And this is why cryptocoins are good. Banks would love nothing more than for all y'all go cashless, even if they know something like this may happen.
They want more for themselves, and more control they have the more they going to exploit you.
Slashdot folk hate cryptocurrencies. Eg. I'm a freelancer. I regularly get my employers from across the world to buy Ethereum, and then send it to me... and I cash out 15 minutes later when I get it on my side, fees are about 5 dollars. Banks ? Takes 5 days for money to be wire transferred to me with a fee of $50 dollars.
This is just one example, but the fact that banks see cryptocurrencies as a threat, means that it's a good thing for all of us.
"Others report producing cockroach milk isn't easy, either"
So why do it ? We already have milk, and it's good enough... easy to to produce. Cows don't mind either.
"researchers believe insect milk, like cockroach milk, could be the next big dairy alternative"
Uh...no. These researchers are either trolling or are insane. Next BIG dairy alternative, really ?
Pravda does not mean "truth" like truth means truth in English, although you can translate it like that... and it would be correct (literally), but it would be out of context if you thought about that word the same way you think about truth in English.
Pravda also means justice, and Istina also means Truth. In some Slavic languages, Pravda only means Justice.
"Every time the word "pravda" comes to my mind, I am exhilarated by its stunning beauty. Such a word is not, apparently, to be found in any [other?] European language. Apparently, it is only in Russian that "truth" and "justice" are called by the same word, and fuse together in one great unity. "Pravda", in that great meaning of the word, has always constituted the object of my searches. "Pravda"-truth separated from "pravda"-justice, "pravda" of the theological heaven cut off from "pravda" of the practical earth, always offended me, not just left me unsatisfied. On the contrary, beneficient everyday practice, the highest ethical and social ideals, always seemed to me insultingly impotent, if they were turned away from truth, from science. I never could believe, and do not believe now, that one cannot find such a point of view, by which "pravda"-truth and "pravda"-justice are hand in hand, each reinforcing the other. In any case, working out such a point of view is the most exalted of tasks that human intelligence can imagine, and there are no efforts too great to be expended on it."
--N. K. Mixajlovskij (1842-1904)
Just thought that it's interesting, and should be taken into the account. Same as Elon Musks choice for "branding".
Maybe he's also a Russian Spy ?/sarcasm
or more probably... he's trolling all the anti-russia sentiment going on recently ?
If you have technical knowledge... OpenBSD. Actually I find pf(4) to be easier to handle than iptables(8).
But there might be better solutions depending on your use case... like are you using WiFi, etc.. but from security standpoint I would go OpenBSD any day.
Also... it's very lightweight, you can run it on almost anything.
"The only way we can begin to inoculate ourselves against a future attack is to see first-hand the types of messages, themes and imagery the Russians used to divide us...."
I'm bored of saying it but... Yes, it's all Russia's fault.
Reason Trump got elected - Russia.
Reason BREXIT happpened - Russia.
When somebody gets poisoned... you know who did it ? - Russia
Doping scandals - Russia
/sarcasm
If they did anything, it's profit on already pre-existing divisions, they are certainly not the cause of it. There already were stories about some 17yr old KIDS from Poland or Hungary or something creating fake sites / and raking it thousands of dollars in ad revenue (by exploiting the already existing division between left and right)
When you come from that part of the world, the money is 100% motivation. When you grow up not having any, all you can think off is getting it, especially if you're a teen and your parents always were and are broke - something most Americans can't understand.
The political situation in US (and religious in the world) is RIPE for making money on, you just have to have a little bit of imagination and have to be kept down for a very long time.
Most people in the past 20 years didn't care about edit.exe but many did care about notepad, even 100 % linux users like me.. when I had to move some shell scripts, or quick edit some files that were created on Linux, for other people of course.
Reason MS didn't do this earlier is because majority of people were using Windows.. and they wanted to mess with Linux users in one more way.. and to show to that user base that even simple things as TXT files don't work properly on Linux... just another attempt to cause incompatibility between everything UNIX and Windows (since they had majority of users, this works for them actually... or at least worked).
They never wanted to have Windows and Linux compatible... and they did everything in their power NOT to help the situation.. goes from boot loaders to notepad.exe taking everything else in between.
During Yugoslavia, kids in schools learned both Cyrillic and Latin and it was used equally. Most road signs were/are written in latin and cyrillic. Everybody that came from that system can read and write both scripts, Croats included.
Yugoslavia was the only country in Europe that had this.
If it's a driverless car that requires driver to be attentive of the road and what's goign on - it's never gonna work right.
Either driver actively drives the car, or it doesn't... there's no in between. We're humans, not robots...
This person was looking at his facebook all the time, next one will nod off.. etc.
You know those people ( most of the nerds ? ) that advocate buses as means to get from point A to point B ?
This must be their dream. Imagine... no more traffic, planet saved, and all that ? What you say nerds ? -1 ?
If your solution is "use a bus" then think of another one.
Why not just live in the office ? Give up your personal life and your personal space completely and just live in the office... you don't need cars, tvs, weed, beer,... and you can probably survive on some engineered food that provides nutrients and energy, like a borg drone something.
For those too autistic as is the author of the original post, this was meant to be irony.
I ain't using a bus.
> Also, the punishment should fit the crime. Being banned from trains and planes is a fitting punishment for someone who repeatedly smokes on a non smoking train, or harasses the flight attendants. It is not appropriate for not paying your parking tickets.
Nothing in China is about punishment, all is about control and making people realize that obedience and submission is the way to live their life.
> Let me predict the future again. Netflix will raise prices, and offer crappier content. This will happen as long as they win more market share. If they become a dominant player, they will be just as ugly as cable and satellite.
When you have entities that exist purely to make profit, of course that will happen. What a prediction man!
Related to this.. but not 100 % ontopic..
Every time I updated my samsung s3 (i still use it) it got slower and slower.. until i just gave up.
Everybody I talked to said the same thing, about other manufacturers too.
I gave up updating my phone. I don't have anything I cannot live without on it (it's a phone people).. I don't install apps on it except maybe 2-3 apps such as Chrome, Guitar Tuner and LINE Messanger.
> So you are distracted at the traffic light and don't see the kid on a bicycle that is riding along the line of stopped cars, and you then turn and kill him when the light turns green?
If you can be so distracted by an AD as to KILL somebody (while starting to move the car in whatever direction) then you shouldn't be driving cars in the first place.
You would have to be blind, deaf and retarded to drive over somebody from a traffic light stop. Not only that, but they too have to be deaf blind and retarded for this to happen.
Worst case scenario, you would just bump into him.
> Any car that comes with ads will not be purchased by me.
But don't you want to save the planet ? Go green ? Smell your own farts??
Anyway...seeing the trend, exploitation of technology to gain profits.. I'm sure all cars will have ads. Especially self-driving... and especially if they come from Google or any other "internet company".
This must be the stupidest reasoning disguised as insight i ever heard. Like new-agers and hippies talking how there are many truths, everybody has their own truth etc. utter BS.
That statement is completely useless.
I know a guy out there that think earth is flat, and that's truth for him. See the problem yet with personal truths ?
> They could drop the word Wi-Fi from that sentence and it would still be true. I really cannot fathom any sane reason to travel to that country.
Money of course. Journalists, photographers, and other people that make money going into dangerous areas to show us how it looks like and what's going on there.
Not many people go to NK, so great opportunity to make money. And before you say, oh but you can do something less dangerous, well.. It's not easy to make money.. it's easy to be a wage slave like most of us commoners are, but those two are not the same.
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And this is why cryptocoins are good. Banks would love nothing more than for all y'all go cashless, even if they know something like this may happen.
They want more for themselves, and more control they have the more they going to exploit you.
Slashdot folk hate cryptocurrencies. Eg. I'm a freelancer. I regularly get my employers from across the world to buy Ethereum, and then send it to me... and I cash out 15 minutes later when I get it on my side, fees are about 5 dollars. Banks ? Takes 5 days for money to be wire transferred to me with a fee of $50 dollars.
This is just one example, but the fact that banks see cryptocurrencies as a threat, means that it's a good thing for all of us.
This is the stupidest thing I read this month.
"Others report producing cockroach milk isn't easy, either"
So why do it ? We already have milk, and it's good enough... easy to to produce. Cows don't mind either.
"researchers believe insect milk, like cockroach milk, could be the next big dairy alternative"
Uh...no. These researchers are either trolling or are insane. Next BIG dairy alternative, really ?
Pravda does not mean "truth" like truth means truth in English, although you can translate it like that... and it would be correct (literally), but it would be out of context if you thought about that word the same way you think about truth in English.
/sarcasm
Pravda also means justice, and Istina also means Truth. In some Slavic languages, Pravda only means Justice.
"Every time the word "pravda" comes to my mind, I am exhilarated by its stunning beauty. Such a word is not, apparently, to be found in any [other?] European language. Apparently, it is only in Russian that "truth" and "justice" are called by the same word, and fuse together in one great unity. "Pravda", in that great meaning of the word, has always constituted the object of my searches. "Pravda"-truth separated from "pravda"-justice, "pravda" of the theological heaven cut off from "pravda" of the practical earth, always offended me, not just left me unsatisfied. On the contrary, beneficient everyday practice, the highest ethical and social ideals, always seemed to me insultingly impotent, if they were turned away from truth, from science. I never could believe, and do not believe now, that one cannot find such a point of view, by which "pravda"-truth and "pravda"-justice are hand in hand, each reinforcing the other. In any case, working out such a point of view is the most exalted of tasks that human intelligence can imagine, and there are no efforts too great to be expended on it." --N. K. Mixajlovskij (1842-1904)
Just thought that it's interesting, and should be taken into the account. Same as Elon Musks choice for "branding".
Maybe he's also a Russian Spy ?
or more probably... he's trolling all the anti-russia sentiment going on recently ?
That's stupid. Let's hope they will not do that.
Not everything deserves or has to be encrypted.. especially not in LANs, etc..
If you have technical knowledge... OpenBSD. Actually I find pf(4) to be easier to handle than iptables(8).
But there might be better solutions depending on your use case... like are you using WiFi, etc.. but from security standpoint I would go OpenBSD any day.
Also... it's very lightweight, you can run it on almost anything.
"The only way we can begin to inoculate ourselves against a future attack is to see first-hand the types of messages, themes and imagery the Russians used to divide us...."
/sarcasm
If they did anything, it's profit on already pre-existing divisions, they are certainly not the cause of it. There already were stories about some 17yr old KIDS from Poland or Hungary or something creating fake sites / and raking it thousands of dollars in ad revenue (by exploiting the already existing division between left and right)
I'm bored of saying it but... Yes, it's all Russia's fault.
Reason Trump got elected - Russia.
Reason BREXIT happpened - Russia.
When somebody gets poisoned... you know who did it ? - Russia
Doping scandals - Russia
When you come from that part of the world, the money is 100% motivation. When you grow up not having any, all you can think off is getting it, especially if you're a teen and your parents always were and are broke - something most Americans can't understand.
The political situation in US (and religious in the world) is RIPE for making money on, you just have to have a little bit of imagination and have to be kept down for a very long time.
Most people in the past 20 years didn't care about edit.exe but many did care about notepad, even 100 % linux users like me.. when I had to move some shell scripts, or quick edit some files that were created on Linux, for other people of course.
.. and they wanted to mess with Linux users in one more way.. and to show to that user base that even simple things as TXT files don't work properly on Linux... just another attempt to cause incompatibility between everything UNIX and Windows (since they had majority of users, this works for them actually... or at least worked).
Reason MS didn't do this earlier is because majority of people were using Windows
They never wanted to have Windows and Linux compatible... and they did everything in their power NOT to help the situation.. goes from boot loaders to notepad.exe taking everything else in between.
During Yugoslavia, kids in schools learned both Cyrillic and Latin and it was used equally. Most road signs were/are written in latin and cyrillic. Everybody that came from that system can read and write both scripts, Croats included.
Yugoslavia was the only country in Europe that had this.
Nothing wrong with bacteria.
It's just an attempt to hire 1 person to do 4 different things.
When you see list of requirements, it's ridiculous.. and it's getting longer every 2-3 years. At least if we're talking about Web Developers.
> My hipster friends used to go to McD for their coffee. They wanted to drink it before it was cool.
Proto-hipster.
I could've told you that, would be as much credible.
Call me when you actually confirm that they're listening in (without disclosing it in their terms of use or whatever)
If it's a driverless car that requires driver to be attentive of the road and what's goign on - it's never gonna work right.
Either driver actively drives the car, or it doesn't... there's no in between. We're humans, not robots...
This person was looking at his facebook all the time, next one will nod off.. etc.
You know those people ( most of the nerds ? ) that advocate buses as means to get from point A to point B ?
This must be their dream. Imagine... no more traffic, planet saved, and all that ? What you say nerds ? -1 ?
If your solution is "use a bus" then think of another one.
Why not just live in the office ? Give up your personal life and your personal space completely and just live in the office... you don't need cars, tvs, weed, beer,... and you can probably survive on some engineered food that provides nutrients and energy, like a borg drone something.
For those too autistic as is the author of the original post, this was meant to be irony.
I ain't using a bus.
> Also, the punishment should fit the crime. Being banned from trains and planes is a fitting punishment for someone who repeatedly smokes on a non smoking train, or harasses the flight attendants. It is not appropriate for not paying your parking tickets.
Nothing in China is about punishment, all is about control and making people realize that obedience and submission is the way to live their life.
> In Europe we basically have no GMO corn/wheat. Nevertheless quite a few people have problems with gluten.
Not in SE Europe, and compare to us, the rest of you don't even eat wheat or wheat products.
> Let me predict the future again. Netflix will raise prices, and offer crappier content. This will happen as long as they win more market share. If they become a dominant player, they will be just as ugly as cable and satellite.
When you have entities that exist purely to make profit, of course that will happen. What a prediction man!
> I could have been getting paid telling people how stupid bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are?! And here I've been doing it for free like a chump.
and everybody you told that to probably think that you're stupid. And like you said... you didn't even get payed for it.
You truly are a chump.
Related to this.. but not 100 % ontopic..
Every time I updated my samsung s3 (i still use it) it got slower and slower.. until i just gave up.
Everybody I talked to said the same thing, about other manufacturers too.
I gave up updating my phone. I don't have anything I cannot live without on it (it's a phone people).. I don't install apps on it except maybe 2-3 apps such as Chrome, Guitar Tuner and LINE Messanger.
> So you are distracted at the traffic light and don't see the kid on a bicycle that is riding along the line of stopped cars, and you then turn and kill him when the light turns green?
If you can be so distracted by an AD as to KILL somebody (while starting to move the car in whatever direction) then you shouldn't be driving cars in the first place.
You would have to be blind, deaf and retarded to drive over somebody from a traffic light stop. Not only that, but they too have to be deaf blind and retarded for this to happen.
Worst case scenario, you would just bump into him.
> Any car that comes with ads will not be purchased by me.
.seeing the trend, exploitation of technology to gain profits.. I'm sure all cars will have ads. Especially self-driving ... and especially if they come from Google or any other "internet company".
But don't you want to save the planet ? Go green ? Smell your own farts??
Anyway..
This must be the stupidest reasoning disguised as insight i ever heard. Like new-agers and hippies talking how there are many truths, everybody has their own truth etc. utter BS.
That statement is completely useless.
I know a guy out there that think earth is flat, and that's truth for him. See the problem yet with personal truths ?
There's only 1 truth, at least in case of "news".
Well then just get rid off it now because it's only a matter of time.
> They could drop the word Wi-Fi from that sentence and it would still be true. I really cannot fathom any sane reason to travel to that country.
.. It's not easy to make money.. it's easy to be a wage slave like most of us commoners are, but those two are not the same.
Money of course. Journalists, photographers, and other people that make money going into dangerous areas to show us how it looks like and what's going on there.
Not many people go to NK, so great opportunity to make money. And before you say, oh but you can do something less dangerous, well