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We will never sell-out our and compromise our principles. It would be like murder.

Failing to post to social media is not like murder. But more importantly, one could reasonably read this as being true no matter what happens. One merely has to understand that whatever the organization does, no matter how contradictory today's choices are given yesterday's statements of uncompromising principles, the organization always acts in line with their current principles.

Consider that organization representatives sometimes lie (or is that "compromise their principles"?). Cloudflare tells the public "Even if it were able to, Cloudflare does not monitor, evaluate, judge or store content appearing on a third party website." and Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said "We're the plumbers of the internet. We make the pipes work but it's not right for us to inspect what is or isn't going through the pipes." even as pro-ISIS websites used Cloudflare's website caching service. It was reported that changing this would be submitting to "mob rule". From the coverage on Gizmodo.com

Prince explained in an internal email to staffers that he doesn't think CEOs of internet companies should be in the position of policing content on their networks—he told Gizmodo he thinks that's a job that should ultimately be left up to law enforcement if the content violates the law—but felt pushed to act because the operators of the Daily Stormer are "assholes."

"I realized there was no way we were going to have that conversation with people calling us Nazis," Prince said. "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me."

Rather than post a followup, or use his apparently ready-made access to media to let everyone know that Matthew Prince and Cloudflare do not agree with the Daily Stormer's politics but stand up for free speech and not "inspect[ing] what is or isn't going through the pipes", on August 16, 2017 Prince said he "woke up [one] morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them [the Daily Stormer] off the Internet." (really, he was kicking Daily Stormer off Cloudflare). It seems wise to be prepared for a here-and-gone-again service model even from organizations whose principles once seemed so clear and uncompromised.

Good thing Trump was elected then, or it wouldn't just be a cold war.

Is the US raiding homes because of speech? News to me, got a source?

Are you joking? SWAT teams are so happy to raid a place all they need is a nudge. Doesn't even matter if there's any evidence of anything, ring 'em up and send 'em round. Also ask the people who have onion routers or other perfectly legal thing the autorities don't like

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seatt...

GP was pointing out a general error with humans. I think everyone on slashdot who isn't a alt-right troll would admit that NYT is real news while fox is not, sure. But convincing ourselves that we're immune because our media is better than that would be the worst thing to do.

For instance, there are plenty of slashdotters who don't believe wiki citations when wiki disagrees with them. It's not perfect, sure, but neither is anything else.

A good number of Trump supporters I know personally don't question the unethical things Trump or the right wing does because they've firmly established in their minds that the right wing is the correct wing and Trump is a good guy. They are willing to ignore when Trump says wildly innacurate stuff because they've convinced themselves he's the honest one. If we convince ourselves that because our media is at the moment more accurate, we're always right, we're liable to do things that might damage the country like the right wing is now.

Results of GMO: Organisms with a mixture of genes from other examples of the species, or at worst, phyllum[sic].

O Rly?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world...

Google now has an algorithm that can wallpaper the Ceres asteroid with the face of every American who has ever been photographed

Was that intended as a joke? Google already has such technology

Well, batteries can be recycled pretty easily so the toxic elements should only enter the environment if they leak out when activated.

You're a little off the mark here... The most significant environmental contamination is far far more likely going to occur where the batteries are manufactured from handling [or mishandling] of bulked raw materials and wastes. The overlook is understandable though, because electronics manufacturing and recycling operations typically occur in poorer Asian countries and people in the western world rarely take note environmental damage unless it happens in their backyard. (That's not meant as an insult, just a statement about people in general)

In addition, it can be very hard to determine environmental risk until a chemical is used and monitored in the environment for a period of time. You cannot wait until all questions of potential risk are answered before allowing technology progress. Proceed with caution is usually the best approach for everyone.

Personally, I prefer a bit of leaked flame retardant over a plane crash. Plane crashes kind of suck for the environment, too.

I agree with this sentiment in there are plenty of potential applications for a safer Lion battery that could save lives. For example, many industries have with potentially flammable environments require "Intrinsically Safe" equipment http://www.indsci.com/services... (e.g. oil refineries, chemical plants, natural gas utilities, etc.) or sensitive locations that can't risk even small fires or explosions (e.g. planes, data centers, electric grid, historical buildings, etc.).

Well, batteries can be recycled pretty easily so the toxic elements should only enter the environment if they leak out when activated.

Personally, I prefer a bit of leaked flame retardant over a plane crash. Plane crashes kind of suck for the environment, too.

> The trick is not BEING in business. The trick is STAYING in business.

It also helps to have Microsoft bail you out when you're facing bankruptcy...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/micro...

> The 1997 deal came within weeks of Apple facing bankruptcy and was announced
> as part of a broad patent cross-licensing agreement and a promise from
> Microsoft to provide its Office software to Macs in exchange for Internet Explorer
> being the default browser on Apple's machines. In reality, it was a move to make
> Microsoft look competitive and not be penalised for monopolising the market.

Like the article said, the only reason MS saved Apple in 1997 was to avoid officially being pronounced a monopoly.

Really good post, and then at the last moment you had to throw this in:

I think the environmental concerns driving alternative energy are mostly overblown

Why do you think they're overblown? Do you not believe in global warming? What about the fact that pollution in Beijing is so bad this week, they're having to shut down freeways because the visibility is too bad to drive safely. Pollution in India is even worse. The World Heath Organization estimates that air pollution causes 7 million premature deaths a year. What exactly do you think is overblown?

But there, they call her Angela Merkel and they make her wear Harry Reid's "droopy dog" jowls.

You dare talk about jowls?

http://static.boredpanda.com/b...

http://resize.indiatvnews.com/...

https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/ful...

I can't believe you guys posted this crap. This is stale - the news itself about the land crater dates back to 2006. Next, this article is from *The Sun* which is akin to National Enquirer. Nazi UFO base? Give me a break...... The WLC itself is pretty cool and interesting, but there are other articles that would've sucked a lot less. Here's an example: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/heres... CHOOSE A BETTER SOURCE.

Apple tells developers what features and technologies they may support in their applications:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jaxx-...

Do you always agree with the current Apple management?

Actually, Bussard's polywell fusion would work great in space, considering that the enormous vacuum chamber a test reactor would require would be unnecessary, and so long as your radiators can dissipate all the waste heat, you could build some kind of space-cruiser ship without much in the way of launches by launching the magnetic coils in an IKEA-style "flat-pack" configuration, and unpacking them on orbit.

It's still "hot" fusion, but the only technical hurdle to this is scaling it up to critical volume is expensive, if you need to do it where there's air. Small scale test reactors work, and work reliably, and are even used as neutron sources sometimes - but power is proportional to the square of volume or something, and there's a critical volume where any smaller reactor cannot possibly reach break-even.

If the Rossi E-Cat works* - whether it generates energy is important, not the physical process through which it does - you could build a very compact, fast spacecraft with Roger Shawyer's superconducting, second-generation thruster which is supposed to generate (according to IBTimes) "produce thrust many orders of magnitude greater than that observed by Eagleworks" with an implication that it operates at the same power level. In that case, we now have a rather compelling power-to-thrust ratio, and our choice of electric power sources with Russian sodium-cooled satellite fission-reactors as a backstop if none of the lower-mass fusion reactors are ready in time.

*(I'm not going to rule it out - but I'm not going to hold my breath, either.)

I've been following this for a year or so - very interesting. Over at Nasa Space Flight board there are a lot of people making these EM drives in their back yard, with varying results. A lot of this comes from the original work by Roger Shawyer. He has stated that he will show a drone running EM drive in 2017. If that works ...that would change everything. Cheap access to space would mean space-based solar arrays for terrestrial use. Here's an article about his patent. There's also some very strange results with laser timing through an EM drive cavity. Almost like spacetime is being warped.

Read this and notice the GBP did fall horribly.

But remember, holoboobies are only half the battle. Someone still needs to invent a way to make them touchable.

And no, this doesn't fucking count.

To be fair, we built lots of roads and schools in Afghanistan -- but by not committing sufficient resources to wipe out the Taliban, we allowed the Taliban to
- place thousands of IEDs, making many of those roads impassable
- throw acid at schoolgirls, making many of those schools a shadow of what they could be

Libya was a huge mistake. Gaddafi's dictatorship had become much more benevolent in the later years, and if this report is accurate -- Colonel Gaddafi 'killed by bayonet stab to the anus' -- his demise was a war crime.

Apple's already got at least one patent for a folding phone:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-...

Looks like they're gonna have another fight...

It seems that the space tests have already started. If it is as good as described, you will not hear the results of these tests. The military would surely like to keep their silent propulsion device a secret.

According to this:China and the US are already trying this device in space. You would think they would rule out the device being a perpetual motion machine if they are willing to spend the money to send it off planet.

The Eagleworks paper has already been accepted by the AIAA, which could fairly be described as "reputable". It will appear in the December 2016 issue.

Even in the US, free speech does not extend to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

How exactly is insulting the enemy, giving aid and comfort?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-i...

No, you dumb bastard - if the GBP is worth 20% less then business either have to absorb a ~20% loss or increase prices.

Huh? No educated individual ever claimed anything else did they? According to the IMF, economists, financial analysts and anyone with two brain cells to rub together -- GBP was overvalued before the Brexit vote. To simplify it for you, that is because we were a net importer. The strength of a fiat currency is proportional to exports.

Brexit is mostly a democratic expression of xenophobia that, because of no minimum turnout requirements, means the majority has to suffer heavily thanks to a third of the country being thick.

Or more informed than you think? Not that the dysgenic policies of the EU are equally as racist as the eugenic policies of the Nazi's or anything? Rest assured, the slave race of the future will (unfortunately) be bred in Germanistan. "White flight" has already started and I include jews in that statement (even if many do not identify as white).

Mind you, I could be way worse off. Those northern working class voters who thought this would be to their advantage are going to be in for a hell of a ride.

I live in the North and work in manufacturing. The cost of imported raw materials has increased along with the export value of our labour. I am proud to be a wealth creator as opposed to a rent-seeking parasite. I have never been busier and I thank you for your concern!

Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force? Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.

I can see where people get confused when they see images like this one or this one or this one from Ferguson.

Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force? Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.

I can see where people get confused when they see images like this one or this one or this one from Ferguson.

Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force? Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.

I can see where people get confused when they see images like this one or this one or this one from Ferguson.

It's not about support, it's about security. Knox (only on Samsung) is the closest you can get to decent security on Android,

By Knox I assume you mean Samsung's backdoored malware-injection vector? You can get the same "security" by visiting the alternative Android app store at virusbucket.ru.

And pray tell what evidence do you have that Samsung are hiding something, other than an insinuation and a lofty "I suggest..."?

Please don't try to insult our intelligence like that. You just make yourself look very partisan and very stupid.

Actually, I freely admit that I don't know for a fact that they know more than they are letting-on. But this news story certainly suggests something somewhat provocative in that regard... That's what I was thinking-of when I wrote that post.

First the emdrlive turned out to be bs.

Maybe I read this wrong...

The scientists were not convicted. And you are encouraged to keep all your overweight assassins at home, including those who manage to be acquitted because, all of a sudden, a court refuses to accept DNA as evidence, probably as a result of pressure from the US state department (i.e., mrs. Clinton at the time), as in the case regarding the serial slanderer Amanda Knox:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amand...

Three of the four reactors were in use for years after the accident. Apparently it was still possible to find staff.

It is also possible to book a daytrip to the exclusion zone as a tourist. Costs around $100.

Here's some wildlife: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chern...

Check this out: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chern...

And before you guys get your panties in a knot, I don't even have to google to know those guys don't have a monopoly on little boy fucking. It's apparently impossible to make it to adulthood without being raped by someone, no matter what country you live in. Maybe you get raped by your priest. Maybe you get raped by a US Senator. Maybe you get abducted and raped by some random stranger in a windowless van. Seeing as how no one has come forward by now (And they always do,) I'd guess Trump is probably in the minority of people in the top 1% who didn't get there for the sole purpose of fucking children whenever they want to.

The USA held the record for the longest prison sentence for computer hacking for quite a while. Turkey recently stepped up, however, and showed us all what over-the-top really means.

I'm about to blow your mind. Security at airports is significantly higher than at magazine offices and rock concerts.

I'm about to blow it right back!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Nat...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

And in a country currently overrun with Islamists, it's not hard to see this happening.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris...

Get all that?
Probably not because you seem to be an SJW moron.

If you're not prepared to grow up then at least creep back into your little safe-space and stop posting on the big bad internet.

1. No, it hasn't. Radically and slowly, but not radically and quickly. http://www.scientificamerican..... Nothing comes close.
2. They are not the best we have because of their polluting nature. Even aside from climate change they have large negatives. They do indeed have a huge infrastructure advantage.

The total amount of oil in North America is of minimal relevance; somewhat more relevant is the expected cost of extracting oil as time goes on since that makes oil seem ever-worse by comparison. Also your entire counterargument is moving the original goalpost, which stated that oil was inarguably the only option. This said I'm going to need a cite on proven oil reserves lasting 100 years. I've never heard of anything close to that, and couldn't find it from a quick search. In fact, it sounds like the *worldwide* estimate, from actual oil companies, is about half that: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world.... "North America alone" has a small slice of that.
3. I advocate we keep using oil for those purposes. It's not a major source of pollution -- at least, not the same kind of pollution -- and it's a small fraction of our overall oil use, so that use really can last hundreds of years. This said, given that this oil use is at a much lower scale, the "nothing else is viable at the scale needed" argument doesn't work as well.

Who are we to believe?
I've stated before this case is theater to allow Apple to comply without damaging their bottom line.
It's a show to make you feel better.

Now Snowden basically sums it up.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/snowd...

Hello,

Mr. McAfee has a rich and varied history of stating as fact things which cannot be proven as true or as false, simply because they cannot be verified. It is most certainly not paranoid rantings, nor is it based on any actual information about the current situation. Instead, it is carefully-crafted statements made for one reason and one reason only: To maximize his coverage in the media.

Recent examples of similar behavior include:

• Notifying the world that he had determined the Ashley Madison hacker to be a former female employee, based entirely on his interpretation of the language used in the disclosures. In fact, investigative journalist Brian Krebs had contemporaneously identified the probably hacker as European man who had lived in North America for a period.
• Offering to decrypt the iPhone used at work by Syed Rizwan Farook, primarily through the use of social engineering to obtain the passphrase or PIN unlock code. Social engineering the dead man's close friends and relatives in order to gain relevant information would likely need to be done in Arabic, Urdu or perhaps even Pashto. And, in any case, was subsequently rendered moot when it was revealed the phone's passphrase had been reset by law enforcement.
• Claiming that America was vulnerable to EMP attacks, despite the fact that EMP weaponry had been investigated for years by Winn Schwartau who eventually determined widespread use wasn't feasible.

Sometimes making comments to the media works to McAfee's advantage, sometimes they don't. But as long as he keeps coming up with new ones, he keeps getting media coverage. This story is just one more example of such continuing behavior.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hello,

Mr. McAfee has a rich and varied history of stating as fact things which cannot be proven as true or as false, simply because they cannot be verified. It is most certainly not paranoid rantings, nor is it based on any actual information about the current situation. Instead, it is carefully-crafted statements made for one reason and one reason only: To maximize his coverage in the media.

Recent examples of similar behavior include:

• Notifying the world that he had determined the Ashley Madison hacker to be a former female employee, based entirely on his interpretation of the language used in the disclosures. In fact, investigative journalist Brian Krebs had contemporaneously identified the probably hacker as European man who had lived in North America for a period.
• Offering to decrypt the iPhone used at work by Syed Rizwan Farook, primarily through the use of social engineering to obtain the passphrase or PIN unlock code. Social engineering the dead man's close friends and relatives in order to gain relevant information would likely need to be done in Arabic, Urdu or perhaps even Pashto. And, in any case, was subsequently rendered moot when it was revealed the phone's passphrase had been reset by law enforcement.
• Claiming that America was vulnerable to EMP attacks, despite the fact that EMP weaponry had been investigated for years by Winn Schwartau who eventually determined widespread use wasn't feasible.

Sometimes making comments to the media works to McAfee's advantage, sometimes they don't. But as long as he keeps coming up with new ones, he keeps getting media coverage. This story is just one more example of such continuing behavior.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hello,

Mr. McAfee has a rich and varied history of stating as fact things which cannot be proven as true or as false, simply because they cannot be verified. It is most certainly not paranoid rantings, nor is it based on any actual information about the current situation. Instead, it is carefully-crafted statements made for one reason and one reason only: To maximize his coverage in the media.

Recent examples of similar behavior include:

• Notifying the world that he had determined the Ashley Madison hacker to be a former female employee, based entirely on his interpretation of the language used in the disclosures. In fact, investigative journalist Brian Krebs had contemporaneously identified the probably hacker as European man who had lived in North America for a period.
• Offering to decrypt the iPhone used at work by Syed Rizwan Farook, primarily through the use of social engineering to obtain the passphrase or PIN unlock code. Social engineering the dead man's close friends and relatives in order to gain relevant information would likely need to be done in Arabic, Urdu or perhaps even Pashto. And, in any case, was subsequently rendered moot when it was revealed the phone's passphrase had been reset by law enforcement.
• Claiming that America was vulnerable to EMP attacks, despite the fact that EMP weaponry had been investigated for years by Winn Schwartau who eventually determined widespread use wasn't feasible.

Sometimes making comments to the media works to McAfee's advantage, sometimes they don't. But as long as he keeps coming up with new ones, he keeps getting media coverage. This story is just one more example of such continuing behavior.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn't crack

Snowden files reveal NSA had 'major problems' tracking Tor dark web users and cracking encryption

Snowden docs show Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped NSA's 'most wanted' list in '12

There's a follow-up to the NASA hack story - 10,000 machines in NASA's internal network are broadcasting malware signatures, and over 30 databases are exposed to the public web: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-...

In our enlightened times, only one country sends their sons to other countries to kill the people that live there.

Errr, well Russia now makes two, with Crimea & Syria.

Only those two countries huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Which is why the main control is interest rate, if you get high interest you save more and low interest you spend more.

Interest rate have little to do with spending - they are a tool to control borrowing (and inflationary investment). The economic function of interest rates nowadays is to drive credit creation - the ability for the financial sector to create wealth by loaning out the same dollar many times.

High interest rates remove the ability for people to borrow but attract external investment. This can be a useful technique to draw foreign investment into your country.

The quoted point does have value for people with variable rate mortgages. Since interest is a large part of their monthly payment and often people borrow up to 80% of the value of their home, movement in interest rates (not matched with movements in income) will cause - often significant - changes in movement in available cash which leads to the spend/save more scenario. However very little economic academic debate is focussed on the individual hardships of the poor. Economics in general is more focussed on the macro level as constantly demonstrated by the ineptness of the acts of politicians.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-needs-more-tax-lower-interest-rates-international-monetary-fund-20150930-gjyns8.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/imf-chief-christine-lagarde-predicts-disappointing-2016-after-us-interest-rate-hike-china-1535407

RE: The article:

In Australia we have a statistical unemployment issue as the many factors can stop you being counted as unemployed (for example not being able to arrange childcare or not being available for work because you are in a course)

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/products/FBE517ECA9B07F63CA257D0E001AC7D4?OpenDocument

In Australia there is a very very very large service industry that feeds on the bottom dwellers of the recruitment sector by getting people into government sponsored courses. They get payments from the government and from the training organisation (who also get payments from the course attendee).

So basically you have millions of government/taxation dollars to fund the apparatus around one aspect of welfare - with the statistical upshoot of showing lower unemployment rates to voters.

If a Dutch town is doing away with the machine that keeps the welfare recipients under the watchful eye of the government to justify their payments in the eyes of voters then I can't help thinking that there is more money being saved and more to go into useful things.

Personally I would want all education and healthcare to be free - an educated and well society will achieve far more than a unemployable one that is ill and most likely broke.

A few....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/windo...

Ideas like this show why VPN use was not a huge issue "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
".. decode the encrypted traffic certified by three major (unnamed) internet companies and 30 types of Virtual Private Network (VPN) – used by businesses to
provide secure remote access .."
or under the new UK net laws "Snooper's Charter: Why aren't VPNs and Tor mentioned in the Investigatory Powers Bill?" (November 5, 2015)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/snoop...
".. but surprisingly, nowhere in the proposal does it mention the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN)."

What can be done? Some creative way for an internal double VPN?
This could also show that VPN use is vulnerable at a city, state, private sector or federal level/budget rather than just a shorter list of advanced nations with a domestic collect it all capability.

Considering how they're working lately, my guess is the next thing to be removed is the plugin support since they know best what functions their browser needs.

Pocket is proof thereof. If anything, this could have been solved by a plugin rather than shoving it down everyone's throat.

Well, umm.... *cough* *cough*

In particular, an amphetamine known as Captagon might help turn people into killing machines.

They wouldn't even make to shore.