I had a phishing attempt recently that really looked like it was from the IRS, down to the logos and all. I know the IRS and banks don't send unsolicited emails out, the real clincher was the reply address ended in ".irt". So, it got forwarded to abuse@irs.gov, same thing I do with bank phishing attempts. The only bad thing is I'll never know if I helped catch a phisher.
All the money in "defense spending" both internal and international and we're crowdsourcing their jobs?
Allright, let the FBI go on looking without any help from the general public, some of whom will know these two. That should give these two time to perform an attack on the people you know and love. Sheesh.
That's cool, and I'm all for looking for these things, but I can't help but feel a little sad knowing we'll never get there to explore them, even with robots.
I think we'll get to exploring and colonizing other worlds, if we can get together as a race to do it. "The impossible" has been done by us time and time again. Airplane flight was once impossible, as was going to the moon. The impossible is just something that hasn't been done yet.
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“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.
Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.”
An old adage is, "Bad news sells newspapers", and bad news on TV keeps people tuned in through the commercials. Staying away from television altogether might just lead to a happier life, if not just not paying for cable every month.
There is a lot of good going on in this life, but you have to look for it.
I stopped watching HLN the moment Nancy Grace(less) went for the ratings grab interview of that kidnapped girl and kept pressing her for details if she was raped. Grace was pushing for any statement from the girl that would make the next days headlines, and showed what a lousy, heartless and uncaring bully she really is. That she still has a show is disgraceful.
Come to think of it, that was the moment I lost interest in most any type of sensationalist news coverage on TV. If you are only reporting conjecture, and don't have any clear cut facts, I move on.
Initially civet coffee beans were picked from from wild civet excrement that was to be found around coffee plantations. This unusual process contributed to its rarity and subsequently, its high price. More recently, growing numbers of intensive civet "farms" have been established and operated across Southeast Asia, confining tens of thousands of animals to live in tiny cages and be force-fed.
'"The conditions are awful, much like battery chickens", said Chris Shepherd, deputy regional director of the conservation NGO Traffic south-east Asia. "The civets are taken from the wild and have to endure horrific conditions. They fight to stay together but they are separated and have to bear a very poor diet in very small cages. There is a high mortality rate and for some species of civet, there's a real conservation risk. It's spiralling out of control. But there's not much public awareness of how it's actually made. People need to be aware that tens of thousands of civets are being kept in these conditions. It would put people off their coffee if they knew"'.
Now, as to how someone made the leap of taking the seeds which have passed through the civet and decided to make coffee out of it... I couldn't even begin to guess at.
Wikipedia is your friend...
History:
The origin of kopi luwak is closely connected with the history of coffee production in Indonesia. In the early 18th century the Dutch established the cash-crop coffee plantations in their colony in the Dutch East Indies islands of Java and Sumatra, including Arabica coffee introduced from Yemen. During the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830—1870), the Dutch prohibited the native farmers and plantation workers from picking coffee fruits for their own use. Still, the native farmers wanted to have a taste of the famed coffee beverage. Soon, the natives learned that certain species of musang or luwak (Asian Palm Civet) consumed the coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collected these luwaks' coffee seed droppings, then cleaned, roasted and ground them to make their own coffee beverage. The fame of aromatic civet coffee spread from locals to Dutch plantation owners and soon became their favorite, yet because of its rarity and unusual process, the civet coffee was expensive even in colonial times.
Yeah, it's mean. Doesn't make it wrong. Just sayin'...
That's the way the Nazi's thought about the so called 'lesser' mentalities, and yes, it's wrong, mean, and elitist. ''Judge not lest you be judged'' comes to mind. If you aren't just trolling, I suggest you try getting some compassion for your fellow human being into your psychological makeup.
I got back from work and learned of the explosions from Slashdot first, opened a tab to googlenews and caught on that it was still too recent to get a fully accurate understanding of this story. I read the comments here and did get information that proved to be accurate (applause for the good users here). There's nothing wrong with Slashdot posting the story, it is news that matters.
So, at the rate that tech is expanding, what would be the time frame for google glass technology to be permanently implanted in our brain via a wireless computer chip. Full time interaction with the internet, with of course full time tracking/monitoring all we see, access, and think. We'll all be walking versions of "My Favorite Martian", sans the 'visible' antenna. Less than 100 years away? 20 years away? The future looks both extremely cool and very frightening to me at the same time.
Thank you AC, though currently modded off-topic, you saved me the trouble of googling for 'rootkit'. Seems very topical to this story. So, Sony inserted drm's into unsuspecting users computers, and disabled the copying of legally owned music and software. Mod up informative from us less geeky neckbeards.
I'm guessing at the PS2 refernce. My tablet is a 1 ghz arm cpu that handles most all MAME roms and emulates consoles well until the PS1 and Nintendo 64, with which it struggles to keep frame rate. A dedicated 1.7 Tegra chip might handle far more, I don't know. The Ouya's going to be a versatile, moddable console, and I look forward to seeing how far it can taken, once the techie types get their hands on it. It'll eventually have lots of home-grown tweaks done to it.
The upgrade capability is for those who like to mod their devices, the 'tinkerers'. If it's successful, then there'll be an Ouya Two, for people not inclined to upgrade their device. I believe that the Ouya's 1.7 cpu will be in the Playstaion2 range of computing power.
The plan is for Ouya owners to upgrade the cpu and other parts as time goes on. So this is a game changing ability in the console wars. That openess is to be applauded and encouraged. I hope the Ouya does well, it might cause the big 3 console makers to reconsider drm and vendor lockdown.
Forget FB, I tried it for a year 4 years ago, then deleted my account.
I deleted my account around the same time. All it ever did for me is show my friends progress in Farm Ville.
I was also told my account wasn't deleted and I could reactivate it by logging in again. In other words it
didn't do a damn thing.
At the time I'd heard about 'deleted accounts' that weren't truly deleted, so I followed the exact steps to delete my account as detailed by a reputable site. It required doing some extra steps that I never would have known how to do. It is doable, you might need to google for that info now, and once you know how to truly delete your account, re-log in and perform those steps. Here's a quick Wiki-How link...
I'm old school, and don't leave 3G/WiFi on unless I'm actually using the internet. When I'm outside with my phone the internet is off, except when using GoogleMaps to get somewhere.
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When I use installed apps/games, and they demand the internet to function, that app/game gets deleted, it's just not worth it. If an downloaded app/game re-spawns after I've 'force-closed' it, it also gets tossed with no mercy, no game is that good. (I might keep a copy of the APK saved on my sdcard for the occasional, "use when needed then uninstall when done" times.)
Forget FB, I tried it for a year 4 years ago, then deleted my account. So now when I get spams that look like real FB emails ("You have 2 unread messages on FaceBook"), I know they're b.s., {delete}. Makes my life less complicated.
Slashdot Mirror
It's as if the authors are carefully trying to prey only on the truly stupid.
Given how advance fee fraud works, that's probably right.
I had a phishing attempt recently that really looked like it was from the IRS, down to the logos and all. I know the IRS and banks don't send unsolicited emails out, the real clincher was the reply address ended in ".irt". So, it got forwarded to abuse@irs.gov, same thing I do with bank phishing attempts. The only bad thing is I'll never know if I helped catch a phisher.
All the money in "defense spending" both internal and international and we're crowdsourcing their jobs?
Allright, let the FBI go on looking without any help from the general public, some of whom will know these two. That should give these two time to perform an attack on the people you know and love. Sheesh.
That's cool, and I'm all for looking for these things, but I can't help but feel a little sad knowing we'll never get there to explore them, even with robots.
I think we'll get to exploring and colonizing other worlds, if we can get together as a race to do it. "The impossible" has been done by us time and time again. Airplane flight was once impossible, as was going to the moon. The impossible is just something that hasn't been done yet.
.
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.
Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.”
Mike Norton
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/impossible
There is a lot of good going on in this life, but you have to look for it.
Come to think of it, that was the moment I lost interest in most any type of sensationalist news coverage on TV. If you are only reporting conjecture, and don't have any clear cut facts, I move on.
Initially civet coffee beans were picked from from wild civet excrement that was to be found around coffee plantations. This unusual process contributed to its rarity and subsequently, its high price. More recently, growing numbers of intensive civet "farms" have been established and operated across Southeast Asia, confining tens of thousands of animals to live in tiny cages and be force-fed.
'"The conditions are awful, much like battery chickens", said Chris Shepherd, deputy regional director of the conservation NGO Traffic south-east Asia. "The civets are taken from the wild and have to endure horrific conditions. They fight to stay together but they are separated and have to bear a very poor diet in very small cages. There is a high mortality rate and for some species of civet, there's a real conservation risk. It's spiralling out of control. But there's not much public awareness of how it's actually made. People need to be aware that tens of thousands of civets are being kept in these conditions. It would put people off their coffee if they knew"'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Now, as to how someone made the leap of taking the seeds which have passed through the civet and decided to make coffee out of it ... I couldn't even begin to guess at.
Wikipedia is your friend...
History:
The origin of kopi luwak is closely connected with the history of coffee production in Indonesia. In the early 18th century the Dutch established the cash-crop coffee plantations in their colony in the Dutch East Indies islands of Java and Sumatra, including Arabica coffee introduced from Yemen. During the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830—1870), the Dutch prohibited the native farmers and plantation workers from picking coffee fruits for their own use. Still, the native farmers wanted to have a taste of the famed coffee beverage. Soon, the natives learned that certain species of musang or luwak (Asian Palm Civet) consumed the coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collected these luwaks' coffee seed droppings, then cleaned, roasted and ground them to make their own coffee beverage. The fame of aromatic civet coffee spread from locals to Dutch plantation owners and soon became their favorite, yet because of its rarity and unusual process, the civet coffee was expensive even in colonial times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Yeah, it's mean. Doesn't make it wrong. Just sayin' ...
That's the way the Nazi's thought about the so called 'lesser' mentalities, and yes, it's wrong, mean, and elitist. ''Judge not lest you be judged'' comes to mind. If you aren't just trolling, I suggest you try getting some compassion for your fellow human being into your psychological makeup.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/boss-has-deft-touch-for-making-employees-feel-like,32084/
India, then China have the most, India 133,938, 68,000 for China.
In 2010 worldwide there were 1.24 road traffic deaths (wow!)
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/road-traffic-accidents/by-country/
U.S.: 33,808 latest year (I believe it's 2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
The U.S. didn't even break the top 100 in traffic deaths based on population...
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/road-traffic-accidents/by-country/
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post=6ba9947b-1a9e-43bd-b752-476d7777e559
http://www.howtogeek.com/145984/why-i-still-use-windows-7-after-a-year-of-trying-to-like-windows-8/
I got back from work and learned of the explosions from Slashdot first, opened a tab to googlenews and caught on that it was still too recent to get a fully accurate understanding of this story. I read the comments here and did get information that proved to be accurate (applause for the good users here). There's nothing wrong with Slashdot posting the story, it is news that matters.
So, at the rate that tech is expanding, what would be the time frame for google glass technology to be permanently implanted in our brain via a wireless computer chip. Full time interaction with the internet, with of course full time tracking/monitoring all we see, access, and think. We'll all be walking versions of "My Favorite Martian", sans the 'visible' antenna. Less than 100 years away? 20 years away? The future looks both extremely cool and very frightening to me at the same time.
I would imagine that not having to remember all those phone numbers frees up the brain to memorize other things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sony_rootkit
never forget, never forgive
Thank you AC, though currently modded off-topic, you saved me the trouble of googling for 'rootkit'. Seems very topical to this story. So, Sony inserted drm's into unsuspecting users computers, and disabled the copying of legally owned music and software. Mod up informative from us less geeky neckbeards.
I'm guessing at the PS2 refernce. My tablet is a 1 ghz arm cpu that handles most all MAME roms and emulates consoles well until the PS1 and Nintendo 64, with which it struggles to keep frame rate. A dedicated 1.7 Tegra chip might handle far more, I don't know. The Ouya's going to be a versatile, moddable console, and I look forward to seeing how far it can taken, once the techie types get their hands on it. It'll eventually have lots of home-grown tweaks done to it.
The upgrade capability is for those who like to mod their devices, the 'tinkerers'. If it's successful, then there'll be an Ouya Two, for people not inclined to upgrade their device. I believe that the Ouya's 1.7 cpu will be in the Playstaion2 range of computing power.
The plan is for Ouya owners to upgrade the cpu and other parts as time goes on. So this is a game changing ability in the console wars. That openess is to be applauded and encouraged. I hope the Ouya does well, it might cause the big 3 console makers to reconsider drm and vendor lockdown.
Forget FB, I tried it for a year 4 years ago, then deleted my account.
I deleted my account around the same time. All it ever did for me is show my friends progress in Farm Ville. I was also told my account wasn't deleted and I could reactivate it by logging in again. In other words it didn't do a damn thing.
At the time I'd heard about 'deleted accounts' that weren't truly deleted, so I followed the exact steps to delete my account as detailed by a reputable site. It required doing some extra steps that I never would have known how to do. It is doable, you might need to google for that info now, and once you know how to truly delete your account, re-log in and perform those steps. Here's a quick Wiki-How link...
http://m.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
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When I use installed apps/games, and they demand the internet to function, that app/game gets deleted, it's just not worth it. If an downloaded app/game re-spawns after I've 'force-closed' it, it also gets tossed with no mercy, no game is that good. (I might keep a copy of the APK saved on my sdcard for the occasional, "use when needed then uninstall when done" times.)
Forget FB, I tried it for a year 4 years ago, then deleted my account. So now when I get spams that look like real FB emails ("You have 2 unread messages on FaceBook"), I know they're b.s., {delete}. Makes my life less complicated.
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
(Somebody really needs to come up with a Superman UAV.)
Someone has...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpO1D23IWhw
they need a fart detector that can indicate the responsible party
No matter what it says, I'm still going to blame the dog in the room. :-)
If you run around without looking up, it isn't that dangerous. The worst you could get is a cut on your head.
http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/1997/Following-Recent-Injury-CPSC-Reissues-Warning-Lawn-Darts-Are-Banned-and-Should-Be-Destroyed/