Those people should be used as both a natural shield, and a reference point for whichever direction you need to keep moving -- away from the direction the cameras are facing, but in a quartering direction to keep you out of the direct line of threat.
Choose an exit path which keeps them between you and the danger, keep your head below theirs, and feel free to knock over those watching through their cell phone, because they'll never be able to identify you.
I jest but I really have no idea what they typo was meant to be!
LOL, kit... a kit. Damn typos.
Why can't I be both a smug Linux user and glad that Micros~1 is losing money?
It's unbecoming, and it's why the rest of the people don't want to hear about open source.. the smug douchebag factor is off-putting.
I mean come on, this is slashdot. If it's not a place for smug Linux users then surely it has changed completely.
Oh no, don't get me wrong... intra-geek, smug is sort of de-rigeur and funny. It's just sort of a fixed overhead thing, and serves to show who has the thinnest skin.
But if we want to convince the non geek people to use this stuff, the screeching, swirly-eyed geek ranting about proprietary stuff and freedom comes across about as well as the smelly homeless guy outside your hotel ranting about the government probes.
Think of RMS crashing your wedding and giving a speech.
The risk of dying in a terrorist attack is infinitesimal. So should we be expending resources to make people more prepared for something that is almost certainly not going to happen to them?
But... but... people are so much more compliant when they're perpetually afraid.
Keep them constantly afraid, and you can convince them to agree to damned near anything.
Just look at how many people are willingly giving up civil liberties on the assumption that, as long as we're fighting the terrorists, it must be OK.
I get a lot of enjoyment from going as fast as possible, negotiating courses through a mixture of careful positioning and controlled drifts, with the height of skill being completing a lap without releasing the accelerator, without crashing
Careful positioning? Skill? Controlled?
No friggin' way.;-)
The optimal racing game should be playable by a sugar-crazed 8 year old who keeps the throttle mashed down on full, bashes and crashes into everything, never touches the brake, and has no idea what a gear change is... and you can still succeed. I loved playing those with my nephews.
For many people, gaming is a casual endeavor, and we don't want it to be a skill sport.
Some of us played lots of racing games, but not the ones which required us to actually exhibit any skill. Older versions of Gran Turismo could be played with skill, but you could also play a lot with just frenetic glee.
I also remember playing Street Fighter on SNES a long time ago at a party... some of the guys knew all the combos and all the fancy stuff... and some of the guys were almost randomly button mashing (OK, me) to surprising effect. You can't anticipate what I'm going to do if I have no plan or idea of what I'm gonna do.
Now, instead of this being some exotic piece of open source software people aren't so sure of, suddenly it's become mainstream, available to a bunch of people who want stuff that works but don't care to build stuff from a kid, and just want to click the "make go now" button.
So, your choice, be all smug that you've had it on Linux for a long time... or be glad that Microsoft is going to keep losing money as more people switch to free software.
Making it easier for more people to get it is a good thing. It legitimizes it, and makes it available to more people.
We have two phone lines, we actually though it might have been at first... but the line we were answering was the line it claimed to be on the caller ID.
Essentially the fraudsters have started to get really sophisticated... if your number is 123-456-7890, the call shows as being from 123-456-xxxx
Sometimes it's kind of fun to verbally abuse the asshole on the other end, but mostly it's not worth even answering.
Want to know who to blame for this crap? The corporations who pushed to be able to spoof their caller ID -- so they could call us from foreign call centers.
I'm sure the technology exists or could be added to the phone system to basically say "if your caller ID is faked, we're not even accepting this".
I've started seeing the fake caller ID get to the point that it has the same area code and exchange as my own number... once I apparently even called myself.
Essentially incoming calls have to all be treated as fraudulent, because they've been just created by a computer to conceal where it's actually coming from.
It has gotten to the point where if I don't know the number by sight, and then the persons voice, I pretty much tell all callers to piss off and go away.
Sometimes the legitimate callers get all butt hurt, but I simply don't care... because 95% or more of incoming calls on my phone are 100% fraudulent, and involve some clown in an overseas call center trying to scam me.
And the problem is that it is probably the same exact call center that legitimate companies use, or one which has decided scamming is more lucrative than tech support.
But between the Microsoft Service Provider, the people who want to clean my ducts, the automated call telling me I've won a free cruise, the automated call telling me I need to respond about lowering my credit card rate... incoming callers find a hostile person who assumes they're lying to me.
Sometimes I yell at them, sometimes I mess with them, but most of the time I just hang up immediately or leave it to the answering machine.
It's literally not possible to trust incoming phone calls. So why bother even answering them?
So, basically a badly written tool, used clueless police who don't understand the technology, so they can spy on us, but which can be accessed by people who figure out it's easier to spy on the clueless idiots who use a badly written tool because they've already captured everything.
Go police, first you insist we have weak security so you incompetent morons can spy on us, and then you buy crap software with huge security holes so everybody else can spy on us.
This is why we can't have nice things.
And this is exactly why back doors in crypto and security to allow the fucking police to spy on us will never work.
Because the spying tools are additional security risks.
Here's what's completely ridiculous about the whole "fake Moon landing" thing:
Well, if you understand the physics of the Lunar Laser Ranging stuff, then it is pretty much irrefutable humans were on the moon.
Because to have a calibrated retroreflector, in a known spot on the surface of the moon, and with a measurable round trip time for a laser, with which you can measure the distance to the moon (because you know the speed of light) is not something you can fake... that is, unless you have a calibrated retroreflector in a known spot on the surface of the moon.
To hell with special effects. Let's just go with physics. You can point a laser at a known spot on the moon and have that laser come back to you.
Investigating the US space program. Ummm, well I mean
Hey! Look over there, a Yeti!
There is nothing in this article other than some idiot saying he objects to the US appointing themselves in charge of investigating corruption, and by the way, we should look into their claims of landing on the moon.
Not that he thinks they lied about the moon.
This is very thinly veiled distraction and innuendo.
Don't treat it like it's a coherent anything. It's complete gibberish.
Yeah, the IoT is a lightweight proof of concept which nobody yet knows what to do with but are otherwise hoping catches on because it really sounds cool.
The problem with being a lightweight proof of concept is there is pretty much zero security in them thus far.
Derpa derp, internet of things, this is people spitballing about what it might be if it ever comes to pass.
The internet of things isn't even as far as being a solution in search of a problem. It's a construct desperately trying to become real enough to try to have a solution in search of a problem.
The only people who care about the internet of things are the people trying to tell us how awesome the internet of things will be.
So, some guy from a Russian Investigative Committee for... what exactly? Snide innuendo and propaganda?
Does he have a mandate for something?
This is some idiot trying to throw around smoke about the fact that Russia is implicated in bribery with FIFA, and then somehow pulling the bullshit nugget out of his as to fling poo at the moon landings?
I wonder if Mr Vladimir Markin has stopped sodomizing young boys and embezzling resources from the state.
This article is such thinly veiled rhetoric and bullshit as to be deserving of a fucking award.
Vladimir Markin penned a column for the Izvestia newspaper arguing that U.S. authorities had crossed a line by launching a large-scale corruption probe targeting nine FIFA officials. The scandal surrounding the case prompted the June 2 resignation of longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter, and sparked a heated debate about Russia's role as host of the 2018 World Cup.
Venting his frustration with what he viewed as "U.S. prosecutors having declared themselves the supreme arbiters of international football affairs," Markin proposed that international investigators could likewise examine some of the murkier elements of America's past.
An international investigation could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing in 1969, or explain where the nearly 400 kilograms of lunar rock reportedly obtained during several such missions between 1969 and 1972 have been spirited away to, Markin suggested.
In three paragraphs he bitches about what we really wants to complain about, tosses in a snide reference to Americans investigating corruption, and then insinuiates that maybe there are other pieces of history for which the Americans have also acted corrupt and dishonorably. There's not even a pretense of denying Russia was corrupt.
Then the next two paragraphs is more innuendo to throw the reader away from realizing that Russia is alleged to have benefited from corruption in FIFA
I sincerely hope journalism classes are doing a case study in propaganda, and logic students everywhere are being shown the bald-faced, lies, innuendo, and misdirection in this utter piece of crap.
Bra-fucking-oh, I hadn't realized the extent to which the press in Moscow was still so utterly a tool of government.
That's some exceptionally well done lies right there. Carefully crafted to look like a reasoned argument, when in fact it's specious misdirection and innuendo.
I certainly hope that Mr Vladimir Markin doesn't have too many children out of wedlock, that could get awfully expensive.
Since when the hell do we wait for the interviewee to discuss the damned questions? I'm supposed to care?
If Mr. Brian Krebs wants to answer it, go ahead.. but the idea of devolving the internet into a bunch of curated things which are safe and secure and under corporate control so we can all be looked over... that's a stooopid idea.
It's giving up a free and open internet to prevent us from getting hacked,
You want to stop getting hacked?
Tell government to fuck off and stop demanding weakened security so they have backdoors for themselves (and every malicious entity in the world), start making vendors accountable for the absolute shit job they do of security in their products, stop running arbitrary code on websites without being in a sandbox, stop trusting ad agencies to decide what random code to execute on you machine, and make default home security to not accept any damned incoming packets at all.
Stop treating the internet like something to be monetized by assholes, and some thing to treat as infrastructure that you don't entirely trust.
Hmmm... is there any evidence of this "Illumitaxi" conspiracy? Or are you simply off your meds?
Where I live, the taxi companies were forced to install security camera, over their objections, when a passenger was assaulted by a cab driver.
They quickly changed their tune when one of their own drivers was violently robbed. Since then it has been used to solve several crimes.
They're also forced to conduct regular inspections, and have cars no older than a certain age.
So, if municipalities are passing laws, over the objections of taxi companies, for passenger safety and accountability... WTF insane conspiracy theory is required to assume this is about some powerful taxi cartel calling the shots?
How about municipalities have passed laws saying commercial vehicles for hire operate under a set of rules, and Uber claiming those rules don't apply is nothing more than bullshit wishful thinking?
Honestly, this crap about the taxi cartel makes you sound like a crazy irrational fool who needs to find a conspiracy for no reason other than you think is sounds good.
Laws regulating these kinds of industries have existed for decades, and the taxi companies have to suck it up and follow them.
Since when does some asshole with an app get to be exempt from laws? That's some silly bullshit right there.
That could affect its valuation, currently above $40 billion
What delusional, drunken moneys could possibly claim Uber is worth $40 freaking billion dollars? What's that, like 4 centuries worth of projected income?
Who the hell makes up these stupid valuations?
They have an app, and a staunch belief they're exempt form laws.
But $40 billions dollars? That's complete fantasy that is. Real corporations with real assets and real income might be worth that.
Awesome, we'll have a bunch of walled gardens, beholden to corporate interests, tightly controlled by governments, and which will still be full of security holes.
After making piles of money on stuff from the public domain, Disney has fought to have copyrights almost perpetually extended. Almost every major film title Disney released for several decades was co-opting stuff in the public domain.
Di$ney is a ruthless corporation, always has been. They'll steam roll over anybody who gets in their way.
Worse than that, if everybody sends a big "fuck you" and leaves all at once, they don't have people to keep doing the job.
And then they'll pretend like their employees owe them something and act like victims.
These people have already lost their jobs. The only difference is how much longer they collect the checks, and how much Disney forces them to shut up next time.
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Those people should be used as both a natural shield, and a reference point for whichever direction you need to keep moving -- away from the direction the cameras are facing, but in a quartering direction to keep you out of the direct line of threat.
Choose an exit path which keeps them between you and the danger, keep your head below theirs, and feel free to knock over those watching through their cell phone, because they'll never be able to identify you.
LOL, kit ... a kit. Damn typos.
It's unbecoming, and it's why the rest of the people don't want to hear about open source .. the smug douchebag factor is off-putting.
Oh no, don't get me wrong ... intra-geek, smug is sort of de-rigeur and funny. It's just sort of a fixed overhead thing, and serves to show who has the thinnest skin.
But if we want to convince the non geek people to use this stuff, the screeching, swirly-eyed geek ranting about proprietary stuff and freedom comes across about as well as the smelly homeless guy outside your hotel ranting about the government probes.
Think of RMS crashing your wedding and giving a speech.
But ... but ... people are so much more compliant when they're perpetually afraid.
Keep them constantly afraid, and you can convince them to agree to damned near anything.
Just look at how many people are willingly giving up civil liberties on the assumption that, as long as we're fighting the terrorists, it must be OK.
Oh, did you mean a valid reason? Sorry.
Duck, keep low, move away from the loud noises and smoke, hide behind shit, don't get trampled, use someone's kids as human shields.
Everybody knows this. ;-)
Careful positioning? Skill? Controlled?
No friggin' way. ;-)
The optimal racing game should be playable by a sugar-crazed 8 year old who keeps the throttle mashed down on full, bashes and crashes into everything, never touches the brake, and has no idea what a gear change is ... and you can still succeed. I loved playing those with my nephews.
For many people, gaming is a casual endeavor, and we don't want it to be a skill sport.
Some of us played lots of racing games, but not the ones which required us to actually exhibit any skill. Older versions of Gran Turismo could be played with skill, but you could also play a lot with just frenetic glee.
I also remember playing Street Fighter on SNES a long time ago at a party ... some of the guys knew all the combos and all the fancy stuff ... and some of the guys were almost randomly button mashing (OK, me) to surprising effect. You can't anticipate what I'm going to do if I have no plan or idea of what I'm gonna do.
Good times. =)
Honestly, who gives a damn?
Now, instead of this being some exotic piece of open source software people aren't so sure of, suddenly it's become mainstream, available to a bunch of people who want stuff that works but don't care to build stuff from a kid, and just want to click the "make go now" button.
So, your choice, be all smug that you've had it on Linux for a long time ... or be glad that Microsoft is going to keep losing money as more people switch to free software.
Making it easier for more people to get it is a good thing. It legitimizes it, and makes it available to more people.
Yesnomaybe.
I assume this is a step forward in making molecules with rings ... beyond that, who the hell knows?
Quantum computing is overhyped and underrated. At the same damned time. Because it's freakin' quantum!!
I'm still not sure most people even know WTF it is supposed to be used for, how it works, or if half the claims are (or even can be) true.
We have two phone lines, we actually though it might have been at first ... but the line we were answering was the line it claimed to be on the caller ID.
Essentially the fraudsters have started to get really sophisticated ... if your number is 123-456-7890, the call shows as being from 123-456-xxxx
Sometimes it's kind of fun to verbally abuse the asshole on the other end, but mostly it's not worth even answering.
Caller ID is a complete joke.
Want to know who to blame for this crap? The corporations who pushed to be able to spoof their caller ID -- so they could call us from foreign call centers.
I'm sure the technology exists or could be added to the phone system to basically say "if your caller ID is faked, we're not even accepting this".
I've started seeing the fake caller ID get to the point that it has the same area code and exchange as my own number ... once I apparently even called myself.
Essentially incoming calls have to all be treated as fraudulent, because they've been just created by a computer to conceal where it's actually coming from.
It has gotten to the point where if I don't know the number by sight, and then the persons voice, I pretty much tell all callers to piss off and go away.
Sometimes the legitimate callers get all butt hurt, but I simply don't care ... because 95% or more of incoming calls on my phone are 100% fraudulent, and involve some clown in an overseas call center trying to scam me.
And the problem is that it is probably the same exact call center that legitimate companies use, or one which has decided scamming is more lucrative than tech support.
But between the Microsoft Service Provider, the people who want to clean my ducts, the automated call telling me I've won a free cruise, the automated call telling me I need to respond about lowering my credit card rate ... incoming callers find a hostile person who assumes they're lying to me.
Sometimes I yell at them, sometimes I mess with them, but most of the time I just hang up immediately or leave it to the answering machine.
It's literally not possible to trust incoming phone calls. So why bother even answering them?
So, basically a badly written tool, used clueless police who don't understand the technology, so they can spy on us, but which can be accessed by people who figure out it's easier to spy on the clueless idiots who use a badly written tool because they've already captured everything.
Go police, first you insist we have weak security so you incompetent morons can spy on us, and then you buy crap software with huge security holes so everybody else can spy on us.
This is why we can't have nice things.
And this is exactly why back doors in crypto and security to allow the fucking police to spy on us will never work.
Because the spying tools are additional security risks.
I'm pretty sure Putin has nukes, blackjack, and hookers.
Well, if you understand the physics of the Lunar Laser Ranging stuff, then it is pretty much irrefutable humans were on the moon.
Because to have a calibrated retroreflector, in a known spot on the surface of the moon, and with a measurable round trip time for a laser, with which you can measure the distance to the moon (because you know the speed of light) is not something you can fake ... that is, unless you have a calibrated retroreflector in a known spot on the surface of the moon.
To hell with special effects. Let's just go with physics. You can point a laser at a known spot on the moon and have that laser come back to you.
There is no faking that.
Chewbacca is a Wookie. If Chewbacca is a Wookie, then we must investigate the US moon landings.
If FIFA is corrupt, then Chewbacca is a Wookie who must investigate the US moon landings.
There is no logical conclusion or argument being made here. Just blatant "hey, look at the moon landings".
Hey! Look over there, a Yeti!
There is nothing in this article other than some idiot saying he objects to the US appointing themselves in charge of investigating corruption, and by the way, we should look into their claims of landing on the moon.
Not that he thinks they lied about the moon.
This is very thinly veiled distraction and innuendo.
Don't treat it like it's a coherent anything. It's complete gibberish.
This is the fucking Wookie defense.
Yeah, the IoT is a lightweight proof of concept which nobody yet knows what to do with but are otherwise hoping catches on because it really sounds cool.
The problem with being a lightweight proof of concept is there is pretty much zero security in them thus far.
Derpa derp, internet of things, this is people spitballing about what it might be if it ever comes to pass.
The internet of things isn't even as far as being a solution in search of a problem. It's a construct desperately trying to become real enough to try to have a solution in search of a problem.
The only people who care about the internet of things are the people trying to tell us how awesome the internet of things will be.
Using it for security? Not bloody likely.
Well, anybody can have "privacy advocates", and "thinktanks" to provide a position paper suggesting that there exist some dissent on the topic.
The "PR machine" can claim any damned thing it wants. That's what the PR machine is for.
Because, after all, the PR machine works for the lobbyists. Who can, and will, fabricate reality to serve their purposes.
Honestly, since the weekly threats to nuke us seem to have mostly ended ... yes.
Certainly not at the level of reading the drivel in their papers, for instance.
So, some guy from a Russian Investigative Committee for ... what exactly? Snide innuendo and propaganda?
Does he have a mandate for something?
This is some idiot trying to throw around smoke about the fact that Russia is implicated in bribery with FIFA, and then somehow pulling the bullshit nugget out of his as to fling poo at the moon landings?
I wonder if Mr Vladimir Markin has stopped sodomizing young boys and embezzling resources from the state.
This article is such thinly veiled rhetoric and bullshit as to be deserving of a fucking award.
In three paragraphs he bitches about what we really wants to complain about, tosses in a snide reference to Americans investigating corruption, and then insinuiates that maybe there are other pieces of history for which the Americans have also acted corrupt and dishonorably. There's not even a pretense of denying Russia was corrupt.
Then the next two paragraphs is more innuendo to throw the reader away from realizing that Russia is alleged to have benefited from corruption in FIFA
I sincerely hope journalism classes are doing a case study in propaganda, and logic students everywhere are being shown the bald-faced, lies, innuendo, and misdirection in this utter piece of crap.
Bra-fucking-oh, I hadn't realized the extent to which the press in Moscow was still so utterly a tool of government.
That's some exceptionally well done lies right there. Carefully crafted to look like a reasoned argument, when in fact it's specious misdirection and innuendo.
I certainly hope that Mr Vladimir Markin doesn't have too many children out of wedlock, that could get awfully expensive.
Since when the hell do we wait for the interviewee to discuss the damned questions? I'm supposed to care?
If Mr. Brian Krebs wants to answer it, go ahead .. but the idea of devolving the internet into a bunch of curated things which are safe and secure and under corporate control so we can all be looked over ... that's a stooopid idea.
It's giving up a free and open internet to prevent us from getting hacked,
You want to stop getting hacked?
Tell government to fuck off and stop demanding weakened security so they have backdoors for themselves (and every malicious entity in the world), start making vendors accountable for the absolute shit job they do of security in their products, stop running arbitrary code on websites without being in a sandbox, stop trusting ad agencies to decide what random code to execute on you machine, and make default home security to not accept any damned incoming packets at all.
Stop treating the internet like something to be monetized by assholes, and some thing to treat as infrastructure that you don't entirely trust.
Then you won't get hacked nearly as much.
Hmmm ... is there any evidence of this "Illumitaxi" conspiracy? Or are you simply off your meds?
Where I live, the taxi companies were forced to install security camera, over their objections, when a passenger was assaulted by a cab driver.
They quickly changed their tune when one of their own drivers was violently robbed. Since then it has been used to solve several crimes.
They're also forced to conduct regular inspections, and have cars no older than a certain age.
So, if municipalities are passing laws, over the objections of taxi companies, for passenger safety and accountability ... WTF insane conspiracy theory is required to assume this is about some powerful taxi cartel calling the shots?
How about municipalities have passed laws saying commercial vehicles for hire operate under a set of rules, and Uber claiming those rules don't apply is nothing more than bullshit wishful thinking?
Honestly, this crap about the taxi cartel makes you sound like a crazy irrational fool who needs to find a conspiracy for no reason other than you think is sounds good.
Laws regulating these kinds of industries have existed for decades, and the taxi companies have to suck it up and follow them.
Since when does some asshole with an app get to be exempt from laws? That's some silly bullshit right there.
What delusional, drunken moneys could possibly claim Uber is worth $40 freaking billion dollars? What's that, like 4 centuries worth of projected income?
Who the hell makes up these stupid valuations?
They have an app, and a staunch belief they're exempt form laws.
But $40 billions dollars? That's complete fantasy that is. Real corporations with real assets and real income might be worth that.
Holy .com level of overvalued companies.
Awesome, we'll have a bunch of walled gardens, beholden to corporate interests, tightly controlled by governments, and which will still be full of security holes.
What could possibly go wrong?
The most obvious one is the Disney Copyright Extension Act
After making piles of money on stuff from the public domain, Disney has fought to have copyrights almost perpetually extended. Almost every major film title Disney released for several decades was co-opting stuff in the public domain.
Di$ney is a ruthless corporation, always has been. They'll steam roll over anybody who gets in their way.
start here.
Honestly, if you've never heard any of this, you've been living under a rock for decades.
Worse than that, if everybody sends a big "fuck you" and leaves all at once, they don't have people to keep doing the job.
And then they'll pretend like their employees owe them something and act like victims.
These people have already lost their jobs. The only difference is how much longer they collect the checks, and how much Disney forces them to shut up next time.
Yeah, no shit .... Disney will just do it more gradually after the uproar dies down.
This is PR damage control, nothing more.
Give it six months, and they'll probably still be out of a job.