They looked for stuff like that, and didn't find it.
"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Unless they are wholly incompetent, that's not the problem.
Like Dijkstra says, they can only find what they are looking for.
If there is something they don't know about . . . they don't know how to look for it . . . so they can't find it.
So the Cubans have something our spooks don't know about. We have only noticed the "collateral damage" it has cause . . . not the thing in itself. Kinda sorta like looking at the traces left by wacky sub-atomic particles.
In response to the threat of steel tariffs, the EU countered with proposed tariffs on "American" products: Levi's Jeans and Jim Beam bourbon.
Levi's aren't even made in the US anymore . . . so the tariffs will hit teenage Chinese and Bangladeshi sweat shop slaves.
Jim Beam is a Japanese company, Suntory. Jim Beam offers a "factory tour" in Kentucky, but, who knows. This could just be Las Vegas knock-up like the Venetian Boat Ride. The raw base hooch in could come from from Suntory's mega-cheap sugar cane distillery operations in Brazil. You just need to add some molasses to it, to give it the color and taste of Jim Beam.
The steel tariffs will affect one of the EU's biggest steel producers, Italy. Oh, guess what, my fellow Americans . . . Chrysler is an Italian company. Ask that proud Dodge Ram driver how he likes his Italian car. But if Chrysler goes tits up again, the Italian government is not going to bail it out. It's not to big to fail there . . . it's only too big to fail in the US.
So the whole mess is like a big plate of steaming spaghetti . . . you pull on a piece by applying tariffs . . . and you never know where it's connected to . . .
That poor people make poor money choices, so giving medicaid patients (given to struggling people) they will spend more on things that do not have a long term value, trinkets that will give an immediate satisfaction, vs long term pleasure. Is this a gross stereotype? Yes, yes it is.
Actually, no it is not. $100 on an EBT card will get you $50-$60 cash on the black market . . . which you can spend on whatever you want.
The mere existence of this thriving market indicates . . . well . . . that lots of folks are doing it.
A more interesting question . . . is if Amazon permits or assists in such EBT card hanky-panky. Can you spend money from your EBT card, that is meant for diapers, to pay for tech junk . . . ?
Our education systems needs to be thoughtfully designed so they don't undermine our ability to keep pace with international wizarding schools.
No, we just need high tariffs on international magic imported into the US.
Or exported, imported or otherwise traded anywhere else in the world. The IRS could greatly increase tax revenues by taxing the incomes of foreign nationals living and working abroad.
The TSA can staff domestic wizards to detect those trying to smuggle cheap, foreign magic into this Grape Kool-Aid Nation!
Those wizards caught at the border will be turned into newts!
I have seen the road many times, and there is no plot interest in the road or scenery. Would be great to have something interesting to watch other the road when I am driving.
Hey, with this technology, you can project pictures of pedestrians who aren't there right in your oncoming path. If you are skillful enough to "hit" them . . . you will get points!
Turn your boring drive to work into "Death Race 2000" . . . !
"“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” -- H. L. Mencken
It could be sending your photos to the FBI. It could be doing nothing at all.
The former head of the FBI ran a private FBI within the FBI to collect dirt on folks he wanted to . . . "influence".
By the time of his death Hoover’s scandalous private and personal files numbered in the thousands, including 883 senators, 722 congressmen, 12 Supreme Court judges and hundreds of celebrities.
When Zuckerberg becomes President of US, he won't need the help of the FBI . . . he will have all he needs from Facebook and their pals in privacy crime.
Stop using closed source software and you won't have these issues.
Try explaining that to people who are clueless . . . I gave up a long time ago. When I did try to explain that Facebook's business model was selling their data . . . I got the answer, "Oh, look! Facebook! Ponies!"
High school kids that try to rise up are quickly eliminated by US Air Force Predator drones strikes, flown by our own US military. The kids have AR-15s – America never passed reasonable gun control – but they didn't stand a chance against Predators and guided missile strikes.
-- Americanus
This is a common military strategic thinking mistake made by top US military brass and armchair computer war games players.
The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents only have homemade Kalashnikovs, RPGs and IEDs! We will easily crush them with our M1 Abram tanks, Predator and guided missile strikes! We will defeat them in a few weeks!
Well, after 15 years, the US military still hasn't defeated them. The US military met the same fate in Vietnam. I remember in the 70s, everyone in the US said that we would never repeat the same mistakes made there.
Oops! We forgot, and thought we could defeat guerilla insurgents with a conventional army. And we repeated the same mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
How did the UK do in trying to defeat the IRA?
They didn't, and were forced into a peace process with known terrorist murderers. Or freedom fighters, depending on your personal political beliefs.
A high school kid with an assault weapon hidden under his bed will not defeat the US military. But he can indefinitely harass and annoy them causing casualties that will eventually force them to give up.
Oh, where will these high school kids get their weapons . . . ? The same place they get their drugs today. All the US military might cannot prevent drugs from being smuggled into the country . . . weapons will be no problem either.
And IEDs, just how will the high school kids make them . . . ? The same way I did in high school. Take a bottle of iodine crystals and mix it into household ammonia cleaning fluid. Strain the resulting precipitate through a coffee filter, and let it dry . . . somewhere in the shade, not in sunlight! When it is dry, poke at it with a pencil.
Fun, fun, fun.
The Palestinian terrorists even produce deadly souped up bottle rockets called Qassams, which use aluminum powder and sulfur for fuel. Oh, and "Carlo" machine guns.
So, "Red Dawn" was a seriously silly movie . . . but the effectiveness of a guerilla fighters against a conventional military force should not be underestimated.
.... is the motto of Google's corporate code of conduct, first introduced around 2000....
That was Google's motto . . . they have since changed their corporate name to Alphabet
Alphabet's motto is: "Do the right thing."
(Go ahead and "alphabet" for Alphabet's motto, yuck, yuck.)
Not right, as in right wing, but right as in:
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's writings do an excellent job in describing the behavior of Silicon Valley companies . . . why do you think they called it Über . . . ?
Anyway, this is rather a stupid move by the US military. Google makes its money selling data of its users to whoever has enough money and is willing to pay for it.
This means that all US drone flight data will be sold to China and Russia!
To use burger universe vernacular, the little old lady looks at that burger machine and barks, "Where's the hype . . . ?"
It isn't labeled "Autonomous AI Robotic Automation" and isn't "Powered by Bitcoin Blockchain Technology."
Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi that reads from/dev/random and prints it on a cheap display and add a coin slot labeled, "Insert Bitcoins Here", and then folks would get interested in it.
Slashdot Mirror
SFO airport is indeed at sea level-- it's right on the bay.
Don't worry . . . Über Swim will still be able to service the submerged airport.
But you can build runways up if you need to; it's not hard.
Who needs runways, when you can use Ground Effect . . . ?
Russia is already prepared to service the Aqua-Airport:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Can the "host of mysterious ailments" be really caused by a sonic source?
The Cubans are researching new technology and are staging a "Brown Note" attack against the US Embassy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Mr. President, we must not allow...a Brown Note gap!
Coming soon, to DARPA . . .
They looked for stuff like that, and didn't find it.
"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Unless they are wholly incompetent, that's not the problem.
Like Dijkstra says, they can only find what they are looking for.
If there is something they don't know about . . . they don't know how to look for it . . . so they can't find it.
So the Cubans have something our spooks don't know about. We have only noticed the "collateral damage" it has cause . . . not the thing in itself. Kinda sorta like looking at the traces left by wacky sub-atomic particles.
Who would be using the transmitter?
The Cubans.
Who would be using a jammer.
The embassy staff . . . to thwart the Cubans.
Moreover, which nation-state/s would bother with using ultrasonic in an age of cheap RF based technologies?
Folks who don't want their bugs found because they are constantly transmitting.
Someone must have "left a few of these "Things" somewhere in the building:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"America First" should be our mind set when negotiating trade, not other people first.
Well . . . where is the 25% tariff on foreign imported H1-Bs . . . ?
It's a very very complex web.
Not just complex, but complicated.
In response to the threat of steel tariffs, the EU countered with proposed tariffs on "American" products: Levi's Jeans and Jim Beam bourbon.
Levi's aren't even made in the US anymore . . . so the tariffs will hit teenage Chinese and Bangladeshi sweat shop slaves.
Jim Beam is a Japanese company, Suntory. Jim Beam offers a "factory tour" in Kentucky, but, who knows. This could just be Las Vegas knock-up like the Venetian Boat Ride. The raw base hooch in could come from from Suntory's mega-cheap sugar cane distillery operations in Brazil. You just need to add some molasses to it, to give it the color and taste of Jim Beam.
The steel tariffs will affect one of the EU's biggest steel producers, Italy. Oh, guess what, my fellow Americans . . . Chrysler is an Italian company. Ask that proud Dodge Ram driver how he likes his Italian car. But if Chrysler goes tits up again, the Italian government is not going to bail it out. It's not to big to fail there . . . it's only too big to fail in the US.
So the whole mess is like a big plate of steaming spaghetti . . . you pull on a piece by applying tariffs . . . and you never know where it's connected to . . .
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sort of a twist on:
"Dog bites man!": Not news . . . Won't spread.
"Man bites dog!": Real news . . . Spreads fast!
The real world and real news are boring and difficult for most folks to deal with.
Fake news is fun and exciting!
Wrong question.
"What kind of a retard posts news from Twitter?"
If you have a nation full of retards . . . maybe Twitter is the best choice to reach them . . .
Great, then the owners of those restaurants will have to pay their workers more!
. . . or switch to robots. Robots, unlike a New York or Paris waiter, can be programmed to act polite.
Restaurant workers in NYC already get paid triple what a restaurant worker in Alabama gets.
. . . your average New Yorker will snarkily respond with, "The food in the City tastes three times better than food in Alabama!"
Chitterlings with grits, indeed.
This just in! Trump to announce 25% tariffs on imported H1-Bs! Film at eleven . . .
That poor people make poor money choices, so giving medicaid patients (given to struggling people) they will spend more on things that do not have a long term value, trinkets that will give an immediate satisfaction, vs long term pleasure. Is this a gross stereotype? Yes, yes it is.
Actually, no it is not. $100 on an EBT card will get you $50-$60 cash on the black market . . . which you can spend on whatever you want.
The mere existence of this thriving market indicates . . . well . . . that lots of folks are doing it.
A more interesting question . . . is if Amazon permits or assists in such EBT card hanky-panky. Can you spend money from your EBT card, that is meant for diapers, to pay for tech junk . . . ?
Funny, 25 years ago I was told in school that the brain was the only part of the body that didn't produce new cells after birth.
About 25 years ago, eggs were bad for you.
Now they're good for you.
In about 25 years, tobacco will be good for you . . .
Their product is just a form with a single field.
No, you are their product . . . which they track and sell collected data . . .
Will the manufacturer give you a note telling your boss that you couldn't make it to work because of a buggy software update?
You won't need a note.
You'll be dead in the car crash.
If it will make you feel better . . . the rescue workers will pin a note on your corpse.
Its not going to offend the car, or cause it to retaliate.
Retaliation is coming in the next software updates.
Until then, autonomous car owners could do some hard hacks, hooking up a high voltage AC generator to the car fuselage.
If the car is made out of plastic, you will need to cover it with tin foil first.
Our education systems needs to be thoughtfully designed so they don't undermine our ability to keep pace with international wizarding schools.
No, we just need high tariffs on international magic imported into the US.
Or exported, imported or otherwise traded anywhere else in the world. The IRS could greatly increase tax revenues by taxing the incomes of foreign nationals living and working abroad.
The TSA can staff domestic wizards to detect those trying to smuggle cheap, foreign magic into this Grape Kool-Aid Nation!
Those wizards caught at the border will be turned into newts!
I have seen the road many times, and there is no plot interest in the road or scenery. Would be great to have something interesting to watch other the road when I am driving.
Hey, with this technology, you can project pictures of pedestrians who aren't there right in your oncoming path. If you are skillful enough to "hit" them . . . you will get points!
Turn your boring drive to work into "Death Race 2000" . . . !
People are clueless.
"“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” -- H. L. Mencken
It could be sending your photos to the FBI. It could be doing nothing at all.
The former head of the FBI ran a private FBI within the FBI to collect dirt on folks he wanted to . . . "influence".
By the time of his death Hoover’s scandalous private and personal files numbered in the thousands, including 883 senators, 722 congressmen, 12 Supreme Court judges and hundreds of celebrities.
When Zuckerberg becomes President of US, he won't need the help of the FBI . . . he will have all he needs from Facebook and their pals in privacy crime.
Stop using closed source software and you won't have these issues.
Try explaining that to people who are clueless . . . I gave up a long time ago. When I did try to explain that Facebook's business model was selling their data . . . I got the answer, "Oh, look! Facebook! Ponies!"
High school kids that try to rise up are quickly eliminated by US Air Force Predator drones strikes, flown by our own US military. The kids have AR-15s – America never passed reasonable gun control – but they didn't stand a chance against Predators and guided missile strikes.
-- Americanus
This is a common military strategic thinking mistake made by top US military brass and armchair computer war games players.
The Afghan and Iraqi insurgents only have homemade Kalashnikovs, RPGs and IEDs! We will easily crush them with our M1 Abram tanks, Predator and guided missile strikes! We will defeat them in a few weeks!
Well, after 15 years, the US military still hasn't defeated them. The US military met the same fate in Vietnam. I remember in the 70s, everyone in the US said that we would never repeat the same mistakes made there.
Oops! We forgot, and thought we could defeat guerilla insurgents with a conventional army. And we repeated the same mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
How did the UK do in trying to defeat the IRA?
They didn't, and were forced into a peace process with known terrorist murderers. Or freedom fighters, depending on your personal political beliefs.
A high school kid with an assault weapon hidden under his bed will not defeat the US military. But he can indefinitely harass and annoy them causing casualties that will eventually force them to give up.
Oh, where will these high school kids get their weapons . . . ? The same place they get their drugs today. All the US military might cannot prevent drugs from being smuggled into the country . . . weapons will be no problem either.
And IEDs, just how will the high school kids make them . . . ? The same way I did in high school. Take a bottle of iodine crystals and mix it into household ammonia cleaning fluid. Strain the resulting precipitate through a coffee filter, and let it dry . . . somewhere in the shade, not in sunlight! When it is dry, poke at it with a pencil.
Fun, fun, fun.
The Palestinian terrorists even produce deadly souped up bottle rockets called Qassams, which use aluminum powder and sulfur for fuel. Oh, and "Carlo" machine guns.
So, "Red Dawn" was a seriously silly movie . . . but the effectiveness of a guerilla fighters against a conventional military force should not be underestimated.
Silicon Valley has worked really hard to bring crime to the Internet.
Now the Internet is full, and the crime has, naturally, spilled over into the streets.
Tech companies already have private bus lines, so their employees don't need cars anyway.
All they need to do is "Mad Max" armorize their buses, and then they will be all set to defend against Master Car Burglar Wez, and his pals.
.... is the motto of Google's corporate code of conduct, first introduced around 2000. ...
That was Google's motto . . . they have since changed their corporate name to Alphabet
Alphabet's motto is: "Do the right thing."
(Go ahead and "alphabet" for Alphabet's motto, yuck, yuck.)
Not right, as in right wing, but right as in:
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's writings do an excellent job in describing the behavior of Silicon Valley companies . . . why do you think they called it Über . . . ?
Anyway, this is rather a stupid move by the US military. Google makes its money selling data of its users to whoever has enough money and is willing to pay for it.
This means that all US drone flight data will be sold to China and Russia!
a turnover tax?
It's also called a "bend over" tax.
. . . any questions . . . ?
How is this an improvement over the double-sided grills that cook both sides at the same time?
Example: http://www.garland-group.com/P...
To use burger universe vernacular, the little old lady looks at that burger machine and barks, "Where's the hype . . . ?"
It isn't labeled "Autonomous AI Robotic Automation" and isn't "Powered by Bitcoin Blockchain Technology."
Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi that reads from /dev/random and prints it on a cheap display and add a coin slot labeled, "Insert Bitcoins Here", and then folks would get interested in it.
Because nobody wants a baked hamburger.
At a fast food joint . . . would anybody be able to taste the difference . . . ? Or even care . . . ?
Although, alternatively, they could claim that robot baked burgers are healthier than human greasy fried ones.
That would actually make sense if I were building a burger factory to churn out ten thousand patties a day.
Ha! I gaze in pity at your puny production! The sign outside my fast food restaurant says "Billions and Billions Served"!
Sanding down humans is SO 20th century.
Denim is out, too. I wear jeans made out of the skin of human sanders.
It has a natural feel, and reduces the global warming caused by the CO2 normally produced by human sanders.