March 22, 2010: Google starts redirecting all traffic to their uncensored Google Hong Kong.
March 30, 2010: Mainland China blocks all Google service. The block only lasted a day.
Beijing used a lot of harsh words, but in the end Google and all their employee in PRC were not prosecuted and they continue to operate without censorship on Chinese soil. Google - 1, China - 0 so far.
1 : a person or thing that loses especially consistently
2 : a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed; also : something doomed to fail or disappoint
It can't #1 because Apple wouldn't let an employee who loses prototype consistently handle the latest and greatest Jesus phone.
It also couldn't be #2 because he managed to become Apple's #2 most well known employee overnight. Even if Apple fires him, he'll have thousands of job interviews lined up (though most will end with "We're not actually hiring, I just wanted to shake the hand that touched the iPhone 4G").
Finally, I've been dreaming for this day to come for years now. I've been using the PS/2 to USB adapter on my model M keyboard but it's adding unnecessary latency, not to mention USB's slow polling rate sucks. Now I can finally plug my keyboard into a native PS/2 port!
What? What do you mean TFA wasn't talking about the port?
Corporations doesn't have to be private. Have you ever heard of state-owned corporations? In countries like Singapore and China state-owned corporations make up for more than half of the economy.
Sounds like the Federal "study" that was done by the NHTSA. Ever heard the claim that ~50% of all fatal crash accidents involved alcohol? Guess how they arrived at that number? They included accidents wherein passengers had alcohol in their systems, even though the drivers were completely sober.
But technically it's true. If I died by crashing into a brewery while driving sober it would still count as a "fatal crash accident involving alcohol".
accidents caused by alcohol != accidents involving alcohol
The phrasing is extremely dishonest and deceptive, but it's still true nevertheless.
1. Steal parent's/friend's/neighbor's ID #
2. Register new account
3. ???
4. Play until dead
Just look at how many drug related robberies happen every day; from what I've seen MMORPGs can be a lot more addictive than your average narcotic substance.
As for the Electoral college, while it is true that a president could theoretically win with a mere 10-25% of the popular vote, I only recall two elections in America's history where the electoral vote diverged from the popular vote.
3 candidates won the presidency without the popular vote and I believe that's 3 too many. 3/44 = 6.8%
They were forced to resort to indirect democracy 200 years ago because they lacked the infrastructure for direct democracy, but that limitation is long gone now.
Avatar was 162 minutes of pure torture for me since I wear eyeglasses. I had to use one hand to support the 3D glasses throughout the entire movie because my prescription glasses kept making it slip off.
In order to keep the two sets of glasses in focus I had to constantly adjust both of them. It was kinda like building an impromptu telescope by holding a lens in each hand.
Because my eyeglasses forced the 3D shutter to be much further away than it's supposed be, I kept seeing color distortions on the screen. I think this is because when one eye is supposed to be "blocked" by the 3D shutters, its peripheral vision is picking up an image through the other shutter.
No one mentioned anything regarding illegal activities. The congressmen is simply asking Mr. McLaughlin to explain himself. There's no accusation of criminal activity at all in this case.
Why are we assuming it was ever encrypted?
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It's commonknowledge that UAV feeds and some gunship video feeds are transmitted unencrypted over the air. I really don't see the point of encrypting plaintext that has been obviously compromised already.
Perhaps Wikileaks ( or the submitter ) simply setup a few receiver stations to capture the video footage over the air.
Now regarding this "encryption" buzzword being thrown around by Wikileak's PR and journalist, I'm guessing they heard something like "the video feed was transmitted as 64QAM over Ku-band 12.8475Ghz" and thinks all those technical jargons means "encryption".
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If you don't, no problem, you're just excommunicated.
Please don't mix metaphors like that. This is war, so it should be "dishonorably discharged".
That's just too much trouble. There are hundreds of ISP in the US. Contacting all of them will take days.
When the ACTA passes they can go green by issuing a single mass injunction to solve the problem - against all Homo Sapiens.
You're right, I was overgeneralizing. I only use web search so I just took a glance at the first row.
March 22, 2010: Google starts redirecting all traffic to their uncensored Google Hong Kong.
March 30, 2010: Mainland China blocks all Google service. The block only lasted a day.
Beijing used a lot of harsh words, but in the end Google and all their employee in PRC were not prosecuted and they continue to operate without censorship on Chinese soil. Google - 1, China - 0 so far.
Cue the grammar nazis too while you're at it.
I wrote a script that would make all the HP printers on campus flash an animated ASCII Kirby dance.
Travis! You finally made a slip of tongue. Us sysadmins has been hunting the culprit for years now and now we finally got you!
Main Entry: loser
Pronunciation: \lü-zr\
Function: noun
Date: 1548
1 : a person or thing that loses especially consistently
2 : a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed; also : something doomed to fail or disappoint
It can't #1 because Apple wouldn't let an employee who loses prototype consistently handle the latest and greatest Jesus phone.
It also couldn't be #2 because he managed to become Apple's #2 most well known employee overnight. Even if Apple fires him, he'll have thousands of job interviews lined up (though most will end with "We're not actually hiring, I just wanted to shake the hand that touched the iPhone 4G").
Why is anyone defending these evil bastards? Does supporting open source, for their own gain, really cover that many sins?
It's about choosing the lesser evil. If IBM goes down, Microsoft will take its place as the world's largest software provider.
If it's a choice between Microsoft and Nazism, I'd gladly pledge my allegiance to the Führer.
Thousands of apps are distributed outside of the Apple App Store and thousands more unix utilities have been ported the the iPhone.
I think it's a really bad idea to define measurement units recursively.
1 new Tweet = 0.00000000000000017263 ( the current LoC + the new Tweet )
Finally, I've been dreaming for this day to come for years now. I've been using the PS/2 to USB adapter on my model M keyboard but it's adding unnecessary latency, not to mention USB's slow polling rate sucks. Now I can finally plug my keyboard into a native PS/2 port!
What? What do you mean TFA wasn't talking about the port?
Corporations doesn't have to be private. Have you ever heard of state-owned corporations? In countries like Singapore and China state-owned corporations make up for more than half of the economy.
Which, in turn, makes the data several thousand times more legitimate!
Sounds like the Federal "study" that was done by the NHTSA. Ever heard the claim that ~50% of all fatal crash accidents involved alcohol? Guess how they arrived at that number? They included accidents wherein passengers had alcohol in their systems, even though the drivers were completely sober.
But technically it's true. If I died by crashing into a brewery while driving sober it would still count as a "fatal crash accident involving alcohol".
accidents caused by alcohol != accidents involving alcohol
The phrasing is extremely dishonest and deceptive, but it's still true nevertheless.
But I like Korean boobs more!
1. Steal parent's/friend's/neighbor's ID #
2. Register new account
3. ???
4. Play until dead
Just look at how many drug related robberies happen every day; from what I've seen MMORPGs can be a lot more addictive than your average narcotic substance.
It is kinda hard to accurately gauge the candidates when both sides are busy mud slinging each other.
The pessimist in me says that elections simply test which candidate is better at organizing million dollar smear campaigns.
I got a Flowers By Irene van parked outside my house 24/7 now. Maybe my letters were too strongly worded.
As for the Electoral college, while it is true that a president could theoretically win with a mere 10-25% of the popular vote, I only recall two elections in America's history where the electoral vote diverged from the popular vote.
Actually it's 3. In the elections of 1876, 1888 and 2000 the electoral vote differed from the popular vote.
3 candidates won the presidency without the popular vote and I believe that's 3 too many. 3/44 = 6.8%
They were forced to resort to indirect democracy 200 years ago because they lacked the infrastructure for direct democracy, but that limitation is long gone now.
Avatar was 162 minutes of pure torture for me since I wear eyeglasses. I had to use one hand to support the 3D glasses throughout the entire movie because my prescription glasses kept making it slip off.
In order to keep the two sets of glasses in focus I had to constantly adjust both of them. It was kinda like building an impromptu telescope by holding a lens in each hand.
Because my eyeglasses forced the 3D shutter to be much further away than it's supposed be, I kept seeing color distortions on the screen. I think this is because when one eye is supposed to be "blocked" by the 3D shutters, its peripheral vision is picking up an image through the other shutter.
I know I am not alone because half of the population wear eyeglasses.
No one mentioned anything regarding illegal activities. The congressmen is simply asking Mr. McLaughlin to explain himself. There's no accusation of criminal activity at all in this case.
It's common knowledge that UAV feeds and some gunship video feeds are transmitted unencrypted over the air. I really don't see the point of encrypting plaintext that has been obviously compromised already.
Perhaps Wikileaks ( or the submitter ) simply setup a few receiver stations to capture the video footage over the air.
Now regarding this "encryption" buzzword being thrown around by Wikileak's PR and journalist, I'm guessing they heard something like "the video feed was transmitted as 64QAM over Ku-band 12.8475Ghz" and thinks all those technical jargons means "encryption".
I am so sick and tired of these april fools posts.
I feel sorry for their family.
They will be forced to pay the bullet fee twice.
I, for one, welcome our new Web 1.999... overlords in France.