You seem awfully indignant for a person who entered this world head first through a vagina.
A person is not made less rare by having sex. A person is not made less rare by taking nudie pics. A person remains as rare as they were born. Some people are desirable and as such shouldn't worry about the trolls of the world seeing the naughty bits. Sex is not rare. Nudie pics are not rare.
All you squares need to lighten up. Let your hair down and go to an orgy. We live in a post sexual repression era which is the best gift the hippies ever gave us.
You were born naked. Why do you feel the need to hide your nature?
So the new XBOX has a 3D video camera built in to it and it requires constant internet connection. Does this bother anyone else? Even if you aren't paranoid about a deliberate plan for in home surveillance you must admit the potential for abuse.
Employees at Microsoft could potentially monitor video streams. The kinect has always been creepy. It also can't be secure. Even if there is never an inside job there is potential that some exploit could be found. Hackers around the world could be tapping in to the live feed off the camera in your living room that is always on.
I am committed to voting for any candidate who will do away with the anachronistic concept of Daylight Savings Time. I am a morning person--let there be light.
Hear hear! If you want to get up an hour earlier change your alarm clock. Don't attempt to change time itself!
It would be cool if you could get Plan 9 working. It's an OS that was designed around distributed computing from the ground up. So much so that the API is hardware agnostic. It doesn't matter what hardware you are running or where it exists. All resources in the cluster are shared automagically. You would need some distributed rackspace in strategic global locations.
Step one is making a small lab with junk computers. Step two is testing your application in this environment.
If you can get the backend running on Plan 9 then you can start renting servers, installing Plan 9 and adding these servers to your existing cluster. At some point you will be able to turn off the computers at your house and the app will keep running on the remaining cloud servers. It's a pretty sweet idea.
You just dis-proved your own point. You, a person working in the government, believes that your constituents are crazy when they might not be. Let's be honest, there are a bunch of wackos out there and many bunk conspiracy theories.
Most of the things that you see in the sky are in fact normal jet contrails but don't act like nobody has ever sprayed a questionable substance from an airplane. It happens.
I never heard a conspiracy about the Portland water bureau. I do know of real problems with the water in Portland. There have been at least two cases in the last 3 years of the water not being safe to drink downtown. This was reportedly due to someone throwing a contaminant in to an open-air reservoir. I remember seeing signs on every bar and being told that water was not available at a restaurant. They talked quite a bit about putting lids on the open air reservoirs to avoid future contamination. Now they want to fluoridate the water and that is up for debate.
Before you go calling everyone crazy you should consider that there may be cause for real concern behind public outcry. It may not be rational but that is what political debate is all about. People need good information so they can make informed decisions.
I have always built my own desktop PCs. They always last longer than 5 years. I build a new one after 5 years because I want to not because I have to. In fact I often hand down my old PC and it stays in service for many more years. You might lose a PSU or a HDD but the computer itself should last long after obsolescence.
PC sales are down for the same reason all sales are down. The middle class has been robbed of buying power. Poor wages, lay-offs, outsourcing, tax burden, or whatever other reason you can come up with. There are more people than we have work to do. When people struggle they often won't buy nice things like computers. They may not be happy with the old one but they can't afford to replace it. I'm sure new car sales are down as people keep the old ones longer.
The middle class = the American economy. When the people suffer there is a "trickle up suffering" *
*("Trickle up suffering" is a registered trademark of SampleFish)
I would bump Kali Linux as the true DIY solution. -OR- You could just leave it up to someone else and have someone to blame. These guys would make a good scapegoat:
I have actually used their scanner to find a backdoor in a common PHP script that shall remain nameless. They did report exactly where the vulnerable file was. After I deleted the file they told me the site was secure. Simple.
Not really DIY and I wouldn't trust anyone 100% but if you pay for a service you have done due diligence to CYA and you can just bill your customer.
No, the reef does not grow that low. For you to assert that the only debris from all the launches exists only in the area they are doing salvage is asinine at best. I'm sure that the reef is full of junk that if brought up to the surface would be treasure. Until it is pulled out it is junk. I was just saying that it's nice someone is doing this. Taking the junk and making it treasure. Maybe they aren't cleaning up the reef at all.
I really like TextPad. You can download it from the developer and use it right away if you need to. It will ask you to pay for it. One license seems to work forever for all versions. It doesn't need internet access or any other fancy bullshit to get it working. Thinking too much about your protection is going to cost you more money than it makes you.
Keep it simple. Don't spend too much time and money on your solution. If people want to pay you then they will. You can't force people to buy your product.
It's a shame that there is so much space-age trash in the ocean. I can just imagine how each piece has destroyed some part of the reef. Although it would be interesting to see a reef that grew around a rocket. We should make an effort to remove much of that junk.
If you are serious about this project I would use Plan 9 because it is designed to use all of your hardware transparently. They can always use more members in this small community. You might find this underrated platform quite delightful:
I think the problem is that we aren't defining who is doing the spending.
I stand by my statement "Every dollar you don't spend is a dollar I can't earn"
I am suggesting that the economy is based on real money being spent. You are talking about irresponsible corporations spending money that they didn't have to begin with. When I say "spending money" I don't mean "taking out a loan". This is the basis of our misunderstanding. I am talking about the people who have money to spend. As I said before, the money didn't disappear. Someone still has actual money to spend, not a loan. You quickly gloss over this important fact by saying "That money is still in the system working its way around". So where is it?
Remember that the bottom 80% of the American people only have access to 4.7% of the total cash that exists. Even if all of these people were irresponsible with their finances it would only effect that much of the American economy. So when you talk about "people" spending irresponsibly I hope you are talking about large corporations. If 80% of the country spent 100% of their liquid assets on American products it would not save our country. We need large corporations and obscenely rich people to spend actual money, not loans, on American made goods to fix the economy. It would be nice to sell some American products overseas too.
It might be hard to believe that a small group of people have the ability to crash the whole American economy. Do your homework. The people are quite powerless in this scenario. Let's not quibble over beans.
If we converted all of our nuclear sites to run on Thorium it would become a non-issue. Nuclear energy could be clean and safe but it would be harder to make atomic weapons.
Ed, You have it a bit backwards. You just described what is wrong with the stock market. The reason we are in a "recession" is because the money is not in circulation. Money doesn't just disappear. The amount of money available at any given time is controlled by small groups of people. When they hold they can crash whole economies. The problem wasn't "overspending" it was under investing in the proper channels. When a company has less money available it lays off employees who no longer make a paycheck and don't contribute to the economy. In fact they become a burden on the system through unemployment where the few people left with a job are paying for the unemployed to not work. This reduced spending capacity of the public results in lower profits and further lay offs in vicious cycle that could lead to economic collapse if money isn't put back in to the system. The money exists but you can't earn it.
Every dollar you don't spend is a dollar I can't earn.
If there was "overspending" then there would be plenty of opportunity to make money and thus economic growth. The stock market is based on the concept of perpetual growth which is unpossible in a world with finite resources. The system is doomed to failure. It can't continue to drive the economy.
If you want to get up an hour earlier or later just change your alarm. Don't change time itself. Some industries can tell their employees to come to work at 8am instead of 9am. Other industries that don't care about sunlight can go on their merry way.
I think the real issue here is one of privacy. I use the internet for both telephone and written communications. Analyzing my IP traffic is both taping my phone line and opening my mail. There are legal protections for phone lines and there are legal protections for physical mail but a long time ago IP traffic was made exempt from privacy laws. This was before the internet was widely used for telephone and mail. Before paperless billing. Before Skype. The world has changed and we need our legal protections to catch up. It doesn't matter what you think about what they are doing or why they are doing it. Your IP traffic should be private. It should be impossible for the ISP to tell what you are using their service for. The service they provide is a "dumb pipe" that can contain any sort of private and personal information. There are FCC rules protecting CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Infromation). There are normally large fines for any company that discloses CPNI to a 3rd party without written consent from the subscriber.
The solution is the use of encrypted channels. All traffic must be encrypted by default. The fact that your e-mail travels around the world in plain text should make you uncomfortable.
Slashdot Mirror
Windmills do not work that way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDVHs-juPo
You seem awfully indignant for a person who entered this world head first through a vagina.
A person is not made less rare by having sex.
A person is not made less rare by taking nudie pics.
A person remains as rare as they were born.
Some people are desirable and as such shouldn't worry about the trolls of the world seeing the naughty bits.
Sex is not rare.
Nudie pics are not rare.
All you squares need to lighten up.
Let your hair down and go to an orgy.
We live in a post sexual repression era which is the best gift the hippies ever gave us.
You were born naked. Why do you feel the need to hide your nature?
Long term data storage is still a field where there is room for much improvement.
Here is an example of the oldest audio recording and how to play it:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/scientists-play-worlds-oldest-co.html
We could make archival disks out of something resilient like a ceramic laser disk. Maybe a tungsten carbide record cylinder?
Does anyone have any examples of resilient media like this?
ZORT!
So the new XBOX has a 3D video camera built in to it and it requires constant internet connection. Does this bother anyone else? Even if you aren't paranoid about a deliberate plan for in home surveillance you must admit the potential for abuse.
Employees at Microsoft could potentially monitor video streams. The kinect has always been creepy. It also can't be secure. Even if there is never an inside job there is potential that some exploit could be found. Hackers around the world could be tapping in to the live feed off the camera in your living room that is always on.
Don't dare say that this is difficult or compare it to a laptop with a built-in webcam without looking at this post here:
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/01/24/weekly-update
I am committed to voting for any candidate who will do away with the anachronistic concept of Daylight Savings Time. I am a morning person--let there be light.
Hear hear!
If you want to get up an hour earlier change your alarm clock. Don't attempt to change time itself!
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2. Popular Science
3. Complex
4. Wired
It would be cool if you could get Plan 9 working. It's an OS that was designed around distributed computing from the ground up. So much so that the API is hardware agnostic. It doesn't matter what hardware you are running or where it exists. All resources in the cluster are shared automagically. You would need some distributed rackspace in strategic global locations.
Step one is making a small lab with junk computers.
Step two is testing your application in this environment.
If you can get the backend running on Plan 9 then you can start renting servers, installing Plan 9 and adding these servers to your existing cluster. At some point you will be able to turn off the computers at your house and the app will keep running on the remaining cloud servers. It's a pretty sweet idea.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
It's kinda like UNIX.
Good luck.
You just dis-proved your own point. You, a person working in the government, believes that your constituents are crazy when they might not be. Let's be honest, there are a bunch of wackos out there and many bunk conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately, Chemtrails are real:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/atmospheric-geoengineering-weather-manipulation-contrails-and-chemtrails
http://www.naturalnews.com/037451_chemtrails_conspiracy_theory_geoengineering.html
Most of the things that you see in the sky are in fact normal jet contrails but don't act like nobody has ever sprayed a questionable substance from an airplane. It happens.
I never heard a conspiracy about the Portland water bureau. I do know of real problems with the water in Portland. There have been at least two cases in the last 3 years of the water not being safe to drink downtown. This was reportedly due to someone throwing a contaminant in to an open-air reservoir. I remember seeing signs on every bar and being told that water was not available at a restaurant. They talked quite a bit about putting lids on the open air reservoirs to avoid future contamination. Now they want to fluoridate the water and that is up for debate.
Bad water in Portland:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Boil-water-notice-issued-for-Portlands-west-side-163294096.html
Before you go calling everyone crazy you should consider that there may be cause for real concern behind public outcry. It may not be rational but that is what political debate is all about. People need good information so they can make informed decisions.
I have always built my own desktop PCs. They always last longer than 5 years. I build a new one after 5 years because I want to not because I have to. In fact I often hand down my old PC and it stays in service for many more years. You might lose a PSU or a HDD but the computer itself should last long after obsolescence.
PC sales are down for the same reason all sales are down. The middle class has been robbed of buying power. Poor wages, lay-offs, outsourcing, tax burden, or whatever other reason you can come up with. There are more people than we have work to do. When people struggle they often won't buy nice things like computers. They may not be happy with the old one but they can't afford to replace it. I'm sure new car sales are down as people keep the old ones longer.
The middle class = the American economy. When the people suffer there is a "trickle up suffering" *
*("Trickle up suffering" is a registered trademark of SampleFish)
The answer is "yes"
It's the code from ZORK
I would bump Kali Linux as the true DIY solution.
-OR-
You could just leave it up to someone else and have someone to blame. These guys would make a good scapegoat:
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
I have actually used their scanner to find a backdoor in a common PHP script that shall remain nameless. They did report exactly where the vulnerable file was. After I deleted the file they told me the site was secure. Simple.
Not really DIY and I wouldn't trust anyone 100% but if you pay for a service you have done due diligence to CYA and you can just bill your customer.
You're obviously a cunt so I'll just kick you instead.
No, the reef does not grow that low. For you to assert that the only debris from all the launches exists only in the area they are doing salvage is asinine at best. I'm sure that the reef is full of junk that if brought up to the surface would be treasure. Until it is pulled out it is junk. I was just saying that it's nice someone is doing this. Taking the junk and making it treasure. Maybe they aren't cleaning up the reef at all.
I really like TextPad. You can download it from the developer and use it right away if you need to. It will ask you to pay for it. One license seems to work forever for all versions. It doesn't need internet access or any other fancy bullshit to get it working. Thinking too much about your protection is going to cost you more money than it makes you.
Keep it simple. Don't spend too much time and money on your solution. If people want to pay you then they will. You can't force people to buy your product.
It's a shame that there is so much space-age trash in the ocean. I can just imagine how each piece has destroyed some part of the reef. Although it would be interesting to see a reef that grew around a rocket. We should make an effort to remove much of that junk.
Whatever happened to Plan9?
If you are serious about this project I would use Plan 9 because it is designed to use all of your hardware transparently. They can always use more members in this small community. You might find this underrated platform quite delightful:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
Ignore all the naysayers. Just having experience with Plan 9 makes this experiment worth it.
I think the problem is that we aren't defining who is doing the spending.
I stand by my statement "Every dollar you don't spend is a dollar I can't earn"
I am suggesting that the economy is based on real money being spent. You are talking about irresponsible corporations spending money that they didn't have to begin with. When I say "spending money" I don't mean "taking out a loan". This is the basis of our misunderstanding. I am talking about the people who have money to spend. As I said before, the money didn't disappear. Someone still has actual money to spend, not a loan. You quickly gloss over this important fact by saying "That money is still in the system working its way around". So where is it?
Remember that the bottom 80% of the American people only have access to 4.7% of the total cash that exists. Even if all of these people were irresponsible with their finances it would only effect that much of the American economy. So when you talk about "people" spending irresponsibly I hope you are talking about large corporations. If 80% of the country spent 100% of their liquid assets on American products it would not save our country. We need large corporations and obscenely rich people to spend actual money, not loans, on American made goods to fix the economy. It would be nice to sell some American products overseas too.
It might be hard to believe that a small group of people have the ability to crash the whole American economy. Do your homework. The people are quite powerless in this scenario. Let's not quibble over beans.
Where is the money?
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Send out the SCV. We can't finish the global command center without more Vespene gas.
If we converted all of our nuclear sites to run on Thorium it would become a non-issue. Nuclear energy could be clean and safe but it would be harder to make atomic weapons.
http://energyfromthorium.com/
Ed, You have it a bit backwards. You just described what is wrong with the stock market. The reason we are in a "recession" is because the money is not in circulation. Money doesn't just disappear. The amount of money available at any given time is controlled by small groups of people. When they hold they can crash whole economies. The problem wasn't "overspending" it was under investing in the proper channels. When a company has less money available it lays off employees who no longer make a paycheck and don't contribute to the economy. In fact they become a burden on the system through unemployment where the few people left with a job are paying for the unemployed to not work. This reduced spending capacity of the public results in lower profits and further lay offs in vicious cycle that could lead to economic collapse if money isn't put back in to the system. The money exists but you can't earn it.
Every dollar you don't spend is a dollar I can't earn.
If there was "overspending" then there would be plenty of opportunity to make money and thus economic growth. The stock market is based on the concept of perpetual growth which is unpossible in a world with finite resources. The system is doomed to failure. It can't continue to drive the economy.
If you want to get up an hour earlier or later just change your alarm. Don't change time itself. Some industries can tell their employees to come to work at 8am instead of 9am. Other industries that don't care about sunlight can go on their merry way.
Get out. Breathe some fresh air. Go to some big events. Get some exercise. Live it up.
I think the real issue here is one of privacy. I use the internet for both telephone and written communications. Analyzing my IP traffic is both taping my phone line and opening my mail. There are legal protections for phone lines and there are legal protections for physical mail but a long time ago IP traffic was made exempt from privacy laws. This was before the internet was widely used for telephone and mail. Before paperless billing. Before Skype. The world has changed and we need our legal protections to catch up. It doesn't matter what you think about what they are doing or why they are doing it. Your IP traffic should be private. It should be impossible for the ISP to tell what you are using their service for. The service they provide is a "dumb pipe" that can contain any sort of private and personal information. There are FCC rules protecting CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Infromation). There are normally large fines for any company that discloses CPNI to a 3rd party without written consent from the subscriber.
The solution is the use of encrypted channels. All traffic must be encrypted by default. The fact that your e-mail travels around the world in plain text should make you uncomfortable.