Slashdot Mirror


User: l0n3s0m3phr34k

l0n3s0m3phr34k's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,172
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,172

  1. Re:The final phase of total lockout from the world on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    An example of the first phase is the level of surveillance and tracking as seen in Torchwood is actually real, at least for the cameras everywhere part.

  2. Re:real world on British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty disingenuous definition of the Nazi's over-all goals. Your statement would lead some to think you are whitewashing history, and might even be a Nazi ideology sympathizer. Socialism can also be the means of production "regulated by the community as a whole". Their socialism was nothing more than a smokescreen for their true goals of a "pure Aryan race" motherland,

  3. Re: Three notable gains from this method on Tesla Plans To Disconnect 'Almost All' Superchargers From the Grid In Favor of Solar and Battery Power (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    For number #2, at least in regards to disposal, Musk is putting quite a bit of thought into that. To quote, "At Tesla we have been refining our recycling program for year". There is a battery recycling center right next door to the Gigafactory in Nevada. Musk has plans in the works to "close the loop" on his batteries. Even now, "The EPA estimates that over 90 percent of lead-acid batteries are recycled, and a typical battery contains 60-80 percent recycled materials."

    I would assume that if the EU mandates feeding excess back into the grid, Musk will probably just add more batteries so there is actually no "excess".

  4. "it's not clear how they would make it happen." on Tesla Plans To Disconnect 'Almost All' Superchargers From the Grid In Favor of Solar and Battery Power (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Pretty simple. Animal-powered electrical generators. He might even have some type of "Wheel of Pain" for those people who want to buy a Tesla but just can't afford one with money.

  5. First world=NATO, Second world=Warsaw Pact, Third World=non-aligned countries. That's the "original" definition that developed in the 1950s.

  6. "Challenge accepted!" -PLA Unit 61398, Fancy Bear, Bureau 121

  7. Re:Race to the bottom on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 2

    " most IT jobs at non-IT companies will be outsourced" That's not a problem, IF the outsourced jobs actually remained inside the US AND wasn't an H1B shop. IMHO, that would be a good thing IF that happened, as a IT company with multiple clients is more stable financially and the parent company can focus on their core business more.

  8. Century of The Self on What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a BBC 4-part documentary, about "how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy" and "explores the various ways that governments and corporations have utilized Freud's theories." It's amazingly eye-opening, going into modern PR, how advertising got women to smoke, and includes info about the Lehman Brothers, the Labor Party, the Clintons, use of focus groups...

    Once you see it, you will grok why many politicians are amorphous flip-floppers, how advertisers and politicians are using our basic human nature and base psychology against us. You can catch the whole thing on Youtube.

  9. Re:"mounting scrutiny of ties" on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think he really made that separation strong enough for US politics. It's probably good enough for "corporate America", ie the world where he was actually the "boss" and could operate with complete authority and with zero transparency. But he's operating in an entirely different situation now. In the business world, if he said "the sky is green" people would always agree. He could issue edicts, demand whatever, do shifty deals, firm whomever. Yet he's not operating in that world now. The corporate world doesn't have "special FBI prosecutors", Congressional oversight committees, etc.

  10. I live in Tulsa on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    and can guarantee that TPD has no idea why their actually doing it either. But one poster hit it on the head; this is most likely in relationship to busting drug dealers. SWIM once told me that even though many dealers use burners, those burners are still filled with people's numbers, texts, etc that can be used to create a web of information. Motherboard mentions "protesters and activists"; as a Red state we really don't have much of either and it hasn't escalated to the point of arrest in many years. I've had to deal with the TPD Cybercrimes unit before, they totally screwed up my requests by transposing the submitted the IPs. That pic on that page shows how "advanced" they are; I doubt they are really using this data much. However, they most likely are passing it all up to the FBI.

  11. Re:Good on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    China is trying them too, perhaps their pebbles will be more resistant to those issues. Maybe we will need to use some type of chemical vapor deposition diamond coatings on them to keep them from cracking if their triple Pyrocarbon coating doesn't cut it.

    If we actually would pour some real money into fusion, it might actually happen some time. It's always "10 years away", and we have yet to be able to keep the reaction going for more than a few seconds. China claims 102 seconds, but this isn't verified. ITER has been "officially" worked on since 2006 and isn't slated to even start up until at least 2021. Personally I think some smaller company like General Fusion or Tri Alpha Energy will make a breakthrough long before ITER even really gets seriously running.

  12. Re:It's all in a slogan on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only because you don't have a very good understanding of Nyarlathotep's ways of operation. He is a master manipulator, spreading chaos and madness. Cthulhu's true goals are beyond mere human comprehension. They both serve Azathoth, which I suppose in this case would be the non-human corporate entities that fund both positions. My example is far deeper than Kang or Kodos could dream of, although they MIGHT be a distant pre-human offworld spawn of Cthulhu before He began His long Dreaming. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

    Either Clinton or Trump could both easily start WWIII; neither are really the type of people we need as POTUS.

  13. Changing the icons for Skype vs. Skype for Business? Every place I've worked, these icons cause MASS CONFUSION with endusers. None of them realize that these are two separate products. The idea of just having an swapped color scheme is retarded. This is pure "marketing department driving IT" here, there was no technical reason to rename Lync. It's only a half-assed change, it's still referenced as Lync in the required DNS settings, in various registry settings, etc. Perhaps finishing up the change-over FIRST before deploying a bunch of new features...oh wait, this is Microsoft we're talking about.

  14. Re:It's too bad Trump's father didn't announce on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL! is Cov Fef now a ritual component for the FoK? I have to admit, the FoK are probably the most interesting magickal emergence since the OTO. I would love to find out what Peter J. Carroll thinks of the FoK.

  15. Re:Stop terminating data operations people then. on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    #TheRealHannity? LOL

  16. Re:Wut wut in the butt on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that the people running much of the advanced data mining are Millennials, who mostly wanted Sanders. So they chose not to go along with Hillary when the DNC screwed him over.

  17. Re:Citation on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically speaking, RT is based out of Moscow, and is a foreign corporation. The 1st Amendment rights of corporations is still a gray area, and Constitution protections for foreigners is still highly subjective and is still decided on a case-by-case basis. Even cases such as Citizens United really only touch on campaign contributions as a "form" of free speech, and contrary to popular belief, was pretty limited in the resultant decision. There have been many court cases that have decided that foreign nationals are not automatically covered under the Bill of Rights as these where meant for actual citizens of the US. Combining these factors together, this leads to the conclusion that RT would NOT be covered under any 1st Amendment rights.

    As for the evidence of Russian involvement, there is proof. However, the actual "list" or whatever is currently still highly classified and not released into the general public yet. The real question is if the involvement was coordinated on the "state level", and was the Trump administration an active participant in said involvement or just a beneficiary. There is evidence of similar tampering in France; however Marcon's cyber team was prepared for this and may have actually done some preemptive "informational poisoning" to derail it.

    People who can't see this trail are just keeping their heads buried in the sand; I blame it on something akin to the "beaten spouse syndrome". However, I don't think Clinton was a very good candidate either, and would have brought her own long list of issues with her. It's sad that out of 330 million people these two rose to "the top". We can do better than this; we MUST do better than this. Personally I advocate for replacing the House of Representatives with a proportional representation system to encourage the viability and formation of real third party choices. The US stands alone in having the meme "third party" due to the mathematical fact that our system only allows two sides due to our "winner take all" system. These sides often switch platforms, and absorb any emergent 3rd parties within a few election cycles.

    Sources:
    RT Network
    Are foreign nationals covered under the Constitution?
    Corporate personhood
    First Amendment and “Foreign-Controlled” U.S. Corporations
    Can US election hack be traced to Russia?
    Putin: Patriotic Russians may be involved in hacking
    The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News
    Macedonia’s fake news industry sets sights on Europe
    Russian Cyber Attack Repelled During French Elections
    Proportional representation

  18. Re:Wipes her server with a cloth on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "likable, charismatic, younger and can connect with the millennials"; they HAD three out of four with Sanders. Many people just "gave up" when he was pushed out, especially the Millennials; who actually now outnumber the boomers in numbers of voting-age people. Sanders would have been a radical change as well, but in the opposite direction of Trump / Clinton. Unfortunately, much of the US electorate aren't educated enough to comprehend "socialist democrat" != "communist" and would be completely bewildered by a European-style system that has dozens of different parties, platforms, etc. We in the US have been conditioned to only work with two parties...so it's "us" vs "them" with nothing possible in-between. The parties often switch sides, absorb any break-aways, etc. With a winner-take-all system, the math just ends up with only two parties.

  19. Re:It's all in a slogan on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    This election was Nyarlathotep vs. Cthulhu; neither choice was a good one. It amazes me that out of 330 million people these two are the "best" we could come up with.

  20. Re:Good on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Chernobyl wasn't really even an "accident". They did a late-night safety test without telling the engineers to arrange the fuel in the correct way for said test. Another station went offline, and the plant was told to postpone the test. When it finally resumed, the original day-time team had long went home; the over-night team wasn't trained properly and the delay had allowed dangerous gas buildup to occur. The whole incident was more a series of incompetence, improper training, and piss-poor communication. An accident is "an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause." What happened there was not without cause, and was no chance happening. The whole test should have been aborted until it was back on the original, daytime schedule with the proper crew in attendance.

    We have several reactor designs that are quite safe. The pebble bed is one of the Gen IV you mentioned. The LFTR is another very safe reactor, unfortunately the current development won't have a commercial reactor until at least 2032.

  21. Re:What kind of arrogance is this? on India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Theoretically, I could totally seeing Indian companies making these claims on coming into the UK. After all, the UK is the one that "colonized" an already existing country and forced them into being a vassal state for over 100 years. They have zero claim to any inherent jobs in the US. The only "ethnic group" that has any claims to inherent US resources like jobs, money, land, etc would be the Native Americans; and we all have seen how well that has gone.

  22. Bait and switch back to the "old boys club" on Boeing Will Make the Military's New Hypersonic Spaceplane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    At first, Boeing was partnering with Blue Origin on the engine. However, once they actually got this contract, they drop BO and switch over to Aerojet Rocketdyne; AR used to be called Boeing Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power before being spun off, merged, etc a few times. To me, this seems like a step backwards going back to the space plane idea; landing "normal rockets" has been proven now by two separate companies. It will be interesting to see if they can actually fulfill Phase III, 10 flights in 10 days.

  23. Trust the Government. The Government is your Friend.

  24. Re:Good on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    So, they didn't even have some type of "secured" wifi that they forced you to connect to first? If I was designing some type of cross-border device checking, that would be part of my system. We connect your device to our wifi, have you log in; the whole time also sniffing your packets, performing MitM on all your SSL traffic, and have deep packet inspection going on looking for other, non-obvious communications coming from your devices. Especially I would look for VPN connections, and doing geo-locating all the IPs your devices are connecting to. Seriously, if your going to be an privacy-invasive government, you should do it right and go ALL the way.

  25. "That and I"m not really thrilled about the hassle of having to go get a passport." Well, then your in luck! Soon you won't be able to get on a plane even for domestic flights without either a RealID-enabled driver's license or official US Passport. Luckily we don't (yet) have state-level border checks, so you can always still drive.