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Now that Donnie claimed it back.

The POTUS is certifiably demented.

True.

We need a President willing to allow Hezbollah to traffic in drugs and money in the US - all to not piss off the Iranian mullahs.

All to cement a legacy of giving fanatical, literally Medieval religious nuts nuclear weapons....

The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah's billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desire for a nuclear deal with Iran.

In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.

The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.

Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.

...

But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.

The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.

Now that Donnie claimed it back.

The POTUS is certifiably demented.

Can you find it in the Trump children's tweets?

No,
not there.

Must be on a banned list.

Can you find it in the Trump children's tweets?

No,
not there.

Must be on a banned list.

"House passes first rewrite of nation's tax laws in three decades, providing steep tax cuts for businesses, the wealthy." https://twitter.com/AP/status/...

Exactly a DNC talking point, which the AP has no problem toeing the party line.

Do you really want people that still read comic books as an adult working for you?

Or go to comic cons to see their favorite actress and stand in line for three hours to get an autograph?

The techs at my government IT job tend to fall into two camps (depending on location): comic cons or gun shows.

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/943513753970098179

Learn the art of self-deprecation and explain your job badly instead.

Examples:
I'm a digital plumber = Network Admin
I'm a janitor/groundskeeper in an imaginary world, I clean up other people's messes and fix crap they break = Sys Admin>
Etc...

Portugal's national ISP as an example forces you to pay for extra things they firewall or throttle down by default forcing to to a tiered la carte system. Want to watch Netflix? That will be $35 extra a month. Amazon video? ANother $25 a month etc.

That's just complete and utter horseshit. Portugal is in the EU and actually does have net neutrality laws in line with EU mandates. Claiming that they charge more for certain services is just a complete lie based on a tweet by some idiot politician who had no clue what he was talking about.

I can understand the talking heads on TV news saying such ludicrous things, but I'm truly surprised to see someone on Slashdot parroting their nonsense.

Then you tell me?

It needs one more.

"Bats are blind" Neil deGrasse Tyson can suck it.

Yes, that's his actual tweet that states bats are blind.

That's a GREAT SCIENTIST! for you, folks.

According to Troy Hunt, 99.6% of this list is already in HaveIBeenPwned.

@comcast "We never will, but it's very important that we be able to. But we won't. So let us do it. Because we won't do it. Which is why we're spending so much money to make sure we can. But we won't. But let us."

No, you're the one introducing that into the conversation.

See also: "The Rule of Goats"

https://twitter.com/popehat/st...

From Twitter:

Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy...

Tulips is another way of saying I'm too dumb to understand technology, and I feel bad because I'm missing out on the next big thing. Just let them go...

You probably chose not to turn off your filter bubble on Google or ignored results biased against your shitty agenda, but let's pretend you're worth a little assumption of good faith for a second and explain why you'd be led to this conclusion even if you weren't a dumbass feminist.

Google biases search results in favor of SJW agendas because Google is run by SJWs.

See the Damore incident, the people invited to "Google Ideas" (featuring Randi Lee Harper and the ShirtStorm bitch), etc. Use a non-biased search engine and the truth comes out. Here's the first five result titles:

Don't Buy Into The Gender Pay Gap Myth - Forbes

The Gender Wage Gap Myth and 5 Other Feminist Fantasies | Time

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists | HuffPost

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth - CBS News

No, The Gender Pay Gap Isn't A Myth -- And Here's Why

It is especially hilarious that the only one contrary is a HuffPost article (two results down from a polar opposite HuffPost article!) that bullshits by pretending the consequences of female choices are them being "forced out:" "They’re forced out because they cannot afford child care, or find a full-time job that affords them any kind of flexibility. And, culturally, Americans remain ambivalent about women working outside of the home. A little more than 30 percent of Americans still believe women should stay home full-time to care for young children." Yeah, except the first is the result of a choice and the second is a pure opinion that does nothing at all to stop women today from making the same career choices as men.

From Twitter:

Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy...

Well, since you admit ignorance, here's the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You will also note the articile refers to futures markets.

From Twitter:

Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy...

The only viable comparison between bitcoin and tulips is a valuation based on hype and bullshit. Rather obvious you're utterly fucking incapable of understanding that.

From Twitter:

Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy...

The idea that bitcoin is scarce is the biggest lie there is. Every other item you list is something that all cryptocurrencies share. There are over 100 cyptocurrencies and that number is rapidly growing. A person could easily create their own cryptocurrency. All it takes is a handful of other people to also agree to settle debts with your new cryptocurrency and you've got a new currency. The only thing that makes bitcoin slightly unique is the first mover advantage so it has higher acceptance but there are several other cryptocurrencies gaining fast.

From Twitter:

Tulips are not durable, not scarce, not programmable, not fungible, not verifiable, not divisible, and hard to transfer. But tell me more about your analogy...

https://twitter.com/BitmexRekt...

The fools who shorted are already getting squeezed, and losing their money.

I'm not a patron or creator on Patreon, but here's what I've been able to piece together from recent news:

The credit card processors charge a swipe fee on the order of 30 cents per transaction in addition to a rake of 2 to 3 percent of the value. For debit cards processed through card-present EFTPOS, only the swipe fee applies, which is part of why stores default to "debit" instead of "credit". But in either case, the swipe fee is why many convenience stores have a minimum charge for small purchases, and Amazon charges sellers a minimum commission of $1 per item.

The use of "de-aggregate" in this Tweet implies that Patreon used to aggregate pledges from multiple donors when charging patrons' credit cards. But there were reportedly a couple abuses of this. One involved people who would pledge to a particular creator, view the creator's patron-only posts, and cancel the pledge the user's before billing date. Another is that a chargeback by a cardmember who doesn't remember his pledges would affect all pledges. So instead, Patreon switched to separately on behalf of each creator.

I can think of a few ways that Patreon could reduce the impact of a swipe fee on $1 and $2 pledges.

You just need to dig deep enough to find entertaining responses. Like John McAfee deep.

How ignorant can you be? Black Lives Matter is specifically a reaction to the violence against black people. Yes, all lives matter, but the black lives are the ones currently being destroyed.

Once you see systemic discrimination against white people in the form of recurring unwarranted police brutality, lower employment rates, lower pay rates, poorer health outcomes, higher incarceration rates for non-violent crimes, etc., then you can say that white lives matter. But right now the black house is on fire, not the white house, and not the Chinese house.

This cartoon illustrates the issue.

1) You like the "dumpster fires" trolls leave in response to your comments. Obviously you hate it.

I was enjoying the dumpster fires until my wanker trolls became Pedobear Trolls this past month. They're so toxic that I even cringe.

2) That you're making lots of money off your trolls. It took hundreds of comments to get you up to $600 and now you can only make 2 a day on your CDREIMER account.

I'm making $0 since Slashdot is no longer my focus. If you check out my Twitter feed, my focus is on my YouTube channel.

3) Nobody will see your bad online behavior when you apply for a job. Quite the contrary, A google of your real name pulls up your slashdot history as well as your blog.

My so called "bad online behavior" is irrelevant. My resume has my generic legal name. A Google search turns up 50+ other people with the same generic name. Which one of these people are me? None of them.

https://twitter.com/IamHappyTo... I too got the thud in my head, but didn't hear it. This twitter guy cut out the pylons, says it's all the shake.

https://twitter.com/jh32488/st...

“Amazon is coming to the TV app and all Apple TVs later this year with Amazon Prime Video” - @tim_cook tick tock guys it’s December cc:@amazon

Let's just assume he meant "except the first generation, of course"...

We have no say. If you want a say, better bring a blank check

I suppose you could go door to door in Alabama. Doug Jones appears to support net neutrality. link

Of course if you mean something we can do right now to change right now, yea we are pretty much toast. Get people in place at all levels of power that support net neutrality and of course a president that does, and we might get it back...

Creimer is such a pervert that he stood in line for three hours to get Ming-Na Wen's autograph at the Heroes & Villains FanFest San Jose.

For some reason, Musk seems to incite a lot of rage among the "It'll Never Work" crew. When you're 40 years old and mom is still paying the internet bill, seeing somebody who has literally changed the world do well must hurt.

No rage, just calling out a fraud and carnival barker when I see one. For reference: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s... It's impossible to keep up with all of his broken promises, but once people are indoctrinated into a cult it's hard to get them to see reason which is right in front of them. Though I'm a bit disappointed, figuring /. readers were more sophisticated.

This is my first comment of the day. Now I can pimp my new YouTube video, Black Friday 2017 @ Apple Park Visitor Center, and my autographed pic from Ming-Na Wen at the Heroes & Villains FanFest in San Jose. Convention videos will be up on Friday.

In the article Ali Montag ends it with a mention of the $7 Avocado Toast money too. But yeah, Kevin O'Leary is a wine connoisseur and also keeps an extensive collection of artisanal olive oils.

Puto

Intel CPUs still run a blob at initialization called the FSP. This is sometimes entangled with the ME, but is separate and is not getting disabled. The blob is usually writable for updates and must run before any user-supplied code, so it's an ideal spot to put persistent malware to evade verified boot anti-persistence schemes. The AMD equivalent is called the PSP.

Set the root password to something long and hard to guess (32 chars of mixed-case alphanumeric should do). Do this by running as an administrator:

sudo passwd -u root

This should do until Apple releases a real fix.

Source

Let me translate: "I posted child porn and calls for Jews to be exterminated and subreddits banned me!"

What can get you banned from /r/politics: "Trump is doing okay." What can get you banned from /r/europe: "Migrants are causing a surge of crime" - including crime statistics with country of origin. What get's you banned from /r/canadianpolitics: "illegals surging into Canada are taking resources from Canadians already struggling."

Sure is a lot of CP and calling for "jews to be exterminated" are you sure you're not just projecting? You know like all those left-wing feminst progressives that claimed gamergate was doing something, but instead down the road they were raping women, calling in bomb threats to synagogues, operating fake porn modeling agencies, and so on. Yeah...tough luck on that one I guess.

Google should downlist American media too, because they also "inject themselves into US politics".

But Google already did that!!!! Alternet, Counterpunch, Democracy Now and many other independent media outlet were heavily downlisted.

He even addressed SPECIFICALLY the 2015 Act prior to its passing :

https://twitter.com/realdonald... [twitter.com]

How you can say that Trump's tweet addresses anything "SPECIFICALLY"
  is beyond me. It is factually inaccurate and displays no indication that Trump understands any part of what he's tweeting about.

And he was elected. You can't argue "Will of the people" in this case.

It was the will of 3 million fewer people than his opponent. You can say Trump is legitimately the president, but you cannot say that he represents the "will of the people", nor that he has any sort of popular mandate.

When regulatory bodies completely ignore the will of the public you have a much bigger problem. Courts seem like the perfect entity to deal with that, though it should be a treason case.

The will of the public is enforced through the ballot box. In this case, it was clear the Trump agenda was deregulation. It was a theme of his campaign that Government is too big and needs to be trimmed down.

He even addressed SPECIFICALLY the 2015 Act prior to its passing :

https://twitter.com/realdonald...

And he was elected. You can't argue "Will of the people" in this case.

Ro Khanna, prominent advocate of net neutrality, actually illustrated what's likely going to happen: your all-you-can-eat plan gets broken up into smaller packages and you pay for each of those. Notice how full access costs pretty much the same under both "net neutrality" and "no net neutrality". It's unclear why he thinks this is not in the interest of "consumers".

I have to say that that I have mixed feelings about this entire net neutrality thing (as I believe in unthrottled and equal access, but I think it's mostly a problem for the private market to solve). Unlike the doomsday scenarios many posit here, I also believe Khanna's predictions to be the most likely result of abolishing "net neutrality". That said, there are a couple of ways it can affect the economy as a whole if not "consumers". Let's say you are a customer of BT&T, and they offer you two plans: one with "unlimited" 100Mbps/100Mbps internet access for $60/mo, and a "streaming plan", consisting of up to 10GB/mo. 100Mbps/100Mbps of "traffic" (throttled to dial-up speeds after that, or $1/GB for extra data) plus "unlimited" unthrottled traffic to Watchflix for $30/mo.

You can continue paying what you are paying now ($60/mo.) or you can switch to the cheaper plan. Maybe you use the Internet mostly for streaming things from Watchflix, and the $30/mo. would be a better option for you, so you benefit from this. Simple so far. Now, let's say that you use the Internet mostly for streaming, but you use Hula instead. You look at your options, and you see you could save $30/mo. by switching to Watchflix. Maybe Watchflix has most of the things you watch anyhow, and it's a few bucks more expensive that Hula, but it's not $30/mo. more expensive, so you still come ahead. So, you switch your plan to a "streaming" plan, and you switch from Hula to Watchflix. Apply this to a greater scale, and you end up with this favouring only the media companies that are blessed by your ISP. It stifles innovation because a new streaming service would need to get blessed in order to be competitive, and because a non-streaming service would have larger barriers of entry to penetrate the non-streaming subscribers (even if they are otherwise blessed in their relevant category).

The actual impact of all of this is difficult to say. The liberal (in the economic sense) in me wants me to say that this is not a problem, because the plans will be varied enough that this won't be a problem (so, you can easily switch to the plan that offers a close match to the best value to you). The realist in me, on the other hand, know that last mile access is oft monopolised, and that BT&T could get away offering plans that only serve them. Ultimately, I feel that the monopolised last mile access is the problem, not net neutrality in and of itself. So, I want efforts directed into fixing this, like removing municipal or state regulations that cause these monopolies.

Captcha: retrofit

The key to my plan is that this is a rare instance where consumers are not alone.

Ro Khanna, prominent advocate of net neutrality, actually illustrated what's likely going to happen: your all-you-can-eat plan gets broken up into smaller packages and you pay for each of those. Notice how full access costs pretty much the same under both "net neutrality" and "no net neutrality". It's unclear why he thinks this is not in the interest of "consumers".

There are just as many or more huge companies that would prefer to keep Net Neutrality as those that oppose it... Those companies in favor of Net Neutrality obviously include the big streamers like Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and a bunch of others.

Yes, and they favor this because they don't want to have to pay for the extra infrastructure costs that their services impose on ISPs; instead, they want to spread out those costs evenly among all Internet users, even those that don't stream. Net neutrality is a means by which they can make that happen. Without net neutrality, Netflix and Netflix users need to pay slightly more on average, but others need to pay slightly less.

They could throttle it all down, but throttling that much traffic isn't really practical.

Netflix traffic either goes directly to Netflix servers or through some VPN. Each of those implies different wires for it to travel over. ISPs not only can easily "throttle" based on this, they actually already have to account for it differently in their peering/transit arrangements with other ISPs. They don't need to look inside packets and they don't really care. What they care about is that a lot of traffic goes over particular wires. If those wires go to some VPN provider, then they will likely charge more for transit to that VPN provider in the future and the costs and prices for the VPN provider will go up. Arguably, that is as it should be: Netflix or some high traffic VPN require a lot of infrastructure to support, and repealing net neutrality allows ISPs to charge those companies more.

There's no comparison: Trump is a complete nutjob.

I thought she had gained some serious computer security cred?

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSec...

And she's already mentioned this very issue:
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSec...

I thought she had gained some serious computer security cred?

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSec...

And she's already mentioned this very issue:
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSec...

Yet all the cow-funded commercials I see keep saying Eat Mor Chikin. Its so hard to find a trusted source these days

Damore's memo was just misogynist bullshit.

That's a very cheap claim to make without any reasoning.

It's been reasoned many times before. For example here are two rather well written articles about it:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-...

https://www.economist.com/news...

Now, the defenses in respnse to these articles involve giving huge amounts of benefit of the doubt to the point of ignoring almost everything implied or that follows from the arguments in the memo. That's one option I guess except that here's James Damore in his own words:

https://www.salon.com/2017/09/...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jam...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jam...

I think it's clear from these comments that my (and others) inferences about where the memo was coming from were actually correct.

Anyway bring on the -1 trollbait mods! If there's one thing James Damore supporters can't stand it's the free speech they claim to support.

And one more thing: if you actually support some varian of improving things for men, then don't support this guy and his bullshit about gender roles. If you've ever pointed out how few men there are in certain jobs here, then don't support Damore's bullshit about gender roles because that is enforcing that separation. If you've ever complained about how men often pursue dangerous, but well paid jobs (contributing to increase workplace deaths for men) then don't spport this gender role bullshit because that's where a lot of the pressure comes from.

IOW this bullshit is bad for men and women. If you're a man and not a feminist you should still not support it because its bad for you. This guy and his army of supportes are trying to coerce you into a mould whether you want to be in it or not via this enforcement of gender roles.

It should be your choice not theirs.

Damore's memo was just misogynist bullshit.

That's a very cheap claim to make without any reasoning.

It's been reasoned many times before. For example here are two rather well written articles about it:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-...

https://www.economist.com/news...

Now, the defenses in respnse to these articles involve giving huge amounts of benefit of the doubt to the point of ignoring almost everything implied or that follows from the arguments in the memo. That's one option I guess except that here's James Damore in his own words:

https://www.salon.com/2017/09/...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jam...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jam...

I think it's clear from these comments that my (and others) inferences about where the memo was coming from were actually correct.

Anyway bring on the -1 trollbait mods! If there's one thing James Damore supporters can't stand it's the free speech they claim to support.

And one more thing: if you actually support some varian of improving things for men, then don't support this guy and his bullshit about gender roles. If you've ever pointed out how few men there are in certain jobs here, then don't support Damore's bullshit about gender roles because that is enforcing that separation. If you've ever complained about how men often pursue dangerous, but well paid jobs (contributing to increase workplace deaths for men) then don't spport this gender role bullshit because that's where a lot of the pressure comes from.

IOW this bullshit is bad for men and women. If you're a man and not a feminist you should still not support it because its bad for you. This guy and his army of supportes are trying to coerce you into a mould whether you want to be in it or not via this enforcement of gender roles.

It should be your choice not theirs.

If anything the problem is that his memo tried too hard to be rational, to the point where it blinkered him to issues that don't have simple statistical definitions.

For example, he says that women are on average more neurotic, and that explains some of the gender gap. The problem with this argument is that it minimizes the other issues that cause the gap, which was in fact the entire point of his memo. It's also a huge generalization and the conclusion massively exaggerates the significance of the test results.

Damore also undermines his claim to be rational with his tweets. Once fired and free to speak his mind without filter, it becomes obvious what his biases are.

https://twitter.com/JamesADamo...
https://twitter.com/JamesADamo...

A since deleted tweet documented here also demonstrates just how naive Damore is, and how he fails to understand historical context before making bold statements.

because it would hurt feelings is not acceptable

Unfortunately, it is very hard to have a rational conversation about these issues because Damore supporters mod down any dissent as "flamebait" or "troll".

If anything the problem is that his memo tried too hard to be rational, to the point where it blinkered him to issues that don't have simple statistical definitions.

For example, he says that women are on average more neurotic, and that explains some of the gender gap. The problem with this argument is that it minimizes the other issues that cause the gap, which was in fact the entire point of his memo. It's also a huge generalization and the conclusion massively exaggerates the significance of the test results.

Damore also undermines his claim to be rational with his tweets. Once fired and free to speak his mind without filter, it becomes obvious what his biases are.

https://twitter.com/JamesADamo...
https://twitter.com/JamesADamo...

A since deleted tweet documented here also demonstrates just how naive Damore is, and how he fails to understand historical context before making bold statements.

because it would hurt feelings is not acceptable

Unfortunately, it is very hard to have a rational conversation about these issues because Damore supporters mod down any dissent as "flamebait" or "troll".

The House GOP members are simply delivering what their constituents want.

And by "constituents" I of course mean their rich donors.

Their rich donors? Much as I dislike them let's palace blame where blame is due. This is what the GOP base wants, for the GOP to choke the life out of the 'intellectual elite. I'm talking about those red cap wearing yahoos who think evil emperor and Sith Lord Barack "Palpatine" Obama, Darth Hillary and a whole legion of Zionist Occupied Government storm troopers are coming to take away their rights and it does not seem to disturb their fantasies that neither Obama nor Hillary are in office anymore. It's congress and the GOP dominated SCOTUS that are taking away American's rights. The level of indoctrination is simply astonishing. I just watched an American news crew ask random Americans in the street if Obama and Hillary should be impeached. Only one guy out of the lot realised that they could not be impeached because neither Obama nor Hillary are in office, the rest were all for it because, according to one of them: "Hillary is more dangerous than ISIS".

The House GOP members are simply delivering what their constituents want.

And by "constituents" I of course mean their rich donors.