I think his point -- though not as well written as you might expect from a guy whose job it is to work with words -- is that Bitcoin would allow those markets to flourish as their transactions would be untraceable. ``Real'' monetary transactions for something like an assassination can be traced, even if they flow through a bank that likes to keeps its customers' business private. (Recall that UBS, if memory serves, had customers hiding money from governments in ``secret'' accounts to avoid taxation and they were, eventually, tracked down.)
``just cover the camera with a little black tape and tada, no more spying''
There were rumors that this kind of trick could be done as far back as '08/'09. Black electrical tape was stuck over the webcam lens on my laptop for years.
All you really needed to do was pull a fire alarm just before the exam. By threatening with a bomb you not only escalated the level of involvement by "the authorities" when you got your butt caught -- don't you think that campus police would have been a better bunch of folks to have to deal with than the FBI -- but you'll likely never be allowed to set foot on a commercial flight for the rest of your life even after you've served your time. (In today's climate, one never really pays their debt to society. You're punished forever.)
We've found that the Chicago CBS affiliate has an audio level that is consistently louder than any other station. And their audio levels seems to get louder late at night. Not exactly scientific evidence to be sure but the missus and kids can always tell when I'm watching Letterman instead of Leno because of the loud commercials.
A very close friend was supposed to go through this treatment almost two years ago. Unfortunately for him, you need to be is pretty good shape before this is begun and his cancer was spreading to various places in his body and he was never quite to the point where the doctors felt he could tolerate a new form of treatment. All I could think of was that the oncologists were stuck in a deadly game of whackamole; hit that place where the cancer was discovered and it popped up somewhere else. When the cancer spread to his brain, it was all over. By then his estimated of survival was, maybe, six weeks and he lasted less than a week after the discovery of it having gotten into the brain. Maybe if the original "We got it in time, there's nothing in the lymph nodes"[*] had been followed up with this treatment he'd still be around. When it was discovered to have returned it was probably already too late.
[*] -- The cancer that was discovered a couple of years ago was found to be the same one that he'd had surgery/chemo for years earlier. My feeling is that `clean' lymph nodes are probably a false hope. What evidence is there that cancer always leaves a trace in the lymph nodes anyway?
``the underlying biochemistry of the "average adult" has changed as the result of food and activities during childhood''
Our food changed sometime in the '70s or '80s. When I was a kid, overweight people were rather rare. Has the "modern" diet gotten us addicted when we're kids -- and still very active -- to foods that we should be eating very sparingly which then cause huge weight gains when we continue to eat them after we reach our early twenties and our post education lifestyle has us sitting in cars, behind desks, with little time to get in a workout, and, also, at a time when our metabolisms are slowing down anyway? Something changed because my parents were not overweight when I was a kid even though they did the same amount of commuting and sitting behind a desk when they were in their 20s through 50s as I was doing. I point to the food as the difference. Also, it would not surprise me that the rise of fast food and major chain restaurants popping up on every corner that has made eating out (and the huge portions that are served) far, far more common nowadays -- at least for those that can afford it -- has had a major effect on our waistlines.
``before exhorting "good healthy ways to eat", let's talk about paying people enough so they can afford to do so''
Good point. It's expensive (and getting more expensive) to eat the way the experts tell you to. The outside of the grocery store -- where all the fresh food is sold and the stuff we're all told to eat -- is the most expensive part of the store. Putting together a family meal from those sections costs far more than the box of the heavily processed crap (probably with HFCS listed near the front of the list of ingredients) found on the shelves in the center of the store. The inner city poor don't even get the fresh food anyway; it's all the heavily processed crap. Is it any wonder the poorest people are the most obese?
That'll likely be far better than the service the phone company wants to provide to our neighborhood. I wonder how much the carriers will be dinging the residents for this service? (Didn't see anything about that in the article.)
``Now we have new judges that don't have that knowledge (presumably) and are thinking of reversing the decision. I'd like to know the grounds they'd be thinking of using for that reversal.''
Just wait until their decision is appealed and this winds up in the Supreme Court. That's where the real technical expertise of the Judicial branch resides.
``Lawyers for the Department of Justice told the court that she simply missed her plane, but she was able to provide documents from the airline explaining that the Department of Homeland Security was not allowing her to fly.''
What are they teaching lawyers these days? That it's OK to commit perjury? Who wants to see the lying lawyers spend some time in jail? Raise your hand.
Yep... Dodd also has a different definition of "works" than a lot of people would find to be appropriate. His definition appears to refer to "a mechanism that closes off content until rich folks' palms are greased with enough silver". When he says "works" he's not saying that it does anything for content creators after their initial legal contact with publishers.
(Hmm... I thought the lion's share (if not all) of VMS was written in BLISS.)
You could definitely call, say, a VAX BASIC routine from a VAX FORTRAN program, VAX FORTRAN subroutines from VAX C programs, etc. And you didn't have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do it, either.
``If anything I wouldn't trust someone who doesn't watch porn.''
If anything, I'd mistrust the people who make a big deal about never looking at internet porn. Just look at the frequent revelations involving vocal evangelists.
Trying to lean on people based on their internet browsing habits? It seems that someone's trying to quell any public dissent on NSA snooping on Americans. "Listen buddy... icksnay on the oopingsnay or we'll let everyone in your church know about those web sites you visited last Wednesday evening between the hours of 9:00PM and 10:30PM."
Heck... I never actually counted them but I'd bet the grocery stores around here were using 200 bags/month for my groceries before we went to reusable cloth bags. It was nuts the way they used them.
``Why pay for "30 years", when "5 years and can share some of that with others" will do the job?''
Maybe because often, the wisdom obtained from problems encountered and solved more than five years ago will be missed. Can't remember how many times I've seen people doing things in IT that were considered bad ideas a decade -- or more -- earlier.
``This is one reason that they personnel departments ask for your college graduation date. Calculating age from that is pretty easy.''
Huh? Any ``personnel'' department that is still asking this -- at least in the U.S. -- doesn't have a clue about age discrimination laws. My response to a question like that would be ``Nice try... I wasn't born yesterday. Expect a call from the EEOC. Have a nice day. I'll show myself out.''
My thought exactly. Unless they expect their console access needs to explode soon and the current system cannot scale, I can't see the need to change. The existing crew knows how to use the current setup and surely no more than a couple of pages of documentation would be all that's needed for any newcomer to come up to speed. Switching to a 3rd-party console access tool will just be one more thing that'll wind up appearing on the job adverts for new administrators and one more thing that'll slow down the hiring process when the HR filtering software doesn't see `ConsolePro2013++ Gold' on a candidate's resume.
Or did Management issue an edict of "Buy Not Build"?
... with the idea that the position of my mouse is any kind of indication as to where my eyes are looking? I move the mouse out of the way so that it doesn't obscure the text I'm trying to read. What moron of an advertiser is going to pay extra for knowing that we've moved our mouse over their ad? It has virtually no correlation with where my attention is focused.
I sense, though, that this will make FB even more of a pain in the ass to load when all this mouse location software needs to be downloaded into my browser. (Which it won't because I'll be blocking that in a heartbeat.)
News story came up on the radio a couple of days ago while I was getting ready to enter the rat race. The interviewee was complaining about how Americans are so-o-o un-stylish when they travel -- wearing sweats and flip flops -- while the Italians, on the other hand, wear expensive suits and look so snazzy. And I thought: Let's see how long those Italians continue to wear their fancy suits while traveling when they start having to take off half their clothes before getting on the effin' plane.
If we shut down all the scanners and fired all the TSA gropers and spent 10% of that money to hire more air marshals and another 10% to police the airport ground crews we'd probably be way ahead on airliner security than we are today.
Or you could put the effin' smart phone away until you get to your destination.
I was wondering how far down I'd need to scroll to find a comment about how this would benefit people who can't leave their phones alone while they're behind the wheel of a car. As it turned out... not very far at all.
I had a Brother B/W laser some years ago (can't recall the model). It had a spring loaded lid held down by two plastic clips. One of them broke off while replacing the toner cartridge for the very first time rendering the printer unusable. I haven't looked at Brother's printers since. The price was right but the quality of the hardware wasn't up to snuff.
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$400,000 for two arms down to only $35,000 for one?
That second arm must have had ``Kung-Fu Grip''.
I think his point -- though not as well written as you might expect from a guy whose job it is to work with words -- is that Bitcoin would allow those markets to flourish as their transactions would be untraceable. ``Real'' monetary transactions for something like an assassination can be traced, even if they flow through a bank that likes to keeps its customers' business private. (Recall that UBS, if memory serves, had customers hiding money from governments in ``secret'' accounts to avoid taxation and they were, eventually, tracked down.)
There were rumors that this kind of trick could be done as far back as '08/'09. Black electrical tape was stuck over the webcam lens on my laptop for years.
All you really needed to do was pull a fire alarm just before the exam. By threatening with a bomb you not only escalated the level of involvement by "the authorities" when you got your butt caught -- don't you think that campus police would have been a better bunch of folks to have to deal with than the FBI -- but you'll likely never be allowed to set foot on a commercial flight for the rest of your life even after you've served your time. (In today's climate, one never really pays their debt to society. You're punished forever.)
... or the network.
We've found that the Chicago CBS affiliate has an audio level that is consistently louder than any other station. And their audio levels seems to get louder late at night. Not exactly scientific evidence to be sure but the missus and kids can always tell when I'm watching Letterman instead of Leno because of the loud commercials.
In the new `computer science' class, they will not be covering what a computer is, how it works, etc. but, rather, MS Office. Right?
A very close friend was supposed to go through this treatment almost two years ago. Unfortunately for him, you need to be is pretty good shape before this is begun and his cancer was spreading to various places in his body and he was never quite to the point where the doctors felt he could tolerate a new form of treatment. All I could think of was that the oncologists were stuck in a deadly game of whackamole; hit that place where the cancer was discovered and it popped up somewhere else. When the cancer spread to his brain, it was all over. By then his estimated of survival was, maybe, six weeks and he lasted less than a week after the discovery of it having gotten into the brain. Maybe if the original "We got it in time, there's nothing in the lymph nodes"[*] had been followed up with this treatment he'd still be around. When it was discovered to have returned it was probably already too late.
[*] -- The cancer that was discovered a couple of years ago was found to be the same one that he'd had surgery/chemo for years earlier. My feeling is that `clean' lymph nodes are probably a false hope. What evidence is there that cancer always leaves a trace in the lymph nodes anyway?
Our food changed sometime in the '70s or '80s. When I was a kid, overweight people were rather rare. Has the "modern" diet gotten us addicted when we're kids -- and still very active -- to foods that we should be eating very sparingly which then cause huge weight gains when we continue to eat them after we reach our early twenties and our post education lifestyle has us sitting in cars, behind desks, with little time to get in a workout, and, also, at a time when our metabolisms are slowing down anyway? Something changed because my parents were not overweight when I was a kid even though they did the same amount of commuting and sitting behind a desk when they were in their 20s through 50s as I was doing. I point to the food as the difference. Also, it would not surprise me that the rise of fast food and major chain restaurants popping up on every corner that has made eating out (and the huge portions that are served) far, far more common nowadays -- at least for those that can afford it -- has had a major effect on our waistlines.
Good point. It's expensive (and getting more expensive) to eat the way the experts tell you to. The outside of the grocery store -- where all the fresh food is sold and the stuff we're all told to eat -- is the most expensive part of the store. Putting together a family meal from those sections costs far more than the box of the heavily processed crap (probably with HFCS listed near the front of the list of ingredients) found on the shelves in the center of the store. The inner city poor don't even get the fresh food anyway; it's all the heavily processed crap. Is it any wonder the poorest people are the most obese?
That'll likely be far better than the service the phone company wants to provide to our neighborhood. I wonder how much the carriers will be dinging the residents for this service? (Didn't see anything about that in the article.)
Just wait until their decision is appealed and this winds up in the Supreme Court. That's where the real technical expertise of the Judicial branch resides.
What are they teaching lawyers these days? That it's OK to commit perjury? Who wants to see the lying lawyers spend some time in jail? Raise your hand.
Yep... Dodd also has a different definition of "works" than a lot of people would find to be appropriate. His definition appears to refer to "a mechanism that closes off content until rich folks' palms are greased with enough silver". When he says "works" he's not saying that it does anything for content creators after their initial legal contact with publishers.
(Hmm... I thought the lion's share (if not all) of VMS was written in BLISS.)
You could definitely call, say, a VAX BASIC routine from a VAX FORTRAN program, VAX FORTRAN subroutines from VAX C programs, etc. And you didn't have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do it, either.
If anything, I'd mistrust the people who make a big deal about never looking at internet porn. Just look at the frequent revelations involving vocal evangelists.
Trying to lean on people based on their internet browsing habits? It seems that someone's trying to quell any public dissent on NSA snooping on Americans. "Listen buddy... icksnay on the oopingsnay or we'll let everyone in your church know about those web sites you visited last Wednesday evening between the hours of 9:00PM and 10:30PM."
Heck... I never actually counted them but I'd bet the grocery stores around here were using 200 bags/month for my groceries before we went to reusable cloth bags. It was nuts the way they used them.
Maybe because often, the wisdom obtained from problems encountered and solved more than five years ago will be missed. Can't remember how many times I've seen people doing things in IT that were considered bad ideas a decade -- or more -- earlier.
``This is one reason that they personnel departments ask for your college graduation date. Calculating age from that is pretty easy.''
Huh? Any ``personnel'' department that is still asking this -- at least in the U.S. -- doesn't have a clue about age discrimination laws. My response to a question like that would be ``Nice try... I wasn't born yesterday. Expect a call from the EEOC. Have a nice day. I'll show myself out.''
Analysts are still searching for the source of the bit pattern:
01000010010000010100111001011010010000010100100100100001
in the telemetry received just before impact.
My thought exactly. Unless they expect their console access needs to explode soon and the current system cannot scale, I can't see the need to change. The existing crew knows how to use the current setup and surely no more than a couple of pages of documentation would be all that's needed for any newcomer to come up to speed. Switching to a 3rd-party console access tool will just be one more thing that'll wind up appearing on the job adverts for new administrators and one more thing that'll slow down the hiring process when the HR filtering software doesn't see `ConsolePro2013++ Gold' on a candidate's resume.
Or did Management issue an edict of "Buy Not Build"?
... with the idea that the position of my mouse is any kind of indication as to where my eyes are looking? I move the mouse out of the way so that it doesn't obscure the text I'm trying to read. What moron of an advertiser is going to pay extra for knowing that we've moved our mouse over their ad? It has virtually no correlation with where my attention is focused.
I sense, though, that this will make FB even more of a pain in the ass to load when all this mouse location software needs to be downloaded into my browser. (Which it won't because I'll be blocking that in a heartbeat.)
News story came up on the radio a couple of days ago while I was getting ready to enter the rat race. The interviewee was complaining about how Americans are so-o-o un-stylish when they travel -- wearing sweats and flip flops -- while the Italians, on the other hand, wear expensive suits and look so snazzy. And I thought: Let's see how long those Italians continue to wear their fancy suits while traveling when they start having to take off half their clothes before getting on the effin' plane.
If we shut down all the scanners and fired all the TSA gropers and spent 10% of that money to hire more air marshals and another 10% to police the airport ground crews we'd probably be way ahead on airliner security than we are today.
Or you could put the effin' smart phone away until you get to your destination.
I was wondering how far down I'd need to scroll to find a comment about how this would benefit people who can't leave their phones alone while they're behind the wheel of a car. As it turned out... not very far at all.
Well somebody decided to keep using it. Most of the systems here at home return `i686' in response to `uname -m'.
Pretty accurate description of life around my house.
Just to be contrary...
I had a Brother B/W laser some years ago (can't recall the model). It had a spring loaded lid held down by two plastic clips. One of them broke off while replacing the toner cartridge for the very first time rendering the printer unusable. I haven't looked at Brother's printers since. The price was right but the quality of the hardware wasn't up to snuff.