Somehow we talk about campaign donations being the be all and end all, but we are obviously missing something:
pro-bono work done by media and technology experts that other canidates would have to pay for. This by-passes all donation contributions. In an ideal system you wouldn't need campaign finance reform, because people would make informed decisions, and no amount of money spent could change that. Thats not true. Money can buy votes. We all know this, but HOW is rarely discussed, because the people taking the money are the same people reporting the donations.
They buy you, by buying the "favorite celebrities" they already sold you previously. They overhype their strengths, and they downplay the really creepy and criminal things they do. They then go out of their way to let you know what bad guys the people who don't like celebrities are, and how you'll be social outcast if you give up on your favorite celebrities.
In the new digital age, there is also facebook. Once they know everything about you, it makes it easier to push your buttons. What if they find some dark sexual secret? Find out your weaknesses, exploit them. Since they already know who your friends are, they can tell them, or let them know subtly.
They can manipulate the girl you always had a crush on into sleeping with you, or dating you, because now they know. They can do all kinds of things to her as well.(mabey she spies on you?).
Since they know all your personal informaiton they can pretend to be an old long lost friend and use their credibility to bombard you with propaganda.
Speaking of propaganda, they can easily bypass your intellectual guards by finding out what pushes your buttongs and tailoring propaganda specificly to you.
All this is done pro-bono. This is what we know their capabilities are because they BRAG about them. Now it gets better, what if they want information about the opposition? What if they want to target organizers, donors, and leading voices opposing canidate XZY? What if they used the information to conduct smears of the opposition?
What if they targeted and harrassed campaign organizers and leaders. with information like this they'd be able to do with almost without being known about.
They aren't going to tell you that. Its not beyond their capabilities. Your a fool to think they never considered it.
you think so, until you find out the massive operation put in place to keep them compliant, and how good it is meshing facts with fiction, and discrediting/sabatouging opposition.
While its easy to laugh at people inside the bubble, be aware they have no easy way out as their political landscape has become a house a mirrors, set up by google.
I love this. Find me a place where electronics are manufactured in good conditions.
not final assembly, but fabrication of chips.
the guys who made the OpemMoko phone, from England, tried finding English manufactured before making shit in china. No really they did. Couldn't do it.
No really, I'd love to have a 'made in murrca' device. I really can't get one.
and just like OpenOffice became libre office, mysql became MariaDB.
Everyone saw the writing on the wall and switched to MariaDB a few months ago. In for a repeat show?
This is the great thing about free software, once its free, you have a hard time closing it back up. Someone just forks the last free version and keeps going, and you get ignored unless you can contribute something the Free versions don't, which is unlikely.
pidgin, and libpurple(the underneath library), are simple multi-IM clients that let you use one, easy to use, powerful IM client on any network, with any protocol.
This is great because it puts you in charge, rather than your instance messaging services and allows for universal plugins and features, like encryption across platforms, both on your computer and services on the internet.
pidgin has been widely ported, and the libpurple(all the functionality, of pidgin without the interface), even more ported.
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2012/Android
libpurple has an android port. So whatever interface you make, will have all the same back end as pidgin, and all the same features like an OTR plugin.
Only in the nerd world are half naked women consisred misogynist. I think the rest of society has an anti-nerd bias. No one mentions half naked women anywhere else.
If a half naked woman was selling you pop music, the same talking heads would be calling her a "strong woman".
Mabey its the reason so many nerds are sex phobic is merely they've been conditioned. Its a terrible double standard.
they are english major's who's comprehension of the world rivals those flipping burgers, except they have status, money and power they demand be respected.
I say don't respect them, and call them who they are.
google bought android, like they bought most other technologies they recently "innovated"
like apple bought mac os, and microsoft stole it.
the real innovators seldom get credit.
I wonder why no one wants to go into engineering or computers in college. Anyone who can, rather do business and own the ideas the engineers and computer people make, and then laugh when they kick them to the curb when they have nothing left to give.
GPL your code, and throw it on github, if your not business savy enough. Its that much more for the public tha parasites can't use leverage.
It looks at innovation only from the conumer stand point on what brand he sees as the end consumer. This is why I hate the press, why I hate journalists, and why I hate anyone who studies English or whatever other language is native to them in college. Your worthless pricks with no more understanding of the world, than the average guy mowing your lawn, or serving you burgers, but your confidence and arrogance in repeating urban legends and your inability to see your own confirmation bias is disgusting.
Your mentioing the biggest companies in tech who got there by buying innovation from start ups if the start ups were lucky, and downright stealing it if they weren't.
Apple invented nothing. They just used their massive PR campaign to popularize technology that previously existed, they still don't make but stuck their name on, to the rich hipsters, who are to socially concious to be looking like a nerd.
Google is probably the only one in the lot who at onetime invetened something. The remade webmail into the default mail interface, and they made the modern search engine.(first one that didn't suck).
Facebook was never a real innovator, except winding up on top of the social network game.
And if they're not lost in their own perception bias, their sole concern is how much money they are going to make for shareholders, at the expense of their users and sometimes developers.
""ugly" is in the eye of the beholder - frankly, I find KDE and Gnome to be ugly (especially the font rendering... shit, it's 2013, can't you figure out how to render fonts yet?) As far as flexibility, Windows is a lot more flexible that any Linux I've tried when it comes to multi-monitor setups without me having to muck with configs. And my settings don't randomly get lost."
The fonts look better than windows actually. win 7 is clunky, win8 is insane.
"No doubt. It's a serious issue. However, can you imagine hell that everyone would raise if Microsoft wanted to offer such a service? They catch flak for almost everything they do."
doesn't change shit. handling installs with executable files and then depending on them to handle package management on their own is insane. it allows for programs that don't want to install themselves.
"And cars don't come bundled with gasoline. And houses don't come bundled with furniture. And groceries don't come bundled with chefs. You are seriously complaining because Windows doesn't come bundled with stuff? And wasn't bundling stuff what got Microsoft into trouble before?"
windows generally comes bundled with a bunch of crapware.
linux comes bundled with most of the stuff you need. windows it costs money.
""The esoteric feature that I want is missing. It serves no practical purpose and isn't needed in the product's target market, but I want it. And it's not there. Why is it not there!?!?""
its actually used a lot, especially for security, and development work, and recovering a system, etc.. Just because your ignorant doesn't mean its not important.
" NTFS is a pretty decent filesystem. It doesn't have flashy features and it's not hip, but it gets the job done, it's reliable and you know what... those are the two primary considerations for a filesystem. At least for most people."
its slow, old, and well, as of windows 8 replaced. NTFS on windows 7 is %30 slower than ext4 on ubuntu. NTFS can hardly be considered a proffesional FS.
If you need proffesional grade filesystems linux will run ZFS, XFS, and JFS, all enterprise grade FSs.
the new default ext4 is also really good too, and the next gen FS, btrfs is going to blow everything else out of the water.
they combine speed with redundancy features outdated things like NTFS could only dream of.
"You're joking, right? Windows hardware support is excellent and it comes bundled with not only a boatload of drivers"
Kid you not. windows drivers are generally sucky, buggy, and you have to download them to get them to work.
"Don't blame Windows if some vendors don't want to allow Microsoft to ship drivers"
linux doesn't have this problem. Linux ships drivers for 99% of common hardware. The only think that you might need to download is factory drivers for video cards, of which is there an automatic tool to do that for you in major distros.
"Don't take this personally, but your programming skills almost certainly make that a good thing."
pure rhetoric. Linux still has editors that are very very skeptical of third party patches. Some people want added features that the kernel devs don't want to mainline.
"And let's be realistic - for the overwhelming majority of computer users, the computer is an appliance. They don't need or want to know how it works. They just want it to work. So you can imagine how they feel about "hacking source code.""
and many of them might enjoy features that are not mainlined or enabled by default in the kernel, or even enjoy installing custom recompiles by other people. Lets not pretend things like kernel -cf and -pf don't exist, or liquorix, or other community linux based kernel projects.
linux also has make menuconfig(even has an X11 interface), and for a lot of people who aren't programers leafing through and adding a few additional features is possible with a menu based system.
Even for people who don't go this far, it allows people to develop very specific purpose
the only refrence to his status as CIO of the IDF was the link you provided, and the rest of the web refrences his army experiance as 4 years, the manditory service every Israeli does. No one becomes a high ranking officer in 4 years in any army, from being a conscript, or basic enlistee.
and there is no oversight that "suspect" has anything to do with "law breaking" or anything else.
It could be used to build an enemies list, target critics for harrassment, and put an end to unfriendly political practices, and frame people for crimes.
Given the fact many intellegents agents moonlight as private intellegence, isn't there some risk they could use this for their night jobs without real consequences, you know the ones that pay better.
So when microsoft, the RIAA/MPAA, monsanto, etc... want intellegence on their enemies, or want to conduct a smear, they have first rate intel with even less oversight.
just like everyone else, people with degrees are chasing jobs. Just an electrician or a plumber who has to take a job where their skills lie, so do graduates out of top schools. I hate to say this, but they need to make a living too.
So this entire article is like an article saying "too many skilled workers are working at wal-mart".
Also, when you talk about solving either social or political problems as a nerd with the only social status you have is dependant on whatever patronism you give to established players, and as little as they can give you, and they are always looking take it away, how are we expected to solve problems.
What do you think happens to the first nerd who solves a problem that someone in washington, or big business uses to either make money, or stay elected, or get them whatever extra-legal favors they want?
Don't blame us, blame pop culture, and the social latter, which has the best and brightest subserviant to the worst and dumbest.
I also like how the article has a bit of remorse for how they "use to shovel money for wall street", because I think what is going on now is still a vast improvement.
"It comes after Mark Bridger was found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones in Powys."
Tell me what this has to do with pornography?
This sort of cherry picked anecdotal evidence is nothing more than fear mongering, and it is NEVER uniformly enforced either, and always has to do with some form of confirmation bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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Somehow we talk about campaign donations being the be all and end all, but we are obviously missing something:
pro-bono work done by media and technology experts that other canidates would have to pay for. This by-passes all donation contributions. In an ideal system you wouldn't need campaign finance reform, because people would make informed decisions, and no amount of money spent could change that. Thats not true. Money can buy votes. We all know this, but HOW is rarely discussed, because the people taking the money are the same people reporting the donations.
They buy you, by buying the "favorite celebrities" they already sold you previously. They overhype their strengths, and they downplay the really creepy and criminal things they do. They then go out of their way to let you know what bad guys the people who don't like celebrities are, and how you'll be social outcast if you give up on your favorite celebrities.
In the new digital age, there is also facebook. Once they know everything about you, it makes it easier to push your buttons. What if they find some dark sexual secret? Find out your weaknesses, exploit them. Since they already know who your friends are, they can tell them, or let them know subtly.
They can manipulate the girl you always had a crush on into sleeping with you, or dating you, because now they know. They can do all kinds of things to her as well.(mabey she spies on you?).
Since they know all your personal informaiton they can pretend to be an old long lost friend and use their credibility to bombard you with propaganda.
Speaking of propaganda, they can easily bypass your intellectual guards by finding out what pushes your buttongs and tailoring propaganda specificly to you.
All this is done pro-bono. This is what we know their capabilities are because they BRAG about them. Now it gets better, what if they want information about the opposition? What if they want to target organizers, donors, and leading voices opposing canidate XZY? What if they used the information to conduct smears of the opposition?
What if they targeted and harrassed campaign organizers and leaders. with information like this they'd be able to do with almost without being known about.
They aren't going to tell you that. Its not beyond their capabilities. Your a fool to think they never considered it.
you think so, until you find out the massive operation put in place to keep them compliant, and how good it is meshing facts with fiction, and discrediting/sabatouging opposition.
While its easy to laugh at people inside the bubble, be aware they have no easy way out as their political landscape has become a house a mirrors, set up by google.
I love this. Find me a place where electronics are manufactured in good conditions.
not final assembly, but fabrication of chips.
the guys who made the OpemMoko phone, from England, tried finding English manufactured before making shit in china. No really they did. Couldn't do it.
No really, I'd love to have a 'made in murrca' device. I really can't get one.
I already switched to MariaDB, along with Red Hat, Arch Linux, and most everyone else.
Exactly what happened to open office. We got a working fork, that is what everyone is going to use.
and just like OpenOffice became libre office, mysql became MariaDB.
Everyone saw the writing on the wall and switched to MariaDB a few months ago. In for a repeat show?
This is the great thing about free software, once its free, you have a hard time closing it back up. Someone just forks the last free version and keeps going, and you get ignored unless you can contribute something the Free versions don't, which is unlikely.
like the anti-nuclear acvitists phil zimmerman was trying to protect.
How dare someone critize government or corporate intrests. They might as well be blowing up buildings.
so there is something that runs natively on Linux, but not mac. LOL
just fucking run Linux.
pidgin is open source and does skype
bullshit.
pidgin, and libpurple(the underneath library), are simple multi-IM clients that let you use one, easy to use, powerful IM client on any network, with any protocol.
This is great because it puts you in charge, rather than your instance messaging services and allows for universal plugins and features, like encryption across platforms, both on your computer and services on the internet.
pidgin has been widely ported, and the libpurple(all the functionality, of pidgin without the interface), even more ported.
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2012/Android
libpurple has an android port. So whatever interface you make, will have all the same back end as pidgin, and all the same features like an OTR plugin.
I'm a typical heterosexual male.
that said this sex phobia needs to stop.
Boobs are good, I enjoy seeing theme everywhere.
I certainly don't getting naked myself if so asked.
People need to stop being affraid of their bodies.
No it really does.
Only in the nerd world are half naked women consisred misogynist. I think the rest of society has an anti-nerd bias. No one mentions half naked women anywhere else.
If a half naked woman was selling you pop music, the same talking heads would be calling her a "strong woman".
Mabey its the reason so many nerds are sex phobic is merely they've been conditioned. Its a terrible double standard.
they are english major's who's comprehension of the world rivals those flipping burgers, except they have status, money and power they demand be respected.
I say don't respect them, and call them who they are.
google bought android, like they bought most other technologies they recently "innovated"
like apple bought mac os, and microsoft stole it.
the real innovators seldom get credit.
I wonder why no one wants to go into engineering or computers in college. Anyone who can, rather do business and own the ideas the engineers and computer people make, and then laugh when they kick them to the curb when they have nothing left to give.
GPL your code, and throw it on github, if your not business savy enough. Its that much more for the public tha parasites can't use leverage.
It looks at innovation only from the conumer stand point on what brand he sees as the end consumer. This is why I hate the press, why I hate journalists, and why I hate anyone who studies English or whatever other language is native to them in college. Your worthless pricks with no more understanding of the world, than the average guy mowing your lawn, or serving you burgers, but your confidence and arrogance in repeating urban legends and your inability to see your own confirmation bias is disgusting.
Your mentioing the biggest companies in tech who got there by buying innovation from start ups if the start ups were lucky, and downright stealing it if they weren't.
Apple invented nothing. They just used their massive PR campaign to popularize technology that previously existed, they still don't make but stuck their name on, to the rich hipsters, who are to socially concious to be looking like a nerd.
Google is probably the only one in the lot who at onetime invetened something. The remade webmail into the default mail interface, and they made the modern search engine.(first one that didn't suck).
Facebook was never a real innovator, except winding up on top of the social network game.
And if they're not lost in their own perception bias, their sole concern is how much money they are going to make for shareholders, at the expense of their users and sometimes developers.
Lamar Smith is the same guy who sponsored PIPA.
Not going to shut up until he goes away.
""ugly" is in the eye of the beholder - frankly, I find KDE and Gnome to be ugly (especially the font rendering... shit, it's 2013, can't you figure out how to render fonts yet?) As far as flexibility, Windows is a lot more flexible that any Linux I've tried when it comes to multi-monitor setups without me having to muck with configs. And my settings don't randomly get lost."
The fonts look better than windows actually. win 7 is clunky, win8 is insane.
"No doubt. It's a serious issue. However, can you imagine hell that everyone would raise if Microsoft wanted to offer such a service? They catch flak for almost everything they do."
doesn't change shit. handling installs with executable files and then depending on them to handle package management on their own is insane. it allows for programs that don't want to install themselves.
"And cars don't come bundled with gasoline. And houses don't come bundled with furniture. And groceries don't come bundled with chefs. You are seriously complaining because Windows doesn't come bundled with stuff? And wasn't bundling stuff what got Microsoft into trouble before?"
windows generally comes bundled with a bunch of crapware.
linux comes bundled with most of the stuff you need. windows it costs money.
""The esoteric feature that I want is missing. It serves no practical purpose and isn't needed in the product's target market, but I want it. And it's not there. Why is it not there!?!?""
its actually used a lot, especially for security, and development work, and recovering a system, etc.. Just because your ignorant doesn't mean its not important.
" NTFS is a pretty decent filesystem. It doesn't have flashy features and it's not hip, but it gets the job done, it's reliable and you know what... those are the two primary considerations for a filesystem. At least for most people."
its slow, old, and well, as of windows 8 replaced. NTFS on windows 7 is %30 slower than ext4 on ubuntu. NTFS can hardly be considered a proffesional FS.
If you need proffesional grade filesystems linux will run ZFS, XFS, and JFS, all enterprise grade FSs.
the new default ext4 is also really good too, and the next gen FS, btrfs is going to blow everything else out of the water.
they combine speed with redundancy features outdated things like NTFS could only dream of.
"You're joking, right? Windows hardware support is excellent and it comes bundled with not only a boatload of drivers"
Kid you not. windows drivers are generally sucky, buggy, and you have to download them to get them to work.
"Don't blame Windows if some vendors don't want to allow Microsoft to ship drivers"
linux doesn't have this problem. Linux ships drivers for 99% of common hardware. The only think that you might need to download is factory drivers for video cards, of which is there an automatic tool to do that for you in major distros.
"Don't take this personally, but your programming skills almost certainly make that a good thing."
pure rhetoric. Linux still has editors that are very very skeptical of third party patches. Some people want added features that the kernel devs don't want to mainline.
"And let's be realistic - for the overwhelming majority of computer users, the computer is an appliance. They don't need or want to know how it works. They just want it to work. So you can imagine how they feel about "hacking source code.""
and many of them might enjoy features that are not mainlined or enabled by default in the kernel, or even enjoy installing custom recompiles by other people. Lets not pretend things like kernel -cf and -pf don't exist, or liquorix, or other community linux based kernel projects.
linux also has make menuconfig(even has an X11 interface), and for a lot of people who aren't programers leafing through and adding a few additional features is possible with a menu based system.
Even for people who don't go this far, it allows people to develop very specific purpose
same
virtualbox running in linux.
are there any that really require IE(like activex), or simply just check browser versions and refuse to work with anything else.
If they just check version numbers, you can always use this:
http://forums.chrispederick.com/categories/user-agent-switcher
and pretend to be IE.
nothing, I ditched windows for GNU/Linux in 2010 completely and haven't looked back.
No regrets.
standard USB connector.
ogg/flac/opus support
removal of app kill switch
xterm + coreutils + bash
well documented open program API
unlocked bootloader + weak/no carrier lock
ability to sync with stuff other than itunes + linux desktop support, to include tethering via USB.
root access
the source code.
If your not willing to provide at least 3/4ths that list, I couldn't care less about it, like I couldn't care less about it now.
In apple's patented Reality Distortion Field (tm) there is no conflict of intrest so long as it works in apple's favor.
The very notion of have an original idea is "stealing from apple"
the only refrence to his status as CIO of the IDF was the link you provided, and the rest of the web refrences his army experiance as 4 years, the manditory service every Israeli does. No one becomes a high ranking officer in 4 years in any army, from being a conscript, or basic enlistee.
and there is no oversight that "suspect" has anything to do with "law breaking" or anything else.
It could be used to build an enemies list, target critics for harrassment, and put an end to unfriendly political practices, and frame people for crimes.
Given the fact many intellegents agents moonlight as private intellegence, isn't there some risk they could use this for their night jobs without real consequences, you know the ones that pay better.
So when microsoft, the RIAA/MPAA, monsanto, etc... want intellegence on their enemies, or want to conduct a smear, they have first rate intel with even less oversight.
just like everyone else, people with degrees are chasing jobs. Just an electrician or a plumber who has to take a job where their skills lie, so do graduates out of top schools. I hate to say this, but they need to make a living too.
So this entire article is like an article saying "too many skilled workers are working at wal-mart".
Also, when you talk about solving either social or political problems as a nerd with the only social status you have is dependant on whatever patronism you give to established players, and as little as they can give you, and they are always looking take it away, how are we expected to solve problems.
What do you think happens to the first nerd who solves a problem that someone in washington, or big business uses to either make money, or stay elected, or get them whatever extra-legal favors they want?
Don't blame us, blame pop culture, and the social latter, which has the best and brightest subserviant to the worst and dumbest.
I also like how the article has a bit of remorse for how they "use to shovel money for wall street", because I think what is going on now is still a vast improvement.
"It comes after Mark Bridger was found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones in Powys."
Tell me what this has to do with pornography?
This sort of cherry picked anecdotal evidence is nothing more than fear mongering, and it is NEVER uniformly enforced either, and always has to do with some form of confirmation bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias