I do like the art. I'm not generally a fan of indigenous art. I grew up with a lot of native american kids and was forced to do tons of it for the pow-wows, school art projects and such. So I've an aversion to it now. It's kind of like growing up Scottish and hating bagpipes now because of it...
Anyways, what they did for those computers was well done and has a modern flavor. Good job!
We weren't there. Was he picking them like Schindlers List? Trying to save his engineering colleagues? Or was he hating on Jews? I dunno, the mans dead and history books are notoriously inaccurate with details like this. I'll let God judge him... if there is no afterlife then this arguments an exercise in futility.
Its okay, haven't you been watching Scandal? They are truly a patriotic bunch of people who are only trying to protect us from a murderous terrorist who happens to be the long thought dead mother of the President's mistress. They exist outside the law because they do what others can't or won't do to protect the US of A.
You know what? I wont even argue that point even though you were being sarcastic. I will assume they are patriotic, love America, and truly want to save us from evil. That doesn't negate my concerns however...
What happens after the next election? Or the one after that? If history has taught us anything it's that we will, without a doubt, eventually elect the wrong people to office. That's why there's a constitution. That's why there are checks on power. Not to prevent the good guys we have now from doing their jobs... but to prevent the bad guys we'll get in the future from doing theirs.
So this is the problem... The intelligence agencies effectively answer to no-one now. They've declared themselves so important they can lie to congress. Their over-site in the judicial branch is so secret less than 10 people on earth know what goes on in there. They feel that they can make legal decisions allowing them to ignore established law, on their own, tell no one and then lock the reasoning behind that in a lawers safe. They can lie to congress, the president maybe even to each other.
Using all of this, they could easily establish that their existence and the continuation of these programs is critical to national security. Then run operations to push their agenda in the media (propaganda, forum hacking, news site infiltration etc....) they could threaten members of congress through blackmail, defy the president in secret, etc... and there's absolutely no way to stop any of that.
Is congress unaware of this? Unable to do anything? Or do they just not care? This has to be stopped. If it's not, we will certainly see this power abused in a horrific way in the near future if it hasn't been already. And I'm not talking about Iraq/Afghanistan/Guantanamo horrific, I mean much much worse. Are we really going to allow ourselves to turn into the 4th riche?
Being a "good guy" or a "bad guy" is always subjective. Whatever nonsense you pull on the "Bad guys" today will eventually be used by them against you once they convince enough people you're a "Bad guy" Best leave nonsensical BS like stripping them on their domains alone. It will only turn out badly. I mean, really, would it be that hard to convince enough people that the USA is a terrorist entity?
So you want to have your cake and eat it to is what you're saying?
The lack of CPU power isn't just to save money, it's to make it more efficient. Getting a faster CPU very well could make battery and solar not an option and therefor reduce use-cases far more than the lack of cycles does. About the only big use case that it fails on because of the CPU is the MediaPC angle. And there are alternatives for that all over the place.
http://www.solid-run.com/wiki/... http://www.bananapi.org/p/prod... Keep in mind, both of those use at least double the power as a standard RPI. If you're running them on AC or in your car, no big deal... but not so hot for science experiments or weather balloons.
Because they're not just homeless. They're poor, likely have no family support, little edgucation and are not generally equipped to be make that sort of decision. And if something does go wrong they likely have no insurance they can use to seek help. Sure, if they find out its related to the testing the drug company might have to pay. But if it gives them cancer 5yrs later?
I'm all for adults making their own choices. But some people that appear to be adults, are not, for a variety of reasons. We should not be exploiting their sad lot in life to spare ourselves some discomfort. Pay more for testing, attract regular people. If you care about the homeless make community service part of the testing gig.
Jesse Jackson is a crook and runs a business, not a charity... it's called the Rainbow/PUSH coalition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... They show up, accuse your business/industry of racism, do not letup until... you donate money to their cause, then they drop the issue. It's a scam.
Just take a look at NASCAR. About 15yrs ago, NASCAR tried to break out of the south and become a mainstream sport. They were largely successful. Jesse Jackson saw this as an opportunity, went on morning talk shows and accused the industry of racism for their lack of black participants. Now, I'm not even going to argue that point... there are very few African Americans in NASCAR. It may very well have a problem with race... that's not the problem.
What's the problem then? NASCAR then donated around $250,000 to Jesse Jacksons Rainbow Coalition and suddenly they were right with black America, Jessie Jackson dropped the issue and said NASCAR didn't have a race problem. NASCAR didn't add a single black employee or change any of their policies. The problem isn't that there isn't a racial divide in NASCAR or even Silicon Valley. The problem is Jessie Jackson doesn't care. He just wants to use that disparity to extort money from those businesses. He's a scam artist and a crook, and it's sad he's seen with such reverence in this country. He's done nothing but harm the black community and he should be ashamed of himself.
GM should just install android in their cars, the put the grooveshark app in by default. Problem solved. Record companies seem to want to be made obsolete asap.
Trust me, they made that argument back when CD Roms came out. They were almost made illegal because of it to. Lucky they were not, and likely had a lot to do with the advent of the internet.
At the time there was no internet, you had local BBS's. When CD roms came out, a lot of people couldn't afford them, so the BBS's got them and you could queue up for time on different CD roms that had different discs in them. Keep in mind a 100mb harddrive was HUGE at the time. A 600mb CD was unfathomable. You'd routinely find CD's that were labled "EVERY Shareware program there is!" and such. then play boy came out with one full of pics and it was all over... People queued up and downloaded from the CDs... it was revolutionary. Then the BBS's started networking themselves together so you could queue up for files from a foreign BBS.
At the time you could mail someone and you mailbox would just be your username. i.e. mine would be: charliemopps When the BBS's started networking it was possible there would be 2 user accounts with the same name... what to do? charliemopps@mybbs Sweet! Then the BBS's started linking to that new college network.. so they had to differentiate between the colleges (college.edu) and the commercial networks (mybbs.com) Eventually the BBS just became a gateway to everything else... the first ISPs...
Seriously... that's how it happened here. It wouldn't have happened without CD-Roms and naughty pics. I don't know about everywhere else, but where I live the internet came about in a very practical manner... it wasn't like someday it just descended on us from on high.
Anyways, that's your spelling mistake laden history lesson for the day.
So is Slashdot an echo chamber now? When did we start coming up with opinions and then crafting stories to suit our own narrative?
Are we really going to sit here and pretend like it's a surprise that a company that sells cable might be pushy about selling cable? Then they ask a question that, clearly, only disgruntled employees of that company are going to respond to... then from that, pick and choose the worst...
I've worked in places like that and I bet a lot of Slashdot has as well. We all know the guy that made this call famous... the "Super employee" that does everything by the book and thinks he's a rockstar because he goes over the top on every call... and that guy always ends up in a situation like this. Management loves him until he pisses some customer off so bad it gets escalated to the executive level. This call just so happened to go even farther than that.
These are not for high volume. These are more for "I have a contract for 200 of these boards a month" You set them up to do the run, they do it fairly quick and you're done.
For high volume there are $15k to $200k machines that would blow your mind. That's when you're spitting out hundreds of thousands of soundcards or whatever... Those take weeks to setup, but they can spit out a fully populated PCI card in just a few seconds. Those have shields and such because they are so fast they can really hurt you.
With these sorts of things it's always trades offs between setup times and speed per unit.
Why are we blaming yet another coding mistake on Native Americans? Native Americans are just as good as anyone at programming. I'd even say the Apache tribe has some top notch C++ people. Yes, the computers don't last long in the sweat lodges, but that's the price you pay for that "Made by real Americans" label.
I remember I posted a few weeks back that you should never own a credit card. I got modded troll and flamed pretty heavily.
And that's the problem with the publics modern perception of credit. Because I do not have a credit card and suggest that you shouldn't either, I'm considered a quack. I buy just as much useless garbage as anyone that modded me down does. I go on vacations, I order things online, I buy soda at the gas station. The only difference is I don't pay a 7% to 30% fee to do all of those things. And that is exactly what a credit card does. It doesn't help your credit. That's a lie driven by marketing campaigns of credit card companies.
The real question is: If you value privacy and dislike ads, why would you ever use Chrome?
The entire goal of that browser is counter to user Privacy and choice. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, if you don't care about that stuff then I'd same Chrome is probably the best browser out there. But I do value those things, and in fact they are probably my #1 consideration when choosing a browser so I use Firefox despite its many faults.
These are around $6000 but it's the real deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... My fathers got a few where he works. They're so fast a crucial part of setup is laying out where the parts are in the feed tray. You put the most used parts in the center so the head has less travel, and the least used parts near the ends. It's so important that the machine calculates this for you and tells you where to place what.
It's amazing to watch, that video doesn't even do it justice.
Trust me, most of us don't want them spying on you either. But if you think we can do anything about that, before we stop them from spying on US, you're nutz.
So, threatening extermination=bad, carrying out extermination=less bad. Got it.
It's all bad.
It's like watching your 2 drunken uncles accuse each other of stealing too much whiskey. At first you defend the one because you saw him steel the whiskey, then you realize the others been sneaking it to. Now they're in a full brawl on the living room floor in the middle of Christmas dinner, their kids (your cousins) are terrified and rooting for their respective fathers and you realize in 20 years those kids will be on this very same floor, having the same brawl, and all you can do is stand back and wonder why life is so screwed up.
And if a rocket landed on a house 2 blocks from your own, would you be talking about a proportional response? I'm not saying I agree with everything Israels doing, hell... I even argued your same point not too long ago... but over time I've come to realize this is an insanely complicated issue. There are mentally unhinged people on both sides using religion as an excuse to perpetrate unspeakable acts of violence and cruelty.
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I do like the art. I'm not generally a fan of indigenous art. I grew up with a lot of native american kids and was forced to do tons of it for the pow-wows, school art projects and such. So I've an aversion to it now. It's kind of like growing up Scottish and hating bagpipes now because of it...
Anyways, what they did for those computers was well done and has a modern flavor. Good job!
We weren't there. Was he picking them like Schindlers List? Trying to save his engineering colleagues? Or was he hating on Jews? I dunno, the mans dead and history books are notoriously inaccurate with details like this. I'll let God judge him... if there is no afterlife then this arguments an exercise in futility.
Its okay, haven't you been watching Scandal? They are truly a patriotic bunch of people who are only trying to protect us from a murderous terrorist who happens to be the long thought dead mother of the President's mistress. They exist outside the law because they do what others can't or won't do to protect the US of A.
You know what? I wont even argue that point even though you were being sarcastic. I will assume they are patriotic, love America, and truly want to save us from evil. That doesn't negate my concerns however...
What happens after the next election? Or the one after that? If history has taught us anything it's that we will, without a doubt, eventually elect the wrong people to office. That's why there's a constitution. That's why there are checks on power. Not to prevent the good guys we have now from doing their jobs... but to prevent the bad guys we'll get in the future from doing theirs.
You disregard all the harm that anonymity causes online, from bullying, to hate speech, to terrorism.
No we didn't. Free speech easily trumps all of those concerns. Period.
It's better to live terrified in chaos, than safely wrapped in golden chains.
So this is the problem... The intelligence agencies effectively answer to no-one now. They've declared themselves so important they can lie to congress. Their over-site in the judicial branch is so secret less than 10 people on earth know what goes on in there. They feel that they can make legal decisions allowing them to ignore established law, on their own, tell no one and then lock the reasoning behind that in a lawers safe. They can lie to congress, the president maybe even to each other.
Using all of this, they could easily establish that their existence and the continuation of these programs is critical to national security. Then run operations to push their agenda in the media (propaganda, forum hacking, news site infiltration etc....) they could threaten members of congress through blackmail, defy the president in secret, etc... and there's absolutely no way to stop any of that.
Is congress unaware of this? Unable to do anything? Or do they just not care? This has to be stopped. If it's not, we will certainly see this power abused in a horrific way in the near future if it hasn't been already. And I'm not talking about Iraq/Afghanistan/Guantanamo horrific, I mean much much worse. Are we really going to allow ourselves to turn into the 4th riche?
Good.
Being a "good guy" or a "bad guy" is always subjective. Whatever nonsense you pull on the "Bad guys" today will eventually be used by them against you once they convince enough people you're a "Bad guy" Best leave nonsensical BS like stripping them on their domains alone. It will only turn out badly. I mean, really, would it be that hard to convince enough people that the USA is a terrorist entity?
So you want to have your cake and eat it to is what you're saying?
The lack of CPU power isn't just to save money, it's to make it more efficient. Getting a faster CPU very well could make battery and solar not an option and therefor reduce use-cases far more than the lack of cycles does. About the only big use case that it fails on because of the CPU is the MediaPC angle. And there are alternatives for that all over the place.
http://www.solid-run.com/wiki/...
http://www.bananapi.org/p/prod...
Keep in mind, both of those use at least double the power as a standard RPI. If you're running them on AC or in your car, no big deal... but not so hot for science experiments or weather balloons.
Because they're not just homeless. They're poor, likely have no family support, little edgucation and are not generally equipped to be make that sort of decision. And if something does go wrong they likely have no insurance they can use to seek help. Sure, if they find out its related to the testing the drug company might have to pay. But if it gives them cancer 5yrs later?
I'm all for adults making their own choices. But some people that appear to be adults, are not, for a variety of reasons. We should not be exploiting their sad lot in life to spare ourselves some discomfort. Pay more for testing, attract regular people. If you care about the homeless make community service part of the testing gig.
Jesse Jackson is a crook and runs a business, not a charity... it's called the Rainbow/PUSH coalition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
They show up, accuse your business/industry of racism, do not letup until... you donate money to their cause, then they drop the issue.
It's a scam.
Just take a look at NASCAR.
About 15yrs ago, NASCAR tried to break out of the south and become a mainstream sport. They were largely successful. Jesse Jackson saw this as an opportunity, went on morning talk shows and accused the industry of racism for their lack of black participants. Now, I'm not even going to argue that point... there are very few African Americans in NASCAR. It may very well have a problem with race... that's not the problem.
What's the problem then? NASCAR then donated around $250,000 to Jesse Jacksons Rainbow Coalition and suddenly they were right with black America, Jessie Jackson dropped the issue and said NASCAR didn't have a race problem. NASCAR didn't add a single black employee or change any of their policies. The problem isn't that there isn't a racial divide in NASCAR or even Silicon Valley. The problem is Jessie Jackson doesn't care. He just wants to use that disparity to extort money from those businesses. He's a scam artist and a crook, and it's sad he's seen with such reverence in this country. He's done nothing but harm the black community and he should be ashamed of himself.
It's because Russia's offering $$$ for a TOR hack...
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/...
on the bright side, TOR will be better in the end because of it.
GM should just install android in their cars, the put the grooveshark app in by default. Problem solved. Record companies seem to want to be made obsolete asap.
Trust me, they made that argument back when CD Roms came out. They were almost made illegal because of it to. Lucky they were not, and likely had a lot to do with the advent of the internet.
At the time there was no internet, you had local BBS's. When CD roms came out, a lot of people couldn't afford them, so the BBS's got them and you could queue up for time on different CD roms that had different discs in them. Keep in mind a 100mb harddrive was HUGE at the time. A 600mb CD was unfathomable. You'd routinely find CD's that were labled "EVERY Shareware program there is!" and such. then play boy came out with one full of pics and it was all over... People queued up and downloaded from the CDs... it was revolutionary. Then the BBS's started networking themselves together so you could queue up for files from a foreign BBS.
At the time you could mail someone and you mailbox would just be your username. i.e. mine would be: charliemopps When the BBS's started networking it was possible there would be 2 user accounts with the same name... what to do? charliemopps@mybbs Sweet! Then the BBS's started linking to that new college network.. so they had to differentiate between the colleges (college.edu) and the commercial networks (mybbs.com) Eventually the BBS just became a gateway to everything else... the first ISPs...
Seriously... that's how it happened here. It wouldn't have happened without CD-Roms and naughty pics. I don't know about everywhere else, but where I live the internet came about in a very practical manner... it wasn't like someday it just descended on us from on high.
Anyways, that's your spelling mistake laden history lesson for the day.
So is Slashdot an echo chamber now? When did we start coming up with opinions and then crafting stories to suit our own narrative?
Are we really going to sit here and pretend like it's a surprise that a company that sells cable might be pushy about selling cable?
Then they ask a question that, clearly, only disgruntled employees of that company are going to respond to... then from that, pick and choose the worst...
I've worked in places like that and I bet a lot of Slashdot has as well. We all know the guy that made this call famous... the "Super employee" that does everything by the book and thinks he's a rockstar because he goes over the top on every call... and that guy always ends up in a situation like this. Management loves him until he pisses some customer off so bad it gets escalated to the executive level. This call just so happened to go even farther than that.
There is. The long series of 1s following the comments under your profile for example ;-)
So you missed the fact that my statement was completely nonsensical and not based in reality? and yes, I mean more so than usual.
These are not for high volume. These are more for "I have a contract for 200 of these boards a month"
You set them up to do the run, they do it fairly quick and you're done.
For high volume there are $15k to $200k machines that would blow your mind. That's when you're spitting out hundreds of thousands of soundcards or whatever... Those take weeks to setup, but they can spit out a fully populated PCI card in just a few seconds. Those have shields and such because they are so fast they can really hurt you.
With these sorts of things it's always trades offs between setup times and speed per unit.
Why are we blaming yet another coding mistake on Native Americans?
Native Americans are just as good as anyone at programming. I'd even say the Apache tribe has some top notch C++ people. Yes, the computers don't last long in the sweat lodges, but that's the price you pay for that "Made by real Americans" label.
I remember I posted a few weeks back that you should never own a credit card. I got modded troll and flamed pretty heavily.
And that's the problem with the publics modern perception of credit. Because I do not have a credit card and suggest that you shouldn't either, I'm considered a quack. I buy just as much useless garbage as anyone that modded me down does. I go on vacations, I order things online, I buy soda at the gas station. The only difference is I don't pay a 7% to 30% fee to do all of those things. And that is exactly what a credit card does. It doesn't help your credit. That's a lie driven by marketing campaigns of credit card companies.
The real question is: If you value privacy and dislike ads, why would you ever use Chrome?
The entire goal of that browser is counter to user Privacy and choice. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, if you don't care about that stuff then I'd same Chrome is probably the best browser out there. But I do value those things, and in fact they are probably my #1 consideration when choosing a browser so I use Firefox despite its many faults.
These are around $6000 but it's the real deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
My fathers got a few where he works. They're so fast a crucial part of setup is laying out where the parts are in the feed tray. You put the most used parts in the center so the head has less travel, and the least used parts near the ends. It's so important that the machine calculates this for you and tells you where to place what.
It's amazing to watch, that video doesn't even do it justice.
How about instead, we just pass a law clarifying that the constitution does indeed apply to algorithms?
Just because a robot searched your car does not mean your car was not searched.
i.e. A police officers doing:
C:\directory search batch file.bat
is no different than:
C:\dir
and really... that's what this all comes down to.
Trust me, most of us don't want them spying on you either. But if you think we can do anything about that, before we stop them from spying on US, you're nutz.
So, threatening extermination=bad, carrying out extermination=less bad. Got it.
It's all bad.
It's like watching your 2 drunken uncles accuse each other of stealing too much whiskey. At first you defend the one because you saw him steel the whiskey, then you realize the others been sneaking it to. Now they're in a full brawl on the living room floor in the middle of Christmas dinner, their kids (your cousins) are terrified and rooting for their respective fathers and you realize in 20 years those kids will be on this very same floor, having the same brawl, and all you can do is stand back and wonder why life is so screwed up.
Except... with tanks and rockets.
And if a rocket landed on a house 2 blocks from your own, would you be talking about a proportional response? I'm not saying I agree with everything Israels doing, hell... I even argued your same point not too long ago... but over time I've come to realize this is an insanely complicated issue. There are mentally unhinged people on both sides using religion as an excuse to perpetrate unspeakable acts of violence and cruelty.
Israel is sure doing a good job in that area creating more enemies, if that is their intention, the plan is working.
They already want to exterminate their entire race. I'm not sure Israel can make that situation any worse no matter what they do.