Drones against drones seems to be finally the right way to spend military expenditures. Anything is better than continuing to use drones against innocent people in deliberate political killings on souvereign foreign soil conducted outside of police authority, judicial oversight and jurisdiction and violating ratified human rights chartas.
Yeah, nice systemd trolling attempt. I've been administrating a little NetBSD box for quite a while as a hobby in the 90s and believe I know pretty well what the difference between Unix and Linux is. The point is that as the hybrid bastard nonstandard Unix that it is, OS X is just enough of a pain in the ass that most people who actually need to install and use Unix tools will find it a rather displeasing. Especially if you want to compile and install scientific software with lousy make files in an academic environment. I speak from plenty of personal experience, as I've been using Macs from around 1992 to 2007 (in addition to NetBSD) and started using the underlying command line tools in OS X 10.0 and later Fink when it became available almost from day one.
If your mileage varies, good for you. After all, computers are just tools and nobody in his right mind would actually care about which operating system he's using as long as it does what it's supposed to do.
Somebody who writes with LaTeX or otherwise uses OSS tools for most of his work has no advantage by using OSX plus Fink or Macports. There is no advantage at all, from my experience the ports install in nonstandard places and introduce tons of configuration problems. Moreover, installing software that has not yet been ported is a major pain in the ass on OSX due to the highly nonstandard nature of its Unix.
That's the main reason why I switched from OSX to Linux. There are others. With GNU/Linux there is no need for paid software, Apple's walled garden, and the OS getting slower with each upgrade so Apple can sell their hardware. I didn't buy Mac hardware, though, but some of the Apple laptops might be okay for other people who don't mind loosing their eyesight due to glaring mirror displays.
There are many reasons. For example, speculating with currencies produces no product and no useful service for society, and is in that sense also not work. (Just as sitting on your money and watch it grow is not work.) There is also no guarantee that the dynamic systems created by such speculations are sufficiently stable and non-chaotic to ensure that they won't collapse some day out of the blue and ruin thousands people and companies in the course of it.
Nobody ever lost bitcoin that they kept in their own wallets unless they were stupid enough not to get necessary precautions, like getting their pc hacked while not having their wallet encrypted with a secret passphrase.
And that's exactly what would happen on a massive scale if this technology would be used for voting. Everyone from the NSA over Anonymous, the Russian Mafia, the Chinese government, up to college prankers would hack your PC and hundreds of thousands of others until you could throw the voting results right into the garbage can.
God lord, I wouldn't even trust most anti-virus and backup companies not to influence my votes with their root access, and they're supposed to be the good guys.
--start rant-- Amazon is too aggressive in trying to bind customers to their ecosystem. Customers appreciate that much less than Amazon's managers might think. Case in point: Because Google for inexplicable reasons did not let me buy anything with my well-working Paypal account, I had to install Amazon's app store. Now that means you have to allow 3rd party apps so they can fully control your phone. Very insecure, but okay. Then I had to buy some 'Amazon coins" because any other payment method did not work, even though I customarily order books to my country from this account. Fine, I bought them and got the apps. But then I realized to my horror that Amazon injects code into them that only allows you to use the aps when you are currently logged into your Amazon account on the phone! Not only that, they also automatically activated the 1-click buy function!
Not only do these apps take an eternity to start now (boy, this log-in check must be complicated), if somebody grabs my phone he can now order anything with one click and has full access to my Amazon account! How crazy is that?
On the plus side, their customer service is top quality. The only thing they aren't allowed to tell you, but probably wish they could, is that you should not use Amazon's "app shop" under any circumstances.... --end of rant--
There is just as much practical knowledge in the field of theology as there is psychology, sociology and many of the other soft sciences.
No there isn't. There is almost no knowledge in theology at all, except for knowledge of some arcane scriptures.
theology only has the human experience to study and as such, is probably dead on with how the world behaves.
There is not the slightest evidence for that claim. Moreover, the study of human experience is part of psychology.
Science and religion do not have to be opposed to each other. They can coexist quite happily.
Only in the mind of hypocrites, namely people who apply completely different standards of adequacy, consistency and correctness to religion and science without being able to explain why they would be justified to do so.
The only conflict comes is when either goes beyond it's theoretical framework and tries to apply it to the other.
Religion really has no 'theoretical framework' worth speaking of. It's a bunch of old stories with a lot of bullshit in them, plus some mildly interesting and arcane cultural heritage and rites.
There is no easy to use, one click install solution for syncing all your calendars, notes and todo lists between Android and your GNU/Linux PC without having to give away all your data to third parties or having to pay monthly subscription fees.
Hopefully someone will develop this. Once Android has the same functionality as Palm organizers from the 90s, it will be more useful and perhaps even cease to being a mere toy.
Fuck you and all your fellow conspiracy theory crackpots! It is perfectly well known what happened. Some rebel under the command of Igor Strelkov alias FSB colonel Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin shut down the plane with a BUK missile system. There is no doubt about it because the rebels announced the news themselves to the whole world before they realized their mistake.
Nice theory but I very much doubt it's true at all. Hollywood was never known for sophisticated concepts and certainly never made lots of money from them. You probably say that only because you're not acquainted with cinema in other countries very well. My personal theory is that US movie makers have simply become dumber and the only good movies left are made by a few bright author/directors.
Be that as it may, it seems that the art has also declined with the rise of CGI effects and increased greed of movie studios. Hollywood movies nowadays are cut too fast while being too long (!), have lousy scripts focusing on cheap jokes and thrill, one movie is split into three (e.g. the Hobbit), and virtually any blockbuster title ends in a 20-30 minutes orgy of pointless CGI violence. There are severe problems with the plot development, most plots of contemporary thriller/action/sci-fi/spy/detective movies are simply not on a par with similar movies from the 70s. Interesting plots twists are sacrificed for endless action sequences. They want to maximize bucks more often than making good movies, and this used to be different.
For the vast majority of people their religion is merely a contingent by-product of their uprising, created by the mere chance of where they were born and what world views their parents have. If they scrutinize their religious ideas they will quickly find out that there is nothing at all to them, that they are illogical and untenable, not supported by anything besides what religious institutions tell them. In brief, religion is based on bullshit.
However, religious institutions and leaders of all confessions, from the shaman of a local tribe in Papua New Guinea to the Pope, have put and are still putting a lot of hard work in keeping people from scrutinizing their thoughts and world views, and it helps them that many people prefer to stay religious even though they are not really convinced, because they fear the wrath of supernatural beings. Only those very rare people who have been raised in a completely atheist and secular way are free of such fears (but of course that doesn't mean that they have no other fears).
From that crappy summary it's practically impossible to tell what's going on. Why does the police need to know who is in a house anyway? What crime are we talking about? Being in a house? Not being in a house? I really don't get it.
The NSA's Type 1 HAIPE is a modified IPsec that passed their rigorous Type 1 development and evaluation process.
Even nowadays and certainly then the NSA would probably not pass anything in a public competition that they couldn't break in one way ot another. At least there is no indication for it. See e.g. the clipper chip debacle or the NSA's role in the development of bogus mobile phone encryption standards. Moreover, you presumably have no clue about what they use internally (and if you had, you weren't allowed to tell us).
So no, the only agency that can tell whether a given VPN is NSA-reistant is the NSA or another agency that has infiltrated the NSA very thoroughly - the latter being quite possible if not likely, given how easy it was for Snowden to leak so many documents.
You're too biased to be taken seriously. For example, among many other things, you forgot to mention that the US actively supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war. The US even supplied Saddam Hussein with 70 shipments of anthrax!
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Why dou think he is not concerned? Can't we just prefer not to be filmed at all?
What's wrong with (glass)holes like you?
Drones against drones seems to be finally the right way to spend military expenditures. Anything is better than continuing to use drones against innocent people in deliberate political killings on souvereign foreign soil conducted outside of police authority, judicial oversight and jurisdiction and violating ratified human rights chartas.
Yeah, nice systemd trolling attempt. I've been administrating a little NetBSD box for quite a while as a hobby in the 90s and believe I know pretty well what the difference between Unix and Linux is. The point is that as the hybrid bastard nonstandard Unix that it is, OS X is just enough of a pain in the ass that most people who actually need to install and use Unix tools will find it a rather displeasing. Especially if you want to compile and install scientific software with lousy make files in an academic environment. I speak from plenty of personal experience, as I've been using Macs from around 1992 to 2007 (in addition to NetBSD) and started using the underlying command line tools in OS X 10.0 and later Fink when it became available almost from day one.
If your mileage varies, good for you. After all, computers are just tools and nobody in his right mind would actually care about which operating system he's using as long as it does what it's supposed to do.
Somebody who writes with LaTeX or otherwise uses OSS tools for most of his work has no advantage by using OSX plus Fink or Macports. There is no advantage at all, from my experience the ports install in nonstandard places and introduce tons of configuration problems. Moreover, installing software that has not yet been ported is a major pain in the ass on OSX due to the highly nonstandard nature of its Unix.
That's the main reason why I switched from OSX to Linux. There are others. With GNU/Linux there is no need for paid software, Apple's walled garden, and the OS getting slower with each upgrade so Apple can sell their hardware. I didn't buy Mac hardware, though, but some of the Apple laptops might be okay for other people who don't mind loosing their eyesight due to glaring mirror displays.
There are many reasons. For example, speculating with currencies produces no product and no useful service for society, and is in that sense also not work. (Just as sitting on your money and watch it grow is not work.) There is also no guarantee that the dynamic systems created by such speculations are sufficiently stable and non-chaotic to ensure that they won't collapse some day out of the blue and ruin thousands people and companies in the course of it.
Keep in mind that the ultimate test of intelligence is survival.
Yeah, it's quiz time! Please complete the following phrase:
Survival of the __________
1.) most faithful
2.) most intelligent
3.) zombies
Remember, only one answer is correct!
Nobody ever lost bitcoin that they kept in their own wallets unless they were stupid enough not to get necessary precautions, like getting their pc hacked while not having their wallet encrypted with a secret passphrase.
And that's exactly what would happen on a massive scale if this technology would be used for voting. Everyone from the NSA over Anonymous, the Russian Mafia, the Chinese government, up to college prankers would hack your PC and hundreds of thousands of others until you could throw the voting results right into the garbage can.
God lord, I wouldn't even trust most anti-virus and backup companies not to influence my votes with their root access, and they're supposed to be the good guys.
Legally, it's extortion.
--start rant--
Amazon is too aggressive in trying to bind customers to their ecosystem. Customers appreciate that much less than Amazon's managers might think. Case in point: Because Google for inexplicable reasons did not let me buy anything with my well-working Paypal account, I had to install Amazon's app store. Now that means you have to allow 3rd party apps so they can fully control your phone. Very insecure, but okay. Then I had to buy some 'Amazon coins" because any other payment method did not work, even though I customarily order books to my country from this account. Fine, I bought them and got the apps. But then I realized to my horror that Amazon injects code into them that only allows you to use the aps when you are currently logged into your Amazon account on the phone! Not only that, they also automatically activated the 1-click buy function!
Not only do these apps take an eternity to start now (boy, this log-in check must be complicated), if somebody grabs my phone he can now order anything with one click and has full access to my Amazon account! How crazy is that?
On the plus side, their customer service is top quality. The only thing they aren't allowed to tell you, but probably wish they could, is that you should not use Amazon's "app shop" under any circumstances ....
--end of rant--
There is just as much practical knowledge in the field of theology as there is psychology, sociology and many of the other soft sciences.
No there isn't. There is almost no knowledge in theology at all, except for knowledge of some arcane scriptures.
theology only has the human experience to study and as such, is probably dead on with how the world behaves.
There is not the slightest evidence for that claim. Moreover, the study of human experience is part of psychology.
Science and religion do not have to be opposed to each other. They can coexist quite happily.
Only in the mind of hypocrites, namely people who apply completely different standards of adequacy, consistency and correctness to religion and science without being able to explain why they would be justified to do so.
The only conflict comes is when either goes beyond it's theoretical framework and tries to apply it to the other.
Religion really has no 'theoretical framework' worth speaking of. It's a bunch of old stories with a lot of bullshit in them, plus some mildly interesting and arcane cultural heritage and rites.
It will be great for the 3d porn industry. Hopefully some interesting applications will evolve.
There is no easy to use, one click install solution for syncing all your calendars, notes and todo lists between Android and your GNU/Linux PC without having to give away all your data to third parties or having to pay monthly subscription fees.
Hopefully someone will develop this. Once Android has the same functionality as Palm organizers from the 90s, it will be more useful and perhaps even cease to being a mere toy.
Fuck you and all your fellow conspiracy theory crackpots! It is perfectly well known what happened. Some rebel under the command of Igor Strelkov alias FSB colonel Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin shut down the plane with a BUK missile system. There is no doubt about it because the rebels announced the news themselves to the whole world before they realized their mistake.
That's right, the US government would never lie to the press.
Nice theory but I very much doubt it's true at all. Hollywood was never known for sophisticated concepts and certainly never made lots of money from them. You probably say that only because you're not acquainted with cinema in other countries very well. My personal theory is that US movie makers have simply become dumber and the only good movies left are made by a few bright author/directors.
Be that as it may, it seems that the art has also declined with the rise of CGI effects and increased greed of movie studios. Hollywood movies nowadays are cut too fast while being too long (!), have lousy scripts focusing on cheap jokes and thrill, one movie is split into three (e.g. the Hobbit), and virtually any blockbuster title ends in a 20-30 minutes orgy of pointless CGI violence. There are severe problems with the plot development, most plots of contemporary thriller/action/sci-fi/spy/detective movies are simply not on a par with similar movies from the 70s. Interesting plots twists are sacrificed for endless action sequences. They want to maximize bucks more often than making good movies, and this used to be different.
For the vast majority of people their religion is merely a contingent by-product of their uprising, created by the mere chance of where they were born and what world views their parents have. If they scrutinize their religious ideas they will quickly find out that there is nothing at all to them, that they are illogical and untenable, not supported by anything besides what religious institutions tell them. In brief, religion is based on bullshit.
However, religious institutions and leaders of all confessions, from the shaman of a local tribe in Papua New Guinea to the Pope, have put and are still putting a lot of hard work in keeping people from scrutinizing their thoughts and world views, and it helps them that many people prefer to stay religious even though they are not really convinced, because they fear the wrath of supernatural beings. Only those very rare people who have been raised in a completely atheist and secular way are free of such fears (but of course that doesn't mean that they have no other fears).
From that crappy summary it's practically impossible to tell what's going on. Why does the police need to know who is in a house anyway? What crime are we talking about? Being in a house? Not being in a house? I really don't get it.
The NSA's Type 1 HAIPE is a modified IPsec that passed their rigorous Type 1 development and evaluation process.
Even nowadays and certainly then the NSA would probably not pass anything in a public competition that they couldn't break in one way ot another. At least there is no indication for it. See e.g. the clipper chip debacle or the NSA's role in the development of bogus mobile phone encryption standards. Moreover, you presumably have no clue about what they use internally (and if you had, you weren't allowed to tell us).
So no, the only agency that can tell whether a given VPN is NSA-reistant is the NSA or another agency that has infiltrated the NSA very thoroughly - the latter being quite possible if not likely, given how easy it was for Snowden to leak so many documents.
If you buy a ticket there is no obligation to use it. It's called a free society.
... used, once enough other people have played the guinea pig.
You're an idiot.
You're too biased to be taken seriously. For example, among many other things, you forgot to mention that the US actively supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war. The US even supplied Saddam Hussein with 70 shipments of anthrax!
Hotbot was the best. I still miss it, because Google sucks.
This "cyber" bullshit is getting out of hand...
Or you could write the book, publish it at a large publishing company and get tenure + more money elsewhere.