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McAfee is clearly off his rocker.

...

I work with a team of the best hackers on the planet. These hackers attend Defcon in Las Vegas, and they are legends in their local hacking groups, such as HackMiami. They are all prodigies, with talents that defy normal human comprehension,

Hey, if these hackers are the ones that starred in his last video, and he's going to make another one describing how he plans/executed this hack, I'm all for it.

This is really just a continuation of the 'OMG freak out about nuclear thing' that has been with us since the 60s. Nuclear can be bad, but there is also radiation all around us, and we do know how to detect and manage radiation risks.

Small package of radioactive tracer material left unattended.
Dude walks past and notices,hey, this shit isn't nailed down.
Dude thinks, maybe I can score some bucks off of this.
Dude takes it and stashes it somewhere.
Dude starts asking around, who wants to buy [this thing?]
Everyone says, "Don't let the Americans know you got that. They're fucking crazy!"
Dude just gives up.
Company searches for the thing. It's gone.
Company believes in responsible (wince) disclosure.
Company is wincing because Americans shrug at the theft of high explosives.
But theft of enough radioactive material to slightly irradiate an area brings on a shit storm.
Time passes. Still not found.
Someone in the Iraqi ministry realizes that they can fuck with America's mind by leaking the story.
The fucking with America's mind begins.
Rueters is chosen for the leak because they are staffed with whimpering radiophobes and never seek out the opinions of physicists and nuclear materials experts to corroborate the risk or put potential dose or usage into proper perspective.
Rueters releases 'exclusive' wire story with few real details.
Everyone dusts off their 'dirty bomb' files and updates them to threat du jour.
$ perl -pni.bak -e 's/Bin Laden/ISIS/sgi'
Headlines are created posing the new threat.
Half of the stories are deliberately obfuscated so there is confusion whether a fission or 'dirty' bomb is being discussed.
The dozen or so follow-up interviews where real experts shrug off (or laugh at) dirty bomb threat are left in archives.
Google creates a handy new ID=0ahUKEwiCnOigpYHLAhVCKCYKHXhIDZkQqgIIKTAA to group the stories so you can see the silly headlines.
Someone at Slashdot does not like nuclear power, because they like solar energy.
It doesn't really make sense because to hate nuclear energy is to love natural gas, but there it is.
So let's ride the cresting wave of hysteria and fear.

Oh, how long can evil ISIS hold out? How can they possibly resist the diabolical urge to build the single little 'dirty bomb' that no one could ever completely prove would not erase our very existence? Will their tortured minds give in to uncontrollable desires? Can ISIS withstand the temptation to build the 'dirty bomb' that even now beckons to them in these shrill, childish headlines? Will they succumb to the maddening urge to (slightly) irradiate a small area? At the mere! [world press slaps its ass on ISIS' head] Building! [world press slaps its ass on ISIS' head] of a [world press slaps its ass on ISIS' head] single! [world press slaps its ass on ISIS' head] Bomb! The beautiful shiny 'dirty bomb'! The jolly, candy-like 'dirty bomb'! Will they hold out, folks? Can they hold out?

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

Not just them too! :(

These kind of countermeasures probably wouldn't stop this guy:

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

Or the too long didn't watch: He physically probes the data bus to be able to watch what it's doing, and can dump the full contents of the smartcard he's probing, or even insert his own commands if he wants to.

Just watched this today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Remember, Google does not give a shit about it's users. They set up the copyright claim system to help punish small users doing fair use and completely silence anyone exercising free speech.

They could link to this. as it's been done before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Youtube has a bit of a larger problem. Nobody gets punished for false claims. You don't even need a person, because Youtube will automate it for you. And while people can file claims as quickly as they'd like, instantly taking videos down or stealing ad revenue, it can take months to go through the review process of putting a video back up. It's a crazily one-sided system. Nostalgia Critic, a long-time movie reviewer, talks about it in a recent video.

Anyone around long enough will remember how stupid the CNG trend was

Umm. LNG is taking off in a big way. Cummins, Caterpillar and all the other diesel manufacturers are pushing dual fuel engines. New emissions regulations are moving marine engines to running LNG in port:

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

http://hhpinsight.com/marine/2...

It would greatly improve the safety of bicycles to have car drivers that wouldn't run their ass over because they didn't see them. Huh I suppose then only the poor would actually be in control of their vehicles.

http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

Yes I already know they already have self driving motorcycles in india but I said bicycles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I like stories. I like stories about pinatas. In fact, I like everything you have to say.

I do so love a post that effectively contradicts itself merely by the fact it was made in the first place. Very meta. Bravo.

As for the argument at hand, more irony... some politico says "I wish people would stop calling them 'Polish Death Camps' when the Polish people had nothing to do with creating them or running them; there ought to be a law!"

To which your response is that "He shouldn't be allowed to have that opinion, you know, to protect freedom of speech."

Your head a splode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Considering that a member of the Python troupe is a close friend of my mother, that I'm half French and that your blathering on about how your phone without a fingerprint sensor somehow gives you relevance on how Apple has engineered TouchID, the more apt reference is Now go away or I shall tant you again.

Your husband is cheating on us

your criticism is baseless and your judgement clearly faulty.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Oh I am so stung.

San Bernardino Shooting Story Shot Full of Holes, Was this a False Flag Event?

San Bernardino Shooting Story Shot Full of Holes, Was this a False Flag Event?

San Bernardino Shooting Story Shot Full of Holes, Was this a False Flag Event?

San Bernardino Shooting Story Shot Full of Holes, Was this a False Flag Event?

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I'm a big advocate for TOR and what they try to do but there are some big obstacles.

* Speed sucks.
* There are no good search engines.
* Exit nodes are widely blocked and/or monitored.

I saw a good BBC documentary that explains TOR in laymen's terms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZhmuGVSdaY if anyone is interested.

why does this come to mind?

Also, who cares about Ringo Starr in 2016?

Rory and the Hurricanes is as sweet a pop song as anyone puts out today.

The boss' cornflower blue question is cribbed directly from Fight Club.

Character set looks like this: degrees

Hope that helps...

Unicode is a virus

Language is a virus.

They should also be good at math.

The stuff they talk about at TED doesn't apply to anyone's life. TED is hot air, fluff, and pie-in-the-sky bullshit. It's a fucking joke!

My favorite TED talk

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

The talk itself is some self indulgent stuff about how she came to believe that there is a God. But irony abounds!

http://gawker.com/professional...

This new reformed woman had a bit of a road rage incident, followed a 73 year old woman home, ran over her with her car, then started to back up to run over her again but fortunately was stopped.

I haven't looked at TED talks the same way ever since .

This time is different. I encourage you to watch Humans Need Not Apply. Its rather enlightening.

Exactly what does that mean 'there is no labour', nobody is willing to work?

It means nobody is willing to hire. Not because of whatever government regulation, but because the "employer" fabricated themselves a windmill then used the electricity to fabricate themselves miners, assemblers, and so on, for the cost of the plastics and metals that went into them.

Do you own your 500foot yacht?

If I had the money for the epoxy and fiberglass I could have robots fabricate one for me.

Your own airplane

If I had the money for the aluminum and jet fuel I could have robots fabricate it for me.

Your own submarine

If I had the money for the metal it could be made.

Your own farm

If I...

A new form of entertainment that is unavailable today?

Ah, that's the spirit. Everyone can produce 7 or 8 billion channels of entertainment (it's not like they'd need to employ anyone to make it). Of course, it's all shit.

The only reason jobs are unavailable is government interference with the free market and money and interest rate and debt manipulation.

And the reason for the jobs to be unavailable after automation is because paying $ for the materials plus $ for the labor is more expensive than paying $ for the materials. Robot-assembling robots would significantly change the equation of "would it cost more to get a robot than to hire a person". That's leaving aside whether a well-designed robot would make mistakes on the production line like a distracted human would.

Will this be a problem in my lifetime? I certainly hope not. I suppose I could plan ahead by buying land, but China is already fabricating islands.

What Iran really needs is a revolution to overthrow those theocratic motherfuckers.

What they need is 80s Swedish glam metal or whatever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sweden needs a cleanse.

Below 10,000 ft, airplanes are travelling at less than 250 mph. At takeoff, it's closer to 175 mph for a jet like a 737. At less than a perpendicular angle, the rate of travel across a field of view is less than that. If a person holds their arm out they can point with a lot of precision -- it's a lot easier than tracking an object at the same distance with binoculars. Furthermore, you must consider being at a distance away from the airplane. The greater the distance, the slower the plane is moving and the easier it is to aim at. Pointing straight up is rarely the issue, but if you're a mile away and the plane is on approach at say 2000 ft, that's only a 20 degree angle. Sitting in the cockpit of a 737, a pilot can see the edge of a taxiway -- the vertical field of view out the window is quite good. The lasers involved in these incidents are often much more powerful than a pen laser pointer and are many are strong enough to cause permanent eye damage. Unlike an incandescent bulb, lasers lose very little energy on the way to their targets. It's like those idiots on the highway who blind you with high beams at night, only much worse -- and I've had my night vision temporarily ruined by headlights a couple miles away. Lastly, there are lots of metal bits in a cockpit to reflect the laser, and the windshields are often marked by micro-abrasions from dust and insects, which can cause the whole windshield to glow.

Here is what it looks like from the cockpit. Are pilots bullshitting? Try driving a car down an unlit rural road at night with that in your eyes and report back to us.

A 1 watt laser is enough to flash the ISS. It doesn't take much.

The hit doesn't have to be very long to be dazzling, especially if the pilots are flying in the dark and their eyes have become sensitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Of course we can.
This is not about music quality, it's about going against what RIAA (why do I always think of it as IRA?) and the general population push as "trendy" music.
I'd go for Deathstep (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) or Darkwave (but old-style, much like MZ.412, Coph Nia, Megaptera, Deutsch Nepal, Ordo Equilibro, etc.). Band name must stand out (thinking Phallus Dei or Anal Cunt).

I had a weird dream the other day involving a high-temperature superconducting film of carbon nanotubes with a tungsten atom inside. The film was woven back and forth on a nanoscopic level, sort of in that compressed zig zag manner like corrugate; that, taken as a linear unit, was then drawn in a trace inductor scheme (a spiral of wire), making a trace of superconducting air-gapped tungsten impregnated carbon nanotubes.

Apparently my brain was trying to work out implanting a microscopic nano-super-indacitor into a contact lens, providing field power reception and storage in one unit (capacitor AND inductor) to draw overlays directly onto OLED display positioned over the iris.

Waiting for them to move from supercaps on chip to supercaps on silicone hydrogel.

That's astoundingly gentle and well behaved. this is more representative of the level of violence disguised as victimhood you can expect from these people.

Susan Blackmore gives definitive explanation of what evolution is all about:

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

the talk covers it in the first 3 minutes and then goes on to things that are just as fascinating, but i won't spoil that for you :-)

Second, of all, a vague profession of "belief" in Evolution* is being made into a nonsensical substitute for OMG IF YOU FAIL THIS TEST THEN YOU HAVE REJECTED ALL SCIENCE FOREVER.

Riddle me this, please tell me how failure to profess the politically-correct "belief" in evolution means you can't do any of the following: 1. Design nanoscale materials. 2. Detect gravitational waves. 3. Successfully perform brain surgery. 4. Sucessfully launch a spacecraft.

None one credible would claim religious belief prevents successful scientific research. Most significant scientific research up until perhaps 50-100 years ago was performed by religious people. The questions is whether this religious belief slows or prevents some scientific research that would have been successful if not for religion.

Neil Degrasse Tyson gave an arguably perfect lecture describing the dangers of religious convictions affecting the scientific research. One of his best examples was of the scientist he respects the most: Isaac Newton. Even one of the greatest scientists of all time limited the scope of his research once he decided only God could describe the movement of celestial bodies.

If celestial mechanics can be affected by the same religious belief that encourages the rejection of evolution, there are probably no fields of science that cannot be affected.

Successfully perform brain surgery.

I hope the success of a weak minded man like Ben Carson in the field of neurosurgery is enough to show that field has far more to do with hard work than it does with the kind of rational thought necessary for scientific research. Just because neurosurgeons are highly paid does not mean they should be confused with neuroscientists.

Well this is a whole new breed of cunt. The previous generation of cunts would call you dirty names and shit, however the new generation of cunts call themselves "politically correct" and will use clean sounding but still inappropriately placed words like "racist" "bigot" "misogynist" "homophobe" or label you as one who uses "hate speech", even when none of these terms apply to you in any way possible. In other words, the old cunts were hecklers, the new cunts are self-righteous assholes.

In fact, here's a video of what it's like to be assaulted by a hoard of these cunts:

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

He is the voice of the book.

Here is the "Adam Ruins Everything" episode where he talks about fingerprints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... As I recall, there was a case where someone committed a crime in Spain, and an American who'd never been there was arrested for it, based solely on his fingerprints.

Yes, but the TV need to understand a set of about 20-100 words, not a semantic sentence.

Firstly a sentence is easier to translate than an out of context word.
Secondly you have about 20-100 words with many thousands of possible accents in which to say them. You may not care about this American, but as a true blue Auzzie bloke voice recognition fails me for even some of the most basic words.

I wish that this video were actually a comedy sketch, and not a real life situation for many people around the world.

Pointing out a fact shouldn't earn (or tar) someone with the label "SJW." Making up or distorting facts, on the other hand ...

To use your example, women are often paid less than men. That's a fact. Saying that this is "because the patriarchy works to oppress women" is both way too simplistic and pushes a story arc that is both divisive and false. Men are not saying "when my daughter grows up, I want her to earn less just because she's a woman." Or "My wife should earn less, even though we could really use the extra money." People would pretty much universally see the unfairness of it.

The wheels have been set in motion - women are graduating and entering professions at higher rates than men, and that's already changing our culture at many levels - it'll get to the top eventually, but, as in the current presidential race, the fact that someone has a vagina is not a reason to vote for her, contrary to what Madeleine Albright says. That's pure identity politics, and is rightfully being called out even by democrats.

SWJ is a term with a relatively short half-life. It's as stupid as "road warrior" for people working on a laptop or tablet while going from place to place, and you don't hear the general population using either term much, if at all. These self-styled "road warriors" use it in a kind of "see how hard I have to work" appeal to martyrdom, but those outside "the anointed" will mostly just roll their eyes.

And yet there are SJW wannabes, such as Briana Wu, who manufactured drama, and yet don't have the guts to acknowledge the real elephant in the room, and in failing to do so and moving on, just drew more attention to it rather than trying to effect any sort of constructive dialog. Carolyn Cossey (Bond girl) didn't run away from it when she was outed. Neither did Lynn Conway. And yet neither of them is labeled an "SJW." Probably because neither acts like a hysterical drama queen (like pretty much all SJWs), but address the issue in a straightforward, sober manner. And there's the difference - the people who are truly working for social justice aren't self-promoting drama queens with Patreon accounts asking for money to help fight the battle for woman's rights because, in Wu's case, after blowing through a couple hundred thousand dollars in angel (mostly parents) money in not one, but 2 businesses as a "game designer", she needs to find another job.

Pointing out a fact shouldn't earn (or tar) someone with the label "SJW." Making up or distorting facts, on the other hand ...

To use your example, women are often paid less than men. That's a fact. Saying that this is "because the patriarchy works to oppress women" is both way too simplistic and pushes a story arc that is both divisive and false. Men are not saying "when my daughter grows up, I want her to earn less just because she's a woman." Or "My wife should earn less, even though we could really use the extra money." People would pretty much universally see the unfairness of it.

The wheels have been set in motion - women are graduating and entering professions at higher rates than men, and that's already changing our culture at many levels - it'll get to the top eventually, but, as in the current presidential race, the fact that someone has a vagina is not a reason to vote for her, contrary to what Madeleine Albright says. That's pure identity politics, and is rightfully being called out even by democrats.

SWJ is a term with a relatively short half-life. It's as stupid as "road warrior" for people working on a laptop or tablet while going from place to place, and you don't hear the general population using either term much, if at all. These self-styled "road warriors" use it in a kind of "see how hard I have to work" appeal to martyrdom, but those outside "the anointed" will mostly just roll their eyes.

And yet there are SJW wannabes, such as Briana Wu, who manufactured drama, and yet don't have the guts to acknowledge the real elephant in the room, and in failing to do so and moving on, just drew more attention to it rather than trying to effect any sort of constructive dialog. Carolyn Cossey (Bond girl) didn't run away from it when she was outed. Neither did Lynn Conway. And yet neither of them is labeled an "SJW." Probably because neither acts like a hysterical drama queen (like pretty much all SJWs), but address the issue in a straightforward, sober manner. And there's the difference - the people who are truly working for social justice aren't self-promoting drama queens with Patreon accounts asking for money to help fight the battle for woman's rights because, in Wu's case, after blowing through a couple hundred thousand dollars in angel (mostly parents) money in not one, but 2 businesses as a "game designer", she needs to find another job.

It is not about giving people the same amount. That is communism. It ios about giving people a fair part.

Say there are 3 people working in a company. 2 earn 3.000 and one earns 7.000. The cost of the company is 13.000 That happens when automation takes over (assuming no cost for automation)
One person is fired and that is the person who earns 3.000. There are two options.

The easy one is to now divide the 3.000 and one now gets 4.500 and the other gets 8.500. Sounds fair, but now player 3 gets nothing. Imagine that the highest earner is the CEO and the other is a married couplke. They went from an income of 6.000 to 4.500, while the CEO gets an increase,

The other posibility is to reduce working hours while not reducing income. So instead of working 40 hours each, or a total of 120 hour, they work 1/3 less or 80 hours total or 27 hours. More personal time while keeping the same amount of money for all. That would be a much better way.

Obviously this is an extremely simplified explanation. And even the first one is idiealistic as what will happen is that one gets fired, one keeps the same income and must be happy he is not the one getting fired and the third one takes all the profit it generates. So one has now 0, one has 3.0000 and one has now 10.000.
So the couple went from an income of 6.000 to an income of 3.000. That could mean (as the numbers are not related to real monies) going from middle class to poverty, while the other person goes from upper class to very rich.

And about the small percentage of the filthy rich, look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And again: this is not about giving everybody the same amount.

Only software written by Stallman himself is good as everything else is a potential patent troll and/or vendor lock-in.

Preach it, bro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"The banking sector is meant to be highly competitive so that scarce capital (savings) is efficiently allocated to the businesses that will produce the best real returns on it."

This has never been the truth.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

If you want to watch the documentary, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's kind of interesting. It's not one of my favorites but there's the link for those who want to see it. If you've got an hour to burn and want to learn about it, have at it. I like NOVA and this one is fine, still not one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-PiIbzbhw

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Hey, be nice. The guy has just died. I apologise for the Australian cultural references, but I think you'll get the gist.

You might be interested in the efforts on data citation. It's not explicitly about requiring data to be shared, but it's a step in that direction.

(There are some concessions to make sure that all data can be cited, including that which is embargoed or restricted due to IRB, ITAR, HIPPA, etc ... but then we can at least tell that multiple papers used the same data, so they don't independently corroborate each other)

I'm of the opinion that the data is part of the scientific record and without the data, the record is incomplete. There have been studies showing that public data vs. 'data available upon request' papers are less likely to be retracted

... but we also get into philosophical questions about what we expect to be kept. I work at a solar physics archive, and although we keep all of the raw data, we may adjust the metadata which can change the interpretation of the data, and our file format (FITS) means that we need to change the file being served. If we serve a calibrated product and the calibrated version changes, we replace it as we don't have the funding to keep deprecated versions. In theory, the version that was served can be re-created if we keep the metadata, but there's a chance that there could be a mistake in processing (either as originally served, or when re-processing).

Odds are, because of the costs involved with archiving PBs of data, and in some fields the experiment can be re-run for less expense than the cost of data archiving, we'll end up with different requirements for archiving in different disciplines.

At the very least, peer reviewers should be given a copy of the data so that they can verify the results.

And for anyone who believes that 'data is available by contacting the author' is acceptable ... please take 5 minutes and watch the Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts.

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