Much as everyone on here loved to crow about how Google were being evil and locking the device down, isn't this the far more likely reason? An undocumented API has changed. Now can we stop overreacting? Locking down this device isn't really their style.
No, their style will be to cancel the device/services with some warning and litle explanation.
Return to lunar orbit for astronauts to study. I can see lunar orbit as a 'safe' alternative to earth orbit, even though this is small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. It would cut risk to other orbiting objects, and make it 'seem' safer to the masses. However, we have not had an astronaut in lunar orbit for decades. Who the fuck are these astronauts that will study it?
IIRC, attaining orbit is mostly about escape velocity, which is measured from the center of mass. The equator would be handier for a space elevator, but for launch anywhere will do. The key considerations are infrastructure, weather, and having a sufficiently sparse population down range that an accident will not cause much/any damage, hence a coastline or the middle of bum fuck egypt (or russia).
You misunderstand gordo. I openly said that these issues are important. At least to certain groups at certain times. However, they are devisive and used as a smoke screen to hide other actions.
Indeed GIT, sitting with a great painting can be a wonderful experience. My last museum foray however was the national gallery on a weekend. Not exactly quiet sitting time. I still remember studying a priceless Monet, then seeing a 9-11 year old boy that was a little hyper for an art museum come with inches of falling into it, hands first with hands that looked like he had been digging in the sand and mud on the mall.. The whole time his mother was oblivious, blathering away on her phone. I bet she posted on facebook later that her son got his culture for the decade.
I paint some as a hobby, and Van Gogh is one of my favorites, as is Dali. The thick paint technique you are referring to is called impasto. When done well it adds depth, texture and -real- shadow/shading (that changes with the light) to a painting. It is a very difficult thing to do well IMHO. In addition it adds quite a bit of weight to the canvas, and the different layers of paint can separate, making the entire painting much more fragile.
I am in a sense agreeing, but also stating that it goes deeper than party lines or racism. There are little if any party lines left. Just corporate shills mouthing off whatever will appease the masses and give them their bread and circuses.
It's true that there are some racist Democrats. But the Republicans use racism as a basic strategy to divide Democrats -- and Americans.
Both parties do whatever they can to divide us. All these divisions keep us from seeing the real issues that we get fucked on.
Do you think Exxon or BP give a flying fuck about abortion rights?
Do you think Blackwater cares what color you are
Do you think the MPAA gives 2 shits if you engage in gay marriage?
Do you think the NSA gives a hoot about immigration reform?
Do you think Boeing has nightmares about obesity and school kids diet?
Their agendas are much different, and much more nfarious, because we are manipulable dollar signs or targets to them. (maybe not to the NSA, but we are to the corporations that provide them and the TSA et all equipment, research, training, etc.)
The politicians do not care, because as long as they get CORPORATE money, they can swing voters to get in on the divisive shit. That is not to say that racism, gun control, immigration, abortion, etc are not important, but they are the lubricants with which we are finding ourselves more easily fucked.
You make fun of my mistake in knowing about garment customs, as if it breaks my argument. If anything, it only strengthens it, as if I can't (and I am fairly educated). What does that say for the guy that barely passed the GED and a training class?
The headline makes it sound as if the criminals are -playing- the games to steal info. They are just stealing the info same as they would from any other company. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it is a game, except for the fact that the amount of players and possibly lax security make it a valuable and vulnerable target.
The TSA is an employment program for low income, low education punks. That said, do you know how many false positives the explosives residue detector generates? I do not. I could google it, but I am fairly certain that most of the testing is done by the makers of the machines, and hence untrustable by me. Maybe the guy ate one to many airport bean burritos and had a methan riddled fart trapped in his pants that set off the detector.
Maybe, just maybe some TSA bullie saw hindu clothes and some headgear and said let me fuck with this rag head, and pushed the little button that makes the machine light up regardless of whether residue is present.
Since I pay hotels.com tp book a hotel for me and they take a cut before passing it on to the hotal, yes I AM their customer. Just not one that can exert much pressure. A chain of thousands of hotels bluffing and saying they will pull their listings, removing MBA's know how much revenue has much more power.
Bills are written by the legislature, the President signs them. He can push an agenda, but he's not the one writing the actual bill.
Nothing's stopping him from writing a bill and giving it to a Rep. or Senator to introduce.
Nothing is stopping you from writing one either, except time and desire.
Good luck getting anything worthwhile to even be noticed, much less brought to committee or the floor. If it is a somewhat hot button, it can be argued about incessantly, then tabled to a committee for review/revision over and over until it is gutted and has riders you would have never dreamed of that are completely unrelated.
Speaking of the NSA, doesn't anyone remember the beginning of Stranger in a Strange Land? Ben gets in an auto-cab (yes I know it flew), and before he realized what happened, it was locked and he was whisked off to the authorities and a windowless cell with some bullies.
Do we really want to hand the State Police/TSA/NSA/ATF/FBI that power? Or the power to take control of the car of someone unliked by the authorities and have it crash, due to 'equipment failure'?
My girlfriend and I take weekend trips often during the summer, and we use hotels.com to book lodging. While in Ohio earlier this summer, one of the places we stayed was terrible. No bedbugs, but poor repair, smelly room, bad service, the list goes on and on. IN addition, thier entry on hotels.com stated that they offered contentinal breakfast, which they did not.
Upon returning from our trip, we decided to rate and write a hotels.com review to warn others. We were not disrespectful or profane. We stated the facts and our displeasure with them only. A week or so later, my GF noticed the review still had not posted. Then she received an email stating that it would not because it violated the TOS of hotels.com. No explanation of how, just that we had. There were no names given (except the name of the hotel), and as I stated earlier, nothing but facts about ther visit, and our displeasure (admittedly and opinion).
I know where hotels.com gets its bread buttered now, and it is not from us customers. A chain hotel can exert much more fiscal pressure than a single customer.
I am owed a free night from them, and I am thinking of booking hotels using another source after that, but will the result be any different? My cynical brain says no.
Do you have single stream recycling? Many places do. It is good in some ways, in that people who never recycle, their garbage goes through a sorting facility. The downside is, you cannot effectively or safely sort all the recyclables correctly from a mountain of mixed waste.
Much gets landfilled, other stuff is sorted poorly to where it is not easily recyclable. In my city we do not have single stream, but what we can put in the recycle bin is limited to type 1 &2 plastic, three colors of glass, and basic paper/carboard. The rest, I don't know where it goes, to thellandfill or single stream style sorting. Personally I sort it into a seperate bin and there is a local recycling center sponsored by the county that I take it to when it gits too big. Unfortunately, there is talk of shutting that free center down. Ergo, more crap in the landfill or for china.
The best thing to do is reduse what you can. I reuse nearly everything possible, but it still leaves alot.
Sure, holding Miranda for 5 hours smacks of intimidation, but I think what they were really after was the devices to see if he had the files. Then he could be charged with some malarkey like attempting to take national secrets to another country, and possible trump up some charge on his partner about transferring them or being an accessory. If he was carrying some sort of unencrypted backup of the data, that also lets the spook agencies have a shot at seeing how much is bluff, and how much Snowden really stole.
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Much as everyone on here loved to crow about how Google were being evil and locking the device down, isn't this the far more likely reason? An undocumented API has changed. Now can we stop overreacting? Locking down this device isn't really their style.
No, their style will be to cancel the device/services with some warning and litle explanation.
Return to lunar orbit for astronauts to study. I can see lunar orbit as a 'safe' alternative to earth orbit, even though this is small enough to burn up in the atmosphere. It would cut risk to other orbiting objects, and make it 'seem' safer to the masses. However, we have not had an astronaut in lunar orbit for decades. Who the fuck are these astronauts that will study it?
IIRC, attaining orbit is mostly about escape velocity, which is measured from the center of mass. The equator would be handier for a space elevator, but for launch anywhere will do. The key considerations are infrastructure, weather, and having a sufficiently sparse population down range that an accident will not cause much/any damage, hence a coastline or the middle of bum fuck egypt (or russia).
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJc
Don't effing use fbook et al.
You misunderstand gordo. I openly said that these issues are important. At least to certain groups at certain times. However, they are devisive and used as a smoke screen to hide other actions.
Indeed GIT, sitting with a great painting can be a wonderful experience. My last museum foray however was the national gallery on a weekend. Not exactly quiet sitting time. I still remember studying a priceless Monet, then seeing a 9-11 year old boy that was a little hyper for an art museum come with inches of falling into it, hands first with hands that looked like he had been digging in the sand and mud on the mall.. The whole time his mother was oblivious, blathering away on her phone. I bet she posted on facebook later that her son got his culture for the decade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasto
I am in a sense agreeing, but also stating that it goes deeper than party lines or racism. There are little if any party lines left. Just corporate shills mouthing off whatever will appease the masses and give them their bread and circuses.
It's true that there are some racist Democrats. But the Republicans use racism as a basic strategy to divide Democrats -- and Americans.
Both parties do whatever they can to divide us. All these divisions keep us from seeing the real issues that we get fucked on.
Do you think Exxon or BP give a flying fuck about abortion rights?
Do you think Blackwater cares what color you are
Do you think the MPAA gives 2 shits if you engage in gay marriage?
Do you think the NSA gives a hoot about immigration reform?
Do you think Boeing has nightmares about obesity and school kids diet?
Their agendas are much different, and much more nfarious, because we are manipulable dollar signs or targets to them. (maybe not to the NSA, but we are to the corporations that provide them and the TSA et all equipment, research, training, etc.)
The politicians do not care, because as long as they get CORPORATE money, they can swing voters to get in on the divisive shit. That is not to say that racism, gun control, immigration, abortion, etc are not important, but they are the lubricants with which we are finding ourselves more easily fucked.
You make fun of my mistake in knowing about garment customs, as if it breaks my argument. If anything, it only strengthens it, as if I can't (and I am fairly educated). What does that say for the guy that barely passed the GED and a training class?
He stole facebooks PRIDE. And, lest you forget, corporations have co-opted law enforcement for years now, see the RIAA/MPAA for examples.
RTFA???? This is fucking slashdot. Unless it is an astronomy article I glean my skewed facts from the replies on the page!
The headline makes it sound as if the criminals are -playing- the games to steal info. They are just stealing the info same as they would from any other company. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it is a game, except for the fact that the amount of players and possibly lax security make it a valuable and vulnerable target.
Maybe, just maybe some TSA bullie saw hindu clothes and some headgear and said let me fuck with this rag head, and pushed the little button that makes the machine light up regardless of whether residue is present.
Since I pay hotels.com tp book a hotel for me and they take a cut before passing it on to the hotal, yes I AM their customer. Just not one that can exert much pressure. A chain of thousands of hotels bluffing and saying they will pull their listings, removing MBA's know how much revenue has much more power.
Bills are written by the legislature, the President signs them. He can push an agenda, but he's not the one writing the actual bill.
Nothing's stopping him from writing a bill and giving it to a Rep. or Senator to introduce.
Nothing is stopping you from writing one either, except time and desire.
Good luck getting anything worthwhile to even be noticed, much less brought to committee or the floor. If it is a somewhat hot button, it can be argued about incessantly, then tabled to a committee for review/revision over and over until it is gutted and has riders you would have never dreamed of that are completely unrelated.
Do we really want to hand the State Police/TSA/NSA/ATF/FBI that power? Or the power to take control of the car of someone unliked by the authorities and have it crash, due to 'equipment failure'?
Upon returning from our trip, we decided to rate and write a hotels.com review to warn others. We were not disrespectful or profane. We stated the facts and our displeasure with them only. A week or so later, my GF noticed the review still had not posted. Then she received an email stating that it would not because it violated the TOS of hotels.com. No explanation of how, just that we had. There were no names given (except the name of the hotel), and as I stated earlier, nothing but facts about ther visit, and our displeasure (admittedly and opinion).
I know where hotels.com gets its bread buttered now, and it is not from us customers. A chain hotel can exert much more fiscal pressure than a single customer.
I am owed a free night from them, and I am thinking of booking hotels using another source after that, but will the result be any different? My cynical brain says no.
'There are, in theory, many triple points hidden inside a solid, but they are very rarely probed.'"
"There are, in theory, many g-points hidden inside my girlfriend, but they are very rarely probed."
Much gets landfilled, other stuff is sorted poorly to where it is not easily recyclable. In my city we do not have single stream, but what we can put in the recycle bin is limited to type 1 &2 plastic, three colors of glass, and basic paper/carboard. The rest, I don't know where it goes, to thellandfill or single stream style sorting. Personally I sort it into a seperate bin and there is a local recycling center sponsored by the county that I take it to when it gits too big. Unfortunately, there is talk of shutting that free center down. Ergo, more crap in the landfill or for china.
The best thing to do is reduse what you can. I reuse nearly everything possible, but it still leaves alot.
Dev.null@uspto.gov
Sure, holding Miranda for 5 hours smacks of intimidation, but I think what they were really after was the devices to see if he had the files. Then he could be charged with some malarkey like attempting to take national secrets to another country, and possible trump up some charge on his partner about transferring them or being an accessory. If he was carrying some sort of unencrypted backup of the data, that also lets the spook agencies have a shot at seeing how much is bluff, and how much Snowden really stole.
What will be said is, "Sooo, you didn't hear us coming, sorry, eh."
www.antipolygraph.org