That is actually by regulation. Per EN50332 (which is required in France, and supposed to be required in the rest of the EU next year), the maximum SPL your bluetooth headphone can generate at 0 dBFS signal is 100 dB and any volume controls on the headphone turned to max. With a wired interface, you're limited to 100 dB SPL @ 175 mV input; meaning, if you have a volt or more output level (which is common for cell phones), you can reach peaks well above 100 dB SPL. Bluetooth is purposefully handicapped in volume by regulations, and you don't have the same limits with wired connections. Dynamic peaks of >100 dB SPL are great when you're averaging 70-75 dB SPL listening levels!
No ass-hole, it is censorship and Google and Facebook are not meant to think for you. It's called Critical Thinking. Develop it sometime.
History lesson: New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN all promoted the Weapons of Mass Destruction lie of the Bush Administration that led us into war with Iraq. So no they did not reported the news that actually happened.
It would indeed be interesting if the internet was as prevalent back then as it is now. How Google, Facebook might have influenced the disinformation disseminated to start the Bush/Chaney war is something very hard to quantify. It might have been much harder for Chaney to create the lies in the first place. Instead all the media outlets were "leaked" the reports created by the CIA and all of their sources confirmed it so they went with the stories as accurate. The Dick Chaney machine did one hell of a job on the entire chain of information and managed to create a lie that quickly became what seemed to be absolutely solid intelligence. You will notice that what occurred as a direct result of the lie created for Bush by the Chaney machine is that Colin Powellbecame the scape goat and George Bush and Chaney got off smelling like a roses in a shithouse.
Colin Powell essentially took the brunt of the blame when he believed the lies and acted on the falsehood on behalf of the government. If it was not for what Chaney and Bush did to Colin Powell you might very well have a united Republican party and a very popular black Republican president who would get things done unlike the useless, xenophobic, great wall building asshole who is in office now!
Less racist than Black Lives Matter, whose name is an explicit statement of racism and black supremacism.
Some here seem to miss the very important point that the simple words "Black Lives Matter" does nothing to indicate that any other color of life does not matter equally. Yes there are certainly those who take up the banner and misuse the concept. But the concept is fundamentally correct. To argue against the words Black Lives Matter is the same as agreeing with the prejudiced assholes in Newfoundland where the popular theme is that they dealt with their uppity native Indians long ago and they were nothing but a useless bunch of trouble makers anyway as many who live there are still lead to believe. Same thing in British Columbia where many belittle the Carrier Indians to this day and call them nothing but a "useless bunch of horse and cattle thieves". Yes prejudice is rampant and the US is not alone but it can be exposed for what it is and eventually become socially unacceptable the same way eventually misogyny will.
The truth is the lives of all races of people matter and the fact is that there are still a huge number of closet racists in the US that believe as Wallace did in "segregation now and segregation forever!" This fact creates the need for greater awareness of how fucked up the US is especially each time some racist dick head like Zimmerman in Florida gets away with murdering an innocent black.
No it is plain and simple the US is screwed by prejudice and the fact that a simple conceptual truth using the words "Black Lives Matter" can be twisted by racists to mean something other than what the words say speaks volumes about how twisted these KKK wanta bee assholes really are including a quite a few who wield power. Notice how quiet David Duke is right now, there is a reason. There are enough idiots hard at work putting forth the racist agenda that he can sit back and work on his political base in the shadows. Yes there are those within BLM who disgrace the memory of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, but the concept of Black Lives Matter is a truth and to a great many in the US a truth that burns very deeply indeed.
To help deal with the disaster then it makes sense. Yes still having radio functions on a cell is a very good idea in situations like what has happened in the Caribbean islands. My cheap ass Polaroid branded android phone has the function. Apple disabling the feature was rather short sighted on their part. Obviously herding the sheep to mostly get their tunes from an iTunes subscription was a big part of the equation in Apples move to disable the function.
One question will the radio function still work with any wire set connected to the lightning connector? Or does it only detect lightning not modulated rf? Maybe if the function is reactivated then the red cross can send in emergency head phone adapters for all the poor disconnect iPhone users on the islands, along with a hack to reactivate all the disconnected iOS radio software. Either way I don't see an easy solution to getting newer iPhones to pick up radio stations again. By the time Apple reacts and releases an update to activate the function most likely full cell service will have been restored.
Fried servers. Sounds like they were being hosted somewhere like in a cheap back room off the local Burger King and were having issues with over heating power supplies. LOL They say they are looking for a new service provider.
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You will note that it was during the Obama administration. I am not making a value judgment on the practice, I am just pointing out that the previous administration did or tried to do something substantially similar.
The NSA seems to be a branch of government that does not answer to the executive office unless they fuck up. Same reason why several presidents tried to reign in the CIA and even before that the FBI under Hoover. This is the problem with civil servants who achieve too great a level of power independent of the executive branch and therefore can do shit behind the back of everybody. The CIA backing the crazy Cubans is one example of this level of independent action backfiring on presidents all the way back to when Kennedy took over from Eisanhoover and had to, somewhat reluctantly I might add, approve the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Which was a huge CIA intelligence screw up too say the least.
It took until Regan for the executive branch to realize that the level of drug financing of bad guys for guns and troops by the CIA was going to create huge PR problems in the future when the public found out the truth. So Regan reigned in the CIA to an extent, but he had a hell of a time doing it and never really succeeded.
The problems with the covert actions NSA/CIA are starting to show their ugly head, Obama had to keep tight lipped even when the idiots bugged Angela Merkel. Though it would be interesting to see what they got out of that little job. All and all it is a problem for any president even Lord Trump is going to have trouble with what they do behind his back perhaps even to him and his family if he tries to reign them in.
Why is it OK for Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch to have undue influence over major news outlets? They have a lot more influence than a small Russian ad buy, and 2 of the 3 are foreigners. Russia should just buy a bank that buys a newspaper.
You can take Conrad Black from Canada if you want some real diversity in your press LOL. Funny but on several occasions when Nixon secretly ordered the bugging of reporters the US public could care less, but when the NSA did it to Angela Merkel the republican hypocrites attacking Obama had a field day. If Obama actually knew it was happening is up for debate though considering the NSA is essentially a branch of the Republican party! Fortunately largely because of today's technology national security through secrecy is becoming a bit of an oxymoron the same as military intelligence was during the Vietnam War.
Russia is using poor US info security and technology to stir up shit in the US, so what's new? The real question is why is Putin trying so hard to destabilize the US.
For one, first and foremost Putin wants to deflect criticism away from his dictatorship, for two he does not want to increase the levels of suppression of his people unless it becomes absolutely necessary to stay in power. Going back to soviet style purges is not his style and more importantly he would lose style points with his supporters. His style is more to use discrete political assassinations, a trick he learned from largely from the American mafia. He has also invested heavily in keeping the shit pot stirred in the middle east were a bunch of his friends make their money and it could still easily back fire on him with Iran and the countries just to the north of Iran. He has to keep a large part of his military on alert to deal with the southern portion of Russia and the portions that can easily turn against Moscow the same as all Russian leader have had to do for centuries.
In short destabilizing America politically plays very much into his interests in as much as it deflects the eyes of the world off his slow reconquest and suppression of the lost soviet states. He would dearly love to re-annex the Ukraine but the US would not yet stand for it. His next step no doubt will be shit disturbance and possibly assassinations of Ukraine politicians. Basically the same things he is doing in the US but to a much greater extent and much more covert.
How China might react to his antics is a different story they might not be so easy for him to deal with if he decides that Russian interests are in expansionism into more easterly fertile territory.
He is a typical dictator who wants to stir up shit and see what he can get away with, no different than Hitler, Stalin and the list goes on. No unless Trump manages to do the same shit as Putin and set up an oligarchy with him as dictator the US will prevail but again not until assholes like Putin and their ilk are finally ousted by a truly democratic Russia. However the unfortunate part is Russia seems to like to have a dictator the same as it once had a tsar and in truth is as yet incapable of real democratic elections without bloodshed. Let us just hope the expansionist assholes and dictators of this world never decide that dropping the bomb can help them stay in power. If they do the only hope we have is either divine intervention or the aliens stepping in and taking over the show. Because we as a species are simply not capable of real democratic government quite yet. #we_need_alien_intervention_now
...and ridiculous beliefs like this are why the Right will be in power for the next 50 years. It's not the facts of the situation, it's the fact that to you, they are The Other. And you'd rather do anything than tolerate The Other.
The conservatives I know have a realistic understanding of human nature (i.e., it is fundamentally flawed) and set expectations accordingly; i.e., there will never be a Utopia.
It is the leftists who believe that human nature is basically good, and that people do bad things because of external forces (e.g., their living conditions); Therefore the goal of arranging those external forces so they no longer cause people to do bad things becomes the greatest moral imperative.
So, on one hand we have people who believe that Utopia is impossible, and on the other we have people who believe that creating Utopia is the highest (perhaps only) moral priority. The first group believes the second group is deluded in their belief that Utopia is possible; the second group believes the first group is immoral for opposing their efforts to create one at any cost.
Hitler very successfully made the very same arguments. He even quoted Darwin. IMO it all comes down to whether or not humans can rise above the fundamental urges that lead to tribal manifestations of these urges. A majority of the German population fell under this spell and we know it lead to WW11. It seems that America right now is undergoing the very same shift to an idiotic pseudo Darwin concept of survival of the meanest bastards, this is happening on a financial basis as well as a political one.
Tsar Putin is no dumb ass cookie. He knows that by putting small amounts of intel dollars into the already volatile American political system his sponsorship of the oligarchs and up and coming Russian elite will help him stay in power. Why you ask? Because the already established organized crime institutions in the US are ripe for take over and this is what is happening. Although Castro is dead and his brother still sorta runs the show there are still a great many who would like to have Cuba turn into a free for all of organized crime that sucks dollars from the US and this now includes the new up and coming Russian Mafia kingpins not just the native American ones.
Sadly the governments of both the US and Russia are now under the control of organized crime. What the Russians are doing in no different than the CIA secretly backing drug lord dictators while turning a blind eye to the Mafia king pin Santo Trafficane and his French connection heroine trade all the way back to Laos during the De Gaulle era in Indo China. And what is going on to this very day with the internal corruption of the so called "war on drugs". This secret economy and political actions of a key part of the US government has created a serious risk of division by corruption of the entire US political system. Left and Right, conservative and democrat in reality have nothing to do with it. We are all being taken for a ride by those who seek only to have a free ride at the public trough and rule by division and deception and could in reality, care less about the populace they have sworn to serve.
Not quite. It depends greatly upon the health of the female in the years just prior to puberty. A more concise explanation of ovogenesisis here. This is indeed news for most nerds of the computer kind but then again we do understand the concept of having soldered in ram that cannot be increased. With male nerds the problem lies in the waste of excess male gametes while thinking about the physical aspects of a females reproductive organs. Thus reducing the quantity of male gametes available when the occasion actually occurs. So we do not reproduce as frequently as males who do the real thing, a situation which in theory could reduce the population of nerds in the long run.
Hey Guys! You might remember my post earlier where I whined about my husband failing to perform in bed and would rarely get me turned on at all?
At first I was like: WTF, where do all those adult film stars get their stamina? — we've tried everything you can think of, from Viagra to other libido pills, nothing seemed to work. Bullshit! — his dick remained limp and sex didn’t last for more than a couple of minutes.
After about 6 months I gave up. I decided it was in his age and part of his physical condition, and that there was nothing we could do about it. Also, I can’t say I wanted sex that bad myself, knowing that I wouldn't be satisfied, and he’d be upset. I felt my husband totally losing confidence in himself and it was frustrating.
Clint Eastwood is not dead yet and neither is his dick! His last words will be "dying ain't much of a livin' boy" if there is any humor left in the world.
On topic, the whole equifax situation in a way is similar and is proving to be complete and utter Wall Street bullshit IMHO and is in itself just a stock option clickbait scam. Just watch what happens when equifax goes on sale. I am almost willing to bet that the board is secretly considering offers right now and that is why the execs cashed a swack of shares. It almost seems as if their IT stupidity is deliberate to bring the stock down to the point where a buyout becomes possible.
Notice how slowly the bus was moving in the video? Presumably to save on air resistance.
I wonder what the range will be at normal city speeds.
The test was done the same way that GM, Ford, Chrysler, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda and all the other auto makers arrive at their best case scenario sticker advertised MPG ratings. The real problem lies in getting all the fat car addicted traffic jams of commuters to use public transportation thus freeing up room in the cities so that we don't have to pave every piece of land for roads and parking to accommodate the ever increasing numbers of personal autos in cities.
China banning the sale of ICE vehicles is a sign of what is to come. But most Americans in a phony claim of personal freedom choose to ignore the fact that very real freedoms have been usurped by an addiction to the personal automobile. As I go out to the sieben/elf to get more smokes and potato chips while I burn off more gas instead of just walking 5 blocks! YES we (self included) are a hypocritical bunch of morons. But we are slowly but surely paying the price for our collective stupidity. That price is the real cost of automobiles run amok and a people who are too stupefied and blinded by the head lights to see the real freedoms that alternatives could bring.
If the music major that they hired has any IT smarts the chain of e-mails about the hacks to the execs that are now under investigation for insider trading will somehow have been magically deleted by the hackers. If the antitrust investigation does not get immediate complete access to all the company records then we know that the whole investigation is a sham. I would not at all be surprised if equifux has enough political clout to pull off a white(house)wash job. Then again losing e-mails is a non event except that it can cause some to lose elections if the hacked group of e-mails are suddenly found and leaked. Wouldn't it be HILLARYous if Donald's real financial status and dealings were amongst the data stolen and then leaked from the equifax DB but the emails and communication chain of the execs were nowhere to be found?
What is even more pertinent is who the hell hacked them and more to the point why? Stay tuned and get the pop corn ready slashdotters! The shit is about to hit the fan and most likely some people in Washington are going to be quacking loudly and swimming for cover.
Unemployment is down, GDP is up, stock market hitting highs.
Naw, the only people slitting their own throats are the piss bottlers who thought a self-shitting side o' beef that had no platform was the answer to everything.
And guess what, you're not getting jack shit of the GDP increase. You're getting fucked in the ass and too stupid to know it.
In 1945 in Berlin while Der Fuhrer was safe inside his bunker and the German industrialists that profited were quickly working behind the scenes to avoid having their money in Switzerland confiscated by getting friendly again with their American counterparts, the effects of Toxoplasma gondii had lessened to a very great extent. Thus came the German term Dachkaninchen used for the equivalent of what was derided originally by Hitlers press about the British during the years they stood alone against the Nazis.
It seems that even though the gdp of the US and Canada is up and the 1% is quickly becoming the.5% even as the numbers of homelessness and food price inflation is out of control, the facts are that there are still vast untaped food resources left in the US for the poor. As and example I give you the traveling homeless that come and go in our cities, a fair number of them travel with dogs. This is very smart because if you cannot get welfare then you have a handy piece of meat right there with you. Same with little old ladies who keep a pile of cats, when they can't afford to eat cat food as many seniors are forced to do then there is always the Dachkaninchen (roof rabbits) to fall back on if worst comes to worst. NOW THIS IS AN IGNORANT shit of a post!!!! At least according to my cats. MEOW
So there's time for this shit but no time for a decent file manager ?
They have been trying to clone MS explorer in gtk for ever but can't quite get it to do anything useful. That is why systemd was born so that changing settings would be more like doing a regedit in gnome land instead of just a simple text edit in a config file. You see we all have to come to understand that obfuscation is how to make things more stable by making us uncircumcised sysv addicts shut up and stop configuring things the way we want them to work. Now everything has to be hidden in a parsed encoded file whose location is changed regularly by those who do not want everyone else easily learning how to configure their interface.
By constantly changing the names of targets and moving things around the level of obfuscation ensures that only the interface coders at Red Hat can work on gnome. Precisely the reason why Patrick dropped a the gnome desktop from Slackware years before systemd sealed the fate for most Linux users. For years the cross dependency to run things broke so much that he gave up trying to release a preconfigured Gnome desktop install.
Microsoft – Contacted on April 19, 2017 after which details were shared. Updates were made on July 11. Public disclosure on September 12, 2017 as part of coordinated disclosure.
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What are you talking about Microsoft was quick, it only took them 5 and half months this time around which for Microsoft is at the speed of light when it comes to patching a serious hole. This is why the the hole was not disclosed earlier to the Linux crowd the bluez patch would have happened by late April giving time for the hackers to figure out how to hack the Windows bluetooth stack which the Linux pirates copied profusely to enable bluetooth devices on linux.
What about my car? It has several functions tied to BT
One hack that might be useful is to pull up to the morons with their car stereos blasting away in a traffic jam and mute them! Apart from that and perhaps screwing up their hands free phone while they yap away while driving apart from that essentially nothing. Fun though if you could pull up and make their stereo play Le Sacre Du Printemps at full volume. The core functions of the auto if somehow connected to the entertainment/infotainment devices that can be accessed over the air waves would be a stupid design to say the least. This is the reason why I would never enable GM's onstar service, or buy any car with remote access capabilities other than a simple keyfob.
Sure enough it is serious enough and there is a Windows server patch available as of today. Koodos to Microsoft for getting it out quickly, now if it is applied effectively without updating the language packs by mistake it might make using bluetooth devices on your systems safe again. I doubt that the black hats have figured out how to exploit this hole remotely as of yet. But it would really be a PITA if the exploit could somehow be used over the web to compromise servers.
Redhat had it covered first. Debian now has it patched. I would imagine that MS Server, Win7 and Win10 might not be too far behind considering that the real danger of this exploit is access to corporate networks that use bluetooth devices. Fortunately most thin clients do not have bluetooth built in otherwise this could become another update nightmare for MS admins. Either way I don't think this will effect the Microsoft servers users too much. What I do foresee is a rapid removal of bluetooth mice and a server side disabling of the usb bluetooth stack happening in major business until Microsoft patches the windows bluetooth stack.
What is this crazy stuff? the time to make this must be hours... who would do this?
Most likely the children of right wing nut jobs who have been educated in a places like the New York Military Academy. Who by and large are incapable of composing a thought larger than a twitter bit but can cut and paste shit like faster than Trump can tweet,,,,. and extend....and append....his broad and all encompassing intellect. Reforming the US school system will not help with this problem, some people are just assholes and in turn breed bigoted little right wing assholes and the situation stays the same. Some even wind up in politics and in power through the spreading of hate and intolerance. Who knows the AC that posted this shit might very well become the next leader of the Republican party after Trump is done screwing it up.
This entire Slashdot post looks absolutely retarded without the popper spelling of El Nino.
Yeah, you're an american based site. Is that an excuse to be stuck in 1990?
There are other languages, and apparently americans sometimes use them. Fix your fucking shit.
You mean like La Niña? All they need to do is only allow posting on slashdot from kosher systems like linux that support cut and paste utf8 without stripping the bit code spacing and fucking it up.
if that were true there would be colonies on there by now
The reason why a moon base has not happened is simple economics. Essentially the military spending on space technology outstripped the scientific spending in both the Soviet Union/Russia and the USA. The space shuttle program was a compromise with a huge portion going to military jug head flights and any other manned space programs Nasa had plans for were all gutted. The advancements that Van Braun and the real geniuses behind space flight were all castrated and sunk into the single lift technologically of the very limited space shuttle program. The moon was forgotten and technology to do anything other than earth orbit was restricted to robotic tech. Now even the low earth orbit craft capacity of the US is gone and we rely upon Putin to transport our people to the ISS.
Only a fool would think the moon landings were faked. Essentially the people of USA have lost their balls and scientific curiosity about space flight and instead sold their collective soles to the military exploitation of space.
I'm bit more worried about the two older spec boosters that they have stored outdoors... tho I'd assume they can find some place to stash them into before the storm gets there. These are boosters that are not planned to fly again, but might end up as museum pieces somewhere.
Like somewhere in Munchkinland? Who knows the used spacex boosters might wind up in the side show of Professor Marvel given the power of Irma. With the amount of scrap metal being created in Florida and Texas this year it is going to become cheap as hell. Might be a good idea to start to develop some very advanced building material recycling technologies in a hurry, looks like a large portion of the Southern US is going to need it!
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That is actually by regulation. Per EN50332 (which is required in France, and supposed to be required in the rest of the EU next year), the maximum SPL your bluetooth headphone can generate at 0 dBFS signal is 100 dB and any volume controls on the headphone turned to max. With a wired interface, you're limited to 100 dB SPL @ 175 mV input; meaning, if you have a volt or more output level (which is common for cell phones), you can reach peaks well above 100 dB SPL. Bluetooth is purposefully handicapped in volume by regulations, and you don't have the same limits with wired connections. Dynamic peaks of >100 dB SPL are great when you're averaging 70-75 dB SPL listening levels!
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No ass-hole, it is censorship and Google and Facebook are not meant to think for you. It's called Critical Thinking. Develop it sometime. History lesson: New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN all promoted the Weapons of Mass Destruction lie of the Bush Administration that led us into war with Iraq. So no they did not reported the news that actually happened.
It would indeed be interesting if the internet was as prevalent back then as it is now. How Google, Facebook might have influenced the disinformation disseminated to start the Bush/Chaney war is something very hard to quantify. It might have been much harder for Chaney to create the lies in the first place. Instead all the media outlets were "leaked" the reports created by the CIA and all of their sources confirmed it so they went with the stories as accurate. The Dick Chaney machine did one hell of a job on the entire chain of information and managed to create a lie that quickly became what seemed to be absolutely solid intelligence. You will notice that what occurred as a direct result of the lie created for Bush by the Chaney machine is that Colin Powellbecame the scape goat and George Bush and Chaney got off smelling like a roses in a shithouse.
Colin Powell essentially took the brunt of the blame when he believed the lies and acted on the falsehood on behalf of the government. If it was not for what Chaney and Bush did to Colin Powell you might very well have a united Republican party and a very popular black Republican president who would get things done unlike the useless, xenophobic, great wall building asshole who is in office now!
Less racist than Black Lives Matter, whose name is an explicit statement of racism and black supremacism.
Some here seem to miss the very important point that the simple words "Black Lives Matter" does nothing to indicate that any other color of life does not matter equally. Yes there are certainly those who take up the banner and misuse the concept. But the concept is fundamentally correct. To argue against the words Black Lives Matter is the same as agreeing with the prejudiced assholes in Newfoundland where the popular theme is that they dealt with their uppity native Indians long ago and they were nothing but a useless bunch of trouble makers anyway as many who live there are still lead to believe. Same thing in British Columbia where many belittle the Carrier Indians to this day and call them nothing but a "useless bunch of horse and cattle thieves". Yes prejudice is rampant and the US is not alone but it can be exposed for what it is and eventually become socially unacceptable the same way eventually misogyny will.
The truth is the lives of all races of people matter and the fact is that there are still a huge number of closet racists in the US that believe as Wallace did in "segregation now and segregation forever!" This fact creates the need for greater awareness of how fucked up the US is especially each time some racist dick head like Zimmerman in Florida gets away with murdering an innocent black.
No it is plain and simple the US is screwed by prejudice and the fact that a simple conceptual truth using the words "Black Lives Matter" can be twisted by racists to mean something other than what the words say speaks volumes about how twisted these KKK wanta bee assholes really are including a quite a few who wield power. Notice how quiet David Duke is right now, there is a reason. There are enough idiots hard at work putting forth the racist agenda that he can sit back and work on his political base in the shadows. Yes there are those within BLM who disgrace the memory of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, but the concept of Black Lives Matter is a truth and to a great many in the US a truth that burns very deeply indeed.
It was a ghetto blaster and a Björk cd. I still have the headache it caused.
One question will the radio function still work with any wire set connected to the lightning connector? Or does it only detect lightning not modulated rf? Maybe if the function is reactivated then the red cross can send in emergency head phone adapters for all the poor disconnect iPhone users on the islands, along with a hack to reactivate all the disconnected iOS radio software. Either way I don't see an easy solution to getting newer iPhones to pick up radio stations again. By the time Apple reacts and releases an update to activate the function most likely full cell service will have been restored.
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Before people go losing their minds again about how Trump is a xenophobic racist, please have a look at this Slashdot article from 15 months ago:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/28/005202/us-customs-wants-to-know-travelers-social-media-account-names
You will note that it was during the Obama administration. I am not making a value judgment on the practice, I am just pointing out that the previous administration did or tried to do something substantially similar.
The NSA seems to be a branch of government that does not answer to the executive office unless they fuck up. Same reason why several presidents tried to reign in the CIA and even before that the FBI under Hoover. This is the problem with civil servants who achieve too great a level of power independent of the executive branch and therefore can do shit behind the back of everybody. The CIA backing the crazy Cubans is one example of this level of independent action backfiring on presidents all the way back to when Kennedy took over from Eisanhoover and had to, somewhat reluctantly I might add, approve the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Which was a huge CIA intelligence screw up too say the least.
It took until Regan for the executive branch to realize that the level of drug financing of bad guys for guns and troops by the CIA was going to create huge PR problems in the future when the public found out the truth. So Regan reigned in the CIA to an extent, but he had a hell of a time doing it and never really succeeded.
The problems with the covert actions NSA/CIA are starting to show their ugly head, Obama had to keep tight lipped even when the idiots bugged Angela Merkel. Though it would be interesting to see what they got out of that little job. All and all it is a problem for any president even Lord Trump is going to have trouble with what they do behind his back perhaps even to him and his family if he tries to reign them in.
Why is it OK for Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch to have undue influence over major news outlets? They have a lot more influence than a small Russian ad buy, and 2 of the 3 are foreigners. Russia should just buy a bank that buys a newspaper.
You can take Conrad Black from Canada if you want some real diversity in your press LOL. Funny but on several occasions when Nixon secretly ordered the bugging of reporters the US public could care less, but when the NSA did it to Angela Merkel the republican hypocrites attacking Obama had a field day. If Obama actually knew it was happening is up for debate though considering the NSA is essentially a branch of the Republican party! Fortunately largely because of today's technology national security through secrecy is becoming a bit of an oxymoron the same as military intelligence was during the Vietnam War.
Russia is using poor US info security and technology to stir up shit in the US, so what's new? The real question is why is Putin trying so hard to destabilize the US.
For one, first and foremost Putin wants to deflect criticism away from his dictatorship, for two he does not want to increase the levels of suppression of his people unless it becomes absolutely necessary to stay in power. Going back to soviet style purges is not his style and more importantly he would lose style points with his supporters. His style is more to use discrete political assassinations, a trick he learned from largely from the American mafia. He has also invested heavily in keeping the shit pot stirred in the middle east were a bunch of his friends make their money and it could still easily back fire on him with Iran and the countries just to the north of Iran. He has to keep a large part of his military on alert to deal with the southern portion of Russia and the portions that can easily turn against Moscow the same as all Russian leader have had to do for centuries.
In short destabilizing America politically plays very much into his interests in as much as it deflects the eyes of the world off his slow reconquest and suppression of the lost soviet states. He would dearly love to re-annex the Ukraine but the US would not yet stand for it. His next step no doubt will be shit disturbance and possibly assassinations of Ukraine politicians. Basically the same things he is doing in the US but to a much greater extent and much more covert.
How China might react to his antics is a different story they might not be so easy for him to deal with if he decides that Russian interests are in expansionism into more easterly fertile territory.
He is a typical dictator who wants to stir up shit and see what he can get away with, no different than Hitler, Stalin and the list goes on. No unless Trump manages to do the same shit as Putin and set up an oligarchy with him as dictator the US will prevail but again not until assholes like Putin and their ilk are finally ousted by a truly democratic Russia. However the unfortunate part is Russia seems to like to have a dictator the same as it once had a tsar and in truth is as yet incapable of real democratic elections without bloodshed. Let us just hope the expansionist assholes and dictators of this world never decide that dropping the bomb can help them stay in power. If they do the only hope we have is either divine intervention or the aliens stepping in and taking over the show. Because we as a species are simply not capable of real democratic government quite yet. #we_need_alien_intervention_now
...and ridiculous beliefs like this are why the Right will be in power for the next 50 years. It's not the facts of the situation, it's the fact that to you, they are The Other. And you'd rather do anything than tolerate The Other.
The conservatives I know have a realistic understanding of human nature (i.e., it is fundamentally flawed) and set expectations accordingly; i.e., there will never be a Utopia.
It is the leftists who believe that human nature is basically good, and that people do bad things because of external forces (e.g., their living conditions); Therefore the goal of arranging those external forces so they no longer cause people to do bad things becomes the greatest moral imperative.
So, on one hand we have people who believe that Utopia is impossible, and on the other we have people who believe that creating Utopia is the highest (perhaps only) moral priority. The first group believes the second group is deluded in their belief that Utopia is possible; the second group believes the first group is immoral for opposing their efforts to create one at any cost.
Hitler very successfully made the very same arguments. He even quoted Darwin. IMO it all comes down to whether or not humans can rise above the fundamental urges that lead to tribal manifestations of these urges. A majority of the German population fell under this spell and we know it lead to WW11. It seems that America right now is undergoing the very same shift to an idiotic pseudo Darwin concept of survival of the meanest bastards, this is happening on a financial basis as well as a political one.
Tsar Putin is no dumb ass cookie. He knows that by putting small amounts of intel dollars into the already volatile American political system his sponsorship of the oligarchs and up and coming Russian elite will help him stay in power. Why you ask? Because the already established organized crime institutions in the US are ripe for take over and this is what is happening. Although Castro is dead and his brother still sorta runs the show there are still a great many who would like to have Cuba turn into a free for all of organized crime that sucks dollars from the US and this now includes the new up and coming Russian Mafia kingpins not just the native American ones.
Sadly the governments of both the US and Russia are now under the control of organized crime. What the Russians are doing in no different than the CIA secretly backing drug lord dictators while turning a blind eye to the Mafia king pin Santo Trafficane and his French connection heroine trade all the way back to Laos during the De Gaulle era in Indo China. And what is going on to this very day with the internal corruption of the so called "war on drugs". This secret economy and political actions of a key part of the US government has created a serious risk of division by corruption of the entire US political system. Left and Right, conservative and democrat in reality have nothing to do with it. We are all being taken for a ride by those who seek only to have a free ride at the public trough and rule by division and deception and could in reality, care less about the populace they have sworn to serve.
female gametes are 100% present at birth
That's recently been found to be untrue.
Not quite. It depends greatly upon the health of the female in the years just prior to puberty. A more concise explanation of ovogenesisis here. This is indeed news for most nerds of the computer kind but then again we do understand the concept of having soldered in ram that cannot be increased. With male nerds the problem lies in the waste of excess male gametes while thinking about the physical aspects of a females reproductive organs. Thus reducing the quantity of male gametes available when the occasion actually occurs. So we do not reproduce as frequently as males who do the real thing, a situation which in theory could reduce the population of nerds in the long run.
Hey Guys! You might remember my post earlier where I whined about my husband failing to perform in bed and would rarely get me turned on at all? At first I was like: WTF, where do all those adult film stars get their stamina? — we've tried everything you can think of, from Viagra to other libido pills, nothing seemed to work. Bullshit! — his dick remained limp and sex didn’t last for more than a couple of minutes.
After about 6 months I gave up. I decided it was in his age and part of his physical condition, and that there was nothing we could do about it. Also, I can’t say I wanted sex that bad myself, knowing that I wouldn't be satisfied, and he’d be upset. I felt my husband totally losing confidence in himself and it was frustrating.
but then again slashcode advertising sucks dead horse balls!
Clint Eastwood is not dead yet and neither is his dick! His last words will be "dying ain't much of a livin' boy" if there is any humor left in the world.
On topic, the whole equifax situation in a way is similar and is proving to be complete and utter Wall Street bullshit IMHO and is in itself just a stock option clickbait scam. Just watch what happens when equifax goes on sale. I am almost willing to bet that the board is secretly considering offers right now and that is why the execs cashed a swack of shares. It almost seems as if their IT stupidity is deliberate to bring the stock down to the point where a buyout becomes possible.
"No passengers, no stops, on a gentle test track"
Notice how slowly the bus was moving in the video? Presumably to save on air resistance.
I wonder what the range will be at normal city speeds.
The test was done the same way that GM, Ford, Chrysler, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda and all the other auto makers arrive at their best case scenario sticker advertised MPG ratings. The real problem lies in getting all the fat car addicted traffic jams of commuters to use public transportation thus freeing up room in the cities so that we don't have to pave every piece of land for roads and parking to accommodate the ever increasing numbers of personal autos in cities.
China banning the sale of ICE vehicles is a sign of what is to come. But most Americans in a phony claim of personal freedom choose to ignore the fact that very real freedoms have been usurped by an addiction to the personal automobile. As I go out to the sieben/elf to get more smokes and potato chips while I burn off more gas instead of just walking 5 blocks! YES we (self included) are a hypocritical bunch of morons. But we are slowly but surely paying the price for our collective stupidity. That price is the real cost of automobiles run amok and a people who are too stupefied and blinded by the head lights to see the real freedoms that alternatives could bring.
What is even more pertinent is who the hell hacked them and more to the point why? Stay tuned and get the pop corn ready slashdotters! The shit is about to hit the fan and most likely some people in Washington are going to be quacking loudly and swimming for cover.
Just retrieve the contents from the NSA servers.
Unemployment is down, GDP is up, stock market hitting highs.
Naw, the only people slitting their own throats are the piss bottlers who thought a self-shitting side o' beef that had no platform was the answer to everything.
And guess what, you're not getting jack shit of the GDP increase. You're getting fucked in the ass and too stupid to know it.
In 1945 in Berlin while Der Fuhrer was safe inside his bunker and the German industrialists that profited were quickly working behind the scenes to avoid having their money in Switzerland confiscated by getting friendly again with their American counterparts, the effects of Toxoplasma gondii had lessened to a very great extent. Thus came the German term Dachkaninchen used for the equivalent of what was derided originally by Hitlers press about the British during the years they stood alone against the Nazis.
It seems that even though the gdp of the US and Canada is up and the 1% is quickly becoming the .5% even as the numbers of homelessness and food price inflation is out of control, the facts are that there are still vast untaped food resources left in the US for the poor. As and example I give you the traveling homeless that come and go in our cities, a fair number of them travel with dogs. This is very smart because if you cannot get welfare then you have a handy piece of meat right there with you. Same with little old ladies who keep a pile of cats, when they can't afford to eat cat food as many seniors are forced to do then there is always the Dachkaninchen (roof rabbits) to fall back on if worst comes to worst. NOW THIS IS AN IGNORANT shit of a post!!!! At least according to my cats. MEOW
So there's time for this shit but no time for a decent file manager ?
They have been trying to clone MS explorer in gtk for ever but can't quite get it to do anything useful. That is why systemd was born so that changing settings would be more like doing a regedit in gnome land instead of just a simple text edit in a config file. You see we all have to come to understand that obfuscation is how to make things more stable by making us uncircumcised sysv addicts shut up and stop configuring things the way we want them to work. Now everything has to be hidden in a parsed encoded file whose location is changed regularly by those who do not want everyone else easily learning how to configure their interface.
By constantly changing the names of targets and moving things around the level of obfuscation ensures that only the interface coders at Red Hat can work on gnome. Precisely the reason why Patrick dropped a the gnome desktop from Slackware years before systemd sealed the fate for most Linux users. For years the cross dependency to run things broke so much that he gave up trying to release a preconfigured Gnome desktop install.
The packs are not made from all the recycled Samsung cell phones.
Microsoft weren't the quick ones. From here:
Microsoft – Contacted on April 19, 2017 after which details were shared. Updates were made on July 11. Public disclosure on September 12, 2017 as part of coordinated disclosure.
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Linux – Contacted August 15 and 17, 2017. On September 5, 2017, we connected and provided the necessary information to the the Linux kernel security team and to the Linux distributions security contact list and conversations followed from there. Targeting updates for on or about September 12, 2017 for coordinated disclosure.
What are you talking about Microsoft was quick, it only took them 5 and half months this time around which for Microsoft is at the speed of light when it comes to patching a serious hole. This is why the the hole was not disclosed earlier to the Linux crowd the bluez patch would have happened by late April giving time for the hackers to figure out how to hack the Windows bluetooth stack which the Linux pirates copied profusely to enable bluetooth devices on linux.
What about my car? It has several functions tied to BT
One hack that might be useful is to pull up to the morons with their car stereos blasting away in a traffic jam and mute them! Apart from that and perhaps screwing up their hands free phone while they yap away while driving apart from that essentially nothing. Fun though if you could pull up and make their stereo play Le Sacre Du Printemps at full volume. The core functions of the auto if somehow connected to the entertainment/infotainment devices that can be accessed over the air waves would be a stupid design to say the least. This is the reason why I would never enable GM's onstar service, or buy any car with remote access capabilities other than a simple keyfob.
Sure enough it is serious enough and there is a Windows server patch available as of today. Koodos to Microsoft for getting it out quickly, now if it is applied effectively without updating the language packs by mistake it might make using bluetooth devices on your systems safe again. I doubt that the black hats have figured out how to exploit this hole remotely as of yet. But it would really be a PITA if the exploit could somehow be used over the web to compromise servers.
Redhat had it covered first. Debian now has it patched. I would imagine that MS Server, Win7 and Win10 might not be too far behind considering that the real danger of this exploit is access to corporate networks that use bluetooth devices. Fortunately most thin clients do not have bluetooth built in otherwise this could become another update nightmare for MS admins. Either way I don't think this will effect the Microsoft servers users too much. What I do foresee is a rapid removal of bluetooth mice and a server side disabling of the usb bluetooth stack happening in major business until Microsoft patches the windows bluetooth stack.
What is this crazy stuff? the time to make this must be hours... who would do this?
Most likely the children of right wing nut jobs who have been educated in a places like the New York Military Academy. Who by and large are incapable of composing a thought larger than a twitter bit but can cut and paste shit like faster than Trump can tweet,,,,. and extend....and append....his broad and all encompassing intellect. Reforming the US school system will not help with this problem, some people are just assholes and in turn breed bigoted little right wing assholes and the situation stays the same. Some even wind up in politics and in power through the spreading of hate and intolerance. Who knows the AC that posted this shit might very well become the next leader of the Republican party after Trump is done screwing it up.
This entire Slashdot post looks absolutely retarded without the popper spelling of El Nino. Yeah, you're an american based site. Is that an excuse to be stuck in 1990? There are other languages, and apparently americans sometimes use them. Fix your fucking shit.
You mean like La Niña? All they need to do is only allow posting on slashdot from kosher systems like linux that support cut and paste utf8 without stripping the bit code spacing and fucking it up.
if that were true there would be colonies on there by now
The reason why a moon base has not happened is simple economics. Essentially the military spending on space technology outstripped the scientific spending in both the Soviet Union/Russia and the USA. The space shuttle program was a compromise with a huge portion going to military jug head flights and any other manned space programs Nasa had plans for were all gutted. The advancements that Van Braun and the real geniuses behind space flight were all castrated and sunk into the single lift technologically of the very limited space shuttle program. The moon was forgotten and technology to do anything other than earth orbit was restricted to robotic tech. Now even the low earth orbit craft capacity of the US is gone and we rely upon Putin to transport our people to the ISS.
Only a fool would think the moon landings were faked. Essentially the people of USA have lost their balls and scientific curiosity about space flight and instead sold their collective soles to the military exploitation of space.
I'm bit more worried about the two older spec boosters that they have stored outdoors... tho I'd assume they can find some place to stash them into before the storm gets there. These are boosters that are not planned to fly again, but might end up as museum pieces somewhere.
Like somewhere in Munchkinland? Who knows the used spacex boosters might wind up in the side show of Professor Marvel given the power of Irma. With the amount of scrap metal being created in Florida and Texas this year it is going to become cheap as hell. Might be a good idea to start to develop some very advanced building material recycling technologies in a hurry, looks like a large portion of the Southern US is going to need it!