Ah, the "subtlety" of Western propaganda. The dude who turns up and beats the living hell out of the good guy can't be just Dude. Quite often it has to be Russian Dude.
Malice or stupidity? Or just plain old xenophobia?
That is a net loss for government. That was an awfully expensive political statement to make.
Maybe not. I am glad NYC proved to be strong enough to show who sets the terms.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if Amazon built HQ in NYC even without tax breaks. Many others did.
Or, even better, declare war on cigarettes.
It did go well with drugs, didn't it?
Thinking of it, perhaps it would be reasonable to re-classify tobacco to be in same class as heroin. That way you get war on tobacco withoud having to declare another war.
I'm being sarcastic.
Every consider that the modern person just doesn't want to ride mass transit for their daily lives?
I can consider that avoidance of mass transit is what a lot of people do and personally like, but "modern" is not correct description of such behaviour. Plenty of modern people use mass transit.
Regardless of how much I dislike Google and other big Internet corporations, and how much would I like to have better alternative to Chromium, I read a mailing list post by a guy I trust with software-related stuff - Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD fame - saying "Firefox is YEARS behind (Chromium), unless they change their strategy" in terms of security: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-m...
I sincerely hope they will change the strategy. Until then it's Chromium for me.
We swallowed asymmetric lines long time ago. Which basically means we accepted to consume more than we offer. It took me more than 10 years of participating on the Internet (I'm purposefully not using the phrase "using" Internet), to come to the conclusion that it's as important, if not more important what you offer than what you consume.
It's time not only to restore "Net Neutrality" but also ban ISP-level NATs, port filtering and asymmetric links. Restricting and throttling uploads is restricting free speech.
Want to listen what we say? It's cheap. Want to say something? Gonna cost you more than you can pay.
I was born in "communist" Yugoslavia, and lived there through my early childhood in the 80s. There was no Internet, but the only three national TV programs were what you could call "Clean and Righteous". Lots of educational stuff through the morning, classic Disney or Fleischer cartoons before bedtime, movie classics, both domestic and foreign in the evening.
Yugoslavia was torn down in early 90s by "western democracies", split to smaller, weaker countries, and one of them - Serbia, where I live now - was finally bombed in late 90s and early Y2K with depleted uranium by NATO member states. We finally got rid of the "dictators" and got "democracy".
A few weeks ago my 7 year old son asked me and my wife if he could watch football world cup semifinals on TV because our neighbor Croatia played, although it was past his bedtime (9PM). We allowed, but at the half-time we were genuinely afraid to start to switch through channels because we knew there will be stuff we don't want him to see. And don't get the wrong impression, as I completed Medal of Honor with him when he was 5, and at the same time he saw Lord of the Rings - he ain't a snowflake.
Freedom and democracy and free speech my ass. If you don't take western corporations' shit and also pay for it you get depleted uranium. Maybe not if you are as powerful as China.
As a non-U.S. citizen, who as a teenager experienced NATO bombs destroying public infrastructure and killing civilians in my country, I question U.S. military priorities as well. I'm pretty sure they did me more harm than google, although I'm not a fan of theirs either. Quite the contrary.
I prefer p2p downloading from soulseek and dc++ users, then stream it from my selfhosted airsonic instance.
Best of both worlds:)
But then again I listen to music from labels who don't go after fans of their musicians, and also occasionally support artists and labels who deserve it by buying physical media and artwork. As H20 used to say, try before buy;)
The PRC is an abusive authoritarian regime. It functions and continues to exist because WE allowed it access to the modern world.
FYI China has been "modern world" since some 6 millennia, and over the time it had the opportunity to test various types of government. Current one seem to work fine for them. USA exists less than three centuries, but some of people there sincerely believe that China is what it is not because of 6 millennia of existence and experience, but because THEY allowed them. Moreover, posts by these people are modded 5, insightful. It's funny:)
Why would anyone store their passwords in the cloud? Color me stupid, paranoid, whatever, I don't get it.
Keepass for the win
Because someone could have the need to access frequently changing password database from multiple devices.
I prefer to host my.kdb files on nextcloud instance which runs on HDDs in my basement behind pf firewall. In geli-encrypted zfs jail, TLS 1.2 HIGH ciphers only, HSTS, nextcloud encryption plugin enabled. Nextcloud desktop client for syncing kbd files to *BSD and Windows clients, F-droid version of android port for phones. KeepassXC for manipulating.kbd files.
I guess if someone hacks that they really really wanted to:)
If my engineering job pays no more than a truck driver, why bother?
Perhaps because you prefer engineering stuff to driving trucks?
Our career choices should not be dictated purely by material compensation.
Because the reward should be enjoyment in all aspects of living, including work.
Seeing work as necessary evil needed to be done in order to enjoy buying stuff seems to be the norm nowadays, though.
By and large, the only countries that could accurately be described as "gigantic cesspools of filth, poverty, illiteracy, crime, violence and general misery" are those that the USA has attacked and completely, or partially, destroyed.
Keep in mind there are also countries that the USA has attacked and partially destroyed, but which can't be described as "gigantic cesspool of filth, poverty, illiteracy, crime, violence and general misery" - one such country is Serbia, where I live.
I wanted to move westward, either EU or USA, up until few years ago. But then I realized that in the meantime a lot of people moved there, and from some I keep contact with I got negative feedback, mostly about the perception of being second grade citizens who are expected to be grateful.
Also this brain drain left local businesses with just a few of us BSD admins so we get quite a nice treatment moneywise, I dare say much better than what most of those who left get, when you take difference in price of living into account:)
I don't think I'll be sending my kids to foreign schools.
Ok so all the stories are about whether one should _buy_ bitcoin or not. But let's for the sake of argument say I bought one thousand of these when they were dozen a dime. Now when I'm a sudden "millionare", how do I cash in?
I make 36,000 € per year here in Belgrade, Serbia. Which is around 20,000 € after taxes, and obligatory medical and social insurance. My wife takes care of our two sons and occasionally contributes some cash doing freelance translation jobs. We own 70m2 flat on the bank of river Danube, and one-car garage. We drive 5 year old Ford Focus. On weekends we go to countryside trips and eat in nice restaurants. In summer we spend two weeks on beautiful island of Rab in Croatia. We hope to save enough money over next two decades so we can provide our sons their own place to live, same way as my parents provided me and my three sisters with our own places to live, and for now everything goes according to the plan. We eat good, natural food, which is not more expensive than tasteless supermarket crap - you just need to shop at green markets and butchers you know and trust.
Still, people here dream of America, land of the opportunity, land of the free, home of the brave.
Milk and honey on the other side... Hallelujah!
PS. I understand it wasn't American people who trade-sanctioned us in 90s and bombed us in Y2Ks, but American government bought by multinational corporations. I don't hold grudge. Come visit Belgrade, or even come to live in Belgrade. Life's good here;)
what they're proposing is "to take a giant philosophical step back and see if a new and more promising direction can be found.
OK, good advice, now do it. If you think there is some massive new physics to be discovered, then discover it. When you do, you will be admired and respected for generations, instead of mocked by me on Slashdot.
Unfortunately this is not true.
An old guy, who happen to be my father and who speaks Serbian only, took that giant step back and found more promising direction - an unified theory which explains all known physical phenomena at subatomic, atomic and cosmic levels, and which is able to theoretically calculate experimentally measured values such as mass, charge, electric arc field, magnet field, gravitation and gravitational field, as a consequence of difference in ether's local pressure and density.
Perhaps one day he will be admired and respected for generations, but so far there's no one willing to even review it - all the journals we contacted dismissed the paper for various bureaucratic reasons such as him not being employed in an university.
For those really interested, here's link (only one chapter translated to English so far):
Einstein's theory is completely incorrect. Famous equation E=mc2 is incorrect as well. "The proof" of formula's accuracy is based upon experimental fact that derrivative of energy released in atomic fusion (dE) equals derrivative of product of mass and speed of light squared (dmc2). However, _integral_ of this equation equals E=mc2+C, with C being a constant, so Einstein's formula would be correct only if mentioned constant equals zero.
Contemporary theorethical physics is meeting a dead end mainly because of incorrect assumption that interstellar space is empty, meaning its energy equals absolute zero (constant C equals zero in Einstein's equation). In reality, interstellar space is filled with vast energy and matter of great density, whereas mass represents effect of local changes in basic density and basic energy.
Much more about this, including calculated gravitational constant, can be read online in my book:
http://www.vasiona.rs/
I know a man (my father actually) who wrote (unreleased) book in Serbian in which he claims (and proves with numbers) that Quantum Mechanics and Theory of Relativity are mostly untrue.
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Ah, the "subtlety" of Western propaganda. The dude who turns up and beats the living hell out of the good guy can't be just Dude. Quite often it has to be Russian Dude. Malice or stupidity? Or just plain old xenophobia?
That is a net loss for government. That was an awfully expensive political statement to make.
Maybe not. I am glad NYC proved to be strong enough to show who sets the terms. I wouldn't at all be surprised if Amazon built HQ in NYC even without tax breaks. Many others did.
Ban cigarettes while your at it dipshit.
Or, even better, declare war on cigarettes.
It did go well with drugs, didn't it?
Thinking of it, perhaps it would be reasonable to re-classify tobacco to be in same class as heroin. That way you get war on tobacco withoud having to declare another war.
I'm being sarcastic.
Every consider that the modern person just doesn't want to ride mass transit for their daily lives?
I can consider that avoidance of mass transit is what a lot of people do and personally like, but "modern" is not correct description of such behaviour. Plenty of modern people use mass transit.
Regardless of how much I dislike Google and other big Internet corporations, and how much would I like to have better alternative to Chromium, I read a mailing list post by a guy I trust with software-related stuff - Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD fame - saying "Firefox is YEARS behind (Chromium), unless they change their strategy" in terms of security:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-m...
I sincerely hope they will change the strategy. Until then it's Chromium for me.
We swallowed asymmetric lines long time ago. Which basically means we accepted to consume more than we offer. It took me more than 10 years of participating on the Internet (I'm purposefully not using the phrase "using" Internet), to come to the conclusion that it's as important, if not more important what you offer than what you consume. It's time not only to restore "Net Neutrality" but also ban ISP-level NATs, port filtering and asymmetric links. Restricting and throttling uploads is restricting free speech. Want to listen what we say? It's cheap. Want to say something? Gonna cost you more than you can pay.
I was born in "communist" Yugoslavia, and lived there through my early childhood in the 80s. There was no Internet, but the only three national TV programs were what you could call "Clean and Righteous". Lots of educational stuff through the morning, classic Disney or Fleischer cartoons before bedtime, movie classics, both domestic and foreign in the evening.
Yugoslavia was torn down in early 90s by "western democracies", split to smaller, weaker countries, and one of them - Serbia, where I live now - was finally bombed in late 90s and early Y2K with depleted uranium by NATO member states. We finally got rid of the "dictators" and got "democracy".
A few weeks ago my 7 year old son asked me and my wife if he could watch football world cup semifinals on TV because our neighbor Croatia played, although it was past his bedtime (9PM). We allowed, but at the half-time we were genuinely afraid to start to switch through channels because we knew there will be stuff we don't want him to see. And don't get the wrong impression, as I completed Medal of Honor with him when he was 5, and at the same time he saw Lord of the Rings - he ain't a snowflake.
Freedom and democracy and free speech my ass. If you don't take western corporations' shit and also pay for it you get depleted uranium. Maybe not if you are as powerful as China.
As a non-U.S. citizen, who as a teenager experienced NATO bombs destroying public infrastructure and killing civilians in my country, I question U.S. military priorities as well. I'm pretty sure they did me more harm than google, although I'm not a fan of theirs either. Quite the contrary.
I prefer p2p downloading from soulseek and dc++ users, then stream it from my selfhosted airsonic instance. Best of both worlds :)
But then again I listen to music from labels who don't go after fans of their musicians, and also occasionally support artists and labels who deserve it by buying physical media and artwork. As H20 used to say, try before buy ;)
The PRC is an abusive authoritarian regime. It functions and continues to exist because WE allowed it access to the modern world.
FYI China has been "modern world" since some 6 millennia, and over the time it had the opportunity to test various types of government. Current one seem to work fine for them. USA exists less than three centuries, but some of people there sincerely believe that China is what it is not because of 6 millennia of existence and experience, but because THEY allowed them. Moreover, posts by these people are modded 5, insightful. It's funny :)
Why would anyone store their passwords in the cloud? Color me stupid, paranoid, whatever, I don't get it. Keepass for the win
Because someone could have the need to access frequently changing password database from multiple devices.
.kdb files on nextcloud instance which runs on HDDs in my basement behind pf firewall. In geli-encrypted zfs jail, TLS 1.2 HIGH ciphers only, HSTS, nextcloud encryption plugin enabled. Nextcloud desktop client for syncing kbd files to *BSD and Windows clients, F-droid version of android port for phones. KeepassXC for manipulating .kbd files.
:)
I prefer to host my
I guess if someone hacks that they really really wanted to
If my engineering job pays no more than a truck driver, why bother?
Perhaps because you prefer engineering stuff to driving trucks?
Our career choices should not be dictated purely by material compensation.
Because the reward should be enjoyment in all aspects of living, including work.
Seeing work as necessary evil needed to be done in order to enjoy buying stuff seems to be the norm nowadays, though.
In almost twenty years old news, but relevant nevertheless, blairwitchproject.com is expected to acquire General Motors.
By and large, the only countries that could accurately be described as "gigantic cesspools of filth, poverty, illiteracy, crime, violence and general misery" are those that the USA has attacked and completely, or partially, destroyed.
Keep in mind there are also countries that the USA has attacked and partially destroyed, but which can't be described as "gigantic cesspool of filth, poverty, illiteracy, crime, violence and general misery" - one such country is Serbia, where I live.
:)
I wanted to move westward, either EU or USA, up until few years ago. But then I realized that in the meantime a lot of people moved there, and from some I keep contact with I got negative feedback, mostly about the perception of being second grade citizens who are expected to be grateful.
Also this brain drain left local businesses with just a few of us BSD admins so we get quite a nice treatment moneywise, I dare say much better than what most of those who left get, when you take difference in price of living into account
I don't think I'll be sending my kids to foreign schools.
Ok so all the stories are about whether one should _buy_ bitcoin or not. But let's for the sake of argument say I bought one thousand of these when they were dozen a dime. Now when I'm a sudden "millionare", how do I cash in?
I use OpenBSD for more than a decade now, mostly as router/firewall solution, because it has all I need directly in base system.
PF Firewall
OSPF Routing
BGP Routing
CARP - Common Address Redundancy
IPsec
Sync IPsec states on CARPed boxes
PPTP/L2TP VPN
I could go on...
I make 36,000 € per year here in Belgrade, Serbia. Which is around 20,000 € after taxes, and obligatory medical and social insurance. My wife takes care of our two sons and occasionally contributes some cash doing freelance translation jobs. We own 70m2 flat on the bank of river Danube, and one-car garage. We drive 5 year old Ford Focus. On weekends we go to countryside trips and eat in nice restaurants. In summer we spend two weeks on beautiful island of Rab in Croatia. We hope to save enough money over next two decades so we can provide our sons their own place to live, same way as my parents provided me and my three sisters with our own places to live, and for now everything goes according to the plan. We eat good, natural food, which is not more expensive than tasteless supermarket crap - you just need to shop at green markets and butchers you know and trust.
;)
Still, people here dream of America, land of the opportunity, land of the free, home of the brave.
Milk and honey on the other side... Hallelujah!
PS. I understand it wasn't American people who trade-sanctioned us in 90s and bombed us in Y2Ks, but American government bought by multinational corporations. I don't hold grudge. Come visit Belgrade, or even come to live in Belgrade. Life's good here
what they're proposing is "to take a giant philosophical step back and see if a new and more promising direction can be found.
OK, good advice, now do it. If you think there is some massive new physics to be discovered, then discover it. When you do, you will be admired and respected for generations, instead of mocked by me on Slashdot.
Unfortunately this is not true.
An old guy, who happen to be my father and who speaks Serbian only, took that giant step back and found more promising direction - an unified theory which explains all known physical phenomena at subatomic, atomic and cosmic levels, and which is able to theoretically calculate experimentally measured values such as mass, charge, electric arc field, magnet field, gravitation and gravitational field, as a consequence of difference in ether's local pressure and density.
Perhaps one day he will be admired and respected for generations, but so far there's no one willing to even review it - all the journals we contacted dismissed the paper for various bureaucratic reasons such as him not being employed in an university.
For those really interested, here's link (only one chapter translated to English so far):
https://www.vasiona.rs/the-nat...
I am serious and open for discussion.
Einstein's theory is completely incorrect. Famous equation E=mc2 is incorrect as well. "The proof" of formula's accuracy is based upon experimental fact that derrivative of energy released in atomic fusion (dE) equals derrivative of product of mass and speed of light squared (dmc2). However, _integral_ of this equation equals E=mc2+C, with C being a constant, so Einstein's formula would be correct only if mentioned constant equals zero. Contemporary theorethical physics is meeting a dead end mainly because of incorrect assumption that interstellar space is empty, meaning its energy equals absolute zero (constant C equals zero in Einstein's equation). In reality, interstellar space is filled with vast energy and matter of great density, whereas mass represents effect of local changes in basic density and basic energy. Much more about this, including calculated gravitational constant, can be read online in my book: http://www.vasiona.rs/
If so, may I ask Eastern-EU folks to please refrain from hacking my servers during the holiday season?.
Nazi scum. I do not find this funny at all, I find it offensive.
Unfortunately my knowledge of Physics is not good enough to translate it. However, i am putting this book online, so far there are 6 chapters. If you are interested maybe google translate can help you to get basic understanding: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Funiversedisguised.cz.cc%2Fsadrzaj%2Fuvod%2F&act=url
I know a man (my father actually) who wrote (unreleased) book in Serbian in which he claims (and proves with numbers) that Quantum Mechanics and Theory of Relativity are mostly untrue.