The Disconnect tool tells me 35 different sites, most definitely difficult to associate directly with Wired's core business, are informed every time I visit wired.com. Of those 35, my blockers stop 11. What about the other 24? From where I sit, it would seem to me that Wired is already heavily monetized even with conventional ad blockers engaged. It's up to them to fully explain what those partnerships are really about before I pony up anything more than I already have. Transparency, Wired, is the name of the game. 'Fess up.
(That may be a paraphrase of a quote in the last year or so from a lady whose name I can't recall. Nor can I find the original text where it appeared. But it has stuck with me just the same. My apologies to the original author.)
During my wife's battle with cancer 20 years ago, she "coded out" two times, once when I was with her in the ICU, once on the operating table. She had the full-up near-death experience each time.
She described pretty much what you've all read in the other personal accounts of such events.
Whatever the biology, or even the physics (some have proposed a type of quantum entanglement occurs) of near-death are, I can affirm that it changed the way my wife looks at the nature of her life and existence in general. I am not unscathed by it, of course, but it is among the most deeply personal experiences one can have.
Although probably obvious, I'll close by saying my wife and I are still married and she has been cancer-free since the ordeal.
Indeed. I'm no Apple fanboy but I admire Steve Jobs. He lost Apple as much because of hubris as anything else. He took a hard look at himself, founded NeXT, bought Pixar, and got Apple back - still with the same zeal but a more human attitude.
No, he didn't walk on water, but at the helm of a re-energized Apple, he and his colleagues changed so much in computing in such a positive way.
Make him Chairman in Perpetuity so that no one forgets his work.
BTW, she's also got a crabcake recipe on her site. That scores points in my book...
-S
It should score points! If it's in the hand of "Babs" Mikulski, it's a done deal. She is a major supporter of NASA and utterly relentless. The Webb telescope will launch if she has anything to say about it.
...years ago. Scott McNealy of Sun was the first person I can recall saying as much in public, and at the time I was angry at him for saying it.
But he was right. And he is even more right today.
Slashdot, Facebook, Google+, all of them will roll over if you post something that draws the attention of LEOs. You think your IP address can't be traced? Don't be naive. Everything you've ever done online can be cross-matched and correlated.
No, I don't like it either, but it isn't going to change. Ever.
...Anonymous are just a bunch of thugs now. Had they stuck to their original purpose they could have been a force for good. Now they're farce - no different from every ego-centric hacker group that came before them.
Nothing of any import in this loadout. Anonymous may have begin righteously, but they're devolving into rancid anklebitery as we watch.
The only sounds I hear are their death gurgles. Too bad - they could have been so much more. Not the first cadre to burn brightly and carbonize themselves. Not the last, either.
I can only guess, but I think it's the return on the R&D costs plus liability estimates and the low production volume. My spouse has an Otto Bock C-Leg. The cost now is in the $30k to low-$40k range, primarily because many above-knee amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan are getting them - a really perverse "cost goes down as volume increases" curve.:(
My spouse is an above-knee amputee that wears a good prosthetic clocking in at over $90k. And that's just for one. A spare with lesser parts? $60k. These folks being shown with multiple versions (running, walking, swimming, etc) are sponsored or are wealthy.
It's great to see the advancements, but the stuff being shown is $1 million plus or prototyped - they are *not* off-the-shelf. And let's not even get started with trying to get an insurance company to cover them.
Slashdot Mirror
The Disconnect tool tells me 35 different sites, most definitely difficult to associate directly with Wired's core business, are informed every time I visit wired.com. Of those 35, my blockers stop 11. What about the other 24? From where I sit, it would seem to me that Wired is already heavily monetized even with conventional ad blockers engaged.
It's up to them to fully explain what those partnerships are really about before I pony up anything more than I already have. Transparency, Wired, is the name of the game. 'Fess up.
http://www.militaryfactory.com...
Military pay grades are in the public record. Many sites (the above is just one) publish them.
And we have the dreaded CAPSLOCK WEAPON..
The whole debate on /. has turned into a self-resonating echo chamber.
..faster than it is becoming the past."
(That may be a paraphrase of a quote in the last year or so from a lady whose name I can't recall. Nor can I find the original text where it appeared. But it has stuck with me just the same. My apologies to the original author.)
Why did the Ren 'n Stimpy Happy Helmet just jump into my thoughts?
Oh no...
During my wife's battle with cancer 20 years ago, she "coded out" two times, once when I was with her in the ICU, once on the operating table. She had the full-up near-death experience each time.
She described pretty much what you've all read in the other personal accounts of such events.
Whatever the biology, or even the physics (some have proposed a type of quantum entanglement occurs) of near-death are, I can affirm that it changed the way my wife looks at the nature of her life and existence in general. I am not unscathed by it, of course, but it is among the most deeply personal experiences one can have.
Although probably obvious, I'll close by saying my wife and I are still married and she has been cancer-free since the ordeal.
The waiter approached.
"Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"
"Huh?" said Ford.
"Huh?" said Arthur.
"Huh?" said Trillian.
"That's cool," said Zaphod, "we'll meet the meat."
--Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
At this point, it's just branding. There was a time when Black Hat was correctly titled, but that train has long since left the station.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (http://pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar_official.html)
There's the underlying reason
Respectfully submitted: Did anyone bother to read the FBI's actual testimony, which was linked in the WaPo article?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/going-dark-lawful-electronic-surveillance-in-the-face-of-new-technologies
Note the date of the testimony: February 17, 2011
This has been on the burner for a while now.
"I feel somewhat like I did when John Lennon was murdered. Great sadness, and the sensation that part of your life is no longer there."
-- "Dan" from Binghamton, NY, comments section of the New York Times
I thought you could.
Bingo. If enacted, this will be RICO for cyber crime. Given the nature of modern cyber crime, it won't be hard to prove in many cases.
Indeed. I'm no Apple fanboy but I admire Steve Jobs. He lost Apple as much because of hubris as anything else. He took a hard look at himself, founded NeXT, bought Pixar, and got Apple back - still with the same zeal but a more human attitude.
No, he didn't walk on water, but at the helm of a re-energized Apple, he and his colleagues changed so much in computing in such a positive way.
Make him Chairman in Perpetuity so that no one forgets his work.
http://mikulski.senate.gov/contact/
BTW, she's also got a crabcake recipe on her site. That scores points in my book...
-S
It should score points! If it's in the hand of "Babs" Mikulski, it's a done deal. She is a major supporter of NASA and utterly relentless. The Webb telescope will launch if she has anything to say about it.
...years ago. Scott McNealy of Sun was the first person I can recall saying as much in public, and at the time I was angry at him for saying it.
But he was right. And he is even more right today.
Slashdot, Facebook, Google+, all of them will roll over if you post something that draws the attention of LEOs. You think your IP address can't be traced? Don't be naive. Everything you've ever done online can be cross-matched and correlated.
No, I don't like it either, but it isn't going to change. Ever.
...Anonymous are just a bunch of thugs now. Had they stuck to their original purpose they could have been a force for good. Now they're farce - no different from every ego-centric hacker group that came before them.
The only sounds I hear are their death gurgles. Too bad - they could have been so much more. Not the first cadre to burn brightly and carbonize themselves. Not the last, either.
I can only guess, but I think it's the return on the R&D costs plus liability estimates and the low production volume. My spouse has an Otto Bock C-Leg. The cost now is in the $30k to low-$40k range, primarily because many above-knee amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan are getting them - a really perverse "cost goes down as volume increases" curve. :(
My spouse is an above-knee amputee that wears a good prosthetic clocking in at over $90k. And that's just for one. A spare with lesser parts? $60k. These folks being shown with multiple versions (running, walking, swimming, etc) are sponsored or are wealthy. It's great to see the advancements, but the stuff being shown is $1 million plus or prototyped - they are *not* off-the-shelf. And let's not even get started with trying to get an insurance company to cover them.
..set the oven to "Carbonize". The cost of hubris is always unaffordable.