Make no mistake -- this is urban training in putting down armed resistance to some event, such as economic collapse. This is about the military enforcing control should the SHtF -- and we have an Argentinian-style collapse, and normal law and order breaks down. Remember that, as far as the military is concerned, every man, woman and child in the USA is a potential terrorist. And all it takes for it to become an us versus them scenario is any significant disruption to utilities.
I mean, we're talking about Netflix, a company that seems to have about 0.0001 of available movies on their streaming service.
Wanna watch "Speed Racer" the movie? Fuggetabout it. Wanna watch "Chronicle?" Fuggetabout it. Wanna watch "Source Code"? Fuggetabout it.. Wanna watch "The girl with the Dragon tattoo" (american version)? Fuggetabout it.
In fact, if you can name a movie, it's almost guaranteed to NOT be on Netflix.So, what the heck are they offering on this new service? I mean, aside from "Breaking Bad" and "Star Trek"?
"There's a good book by ex-FBI cop & criminal lawyer Dale Carson who explains these people have run out of big time criminals to prosecute, and so now the justify their existence by filling jails with poor saps who meet this criteria," ----
In a word, that's bull. The world is filled with big time criminals. The problem is that they are "too big to prosecute". Look at HSBC. They laundered money, knowingly, for drug dealers, terrorists, and Iran (helping to fund their nuclear program).
Even after a full investigation, and HSBC admitting to criminal activity to the tune of billions of dollars, wanna take a guess how many people went to jail?
If you guessed anything other than ZERO, you are wrong. HSBC was fined 1.9 Billion Dollars, and then let off the hook. HSBC, incidentally, can make up for that fine over 4 weeks with some slightly more risky trading, and perhaps charging their customers a few pennies more per transaction.
The point is: Prosecutors don't go after "big targets" to make their name, because it's much, much tougher to win a case against an organization that can spend more in lawyers than the entire GDP of your district.
As a result, there have been no prosecutions of anyone guilty of market manipulation for the "Great Recession", there have been no prosecutions for "robosigning foreclosures", there have been no prosecutions for insider trading, there have been no prosecutions for LIBOR, there have been no prosecutions for HSBC.
So, Prosecutors spend their time being High School Bullies, going after targets they know they can win because the little guy has no resources to fight. That's why we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and our jails are filled with petty criminals -- people busted for a few ounces of Pot. But the real criminals drive in limos.
Isn't this the very school that *created* hacker culture with the model railroad club and people lockpicking their way into offices at the school?
Is this school now going to teach that the investigative process itself is now a crime? That, if you try and figure out how something works, essentially reverse engineer it, you're a criminal?
What has happened to our world? Dammit, the vast majority of the infrastructure of the internet was created by college students, as a free and open system that was run largely on chaos theory.
From now on, travelers will have to leave anything that uses a battery at home. And you now need to remove your underwear as well as your shoes. Especially for attractive female passengers.
For a more stable unit. I understand that it'll add about 20 pounds. Just carry one less piece of luggage, and you can use the heavier batteries. I'm not quite sure what these batteries are for... Does this aircraft not have an APU?
I find that difficult to believe, so I can only assume these batteries are for some piece of redundancy, like continuing to power the black boxes in case of total power failure. Sounds like a simple and fairly inexpensive replacement (as opposed to installing an all new wiring harness, for example).
All I want to know about the new plane -- it's made of composite, so does speed tape still stick to this thing?
So, here's the conversation between President Obama and the Chinese Prime Minister....
Obama: What happened to the rare earths? CPM: Who run Bartertown? Obama: We don't have time to play this game. Turn up the rare earths. CPM: WHO RUN BARTERTOWN. Obama: I'm not playing this. CPM: Embargo. Embargo! Obama: (heavy sigh)... Ok ok... Master Blaster run Bartertown. CPM; Embargo.... Lifted!
Facebook and the vendor patched the vulnerability... That's a first, usually the first response by any large corporation to being informed of a security hole is to either have the researcher arrested or sue the researcher. And then quietly hope no one else finds the hole...
The problem we have is that football in america is a religion, it's bigger than Christianity -- football player are elevated to god status, and we cheer them on while we chug our beer.
As a result, these high school jocks feel that they can get away with anything, because in this small-town America, places that Sarah Palin called "the REAL america", these football players are all the town has to cling to, so they are coddled, protected, insulated, and when a few of them do reach "pro" status, they will be the complete and utter pricks we expect them to be, beating their wives, crashing their cars, and carrying guns into their local bar, and arranging dog-fighting.
So what if they raped some girls? They are football players. Yeah! America Number ONE!
And the town is trying to cover the whole thing up because, well, they are football players. Yeah! America Number ONE!
I'm freaking moving out of this god forsaken country.
Everybody lives on a street in a city Or a village or a town for what it's worth. And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent That sits upon a planet known as Earth. And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains Which is out there spinning silently in space. And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals And also the entire human race.
It's a great big universe And we're all really puny We're just tiny little specks About the size of Mickey Rooney. It's big and black and inky And we are small and dinky It's a big universe and we're not.
And we're part of a vast interplanetary system Stretching seven hundred billion miles long. With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one That has life on it, although we could be wrong. Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids Including meteors and Halley's Comet too. And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars In a galaxy we call the Milky Way. It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other And still that's just a fraction of the way. 'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars. And still the universe extends to a place that never ends Which is maybe just inside a little jar!
It's a great big universe And we're all really puny We're just tiny little specks About the size of Mickey Rooney. Though we don't know how it got here We're an important part here It's a big universe and it's ours!
or put a bumper sticker on it... And then it's your interpretation of a Batmobile, and it's a new work of art, and it's copyrightable by you under fair use laws.
Or, every automaker can sue Warner Brothers every time they use a car in a movie. It works both ways.
Funny story BTW, about Herbie the Love Bug... VW initially didn't *want* Disney to use a beetle in the movie. They thought it was going to hurt sales. Instead, it had the opposite effect. When the "remake" came around with Lindsay Lohan, VW was all for it this time around, even bringing the tricked-out "NASCAR" version to the AutoShow at the Javits Center in NYC, and giving away posters for the movie.
The true test of any software firm is if they use their own software internally. Intuit, for example, had better damn-well use quickbooks for their accounting or else, why would I really want to buy their product, if they themselves don't even use it?
Microsoft, to their credit, uses Windows and Office internally, and their entire corporate culture revolves around using their own stuff. Windows8 phones and tablets are making the rounds and employees are evangelizing their own products outside of the campus.
If Google isn't using their own software themselves, then they don't believe it's up to the task, so, ergo, none of us should think it is either.
As Lorne Green said, he liked Alpo so much, he fed it to his own dog.
You know, people who keep guns in their homes seem to be more likely to shoot people than people without guns. So I think we should keep an eye on anyone who has a gun. What do you think of that idea?
"Dah, Don't you worry, never fear, robin hood will soon be here"
Bugs: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'd been sayin' dat all trew da' pitchure... Well, WHERE IS HE?"
This is how I feel about Solar Cells. EVERY DAMN WEEK, another "breakthrough" that will make then cheap, ubiquitous, flexible, transparent, more efficient, etc. etc.
Yet, when I go shopping for a solar panel, all I get is the same old crap, and it's still crazy expensive.
All I ever hear is that they are coming to market "soon". And that was already 5 years ago. Frankly, next week I wouldn't be surprised if we heard about solar panels with 100% efficiency and only cost 10 cents. But you'd never be able to actually BUY them in your lifetime.
How's that ultracapacitor technology going for you? Or the Batteries that run on air?
Disclaimer: I've never used Windows 8. I have however, used every version of Windows (excluding Vista) since Windows 3.11 -- And I'm currently using Windows 7.
Seriously; anyone. Have they fixed COPY yet? When I drag files from one folder to another, it still does a blind copy. It doesn't check available disk space, it doesn't perform a count of files, the estimated time remaining is still a wild guess, and if there's a problem (such as duplicate file name in target), it still brings up a requestor in the middle of the operation, when I might be busy doing other things.
It seems to me that a lot of CORE functions of being an "os" are still from the 16-bit days, and when you consider that MS is supposed to be full of relatively bright people, they still manage to create a dumb-as-a-sack-of-bricks Operating System.
After all, he breaks into other people's phones, and he HASN'T gone to jail. Nor will he ever. Hell Rupert Murdoch could shoot someone in the head on live TV, and still not go to jail. Simply because he is a member of the 1%.
If you read a little further down in the EULA, it also says they have the right to perform medical experiments on you, including making you part of a human centipede...
IBM's only prediction that has worked out for them is that "we will continue to sell outdated mainframes and hugely profitable service contracts because businesses have such an entrenched ecosystem of software that they can't dig their way out of it in 5 or even 10 years."
After Africa, there's various Arab nations that are actually willing to employ slave labor. Consider Saudi Arabia. Not only is slavery legal (to princes at least), but women's rights are so non-existant, IBM could set up facilities there run entirely by women (with a male overseer), and pay them nothing. What a cost savings that would be! The only problem is that the women would need some kind education/training, which is pretty much illegal, but there are ways (read: money) to get around that.
I was only days away from giving up on this site and never coming back, but this post has restored my faith in Slashdot's ability to keep me entertained. Bravo Sir!
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"The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, I'm getting use to it now..." -- Talking Heads, Life During Wartime.
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http://marketdailynews.com/2013/01/28/u-s-military-miami-police-staged-an-urban-training-exercise-with-diving-blackhawks-machine-gun-fire/
Make no mistake -- this is urban training in putting down armed resistance to some event, such as economic collapse. This is about the military enforcing control should the SHtF -- and we have an Argentinian-style collapse, and normal law and order breaks down. Remember that, as far as the military is concerned, every man, woman and child in the USA is a potential terrorist. And all it takes for it to become an us versus them scenario is any significant disruption to utilities.
I mean, we're talking about Netflix, a company that seems to have about 0.0001 of available movies on their streaming service.
Wanna watch "Speed Racer" the movie? Fuggetabout it. Wanna watch "Chronicle?" Fuggetabout it. Wanna watch "Source Code"? Fuggetabout it.. Wanna watch "The girl with the Dragon tattoo" (american version)? Fuggetabout it.
In fact, if you can name a movie, it's almost guaranteed to NOT be on Netflix.So, what the heck are they offering on this new service? I mean, aside from "Breaking Bad" and "Star Trek"?
"There's a good book by ex-FBI cop & criminal lawyer Dale Carson who explains these people have run out of big time criminals to prosecute, and so now the justify their existence by filling jails with poor saps who meet this criteria,"
----
In a word, that's bull. The world is filled with big time criminals. The problem is that they are "too big to prosecute". Look at HSBC. They laundered money, knowingly, for drug dealers, terrorists, and Iran (helping to fund their nuclear program).
Even after a full investigation, and HSBC admitting to criminal activity to the tune of billions of dollars, wanna take a guess how many people went to jail?
If you guessed anything other than ZERO, you are wrong. HSBC was fined 1.9 Billion Dollars, and then let off the hook. HSBC, incidentally, can make up for that fine over 4 weeks with some slightly more risky trading, and perhaps charging their customers a few pennies more per transaction.
The point is: Prosecutors don't go after "big targets" to make their name, because it's much, much tougher to win a case against an organization that can spend more in lawyers than the entire GDP of your district.
As a result, there have been no prosecutions of anyone guilty of market manipulation for the "Great Recession", there have been no prosecutions for "robosigning foreclosures", there have been no prosecutions for insider trading, there have been no prosecutions for LIBOR, there have been no prosecutions for HSBC.
So, Prosecutors spend their time being High School Bullies, going after targets they know they can win because the little guy has no resources to fight. That's why we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and our jails are filled with petty criminals -- people busted for a few ounces of Pot. But the real criminals drive in limos.
Isn't this the very school that *created* hacker culture with the model railroad club and people lockpicking their way into offices at the school?
Is this school now going to teach that the investigative process itself is now a crime? That, if you try and figure out how something works, essentially reverse engineer it, you're a criminal?
What has happened to our world? Dammit, the vast majority of the infrastructure of the internet was created by college students, as a free and open system that was run largely on chaos theory.
I think it's time we took back our internet.
And you can always trust the word of a politician....
What is sad is that it's modus operandi to take whatever a politician says and assume that the truth is the exact opposite.
From now on, travelers will have to leave anything that uses a battery at home. And you now need to remove your underwear as well as your shoes. Especially for attractive female passengers.
For a more stable unit. I understand that it'll add about 20 pounds. Just carry one less piece of luggage, and you can use the heavier batteries. I'm not quite sure what these batteries are for... Does this aircraft not have an APU?
I find that difficult to believe, so I can only assume these batteries are for some piece of redundancy, like continuing to power the black boxes in case of total power failure. Sounds like a simple and fairly inexpensive replacement (as opposed to installing an all new wiring harness, for example).
All I want to know about the new plane -- it's made of composite, so does speed tape still stick to this thing?
So, here's the conversation between President Obama and the Chinese Prime Minister....
Obama: What happened to the rare earths?
CPM: Who run Bartertown?
Obama: We don't have time to play this game. Turn up the rare earths.
CPM: WHO RUN BARTERTOWN.
Obama: I'm not playing this.
CPM: Embargo. Embargo!
Obama: (heavy sigh)... Ok ok... Master Blaster run Bartertown.
CPM; Embargo.... Lifted!
Apparently, even this bit of centuries old wisdom is lost on Microsoft...
Facebook and the vendor patched the vulnerability... That's a first, usually the first response by any large corporation to being informed of a security hole is to either have the researcher arrested or sue the researcher. And then quietly hope no one else finds the hole...
The problem we have is that football in america is a religion, it's bigger than Christianity -- football player are elevated to god status, and we cheer them on while we chug our beer.
As a result, these high school jocks feel that they can get away with anything, because in this small-town America, places that Sarah Palin called "the REAL america", these football players are all the town has to cling to, so they are coddled, protected, insulated, and when a few of them do reach "pro" status, they will be the complete and utter pricks we expect them to be, beating their wives, crashing their cars, and carrying guns into their local bar, and arranging dog-fighting.
So what if they raped some girls? They are football players. Yeah! America Number ONE!
And the town is trying to cover the whole thing up because, well, they are football players. Yeah! America Number ONE!
I'm freaking moving out of this god forsaken country.
Tell us again how the "47%" are the ones expecting handouts? How they feel "entitled" to free stuff?
Excuse me?
They are bound to it, no matter how bad the terms of the deal are.
Otherwise, each and everyone one of us with a mortgage can go sue our banks, for leading us into a bad deal with onerous interest rates.
I'm sure everyone foreclosed on would be willing to sue their bank just for the taste of revenge....
Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.
It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.
And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!
It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
Though we don't know how it got here
We're an important part here
It's a big universe and it's ours!
Don't worry... If we get hungry enough, we'll eat the Monsanto Board of Directors....
or put a bumper sticker on it... And then it's your interpretation of a Batmobile, and it's a new work of art, and it's copyrightable by you under fair use laws.
Or, every automaker can sue Warner Brothers every time they use a car in a movie. It works both ways.
Funny story BTW, about Herbie the Love Bug... VW initially didn't *want* Disney to use a beetle in the movie. They thought it was going to hurt sales. Instead, it had the opposite effect. When the "remake" came around with Lindsay Lohan, VW was all for it this time around, even bringing the tricked-out "NASCAR" version to the AutoShow at the Javits Center in NYC, and giving away posters for the movie.
The true test of any software firm is if they use their own software internally. Intuit, for example, had better damn-well use quickbooks for their accounting or else, why would I really want to buy their product, if they themselves don't even use it?
Microsoft, to their credit, uses Windows and Office internally, and their entire corporate culture revolves around using their own stuff. Windows8 phones and tablets are making the rounds and employees are evangelizing their own products outside of the campus.
If Google isn't using their own software themselves, then they don't believe it's up to the task, so, ergo, none of us should think it is either.
As Lorne Green said, he liked Alpo so much, he fed it to his own dog.
You know, people who keep guns in their homes seem to be more likely to shoot people than people without guns. So I think we should keep an eye on anyone who has a gun. What do you think of that idea?
"Dah, Don't you worry, never fear, robin hood will soon be here"
Bugs: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'd been sayin' dat all trew da' pitchure... Well, WHERE IS HE?"
This is how I feel about Solar Cells. EVERY DAMN WEEK, another "breakthrough" that will make then cheap, ubiquitous, flexible, transparent, more efficient, etc. etc.
Yet, when I go shopping for a solar panel, all I get is the same old crap, and it's still crazy expensive.
All I ever hear is that they are coming to market "soon". And that was already 5 years ago. Frankly, next week I wouldn't be surprised if we heard about solar panels with 100% efficiency and only cost 10 cents. But you'd never be able to actually BUY them in your lifetime.
How's that ultracapacitor technology going for you? Or the Batteries that run on air?
Disclaimer: I've never used Windows 8. I have however, used every version of Windows (excluding Vista) since Windows 3.11 -- And I'm currently using Windows 7.
Seriously; anyone. Have they fixed COPY yet? When I drag files from one folder to another, it still does a blind copy. It doesn't check available disk space, it doesn't perform a count of files, the estimated time remaining is still a wild guess, and if there's a problem (such as duplicate file name in target), it still brings up a requestor in the middle of the operation, when I might be busy doing other things.
It seems to me that a lot of CORE functions of being an "os" are still from the 16-bit days, and when you consider that MS is supposed to be full of relatively bright people, they still manage to create a dumb-as-a-sack-of-bricks Operating System.
After all, he breaks into other people's phones, and he HASN'T gone to jail. Nor will he ever. Hell Rupert Murdoch could shoot someone in the head on live TV, and still not go to jail. Simply because he is a member of the 1%.
If you read a little further down in the EULA, it also says they have the right to perform medical experiments on you, including making you part of a human centipede...
...of making such predictions.
IBM's only prediction that has worked out for them is that "we will continue to sell outdated mainframes and hugely profitable service contracts because businesses have such an entrenched ecosystem of software that they can't dig their way out of it in 5 or even 10 years."
After Africa, there's various Arab nations that are actually willing to employ slave labor. Consider Saudi Arabia. Not only is slavery legal (to princes at least), but women's rights are so non-existant, IBM could set up facilities there run entirely by women (with a male overseer), and pay them nothing. What a cost savings that would be! The only problem is that the women would need some kind education/training, which is pretty much illegal, but there are ways (read: money) to get around that.
I was only days away from giving up on this site and never coming back, but this post has restored my faith in Slashdot's ability to keep me entertained. Bravo Sir!