You need the backing of your party to do the fake-filibuster thing. Obviously, most senators in both parties love the NSA, the Patriot act, the who deal, and wouldn't support him. So a real filibuster was his only option. At least he's doing what he can - good for him!
What I'm saying is, before I rely on sneakernet on the off chance it having specifically what I want, I'll turn to other options. I'm not some bored kids in the burbs in the 70s that needs to go out and play baseball for a 1000th time, because there's absolutely nothing else to do.
It's not about "do you have this specific must-have thing I'm looking for"; it's about "lets swap all the all the movies each of us has ever ripped/torrented, so now both our collections are larger".
The only stuff I watch on my TV are the few titles Netflix has for streaming, or anything from my hard drive. I still have hundreds of DVDs in boxes, but I never watch them directly -- the UI is too annoying. Anything "must watch", I'll buy the DVD, rip it, and watch it immediately, but that's only a few titles a year. When I'm bored, I'll look through my movie directory and see if anything looks interesting enough to watch.
It will get to the point where people will seriously move back to sneakernet methods, aka, literally travelling outside to meet people to share files.
This has always been the primary way movies were shared. As the saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magtape. People exchanging multi-TB drives full of ripped movies accounts for most of the bytes shared, at least according to some/. story we once had. And in some cities there are popular blind drops - where you put your favorite rips on a USB key, go to the niche in the wall in the park, and swap yours for the one that's there - potluck, but I guess its fun to see what you might get at random.
You bet your ass people will fight to protect their downloads. This is the internet damn it, people fight over lesser things. Obviously not the fat sweaty nerd types, they'll likely have a stroke before any of this happens, likely with a penis attachment hanging from them and some anime VN dating game.
Come now, this will be an online fight, a battle of crypto and steganography, and in a fight like that I'd bet on the fat nerds who really want copies of that next anime VN dating game over the entire NSA!
Adblock Plus devs might as well be afraid that people opt for the better blockers
This was posted, and still no APK response? I hope he's not sick or something./. wouldn't be the same w/o 400 posts about the merits of the hosts file whenever ad blocking is mentioned.
The commute would be long by bus - it's possible, I guess, but when I worked min-wage jobs almost everyone was working very close to home in each of those jobs.
Sure, but still: help wanted signs up in the $10/hour suburbs, and not in the $15/hour downtown Seattle shops. Could be something else, too, of course, but I really notice the difference.
The real minimum wage is always 0. I work in Seattle, where they recently did this. Entry level places where I live (not in Seattle), where the minimum wage is $10/hour, all have help wanted signs out. In downtown Seattle, however there was a wave of restaurant closings, and I don't see help wanted signs anywhere. Could be other causes for the difference, of course, maybe it's something else - but it's not a promising sign for teens looking for that first job.
It sounds like AWS's Spot Instances? Except for the fixed pricing.
Yup, it's their version. Forbes compares them. The fixed price is nice on the Google side, but there's no 2-minute warning before termination on Google like you get on AWS, and AWS launched a new Spot Fleet product the same day Google announced.
Either way, you need to be doing the kind of work where you can lose VMs on short notice and keep going, but it's a very nice discount if you can.
The food we have available to eat isn't more than the food we grow. The cars we have available to drive are the cars we manufacture. We can cheat a little through trade, of course, or "we" can be understood as "humans".
Sure, the government could take and hoard/destroy some of that for no good reason, as often happens under communism, but it can't make more stuff by fiat. So anything the government "buys", wherever the money came from, reflects manufacturing capacity that's now making what the government wants, instead of what the people want. However you look at it, it's still effectively a tax.
And of course, when the government just mails checks to people (which is most of the budget), that doesn't change the amount of available "stuff" at all - the government could print everyone a check for $10k/month without any taxes, sure it could, but we wouldn't have any additional stuff as a result.
Corporations do everything they possibly can to count revenue as a cost so it won't show up on earnings. Like stock buybacks and dividends, just to start.
Earning are the yardstick by which CEOs are measured - they live and die by 1 cent differences in earnings per share. Everything is about making earnings appear as high as possible. You seem to know very little about all this.
Would it have killed you to have read the next sentence in the post you're responding to before posting?
Also, your post is BS. No amount of government money printing changes the amount of stuff that gets made. All we have is all we make, and nothing is free, regardless of currency games.
Yes, that was my point. "Stockholders take all the money, while workers do all the work" is emotion-bait, but false. In fact, salaries are a much larger amount than earnings. The ratio of payout of "labor vs capital" isn't outrage-provoking at all.
Irrelevant pedantry, the two sentiments you expressed are effectively equivalent
All the difference in the world. "Corporations are people" is clickbait - outrageous if true, but not true (except in the sense that laws that restrict "persons or persons" also restrict corporations - anyone outraged by that?). "Tightly held corporations are effectively partnerships" seems like an unremarkable court ruling, not a political football.
everything ultimately goes to is the shareholders (and management) not the workers - who *actually* provide the labor and value of a corporation
Did you know that total (IRS-reported) income in the US is about 20x total corporate earnings in the US? Seems unremarkable, doesn't it, not a political football.
Exactly. The Tea Party and similar ultra conservative factions
This is the problem today: you actually believe what the mainstream media tells you about republicans, when those very reporters vote nearly 100% Democrat, and the leading figures donate to (and some work for) the Clinton foundation, and are basically the propaganda arm of the Democratic party (and who knows what Fox News is smoking).
People believe the Tea Party was all white, because the media edited out the black people from the pictures, and people just swallowed that whole. People believe the elderly fools in the GOP represent the mainstream (every party has its embarrassments), because that's the only view the media will give.
Did you know that the average GOP congresscritter is actually a few years younger than the average Democrat? That the Citizens United ruling did not say that corporations are people (but instead that tightly-held corporations are effectively partnerships)? That Indiana's recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act was effectively the same as the one Clinton signed into law in the 90s amid no controversy? That the frequency of rape on college campus is actually lower than in America as a whole? That polls of right-wings voters show the leading issues right now are economic, foreign policy, and immigration, and that social issues like gay marriage and abortion aren't important enough to make the short-list?
This is the reason the GOP will flounder: what the party cares about, what the voters care about, and what the mainstream press goes on about are 3 nearly unrelated sets of issues.
I suspect the truth is the following: he was able to hack flight control from the passenger connection in the simulation, because the security wasn't there or wasn't setup the same in the simulation. He says he hacked a simulation, not a real plane, so this seems like the most likely explanation - though as you say, it's always possible there's an exploitable flaw.
"X% reflectance" is a linear assumption. It suggests that you reflect X watt out of every 100 watt, and also X kilowatt out of every 100 kilowatt.
However, reflecting an electromagnetic wave is caused by currents in/near the reflecting surface. Metals reflect well because such currents encounter little resistance. But there's a limit to the current carrying capacity of metals. There are only a few free electrons per atom at best. If the incoming pulse is strong enough, the wave simply cannot be reflected. The current simply exceeds the current carrying capacity. Instead, the atoms of the metal ionize. That means the surface turns into a plasma, and a heated plasma at that. Plasma's absorb all that light instead of reflecting it. You just created a plasma torch on the metal surface.
This AC is informative. MW lasers are different in kind from normal light - think "column of exploding plasma" not "bright light".
The problem the Navy faces with these lasers is that they're several KW, not several MW. That can still be effective against some important kinds of targets, however. Targets made of rocket fuel in a metal can, for example: you don't have to dump in that much energy to convince a rocket that it's not going to hit its target today.
Kurosawa's Ran probably holds some sort of record for both beautiful wide shots of action, and injuries while filming: horses are more dangerous than cars for this sort of thing, at least for the horses. From what I recall, dozens of people were seriously injured and dozens of horses were put down in filming Ran. Hopefully Fury Road fared better.
The microwave background radiation is what remains from the red-shifting of a burst of light when electrons became bound to protons and was stretched by the subsequent expansion of space. Wasn't there an earlier burst, of gamma rays, when quarks condensed from the quark-gluon plasma to form baryons? Has that been absorbed/scattered to obscurity by interaction with matter since then?
The entire universe was quite opaque then, much like the core of the sun. Those photons didn't ravel far before finding an electron, which of course would emit a new photon (also gamma frequencies at first) soon. The dominant forces in the universe between the first few seconds and 300K years were gravity and light pressure. The photons of the CMBR were still fairly high energy at the point the universe became transparent - there's just been a significant redshift since then.
Why hasn't the microwave background has not similarly been obscured by interaction with matter (exciting rotational energy levels of molecules?)
For the same reason we can see distant stars: matter is quite sparse these days, and hydrogen and helium only absorb light of a specific set of frequencies.
Yes, a terrible trend ruining cinema. Incompetence writ large, from the mild where they cut away a frame or two before blows land so it doesn't feel violent, to full-blown Transformers 3, where you can't even tell WFT is on the screen, who's winning, who you're supposed to root for, or why the fight even matters in the first place. Pure garbage.
It's Awesome Vehicle and Character Design The Movie: Lots of Explosions and Practical Effects (2015).
Yup, that's pretty much what "Mad Max" means to me! I don't recall any stinkin' character development in the others - just shit blowing up in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Last thing we need is another Thunderdome!
If you go to see John Wayne in Chisolm, you expect to see cattle barons fight in the west you don't expect to see the little girl from True Grit.
Well, the point of that movie was that it was the girl who had true grit, after all - just saying.
I don't much care what the excuse for a road warrior movie is - the action is entertaining, or it's not. Yes, yes, the "Mad Max" label was slapped on as just a branding move, but do you really was to criticize Hollywood for being too original in a sequel? Really?
No, it isn't a good movie. Not anywhere near a good movie. Actually kinda a dumb movie. It does have lots of car chases and explosions to distract you from the fact that it is a bad movie. I'm sure it will be successful - nobody eats at McDonalds for quality food but they still eat there.
It's the first big-budget action movie in many years with practical effects. This is a huge deal for fans of the genre. Action movies have been shot badly for so long now people start to forget wheat they're supposed to be like. All CGI and jumpcuts to hide the fact the actors aren't in the action, which really detracts from the fun. Long (duration) shots with no jumpcuts so you feel the action rather than yawn at camera tricks, wide shots so you can actually follow what's going on in a fight: this is the stuff that makes action entertaining. The action scenes in the Indiana Jones movies (recent abomination excepted) are great examples, with shots that last about 90 seconds between cuts, practical effects, and stuntmen performing all the action on screen, it all makes the movie immersive in a way that, say Guardians of the Galaxy isn't. I liked the latter too, but none of the fights made me wince when someone got hit - a neat film, but not engaging in that way.
My money is on the FBI flat-out lying. It's what cops do. But of course I'm speculating and haven't seen the evidence. If it gets to court, a jury will make the call, and if they find the FBI's actual evidence convincing, that's what matters. OTOH if the FBI drops the case then we'll know this was all BS.
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what a bigoted, able-ist post. why do you assume everyone has 2 legs, shitlord?
You must be new here. Here on /. we say "you insensitive clod". We do have our traditions you know.
You need the backing of your party to do the fake-filibuster thing. Obviously, most senators in both parties love the NSA, the Patriot act, the who deal, and wouldn't support him. So a real filibuster was his only option. At least he's doing what he can - good for him!
What I'm saying is, before I rely on sneakernet on the off chance it having specifically what I want, I'll turn to other options. I'm not some bored kids in the burbs in the 70s that needs to go out and play baseball for a 1000th time, because there's absolutely nothing else to do.
It's not about "do you have this specific must-have thing I'm looking for"; it's about "lets swap all the all the movies each of us has ever ripped/torrented, so now both our collections are larger".
The only stuff I watch on my TV are the few titles Netflix has for streaming, or anything from my hard drive. I still have hundreds of DVDs in boxes, but I never watch them directly -- the UI is too annoying. Anything "must watch", I'll buy the DVD, rip it, and watch it immediately, but that's only a few titles a year. When I'm bored, I'll look through my movie directory and see if anything looks interesting enough to watch.
It will get to the point where people will seriously move back to sneakernet methods, aka, literally travelling outside to meet people to share files.
This has always been the primary way movies were shared. As the saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magtape. People exchanging multi-TB drives full of ripped movies accounts for most of the bytes shared, at least according to some /. story we once had. And in some cities there are popular blind drops - where you put your favorite rips on a USB key, go to the niche in the wall in the park, and swap yours for the one that's there - potluck, but I guess its fun to see what you might get at random.
You bet your ass people will fight to protect their downloads. This is the internet damn it, people fight over lesser things.
Obviously not the fat sweaty nerd types, they'll likely have a stroke before any of this happens, likely with a penis attachment hanging from them and some anime VN dating game.
Come now, this will be an online fight, a battle of crypto and steganography, and in a fight like that I'd bet on the fat nerds who really want copies of that next anime VN dating game over the entire NSA!
Adblock Plus devs might as well be afraid that people opt for the better blockers
This was posted, and still no APK response? I hope he's not sick or something. /. wouldn't be the same w/o 400 posts about the merits of the hosts file whenever ad blocking is mentioned.
The commute would be long by bus - it's possible, I guess, but when I worked min-wage jobs almost everyone was working very close to home in each of those jobs.
Sure, but still: help wanted signs up in the $10/hour suburbs, and not in the $15/hour downtown Seattle shops. Could be something else, too, of course, but I really notice the difference.
The real minimum wage is always 0. I work in Seattle, where they recently did this. Entry level places where I live (not in Seattle), where the minimum wage is $10/hour, all have help wanted signs out. In downtown Seattle, however there was a wave of restaurant closings, and I don't see help wanted signs anywhere. Could be other causes for the difference, of course, maybe it's something else - but it's not a promising sign for teens looking for that first job.
It sounds like AWS's Spot Instances? Except for the fixed pricing.
Yup, it's their version. Forbes compares them. The fixed price is nice on the Google side, but there's no 2-minute warning before termination on Google like you get on AWS, and AWS launched a new Spot Fleet product the same day Google announced.
Either way, you need to be doing the kind of work where you can lose VMs on short notice and keep going, but it's a very nice discount if you can.
The food we have available to eat isn't more than the food we grow. The cars we have available to drive are the cars we manufacture. We can cheat a little through trade, of course, or "we" can be understood as "humans".
Sure, the government could take and hoard/destroy some of that for no good reason, as often happens under communism, but it can't make more stuff by fiat. So anything the government "buys", wherever the money came from, reflects manufacturing capacity that's now making what the government wants, instead of what the people want. However you look at it, it's still effectively a tax.
And of course, when the government just mails checks to people (which is most of the budget), that doesn't change the amount of available "stuff" at all - the government could print everyone a check for $10k/month without any taxes, sure it could, but we wouldn't have any additional stuff as a result.
Corporations do everything they possibly can to count revenue as a cost so it won't show up on earnings. Like stock buybacks and dividends, just to start.
Earning are the yardstick by which CEOs are measured - they live and die by 1 cent differences in earnings per share. Everything is about making earnings appear as high as possible. You seem to know very little about all this.
Would it have killed you to have read the next sentence in the post you're responding to before posting?
Also, your post is BS. No amount of government money printing changes the amount of stuff that gets made. All we have is all we make, and nothing is free, regardless of currency games.
Corporate earnings is profits not income.
Yes, that was my point. "Stockholders take all the money, while workers do all the work" is emotion-bait, but false. In fact, salaries are a much larger amount than earnings. The ratio of payout of "labor vs capital" isn't outrage-provoking at all.
Irrelevant pedantry, the two sentiments you expressed are effectively equivalent
All the difference in the world. "Corporations are people" is clickbait - outrageous if true, but not true (except in the sense that laws that restrict "persons or persons" also restrict corporations - anyone outraged by that?). "Tightly held corporations are effectively partnerships" seems like an unremarkable court ruling, not a political football.
everything ultimately goes to is the shareholders (and management) not the workers - who *actually* provide the labor and value of a corporation
Did you know that total (IRS-reported) income in the US is about 20x total corporate earnings in the US? Seems unremarkable, doesn't it, not a political football.
Exactly. The Tea Party and similar ultra conservative factions
This is the problem today: you actually believe what the mainstream media tells you about republicans, when those very reporters vote nearly 100% Democrat, and the leading figures donate to (and some work for) the Clinton foundation, and are basically the propaganda arm of the Democratic party (and who knows what Fox News is smoking).
People believe the Tea Party was all white, because the media edited out the black people from the pictures, and people just swallowed that whole. People believe the elderly fools in the GOP represent the mainstream (every party has its embarrassments), because that's the only view the media will give.
Did you know that the average GOP congresscritter is actually a few years younger than the average Democrat? That the Citizens United ruling did not say that corporations are people (but instead that tightly-held corporations are effectively partnerships)? That Indiana's recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act was effectively the same as the one Clinton signed into law in the 90s amid no controversy? That the frequency of rape on college campus is actually lower than in America as a whole? That polls of right-wings voters show the leading issues right now are economic, foreign policy, and immigration, and that social issues like gay marriage and abortion aren't important enough to make the short-list?
This is the reason the GOP will flounder: what the party cares about, what the voters care about, and what the mainstream press goes on about are 3 nearly unrelated sets of issues.
I suspect the truth is the following: he was able to hack flight control from the passenger connection in the simulation, because the security wasn't there or wasn't setup the same in the simulation. He says he hacked a simulation, not a real plane, so this seems like the most likely explanation - though as you say, it's always possible there's an exploitable flaw.
"X% reflectance" is a linear assumption. It suggests that you reflect X watt out of every 100 watt, and also X kilowatt out of every 100 kilowatt.
However, reflecting an electromagnetic wave is caused by currents in/near the reflecting surface. Metals reflect well because such currents encounter little resistance. But there's a limit to the current carrying capacity of metals. There are only a few free electrons per atom at best. If the incoming pulse is strong enough, the wave simply cannot be reflected. The current simply exceeds the current carrying capacity. Instead, the atoms of the metal ionize. That means the surface turns into a plasma, and a heated plasma at that. Plasma's absorb all that light instead of reflecting it. You just created a plasma torch on the metal surface.
This AC is informative. MW lasers are different in kind from normal light - think "column of exploding plasma" not "bright light".
The problem the Navy faces with these lasers is that they're several KW, not several MW. That can still be effective against some important kinds of targets, however. Targets made of rocket fuel in a metal can, for example: you don't have to dump in that much energy to convince a rocket that it's not going to hit its target today.
Kurosawa's Ran probably holds some sort of record for both beautiful wide shots of action, and injuries while filming: horses are more dangerous than cars for this sort of thing, at least for the horses. From what I recall, dozens of people were seriously injured and dozens of horses were put down in filming Ran. Hopefully Fury Road fared better.
The microwave background radiation is what remains from the red-shifting of a burst of light when electrons became bound to protons and was stretched by the subsequent expansion of space. Wasn't there an earlier burst, of gamma rays, when quarks condensed from the quark-gluon plasma to form baryons? Has that been absorbed/scattered to obscurity by interaction with matter since then?
The entire universe was quite opaque then, much like the core of the sun. Those photons didn't ravel far before finding an electron, which of course would emit a new photon (also gamma frequencies at first) soon. The dominant forces in the universe between the first few seconds and 300K years were gravity and light pressure. The photons of the CMBR were still fairly high energy at the point the universe became transparent - there's just been a significant redshift since then.
Why hasn't the microwave background has not similarly been obscured by interaction with matter (exciting rotational energy levels of molecules?)
For the same reason we can see distant stars: matter is quite sparse these days, and hydrogen and helium only absorb light of a specific set of frequencies.
Yes, a terrible trend ruining cinema. Incompetence writ large, from the mild where they cut away a frame or two before blows land so it doesn't feel violent, to full-blown Transformers 3, where you can't even tell WFT is on the screen, who's winning, who you're supposed to root for, or why the fight even matters in the first place. Pure garbage.
It's Awesome Vehicle and Character Design The Movie: Lots of Explosions and Practical Effects (2015).
Yup, that's pretty much what "Mad Max" means to me! I don't recall any stinkin' character development in the others - just shit blowing up in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Last thing we need is another Thunderdome!
If you go to see John Wayne in Chisolm, you expect to see cattle barons fight in the west you don't expect to see the little girl from True Grit.
Well, the point of that movie was that it was the girl who had true grit, after all - just saying.
I don't much care what the excuse for a road warrior movie is - the action is entertaining, or it's not. Yes, yes, the "Mad Max" label was slapped on as just a branding move, but do you really was to criticize Hollywood for being too original in a sequel? Really?
No, it isn't a good movie. Not anywhere near a good movie. Actually kinda a dumb movie. It does have lots of car chases and explosions to distract you from the fact that it is a bad movie. I'm sure it will be successful - nobody eats at McDonalds for quality food but they still eat there.
It's the first big-budget action movie in many years with practical effects. This is a huge deal for fans of the genre. Action movies have been shot badly for so long now people start to forget wheat they're supposed to be like. All CGI and jumpcuts to hide the fact the actors aren't in the action, which really detracts from the fun. Long (duration) shots with no jumpcuts so you feel the action rather than yawn at camera tricks, wide shots so you can actually follow what's going on in a fight: this is the stuff that makes action entertaining. The action scenes in the Indiana Jones movies (recent abomination excepted) are great examples, with shots that last about 90 seconds between cuts, practical effects, and stuntmen performing all the action on screen, it all makes the movie immersive in a way that, say Guardians of the Galaxy isn't. I liked the latter too, but none of the fights made me wince when someone got hit - a neat film, but not engaging in that way.
The assembly I learned on had "br" as the opcode for a non-conditional jump: we used the word "branch" whether conditional or not. :)
My money is on the FBI flat-out lying. It's what cops do. But of course I'm speculating and haven't seen the evidence. If it gets to court, a jury will make the call, and if they find the FBI's actual evidence convincing, that's what matters. OTOH if the FBI drops the case then we'll know this was all BS.