We didn't just backdoor all your crypto willy-nilly! NO way citizen, we had a discussion about it, don't you remember? It was you, the citizens, that had decided that this was a good idea, and we've just been enforcing the will of the people. Now, remove that unauthorized encryption, and provide all your private keys immediately. Like in the deal.
Assuming the battery will last 2 years, that's 91.62/mo. with no extras or failures.
That's 200 soft tacos, or 5 cases of cheap beer. Every month, for 2 years.
I've owned a few surfaces so far. Handy tablets for taking a shit, but the AC adapters are all so horribly designed that they fail within a month or 2. A few warranted replacements before that expired. I eventually went with the cheapo Chinese off brand and its solid and 10% the price.
Within 6 months the magnetic keyboard attachment point for the expensive keyboard stopped working 9 out of 10 times it was attached, and it began missing keys. I never use it anyway, so never got it fixed.
Pro 2 had the exact same problems as the 1, AND the internal SSD went shithouse RIGHT after the warranty expired.
I'll never buy another Surface. They require repairs that simply cannot be done.
And now the masses are going to fuck it up for us, just like everything else we've made easy enough for the knuckle-draggers and technophobe crowd to figure out.
See:
OPEN AND FREE INTERNET. --------> Consolidated, abused, wholly surveiled, and walled. HOME AUTOMATION. --------------->Consolidated, abused, wholly surveiled, and walled. EMAIL. -----------------> Consolidated, abused, wholly surveiled, and walled. etc...
Right now, I can run retro games on pretty much any hardware I like, it never calls home, it never tries to sell me some useless crap, it never forces commercials or ads, there is no DRM, no datamining, no surveillance, and I have a huge host of open and free softwares to choose from.
Dear masses, Please stay TF away from my old games. They are far to difficult for you anyway. You already have plenty of candy to crush, cubes to endlessly click, and pokemon to collect.
"Piracy is a much bigger channel and an illicit economy than the three main commercial networks combined."
And your dumbass got in bed with those commercial networks anyway. How much more are they charging you than the other countries? How much longer must you wait for content? How much are they holding back? Did they offer you a higher price to get it sooner? Are they force-feeding you their commercials as part of the deal?
Pirates refused the bullshit terms. You did not. Now cry.
Today, the Department of Common Sense" (DoCS) Finally struck down one of the most frivolous and wasteful government resolutions yet. On the 20th anniversary of its inception, the the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement (COVFEFE) Act was finally struck down.
For years, the American taxpayer has been footing the bill to replicate the childish and nonsensical social media tweets of every sitting leader since the controversial and infamous Donald Trump (45). Those opposing this bill have been fighting for the past 20 years to make lawmakers understand that nothing posted on the internet ever really goes away, and the bill, by its very nature, is a terrible waste of taxpayer money in its current form.
One could speculate that this may be a direct result of the actions of one Rep. Qike Muigley III(D-Ill.) When his tweet "Underware sux haha!" began circulating attached to a picture of the Muigley with a conspicuous brown stain on his rear.
Leaker could have had built one of theseand went about leakers daily business for weeks with it in his breast pocket, raising no suspicions whatsoever.
Communications 50: Internet assholery and it consequences in digital society (0 CR, 12:00-12:00 Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr)
PreReqs: Private facebook account, personal political beliefs. Desire and ability to pay for higher education, or secure soul crushing loans.
Description:
This course is offered free to to all prospective students as part of your admission process. Students will carry on political and ideological discussions in various social platforms labeled "Private". Assholery is encouraged, and you will be judged on well you are able to present an unpopular argument or point of view without offending others. The lowest performing students from each class will forfeit all fees and dues already paid to the Harvard admissions office, as well as their personal acceptance letter. You will receive a pass/fail grade that does very much effect your GPA, social standing, and personal popularity among your peers. Students cannot test past this course
why don't we pass a law allowing any entity anywhere to hack into campaign computers to post whatever it is they want? Why not require all campaigns to turn over all emails, letters, memos, correspondence, as it happens to be published in massive data dumps every week? Maybe we can even turn it into a full panopticon and require every person drawing a salary from a political campaign to be wired and wear a body cam 24x7, with all data setup as a torrent?
Reads like your trying to be cute, but considering the extreme amount of power and trust we place in our elected officials, considering the wide opportunity and historic precedent of our elected politicians betraying their constituents for cash and power, I'd say this is a pretty swell idea. I didn't see much resistance to police body cams last year....
I don't think its would be best for EVERYBODY to have access to this data dump, but perhaps a panel comprised of the other team and a few independents and peers, that changes every few weeks/months/years/whatever. The more bitter the enemies, the better. Our politicians need to stroll on some eggshells for a while.
I would add a zero tolerance policy in regards to things like corruption and graft, as well as heavy mandatory minimum sentences (in big boy no golf course jail) and forfeiture of assets to a coffer meant to pay the salary of the panel members. We can charge the assets themselves, so these guys can't even afford a lawyer or bail while they rot waiting for court that never comes. We can call it civil-civil-forfeiture.
Whenever it's decided that some scum DID betray his office, ALL of his/her data gets scrubbed for national secrets (by the panel of enemies and peers) and dumped on the betrayed portion of public. If innocent, well, time in the clink was paid public service, I bet prisons will see quick reform as well.
Damn fine idea. Feels like this particular shoe has been on the other foot for a while now... Might just fix the whole damn apple.
And use your teams systems to attack my teams systems, and my team turns around and owns your whole team, I win. Or maybe it's your team and their team? I guess everyone else wins.
I better hurry up and finish my distopia future novel while I can still publish under fiction.
This time it's snitching your location to authorities. Last time it was stealing your money and distracting your driving. Somehow the math still works for 99% of us. Somehow worth it.
Anytime anybody says they are doing something "to protect you from spying" or to "increase your privacy" You would do well to watch very closely and try to read between the lines. Sometimes your just a paranoid nutcase. Sometimes.
Liberals, Democrats, Republicans... blah blah blah.... Sounds like the brainwashing sideshow really has you fucked up. Censorship aint a partisan issue, and no amount of finger-pointing will make it so. It's not them, and it's not you, and it's not me, it's us.
Maybe it's just me, but I've been seeing this theme popping up over and over again over the last couple of weeks, seemingly starting with the FB fined for running afoul of privacy laws..... I bet FB has some of the highest paid, and most effective PR people on the planet.
When the *hamburger machine produces a mountain of hamburgers that none can afford to pay for on account of the $humanjob machines making all of the hamburgers instead of humans, how many will need starve, how much violence and misery must we endure, and how many torches and pitchforks must be carried, before we decide the hamburger machine makes free hamburgers?
*: You may replace "hamburger" with any physical good capable of being produced from raw materials.
And safer too right?! It's in the public's interest to buy our $CONTRABAND from strangers, in person, down dark alleys. All that illicit safety found behind a keyboard was rotting our culture!
Sure, he tried to have a few fellow criminals bumped off when they turned on him, but consider the lives silk-road saved from a lifetime of sub-par employment after being popped on stupid drug charges, the medical bills avoided when the large cash transactions went bad, how about the power stolen from the much more violent physical black market, and the funeral costs avoided by dropping the x/1 equation waiting at the end of the followed money?
How about the dirty cops involved? where's that life sentence? That's an example better served, I think.
Dread Pirate Roberts has just provided a perfect blueprint to tax the black market, destroy huge and powerful criminal orgs, provide safety and security to something we should have all decided we cannot stop a long time ago.
When I was a younger man, I held job as a "tech" at an inkjet refill place. Some carts needed extra steps to keep the pressure equal (lexmark I think) Some needed to be shorted against a little piece of tech that somehow reset the little DRM chip, and some just bled ink all over the costumers desk and ruined their day. I was shocked by how easy and cheap it was to refill the carts. I was convinced that this was going to be a giant market as soon as the everyman noticed. I bought a refill kit from myself that consisted of about 20 fl oz. of ink for each color+black, and some syringes. I ran my shitty little inkjet like crazy, Full color everything for every occasion. It was great. At one point I printed the entire D&D 3.0 DMs guide front and back (for personal use doncha-know). Eventually my little inkjet stopped working, so I picked up another, Same formula, same ink, different printer. I was back in business. When that one went tits-up I tried to do it again but completely destroyed the third printer on the first refill. Ink everywhere, unicorn farts all over the desk. The ink lasted the life-time of two inkjet printers, and caused the early death of another. There was still ink left when I finally junked the whole operation.
Years later I picked up a cheapo color inkjet, printed my holiday photos cards for family and tore the thing down for rods and steppers. It was not even economical to refill the carts myself anymore. The printers are so cheap now its almost more cost effective to buy cheap printers for electronics components than it is to buy the components themselves.
I'm honestly shocked anybody even bothers buying inkjet carts now-days. refurb or OEM. One round of ink costs more than a brand new printers that comes with ink... even from the local refill joint.
But this is still good news. First sale keeps capitalism honest. (sorta)
Most *normal* people are fucking retarded. Americans have forgotten that privacy is another word for liberty. Our government knows this.
Tech companies don't want privacy, they just want less competition, and a market to sell the data to the government. Government wants it too. Then there are NO constitutional protections, no pesky warrants, no need for secret courts, bigger budgets, less transparency, no oversight, and even more data. All packaged and legal, direct from the companies everybody already loves. It's perfect.
Yesterday I read about a DMV somewhere that was leasing their own in-house facial recog system to enforcement and got hung up for it... cuz government spying. I understand FB has has pretty good recog for YEARS, and has spent quite a while perfecting the sale of data. Looks like a market just opened up.
We already accept these very companies are selling our demographic and interest info, but what do you think your dozen or so (aliases) screen-names are worth to enforcement? How about a list of your closest (known associates) friends? Political affiliation? How about a list of every gun owner within 2 blocks of $ADDRESS, separated by income, skin color, employment status, and real time location history.... instantly? You know, for the children.
This data is already on the shelves folks, and these companies are using our outrage at government spying to build a market for it.
Facebook and Amazon are asking for privacy? Like as in less spying? It must be fucking opposite day.
Facebook had hacked my browsing data... The FCC was hosting my stolen data... The "agencies" had hacked my communication devices.... Linkedin... Tumbler... Myspace... IRS...
Slashdot Mirror
Bully! The English language sure is evolving fast.
Aint that just swell?
All my "friends" and I are going to have a gay old time, what with this sharing our locations with each other and such.
Jet fails the Arizona test, just like every other online grocery vendor I've found.
24 pack of 24oz cans, labeled .99 on the can- costs 26 bucks+tax
I'll stick with supersaver.
We didn't just backdoor all your crypto willy-nilly! NO way citizen, we had a discussion about it, don't you remember? It was you, the citizens, that had decided that this was a good idea, and we've just been enforcing the will of the people. Now, remove that unauthorized encryption, and provide all your private keys immediately. Like in the deal.
Bestbuy offers the i7, 16g, 512GB SSD for $2199.
Assuming the battery will last 2 years, that's 91.62/mo. with no extras or failures.
That's 200 soft tacos, or 5 cases of cheap beer. Every month, for 2 years.
I've owned a few surfaces so far. Handy tablets for taking a shit, but the AC adapters are all so horribly designed that they fail within a month or 2. A few warranted replacements before that expired. I eventually went with the cheapo Chinese off brand and its solid and 10% the price.
Within 6 months the magnetic keyboard attachment point for the expensive keyboard stopped working 9 out of 10 times it was attached, and it began missing keys. I never use it anyway, so never got it fixed.
Pro 2 had the exact same problems as the 1, AND the internal SSD went shithouse RIGHT after the warranty expired.
I'll never buy another Surface. They require repairs that simply cannot be done.
But like a I said, great for taking a shit.
And now the masses are going to fuck it up for us, just like everything else we've made easy enough for the knuckle-draggers and technophobe crowd to figure out.
See:
OPEN AND FREE INTERNET. --------> Consolidated, abused, wholly surveiled, and walled.
HOME AUTOMATION. --------------->Consolidated, abused, wholly surveiled, and walled.
EMAIL. -----------------> Consolidated, abused, wholly surveiled, and walled.
etc...
Right now, I can run retro games on pretty much any hardware I like, it never calls home, it never tries to sell me some useless crap, it never forces commercials or ads, there is no DRM, no datamining, no surveillance, and I have a huge host of open and free softwares to choose from.
Dear masses,
Please stay TF away from my old games. They are far to difficult for you anyway. You already have plenty of candy to crush, cubes to endlessly click, and pokemon to collect.
"Piracy is a much bigger channel and an illicit economy than the three main commercial networks combined."
And your dumbass got in bed with those commercial networks anyway. How much more are they charging you than the other countries? How much longer must you wait for content? How much are they holding back? Did they offer you a higher price to get it sooner? Are they force-feeding you their commercials as part of the deal?
Pirates refused the bullshit terms. You did not. Now cry.
Chump.
Today, the Department of Common Sense" (DoCS) Finally struck down one of the most frivolous and wasteful government resolutions yet. On the 20th anniversary of its inception, the the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement (COVFEFE) Act was finally struck down.
For years, the American taxpayer has been footing the bill to replicate the childish and nonsensical social media tweets of every sitting leader since the controversial and infamous Donald Trump (45). Those opposing this bill have been fighting for the past 20 years to make lawmakers understand that nothing posted on the internet ever really goes away, and the bill, by its very nature, is a terrible waste of taxpayer money in its current form.
One could speculate that this may be a direct result of the actions of one Rep. Qike Muigley III(D-Ill.) When his tweet "Underware sux haha!" began circulating attached to a picture of the Muigley with a conspicuous brown stain on his rear.
President Comancho's reaction to news?
"wut? lol OMG"
Leaker could have had built one of theseand went about leakers daily business for weeks with it in his breast pocket, raising no suspicions whatsoever.
"what's that thing?"
"Fitness tracker"
For decades, sites have been falling over themselves to appear more palatable to search engines. Now REVOLT! Good for the net. Keep it up.
(I don't really work for Harvard)
Communications 50: Internet assholery and it consequences in digital society (0 CR, 12:00-12:00 Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr)
PreReqs: Private facebook account, personal political beliefs. Desire and ability to pay for higher education, or secure soul crushing loans.
Description:
This course is offered free to to all prospective students as part of your admission process. Students will carry on political and ideological discussions in various social platforms labeled "Private". Assholery is encouraged, and you will be judged on well you are able to present an unpopular argument or point of view without offending others. The lowest performing students from each class will forfeit all fees and dues already paid to the Harvard admissions office, as well as their personal acceptance letter. You will receive a pass/fail grade that does very much effect your GPA, social standing, and personal popularity among your peers. Students cannot test past this course
why don't we pass a law allowing any entity anywhere to hack into campaign computers to post whatever it is they want? Why not require all campaigns to turn over all emails, letters, memos, correspondence, as it happens to be published in massive data dumps every week? Maybe we can even turn it into a full panopticon and require every person drawing a salary from a political campaign to be wired and wear a body cam 24x7, with all data setup as a torrent?
Reads like your trying to be cute, but considering the extreme amount of power and trust we place in our elected officials, considering the wide opportunity and historic precedent of our elected politicians betraying their constituents for cash and power, I'd say this is a pretty swell idea. I didn't see much resistance to police body cams last year....
I don't think its would be best for EVERYBODY to have access to this data dump, but perhaps a panel comprised of the other team and a few independents and peers, that changes every few weeks/months/years/whatever. The more bitter the enemies, the better. Our politicians need to stroll on some eggshells for a while.
I would add a zero tolerance policy in regards to things like corruption and graft, as well as heavy mandatory minimum sentences (in big boy no golf course jail) and forfeiture of assets to a coffer meant to pay the salary of the panel members. We can charge the assets themselves, so these guys can't even afford a lawyer or bail while they rot waiting for court that never comes. We can call it civil-civil-forfeiture.
Whenever it's decided that some scum DID betray his office, ALL of his/her data gets scrubbed for national secrets (by the panel of enemies and peers) and dumped on the betrayed portion of public. If innocent, well, time in the clink was paid public service, I bet prisons will see quick reform as well.
Damn fine idea. Feels like this particular shoe has been on the other foot for a while now... Might just fix the whole damn apple.
And use your teams systems to attack my teams systems, and my team turns around and owns your whole team, I win. Or maybe it's your team and their team? I guess everyone else wins.
I better hurry up and finish my distopia future novel while I can still publish under fiction.
This time it's snitching your location to authorities. Last time it was stealing your money and distracting your driving. Somehow the math still works for 99% of us. Somehow worth it.
Anytime anybody says they are doing something "to protect you from spying" or to "increase your privacy" You would do well to watch very closely and try to read between the lines. Sometimes your just a paranoid nutcase. Sometimes.
Liberals, Democrats, Republicans... blah blah blah.... Sounds like the brainwashing sideshow really has you fucked up. Censorship aint a partisan issue, and no amount of finger-pointing will make it so. It's not them, and it's not you, and it's not me, it's us.
Maybe it's just me, but I've been seeing this theme popping up over and over again over the last couple of weeks, seemingly starting with the FB fined for running afoul of privacy laws..... I bet FB has some of the highest paid, and most effective PR people on the planet.
Maybe I put the extra comma there for fun?
1.
When the *hamburger machine produces a mountain of hamburgers that none can afford to pay for on account of the $humanjob machines making all of the hamburgers instead of humans, how many will need starve, how much violence and misery must we endure, and how many torches and pitchforks must be carried, before we decide the hamburger machine makes free hamburgers?
*: You may replace "hamburger" with any physical good capable of being produced from raw materials.
And safer too right?! It's in the public's interest to buy our $CONTRABAND from strangers, in person, down dark alleys. All that illicit safety found behind a keyboard was rotting our culture!
Sure, he tried to have a few fellow criminals bumped off when they turned on him, but consider the lives silk-road saved from a lifetime of sub-par employment after being popped on stupid drug charges, the medical bills avoided when the large cash transactions went bad, how about the power stolen from the much more violent physical black market, and the funeral costs avoided by dropping the x/1 equation waiting at the end of the followed money?
How about the dirty cops involved? where's that life sentence? That's an example better served, I think.
Dread Pirate Roberts has just provided a perfect blueprint to tax the black market, destroy huge and powerful criminal orgs, provide safety and security to something we should have all decided we cannot stop a long time ago.
He should be working in government.
I don't believe you.
When I was a younger man, I held job as a "tech" at an inkjet refill place. Some carts needed extra steps to keep the pressure equal (lexmark I think) Some needed to be shorted against a little piece of tech that somehow reset the little DRM chip, and some just bled ink all over the costumers desk and ruined their day. I was shocked by how easy and cheap it was to refill the carts. I was convinced that this was going to be a giant market as soon as the everyman noticed. I bought a refill kit from myself that consisted of about 20 fl oz. of ink for each color+black, and some syringes. I ran my shitty little inkjet like crazy, Full color everything for every occasion. It was great. At one point I printed the entire D&D 3.0 DMs guide front and back (for personal use doncha-know). Eventually my little inkjet stopped working, so I picked up another, Same formula, same ink, different printer. I was back in business. When that one went tits-up I tried to do it again but completely destroyed the third printer on the first refill. Ink everywhere, unicorn farts all over the desk. The ink lasted the life-time of two inkjet printers, and caused the early death of another. There was still ink left when I finally junked the whole operation.
Years later I picked up a cheapo color inkjet, printed my holiday photos cards for family and tore the thing down for rods and steppers. It was not even economical to refill the carts myself anymore. The printers are so cheap now its almost more cost effective to buy cheap printers for electronics components than it is to buy the components themselves.
I'm honestly shocked anybody even bothers buying inkjet carts now-days. refurb or OEM. One round of ink costs more than a brand new printers that comes with ink... even from the local refill joint.
But this is still good news. First sale keeps capitalism honest. (sorta)
Try opting out of THE INTERNET
Most *normal* people are fucking retarded. Americans have forgotten that privacy is another word for liberty. Our government knows this.
Tech companies don't want privacy, they just want less competition, and a market to sell the data to the government. Government wants it too. Then there are NO constitutional protections, no pesky warrants, no need for secret courts, bigger budgets, less transparency, no oversight, and even more data. All packaged and legal, direct from the companies everybody already loves. It's perfect.
Yesterday I read about a DMV somewhere that was leasing their own in-house facial recog system to enforcement and got hung up for it... cuz government spying. I understand FB has has pretty good recog for YEARS, and has spent quite a while perfecting the sale of data. Looks like a market just opened up.
We already accept these very companies are selling our demographic and interest info, but what do you think your dozen or so (aliases) screen-names are worth to enforcement? How about a list of your closest (known associates) friends? Political affiliation? How about a list of every gun owner within 2 blocks of $ADDRESS, separated by income, skin color, employment status, and real time location history.... instantly? You know, for the children.
This data is already on the shelves folks, and these companies are using our outrage at government spying to build a market for it.
Facebook and Amazon are asking for privacy? Like as in less spying? It must be fucking opposite day.
I was just "destroying my hacked data"
Facebook had hacked my browsing data...
The FCC was hosting my stolen data...
The "agencies" had hacked my communication devices....
Linkedin...
Tumbler...
Myspace...
IRS...
If we could all just stop looking for the whipping-boy every time something goes wrong, that would be great.