" If it's not the government (FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, etc.), it's a corporation..."
See: Totalitarianism,
..something I neither embrace or accept as tolerable. I choose persistent innovation over submission. Futility is only 6' away; I see no reason to crawl and make it closer.
Obama is very intelligent. I don't expect anyone to know something about everything, so I pardon him for simple errors. His biggest blooper seems to be his cavalier investment in the short-term memories of Americans. Turns out there was 'a killing' to be made, but they weren't as short as he assumed; Americans still remember the things he said long ago, and they are mighty confused whilst they hear what he says today. If Obama makes a stupid statement, just as I would if he made a genuinely funny one, I'd wonder only what he was trying to deceive us about. However, since Obama is not a fucking mor[m]on, my best guess is that I'd be modded as Offtopic and nothing would be said.
You might consider that there are some people out there who are sick of being electoral ping-pong serfs. Personally, I'd like to see them both volunteer for the first expedition to Mars -- I'd vote for that!. This election is like being mugged by two thugs; they say to hit the biggest one first, but to me, these guys seem like ugly twins, with very different personalities.
Way back yonder when I was a kid, me mum, father, the pomeranian and I were flying a Beechcraft Bonanza back from Miami in a weak hurricane. They were up front and I was in the back seat. For some reason or another I ended up holding the dog. As a kid, I had a tendency to fiddle with things, sometimes without regard to what they were. I had been fiddling with the window latch for a while, when suddenly, it actually opened. I completely froze, shocked and confused. The dog, with its sensitive ears began wailing horribly. My father, who was prone to anger, began yelling terribly too. A chorus of woe began as I sat there frozen with fright and guilt. My mum, the calmer of the bunch (the dog was a bit hyper too) began lurching toward me to close the window. Until she eventually succeeded in her efforts, the sound of the wind and screeching dog and yelling father went on for what seemed a bitter long time. I think even my mum began shrieking at my father before things were sorted out. It was a mess and I'd have a sore ass for it later.
Moral of the story? Opening windows during low-altitude flights can be interesting, but I'd rather it have been Linux.
Sorry, I think you may have gotten it wrong. From my understanding, Linus was stating a well-established fact -- that Romney is a fucking mor[m]on. Simple typo; he knows genius when he sees it.
In the long run, I think your point is valid. But the sterility of a purely objective interpretation of a too-often unfair world beholding too many aspects for any group to contemplate, would have its own consequences. Surely human fallibility necessitates objectivity be a pillar of our perception if we wish to maintain any measure of sanity. While such can hopefully remain a social value, some subjects may warrant a touch of self-expression. A purely objective tone can be ineffectual under some circumstances. It could be argued that in order to increase the value of objectivity, experiences such as those of war-veterans should be interpreted and conveyed through someone who has never been to war -- and it could certainly be argued otherwise; or, that holocaust survivors should be heard only through proxy -- or again, otherwise and in-between.
Though I do not promote the habitually biased, it doesn't seem to be a problem here at all. I also find that -- especially where sufficient data is supplied -- the responsibility of objectivity rests at least as much in the listener as the teller, if not more. On the subject of the TSA, more than a formidable portion of the citizenry have unfortunately acquired rightfully-held subjective bias. Since we as citizens fund them directly or inadvertently, a negative tone seems foretold. Now, if we could only get the DHS and other strange appendages of our government to be more objective, we might more easily reciprocate.
I had a chance to see General (Specific) Hayden perform at the Geriatric Thugs & Podium Assassins RapFest. And let me tell you; once he got limbered up with some warm milk and a few raw pork sausages, he really got funky. After the show, he told us 'bout hackin' on his AOL account. Said some bitches wuz 'bout to get bussed up on the tubes, yo. When I asked him if the gubmint knew what I was doing on da web, he said "Don't make me go mercenary an ya ass." an' I knew homey weren't playin no games.
Because on a serious note, these guys are little more than extremely well-funded, cyberphobic, pimpster penta-thugs with diseased imaginations. And a corrective suggestion, if we are to remain up-to-date: It's a "Digital Academi", not Blackwater. Or, we could just be hard, and confine our knowledge in the past while our minds bumble bewildered in the future -- 'cause it's a thug life, it pays well and looks good on the telly.
Yes it could -- such a shortage could have grave consequences for civilians everywhere. Alas, I never thought there would come a day when a cavia porcellus would be given badge and a gun .
Just kidding,
- Sgt. Oink
Once upon a time there was young, generally decent chap who'd previously had some unpleasant experiences with the police. He wasn't particularly inclined toward evil deeds, but he was young, played video games and listened to punk rock. One night en passant a police vehicle, he got a wild idea. This chap, who typically carried a general purpose tool, aka a pocket knife, imagined inserting it into one or more of the tires attached to the police vehicle. The notion was appealing enough that he decided to test it. After a cursory glance in 360 degrees, he furtively approached the police vehicle, hesitating only for a moment before the tip of his blade met the nylon tire. He had been expecting all sorts of loud bangs and at the very least a distinct hissing sound. When nothing but the stiff resistance of the well-built tire was observed, he might have stayed to ponder, but instead retreated half-pleased at his own failure. The tire was unaffected, but he was not -- for despite the generally shoddy nature of the seemingly superfluous societal components that menaced about him, he realized that some were intelligently designed. Tires that could not be popped; it made sense, so much unlike so many other aspects of the strange and arbitrary adult world that imposed itself onto him daily.
The years passed and he gave up punk rock for newer things like dubstep and IDM. He remembered all his bad encounters, which were now a medley of too many individuals to have any single one stand out. He no longer suffered such futile impulses, re-focusing his efforts in more positive directions, like beer and bash-scripting and nature. But still to this day, every time he sees a screw or nail laying on the asphalt imperiling the tires of all but a special few, he wonders why; why can we not all have tires that yield not to trivial roadside rubbish?
Yes, a vector indeed. Gummy worms comprising of gelatin, and gelatin comprising of bone and bone -- other than brain -- being the most common vector for rogue prions, you may have a point. What's undeniable, however, is that feeding gummy-worms to cows is cannibalism -- a diet that has been largely discouraged since it was discovered as a possible connection with BSE. Gelatin manufacturers claim to treat the gelatin in a manner which "minimizes" the risk of transmission, but I have always had serious doubts. I think Japan and Korea have doubts too, which is probably why they've banned US beef in the past, or still do.
Admitting my primitive understanding of this subject, I have some questions; Is sandboxing undervalued? is sending all cache to unique directories that can only be read by the source they were created for practical? Would generating random or shared generic user-agent data for each domain for each encounter have any effect? I have taken simple privacy measures like chmod 400 ~/.macromedia and ~/.adobe; installing noscript, flashblock; bloating/etc/hosts with loopback redirects, thrashed around in about:config, piously used bleachbit, etc.-- but I guess there are still kissmetrics and other mysterious things to deal with.
I remember trying the EFF's panopticlick, which tests your browser for its unique fingerprint. I was a little surprised at the results. What does something like the time-stamp mean for anonymity? How many people in the world have identical installation times and zip-codes, etc.? Why does this and other data need to be there as it is?
I get confused when contemplating why such promiscuous features are included in browsers in the first place. Are we simply using stupid browsers? Would creating a secure browser break its functionality? I know noscript can be a pain in the ass. What really confuses me is why a browser would store persistent cookies and other data -- after being deleted -- unless it was built to do so. If so, then why? If not, then why? When I start a browser from a fresh install or USB, it works just fine. If I reboot and do it again, it continues to work fine. Why the persistent data?
Finally, it should be alarming in itself that so much knowledge is required now to have even a measure of privacy. Those who understand, often take their knowledge for granted. But even for someone practically living and working in the web, it is not an overly simple subject. Is privacy an esoteric delusion, or is it an esoteric reality?
I think for anyone paying attention to the subject of privacy, it is pretty apparent that tyrannical voyeurism is a State Vice -- behind which are packs of ravenous fiends that will stop at nothing short of pharisaic omniscience. Long before one method of 'evasion' (self defense) becomes popular among the masses, these fiends are devising new countermeasures to foil them. Already, they want to spy on us through household devices. It seems a time is coming when options are scarce and opting out will be difficult or impossible. And all they seemingly need to do to pacify us is whisper in a soothing tone words like "transparency"". Yes, transparency, a simplex protocol for the masses.
Probably would've come under assault for stating the "obvious" or being condescending. The 'perfect'/. post is a wild gambit, a tilting rook amidst a mired swamp of strange and temperamental creatures. It's like blindly striking a smoking electro-piñata filled by Alan Turing, Douglas Adams and Nietzsche -- and Gates, Torvalds and Jobs are screeching so loudly in the background, you consider striking yourself instead. In truth, such endeavors require a rare form of derangement, a harmonious blend of neo-technical madness and erstwhile sentiment; which is why....shit, I need my meds; I'm done here. What have I done!
How about gruel-born double-standards?
I've been wondering what all this hysteria about Big Bad Russia is about for some time now. Surely Russia is no Shambhala, but the US is a veritable litigation shit-hole slaughterhouse. We, here in the U.S. of A., imprison more people than any other nation. We have a privatized prison-industry and trade virtual crime-futures on the stock-exchange. Closer and closer we are coming to a re-introduction of prison labor, all while a repugnantly large portion of incarcerated citizens live in cages for victimless crimes.
My advice to anyone itching to don the Good-Guy Badge and storm the palace of bacchanalian litigation, is to look no further if you are a US citizen. In no way do I suggest that pointing fingers at corruption is error; but we really do have some house-cleaning of our own to do -- and to recklessly embrace hypocrisy may not be wise.
WTF is up with the price of Shiner anyway? Is that a hipster thing now, like Corona? Anyone who pays more than $1/bottle for Corona is an asshole.
There does appear to be an epidemic of mediocre beer with tall prices. I went into an ABC Liquor recently and observed common domestics such as Bud, Miller, etc., at just a few cents less than many imports or micro-brews. I actually went on a rant in front of the manager. I said something along the lines of "Eight dollars for a sixpack of sparkling snot! Creative. Why not just make it twenty instead? That way it'll be completely obvious that you're ridiculing the customers!." So to answer your question, I don't know. Maybe they're hording supplies in fear of Persia.
Reminds me of the time I was visiting Bristol (England) and walked into a pub for a beer. The bartender and I had been chatting when some grumpy chap at the far end of the bar ordered a beer. After he got his beer, we resumed chatting. Moments later I heard all sorts of grumbling and complaining. The guy's beer was cold, and he wasn't having anything to do with it. The bartender pleaded with him, saying "it's cellar temperature sir!" and finally got him another pint. Well, the second one was just as cold and the grumpy fellow threw a verbal fit. Perhaps suspecting I was from the US, he wanted to illustrate something; I'll never know. But it sure was a show. I can still remember the spitting contempt in his voice when he said, "cowld be'eh?" and as if just figuring it all out, finished with deliberate punctuation "Oi, cain't, drink, cowld, be eh....Pifff.....Cowld be'eh." as he shook his head in confused revulsion. Maybe it was the weather.
That's a finely written, very interesting article and it really does make some compelling points; but I think it a little harsh. Of course, it is obviously written by someone unscathed by the bemired talons of a certain Anheuser eagle, so I reserve my right to bitterness (no pun intended) and really do enjoy most Reinheitsgebot beers. However, while such a law may to some extent protect innocent Germans from the wrath of Natty Ice and the likes, I wouldn't argue that it sets the standard for all beers. Also, you must consider the jovial and novel value of the law to Americans; while some Presidents have been spotted wielding feisty pens at executive orders, we don't often get laws by decree of Kings around here.
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" If it's not the government (FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, etc.), it's a corporation..."
See: Totalitarianism,
..something I neither embrace or accept as tolerable. I choose persistent innovation over submission. Futility is only 6' away; I see no reason to crawl and make it closer.
I couldn't resist adding one more:
RAPS = Reconstituting America for Paltry Statism - I think that sums it up well enough.
Remotely Assisted Police State
Ransacking Americans, Pretext Security
Rogue Authoritarians for Perpetual Surveillance
Royalty Aerially Patrolling Serfs
Rapacious Airborne Police Squads
Rapidly Ascending Poop Slinger ?
Obama is very intelligent. I don't expect anyone to know something about everything, so I pardon him for simple errors. His biggest blooper seems to be his cavalier investment in the short-term memories of Americans. Turns out there was 'a killing' to be made, but they weren't as short as he assumed; Americans still remember the things he said long ago, and they are mighty confused whilst they hear what he says today. If Obama makes a stupid statement, just as I would if he made a genuinely funny one, I'd wonder only what he was trying to deceive us about. However, since Obama is not a fucking mor[m]on, my best guess is that I'd be modded as Offtopic and nothing would be said.
You might consider that there are some people out there who are sick of being electoral ping-pong serfs. Personally, I'd like to see them both volunteer for the first expedition to Mars -- I'd vote for that!. This election is like being mugged by two thugs; they say to hit the biggest one first, but to me, these guys seem like ugly twins, with very different personalities.
Way back yonder when I was a kid, me mum, father, the pomeranian and I were flying a Beechcraft Bonanza back from Miami in a weak hurricane. They were up front and I was in the back seat. For some reason or another I ended up holding the dog. As a kid, I had a tendency to fiddle with things, sometimes without regard to what they were. I had been fiddling with the window latch for a while, when suddenly, it actually opened. I completely froze, shocked and confused. The dog, with its sensitive ears began wailing horribly. My father, who was prone to anger, began yelling terribly too. A chorus of woe began as I sat there frozen with fright and guilt. My mum, the calmer of the bunch (the dog was a bit hyper too) began lurching toward me to close the window. Until she eventually succeeded in her efforts, the sound of the wind and screeching dog and yelling father went on for what seemed a bitter long time. I think even my mum began shrieking at my father before things were sorted out. It was a mess and I'd have a sore ass for it later.
Moral of the story? Opening windows during low-altitude flights can be interesting, but I'd rather it have been Linux.
Sorry, I think you may have gotten it wrong. From my understanding, Linus was stating a well-established fact -- that Romney is a fucking mor[m]on. Simple typo; he knows genius when he sees it.
In the long run, I think your point is valid. But the sterility of a purely objective interpretation of a too-often unfair world beholding too many aspects for any group to contemplate, would have its own consequences. Surely human fallibility necessitates objectivity be a pillar of our perception if we wish to maintain any measure of sanity. While such can hopefully remain a social value, some subjects may warrant a touch of self-expression. A purely objective tone can be ineffectual under some circumstances. It could be argued that in order to increase the value of objectivity, experiences such as those of war-veterans should be interpreted and conveyed through someone who has never been to war -- and it could certainly be argued otherwise; or, that holocaust survivors should be heard only through proxy -- or again, otherwise and in-between.
Though I do not promote the habitually biased, it doesn't seem to be a problem here at all. I also find that -- especially where sufficient data is supplied -- the responsibility of objectivity rests at least as much in the listener as the teller, if not more. On the subject of the TSA, more than a formidable portion of the citizenry have unfortunately acquired rightfully-held subjective bias. Since we as citizens fund them directly or inadvertently, a negative tone seems foretold. Now, if we could only get the DHS and other strange appendages of our government to be more objective, we might more easily reciprocate.
I had a chance to see General (Specific) Hayden perform at the Geriatric Thugs & Podium Assassins RapFest. And let me tell you; once he got limbered up with some warm milk and a few raw pork sausages, he really got funky. After the show, he told us 'bout hackin' on his AOL account. Said some bitches wuz 'bout to get bussed up on the tubes, yo. When I asked him if the gubmint knew what I was doing on da web, he said "Don't make me go mercenary an ya ass." an' I knew homey weren't playin no games.
Because on a serious note, these guys are little more than extremely well-funded, cyberphobic, pimpster penta-thugs with diseased imaginations. And a corrective suggestion, if we are to remain up-to-date: It's a "Digital Academi", not Blackwater. Or, we could just be hard, and confine our knowledge in the past while our minds bumble bewildered in the future -- 'cause it's a thug life, it pays well and looks good on the telly.
I think Nabi = Butterfly (Korean), hence the shape of the tablet's case. I don't know what a tabeo is though.
Yes it could -- such a shortage could have grave consequences for civilians everywhere. Alas, I never thought there would come a day when a cavia porcellus would be given badge and a gun .
Just kidding,
- Sgt. Oink
Once upon a time there was young, generally decent chap who'd previously had some unpleasant experiences with the police. He wasn't particularly inclined toward evil deeds, but he was young, played video games and listened to punk rock. One night en passant a police vehicle, he got a wild idea. This chap, who typically carried a general purpose tool, aka a pocket knife, imagined inserting it into one or more of the tires attached to the police vehicle. The notion was appealing enough that he decided to test it. After a cursory glance in 360 degrees, he furtively approached the police vehicle, hesitating only for a moment before the tip of his blade met the nylon tire. He had been expecting all sorts of loud bangs and at the very least a distinct hissing sound. When nothing but the stiff resistance of the well-built tire was observed, he might have stayed to ponder, but instead retreated half-pleased at his own failure. The tire was unaffected, but he was not -- for despite the generally shoddy nature of the seemingly superfluous societal components that menaced about him, he realized that some were intelligently designed. Tires that could not be popped; it made sense, so much unlike so many other aspects of the strange and arbitrary adult world that imposed itself onto him daily.
The years passed and he gave up punk rock for newer things like dubstep and IDM. He remembered all his bad encounters, which were now a medley of too many individuals to have any single one stand out. He no longer suffered such futile impulses, re-focusing his efforts in more positive directions, like beer and bash-scripting and nature. But still to this day, every time he sees a screw or nail laying on the asphalt imperiling the tires of all but a special few, he wonders why; why can we not all have tires that yield not to trivial roadside rubbish?
Permuted: Net Pixel Net Error
Yes, a vector indeed. Gummy worms comprising of gelatin, and gelatin comprising of bone and bone -- other than brain -- being the most common vector for rogue prions, you may have a point. What's undeniable, however, is that feeding gummy-worms to cows is cannibalism -- a diet that has been largely discouraged since it was discovered as a possible connection with BSE. Gelatin manufacturers claim to treat the gelatin in a manner which "minimizes" the risk of transmission, but I have always had serious doubts. I think Japan and Korea have doubts too, which is probably why they've banned US beef in the past, or still do.
First, http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120920/23570020453/when-even-hilarious-web-comic-artists-are-mocking-insanity-patent-system.shtml
/etc/hosts with loopback redirects, thrashed around in about:config, piously used bleachbit, etc.-- but I guess there are still kissmetrics and other mysterious things to deal with.
Admitting my primitive understanding of this subject, I have some questions; Is sandboxing undervalued? is sending all cache to unique directories that can only be read by the source they were created for practical? Would generating random or shared generic user-agent data for each domain for each encounter have any effect? I have taken simple privacy measures like chmod 400 ~/.macromedia and ~/.adobe; installing noscript, flashblock; bloating
I remember trying the EFF's panopticlick, which tests your browser for its unique fingerprint. I was a little surprised at the results. What does something like the time-stamp mean for anonymity? How many people in the world have identical installation times and zip-codes, etc.? Why does this and other data need to be there as it is?
I get confused when contemplating why such promiscuous features are included in browsers in the first place. Are we simply using stupid browsers? Would creating a secure browser break its functionality? I know noscript can be a pain in the ass. What really confuses me is why a browser would store persistent cookies and other data -- after being deleted -- unless it was built to do so. If so, then why? If not, then why? When I start a browser from a fresh install or USB, it works just fine. If I reboot and do it again, it continues to work fine. Why the persistent data?
Finally, it should be alarming in itself that so much knowledge is required now to have even a measure of privacy. Those who understand, often take their knowledge for granted. But even for someone practically living and working in the web, it is not an overly simple subject. Is privacy an esoteric delusion, or is it an esoteric reality?
I think for anyone paying attention to the subject of privacy, it is pretty apparent that tyrannical voyeurism is a State Vice -- behind which are packs of ravenous fiends that will stop at nothing short of pharisaic omniscience. Long before one method of 'evasion' (self defense) becomes popular among the masses, these fiends are devising new countermeasures to foil them. Already, they want to spy on us through household devices. It seems a time is coming when options are scarce and opting out will be difficult or impossible. And all they seemingly need to do to pacify us is whisper in a soothing tone words like "transparency"". Yes, transparency, a simplex protocol for the masses.
So, you're a fan of Fairbanks port, I see.
Probably would've come under assault for stating the "obvious" or being condescending. The 'perfect' /. post is a wild gambit, a tilting rook amidst a mired swamp of strange and temperamental creatures. It's like blindly striking a smoking electro-piñata filled by Alan Turing, Douglas Adams and Nietzsche -- and Gates, Torvalds and Jobs are screeching so loudly in the background, you consider striking yourself instead. In truth, such endeavors require a rare form of derangement, a harmonious blend of neo-technical madness and erstwhile sentiment; which is why ....shit, I need my meds; I'm done here. What have I done!
Seems you are correct: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=kerfuffle&searchmode=none ~ At least according to a dictionary of etymology
Why has this comment been modded down? Seems like a reasonable, if not slightly abrasive -- but tolerable -- self-defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0
I think the epiphany comes when one watches it and doesn't laugh.
How about gruel-born double-standards?
I've been wondering what all this hysteria about Big Bad Russia is about for some time now. Surely Russia is no Shambhala, but the US is a veritable litigation shit-hole slaughterhouse. We, here in the U.S. of A., imprison more people than any other nation. We have a privatized prison-industry and trade virtual crime-futures on the stock-exchange. Closer and closer we are coming to a re-introduction of prison labor, all while a repugnantly large portion of incarcerated citizens live in cages for victimless crimes.
My advice to anyone itching to don the Good-Guy Badge and storm the palace of bacchanalian litigation, is to look no further if you are a US citizen. In no way do I suggest that pointing fingers at corruption is error; but we really do have some house-cleaning of our own to do -- and to recklessly embrace hypocrisy may not be wise.
WTF is up with the price of Shiner anyway? Is that a hipster thing now, like Corona? Anyone who pays more than $1/bottle for Corona is an asshole.
There does appear to be an epidemic of mediocre beer with tall prices. I went into an ABC Liquor recently and observed common domestics such as Bud, Miller, etc., at just a few cents less than many imports or micro-brews. I actually went on a rant in front of the manager. I said something along the lines of "Eight dollars for a sixpack of sparkling snot! Creative. Why not just make it twenty instead? That way it'll be completely obvious that you're ridiculing the customers!." So to answer your question, I don't know. Maybe they're hording supplies in fear of Persia.
Reminds me of the time I was visiting Bristol (England) and walked into a pub for a beer. The bartender and I had been chatting when some grumpy chap at the far end of the bar ordered a beer. After he got his beer, we resumed chatting. Moments later I heard all sorts of grumbling and complaining. The guy's beer was cold, and he wasn't having anything to do with it. The bartender pleaded with him, saying "it's cellar temperature sir!" and finally got him another pint. Well, the second one was just as cold and the grumpy fellow threw a verbal fit. Perhaps suspecting I was from the US, he wanted to illustrate something; I'll never know. But it sure was a show. I can still remember the spitting contempt in his voice when he said, "cowld be'eh?" and as if just figuring it all out, finished with deliberate punctuation "Oi, cain't, drink, cowld, be eh. ...Pifff .....Cowld be'eh." as he shook his head in confused revulsion. Maybe it was the weather.
That's a finely written, very interesting article and it really does make some compelling points; but I think it a little harsh. Of course, it is obviously written by someone unscathed by the bemired talons of a certain Anheuser eagle, so I reserve my right to bitterness (no pun intended) and really do enjoy most Reinheitsgebot beers. However, while such a law may to some extent protect innocent Germans from the wrath of Natty Ice and the likes, I wouldn't argue that it sets the standard for all beers. Also, you must consider the jovial and novel value of the law to Americans; while some Presidents have been spotted wielding feisty pens at executive orders, we don't often get laws by decree of Kings around here.