I feel like using Google products is becoming a bad idea, simply because you can expect it to be retired as soon as it becomes useful when they decide to make an identical product under the banner of choice of the moment, or simply kill it with no replacement product at all.
This used to be disappointing, but Google does this so often it doesn't affect me any very much more because I won't even try most of their recent offerings knowing they won't keep it around. According to this article, I started avoiding Google's new offerings late 2011 or earlier.
Agreed. Aging tech isn't the problem here, a complete inability to listen to or fund IT is the problem here. If they had a usable rolling backup system, it wouldn't matter how old everything is. If they had all brand new equipment and no functional load balancing system to compensate for outages that will always be a potential issue, they would still be offline for as long as it takes to fix everything.
I have a hard time believing the words "off site redundancy" never came up in any IT budget meetings over the past half century, so their failures are 100% bad business decisions not IT issues.
It would be no different if they had refused to budget for more fuel than exactly as much as predicted they would need. Tblaming the aircraft rather than the person that made the stupid decision to run out of fuel wouldn't make sense. It only works here because people don't understand IT, and the people that chose to allow outages like these aren't willing to admit it so they will repeat them again.
Seriously, is TOR so unbreakable that you shills need to bad-mouth it at any opportunity?
Apparently. I remember one of the Snowden leaks had an NSA quote along the lines of "Tor makes for a sad analyst" so it is an inconvenience to domestic spy programs.
They already know they're specifically targeted for this. They were among the first to report an NSA man-in-the-middle attack on a new laptop delivery as it was delivered to a three letter agency for several days before being sent to the Tor project coder who ordered it.
They were going to look for how that machine was bugged, but I never saw a follow up on that story. Considering how the Guardian's office computers and laptops had specific chips on the motherboards destroyed in a police raid after that Snowden leak, it's probably in a mobo firmware somewhere rather than in the OS.
You cannot make a gun with only 300 lines combined of JavaScript, HTML and php
Challenge accepted!
Seriously, if an AR receiver is acceptable (legally defined as "a gun") this is completely do-able. ARs are simple boxes with a few holes in the right place and another box threaded on top. It gets even simpler if single-shot is OK as then I don't need a buffer tower or magazine well, so it's literally a box with like 8 holes. I know I can do this in a dozen or so lines of OpenSCAD, and I think I can do it in Javascript/HTML/PHP
Having purchased government surplus vehicles at auction, this is something any potential bidders would be wise to take note of. It can take 6 months for the government to deliver, despite collecting money immediately.
3D printing is additive manufacturing, sintered powder is 3D printing. "CNC" is typically seen as subtractive manufacturing, but 3D printers are still CNC machines.
I'm 100% on board with you - it was always about entertainment. Having fun, connecting with others similarly fun-oriented and motivated to seek it out. Showing off your creative side, being the weirdest version of yourself in public. I think his point was Burners used to be their own clean up crews. The attitude that someone else will do the cleanup is why there's a problem. The money does go there, but a lot of it lines pockets - the Man is profitable, and that's on purpose.
That's how these things happen. It's popular, there are more of us motivated weirdos making an effort to party in the desert than ever, and there's more groups than just us weirdos. We still stand out - probably even more than ever now that newcomers who just want to pay the fee and see the sites helped make the Man a well known event... but some people always want things to go back to the way they were, or a romanticized way they weren't but might have been in an ideal memory.
I compare the Man's changes to a backyard BBQ to point this out to people that don't like how it's changed. Invite your friends over, they'll all take care of their own mess. You can supply the drinks and food, they have a great time and everything is an easy cleanup at the end of the day. Next year, you have more people wanting to enjoy the BBQ. The neighbors house becomes part of the party, his friends come and they love it, despite not being anything like your friends, and everybody makes new friends. 5 years later, it's a block party people are making trips from nearby states to come see. It's huge. You can't afford to supply the beers and burgers any more. The garbage situation is beyond your ability to handle yourself, and too many people either don't clean up or can't find an empty can/bag if they want to try. You have to start charging and hiring crews to take care of this, or the city is going to shut you down.
That's the Man, how I see it anyway. Complain about the growth if you like, it changed and it can't go back to what it used to be. Embrace the newcomers, they're still awesome, they've always been different, and you don't have to dislike the differences if you don't want to.
My thoughts are similar: The OS is nice, it's as usable an OS as Microsoft has made. But there's a reason Microsoft made it propagate like a zombie outbreak. People don't want it. MS has to know there are serious issues with the direction decision makers are taking the company when one of their more tolerable new friendly operating system releases is given away for free and older versions of their product are still preferable.
Trying to monetize your customers is not working, M$. Learn from that.
The difference was the CDC falsified dats to push a predetermined political agenda and was caught doing it. That's criminal, regardless of how you feel about the topic they lied about.
This is why the US didn't get the Olympics when Chicago was bidding. The Olympic Committee apparently had an unpleasant time at the airport, I guess some of them weren't interested in amateur pelvic exams.
This seems backwards. I get that wireless is nicer, but batteries on small headphones just aren't up to daily use yet, and are rarely user-swappable. Wired is the fallback that always works and earbuds are tiny enough to always have on you. Even the huge '70s looking headphones I don't like wearing all day have maybe 6 hours of battery life in them under constant use.
I'd be OK with this move if it made sense, but It seems like Apple wants to eliminate the wire on general principal without waiting for a good replacement to be widely available.
This is actually a good thing. In order to get these devices ruled as Unconstitutional (as they obviously are), they have to make it to the Supreme Court. In nearly every previous case where a court has seen the technology presented for argument, it has been swooped up by federal agencies and barred from court discussion under secrecy and missing evidence.
Illinois has codified the technology into law, making it simpler to challenge the legality of these devices and difficult to swoop in and disappear with the evidence, as in this case the evidence is the law itself.
I welcome the coming legal challenge. Illinois may be a ridiculously corrupt state, but in this case that corruption is going to help the entire nation.
Australia's drop is exactly the same rate of violent crime drop that the US experienced over that same time period, and is the same as the rest of the world over the past 50 years. The US experienced a massive increase in firearm ownership over that time - do you attribute the huge drop in US crime to increasing firearm ownership, or do you acknowledge that the global drop in violent crime has nothing to do with the subject you've chosen to blame?
I've seen data suggesting the drop is due to leaded fuel bans as well, that is a valid hypothesis that is not proven, but doesn't need to cherry pick countries to ignore because it attempts to explain the global drop in crime observed across widely varied countries, rather than starting with a predetermined conclusion and looking for evidence to support that.
Perhaps not ironically, the CDC was chastised for doing exactly this and falsifying data, which is what you started out misunderstanding.
Current really cheap phone sensors will work with a 2D printed photocopy of the fingerprint, slightly less cheap sensors are capacitive and but should still work with a 2D print using, say, capacitive ink (would the standard magnetic toner used to print official bank cheques work here?).
For the more complex sensors (I used to work at a company that manufactured this type, but don't know of any used in phones) even using the suspect's real finger wouldn't work if it happened to be cut off of the suspect... we were reading the EM field of the flowing blood capillaries behind the fingerprint itself. This is common with more security oriented sensors, and while we were able to shrink them enough to operate fine in a phone, they aren't the sub $5 cost that most phone sensors seem to have budgeted.
Summing up: A capacitive 3D print should work, but overkill. 2D prints will definitely work, but capacitant sensors makes that less trivial than it used to be. Good sensors are tough as hell to spoof because EM is tougher than optical to replicate in fingerprint format.
...And I should follow up with your suicide hypothesis being easily disproved also. While suicides are indeed 66% of all deaths from firearms, eliminating guns does not eliminate any suicides.
Ignoring the usual 'look at countries that have no firearms with substantially higher suicide rates' dataset, this is easily demonstrated from US-based data also, while also ignoring the obvious politically and emotionally charged issue of firearms: Look at trains: some towns have train tracks, others have zero. Towns with trains have 100% more train suicides than locales that do not have trains. Trains are far more lethal than any other form of suicide except possibly gravity, as a general rule they are far more lethal than guns. Despite this, towns that do not have trains do not have lower suicide rates.
Blaming objects for human action ignores the problem entirely. This isn't to say that at-risk individuals should be given easy access to trains or firearms, but that is why psychological holds exist - they allow for temporary suspension or fights like firearm ownership and freedom when a patient is declared a danger to self or others.
Prohibition itself solves nothing, especially when the subject of prohibition is a civil right. Avoid using terms like "gun violence" as it shows a subconscious slant towards blaming objects at any cost. If the issue you wish to address is violence, there are far more pressing issues like poverty you can focus that need to blame on rather than civil rights.
If you're willing to sit down and research gun violence, you won't be able to, because Congress, as a result of NRA lobbying and campaign contributions, prohibited government agencies from doing well-designed research into gun violence
This is a lie, you're parroting propaganda that is not rooted in fact. Most likely, you were referencing back when the CDC was punished for lobbying congress with a political agenda promoting gun control - something that is illegal for the CDC to do as they are not a partisan political entity. They were punished because they were caught breaking the law. The budget money they lost was returned a few months later, however. The CDC is not brred from reporting on anything at all, they are barred from lobbying congress with any specific agenda.
When that Dorner guy was burned to death, the police claimed the exact same thing: "We didn't know there would be a fire."
There's hours of audio of the police radio chatter where officers ask when they would "deploy the burners" before that happened though, and for the last hour they had a "mic check" reminder every time somebody forgot to avoid the B word or mentioned burning him out loud.
Claiming ignorance is the default excuse when police burn someone to death, it would seem.
The server in question was years behind in unapplied updated and numerous documented and patched exploits were still usable on it. I've seen no evidence that government owned servers have any sort of policy like this, and if there were it would be extremely big news because the hacks would be a daily occurrence, if not hourly.
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It's also used for WiFi, so it could be a galactic Access Point. Watch, it's just a misconfigured alien laptop rebroadcasting HPSETUP
I feel like using Google products is becoming a bad idea, simply because you can expect it to be retired as soon as it becomes useful when they decide to make an identical product under the banner of choice of the moment, or simply kill it with no replacement product at all. This used to be disappointing, but Google does this so often it doesn't affect me any very much more because I won't even try most of their recent offerings knowing they won't keep it around. According to this article, I started avoiding Google's new offerings late 2011 or earlier.
It's not my friends. It's the FBI, congress, etc. They keep making things up to push for backdoors and spy programs.
Agreed. Aging tech isn't the problem here, a complete inability to listen to or fund IT is the problem here. If they had a usable rolling backup system, it wouldn't matter how old everything is. If they had all brand new equipment and no functional load balancing system to compensate for outages that will always be a potential issue, they would still be offline for as long as it takes to fix everything. I have a hard time believing the words "off site redundancy" never came up in any IT budget meetings over the past half century, so their failures are 100% bad business decisions not IT issues. It would be no different if they had refused to budget for more fuel than exactly as much as predicted they would need. Tblaming the aircraft rather than the person that made the stupid decision to run out of fuel wouldn't make sense. It only works here because people don't understand IT, and the people that chose to allow outages like these aren't willing to admit it so they will repeat them again.
Seriously, is TOR so unbreakable that you shills need to bad-mouth it at any opportunity?
Apparently. I remember one of the Snowden leaks had an NSA quote along the lines of "Tor makes for a sad analyst" so it is an inconvenience to domestic spy programs.
They already know they're specifically targeted for this. They were among the first to report an NSA man-in-the-middle attack on a new laptop delivery as it was delivered to a three letter agency for several days before being sent to the Tor project coder who ordered it. They were going to look for how that machine was bugged, but I never saw a follow up on that story. Considering how the Guardian's office computers and laptops had specific chips on the motherboards destroyed in a police raid after that Snowden leak, it's probably in a mobo firmware somewhere rather than in the OS.
Is this encrypted? Because I have been repeatedly told encryption is for terrorists.
You cannot make a gun with only 300 lines combined of JavaScript, HTML and php
Challenge accepted! Seriously, if an AR receiver is acceptable (legally defined as "a gun") this is completely do-able. ARs are simple boxes with a few holes in the right place and another box threaded on top. It gets even simpler if single-shot is OK as then I don't need a buffer tower or magazine well, so it's literally a box with like 8 holes. I know I can do this in a dozen or so lines of OpenSCAD, and I think I can do it in Javascript/HTML/PHP
Having purchased government surplus vehicles at auction, this is something any potential bidders would be wise to take note of. It can take 6 months for the government to deliver, despite collecting money immediately.
Big clothing chain in Spain. It's clothes are mostly plain.
3D printing is additive manufacturing, sintered powder is 3D printing. "CNC" is typically seen as subtractive manufacturing, but 3D printers are still CNC machines.
I'm 100% on board with you - it was always about entertainment. Having fun, connecting with others similarly fun-oriented and motivated to seek it out. Showing off your creative side, being the weirdest version of yourself in public. I think his point was Burners used to be their own clean up crews. The attitude that someone else will do the cleanup is why there's a problem. The money does go there, but a lot of it lines pockets - the Man is profitable, and that's on purpose.
That's how these things happen. It's popular, there are more of us motivated weirdos making an effort to party in the desert than ever, and there's more groups than just us weirdos. We still stand out - probably even more than ever now that newcomers who just want to pay the fee and see the sites helped make the Man a well known event... but some people always want things to go back to the way they were, or a romanticized way they weren't but might have been in an ideal memory.
I compare the Man's changes to a backyard BBQ to point this out to people that don't like how it's changed. Invite your friends over, they'll all take care of their own mess. You can supply the drinks and food, they have a great time and everything is an easy cleanup at the end of the day. Next year, you have more people wanting to enjoy the BBQ. The neighbors house becomes part of the party, his friends come and they love it, despite not being anything like your friends, and everybody makes new friends. 5 years later, it's a block party people are making trips from nearby states to come see. It's huge. You can't afford to supply the beers and burgers any more. The garbage situation is beyond your ability to handle yourself, and too many people either don't clean up or can't find an empty can/bag if they want to try. You have to start charging and hiring crews to take care of this, or the city is going to shut you down.
That's the Man, how I see it anyway. Complain about the growth if you like, it changed and it can't go back to what it used to be. Embrace the newcomers, they're still awesome, they've always been different, and you don't have to dislike the differences if you don't want to.
My thoughts are similar: The OS is nice, it's as usable an OS as Microsoft has made. But there's a reason Microsoft made it propagate like a zombie outbreak. People don't want it. MS has to know there are serious issues with the direction decision makers are taking the company when one of their more tolerable new friendly operating system releases is given away for free and older versions of their product are still preferable. Trying to monetize your customers is not working, M$. Learn from that.
The difference was the CDC falsified dats to push a predetermined political agenda and was caught doing it. That's criminal, regardless of how you feel about the topic they lied about.
I can't imagine a legitimate law enforcement use for that. That's substantial destructive capability, not defensive or constructive planning ahead.
This is why the US didn't get the Olympics when Chicago was bidding. The Olympic Committee apparently had an unpleasant time at the airport, I guess some of them weren't interested in amateur pelvic exams.
This seems backwards. I get that wireless is nicer, but batteries on small headphones just aren't up to daily use yet, and are rarely user-swappable. Wired is the fallback that always works and earbuds are tiny enough to always have on you. Even the huge '70s looking headphones I don't like wearing all day have maybe 6 hours of battery life in them under constant use. I'd be OK with this move if it made sense, but It seems like Apple wants to eliminate the wire on general principal without waiting for a good replacement to be widely available.
This is actually a good thing. In order to get these devices ruled as Unconstitutional (as they obviously are), they have to make it to the Supreme Court. In nearly every previous case where a court has seen the technology presented for argument, it has been swooped up by federal agencies and barred from court discussion under secrecy and missing evidence. Illinois has codified the technology into law, making it simpler to challenge the legality of these devices and difficult to swoop in and disappear with the evidence, as in this case the evidence is the law itself. I welcome the coming legal challenge. Illinois may be a ridiculously corrupt state, but in this case that corruption is going to help the entire nation.
Australia's drop is exactly the same rate of violent crime drop that the US experienced over that same time period, and is the same as the rest of the world over the past 50 years. The US experienced a massive increase in firearm ownership over that time - do you attribute the huge drop in US crime to increasing firearm ownership, or do you acknowledge that the global drop in violent crime has nothing to do with the subject you've chosen to blame? I've seen data suggesting the drop is due to leaded fuel bans as well, that is a valid hypothesis that is not proven, but doesn't need to cherry pick countries to ignore because it attempts to explain the global drop in crime observed across widely varied countries, rather than starting with a predetermined conclusion and looking for evidence to support that. Perhaps not ironically, the CDC was chastised for doing exactly this and falsifying data, which is what you started out misunderstanding.
Current really cheap phone sensors will work with a 2D printed photocopy of the fingerprint, slightly less cheap sensors are capacitive and but should still work with a 2D print using, say, capacitive ink (would the standard magnetic toner used to print official bank cheques work here?). For the more complex sensors (I used to work at a company that manufactured this type, but don't know of any used in phones) even using the suspect's real finger wouldn't work if it happened to be cut off of the suspect... we were reading the EM field of the flowing blood capillaries behind the fingerprint itself. This is common with more security oriented sensors, and while we were able to shrink them enough to operate fine in a phone, they aren't the sub $5 cost that most phone sensors seem to have budgeted. Summing up: A capacitive 3D print should work, but overkill. 2D prints will definitely work, but capacitant sensors makes that less trivial than it used to be. Good sensors are tough as hell to spoof because EM is tougher than optical to replicate in fingerprint format.
...And I should follow up with your suicide hypothesis being easily disproved also. While suicides are indeed 66% of all deaths from firearms, eliminating guns does not eliminate any suicides. Ignoring the usual 'look at countries that have no firearms with substantially higher suicide rates' dataset, this is easily demonstrated from US-based data also, while also ignoring the obvious politically and emotionally charged issue of firearms: Look at trains: some towns have train tracks, others have zero. Towns with trains have 100% more train suicides than locales that do not have trains. Trains are far more lethal than any other form of suicide except possibly gravity, as a general rule they are far more lethal than guns. Despite this, towns that do not have trains do not have lower suicide rates. Blaming objects for human action ignores the problem entirely. This isn't to say that at-risk individuals should be given easy access to trains or firearms, but that is why psychological holds exist - they allow for temporary suspension or fights like firearm ownership and freedom when a patient is declared a danger to self or others. Prohibition itself solves nothing, especially when the subject of prohibition is a civil right. Avoid using terms like "gun violence" as it shows a subconscious slant towards blaming objects at any cost. If the issue you wish to address is violence, there are far more pressing issues like poverty you can focus that need to blame on rather than civil rights.
If you're willing to sit down and research gun violence, you won't be able to, because Congress, as a result of NRA lobbying and campaign contributions, prohibited government agencies from doing well-designed research into gun violence
This is a lie, you're parroting propaganda that is not rooted in fact. Most likely, you were referencing back when the CDC was punished for lobbying congress with a political agenda promoting gun control - something that is illegal for the CDC to do as they are not a partisan political entity. They were punished because they were caught breaking the law. The budget money they lost was returned a few months later, however. The CDC is not brred from reporting on anything at all, they are barred from lobbying congress with any specific agenda.
That one sentence won my meeting room buzzwords bingo game all by itself.
When that Dorner guy was burned to death, the police claimed the exact same thing: "We didn't know there would be a fire." There's hours of audio of the police radio chatter where officers ask when they would "deploy the burners" before that happened though, and for the last hour they had a "mic check" reminder every time somebody forgot to avoid the B word or mentioned burning him out loud. Claiming ignorance is the default excuse when police burn someone to death, it would seem.
The server in question was years behind in unapplied updated and numerous documented and patched exploits were still usable on it. I've seen no evidence that government owned servers have any sort of policy like this, and if there were it would be extremely big news because the hacks would be a daily occurrence, if not hourly.