I remember a quote from a security whitepaper which basically says something to the effect of "Unless your security method is being utilized by the worst of the worst criminals, say pedophiles, human traffickers and terrorists...then assume it is compromised."
Now, how one would find out what those sorts of people use for data security, you got me...but it seems like a good assumption.
"Sounding better" is subjective but what isn't subjective is that the "roomy and warm" sound we associate with pressed vinyl audio is the result of the frequency limitations audio must adhere to due to the nature of the physical media and the displacement of material the grooves create. There's a certain point at higher and lower frequencies in a given recording that extremes in highs and lows need to conserve both physical material and space since it is the depth and width of grooves that make vibrations low freq (groove depth) and high freq (groove width). It's merely those limitations that give LPs the "warmth" some people say sounds better and "livelier". It's basically just a matter of opinion if it sounds better or not...but it is hard fact that vinyl does NOT sound more like the original live sounds that created the LP. Digital has much less limiting factors, but then other anomalies have to be dealt with that are unique to digital...like pre-echo, the process of "averaging" points on wavelengths and compression artifacts and distortion.
I think...whatever...at least I sound like I know what's going on. In any event, I have pirated a lot of Waves DAP software bundles over the years. That gives me a sliver of semi-credibility.
Because wind and rain rarely occur there at all, that's why only a few months ago when an extremely rare wind event happened it uncovered geoglyphs previously undiscovered.
It would take a damn good rake to manipulate every grain of sand that was disturbed so that they were reoriented the exact way they were gently eroded over centuries so that they resembled adjacent, undisturbed grains even remotely close enough. Also, even if that could be done, does it really matter anymore? Might as well just get a sewing machine out to fix the Shroud of Turin you wore like a cape and ripped a corner getting it caught in your bike chain....yeah that was the best analogy I could think of without interrupting my stream-of-typing consciousness, screw it.
Its truly a sad day when anything that the inimitable and infamous SuperShadow brewed up in his mind is more relevant than real upcoming canon SW material.
You got an amazing amount of Democratic party talking points in that post, almost enough to make someone ignore how little any of them have any meaning to the subject at hand. Close, though.
IMHO wild canid (i.e. wolf) pack mentality and hierarchy is much more complex and nuanced than the primate model, I'd even go out o a limb and say it's probably much more "evolved". Wolves are highly social, even more so than most primates, and exhibit a mosaic of harder-to-describe interaction such as pity, shame, the ability to "agree yo disagree", vastly intricate verbal and nonverbal communication (moreso than most animals) - shown most obviously in the number of different howls...and practiced deception plus forgiveness and atonement. I don't have a specific link or citing for what I'm saying but I have studied this subject for a few years on and off online and in print. Primate social interaction seems simplistic and lacking comparatively.
In response to a FOIA request a ProPublica journalist filed for just this kind of information last year, the NSA told him they couldn't do those kind of searches that they apparently just did. Well, dang...it's a good thing that they figured out they could, I mean gosh...if they'd just got it squared away last year then we'd have known a lot earlier how clean their hands were in all this.
The 2nd Amendment is still a somewhat sturdy foundation for a failing 1st, though it's begun to show some hairline cracks that need to be shored up posthaste.
These search results on the One Angry Gamer website about The Fine Young Capitalists game dev team (who also happen to be women, some might remember them as the team who wrote the game Depression Quest), who got blackballed by unscrupulous writers for a handful of well-known gaming and tech review outfits because of the second-rate "escapades" of one Zoe Quinn and her "relations" with several of them. Ironically, it was 4chan who stepped up to raise $5,000 to fund them when the rest of the community dropped them like a sack of shit because of Ms. Quinn and her "conspirators' " favoritism. PS quotes=sexual escapades and pillow talk railroading.
Then Encyclopedia Dramatica will be the unbiased source on how long they will sarcastically abide the policy before they just trash the hell out of it and forget the whole thing and not care anymore.
I know this/. topic is just for controversy and "laffs" because of the Fappening so I'm just going to post links to the classic Morning Glory Comics archives because they are so offensive and hilarious. Here you go Internet:
This is taken from an article named Engineering.com...in my fantasy world this article would have some basis grounded in reality. I've learned the hard way that this isn't always the case, however.
The Bill of Rights makes clear distinction between a US citizen and "persons". The fact that terrorists all happen to be people (in theory at least) means that the restrictions that are imposed upon the federal government and the NSA by the Constitution in what it can and can't do in it's mandate concerning all people, not just citizens, means that just because they are evil bastards deserving of nothing but contempt and they themselves would like nothing more that to NOT be grouped in with their enemies...just as most of the rest of the "people" they victimize would like as well...it remains that the NSA's unlawful transgressions were committed upon the whole of humanity which is supposed to be shielded from the actions they secretly and illegally violated. The point I'm making being that just because the group they fucked over in violation of their ban happened to ALSO include terrorists should be a distant second afterthought of the revelation, in a perverse inversion of lawful and altruistic intentions of the document's letter and spirit (indeed more like our enemies' rationalization of their own actions) that they made no distinction between their charges and quarry. It really would have been difficult to reveal their vile actions when all persons they fucked over, bad guys or good, all require the use of common methods of communication whether they are evil murdering fucks or paragons of virtue who rescue kittens from trees. Or whatever and shit...
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I remember a quote from a security whitepaper which basically says something to the effect of "Unless your security method is being utilized by the worst of the worst criminals, say pedophiles, human traffickers and terrorists...then assume it is compromised."
Now, how one would find out what those sorts of people use for data security, you got me...but it seems like a good assumption.
Antediluvians. (Not the vampiric kind).
"Sounding better" is subjective but what isn't subjective is that the "roomy and warm" sound we associate with pressed vinyl audio is the result of the frequency limitations audio must adhere to due to the nature of the physical media and the displacement of material the grooves create. There's a certain point at higher and lower frequencies in a given recording that extremes in highs and lows need to conserve both physical material and space since it is the depth and width of grooves that make vibrations low freq (groove depth) and high freq (groove width). It's merely those limitations that give LPs the "warmth" some people say sounds better and "livelier". It's basically just a matter of opinion if it sounds better or not...but it is hard fact that vinyl does NOT sound more like the original live sounds that created the LP. Digital has much less limiting factors, but then other anomalies have to be dealt with that are unique to digital...like pre-echo, the process of "averaging" points on wavelengths and compression artifacts and distortion.
I think...whatever...at least I sound like I know what's going on. In any event, I have pirated a lot of Waves DAP software bundles over the years. That gives me a sliver of semi-credibility.
Because wind and rain rarely occur there at all, that's why only a few months ago when an extremely rare wind event happened it uncovered geoglyphs previously undiscovered.
It would take a damn good rake to manipulate every grain of sand that was disturbed so that they were reoriented the exact way they were gently eroded over centuries so that they resembled adjacent, undisturbed grains even remotely close enough. Also, even if that could be done, does it really matter anymore? Might as well just get a sewing machine out to fix the Shroud of Turin you wore like a cape and ripped a corner getting it caught in your bike chain. ...yeah that was the best analogy I could think of without interrupting my stream-of-typing consciousness, screw it.
Gotta love those tsetse flies and humming the snake charming tune...like you will be now that I mentioned it.
Its truly a sad day when anything that the inimitable and infamous SuperShadow brewed up in his mind is more relevant than real upcoming canon SW material.
And gastric acid is ~1.5-2 pH. I'd use that to etch gunmetal any day. What's your point?
You got an amazing amount of Democratic party talking points in that post, almost enough to make someone ignore how little any of them have any meaning to the subject at hand. Close, though.
IMHO wild canid (i.e. wolf) pack mentality and hierarchy is much more complex and nuanced than the primate model, I'd even go out o a limb and say it's probably much more "evolved". Wolves are highly social, even more so than most primates, and exhibit a mosaic of harder-to-describe interaction such as pity, shame, the ability to "agree yo disagree", vastly intricate verbal and nonverbal communication (moreso than most animals) - shown most obviously in the number of different howls ...and practiced deception plus forgiveness and atonement. I don't have a specific link or citing for what I'm saying but I have studied this subject for a few years on and off online and in print. Primate social interaction seems simplistic and lacking comparatively.
Will the original Hawking please stand up?
In response to a FOIA request a ProPublica journalist filed for just this kind of information last year, the NSA told him they couldn't do those kind of searches that they apparently just did. Well, dang...it's a good thing that they figured out they could, I mean gosh...if they'd just got it squared away last year then we'd have known a lot earlier how clean their hands were in all this.
The 2nd Amendment is still a somewhat sturdy foundation for a failing 1st, though it's begun to show some hairline cracks that need to be shored up posthaste.
Obamamancer.
These search results on the One Angry Gamer website about The Fine Young Capitalists game dev team (who also happen to be women, some might remember them as the team who wrote the game Depression Quest), who got blackballed by unscrupulous writers for a handful of well-known gaming and tech review outfits because of the second-rate "escapades" of one Zoe Quinn and her "relations" with several of them. Ironically, it was 4chan who stepped up to raise $5,000 to fund them when the rest of the community dropped them like a sack of shit because of Ms. Quinn and her "conspirators' " favoritism. PS quotes=sexual escapades and pillow talk railroading.
Then Encyclopedia Dramatica will be the unbiased source on how long they will sarcastically abide the policy before they just trash the hell out of it and forget the whole thing and not care anymore.
I know this /. topic is just for controversy and "laffs" because of the Fappening so I'm just going to post links to the classic Morning Glory Comics archives because they are so offensive and hilarious. Here you go Internet:
http://morningglory.excision-g...
http://lolokaust.com/morning/a...
Is this functionally the same as a meatspace veto? What about a holistic immersion filibuster via TRON-esqye deconstructing LASERs?
This is taken from an article named Engineering.com...in my fantasy world this article would have some basis grounded in reality. I've learned the hard way that this isn't always the case, however.
The Bill of Rights makes clear distinction between a US citizen and "persons". The fact that terrorists all happen to be people (in theory at least) means that the restrictions that are imposed upon the federal government and the NSA by the Constitution in what it can and can't do in it's mandate concerning all people, not just citizens, means that just because they are evil bastards deserving of nothing but contempt and they themselves would like nothing more that to NOT be grouped in with their enemies...just as most of the rest of the "people" they victimize would like as well...it remains that the NSA's unlawful transgressions were committed upon the whole of humanity which is supposed to be shielded from the actions they secretly and illegally violated. The point I'm making being that just because the group they fucked over in violation of their ban happened to ALSO include terrorists should be a distant second afterthought of the revelation, in a perverse inversion of lawful and altruistic intentions of the document's letter and spirit (indeed more like our enemies' rationalization of their own actions) that they made no distinction between their charges and quarry. It really would have been difficult to reveal their vile actions when all persons they fucked over, bad guys or good, all require the use of common methods of communication whether they are evil murdering fucks or paragons of virtue who rescue kittens from trees. Or whatever and shit...
Gotta be over 9000
I hacked Google, mission accomplished.
"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals."
US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 1967
Perfect.