However I would be more sympathetic to the pot movement in general if they were at least demonstrably more honest than the people who want to keep it outlawed. The notion that schools will benefit immensely seems to be a slightly more realistic version of the old claim that legalized sale of pot would generate $599 godzillion in tax revenue per picosecond to the end of eternity. The problem with either claim is that it assumes that legalization would cause people to want to buy at retail what they and their friends could grow in their backyard.
(there are other dishonest claims from the pro-pot camp but this one directly ties to the summary)
Granted I did some BASIC before I jumped into Perl but I have taught Perl to novices before and they've done just fine with it. I would think it would be just fine for a beginner.
We would have both died in the radioactive waste. I never mastered that game, and was so utterly hopeless at Quake (and the zillions of Quake clones that came after it) that I would be more useful at teaching the AI how not to play that game.
Public radio was talking about this yesterday morning while I was driving to work. Will we see an article tomorrow then about who won the Physics prize today?
Frankly I'm surprised that the people who are willing to dish out $400+ every 1.5 - 2 years for a new phone would bat an eye over buying the new wireless ear buds that apple is selling right next to them at the store.
Any policy director who thinks that ICANN is relevant should be fired. Trump isn't very smart but he should be smart enough to realize that ICANN prioritizes on money above all else. Realizing that he should be well aware that they haven't had any meaningful power or control in a long time. That he managed to find a policy person who can't figure this out is astonishing.
Sometime during the administration of Bush Jr. this site took a hard turn to the right. I don't know if it got caught up in post-9/11 hysteria and never came back to earth or if something else happened but the voice became notably conservative. Did the front page drive the dominant voice to go conservative, or the other way around? It's hard to tell which was cause and which was effect.
The simple fact though is that several times a week we see conservative FUD on the front page; various articles telling us why we should hate the Clintons, or hate Obama, or hate anything that can be tied to "liberal" politics, or hate and of a variety of other such things. When was the last time there was something on the front page that was critical of a conservative politician or viewpoint? Similarly when the discussion starts up, the non-conservative views are quickly suppressed by the majority conservative views here. Eventually a conservative editor comes around and down-moderates the non-conservative view into oblivion to further drive home the point of whose viewpoint is welcomed here and whose is not.
Frankly anyone who is more liberal than Genghis Khan is labelled a communist here (by people who of course refuse to attain even the simplest grasp of communism).
At first I would have said no way, as there are approximately 3 non-conservatives on slashdot - and I'm one of them - today. Then I clicked the link and realized that the StoneTear here hasn't posted in over 13 years. This puts that user as having passed around the exodus of "liberals" from slashdot, so there is a remote chance that it could be the same person that is suspected of being a Clinton staffer.
To be fair, they offer it with multiple OS choices; Windows 10 just happens to be one of them. You can opt for a less-terribly-insecure OS if you want. I just find it comical that they present it as secure when Windows 10 is an option - particularly considering how many Windows users are always logging in as administrator (admittedly some without even realizing it).
I figured it would be even higher than that. How many people need more apps in an average month? It's been quite a while since I last downloaded a new app, I'm not sure if I've even downloaded 2 apps this year.
That's what alaway gets me about these "tape over the webcam" types. Why do you even have a webcam? (it's like having a laver that drops you into the alligator pit)
To be fair, a lot of typical consumers don't even realize you can buy a laptop that doesn't have a webcam in it. A lot of typical consumers don't realize that there are a lot of laptops available beyond what is at Best Buy and the Apple Store; I would bet that the idea of ordering one without a webcam has simply never crossed their mind because they didn't know it could be done.
That said, the director of the FBI should be smart enough to know it. Or, at least, the IT procurement guy who ordered his laptop for him should have been.
While nothing is 100% secure from all attempts, some systems are vastly more secure than others. If he's worried that hackers have taken control of his webcam, he probably isn't running one of the latter. Hell it is trivial to just not load the webcam driver in most systems, and then the problem becomes moot. Or he could do as I did with one of my thinkpads from a few years back and just order it without a webcam (or physically remove said webcam).
If he's worried about someone hacking his laptop and turning on his webcam without him realizing it, then he isn't using his laptop in a secure and reasonable way.
He is also overlooking the fact that voice recordings are generally at least as valuable as video (unless he is worried they are going to record his silent meetings with prostitutes or something), and covering up the webcam doesn't generally do anything to prevent sound from being recorded. If someone else has control of your webcam, they almost certainly have the ability to record sound using your system when the webcam is blocked by tape. Equally important, if they are recording sound with no video, they can record much longer time-wise than if they are recording sounds with video.
But ultimately if he was using a secure OS, or at least using his OS of choice in a moderately secure way - he shouldn't have to worry about this. If he's spending most of his day falling into clickbait and loading malware, he's going to get what he has coming.
For as long as valve has had steam, I haven't found a reason to use it. Every time I have looked through it the only titles on the catalog that I care about are ones that I already own. If they are trying to make money off of me by re-selling me titles I already own, they won't succeed. If they should somehow - presumably by accident - manage to add a title to it that I care about and don't already own, I would be quite surprised.
ICANN has been gradually selling off what little control they have left over the years as it is. Their utterly idiotic decision to start selling off gTLDs to the highest bidders was one of their boldest of all moves but they really haven't had much relevance for some time. There aren't many things left to do to make it more deregulated and still have any kind of resolvable DNS.
The summary says that the tool doesn't prevent the posts from being made, it just prevents the user who started the discussion from seeing them. It's no different from a user-adjustable spam filter, really.
Once again, exposing various things directly to the Internet is a Bad Thing.
Indeed it is, but it likely isn't really exposed "directly to the Internet". More likely it runs some service through a Seagate server that makes it available (likely by default, no less). After all, this is designed for home users and how many home users even would know how to modify their router's default rules to expose a specific port on a specific system to the internet?
claiming device owners "have no way to protect their device" is bullshit.
Well, if the first thing it does out of the box is call home to Seagate to give owners remote access to their files through the magical Seagate cloud, then the statement might be pretty darned accurate. These drives most likely default to getting addresses by DHCP on the user's network, and the user most likely gets their outside address by DHCP from their ISP. These hackers likely aren't finding these drives to be exposed directly, but rather to be exposed via Seagate. And considering the (lack of) quality that is Seagate these days, the drives probably have some terrible default password as well that makes it trivially easy for a hacker to get in.
The worst part of the story is that the HDD is made by Seagate and won't last more than 13 months regardless. The users think they bought a good network drive, until they go to retrieve their files and discover the drive has already bought the farm.
I was wondering when the usual conservative FUD would take over on the front page again, it had taken a strange hiatus for a while. Now we see it back in full swing:
nearly 71% of 250 physicians responding to an informal internet survey
Even for 2014 I'd say that list was wrong and inaccurate. Really, IBM as the worst run company in the country? Think of all the large companies that have collapsed since then. And don't forget the large company whose collapse is imminent - Sears - and it would be hard to even place IBM in the top 10 worst of 2014.
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He's putting his money where his mouth is.
However I would be more sympathetic to the pot movement in general if they were at least demonstrably more honest than the people who want to keep it outlawed. The notion that schools will benefit immensely seems to be a slightly more realistic version of the old claim that legalized sale of pot would generate $599 godzillion in tax revenue per picosecond to the end of eternity. The problem with either claim is that it assumes that legalization would cause people to want to buy at retail what they and their friends could grow in their backyard.
(there are other dishonest claims from the pro-pot camp but this one directly ties to the summary)
Granted I did some BASIC before I jumped into Perl but I have taught Perl to novices before and they've done just fine with it. I would think it would be just fine for a beginner.
You just suckered me in to a 2 year contract a couple months ago. You can't change the terms on me now.
We would have both died in the radioactive waste. I never mastered that game, and was so utterly hopeless at Quake (and the zillions of Quake clones that came after it) that I would be more useful at teaching the AI how not to play that game.
Public radio was talking about this yesterday morning while I was driving to work. Will we see an article tomorrow then about who won the Physics prize today?
Frankly I'm surprised that the people who are willing to dish out $400+ every 1.5 - 2 years for a new phone would bat an eye over buying the new wireless ear buds that apple is selling right next to them at the store.
I would attribute that to Donald but I see no reason to expect he would ever visit this site.
Any policy director who thinks that ICANN is relevant should be fired. Trump isn't very smart but he should be smart enough to realize that ICANN prioritizes on money above all else. Realizing that he should be well aware that they haven't had any meaningful power or control in a long time. That he managed to find a policy person who can't figure this out is astonishing.
Sometime during the administration of Bush Jr. this site took a hard turn to the right. I don't know if it got caught up in post-9/11 hysteria and never came back to earth or if something else happened but the voice became notably conservative. Did the front page drive the dominant voice to go conservative, or the other way around? It's hard to tell which was cause and which was effect.
The simple fact though is that several times a week we see conservative FUD on the front page; various articles telling us why we should hate the Clintons, or hate Obama, or hate anything that can be tied to "liberal" politics, or hate and of a variety of other such things. When was the last time there was something on the front page that was critical of a conservative politician or viewpoint? Similarly when the discussion starts up, the non-conservative views are quickly suppressed by the majority conservative views here. Eventually a conservative editor comes around and down-moderates the non-conservative view into oblivion to further drive home the point of whose viewpoint is welcomed here and whose is not.
Frankly anyone who is more liberal than Genghis Khan is labelled a communist here (by people who of course refuse to attain even the simplest grasp of communism).
The article doesn't say how much (in mg) needs to be loaded in to the pen, but here is one source at USP grade from a highly respected supplier, 200mg for $326.50 in the US. A quick google search suggests .3mg per injection so that 200mg should last quite a while.
At first I would have said no way, as there are approximately 3 non-conservatives on slashdot - and I'm one of them - today. Then I clicked the link and realized that the StoneTear here hasn't posted in over 13 years. This puts that user as having passed around the exodus of "liberals" from slashdot, so there is a remote chance that it could be the same person that is suspected of being a Clinton staffer.
To be fair, they offer it with multiple OS choices; Windows 10 just happens to be one of them. You can opt for a less-terribly-insecure OS if you want. I just find it comical that they present it as secure when Windows 10 is an option - particularly considering how many Windows users are always logging in as administrator (admittedly some without even realizing it).
They can't really expect to hold on to that title when they are willing to send it out with Windows 10 preinstalled.
I figured it would be even higher than that. How many people need more apps in an average month? It's been quite a while since I last downloaded a new app, I'm not sure if I've even downloaded 2 apps this year.
That's what alaway gets me about these "tape over the webcam" types. Why do you even have a webcam? (it's like having a laver that drops you into the alligator pit)
To be fair, a lot of typical consumers don't even realize you can buy a laptop that doesn't have a webcam in it. A lot of typical consumers don't realize that there are a lot of laptops available beyond what is at Best Buy and the Apple Store; I would bet that the idea of ordering one without a webcam has simply never crossed their mind because they didn't know it could be done.
That said, the director of the FBI should be smart enough to know it. Or, at least, the IT procurement guy who ordered his laptop for him should have been.
But ultimately if he was using a secure OS,
Name a secure OS.
While nothing is 100% secure from all attempts, some systems are vastly more secure than others. If he's worried that hackers have taken control of his webcam, he probably isn't running one of the latter. Hell it is trivial to just not load the webcam driver in most systems, and then the problem becomes moot. Or he could do as I did with one of my thinkpads from a few years back and just order it without a webcam (or physically remove said webcam).
If he's worried about someone hacking his laptop and turning on his webcam without him realizing it, then he isn't using his laptop in a secure and reasonable way.
He is also overlooking the fact that voice recordings are generally at least as valuable as video (unless he is worried they are going to record his silent meetings with prostitutes or something), and covering up the webcam doesn't generally do anything to prevent sound from being recorded. If someone else has control of your webcam, they almost certainly have the ability to record sound using your system when the webcam is blocked by tape. Equally important, if they are recording sound with no video, they can record much longer time-wise than if they are recording sounds with video.
But ultimately if he was using a secure OS, or at least using his OS of choice in a moderately secure way - he shouldn't have to worry about this. If he's spending most of his day falling into clickbait and loading malware, he's going to get what he has coming.
For as long as valve has had steam, I haven't found a reason to use it. Every time I have looked through it the only titles on the catalog that I care about are ones that I already own. If they are trying to make money off of me by re-selling me titles I already own, they won't succeed. If they should somehow - presumably by accident - manage to add a title to it that I care about and don't already own, I would be quite surprised.
ICANN has been gradually selling off what little control they have left over the years as it is. Their utterly idiotic decision to start selling off gTLDs to the highest bidders was one of their boldest of all moves but they really haven't had much relevance for some time. There aren't many things left to do to make it more deregulated and still have any kind of resolvable DNS.
The summary says that the tool doesn't prevent the posts from being made, it just prevents the user who started the discussion from seeing them. It's no different from a user-adjustable spam filter, really.
Once again, exposing various things directly to the Internet is a Bad Thing.
Indeed it is, but it likely isn't really exposed "directly to the Internet". More likely it runs some service through a Seagate server that makes it available (likely by default, no less). After all, this is designed for home users and how many home users even would know how to modify their router's default rules to expose a specific port on a specific system to the internet?
claiming device owners "have no way to protect their device" is bullshit.
Well, if the first thing it does out of the box is call home to Seagate to give owners remote access to their files through the magical Seagate cloud, then the statement might be pretty darned accurate. These drives most likely default to getting addresses by DHCP on the user's network, and the user most likely gets their outside address by DHCP from their ISP. These hackers likely aren't finding these drives to be exposed directly, but rather to be exposed via Seagate. And considering the (lack of) quality that is Seagate these days, the drives probably have some terrible default password as well that makes it trivially easy for a hacker to get in.
The worst part of the story is that the HDD is made by Seagate and won't last more than 13 months regardless. The users think they bought a good network drive, until they go to retrieve their files and discover the drive has already bought the farm.
nearly 71% of 250 physicians responding to an informal internet survey
Now who would be most likely to answer such a survey? Related, who would consider 250 responses - when we have over 800,000 active physicians in this country to be significant?
As I've said before, there are plenty of problems with Hillary. Why go with these silly ones?
Which people at the airport are supposed to know how to distinguish a Galaxy Note 7 from a Galaxy Note 6?
Even for 2014 I'd say that list was wrong and inaccurate. Really, IBM as the worst run company in the country? Think of all the large companies that have collapsed since then. And don't forget the large company whose collapse is imminent - Sears - and it would be hard to even place IBM in the top 10 worst of 2014.