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https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan

Regular tapes did suck. If you used Dolby and CrO2 tapes, and set the recording level and tape bias properly, you could get pretty good sound out of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bilbo is a homo. Why else did he never marry a chick and only hung out with dudes?

No problem. They'll just need to give him A Case Of The Not Gays in the TV show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No matter what, if the virtual assistant Siri, or the Calendar is crashing (sigh), it should not crash and reboot the "whole" OS. Must be really crappy, insecure integration if something as "simple" as this causes a reboot! #peakbugs https://youtube.com/renerebe

No matter what, if the virtual assistant Siri, or the Calendar is crashing (sigh), it should not crash and reboot the "whole" OS. Must be really crappy, insecure integration if something as "simple" as this causes a reboot! #peakbugs https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

Here is your song.

Enough of these smart watches, they are just tech jewelry for rich people. They really serve no purpose but to say, "look at me!"

They do not solve a core problem that society is facing today. The smartphone did; this does not. If Dick Tracy had a smartphone he wouldn't need a watch.

Reminds me of one of my favourite movie quotes ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I've fallen and I can't get up

Is there a Life Alert for countries?

I wish we could sterilize every nígger on welfare as a condition of receiving EBT/WIC benefits. That would drastically reduce violent crime in one generation and save everyone a ton of money.

I've fallen and I can't get up

Is there a Life Alert for countries?

This is only tangentially related, but it needs to be reposted at least once a year.

BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity — Moxie Marlinspike

Hilarious Comodo story begins around 5 m mark.

Slide at 10:48 has only become funnier in the meantime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNVU5ZjlgA&list=PLHN7G9IVyJ3Ml-MgXt4jlm2c2-267l6-Z

Please stop confusing liberals with progressives. Progressives are the ones who have gone off the deep end with that shit, and consider liberals to also be alt-right nazis wherever liberals stand up against their insanity.

Whatever it is you're smoking, did you bring enough for everyone? It's liberals, who are right-wing toolbags, who swing the identity politics club with abandon in order to not deal with the fact that their leaders are frequently more extreme than the worst Republicans they can name. Shit like passing NAFTA and ending welfare (Clinton) starting wars without Congressional authorization and repealing habeas corpus (Obama).

I'm a 100% straight-ticket democrat

Another kind of right winger.

Kaepernick on the other hand 100% intended to disrupt.

By taking a knee on the sideline? That's only "disruptive" if you're a goosestepping fascist.

and he was terminated for cause

Players are only out on the field because the government started paying the NFL to do so - which makes it a cut & dried First Amendment issue.

> When it comes to IP, copying without permission is stealing.

No, it is infringement. If it were stealing
It would be defined legally that way.

Copying is not theft

You forgot Friendface as shown in IT Crowd many years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... ;)

"Test is dead" was the keynote presentation of a Google Test Automation Conference six years ago.

My personal view is that if you are doing web development where your company rapidly & repeatedly deploys releases on behalf of customers, you might be able to get away with not having much of a QA department so long as the impact is low. If a problem arises it can be quickly fixed without much of a financial loss.

But if you are in a regulated industry, failure of your software will result in significant lost revenue while its being fixed, or your software is deployed only every few weeks or months by customers who do their own acceptance and integration testing, then you probably need to do more QA work & dedicated QA work upfront. In such scenarios the software producer and their customers may encounter significant losses and/or inconvenience because something faulty snuck through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Your attempt to turn this into a zero sum game makes you a loser. The fact that I refuse to be drawn in makes me a winner.

You chose poorly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7J0KkanzM

It is a good exploration of similar issues we fight today. Those issues never went away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You can always opt out

Is this what you are looking for? Jonathan Coulton - Space Doggity

You might like:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5612192/

Or this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA

While you were coming up with that, did you stop at all to think about how many very non-capitalist countries are the worst offenders here? Iran, whose economy is 60% centrally planned (which is a wet-dream-come-true in your case) holds the #1 most polluted city in the world, with many other either pure socialist or mostly socialist countries not far behind them. For comparison, the US, which is arguably the most capitalist country in the world, doesn't even have a single city that falls within the top 1,000 polluting cities in the world.

What an epic fail on your part. You aren't very good at thinking, you know. It's best to leave that to the competent people.

As war profiteering, you realize much of this has nothing to do with weapons, right? Even your own link says so. But let's stay on this subject, now that you've brought it up: Which country focused the most effort on building high powered nuclear weapons? (Hint: It wasn't a capitalist one.) And speak of weapons:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/30/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Though I could go on forever; in fact Russia alone does many of these in tandem for different military branches.

But what's the first Google result on this for America?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHi...

I pity those with weak minds like yours...they always end up being somebody's useful idiot.

While you were coming up with that, did you stop at all to think about how many very non-capitalist countries are the worst offenders here? Iran, whose economy is 60% centrally planned (which is a wet-dream-come-true in your case) holds the #1 most polluted city in the world, with many other either pure socialist or mostly socialist countries not far behind them. For comparison, the US, which is arguably the most capitalist country in the world, doesn't even have a single city that falls within the top 1,000 polluting cities in the world.

What an epic fail on your part. You aren't very good at thinking, you know. It's best to leave that to the competent people.

As war profiteering, you realize much of this has nothing to do with weapons, right? Even your own link says so. But let's stay on this subject, now that you've brought it up: Which country focused the most effort on building high powered nuclear weapons? (Hint: It wasn't a capitalist one.) And speak of weapons:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/30/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Though I could go on forever; in fact Russia alone does many of these in tandem for different military branches.

But what's the first Google result on this for America?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHi...

I pity those with weak minds like yours...they always end up being somebody's useful idiot.

While you were coming up with that, did you stop at all to think about how many very non-capitalist countries are the worst offenders here? Iran, whose economy is 60% centrally planned (which is a wet-dream-come-true in your case) holds the #1 most polluted city in the world, with many other either pure socialist or mostly socialist countries not far behind them. For comparison, the US, which is arguably the most capitalist country in the world, doesn't even have a single city that falls within the top 1,000 polluting cities in the world.

What an epic fail on your part. You aren't very good at thinking, you know. It's best to leave that to the competent people.

As war profiteering, you realize much of this has nothing to do with weapons, right? Even your own link says so. But let's stay on this subject, now that you've brought it up: Which country focused the most effort on building high powered nuclear weapons? (Hint: It wasn't a capitalist one.) And speak of weapons:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/30/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Though I could go on forever; in fact Russia alone does many of these in tandem for different military branches.

But what's the first Google result on this for America?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHi...

I pity those with weak minds like yours...they always end up being somebody's useful idiot.

there was much rejoicing

The Nazis hate black people, brown people, Jews, Muslims, gay people, transsexuals, women, foreigners and so on.
Antifa hate the Nazis. .. .. ..
aaaaand everybody hates the Jews
But during National Brotherhood Week...

Could be worse. Could be Boeing.

This video cams out shortly after Boeing went to a 'moving assembly line'. Lots of laughs (and some groans) on the shop floor.

1. If companies are people, then of course the other people they murder, are companies too! --> This is basically half of MIcrosoft's business model! They killed countless other companies. E.g. via Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. Or via offering key employees twice the pay and a $40 million one-time gift, if they leave, and leave the competitor in ruins. Or injecting moles like Elop who deliberately fuck up the company, while having shares in the competitor.

2. Companies murder real actual people every day! Do you know how many big corporations basically have their own military and do real actual warfare in third world countries? Shell springing to mind. ... And then there's Monsanto. ... Or Eli Lilly, who put up stands in schools to literally hook schoolchildren on hard drugs ("giving out free samples") that make them psychopathic and school-shooty and suicidal. And they are fully aware of that. ...

So... in what delusional reality distortion safe space bubble do you live??

LOL u joking bro? They shut down the speech of people they disagree with with violence. Antifa are not Anti Fascists. If they were...they would attack Hillary, Bush and Sorosï. They wear masks and black shirts. They bear a great resemblance to the very people they claim to oppose. At what point do you ask yourself, "Hans, are we the baddies?"

Relevant?

Apple is in the business of selling hardware, not selling your data.

While it is undeniable that Apple does make money selling hardware, they aren't really a hardware company. They are a software company and this is something Steve Jobs understood a long time ago. They really make their money selling software. The hardware is simply the means by which they sell their software. The hardware on a Mac is in reality barely different from a Dell or HP computer. The iPhone hardware is barely different from numerous Android phones. Put Windows on a Mac or Android on an iPhone and customers would leave Apple faster than you can say "shareholder lawsuit". The hardware is what facilitates the sale but what people really are buying is the software and that is what they pay a premium for.

Think of it this way. Companies keep the valuable parts of the business. Apple doesn't not manufacture hardware so hardware is obviously not the core of their business. They functions they kept in house are software development and hardware design. The hardware design is simply to facilitate selling the software by putting it in a pretty and well designed box.

And at least so far you are right that Apple does appear to in general be responsible with customer data and privacy. So far... And the reason they can do that is that they haven't needed to get into the ad business to maintain their margins. It's actually one of the reasons I have an iPhone instead of Android. It's not that I think the Android system is bad (it's better in many ways) but Google develops Android specifically so that they can continue to make money with their core advertising business which does not and cannot respect my privacy and data. It's a built in conflict of interest that is not in my favor. I'm actually willing to pay Apple a more to avoid that issue. Your mileage may vary of course.

That plus creating a premium experience translates to a device that people will pay a premium to get.

Correct. And the basis of that experience is software. If Apple sold their software through others they would probably look a lot like Microsoft in a best case scenario. Instead they are a little more vertically integrated to differentiate their products because operating systems tends to be a winner take all sort of business. Had they taken Microsoft's playbook probably one or the other of them would have died years ago. Had they taken the approach of selling hardware with someone else's software they would be nothing more than another me-too vendor of PCs even in the best case scenario and their margins would be a LOT thinner.

causes you to fail to understand the very real cultural issues that have been developing since then and how tech interacts with it.

And what does that cause?

I think Jay Sherman has this one nailed.

Sounds more like the moon landing hoax to me.

The reason why the report had such an easy passage out the door, all too late, no stopping it now, damage done, all we can do now is attempt to mitigate harm. No deny it, because it will be worse next year and the year after that et al and in fact realy catastrophic years could be in there, really catasrophic. Denial and fucking around and fuck everyone I wont more money now, too late even for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... You are already sinking and it will start to happen faster, done deal, you bought and you own it whether you want it or not.

Overcoming some real problems will be the nuclear challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568iDYn8pjc

Or neuter the solid fact that he's a douche

Trump & Billy Bush lewd conversation about women, Donald Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pussy”

The Brits certainly have the motive to create division in Europe at the moment.

Surely you're not suggesting Her Majesty's government would do anything underhand?

Her Majesty's government is, of course, beyond reproach. Theresa May's government, on the other hand...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's nice how the ministers give Her Majesty some plausible deniability...

Today's clarification goes on to explain how that error on Tuesday caused Drive to "misinterpret" responses from the antivirus system designed to protect against malware, phishing, and spam.

This is pure speculation on my part, but based on the description above it sounds like they forgot to use C++11's "enum class", which would have caught the mistake at compile time.

// hypothetical names and stuff. I've never seen Google's code
enum ViolationFlags { VF_NONE = 0, VF_TOS = 1, VF_VIRUS = 2 };
enum VirusCheckerResult { VC_OK = 0, VC_VIRUS = 1, VC_MALWARE = 2, VC_PHISHING = 4, VC_SPAM = 8 };
...
VirusCheckerResult result = virus_checker.scan(file);
if (result & VC_VIRUS) {
  file.set_violation(VC_VIRUS); /* bug; should have been VF_VIRUS; note: implicit (ViolationFlags)(int)VC_VIRUS == VF_TOS */
}

C++11 enum class fixes this by adding strong typing:

// hypothetical names and stuff. I've never seen Google's code
enum class ViolationFlags { NONE = 0, TOS = 1, VIRUS = 2 };
enum class VirusCheckerResult { OK = 0, VIRUS = 1, MALWARE = 2, PHISHING = 4, SPAM = 8 };
VirusCheckerResult operator&(VirusCheckerResult, VirusCheckerResult); /* assume this is defined; it would just use static casts to int */
...
VirusCheckerResult result = virus_checker.scan(file);
if ((result & VirusCheckerResult::VIRUS) != VirusCheckerResult::OK) {
// file.set_violation(VirusCheckerResult::VIRUS); /* note: The buggy version won't compile */
  file.set_violation(ViolationFlags::VIRUS); /* fixed */
}

p.s. Why I assume it's a C++ bug: In the past few weeks I watched a bunch of CppCon 2017 videos. In one of those videos, Google's Titus Winters said that his team had just re-factored 250 million lines of C++ code at Google (source: CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Who's controlling it?

What's "it"?

The ship!

You are, right?

Only the rudder.

Whose controlling the propellers then?

I thought you were.

No, I thought you were!

Let's ask Mikey. Mikey, are you controlling the propellers?

I was earlier, but I thought you guys took control of them. See, the red icon is on.

That's not a red icon, that's the object we are about to collide with...

I am betting Trump is in need of a distraction, like maybe this latest fallout from the Mueller investigation: Sam Clovis, intended to take a science post at the Department of Agriculture (although he has no background in agriculture or science) is dropping out because of his ties to George Papadopoulos, the first person to plead guilty in the Russia probe.

Earlier this year, Trump nominated him to a formal position within the department: the Undersecretary of Research, Education, and Economics. That position... is often referred to as Agriculture's chief scientist. The law that created the position indicates that the person nominated for it should be chosen “from among distinguished scientists with specialized training or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics."

That description is a poor fit for Clovis... Clovis admits he hasn't taken any courses or published any research in science or agriculture. Instead, he suggested he was qualified because some of the courses he taught included some material on agriculture, and he had run for statewide office in Iowa. "One cannot be a credible candidate in that state," Clovis contended, "without significant agricultural experience and knowledge.”

This is too funny. Don T. said he'd “hire the best people.” Well, as scientists go, Clovis is an excellent talk-show host.. He's out now, but there's plenty more appointees to help you question whether studying hard was worth it.

This is the crap we had to put up with when you are the only game in town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsJ9VSQvbE.

Once there are actual competitions, you have the audacity to whine and complain about losing money? No, just no. You have provided crappy services at gouging prices. Of course people will run away when there is a better service elsewhere. Get your shit together, or you will continue to lose your subscribers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH4g_ua5es

dating an iPhone girl is downright confusing

Yeah that Siri has a sexy voice but can be funny sometimes!

Alexa is a bit nicer she at least buys me gifts!

I wonder if i could get them interested in a 3-way

dating an iPhone girl is downright confusing

Yeah that Siri has a sexy voice but can be funny sometimes!

Alexa is a bit nicer she at least buys me gifts!

I wonder if i could get them interested in a 3-way

dating an iPhone girl is downright confusing

Yeah that Siri has a sexy voice but can be funny sometimes!

Alexa is a bit nicer she at least buys me gifts!

I wonder if i could get them interested in a 3-way

Use Lucifer's emoji message for your next study and see if _anybody_ who hasn't see this scene can understand what it means.