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The filmmaker was a wimp. This presentation at DEFCON by a guy who got his Mac stolen was EPIC:

https://youtu.be/Jwpg-AwJ0Jc

Spoiler: he showed the guy's adult selfies, online dating profiles, Google searches, and more. The moral: if you want to keep your data safe, use robust encryption and access security. If you'd rather get your computer back (or at least, hours of entertainment at the thief's expense), configure it with auto-login (so the thief won't even BOTHER to reinstall the OS) and remote control software w/DDNS client. :-D

This is what you get with low cost manufacturing!

Trump is right china is gaming the system.

Don't forget the thousands of coal mine deaths to fuel the factories that produce the inexpensive shit that the oligarchs want made there in order to sell cheaply in America.

And don't forget the Chinese multi-millionaires coming to the USA in throngs to invest their dirty profits buying up real-estate, which should be illegal.

If you think China is anything close to fair or treats people fair, watch this.

There's a lot that I like in Windows 10 but there's SO MUCH MORE ASININE FUCKERY that you can't get rid of that just makes it teeth-gratingly irritating to use

Case in point: There's this insidious piece of trash called the Windows Game Bar, fine, cool... cool... how do I rid myself of this unwanted plague? Oh well, simply LOG IN to the Microsoft XBox app and disable it ...but what if you don't have an account? Then make one and log in and then disable it. Riiiiiight

OKAY well lookie here there are some powershell commands you can run to uninstall it, great works, until I plug in my XBox controller or let Windows update run and well ... fuck it's back

OKAY well here's some registry hacking you can do that gets rid of it, nope, keeps coming back.

Just like Cortana - just like a lot of other garbage I don't need nor want.

"So don't run Windows 10" you say... well... you're right. This is how you push a long time Windows fanboy off the cliff you fuckwits. I'm sick of this garbage. I'm sick of not having even the level of control I had with lame duck 8.x (and that's saying something)

Microsoft doesn't understand its consumer-level customers at a fundamental level and that is going to cost them in the long run

go for easy targets, or ones that look enticing.
Either make it look secure, or make it look worthless. In between is usually best, but that depends on your neighborhood.

a window with bars says valuable, a skylight with bars is less noticeable, but lacking a view.
You can get windows/door with built-in decorative bars that look less secure.

You could wire windows/doors with an alarm, should at least scare them away without making it look obvious you have stuff worth selling inside.
You can keep stuff in plain sight with visible (very visible, they are junkies) metal securing objects to the structure. Plan out your office and get the builders (or you), to install some hardened steel hooks in the concrete to attach.

Should I use some off-the-shelf lock from a big-box hardware store? Should I install a digital lock?

If you have another way in they will take it, but do you want an office with no windows? A lockable barrel bolt with a decent lock should suffice.
Spend some decent money on said lock.
https://youtu.be/nsJZ_kKjXcE?t...

and they said they can "double up" the 2x4s to strengthen the walls and make a stronger door

I've never built a garage, but for houses building code is always doubling up the rough opening studs.
It costs more, but 2x6 walls are stronger and can take R20 instead of R12 insulation (cheaper on energy bill as well).
Check the screws they use to secure the door slab, and think about getting some longer ones. Builders usually have a habit of being cheap and using whatever works, not what's most secure. Don't overtighten them, use a level or something true to check the frame is straight.

All that said, a constant light and a visible camera (with a pretty red light) will probably help the most (a motion sensor is nicer to the neighbors).

We don't call the superchilled tasteless low alcohol content diluted horse piss you drink beer.

Tell you what: we settle this like men. You line up your best football team against our best football team and we'll see who walks out of the stadium.

I will you give you one thing, though: your football fight songs are the best in the world. I have to tip my hat to the only team on Earth that has a fight song that's in 6/8 time.

https://youtu.be/XlP9KGjqXf4

My face when I'm hacking the election

I'd prefer to watch Lawyers In Love.

Did he leave a voice-mail in the system? Again, you can cook up any origin and nationality when breaking into a system. Nobody is buying this any more.

Yes, he said 'suka blyatt' which confirms he's Russian.

https://youtu.be/bo5ZVe1LHxU

Define "wrong". Watson might make 10 recommendations. For each it provides the information, references and "reasoning" it used to come to the conclusion. In the end the doctor always makes the choice. When a doctor doesn't take the top recommendation and goes with say recommendation 2, you ask the doctor what Watson had wrong and add to Watson's reference information.

The important point though is the doctor is still the one who decides the diagnosis. Watson is just a tool to help find more pieces of information that fit together well.

This goes in your mouth ... this one goes in your ear ... and this one goes in your butt.
Hang on a second....

I don't see anyone denying that horrible atrocities have been (and are being) committed by people identifying as Muslim. It's just that a whole lot of people seem to happily ignore the fact that different kinds of atrocities, at a different scale and using different tactics due to a different balance of power, are also getting committed by Christians, or people claiming to represent the Western ideals of enlightenment etc.

That doesn't mean they are somehow equal, or even comparable. I wouldn't even know where to start when someone asked me to compare women mutilation to drone strikes that lead to the situation in Jemen where children grow up fearing clear skies. How many badness points does each of these count for? Do you just need a "counter example" for each bad act, does the scale count, does it matter what arguments are used to justify them, do you take into account opinions of organisations like Human Rights Watch, ...?

And again: I'm not saying people are doing this *because* they are Christian, or because they believe in Western-style democracy. But I can very well imagine that people on the receiving end experience it like that, just like many people here experience the root cause of many terrorist attacks as being Islam (who subsequently mod me as troll, because, I imagine, it's easier than trying to argue against it).

They want to make computers like the one on Star Trek, where you can have a natural language conversation with them.

See Google's latest voice assistant. It's quite chatty, and unlike most others it remembers context so you can ask "who is the president of France?" and follow it up with "where was he born?", and it will know who "he" is. You can be somewhat non-specific and it will use some "common sense" to fill in the blanks too.

This could also have applications in care too. Japan is already deploying robots to look after the elderly. Kinda like having a pet, except that if you fall over it can call an ambulance for you too.

There seems to be demand, judging by the many talking robot scams on Indigogo.

So they decided to develop it as a feature addon to existing cars? I'm not understanding it here. The Waymo promo video definitely looks like they're developing this themselves, would be interested to see them partner with others. Waymo Promo Vid: https://youtu.be/uHbMt6WDhQ8

Appears we're looking at the unholy spawn of ransom-ware and multi-level-marketing. Fetch holy water and an axe.

He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic examination of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

(Later)

“No,” Arthur said, “look, it’s very, very simple. All I want is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Now keep quiet and listen.”

And he sat. He told the Nutro-Matic about India, he told it about China, he told it about Ceylon. He told it about broad leaves drying in the sun. He told it about silver teapots. He told it about summer afternoons on the lawn. He told it about putting the milk in before the tea so it wouldn’t get scalded. He even told it (briefly) about the East India Trading Company.

“So that’s it, is it?” said the Nutro-Matic when he had finished.

“Yes,” said Arthur. “That is what I want.”

“You want the taste of dried leaves boiled in water?”

“Er, yes. With milk.”

“Squirted out of a cow?”

“Well in a manner of speaking, I suppose”

“I’m going to need some help with this one.”

https://youtu.be/eAswvg60FnY has a cartoon mostly based on the same.

They've been driving for around 10 years and can already drive better than humans have learned to in the last 100. I'd say that's damn good.

Self driving cars and software is cumulative knowledge. You can't just hand off the knowledge of the best driver in the world when they turn 16. By 2020 it'll be no question of who is a better driver. Our 2016 Subaru is already automating "80% of the boring stuff" of driving. It'll keep lanes and come to a full stop when the human behind the wheel fails to. Germans have had the auto stopping technology working and working in Germany since 2012. Every rental car came with it because it saved that much in claims with German drivers.

No one cares about the home car owner anymore. These are for Uber and Fleets. The F150 is the best selling truck in the US because of fleet sales. When companies can order a F150 that can drive 24/7 and is safer than the people that they can hire the entire industry is going to switch over. People are not profitable, corporations are. Look at who John Deere and Case selling equipment to. It's not the small town farmer. It's corporate farms that are going to buy their newest and most expensive AI tractors.

Not saying personal car ownership is going away. There are still people that stable horses and own horse farms. The Amish didn't even pick up Electricity. You are going to be more than free to own your own car. I'm sure there are companies that will cater to you as well. The question is how much is it worth to you?

Everyone's a space nutter to that guy, but if you love Ranch on Mars by Galactic Cowboys from their album Space in Your Face, you might be a space nutter.

The difference is my belief is falsifiable.

And that's the problem right there.

CAGW alarmists don't/won't provide falsifiable evidence that can be independently tested. They refuse to release un-'adjusted' data sets, even going so far as to attempt to use copyright claims on publicly-funded research They will not release the actual programs, algorithms, and data used in their computer models, which still are unable to both track past climate changes while modeling the future global temperature rise rates claimed. Models which most accurately track past changes do not show the predicted increases, while models that show predicted increases in global temperature averages do not track against past climate records.

In order to assume this is reason enough to greatly disrupt the US national economy (guaranteed other nations like China, Russia, and India will not harm *their* economies b/c of CAGW alarmism) requires a 'leap of faith' equal to that of a religion. It requires faith without any more proof than Christians have to believe in the God of Abraham.

The way that CAGW alarmists have been acting has not been that different from the Westboro Baptist Church nutters. They try to shout-down and silence opposing voices, substituting outrage, anger, and argument/appeal from/to authority for reason and logic.

Even their precious IPCC/Dr. Roy Cook "97% scientific consensus" is bullshit. The "97%" includes scientists who think humans have *some* effect on climate, which humorously includes many on the "Denier(TM)"-side. Hell, *I* believe humans have *some* effect, I've simply seen no evidence that justifies massive immediate changes.

https://youtu.be/PHyd-Y6haMg

CAGW==Religion(or scam)

Strat

C'mon man, just come out and say it: "Trump is literally Hitler". You know you want to. The stormtroopers with their Pepe insignia will be carting off all the gay mexican muslims to the Trump-branded death camps by the end of January, right? Refer to this documentary proof: https://youtu.be/uMk2X5eDYFU

Actually, industrialization can help. The postindustrial boom of a nation shows populations decrease. Look at Japan. Their population is actually decreasing and putting their economy at risk. Africa has the highest growth rates, and it's the least developed.

Good vid on Population:
https://youtu.be/QShgk6FrlX0

Right wing fake news is always angry. I wonder why that is?

Because angry memes are more effective at spreading: https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc

It's a bit tricky to email a pizza, it depends on the physical size of your routers (hence the name "pizza box" for some equipment). But you can always simply fax a pizza! (from a German candid camera show)

This is Mark Zuckerberg in the glasses.

I am sick and tired of the misleading GARBAGE on that site. Misleading? GO AHEAD AND MOD ME DOWN, i-d-i-o-t.

Cue the Four Yorkshiremen. Or Louis CK's classic rant.

Seriously, you have to remember how far we've come and how fast. My college age kids might remember dial-up modems but probably not. Today one plans her outings around whether there's free public WiFi. That was an unimaginable luxury 15 years ago.

Still, with the infrastructure we now have in place it is depressing that the cost of data should be such an important consideration for a young person.

Cue the Four Yorkshiremen. Or Louis CK's classic rant.

Seriously, you have to remember how far we've come and how fast. My college age kids might remember dial-up modems but probably not. Today one plans her outings around whether there's free public WiFi. That was an unimaginable luxury 15 years ago.

Still, with the infrastructure we now have in place it is depressing that the cost of data should be such an important consideration for a young person.

Cue the Four Yorkshiremen. Or Louis CK's classic rant.

Seriously, you have to remember how far we've come and how fast. My college age kids might remember dial-up modems but probably not. Today one plans her outings around whether there's free public WiFi. That was an unimaginable luxury 15 years ago.

Cue the Four Yorkshiremen. Or Louis CK's classic rant.

Seriously, you have to remember how far we've come and how fast. My college age kids might remember dial-up modems but probably not. Today one plans her outings around whether there's free public WiFi. That was an unimaginable luxury 15 years ago.

https://youtu.be/UxfTwRT48Z4

The video (mentioned in the summary) gave(?) me hope for the future. I am glad she was rewarded for it.

People still have respect for the mainstream news sites, they just read fake news somewhere and then attribute it to more reputable sources to boost its credibility. When you tell people what they want to hear, they will do mental gymnastics to incorporate it into their personal truth.

you claim a cartoon frog is a white nationalist hate symbol

You'll appreciate this: https://youtu.be/uMk2X5eDYFU

So far nobody has posted any links to CAGW proof, but my post has been moderated "Flamebait" and "Overrated". Folks, if you are trying to convince me of the science behind CAGW, that's not the optimal strategy.

They aren't trying to prove CAGW because there IS no proof.

They are simply trying to censor, shout-down, and otherwise silence opposing views. It's the "Scientific Method 2.0". Just scream & shout-down opposing views until society conforms to your ideology/religion while randomly interjecting science-y sounding jargon.

People who are skeptical of CAGW are automatically redneck Luddite bigots clinging to their bibles and guns and anything they say is wrong and a lie anyways, so everyone but those who agree with us can be ignored.

https://youtu.be/QwviDPo4Rh4

Not that video. The "genuine" Apple charger turns out to be counterfeit, and not much better than the cheap generic charger. You're only going to be able to tell it's crappy if you're an electrical engineer who's dissected these before. (I took 2 EE courses in undergrad so understood most of the terminology he was using, but his rant about it being terrible was Greek to me.)

This related video shows the insides of a genuine charger. Jump ahead to 9m 40s if you've already seen that first video showing the innards of a crappy charger.

I urge you to go tell Buzz that to his face...

https://youtu.be/wptn5RE2I-k

Moon landing deniers have occasionally had their free speech abruptly curtailed in real life.

A friend of my sister's worked there and gave us a tour when we visited. He showed us their vault room where they kept all their videotapes. It wasn't very big, so I asked him since there were so many different sporting events going on every day, how long did they save the recordings of these events. He said most of the stuff (local sports, lower-interest stuff like non-Olympics track events, etc) they only kept for a month or two. Pro sports were kept at least a year, longer for more important games. Playoff finals and particularly notable games, they'd keep indefinitely. But most of the "memorable" events could be boiled down to just a few highlight clips (e.g. a world record-breaking long jump).

A shocking amount of stuff gets erased or tossed out simply because there's no space to save it (or need at the time). If you think about everything everyone does every day, it's a mindboggling amount of material which is produced daily, So it's inevitable that a lot of it is going to be lost (hopefully with a summary or end result saved). You have to be obsessive/compulsive to want to save everything.

https://youtu.be/1pzoJVnPblI

The Fox says the hoodie was as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was. Is that the sort of "misinformation" the article is talking about?

I'll leave this here.

https://youtu.be/QwviDPo4Rh4

Strat

I'll just leave this here.

https://youtu.be/QwviDPo4Rh4

Not allowed to deviate from GPS?? so the uber auto drive car will just drive

Into a sand pile? http://www.news.com.au/lifesty...
drive down boat launch into lake https://youtu.be/a2QIH2uz3p8

drive into Pacific Ocean https://youtu.be/h89RT_dc-v0 http://www.redlandcitybulletin...

drivers off cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

follows directions onto railroad tracks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

follows GPS down flight of steps http://croatiantimes.com/?id=5...

directed to wrong part of Italy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

takes goat trail up mountain http://metro.co.uk/2010/09/28/...

  into Tree http://news.softpedia.com/news...

crash after GPS orders U-turn http://www.expatica.com/fr/new...

Not allowed to deviate from GPS?? so the uber auto drive car will just drive

Into a sand pile? http://www.news.com.au/lifesty...
drive down boat launch into lake https://youtu.be/a2QIH2uz3p8

drive into Pacific Ocean https://youtu.be/h89RT_dc-v0 http://www.redlandcitybulletin...

drivers off cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

follows directions onto railroad tracks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

follows GPS down flight of steps http://croatiantimes.com/?id=5...

directed to wrong part of Italy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

takes goat trail up mountain http://metro.co.uk/2010/09/28/...

  into Tree http://news.softpedia.com/news...

crash after GPS orders U-turn http://www.expatica.com/fr/new...

I'm going to miss the lighting of the Vigoda. I don't understand what happened, they're supposed to live 200 years. :(

To paraphrase NDT, the great thing about facts is they remain true, whether or not American Exceptionalists believe in them.

It's a fact that the assistant SoS, Victoria Nuland, is on video bragging about spending billions to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves." In front of a big Chevron banner - and then you AE's whine and project about Russia trying to influence the presidential election.

It's a fact that the impeachment vote didn't have the number of votes required to remove Yanukovych from office under their constitution. A vote that was pushed through despite Yanukovych agreeing to early elections. Which also means that it was a coup of cowards, if they didn't believe they could beat him at the ballot box.

Neat thing is that you can throw this inconvenient fact in the face of Western Exceptionalists, no matter if your hack lapel pin has an elephant or a donkey on it. The two parties have traded control of Congress and the White House, so each of the last five presidents have ended their terms in office with the opposite party in charge of the House and the Senate. Now imagine that it's May 2016 (or May 2008, 2000, 1992, 1988) and the party in Congress doesn't think it can win that year's presidential election. So they impeach the president with a majority vote, but fall short of the 67 required by the Constitution to remove Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama from office. The opposition DGAF, and have armed mobs of supporters attack government buildings and force R/B/C/B/O to flee or risk getting the Gaddafi treatment. Now, also imagine that Russia immediately recognizes that the junta as the legitimate government - after they've spent billions supporting the opposition party, in front of banners for Russian energy companies.

Would you call that a coup? Of course you would. So maybe you need to check your narratives, American Exceptionalist.

I don't think you've considered all the weaknesses of the system you're suggesting...

Hillary Clinton won 300 counties while Trump won 5000.

Suppose right before the election Dr. Evil gerrymandered the whole country so there are only 3 counties - two in his house, and one for everyone else. Based on your reckoning he is the rightful president because he won the two counties in his house.

If you think that the election of a nation should be swayed by a handful of cities

I would argue the election would be swayed by vast numbers of individual voters whose votes are weighted equally regardless of race, religion, gender, (etc...), and where they live.

The weighting based on where you live can easily be leveraged into weighting based on income level, race, or religion. For example suppose we don't like the Mormons - well if you're from Utah your vote now counts 1/10 as much as everyone else's. This negatively influences of perceived fairness of the government which is directly related to its perceived legitimacy. A government perceived as illegitimate will be eventually be forced to govern by violence, which is in no one's best interest.

You seem to be OK with weighting different peoples votes differently. I'd be interested to hear at what point you consider the weights to be too extreme? My understanding is the current system results in maximum of about a 1:4 disparity between Californians versus Wyomingites (Wyomines?) (https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k?t=1m43s). 1/10? 1/100?

How do you justify the particular weighting you've selected as optimal as oppose to any other?

The lying press worried about lies as it lies.

Hey! You're no supposed to lie! Only *we* are allowed to lie! We own it, bitches.

I think most of the stories againist her are false and misleading

Someone needs educating. The Clintons

Bwaaahahahahaa!

Oh, wait...you're serious? Let me laugh even harder!

Bwaaahahahahhahaaaahahaha!

https://youtu.be/_n5E7feJHw0

Strat

Idol? You mean like a puppet?

No puppet. You're the puppet.

https://youtu.be/UaVWRetR4jg

America should take its own advice on this one.

And now he's gonna fuck climate scientists to death. Fuck them right to death.

https://youtu.be/p1xiAXMqJIQ