I think it's an awesome idea, but I disagree with the name "Hacker Scouts". I think "Hacker" is and has always been a misnomer for the hobbyist-level of Electrical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Computer Science, etc, with a real focus on repurposing everyday items.
If you call it "Engineering Corps" or something like that, I could get behind it. I find it hard to believe you will have much support from the largely-brainwashed general masses using the term 'hacker'. "Being a hacker is bad! They take down websites and are against the government and order!" They don't know any better, because Fox News doesn't tell them any better.
I think it's more of a matter of people being exceptionally lazy recently versus in the past than it is a matter of poor numerical comprehension. Everyone's attitude seems to be "I don't need to understand it, there's an app for that."...then again, I'm a computer programmer who deals with charts and numbers thoroughly on an hourly basis, and I don't think I've ever had to read the "How to use this guide" section on the 40-some page bus schedule in my town to figure it out.
Sometimes I wonder if a global-scale EMP or solar flare would be the best thing to ever happen to humanity.
If you're trying to tell me Doctors and Lawyers are more sleep-deprived than I am, you don't know shit.
Let's start with the fact that, as a computer programmer, I make a fraction of what they do - money is a frequent concern and often keeps me up figuring out finances or worrying. It must be tough to budget groceries, gas, and electric bills when you make $300k-$700k per year, right? Shit.
How about housing? I live in a tiny apartment downtown on my salary, while repaying loans, working a job at ~$30,000 a year. I can't afford a mansion in the 'burbs with a huge yard and golf cart paths like they can. I can't even afford a nice luxurious bed to sleep on at night. Clearly, they have it so hard.
Consider transportation for a second. I drive a beat-up, heavily-used 2001 Mitsubishi I paid ~$4500 for, which admittedly just sits there. I hardly drive, if at all. I have gone months without having to drive due to being near lots of shops and working near my home. I still cannot afford a brand-new Mercedes or BMW, let alone two or three of them. I can't afford a plane, despite the fact that I love to fly them. Woe is the doctors and lawyers.
Consider a social life: Doctors? Women are all over them. Being a doctor is chick-bait, though I still don't understand why. Being a Computer Programmer? Yeah, no girl is going to say "Being a computer programmer is SO sexy! Let's go out!". That doesn't happen to us. Jeez, it must suck not having to try, right doc?
Either this is a colossal sign of bad statistical analysis, or doctors and lawyers are all whiny emo bitches who think the grass is always greener.
Then why is it that despite me having tons of technical work experience, a CS degree, and an extensive background in Graphic Design, I can't even land a simple UI designer job that pays enough to repay my student loans and pay rent at the same time? In a big-10 college town with a pretty big tech industry?
Perhaps it's because instead of R&D and progress, we're focused on blowing up brown people and stealing their oil? Perhaps the same reasons why NASA is woefully underfunded, and yet the DOD has a few billion to throw at missile research?
FUCK this country. It used to be great, now it's just a slowly-fermenting pile of excrement.
Sad-sack programs like this being compromised fuel the other companies who may be equally as susceptible to attack to press on as if they are somehow better or more secure.
"Sure they hacked that system the government set up, but that was some bloggers scripting in Ruby/Rails in a dark room. They didn't even change the default passwords! We're REAL programmers, writing in a lower-level language with security experience! We can't POSSIBLY do it wrong!"
If you want to actually test an election system, try having a fake Diebold election and see if it can be rigged. Use an ACTUAL e-voting vendor, not some scripts you cooked up to have a hack-off, with the default passwords and everything else right where the attackers expect to find them.
"Here at AT&T we have a long, rich history of screwing our customers. From the original days of our telephone monopoly, to our sub-standard yet overpriced DSL service and its associated lawsuits, we strive to charge you at least 10 times the value of the service you receive. This is our promise to you.
It has come to our attention that a tiny fraction of our cellular data customers are using more than the rest, even though they are within the data amount we promised upon signing their contract. We simply cannot allow even the smallest portion of our clients to actually receive what they pay for, or have service at the level they expect. This would set a terribly hard-to-follow precedent of giving customers what they want and what they pay for. We simply cannot handle that.
On this note, we have today decided to return to bill-per-hour internet access. Based on the 1997 AOL dial-up rate, we are now charging $3.67 per hour* for your cellular data bandwidth. We still consider this to be 'unlimited' as you are able to use as much data as you are willing to pay for. We thank your for your continued subservience, and your willingness to put up with us constantly screwing you. We truly believe you don't have any choice in carriers, so your resistance is futile."
*Any time over one second is billed as a full hour. No prorating or refunds allowed. An additional 30 pages of terms and conditions that none of you will read also apply.
Why would it matter where you connect to the Internet from - whether your phone or a Coffee Shop WiFi point?
It all goes to the same internet, and Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint don't pay any more per ___ of bandwidth than the coffee shop - if not less because they are the carrier themselves.
It's just a scam. Use your phone however you can get away with it.
I have had Verizon 3G for nearly two years, and have 'abused' my bandwidth since day one.
I routinely download 8-10GB per day via tether, and Verizon has yet to even glare at me, much less charge overages, or throttle or cancel my service. THAT is true unlimited service.
Either the top-5% of bandwidth users are really using their phones HEAVILY, or Verizon just doesn't care.
If you have evidence that she slept with someone for money, present it in court, dude. Otherwise you can't call her a whore without risking defamation etc.
You have to call her a slut instead. Sluts just don't charge for it.
Every OS will have its specific language overheads. This one, being Windows, is a very well-known and simple to implement version. Register and Create Window, Create WinProc, do whatever else you need to do. It's really not hard if you can see past your hate for Windows.
It has been much more of a nightmare for me to get OpenGL projects running on Debian or OSX than it has been for Windows. GLUT and GLTools have been more of a hindrance than a help. OpenGL is more flexible than alternatives, so I can usually come up with some very neat data management that would be impossible with other graphical layers. To implement that stuff from the base OGL system it takes a LOT of code and work.
When I choose Windows I'd probably go right for DirectX. Microsoft built-in that compatibility for me, and distributes the runtime thoroughly, so I would need a better reason than a detest of Windows to go with something less convenient instead.
I run FireFox with just AdBlock to get rid of unwanted delays and invasive images or animations. You can block any sort of embed or image without a problem. You can even block content from entire domains.
I don't think I've seen your average web ad or popup on my computer for at least 6 years. There are a few that have gotten by - namely from foreign sites which aren't yet part of my block subscription - but a single right-click>block and they're gone for good. I even block domains like Facebook and Twitter with AdBlock for a week or so at a time. I don't want to entirely give up these services, but it's easier to avoid them if they're just not there.
I have no-script for some of the particularly grievous offenders as far as invasive scripts, but I only turn that one once in a great while. The rest of the time, I don't even think about AdBlock running unless someone tries to link me a specific ad and I can't see it.
American citizens ARE the victims, but our enemy is not Muslims, or some nameless and faceless turban-sporting brown person. In fact, Christians pose more of a threat to our way of life than any foreign government. Need proof? Read up on proposed policies by Santorum or Romney.
Our enemy is our government. They are the ones taking away our civil rights, encroaching on our free will, intentionally unbalancing poverty and wealth levels to maintain the status-quo. They are the terrorists - not some fictional enemy Muslim.
On a level of personal opinion, I think all religion is entirely bullshit, and the world as a whole needs to focus on reality and planning for the future instead of arguing over some unimportant stories of the long-distant past.
Incentives aren't illegal, nor are discounts, rebates, refunds, or promotional products. If Dell was the ONLY computer manufacturer in the world, not just the largest, then it could be construed as a monopoly.
As it stands, if AMD had wanted they, too, could have paid ASUS, ACER, Lenovo/IBM, or any number of other computers to stay loyal to AMD processors. Hell, they could have billed it off as "research into improving AMD compatible chipsets" and come up with a damned good consumer-grade computer - BUT THEY DIDN'T. They just kept making niche product lines and substandard main product lines for performance-conscious expert-level users.
I completely fail to see how AMD agreeing to a price and later regretting it because they sold their advantage is in any way Intel's fault or an 'underhanded tactic'..
$1,000,000,000.00 is a lot of friggin' money. If a huge company like AMD can't make use of that much money to better their products and come out with the next new thing Intel wants to license from them in the future, then they deserve the failure they bring on themselves.
they paid Dell roughly 3/4 of a billion dollars in a single quarter to not use AMD chips
When they're buying back multiple billions of dollars in product, 3/4 of a billion dollars off is called a discount - not a monopoly. Businesses use that exact strategy all the time. "If you buy a huge order of our product instead of the competitor, we'll offer you $____ off!" They also have the option of sending as many 'promotional' free products as they want in order to convince the potential customer, even if it is half of the customer's order.
At the same time, Intel is not at fault because their products are more functional and desirable to the general computer user than the alternative - at least, no more so than Apple is at fault for having an enormous following in the "I don't know computers, I just want it to go" market. If AMD wanted to compete seriously in the consumer market, they could - but they aren't.
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I think it's an awesome idea, but I disagree with the name "Hacker Scouts". I think "Hacker" is and has always been a misnomer for the hobbyist-level of Electrical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Computer Science, etc, with a real focus on repurposing everyday items.
If you call it "Engineering Corps" or something like that, I could get behind it. I find it hard to believe you will have much support from the largely-brainwashed general masses using the term 'hacker'. "Being a hacker is bad! They take down websites and are against the government and order!" They don't know any better, because Fox News doesn't tell them any better.
I think it's more of a matter of people being exceptionally lazy recently versus in the past than it is a matter of poor numerical comprehension. Everyone's attitude seems to be "I don't need to understand it, there's an app for that." ...then again, I'm a computer programmer who deals with charts and numbers thoroughly on an hourly basis, and I don't think I've ever had to read the "How to use this guide" section on the 40-some page bus schedule in my town to figure it out.
Sometimes I wonder if a global-scale EMP or solar flare would be the best thing to ever happen to humanity.
If you're trying to tell me Doctors and Lawyers are more sleep-deprived than I am, you don't know shit.
Let's start with the fact that, as a computer programmer, I make a fraction of what they do - money is a frequent concern and often keeps me up figuring out finances or worrying. It must be tough to budget groceries, gas, and electric bills when you make $300k-$700k per year, right? Shit.
How about housing? I live in a tiny apartment downtown on my salary, while repaying loans, working a job at ~$30,000 a year. I can't afford a mansion in the 'burbs with a huge yard and golf cart paths like they can. I can't even afford a nice luxurious bed to sleep on at night. Clearly, they have it so hard.
Consider transportation for a second. I drive a beat-up, heavily-used 2001 Mitsubishi I paid ~$4500 for, which admittedly just sits there. I hardly drive, if at all. I have gone months without having to drive due to being near lots of shops and working near my home. I still cannot afford a brand-new Mercedes or BMW, let alone two or three of them. I can't afford a plane, despite the fact that I love to fly them. Woe is the doctors and lawyers.
Consider a social life: Doctors? Women are all over them. Being a doctor is chick-bait, though I still don't understand why. Being a Computer Programmer? Yeah, no girl is going to say "Being a computer programmer is SO sexy! Let's go out!". That doesn't happen to us. Jeez, it must suck not having to try, right doc?
Either this is a colossal sign of bad statistical analysis, or doctors and lawyers are all whiny emo bitches who think the grass is always greener.
Fuck this article. It's a joke.
Really? You think guys?
Then why is it that despite me having tons of technical work experience, a CS degree, and an extensive background in Graphic Design, I can't even land a simple UI designer job that pays enough to repay my student loans and pay rent at the same time? In a big-10 college town with a pretty big tech industry?
Perhaps it's because instead of R&D and progress, we're focused on blowing up brown people and stealing their oil? Perhaps the same reasons why NASA is woefully underfunded, and yet the DOD has a few billion to throw at missile research?
FUCK this country. It used to be great, now it's just a slowly-fermenting pile of excrement.
Sad-sack programs like this being compromised fuel the other companies who may be equally as susceptible to attack to press on as if they are somehow better or more secure.
"Sure they hacked that system the government set up, but that was some bloggers scripting in Ruby/Rails in a dark room. They didn't even change the default passwords! We're REAL programmers, writing in a lower-level language with security experience! We can't POSSIBLY do it wrong!"
If you want to actually test an election system, try having a fake Diebold election and see if it can be rigged. Use an ACTUAL e-voting vendor, not some scripts you cooked up to have a hack-off, with the default passwords and everything else right where the attackers expect to find them.
"Here at AT&T we have a long, rich history of screwing our customers. From the original days of our telephone monopoly, to our sub-standard yet overpriced DSL service and its associated lawsuits, we strive to charge you at least 10 times the value of the service you receive. This is our promise to you.
It has come to our attention that a tiny fraction of our cellular data customers are using more than the rest, even though they are within the data amount we promised upon signing their contract. We simply cannot allow even the smallest portion of our clients to actually receive what they pay for, or have service at the level they expect. This would set a terribly hard-to-follow precedent of giving customers what they want and what they pay for. We simply cannot handle that.
On this note, we have today decided to return to bill-per-hour internet access. Based on the 1997 AOL dial-up rate, we are now charging $3.67 per hour* for your cellular data bandwidth. We still consider this to be 'unlimited' as you are able to use as much data as you are willing to pay for. We thank your for your continued subservience, and your willingness to put up with us constantly screwing you. We truly believe you don't have any choice in carriers, so your resistance is futile."
*Any time over one second is billed as a full hour. No prorating or refunds allowed. An additional 30 pages of terms and conditions that none of you will read also apply.
Why would it matter where you connect to the Internet from - whether your phone or a Coffee Shop WiFi point?
It all goes to the same internet, and Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint don't pay any more per ___ of bandwidth than the coffee shop - if not less because they are the carrier themselves.
It's just a scam. Use your phone however you can get away with it.
I have had Verizon 3G for nearly two years, and have 'abused' my bandwidth since day one.
I routinely download 8-10GB per day via tether, and Verizon has yet to even glare at me, much less charge overages, or throttle or cancel my service. THAT is true unlimited service.
Either the top-5% of bandwidth users are really using their phones HEAVILY, or Verizon just doesn't care.
You can't say "Unlimited up until _____" ...
The "Up until ______" part is known as a LIMIT which makes it.... NOT UNLIMITED.
I am certain this is the exact intention they had in mind when the US legal system was created and amended over the years.
Every single one of those lawyers should have to go into one of these questionably-ventilated mines to understand what is truly going on down there.
Spelling != Grammar
New World Antisocial Behavior Order
If you had a cup of coffee every morning on the Space Station, your heart would probably explode.
(the sun 'rises' every ~90 minutes for the ISS)
I don't know about this.
It seems like "Campaign Contribution" is the command to become a Human C&C.
Submitter, meet Wikipedia.
Xwing vs TieFighter style combat in an MMO context where you can upgrade your ship.
Welcome to EVE Online.
Just go with "Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..."
Unless you're in Nevada, where the contract is valid, the pimp is called 'boss' and there are plenty of laws on the subject.
If you have evidence that she slept with someone for money, present it in court, dude. Otherwise you can't call her a whore without risking defamation etc.
You have to call her a slut instead. Sluts just don't charge for it.
Every OS will have its specific language overheads. This one, being Windows, is a very well-known and simple to implement version. Register and Create Window, Create WinProc, do whatever else you need to do. It's really not hard if you can see past your hate for Windows.
It has been much more of a nightmare for me to get OpenGL projects running on Debian or OSX than it has been for Windows. GLUT and GLTools have been more of a hindrance than a help. OpenGL is more flexible than alternatives, so I can usually come up with some very neat data management that would be impossible with other graphical layers. To implement that stuff from the base OGL system it takes a LOT of code and work.
When I choose Windows I'd probably go right for DirectX. Microsoft built-in that compatibility for me, and distributes the runtime thoroughly, so I would need a better reason than a detest of Windows to go with something less convenient instead.
I run FireFox with just AdBlock to get rid of unwanted delays and invasive images or animations. You can block any sort of embed or image without a problem. You can even block content from entire domains.
I don't think I've seen your average web ad or popup on my computer for at least 6 years. There are a few that have gotten by - namely from foreign sites which aren't yet part of my block subscription - but a single right-click>block and they're gone for good. I even block domains like Facebook and Twitter with AdBlock for a week or so at a time. I don't want to entirely give up these services, but it's easier to avoid them if they're just not there.
I have no-script for some of the particularly grievous offenders as far as invasive scripts, but I only turn that one once in a great while. The rest of the time, I don't even think about AdBlock running unless someone tries to link me a specific ad and I can't see it.
American citizens ARE the victims, but our enemy is not Muslims, or some nameless and faceless turban-sporting brown person. In fact, Christians pose more of a threat to our way of life than any foreign government. Need proof? Read up on proposed policies by Santorum or Romney.
Our enemy is our government. They are the ones taking away our civil rights, encroaching on our free will, intentionally unbalancing poverty and wealth levels to maintain the status-quo. They are the terrorists - not some fictional enemy Muslim.
On a level of personal opinion, I think all religion is entirely bullshit, and the world as a whole needs to focus on reality and planning for the future instead of arguing over some unimportant stories of the long-distant past.
Incentives aren't illegal, nor are discounts, rebates, refunds, or promotional products. If Dell was the ONLY computer manufacturer in the world, not just the largest, then it could be construed as a monopoly.
As it stands, if AMD had wanted they, too, could have paid ASUS, ACER, Lenovo/IBM, or any number of other computers to stay loyal to AMD processors. Hell, they could have billed it off as "research into improving AMD compatible chipsets" and come up with a damned good consumer-grade computer - BUT THEY DIDN'T. They just kept making niche product lines and substandard main product lines for performance-conscious expert-level users.
I completely fail to see how AMD agreeing to a price and later regretting it because they sold their advantage is in any way Intel's fault or an 'underhanded tactic'..
$1,000,000,000.00 is a lot of friggin' money. If a huge company like AMD can't make use of that much money to better their products and come out with the next new thing Intel wants to license from them in the future, then they deserve the failure they bring on themselves.
they paid Dell roughly 3/4 of a billion dollars in a single quarter to not use AMD chips
When they're buying back multiple billions of dollars in product, 3/4 of a billion dollars off is called a discount - not a monopoly. Businesses use that exact strategy all the time. "If you buy a huge order of our product instead of the competitor, we'll offer you $____ off!" They also have the option of sending as many 'promotional' free products as they want in order to convince the potential customer, even if it is half of the customer's order.
At the same time, Intel is not at fault because their products are more functional and desirable to the general computer user than the alternative - at least, no more so than Apple is at fault for having an enormous following in the "I don't know computers, I just want it to go" market. If AMD wanted to compete seriously in the consumer market, they could - but they aren't.