Actually, yes, yes, yes, and yes, depending on your point of view.
Widespread antisemitism predated the Nazis. Socialism is just another anarchist/labor movement, which were criminalized and demonized by the powerful long before Spartacus. Homosexuality has been brutally suppressed by Abrahamic societies, and wealthy landowners and businessmen have always been criminals to the lower class. These hatreds were not created by decree. They stem from the instinctive fears and resentments we harbor for those who are different, isolated, secretive, or threatening.
So feel free to cloister yourself, hide your differences, and pretend to be a pure, perfect and homogenous member of society. Only don't complain when a dictator comes along, for he will co-opt that false notion of homogeneity to rally the conservative masses, call your concealment proof of your guilt, and use your isolation like a predator who has isolated an animal from the herd.
If you're lucky enough to escape his first culls, you will have the honor of becoming his minion; you will do his terrible bidding, always keeping your head down, always afraid of drawing attention, because of the secrets you harbor, because of the sword of Damocles ever suspended above you.
So consider instead being friendly, open, harmless, and different. The things we accept and embrace in society today, after all, came not from isolation but from ubiquity, and what we call "normal" consists of all the things that showed up and refused to go away. Stand up and politely refuse to sit down. Connect with those who are as unlike you as possible. Not everyone will accept you, but many will, and you'll temper more attitudes than you realize. And in time, when a prospective dictator comes and preaches fear, hatred, and xenophobia, his words will gain little purchase.
The philosophies, politics, religion and entertainment of today has hardly changed since the dawn of recorded history.
Technology has changed, certainly; instead of watching Greek drama in a theater, we now watch Greek drama in a theater with CGI effects. But history has time and again proven that new toys do not qualitatively change mankind.
(p.s. - ironically, our imminent ascendance to godhood is another of those ideas that has been around forever...)
Except they try to maintain the rate of payouts by scaling the difficulty. The more people mine, the more difficult mining becomes.
In other words, it's an arms race. If you have better miners than your peers, you can grab a bigger slice of the pie. But once everyone has the same equipment, you're back where you started (and out a lot of money on gear).
On the other hand, anyone not able to afford specialized hardware will be pushed out of the mining game. The rumor mill is already pointing suggesting Litecoin as a possible Bitcoin replacement, as it has a crypto algorithm designed to resist hardware acceleration and thus keep small miners competitive with big iron. Then again, it's best not to underestimate human ingenuity when piles of money are involved.
You mean, companies that have no business plan except leech off investors until a profit model magically appears? Those are the kind of companies that fail when tech bubbles pop.
But there are tons of smartphones, and tons of people who want apps for their smartphones. As long as you work on something that has a real market and makes real money you don't have to worry about 'bubbles'.
we rounded up every old phone we could scrounge up from around the office and asked the owners to wipe them. Our stash consisted of two iPhone 3G models, two Motorola Droids, an LG Dare and an LG Optimus.
There were similar discrepancies in what Reiber found on the two iPhones, although both were 3G models running iOS 4
It’s worth noting that the iPhone 3GS and newer versions use a hardware encryption key which is deleted when the phone is wiped, but data was easily recovered from these older models.
Oh no! Five-year-old* long-discontinued phones running old OSes lack security! The horror!
* okay, the Droid is only 4 years old, and the Optimus a mere 3. (And both shipped with Android 2.0 or earlier.)
If you sell individual videos more than 12 minutes long, you play MPEG-LA a royalty of of 2% or $0.02 per sale, whichever is less. If you run a paid subscription service, and you have more than 100,000 subscribers, you pay MPEG-LA a royalty between $0.10 and $0.25 per subscriber per year. If you broadcast your shows on TV, you pay either a one time fee of $2500 for each encoder, or between $0.005 and $0.01 per viewer per year.
If you make your videos available for free (even if they are ad supported) you pay no royalty. If you sell videos less than 12 minutes long you pay no royalty. If you run a subscription service with less than 100,000 subscribers you pay no royalty.
If that "prevents you from becoming a producer", you might want to rethink your business model.
Assuming you have an unlimited amount of time, yes.
But in reality, making mountains out of molehills is a clever form of filibuster. It gives you a "tough" image even while you distract debate from the real mountains.
In the future, please refrain from comparing 80 hours a week spent hacking out a video game to 80 hours a week spent standing and endlessly performing the same repetitive task in a factory filled with noise, toxic chemicals and dangerous industrial equipment.
Well, I'm an incurable optimist when it comes to things like this.
For instance, I think we could end most wars relatively easily just by getting the two sides to sit down in the same room together, because then we'd only have to pick off the survivors.
I say I'm beginning to support the NSA's proposal to collect every post each person makes on Internet message boards, then hand-deliver the assembled quotations, in coffee table book format, to anyone said person later wishes to marry.
(a) we already have TOR and other services (b) this guy makes a nice, handy list of server IPs for oppressive governments to block. (c) I doubt he will come to your aid when folks use your connection for [piracy|drug deals|child porn|planning a terrorist attack].
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Actually, yes, yes, yes, and yes, depending on your point of view.
Widespread antisemitism predated the Nazis. Socialism is just another anarchist/labor movement, which were criminalized and demonized by the powerful long before Spartacus. Homosexuality has been brutally suppressed by Abrahamic societies, and wealthy landowners and businessmen have always been criminals to the lower class. These hatreds were not created by decree. They stem from the instinctive fears and resentments we harbor for those who are different, isolated, secretive, or threatening.
So feel free to cloister yourself, hide your differences, and pretend to be a pure, perfect and homogenous member of society. Only don't complain when a dictator comes along, for he will co-opt that false notion of homogeneity to rally the conservative masses, call your concealment proof of your guilt, and use your isolation like a predator who has isolated an animal from the herd.
If you're lucky enough to escape his first culls, you will have the honor of becoming his minion; you will do his terrible bidding, always keeping your head down, always afraid of drawing attention, because of the secrets you harbor, because of the sword of Damocles ever suspended above you.
So consider instead being friendly, open, harmless, and different. The things we accept and embrace in society today, after all, came not from isolation but from ubiquity, and what we call "normal" consists of all the things that showed up and refused to go away. Stand up and politely refuse to sit down. Connect with those who are as unlike you as possible. Not everyone will accept you, but many will, and you'll temper more attitudes than you realize. And in time, when a prospective dictator comes and preaches fear, hatred, and xenophobia, his words will gain little purchase.
Well, I usually use "genocide".
I'll bet you feel stupid for filling all those party balloons last week.
The philosophies, politics, religion and entertainment of today has hardly changed since the dawn of recorded history.
Technology has changed, certainly; instead of watching Greek drama in a theater, we now watch Greek drama in a theater with CGI effects. But history has time and again proven that new toys do not qualitatively change mankind.
(p.s. - ironically, our imminent ascendance to godhood is another of those ideas that has been around forever...)
Yeah, I was hoping this would be some sort of mesh backup, where files are encrypted and spread redundantly throughout the network.
Still, it could be a useful collaboration tool, but not a replacement for Dropbox or Crashplan.
Subluxation: the partial dislocation of a joint.
It's a very real (and measurable) thing.
Unfortunately, medical subluxation : chiropractic 'subluxation' :: computer virus : 'I think it's got a virus'
Nothing new; we've been anti-castor since 1960.
Except they try to maintain the rate of payouts by scaling the difficulty. The more people mine, the more difficult mining becomes.
In other words, it's an arms race. If you have better miners than your peers, you can grab a bigger slice of the pie. But once everyone has the same equipment, you're back where you started (and out a lot of money on gear).
On the other hand, anyone not able to afford specialized hardware will be pushed out of the mining game. The rumor mill is already pointing suggesting Litecoin as a possible Bitcoin replacement, as it has a crypto algorithm designed to resist hardware acceleration and thus keep small miners competitive with big iron. Then again, it's best not to underestimate human ingenuity when piles of money are involved.
It's silly to complain about such an early version. Don't worry—Java 10 should catch up with the Windows 95 GUI.
You mean, companies that have no business plan except leech off investors until a profit model magically appears? Those are the kind of companies that fail when tech bubbles pop.
But there are tons of smartphones, and tons of people who want apps for their smartphones. As long as you work on something that has a real market and makes real money you don't have to worry about 'bubbles'.
we rounded up every old phone we could scrounge up from around the office and asked the owners to wipe them. Our stash consisted of two iPhone 3G models, two Motorola Droids, an LG Dare and an LG Optimus.
There were similar discrepancies in what Reiber found on the two iPhones, although both were 3G models running iOS 4
It’s worth noting that the iPhone 3GS and newer versions use a hardware encryption key which is deleted when the phone is wiped, but data was easily recovered from these older models.
Oh no! Five-year-old* long-discontinued phones running old OSes lack security! The horror!
* okay, the Droid is only 4 years old, and the Optimus a mere 3. (And both shipped with Android 2.0 or earlier.)
I was pretty let down by Slashdot last year—I mean, no April Fools jokes at all? It couldn't get any worse.
But this year I was impressed, because they proved it could.
The late Ed Wood says "hi".
And also "braaains", but in a stilted and really rather pathetic tone.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2867
And the obligatory comic.
Sigh.
If you sell individual videos more than 12 minutes long, you play MPEG-LA a royalty of of 2% or $0.02 per sale, whichever is less.
If you run a paid subscription service, and you have more than 100,000 subscribers, you pay MPEG-LA a royalty between $0.10 and $0.25 per subscriber per year.
If you broadcast your shows on TV, you pay either a one time fee of $2500 for each encoder, or between $0.005 and $0.01 per viewer per year.
If you make your videos available for free (even if they are ad supported) you pay no royalty.
If you sell videos less than 12 minutes long you pay no royalty.
If you run a subscription service with less than 100,000 subscribers you pay no royalty.
If that "prevents you from becoming a producer", you might want to rethink your business model.
(Source: the AVC/H.264 terms.)
Assuming you have an unlimited amount of time, yes.
But in reality, making mountains out of molehills is a clever form of filibuster. It gives you a "tough" image even while you distract debate from the real mountains.
Dear sir;
In the future, please refrain from comparing 80 hours a week spent hacking out a video game to 80 hours a week spent standing and endlessly performing the same repetitive task in a factory filled with noise, toxic chemicals and dangerous industrial equipment.
Cordially yours,
The Real World
Fans of Google Reader will probably be a bit hesitant to pick this up.
At least the headlines will be good.
Well, I'm an incurable optimist when it comes to things like this.
For instance, I think we could end most wars relatively easily just by getting the two sides to sit down in the same room together, because then we'd only have to pick off the survivors.
I say I'm beginning to support the NSA's proposal to collect every post each person makes on Internet message boards, then hand-deliver the assembled quotations, in coffee table book format, to anyone said person later wishes to marry.
The Pirate Bay's oldest working torrent is still very much alive
In other news, the oldest living man is still alive, and the oldest standing structure hasn't yet fallen down!
At least it's legal precedent.
Mea culpa. We were supposed to take Jorge's smartphone away *before* the hazing.
(a) we already have TOR and other services
(b) this guy makes a nice, handy list of server IPs for oppressive governments to block.
(c) I doubt he will come to your aid when folks use your connection for [piracy|drug deals|child porn|planning a terrorist attack].