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Yeah, especially since I actually mentioned them in my post...
Maybe a video would help illustrate how quickly these things work.

We've been refusing the tests for our kids for years. It doesn't eliminate "teach to the test" but if enough parents do it, the test results will be useless* and over-testing might be backed away from.

* Arguably, the tests are already useless but the proponents of the tests insist they need this data and insist that testing kids more and more is the only way to collect this data. John Oliver covered it better than I ever could in a single comment.

Master Lock's Bluetooth padlock has a body that's just straight up pot metal and won't stand up to a decent smack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"had security vulnerabilities that ranged from ridiculously easy to moderately difficult to exploit."
and
"We contacted 12 vendors. Only one responded, and they said, 'We know it's a problem, but we're not gonna fix it.'"

Soooo... pretty much the same standard as most consumer (non-smart) locks? I agree that it's pretty pathetic, but given that most locks are susceptible to a "bump key" and that even some supposedly secure safes can be easily opened with a magnet, the locks are mostly about keeping honest people honest, and do little to deter thieves.

For the price of smart locks though, perhaps one should expect a slightly better attitude regarding security. General for $100-200 you can get a fairly decent door-lock in the non-smart variety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Walk-Through Computer (1990, 1995)

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

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

Are you sure your "smart" furnace will work with a regular thermostat?

As a professional magician, were you more amazed by how the tricks worked mechanically, or by the very fact that people are too stupid to live and will simply not notice what they're looking *right* *at* if it's out of the ordinary?

There's a routine where you perform a recorded magic trick while changing a bunch of shit on the stage. People watching the video don't notice the changes (they happen off-screen). When it's brought up and a replay is shown, people will then become fascinated with the blatant scenery changes they didn't notice the first time; a significant portion of the audience then starts to wonder how the actual trick was carried out--which typically involves just handing off one prop for another, and is blatantly visible on-screen during the breakdown, but people are watching everything else change and miss that the performer e.g. handed his deck of cards to an assistant and got a brand new one *while* *they* *were* *watching*.

There's also the bouncing balls trick.

As a professional magician, were you more amazed by how the tricks worked mechanically, or by the very fact that people are too stupid to live and will simply not notice what they're looking *right* *at* if it's out of the ordinary?

There's a routine where you perform a recorded magic trick while changing a bunch of shit on the stage. People watching the video don't notice the changes (they happen off-screen). When it's brought up and a replay is shown, people will then become fascinated with the blatant scenery changes they didn't notice the first time; a significant portion of the audience then starts to wonder how the actual trick was carried out--which typically involves just handing off one prop for another, and is blatantly visible on-screen during the breakdown, but people are watching everything else change and miss that the performer e.g. handed his deck of cards to an assistant and got a brand new one *while* *they* *were* *watching*.

There's also the bouncing balls trick.

Some old machines, some with playable games like the Centre for Computing History in Cambridgethis, plus some hands on exhibits that give you immediate feedback.?

Some old machines, some with playable games like the Centre for Computing History in Cambridgethis, plus some hands on exhibits that give you immediate feedback.?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

..
(HD Trailer, Bluethunder, 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

YouTube: "How Computers Work: A Journey Into the Walk-Through Computer is an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through The Computer Museum's one-of-a-kind, two-story working model of a desktop computer." Exhibit flyer (pdf). Press kit (pdf).

have a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

full of children learning how to make computers do fun stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You didn't have to leave Windows 7 entirely that's the beauty of Windows 7 (or even 8 really) you can disable certain updates that cause you problems while still getting the rest of the security patches. Honestly I'm surprised Windows 10 reception has been as positive as it has been. In my experience it's close to as unstable as Vista* was and the force updates are one of the worse things Microsoft has ever done some of us have work to do not to mention it seem Microsoft is constantly pushing botched updates that you can't disable.

If they don't get their shit together by 2020 (Windows 7 Extended supported end date) I'll be considering moving to Windows 8 or Linux as well.

*start menu doesn't work, explorer.exe crashing constantly I could go on but I won't.

Free WIFI is the new candy!

it's finally happening!

Complain? That's all feminists do. You have it backwards.
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/i...
In this case, twitter is siding with anita against 'the internet.'

So, which side was attempting rationality? The 'conservative' presenters or the socjus people in the audience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (unedited recording)

Complain? That's all feminists do. You have it backwards.
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/i...
In this case, twitter is siding with anita against 'the internet.'

So, which side was attempting rationality? The 'conservative' presenters or the socjus people in the audience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (unedited recording)

What, like Christina Hoff Sommers? She's never made any counterarguments has she.

This video detailing construction of Camp Century was supposedly classified but there were articles published about it in Nat Geo and other publications at the time and during the early '60s.

The amount of waste that would be released if the camp were to be exposed for any reason would be a fart in a windstorm compared to the septic tanks leaking and leaching into the Indian River in over-misdeveloped South Florida, and would have a correspondingly minimal impact in the site area, much less the whole island and surrounding waters. Hardly suitable grist for the climate change FUD grill, for all you who have drunk the kool-aid and refuse to acknowledge the political and economic agendas gerrymandering science in that arena.

* Trump is evil businessman with secret tax deductions (little boxes checked with circles 'n arrows indicatin' father stabbin', mother rapin', dog kickin' 'n Putin lovin') and he must hide this at all costs
* He filed with EZ form and is embarrassed to admit it
* He wants all the clueless fascist idiots out there to reveal themselves to his voter base, as they publicly insinuate that this tradition of candidates' voluntarily releasing personal tax filings is mandatory and necessary to avert suspicion. So far we have had a Associate Justice of the Supreme Court revealed as one who does not understand this (implicit) right to privacy. Which is embarrassing to the country as a whole.
* Obama's IRS is actually delaying completion of the routine audit to make it seem as if Trump is trying to hide something. "Oh yeah? I'll give you something to complain about!"
* Obama's IRS is actually expediting completion of the routine audit, and this is what super-whizzy-fast Federal procedures look like in this computer-assisted people-dumb idiocracy. "Audits! It's what tax returns crave!"
* This audit delay is the act of a vengeful God. Everyone is simply trying their best and deserves a pat on the head and a prayer. A candlelight vigil in front of the IRS building may help.
* A man can dig a post hole in 60 seconds, therefore sixty men can dig a post hole in one second. Obama has tasked every one of the IRS's 89,000 employees to this single important audit. But the return is soo big that even so, it will take extra time.
* Unbeknownst to the average taxpayer it now takes the IRS ~28 months to process its annual tax returns, up from 12 months in 1965.
* The IRS is presently rolling back an inadvertently triggered Windows 10 upgrade.
* It's all a smokescreen to hide the other smokescreens.
* And mirrors, lots of mirrors! As the magician saws Trump in half, you must not be permitted to notice there is one hairy leg and one smooth leg.

Music with which to contemplate the release of Trump's tax return

I just want to see George Clooney's head explode. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

(no ,I don't like the parent channel.)

A) It's not that intelligent and certainly doesn't reason. There was a framework to the competition, so it wasn't a wild goose chase within the x86 ISA. For example, https://github.com/CyberGrandChallenge/samples/blob/master/examples/CADET_00001/src/service.c. This code has a 'bug" that's only found by brute forcing ASCII characters on input to that function.

B) EFF doesn't need to worry about this thing becoming sentient and starting Skynet. It's certainly a predefined set of common system flaws which, at best, use machine learning for their implementation.

https://www.cybergrandchallenge.com/tech

See subject: "... otherwise called 'The Magnetic Universe'" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

* Einstein DOUBTED himself (to Tesla, directly no less) - Tesla on the other hand (a man who wasn't MERE MATH THEORY inventing nothing, Tesla invented TONS by comparison) did not... & he did what he said "today is theirs, the future is mine"... & in this idea of his? It is. Needs NO BULLSHIT to be practical.

APK

P.S.=> "God don't make no junk" & he keeps it SIMPLE (from microcosms to our own doubtless to macrocosms - no "this doesn't fit so we use 'mathematical THEORY' (only putting in kludges like giant blackholes in centers of galaxies, dark matter, etc. - et al, violating pure genius that is "KISS"))... apk

Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.

Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.

Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.

Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.

Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.

My grandfather and father made stuff (like this guy all the time whereas now I'd spend $4 on ebay and have it delivered to my door already assembled in two days. I remember having to spend entire weekends learning how to fix things like fans and vacuum cleaners whereas now I'd drive down to walmart and buy a new one.

I could watch stuff like this all day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not sure if it has everything you need but,,,

  http://www.freecadweb.org/

https://www.youtube.com/result...

Looking at how everyone seems to smoke back then, I expect more solders died of smoking that any radiation issues.

In reality, smoking was not nearly as unhealthy as it is today. Big Tobacco optimized addition by poisoning smokers. Previously, smoking natural tobacco was not nearly as lethal as smoking what is in national cigarettes today, which is no longer natural tobacco.

From the US Surgeon General Report "Smoking and Health" (big pdf)

(No. 1103, page 112)
 

Death rates for current pipe smokers were little if at all higher than for non-smokers, even with men smoking 10 pipefuls per day and with men who had smoked pipes for more than 30 years.

(No. 1103, page 92)
 

Among the pipe smokers.... The US mortality ratios are 0.8 for non-inhalers and 1.0 for inhalers.

...which means pipe smokers who inhale live as long as nonsmokers, and pipe smokers that don’t inhale live longer than non-smokers.

To understand how the Big Tobacco industry started killing people, you have to understand what it is that they're selling... it isn't tobacco.
This Modern Marvels episode dispassionately makes it clear cigarettes contain no tobacco, but instead a tobacco-based paper product infused with nicotine and 300 some other chemicals in order to keep smokers addicted:
Modern Marvels 12x46
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here's a free clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBAuM1fLKRk

Regular, ordinary, honest to goodness tobacco doesn't do that. Its still not good for you, but natural tobacco is no where near as lethal as whatever the heck is in cigarettes.

Actually I don't think the point of all this is that we should be alarmed about this dump; it's more of a "ha-ha, look at that" story like the one in 2013 about the boat with climate scientists that got stuck in ice. Not so much substantive as ironic.

The US and USSR both did a lot of crazy shit during the Cold War. Today, chemical weapons are disposed of via thermal or chemical degradation (and are generally not made anymore), but from 1916 to the 1960s, we built those things assuming we were going to use them, and we made them hard to disassemble. So when they reached the end of their lifetimes we routinely disposed of them by dropping them into the ocean.

Meanwhile the USSR had a nasty habit of doing above-ground nuclear tests in Kazakhstan to see what the effects would be on a civilian population. They purposely didn't warn their citizens there (the USSR didn't have that kind of a government) and surprised them with mushroom clouds. Three generations later, babies are still being born or miscarried that have no arms, no skeletons, eyes in the wrong places or missing altogether, etc.

OK, I'm replying to myself here after RTFA. The dump is situated at the accumulation zone of the Greenland ice sheet, so if the earth's average temperature increases by five degrees C, anything buried that deep at the site will surface after 80 years.

This is land ice, not surface sea ice (which is declining year by year: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?... for a time-lapse). Land ice is declining in the rest of of Greenland which lies outside the accumulation zone.

Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners

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

The old TV detector vans were a hoax to scare people into getting a TV licence. Enforcement was actually done by visiting addresses with no record of a licence. This is another con.

yup. My uncle worked for TV Licensing for about 6 months back in 1985/6 and he showed us the inside of the back of the van....... fuck all there.
Also they cannot come in if you don't let them. Just tell them if they come to the door.. "I hereby remove your implied right of entry" ... even if they come with the police... you can refuse them entry successfully... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... if guys as dense as these two can verbally fend off TV licensing with police armed with a warrant.
I haven't paid for a TV licence since... well i never have. MY parents did but not me. i never really watch live TV with the exception of news but i find that i do that less as you can get better and faster updates from online. I don't even have an antenna/cable box etc hooked up. As for their wireless sniffing.... best of luck with that.. I have wired up my home with ethernet and the only wireless clients are phones.

The cigarette prefered by doctors

There will be no way to avoid this by sticking with "real hardware" technology like mechanical locks and keys. In the same way that that all credit cards will be chipped along with all passports, you will ultimately be required to have your house/apartment hooked to the internet to get insurance. This will be justified due to fire sensors that automatically call the fire department. Part of the installation will also unlock all doors and windows to insure that anyone trapped inside will be able to escape.

It sounds reasonable up to a point, but it's obvious that the police and government are already drooling over the possibility that no one will be able to secure their physical space. It will be justified in terms of "terrorists" and "home invasion", but the real motivation is so they can infiltrate anybody at any time. The lack of constitutional protections for communications will be extended into real life.

When Orwell wrote 1984 he was being optimistic.

Black Ops by TMBG

Black ops, Black ops

A holiday for secret cops

Black ops, Black ops

Dropping presents from the helicopter

It's been a long year

We've been so far from home

Too many people here

Here come the drones

We take the best of it

And make a mess of it

Ripping up some lawn

And then we're gone

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

Me & my wife are still practicing efficient typing on one keyboard. Maybe one day...

Reverse your morality
Listen to bands
That play only music
You can't stand

Forget how to worry
Enjoy your fears
Stop your life insurance
Disappear!

Don't believe anyone
Don't read your mail
Make light of every word you hear
Turn off your radio
Quit your job

Do something different - disappear!

Can I make a suggestion? You should create a channel/blog where you apply this to modern advertising, explaining exactly what they are doing with this level cynicism and wit.. Think this guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/A...

I for one can't wait to see how our language evolves with emojis. Smiley face, wink, smiling turd.

When Craig Federighi of Apple was showing-off the ridiculous amount of non-textual SMS enhancements in iOS 10 (and macOS Sierra?) during the 2016 WWDC Keynote (at Time-Index 1:26:06), one of which allows for easy substitution of Emojii in a Text Msg, he half-jokingly quipped something like "Children of the Next generation aren't going to have any idea about the English Language."

I'll bet he got called on the carpet for that afterward; but he's right.

I hope it does not involve lighting someone's fart with fire.

Of course. Internet is for p0rn!