Though I hate to have yet another duck nibbling my wee budget to death, an $30-some annual ad-free App.Net is starting to look appealing. Twitter still does have some utility, but it's becoming an unjustifiable time-suck; and wading through more and more ads and 'promoted' bullshit is hastening the day of departure.
There have been studies done linking lead poisoning to aggression control -- after banning lead in gasoline, the crime rate in every country that did so dropped within a few years by double-digit percentages.
I keep thinking those that were literally raised in gun culture (and within the mist of lead it generates) can be explained by this phenomena. An enlightened society would conduct a thorough and statistically meaningful study of those that were 'gun raised' and ended up putting them to their inevitable use; I think the correlation between their actions (including domestic abuse) and their lead contaminated development would be very strong. Then again, an enlightened society wouldn't be awash in easily accessable weapons in the first place.
I agree that security on peoples' private phones is important, but I have no idea why the ACLU is getting involved. It's one thing to fight against government intrusion into privacy, and quite another to fight to have the government compel private companies to force updates on users' phones.
If you have no security, you have no privacy. Putting my tinfoil hat on, I'd say the organs of Fath^H^H^H^HHomeland Security would prefer phones be kept as leaky as possible.
The filthy-rich lecturing the great unwashed about financial 'integrity' would be very funny if not in actuality sad and deadly.
No doubt in my mind Steve "Richie Rich" Forbes personally knows at least fifty people (white guys) who in a more just world would be in PMITA prison or had been dirty-brick-walled by now.
Windows 7 was like the 1969 Dodge Charger: a stunningly beautiful evolution that started out three years earlier as a slightly bizarre fastback.
Hideaway headlights, deeply inset tailights, that hood, badass gas cap on the rear fender, gorgeously tapering c-pillars, and drop-dead coke-bottle fenders that made even the GTO seem pedestrian.
But Mopar - like Microsoft - just could not leave beauty unmolested. No; instead of making money hand over fist by staying with a proven winner, they both had to 'make it even better'.
I'm not saying Windows 8 was akin to the '70 Charger which was still pretty, but you could see trouble coming. No, Microsoft decided to skip straight to the 1975 Charger with Win 8; and 8.1 will just be a Cordoba.
PS - And may anyone even remotely connected to The Dukes of Hazzard suffer endless agony in the deepest bowels of Hell until the end of time. One: for destroying hundreds of '69 Chargers for a dumb-ass TV show and two: for affixing upon them the universal symbol for racism, slavery, and brutality.
Not the movie (though silly horror sci-fi fun) but the phenomena. I still enjoy having Netflix (streaming only) but I've hit the wall of watching everything I'm really interested in, leaving me to check in once a week to see if anything new has shown up. It really brings home how glacially slow the hide-bound Hollywood middlemen are when it comes to unclenching their strangling claws.
I hope there is a great Karmic reckoning for Adrian Lamo and right soon. Even he doesn't believe his BS reasoning for backstabbing a person exposing Imperial evil.
The NSA has a finite budget, a finite number of people, finite capability, finite everything.
That's why they and the rest of the security organs take great pains to prosecute / persecute the most well-known 'criminals' like Aaron Swartz beyond any semblance of justice in high-profile show trials, in order to keep the 'rabble' compliant.
As terrible as EA no doubt is, they didn't make millions in illegal lucre by conspiring in a pyramid scheme that led to the near-destruction of the world economy (without one person even being procecuted, mind you).
IMHO, EA isn't even in the same league of evil as Bank of America. BoA should be given this award permanently.
Slashdot Mirror
Zuckerberg hates waffles.
At least in the EU, I'm really surprised this crap isn't illegal (bundling snare ware with security updates).
Though I hate to have yet another duck nibbling my wee budget to death, an $30-some annual ad-free App.Net is starting to look appealing. Twitter still does have some utility, but it's becoming an unjustifiable time-suck; and wading through more and more ads and 'promoted' bullshit is hastening the day of departure.
I keep thinking those that were literally raised in gun culture (and within the mist of lead it generates) can be explained by this phenomena. An enlightened society would conduct a thorough and statistically meaningful study of those that were 'gun raised' and ended up putting them to their inevitable use; I think the correlation between their actions (including domestic abuse) and their lead contaminated development would be very strong. Then again, an enlightened society wouldn't be awash in easily accessable weapons in the first place.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
A fertilizer plant is being built in my little burg right now.
In the middle of one of the poorest and not exactly lilly white neighborhoods, of course.
If you have no security, you have no privacy. Putting my tinfoil hat on, I'd say the organs of Fath^H^H^H^HHomeland Security would prefer phones be kept as leaky as possible.
So Schrodinger's Cat will definitely be the editor in chief.
The filthy-rich lecturing the great unwashed about financial 'integrity' would be very funny if not in actuality sad and deadly.
No doubt in my mind Steve "Richie Rich" Forbes personally knows at least fifty people (white guys) who in a more just world would be in PMITA prison or had been dirty-brick-walled by now.
LOL.1
Windows 7 was like the 1969 Dodge Charger: a stunningly beautiful evolution that started out three years earlier as a slightly bizarre fastback.
Hideaway headlights, deeply inset tailights, that hood, badass gas cap on the rear fender, gorgeously tapering c-pillars, and drop-dead coke-bottle fenders that made even the GTO seem pedestrian.
But Mopar - like Microsoft - just could not leave beauty unmolested. No; instead of making money hand over fist by staying with a proven winner, they both had to 'make it even better'.
I'm not saying Windows 8 was akin to the '70 Charger which was still pretty, but you could see trouble coming. No, Microsoft decided to skip straight to the 1975 Charger with Win 8; and 8.1 will just be a Cordoba.
PS - And may anyone even remotely connected to The Dukes of Hazzard suffer endless agony in the deepest bowels of Hell until the end of time. One: for destroying hundreds of '69 Chargers for a dumb-ass TV show and two: for affixing upon them the universal symbol for racism, slavery, and brutality.
Not the movie (though silly horror sci-fi fun) but the phenomena. I still enjoy having Netflix (streaming only) but I've hit the wall of watching everything I'm really interested in, leaving me to check in once a week to see if anything new has shown up. It really brings home how glacially slow the hide-bound Hollywood middlemen are when it comes to unclenching their strangling claws.
Maybe that's Karma telling you to hang up and drive, Mr. More Dangerous Than A Drunkard.
Stop or I'll shoot anyway.
Whoever named these things might have missed one of this species' abilities.
"But the birds will loose their wonder, and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
"Oh, and some of the birds will be spy bots, too" -- Henry Drummond, Inherit the Wind
Placing the NSA data center in an ultra-conservative enclave where people of color are a rare thing was no accident, my friends.
I hope there is a great Karmic reckoning for Adrian Lamo and right soon. Even he doesn't believe his BS reasoning for backstabbing a person exposing Imperial evil.
That's why they and the rest of the security organs take great pains to prosecute / persecute the most well-known 'criminals' like Aaron Swartz beyond any semblance of justice in high-profile show trials, in order to keep the 'rabble' compliant.
What a free country we have.
The beginning of justifications to monitor all communications and online activities of all Americans at all times.
It's For Your Safety, Loyal Citizen. After all: if you have nothing to hide...
Stitcher takes people's free podcasts, cuts ads into them and then doesn't give one cent of ad money back to the podcast creators.
I still don't see how this is even freaking legal.
As terrible as EA no doubt is, they didn't make millions in illegal lucre by conspiring in a pyramid scheme that led to the near-destruction of the world economy (without one person even being procecuted, mind you).
IMHO, EA isn't even in the same league of evil as Bank of America. BoA should be given this award permanently.
"When they came for the scumbags, I did not speak out, for I was not a scumbag..."
As in: most interest accrued by bulging bank accounts in the richest enclaves. Ah, well.
PS: Notice they're rolling out only in cities already suffering the plague known as Time-Warner? Nice.
I teach in college... ...and by there ignorant ass friends.
C- See me after class.