"if you call a cop to come out and deal with a problem you are having, ONE of you will be taken back with him; and it may not be the one you think it should be"
or to that effect.
you have a noisy neighbor, you call the cops to get some peace and quiet. but maybe things go weird and the neighbor lied about you and the cop believes him. the cop is NOT going to go back without his 'man' and so one of you has to take the hit.
this is strong motivation to NOT call the cops, unless its life and death. even then!
I take this to heart, myself. do I want to risk an encounter with a guy who probably was too dumb to get into college and walks around thinking he's untouchable? or do I want to just live with the neighbor noise and at least keep my life, limb and bank account intact?
I have never called the cops. it would take quite a bit for me to ask those thugs to come to my house. and I know this is more and more common, and NOT just in poor neighborhoods, either!
we have kangaroo courts. a court order is bullshit. fisa courts are also bullshit.
if you are rich, you buy justice. the rest of us just get fucked over if we ever encounter LEOs or other authority figures with a chip on their shoulder.
the fact that we don't trust the cops anymore also extends to the courts. afterall, its one BIG happy family. courts rarely blame the cops and practically every 'warrant' is stamped 'OK!'.
I do find it 'cute' that some people think that the corruption stops at the cop level and the courts are all shiney and clean. "but they had a warrant!". yeah, cute. real cute.
no one is watching the watchers and this is the result of that.
power, unchecked, gets us this.
but keep giving the cops more destructo-toys and spy gadgets. I'm sure there is another boogeyman we should all be afraid of.
look, kids today at least know the reality. when I grew up, we were taught to respect and trust the cops. now, kids know better. so, at least the truth gets out there. sadly, though, it is not helping change the way things are done.
isn't in a country with cyrillic or chinese writing systems, but in SV.
uhm, silicon valley is now dominated by chinese and indians. you walk down the hallways of bay area tech companies and you can go a whole day without hearing any english. not kidding; wish I was.
I'm also seeing lots of bay area job offerings that INSIST you speak chinese in order to get the job. no, its not just travel related jobs; desk jobs for software people are now 'asking' that you speak chinese.
hint hint, nudge nudge. but there's no h1b problem here. no sir!
for the end user, apple was doing the right thing. but not for the right reasons, mind you.
they are control freaks, everyone knows that. they controlled the carriers and having the shiney apple toy was all the carriers wanted; they even gave control over to apple for the pleasure of selling and including apple toys in their network.
google could have done the same thing but they didn't think about it deeply enough and now it seems too late to change the model.
google gets its eyeballs and deploys its apps to spy on you. they are happy. they don't WANT to change the model as it suits their whole business model.
Now it's up to the device manufacturers to push out the patch to customers.
you KNOW that, for the most part, never happens. androids are mostly abandoned after the first year of being on the market. vendors have no reason to care and they don't! they leave us all exposed to the continual android bugs and the ONLY recourse is to root and install a new os or just give in and re-re-re-buy your phone all over again, trading one bug for another.
google is 100% at fault for not seeing this and not stopping it. its a wild wild west in android land and I fucking hate how bad it is. 'just buy a nexus!'. fuck you! google abandons things too; I have a nexus one that I thought would get support but it had showstopper bugs that were there from day-1 and NEVER got fixed (screen calibration would stop every day; google never cared, etc etc).
there are so many reasons to hate google, but how they mistandled the whole android and carrier/vendor thing was one of the worst things they've ever done. and the whole architecture of android prohibits piecemeal upgrades. I can't just apt-get update and upgrade. I can't install JUST an ip stack fix or JUST a kernel fix. I have to upgrade a whole monolithic image and that's just SO STUPID its beyhond belief. linux was not that way and you had to do WORK to fuck up linux that badly. they removed the ability to do user level patching and upgrades and to make things worse, most vendors try their best to STOP users from even TRYING to upgrade their own phones.
people ask me why I don't do phone programming, since I write C code and stuff for a living. my hatred of the whole phone scene is why; its a complete disgrace and I want no part of it. let the 20 somethings mess around with this and that phone; I have no time or patience to keep up with all that crap since its such a moving target.
I really do wish 'phones' were not like they were today, but the market is ruined and I see no way around it since the carriers and vendors are so used to calling all the shots. they'll never give control back to users. it won't happen and so phones will always suck and never be YOUR computer.
if that's true (and I suspect it probably is) then this is the real crime. the fact that our government is so anti-open and goes to great lengths to hide stuff from the people, that's the much bigger elephant in the room.
HRC or anyone else - only diff is the name. people come and go. its not about any one person.
our system is broken. our system gives personhood to business and defers most recently created laws to business or to other positions of existing power. pushing power further upward, creating even more of a void in the middle. basically, ruining our entire system, slowly, over time, for their personal gain.
do we talk about THIS?
no, we have witch hunts on this or that person.
sometimes, we totally miss the bigger elephant in the room.
agism is the elephant in the room (I'm biased, I'm over 50 and unemployed in the bay area). I see lots of women where I was previous employed (at pretty much any place); but if you look for grey hair guys and girls, no, there are some token hires or maybe some rock star that happens to be old; but for the most part, if you are over 35 and looking to stay technical in this area of the country, LOTSA LUCK to you.
the other elephant (yeah, its crowded in this room) is that if you are born in the west, especially the US, employers mostly prefer to NOT hire you and instead take an h1b or other form of import. its not about race; its about being brought up here and knowing your rights, knowing you can say NO to your boss for that 4th weekend request in a row of his, knowing lots of things that foreigners who were not raised in the US culture simply don't know.
employers leverage the HELL out of that fact. most people outside the US who are from asia, for example, has zero idea what freedom really is. they are perfectly fine with being eavesdropped, spied, directed, micromanaged and then disposed of. they think its normal. US born folks know better, and so we are not the first choice when it comes to hiring.
the cries of DIVERSITY! is bullshit and yet another distraction to hide what is really going on. war on middle class; and that mostly means folks born here and who have a vested interest in what happens here in the next 10, 20, 50 years. but we are being passed over for most of the core hiring in the valley.
btw, indians who end up staying here and having kids; YOUR kids are now americans and they will be passed over just like I and my friends are, now. think long and hard about that, immigrants; and think again if you really should hire yet more h1b's or if you should, maybe give some locals a chance at some of those jobs. later on, your kids will be the locals. think about it.
an oath? really? that's what you bring to this thread?
speechless.
as if 'promises' mean a FUCKING THING today. especially when the almight dollar or almight power is at stake.
the gentlemanly ways are long gone. oaths? HA! the constitution is 'just an outdated bit of paper' by today's thinking, by those in power.
the fact that people sell each other out (which is my main point; one you obviously didn't get) is what is the issue here.
the end result is also the same, oath or no oath. we the people are worse off due to the selfish greedy needs of others. THAT is the point. and googlers are actively working in order to keep the advertising and spying engines running. nothing else matters at google once you clear the smoke and mirrors away.
how is that different from, say, google (the company I dislike the most; or at least on the top 5 hate list) ?
people at google ALL know what the company's mission is. its not about helping mankind, either.
they all take home huge fat paychecks and get all that free lunch and perk stuff; but at the end of the day, they work for a traitorous company who, many believe, is just the civilian arm (dressed up so you could not know it) of the TLA's in government.
same with yahoo and all the rest of the modern 'ad agencies'.
what passes for IoT today is also pretty evil; its mostly about data mining and spying. the IoT guys who like having to -require- an always on net connection - those are evil fuckers, too.
you don't have to work directly for the gov to be a traitor. any time you sell your people out, you are a traitor. perhaps not at the national level, but you still sold people out for some Shiney Coin.
even pirate bay has tons of sacd ripped discs in either dxf or other various dsd formats. some convert 'down' to pcm, but there are a number of pure dsd files out there.
and if you have a dac that can truly work natively at the dsd level, you can play the dsd files over usb (usually) or sometimes over usb using DoP (dsd over pcm, which is still just using pcm as a transport and does NOT TRANSCODE; it simply wraps dsd data, untouched, in pcm as a transport).
very very very few dacs do dsd justice. the format also has limited lifetime left, as its very large in file size and since streaming is what most people want, dsd is finding it hard to find a place in the world. sacd is dead and even those who like dsd hate its file size on their devices or even their nas.
time will tell if its going to be anything important. right now, its an arduino-101 engine. it has its roots in x86 land, clearly (quark chip).
but the atoms were in a different league. I could feel ok running fast sata drives on intel NB chipsets and atom cpus. I would never think to put 'heavy' work on a quark;)
you are forgetting the other half of the vector attack direction.
from within.
silly firewalls are USELESS for this. when you trick a user (happens every few minutes. THERE, one just got tricked now, I bet!) into taking a payload and they gladly click on the dancing pigs, the.exe file (etc etc) is now inside their network.
tell me, mr. firewall wiz, how does the fw protect against user stupidity in clicking on dancing pigs?
see my point?
there are MANY ways to poison your system. firewalls stop a tiny fraction of the attack directions and sources.
for audio, it was great. an x86 platform with a proper network interface, proper sata interface, expandable memory to reasonable mounts (for its application) and often there was onboard atx psu parts so you gave it a laptop 18v dc brick and that was your whole psu. totally silent, with an ssd.
otoh, the recent (last year or 2) of i3 has been so cool running, you can just use the fanless i3 variant on an itx board and have more fun.
still, the atom on the board was low cost, often fanless (more than the i3 was) and good enough for some video and any audio you could throw at it. it could be a nas server, as well.
more and more people are sick and tired of this shit.
maybe a quick (and yes, painful) struggle and change is what we need.
the slow change is killing us, as a nation. a violent revolution is not what anyone WANTS, but perhaps its what we really need right now.
people are feeling desparate and deparate people are not rational thinkers. when they feel they have nothing left to lose, all hell will break loose.
its really just a matter of time. we're on track for 'something'; what that is, no one really knows. but we are not tracking toward stability, THAT much is for sure!
time to dust off my old DECstation and see if mosaic still runs on it;)
any zero-days that existed for ultrix are probably not even around anymore; and the company that made that computer is not even around anymore.
(half seriously, though, I do wonder if those that want the most security would tend to run the most unusual hardware and non-standard os's. send my ultrix box a windows.exe file as a trojan? good luck with that!)
the fact that REMOTELY BREAKING INTO OUR MACHINES has been allowed by the courts; that's the real news, here.
everyone government seems to do it, too. I remember reading about malware that the german government uses to break into their citizen's computers.
its amazing that we have given up due process and we have fallen prey to 'ends justifies the means'. this is not, at all, what america used to stand for.
but as I said, this is not really just about the US. all authorities seem to think anything's fair game as long as they get their man. and conservative-driven countries (like the US, currently) have zero problems giving authorities any damned thing they ask for, as long as they keep us in perpetual fear and promise to keep the Bad Guys(tm) away.
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it is said and believed by most kids these days:
"if you call a cop to come out and deal with a problem you are having, ONE of you will be taken back with him; and it may not be the one you think it should be"
or to that effect.
you have a noisy neighbor, you call the cops to get some peace and quiet. but maybe things go weird and the neighbor lied about you and the cop believes him. the cop is NOT going to go back without his 'man' and so one of you has to take the hit.
this is strong motivation to NOT call the cops, unless its life and death. even then!
I take this to heart, myself. do I want to risk an encounter with a guy who probably was too dumb to get into college and walks around thinking he's untouchable? or do I want to just live with the neighbor noise and at least keep my life, limb and bank account intact?
I have never called the cops. it would take quite a bit for me to ask those thugs to come to my house. and I know this is more and more common, and NOT just in poor neighborhoods, either!
you're right - I think the thief really fowled up, there.
we have kangaroo courts. a court order is bullshit. fisa courts are also bullshit.
if you are rich, you buy justice. the rest of us just get fucked over if we ever encounter LEOs or other authority figures with a chip on their shoulder.
the fact that we don't trust the cops anymore also extends to the courts. afterall, its one BIG happy family. courts rarely blame the cops and practically every 'warrant' is stamped 'OK!'.
I do find it 'cute' that some people think that the corruption stops at the cop level and the courts are all shiney and clean. "but they had a warrant!". yeah, cute. real cute.
no one is watching the watchers and this is the result of that.
power, unchecked, gets us this.
but keep giving the cops more destructo-toys and spy gadgets. I'm sure there is another boogeyman we should all be afraid of.
look, kids today at least know the reality. when I grew up, we were taught to respect and trust the cops. now, kids know better. so, at least the truth gets out there. sadly, though, it is not helping change the way things are done.
search the concept of 'if it walks like a duck...'
funny that a person with a handle 'macs4all' would AT ALL want to white knight apple. nothing strange about that at all. LOL
isn't in a country with cyrillic or chinese writing systems, but in SV.
uhm, silicon valley is now dominated by chinese and indians. you walk down the hallways of bay area tech companies and you can go a whole day without hearing any english. not kidding; wish I was.
I'm also seeing lots of bay area job offerings that INSIST you speak chinese in order to get the job. no, its not just travel related jobs; desk jobs for software people are now 'asking' that you speak chinese.
hint hint, nudge nudge. but there's no h1b problem here. no sir!
for the end user, apple was doing the right thing. but not for the right reasons, mind you.
they are control freaks, everyone knows that. they controlled the carriers and having the shiney apple toy was all the carriers wanted; they even gave control over to apple for the pleasure of selling and including apple toys in their network.
google could have done the same thing but they didn't think about it deeply enough and now it seems too late to change the model.
google gets its eyeballs and deploys its apps to spy on you. they are happy. they don't WANT to change the model as it suits their whole business model.
Now it's up to the device manufacturers to push out the patch to customers.
you KNOW that, for the most part, never happens. androids are mostly abandoned after the first year of being on the market. vendors have no reason to care and they don't! they leave us all exposed to the continual android bugs and the ONLY recourse is to root and install a new os or just give in and re-re-re-buy your phone all over again, trading one bug for another.
google is 100% at fault for not seeing this and not stopping it. its a wild wild west in android land and I fucking hate how bad it is. 'just buy a nexus!'. fuck you! google abandons things too; I have a nexus one that I thought would get support but it had showstopper bugs that were there from day-1 and NEVER got fixed (screen calibration would stop every day; google never cared, etc etc).
there are so many reasons to hate google, but how they mistandled the whole android and carrier/vendor thing was one of the worst things they've ever done. and the whole architecture of android prohibits piecemeal upgrades. I can't just apt-get update and upgrade. I can't install JUST an ip stack fix or JUST a kernel fix. I have to upgrade a whole monolithic image and that's just SO STUPID its beyhond belief. linux was not that way and you had to do WORK to fuck up linux that badly. they removed the ability to do user level patching and upgrades and to make things worse, most vendors try their best to STOP users from even TRYING to upgrade their own phones.
people ask me why I don't do phone programming, since I write C code and stuff for a living. my hatred of the whole phone scene is why; its a complete disgrace and I want no part of it. let the 20 somethings mess around with this and that phone; I have no time or patience to keep up with all that crap since its such a moving target.
I really do wish 'phones' were not like they were today, but the market is ruined and I see no way around it since the carriers and vendors are so used to calling all the shots. they'll never give control back to users. it won't happen and so phones will always suck and never be YOUR computer.
if that's true (and I suspect it probably is) then this is the real crime. the fact that our government is so anti-open and goes to great lengths to hide stuff from the people, that's the much bigger elephant in the room.
HRC or anyone else - only diff is the name. people come and go. its not about any one person.
our system is broken. our system gives personhood to business and defers most recently created laws to business or to other positions of existing power. pushing power further upward, creating even more of a void in the middle. basically, ruining our entire system, slowly, over time, for their personal gain.
do we talk about THIS?
no, we have witch hunts on this or that person.
sometimes, we totally miss the bigger elephant in the room.
not me; I'm using root and I'm logged IN as linux.
yeah, go figure that one out.
agism is the elephant in the room (I'm biased, I'm over 50 and unemployed in the bay area). I see lots of women where I was previous employed (at pretty much any place); but if you look for grey hair guys and girls, no, there are some token hires or maybe some rock star that happens to be old; but for the most part, if you are over 35 and looking to stay technical in this area of the country, LOTSA LUCK to you.
the other elephant (yeah, its crowded in this room) is that if you are born in the west, especially the US, employers mostly prefer to NOT hire you and instead take an h1b or other form of import. its not about race; its about being brought up here and knowing your rights, knowing you can say NO to your boss for that 4th weekend request in a row of his, knowing lots of things that foreigners who were not raised in the US culture simply don't know.
employers leverage the HELL out of that fact. most people outside the US who are from asia, for example, has zero idea what freedom really is. they are perfectly fine with being eavesdropped, spied, directed, micromanaged and then disposed of. they think its normal. US born folks know better, and so we are not the first choice when it comes to hiring.
the cries of DIVERSITY! is bullshit and yet another distraction to hide what is really going on. war on middle class; and that mostly means folks born here and who have a vested interest in what happens here in the next 10, 20, 50 years. but we are being passed over for most of the core hiring in the valley.
btw, indians who end up staying here and having kids; YOUR kids are now americans and they will be passed over just like I and my friends are, now. think long and hard about that, immigrants; and think again if you really should hire yet more h1b's or if you should, maybe give some locals a chance at some of those jobs. later on, your kids will be the locals. think about it.
an oath? really? that's what you bring to this thread?
speechless.
as if 'promises' mean a FUCKING THING today. especially when the almight dollar or almight power is at stake.
the gentlemanly ways are long gone. oaths? HA! the constitution is 'just an outdated bit of paper' by today's thinking, by those in power.
the fact that people sell each other out (which is my main point; one you obviously didn't get) is what is the issue here.
the end result is also the same, oath or no oath. we the people are worse off due to the selfish greedy needs of others. THAT is the point. and googlers are actively working in order to keep the advertising and spying engines running. nothing else matters at google once you clear the smoke and mirrors away.
how is that different from, say, google (the company I dislike the most; or at least on the top 5 hate list) ?
people at google ALL know what the company's mission is. its not about helping mankind, either.
they all take home huge fat paychecks and get all that free lunch and perk stuff; but at the end of the day, they work for a traitorous company who, many believe, is just the civilian arm (dressed up so you could not know it) of the TLA's in government.
same with yahoo and all the rest of the modern 'ad agencies'.
what passes for IoT today is also pretty evil; its mostly about data mining and spying. the IoT guys who like having to -require- an always on net connection - those are evil fuckers, too.
you don't have to work directly for the gov to be a traitor. any time you sell your people out, you are a traitor. perhaps not at the national level, but you still sold people out for some Shiney Coin.
even pirate bay has tons of sacd ripped discs in either dxf or other various dsd formats. some convert 'down' to pcm, but there are a number of pure dsd files out there.
and if you have a dac that can truly work natively at the dsd level, you can play the dsd files over usb (usually) or sometimes over usb using DoP (dsd over pcm, which is still just using pcm as a transport and does NOT TRANSCODE; it simply wraps dsd data, untouched, in pcm as a transport).
very very very few dacs do dsd justice. the format also has limited lifetime left, as its very large in file size and since streaming is what most people want, dsd is finding it hard to find a place in the world. sacd is dead and even those who like dsd hate its file size on their devices or even their nas.
huh? not sure I understand.
there is copy protection, of course. that is crazy.
some systems can rip sacd to actual dsd files. that's what you want.
are you against sacd or dsd or both?
check out their curie chip.
time will tell if its going to be anything important. right now, its an arduino-101 engine. it has its roots in x86 land, clearly (quark chip).
but the atoms were in a different league. I could feel ok running fast sata drives on intel NB chipsets and atom cpus. I would never think to put 'heavy' work on a quark ;)
yarrr!
there be alternatives, matey.
you are forgetting the other half of the vector attack direction.
from within.
silly firewalls are USELESS for this. when you trick a user (happens every few minutes. THERE, one just got tricked now, I bet!) into taking a payload and they gladly click on the dancing pigs, the .exe file (etc etc) is now inside their network.
tell me, mr. firewall wiz, how does the fw protect against user stupidity in clicking on dancing pigs?
see my point?
there are MANY ways to poison your system. firewalls stop a tiny fraction of the attack directions and sources.
man, have not heard that name in ages.
wonder if I still have any s-video cables around. not in use, mind you. are you kidding me?
for some things, at least.
for audio, it was great. an x86 platform with a proper network interface, proper sata interface, expandable memory to reasonable mounts (for its application) and often there was onboard atx psu parts so you gave it a laptop 18v dc brick and that was your whole psu. totally silent, with an ssd.
otoh, the recent (last year or 2) of i3 has been so cool running, you can just use the fanless i3 variant on an itx board and have more fun.
still, the atom on the board was low cost, often fanless (more than the i3 was) and good enough for some video and any audio you could throw at it. it could be a nas server, as well.
Hey, I'm not a natural born citizen
and I, for one, welcome our synthe-sapien overlords.
don't be an idiot.
firewalls are not very strong; when a TLA that has more money than god wants to get in.
more and more people are sick and tired of this shit.
maybe a quick (and yes, painful) struggle and change is what we need.
the slow change is killing us, as a nation. a violent revolution is not what anyone WANTS, but perhaps its what we really need right now.
people are feeling desparate and deparate people are not rational thinkers. when they feel they have nothing left to lose, all hell will break loose.
its really just a matter of time. we're on track for 'something'; what that is, no one really knows. but we are not tracking toward stability, THAT much is for sure!
time to dust off my old DECstation and see if mosaic still runs on it ;)
any zero-days that existed for ultrix are probably not even around anymore; and the company that made that computer is not even around anymore.
(half seriously, though, I do wonder if those that want the most security would tend to run the most unusual hardware and non-standard os's. send my ultrix box a windows .exe file as a trojan? good luck with that!)
y'all are missing the point.
the fact that REMOTELY BREAKING INTO OUR MACHINES has been allowed by the courts; that's the real news, here.
everyone government seems to do it, too. I remember reading about malware that the german government uses to break into their citizen's computers.
its amazing that we have given up due process and we have fallen prey to 'ends justifies the means'. this is not, at all, what america used to stand for.
but as I said, this is not really just about the US. all authorities seem to think anything's fair game as long as they get their man. and conservative-driven countries (like the US, currently) have zero problems giving authorities any damned thing they ask for, as long as they keep us in perpetual fear and promise to keep the Bad Guys(tm) away.