I'm sorry to say it but the Occupy movement has shown a terrible lack of technical skill at every opportunity. You'd think there would be many unemployed hackers among the ranks, but it seems that their top techies are barely at "power user" level.
Don't mod this Flamebait, it's true...very NASCAR/tractor pull-looking crowd, which to me only adds to the hilarity, people voting for more corporate power as if they're accomplished Randian supermen when they're actually working-class Joes on a modest income. It's kind of sad actually.
One time I was competing in an mirrorkhana event in a mall parking lot. The place was PACKED with spectators. Crowds had to part for cars to move to and from the driving area and we were powersliding inches away from packed crowds.
Anyways, there weren't nearly enough bathroom facilities for the number of people there, and only one area offered any shred of privacy. Had a good 3m wide river of piss going eventually x_x
BSD fans are the libertarians of the software world. They want full freedom in theory even if it means serfdom in practice, rather than a system which is less free in theory but delivers more freedom in practice.
The passage of time makes Stallman seem more right and less nutty. When he publishes a new short sci-fi story he seems less right and more nutty, then the cycle repeats.
There are many things closer to a flying car than a Lear-style private jet, down to roadable aircraft like the Terrafugia. Plenty of small planes that can fold up and fit on a trailer.
I don't think they are. Marketing is so powerful now that it's effectively brainwashing most of the population. It's practically mind control.
I've never bought an Apple device in my life and will continue not to.
Fuck Apple and fuck their dumb fanboys. Apple is now worse than Microsoft ever was. Everyone who supports them at this point is a dumb sheep helping to destroy computing, no exceptions, no excuses.
BTW, they've patented fuel cells on a cell phone now.
This probably happens all the time with any equipment where sale isn't restricted to government intelligence agencies, whether the vendor is complicit or not. You just ship stuff to a middleman in an approved country and then smuggle it to the final destination. It isn't rocket science. Plus, they could probably just build a similar system themselves with all FOSS tools anyways.
How is is possible to know if the bag was a knockoff or not? It can sometimes be impossible to tell when looking at them up-close, never mind a glance of one in a movie. The only way cops are able to shut down the shops selling these is basically by profiling the shops themselves. Shop run out of flea market space/van + high fashion handbag / low price ~= fake. Works 99.999% of the time.
And the funny thing is the real bags are made at least as unethically as the fakes.
Wow you've confused yourself by going into too many layers of libertarian paranoia. How the hell could Bitcoin be regulated or policed? Places operating on the web would just move to darknets and that would be the end of that.
It's still safer than cash, which can't be traded through a proxy on a public wifi AP. The transactions are traceable only to meaningless, untraceable usernames.
The magnitude of the losses would have been such that the FDIC fund would have been sucked dry in a heartbeat. Then it would be up to the U.S. Government to make up the shortfall, piling the new government debt on to the national debt pile. Haven't we been doing enough to "pile on" already?
Would have been better to add debt by bailing out citizens' bank accounts than to add debt by bailing out the banks who would then just give their execs massive bonuses while laying people off.
True but bitcoins are completely untraceable and the cops can't even tail you to see you exchange them like cash. Many child porn sites and contraband trading sites on darknets take payment in bitcoin.
That said, the genie is out of the bottle now so there's no going back. Might as well make the positive uses outweigh the negative. So far the best positive I've seen has been the lulz generated by bitcoin miners.
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I'm sorry to say it but the Occupy movement has shown a terrible lack of technical skill at every opportunity. You'd think there would be many unemployed hackers among the ranks, but it seems that their top techies are barely at "power user" level.
This was my first thought as well. They're voluntarily segregating themselves into a virtual free speech cage.
Don't mod this Flamebait, it's true...very NASCAR/tractor pull-looking crowd, which to me only adds to the hilarity, people voting for more corporate power as if they're accomplished Randian supermen when they're actually working-class Joes on a modest income. It's kind of sad actually.
I can do all of that, except I'm worried I might be a bit too assburgerish for the PR work :-(
That's it then, I am PERFECTLY SUITED for this job!
One time I was competing in an mirrorkhana event in a mall parking lot. The place was PACKED with spectators. Crowds had to part for cars to move to and from the driving area and we were powersliding inches away from packed crowds.
Anyways, there weren't nearly enough bathroom facilities for the number of people there, and only one area offered any shred of privacy. Had a good 3m wide river of piss going eventually x_x
Oh this sounds much better than socialized medicine! And my taxes will stay low, YAY!
It needs to be at least...Three times bigger!
BSD fans are the libertarians of the software world. They want full freedom in theory even if it means serfdom in practice, rather than a system which is less free in theory but delivers more freedom in practice.
The passage of time makes Stallman seem more right and less nutty. When he publishes a new short sci-fi story he seems less right and more nutty, then the cycle repeats.
So the separation of Church and State began to erode after less than 90 years, after all that work. Bummer.
There are many things closer to a flying car than a Lear-style private jet, down to roadable aircraft like the Terrafugia. Plenty of small planes that can fold up and fit on a trailer.
Area 51 is another good example. Buses and airliners full of people go to and from there every day and secrets don't leak out.
You target the worst one who is driving the industry in a bad direction. Makes sense.
I would have bought an N950 if I had the opportunity, even with inaccurate PITA capacitive touch.
I don't think they are. Marketing is so powerful now that it's effectively brainwashing most of the population. It's practically mind control.
I've never bought an Apple device in my life and will continue not to.
Fuck Apple and fuck their dumb fanboys. Apple is now worse than Microsoft ever was. Everyone who supports them at this point is a dumb sheep helping to destroy computing, no exceptions, no excuses.
BTW, they've patented fuel cells on a cell phone now.
The fake wasn't even a copy of an actual LV bag? Haha, serves 'em right.
This probably happens all the time with any equipment where sale isn't restricted to government intelligence agencies, whether the vendor is complicit or not. You just ship stuff to a middleman in an approved country and then smuggle it to the final destination. It isn't rocket science. Plus, they could probably just build a similar system themselves with all FOSS tools anyways.
How is is possible to know if the bag was a knockoff or not? It can sometimes be impossible to tell when looking at them up-close, never mind a glance of one in a movie. The only way cops are able to shut down the shops selling these is basically by profiling the shops themselves. Shop run out of flea market space/van + high fashion handbag / low price ~= fake. Works 99.999% of the time.
And the funny thing is the real bags are made at least as unethically as the fakes.
The spambots are gonna go NUTS on this thread...they'll be on-topic for once.
Wow you've confused yourself by going into too many layers of libertarian paranoia. How the hell could Bitcoin be regulated or policed? Places operating on the web would just move to darknets and that would be the end of that.
It's still safer than cash, which can't be traded through a proxy on a public wifi AP. The transactions are traceable only to meaningless, untraceable usernames.
The magnitude of the losses would have been such that the FDIC fund would have been sucked dry in a heartbeat. Then it would be up to the U.S. Government to make up the shortfall, piling the new government debt on to the national debt pile. Haven't we been doing enough to "pile on" already?
Would have been better to add debt by bailing out citizens' bank accounts than to add debt by bailing out the banks who would then just give their execs massive bonuses while laying people off.
Yeah it's gonna pop soon. Those who trade them should start shorting them. The crashes are always hard.
True but bitcoins are completely untraceable and the cops can't even tail you to see you exchange them like cash. Many child porn sites and contraband trading sites on darknets take payment in bitcoin.
That said, the genie is out of the bottle now so there's no going back. Might as well make the positive uses outweigh the negative. So far the best positive I've seen has been the lulz generated by bitcoin miners.