caused by rare, hard-to-reproduce race conditions.

Indeed. That is one sub-category of the obscure software defects I mentioned. It's probably the best example, actually.

It's interesting to describe the approach used by many systems at Google (where I work; I'm now in Android but used to work on Google servers): a common pattern at Google is to crash immediately upon detection of any error. This is actually just a logical extrapolation from Google's long-used approach of building reliable systems on top of cheap, unreliable, commodity hardware, applying the same notion to individual software components. System designs assume that anything can fail at any time, and are built to recover gracefully, possibly with some degradation. So there is extensive infrastructure to fail a request over to to another process instance, and to automatically restart any failed processes. And of course there is extensive and detailed monitoring, with lots of statistical analysis of failure modes plus charting of everything to enable patterns to be recognized and various forms of alerting, ranging from automated bug filings, to e-mails, to pages delivered to on-call engineers.

Given that approach to fault tolerance, it's often very reasonable, at least for non-Java processes, to simply abort/crash whenever anything goes wrong. Restarts are automated and fast (for non-Java processes; JVMs are a bit slower to start) and monitoring and alerting take care of letting people know what happened and how often. This includes both hardware and software-related failures. Monitoring also pays special attention to processes that fail repeatedly (called "flapping") upon restart and generates high-priority alerts. The restart infrastructure will also slow and even stop the restarts of flapping processes.

Anyone who's used the googletest unit test framework for C++ may have wondered about the extensive support for and documentation of so-called "death tests", which allow you to verify that your code crashes when it's supposed to, and in the right way. This is a consequence of this particular approach to fault tolerance; if crashing is part of your reliability plan, you need to test that your code crashes when and how it's supposed to.

None of this has anything to do with systemd, of course. The fact that a strategy is effective in Google's environment is utterly meaningless in single-server contexts. In this case, though, auto-restart plus monitoring and flapping control seems like something that could usefully work in many contexts, perhaps even as the default.

It already has been invented... a long time ago...

I'm surprised the number isn't higher. New neighborhoods are lighting up with Google Fiber every month. I'm just pissed I'm going to have to wait until next year! https://fiber.google.com/citie...

lmgtfy

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