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What the ever living fuck.

From this page that might have been mangled by Google Translate for all I know wrt France:

The endeavor to identify its genetic fingerprints of a person when he is not a soldier killed during an operation conducted by the armed forces or related training, for purposes who are neither medical nor scientific or outside of an investigative measure or investigation conducted during legal proceedings is punishable by one year imprisonment or a fine of 1500 Euros.

The same penalties is the fact to disclose information relating to the identification of a person using genetic prints or to proceed with the identification of a person using genetic prints without authorization holder referred to in Article L. 1131-3 of the code of public health.

Google web cache

Google is doing their very best to hide its existence but for the moment its still there.

http://webcache.googleusercont...

I'm not interested in your argument that oranges are really just about the same as apples.

Obviously you didn't understand my statement, if you think your extrapolation is somehow on the same subject. It isn't analogous at all. And furthermore, I expressed a mainstream opinion that is actually the law in some places; none of the major groups supporting this view would support what you said, or think it was similar. Your claim that it is similar shows that you haven't thought deeply about the subject, AND you also haven't read about differing opinions on it.

For a basic walk-through of the subject and the things that are being discussed, see: http://webcache.googleusercont...

There is nothing in the hardline "do not support kidnappers" line that would be anti-police, or have confused the job of police to be some kind of "pre-crime" unit. Rather, the more obvious companion view would be to support strong police or military action against kidnappers. Exactly the opposite direction than you tried to run with your apples=oranges nonsense. Notice how much better "military action" combines with "make it illegal to pay ransoms" than what you came up with as your idea for what my views would be?

It goes back even farther than that!

Here's an article from 2010 reporting Seagate promising 100TB HAMR hard drives:
http://www.myce.com/news/seaga...

Here's an article from 2006 reporting Seagate promising HAMR hard drives in "a few years":
http://webcache.googleusercont...

Also I'm puzzled by the claims about hundred layer 3D NAND chips. I can see how a hundred-layer chip would increase density and therefore could reduce access latency, but I don't see how it could significantly reduce cost-per-bit. Sure, there will be a hundred times as many bits per square cm, but a hundred times as many manufacturing processing steps should be required to make it, thereby increasing manufacturing cost a hundred-fold. Also, with all those manufacturing steps, the chance of defects also goes up, thereby reducing yields and increasing costs even more. Reduced latency would be cool, but I don't see it reducing cost-per-bit by much, if at all.

Also, Intel seems to be peculiarly self-contradicting when discussing their 3D XPoint technology. In 2015 they claimed that 3D XPoint was NOT phase-change technology and that it was already in volume production to prepare for sale in early 2016. In 2016 they're claiming that 3D XPoint IS phase-change technology and will not enter volume production until 2017.

I've become very cynical about all this. Frankly, I'll believe these things when I can see them with my own eyes.

Since cams can recapture energy from the springs, and mechanical connections can be all somewhat frictionless roller bearings and needle bearings, electric valves will never replace mechanical cams.

Nice try, but the short answer is no. The longer answer can be found within this thread:

I saw this test on a engine dyno. the engine was fitted with just its outer springs and run in and revved to 5000 and measured the power then the inner springs were installed and the engine re tested at 5000 rpm and it made 25 less hp with the inner springs installed than without them.

And also

How could the net power be zero?

The only reason to have any spring pressure is to store enough energy to return the valve train to the base circle position. Once a high enough rpm is reached that all spring pressure is being used to control the valve train, no power would be returned to the cam on the closing side of the lobe, so now all power used to open the valve, and compress the spring will be lost. Even when the lifter is in contact with the lobe, some energy/spring pressure will be used to control valve train, so that energy couldn't be returned to the cam.

So here's the poop: At low RPM, operating the valve train is cheap, because you get substantial energy back from the springs. At high RPM, operating the valve train is expensive, because you don't. This is precisely what you will learn if you study Ducati's Desmodromic valves; somewhere between 5k and 7k, the Desmo system actually becomes more efficient in a motorcycle engine than a traditional spring-based actuation system. Up until then, not so much. But we're tending towards smaller engines operated at higher RPMs, and the crossover point is lower on automobile engines because the valves are larger. The valvetrain is actually a big part of the reason for parasitic loss in a typical ICE.

Plenty of people submit worthwhile things that just sit at the firehose, while plenty of shilled crap gets front paged.

Unfortunately, everybody's definition of "worthwhile things" is different. If there are specific examples you'd like to discuss, I'd be happy to post my perspective on why they may or may not have been posted. I realize that submitting to Slashdot can be like screaming into the void; it's something I always wanted to change. But there are often good reasons why submissions were declined.

Shilled stories get to the front page for a few reasons. Here's how CmdrTaco explained it to me when I joined Slashdot. The role of Slashdot is to be a filter; it whittles down the tens of thousands of articles posted every day to the 20-30 that are most relevant to the community. Most publications pump out lots of junk every day, along with a legitimately good article or two. If a shill wants to submit their best article for consideration... fine. Non-shills are preferred, of course, but more on-topic submissions in the firehose can only help the community. Editors can (and do) reject shills all the time. Even StartsWithABang only has a ~23% acceptance rate.

I dare you to explain how it is decided which things are front paged, including the names of the people who make the decisions.
And I defy you to directly state that you still work for Slashdot and that advertising or other promotional deals do not affect what is posted to the front page.

I haven't worked for Slashdot since the acquisition. I can directly state that for the duration of my time there (Dec. 2007 until Jan. 2016) no advertising or promotional deals affected what was posted to the front page. (Excepting, of course, these dumb things that started a few months ago, which were straight up ad units, and labeled as such).

The editorial staff decides what gets posted. Prior to the acquisition, it was myself, samzenpus, and timothy. Since the acquisition, it appears to be timothy and a new editor named yaelk (and occasionally whipslash, one of Slashdot's new owners).

Stories are picked using a variety of criteria: how the community votes on it, how interesting it is, how on-topic it is, its relevance, the quality of the source, the article's timeliness, what similar material is on the page already, and a few other things. (Disclaimer: I am speaking for myself, and how I picked stories, but samzenpus and timothy operated similarly -- as CmdrTaco taught us).

These criteria are weighed against each other. If an article is a few days old, it needs to be particularly interesting to make the front page. The more off-topic something is, the more interesting it needs to be to make the cut. How the community votes is important, but is not enough on its own. The community sometimes votes for things that are factually untrue, or are years old, or involve attacking somebody. The community sometimes votes up dupes. On the other side of things, sometimes the community just doesn't vote.

Hope this provides some context for you.

If you use a browser based on Chromium (I use Opera) you can just copy the URL, paste it into the address bar, and change http:/// to cache:// so, in this case, it is:
cache://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/02/05/the-future-of-astronomy-the-giant-25-meter-magellan-telescope/#68d3f8536899

That makes the browser automatically resolve to:
http://webcache.googleusercont...

It takes a minute but both scripts and ads are blocked. It probably wouldn't take a whole lot to automatically do that using GreaseMonkey. I've never tried it but I imagine I can hack someone's script into one that works here. I imagine it's not much more complicated then doing a find/replace from https://www.forbes/ to cache://forbes* and maybe adding a few more just in case they decide to drop the www on the links?

At any rate, it automatically resolves (if cached - and the Forbes links usually are) to the appropriate URL at Google. It also means that Forbes doesn't get to count the traffic and they don't get any ad revenue because you can still do your ad blocking. I guess Forbes could stop Google or block them from caching via the robots.txt but that seems like a drastic step for them to take.

Alternatively, they could just stop serving malware and using stupid scripts. If they want to block me from visiting then I'll respect their wishes and not visit with an ad blocker. I'll not circumvent their scripts at all. I'll just get it another way - by way of Google.

Of course it depends on the specific device. I have a couple of nexus 4s and 5s kicking around that look fine. I also have an old nexus 7 that looked fine till my daughter dropped it down the stairs. The nexus 9 though has a particular problem with that coating.

Someone else's nexus 9 they took a photo of - https://lh3.googleusercontent....

Or at least link to a working version: http://webcache.googleusercont...

The Google cache gives you what Google sees, which is much less abusive than what Forbes serves to real browsers. No "quote of the day" and Javascript seems to be disabled, and even if I disabled uBlock most of the ads failed to load because they were from non-cached third party servers.

what if the manufacturers have disabled SELinux or set it to be permissive?

Then those manufacturers' devices cannot pass the Android Compliance Test Suite, and they have no right to call their devices Android and cannot use Google's apps. SELinux, in enforcing mode and with the Google-defined configuration (mostly; OEMs can make tweaks in some areas, but not the ones relevant to this vulnerability) has been a formal Android compliance requirement since Lollipop.

It's a matter of time before a worm like Blaster hits Android and does some serious damage.

I doubt it. Android is vastly more secure than Windows was (or even is... and Windows is much better than it was when Blaster hit). The lack of updates delivered by OEMs has caused the Android security team to focus on defense in depth, and the system is working pretty well (see last year's report -- or wait a bit for the new report which should be out in a few weeks). In particular, less than 0.1% of Android devices that use the Play store have any potentially harmful apps (PHA) installed, and that PHA definition is much broader than just traditional malware. Of the PHA apps, only about 5% try to exploit vulnerabilities; the rest focus on social-engineering the users.

So, 0.005% of Android devices have some exploit-using malware on them. And AFAIK there are no Android worms. So, I really, really doubt Android is ripe for a Blaster.

Fix your damn security model!

The Android security model is actually very good... with one glaring exception, which is the update problem. But Google has committed to a monthly patch cycle for Nexus devices, and several other OEMs have hopped on that patch train. Thanks to that, carriers are being forced to get updated software through QA faster, and the focus on monthly updates is pushing OEMs to simplify their offerings to make updating them more practical (you probably won't see a visible reduction in number of offerings; but in the future I expect each model will have a handful of SKUs, at most, rather than hundreds as is often the case today).

The update problem isn't going to get fixed overnight, but I think it is getting fixed, at least from top manufacturers. The next step is for consumers to insist on well-defined and sufficiently-lengthy support and update policies as a condition of purchase, to force all of the rest to get with the program.

In the short term, if you want the most secure and up-to-date Android device, buy Nexus, but I expect soon others will be challenging Google for that spot.

(Full disclosure: I'm a Google engineer, on the Android security team.)

Did anybody see this DHS guy? Was he by any chance a 63 y.o. short, bold, Russian speaking guy, likes to take topless pictures riding horses? Because that guy just said something very similar the other day? Or does DHS always take cues from foreign dictators?

Please remember, these cars are only in autonomous mode approximately 56% of the time.

So these statistics are, as usual, not telling the whole story. When they boast about how many accidents or miles driven, it's completely and wholly skewed by the fact that the human is driving the car in almost every situation other than "cruising in a straight line down the road".

So, an English language press release from the KCNA, North Korea's state news agency, is now "western propaganda?"

I don't get why cell phone manufacturers don't have a feature to record a proper horizontal video while holding the phone vertically.

Because the Android CDD requires the camera to have the same orientation as the screen. Section 7.5.5 (Camera Orientation) states:

Both front- and rear-facing cameras, if present, MUST be oriented so that the long dimension of the camera aligns with the screen’s long dimension. That is, when the device is held in the landscape orientation, cameras MUST capture images in the landscape orientation. This applies regardless of the device’s natural orientation; that is, it applies to landscape-primary devices as well as portrait-primary devices.

So in the CDD's terms, what you're asking for is a way to crop 9:16 video down to 4:3 while recording it.

The Forbes link demands that I turn off my ad blocker. Therefore I won't click on it.

Nor would I, but somebody elsewhere has posted this link in Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercont...

Unfortunately, it is nothing more than the usual rehash of well known trivia with some colourful pictures stuck in between; hardly worth the effort. Perhaps if you are the kind of person who reads glossy 'man-magazines' about cars, fishing gear or how to become incredibly fit and muscular by looking at pictures of oiled-up body builders, this class of article may appeal to you; but if you are interested in real science or technology, probably not.

WORKING LINK: http://webcache.googleusercont...

No matter how much crapware they inject, no matter how aggressively they insist on interfering with ad blockers, sites still MUST be indexable by Google (whose web spiders don't really do javascript) or they might as not even have a web presence...

So any site, no matter how broken, will invariable look fine in the Google cache. Just do a Google search for the URL prefixed with cache:. That will get you the locally stored version they indexed in the first place. Always a 100% working version of the page, without acquiescing to the site's crazy demands for insecure browser behavior.

In fact, Forbes should get nailed and demoted by Google for failing to follow the fundamental rule that users must get the same content that web spiders do.

WORKING LINK: http://webcache.googleusercont...

No matter how much crapware they inject, no matter how aggressively they insist on interfering with ad blockers, sites still MUST be indexable by Google (whose web spiders don't really do javascript) or they might as not even have a web presence...

So any site, no matter how broken, will invariable look fine in the Google cache. Just do a Google search for the URL prefixed with cache:. That will get you the locally stored version they indexed in the first place. Always a 100% working version of the page, without acquiescing to the site's crazy demands for insecure browser behavior.

In fact, Forbes should get nailed and demoted by Google for failing to follow the fundamental rule that users must get the same content that web spiders do.

What's the matter Orgasmatron, afraid to back your opinions up with your actual account? I'd make one myself but hey, this is Slashdot. It's full of losers in denial like you, I'd rather not be associated with trash.

Hey, maybe I'm a terrible person but at least I'm not a dead, racist fuck. Keep up the passive aggressive act though, Jizzmachine. It's fucking hilarious. Ooh, I'm a terrible person, however will I get through the day knowing that some low ID luser on Slashdot thinks less of me?

Ian Murdoch was a racist. Ian Murdoch is now a dead racist. "Fortunately that indicates" the world is a bit of a better place today. Benefit of the doubt my ass, Murdoch just made himself a martyr to his own, racist cause and you have so much trouble believing it, you have so much trouble believing that your beloved friend was in reality the sort of frothing-mouthed racist that the Stormfront folks would be embarrassed of, that you're trying to rationalize it any way you can. It won't work. Unfortunately, despite having erased his Twitter account, you can't erase these:

http://webcache.googleusercont...

Truth hurts, doesn't it Orgasmatron? Pour yourself up a drink and try to forget, hopefully it won't work out for you the same way it did for Murdoch.

• * This was right after the female officer ripped off my underwear.. I guess that's not considered rape if you're not a woman being raped.
• * The rest of my life is to fight against the police.. they are NOT friends, so don't ever ever believe otherwise.
• * then followed my home from there
• * then they pulled me out of my house and did it again

This is not your average suicide note.

And what great parting words he left for us:

Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.

So he used the N word. Big deal. Black people need to let that shit go.

Yeah he did:

Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.

And what great parting words he left for us:

Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.

It seems that the CNES took out an article today saying that the instrument was repaired. See the cached content here.

It is saying that the core of the instrument is a titanium sphere keeping inner sensors in a 0.25 mbar vacuum (at most). This is about 40000x less than atmospheric pressure on earth. What they saw is that the pressure inside the sphere went up from 0 to 30 mbar in a month. They found a production defect on one of the sensors connectors going through the shell but it seems that they were able to seal it correctly with some resin. They also found a second leakage problem around the pump creating the vacuum, which could be fixed as well.

They are currently running tests to determine if everything is ok. According to the article, the launch could be re-scheduled to March 18th.

>>What are you talking about? Please cite your sources. Millions of miles testing? Data would show accidents?

https://static.googleuserconte...
Only an idiot would think that a public accident involving a driverless car could be kept hidden. Hell, it would make global headlines.

The only reason it's popular today is because of the self-perpetuating nature of popularity. People like it because it's what they've known, and it's what's been available.

They like it because it did read-only replication and key-sharding long before Postgres. While Postgres implemented far more of 80s database ideas and did so at higher quality, they dragged their feet about late 90s ideas like clustering, trying to get it just perfect supposedly, and the web moved on with MySQL. That is why you see it everywhere: it was the only option for a site with too many queries per second to be served by a single machine. Meanwhile Postgres's stubborn-greybeard choice of BSD license meant Greenplum made progress on clustering but could release their Postgres-based work as proprietary software, so the progress withered to irrelevance on a fork and didn't benefit the community. It is the same story with Linux vs BSD on embedded systems: the more restrictive license is actually better for companies in the long run, because when companies act in their interest they are structurally capable of considering only the short term.

Meanwhile even the open source effort may not have considered the long term enough. Today I heard Facebook serves live traffic out of Hadoop, not just batch queries, so I'm not sure these older styles of clustering are relevant any more. I haven't heard much about Postgres clusters. Maybe they're good. :/ but already you can get Hadoop-like interface backed by Bigtable, and new distributed transactional databases like Spanner sound very different from and more powerful than the replication style of MySQL and Postgres.

Please allow me to repost this thing I wrote on the red site:

AC said:

And there's a whole one candidate who doesn't support [TPP], and he probably won't even win the primaries. No, the TPP is pretty much a done deal at this point because the neo-nobility will never allow Sanders to get elected.

The only serious candidates iirc that oppose it are Sanders and Trump.

Trump is, well, Trump. Crazy. Unelectable. That being said, if Sanders isn't in the running either as a D or I, I don't hear word of a massive write-in campaign, and Trump has the R nomination, why the fsck not. He'll have my vote. It's not like we're electing a dictator. The other two branches of government will keep his crazy at bay.

Sanders might have a good run of it, but there are two things working against him. Firstly, there's the Coronation of Clinton. If she doesn't get the D nomination, I'll be flabbergasted. So then the second thing comes into play. If Sanders stays in the running as an I, that means he no longer gets the votes from the large number of people who just mark “straight ticket D” at the polls.

I think if Sanders got D, he'd win in a landslide. If Trump gets R and Sanders is running as I, Sanders might be the first president since Fillmore (Whig) not to be a D or R, first I since Washington. If Jeb has R and Sanders stays in as I, then Jeb is the next president. Other scenarios are more of a toss-up.

You are probably correct in the end, though. There will be some reason Sanders drops out entirely. If Trump gets R, the Coronation of Clinton will be complete. If Jeb gets R, it may be an actual contest, but an entirely meaningless one since in all probability our next president is from one of the two dynasties without Sanders running as I.

I haven't keep up with the Libertarians as much as I used to, but the only other scenario that can prevent a dynasty presidency next is if Gary Johnson runs as L. Even then, that's a million in one shot. I don't think I even know his position on TPP, but I have been throwing money at the L+G(reen) initiative (Johnson is the main L for that at least and I believe Jill Stein is the main G) to open up the debates to more than just Rs and Ds.

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gewg_ replied:

Jill Stein (a physician), when she debated Mitt Romney during the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, was called "the only adult in the room" by the Boston Globe. So, how "serious" do you want?

Her previous stances against SOPA and PIPA (orig) give an indication that she opposes the likes of TPP.

This guy uses the past tense to acknowledge that the Big 2 parties and Lamestream Media are doing everything they can to make sure no one is aware of her.

She rejected the bootstrap philosophy of extremist free market capitalism. She believed that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights. That these rights include life, liberty, food, shelter, education, medical care, and the pursuit of happiness.

She supported all public programs which accommodate basic human needs. Food stamps, subsidized housin

I know this is an unpopular opinion but most people don't need to encrypt their phone because they have no sensitive data on it. There is always a trade-off between encryption and data integrity, and the latter is way more important for most ordinary use cases. Good voluntary encryption is nice and important for business, but mandatory encryption ... why?

From section 9.9
https://static.googleuserconte...

It appears to be required to be enabled by default yet nothing seems to prevent users from disabling it.

What if the issue is not lack of GPS but lack of electrical power?

Then you'd better call out the galley slaves with their giant wooden paddles, because I can't imagine any scenario where a ship's engine would be operational, but they couldn't generate a few watts of electricity out of it.

Hell, this is the military, they don't mind forcing a few men to turn a crank on an alternator around the clock, to generate a little power, when needed. Seriously, who is teaching celestial navigation, instead of just including a $30 solar panel as a tertiary backup power source in the event of inconceivable system failures?

Or, in the case of an EMP, the computers are scrambled?

We aren't talking about your cellphone. Military equipment is specifically hardened against EMP. And even if it weren't, a spare handheld GPS unit stored in an antistatic bag with a few batteries is all you need for a fix.

Reading a compass might seem trivial to you but for some young sailor fresh out of the academy that might not be trivial.

The compass is about the simplest interface around. There might well be the occasional person who can't figure it out, but most can, without trying. That's surely no reason to resort to celestial navigation training.

Add to that the fact that she's not a gamer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

was involved in a MLM handwriting scam:
http://webcache.googleusercont...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...

Example: esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1310

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Should sexist opensource developers have their projects censored or removed?

Recently an opensource game release story was removed due to the game developer's open sexism(0) and harrasment(1) of women in tech.

A story posted by the editor of the popular Phoronix linux news site about a release of an Open Source videogame was later manually removed(2). The reason cited was the game developer's unacceptable views on social issues such as gender equality (3).

The release story was titled "Xonotic-Forked ChaosEsqueAnthology Sees New Release - Phoronix" and can be accessed via the google cache(4).

With the recent inclusion of a code of conduct(5) for those wishing to contribute to the Linux Kernel some questions now need to be asked and answered about the inclusion of code from people who are known to engage in or promote socially unacceptable attitudes or harrasments of those whom the free-software movement would prefer to attract in their place:

* Are the social or political views of an author of free software relevant to that software's inherent quality?
* Should the beliefs of an opensource developer weigh when when evaluating whether a piece of opensource software is worthy of any publicity or public notice?
* Should men with unpopular or "forbidden" views be excised from the opensource movement and "not allowed" to contribute, in a manner similar to that which is done in employment?
* Has the free/opensource software movement changed in these respects since its founding? If so is this a positive change?
* Should there be gatekeepers to opensource that decide who may and who may not contribute. Should abusive developers be "blackballed" to maintain proper social order and controls?

and

* What are the consequences of not doing this

Citations:
(0) Past related incident: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1310
(1) http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/...
(2) Removed story URL: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
(3) http://www.phoronix.com/forums...
"Fortunately, the article has been removed now."
"Thanks everybody for speaking up."
(4) https://webcache.googleusercon...
(5) Linux "Code of Conflict"
http://whatwillweuse.com/fodde...

Here it is in Google cache

The actual article seems to be:
http://static.googleuserconten...

Oddly enough, they don't mention how wonderfully effective AdBlock software has been to help people avoid the recent rise of ad-based malware.

And, if you think I'm being unfair comparing Shrkeli to a certain now-defunct hashtag group beginning with the letter "G"

Why don't you also mention he's a "J"?

Because, according to his old OKCupid profile (what, deleted? I don't think so...), he's a Christian.

The large cloud providers have already shifted to "consumer" hard drives to save money, knowing that their failure rates will be more than compensated for by lower unit costs.

Consumer drives do NOT have higher failure rates. The myth that "enterprise" drives are more reliable has been debunked by research done by Backblaze and Google.

You can find information on undocumented Telnet Commands and tidbits on Seagate drives at http://webcache.googleusercont...

google cached version of the site: http://webcache.googleusercont...

Actually they are really proposing to ban third party software (Google cache of FCC page for "594280 D02 U-NII Device Security v01r02 - FCC"). For some reason the FCC page itself is redirecting me.

Describe in detail how the device is protected from “flashing” and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT.

I have a page where I put up a bunch of info about my experiments and memories of my Commodore systems. In the years that page has existed, the ownership of the C= logo/name/etc changed hands FIVE TIMES! Just now, I Googled it, and got this page:

http://www.commodorecorp.com/

It hasn't been updated since 2013.

My attempt at a disclaimer is at the bottom of this page:

http://webcache.googleusercont...
(Google cached, to prevent Slashdotting my Host's server.)

Chicago 9ms
New York City 35ms
Atlanta 40ms
Dallas Texas 40ms
Miami 45ms
LA 60ms
London 90ms
France 90ms
Frankfurt 110ms

Heck, New Zealand is only 200ms and under 5ms of jitter :-)
Network Graphs: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
DSLReports Bufferbloat 32/16 Test: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
DSLReports Jitter Test: https://lh3.googleusercontent....

Chicago 9ms
New York City 35ms
Atlanta 40ms
Dallas Texas 40ms
Miami 45ms
LA 60ms
London 90ms
France 90ms
Frankfurt 110ms

Heck, New Zealand is only 200ms and under 5ms of jitter :-)
Network Graphs: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
DSLReports Bufferbloat 32/16 Test: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
DSLReports Jitter Test: https://lh3.googleusercontent....

Chicago 9ms
New York City 35ms
Atlanta 40ms
Dallas Texas 40ms
Miami 45ms
LA 60ms
London 90ms
France 90ms
Frankfurt 110ms

Heck, New Zealand is only 200ms and under 5ms of jitter :-)
Network Graphs: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
DSLReports Bufferbloat 32/16 Test: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
DSLReports Jitter Test: https://lh3.googleusercontent....

The Goatse Guy also kept his face off the Internet. However, the other end was not so fortunate.

Do you mean Kirk Johnson? Your "information" is a decade out of date. He posted hundreds of images of his face (and moustache) on the internet. Here's an interview with him.

Four moles and a wedding ring meant he could be identified in images and videos, and then tracked down from the profiles and posts on those sites, until it occurred to someone with half a brain that his preferences in sex toys would also be distinctive (Gawker). Anyone with a full brain and some Googlefu can tell you his real name and current location. He's not dead, is married, and holds a pilot's license.

Let that be a lesson for you Tablizer - you too are distinctive.

like the labor participation rate, average annual income

Huh, weird, pay what you paid in the 1970's and get what you got in the 1970's. The President doesn't have the power to make everyone pay more.

effective tax rate

I can't find this PDF on cbo.gov now, but google has a scrambled version of it on http://webcache.googleusercont... which looks like effective tax rates went up about 3% since 2009.

average growth rate

http://www.tradingeconomics.co... looks like it's currently around +2%, which isn't very good, but it's a damn sight better than -8% at 2009.

percentage of income allocated to healthcare

Which has been growing every year for decades. Obamacare failed to stop it.

percentage of population receiving government payments

Pay 1970's equivalent salaries after 40 years of inflation, get welfare.

The liberal Obama's been terrible, but the only thing worse would be another George W Bush. I'm sure when the Republicans beat Hillary, we'll have an amazing postwar recovery after the Iran war.

http://webcache.googleusercont... or http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx...

Krebs is overloaded by train-wreck picnickers

Noel Biderman CEO of How Low Can We Go, trading as Avid Media.

Some of his demonstrably patent bullshit about their security.

"We have always had the confidentiality of our customers' information foremost in our minds, and have had stringent security measures in place".
Um, encryption - have you heard of it? And PCI - yeah, right, a bus protocol.

The "security" fail company - they would have done better employing CyCura® the "binary ex-situ bioremediation system".

I'm guessing they got confused and deployed this Cycura instead. Which'd explain why alarms didn't go off until after the successful attack. When their teeth started grinding.

Candidate for sociopath of the year award, Joel Eriksson, CTO, Cycura, we will continue to be a leader in the services we provide. "I have worked with leading companies around the world to secure their businesses. I have no doubt, based on the work I and my company are doing, Avid Life Media will continue to be a strong, secure business,".
Continue? Fail. To continue you need to start somewhere.
Secure? Fail.

Makes me wonder if he faked his widely promoted cracking of the Cicada.

This is the most interesting bit
Anyone else see similarities and strangely missing information?

His story.

He certainly he fucked up big time "protecting" his client, and he shouldn't have (because he does seem to have the ability to know how to secure a system).

Curiouser and curiouser. But not so curious I want to follow that rabbit down a hole.

Even it seems to be getting the shit pounded out of it.

cache

archive.org's just goes back to the original, the original never worked for me and the rest are taking a long long time to load.

*When the two humans driving the car feel safe enough to let the computer take over, which according to Google's own data is about half the time.

So sick of hearing about this driverless car bullshit, when it isn't anywhere near that.

The fact is, that number 1 EV car, Tesla Model S, is selling all that they can produce, and they are currently selling to less than 1/5 of the world. (using google cache since site is already /.)
Why are their cars in such demand even though they do not waste money on advertisement:
1) It is a luxury car with extreme performance.
2) the constant update and electric dashboard captivates everybody that drives it.
3) the ownership issue is finally being realized and ppl are learning that the costs of the tesla is much lower on the backend.
4) the fastest superchargers are being built all over Europe, America, and parts of Asia. These allow for free charging with 150 MPC done within 20 minues and 220 MPC done within 60 minutes.
5) all of the innovation is in this car, as opposed to having little innovation.
6) most of all, ppl like the 250 MPC. The idea of only getting less than 100 MPC and not having a super fast charger around DOES bother a lot of ppl. And it should.

Chevy volt, nissan leaf, i3, etc are all pure POS in which the car sales have been going down, not up as expected. In general the leaf and i3 are too weird looking and offer equal or less performance to ICE cars BY DESIGN. Interestingly, all of the electric cars could EASILY blow away ICE cars. Why do they not? Because it would gut the sales of ICE so, none of the car companies want that. However, all can see where Tesla is headed. Basically, they will be a major car maker (as in top 5) within 10 years.

Wow, that's a pretty absolute statement to make.

It's a binary thing, and I'm not relying on anecdotes. I know what I heard, and I've heard a lot of conspiracy stories since. I've discussed it with family and friends since - who also remember the actual event - as opposed to someone who says someone told them, and they all say the same thing. Of course it's possible everyone but your sources were brainwashed (or part of the conspiracy), and the original recording were doctored to match the broadcast records (length of the broadcast). But I'll give more weight to the simplest explanation.

Don't you think you are being a little bite arrogant?

No. Your response is arrogant - or do you call dismissing the opinion of the majority in favor of the opinions of a few, open-minded?

I said, 'Anecdotal'

Noted on the first read. You're not new to /. so you know the anecdote adage.

I was speculating on what the Russian government wanted investigated about the moon landing because it didn't say in the article.

It didn't? Which article - the one referenced by the /. story? Or the one it sourced?:- "We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened," Markin wrote. ref1

I suspect it's just a case of "don't criticise us about the Ukraine or our hosting the 2018 FIFA", amongst other things - hard to tell from the google-translate of the source article, unless you happen to be fluent in the language. He's a politician, and he writes a blog, or at least someone does in his name - it may have just been the first thing that popped into the writer's head when they spent two minutes trying to think of something suitably click-bait for the day's feed. What is clear is that he does not question whether the Lunar landing occurred or not.

I do know that it was at least 2 people who told me the same thing and they had adult mature brains with an adult capacity for memory, making them approximately 20 years older than you at the time.

What are you trying to say? That you can't do maths - or am ad-hominen attack properly? (if they're 20 years older than me they've been pensioners for some time - maybe there's an organic explanation? see that's how it's done) That my parents, uncles (including one who worked at Parkes as a non-NASA employee at the time), aunties, teachers and many thousands of other "non-school age" Australians are part of the same conspiracy? (bear in mind we didn't have fluoridated water in our youth).

I read about a U.S Congressman asking Congress question about exactly the same statement by Apollo 11.

I'm curious and wouldn't be at all surprised if that happened, not that it'd mean that much given that members of congress believe all sorts of wacky shit - and represent some truly weird beliefs. (as do some of our senators e.g. the shower of stupid that came down prior to the Bill of Rights referendum). Do you have a reference for that, and how much weight do you believe it adds to the conspiracy?

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