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People love to refer to him talking about building a wall... but they forget that Hillary said precisely the same thing.

Hillary's Build a Wall Speech

See subject: Gratis + because it works doing far more from 1 single native file you have for FAR less & it's not "infected": Fact is, it stops you from being infected by bogus online machinations of most ALL kinds!

(It's there to help - the internet today DEFINITELY needs efforts of people like us, along w/ the efforts of the security community folks that yield its data for that).

* Doing my best - I have the ability to do so, so why not? I think it's your DUTY as a human being to do so when you're able to...

(Call it a "pay it forward" on my end).

APK

P.S.=> I appreciate humor, but I'm not there to harm anyone...

As the great Charlie Chaplin said in his "The Great Dictator" speech++?

"I would like to help everyone if possible..." per https://www.youtube.com/watch?... that opening line from it (listen to it, it's inspiring) - the program's my current contribution ... apk

> Even Yahtzee of ZeroPunctuation isn't actually a good reviewer.

Disagree. Ben's Minecraft review years ago was pure gold -- as in entertaining. At least it was more honest then a lot of other (game) reviewers.

Brazilian here, have lived in Rio, in Boston, and now in Belo Horizonte: - You CAN drink tap water in Rio, that wont kill you.

My experience in Brazil is limited to São Paulo state (Campinas region), Fortaleza, and a very brief stay in Rio. I was expressly forbidden to drink tap water from host families, them citing health problems. Maybe it won't kill you, but you could pick up worms - especially for gringos whose immune systems aren't developed for local pathogens.

- Stray bullets or carjacking are a more likely cause of trouble.

Yes, crime is a major concern, but you can avoid the favelas.

- No, Zika wouldnt be a concern durign winter.

Again, in SP, I saw mosquitoes all months of the year.

And the beach...

I saw many pristine beaches in Fortaleza; my travels didn't take me to the beach in SP. I was specifically referencing the lagoon where the canoe competitions will be held.

I wouldnt go to Rio. You shouldnt.

I avoid big events in general, so I'll go to Rio in an off season.

Brazilian here, have lived in Rio, in Boston, and now in Belo Horizonte:
- You CAN drink tap water in Rio, that wont kill you.
- Stray bullets or carjacking are a more likely cause of trouble.
- No, Zika wouldnt be a concern durign winter.

And the beach...
I wouldnt go to Rio. You shouldnt.

This was the moment I knew I couldn't vote for her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If it's so heartbreaking, why have you voted for every bill that gives us more of this? Why were you for it before you were against it and why do you not support Sander's fight on TPP? Why did you only turn during some debates? Why shouldn't I believe that the position you've held for many years is more likely true than the one you've held for a few months when it was popular? Why did you lie repeatedly about your NAFTA support?

Here, take a look in the mirror.

You don't simply lie to us. You berate people for calling you on your lies. You lie even about lying to us! You get angry at the people who show you lying to us, in your own words and no one else's.

So no, I don't care how many crocodile tears you shed. Give me ACTIONS. Actually DO something to put a stop to it and I might believe you just that once.

when 600 million Indians can't be bothered to shit in the toilet?

musk is using it wrong intentionally.

Eh... Autopilot means what I said it means and that's exactly what Musk says it means, too.

and fyi musk intends to keep calling it autopilot after it can drive itself.

This is one of those moments where you provide a link to the source. Otherwise I'm going to call bullshit on that. And no, the media calling Tesla's next-gen self-driving cars "autopilot" does not suffice; it has to be an official statement to be true.

i wouldnt be surprised if the way they marketed it would cost them the company.

You mean like this?

Some quotes from the video:

- "... keeping your hands on the wheel ..."
- "... if you wish to change lanes, check for space ..."
- "... remember that these features are meant only for highway use ..."

they did nothing to prevent drivers from taking the eyes off the road.

Should they sell a pack of glue with the car and an assistant to glue your eyes to the road?

teslas autopilot is 0% a safety feature

This is again one of those times where you provide a source. Musk has said their Autopilot is approximately twice safer than human drivers. Feel free to disprove it here.

and evidently doesnt work even as brake assist...

Obviously you don't understand even what you wrote yourself: it's brake assist.

Could their technology be better? Of course. Is it to blame for these crashes? No. Ever since the Autopilot feature was launched, Tesla has been mentioning everywhere that it's *not* a self-driving car and it's a support function for the driver to improve safety.

People have read so much about Google's self-driving cars that they think autopilot === self-driving, but obviously you can't fix stupid. And there are plenty of stupid to go around, free for everyone to parrticipate.

Your jellyfish 10 months in your aquarium, maybe 4 months in the wild.

Dang it! I was planning to vote Jellyfish 2016, and now you tell me it won't even live through 1/4 of its first term?

This guy doesn't have teh YouTubes? All you have to do is type in "$XXX gaming PC" with XXX being your budget and you'll find a video complete with benches and parts links. Here is a $400 build that does 1080P with vid and links to the parts are in the description.

And the stocks go up and the jobs disappear.

What's your backing for that assertion?

I ask this because I notice you've cited nothing backing up your claim, and it's quite a claim. And because people on /. make comparably grand assertions of people not caring about the Snowden revelations despite evidence to the contrary, and it's a good idea to back up one's statements from something substantial.

Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, and Noam Chomsky addressed this at a recent talk on privacy and spent some time debunking the notion that the public doesn't care about privacy or that Snowden's revelations weren't a big deal.

The host says around 32m44s that after Snowden's revelations were published by international news "Pew Internet Life Research shows that people were modifying their behavior -- they were self-censoring, they were curtailing their own speech.". Around 38m the host questions the point directly asking "Do people in general care?" to which we get variations on the theme of "Yes" ranging from Snowden's point that whether people care "isn't really that material even if it is the case [because] rights don't exist for the majority; rights exist to protect the minority against the majority.". He then explains that he thinks increasingly people do care because they only recently learned of the threat to their privacy and then he explains that threat in plain language.

Greenwald, by this time in the discussion, had already debunked the notion that people who say they have no secrets and therefore don't care: He offered them his email address and told them to send him the credentials of every personal (as opposed to work) account they have including the sensitive ones (I interpreted this to mean an account on, say, a cheat-on-one's-spouse site). To date, he said, nobody's taken him up on his offer. Here he points out that contrary to the naysayers who dismissed the Snowden revelations as a flash-in-the-pan that would go away in a few days, these documents have been headline stories "not just in the United States but in dozens of countries in multiple continents around the world precisely because people were so angry and offended at the intrusion into their privacy including people who might have said in the past 'I don't really care'." (43m43s). He cites a "massive increase in the number of people around the world who are now using encryption to protect the privacy of their communications, to the number of people who put pressure on the US Government in both parties to enact legislation limiting these programs [the NSA spying programs] but maybe the best evidence of all of how much people care about privacy is the behavioral change in Silicon Valley companies. The biggest ones -- Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, and Google, and Microsoft -- when I first read the archive that Ed gave me, one of the things that struck me the most is what full-scale collaborators these companies were in the surveillance state that the NSA had created. They were not only complying [and a Snowden leaked document from the NSA showing "Dates When PRISM Collection Began For Each Provider"] [...] to the extent the law required but even went beyond that." including building backdoors into their non-free, user-subjugating, proprietary software. Greenwald concludes, "And the reason they were such full-scale collaborators is because nobody knew they were doing it completely in the dark, nobody knew they were doing it, and there was no cost." (45m18s). Once this became known these companies changed their behavior due to fear of being seen as the collaborators they have been for so long. They know the pressures of their customer base and that they are seen standing up to the FBI, being "seen as aides and abettors of ISIS", etc. People won't use these companies' products and services if they know their privacy won't be upheld.

Noam Chomsky reflected on this from a historical p

What do you know about advertising? Are you in the business? Hits, man! It's about hits... click clickety click click click!

The officer says they gave a warning, the witnesses don't.

He didn't.

I'll admit, I hadn't seen the video of the actual shooting (as you clearly didn't either) until now. Now that I've seen it, well, it's even more clear that the officer was in the wrong.

Fuck, he didn't even take the time to make sure he was shooting the person the 911 caller was even calling about, nor to see if the kid had anything on his person, let alone a gun. Car stops, Loehmann gets out and fires 2 shots, that's all.

I believe there were many positive reasons to leave the EU put forward by the Leave campaign, the best of which are displayed admirably here. It's not my fault you're a fucking moron who can't be arsed to watch a 5 minute movie on YouTube. Or how about this. Why don't you educate yourself.

I believe there were many positive reasons to leave the EU put forward by the Leave campaign, the best of which are displayed admirably here. It's not my fault you're a fucking moron who can't be arsed to watch a 5 minute movie on YouTube. Or how about this. Why don't you educate yourself.

No one who intends on having a shootout with a couple of cops is going to tell them he's armed. And it's not like it would be the first time cops have ordered someone to produce ID, then shoot them for reaching for their ID.

It's standard advice given to ALL firearms owners to be extremely careful telling an officer that they have a firearm in a traffic stop situation. Accidents happen regardless of race, and if you say something like "I have a gun" an officer's mind is IMMEDIATELY going to fixate on the word "gun" that you just said.

DO NOT EVER DO THAT.

DO NOT EVER DO THAT WHILE REACHING FOR ANYTHING AT ALL.

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

No one who intends on having a shootout with a couple of cops is going to tell them he's armed. And it's not like it would be the first time cops have ordered someone to produce ID, then shoot them for reaching for their ID.

For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk.

-- Keep Talking - Pink Floyd

Perhaps we need to put down our keyboards and screens and lean how to talk to each other again, in person. If we don't, we risk going back to being animals.

>> If you do not know assembly, you cannot be a really good coder
> That is bollocks.

Only shitty programmers are clueless about assembly, which in turn implies they lack an understanding of memory access patterns.

Hint, try *reading*: Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming

Even Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer of C++, until 2012 was completely cluess _why_ doubly Linked Lists were so slow compared to Arrays

HINT: Managing the L1 Cache usage is critical for performance sensitive code.

Programmers concerned about speed use Data-Orientated Design. For details see CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

Knowing when to use, and NOT to use OOP, makes a programmer better. Using design patterns without *thinking* shows others you don't understand programming.

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Wanted: An Apple 2 Thunderclock Plus peripheral card.

>> If you do not know assembly, you cannot be a really good coder
> That is bollocks.

Only shitty programmers are clueless about assembly, which in turn implies they lack an understanding of memory access patterns.

Hint, try *reading*: Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming

Even Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer of C++, until 2012 was completely cluess _why_ doubly Linked Lists were so slow compared to Arrays

HINT: Managing the L1 Cache usage is critical for performance sensitive code.

Programmers concerned about speed use Data-Orientated Design. For details see CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

Knowing when to use, and NOT to use OOP, makes a programmer better. Using design patterns without *thinking* shows others you don't understand programming.

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Wanted: An Apple 2 Thunderclock Plus peripheral card.

The English are Basque... the underlying gene pool is Basque

Oh, sure. Source: your basque immigrant parents/grandparents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They used real cream back in the 1960's.

So the legend has it....

The sugar rush from eating one of those on a little kid back then had about the same effect as taking one of Roger Ramjet's proton pills.

Roger Ramjet is great, super classic 1960s Saturday morning TV. Still funny after 50 years.

Many (most?) US cops are poorly trained cowards. That's why they keep shooting people who aren't real threats. That's why they pepper spray people indiscriminately. That's why they grenade babies. That's why SWATing is actually dangerous in the USA. And that's why suicide by cop is actually viable in the USA (even if you change your mind they may shoot you anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ).

If firefighters were as cowardly as US cops they'd refuse to go into any burning building to save lives and just spray at it from a safe distance.

In the USA if you were trying to save someone who was suicidal, calling the cops may result in that person getting killed ( https://www.washingtonpost.com... ). Better to call others like the fire brigade.

How many other places in the world do the cops destroy and empty building? http://www.policestateusa.com/...

I'm a coward too but I didn't apply to be a police officer. Those cops are not fit to be cops.

While the Automation kick is an interesting angle, lets not forget what actually killed Hostess -- vulture capitalists. These are Mitt Romney style assholes who swooped in, loaded the company up with debt, then pawned it off after leeching all the money out. Somehow though, it's not embezzlement when an investment company does it.

But it gets worse. The unions that took the blame? They were having their workers give upwards of a THIRD of their paychecks just to try and save the company they helped build. And that just caused the vultures to trade the company around more and more.

That leaves the unions in one corner and the hedge funds and Hostess management in the other. Management ordered the company to stop contributing to the union pension funds, ignoring their obligations under collective bargaining agreements. They have demanded a new round of concessions, which would have doubled insurance premiums, negated all pension obligations, and slashed pay by 27 to 32 percent. Again, the 14-year Hostess bakery veteran: “Remember how I said I made $48,000 in 2005 and $34,000 last year? I would make $25,000 in five years if I took their offer. It will be hard to replace the job I had, but it will be easy to replace the job they were trying to give me.”

So yeah, the automation is interesting, but lets not forget what brought us to this point. Vultures bought the company, embezzeled a shitload by loading on bad debt and pawning the company of as well as flat out stealing from the pension fund, and passing the buck to the next leech until they couldn't pass it any further. And now instead of having good quality Wonder Bread and tasty, if not exactly healthy, sweets like the Twinkie, we get mass produced automated crap.

The local Hostess bakery re-branded as a Franz, and the quality is really good. They also have a direct-from-the-baker storefront that you can go in and get bread at a huge discount. Oh, and they're union and pay their workers a good wage -- around $17 an hour starting.

As I said the last time this came up, no American should EVER support Union Busting. Hostess is dead to me, and besides You can clone a twinkie pretty easily, which lets you do stuff like a fresh baked chocolate twinkie with cherry filling.

What, he didn't catch it? He'll never get that perfect Pokedex now.

You mean... like Pokemon but with real animals?

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

Here's a clip, the line occurs at about the 2:20 mark

Help! I'm being repressed!

No reason we can't be civilized about it!

If you ask me, the highest price society has to pay for Twitter is seeing their illegitimate CEO prancing around on tv and web clips as if he was a real businessman.

see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Funny enough they've started to use the words "active devices" instead of "users", like that lame java installer from Oracle (one billion devices!). So they probably know that most people now post using scripts or services like buffer without ever reading themselves what other people post.

And you thought you were joking.

I don't think she's being shafted; I think she's totally skating, and became convinced of that after reading even just a random dipping into the leaked emails. I didn't need and don't drink anyone else's koolaid.

As to my rationale about Trump, I'll let someone more articulate speak for me.

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

Relating to what you said, I found this interesting piece from a few years back. No doubt this is starting to be the new norm around the world, also on the Internet. The Internet in itself is in a sense a free-for-all space, but there are indeed walled gardens where most of the content has been amassed.

It's cute that you think the City has been defeated. Haven't you seen this statement by the mayor of London? Mayor Sadiq Khan demands more autonomy for pro EU capital. The EU won't send money to poorer regions, and it looks like London doesn't want to jump to the rescue and pay for the plebs. Might also want to hear his view on whether Britain should remain in the single market or not. London generates approximately 22 per cent of the UK's GDP.

It's cute that you think the City has been defeated. Haven't you seen this statement by the mayor of London? Mayor Sadiq Khan demands more autonomy for pro EU capital. The EU won't send money to poorer regions, and it looks like London doesn't want to jump to the rescue and pay for the plebs. Might also want to hear his view on whether Britain should remain in the single market or not. London generates approximately 22 per cent of the UK's GDP.

Ugh Software Patents and Copyrights are destroying innovation globally as the patent trolls troll away.

Have you ever watched The Patent Scam Intro video on YouTube?

Lawyers and finance at some point become another tax on productivity and growth. They are useful to a point but when spurious, vexatious litigation becomes the norm this is just feeding trolls.

I would challenge you to watch this video, reflect, and think about how you would draw the line between creators/innovators and the public good.

I have participated in patent applications as well as copyrighted works, but I feel they should expire.

Congress tried to recently strike a balance with recently with the Innovation Act, to try and clean up some of the pointless patent lawsuits, but it was blocked by the leader of the judicial committee. It doesn't help that everyone in congress and the senate is a lawyer and is shoveled large amounts of cash from the trial lawyers.

My main point is that works need reasonable IP protection limits for their creators. As far as FOSS goes, you could use any license or contract you could dream up and not rely on copyright. Just like with contract law, you can write contracts for nearly any terms as long as you aren't violating RICO. Just look at the payday loan industry and/or the terms and conditions that you agree to everyday where you waive your legal rights in favor of arbitration.

If we could all deal with each other fairly, the world would be a great place. Humanity has demonstrated time and time again that it is incapable of sharing and that there are a**holes which will abuse any reasonable system.
 

That is freaking AWESOME! Got any more cool hardware hacks?!

And here I thought Oscifun was amazing!

Oscillofun on Tektronix 2245A
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Linus recommends Nvidia

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

I'll see your few scholarly research papers, and raise you several violent protests that you have missed. Even leftists have to worry about leftists, as I stated.

Further, I can show that leftist people and groups support the protests.

Well, one way to reply to a post calling out confirmation bias ... is to double down on the confirmation bias.

You have a funny term to refer to what would properly be labeled as 'observation of leftists, on social media and in real life'.

Apparently I get to represent all liberals now

Only if you are unable to parse my phrase, "Should I follow suit, ...", which limits the following phrase to a hypothetical question. But I guess such subtlety is wasted on leftists. (See, that is using your inability to read to claim all leftists are ignorant as well.)

(or at least the ones you don't like, with that bit of no-true-scotsman mixed in under cover of "I didn't mean everybody").

I'm not allowed to clarify my point that you have such a hard time understanding? Considering my original post was simply comparing attitudes and actions of nondescript left-wingers and right-wingers in the post I replied to. Since I wasn't the one who established the general groups under discussion, I certainly feel I have the right to make that clarification. Sorry if that upsets you.

Let's get back to your original claim, which can be distilled to 'liberals conform more than conservatives'.

Oh, wait a minute. I begin to see your problem. After writing all that above, I realize upon re-reading this line, that you simply are trying to argue the wrong claim. You think it is a discussion of whether one group or the other conforms to the expected norm. But that wasn't Ungrounded Lightning's argument, nor mine. UL said that those on the left "apply social pressure to each other to conform", and in response to (I assume) your question about right-wingers, I voiced my support of UL's argument, and provided an example.

I stand by my claim that leftists do much more to force their views on society, even on other leftists, than rightists do. That has nothing to do with whether right-wingers (AKA conservatives) by their nature want to keep things the way they are (also known as 'to conserve', funny how that is implied in the label 'conservative').

You are arguing the wrong case.

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

I feel your pain! It's extremely annoying and disrespectful how people nowadays think a phone call is more important than an on-going conversation in-person. It's essentially the same thing! I mean, you wouldn't usually hang up a phone call just to answer another.

The other major annoyance is this.

Its dead, Jim

Joke reference for non-Trekies

I haven't seen the spec's but did Samsung claim it can take a soak in 5' of water?

That's what the small text says at the beginning of the commercial. Must be true. Advertising does not lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aF23XpBwU

No, that's for the Samsung S7 Edge. That one passed that test according to consumer reports.

It's the supposedly more rugged one, the S7 Active, that didn't pass the test.

I haven't seen the spec's but did Samsung claim it can take a soak in 5' of water?

That's what the small text says at the beginning of the commercial. Must be true. Advertising does not lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aF23XpBwU

Then this will blow your mind :)

And we should call what they have since become by it's proper name, illiberal progressives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not sure if BLM is a movement with leaders or something more like Anonymous. More than likely those BLM supporters who want to kill cops are the minority.

Seriously? There are founders, leaders and members of BLM that have been assaulting people and another, at least one for running a under-age prostitution ring and under-age sex trafficking, the one from Toronto has repeatedly said "they wanted to kill white people" and then at the protest in Toronto they brought out more anti-police, anti-white rhetoric.

Yeah really, these are self-professed members acting in violent, criminal and in general scum like ways. There's no real difference between them and the ye olde racists of yesteryear.

Really though, more whites are killed by police then blacks in the US by a huge number. But there's zip on the media about that. You heard about the last two blacks, how about the last two white guys who were gunned down that literally happened a few days/weeks before that.

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