A usee in this case are the people shot at, or actually shot. I think, correct my logic if I'm wrong, that since some users shoot more than one person, there are more usees than users.
You're wrong. Most users shoot nobody, for the same reason that most fire insurance policies don't result in fire insurance payments.
Also, when the person being shot is a criminal being shot in self-defense, I don't care to give them a say.
That's the thing. MOST people shot are criminals. (Something like 60% have a criminal history, and around 80% of those know the person that shoots them.)
So called "gun violence" is really "crime violence." Or more specifically, "inner city (run by democrats) black and hispanic gang violence."
If you aren't doing stuff that includes all of those groups (just being black isn't enough to increase your risk) you magically, somehow, mysteriously are very unlikely to get shot.
It's pretty clear the folks pushing this stuff actually WANT those criminals to be shooting each other because they can then be used as tools and voting livestock to further their agenda of _control_.
If you don't believe me, go find one of the many charts that outlines what happens when the data is filtered for criminal activity. The easiest way is to take out Detroit, LA, DC, and Chicago (you don't even have to take you NY anymore) and the numbers drop precipitously... resulting in the USA dropping down to the lower middle of the pack for gun violence for industrialized developed countries.
Not only is the "we can make smart guns to solve this" a goddamn fucking lie, but the narrative democrats push about WHO and WHY there are shootings is also a goddamn fucking lie.
Lastly, there are already 400 million guns (notice, the number is up, people are not falling for this shit and buying them like crazy) and already 20 million of them have been stolen in decades prior so they will continue to float around in the inner city democratically run gang-n-violence centers for decades... where the people that have them are already forbidden by law to have them, where they regularly get caught with them and are simply released (by again, the democratically run justice system in charge of those cities). Where the "folks" there will continue to use them to shoot each other for decades to come.
Smart guns will do nothing to fix what the democrats lie about when they say there is a problem.
There IS a problem. The problem is democrats. democrats that don't give a shit when their kept and fed inner city voting livestock kill each other.
First, the content industry has been complaining about the analogue hole for a while now and Intel - being that friendly sort that brought us HDCP - is more than happy to help them close that hole.
Secondly, with the new digital audio interface standard that will undoubtedly emerge to support the new hardware (which will be proprietary, and thus, under the control of Intel et al), come new opportunities to extract royalties and fees from manufacturers and integrators.
The consumer doesn't even enter the equation here. This is about control. Again.
Of all the pirating methods I have seen used over the years, the "analog hole" was only done by 12 year olds copying cassette tapes or straight off the radio. Not exactly a high loss area of music pirating.
Everything else, has been cracked and perfect copies are available.
The only place it MIGHT be relevant is Blu-Ray based music (if there is such a thing).
Also, I have likewise never seen any actual articles of these complaints. This is something you are imagining.
In any case, EARS are analog. There is no plugging that hole.
No, there IS a large reservoir in the Thames Valley.
Sorry.
And I never said it was dormant, I said that there was no vector to convert it to humans: mozzies. They need a certain amount of temperature for a minimum period of time for the parasite causing malaria in humans to grow to an infectious host in the mozquito.
The parasite isn't dormant, I never said it was. YOU made that up.
And being +5 doesn't make you right, in case anyone tries that card.
You are factually wrong about how malaria works regardless of your opinion on AGW.
They also aren't relevant nor particularly dangerous anymore.
I'd like to see the same set of idiots go after ISIS or the Egyptian government, or perhaps North Korea. You know, folks actually doing bad shit rather than someone sitting around wishing bad shit would happen.
But that doesn't give anybody the right to harm you.
and i never claimed it did.
[Sigh]
By asserting it's just to take down someone's web servers because you don't believe in their message, you did assert exactly that.
The provider could take the web sites down because they don't like the site's speech, outside parties don't have a right to interfere with the consensual transaction of third parties. And that's exactly what you are advocating.
Wasn't there a politician stating that the energy cost for making panels (fabbing the silicon, smelting the aluminum/steel for the frames) is far more than a panel will ever get back in its lifetime?
Yes, and he was a moron and wrong.
Same fucking bullshit was spouted about hybrid cars.
Actually, this has already happened to me several times:
1: A picture of me on Facebook back in 2009 prompted questions at a job interview.
2: I was in a humidor several years ago, just looking around. Friend of mine took a picture of me. A week later, my insurance company called, demanded a physical with bloodwork, or else I had to pay smoker's rates.
3: A USENET post I did to sci.crypt back in 1991 was brought up at another job interview. Thankfully even then, I made sure to be careful what I wrote.
4: I was asked about a post in comp.sys.mac.advocacy back in 1992.
5: I was asked if I were a lawless hippie because I posted often to the cypherpunks list back in 1994.
The Net has a long memory.
Reason #1 not to use your real name if your name isn't a very common one.
Aircraft are only now beginning to use turbines to generate electricity which is then used in electric motors but is is a very widely used technology in many ships -- especially large warships.
A first application for adding an electric engine to the tail end of an airliner to re-energize the fuselage boundary layer airflow. As the plane flies through the air it slows down some of the air which ends up as drag. By putting a ring around the end of the fuselage directing the boundary layer airflow to an electric engine powered from the main turbines, drag goes down to the point that smaller diameter engines are needed (also diminishing drag). The major design change needed is that with the ring and engine, the horizontal stabilizers must be moved to a T tail.
Both NASA & Airbus are studying this for future designs: see here.
Do you ever fly?
APUs have been in aircraft in various forms since World War 1. Modern APUs are turbines that burn jet fuel.
Next time you are close to a big plane, look for a small-ish vent on the wing or the tip of the fuselage. Large planes (and lighter than air aircraft) have had these for a century already.
Your article does have some interesting ideas about using drag envelopes to gain an efficiency advantage, but the idea there haven't been separately powered generators on aircraft before is false.
With them optimizing profits, they probably had no money for IT security to spare. Save a million, lose a billion (or rather more in this instance). The fatal combination of greed and stupidity at its finest. Will not be the last instance of something this large happening due to non-understanding of IT security.
When the first successful hack costs you everything, learning from experience is not a good strategy. Consulting and listening to some (admittedly expensive, but worth it) real experts may be a good idea.
It was stupid decision making not just money. Though being cheap had a big part to play.
A law firm web site doesn't change fast enough or often enough to do anything more than a folder full of traditional HTML files, JavaScript, CSS and images.
They could have used something like that and head off 99.99% of the potential problems.
Someone probably heard WP was "easy" and it wasn't even an IT guy at all that set it up. The reality is, WP is about as much work and learning as getting up to speed on HTML and CSS. Except, of course, lots of the knowledge doesn't translate to other stuff and it's web based, therefore feels easier.
WordPress. By the time you have learned enough to get GOOD at it, you could have learned to code the site in Notepad.
Every law firm I have ever had tangential contact in an IT role has always been stupid cheap cheap cheap and self-righteous and arrogant about it. I don't do business with law firms just because of the headaches they cause friends and acquaintances about not paying, wanting the moon for a buck, etc.
I've known, on a social basis, two women who worked as prostitutes. Both US citizens. Both intelligent - one had a master's degree in Pharmacy from a reputable school in Boston. Both had other options, tho for the one woman from a pretty normal working-class background those options were not great.
Both freely chose their profession - as freely as most people choose theirs - and freely choose to continue working in it. Both told me the reason they did so was very simple: it paid much better than any other job they could find. One of the women said she earned more (tax fee, as well) than my friend who was a (fairly junior) investment banker.
I'm pretty sure this sex slavery / human trafficking stuff is mostly fiction.
Prostitution is a spectrum.
Is a "Trophy Wife" a prostitute?
How about a young student with a "sugar daddy"? (Or a male with an older wealthy female for that matter.)
Even in high school during the 80's there were girls that would go out with "college guys" because they got to see good concerts and eat at nice places. I am sure some of it ended up with sex. Is THAT prostitution?
I have seen scientific studies that demonstrate that female chimps sometimes trade sex for food a male chimp has.
The nature of humans leads to prostitution happening sometimes. Fighting it is stupid.
We have our fair share of abuse against prostitutes. Some of which is clearly sexual slavery. Please don't minimize it by suggesting it doesn't happen here.
On the other hand, when trying to have a frank discussion, it's not really useful for Tony to REPEATEDLY LIE about it then either now is it?
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I always wondered if a dick-print could be used to unlock an iPhone.
Never got around to it as it turns out, if you tell everybody that's what you do, nobody touches your phone anyway.
I knew YOU would show up.
No.
There is NOT a statistically significant chance you could be shot in a situation "like a toddler" where a smart gun would save you.
Go get those numbers, and come back here. And I'll point out where you are lying.
Incidentally, those "toddler shoots parent" stories are in the news because they are NOT usual.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, convicted criminals shot one another at a rate of tens per day. Don't you care about black criminals AimiMoo?
Racist.
You're wrong. Most users shoot nobody, for the same reason that most fire insurance policies don't result in fire insurance payments.
Also, when the person being shot is a criminal being shot in self-defense, I don't care to give them a say.
That's the thing. MOST people shot are criminals. (Something like 60% have a criminal history, and around 80% of those know the person that shoots them.)
So called "gun violence" is really "crime violence." Or more specifically, "inner city (run by democrats) black and hispanic gang violence."
If you aren't doing stuff that includes all of those groups (just being black isn't enough to increase your risk) you magically, somehow, mysteriously are very unlikely to get shot.
It's pretty clear the folks pushing this stuff actually WANT those criminals to be shooting each other because they can then be used as tools and voting livestock to further their agenda of _control_.
If you don't believe me, go find one of the many charts that outlines what happens when the data is filtered for criminal activity. The easiest way is to take out Detroit, LA, DC, and Chicago (you don't even have to take you NY anymore) and the numbers drop precipitously... resulting in the USA dropping down to the lower middle of the pack for gun violence for industrialized developed countries.
Not only is the "we can make smart guns to solve this" a goddamn fucking lie, but the narrative democrats push about WHO and WHY there are shootings is also a goddamn fucking lie.
Lastly, there are already 400 million guns (notice, the number is up, people are not falling for this shit and buying them like crazy) and already 20 million of them have been stolen in decades prior so they will continue to float around in the inner city democratically run gang-n-violence centers for decades... where the people that have them are already forbidden by law to have them, where they regularly get caught with them and are simply released (by again, the democratically run justice system in charge of those cities). Where the "folks" there will continue to use them to shoot each other for decades to come.
Smart guns will do nothing to fix what the democrats lie about when they say there is a problem.
There IS a problem. The problem is democrats. democrats that don't give a shit when their kept and fed inner city voting livestock kill each other.
The reason they are doing this is two-fold.
First, the content industry has been complaining about the analogue hole for a while now and Intel - being that friendly sort that brought us HDCP - is more than happy to help them close that hole.
Secondly, with the new digital audio interface standard that will undoubtedly emerge to support the new hardware (which will be proprietary, and thus, under the control of Intel et al), come new opportunities to extract royalties and fees from manufacturers and integrators.
The consumer doesn't even enter the equation here. This is about control. Again.
Of all the pirating methods I have seen used over the years, the "analog hole" was only done by 12 year olds copying cassette tapes or straight off the radio. Not exactly a high loss area of music pirating.
Everything else, has been cracked and perfect copies are available.
The only place it MIGHT be relevant is Blu-Ray based music (if there is such a thing).
Also, I have likewise never seen any actual articles of these complaints. This is something you are imagining.
In any case, EARS are analog. There is no plugging that hole.
Err. Waze is non commercial in nature. It is a navigation app, not a commercial app selling or buying stuff
Uhnm... ads? Locations on the map, plus pop-ups at traffic stops.
No, there IS a large reservoir in the Thames Valley. Sorry.
And I never said it was dormant, I said that there was no vector to convert it to humans: mozzies. They need a certain amount of temperature for a minimum period of time for the parasite causing malaria in humans to grow to an infectious host in the mozquito.
The parasite isn't dormant, I never said it was. YOU made that up.
And being +5 doesn't make you right, in case anyone tries that card.
You are factually wrong about how malaria works regardless of your opinion on AGW.
They also aren't relevant nor particularly dangerous anymore.
I'd like to see the same set of idiots go after ISIS or the Egyptian government, or perhaps North Korea. You know, folks actually doing bad shit rather than someone sitting around wishing bad shit would happen.
But that doesn't give anybody the right to harm you.
and i never claimed it did.
[Sigh]
By asserting it's just to take down someone's web servers because you don't believe in their message, you did assert exactly that.
The provider could take the web sites down because they don't like the site's speech, outside parties don't have a right to interfere with the consensual transaction of third parties. And that's exactly what you are advocating.
Wasn't there a politician stating that the energy cost for making panels (fabbing the silicon, smelting the aluminum/steel for the frames) is far more than a panel will ever get back in its lifetime?
Yes, and he was a moron and wrong.
Same fucking bullshit was spouted about hybrid cars.
Moller Air Car is just around the corner!
Everyone will fly to the grocery store!
If your only solution is to let them starve, then their solution will be to kill you and take your money.
My job pays for food, and guns.
Bring it.
If your only solution is to let them starve, then their solution will be to kill you and take your money.
Along with food, I used the money I got for doing my JOB, to buy guns.
Bring it.
777, Neighbor of the Beast, one block over?
Actually, this has already happened to me several times:
1: A picture of me on Facebook back in 2009 prompted questions at a job interview. 2: I was in a humidor several years ago, just looking around. Friend of mine took a picture of me. A week later, my insurance company called, demanded a physical with bloodwork, or else I had to pay smoker's rates. 3: A USENET post I did to sci.crypt back in 1991 was brought up at another job interview. Thankfully even then, I made sure to be careful what I wrote. 4: I was asked about a post in comp.sys.mac.advocacy back in 1992. 5: I was asked if I were a lawless hippie because I posted often to the cypherpunks list back in 1994.
The Net has a long memory.
Reason #1 not to use your real name if your name isn't a very common one.
Or to use Google+
Yes. Russian corruption is incompatible with Western corruption. The Western style isn't based on donkey carts and village idiots.
The P8 is a modified 737, and it does carrier takeoffs and landings.
Hahahah ... no.
Aircraft are only now beginning to use turbines to generate electricity which is then used in electric motors but is is a very widely used technology in many ships -- especially large warships.
A first application for adding an electric engine to the tail end of an airliner to re-energize the fuselage boundary layer airflow. As the plane flies through the air it slows down some of the air which ends up as drag. By putting a ring around the end of the fuselage directing the boundary layer airflow to an electric engine powered from the main turbines, drag goes down to the point that smaller diameter engines are needed (also diminishing drag). The major design change needed is that with the ring and engine, the horizontal stabilizers must be moved to a T tail.
Both NASA & Airbus are studying this for future designs: see here.
Do you ever fly?
APUs have been in aircraft in various forms since World War 1. Modern APUs are turbines that burn jet fuel.
Next time you are close to a big plane, look for a small-ish vent on the wing or the tip of the fuselage. Large planes (and lighter than air aircraft) have had these for a century already.
Your article does have some interesting ideas about using drag envelopes to gain an efficiency advantage, but the idea there haven't been separately powered generators on aircraft before is false.
Law firms like to put all that stuff in a big database (or two.)
Chances are someone got that, or backup files of it and just set the download to run slowly over a couple of weeks so nobody noticed network slowdown.
You only gotta get it out once.
With them optimizing profits, they probably had no money for IT security to spare. Save a million, lose a billion (or rather more in this instance). The fatal combination of greed and stupidity at its finest. Will not be the last instance of something this large happening due to non-understanding of IT security.
When the first successful hack costs you everything, learning from experience is not a good strategy. Consulting and listening to some (admittedly expensive, but worth it) real experts may be a good idea.
It was stupid decision making not just money. Though being cheap had a big part to play.
A law firm web site doesn't change fast enough or often enough to do anything more than a folder full of traditional HTML files, JavaScript, CSS and images.
They could have used something like that and head off 99.99% of the potential problems.
Someone probably heard WP was "easy" and it wasn't even an IT guy at all that set it up. The reality is, WP is about as much work and learning as getting up to speed on HTML and CSS. Except, of course, lots of the knowledge doesn't translate to other stuff and it's web based, therefore feels easier.
WordPress. By the time you have learned enough to get GOOD at it, you could have learned to code the site in Notepad.
Good. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
First Post Nails It.
Every law firm I have ever had tangential contact in an IT role has always been stupid cheap cheap cheap and self-righteous and arrogant about it. I don't do business with law firms just because of the headaches they cause friends and acquaintances about not paying, wanting the moon for a buck, etc.
A breach like this is not an unexpected result.
This is why they think they can get into any phone.
Despite their best effort, their stuff keeps getting owned. So they think that every other system has easy holes in it too.
All these government servers, Hitlery's out of band leaky illegal bathroom depository, iPhones. All of it.
I've known, on a social basis, two women who worked as prostitutes. Both US citizens. Both intelligent - one had a master's degree in Pharmacy from a reputable school in Boston. Both had other options, tho for the one woman from a pretty normal working-class background those options were not great.
Both freely chose their profession - as freely as most people choose theirs - and freely choose to continue working in it. Both told me the reason they did so was very simple: it paid much better than any other job they could find. One of the women said she earned more (tax fee, as well) than my friend who was a (fairly junior) investment banker.
I'm pretty sure this sex slavery / human trafficking stuff is mostly fiction.
Prostitution is a spectrum.
Is a "Trophy Wife" a prostitute?
How about a young student with a "sugar daddy"? (Or a male with an older wealthy female for that matter.)
Even in high school during the 80's there were girls that would go out with "college guys" because they got to see good concerts and eat at nice places. I am sure some of it ended up with sex. Is THAT prostitution?
I have seen scientific studies that demonstrate that female chimps sometimes trade sex for food a male chimp has.
The nature of humans leads to prostitution happening sometimes. Fighting it is stupid.
We have our fair share of abuse against prostitutes. Some of which is clearly sexual slavery. Please don't minimize it by suggesting it doesn't happen here.
On the other hand, when trying to have a frank discussion, it's not really useful for Tony to REPEATEDLY LIE about it then either now is it?
I have the feeling this depends on which country you are talking about.
In the US? Sure, 99% is likely domestic or recent immigrant.
In Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, etc? Could very well have been trafficked from another country.