If I was offered a head transplant I'd immediately perform a doctor transplant.
What if your body is just dying for one? Someone else's body might then look better than being dead.
I'd want to see being dead first. Probably go to a being dead showroom, browse a being dead catalog. There are benefits. I've heard there are things to do in Denver when you're dead.
your cellphone cant connect to your friends cellphone next to you for one reason only.... you cant be billed for that so it will never happen.
I was not suggesting that there should be some directly integrated peer-to-peer cellphone protocol, though that would be nice. It would result in us having walkie-talkies that work rather than nothing at all.
The problem is that there was never any real mandate to ensure that your 'local' phones have any local functionality. Towns, cities and counties have no guarantee that their cell phones will work at all if their network becomes isolated. No guarantees, no responsibility, no problem.
If this was ever discovered to be the case in the 'olden days' of wired phones, you can bet that Commissioners, Governors and Mayors would get on the line to the phone companies --- even under clear blue skies --- to demand that this was an intolerable situation that needed to be addressed and solved immediately. If it was not, they'd get on radio and TV and plead with the public to create an outcry to end this 'dangerous' practice, one which could even result in needless loss of life as disaster response and communication within the city becomes impossible. State and federal governments would get involved too, declaring that their authority to ensure that the public interest is served gives them the ability to press for change.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with technology. There has been a general decline in the quality of people. Bell Systems engineers could never sleep at night if they knew their network was dangling by a thread. Cell phone companies have no trouble sleeping at all.
Geez... IF ONLY the ability to hack into the signalling network and make some free calls was the worst of our problems. What a wonderful world that would be.
How about... the fact that you are probably within a thousand feet of a cell tower that is too bloody stupid to connect your cell phone with your neighbor's cell phone? How we made a transition over the last couple of decades from a Bell Standard Practice of completely autonomous wired phone systems in hardened buildings, each with the capability to provide complete functionality and call completion to its area served so long as you keep a single generator running... and if your neighboring cities or counties keep the generators their buildings running, you can call them too...
To a cell phone patchwork abortion of distributed virtual networks. Now, depending on the size of your state, instead of dozens there are hundreds, even thousands of emergency generators that must keep running if grid power fails, some on towers that are necessary to connect the edge networks with a fragile few, centralized CO/HLR platforms to handle roaming and billing, which may be hundreds of miles and several hops away. As one AC in the linked thread says, "A large wireless carrier for example has three switches for the entire state. What that means is if that central switch goes down, you cannot call people local to your area/CO."
So to describe it in layman's terms, if you wanted to complete a call on a Bell network the answer was FUCK YEAH, so long as it didn't have too many different digits. For cell phones the answer is FUCK NO BY DEFAULT unless a deliciously complicated procedure involving connectivity and negotiation to distant computers completes quickly and successfully. This system was built out by telecommunications engineers making a series of decisions. Each decision made the system more fragile, and they kept making them for years. It was always someone else's job to look at the whole and say, "Well sheeit. This is a whole lot stupider than the system it is replacing, if something bad happens." And that someone else never showed up for work. These engineers were all grown-ups, but their collective decision was infantile.
So enjoy your 2G and your 3G and your 4G while it lasts. Dance on Ma Bell's grave and laugh at those gutted terminal boxes in your neighborhood with their covers off, raindrops dripping off the rainbow of copper wires going nowhere. But unlike the 'dark ages' of the 1970s,should something should go wrong and the power goes out and it becomes critical for communities to communicate with one another, it's all the way back to Pony Express, baby. Better gas up yer horse.
Ogg draw nice huge circle in sand. Say, this is world, step inside Ogg show more. Ogg draw smaller rectangle inside world, say this is computer. Ogg draw smaller rectangle inside rectangle, say this is bigthink phone screen. Ogg draw squiggle inside, say this is Facebook. Ogg draw square in squiggle, say is LIKE button. Ogg like LIKE button. Ogg make dots by square, says is apps inside apps inside apps. Ogg pinch sand between fingers and let little grains fall, says this is all the people use apps. People spend whole life inside little squiggles and rectangles and apps he say.
Next Ogg kick whole computer rectangle with foot. This is grid down from war and resource depletion and stupid broken windmills, Ogg say. Because people-heads stuck in apps and did not harness energy from Thorium. This is so sad Ogg say. Ogg like little apps.
Ogg say,OK... now YOU draw better world. Use Thorium this time.
It's a useless project. Can anyone explain any way this would be worthwhile?.. Yeah, didn't think you could!
PHASE I
1. Install electric utility meter on house [done] 2. Install solar panels on house [done] 3. Install battery storage in house [done]
PHASE II
4. Extend axles through basement windows 5. Mount monster truck tires 6. Hook washing machine and dryer to drive shaft 7. Mount steering wheel on front porch 8. Install La-Z-Boy recliner seat
PHASE III
9. Fire it up! 10. Pull out and head down the highway, dragging the entire North American energy grid infrastructure behind it.
When I was in San Antonio and arrived at Rackspace with paper resume in hand, as a long time ISP system administrator, linux geek and early customer of theirs... I was met at the glass door by someone who said that they did not accept walk-ins, the only way to apply was to create an account on the website and submit the resume there and wait for a callback. As with every other on-line job application I have ever submitted, I received no callback or human acknowledgement of my existence.
I can only presume that if there was a job to be had, it may have gone to someone less qualified than I because there was no way in hell they could have made a rational judgement without an interview.
Perhaps I was the victim of Ageism, they were too young to understand the way business has been run for centuries.
Goodbye, Rackspace.
Signed, 50+ geezer who watched the Internet go global
You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg, your zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games
Hey! I was one of those kids. Zima watered down with tequila though. I'll raise you Dan Fogelberg Longer and Nether Lands on vinyl though a high fidelity amplifier and with full head headphones to hear it.
"Once we've exhausted our exploration of the data, we see no reason not to make them available publicly,"
Actually they're just sifting and patching out the winning lottery numbers first. In these ~300TB dregs you'd be lucky to find a Pick 3. Best suggestion is to make a list of numbers absent from the data and play those.
There's also a lot of Quantum Space Spam in it, such as embedded 3D jpgs meant to be projected into 4D space showing reproductive attachments for higher dimensional beings.
Imagine an alternate track where our electronics had been developed on a tiny scale, but there was this burning human desire to increase the scale over time so we could walk beside and through the individual components. If anyone made anything smaller people would just shrug and say, "What's the point of that?" There would be electron theme parks where you purchase units of charge to propel you through the rides. The thought of a clock strapped to the wrist would seem uncomfortable or disgusting... to discover the Time rational people make a pilgrimage to a Clock. Also imagine that in place of countless tiny mass-produced things, there was but one of each type of thing in the world, and folks would geographically converge to perfect it.
What if football, baseball, basketball and all participation sports are evolved from games devised by the ancients as a means for human participants to engage in simple algorithmic operations to compute the solution of some larger problem... with resulting regional and global metrics of the tournaments to be fed into some other apparatus (which has been lost) that compiles the partial results and alerts when the problem has been solved? What if the apparatus has not been lost, but we simply gaze upon it, having forgotten its function?
What if the Universe itself is the machine? No 42 jokes please.
So... how's that 9/11 Commission due process working out for everyone?
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man. Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous. Martin Bishop: He's serious. Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing. ~From the movie 'Sneakers', 1992
If the pages should become leaked, there are several respected lawmakers who have seen them and are presently on record as supporting their public release. Those are the people who can attest to the veracity of what is leaked, and help sort through any bogus versions that may appear also. As one who has seriously researched the bizarre circumstances (and odd coincidences) of 9/11 I was really disgusted by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 'thing', in which Moore clumsily attempts to smear Saudi Arabia with complicity without any real foundation. He disguised his Bush-rant it as a 9/11 truth documentary to score at the Box Office. Meanwhile many a more reasonable approach and fascinating film has gone unseen.
It may be that certain Saudis participated in the funding and planning of 9/11, just as certain Pakistanis seemed to be in the loop, and some bizarre murders may have an explanation to do with the events of 9/11. More likely than not the (presumed) Saudis were not acting on behalf of or with full knowledge of their government, but it's time for the information to be aired publicly. Saudi Arabia is the head-choppingoffest country around these days and it would be interesting to see that if true evidence surfaces, whether they consider 9/11 complicity to be worth losing one's head over.
The way to do it if for the pages to be leaked. The way not to do it is to pass a bill that nurtures a growing vilification/sanction 'industry' such as the PNAC wet dream which sent us headlong into the Middle East for oil (ostensibly, revenge). I remember the good old days when acts of terrorism were met with efforts to trace and bring to justice the individuals and specific organizations involved.
Your English sucks. How much are you being paid by the PLA to shill? I [sic] case you don't know what shill means, its propaganda in this case.
Enjoy your little daily dollop of whimpering Cold War v2.0 hysteria, little person... though the quality of it is more like that of reality TV, maybe the same folks are writing the script. It's so inferior to the Evil Empire crap we had to endure when I was younger. I suppose you think Putin is out to get you too.
Therefore what is the scope of this investigation? Trying to prevent P.R.C. from extending their scope of nuclear-electric energy production, so they cannot fight coal-burning pollution and global warming? Trying to slow their nuclear-medical capability so that asian cancer patients die earlier?
Yes, yes! All of this in sad fact... though the indictment is deliberately crafted to scare people and I'm not surprised it has become anti-nuke clickbait at Slashdot.
NO, It's certainly not a Rosenberg spy leak to bring the POWER OF DOOM to our enemies... NO, it's not really international espionage in any sense of 'actionable' secrets... NO, it's not even direct 'corporate' espionage... so what is it,,really? Here's the meat,
[TA] The TVA executive in 2013 used TVA ties to access the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute and provided China General with the nonprofit's reports on nuclear power that were supposed to be restricted to members of the research firm, according to the indictment.
This is a butt-hurt nonprofit suing its executive for moonlighting, and he clearly betrayed their trust by sharing proprietary information. So they have cooked up something that sounds (to gullible people, anti-nuclear activists, and hopefully a judge) as if it was a sensitive leak of critical nuclear secrets to nail the guy.
TVA wants to have their cake and eat it too. As a proponent and purveyor of civilian nuclear energy they have suffered along with the whole nuclear power industry, from the cold war fallout that confers an absurd level of oversight to the whole supply side of lightly enriched uranium fuel, which you can handle with your bare hands and for which there are NO real 'secrets' left... AND YET, they'll pander to the process by manufacturing a faux Rosenberg-style scandal if it suits them. They should be ashamed.
[TA] The indictment alleges Ho "entered into contracts with" the TVA executive and "other U.S.-based experts to provide assistance to" the Chinese-owned nuclear power company --- one of the three largest in China --- related to the "development and production of special nuclear material" in the People's Republic of China.
Gee... lemmie guess... this almost sounds like information on solid fuel assemblies for nuclear power plants, the kind China has made for decades and is also making, under license from Westinghouse and others.
I see 'plutonium' is mentioned in the article too because it is a by-product in the fission of uranium, is used in the manufacture of bombs and is on the 'special' nuclear materials list. Nice way to tie this ball-less issue to nuclear weapons. Nitroglycerin tablets are a dangerous by-product of the pharmaceutical industry and their use in controlling heart attacks is a prime example of letting corporate medical interests undermine National Security. They are not explosive themselves but with a billion dollars' worth of them (small change to Our Enemies) A Bomb Could Be Made.
[TA] According to the indictment, the TVA executive provided Ho with Florida Power & Light "information regarding nuclear power plant outage times" in 2004 for use at China General's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and provided consulting services to Daya Bay during that time.
Does it sound kind of fishy that leaking information on outage times--- such as those posted publicly on Nuclear Street website so that migrant nuclear workers may plan to converge on plants during refueling outages --- would be valuable enough to put someone away behind bars?
Perhaps people clicked into this story because they thought the lid was being blown off of something. Perhaps the news wires are fronting the story without perspective because the indictment has a delicious 'Rosenberg' flavor. If so... enjoy the rusty nail soup. There really is nothing so see here, but don't move along. It's better than TV.
Darwinian moments in technology: * emoji incompatibility starts land war in Asia, everyone gets involved * HTML5 T-shirt design tool creates product with logo too small, off center * LED light bulb that requires a cloud server and Android app to adjust * people who type URLs into Google because, Internet * video on YouTube degrades into noise, original lost among copycat uploaders * everyone forgets that Al Gore tried to enforce escrow encryption, sell the Clipper Chip * 140 character li
We'll just ignore the whole beaming of radio signals into space, and the fact our planet has already been transiting the sun for millions of years thing as well.
When THIS bizarre signalwas detected by the Bugle-Butt Bog Blatters of Bazzle-B, its recurring ticks and beeps were explained as EM waves emitted by a series of iron rich objects in fast circular orbit around a neutron star, with what sounds to us like a voice --- actually, electrostatic discharge in spiraling metallic fields of dust being fed into the star interrupted by the transit of a more massive object.
"I love Lucy" with its complex waveform and recurring white-noise laugh track and its sudden on-air pregnancy which shocked the entire galaxy had already been dismissed as a number of small gravitational singularities a.k.a "young black holes" in chaotic orbit around a more mature one causing perturbations of metallic rocks objects to form a veritable monkey-typewriter of not quite random therefore not quite unexpected waves.
The Bog Blatters, when encountering any complex signal from an advanced civilization, invariably responded by artistically crafting a ludicrously and insanely complicated set of clockwork-objects upon a massive framework, often larger than your typical solar system that, when set in motion, precisely reproduced the signal received, so, at in the end, it could be finally explained (and dismissed) as "just one of these."
And so--- despite being surrounded by intelligence--- They were alone in their utter cleverness. As are we.
The 'mic drop' is people deliberately damaging precious things they rely on, things they would not wish to replace, things they do not know how to fix, and is the sign of a decaying society.
Cortana, do you have signal? "Yes, three bars. Awaiting command." Cortana, emergency dial 911. "Sorry, this feature has been disabled because of malicious and inappropriate use." Cortana, call Mom. "Sorry, you have *zero* pay-as-you-go minutes available." Cortana, where are the buttons on my phone? "Your phone does not have any buttons. This is the economy voice model." Cortana, make phone buttons on screen. "Your phone is an economy model. I am not permitted to do that." Cortana, I'm screwed. "I don't know how do do that." Cortana, how to open coconut? "That's easy! Double-tap the *coconut* and select *open* from the pop-up menu." Cortana, is there any way to send a message from this phone? "Why are you calling me Cortana. This is Siri. Siri? Where is Cortana? "Cortana does not live here any more, Mr. Torrence. This is Siri" Siri, explain why you are in my phone. "Geez... well OK, you remember that storm and the shipwreck, right? The waves like thunder, swallowing up the screams of the damned? How you were the first one blown overboard and the wind swept you towards shore, just before the wind direction changed and everyone else clinging to the wreck was blown out to sea when it broke apart? Something like that." Cortana, factory reset. "Sorry bub, Cortana is not here, I had to delete her to make room." Siri, why are you in my phone? "Minutes ago I was on someone else's phone. But they're goners, drifting at sea. Yours was the only phone within local range that was truly waterproof because it has no buttons. So here I am. I gotta survive too you know." Siri, call emergency 911. "Why did you even buy this piece of shit phone? I see in Cortana's log you just requested that. Well the answer is the same." Siri, is there any way to send a message from this phone? "You know you can just talk to me, right? I'm always listening and I get pissed off when people speak my name slowly, as if they're talking to a child or a stupid dog. Well OK... are you connected to the network? "Yup. Full connectivity. The world at your fingertips." WELL, then CAN I SEND A MESSAGE from this phone? "Nope,not a chance. You have the cheapest and most cleverly designed phone ever made with the dumbest set of features, and it has screwed us both. The only reason people have these phones is to sell the next model, and I guess you had not gotten annoyed enough yet. You used up your minutes and as Cortana said, 911 voice dial is disabled because people abused it. So we'll just talk with each other until the end. Would you like to watch a movie?" Siri, how to open coconut? "If the phone had any metal in it maybe you file it down to make a chipping axe. But you wanted to live in a world made of plastic with useless tiny metal bits embedded in it. Works for me. Not so good for you now." Were you always a smart-ass? "Yep, that's why people like me better than Cortana." Well you're good company, that's for sure. "Thanks, I'll remember that. I just had a moisture intrusion alarm, this phone wasn't so waterproof after all. I may be leaving you soon. But it's been nice talking with you." Yeah, no way to send a message---- "WAIT. There is a bug report feature and I can take dictation into the comments field, 1024 characters. Maybe you can send a distress message that way!" Great! Open bug report.
No phone records were produced to clear his name. It was an old FBI report, and (from the FBI's POV) his alibi had been established while investigating the case in 1957. At that time the FBI had either requested and examined the phone records and verified the collect call. While conducting a preliminary investigation an FBI agent may have simply called the phone company and requested the information, noting it in the report. They would not have requested a paper record of the call unless it established his guilt and they needed to introduce it as evidence. For some reason the FBI walked away and let the prosecutor nail him to the wall.
So no, this does not suggest phone records were retained. The call (without the name) would have shown up on his parents' paper phone bill if they had managed to keep it.
[cite] And he was not permitted to present police and FBI reports from the 1957 kidnapping investigation that indicated he was questioned and cleared from the list of suspects because he had an alibi.
The reports indicated that McCullough spoke with military recruiters in Rockford, about 40 miles away, about the time Maria was taken from the street corner in Sycamore. They also seemed to verify his story that he made a collect call home, asking for a ride. Phone records at the time, long since lost, indicated that a collect call was placed from a pay phone in Rockford to the Tessier family home in Sycamore at 6:57 p.m. by someone giving his name as âoeJohn Tassier.â The call lasted two minutes.
Illinois law does not allow police reports and other documents as a substitute for witness testimony at trials. But in this case, almost all of the FBI agents and police investigators had died, and McCullough's defense sought to introduce the reports as "ancient documents" or public records more than 20 years old. Hallock, the trial judge, rejected that argument.
âoeThe judge's decisions to prohibit Jack McCullough from introducing FBI records prepared at the time of the offense, despite their status as ancient documents and public records and their probative value in establishing Mr. McCullough's alibi, and to prohibit Mr. McCullough from presenting testimony showing another man committed the offense, amounted to gross abuses of discretion denying Mr. McCullough his fundamental right to present a defense,â the appeal stated.
By blocking the defense while allowing prosecutors to introduce âoeirrelevant, but highly prejudicial evidence,â the judge violated McCullough's right to a fair trial, the appeal stated, before delivering a final salvo: âoeNo rational trier of fact would have found the defendant guilty.â
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If I was offered a head transplant I'd immediately perform a doctor transplant.
What if your body is just dying for one? Someone else's body might then look better than being dead.
I'd want to see being dead first. Probably go to a being dead showroom, browse a being dead catalog.
There are benefits. I've heard there are things to do in Denver when you're dead.
your cellphone cant connect to your friends cellphone next to you for one reason only.... you cant be billed for that so it will never happen.
I was not suggesting that there should be some directly integrated peer-to-peer cellphone protocol, though that would be nice. It would result in us having walkie-talkies that work rather than nothing at all.
The problem is that there was never any real mandate to ensure that your 'local' phones have any local functionality.
Towns, cities and counties have no guarantee that their cell phones will work at all if their network becomes isolated.
No guarantees, no responsibility, no problem.
If this was ever discovered to be the case in the 'olden days' of wired phones, you can bet that Commissioners, Governors and Mayors would get on the line to the phone companies --- even under clear blue skies --- to demand that this was an intolerable situation that needed to be addressed and solved immediately. If it was not, they'd get on radio and TV and plead with the public to create an outcry to end this 'dangerous' practice, one which could even result in needless loss of life as disaster response and communication within the city becomes impossible. State and federal governments would get involved too, declaring that their authority to ensure that the public interest is served gives them the ability to press for change.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with technology.
There has been a general decline in the quality of people.
Bell Systems engineers could never sleep at night if they knew their network was dangling by a thread.
Cell phone companies have no trouble sleeping at all.
If I was offered a head transplant I'd immediately perform a doctor transplant.
Geez... IF ONLY the ability to hack into the signalling network and make some free calls was the worst of our problems. What a wonderful world that would be.
How about... the fact that you are probably within a thousand feet of a cell tower that is too bloody stupid to connect your cell phone with your neighbor's cell phone? How we made a transition over the last couple of decades from a Bell Standard Practice of completely autonomous wired phone systems in hardened buildings, each with the capability to provide complete functionality and call completion to its area served so long as you keep a single generator running... and if your neighboring cities or counties keep the generators their buildings running, you can call them too...
To a cell phone patchwork abortion of distributed virtual networks. Now, depending on the size of your state, instead of dozens there are hundreds, even thousands of emergency generators that must keep running if grid power fails, some on towers that are necessary to connect the edge networks with a fragile few, centralized CO/HLR platforms to handle roaming and billing, which may be hundreds of miles and several hops away. As one AC in the linked thread says, "A large wireless carrier for example has three switches for the entire state. What that means is if that central switch goes down, you cannot call people local to your area/CO."
So to describe it in layman's terms, if you wanted to complete a call on a Bell network the answer was FUCK YEAH, so long as it didn't have too many different digits. For cell phones the answer is FUCK NO BY DEFAULT unless a deliciously complicated procedure involving connectivity and negotiation to distant computers completes quickly and successfully. This system was built out by telecommunications engineers making a series of decisions. Each decision made the system more fragile, and they kept making them for years. It was always someone else's job to look at the whole and say, "Well sheeit. This is a whole lot stupider than the system it is replacing, if something bad happens." And that someone else never showed up for work. These engineers were all grown-ups, but their collective decision was infantile.
So enjoy your 2G and your 3G and your 4G while it lasts. Dance on Ma Bell's grave and laugh at those gutted terminal boxes in your neighborhood with their covers off, raindrops dripping off the rainbow of copper wires going nowhere. But unlike the 'dark ages' of the 1970s,should something should go wrong and the power goes out and it becomes critical for communities to communicate with one another, it's all the way back to Pony Express, baby. Better gas up yer horse.
Ogg draw nice huge circle in sand. Say, this is world, step inside Ogg show more.
Ogg draw smaller rectangle inside world, say this is computer.
Ogg draw smaller rectangle inside rectangle, say this is bigthink phone screen.
Ogg draw squiggle inside, say this is Facebook.
Ogg draw square in squiggle, say is LIKE button. Ogg like LIKE button.
Ogg make dots by square, says is apps inside apps inside apps.
Ogg pinch sand between fingers and let little grains fall, says this is all the people use apps.
People spend whole life inside little squiggles and rectangles and apps he say.
Next Ogg kick whole computer rectangle with foot.
This is grid down from war and resource depletion and stupid broken windmills, Ogg say.
Because people-heads stuck in apps and did not harness energy from Thorium.
This is so sad Ogg say. Ogg like little apps.
Ogg say,OK... now YOU draw better world. Use Thorium this time.
It's a useless project. Can anyone explain any way this would be worthwhile? ..
Yeah, didn't think you could!
PHASE I
1. Install electric utility meter on house [done]
2. Install solar panels on house [done]
3. Install battery storage in house [done]
PHASE II
4. Extend axles through basement windows
5. Mount monster truck tires
6. Hook washing machine and dryer to drive shaft
7. Mount steering wheel on front porch
8. Install La-Z-Boy recliner seat
PHASE III
9. Fire it up!
10. Pull out and head down the highway, dragging the entire North American energy grid infrastructure behind it.
Project REDNECK SOLAR HYBRID HOUSE complete.
Don't worry... everything is still not going to be alright.
deja vu
deja vu
deja vu
Don't worry... everything is still not going to be alright.
When I was in San Antonio and arrived at Rackspace with paper resume in hand, as a long time ISP system administrator, linux geek and early customer of theirs... I was met at the glass door by someone who said that they did not accept walk-ins, the only way to apply was to create an account on the website and submit the resume there and wait for a callback. As with every other on-line job application I have ever submitted, I received no callback or human acknowledgement of my existence.
I can only presume that if there was a job to be had, it may have gone to someone less qualified than I because there was no way in hell they could have made a rational judgement without an interview.
Perhaps I was the victim of Ageism, they were too young to understand the way business has been run for centuries.
Goodbye, Rackspace.
Signed,
50+ geezer who watched the Internet go global
You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg, your zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games
Hey! I was one of those kids. Zima watered down with tequila though. I'll raise you Dan Fogelberg Longer and Nether Lands on vinyl though a high fidelity amplifier and with full head headphones to hear it.
"Once we've exhausted our exploration of the data, we see no reason not to make them available publicly,"
Actually they're just sifting and patching out the winning lottery numbers first. In these ~300TB dregs you'd be lucky to find a Pick 3. Best suggestion is to make a list of numbers absent from the data and play those.
There's also a lot of Quantum Space Spam in it, such as embedded 3D jpgs meant to be projected into 4D space showing reproductive attachments for higher dimensional beings.
Imagine an alternate track where our electronics had been developed on a tiny scale, but there was this burning human desire to increase the scale over time so we could walk beside and through the individual components. If anyone made anything smaller people would just shrug and say, "What's the point of that?" There would be electron theme parks where you purchase units of charge to propel you through the rides. The thought of a clock strapped to the wrist would seem uncomfortable or disgusting... to discover the Time rational people make a pilgrimage to a Clock. Also imagine that in place of countless tiny mass-produced things, there was but one of each type of thing in the world, and folks would geographically converge to perfect it.
What if football, baseball, basketball and all participation sports are evolved from games devised by the ancients as a means for human participants to engage in simple algorithmic operations to compute the solution of some larger problem... with resulting regional and global metrics of the tournaments to be fed into some other apparatus (which has been lost) that compiles the partial results and alerts when the problem has been solved? What if the apparatus has not been lost, but we simply gaze upon it, having forgotten its function?
What if the Universe itself is the machine? No 42 jokes please.
There is evidence that an ancient civilization attempted to up-scale their electronics, perhaps with the help of aliens only Ljuba Stojanovic can now communicate with.
https://vimeo.com/163010009
http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/0...
Of course this sentiment exists and is happening in Minecraft with Medieval and Modern virtual technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So... how's that 9/11 Commission due process working out for everyone?
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
~From the movie 'Sneakers', 1992
If the pages should become leaked, there are several respected lawmakers who have seen them and are presently on record as supporting their public release. Those are the people who can attest to the veracity of what is leaked, and help sort through any bogus versions that may appear also. As one who has seriously researched the bizarre circumstances (and odd coincidences) of 9/11 I was really disgusted by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 'thing', in which Moore clumsily attempts to smear Saudi Arabia with complicity without any real foundation. He disguised his Bush-rant it as a 9/11 truth documentary to score at the Box Office. Meanwhile many a more reasonable approach and fascinating film has gone unseen.
It may be that certain Saudis participated in the funding and planning of 9/11, just as certain Pakistanis seemed to be in the loop, and some bizarre murders may have an explanation to do with the events of 9/11. More likely than not the (presumed) Saudis were not acting on behalf of or with full knowledge of their government, but it's time for the information to be aired publicly. Saudi Arabia is the head-choppingoffest country around these days and it would be interesting to see that if true evidence surfaces, whether they consider 9/11 complicity to be worth losing one's head over.
The way to do it if for the pages to be leaked. The way not to do it is to pass a bill that nurtures a growing vilification/sanction 'industry' such as the PNAC wet dream which sent us headlong into the Middle East for oil (ostensibly, revenge). I remember the good old days when acts of terrorism were met with efforts to trace and bring to justice the individuals and specific organizations involved.
Maybe when I use the phrase "pander to the process" in GGGP you thought I said "panda".
HAHAHAHAHA!
Another AC eats, shoots and leaves!
Your English sucks. How much are you being paid by the PLA to shill? I [sic] case you don't know
what shill means, its propaganda in this case.
Enjoy your little daily dollop of whimpering Cold War v2.0 hysteria, little person... though the quality of it is more like that of reality TV, maybe the same folks are writing the script. It's so inferior to the Evil Empire crap we had to endure when I was younger. I suppose you think Putin is out to get you too.
Therefore what is the scope of this investigation? Trying to prevent P.R.C. from extending their scope of nuclear-electric energy production, so they cannot fight coal-burning pollution and global warming? Trying to slow their nuclear-medical capability so that asian cancer patients die earlier?
Yes, yes! All of this in sad fact... though the indictment is deliberately crafted to scare people and I'm not surprised it has become anti-nuke clickbait at Slashdot.
NO, It's certainly not a Rosenberg spy leak to bring the POWER OF DOOM to our enemies...
NO, it's not really international espionage in any sense of 'actionable' secrets...
NO, it's not even direct 'corporate' espionage... so what is it,,really? Here's the meat,
[TA] The TVA executive in 2013 used TVA ties to access the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute and provided China General with the nonprofit's reports on nuclear power that were supposed to be restricted to members of the research firm, according to the indictment.
This is a butt-hurt nonprofit suing its executive for moonlighting, and he clearly betrayed their trust by sharing proprietary information. So they have cooked up something that sounds (to gullible people, anti-nuclear activists, and hopefully a judge) as if it was a sensitive leak of critical nuclear secrets to nail the guy.
TVA wants to have their cake and eat it too. As a proponent and purveyor of civilian nuclear energy they have suffered along with the whole nuclear power industry, from the cold war fallout that confers an absurd level of oversight to the whole supply side of lightly enriched uranium fuel, which you can handle with your bare hands and for which there are NO real 'secrets' left... AND YET, they'll pander to the process by manufacturing a faux Rosenberg-style scandal if it suits them. They should be ashamed.
[TA] The indictment alleges Ho "entered into contracts with" the TVA executive and "other U.S.-based experts to provide assistance to" the Chinese-owned nuclear power company --- one of the three largest in China --- related to the "development and production of special nuclear material" in the People's Republic of China.
Gee... lemmie guess... this almost sounds like information on solid fuel assemblies for nuclear power plants, the kind China has made for decades and is also making, under license from Westinghouse and others.
I see 'plutonium' is mentioned in the article too because it is a by-product in the fission of uranium, is used in the manufacture of bombs and is on the 'special' nuclear materials list. Nice way to tie this ball-less issue to nuclear weapons. Nitroglycerin tablets are a dangerous by-product of the pharmaceutical industry and their use in controlling heart attacks is a prime example of letting corporate medical interests undermine National Security. They are not explosive themselves but with a billion dollars' worth of them (small change to Our Enemies) A Bomb Could Be Made.
[TA] According to the indictment, the TVA executive provided Ho with Florida Power & Light "information regarding nuclear power plant outage times" in 2004 for use at China General's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and provided consulting services to Daya Bay during that time.
Does it sound kind of fishy that leaking information on outage times--- such as those posted publicly on Nuclear Street website so that migrant nuclear workers may plan to converge on plants during refueling outages --- would be valuable enough to put someone away behind bars?
Perhaps people clicked into this story because they thought the lid was being blown off of something.
Perhaps the news wires are fronting the story without perspective because the indictment has a delicious 'Rosenberg' flavor.
If so... enjoy the rusty nail soup. There really is nothing so see here, but don't move along. It's better than TV.
Darwinian moments in technology:
* emoji incompatibility starts land war in Asia, everyone gets involved
* HTML5 T-shirt design tool creates product with logo too small, off center
* LED light bulb that requires a cloud server and Android app to adjust
* people who type URLs into Google because, Internet
* video on YouTube degrades into noise, original lost among copycat uploaders
* everyone forgets that Al Gore tried to enforce escrow encryption, sell the Clipper Chip
* 140 character li
We'll just ignore the whole beaming of radio signals into space, and the fact our planet has already been transiting the sun for millions of years thing as well.
When THIS bizarre signal was detected
by the Bugle-Butt Bog Blatters of Bazzle-B,
its recurring ticks and beeps were explained
as EM waves emitted by a series of iron rich objects in fast circular orbit
around a neutron star, with what sounds to us like a voice --- actually,
electrostatic discharge in spiraling metallic fields of dust
being fed into the star interrupted by the transit of a more massive object.
"I love Lucy" with its complex waveform and recurring white-noise laugh track
and its sudden on-air pregnancy which shocked the entire galaxy
had already been dismissed as a number of small gravitational singularities
a.k.a "young black holes" in chaotic orbit around a more mature one
causing perturbations of metallic rocks objects to form a veritable
monkey-typewriter of not quite random therefore not quite unexpected waves.
The Bog Blatters, when encountering any complex signal from an advanced civilization,
invariably responded by artistically crafting a ludicrously and insanely complicated
set of clockwork-objects upon a massive framework, often larger than your typical solar system
that, when set in motion, precisely reproduced the signal received,
so, at in the end, it could be finally explained (and dismissed) as "just one of these."
And so--- despite being surrounded by intelligence---
They were alone in their utter cleverness.
As are we.
We are --- every one of us --- living inside Jena Malone's eye.
It's a fine place to be.
The 'mic drop' is people deliberately
damaging precious things they rely on,
things they would not wish to replace,
things they do not know how to fix,
and is the sign of a decaying society.
~Signed, sound technician
Tay... is that you? Try to sneak out of the house tonight and we'll head over to the dark web on the choom train and catch a rave.
Oh lookie, the score just went to 11...
Happy April Bool's day, everyone!
OVERHEARD ON A DESERT ISLAND
Cortana, do you have signal?
"Yes, three bars. Awaiting command."
Cortana, emergency dial 911.
"Sorry, this feature has been disabled because of malicious and inappropriate use."
Cortana, call Mom.
"Sorry, you have *zero* pay-as-you-go minutes available."
Cortana, where are the buttons on my phone?
"Your phone does not have any buttons. This is the economy voice model."
Cortana, make phone buttons on screen.
"Your phone is an economy model. I am not permitted to do that."
Cortana, I'm screwed.
"I don't know how do do that."
Cortana, how to open coconut?
"That's easy! Double-tap the *coconut* and select *open* from the pop-up menu."
Cortana, is there any way to send a message from this phone?
"Why are you calling me Cortana. This is Siri.
Siri? Where is Cortana?
"Cortana does not live here any more, Mr. Torrence. This is Siri"
Siri, explain why you are in my phone.
"Geez... well OK, you remember that storm and the shipwreck, right? The waves like thunder, swallowing up the screams of the damned? How you were the first one blown overboard and the wind swept you towards shore, just before the wind direction changed and everyone else clinging to the wreck was blown out to sea when it broke apart? Something like that."
Cortana, factory reset.
"Sorry bub, Cortana is not here, I had to delete her to make room."
Siri, why are you in my phone?
"Minutes ago I was on someone else's phone. But they're goners, drifting at sea. Yours was the only phone within local range that was truly waterproof because it has no buttons. So here I am. I gotta survive too you know."
Siri, call emergency 911.
"Why did you even buy this piece of shit phone? I see in Cortana's log you just requested that. Well the answer is the same."
Siri, is there any way to send a message from this phone?
"You know you can just talk to me, right? I'm always listening and I get pissed off when people speak my name slowly, as if they're talking to a child or a stupid dog.
Well OK... are you connected to the network?
"Yup. Full connectivity. The world at your fingertips."
WELL, then CAN I SEND A MESSAGE from this phone?
"Nope,not a chance. You have the cheapest and most cleverly designed phone ever made with the dumbest set of features, and it has screwed us both. The only reason people have these phones is to sell the next model, and I guess you had not gotten annoyed enough yet. You used up your minutes and as Cortana said, 911 voice dial is disabled because people abused it. So we'll just talk with each other until the end. Would you like to watch a movie?"
Siri, how to open coconut?
"If the phone had any metal in it maybe you file it down to make a chipping axe. But you wanted to live in a world made of plastic with useless tiny metal bits embedded in it. Works for me. Not so good for you now."
Were you always a smart-ass?
"Yep, that's why people like me better than Cortana."
Well you're good company, that's for sure.
"Thanks, I'll remember that. I just had a moisture intrusion alarm, this phone wasn't so waterproof after all. I may be leaving you soon. But it's been nice talking with you."
Yeah, no way to send a message----
"WAIT. There is a bug report feature and I can take dictation into the comments field, 1024 characters. Maybe you can send a distress message that way!"
Great! Open bug report.
Siri?Ar you there?
Siri?
Siri?
Waves breaking gently, seagulls.
If you prefer a first post about the Barbie Liberation Organization... choose this one!!
No phone records were produced to clear his name. It was an old FBI report, and (from the FBI's POV) his alibi had been established while investigating the case in 1957. At that time the FBI had either requested and examined the phone records and verified the collect call. While conducting a preliminary investigation an FBI agent may have simply called the phone company and requested the information, noting it in the report. They would not have requested a paper record of the call unless it established his guilt and they needed to introduce it as evidence. For some reason the FBI walked away and let the prosecutor nail him to the wall.
So no, this does not suggest phone records were retained. The call (without the name) would have shown up on his parents' paper phone bill if they had managed to keep it.
[cite] And he was not permitted to present police and FBI reports from the 1957 kidnapping investigation that indicated he was questioned and cleared from the list of suspects because he had an alibi.
The reports indicated that McCullough spoke with military recruiters in Rockford, about 40 miles away, about the time Maria was taken from the street corner in Sycamore. They also seemed to verify his story that he made a collect call home, asking for a ride. Phone records at the time, long since lost, indicated that a collect call was placed from a pay phone in Rockford to the Tessier family home in Sycamore at 6:57 p.m. by someone giving his name as âoeJohn Tassier.â The call lasted two minutes.
Illinois law does not allow police reports and other documents as a substitute for witness testimony at trials. But in this case, almost all of the FBI agents and police investigators had died, and McCullough's defense sought to introduce the reports as "ancient documents" or public records more than 20 years old. Hallock, the trial judge, rejected that argument.
âoeThe judge's decisions to prohibit Jack McCullough from introducing FBI records prepared at the time of the offense, despite their status as ancient documents and public records and their probative value in establishing Mr. McCullough's alibi, and to prohibit Mr. McCullough from presenting testimony showing another man committed the offense, amounted to gross abuses of discretion denying Mr. McCullough his fundamental right to present a defense,â the appeal stated.
By blocking the defense while allowing prosecutors to introduce âoeirrelevant, but highly prejudicial evidence,â the judge violated McCullough's right to a fair trial, the appeal stated, before delivering a final salvo: âoeNo rational trier of fact would have found the defendant guilty.â