A simple addition makes the TI-99/4A version look visually just like the C64's. That is to simply define the forward and backward slash characters to look more the C64's and span the whole area of the character's bitmap.
Finally, if we're going to go to the trouble of defining character images, then we might as well use contiguous character codes so we don't need the extra math. We could use the C64's exact values, however the TI's character set only has 128 characters. So we'll use values 100 less than the C64 version. Also, the TI rounds floating values to integers, whereas the C64 simply truncates them. So we don't need to add.5 to the random value.
That's be cause you don't appreciate the context in which this code came to exist. Back in the early eighties, to be able to generate such visually impressive and complex looking imagery with so little code, was quite an amazing thing. I, for one, wish I would have known that bit of code back then as a ten year old. It certainly would have beaten my usual "10 PRINT "DAN WAS HERE!!! "; 20 GOTO 10" that I would type into the C64s, TI-99/4As, Atari 800s, and other computers on display at K-Mart and Sears.
For the sake of completeness, here is a version that works with the syntax (and character set) of another home computer of the era, the TI-99/4A
10 PRINT CHR$(INT(RND+.5)*45+47); 20 GOTO 10
The code is a little more complex because the forward and backward slash characters are not contiguous in the TI's character set (47 and 92). The result visually isn't as good because the TI's character glyphs are more spaced out than the C64's. However it does work - I tested it in the emulator (with standard TI BASIC, doesn't required Extended BASIC).
The three laws of robotics do not begin to cover the issue discussed in the article. This is about choosing the lesser of two evils. About mitigating death and destruction. Do you crash the vehicle into another vehicle in order to avoid a pedestrian? Who is more important? The passengers of the vehicle the software is operating, or passengers outside the control of the software? There is going to be a great deal to figure out, and I'm sure that lawmakers will be involved in this process, as will the courts.
According the the video, they're using a Kinect for 3D tracking of the ball. That's pretty good resolution to result in high enough mechanical precision to make a catch. Also would reduce the cost of this project by a small fortune.
However, the article differs from the video. The article says "A Kalman filter algorithm is used to analyze video captured on an external camera system consisting of a Kinect-like ASUS Xtion PRO LIVE to track a colored ball in three-dimensional space and predict its destination and timing."
While the video specifically says "An off the shelf Microsoft Kinect with color and depth cameras is used to obtain the 3D position of colored balls."
So the only people that should be allowed to "vote" are people that can contribute "quality" comments? Are they saying that having a large number of people vote is a bad thing, and they would prefer that fewer people vote but have a larger say because their comments are higher "quality"?
You know, if FB had a dislike button to go along with the like button, then they would have an *actual* mechanism that could be used for voting.
According to CNet, the DOD is also moving away from RIM:
To add insult to injury, the U.S. Department of Defense also announced last month that it was ending its exclusive contract with the company and opening up bidding to other device makers, including Apple and Google.
That is a *much* bigger deal, because the NTSB is actually a very small government agency (only around 400 employees). DOD could involve an order of magnitude more devices than the NTSB.
Israel is also physically isolated, which of course is mirrored by the actual points of connectivity in and out of the country. Thus DDOS and other similar attacks can be stopped wholesale before they even reach the point of actual web servers. The only hope of DDOSing anything physically located in Israel would be via a net of infected machines also in Israel, which apparently Anonymous doesn't control in sufficient numbers. I don't know the situation with ISPs there, but they may also be more aggressive about disconnecting machines known to be compromised.
and for the very old and very young, there was a time when Japanese made meant quality of an insane degree even the swiss found hard to beat.
My grandfather has told me on a number of occasions how Made in Japan indicated that products were complete and total junk prior to 1980 or so. Essentially the same stigma that "Made in China" bears today. So I'm not sure which era for the "very old" you're talking about - perhaps prior to WW2 or something?
There's one thing I can always count on Slashdot for, be it quantum physics, obscure linux distros, a complex mathematical proof, or AC/DC music - there's always a hardcore expert that provides needed insight. LOL
Take on your biggest competition - Netflix and Redbox - head on. This will only take "homework", which is just the owner dedicating a little time. Create a special, prominent movie section. Start picking out very popular yet older movies. Check if each of those movies are available locally at Redbox, Blockbuster kiosks, and / or streaming (Netflix, Amazon, etc). That can be done totally online. Any of those movies that you have for rent that are not available through those other sources go in your new movie section. This section needs to be promoted as movies you can get NOW, that you cannot get ANYWHERE ELSE. "Instant Entertainment", that can only be had from your rental store.
You do have exclusivity! That is what you need to play on. There are HUGE gaps in what is available for streaming, and Kiosks have such small capacity that pretty much all they carry are the latest releases. All that is required is to recognize which titles meet that marketing criteria, which should be done weekly, and most importantly, to let customers know that your competition actually provides a very small and incomplete selection of movies.
Take this even further by promoting series and prequels to movies currently in theaters. For example, The Hobbit is coming out next month. Interest in the entire LOTR series will be increased because of it. Same with Twilight. Promote all the previous movies. Most of those are not available via streaming, and would be hit or miss in kiosks.
In addition, you need to have as large a collection of older movies as possible. Even if they don't fit on normal display shelves, or if you have to pack them in tight like books on a bookshelf, you cannot have too much selection or too many older movies. If you must, store the older ones in a storeroom and provide a listing / directory of those titles people can choose from. Ideally, list the movies on your website so people can at least browse them online. Even you don't have the infrastructure to set up a site allowing people to reserve online, they can still easily call and reserve that way.
The most important part is bringing specific movies to people's attention. There are many, many older flicks people have completely forgotten about that they would enjoy, and can only get instantly through your business locally. So you need to promote good movies on a regularly changing basis.
Now, I will point out that Netflix and others do have mail service, where people can "rent" physical movies online. Yes, you can pretty much get every movie ever made that way. However there are two huge downsides: 1) No a la carte. People have to pay a recurring monthly membership to get those moves, and Netflix has split that service off of its streaming services. The customer can't just pay $2 for a single movie that caught their eye, and that is a big turn-off. That makes your service more economical for people who aren't planning on circulating a dozen different DVDs back and forth to Netflix a month. 2) It's not instant. A huge appeal of a brick and mortar store is the ability to go in on a Friday night and grab a few movies for the weekend, and that requires instant gratification.
Um, if it contains language that strongly worded against profit and entitlement, then you'd better believe Disney has made some phone calls today to mobilize some serious lobbying power and see what strings can be pulled by other lawmakers that they have influence over. Without a doubt.
Serious question: What exactly does blocking Facebook from Google search results accomplish? I cannot remember ever, not one single time, seeing Facebook in a list of search results from Google. Never. Ever. The rest of your post was quite informative though.
No, the MIT scheme is a formal protocol which requires both the access point and the client devices to work together. The client is able to "fill in" missing data, because the data itself is expressed in a computational manner that allows the client to perform calculations and solve for missing data.
What the NC group has done is simply made access points more assertive and "take control" of a channel by ignoring the fact that other devices are transmitting and talking over top of them. That scheme is applied when a backlog of data occurs, and assuming that most clients are consumers of data, it makes sense to push out cached data instead of wasting time listening to clients make additional data requests. Part of the reason this would work is that access points are optimally located in a given coverage area, they use higher gain antennas, and don't worry about reducing power to conserve batteries and the like, which allows them to "talk over" your typical client data consuming device.
Sounds like this is based on the simple fact that most internet clients are consumers of data, not producers (high download to upload ratio). So if you make the access point more bossy, to the point of no longer playing nice and waiting its turn to transmit (thus it will be transmitting over the other devices in this mode), the overall result is more efficiency when moving larger amounts of data.
This makes sense on a number of levels. There is no point in letting client devices waste airtime requesting more data (again, assuming they are primarily consumers of data) when there is already a backlog of data that needs to be pushed down the pipe. Additionally, access points are centrally located and have higher gain antennas, thus even when they "double" with another device, there is a good chance that the recipient device will still be able to "hear" the access point over the other devices.
So I can see how this "high priority mode" would work, even if the formal protocol doesn't support it (ie the client devices can be totally stock). It's like being in a room full of people talking, and instead of waiting for people to quiet down to tell a friend across the room something, you simply start yelling. They are able to hear you because you're louder (higher gain antenna), and the other people don't have to quiet down either (since they're just talking).
There would likely be problems with this scheme when multiple access points have overlapping coverage - there would be lots of collisions at the fringe areas where they overlap. It would also have problems when someone is performing a large upload at the same time someone is streaming data down, because the access point would keep turning a deaf ear to the uploader. Also, if you had two clients sitting side by side, then that extremely close proximity could result in too strong of a client / client signal that the access point couldn't overcome.
Thank you. The mystery deepens further. I only have one app listed for Dropbox access:
App name: PDFReader Dropbox Uploader Publisher: Kdan Mobile Access type: Full Dropbox
When I click on Kdan mobile it's a 404. I triple checked my app history, and I have never installed that, or any other, PDF reader on my device. I've never needed to. I also have never given any access to dropbox for an app. Perhaps that is just a sham app the malware claims to be when getting access to dropbox?
I've been rather surprised at the porousness of Apple's walled garden. My iPad is 100% stock (not jailbroken, etc), and all of the apps came directly from the app store. A couple weeks ago I noticed some odd files in my dropbox root folder. There were two executables - one for Windows (Xbox 360 MSP Generator.exe.), one for OSX (IGenerate 6.7) - both for generating "free" XBox points. Fortunately Dropbox allows you to (via their web interface only) view the versions and history of files. Both those files came from my iPad. Then last week it happened again with just a windows executable (iLividSetup.exe), also from my iPad.
So some iOS app is interacting with the Dropbox app in some way (either via API or just throwing files into a folder that Dropbox must have all permissions open on). I have yet to determine which app it is. I only use 6 or 7 apps regularly, so I'm pretty sure it's not any of those, and I have yet to do a more systematic check on the other dozens of odd lesser used apps. The moral of the story is that these app stores are not foolproof by any means, and malware is still being approved, even if the attack vector is novel, dependent on a 3rd party app (dropbox) and is cross-platform.
Anyone else see this behavior in their Dropbox files?
I followed the link to Doom (and the next link, and the next link...) until I finally got to:
Harvey Anderson Mozilla Corporation 650 Castro Street, Suite 300 Mountain View, CA 94041 Email: dmcanotice@mozilla.com Phone Number: 650-903-0800 Fax: 650-903-0875
Re: DOOM on browser available on Mozilla website - Cease and Desist Notice - DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement
Dear Mr. Anderson:
In accordance with Mozilla’s copyright infringement policy, this is to notify you of activity occurring on the Mozilla site listed below which infringes on the exclusive intellectual property rights of Id Software LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ZeniMax Media Inc. The copyrighted work at issue is Id Software’s proprietary software game DOOM® (“DOOM”). The link below offers an unauthorized derivation or version of Id Software’s DOOM game.
DOOM is a registered trademark and the game assets are copyrighted material. Use of the mark DOOM and copyrighted assets without our authorization and consent, directly violates our trademark and copyright rights in and to such intellectual property. We hereby demand the immediate removal of all such links from your website and written assurance that you will prevent any further infringement of Id Software’s intellectual property rights. I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Sincerely,
Joshua Gillespie
Associate General Counsel ZeniMax Media Inc. 1370 Piccard Dr., #120 Rockville, MD 20850 T: 301.948.2200 Email: jgillespie@zenimax.com
At first I thought I clicked on the wrong bookmark, but the style and appearance sure looks like Slashdot, however to content is apparently completely random international news.
He resigned 5 days prior to the congressional hearing on what transpired at the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and other US personnel. Hillary Clinton took full responsibility for the lack of security, and of course the media let it die out right there and not have any negative repercussions on Obama or his administration in general. The buck stops with Hillary. Or whomever else it can stop at short of Obama.
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Please tell me Ben Stein narrated the slideshow of toasted bread pictures.
And finally, here's a screenshot in case anyone actually cares what the TI version looks like.
http://dexsoft.com/slashdot/ti_screenshot.png
A simple addition makes the TI-99/4A version look visually just like the C64's. That is to simply define the forward and backward slash characters to look more the C64's and span the whole area of the character's bitmap.
10 CALL CHAR(47, "C0E070381C0E0703")
20 CALL CHAR(92, "03070E1C3870E0C0")
30 PRINT CHR$(INT(RND+.5)*45+47);
40 GOTO 30
Finally, if we're going to go to the trouble of defining character images, then we might as well use contiguous character codes so we don't need the extra math. We could use the C64's exact values, however the TI's character set only has 128 characters. So we'll use values 100 less than the C64 version. Also, the TI rounds floating values to integers, whereas the C64 simply truncates them. So we don't need to add .5 to the random value.
10 CALL CHAR(105, "C0E070381C0E0703")
20 CALL CHAR(106, "03070E1C3870E0C0")
30 PRINT CHR$(105+RND);
40 GOTO 30
That's be cause you don't appreciate the context in which this code came to exist. Back in the early eighties, to be able to generate such visually impressive and complex looking imagery with so little code, was quite an amazing thing. I, for one, wish I would have known that bit of code back then as a ten year old. It certainly would have beaten my usual "10 PRINT "DAN WAS HERE!!! "; 20 GOTO 10" that I would type into the C64s, TI-99/4As, Atari 800s, and other computers on display at K-Mart and Sears.
For the sake of completeness, here is a version that works with the syntax (and character set) of another home computer of the era, the TI-99/4A
10 PRINT CHR$(INT(RND+.5)*45+47);
20 GOTO 10
The code is a little more complex because the forward and backward slash characters are not contiguous in the TI's character set (47 and 92). The result visually isn't as good because the TI's character glyphs are more spaced out than the C64's. However it does work - I tested it in the emulator (with standard TI BASIC, doesn't required Extended BASIC).
The three laws of robotics do not begin to cover the issue discussed in the article. This is about choosing the lesser of two evils. About mitigating death and destruction. Do you crash the vehicle into another vehicle in order to avoid a pedestrian? Who is more important? The passengers of the vehicle the software is operating, or passengers outside the control of the software? There is going to be a great deal to figure out, and I'm sure that lawmakers will be involved in this process, as will the courts.
According the the video, they're using a Kinect for 3D tracking of the ball. That's pretty good resolution to result in high enough mechanical precision to make a catch. Also would reduce the cost of this project by a small fortune.
However, the article differs from the video. The article says "A Kalman filter algorithm is used to analyze video captured on an external camera system consisting of a Kinect-like ASUS Xtion PRO LIVE to track a colored ball in three-dimensional space and predict its destination and timing."
While the video specifically says "An off the shelf Microsoft Kinect with color and depth cameras is used to obtain the 3D position of colored balls."
So the only people that should be allowed to "vote" are people that can contribute "quality" comments? Are they saying that having a large number of people vote is a bad thing, and they would prefer that fewer people vote but have a larger say because their comments are higher "quality"?
You know, if FB had a dislike button to go along with the like button, then they would have an *actual* mechanism that could be used for voting.
According to CNet, the DOD is also moving away from RIM:
To add insult to injury, the U.S. Department of Defense also announced last month that it was ending its exclusive contract with the company and opening up bidding to other device makers, including Apple and Google.
That is a *much* bigger deal, because the NTSB is actually a very small government agency (only around 400 employees). DOD could involve an order of magnitude more devices than the NTSB.
Israel is also physically isolated, which of course is mirrored by the actual points of connectivity in and out of the country. Thus DDOS and other similar attacks can be stopped wholesale before they even reach the point of actual web servers. The only hope of DDOSing anything physically located in Israel would be via a net of infected machines also in Israel, which apparently Anonymous doesn't control in sufficient numbers. I don't know the situation with ISPs there, but they may also be more aggressive about disconnecting machines known to be compromised.
and for the very old and very young, there was a time when Japanese made meant quality of an insane degree even the swiss found hard to beat.
My grandfather has told me on a number of occasions how Made in Japan indicated that products were complete and total junk prior to 1980 or so. Essentially the same stigma that "Made in China" bears today. So I'm not sure which era for the "very old" you're talking about - perhaps prior to WW2 or something?
There's one thing I can always count on Slashdot for, be it quantum physics, obscure linux distros, a complex mathematical proof, or AC/DC music - there's always a hardcore expert that provides needed insight. LOL
Take on your biggest competition - Netflix and Redbox - head on. This will only take "homework", which is just the owner dedicating a little time. Create a special, prominent movie section. Start picking out very popular yet older movies. Check if each of those movies are available locally at Redbox, Blockbuster kiosks, and / or streaming (Netflix, Amazon, etc). That can be done totally online. Any of those movies that you have for rent that are not available through those other sources go in your new movie section. This section needs to be promoted as movies you can get NOW, that you cannot get ANYWHERE ELSE. "Instant Entertainment", that can only be had from your rental store.
You do have exclusivity! That is what you need to play on. There are HUGE gaps in what is available for streaming, and Kiosks have such small capacity that pretty much all they carry are the latest releases. All that is required is to recognize which titles meet that marketing criteria, which should be done weekly, and most importantly, to let customers know that your competition actually provides a very small and incomplete selection of movies.
Take this even further by promoting series and prequels to movies currently in theaters. For example, The Hobbit is coming out next month. Interest in the entire LOTR series will be increased because of it. Same with Twilight. Promote all the previous movies. Most of those are not available via streaming, and would be hit or miss in kiosks.
In addition, you need to have as large a collection of older movies as possible. Even if they don't fit on normal display shelves, or if you have to pack them in tight like books on a bookshelf, you cannot have too much selection or too many older movies. If you must, store the older ones in a storeroom and provide a listing / directory of those titles people can choose from. Ideally, list the movies on your website so people can at least browse them online. Even you don't have the infrastructure to set up a site allowing people to reserve online, they can still easily call and reserve that way.
The most important part is bringing specific movies to people's attention. There are many, many older flicks people have completely forgotten about that they would enjoy, and can only get instantly through your business locally. So you need to promote good movies on a regularly changing basis.
Now, I will point out that Netflix and others do have mail service, where people can "rent" physical movies online. Yes, you can pretty much get every movie ever made that way. However there are two huge downsides:
1) No a la carte. People have to pay a recurring monthly membership to get those moves, and Netflix has split that service off of its streaming services. The customer can't just pay $2 for a single movie that caught their eye, and that is a big turn-off. That makes your service more economical for people who aren't planning on circulating a dozen different DVDs back and forth to Netflix a month.
2) It's not instant. A huge appeal of a brick and mortar store is the ability to go in on a Friday night and grab a few movies for the weekend, and that requires instant gratification.
Um, if it contains language that strongly worded against profit and entitlement, then you'd better believe Disney has made some phone calls today to mobilize some serious lobbying power and see what strings can be pulled by other lawmakers that they have influence over. Without a doubt.
Serious question: What exactly does blocking Facebook from Google search results accomplish? I cannot remember ever, not one single time, seeing Facebook in a list of search results from Google. Never. Ever. The rest of your post was quite informative though.
No, the MIT scheme is a formal protocol which requires both the access point and the client devices to work together. The client is able to "fill in" missing data, because the data itself is expressed in a computational manner that allows the client to perform calculations and solve for missing data.
What the NC group has done is simply made access points more assertive and "take control" of a channel by ignoring the fact that other devices are transmitting and talking over top of them. That scheme is applied when a backlog of data occurs, and assuming that most clients are consumers of data, it makes sense to push out cached data instead of wasting time listening to clients make additional data requests. Part of the reason this would work is that access points are optimally located in a given coverage area, they use higher gain antennas, and don't worry about reducing power to conserve batteries and the like, which allows them to "talk over" your typical client data consuming device.
Sounds like this is based on the simple fact that most internet clients are consumers of data, not producers (high download to upload ratio). So if you make the access point more bossy, to the point of no longer playing nice and waiting its turn to transmit (thus it will be transmitting over the other devices in this mode), the overall result is more efficiency when moving larger amounts of data.
This makes sense on a number of levels. There is no point in letting client devices waste airtime requesting more data (again, assuming they are primarily consumers of data) when there is already a backlog of data that needs to be pushed down the pipe. Additionally, access points are centrally located and have higher gain antennas, thus even when they "double" with another device, there is a good chance that the recipient device will still be able to "hear" the access point over the other devices.
So I can see how this "high priority mode" would work, even if the formal protocol doesn't support it (ie the client devices can be totally stock). It's like being in a room full of people talking, and instead of waiting for people to quiet down to tell a friend across the room something, you simply start yelling. They are able to hear you because you're louder (higher gain antenna), and the other people don't have to quiet down either (since they're just talking).
There would likely be problems with this scheme when multiple access points have overlapping coverage - there would be lots of collisions at the fringe areas where they overlap. It would also have problems when someone is performing a large upload at the same time someone is streaming data down, because the access point would keep turning a deaf ear to the uploader. Also, if you had two clients sitting side by side, then that extremely close proximity could result in too strong of a client / client signal that the access point couldn't overcome.
It's not #2, because the app store shows all apps I've ever installed, and that can't be cleared.
Thank you. The mystery deepens further. I only have one app listed for Dropbox access:
App name: PDFReader Dropbox Uploader
Publisher: Kdan Mobile
Access type: Full Dropbox
When I click on Kdan mobile it's a 404. I triple checked my app history, and I have never installed that, or any other, PDF reader on my device. I've never needed to. I also have never given any access to dropbox for an app. Perhaps that is just a sham app the malware claims to be when getting access to dropbox?
I've been rather surprised at the porousness of Apple's walled garden. My iPad is 100% stock (not jailbroken, etc), and all of the apps came directly from the app store. A couple weeks ago I noticed some odd files in my dropbox root folder. There were two executables - one for Windows (Xbox 360 MSP Generator.exe.), one for OSX (IGenerate 6.7) - both for generating "free" XBox points. Fortunately Dropbox allows you to (via their web interface only) view the versions and history of files. Both those files came from my iPad. Then last week it happened again with just a windows executable (iLividSetup.exe), also from my iPad.
So some iOS app is interacting with the Dropbox app in some way (either via API or just throwing files into a folder that Dropbox must have all permissions open on). I have yet to determine which app it is. I only use 6 or 7 apps regularly, so I'm pretty sure it's not any of those, and I have yet to do a more systematic check on the other dozens of odd lesser used apps. The moral of the story is that these app stores are not foolproof by any means, and malware is still being approved, even if the attack vector is novel, dependent on a 3rd party app (dropbox) and is cross-platform.
Anyone else see this behavior in their Dropbox files?
I followed the link to Doom (and the next link, and the next link...) until I finally got to:
Harvey Anderson
Mozilla Corporation
650 Castro Street, Suite 300
Mountain View, CA 94041
Email: dmcanotice@mozilla.com
Phone Number: 650-903-0800
Fax: 650-903-0875
Re: DOOM on browser available on Mozilla website - Cease and Desist Notice - DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement
Dear Mr. Anderson:
In accordance with Mozilla’s copyright infringement policy, this is to notify you of activity occurring on the Mozilla site listed below which infringes on the exclusive intellectual property rights of Id Software LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ZeniMax Media Inc. The copyrighted work at issue is Id Software’s proprietary software game DOOM® (“DOOM”). The link below offers an unauthorized derivation or version of Id Software’s DOOM game.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/doom-on-the-web/
DOOM is a registered trademark and the game assets are copyrighted material. Use of the mark DOOM and copyrighted assets without our authorization and consent, directly violates our trademark and copyright rights in and to such intellectual property. We hereby demand the immediate removal of all such links from your website and written assurance that you will prevent any further infringement of Id Software’s intellectual property rights. I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Sincerely,
Joshua Gillespie
Associate General Counsel
ZeniMax Media Inc.
1370 Piccard Dr., #120
Rockville, MD 20850
T: 301.948.2200
Email: jgillespie@zenimax.com
So wrong it's right.
At first I thought I clicked on the wrong bookmark, but the style and appearance sure looks like Slashdot, however to content is apparently completely random international news.
Then the Wikipedia link in the story refers to the wrong L2 (earth / sun).
He resigned 5 days prior to the congressional hearing on what transpired at the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and other US personnel. Hillary Clinton took full responsibility for the lack of security, and of course the media let it die out right there and not have any negative repercussions on Obama or his administration in general. The buck stops with Hillary. Or whomever else it can stop at short of Obama.
This negative comment was necessary to counterbalance the huge number of positive comments that are recommending VirtualBox. It's a yin-yang thing.