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There's also this recent example of an entirely non-awkwardly integrated product placement.

Idential neighbors all the way.

Of course the Jews never instigate anything, do they?

No they found someone to steer. Unfortunately it was Captain Peter Wrongway Peachfuzz

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

Seriously though why would anyone think this was a good idea?
On that note why does google not allow me the option to use the desktop site on mobile and sometimes not even on desktop?!

Sadly Unix's 'file' utility is not sufficient for security purposes. Generally, file only checks for magic numbers near the beginning of the file. Many file formats remain valid, even with prepended data. For example, Python programs with several source files can be archived into a single zip file and still be executed, but you can stick a shebang onto the beginning, and still have Python (or most zip programs) recognise the archive as a zip file. There's a good video on youtube about this kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... tl;dr: This is security. It goes wrong in amusing and unobvious ways.

As a regular user on this site, I was about to post the same Youtube video anonymously too.

Most of the first migrants to come to our country over the past few decades were the richest, bravest, and most intelligent. Now however, we're getting a flood of third worlders, and as a result, the crime rate is going up whilst the economy will go down. It's an invasion in slow motion.

Sweden's got it worse than even us, as people can barely speak out over there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

astroturfing,

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I had a different song in mind...

"...Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr. Customs Man."

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

This won't work. The crocs could actually be your way out. If you're really good, you won't even get your trousers wet :).

Who cares what is legal ?

Sorry man, I'm just in a groovy mood... dig?

Hello. Thank you!

The only German Nina for me

Bob Newhart thought about this a long time ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The automation punchline is about 70 s in.

Already happening? Been happening since the dawn of tv/radio/movies.

Lets take one everyone has been watching in the past few weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There are no less than 3 different product placements in that one scene. It was a clever way to have some exposition and a commercial right in the middle of the movie. In fact in this one they make a POINT of having pizza. It has *nothing* to do with the plot. Though they did fib up the pepsi one a bit. But they had that well covered in previous parts of the movie.

Many tv shows and movies as they cut around will make sure the product name stays centered on the screen. But given the previous angle it would have been impossible for it to move.

My personal favorite one is in ghostbusters when he goes into the kitchen 'to check it out'. That coke can moves around at least 4 times. All to make sure the audience can see the name.

With the old live shows the actors would stop mid scene and light a Marlboro or a Lucky Strike and talk about how good it was. Also above all make sure the name brand was shown. We dont see it anymore with older TV shows because they were cut out for newer commercials in their place.

The large vulnerability is not in the encryption of the stored fingerprint information. It's in the very poor tools for measuring and reporting valid fingerprints, which allow matching with even vaguely similar fingerprint images. The original infamous study on the problem is at http://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldSt..., and there was even a MythBusters episode demonstrating the essential vulnerability of the system to casually sampled, stored, and replicated fingerprints at https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .

It was especially impressive that Mythbusters used a printed copy of a fingerprint, licked it, put it on the commercial biometric scanner, and were able to defeat the security scanner. These devices are security theater at its worst.

Obligatory: They took my thumb!

It's because people today are weak. And they're promoting weakness in the schools and especially in the universities. It's a plot to destroy our society from within, and people are foolish enough to fall for it. Mass immigration is the other half of this agenda. People inherently do not mix well, and strife arises as a result. To throw vastly different groups of people together is to create a powder keg waiting to go off.

Simply not true. If anyone EVER doubts me that Space Nutters think we only have computers because of NASA, I'll link to your idiotic post.

Just so you know, computers where already well on their way before Apollo, you know, for weird things like banks, factories, companies, research, the military, etc.

Why do you space loons never say "thank the Minuteman missile for the Autonetics D37 flight computer"? Hm?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Or "thank the F-14 for the first microprocessor chipset in the 1960s"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Well?

Hm? Oh look, the military (another socialist institution) was already way ahead of the curve!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...

Yes, as stated in the Latin pun of the Comment Subject. But hey, a great gags merit running Twice.

Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"

They were singing about bugs back in the early 1980s. Strangely, my girlfriend (a budding geek) had equated the song with a hacker's manifesto. I'd never thought about it that way. It was curious enough to write a journal entry - she was not my girlfriend at the time.

Nena or Nina or something like that. Some German lady who sang 99 Red Balloons. I was a bit too busy to really pay attention to the song when it was popular.

I decided to be less lazy. Here is Nena singing said song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes, yes I would have sexed her back in the day. I kind of wish I'd paid attention back then. She'd have given me something more to fantasize about. 'Snot like we just had massive amounts of porn back then! We had a few videos and our imagination! If we were lucky, we had ASCII porn!

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

That's it in the original German. I do remember Weird Al's version better.

Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"

They were singing about bugs back in the early 1980s. Strangely, my girlfriend (a budding geek) had equated the song with a hacker's manifesto. I'd never thought about it that way. It was curious enough to write a journal entry - she was not my girlfriend at the time.

Nena or Nina or something like that. Some German lady who sang 99 Red Balloons. I was a bit too busy to really pay attention to the song when it was popular.

I decided to be less lazy. Here is Nena singing said song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes, yes I would have sexed her back in the day. I kind of wish I'd paid attention back then. She'd have given me something more to fantasize about. 'Snot like we just had massive amounts of porn back then! We had a few videos and our imagination! If we were lucky, we had ASCII porn!

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

That's it in the original German. I do remember Weird Al's version better.

Well, as a former VCR repair tech, I can tell you why we thought VHS beat BetaMax: the VHS machines were much easier to repair.

A friend who worked at VMI in Sunnyvale back in the days said same thing. He worked on reel to reel, and interacted with other guys who worked on VHS and Beta. To align the beta heads, the machine had to be shipped to Japan as it was that precise.

I also heard there is a documentary about the guys who developed VHS, a Japanese show where they portray these as a drama. I'd love to see it as another friend while he was in Japan he watched this docudrama. These guys went on for days, weeks, months with very little time to sleep, take baths, or eat. Entire lab was filled with huge rack mount test equipment, scopes, etc. with cables and cords going everywhere, and floor covered with empty food containers. One of the guys was given an impossible task during the project which he was seriously considering an easy out (stabbing himself to death like a Samurai). Other tasks included hundreds of insert-and-eject tasks to ensure the decks will not eat tapes. When they finally got it going, Sony and other companies rejected it. But JVC accepted it and also provided licensing for other companies to make VHS machines.

Anyway, I am old enough to remember when video cassettes arrived on the consumer market. I didn't have enough money to buy a machine so I rented. VHS was a no-brainer because I can record a 2-hour movie or two 1-hour TV shows. Or put it in EP mode and record three 2-hour movies. Beta was maximum 90 minutes which even though I heard it was better (honestly I couldn't tell the difference) but I need that last 30 minutes!!!

But wait, this guy lead a team to develop the first consumer video cassette deck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Richard Elkus knew even in 1960s video will never be popular in the consumer market unless it was a cassette. i.e. people had 8mm film but they typically only watch it once because setting up a screen, setting up and feeding the film through a projector was too tedious for most people. Unfortunately US companies didn't buy into it but the Japanese took the technology and ran with it. Rest is history.

Getting back to Beta, that was the game changer for news media. None of the "film at 11!" as that is how long it takes to develop and show 16mm film footage of an event earlier in the day. None of packing a camera with a separate recorder and wearing a 50 lb battery belt. Grab that shoulder mount, run and gun, for action reality footage, and also be able to solve the camera in a politician's face, and footage is ready to go for the 6 pm news.

Then the solution is clear. We must go back in time and prevent publication of current best-selling dystopian fiction, by any means necessary. Live humans can't make it back, so we'll have to build, program, and send (cue music here) a Literminator.

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

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Modded +5, Insightful? Apparently 5 mods haven't seen the Monty Python Argument Clinic sketch.

Actually, it is about having fun flying as well. Modern Phantom 3 devices can be flown FPV (First Person View), which opens up a whole new world compared to the old RC planes where you can only fly short distances. If flown safely in safe areas, there is little risk that these drones can cause. If any plane if flying below 400 feet over anywhere, they sure as heck better be extra cautious anyways, as there are all kinds of hazards there, of which the random drone is the least of their problems.

Also, there are people like me who use them more for the photographic and video opportunities. Not spying on people like some pervert. That is like saying we should register cameras cause some sickos use them to take spy pictures in bathrooms. That is the vast minority. Do you want to know what most of us do? Here is a great example and explain to me how I could ever catch this scenery any other way:
Drone Flight in Utah Desert
It is just like any hobby. There will be people who abuse it, and the vast majority of people who are just having fun. I am not that paranoid about people spying on me with drones to ban the entire hobby. The real point is registration will do nothing to stop it. People like myself already put their phone numbers on their planes so if lost, there is a chance they will come back to me. The people who are the problems will not do anything. More tax dollars to a solution to nothing.

Likely difficult. Windows 10 seems to be written in Flash

No this is the first good version of windows that was written in flash. Now it only runs on HTML5 and is as good as ever.

This. Came here to say the same thing about Seattle. Not sure why everyone just assumes it is illegal and getting wound up about it. Here is video proof. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

There is regularly scheduled hydrofoil service between Athens and a handful of Greek islands. The ride is fast, but a little noisy. The boats are disturbingly powerful for their size. Being on one of them is the only time I've felt jerk (the time derivative of acceleration) in anything larger than a small motorboat. They are also very sensitive to water conditions ---you don't want to ride in them when it isn't nice and calm.

info -- http://www.aegeanflyingdolphin...

video of a Flying Dolphin approaching port -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Foreign intelligence agencies trying to learn the specifics of a new military system? I am shocked, shocked!

The only news here is that there are signs of it, and seemingly attributable ones as well.

I haven't seen Rick Astley in a while.

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

So if the IPCC says warming is slower (over the last decade), how do you extrapolate a greater increase of temperatures over the coming years

What we have is annual and decadal variability superimposed on a secular anthropogenic warming trend. If you look at a very short interval, you will see primarily the variability. If you look at a longer interval, you will get a clearer picture of the secular anthropogenic trend. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a good illustration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Good grief, you don't want to do that!

Fight for your bitcoins!

There is nothing new about people who challenge the consensus being shouted down, called crackpots, idiots, and so on. People who claimed the NSA was spying on everybody got the same treatment for years. Some people are terrified of the idea of reality being so malleable; others just always want to be right. There was a Norwegian television program called Hjernevask (Brainwash) that allows some "social scientists" to make complete fools out of themselves. Their reactions when shown evidence that contradicts their cherished beliefs is good comedy, and an even better reminder that people who call themselves scientists are not impervious to falling into dogma. There are several episodes. Here's the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yep, 80% reduction in Arctic sea ice volume in my lifetime, just like the US National Academies of Science said it would in 1958.

All you need to do is go listen to the English Parliament. Plenty of English Whine there.

Every country I have seen which declares that internet MUST be available to ALL citizens has subsequently shot themselves in the fiscal foot with horrendous cost blow-outs for installations. At some point someone must realise that someone living on a farm 2km from high neighbour is unlikely to be able to expect the same kind of services and systems available to inner city tech hubs.

Unlike other countries, the UK has a cabinet system that replaces the need to build exchanges everywhere like other countries, this makes the cost substantially cheaper. On top of that, a lot of these cabinets already exist from pre-existing technology that required them on BT's network. Dark fibre was laid out throughout most of the UK already a few decades ago providing much of the infrastructure needed for bandwidth requirements for access to all these cabinets. What generally happens these days is an extra cabinet is placed next to the pre-existing one and patched into the other cabinet with all the new equipment. High speed broadband is provided through technologies like VDSL and VDSL2 which can use the existing copper cables to the house to provide fibre speeds. BT Openreach (a subsidiary of BT that rents out their lines to other providers - Practically everyone goes over BT lines) is trialing a Fiber to the Premises currently and intends to offer it to all that have existing VDSL/VDSL2 connectivity at the setup price of laying down a new cable to the house.

In summary, it's actually feasible in the UK at not such a great cost.

You can get some further information off this training video:

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

I always laugh at the concept in Australia.

I think it's unrealistic in Australia too.

"You have demonstrated yourselves incapable of obeying the laws you profess to uphold."

You don't get why this is happening, the elites fear the masses waking up.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

"You have demonstrated yourselves incapable of obeying the laws you profess to uphold."

You don't get why this is happening, the elites fear the masses waking up.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

"You have demonstrated yourselves incapable of obeying the laws you profess to uphold."

You don't get why this is happening, the elites fear the masses waking up.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

Whenever I see shit like "Faraday hopes to distinguish itself by branding the car less as transportation than a tool for the connected class" I hear it in Windsor Davies' voice. I then utter his favourite catchphrase.

you can watch this if you like to see a test engine running and an explanation of the task https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Martin Luthor King

Wow, I always thought he was a highly-respected clergyman and civil-rights crusader.

I had no idea he was actually a brilliant scientist and Superman's arch-nemesis.

;-P

It took me a moment... OK, I misspelled "Martin Luther King". Thanks - I'll watch for that in the future.

He was also a brilliant orator. I've occasionally watched the oratory of popular leaders looking for the reason of their popularity. Was it Hitler's mannerisms, his content, delivery, or timing that made him so popular?

Martin Luther had a specific cadence that I think explains some of his popularity. He pauses in the lead-ins to the sentence phrases (as opposed to the ends of sentences, when the thought is finished), so that in listening you are always on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what comes next.

Add the fact that the content was timely, important, what people wanted to hear, and written at an emotional level, and the results are obvious.

Good comedians do this as well, and it's not just "waiting for the laughter to die down". Ron White stands out as an example, as does Jeff Dunham.

I've tried oratory myself, through toastmasters. In normal conversations, we're used to giving information as fast as possible for fear of being interrupted. I find slowing down and cadencing particularly difficult. Most politicians *try* to have good cadence, but are doing it by rote and don't synchronize with the audience.

How famous orators pick up that skill is beyond me. Maybe it's innate.

They sell it as an "experience" (a totally empty meaningless word) because they can't sell it on measurable quantaties (specs, price, value).

Marketing wins and the consumer loses.

They sell it as an experience because this phrasing appeals to the buyers' emotions.

See Simon Sinek's "Start With Why" TED talk for a good overview of how and why this works.

A copier salesman can't just say "this unit will make x copies per second", he has to say "this unit will save you money". Martin Luthor King didn't say "I have a plan", he said "I have a dream". And so on.

It's circumstantial evidence of Apple - they sell products at an emotional level.

"So are you sayiong that a Black American citizen can just show up in some all white village in rural Mississippi, and everyone will shower him or her with gifts? Invite them into their home for a nice dinner? Ignore them?"

Hate to burst your stereotypical statement, but I've seen multiple Black (& other ethnic) folks "just show up" here in MS. They didn't get showered with gifts, but were treated very politely (yep, invited to, and attend local churches)--much better than how I've seen the same color folks treated in other "more enlightened" places. Maybe you better get your news from someone w/o an ax to grind...

Oh sorry, THere is no racism in Mississippi, and everyone is a kind person, accomodating to all other races and religions. A true REniassance state of the new south, where all men and women are created equal, and all creeds colors and sexual preferences ar etreated with the utmost respoect.

whereas those northeren states blacks and other minoritiys are merely kept around so we have someone to hang when we get out th bedsheets foro our Klan meetings.

These folks at ol Miss must have been celebrating Obama's 2012 win, no doubt.

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

Oh wait. Hey, maybe it was a 50th Anniversary celebration of their riots when theyy were very happy that the first black student, James Meredith was enrolled in Ol Miss. Hopefully they invited him to church.

A former serviceman, y'all really wanted to thank him for serving his country I guess:

http://www.history.com/this-da...

Even your Governor welcomed him with open arms by a personal escort making certain he got to class. Oh wait, your governor was blocking the doorway to not allow him in the building. I guess your Governor wanted to be certain this man who risked his life for our country, got a lot of that fine Mississippi air.

Y'all liked him so much, one of ya gave him his very own personal bullet for his very own in 1966. Damn - southerners sure do know how to treat people who are different than you/

At Brandon High School, which is apparentlly a proud school that trains young men and women to invite African-Americans to come to church, in 2012, 19 year old Deryl Dedmon got two life sentences for killing a black man by running over him with his pickup truck:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The official story is that he and some friends were partying, when they decised they were going to go look for some black guy to harass.

You and I both know it was an accident that happened when Dedmon, was trying to invite the dead guy James Craig Anderson to come to church with him and his friends.

This year was a minor thing with another Brandon Student tweeting stupid racist comments on school time. Not a huge thing, but between us chachalacas, I don't think tshe cares for people based on their skin color.

And in the spirit of being ahead of the curve, Mississippi did not outla slavery until february 7, 2013. Or maybe 1995. If you believe in States Rights, you could legally own a person in Mississippi. until 2013. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he... See you in church.

We're pretty close to atomic limits. Did you think growth was eternal?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...

We've also hit limits on air travel and internal combustion engines... Or did you not notice we don't even have the Concorde anymore?

50++% & counting - Google's propulsion's out (ads) + "It's stronger than steel & a 3rd the weight" -> FROM https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

* :)

(I think that about "sums it up" by analogy perfectly as to my hosts files program which functions like Capt. America's shield giving you more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY single other "so-called 'souled-out solution'" there is, bar-none... using what you already have natively instead of STUPIDLY & ILLOGICALLY bolting on an already defeated by clarityray browser addon crippled by default OR built on its faulty easily detected & blocked code...)

* See subject above - None of your troll bullshit can make me 'stand down' & you know it... you fail (on ALL fronts).

(I'm not 'advertising' anything - it's free, it works & you're terrified of it...)

APK

P.S.=> Quoting "Captain America the Winter Soldier" in the analogy above, & now Howard Stark from the 1st Capt. America film in keeping with it regarding hosts files superiority on ability + resource consumption fronts:

"It's stronger than steel & a 3rd the weight" - Howard Stark

... apk

50++% & counting - Google's propulsion's out (ads) + "It's stronger than steel & a 3rd the weight" -> FROM https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

* :)

(I think that about "sums it up" by analogy perfectly as to my hosts files program which functions like Capt. America's shield giving you more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY single other "so-called 'souled-out solution'" there is, bar-none... using what you already have natively instead of STUPIDLY & ILLOGICALLY bolting on an already defeated by clarityray browser addon crippled by default OR built on its faulty easily detected & blocked code...)

APK

P.S.=> Quoting "Captain America the Winter Soldier" in the analogy above, & now Howard Stark from the 1st Capt. America film in keeping with it regarding hosts files superiority on ability + resource consumption fronts:

"It's stronger than steel & a 3rd the weight" - Howard Stark

... apk