Unlike Gold, or even many other gemstones which have a rarity that enhances value? Diamonds are only of spectacular value, when they achieve very large carat size, without flaws or inclusions.
But there's a mystique , deliberately crafted, to conflate the value of a 2-carat Zales engagement ring with something like the Koh-i-noor.
Why the hell do they continue to advance the state-of-the-art? Committee-driven shit-standards are good enough for crapmeisters like Samsung and Goldstar.
Don't know if he's owned by CIA, MI[5-6] or Mossad.
Recycled bits from Sept, 2011:
David Leigh/Guardian is working in the interest of CIA/MI6 and looking not to collaborate with WikiLeaks, but to ensnare him for prosecution.
Clue: DL Insisting on seeing the actual files
Clue: DL Pressing for the GPG passphrase
Clue: DL Publishing the ENTIRE proceeding and passphrase in a book
Dumbshit-Borg is either a long-time mole or was "turned"
Clue: D-B had full access to all unredacted material
Clue: D-B acrimoniously split with Assange/WikiLeaks over ego-boundary shit and speculative "risk" issues
Clue: D-B in his schism is part of the probable exposure of these cables - portrayed as an "accident", while he was unilaterally and admittedly sabotaging WikiLeaks
Clue: D-B can now say "I told you so" over this exposure of sources - pointing to this as evidence, rather than a situation he perpetrated
The US Army Counterintelligence Agency said in 2008 that WikiLeaks was"a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC, and INFOSEC threat to the US Army" and PLANNED OPERATIONS to neutralise/discredit WikiLeaks:
"The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public."
Question: Do you think that the Agency makes these declarations in vain, for their entertainment value?
Question: Do you think they are alone, and that there are not equivalent planned and current operations by the CIA, etc.?
Question: Are the combined actions of DL and D-B implausible as the intended outcome of a counter-WikiLeaks strategy, set in motion by one or more intelligence agencies, including US Army Counterintelligence?
Think about it. Once they set this down IN PRINT, internally, and don't have a "positive" outcome? Sombody goes through the ringer.
This is likely all a setup. One with a scenario that is similar to the one indicated here, if not completely identical. It is one where where David Leigh and Dumbshit-Borg are either pathetic and self-serving dupes, or sickening quislings.
Either way, this is a noose fabricated of intentional actions with plausible deniability. Identify WikiLeaks with Assange's personality, and attack the personality. Attack the credibility of WikiLeaks methodology while distracting from their effectiveness and success in exposing filth, corruption and illegal government action.
OpenLeaks was deliberate "turning" of Dumbshit-Borg, by "intelligence" agencies to divide and discredit WikiLeaks/Assange.
I said -- right here - that we would NEVER see an OpenLeaks site, and that Dumbshit-Borg was being manpulated (wittingly or otherwise) to damage WikiLeaks. The proof was in his destruction of submitted, yet-unreviewed leaks without an alternative plan. This was the real op. OpenLeaks was the cover story.
The military assault against the US Consulate in Benghazi should not be seen as part of a protest against a low budget film which was insulting Islam â" there were just a few peaceful protesters present at the event. Indeed, there have been no other demonstrations regarding this film in Libya.
We at Quilliam believe the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi was a well planned terrorist attack that would have occurred regardless of the demonstration, to serve another purpose. According to information obtained by Quilliam from foreign sources and from within Benghazi we have reason to believe that the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al-Qaedaâ(TM)s second in command killed a few months ago.
The reasons for this are as follows:
24 hours before this attack, none other than the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a video on Jihadist forums to mark the anniversary of 9/11. In this video, Zawahiri acknowledged the death of his second in command Abu Yahya and urged Libyans to avenge his killing.
According to our sources, the attack was the work of roughly 20 militants, prepared for a military assault â" it is rare that an RPG7 is present at a peaceful protest.
According to our sources, the attack against the Consulate had two waves. The first attack led to US officials being evacuated from the consulate by Libyan security forces, only for the second wave to be launched against US officials after they were kept in a secure location.
The weak security environment in Libya including in Benghazi and the failure of the government to project its power outside of the capital have been used as a cover for the attack.
The failure to rebuild the defence and security sector, in an accountable, professional and responsible manner will only further the likelihood of such attacks in the future. Attacks in Benghazi are not new â" the Red Cross has been attacked multiple times in previous months, as have the US consulate and also the UK Ambassador, and such security lapses encourage attacks. The International Community must take the challenge of not allowing extremist elements to hijack the Arab Uprisings very seriously, by renewing their focus on civic and governance responses to check the efforts of Islamist extremists attempting to exploit the inevitable security vacuum.
Noman Benotman, President of Quilliam says:
âoeThese are acts committed by uncontrollable jihadist groups. We hope Libya will seize this opportunity to revive its policy of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Re-integration (DDR) in order to facilitate an end to the spread of such attacks, with the help of the International Community. We hope that the International Community, including NATO member states and especially the US, will continue their excellent work in Libya which began with the overthrow of the dictator Gaddafi after 42 years in power.â
Exactly. So many "wins" for the predator class. Manipulate global commodity markets for foodstuffs - WIN! Chaos to justify re-ordering "democratic" societies - WIN! And then? Reorganising municipalities into "Charter Cities", run by enterprise - WIN!
My argument is that a toolchain problem is NOT the issue.
It's a distraction - which is why his troll worked.
If the ORIGINAL article references efforts like LSB, then the issue being addressed is dependency tracking, library management and versioning and distribution/packaging normalization.
This is not an area which I am saying "it's fine".:-)
Disk is cheap. That's why Macs can have OSX binaries delivered as folder structures containing resources and dependencies - with an executable stub and manifest. It's the opposite of.deb+dpkg. You get redundancies, and they are inexpensive tradeoffs for having a working application on all OS versions and patch levels.
Visual Studio is OK. XCode is better, but nonetheless, tooling is not the main focus for the stated problem. Eclipse and others (Anjuta, KDevelop, Kommodo, emacs, etc.) do just fine.
When you talk about "the whole Linux API" you refer to something that not only doesn't exist in the context referenced, it is also nonsense. The user-space application APIs work. There are so many working one's from which to choose!
If anybody - such as yourself - comes forward with authoritative pronouncements, then misunderstands kernel API and userspace, followed by the laughable assertion of a "simple and elegant" Win32 API? Hah!
As they say, "Pull the other one, it has bells on it."
I have been doing the opposite. Trying to get OSX as close to my Linux environment as possible.;-)
But I have better MS office support on Mountain Lion than from Codeweavers. If you work in a comany of more than 1000 people, this is still unavoidable - LibreOffice or not.
I like this talk. I thought I might be the only security professional who hadn't been co-opted by a purely statist, law-enforcement mind-set. Blow it out your "fusion center"!:-)
As for gaming antecedents, do you remember the role-playing system, Traveller?
When I was a teen - around '79, I remember Gauss Rifles, and polyhera dice in the game. This was when the video-game combat state-of-the-art was Asteroids and Space Invaders...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah. But, hey! I mean naked
Hard to go wrong there. Or it's wrong to go hard there. Or... You know.
My man.
Nearly not untrue!
Give me a little more non-fake false hope, and I'll use the slingshot effect to go back in time and uncancel the original series!
In Russia, Diamond deposits reveal YOU!
Diamonds are common as dirt.
Unlike Gold, or even many other gemstones which have a rarity that enhances value? Diamonds are only of spectacular value, when they achieve very large carat size, without flaws or inclusions.
But there's a mystique , deliberately crafted, to conflate the value of a 2-carat Zales engagement ring with something like the Koh-i-noor.
Fuck Apple.
Why the hell do they continue to advance the state-of-the-art? Committee-driven shit-standards are good enough for crapmeisters like Samsung and Goldstar.
Why not Apple?
Signed,
Harrison Bergeron
Don't know if he's owned by CIA, MI[5-6] or Mossad.
Recycled bits from Sept, 2011:
David Leigh/Guardian is working in the interest of CIA/MI6 and looking not to collaborate with WikiLeaks, but to ensnare him for prosecution.
Clue: DL Insisting on seeing the actual files
Clue: DL Pressing for the GPG passphrase
Clue: DL Publishing the ENTIRE proceeding and passphrase in a book
Dumbshit-Borg is either a long-time mole or was "turned"
Clue: D-B had full access to all unredacted material
Clue: D-B acrimoniously split with Assange/WikiLeaks over ego-boundary shit and speculative "risk" issues
Clue: D-B in his schism is part of the probable exposure of these cables - portrayed as an "accident", while he was unilaterally and admittedly sabotaging WikiLeaks
Clue: D-B can now say "I told you so" over this exposure of sources - pointing to this as evidence, rather than a situation he perpetrated
The US Army Counterintelligence Agency said in 2008 that WikiLeaks was"a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC, and INFOSEC threat to the US Army" and PLANNED OPERATIONS to neutralise/discredit WikiLeaks:
"The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28385794/Us-Intel-Wikileaks
Question: Do you think that the Agency makes these declarations in vain, for their entertainment value?
Question: Do you think they are alone, and that there are not equivalent planned and current operations by the CIA, etc.?
Question: Are the combined actions of DL and D-B implausible as the intended outcome of a counter-WikiLeaks strategy, set in motion by one or more intelligence agencies, including US Army Counterintelligence?
Think about it. Once they set this down IN PRINT, internally, and don't have a "positive" outcome? Sombody goes through the ringer.
This is likely all a setup. One with a scenario that is similar to the one indicated here, if not completely identical. It is one where where David Leigh and Dumbshit-Borg are either pathetic and self-serving dupes, or sickening quislings.
Either way, this is a noose fabricated of intentional actions with plausible deniability. Identify WikiLeaks with Assange's personality, and attack the personality. Attack the credibility of WikiLeaks methodology while distracting from their effectiveness and success in exposing filth, corruption and illegal government action.
OpenLeaks was deliberate "turning" of Dumbshit-Borg, by "intelligence" agencies to divide and discredit WikiLeaks/Assange.
I said -- right here - that we would NEVER see an OpenLeaks site, and that Dumbshit-Borg was being manpulated (wittingly or otherwise) to damage WikiLeaks. The proof was in his destruction of submitted, yet-unreviewed leaks without an alternative plan. This was the real op. OpenLeaks was the cover story.
Slavery thrives under Christianity, for your same cited reasons - with as much "fact" to support it.
It's blowback. From assets used to achieve para-political military aims, then discarded by the would-be puppet masters.
The military assault against the US Consulate in Benghazi should not be seen as part of a protest against a low budget film which was insulting Islam â" there were just a few peaceful protesters present at the event. Indeed, there have been no other demonstrations regarding this film in Libya.
We at Quilliam believe the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi was a well planned terrorist attack that would have occurred regardless of the demonstration, to serve another purpose. According to information obtained by Quilliam from foreign sources and from within Benghazi we have reason to believe that the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al-Qaedaâ(TM)s second in command killed a few months ago.
The reasons for this are as follows:
The weak security environment in Libya including in Benghazi and the failure of the government to project its power outside of the capital have been used as a cover for the attack.
The failure to rebuild the defence and security sector, in an accountable, professional and responsible manner will only further the likelihood of such attacks in the future. Attacks in Benghazi are not new â" the Red Cross has been attacked multiple times in previous months, as have the US consulate and also the UK Ambassador, and such security lapses encourage attacks. The International Community must take the challenge of not allowing extremist elements to hijack the Arab Uprisings very seriously, by renewing their focus on civic and governance responses to check the efforts of Islamist extremists attempting to exploit the inevitable security vacuum.
Noman Benotman, President of Quilliam says:
âoeThese are acts committed by uncontrollable jihadist groups. We hope Libya will seize this opportunity to revive its policy of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Re-integration (DDR) in order to facilitate an end to the spread of such attacks, with the help of the International Community. We hope that the International Community, including NATO member states and especially the US, will continue their excellent work in Libya which began with the overthrow of the dictator Gaddafi after 42 years in power.â
Unfortunately the artificial, implanted memories are all of cheese...
Exactly. So many "wins" for the predator class.
Manipulate global commodity markets for foodstuffs - WIN!
Chaos to justify re-ordering "democratic" societies - WIN!
And then? Reorganising municipalities into "Charter Cities", run by enterprise - WIN!
My argument is that a toolchain problem is NOT the issue.
It's a distraction - which is why his troll worked.
If the ORIGINAL article references efforts like LSB, then the issue being addressed is dependency tracking, library management and versioning and distribution/packaging normalization.
This is not an area which I am saying "it's fine". :-)
Disk is cheap. That's why Macs can have OSX binaries delivered as folder structures containing resources and dependencies - with an executable stub and manifest. It's the opposite of .deb+dpkg. You get redundancies, and they are inexpensive tradeoffs for having a working application on all OS versions and patch levels.
If you can't write a decent app with Eclipse? VS ain't gonna help you.
Hell - that probably goes for vi, as much as Eclipse.
Goat bollocks.
Visual Studio is OK. XCode is better, but nonetheless, tooling is not the main focus for the stated problem. Eclipse and others (Anjuta, KDevelop, Kommodo, emacs, etc.) do just fine.
When you talk about "the whole Linux API" you refer to something that not only doesn't exist in the context referenced, it is also nonsense. The user-space application APIs work. There are so many working one's from which to choose!
If anybody - such as yourself - comes forward with authoritative pronouncements, then misunderstands kernel API and userspace, followed by the laughable assertion of a "simple and elegant" Win32 API? Hah!
As they say, "Pull the other one, it has bells on it."
I have been doing the opposite. Trying to get OSX as close to my Linux environment as possible. ;-)
But I have better MS office support on Mountain Lion than from Codeweavers. If you work in a comany of more than 1000 people, this is still unavoidable - LibreOffice or not.
Thanks for adding value. :-/
I like this talk. I thought I might be the only security professional who hadn't been co-opted by a purely statist, law-enforcement mind-set. Blow it out your "fusion center"! :-)
The headless machine, funded by the Pentagon, reached 28.3mph (45.5km/h) when tested on a treadmill.
Noel Sharkey, professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield, has mixed feelings about the development.
"It's an incredible technical achievement, but it's unfortunate that it's going to be used to kill people," he suggested.
"But of course if it's used for combat, it would be killing civilians as well as it's not going to be able to discriminate between civilians and soldiers."
My Ubuntu box with Gnome 3 is sadly neglected - after I spent days laboriously recreating my working environment on OSX.
I use docky with Gnome 3. This makes them superficially similar. I re-built the key mappings that I live with.
We'll wait cautiously and see.
This was in SF books, in the 70's.
As for gaming antecedents, do you remember the role-playing system, Traveller?
When I was a teen - around '79, I remember Gauss Rifles, and polyhera dice in the game. This was when the video-game combat state-of-the-art was Asteroids and Space Invaders...
And Google sell this information, too.
Rats fight for soldiers.
Soldiers fight for pigs.
Turtles, all the way down.
Ever read Sinclair Lewis? http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/illusion_of_choice.jpg