Everyone is freaking out like before this you needed to be God himself to create a firearm. How long does it take a gunsmith to build a gun from scratch? Compare that to the time it takes to design one in AutoCAD or whatever and then 3D print it and assemble it. It's probably pretty comparable and the metal one doesn't look like a bad sci fi prop. I bet I could design a working rifle that would fire a couple bullets from a trip to the hardware store, or especially a shotgun! You need a barrel, aka steel pipe. Then a handle so solder/glue basically anything on. Then you need an end cap with a semi-sealed firing pin to strike the bullet so a piece of scrap metal and a spring. Tada, gun (at about the same reliability level).
And yet people still get colds and sinus infections. So yeah it would be a lot worse but this isn't some magic cure-all. What I do is nuke everything with zinc at the first sign of any illness and tada, it's gone. It prevents viruses from attaching to the cells along my nose's mucous membranes. I think scientists knew this since like 2004 and after 20/20 did a story on it, New York City sold out of Zinc overnight, as did many other areas. I personally haven't been sick in years and prevented at least 20 colds with zinc. That's the real cure.
Actually, no IPs were from india it seems to indicate. They said it's against Pakistin, thus it's from India, end of evidence. Talk about idiotic non-journalistic bullshit.
Amongst all of the guilty or not guilty arguments and paranoia vs reality, let us not forget that he made one of the worst antivirus suites known to man and that's what's really most important here.
However, governments are well known for their targeting certain groups and individuals for persecution or extortion so a bit of paranoia can be a good thing.
Yes, killing your neighbor does make the government go after you in almost all countries.
US military networks must have an awful lot of RAM and power CPUs then because dropping an Apple bomb on them is quite the system resources burden, lol.
Also known as a chemotherapy patient detector. I know if I was getting chemo, I wouldn't mind getting tackled by the police every other day because of the slight radioactivity.
It had to be Florida? Elderly people suspicious of their neighbors? Yeah, that never happens. Let's give them all an outlet for it! A family from Kosovo moved into my grandma's neighborhood a few years back and she was convinced they were drug-dealing terrorists. It turns out they were just assholes but it's easy for old people to get confused about that.
They bought their way to like 18% browser market share or something with dirty techniques like paid co-installers on free games and utilities and their browser still is super glitchy (mostly with flash and page layout), not the fastest or best, and generally is disliked more than other options. So I'd say they're not unhappy about that. Meanwhile, MSN's 3-4% of search turned into Bing's approx 28% of all searches after they bought their way to that level with just advertising and bribing users with sketchy rewards. That's a way larger chunk of money out of Google's pockets so overall they're winning at the moment.
Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.
So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.
Just because the pot called the kettle black doesn't mean the kettle isn't completely, utterly jet black.
For those of you wondering this, I looked into it. Their current model is slightly slower than current traditional PCs and does absolutely nothing that they can't. So why exactly is anyone buying one of these?
I took one look at the photo and it looks like a cartoonish painting. That's what a normal photo would look like if you set the noise reduce filter to 100% in Photoshop. WTF? Are they honestly claiming that came straight from a camera?
I'm thinking in a week or less, Oracle will actually release a frustrated press release that finally just states: "What aren't you people getting about this? Stop using Java! We've tried everything! Security flaws, endless releases, updaters that don't work, breaking all your code every update, numbering systems that make no sense, and a horribly misleading and impossible to navigate website. Why is anyone still using Java? We're trying to kill it, damn it!"
They always intended to have a service pack, they just wanted to call it something different so they could sell it. The only slight exception is giant UI changes don't usually occur in service packs lately, although Wireless Zero in SP2 was pretty significant.
"Apple envy" and "the store should be voluntary" are awfully close in that statement up there to not have you realize that Apple is 5x worse at that. If you have an i-device, you better have an apple ID/account and use the itunes app store or you aren't going to be doing very much on it. Windows 8 on the other hand can do just about anything without a marketplace account.
Radar is very 1 dimensional. A radio wave, imagined as a vector or ray, bounces off the material and then back at the receiving dish. If it doesn't, nothing is there as far as they can tell. However, if you broadcast on one side of the material and then received on the opposite side with a grid of multiple receivers, that might give away that something is there.
Though I think with this cloak, you wouldn't know specifically where it is. Radio waves warping around it would be received but not in the correct location unless you projected a grid of frequencies directly at it and then watched what geometric pattern they were received in then reversed it. You wouldn't know the object's exact location otherwise. Any cloak that simply makes the radar waves disappear though would show up easily. I believe this one does wrap the waves around though, instead of just absorbing them, just they wouldn't arrive quite correctly aligned on the other side the way they would if there was no object there so like I said, a grid would tell you the radar waves are being bent by something.
I still think it's all fake. The 3rd party vote company wants money. The show wants money. Whatever result would make the show get more money is the one they're both going to make happen, one way or another. It's not like there's some public notary from the government verifying every vote. Third party companies spring up out of nowhere and usually service primarily one giant company for the majority of their income.
I just heard another news story that said it's 3% of all internet traffic in the US at night. That's a pretty big discrepancy. Given all other services like youtube and Hulu and all peer to peer, I seriously doubt it's 1/3. It probably is 3%.
Let me put this back into proportion for a second.
One trip to the dollar store and anyone can make a high-yield chlorine gas bomb.
One trip to certain sporting goods stores and anyone can buy a harpoon gun without a license or ID.
One trip to ebay and anyone can build a high-yield black powder explosive.
One trip to the junkyard and anyone can build a machete or sword.
One trip to the Walmart and anyone can buy rubbing alcohol, matches, and firewood starter sticks to burn anything down.
One trip to a gas station and you can make a rudimentary napalm explosive (diesel and dish soap).
So now one trip to the internet and...wait, you probably don't have a 3d printer and neither does anyone else in your area. Hmmm, lol. Okay, so one trip to imaginary 3D printing store that doesn't mind you printing guns and tada, you've got an inaccurate, low quality firearm.
You know, let me add one more. One trip to Gamo's website and you can buy a US-made 1400 FPS BB rifle that runs on CO2 and fires sleeved hardened metal custom rounds with armor-piercing tips without a license since it's not a "gun." It does break the sound barrier and cause a sonic boom when it fires by the way and is guaranteed to kill small animals and they recommend you take it hunting. So yeah, this is not the end of the world or really even anything new.
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"Joe, who asked that I not reveal his full name..."
"The clip was filmed by Michael Guslick, a fellow Wisconsin engineer who helped Joe"
Hmmmmm, lol.
Everyone is freaking out like before this you needed to be God himself to create a firearm. How long does it take a gunsmith to build a gun from scratch? Compare that to the time it takes to design one in AutoCAD or whatever and then 3D print it and assemble it. It's probably pretty comparable and the metal one doesn't look like a bad sci fi prop. I bet I could design a working rifle that would fire a couple bullets from a trip to the hardware store, or especially a shotgun! You need a barrel, aka steel pipe. Then a handle so solder/glue basically anything on. Then you need an end cap with a semi-sealed firing pin to strike the bullet so a piece of scrap metal and a spring. Tada, gun (at about the same reliability level).
And yet people still get colds and sinus infections. So yeah it would be a lot worse but this isn't some magic cure-all. What I do is nuke everything with zinc at the first sign of any illness and tada, it's gone. It prevents viruses from attaching to the cells along my nose's mucous membranes. I think scientists knew this since like 2004 and after 20/20 did a story on it, New York City sold out of Zinc overnight, as did many other areas. I personally haven't been sick in years and prevented at least 20 colds with zinc. That's the real cure.
Actually, no IPs were from india it seems to indicate. They said it's against Pakistin, thus it's from India, end of evidence. Talk about idiotic non-journalistic bullshit.
Amongst all of the guilty or not guilty arguments and paranoia vs reality, let us not forget that he made one of the worst antivirus suites known to man and that's what's really most important here.
McAfee might be paranoid for no reason.
However, governments are well known for their targeting certain groups and individuals for persecution or extortion so a bit of paranoia can be a good thing.
Yes, killing your neighbor does make the government go after you in almost all countries.
Boy, they should really leave Yahoo and hop on Tumblr instead. Oh wait...
US military networks must have an awful lot of RAM and power CPUs then because dropping an Apple bomb on them is quite the system resources burden, lol.
Also known as a chemotherapy patient detector. I know if I was getting chemo, I wouldn't mind getting tackled by the police every other day because of the slight radioactivity.
It had to be Florida? Elderly people suspicious of their neighbors? Yeah, that never happens. Let's give them all an outlet for it! A family from Kosovo moved into my grandma's neighborhood a few years back and she was convinced they were drug-dealing terrorists. It turns out they were just assholes but it's easy for old people to get confused about that.
They bought their way to like 18% browser market share or something with dirty techniques like paid co-installers on free games and utilities and their browser still is super glitchy (mostly with flash and page layout), not the fastest or best, and generally is disliked more than other options. So I'd say they're not unhappy about that. Meanwhile, MSN's 3-4% of search turned into Bing's approx 28% of all searches after they bought their way to that level with just advertising and bribing users with sketchy rewards. That's a way larger chunk of money out of Google's pockets so overall they're winning at the moment.
Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.
So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.
Just because the pot called the kettle black doesn't mean the kettle isn't completely, utterly jet black.
For those of you wondering this, I looked into it. Their current model is slightly slower than current traditional PCs and does absolutely nothing that they can't. So why exactly is anyone buying one of these?
I took one look at the photo and it looks like a cartoonish painting. That's what a normal photo would look like if you set the noise reduce filter to 100% in Photoshop. WTF? Are they honestly claiming that came straight from a camera?
I'm thinking in a week or less, Oracle will actually release a frustrated press release that finally just states: "What aren't you people getting about this? Stop using Java! We've tried everything! Security flaws, endless releases, updaters that don't work, breaking all your code every update, numbering systems that make no sense, and a horribly misleading and impossible to navigate website. Why is anyone still using Java? We're trying to kill it, damn it!"
They always intended to have a service pack, they just wanted to call it something different so they could sell it. The only slight exception is giant UI changes don't usually occur in service packs lately, although Wireless Zero in SP2 was pretty significant.
Actual headline: "Microsoft decides not to attempt to sell Windows 8 SP1"
"Apple envy" and "the store should be voluntary" are awfully close in that statement up there to not have you realize that Apple is 5x worse at that. If you have an i-device, you better have an apple ID/account and use the itunes app store or you aren't going to be doing very much on it. Windows 8 on the other hand can do just about anything without a marketplace account.
I thought I had heard, and I'm not old enough to remember, didn't they do a free upgrade for Windows Millenium Edition to XP?
Radar is very 1 dimensional. A radio wave, imagined as a vector or ray, bounces off the material and then back at the receiving dish. If it doesn't, nothing is there as far as they can tell. However, if you broadcast on one side of the material and then received on the opposite side with a grid of multiple receivers, that might give away that something is there.
Though I think with this cloak, you wouldn't know specifically where it is. Radio waves warping around it would be received but not in the correct location unless you projected a grid of frequencies directly at it and then watched what geometric pattern they were received in then reversed it. You wouldn't know the object's exact location otherwise. Any cloak that simply makes the radar waves disappear though would show up easily. I believe this one does wrap the waves around though, instead of just absorbing them, just they wouldn't arrive quite correctly aligned on the other side the way they would if there was no object there so like I said, a grid would tell you the radar waves are being bent by something.
Time for World of Starcraft. I'd play it :-P
Or Detroit, which would look like Sim City 2000 on Cheetah speed when you raise the taxes to 20% and sell the sole power plant, lol.
I still think it's all fake. The 3rd party vote company wants money. The show wants money. Whatever result would make the show get more money is the one they're both going to make happen, one way or another. It's not like there's some public notary from the government verifying every vote. Third party companies spring up out of nowhere and usually service primarily one giant company for the majority of their income.
I just heard another news story that said it's 3% of all internet traffic in the US at night. That's a pretty big discrepancy. Given all other services like youtube and Hulu and all peer to peer, I seriously doubt it's 1/3. It probably is 3%.
Let me put this back into proportion for a second.
One trip to the dollar store and anyone can make a high-yield chlorine gas bomb.
One trip to certain sporting goods stores and anyone can buy a harpoon gun without a license or ID.
One trip to ebay and anyone can build a high-yield black powder explosive.
One trip to the junkyard and anyone can build a machete or sword.
One trip to the Walmart and anyone can buy rubbing alcohol, matches, and firewood starter sticks to burn anything down.
One trip to a gas station and you can make a rudimentary napalm explosive (diesel and dish soap).
So now one trip to the internet and...wait, you probably don't have a 3d printer and neither does anyone else in your area. Hmmm, lol. Okay, so one trip to imaginary 3D printing store that doesn't mind you printing guns and tada, you've got an inaccurate, low quality firearm.
You know, let me add one more. One trip to Gamo's website and you can buy a US-made 1400 FPS BB rifle that runs on CO2 and fires sleeved hardened metal custom rounds with armor-piercing tips without a license since it's not a "gun." It does break the sound barrier and cause a sonic boom when it fires by the way and is guaranteed to kill small animals and they recommend you take it hunting. So yeah, this is not the end of the world or really even anything new.