So Obama and John Kerry basically make off the cuff remarks that get us into this entire situation. So we're to believe their unwitting idiots? This seems a lot like GW Bush's tactic of looking like a bumpkin to distract people from whatever unpopular thing he was doing. Is there anything going on right now that they'd want to distract us from? Like... the NSA? The Budget? The Economy? Come on, does anyone really think they give 2 shits about Syria? Or a better question, why do they care more about Syria than the Congo... where a hell of a lot more people are being killed.
Ohh wait, those governments are not democratic but ours is...
No it's not. If you're only allowed to vote for 1 of 2 people that mostly agree on everything, your vote doesn't really count. If you're voting democrat or republican YOU are the problem.
Actually no, they've licensed it for free. As long as your not growing it on a commercial scale you can use it for free. Basically they saw this as a PR opportunity so they helped develop and license it on their own dime.
yea, but public companies tend to bust. You can shrink a private company, take losses for a while if you want. When you're public the public expects eternal growth or they abandon you, you get bought up and sold for pennies on the dollar and then the company you named after yourself sells its rights to walmart who then sells cheap knock-offs under your name.
All you've done here is prove you don't know shit about recording. 24bit 192khz audio would be ridiculous for a production copy but is relatively mediocre for a studio master.
The most layman example I can provide is: imagine if you wanted to record a movie in 1080p... and you record the last critical sceen in 1080p but realize you want to zoom in on the hero at the last minuite... you can't... the recording is in the same format as the release. To zoom in digitally you would lose quality. However, if you recorded the entire movie in a much higher format... and there you go. So to master a release, you record in much much higher quality. Well beyond what the human ear can hear. Then you master it down to what you want to release. In video its more obvious why you need it but in audio it's usually related to specific effects like pitch shifters and such. Pitch shifting a low quality recording sounds awful.
Umm... not that I want to justify the US in doing all their nastiness in the middle east but Iran hasn't exactly been laying olive branches at our feet. As bad as our government is, I'm under no delusion about what's going to happen once the psychopaths in charge of that country have nukes. In my opinion Israels justified in doing just about anything they want to prevent that from happening because I doubt there will be an Israel anymore after it does.. or an Iran for that matter. I think the only thing that maybe makes such a situation not so terrifying is that somehow North Koreas managed not to go bat-shit crazy since they got their nukes. But then again, North Korea and Japan do not have the religious zealotry that Iran and Israel do. God help us all indeed.
The easiest solution to noise is put the computer in a different room. If you're cheap you can just run the cables through the wall. If you want to spend a few extra dollars everything can be wireless even the monitor and speakers now-a-days. My HTPC is in my basement, the HDMI is wireless to my TV, the only wire coming up to my living room is a powered USB cable/repeater that hooks up the infrared receiver for the remote.
I doubt the system can make quick changes though so a violent storm or rouge wave couldn't be compensated for. But steady constant waves would be easy.
They said "the majority of" which is not what you're talking about. Even most security minded people don't bother with a private CA. I think most of their "cracks" don't even bother with the encryption anyway. If they have as many back doors as it looks like they do, and they have data collection at nearly every major hub in the world as well as equipment in all the ISPs they are reading so much of your data (basically ALL of it from both ends) they will know just about everything you do. It doesn't really matter if the email was encrypted if they have a keylogger on your PC or can remotely log into the webcam of the guy sitting next to you's laptop. It's kind of like the "eye of sauron" thing. They may not be omnipotent and able to target everyone at once, but once their eye turns your way there's little you can do about it short of jumping into a volcano.
The 2nd amendment is THE civil liberty, second only to freedom of expression. It's what prevents the government from simply ignoring the constitution as we have a right to take up arms against them should they get out of hand. It's laughable that people still think the 2nd amendments about hunting or defense. It's about the ability of the citizens to take up arms against their government. Plain and simple.
More security theater designed to make people feel like government is doing something when it's not.
My son recently started public school. I took him on his first day only to find hundreds of kids milling about the front of the school, in the street, totally un-supervised. I tried to get in and the doors were locked. They didn't unlock until 7:30am the time class started so of course, every kid was late for first period. I went to the office and they told me due to all the school shootings (in the whole country we've had what? 1? In the past 5 years?) They said I'd have to take it up with the school board and blew me off.
Well, I did take it up with the school board. I called and pointed out that they were locking an EMPTY SCHOOL. All the kids were outside, unsupervised with no-where to go should a potential attacker arrive. It was ridiculous. To my amazement they got me in touch with the school districts director of security who conceded my point, agreed with my assessment and made a district wide policy change on the spot. She said that the change had been requested by local politicians over the summer and she hadn't really thought it through. By the time I went to pick up my kid the school was back to being unlocked. At least there are a few in government with half a brain in their head.
Not at all. We interbred with Neanderthals and still retain many of their genes. I suspect that as species diverge this sort of thing happens a lot. The chicken or the egg analogy is flawed, as there were likely hundreds of eggs all over the world that hatched into what we would now consider a chicken at around the same time. They inter-bred with non-chickens and passed on their genes that eventually became dominant due to evolutionary pressures.
There was no genetic Adam and Eve. "Humans" slowly came to be human over thousands of years, and we're still evolving. Scientists have found differences in our genes over periods as short as a few decades (usually due to disease)
Losh's advice for wikis is simple and straightforward: "They are bad and terrible. Do not use them."
With that quote right there he's lost all credibility. A well maintained wiki with proofing, editors, publishers that has management on-board is about the best way to document anything. He seems to be referring to the often found, random wiki the local coders threw up for lack of anything better... yes, those are bad. But a well maintained one, that actually has official practices and peer review... Where you get a project to write or update something, and then someone else gets a project to edit it, and then the entire team peer reviews it before it goes to a "publisher" who then publishes it to the wiki officially is great.
In my job, published edits to our wiki documentation are something you can use for promotion, raises and even to get new positions. The "stars" at my company are the ones making the most published edits. And note, I say "published" edits. You can make all the edits you want but if they fail peer review you just wasted several hours so you'd better make sure they are worth-while and done well.
My biggest problem with these mini computers is the interface. Sure you can get a tiny computer for cheap now, but touch screens (the only interface that would remotely work and be supported at the same time) are still $200 minimum. Size of the screen has little effect on the price and there are very few choices so you have to adjust your application to fit the part rather than the other way around.
What we need is a smart-phone that's not a phone, runs on 12volt DC and has a back brimming with I/O ports.
I work for a company that has "social media" outlets... and at one point I was put in charge of it. Let's be clear, social media fucking sucks. You can have a Facebook page, you can tweet, you can post every 20min and no-one will pay any attention unless you have some kind of contest, at which point every script kiddy in the country is going to write a bot and undermine the event.
When it comes to responding to messages its not quite as bad, but really what can you do? In most cases people post something at 10pm when they've been fuming for hours and are now drunk off their ass. If you respond to their tweet they often just go off on a drunken rampage, if you call them they're usually upset that you're "stalking them online" it's a lose/lose situation. There's literally nothing you can do about a situation like this. BA is in trouble preciecely BECAUSE they have a twitter presence. They could have simply not had an account and responded "Sorry we do not have a twitter presence, we'll have someone call this gentleman on the phone asap." Who could fault them? They're not on Twitter.
I eventually told my management I didn't want to have anything to do with it anymore. I personally think there is basically no value in social media for a business at all other than reading market trends. I've been pushing for us to simply shut down our twitter and Facebook accounts and completely ignore the medium all together. Yes, there will be the occasional person that complains online but there's little we can do about that. You have our number, if the person you talk to doesn't help you ask for a supervisor. MY company will resolve your issue if you do that. BA may not, and if not they have a bigger problem than their response times to twitter. In my opinion they need to work on their customer service business processes before they bother with social media.
While there are certainly Russians that should be extradited to the US to stand trial, it's the United States that's abused their extradition powers, falsified evidence, and flat out lied to participating countries in order to arrest those whom there is little to no evidence against and are often being persecuted for political reasons. Remember, we have the highest incarceration rate in, not only the world, but all of human history. With that kind of record you have to see how a lot of countries would see our judicial system as a bit suspect as well. The Russians may protect their ultra rich from prosecution but we do exactly the same thing. To this day, not a single executive from the whole 2008 banking mess has even been indited, simply because the justice department didn't want to upset the markets. We are certainly no better than the Russians when it comes to justice, we're probably even worse.
You can't retroactively legislate penalties for things that were done in the past. See the Gulf oil spill. You give an industry a get out of jail free card this is exactly the sort of situation they're going to use it in. And before you get all upset, that sort of legislation IS important. If there had been no cap on damages BP would have gone belly up before the first week of that leak and there would have been no one left to sue, or cap the well. If you drive Tepco out of business with fines, then there's no Tepco to nail to the cross down the road. If you fix the plant for them, when you sue them for damages they'll just say the government screwed up the cleanup.
'Skype, the company points out, now connects directly into Office 365, Xbox, Windows 8, Bing, Microsoft Messenger, Windows Phone and Lync, its business-oriented VOIP solution, and soon into Outlook.com for everyone.
You forgot the direct link into the NSA silly. That's probably the most profitable part of Skype for Microsoft. Seriously.
No I think the point is if the NSA is spending 65 billion dollars to read your emails, there is no longer such a thing as "Secure communications" The real funny part is they think their networks aren't just as compromised as ours are.
Yea, pretty much it is. What do you think is going to happen if the government takes over the plant? Does the government have nuclear workers? Any expertise at all in this area? No? So they are going to hire whomever has the best knowledge of the facility... oh, Tepco. So now, not only is Tepco still in charge of the cleanup, they're now getting paid to do it and the responsibility for the result is now off their shoulders and there's endless layers of red tape they have to get through to actually do anything.
A more appropriate solution would be to send in government inspectors, have them on-site 24/7 and reporting back to government officials. Make Tepco pay their wages as well.
Not if you want things to scale easily. I think a good example is SOE. They have a bunch of MMOs and years ago they virtualized their servers. Now it's completely irrelevant how many players are playing any particular game they have. If they have even 1 paying customer a limited amount of resources is dedicated to the server side of that players gameplay. If the population suddenly shoots up to 100,000 it just scales up assets dedicated to that game. It's brilliant really and is why SOE has been able to keep decades old games going for so long. None of their hardware is application specific.
In a non-virtualized environment once the player population fell bellow a few thousand it would not longer be profitable for them to keep the game running and they've have to shut it down... and lose all those customers.
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So Obama and John Kerry basically make off the cuff remarks that get us into this entire situation. So we're to believe their unwitting idiots? This seems a lot like GW Bush's tactic of looking like a bumpkin to distract people from whatever unpopular thing he was doing. Is there anything going on right now that they'd want to distract us from? Like... the NSA? The Budget? The Economy? Come on, does anyone really think they give 2 shits about Syria? Or a better question, why do they care more about Syria than the Congo... where a hell of a lot more people are being killed.
Ohh wait, those governments are not democratic but ours is...
No it's not. If you're only allowed to vote for 1 of 2 people that mostly agree on everything, your vote doesn't really count. If you're voting democrat or republican YOU are the problem.
Actually no, they've licensed it for free. As long as your not growing it on a commercial scale you can use it for free. Basically they saw this as a PR opportunity so they helped develop and license it on their own dime.
yea, but public companies tend to bust. You can shrink a private company, take losses for a while if you want. When you're public the public expects eternal growth or they abandon you, you get bought up and sold for pennies on the dollar and then the company you named after yourself sells its rights to walmart who then sells cheap knock-offs under your name.
All you've done here is prove you don't know shit about recording. 24bit 192khz audio would be ridiculous for a production copy but is relatively mediocre for a studio master.
The most layman example I can provide is: imagine if you wanted to record a movie in 1080p... and you record the last critical sceen in 1080p but realize you want to zoom in on the hero at the last minuite... you can't... the recording is in the same format as the release. To zoom in digitally you would lose quality. However, if you recorded the entire movie in a much higher format... and there you go. So to master a release, you record in much much higher quality. Well beyond what the human ear can hear. Then you master it down to what you want to release. In video its more obvious why you need it but in audio it's usually related to specific effects like pitch shifters and such. Pitch shifting a low quality recording sounds awful.
Umm... not that I want to justify the US in doing all their nastiness in the middle east but Iran hasn't exactly been laying olive branches at our feet. As bad as our government is, I'm under no delusion about what's going to happen once the psychopaths in charge of that country have nukes. In my opinion Israels justified in doing just about anything they want to prevent that from happening because I doubt there will be an Israel anymore after it does.. or an Iran for that matter. I think the only thing that maybe makes such a situation not so terrifying is that somehow North Koreas managed not to go bat-shit crazy since they got their nukes. But then again, North Korea and Japan do not have the religious zealotry that Iran and Israel do. God help us all indeed.
The easiest solution to noise is put the computer in a different room. If you're cheap you can just run the cables through the wall. If you want to spend a few extra dollars everything can be wireless even the monitor and speakers now-a-days. My HTPC is in my basement, the HDMI is wireless to my TV, the only wire coming up to my living room is a powered USB cable/repeater that hooks up the infrared receiver for the remote.
It doesn't take a lot of power. Aquarium guys do it all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHfDh4eqYPs
I doubt the system can make quick changes though so a violent storm or rouge wave couldn't be compensated for. But steady constant waves would be easy.
which is completely useless if the NSA has a backdoor into your OS and is key logging everything you do.
They said "the majority of" which is not what you're talking about. Even most security minded people don't bother with a private CA. I think most of their "cracks" don't even bother with the encryption anyway. If they have as many back doors as it looks like they do, and they have data collection at nearly every major hub in the world as well as equipment in all the ISPs they are reading so much of your data (basically ALL of it from both ends) they will know just about everything you do. It doesn't really matter if the email was encrypted if they have a keylogger on your PC or can remotely log into the webcam of the guy sitting next to you's laptop. It's kind of like the "eye of sauron" thing. They may not be omnipotent and able to target everyone at once, but once their eye turns your way there's little you can do about it short of jumping into a volcano.
The 2nd amendment is THE civil liberty, second only to freedom of expression. It's what prevents the government from simply ignoring the constitution as we have a right to take up arms against them should they get out of hand. It's laughable that people still think the 2nd amendments about hunting or defense. It's about the ability of the citizens to take up arms against their government. Plain and simple.
More security theater designed to make people feel like government is doing something when it's not.
My son recently started public school. I took him on his first day only to find hundreds of kids milling about the front of the school, in the street, totally un-supervised. I tried to get in and the doors were locked. They didn't unlock until 7:30am the time class started so of course, every kid was late for first period. I went to the office and they told me due to all the school shootings (in the whole country we've had what? 1? In the past 5 years?) They said I'd have to take it up with the school board and blew me off.
Well, I did take it up with the school board. I called and pointed out that they were locking an EMPTY SCHOOL. All the kids were outside, unsupervised with no-where to go should a potential attacker arrive. It was ridiculous. To my amazement they got me in touch with the school districts director of security who conceded my point, agreed with my assessment and made a district wide policy change on the spot. She said that the change had been requested by local politicians over the summer and she hadn't really thought it through. By the time I went to pick up my kid the school was back to being unlocked. At least there are a few in government with half a brain in their head.
Not at all. We interbred with Neanderthals and still retain many of their genes. I suspect that as species diverge this sort of thing happens a lot. The chicken or the egg analogy is flawed, as there were likely hundreds of eggs all over the world that hatched into what we would now consider a chicken at around the same time. They inter-bred with non-chickens and passed on their genes that eventually became dominant due to evolutionary pressures.
There was no genetic Adam and Eve. "Humans" slowly came to be human over thousands of years, and we're still evolving. Scientists have found differences in our genes over periods as short as a few decades (usually due to disease)
I think, given the current state of the law, we are all felons.
Losh's advice for wikis is simple and straightforward: "They are bad and terrible. Do not use them."
With that quote right there he's lost all credibility.
A well maintained wiki with proofing, editors, publishers that has management on-board is about the best way to document anything. He seems to be referring to the often found, random wiki the local coders threw up for lack of anything better... yes, those are bad. But a well maintained one, that actually has official practices and peer review... Where you get a project to write or update something, and then someone else gets a project to edit it, and then the entire team peer reviews it before it goes to a "publisher" who then publishes it to the wiki officially is great.
In my job, published edits to our wiki documentation are something you can use for promotion, raises and even to get new positions. The "stars" at my company are the ones making the most published edits. And note, I say "published" edits. You can make all the edits you want but if they fail peer review you just wasted several hours so you'd better make sure they are worth-while and done well.
My biggest problem with these mini computers is the interface. Sure you can get a tiny computer for cheap now, but touch screens (the only interface that would remotely work and be supported at the same time) are still $200 minimum. Size of the screen has little effect on the price and there are very few choices so you have to adjust your application to fit the part rather than the other way around.
What we need is a smart-phone that's not a phone, runs on 12volt DC and has a back brimming with I/O ports.
I work for a company that has "social media" outlets... and at one point I was put in charge of it. Let's be clear, social media fucking sucks. You can have a Facebook page, you can tweet, you can post every 20min and no-one will pay any attention unless you have some kind of contest, at which point every script kiddy in the country is going to write a bot and undermine the event.
When it comes to responding to messages its not quite as bad, but really what can you do? In most cases people post something at 10pm when they've been fuming for hours and are now drunk off their ass. If you respond to their tweet they often just go off on a drunken rampage, if you call them they're usually upset that you're "stalking them online" it's a lose/lose situation. There's literally nothing you can do about a situation like this. BA is in trouble preciecely BECAUSE they have a twitter presence. They could have simply not had an account and responded "Sorry we do not have a twitter presence, we'll have someone call this gentleman on the phone asap." Who could fault them? They're not on Twitter.
I eventually told my management I didn't want to have anything to do with it anymore. I personally think there is basically no value in social media for a business at all other than reading market trends. I've been pushing for us to simply shut down our twitter and Facebook accounts and completely ignore the medium all together. Yes, there will be the occasional person that complains online but there's little we can do about that. You have our number, if the person you talk to doesn't help you ask for a supervisor. MY company will resolve your issue if you do that. BA may not, and if not they have a bigger problem than their response times to twitter. In my opinion they need to work on their customer service business processes before they bother with social media.
While there are certainly Russians that should be extradited to the US to stand trial, it's the United States that's abused their extradition powers, falsified evidence, and flat out lied to participating countries in order to arrest those whom there is little to no evidence against and are often being persecuted for political reasons. Remember, we have the highest incarceration rate in, not only the world, but all of human history. With that kind of record you have to see how a lot of countries would see our judicial system as a bit suspect as well. The Russians may protect their ultra rich from prosecution but we do exactly the same thing. To this day, not a single executive from the whole 2008 banking mess has even been indited, simply because the justice department didn't want to upset the markets. We are certainly no better than the Russians when it comes to justice, we're probably even worse.
You can't retroactively legislate penalties for things that were done in the past. See the Gulf oil spill. You give an industry a get out of jail free card this is exactly the sort of situation they're going to use it in. And before you get all upset, that sort of legislation IS important. If there had been no cap on damages BP would have gone belly up before the first week of that leak and there would have been no one left to sue, or cap the well. If you drive Tepco out of business with fines, then there's no Tepco to nail to the cross down the road. If you fix the plant for them, when you sue them for damages they'll just say the government screwed up the cleanup.
'Skype, the company points out, now connects directly into Office 365, Xbox, Windows 8, Bing, Microsoft Messenger, Windows Phone and Lync, its business-oriented VOIP solution, and soon into Outlook.com for everyone.
You forgot the direct link into the NSA silly. That's probably the most profitable part of Skype for Microsoft. Seriously.
No I think the point is if the NSA is spending 65 billion dollars to read your emails, there is no longer such a thing as "Secure communications" The real funny part is they think their networks aren't just as compromised as ours are.
yes, little did all of those protesters know they were actually in the 1%. The most hilarious part of the whole thing.
Yea, pretty much it is. What do you think is going to happen if the government takes over the plant? Does the government have nuclear workers? Any expertise at all in this area? No? So they are going to hire whomever has the best knowledge of the facility... oh, Tepco. So now, not only is Tepco still in charge of the cleanup, they're now getting paid to do it and the responsibility for the result is now off their shoulders and there's endless layers of red tape they have to get through to actually do anything.
A more appropriate solution would be to send in government inspectors, have them on-site 24/7 and reporting back to government officials. Make Tepco pay their wages as well.
Not if you want things to scale easily. I think a good example is SOE. They have a bunch of MMOs and years ago they virtualized their servers. Now it's completely irrelevant how many players are playing any particular game they have. If they have even 1 paying customer a limited amount of resources is dedicated to the server side of that players gameplay. If the population suddenly shoots up to 100,000 it just scales up assets dedicated to that game. It's brilliant really and is why SOE has been able to keep decades old games going for so long. None of their hardware is application specific.
In a non-virtualized environment once the player population fell bellow a few thousand it would not longer be profitable for them to keep the game running and they've have to shut it down... and lose all those customers.
Don't surf the internet from your spy computer. Problem solved.