The basic problem, is because the Internet has convinced dumb and ignorant people that their uninformed bullshit opinions stand on the same ground as those of people who have been studying the subject for decades. It stems from the metastatisation of the retards' confusion of democracy with "equal air-time for ignorance":
Today, any assertion of expertise produces an explosion of anger from certain quarters of the American public, who immediately complain that such claims are nothing more than fallacious “appeals to authority,” sure signs of dreadful “elitism,” and an obvious effort to use credentials to stifle the dialogue required by a “real” democracy.
But democracy, as I wrote in an essay about C.S. Lewis and the Snowden affair, denotes a system of government, not an actual state of equality. It means that we enjoy equal rights versus the government, and in relation to each other. Having equal rights does not mean having equal talents, equal abilities, or equal knowledge. It assuredly does not mean that “everyone’s opinion about anything is as good as anyone else’s.” And yet, this is now enshrined as the credo of a fair number of people despite being obvious nonsense.
In the fucked up neoliberal world, "freedom" is proportional to how rich you are.
So when you're poor, and up to your arse in debt forced upon you by unscrupulous businesses, you are "free" to sell your organs, because otherwise you are worthless to a system that only measure the value of anything in terms of market value.
Trust these worthless Chicago School shitstains to think of it.
Not content to rape Third World countries to death (General Pinochet and Chile, Operation Condor, death squads, etc etc), they foist this terrible, ill-conceived idea upon the world. Replacing a strong incentive with a weak one, and introducing many incentives for very bad, immoral behaviour.
Still, to these fucking autistics, the only incentive that matters is the profit motive -- probably because their joke "science" economics knows only how to model financial incentives.
Seriously, fuck the Chicago School, fuck Milton and fuck the Austrians.
Can somebody give us some pointers about the techniques for recovering arbitrary information such as how keys, card tracks, passwords, etc from memory?
Presumably, hostile code is injected into a running process, but once that happens, is it a brute force search? Or is something cleverer done, e.g. monkey-patching subroutines in memory, and reading fixed offsets on the stack, or indexing something off the stack into the heap?
Memory-scraping has been in the news (mostly for the wrong reasons lately), and I'm wondering how this is actually achieved in practice.
I have black friends who are recently from Africa, and who are culturally COMPLETELY different from the dysfunctional inner-city gangsta wastes-of-space you see in settled black communities here. Case in point, some Nigerians I know who are educated, highly motivated, don't feel sorry for themselves, and don't take shit off their kids or anybody else -- cf the sad excuse of human beings you see in 'efnik' inner city blacks and muslims here.
It is a massive eye-opener to see how much culture matters (and by hell, it does), and how irrelevant skin pigmentation is; except perhaps as an unreliable proxy for culture.
The very notion of racism is total bullshit. It is, and has always been about cultural, moral, and financial poverty (and weak people wallowing in self pity and finding excuses to blame somebody else for their failures), and has never really been about skin colour. The more we learn about each other, the more we realise that some cultures are just garbage, and deserve to be extinguished.
Comsats to GEO is huge business. I'd have thought that most of the people building, operating and launching stuff into GEO are private. Just recently, SpaceX flawlessly sent two comsats into a geostationary transfer orbit (Orbcomm, Thaisat).
Incidentally, many of the vehicles doing comsat launches are very reliable and are doing double-duty as government launchers. It doesn't necessarily mean that foreign satellite operators are getting subsidised.
But many jobs, e.g. IT, are in the tradeable sector and are thus suceptable to outsourcing.
My Plan B, should the arse drop out of the IT sector, is to get an apprenticeship in something unpopular and non-tradeable (e.g. impossible to outsource). I am a software developer working in finance and are on the breadline. All the tradesmen I've ever met are rolling in it.
Why not? If you're a feckless, useless cunt, albeit an able-bodied one, then you should be forced to break rocks for your dole money. Nothing should be free in this world.
Any suggestion that I need pot, booze, fags, lottery tickets, etc to "cope" is fucking ludicrous.
I've been through some very hard, dark times, and never have I needed to "cope" using this shit.
What it says, is that poor people lack brains, self-control and mental strength. Most poor people are poor, and more importantly, STAY poor because of some kind of mental, moral, physical or cultural defect.
Time-stamped text files in Markdown format, synched through Dropbox work adequately for me. Advantage of being greppable, and viewable on my phone and tablet from anywhere in a pinch. The free versioning you get with Dropbox is a nice bonus (and a real lifesaver)
I overheard this being put to a very senior researcher at the Joint European Torus since time ago.
He said that they've cracked the heating problem, and have done so for years. Also, muons are very expensive to produce.
Tokamaks work well. All the required technologies have been tested in isolation and have been shown to work. The issues now are engineering an economical, scaled up, integrated prototype. That's ITER.
I don't understand why the utilities simply don't build out their grids to accept feed-in from customers' solar rigs, and then split their pricing structure into 1) grid access, and 2) net power supplied? Or is this too simple?
You've hit the nail on the head. America is culturally incapable of even thinking about how to deal with acting collectively on anything; then it doesn't surprise me in the least that it would find it difficult to jail anybody for massive crimes, committed against everyone collectively.
Here, the problem manifests itself in the US' comical, insane inability to jail SPAMford. The same could be set for the evil criminals on Wall Street who crashed the economy in 2008 and continue to get away with murder.
He is obviously a fucking idiot and a slow learner. People like him need straightening out with intensive help; jail as it's currently done will be useless. Spamming is the only thing he knows and he'll be up to his old tricks, seconds after getting out of prison.
Americas problem isn't even its sky-high incarceration rate.
It's problems lie is its viciously individualistic culture that entertains no notion of collection action or responsibility; tolerance of regulatory capture; and tolerance of conflicts of interest. This is all enabled by popular myths that pervade American culture, that anybody can get rich if they work hard enough, and that all poor people, by extension, are cunts.
Deal with the conflict-of-interest issue, and then things like the commercial, for-profit school-to-jail pipeline will eventually take care of themselves.
They're nicknamed "bin Ladens": everyone has heard of them, and knows what they look like, but noone's actually seen one.
The only people who really favour them are drug dealers and other shady characters moving dirty money. It's said that in a study, all the 500 euro notes they could find were contaminated with cocaine. Part of the reason why they're no longer manufactured in many countries.
Kids aren't stupid. They know then they're being patronised by dumb adults trying to make something cool by being "down with the kids". If anything, doing this triggers suspicions that there is a bad taste or smell that needs masking.
Slashdot Mirror
Of _course_ it's clickbait. Dolphins are cute and friendly.
Now if they were sharks or snakes, nobody would care, and we wouldn't be reading about it, regardless of their ecological importance.
Just another case of dumb, hyper-emotional people getting upset and attention-whoring. Nothing really to see here.
Saw this doing the rounds today:
'The Death of Expertise'
The basic problem, is because the Internet has convinced dumb and ignorant people that their uninformed bullshit opinions stand on the same ground as those of people who have been studying the subject for decades. It stems from the metastatisation of the retards' confusion of democracy with "equal air-time for ignorance":
http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/
In the fucked up neoliberal world, "freedom" is proportional to how rich you are.
So when you're poor, and up to your arse in debt forced upon you by unscrupulous businesses, you are "free" to sell your organs, because otherwise you are worthless to a system that only measure the value of anything in terms of market value.
That's not the kind of freedom I want.
Trust these worthless Chicago School shitstains to think of it.
Not content to rape Third World countries to death (General Pinochet and Chile, Operation Condor, death squads, etc etc), they foist this terrible, ill-conceived idea upon the world. Replacing a strong incentive with a weak one, and introducing many incentives for very bad, immoral behaviour.
Still, to these fucking autistics, the only incentive that matters is the profit motive -- probably because their joke "science" economics knows only how to model financial incentives.
Seriously, fuck the Chicago School, fuck Milton and fuck the Austrians.
Jamie Zawinski calls this the 'Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers' (CADT) development model.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
CADT also brings us cheesy, amateur-hour user interfaces, butt-fuck-ugly skins and themes, and terrible usability.
And of course, terribly high levels of techie arrogance, inherited from old-timer UNIX neckbeards.
Can somebody give us some pointers about the techniques for recovering arbitrary information such as how keys, card tracks, passwords, etc from memory?
Presumably, hostile code is injected into a running process, but once that happens, is it a brute force search? Or is something cleverer done, e.g. monkey-patching subroutines in memory, and reading fixed offsets on the stack, or indexing something off the stack into the heap?
Memory-scraping has been in the news (mostly for the wrong reasons lately), and I'm wondering how this is actually achieved in practice.
You know, it fits. Following people around all day with a smug air of superiority, putting down other people. You'd fit right in over at Tumblr.
... Theo's magnetic personality.
PopeRatzo, otherwise known as "Social Justice Sally"
I have black friends who are recently from Africa, and who are culturally COMPLETELY different from the dysfunctional inner-city gangsta wastes-of-space you see in settled black communities here. Case in point, some Nigerians I know who are educated, highly motivated, don't feel sorry for themselves, and don't take shit off their kids or anybody else -- cf the sad excuse of human beings you see in 'efnik' inner city blacks and muslims here.
It is a massive eye-opener to see how much culture matters (and by hell, it does), and how irrelevant skin pigmentation is; except perhaps as an unreliable proxy for culture.
The very notion of racism is total bullshit. It is, and has always been about cultural, moral, and financial poverty (and weak people wallowing in self pity and finding excuses to blame somebody else for their failures), and has never really been about skin colour. The more we learn about each other, the more we realise that some cultures are just garbage, and deserve to be extinguished.
"Locus of control"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
The reason why blacks and muslims generally do so badly, is because IT'S ALWAYS SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT. Usually Whitey's.
Comsats to GEO is huge business. I'd have thought that most of the people building, operating and launching stuff into GEO are private. Just recently, SpaceX flawlessly sent two comsats into a geostationary transfer orbit (Orbcomm, Thaisat).
Incidentally, many of the vehicles doing comsat launches are very reliable and are doing double-duty as government launchers. It doesn't necessarily mean that foreign satellite operators are getting subsidised.
And this is not a joke; it's surprisingly common and I've seen it happen.
Ahhhh.
But many jobs, e.g. IT, are in the tradeable sector and are thus suceptable to outsourcing.
My Plan B, should the arse drop out of the IT sector, is to get an apprenticeship in something unpopular and non-tradeable (e.g. impossible to outsource). I am a software developer working in finance and are on the breadline. All the tradesmen I've ever met are rolling in it.
Why not? If you're a feckless, useless cunt, albeit an able-bodied one, then you should be forced to break rocks for your dole money. Nothing should be free in this world.
Any suggestion that I need pot, booze, fags, lottery tickets, etc to "cope" is fucking ludicrous.
I've been through some very hard, dark times, and never have I needed to "cope" using this shit.
What it says, is that poor people lack brains, self-control and mental strength. Most poor people are poor, and more importantly, STAY poor because of some kind of mental, moral, physical or cultural defect.
Time-stamped text files in Markdown format, synched through Dropbox work adequately for me. Advantage of being greppable, and viewable on my phone and tablet from anywhere in a pinch. The free versioning you get with Dropbox is a nice bonus (and a real lifesaver)
I overheard this being put to a very senior researcher at the Joint European Torus since time ago.
He said that they've cracked the heating problem, and have done so for years. Also, muons are very expensive to produce.
Tokamaks work well. All the required technologies have been tested in isolation and have been shown to work. The issues now are engineering an economical, scaled up, integrated prototype. That's ITER.
I don't understand why the utilities simply don't build out their grids to accept feed-in from customers' solar rigs, and then split their pricing structure into 1) grid access, and 2) net power supplied? Or is this too simple?
You've hit the nail on the head. America is culturally incapable of even thinking about how to deal with acting collectively on anything; then it doesn't surprise me in the least that it would find it difficult to jail anybody for massive crimes, committed against everyone collectively.
Here, the problem manifests itself in the US' comical, insane inability to jail SPAMford. The same could be set for the evil criminals on Wall Street who crashed the economy in 2008 and continue to get away with murder.
He is obviously a fucking idiot and a slow learner. People like him need straightening out with intensive help; jail as it's currently done will be useless. Spamming is the only thing he knows and he'll be up to his old tricks, seconds after getting out of prison.
Americas problem isn't even its sky-high incarceration rate.
It's problems lie is its viciously individualistic culture that entertains no notion of collection action or responsibility; tolerance of regulatory capture; and tolerance of conflicts of interest. This is all enabled by popular myths that pervade American culture, that anybody can get rich if they work hard enough, and that all poor people, by extension, are cunts.
Deal with the conflict-of-interest issue, and then things like the commercial, for-profit school-to-jail pipeline will eventually take care of themselves.
Nice strawman, leftie AC lurker. Are you a member of the SWP, by any chance?
The biggest euro note being issued is the 500 euro note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_euro_note
They're nicknamed "bin Ladens": everyone has heard of them, and knows what they look like, but noone's actually seen one.
The only people who really favour them are drug dealers and other shady characters moving dirty money. It's said that in a study, all the 500 euro notes they could find were contaminated with cocaine. Part of the reason why they're no longer manufactured in many countries.
Kids aren't stupid. They know then they're being patronised by dumb adults trying to make something cool by being "down with the kids". If anything, doing this triggers suspicions that there is a bad taste or smell that needs masking.