I know there old Slashdot stereotype is old men in a basement eating cheetos, but you've honestly never been on a hike? You know, rapidly gaining elevation when climbing a hill...
Yeah, I can see how that would be useful.
"Hey guys, we're at 1,872 feet now." "Thanks Kendall." "Hey guys, we're at 1,886 feet now." "Thanks Kendall." "Hey guys, we're at 1,904 feet now." "Thanks Kendall."
Maybe put the phone down and enjoy the hike. If you really need to know your exact position at some point on the hike, that's the entire point of GPS. You don't need a barometer that's going to give you a different altitude reading based on whether or not there's a storm coming.
So I guess it is the place, perhaps Napoli is a bit of a "closed" society and that's why she drew focus and ridicule?
I think it has something more to do with the fact that women who enjoy sex are supposed to be looked down upon and mocked, especially when they don't want the mass attention. It's a threat against the (apparently fragile) state of Italian masculinity. I honestly didn't realize it was so fragile, I too would have thought it wouldn't have been such a big deal to see a woman who enjoys sex, but there you have it.
Holy hell I actually looked up the ad. There's one for the time capsule.
Little known fact: those are 10-foot tall animatronic hands, because it's not possible to build something that small which holds a whopping 1,000 songs.
Oh, is it, professor? Thanks for briefly describing how a web server like Apache logs traffic. I'm pretty sure I included that in my comment, but I appreciate you pointing out that I don't understand and just saying it again.
I'm glad that your level of communication is advanced enough that you can decipher what journalists mean when they say shit like "thanks to software encrypted in the link" and use "malware" distribution (even right in the headline!) to describe the normal operation of a web server.
My only question would be whether they just logged IPs sending requests to the URL or whether he was on a VPN and they actually had to infect his computer with actual malware (which are 2 completely different actions regarding law enforcement and rights). But obviously I don't understand, and you're part of the FBI A-team, so thanks for taking the time to chime in and clarify things for all of us idiots.
Still though, your explanation of how to send a URL that isn't publicly known to get the public IP of a specific person is kind of hard to understand, and totally not obvious even to people who work with web servers every day. Do you think you could rephrase that, maybe using units like how many pictures or songs they can store on the server? Maybe then I'll understand.
Way to rewrite history there, pal. It's not like the only thing Jobs did was build a better phone. He also literally invented the first portable music player in history, and then re-invented it (again). In fact, I distinctly remember an event when he revealed the newest all-new re-invented portable music player, and it was impossibly small, it said so right there in the marketing literature. Impossibly small, but he built it anyway. He builds things that are literally impossible to build. Call me when Elon comes out with an impossibly small car or rocket and then we can compare him to Jobs.
What about potential employers turning her down for a job in public relations?
"Your Honor, when I applied to a PR job at the prestigious firm Women Don't Poop, Inc, I was turned down after they discovered a picture of me at age 4 on the toilet. I demand satisfaction."
But how the hell would any of us know that when the journalists covering this story apparently get their information from packs of pudding?
Grant sent the suspect a fake article which, when clicked, grabbed his real IP address.
OK, so he clicked a fake article, and the fake article that he clicked grabbed his real IP address (not his fake IP address).
or...
When the suspect clicked on the link to the write up, thanks to software encrypted in the link, he unwittingly identified his location and he was arrested a short time later.
OK, so apparently some software was "encrypted in the link", which identified his location.
What the hell are these people talking about? Was the kid just surfing from home without a VPN or any other protection and then they checked the Apache logs for his IP? Did they have a fancy for loop which logged every request header to look for the x-forwarded-for that his DIY proxy helpfully included? Did they use a browser exploit to infect him with something which phoned home?
Hell if I know. Let's go with "software encrypted in the link", and pass the pudding.
Do they really expect these users to hook up an adapter to use Bluetooth, USB, or thunderbolt for audio out to professional equipment?
Do you really expect Apple to care about how you use their products? If you're not using it the right way they'll let you know, so that you can start using it the way they want you to. Yeah, you might have to buy all new audio equipment in the process, but you didn't start using Apple products because they were inexpensive.
but you WILL notice it when amplified on a speaker system in a venue that seats 1000 people.
So get new audio equipment and start using your Apple product the way that Apple wants you to use it, or else you're going to be replaced by the next fanboy that will. That's the Apple ecosystem at work. If you own an iPhone and Apple computer product and you're angry about things like this, you only have yourself to blame. It wasn't hard to see coming.
Don't worry Consumer, since Apple Inc. also owns one of the largest manufacturers of Bluetooth headphones, when it comes time for you to find a set of Bluetooth speakers you can be sure that they will have an entire line of products that fit their budget. Some of them might even fit your budget.
I don't think he knew anything was a fraud. In fact, I also think that Bush didn't even know the intelligence was wrong (more accurately: Bush was not told that he was being lied to and didn't bother to try to find out by other means). If you have statements made by either of them to that affect I would be interested though. I think that Cheney was the architect of the entire thing. Cui Bono, and all that. Cheney got to make a lot of money while Bush and Powell looked bad.
I would expect and hope that anyone elected to be president is someone that we would refer to as an elite American. Colin Powell would be one of them, yes. I don't want a plumber or electrician or carpenter getting thrust into a job like that, no disrespect meant to those professions. I consider myself to be unqualified as well.
Powell is a 4 star army general (there was pressure by the public and Congress to award him a fifth star, the sixth person who would hold the modern rank, but Clinton's team shut it down in case he decided to run against them), he was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Bush 41 and Clinton (and, as the most senior member of the military, counseled diplomacy before force), he was the National Security Advisor to Reagan and the Secretary of State to Bush 43. He is experienced in public service. He is well-respected by members of both major parties as well as other world leaders. If he doesn't understand all of Joe The Plumber's concerns then maybe he can be excused for that, I don't think that Joe The Plumber understands all of a 4 star general's concerns either. But presidents have advisors.
The president *should* be considered elite, it is a uniquely elite office to hold. And, just like the generals who mentored Powell, he was in a position where he had the concerns of his soldiers (and, at times all military personnel) on his mind. He's an experienced leader, even if it's different to lead civilians instead of soldiers. He's also the kind of person who can learn from his mistakes, which is yet another quality that I have yet to see demonstrated by either Trump or Hillary. Neither candidate will even admit what mistakes they've made, let alone try to take credit for and learn from them. All they do is deny and shift blame. The only problem is that Powell is 79, so we're not going to see him become president. He would have made a good one though.
Colin Powell might be a lot of things, but I don't think an idiot is one of them.
I would rather have Hillary than him, and I dont like her either.
As far as I am concerned, a vote for Hillary is a vote for corruption and the political status quo. I can't do it, not against any candidate (I won't even vote for her to keep Trump out, that's how much distaste I have for her and what she represents). Powell would make a far superior president than either of them. He would get more respect in his diplomacy from foreign leaders than either of them could ever hope for. He would also take the job seriously as a public servant and make decisions that he genuinely thought would benefit everyone, which again is something that I think neither Hillary nor Trump are capable of. You're welcome to read his books and read about the generals that mentored him to see what kind of guy he is and who helped shape him. My opinion is that Powell represents the best things about the Republican party, he's the kind of person that other Republicans should aspire to be like. In fact he represents some of the best things about Americans in general.
He didnt have the balls to correct his mistake either and followed along meekly.
Saying that he serves at the pleasure of the president is exactly what you would expect a respectful member of the cabinet to say.
I would be comfortable with Powell in charge. He always preferred diplomacy over a military solution, and he was not in favor of any military action that didn't serve the interests of the US. We could do a lot worse than that.
They are two completely different people. The things that made people want to vote for Obama aren't necessarily present in Hillary, and the reasons why people don't want to vote for Hillary weren't necessarily a factor for Obama. Hillary has a lot more baggage than Obama ever did.
The legislation is a major man-made problem. If you have planes flying all over the country producing sonic booms, people are going to sue and that's what is going to stop it. Your suggestion of a technological solution to stop the sonic boom sounds great, but I don't see how that's possible without engines producing virtually no sound yet still strong enough to propel something several hundred tons faster than the speed of sound.
If there was something better we would be using it rather than using chemical rockets FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS.
Listen, when we were doing that thing where we parodied each others' positions in the other story, and I said exactly what you just said, that was supposed to be comedy, man. That's satire. The notion that we would have known in the 60s all of the physics necessary to accomplish any kind of travel through space/time is laughable, ridiculous, and obviously satire. You shouldn't repeat it like you actually think that, it makes you sound incredibly short-sighted. You are turning into that person where it's not possible to tell if it is satire or someone being serious.
And it is very possible that chemical rockets ARE the only launch technology possible.
OK, for the sake of argument let's take something that you were using as satire: rail guns. What part of a miles-long electromagnetic track sloping up is physically impossible according to the laws of physics? As far as I can tell it's prohibitively expensive (given our current budget priorities), and will come with a massive set of additional and unique engineering challenges, but I'm missing the part where it's violating laws of physics that would make it not even possible, and chemical rockets still the only way. So, what is it about an electromagnetic launch system which makes it impossible? Are you suggesting that since we didn't do that in the 60s that it is therefore not possible to do at all, ever? Because I can't begin to try to explain the number of things wrong with an assertion like that, things that are trivially and obviously disproven just by observing things around you, and if you actually believe that shit then I don't know why you bother posting at all. In fact, you should really go whole-hog and only use communication technologies that were available in the 1960s. It's like you're trying to argue that it's not possible to use a "sky crane" with retro-rockets to gently and autonomously lower a vehicle weighing several tons on the surface of Mars and then have it drive around for several years taking pictures and other measurements and sending data back to a relay in orbit before transmitting on to Earth, because we didn't do that in the 60s. I'm not sure what your reason is for believing that if things didn't happen in the 60s then they won't happen ever, but it's a weird belief to have and to defend so rabidly.
You seem to think there is going to be some magical breakthrough that is going to launch you to Mars.
You're the only person using the word "magic". What does that say?
The brain is not a bunch of neural circuits. I already said that. You are a moron.
Uh huh. So if you believe that the state of neuroscience in the 60s is the final stage, then you're a moron, but if you believe that the state of astrophysics in the 60s is the final stage then you're some enlightened being. You need to be more consistent in your belief system before you try to get others to join your cult, or else they're going to think you're just a troll.
Oh, OK. So an "AI nutter" apparently believes that AI will "magically appear", because PCs got faster over 26 years. I didn't realize that you could distill their beliefs down to something that sounds so stupid, but I guess you're the expert.
Anyone complaining about the treatment of American males must not have anything better to complain about.
In Russia the only fear is criticizing the government.
You shouldn't fear that. The government should fear the citizens, not the other way around. "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
In the West, fear is the norm as everything is offensive to everyone.
1. How would you know? 2. How come I'm not afraid all the time?
You can't even look into a woman anymore without being charged for eye rape.
God, I hope not. That does sound awfully invasive, depending on which hole you're looking into.
Two can play this stupid game.
That's true, but some people are better at playing stupid games than other people.
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Right, people who think it's stupid that you blindly stick up for anything that Apple pinches out are people who are afraid of technology.
I know there old Slashdot stereotype is old men in a basement eating cheetos, but you've honestly never been on a hike? You know, rapidly gaining elevation when climbing a hill...
Yeah, I can see how that would be useful.
"Hey guys, we're at 1,872 feet now."
"Thanks Kendall."
"Hey guys, we're at 1,886 feet now."
"Thanks Kendall."
"Hey guys, we're at 1,904 feet now."
"Thanks Kendall."
Maybe put the phone down and enjoy the hike. If you really need to know your exact position at some point on the hike, that's the entire point of GPS. You don't need a barometer that's going to give you a different altitude reading based on whether or not there's a storm coming.
The weather?
if it was that big of a mistake, why film it?
I think you're completing missing the point. The "mistake" wasn't her having sex. The mistake was her sending the video to her ex.
So I guess it is the place, perhaps Napoli is a bit of a "closed" society and that's why she drew focus and ridicule?
I think it has something more to do with the fact that women who enjoy sex are supposed to be looked down upon and mocked, especially when they don't want the mass attention. It's a threat against the (apparently fragile) state of Italian masculinity. I honestly didn't realize it was so fragile, I too would have thought it wouldn't have been such a big deal to see a woman who enjoys sex, but there you have it.
Holy hell I actually looked up the ad. There's one for the time capsule.
Little known fact: those are 10-foot tall animatronic hands, because it's not possible to build something that small which holds a whopping 1,000 songs.
It's pretty obvious that you don't understand.
Oh, is it, professor? Thanks for briefly describing how a web server like Apache logs traffic. I'm pretty sure I included that in my comment, but I appreciate you pointing out that I don't understand and just saying it again.
I'm glad that your level of communication is advanced enough that you can decipher what journalists mean when they say shit like "thanks to software encrypted in the link" and use "malware" distribution (even right in the headline!) to describe the normal operation of a web server.
My only question would be whether they just logged IPs sending requests to the URL or whether he was on a VPN and they actually had to infect his computer with actual malware (which are 2 completely different actions regarding law enforcement and rights). But obviously I don't understand, and you're part of the FBI A-team, so thanks for taking the time to chime in and clarify things for all of us idiots.
Still though, your explanation of how to send a URL that isn't publicly known to get the public IP of a specific person is kind of hard to understand, and totally not obvious even to people who work with web servers every day. Do you think you could rephrase that, maybe using units like how many pictures or songs they can store on the server? Maybe then I'll understand.
Thanks so much.
Apparently the correct response is to trace and sue. I would suggest that response gives even less power to the spammer.
Way to rewrite history there, pal. It's not like the only thing Jobs did was build a better phone. He also literally invented the first portable music player in history, and then re-invented it (again). In fact, I distinctly remember an event when he revealed the newest all-new re-invented portable music player, and it was impossibly small, it said so right there in the marketing literature. Impossibly small, but he built it anyway. He builds things that are literally impossible to build. Call me when Elon comes out with an impossibly small car or rocket and then we can compare him to Jobs.
What about potential employers turning her down for a job in public relations?
"Your Honor, when I applied to a PR job at the prestigious firm Women Don't Poop, Inc, I was turned down after they discovered a picture of me at age 4 on the toilet. I demand satisfaction."
It wasn't on his computer (apparently).
But how the hell would any of us know that when the journalists covering this story apparently get their information from packs of pudding?
Grant sent the suspect a fake article which, when clicked, grabbed his real IP address.
OK, so he clicked a fake article, and the fake article that he clicked grabbed his real IP address (not his fake IP address).
or...
When the suspect clicked on the link to the write up, thanks to software encrypted in the link, he unwittingly identified his location and he was arrested a short time later.
OK, so apparently some software was "encrypted in the link", which identified his location.
What the hell are these people talking about? Was the kid just surfing from home without a VPN or any other protection and then they checked the Apache logs for his IP? Did they have a fancy for loop which logged every request header to look for the x-forwarded-for that his DIY proxy helpfully included? Did they use a browser exploit to infect him with something which phoned home?
Hell if I know. Let's go with "software encrypted in the link", and pass the pudding.
So images should not come up when you're using iMessage to search for gifs. Got it. Jobs would be proud.
3.5mm (AKA 1/8") comes in TS, TRS, and TRRS variants, just like 1/4" (AKA 6mm); all three formats are also made in a 1/16" size (AKA 2.5mm).
2.5 mm = 1/16
3.5 mm = 1/8
6 mm = 1/4
Man, the metric system is so screwed up.
Do they really expect these users to hook up an adapter to use Bluetooth, USB, or thunderbolt for audio out to professional equipment?
Do you really expect Apple to care about how you use their products? If you're not using it the right way they'll let you know, so that you can start using it the way they want you to. Yeah, you might have to buy all new audio equipment in the process, but you didn't start using Apple products because they were inexpensive.
but you WILL notice it when amplified on a speaker system in a venue that seats 1000 people.
So get new audio equipment and start using your Apple product the way that Apple wants you to use it, or else you're going to be replaced by the next fanboy that will. That's the Apple ecosystem at work. If you own an iPhone and Apple computer product and you're angry about things like this, you only have yourself to blame. It wasn't hard to see coming.
Don't worry Consumer, since Apple Inc. also owns one of the largest manufacturers of Bluetooth headphones, when it comes time for you to find a set of Bluetooth speakers you can be sure that they will have an entire line of products that fit their budget. Some of them might even fit your budget.
I don't think he knew anything was a fraud. In fact, I also think that Bush didn't even know the intelligence was wrong (more accurately: Bush was not told that he was being lied to and didn't bother to try to find out by other means). If you have statements made by either of them to that affect I would be interested though. I think that Cheney was the architect of the entire thing. Cui Bono, and all that. Cheney got to make a lot of money while Bush and Powell looked bad.
I would expect and hope that anyone elected to be president is someone that we would refer to as an elite American. Colin Powell would be one of them, yes. I don't want a plumber or electrician or carpenter getting thrust into a job like that, no disrespect meant to those professions. I consider myself to be unqualified as well.
Powell is a 4 star army general (there was pressure by the public and Congress to award him a fifth star, the sixth person who would hold the modern rank, but Clinton's team shut it down in case he decided to run against them), he was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Bush 41 and Clinton (and, as the most senior member of the military, counseled diplomacy before force), he was the National Security Advisor to Reagan and the Secretary of State to Bush 43. He is experienced in public service. He is well-respected by members of both major parties as well as other world leaders. If he doesn't understand all of Joe The Plumber's concerns then maybe he can be excused for that, I don't think that Joe The Plumber understands all of a 4 star general's concerns either. But presidents have advisors.
The president *should* be considered elite, it is a uniquely elite office to hold. And, just like the generals who mentored Powell, he was in a position where he had the concerns of his soldiers (and, at times all military personnel) on his mind. He's an experienced leader, even if it's different to lead civilians instead of soldiers. He's also the kind of person who can learn from his mistakes, which is yet another quality that I have yet to see demonstrated by either Trump or Hillary. Neither candidate will even admit what mistakes they've made, let alone try to take credit for and learn from them. All they do is deny and shift blame. The only problem is that Powell is 79, so we're not going to see him become president. He would have made a good one though.
Colin Powell might be a lot of things, but I don't think an idiot is one of them.
I would rather have Hillary than him, and I dont like her either.
As far as I am concerned, a vote for Hillary is a vote for corruption and the political status quo. I can't do it, not against any candidate (I won't even vote for her to keep Trump out, that's how much distaste I have for her and what she represents). Powell would make a far superior president than either of them. He would get more respect in his diplomacy from foreign leaders than either of them could ever hope for. He would also take the job seriously as a public servant and make decisions that he genuinely thought would benefit everyone, which again is something that I think neither Hillary nor Trump are capable of. You're welcome to read his books and read about the generals that mentored him to see what kind of guy he is and who helped shape him. My opinion is that Powell represents the best things about the Republican party, he's the kind of person that other Republicans should aspire to be like. In fact he represents some of the best things about Americans in general.
He didnt have the balls to correct his mistake either and followed along meekly.
Saying that he serves at the pleasure of the president is exactly what you would expect a respectful member of the cabinet to say.
He chose that pronunciation after a WW2 B-17 pilot. His parents pronounced it the other way.
I would be comfortable with Powell in charge. He always preferred diplomacy over a military solution, and he was not in favor of any military action that didn't serve the interests of the US. We could do a lot worse than that.
They are two completely different people. The things that made people want to vote for Obama aren't necessarily present in Hillary, and the reasons why people don't want to vote for Hillary weren't necessarily a factor for Obama. Hillary has a lot more baggage than Obama ever did.
The legislation is a major man-made problem. If you have planes flying all over the country producing sonic booms, people are going to sue and that's what is going to stop it. Your suggestion of a technological solution to stop the sonic boom sounds great, but I don't see how that's possible without engines producing virtually no sound yet still strong enough to propel something several hundred tons faster than the speed of sound.
If there was something better we would be using it rather than using chemical rockets FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS.
Listen, when we were doing that thing where we parodied each others' positions in the other story, and I said exactly what you just said, that was supposed to be comedy, man. That's satire. The notion that we would have known in the 60s all of the physics necessary to accomplish any kind of travel through space/time is laughable, ridiculous, and obviously satire. You shouldn't repeat it like you actually think that, it makes you sound incredibly short-sighted. You are turning into that person where it's not possible to tell if it is satire or someone being serious.
And it is very possible that chemical rockets ARE the only launch technology possible.
OK, for the sake of argument let's take something that you were using as satire: rail guns. What part of a miles-long electromagnetic track sloping up is physically impossible according to the laws of physics? As far as I can tell it's prohibitively expensive (given our current budget priorities), and will come with a massive set of additional and unique engineering challenges, but I'm missing the part where it's violating laws of physics that would make it not even possible, and chemical rockets still the only way. So, what is it about an electromagnetic launch system which makes it impossible? Are you suggesting that since we didn't do that in the 60s that it is therefore not possible to do at all, ever? Because I can't begin to try to explain the number of things wrong with an assertion like that, things that are trivially and obviously disproven just by observing things around you, and if you actually believe that shit then I don't know why you bother posting at all. In fact, you should really go whole-hog and only use communication technologies that were available in the 1960s. It's like you're trying to argue that it's not possible to use a "sky crane" with retro-rockets to gently and autonomously lower a vehicle weighing several tons on the surface of Mars and then have it drive around for several years taking pictures and other measurements and sending data back to a relay in orbit before transmitting on to Earth, because we didn't do that in the 60s. I'm not sure what your reason is for believing that if things didn't happen in the 60s then they won't happen ever, but it's a weird belief to have and to defend so rabidly.
You seem to think there is going to be some magical breakthrough that is going to launch you to Mars.
You're the only person using the word "magic". What does that say?
The brain is not a bunch of neural circuits. I already said that. You are a moron.
Uh huh. So if you believe that the state of neuroscience in the 60s is the final stage, then you're a moron, but if you believe that the state of astrophysics in the 60s is the final stage then you're some enlightened being. You need to be more consistent in your belief system before you try to get others to join your cult, or else they're going to think you're just a troll.
Oh, OK. So an "AI nutter" apparently believes that AI will "magically appear", because PCs got faster over 26 years. I didn't realize that you could distill their beliefs down to something that sounds so stupid, but I guess you're the expert.
Anyone complaining about the treatment of American males must not have anything better to complain about.
In Russia the only fear is criticizing the government.
You shouldn't fear that. The government should fear the citizens, not the other way around. "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
In the West, fear is the norm as everything is offensive to everyone.
1. How would you know? 2. How come I'm not afraid all the time?
You can't even look into a woman anymore without being charged for eye rape.
God, I hope not. That does sound awfully invasive, depending on which hole you're looking into.
Two can play this stupid game.
That's true, but some people are better at playing stupid games than other people.