Kevin Smith compared it to being alive at the same time as Homer or Shakespeare. I thought it was a silly comparison at first, but thinking about it, not only is it apt, but it undersells things. These are the guys who created the mythology the entire human race is likely be using to tell its stories for centuries, if not until the day entropy descends. We can interact with the living breathing creators today. That's a huge privilege.
The GOP will ensure that no matter the composition of the house and senate after this week, nothing will be allowed to progress under President Clinton. No supreme court vacancies will be filled,
The rest of this is indeed insightful. However, the SCOTUS vacancy will in all likelihood be filled. The Democrats look to take over the Senate as well, and in all probability they will change the rules on SCOTUS nominations to not require a 2/3 majority anymore.
That used to be called "the nuclear option", due to the implicit threat of the other side to throw a snit-fit and reflexively vote against everything in unison to grind the Senate to a halt. However, the Republicans have already been doing that anyway, so there's no longer any "or else" to threaten the leadership with.
She's exonerated by virtue of the fact that she's not running for POTUS, so nobody gives a crap about her. So typical rules apply.
What I heard on NPR this morning from "sources inside the FBI" is that they are likely to not persue it any further against the non-Clintons, not because there's nothing wrong there, but because its not worth the trouble of looking into.
Which is of course the way it would have been in the first place if a Clinton wasn't involved.
Completely different activity. Not comparable at all.
And the only "Special Treatment" Hillary has been getting was the pointless months of congressional investigation and right-wing screaming. The way I remember it (having actually worked with classified info) is the typical treatment person who mishandles classified info can expect is a slap on the wrist, a shitload of paperwork, and a note in their security file. The only reason for all the extra crap she's gotten is because she's Hillary Clinton, Republican Enemy #1.
(Yawn) Typical anti-Clinton BS. Its always unsupported when it actually has to touch reality (eg: our real-life criminal justice system), and suspicously none of it ever happens when one of them isn't running for POTUS. After 30 years of it, frankly I'm getting bored. Please go get a new shtick, right wingers. Perhaps some better policy proposals, for a change of pace?
Petraeus was giving classified info to a reporter he was sleeping with. This is one of those situations that is looked very badly upon indeed, and will cause the Feds to invoke those criminal penalties they almost never invoke on anybody. His was NOT the typical case.
Having worked in Classified and COMSEC environments myself, the typical punishment I've seen for a case of mislabeling or mishandling is a slap on the wrist, a shitload of paperwork (the real punishment there), and perhaps a note in your security file. Those big nasty criminal penalties just are there so that they can be exercised in cases of true espionage.
Further than that, if the cost of the lobbying and marketing campaigns fighting it is way cheaper than the costs of actually cleaning up their carbon and other by-products, its only natural to want to do the former rather than the latter.
Technically this still counts as a prejudice (pre-judging the customer as a bad tipper based solely on where they live). But it's one which is statistically correct most of the time rather than some of the time.
You sure about that? It would be interesting to have data from your own deliveries to back it up.
I know I've seen general studies about tipping behavior in restaurants. Those show black people tipping wee bit less on average, but also reporting receiving worse service. Given that the service happens before the tipping, and its *supposed* to be a reward for good service...
Maybe they're reacting from experience and don't want to visit certain neighborhoods
This is actually insightful, but not in the way the author and mods probably think.
The thing is, the people of color I've seen comment about Uber almost all love the heck of out it. Sure, they get double the turndowns a white rider might get, but they can actually eventually get a ride with Uber. Taxis flat out refuse to go into their neighborhood. Plus, an Uber driver that refuses a rider in a way that rider finds unfair is pretty much guaranteed to get a bad review, dropping their driver rating. That's really important to drivers, so there's incentive to not be a douchebag that taxi drivers don't have.
Without having read TFA, often even as a network engineer, I'll use the term "ping"
You should have stopped right there and read then. It wasn't a literal Ping, it was a series of DNS requests. The data comes from looking through the DNS logs. What was suspicious about it was that the server did not respond to a random DNS request they tried themselves. That most likely means it had been specifically set up to only accept DNS requests from a whitelist of servers. For some reason this one Russian bank was on that whitelist, and accounted for almost all the DNS traffic.
Yes, since you clearly were confused as to what I was getting at. Some of us call that a "clarification". I was indeed trying to talk about Android smartphones. You know, the thing I like to buy every 2 years or so when the old one goes obsolete. If those two words weren't enough of a difference, I'm quite capable of producing more.
Just take out the extra words, go to newegg or any place that sells android-based devices, and search for "android" instead of "phone"
Why would I do that, when the only Android devices I'm interested in buying as a consumer are smart phones?
Remember anyone saying that a woman can't do that and that Janeway could command her ship was "unrealistic"? I don't.
The Pilot episode for Trek TOS had a female XO (second in command) performing typical XO duties, and one of the changes the network insisted on was her removal, for pretty much exactly that reason.
There was also tons of guff around Mulgrew's Janeway. I watched the show myself, and frankly she was a far more believable captain than Picard was. The woman just exuded that authority "don't F with me" attitude. But still there was tons of guff at the time about her not being a "believable" captain.
Hopefully third time they try it will be the charm.
The only way I see of turning $600M revenue into a $100M loss is to spend $700M...what the actual f*** is there that costs that amount of money?
For reference, they have 3,860 employees, according to their website. Generously assuming average costs of $200,000 yearly each (salary, benefits, health care, etc), that would chew up a bit under $200M in labor costs for the quarter. So there's still half a billion in non-labor expenses there.
I think you're grabbing the elephant's tail here, and proclaiming you've found a snake. Twitter is full of people being abusive just like this (and worse) and not getting banned. Most of them are white (or eggs). Again I follow a lot of black folk who end up on the receiving end of that kind of crap, and they have a devil of a time trying to get their abusers banned too. Sure Milo got banned, but he's really a case study in just how prominently, gleefully, unremorselessly abusive you have to be before any action will be taken.
As for Scott Adams, there's no real evidence he was banned in any way at all. The only known tool Twitter has ever employed is banning accounts, and that never happened to him. What he's claiming happened (specific tweets were targeted to not reach every one of his followers), would be ludicrously labor-intensive when you scale it up to every Republican tweep of his stature. He's so low-level, he doesn't even have a verified account. Combine that with the fact that twitter recently changed their interface so that its now far easier to miss tweets from people you follow (I'm seriously annoyed by this), which was the exact symptom Adams used to arrive at this conclusion, and the...er...increasingly erratic mind Adams has been displaying, and Occam's Razor tells me its a far better bet that this whole "shadow ban" thing exists only in his own mind.
I can vouch that don't follow anyone of Mr. Adams' political persuasion, and yet I'm still getting lots of (asinine) tweets from him and Trump and others like them in my feed. If anybody at Twitter is trying to censor those folks, they are doing an epically crappy job of it.
Unlike Twitter itself, which has been making money...
One of the first steps in protecting yourself from finance weasels is to learn what their words mean. In particular, "revenue" and "profit" are two very different things. For example, Twitter's numbers from last quarter show their revenue from the quarter was over $600 million. Perhaps not Google numbers, but not a lot of companies earn that much in a single quarter. However, their profit was about -$100 million. So of course the sensible thing here would be to get rid of some of the things that are costing more than they are making. If Vine has lots of folks working on it, and isn't in fact pulling in a lot of revenue (raw $), then yes it makes perfect sense for a bean-counter to want to get rid of it.
It makes more sense when you realize the US is arming ISIS in Syria to overthrow and replace the government, which turned to long-time ally Russia for help.
This is like saying all math makes more sense when you divide by zero. That's quite true, but you can't divide by zero.
There are hundreds of little factions fighting in Syria, the two biggest of which are ISIS and Assad's various loyalists. Those two biggest sides hold completely disjoint territories, and do not fight each other. They aren't exactly allies, but they aren't enemies either, and in Syria today that's as close as you come to being allies. Their meer existence helps each other out, both in military and propaganda terms.
Among the other factions, you have groups that are fighting Assad exclusively, groups that are fighting ISIS exclusively, and groups that are fighting both. Some of these are ethnic-based (the most effective of which are the Kurds). Since they are the most effective against ISIS, the US is primarily trying to help the Kurds. However, the last thing US ally Turkey wants is militarily powerful Kurds, so they support groups that are primarily attacking Kurds, and leaving ISIS and Assad alone.
Allowed people to be as abusive as they want provided they're not white
On that note, banning people for being republican
Got an example of either of these? I'm familiar with the rest of the points you cite, but not these.
I follow a lot of people of color on Twitter, and the amount of abuse (and I'm talking about stuff that would get them *arrested* if they did) they are subjected to is just mind-boggling.
And then there's the (non-white) guy I follow who got banned twice because he happens to have the same (very common) last name as the head of ISIS. The only thing that stopped that was when they gave him a check-mark. So I certainly haven't seen any reluctance whatsoever to ban non-whites. If anything, there seems to be a bit of an itchy trigger-finger (just like in real life).
However I don't follow a lot of the kinds of people who, erm..., tend to anger people of color. So I'm thinking you may have seen some stuff I haven't. Care to share specifics?
The Qualcomm chips get absolutely crushed in any benchmark compared with the processors the iPhones are using. So Qualcomm and Android being tied at the hip isn't exactly doing Android any favors either.
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as part of routine outreach
Is that what they call hacking servers now? I'm not up on the latest lingo.
people are a lot less nervous about Hillary 'giving away the home-world' as it were
Always nice to stumble across a fellow B5-er. But before we can talk, I have to know if you are a green or a purple
Kevin Smith compared it to being alive at the same time as Homer or Shakespeare. I thought it was a silly comparison at first, but thinking about it, not only is it apt, but it undersells things. These are the guys who created the mythology the entire human race is likely be using to tell its stories for centuries, if not until the day entropy descends. We can interact with the living breathing creators today. That's a huge privilege.
I'm impressed you took a break from your busy schedule of 911-Truthing and Anti-Masonic activity to look into this conspiracy in such detail.
Pointing out her corruption and lying isn't "character assassination." Is it "weather assassination" when the meteorologist tells you it's raining?
When it, in fact, quite visibly isn't raining, as evidenced by the fact that nobody is actually using an umbrella or getting wet?
No, we just call that "lying".
The GOP will ensure that no matter the composition of the house and senate after this week, nothing will be allowed to progress under President Clinton. No supreme court vacancies will be filled,
The rest of this is indeed insightful. However, the SCOTUS vacancy will in all likelihood be filled. The Democrats look to take over the Senate as well, and in all probability they will change the rules on SCOTUS nominations to not require a 2/3 majority anymore.
That used to be called "the nuclear option", due to the implicit threat of the other side to throw a snit-fit and reflexively vote against everything in unison to grind the Senate to a halt. However, the Republicans have already been doing that anyway, so there's no longer any "or else" to threaten the leadership with.
She's exonerated by virtue of the fact that she's not running for POTUS, so nobody gives a crap about her. So typical rules apply.
What I heard on NPR this morning from "sources inside the FBI" is that they are likely to not persue it any further against the non-Clintons, not because there's nothing wrong there, but because its not worth the trouble of looking into.
Which is of course the way it would have been in the first place if a Clinton wasn't involved.
Completely different activity. Not comparable at all.
And the only "Special Treatment" Hillary has been getting was the pointless months of congressional investigation and right-wing screaming. The way I remember it (having actually worked with classified info) is the typical treatment person who mishandles classified info can expect is a slap on the wrist, a shitload of paperwork, and a note in their security file. The only reason for all the extra crap she's gotten is because she's Hillary Clinton, Republican Enemy #1.
(Yawn) Typical anti-Clinton BS. Its always unsupported when it actually has to touch reality (eg: our real-life criminal justice system), and suspicously none of it ever happens when one of them isn't running for POTUS. After 30 years of it, frankly I'm getting bored. Please go get a new shtick, right wingers. Perhaps some better policy proposals, for a change of pace?
Petraeus was giving classified info to a reporter he was sleeping with. This is one of those situations that is looked very badly upon indeed, and will cause the Feds to invoke those criminal penalties they almost never invoke on anybody. His was NOT the typical case.
Having worked in Classified and COMSEC environments myself, the typical punishment I've seen for a case of mislabeling or mishandling is a slap on the wrist, a shitload of paperwork (the real punishment there), and perhaps a note in your security file. Those big nasty criminal penalties just are there so that they can be exercised in cases of true espionage.
Further than that, if the cost of the lobbying and marketing campaigns fighting it is way cheaper than the costs of actually cleaning up their carbon and other by-products, its only natural to want to do the former rather than the latter.
What is it about settled physics that you don't like?
The part where we have to spend money. Also, the part where wealthy companies might have to start cleaning up after themselves.
Technically this still counts as a prejudice (pre-judging the customer as a bad tipper based solely on where they live). But it's one which is statistically correct most of the time rather than some of the time.
You sure about that? It would be interesting to have data from your own deliveries to back it up.
I know I've seen general studies about tipping behavior in restaurants. Those show black people tipping wee bit less on average, but also reporting receiving worse service. Given that the service happens before the tipping, and its *supposed* to be a reward for good service ...
Maybe they're reacting from experience and don't want to visit certain neighborhoods
This is actually insightful, but not in the way the author and mods probably think.
The thing is, the people of color I've seen comment about Uber almost all love the heck of out it. Sure, they get double the turndowns a white rider might get, but they can actually eventually get a ride with Uber. Taxis flat out refuse to go into their neighborhood. Plus, an Uber driver that refuses a rider in a way that rider finds unfair is pretty much guaranteed to get a bad review, dropping their driver rating. That's really important to drivers, so there's incentive to not be a douchebag that taxi drivers don't have.
Without having read TFA, often even as a network engineer, I'll use the term "ping"
You should have stopped right there and read then. It wasn't a literal Ping, it was a series of DNS requests. The data comes from looking through the DNS logs. What was suspicious about it was that the server did not respond to a random DNS request they tried themselves. That most likely means it had been specifically set up to only accept DNS requests from a whitelist of servers. For some reason this one Russian bank was on that whitelist, and accounted for almost all the DNS traffic.
What new Android mobile phones can I buy that don't run on Qualcomm hardware?
Galaxy S7, all non-US versions.
I live in the US, contracted to a US carrier. So for all practical purposes, no I can't buy that.
Nice one TED, you inserted extra words!
Yes, since you clearly were confused as to what I was getting at. Some of us call that a "clarification". I was indeed trying to talk about Android smartphones. You know, the thing I like to buy every 2 years or so when the old one goes obsolete. If those two words weren't enough of a difference, I'm quite capable of producing more.
Just take out the extra words, go to newegg or any place that sells android-based devices, and search for "android" instead of "phone"
Why would I do that, when the only Android devices I'm interested in buying as a consumer are smart phones?
Remember anyone saying that a woman can't do that and that Janeway could command her ship was "unrealistic"? I don't.
The Pilot episode for Trek TOS had a female XO (second in command) performing typical XO duties, and one of the changes the network insisted on was her removal, for pretty much exactly that reason.
There was also tons of guff around Mulgrew's Janeway. I watched the show myself, and frankly she was a far more believable captain than Picard was. The woman just exuded that authority "don't F with me" attitude. But still there was tons of guff at the time about her not being a "believable" captain.
Hopefully third time they try it will be the charm.
The only way I see of turning $600M revenue into a $100M loss is to spend $700M...what the actual f*** is there that costs that amount of money?
For reference, they have 3,860 employees, according to their website. Generously assuming average costs of $200,000 yearly each (salary, benefits, health care, etc), that would chew up a bit under $200M in labor costs for the quarter. So there's still half a billion in non-labor expenses there.
I think you're grabbing the elephant's tail here, and proclaiming you've found a snake. Twitter is full of people being abusive just like this (and worse) and not getting banned. Most of them are white (or eggs). Again I follow a lot of black folk who end up on the receiving end of that kind of crap, and they have a devil of a time trying to get their abusers banned too. Sure Milo got banned, but he's really a case study in just how prominently, gleefully, unremorselessly abusive you have to be before any action will be taken.
As for Scott Adams, there's no real evidence he was banned in any way at all. The only known tool Twitter has ever employed is banning accounts, and that never happened to him. What he's claiming happened (specific tweets were targeted to not reach every one of his followers), would be ludicrously labor-intensive when you scale it up to every Republican tweep of his stature. He's so low-level, he doesn't even have a verified account. Combine that with the fact that twitter recently changed their interface so that its now far easier to miss tweets from people you follow (I'm seriously annoyed by this), which was the exact symptom Adams used to arrive at this conclusion, and the ...er...increasingly erratic mind Adams has been displaying, and Occam's Razor tells me its a far better bet that this whole "shadow ban" thing exists only in his own mind.
I can vouch that don't follow anyone of Mr. Adams' political persuasion, and yet I'm still getting lots of (asinine) tweets from him and Trump and others like them in my feed. If anybody at Twitter is trying to censor those folks, they are doing an epically crappy job of it.
That's derpy as hell, there is no connection at all between the things called "Android" and "Qualcomm."
OK, I'll bite on this. What new Android mobile phones can I buy that don't run on Qualcomm hardware?
Unlike Twitter itself, which has been making money ...
One of the first steps in protecting yourself from finance weasels is to learn what their words mean. In particular, "revenue" and "profit" are two very different things. For example, Twitter's numbers from last quarter show their revenue from the quarter was over $600 million. Perhaps not Google numbers, but not a lot of companies earn that much in a single quarter. However, their profit was about -$100 million. So of course the sensible thing here would be to get rid of some of the things that are costing more than they are making. If Vine has lots of folks working on it, and isn't in fact pulling in a lot of revenue (raw $), then yes it makes perfect sense for a bean-counter to want to get rid of it.
It makes more sense when you realize the US is arming ISIS in Syria to overthrow and replace the government, which turned to long-time ally Russia for help.
This is like saying all math makes more sense when you divide by zero. That's quite true, but you can't divide by zero.
There are hundreds of little factions fighting in Syria, the two biggest of which are ISIS and Assad's various loyalists. Those two biggest sides hold completely disjoint territories, and do not fight each other. They aren't exactly allies, but they aren't enemies either, and in Syria today that's as close as you come to being allies. Their meer existence helps each other out, both in military and propaganda terms.
Among the other factions, you have groups that are fighting Assad exclusively, groups that are fighting ISIS exclusively, and groups that are fighting both. Some of these are ethnic-based (the most effective of which are the Kurds). Since they are the most effective against ISIS, the US is primarily trying to help the Kurds. However, the last thing US ally Turkey wants is militarily powerful Kurds, so they support groups that are primarily attacking Kurds, and leaving ISIS and Assad alone.
Allowed people to be as abusive as they want provided they're not white
On that note, banning people for being republican
Got an example of either of these? I'm familiar with the rest of the points you cite, but not these.
I follow a lot of people of color on Twitter, and the amount of abuse (and I'm talking about stuff that would get them *arrested* if they did) they are subjected to is just mind-boggling.
And then there's the (non-white) guy I follow who got banned twice because he happens to have the same (very common) last name as the head of ISIS. The only thing that stopped that was when they gave him a check-mark. So I certainly haven't seen any reluctance whatsoever to ban non-whites. If anything, there seems to be a bit of an itchy trigger-finger (just like in real life).
However I don't follow a lot of the kinds of people who, erm..., tend to anger people of color. So I'm thinking you may have seen some stuff I haven't. Care to share specifics?
The Qualcomm chips get absolutely crushed in any benchmark compared with the processors the iPhones are using. So Qualcomm and Android being tied at the hip isn't exactly doing Android any favors either.