This is a site for technical minded people, right? Computer science? IT? It is all about mathematics and numbers? Scientists, physicists, etc.?
Okay. This is easy. Do the math, folks.
"More expensive" is a synonym for "generates more profit". Open source, therefore, is obviously more desirable for the business world than the proprietary model.
The monetary system is not about the numerical value in your wallet--it is about how much money moves through your wallet over the course of time. First derivative, calculus, etc.
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it's not elementary school math.
If you want respect and loyality from the worker... You have to show them some yourself
And, if it's "Burnie" or "French Fry" or "Pizzaface" who is promoting that line, then the first thing you do is go nuclear on him, go for his nuts, get him fired and sent out on the street to make him grovel and beg and let him learn what "respect" really is.
That would exactly explain why I am homeless. Because "Burnie"/"French Fry"/"Pizzaface" began to ask for a little loyality and respect from the management--and we can't have that. From the other employees, sure, but from "Burnie"/"French Fry"/"Pizzaface" we don't have to put up with that crap! I want him fired!
Since I first arrived in La Jolla, CA (92037) and noticed the little black domes darn near everywhere I theorized that, whether or not different subcontractors manage the security contract for any individual location, there is some overseer--either official or sitting on a network intersection--who has access to all of them. They probably have a FPS/MMORPG type interface which they are able to use to follow any particular person around should any particular person happen to catch their special interest. Given that there is such a large number of retired, semi-retired, lucratively employed-at-home, or otherwise fantastically wealthy with nothing else to do, people in this area it does not strike me as at all odd that I rarely have more than five seconds of peace in any location before people begin arriving to poke their noses or just hover around. What would it take? One fantastically wealthy person with a security clearance, fifty or one hundred people (as few as fifteen would probably do) employed underneath them, and rotating access to rental cars/used car lots to keep up a decent ruse? Combine that with the local residents and office dwellers who could be recruited to "call us any time you see one of these people" (mostly homeless).
On many occasions it just seemed to be all too coincidental that as I headed from point A to point B that there were people at point B just waiting for me. Coincidence, sometimes; coincidence, sometimes; coincidence, sometimes... but after five years it cannot possibly be random cosmological coincidence _ALL_ of the time.
Imagining a society of harassment is not at all difficult. Since the wealth distribution is so ridiculously skewed and since those who have the wealth have had a demonstrated interest in maintaining their artificial superiority since the book of Genesis ("There's going to be a famine in the land... You should do what we tell you to do") it is hardly unreasonable to expect that the wealthy will devote some portion of their time and effort to following and sabotaging any of the financially enslaved who happen to challenge their superiority. Now we have near complete camera coverage of entire cities to assist that.
Go ahead. Tell me that the fantastically wealthy, having such resources available to them (legally, illegally, with or without the owner's knowledge... hardly a consideration for the people who sign your paychecks, the paychecks of the politicians, the paychecks of the judges, etc.), would not use them.
The FPS "modern" interface is, IMHO, overused and the addiction to virtual reality is what is killing the brain cells of the gamers. Profitable, sure, whizz-bang impressive makes profitable, sure, good games, definitely not.
The Ultima series is one of (perhaps only) the few that became better with sequels. That was because they were perfectly timed to progress with the progressing technology. Ultima I had good game play and story line but was primitive on graphics. Ultima II had good game play and good new concepts woven in but was similarly primitive on graphics. Ultima III (Exodus) took the intricate storyline concepts from I and II, meshed them together, and then put that into a fantastic and colorful UI with that completely outside background music.
What I miss is that Ultima ]I[ was not an FPS. I am sick and tired of FPSs. I haven't actually played a video game for more than an hour since the first release of Half-Life. After Half-Life the FPSs were all just whizz-bang. Half-Life was still appealing because it was such an enormous improvement over DOOM (which was great because it really brought the FPS concept to life) because the hardware video card technology was once again on the perfect timeline (3D accelerating algorithms were beginning to stabilize). After Half-Life it was all the same; more whizz-bang, more glitz and glimmer, more anime, prettier girls, more graphica fantastica, more innuendo to keep the teenagers drewling.
What I miss about Ultima ]I[ is that the graphics were good, real good, game play was good, real good, game complexity was good, real good, and story line was complex, real good--it was also top down 2D so your characters _really_ looked the way you wanted them to look, the encounters were top down 2D so the enemies _really_ looked as frightening and gruesome as you wanted them to look, the battles were not movie quality full-motion video so you could imagine your spellcasting and imagine the impacts and imagine the blow by blow the way you wanted to imagine it.
Modern FPS is all about being brain dead and watching what we want you to watch. It is hardly different from advertising.
the rights enshrined in US law are intended to apply to all humans
No. The rights enshrined in US law are intended to apply to allsubjects.
That is: the rights are reserved to your financial owners. You, the subjects, have these pieces of paper to make you act like you have rights but, when we show up, you don't really have any. It is a carefully manipulated psychological game to keep all of you nicely under our thumb. It has been that way since we cut everything down in the book of Genesis to starve you out and make you do what we say.
it's about the phone being able to do everything we ask it to do
That's one core for you and one core for the people who keep you under surveillance. It's like data mining. You get one core, your carrier gets one core. Your carrier sells access time to that core (or its product data) to your employer, your bank, your insurance company, the local and regional law enforcement, your spouse, your parents in-law, etc. etc. etc.
The sentiment of "first" and "never done this before" is somewhat relevant.
"A laptop", only one? Cue the neverending laughter. Let us make an educated ballpark guess at the number of employees who access their personal banking information with an infected laptop. Session hijacking, background processes, like most of the office people who use online banking are watching a physical LED to see if there is additional traffic outside of their control after they log in. Maybe some folks, even in IT, do not know this but it is not very difficult to establish and maintain entire TCP/IP sessions without making a single LED blink or even turn on. I ran my entire LAN in what I comically dubbed "silent mode" and that worked for outgoing communciations as well. The wired router LEDs were completely dark (when I wanted them to be; ie. they were not broken). The wired ports of the wireless router were completely dark. Wireless communications still blinked.
Obviously the cable modem lights still worked as expected. Exploits existed but I did not want to taunt my provider.
Let me tell you that the American public already has enough self-made excuses to go around looking for problems.
"I heard my friend is now receiving AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
A few weeks later...
"My friend has been talking about these AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
A few weeks later...
"That bitch cut off my conversation with that guy I was talking with--she started talking about her AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
A few weeks later...
"Oh look, there's one of those homeless people. I bet they're one of those sex offenders that my friend keeps talking about when she talks about her AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
People love to jump to their own conclusions.
I do not need any more random strangers assuming that I've done something wrong. When it comes down to it: you people are the ones looking at computer porn and watching lower class sexual innuendo on television and in the movies and in your pop music, not me. Besides, I already carry enough with me--do you think I'm going to grab one of your kids and start lugging down the street with them? You people have the escape vehicles... not me.
Additionally it feeds rampant baseless public paranoia.
"Oh look, there's one of those homeless people. I bet they're probably a sex offender."
Then the idiots start coming around to test me, talk at my ear, see if I'm nervous or if they are able to intimidate or startle me--who wouldn't be easily aggravated if the only reason people interact with you is to test to determine if they are able to bother you?
Call the police before bothering homeless people. Better yet, call the attorneys and ask them if there is a right to bother people in public. "Oh, we were just having our own conversation." Right next to my ear. The attorneys should, if they are at all professional, tell you that, when in public, you should exercise better judgement. There is no law against "harassment", especially if you made your excuse up in advance, but it is a very fine legal line.
For years I have wished that I could find the article, but it wasn't an article, it was only a blurb... in the back of the NYT, in the aggregate news from around the globe section, about two weeks before 9-11, there was a little note about some organization somewhere, funded by the US, having its funding frozen because it had been recently added to a UN terrorist group watch list.
Then 9-11.
For all of the evidence that everyone else has I can never help but to think that those folks, recently added to that watch list, wanted to have a close personal talk with the senators who had assured them their funding would be fine.
I wish I could find that... I even remember where I was when I read it.
If a bunch of pot smokers want to turn their brains to Jello and wreck their lungs, throats and mouths, let them And if the voice of all ignorance continues to spread fear, uncertainty, doubt, and lies, let them.
Tax and regulate, tax and regulate, that's all we hear is tax and regulate. First you spread lies and then you want to tax and regulate--taxations and regulations justified by the lies previously spread. Control freak much?
Absolutely. The art of the ASCII file, the plain text editor, and the comma separated data file is more important than all of the internet.
1. Silent install? Well, great idea, but ideally you have one program file and maybe a few config files. This whole concept of installation is a product of lazy programmers and/or poorly written operating systems. There isn't anything to be done about it in modern computing... just sayin'.
2. No GUI. Totally. Similar to the concept of dependencies--you should know what you are doing before you consider yourself an admin. Same applies for computer security. If you cannot secure your local priveleges then no amount or combination of network firewalls or safety nets is going to save you from incompetence.
3. Somewhat disagree. API for remote admin? If it were written properly it would just run and remote admin would consist of editing the text config files.
5. Ideally all of the data is stored in the text files. That's easy enough. If you're worried about information security then pass the text files through your own custom made algorithm which you've hand-craftedly carefully buried within the asm of the executable.
6. Ha. I consider that like ftp. Log in and poke around. Is it up or down? That's all there is. If portions of your program become inaccessible when other portions are still running then you wrote it wrong or the underlying operating system sucks.
7, 8, 9... totally.
10. Documentation should be in ASCII text readable by any text editor/pager. _IF_ you create fancier docs from the original that is fine... ASCII plain text human readable should be first and foremost.
Totally. I was from the American middle class but had the opportunity, due to my high performance, to attend (and graduate with the degree from) an elitist private school. For the first four months I was the hottest thing on campus and showing my peers, who were from CEO/VP/millionaire/upper military/big time familes, the ropes (14th out of a class of ~350 after first quarter, same rank halfway into second... and then...). My peers decided that I would be much less of a star performer if they would pawn the local goose-egging (0.0 GPA, doesn't go to class, whines and complains and prevents you from getting anything done) wannabe frat girl off on me--push her towards me to get us to hook up together. The fallout from that situation closed almost all doors on campus and even made a couple of real good enemies for me in the administration; look, I made mistakes, they were being hard-noses, and the bottom line is that I was all of eighteen and they were 40-60 year old multi-Ph.D. engineers and scientists in the admin and faculty. Do not try to tell me that they didn't see that I had been set up to crash. Setting the "unfavorite" up to crash is 90% of office games in corporate America.
It took me an extra two quarters to recover from that. I had a hard time sophomore year, junior year wasn't any more fun, and senior year I was just praying to be able to finish. I graduated with a 3.2 overall, 3.1 in my major (chemistry), and corporate America treated me like a reject from a community college. Now I have been homeless for five years. Even when I was in corporate America I do not believe that I was making anywhere close to the median salary for graduates of my class and no where near the average for my grade performance level.
There's a reason why vigilantism is so frowned upon and force out in a civilized society: Vigilantes suck at justice
The United States of America is obviously not a civilized society. My personal experience with La Jolla, CA, indicates that vigilanteism is the general rule--and not vigilanteism to combat high profile violent crime or high cost white collar crime... no, people like to be vigilantes just to go around playing surrogate parent against the homeless, or hoping to be the next one to call the police on street people.
Vigilanteism isn't about justice. It's about being the person with the juiciest gossip.
just a bunch of dumbasses causing trouble.
A very good description of the retired folks, the dog-walkers, the neighborhood watch, and the wealthy snobs around my area. Their entire method of life involves: provoke problem where there was none, call police.
If they happen to catch one of the actual drunks or dumpster diving troublemakers then they give themselves extra credit. Maybe harassing me is practice for them.:-(
Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online
They already do. They already have for years. They have been since the first telephone networks requiring middleman operators were created. They have been for thousands of years.
Recall the movie "The Last Emperor". In that movie the young emperor is given a picture album of girls from which he chooses his soon-to-be wife. There is a reference to the real world there. Make note of the financial distribution of the world--greater than ninety percent of the financial capital of the world is controlled by somewhere between three to eight percent of the population. The ratio is somewhat similar to classroom ratios in American public schools--twenty-five or thirty-five to one. Make note of the American institution of yearly class photos.
Your financial controllers, having a ratio of twenty or thirty to one over the rest of you financially indebted servants, are like that young emperor in the movie "The Last Emperor". At a very early age they are shown your pictures, yearly, and instructed that these twenty or thirty people are their personal life long servants. Their financial regime, their monetary empire, is comprised of those twenty or thirty pictures which they are shown, yearly, compiled from the yearly school photographs.
Since the days of thousands of years ago the financial controllers have pursued methods to make the administration of their personal group of financial servants easier and less time-consuming because, obviously, they wish to have more time to themselves to enjoy the financial glut which they siphon from you via taxes, investments, insurance, the stock market, and carefully manipulating the prices you pay for every product you buy. With the introduction of telephone networks they had the ability to monitor and process and compile and infiltrate your vocal communications; monitor your social friends, determine where you were going and what you were doing. Not that they would take minute-by-minute interest in all of you but, should one or three of their twenty or thirty financial underlings happen to come up with an astounding idea, or step out of line, or perhaps make moves that might threaten their financial superiority and supreme reign, they would have the inside track to ensure that nothing would happen without their being able to control, exploit, possess, use, dominate, or direct it.
So, back to the summary, "Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online"... heck, folks, don't be so naive. Since the very first days of networking their is not a bit passed over the wire which hasn't been monitored.
Spreading rumors of sexual crime (predator, pedo, deviancy, etc.) is standard policy against street people and homeless people. Any question about a new homeless person, asked of any ten other homeless people, will usually attract one to four respondants,"Don't know who that person is. I heard they might be a sex offender. $So_and_so said they heard that there are some new pedophiles around." It is nearly standard policy to run the pedo/predator line against any new people on the street and, if they so much as bat an eye, run them down with it.
Julian Assange is free to have a beer with me on the sidewalk any day! I'll even buy.
Indeed. Fast freezing has advantages in that, theoretically, a sufficiently instantaneous freeze could preserve tertiary and quaternary structures. In practice the laboratory technique is no where near that good.
Similar concepts apply to pharmaceutical development based upon data gleaned from enzymatic assay or even cell cultures of only one cell type. There is a whole lot that goes on in the surrounding environment that makes a heckuvalot more difference than just the one thing under the microscope.
Take creamer in coffee, real cream. Do not add it to hot coffee or the coffee will taste burnt and, likely, you will have gas from it. Hot coffee denatures cream. Allow the coffee to cool before adding cream. Cold is no different. When enzymes and proteins go from normal temperature to super-frozen they constrict and often fold differently.
Still... interesting technique and I am positive there will be good applications in the future.
Please tell me how we're supposed to pay our debts when the default is $43k in the hole that the group over in DC signed for and we have nothing to say about it?
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This is a site for technical minded people, right? Computer science? IT? It is all about mathematics and numbers? Scientists, physicists, etc.?
Okay. This is easy. Do the math, folks.
"More expensive" is a synonym for "generates more profit". Open source, therefore, is obviously more desirable for the business world than the proprietary model.
The monetary system is not about the numerical value in your wallet--it is about how much money moves through your wallet over the course of time. First derivative, calculus, etc.
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it's not elementary school math.
If you want respect and loyality from the worker... You have to show them some yourself
And, if it's "Burnie" or "French Fry" or "Pizzaface" who is promoting that line, then the first thing you do is go nuclear on him, go for his nuts, get him fired and sent out on the street to make him grovel and beg and let him learn what "respect" really is.
That would exactly explain why I am homeless. Because "Burnie"/"French Fry"/"Pizzaface" began to ask for a little loyality and respect from the management--and we can't have that. From the other employees, sure, but from "Burnie"/"French Fry"/"Pizzaface" we don't have to put up with that crap! I want him fired!
Since I first arrived in La Jolla, CA (92037) and noticed the little black domes darn near everywhere I theorized that, whether or not different subcontractors manage the security contract for any individual location, there is some overseer--either official or sitting on a network intersection--who has access to all of them. They probably have a FPS/MMORPG type interface which they are able to use to follow any particular person around should any particular person happen to catch their special interest. Given that there is such a large number of retired, semi-retired, lucratively employed-at-home, or otherwise fantastically wealthy with nothing else to do, people in this area it does not strike me as at all odd that I rarely have more than five seconds of peace in any location before people begin arriving to poke their noses or just hover around. What would it take? One fantastically wealthy person with a security clearance, fifty or one hundred people (as few as fifteen would probably do) employed underneath them, and rotating access to rental cars/used car lots to keep up a decent ruse? Combine that with the local residents and office dwellers who could be recruited to "call us any time you see one of these people" (mostly homeless).
On many occasions it just seemed to be all too coincidental that as I headed from point A to point B that there were people at point B just waiting for me. Coincidence, sometimes; coincidence, sometimes; coincidence, sometimes... but after five years it cannot possibly be random cosmological coincidence _ALL_ of the time.
Imagining a society of harassment is not at all difficult. Since the wealth distribution is so ridiculously skewed and since those who have the wealth have had a demonstrated interest in maintaining their artificial superiority since the book of Genesis ("There's going to be a famine in the land... You should do what we tell you to do") it is hardly unreasonable to expect that the wealthy will devote some portion of their time and effort to following and sabotaging any of the financially enslaved who happen to challenge their superiority. Now we have near complete camera coverage of entire cities to assist that.
Go ahead. Tell me that the fantastically wealthy, having such resources available to them (legally, illegally, with or without the owner's knowledge... hardly a consideration for the people who sign your paychecks, the paychecks of the politicians, the paychecks of the judges, etc.), would not use them.
The FPS "modern" interface is, IMHO, overused and the addiction to virtual reality is what is killing the brain cells of the gamers. Profitable, sure, whizz-bang impressive makes profitable, sure, good games, definitely not.
The Ultima series is one of (perhaps only) the few that became better with sequels. That was because they were perfectly timed to progress with the progressing technology. Ultima I had good game play and story line but was primitive on graphics. Ultima II had good game play and good new concepts woven in but was similarly primitive on graphics. Ultima III (Exodus) took the intricate storyline concepts from I and II, meshed them together, and then put that into a fantastic and colorful UI with that completely outside background music.
What I miss is that Ultima ]I[ was not an FPS. I am sick and tired of FPSs. I haven't actually played a video game for more than an hour since the first release of Half-Life. After Half-Life the FPSs were all just whizz-bang. Half-Life was still appealing because it was such an enormous improvement over DOOM (which was great because it really brought the FPS concept to life) because the hardware video card technology was once again on the perfect timeline (3D accelerating algorithms were beginning to stabilize). After Half-Life it was all the same; more whizz-bang, more glitz and glimmer, more anime, prettier girls, more graphica fantastica, more innuendo to keep the teenagers drewling.
What I miss about Ultima ]I[ is that the graphics were good, real good, game play was good, real good, game complexity was good, real good, and story line was complex, real good--it was also top down 2D so your characters _really_ looked the way you wanted them to look, the encounters were top down 2D so the enemies _really_ looked as frightening and gruesome as you wanted them to look, the battles were not movie quality full-motion video so you could imagine your spellcasting and imagine the impacts and imagine the blow by blow the way you wanted to imagine it.
Modern FPS is all about being brain dead and watching what we want you to watch. It is hardly different from advertising.
the rights enshrined in US law are intended to apply to all humans
No. The rights enshrined in US law are intended to apply to all subjects.
That is: the rights are reserved to your financial owners. You, the subjects, have these pieces of paper to make you act like you have rights but, when we show up, you don't really have any. It is a carefully manipulated psychological game to keep all of you nicely under our thumb. It has been that way since we cut everything down in the book of Genesis to starve you out and make you do what we say.
"unhappiness of an employee as a measure of trustworthiness".
Are the employees unhappy because salaries suck?
1997 called.
picotux does not seem to be available anymore. That's too bad. :-(
it's about the phone being able to do everything we ask it to do
That's one core for you and one core for the people who keep you under surveillance. It's like data mining. You get one core, your carrier gets one core. Your carrier sells access time to that core (or its product data) to your employer, your bank, your insurance company, the local and regional law enforcement, your spouse, your parents in-law, etc. etc. etc.
You think I'm being funny?
The sentiment of "first" and "never done this before" is somewhat relevant.
"A laptop", only one? Cue the neverending laughter. Let us make an educated ballpark guess at the number of employees who access their personal banking information with an infected laptop. Session hijacking, background processes, like most of the office people who use online banking are watching a physical LED to see if there is additional traffic outside of their control after they log in. Maybe some folks, even in IT, do not know this but it is not very difficult to establish and maintain entire TCP/IP sessions without making a single LED blink or even turn on. I ran my entire LAN in what I comically dubbed "silent mode" and that worked for outgoing communciations as well. The wired router LEDs were completely dark (when I wanted them to be; ie. they were not broken). The wired ports of the wireless router were completely dark. Wireless communications still blinked.
Obviously the cable modem lights still worked as expected. Exploits existed but I did not want to taunt my provider.
Let me tell you that the American public already has enough self-made excuses to go around looking for problems.
"I heard my friend is now receiving AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
A few weeks later...
"My friend has been talking about these AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
A few weeks later...
"That bitch cut off my conversation with that guy I was talking with--she started talking about her AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
A few weeks later...
"Oh look, there's one of those homeless people. I bet they're one of those sex offenders that my friend keeps talking about when she talks about her AMBER alert bulletins on Facebook."
People love to jump to their own conclusions.
I do not need any more random strangers assuming that I've done something wrong. When it comes down to it: you people are the ones looking at computer porn and watching lower class sexual innuendo on television and in the movies and in your pop music, not me. Besides, I already carry enough with me--do you think I'm going to grab one of your kids and start lugging down the street with them? You people have the escape vehicles... not me.
Additionally it feeds rampant baseless public paranoia.
"Oh look, there's one of those homeless people. I bet they're probably a sex offender."
Then the idiots start coming around to test me, talk at my ear, see if I'm nervous or if they are able to intimidate or startle me--who wouldn't be easily aggravated if the only reason people interact with you is to test to determine if they are able to bother you?
Call the police before bothering homeless people. Better yet, call the attorneys and ask them if there is a right to bother people in public. "Oh, we were just having our own conversation." Right next to my ear. The attorneys should, if they are at all professional, tell you that, when in public, you should exercise better judgement. There is no law against "harassment", especially if you made your excuse up in advance, but it is a very fine legal line.
For years I have wished that I could find the article, but it wasn't an article, it was only a blurb... in the back of the NYT, in the aggregate news from around the globe section, about two weeks before 9-11, there was a little note about some organization somewhere, funded by the US, having its funding frozen because it had been recently added to a UN terrorist group watch list.
Then 9-11.
For all of the evidence that everyone else has I can never help but to think that those folks, recently added to that watch list, wanted to have a close personal talk with the senators who had assured them their funding would be fine.
I wish I could find that... I even remember where I was when I read it.
If a bunch of pot smokers want to turn their brains to Jello and wreck their lungs, throats and mouths, let them
And if the voice of all ignorance continues to spread fear, uncertainty, doubt, and lies, let them.
Tax and regulate, tax and regulate, that's all we hear is tax and regulate. First you spread lies and then you want to tax and regulate--taxations and regulations justified by the lies previously spread. Control freak much?
a one-stop toolkit for building up a database
touch
populating a database
echo >>
setting up a work flow to get data into that database
emacs pico nano ed
and then serving out lots of different content from that database
head tail grep cut sed
Absolutely. The art of the ASCII file, the plain text editor, and the comma separated data file is more important than all of the internet.
1. Silent install? Well, great idea, but ideally you have one program file and maybe a few config files. This whole concept of installation is a product of lazy programmers and/or poorly written operating systems. There isn't anything to be done about it in modern computing... just sayin'.
2. No GUI. Totally. Similar to the concept of dependencies--you should know what you are doing before you consider yourself an admin. Same applies for computer security. If you cannot secure your local priveleges then no amount or combination of network firewalls or safety nets is going to save you from incompetence.
3. Somewhat disagree. API for remote admin? If it were written properly it would just run and remote admin would consist of editing the text config files.
5. Ideally all of the data is stored in the text files. That's easy enough. If you're worried about information security then pass the text files through your own custom made algorithm which you've hand-craftedly carefully buried within the asm of the executable.
6. Ha. I consider that like ftp. Log in and poke around. Is it up or down? That's all there is. If portions of your program become inaccessible when other portions are still running then you wrote it wrong or the underlying operating system sucks.
7, 8, 9... totally.
10. Documentation should be in ASCII text readable by any text editor/pager. _IF_ you create fancier docs from the original that is fine... ASCII plain text human readable should be first and foremost.
That was Computes! Gazette
Heat Seeker 64! If you took the time to type in the compiler. Intro to 6502. Mr. Nibble. CMD Hard drives, 512k RAM expanders, etc.
Totally. I was from the American middle class but had the opportunity, due to my high performance, to attend (and graduate with the degree from) an elitist private school. For the first four months I was the hottest thing on campus and showing my peers, who were from CEO/VP/millionaire/upper military/big time familes, the ropes (14th out of a class of ~350 after first quarter, same rank halfway into second... and then...). My peers decided that I would be much less of a star performer if they would pawn the local goose-egging (0.0 GPA, doesn't go to class, whines and complains and prevents you from getting anything done) wannabe frat girl off on me--push her towards me to get us to hook up together. The fallout from that situation closed almost all doors on campus and even made a couple of real good enemies for me in the administration; look, I made mistakes, they were being hard-noses, and the bottom line is that I was all of eighteen and they were 40-60 year old multi-Ph.D. engineers and scientists in the admin and faculty. Do not try to tell me that they didn't see that I had been set up to crash. Setting the "unfavorite" up to crash is 90% of office games in corporate America.
It took me an extra two quarters to recover from that. I had a hard time sophomore year, junior year wasn't any more fun, and senior year I was just praying to be able to finish. I graduated with a 3.2 overall, 3.1 in my major (chemistry), and corporate America treated me like a reject from a community college. Now I have been homeless for five years. Even when I was in corporate America I do not believe that I was making anywhere close to the median salary for graduates of my class and no where near the average for my grade performance level.
There's a reason why vigilantism is so frowned upon and force out in a civilized society: Vigilantes suck at justice
The United States of America is obviously not a civilized society. My personal experience with La Jolla, CA, indicates that vigilanteism is the general rule--and not vigilanteism to combat high profile violent crime or high cost white collar crime ... no, people like to be vigilantes just to go around playing surrogate parent against the homeless, or hoping to be the next one to call the police on street people.
Vigilanteism isn't about justice. It's about being the person with the juiciest gossip.
just a bunch of dumbasses causing trouble.
A very good description of the retired folks, the dog-walkers, the neighborhood watch, and the wealthy snobs around my area. Their entire method of life involves: provoke problem where there was none, call police.
If they happen to catch one of the actual drunks or dumpster diving troublemakers then they give themselves extra credit. Maybe harassing me is practice for them. :-(
Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online
They already do. They already have for years. They have been since the first telephone networks requiring middleman operators were created. They have been for thousands of years.
Recall the movie "The Last Emperor". In that movie the young emperor is given a picture album of girls from which he chooses his soon-to-be wife. There is a reference to the real world there. Make note of the financial distribution of the world--greater than ninety percent of the financial capital of the world is controlled by somewhere between three to eight percent of the population. The ratio is somewhat similar to classroom ratios in American public schools--twenty-five or thirty-five to one. Make note of the American institution of yearly class photos.
Your financial controllers, having a ratio of twenty or thirty to one over the rest of you financially indebted servants, are like that young emperor in the movie "The Last Emperor". At a very early age they are shown your pictures, yearly, and instructed that these twenty or thirty people are their personal life long servants. Their financial regime, their monetary empire, is comprised of those twenty or thirty pictures which they are shown, yearly, compiled from the yearly school photographs.
Since the days of thousands of years ago the financial controllers have pursued methods to make the administration of their personal group of financial servants easier and less time-consuming because, obviously, they wish to have more time to themselves to enjoy the financial glut which they siphon from you via taxes, investments, insurance, the stock market, and carefully manipulating the prices you pay for every product you buy. With the introduction of telephone networks they had the ability to monitor and process and compile and infiltrate your vocal communications; monitor your social friends, determine where you were going and what you were doing. Not that they would take minute-by-minute interest in all of you but, should one or three of their twenty or thirty financial underlings happen to come up with an astounding idea, or step out of line, or perhaps make moves that might threaten their financial superiority and supreme reign, they would have the inside track to ensure that nothing would happen without their being able to control, exploit, possess, use, dominate, or direct it.
So, back to the summary, "Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online"... heck, folks, don't be so naive. Since the very first days of networking their is not a bit passed over the wire which hasn't been monitored.
Reality 101.
Spreading rumors of sexual crime (predator, pedo, deviancy, etc.) is standard policy against street people and homeless people. Any question about a new homeless person, asked of any ten other homeless people, will usually attract one to four respondants,"Don't know who that person is. I heard they might be a sex offender. $So_and_so said they heard that there are some new pedophiles around." It is nearly standard policy to run the pedo/predator line against any new people on the street and, if they so much as bat an eye, run them down with it.
Julian Assange is free to have a beer with me on the sidewalk any day! I'll even buy.
From phone phreaking to the present day on every piece of hardware ever deployed has been exploited.
People are such trusting little suckers...
Indeed. Fast freezing has advantages in that, theoretically, a sufficiently instantaneous freeze could preserve tertiary and quaternary structures. In practice the laboratory technique is no where near that good.
Similar concepts apply to pharmaceutical development based upon data gleaned from enzymatic assay or even cell cultures of only one cell type. There is a whole lot that goes on in the surrounding environment that makes a heckuvalot more difference than just the one thing under the microscope.
Take creamer in coffee, real cream. Do not add it to hot coffee or the coffee will taste burnt and, likely, you will have gas from it. Hot coffee denatures cream. Allow the coffee to cool before adding cream. Cold is no different. When enzymes and proteins go from normal temperature to super-frozen they constrict and often fold differently.
Still... interesting technique and I am positive there will be good applications in the future.
A. Pay your debts
Google: united states federal debt
about thirteen trillion
Google: united states population
about three hundred million
Do the math
About $43k per person.
Please tell me how we're supposed to pay our debts when the default is $43k in the hole that the group over in DC signed for and we have nothing to say about it?
amen.
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