It has distributed content sites like Syndie, and even has bittorrent contained within the net (not a gateway to clearnet) and a distributed filesystem (Tahoe-lafs).
Shrug. There are bigger, better fights to pick than LED backlit TVs.
...like DVRs. My Verizon DVR uses at least 32W all day and night long. That's about the same average energy usage as a present-day refrigerator. These things don't properly go to sleep, in a world of electronics that constantly sleep and wake on demand to save electricity.
That's the main reason I'm eager to see regulators stop the cable operators' monopoly over subscriber cable boxes. The boxes should become normal consumer electronics and use Energy Star ratings to compete against each other.
Spook Country by William Gibson (fiction) Dragnet Nation by Julia Angwin (non-fiction)
also... Under A Green Sky by Peter D. Ward, Ph. D. This one is paleontology, non-fiction about the greenhouse effect and the Permian extinction. A good read!
You may have a problem since research is getting swallowed up by private interests, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03... -- Its not likely they will value basic research, though they still like to throw around the "job creating" slogans as justification for what is today the exact opposite.
People are conditioned to worship Technology. Most "innovation" and technology that finds its way into markets and patent offices these days is someone's money-making scheme. Their shit is paraded around as revolutionary when its really just useless stuff prone to breaking, against a background of dogged incrementalism. Usually, it heavily implies the ramping up of extractive industries, and more intensive financialization of (and spying on) our day to day lives.
They're willing to pressure journals to censor perfectly good research that suggests "uncertainty" or "inconclusive" results about GMOs. That Seralini et al had news media accept an NDA (pre-journal publishing) is the ridiculous excuse the GMO lobby is now using for suppression of research.
I guess we'll have to wait for those to come from America. In the meantime, studies about the relative safety of organic are starting to show up. Recently, they looked specifically for male birth defects and saw a significant benefit from organic dairy. Its not apples-to-apples, but it does indicate that suspicion of insufficiently tested Big Ag products is warranted.
But pushing sugar doesn't even give cartel or monopoly power over a market the way GMOs often do. That's why some people are calling GE companies genetic pirates... they add a little something to traditional cultivars (or cutting edge hybrids) and then anyone planting the non-GE crops in the same region is under threat of legal action and crop confiscation.
Aside from the rather sad 'golden rice' poster child (which is unlikely to be able to compete with the humble carrot or many varieties of greens to provide vitamin A), so far the GE industry looks like an aggressive cartel carving up the market.
You jest, but... http://www.sciencedaily.com/re... Aligned quasars suggest there is some kind of directionality at large scales, even if not universal.
This is one reason why Qubes keeps USB controllers cordoned off in a separate unprivileged VM.
Users have no idea about the many drivers and services that any ol' USB device can run on a system, not to mention the varying quality and vulnerabilities therein.
Ubuntu has done a good job with multi-monitor support. Its one of the focal points of the dev community and they have posted youtube videos showing their progress with multi-monitor functions.
Those aren't examples of 'cyberwar' tactics that the US invented.
And besides, I doubt very much the British ever bugged the President's phones and rooms, even under the most dire circumstances of a hot war on their own soil; Spying on US dissidents is a far cry from that grasped straw you threw in my direction.
The US still operates under the concept of "Full Spectrum Dominance" and if you look up that policy you'll see that it involves not only spying on every last private detail from all data sources, but also the goal of driving popular opinion anywhere in the world. No wonder the NSA, FBI, DEA are choking on their excess.
And what about Tim DeChristopher's message about protecting the environment? Oh, the court explicitly banned any mention or consideration of his message or even motives. The system can declare open season on activists whenever it wants.
BTW, a party that will commit fraud in order to hoard money away from state/local campaigns into the hands of the already wealthy Clinton is no doubt interested in creating as much hysteria as possible to deflect attention.
Hacking voter registration systems is a serious issue for sure. For one thing, those systems should not be online. Another thing is that the Snowden leaks show the US routinely breaks into foreign municipal and university systems to steal their data. They even leak data for political impact. But no corp. infotainment brand in the US is going to make an issue out of it. Which is odd, because supposedly Americans would be the first people you would expect to be capable of stopping our government from doing this.
And lets not forget infotainment's penchant for labeling any activity by Russian or Chinese individuals as a government conspiracy against the West. They segue from intentionally vague language intended to erase any distinction, to more serious language calling for bombing campaigns. A similar tactic was used in the coverage over Iran's "nuclear program", an erasure of the nuclear power / nuclear weapons dichotomy they do not commit when discussing US programs.
As for Russian government involvement in the two voter db hacks: Contrasted with the DNC hack, it looks rather iffy. Did N. Korea's government commit the Sony hacks? Probably not, but interestingly enough we expect our government to keep blaming them anyway.
EVEN our NATO allies are not trusted... they are spied upon in minute detail. So the good will that had grown for a time between nations has been pissed away because of this paternalistic, power-mad attitude emanating from the US establishment (and assorted hangers-on in the other four of the Five Eyes). And please don't pretend that we didn't set the bar...or that it's not an important issue.
If you try to control the entire world, it goes without saying you'll have more dirt to publish. Whatever faults the country has, Russia did not start wars in several Middle Eastern countries.
"...a guy who imprisons three girls in a punk rock band" You mean like Obama "imprisoned" so many US citizens under "mandatory" sentencing laws ? Like mothers of five given 20 years for a joint ? If the 3 Russian punk rockers had desecrated a church in the US, they would probably STILL be in jail.
Gotta love kneejerk mods who end up trying to protect the US police state...
This comment is ridiculous. Fear of Trump (itself understandable) is turning Hillary supporters into establishment dupes with absolutely no sense of proportion or critical thinking.
The "poor little girls in a rock band" broke into a church and desecrated the altar. For that they served less than 2 years. I'm not sure any such "poor little" anythings in the US would get off so lightly, given the zeal for punishment here. Tim DeChristopher was sent to prison for disrupting an illegal Bush-era giveaway of public lands and no one in Hillary Clinton's camp batted an eyelash. They were too busy defending police-killers in democratic foreign countries that don't line up with Wall St and NATO, or promoting the militarization of Central American regimes with death squads that like to murder environmental activists.
Hillary is blowing her chances by making her campaign all about Trump and "OMG! THOSE RUSSIANS!!!" -- so she is no better than the corp. media that try to keep Trump the focus of attention. She knows her negatives tend to get higher as people become familiar with her, so her answer is to be much more negative about Trump instead of talking about solutions. Come November, people may simply vote for who seems the most familiar. Think about it, einstein...
I would say GenX used 'all of the above' things you cite as excuses to disengage from politics and focus only on money. I still have numerous friends and acquaintances who refuse to even register to vote, even though that is changing for the better. Still, the cynicism has done a vast amount of damage. It has allowed the truly authority-minded to build a vast police state and turn the military empire toward revanchism and worse.
Hyperventilating about "Russian Trolls" OMG! You do realize the US government has long crowed about doing the same thing, starting under GW Bush. In fact, it was a part of what they call "Total Spectrum Dominance" over the entire world. I see the cyber-propaganda efforts of countries like Russia as coming late to the party, essentially pushing back against the demonizing tendencies of the US MIC and infotainment (which we should acknowledge is largely private and by now oligarchical).
Of course the world's largest lie factory has to go apoplectic when it sees their targets attempt to push back. "LIES!!! POSSIBLE ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE!!!" Uh... The DNC still actively campaigned against Bernie Sanders in the primary season. That revelation did far more for democracy in the US than any foreign leader could do against it.
As for domestic enemies of democracy, its worth noting that US infotainment corps. have been pumping up Trump's exposure in order to shift the debate and rhetoric rightward. Their intense coverage of the Republican contest itself testifies to that: Despite the party's falling popularity, the news around it almost completely drowned the Democratic contest in the broadcast media.
Slashdot Mirror
"TOR meets torrents" is I2P.
It has distributed content sites like Syndie, and even has bittorrent contained within the net (not a gateway to clearnet) and a distributed filesystem (Tahoe-lafs).
I2P does this... https://geti2p.net/en/docs/app...
In fact, addresses within both Tor and I2P are crypto public keys.
It even has a distributed filesystem.
Really, security researchers should have started moving to Tor and I2P services years ago. When the bandwidth is spread out among many limited intermediaries, DDOS will just threaten to take down parts of the net you yourself use... if it gets anywhere at all.
Funny how data-mining moguls are now touting miracle cures... https://slashdot.org/comments....
That's some kind of PR.
Shrug. There are bigger, better fights to pick than LED backlit TVs.
...like DVRs. My Verizon DVR uses at least 32W all day and night long. That's about the same average energy usage as a present-day refrigerator. These things don't properly go to sleep, in a world of electronics that constantly sleep and wake on demand to save electricity.
That's the main reason I'm eager to see regulators stop the cable operators' monopoly over subscriber cable boxes. The boxes should become normal consumer electronics and use Energy Star ratings to compete against each other.
This is a pitch to bolster the image of invasive data-mining, promising a blue-sky reward in return for watching peoples' browser activity.
That is the only viral thing about this story--their greed.
And unapproved boycotts = Can't leave Israel, travel rights revoked.
That is an oppressive police state and its getting worse.
Spook Country by William Gibson (fiction)
Dragnet Nation by Julia Angwin (non-fiction)
also...
Under A Green Sky by Peter D. Ward, Ph. D.
This one is paleontology, non-fiction about the greenhouse effect and the Permian extinction. A good read!
You may have a problem since research is getting swallowed up by private interests, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03... -- Its not likely they will value basic research, though they still like to throw around the "job creating" slogans as justification for what is today the exact opposite.
People are conditioned to worship Technology. Most "innovation" and technology that finds its way into markets and patent offices these days is someone's money-making scheme. Their shit is paraded around as revolutionary when its really just useless stuff prone to breaking, against a background of dogged incrementalism. Usually, it heavily implies the ramping up of extractive industries, and more intensive financialization of (and spying on) our day to day lives.
They're willing to pressure journals to censor perfectly good research that suggests "uncertainty" or "inconclusive" results about GMOs. That Seralini et al had news media accept an NDA (pre-journal publishing) is the ridiculous excuse the GMO lobby is now using for suppression of research.
I guess we'll have to wait for those to come from America. In the meantime, studies about the relative safety of organic are starting to show up. Recently, they looked specifically for male birth defects and saw a significant benefit from organic dairy. Its not apples-to-apples, but it does indicate that suspicion of insufficiently tested Big Ag products is warranted.
But pushing sugar doesn't even give cartel or monopoly power over a market the way GMOs often do. That's why some people are calling GE companies genetic pirates... they add a little something to traditional cultivars (or cutting edge hybrids) and then anyone planting the non-GE crops in the same region is under threat of legal action and crop confiscation.
Aside from the rather sad 'golden rice' poster child (which is unlikely to be able to compete with the humble carrot or many varieties of greens to provide vitamin A), so far the GE industry looks like an aggressive cartel carving up the market.
yes and the parent to this comment ignores the fact that those governments also spy on the USA.
And you ignore the fact that they're not bugging the phones of our highest elected officials. But its 'OK' for the US to do it to them.
American Exceptionalism is largely about treating even your allies like vassal states.
You jest, but... http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Aligned quasars suggest there is some kind of directionality at large scales, even if not universal.
Sorry about the bad link. The correct one is https://www.qubes-os.org/
Apple are the Knights Who Say NIH -- Not Invented Here!
This is one reason why Qubes keeps USB controllers cordoned off in a separate unprivileged VM.
Users have no idea about the many drivers and services that any ol' USB device can run on a system, not to mention the varying quality and vulnerabilities therein.
Ubuntu has done a good job with multi-monitor support. Its one of the focal points of the dev community and they have posted youtube videos showing their progress with multi-monitor functions.
Those aren't examples of 'cyberwar' tactics that the US invented.
And besides, I doubt very much the British ever bugged the President's phones and rooms, even under the most dire circumstances of a hot war on their own soil; Spying on US dissidents is a far cry from that grasped straw you threw in my direction.
The US still operates under the concept of "Full Spectrum Dominance" and if you look up that policy you'll see that it involves not only spying on every last private detail from all data sources, but also the goal of driving popular opinion anywhere in the world. No wonder the NSA, FBI, DEA are choking on their excess.
And what about Tim DeChristopher's message about protecting the environment? Oh, the court explicitly banned any mention or consideration of his message or even motives. The system can declare open season on activists whenever it wants.
BTW, a party that will commit fraud in order to hoard money away from state/local campaigns into the hands of the already wealthy Clinton is no doubt interested in creating as much hysteria as possible to deflect attention.
Hacking voter registration systems is a serious issue for sure. For one thing, those systems should not be online. Another thing is that the Snowden leaks show the US routinely breaks into foreign municipal and university systems to steal their data. They even leak data for political impact. But no corp. infotainment brand in the US is going to make an issue out of it. Which is odd, because supposedly Americans would be the first people you would expect to be capable of stopping our government from doing this.
And lets not forget infotainment's penchant for labeling any activity by Russian or Chinese individuals as a government conspiracy against the West. They segue from intentionally vague language intended to erase any distinction, to more serious language calling for bombing campaigns. A similar tactic was used in the coverage over Iran's "nuclear program", an erasure of the nuclear power / nuclear weapons dichotomy they do not commit when discussing US programs.
As for Russian government involvement in the two voter db hacks: Contrasted with the DNC hack, it looks rather iffy. Did N. Korea's government commit the Sony hacks? Probably not, but interestingly enough we expect our government to keep blaming them anyway.
EVEN our NATO allies are not trusted... they are spied upon in minute detail. So the good will that had grown for a time between nations has been pissed away because of this paternalistic, power-mad attitude emanating from the US establishment (and assorted hangers-on in the other four of the Five Eyes). And please don't pretend that we didn't set the bar...or that it's not an important issue.
If you try to control the entire world, it goes without saying you'll have more dirt to publish. Whatever faults the country has, Russia did not start wars in several Middle Eastern countries.
"...a guy who imprisons three girls in a punk rock band"
You mean like Obama "imprisoned" so many US citizens under "mandatory" sentencing laws ?
Like mothers of five given 20 years for a joint ?
If the 3 Russian punk rockers had desecrated a church in the US, they would probably STILL be in jail.
Gotta love kneejerk mods who end up trying to protect the US police state...
This comment is ridiculous. Fear of Trump (itself understandable) is turning Hillary supporters into establishment dupes with absolutely no sense of proportion or critical thinking.
The "poor little girls in a rock band" broke into a church and desecrated the altar. For that they served less than 2 years. I'm not sure any such "poor little" anythings in the US would get off so lightly, given the zeal for punishment here. Tim DeChristopher was sent to prison for disrupting an illegal Bush-era giveaway of public lands and no one in Hillary Clinton's camp batted an eyelash. They were too busy defending police-killers in democratic foreign countries that don't line up with Wall St and NATO, or promoting the militarization of Central American regimes with death squads that like to murder environmental activists.
Hillary is blowing her chances by making her campaign all about Trump and "OMG! THOSE RUSSIANS!!!" -- so she is no better than the corp. media that try to keep Trump the focus of attention. She knows her negatives tend to get higher as people become familiar with her, so her answer is to be much more negative about Trump instead of talking about solutions. Come November, people may simply vote for who seems the most familiar. Think about it, einstein...
I would say GenX used 'all of the above' things you cite as excuses to disengage from politics and focus only on money. I still have numerous friends and acquaintances who refuse to even register to vote, even though that is changing for the better. Still, the cynicism has done a vast amount of damage. It has allowed the truly authority-minded to build a vast police state and turn the military empire toward revanchism and worse.
Hyperventilating about "Russian Trolls" OMG! You do realize the US government has long crowed about doing the same thing, starting under GW Bush. In fact, it was a part of what they call "Total Spectrum Dominance" over the entire world. I see the cyber-propaganda efforts of countries like Russia as coming late to the party, essentially pushing back against the demonizing tendencies of the US MIC and infotainment (which we should acknowledge is largely private and by now oligarchical).
Of course the world's largest lie factory has to go apoplectic when it sees their targets attempt to push back. "LIES!!! POSSIBLE ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE!!!" Uh... The DNC still actively campaigned against Bernie Sanders in the primary season. That revelation did far more for democracy in the US than any foreign leader could do against it.
As for domestic enemies of democracy, its worth noting that US infotainment corps. have been pumping up Trump's exposure in order to shift the debate and rhetoric rightward. Their intense coverage of the Republican contest itself testifies to that: Despite the party's falling popularity, the news around it almost completely drowned the Democratic contest in the broadcast media.