Melodramatic? Have you ever listened to the audio chats of FPS co-op games when women are playing with men? I've heard guys who threatened to hunt down their female opponents so they could rape them and murder them just because they got their ass handed to them in a game. That is not juvenile "boys will be boys" behavior. That's somebody who might violently act out if the right circumstances (alcohol, drugs, peer pressure, stress, etc..) were to happen.
That's just gaming. You should read some of the stories about women who get involved in politics. Some people get really unhinged when you attack their personal values. Then you have some guys who go completely off the deep end when it is a woman doing it. Threats of murder come quickly and often. It is sadistic and it is ugly.
That's why I don't do voice chat. Letting random strangers whisper in your ear is a terrible idea.
I'm male, I've had men threaten all the same bullshit you just said. I think what women mis-understand about men is that men do this to men as well. I've been violently assaulted by other men before. In highschool I was put into the hospital. The "perpetrators" didn't even get suspended. I've had my tires slashed, guys show up at my house with baseball bats wanting to fight only to find out I'm armed to the teeth and that bats not going to do them much good.
I know a lot of guys don't get that sort of thing, but a lot of us do. Women aren't the only victims, and turning male violence into a womens issue is somewhat insulting. Men don't talk about it like women do because of social stigma, but it's a real problem. In the workplace if a man even smiles funny at a women he's walked out the door. The same man threatens violence against another man and it's treated as a joke. At least women have some legal and social protections. If you don't think it's true, here's a thought experiment for you... a Man shows up at work with a black eye... what's your first reaction? Now a woman shows up with a black eye... why should your reaction be any different based on their sex?
Yes, because the US cheats and uses 220 split-phase to provide 110 power. Most everywhere else that needs high power uses 3-phase, as it's smoother, easier to produce and rectify, and just as safe to transmit.
3 phase makes electric motors more efficient, and that's it. Technically, you could have as many phases as you could imagine having... each making the motor a tad more efficient. But they are not "smoother" and don't improve transmission.
'Phase' is often considered by some to be some magic property of electricity that somehow makes it better... it's not at all. It's a purely mechanical feature that's revolves around generators and motors. 2 phase means there are 2 electro magnets on the motor. 1 to the north, 1 to the south. When the North magnet is near and electro magnet that magnet goes to +120v and by contrast the south is at -120v. When you have 3 phase it increases efficiency by having an extra electro magnet. So now north is at +120v, but there are now 2 electro magnets to the south that are both 1/3rd of the way from that south pole and therefor at -60v each... It's a purely mechanical distinction and has no affect on anything other than the mechanical operation of motors.
Oh yea, and you can get 3 phase in the US. I got it, and most welding/milling shops have it as well.
That's where we're at? I see this garbage all the time... and I never understand it. Growing up my father ran a factory and was damned good at it. His people showed up on time, did great work, had low scrap and were very productive. How did he manage this amazing feat? Minders that followed you everywhere in the factory? Discreet blood samples taken hourly? No...
They had stats. That's it. You produce X parts per week. Go way above that get a bonus, go way bellow that, you get fired. If everyone is getting bonuses the stats would rise... if everyone was getting low stats they'd first check for procedural problems that might be hindering peoples work and baring that they'd lower their expectations. It worked marvelously well... people would think of ways to go faster and bring them up... because it meant a bonus until everyone else caught on. Anything that made production harder was immediately reported because people wanted their bonus.
Damn near every successful factory in the country works this way. Do the same thing for code. What my father always said was "They could spend 7hrs in the bathroom every day... I don't care... if they can come out at hit 1000% efficiency that last hour to make up the difference it's fine with me. But they better keep in mind their peers are going to eventually figure out how they pulled it off and change the curve."
We did it like you describe. We had some problems with people doing dumb stuff and we just stuck post-its on the monitors describing how to use the "top" command.
[you@server1 ~]$ top PID USER %CPU COMMAND 1960 you 2.3 top 2457 Bob 97.0 bitcoin
Sounds fishy to me... Perhaps the NSA (or another agency) has another Snowden on their hands and paid Exodus for this "release" to scare the leaker into not sending their data out...
They should treat packages shipped on different days all the same. By doing this they are basically throttling how many DVD's I'm able to watch. http://netflix.frogcircus.org/ They're trying to force me to watch their own streaming content rather than the DVD's I actually want to watch! They are trying to remove competition for their own content.
They should be open an Neutral about when they process shipments. They should "arrive" when they actually arrive at their facility, irrelevant of the content of the DVD or the date it arrived in their facility. We need Shipping Neutrality from Netflix!
I think you're missing the point. The targeted ads may or may not be a problem. Fine...
But there is a very clear and obvious bad side to this, even if you want targeted ads, I doubt you want geocities to be still retaining the data on how you trafficked that Herpes treatment site site back in 1997. The company has no financial interest in keeping that data, but why delete it? They've no cause to...
So often we get so caught up in "the principle" of an issue we completely miss easy opportunities to remedy 99% of the problem. If you attack "Targeted ads" directly you're going to be literally arguing that some industries should just die. Tens of thousands of people lose their jobs (not me, I only deal with it peripherally) and you may very well be right! But how difficult will that fight be? You'll have a huge lobbying industry fighting you etc... The board meeting in that regard is going to go something like "Ok, if this bill passes, we're out of business... how much money should we spend to stop it?!? How much do we have?"
Argue for increased regulation on how long data is kept, what kind of data can be kept, and how it can be exchanged between businesses? i.e. Now you have to delete that data from 1997... That's a far different board meeting... "Um... we have data that old? Christ, just delete it..."
The point of what I was saying is that there are low hanging fruit. Support the kind of regulation I suggest... LOTS of people will support that kind of reform, even many of the advertisers. Then, if you want to go for the jugular later, fine, but if you fail you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
So it's designed to stop the threat that does not exist, and therefore should be excused for failures against the one that does? That makes little sense.
Doesn't exist? Iran definitely has Chemical and Biological weapons. They used them in the Iran/Iraq war. They also definitely have ballistic missiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
Irrational. When the damage done by the ineffective rockets is less than the cost to shoot them down, the money could clearly be better spent elsewhere.
That would be true even if the conflict were not one of choice, but is doubly so in the current situation.
So how much is your family worth? When the rocket falls on your house are you going to be arguing how much money was saved by not bothering to shoot it down?
The reasons for the wars... I'll not argue. Both sides are insanely stupid. But making the argument that these anti-missile batteries are useless is just more anti-Israel BS.
I can see the privacy implications this has, but how in the world would such a method successfully discern between 2 identical devices?
I work with marketing software on and off. There are thousands of data points collected when you visit a site that cares enough to ID you. This would be just one. If this ID narrows the device down to 10 or so... and they also have date stamps, general location data based on your IP, browser type, etc? They can ID you specifically, pretty easily. I've not seen this particular method come up myself... in fact, most of the time the ways the marketing software ID's you is irrelevant to the site owner. They just buy the software and install it. Done. The general doesn't care that there's 1 new landmine in his arsenal when he's already blanketed the field with thousands of them.
Also, you need to understand that goal here... they don't care who you are. They just want to know that you are visitor 52467, and all the other times you were here you looked at products X, P and Q so they can display more information on those products. They also salt the site with "Free" offers that all you need to claim them is to input your contact information. Once you do that they link that contact information to your browsing history and shoot it over to a salesman and/or send you a personally designed advertisement to your email.
This may all sound dumb and horribly invasive... but it's amazingly successful. There is absolutely no way these companies would give it up voluntarily. Many of them wouldn't be in business without that sort of data... I'm not even sure you'd like it if it were gone. Getting ads is annoying, getting ads for African American hair styling products when you're a redhead is infuriating. Targeted ads are a good thing, it's the completely unaddressed side affects of that data collection that's a problem.
What needs to happen is laws governing how long the data can be kept need to be passed. As of now, it's kept forever as far as I know... because... well, why not? And who the data is shared with needs to be regulated. The intercooperation of these companies is pretty scary. Amazon should not know what I'm searching for on WebMD, and the fact of the matter is, as of now, pretty much every major site you visit is sharing data with every other site you visit for mutual profit. This likely includes government websites. I've seen the marketing companies brag about their government contracts so that's a tad scary. Lastly, pretty much all regulation is not-so-cleverly avoided by simply changing the tech. The regulation needs to be broad and easy to understand. As of now they do things like "Well, that's not a person, that's a device!" or "Is that really data?" etc... Bill Clinton word style play shouldn't absolve you of negligence.
The Iron Dome is designed to stop Iranian ballistic missiles tipped with Chemical, biological and in the future nuclear weapons. The fact that it has trouble hitting Hamas's glorified model rockets doesn't make it any less effective in its true mission. And eve if it really was only 5% effective, I'd take 5% less ballistic missiles headed at my town thank you.
It's simple, you hire people to do the jobs that need getting done.
We, the employees are largely to blame though. I work with a lot of contractors that love their flexibility and how great it is... until the market takes a crap on their heads. Tech workers need to stop pretending like they'll be 18 forever. I know when things get bad you can hide in the basement and play wow until they pick back up, but really? Wouldn't it be better to just work a normal job and not have to screw around like that?
...the people who were laid off could not apply for 5 months.
Why would you apply to work for the same company that just kicked you to the curb? I'd tell 'em to go to hell.
Never let pride get in the way of sound business sense. If my options were working the grill at Arbies or Microsoft, the next words out of my mouth would be "Yes Mr Balmer, laying off all us slackers really taught us a lesson sir. Would you like me to buff all your golf clubs now?"
People want to read something like "The iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA!!!". Anything much longer than that will never be read or understood by most people.
It's hopeless. Ask 100 people who have heard of this and 95 of them will tell you that it is proven now that the iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA over which all data can just be read by them.
(And I'm not even saying that it has NO such backdoor. Maybe it has. But this isn't it. This just isn't designed for mass surveillance, it needs a cooperating user and individual access to a device the user has connected his iPhone to. Maybe it's a side door for law enforcement and/or forensics additionally to a debugging tool.)
Except for the fact that Apples handing all of your data over to the NSA anyway. Apple has a very cozy relationship with the US federal government. http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/11/app...
This is fiber. I don't have Verizon myself, but in general everything people complain about in regards to ISPs goes away once you're fiber. They'd have to have some pretty serious congestion issues for FiOS to start having trouble.
Along that same line though, I've no idea why they had asymmetric on fiber to begin with. The point to ADSL (Asymmetric DSL) has to do with crosstalk on the copper lines in the DSLAM. This isn't an issue, at all, for Fiber. So it makes little sense to have asymmetric fiber service other than for marketing purposes.
and more importantly opportunity than 95% of the people in the 3rd world
Yeah, this is what is sad to me, the hopelessness people have.
That's somewhat true. But despite what those terrible commercials show on TV I didn't see throngs of hopelessly miserable Children. They were as happy, if not happier than any US child. playing made up games in the streets, chasing our car and singing. They asked to touch my hair, which I think people over here would get crabby about but being an uncultured idiot myself I understood the lack of tact and didn't have a problem with it.
Granted, I never went anywhere while there was a drought or anything. I think the biggest problem for cultures like that is they are great and thriving but have no infrastructure for dealing with even minor disasters. So when it doesn't rain for a while, or there's an earthquake or whatever, they're really in dire need. That's why our aid kind of sucks there.
One really interesting thing I noticed while I was in Ethiopia, was that there were these Mexican monuments to Ethiopia all over the place. I asked about it and apparently Mexico and Ethiopia are great allies. Up to that point I never thought of Mexico as a country that gives aid. But their aid is different. Rather than air dropping tons and tons of free food on a village and there-by destroying the entire local economy... Mexico paid to have monuments in town built. That may seem silly, but think about it... They hired local workers, paid for local materials, trained engineers, etc... it's brilliant. They injected money into the economy but didn't ruin businesses in the process. I suppose I'm getting off topic, but I could talk about Africa for days. It's an amazing and friendly place despite what you see on the news. Most people in the US, including myself until I went, have a completely inaccurate perception of the continent and if you ever have the chance to go, you should jump at it. It will change your life. Even more amazingly, the cultures of a lot of the Caribbean islands that we Americans visit frequently are very similar as well.
I don't think most people cook with wood ovens even in poor countries. If you mean to provide heat, Haiti isn't exactly a cold place.
wow... you need to get out of the house...
Haven't been to Haiti myself, but I've been to plenty of primarily African heritage 3rd world countries. Most people use wood to cook. Old pallets, dead trees, whatever they can find. If you have a bit more money you can afford to buy home-made charcoal. There are vendors that make and sell it. You put the wood in a 55 gallon steel drum that's sealed and light a fire under it. This cooks all the wood inside and turns it to charcoal, the exhausted from the barrel drips wood vinegar which you can collect and also sell. It works well as an antiseptic, food additive, pesticide, etc...
If you can afford gas, or anything like that, you're rich as hell. The one thing I learned from going overseas to countries like this is that the people are so ungodly poor that most Americans can't even conceive of what it's like to be them. The poorest, box car riding transient in this country has more wealth on him in the form of his cloths, maybe tools, and more importantly opportunity than 95% of the people in the 3rd world.
I don't think Russian state media should be editing Wikipedia entries especially not on matters of current affairs.
But still, interpreted literally the new statement is far more factually correct and unbiased than what it replaced. Whoever shot down the plane, they were "soldiers" or fighters of some variety and almost certainly can be described as Ukrainian, given that everyone seems to agree that the fighters are actually eastern Ukrainians and at most Russia is supplying weapons to them.
The original text, on the other hand, more or less exactly sums up western/west Ukrainian line despite the obvious abuse of the word terrorist to mean "rebel fighter" and the [citation needed] assertion about who did it and the source of the weapons.
Many, if not most, of the separatist military leaders are not Ukrainian and are instead retired Russian military. So no, "Russian soldiers" would be more accurate.
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Melodramatic? Have you ever listened to the audio chats of FPS co-op games when women are playing with men? I've heard guys who threatened to hunt down their female opponents so they could rape them and murder them just because they got their ass handed to them in a game. That is not juvenile "boys will be boys" behavior. That's somebody who might violently act out if the right circumstances (alcohol, drugs, peer pressure, stress, etc..) were to happen.
That's just gaming. You should read some of the stories about women who get involved in politics. Some people get really unhinged when you attack their personal values. Then you have some guys who go completely off the deep end when it is a woman doing it. Threats of murder come quickly and often. It is sadistic and it is ugly.
That's why I don't do voice chat. Letting random strangers whisper in your ear is a terrible idea.
I'm male, I've had men threaten all the same bullshit you just said. I think what women mis-understand about men is that men do this to men as well. I've been violently assaulted by other men before. In highschool I was put into the hospital. The "perpetrators" didn't even get suspended. I've had my tires slashed, guys show up at my house with baseball bats wanting to fight only to find out I'm armed to the teeth and that bats not going to do them much good.
I know a lot of guys don't get that sort of thing, but a lot of us do. Women aren't the only victims, and turning male violence into a womens issue is somewhat insulting. Men don't talk about it like women do because of social stigma, but it's a real problem. In the workplace if a man even smiles funny at a women he's walked out the door. The same man threatens violence against another man and it's treated as a joke. At least women have some legal and social protections. If you don't think it's true, here's a thought experiment for you... a Man shows up at work with a black eye... what's your first reaction? Now a woman shows up with a black eye... why should your reaction be any different based on their sex?
3 phase requires the return by code. Technically however, you are correct. That's just for safety and I often question if it makes any sense myself.
Yes, because the US cheats and uses 220 split-phase to provide 110 power. Most everywhere else that needs high power uses 3-phase, as it's smoother, easier to produce and rectify, and just as safe to transmit.
3 phase makes electric motors more efficient, and that's it. Technically, you could have as many phases as you could imagine having... each making the motor a tad more efficient. But they are not "smoother" and don't improve transmission.
'Phase' is often considered by some to be some magic property of electricity that somehow makes it better... it's not at all. It's a purely mechanical feature that's revolves around generators and motors. 2 phase means there are 2 electro magnets on the motor. 1 to the north, 1 to the south. When the North magnet is near and electro magnet that magnet goes to +120v and by contrast the south is at -120v. When you have 3 phase it increases efficiency by having an extra electro magnet. So now north is at +120v, but there are now 2 electro magnets to the south that are both 1/3rd of the way from that south pole and therefor at -60v each... It's a purely mechanical distinction and has no affect on anything other than the mechanical operation of motors.
Oh yea, and you can get 3 phase in the US. I got it, and most welding/milling shops have it as well.
How problematic is a 60yr old vial of likely dead virus anyway?
According to the agency, the virus was freeze dried and sealed in melted glass and the samples have been in storage since the 1950s.
And they were sealed in melted glass? Come on...
Sounds like a BS "Panic! Your life is in danger!" story to distract us from the worlds real problems.
Example?
That's where we're at?
I see this garbage all the time... and I never understand it. Growing up my father ran a factory and was damned good at it. His people showed up on time, did great work, had low scrap and were very productive. How did he manage this amazing feat? Minders that followed you everywhere in the factory? Discreet blood samples taken hourly? No...
They had stats. That's it. You produce X parts per week. Go way above that get a bonus, go way bellow that, you get fired. If everyone is getting bonuses the stats would rise... if everyone was getting low stats they'd first check for procedural problems that might be hindering peoples work and baring that they'd lower their expectations. It worked marvelously well... people would think of ways to go faster and bring them up... because it meant a bonus until everyone else caught on. Anything that made production harder was immediately reported because people wanted their bonus.
Damn near every successful factory in the country works this way. Do the same thing for code. What my father always said was "They could spend 7hrs in the bathroom every day... I don't care... if they can come out at hit 1000% efficiency that last hour to make up the difference it's fine with me. But they better keep in mind their peers are going to eventually figure out how they pulled it off and change the curve."
We did it like you describe. We had some problems with people doing dumb stuff and we just stuck post-its on the monitors describing how to use the "top" command.
[you@server1 ~]$ top
PID USER %CPU COMMAND
1960 you 2.3 top
2457 Bob 97.0 bitcoin
[you@server1 ~]$ write Bob DUDE! wtf?!?!
etc...
Now THIS is the level of paranoia that I like to see.
It's funny what you'll believe when you can't believe anything anymore.
Sounds fishy to me...
Perhaps the NSA (or another agency) has another Snowden on their hands and paid Exodus for this "release" to scare the leaker into not sending their data out...
Because NVIDIA paid to have this story put up. That's why.
They should treat packages shipped on different days all the same.
By doing this they are basically throttling how many DVD's I'm able to watch. http://netflix.frogcircus.org/
They're trying to force me to watch their own streaming content rather than the DVD's I actually want to watch! They are trying to remove competition for their own content.
They should be open an Neutral about when they process shipments. They should "arrive" when they actually arrive at their facility, irrelevant of the content of the DVD or the date it arrived in their facility. We need Shipping Neutrality from Netflix!
Ok, jokes aside, this is fairly ironic.
I think you're missing the point.
The targeted ads may or may not be a problem. Fine...
But there is a very clear and obvious bad side to this, even if you want targeted ads, I doubt you want geocities to be still retaining the data on how you trafficked that Herpes treatment site site back in 1997. The company has no financial interest in keeping that data, but why delete it? They've no cause to...
So often we get so caught up in "the principle" of an issue we completely miss easy opportunities to remedy 99% of the problem. If you attack "Targeted ads" directly you're going to be literally arguing that some industries should just die. Tens of thousands of people lose their jobs (not me, I only deal with it peripherally) and you may very well be right! But how difficult will that fight be? You'll have a huge lobbying industry fighting you etc... The board meeting in that regard is going to go something like "Ok, if this bill passes, we're out of business... how much money should we spend to stop it?!? How much do we have?"
Argue for increased regulation on how long data is kept, what kind of data can be kept, and how it can be exchanged between businesses? i.e. Now you have to delete that data from 1997... That's a far different board meeting... "Um... we have data that old? Christ, just delete it..."
The point of what I was saying is that there are low hanging fruit. Support the kind of regulation I suggest... LOTS of people will support that kind of reform, even many of the advertisers. Then, if you want to go for the jugular later, fine, but if you fail you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Made of carbon? Damn! We're lucky we've been producing all this carbon with our cars or we'd never have a chance to solve this climate change problem!
So it's designed to stop the threat that does not exist, and therefore should be excused for failures against the one that does? That makes little sense.
Doesn't exist? Iran definitely has Chemical and Biological weapons. They used them in the Iran/Iraq war.
They also definitely have ballistic missiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
Irrational. When the damage done by the ineffective rockets is less than the cost to shoot them down, the money could clearly be better spent elsewhere.
That would be true even if the conflict were not one of choice, but is doubly so in the current situation.
So how much is your family worth? When the rocket falls on your house are you going to be arguing how much money was saved by not bothering to shoot it down?
The reasons for the wars... I'll not argue. Both sides are insanely stupid. But making the argument that these anti-missile batteries are useless is just more anti-Israel BS.
I can see the privacy implications this has, but how in the world would such a method successfully discern between 2 identical devices?
I work with marketing software on and off. There are thousands of data points collected when you visit a site that cares enough to ID you. This would be just one. If this ID narrows the device down to 10 or so... and they also have date stamps, general location data based on your IP, browser type, etc? They can ID you specifically, pretty easily. I've not seen this particular method come up myself... in fact, most of the time the ways the marketing software ID's you is irrelevant to the site owner. They just buy the software and install it. Done. The general doesn't care that there's 1 new landmine in his arsenal when he's already blanketed the field with thousands of them.
Also, you need to understand that goal here... they don't care who you are. They just want to know that you are visitor 52467, and all the other times you were here you looked at products X, P and Q so they can display more information on those products. They also salt the site with "Free" offers that all you need to claim them is to input your contact information. Once you do that they link that contact information to your browsing history and shoot it over to a salesman and/or send you a personally designed advertisement to your email.
This may all sound dumb and horribly invasive... but it's amazingly successful. There is absolutely no way these companies would give it up voluntarily. Many of them wouldn't be in business without that sort of data... I'm not even sure you'd like it if it were gone. Getting ads is annoying, getting ads for African American hair styling products when you're a redhead is infuriating. Targeted ads are a good thing, it's the completely unaddressed side affects of that data collection that's a problem.
What needs to happen is laws governing how long the data can be kept need to be passed. As of now, it's kept forever as far as I know... because... well, why not? And who the data is shared with needs to be regulated. The intercooperation of these companies is pretty scary. Amazon should not know what I'm searching for on WebMD, and the fact of the matter is, as of now, pretty much every major site you visit is sharing data with every other site you visit for mutual profit. This likely includes government websites. I've seen the marketing companies brag about their government contracts so that's a tad scary. Lastly, pretty much all regulation is not-so-cleverly avoided by simply changing the tech. The regulation needs to be broad and easy to understand. As of now they do things like "Well, that's not a person, that's a device!" or "Is that really data?" etc... Bill Clinton word style play shouldn't absolve you of negligence.
The Iron Dome is designed to stop Iranian ballistic missiles tipped with Chemical, biological and in the future nuclear weapons. The fact that it has trouble hitting Hamas's glorified model rockets doesn't make it any less effective in its true mission. And eve if it really was only 5% effective, I'd take 5% less ballistic missiles headed at my town thank you.
It's simple, you hire people to do the jobs that need getting done.
We, the employees are largely to blame though. I work with a lot of contractors that love their flexibility and how great it is... until the market takes a crap on their heads. Tech workers need to stop pretending like they'll be 18 forever. I know when things get bad you can hide in the basement and play wow until they pick back up, but really? Wouldn't it be better to just work a normal job and not have to screw around like that?
...the people who were laid off could not apply for 5 months.
Why would you apply to work for the same company that just kicked you to the curb? I'd tell 'em to go to hell.
Never let pride get in the way of sound business sense. If my options were working the grill at Arbies or Microsoft, the next words out of my mouth would be "Yes Mr Balmer, laying off all us slackers really taught us a lesson sir. Would you like me to buff all your golf clubs now?"
Roll out Ipads... this is all I could think of:
http://vimeo.com/11480457
People want to read something like "The iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA!!!". Anything much longer than that will never be read or understood by most people.
It's hopeless. Ask 100 people who have heard of this and 95 of them will tell you that it is proven now that the iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA over which all data can just be read by them.
(And I'm not even saying that it has NO such backdoor. Maybe it has. But this isn't it. This just isn't designed for mass surveillance, it needs a cooperating user and individual access to a device the user has connected his iPhone to. Maybe it's a side door for law enforcement and/or forensics additionally to a debugging tool.)
Except for the fact that Apples handing all of your data over to the NSA anyway. Apple has a very cozy relationship with the US federal government.
http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/11/app...
But at least Apple held off for longer than some of the others:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...
Long story short? The NSA doesn't need this backdoor, it's a lot easier to just go strait to apple.
This is fiber. I don't have Verizon myself, but in general everything people complain about in regards to ISPs goes away once you're fiber. They'd have to have some pretty serious congestion issues for FiOS to start having trouble.
Along that same line though, I've no idea why they had asymmetric on fiber to begin with. The point to ADSL (Asymmetric DSL) has to do with crosstalk on the copper lines in the DSLAM. This isn't an issue, at all, for Fiber. So it makes little sense to have asymmetric fiber service other than for marketing purposes.
Did anyone else get totally creeped out by that ending?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But I guess that doesn't pump the money through the university system, nor feed the "interplanetary rover!" scenarios, nor create new IP...
I still have that thing and my kid plays with it. LOL
and more importantly opportunity than 95% of the people in the 3rd world
Yeah, this is what is sad to me, the hopelessness people have.
That's somewhat true. But despite what those terrible commercials show on TV I didn't see throngs of hopelessly miserable Children. They were as happy, if not happier than any US child. playing made up games in the streets, chasing our car and singing. They asked to touch my hair, which I think people over here would get crabby about but being an uncultured idiot myself I understood the lack of tact and didn't have a problem with it. Granted, I never went anywhere while there was a drought or anything. I think the biggest problem for cultures like that is they are great and thriving but have no infrastructure for dealing with even minor disasters. So when it doesn't rain for a while, or there's an earthquake or whatever, they're really in dire need. That's why our aid kind of sucks there. One really interesting thing I noticed while I was in Ethiopia, was that there were these Mexican monuments to Ethiopia all over the place. I asked about it and apparently Mexico and Ethiopia are great allies. Up to that point I never thought of Mexico as a country that gives aid. But their aid is different. Rather than air dropping tons and tons of free food on a village and there-by destroying the entire local economy... Mexico paid to have monuments in town built. That may seem silly, but think about it... They hired local workers, paid for local materials, trained engineers, etc... it's brilliant. They injected money into the economy but didn't ruin businesses in the process. I suppose I'm getting off topic, but I could talk about Africa for days. It's an amazing and friendly place despite what you see on the news. Most people in the US, including myself until I went, have a completely inaccurate perception of the continent and if you ever have the chance to go, you should jump at it. It will change your life. Even more amazingly, the cultures of a lot of the Caribbean islands that we Americans visit frequently are very similar as well.
I don't think most people cook with wood ovens even in poor countries. If you mean to provide heat, Haiti isn't exactly a cold place.
wow... you need to get out of the house... Haven't been to Haiti myself, but I've been to plenty of primarily African heritage 3rd world countries. Most people use wood to cook. Old pallets, dead trees, whatever they can find. If you have a bit more money you can afford to buy home-made charcoal. There are vendors that make and sell it. You put the wood in a 55 gallon steel drum that's sealed and light a fire under it. This cooks all the wood inside and turns it to charcoal, the exhausted from the barrel drips wood vinegar which you can collect and also sell. It works well as an antiseptic, food additive, pesticide, etc... If you can afford gas, or anything like that, you're rich as hell. The one thing I learned from going overseas to countries like this is that the people are so ungodly poor that most Americans can't even conceive of what it's like to be them. The poorest, box car riding transient in this country has more wealth on him in the form of his cloths, maybe tools, and more importantly opportunity than 95% of the people in the 3rd world.
I don't think Russian state media should be editing Wikipedia entries especially not on matters of current affairs.
But still, interpreted literally the new statement is far more factually correct and unbiased than what it replaced. Whoever shot down the plane, they were "soldiers" or fighters of some variety and almost certainly can be described as Ukrainian, given that everyone seems to agree that the fighters are actually eastern Ukrainians and at most Russia is supplying weapons to them.
The original text, on the other hand, more or less exactly sums up western/west Ukrainian line despite the obvious abuse of the word terrorist to mean "rebel fighter" and the [citation needed] assertion about who did it and the source of the weapons.
Many, if not most, of the separatist military leaders are not Ukrainian and are instead retired Russian military. So no, "Russian soldiers" would be more accurate.