When I was deployed, a couple of idiot marines used personal cell phones to record themselves degrading prisoners by pissing on them and shit. Fkn stupids posted it to the net. I'm sure you can find it you care to wade through all of that hot garbage.
Personal cellphones possession became and instant article-15 the very next day. At least in my unit.
A few months prior to that, an infantryman butt-dialed his mother during a firefight and left an exciting voicemail. It made the American media and everything.... and nothing happened at all. I bet you can dig that one up as well.
Just goes to show- Your not allowed to hate the enemy, but your expected to hate your life.
For every 10 triggerpuller "Failed jock-strap douche bags" as you put it, there is a literal army of support personnel. An infantryman is not fooling around with tech like this, that's commos job, and the reason their not all dead is in part because commo don't fuck around with toys like this.
As a commo guy who has deployed to Afghanistan during OEF, I can tell you... The toys are all compromised. Every piece of tech not deemed mission critical is 100% owned by all of the pirated entertainment that gets shuffled around in theater. Every soldier on an outpost has a laptop with enough pirated holywood content on it to shame even the most unabashed pirate back home. It's all traded like baseball cards, and run on any damn thing with a screen that can be found.
Cam rips are "publicly" screened in the USO lounge in Khandahar. There are some real tools that get real field usage, but your not going to read about them on slashdot.
I was given the chance to"Demo" a lot of this kind of toy. At the end of the day they all have the same problem. Reliability. Real fighting men don't use these stupid toys for the same reason they take the scope off their rifle when qualifying with it. They can't be trusted when it counts.
Also, fuck you, you whimpy little bitch. The failed jockstrap douche eating dirt on the other side of the planet is why your ass is still speaking english.
I came to say the same, nearly word for word. +100
While the US military spending is past absurd, it's not just throwing away money. Just look back a generation or two for the real world tangible benefits. (You have to look back too, because those same generations made sure to drain that well as fast as they could, then paid the rest of us minimum wage to build the moats around their new castles. Those of us that came of age around '00 actually thanked them for the work.)
There are also the intangible bennies of such a large standing force. How often have average American citizens had to worry about geo-politics outside of the classroom since WWII? How many unskilled privates have picked up the skills they needed to at least chase the American dream a little bit after a few years of service? Here's a fun one.... which country do you think would be at us first had we NOT kept a standing fighting force all this time?
As far as foreign agents influencing American opinions on the other hand.... you really only need to look back a few months. That's a real testament to our democracy too. All people have a voice, but due to our system of government, Mr. Everyman American's opinion has very real value on the political stage, both foreign, AND domestic. Consider that next time something in the media (like this article, summary, and thread of comments) starts leading your thoughts.
What is it about the internet that makes people so vulnerable to such dead simple psi-ops?
I had the very same problem. First my house was robbed, then the package of security cameras and DVR system was stolen off my porch. I felt like I was being targeted.
My box was really simple, and was designed for a future deterrent, not a revenge tactic. I spoke to the police station about my idea before I built this and they told me that as long as I don't hurt anybody then the worst I would have to deal with would be a noise complaint. . I balanced a big bowl of double strong food coloring on brick inside the box, I had cut holes holes in the bottom of the box, and rigged an amazon rape whistles pin to break off and activate right under it, with the loud part epoxied to the box. Package went on my porch on my way out to work. It worked as designed, somebody got the dogshit scared out of em, flung blue food coloring all over themselves and my porch, and the whole street got to hear the whistle. They tell me it went for about 10 minutes before it died or was destroyed somewhere in the field behind our homes. The clown still took the package, but left my porch alone for the rest of the year. I'm certain somebody saw the thief, but nobody wants to be the next target so nobody talked.
I've been considering doing it again, my packages are disappearing again, and rape whistles are super cheap.
Vengeance is fun and feels good, but at the end of the day, I just want my packages left alone.
Drop the stink bomb, use food safe dyes, and make it really loud. According to my local PD, storing these things in a box on my porch is perfectly legal. This costs less than 20 bucks, as long as your amazon rape whistle is not stolen off your porch.
Amazon has really lost the magic in the past year or so. Come to think of it, pretty much everything e-com I've done lately has been a hassle.
I live in a shitty inner city area close to Seattle, tons of foot traffic out front, and churches feeding homeless every other day. My packages get swiped pretty regularly. Amazon just leaves the shit on my porch at the top of the steps, not even near my door, like some kind of invitation. Sometimes they even take a picture to prove it got there because they KNOW it's gonna get stolen. My last package listed "delivered- handed directly to resident" while I was at work. It arrived a week later after I'd already processed the return through amazon. I had to google the support number, it was just nowhere to be found on the site itself. That one was usps, and it felt pretty good walking into the post office and loudly asking why this tracking data says they handed my box to some random person in front of my house. Big hassle though, and a long line to talk to somebody who's not paid enough to give a shit, on top of searching the damn site for a customer service number. My shitty new pin vice doesn't even work, but I got my money back before it even arrived so that's that.
I ordered $25000 worth of computers from a business distributor for work last week. Since I used my own name without any care-of name bullshit, Fed Ex helpfully changed my address for me, and delivered all of the clearly marked computers and monitors to my porch in the middle of the day, instead of the loading dock I had asked for. Nobody signed for em either. My leaky porch would have let the rain ruin all of it had I not been on top of the tracking like it was worth 25k. No shit there is a sticker over my work address with my home address on it on every single box. I called to complain and make sure this never happens again, but the fkn stickers covered the tracking numbers and I got nowhere.
Between this kind of shit, that kind of shit, and the holiday shopping season in full swing, I'm surprised mail is flowing at all.
My first bomb threat! The ransom was typed as $20.00 in BTC, not 20000.00. He also said it was just business, and he was not responsible for any property damage. It was an entertaining read, the whole office got a kick out of it, and talk of involving the FIB just led to stories about how the cops never do anything anyway, may find a way to pin it on you for making the call, and if we're gonna waste time at work, we don't need no fed telling us how.
Email was spoofed or compromised from some used car salesmen in Boise, ID. I'm sure it's gonna be an entertaining morning for that dude.
As of now, at least in techy western WA, public school children are issued chromebooks at grade-school level, and are set to use them all the way through high school. Assignments are given, graded, and studied from the google classroom portal. This is giving tech companies unprecedented access to the scholastic performance of our young people, and it scares the shit out of me. I've read the agreement, and it looks like the only concession made is the promise not to send ads to the users while they are on this specific device. I have reached out to the school, the principle, the district IT manager with my privacy concerns regarding this arrangement, but the decision makers love the arrangement, it makes tracking everything easier, keeps the students on task, and provides computer systems to the less fortunate students int he district. None of them even seem to be aware of (or refuse to consider) the possible downstream effects of providing such a complete picture of an entire generations scholastic performance, or the actual value of the massive amount of personal, and scholastic data these systems are providing to a commercial company whos whole model is monetizing this sort of data.
The reasoning I've been provided from the district while working this problem for my own student basically amounts to, "Well nobody else is complaining", and I've been told it is completely voluntary, and I am free to revoke my permission to use the device, which dooms my student to a classroom with no computers at all.
I've given my son permission to use his own device in class, setup a vpn to his workstation at home, and instructed him to use his mobile hotspot for any personal "webbing" he does while at school. So far nobody at the classroom level has taken issue, and they assume I've had success working with the district in securing my student permission to use his own device. As long as he is not caught fucking off in class, or playing AAA games while the rest of em are walled into mathblaster, this should at least last until the end of this year.
I see a future coming into focus that has Alphabet holding nearly perfect information on the perceived abilities of every single body entering the workforce. Algorithms will select candidates for hire (or uni selection) before they even apply, based on perceived abilities gleaned from this arrangement.
I fear that once the effect of such an arrangement is clear, it will be to late to do anything about it.
I've operated that forward base system. Can confirm your last. It also allowed me to look in the "windows" of the mud huts miles out, and catch the small boys f&cking in the poppy fields at night.
I don't often eat fast food, and I do eat it even less frequently when i find myself in Seattle. That being said, I also know that the chains in "Seattle proper" have all got airport style prices for the same gutter-quality crap that is dollar menu everywhere else. I'm guessing here, but I think people put up with this in part because they know the workers are making what would have been almost close to a living wage 10 years ago, and it makes them feel good about themselves. Seattle is all about the good vibes and warm fuzzies after-all.
I honestly don't know why people still choose to spend 5 dollars on coffee, or 3 on a soft drink, or 10 on a meal from any of these chain restaurants. Their food is fucking poison. There are so many different styles of food in the Seattle area that may not be super healthy, but most are not as universally bad for you and addictive like these fast food chains all seem to be.
Seattle is stand-on-head crazy. Clap for 15/hr and smile while you write your 4000 rent check for your studio apartment?
Yes that's right. If your playing alone, input the classic Kanomi code. If playing with your buddies, drop in a select right before the final start key of the classic code. A/I:.......B-A-Select-Start. Bam. Contra for the whole room.
Someone in power needs to think this through in a dispassionate manner.
The scientists COULD use the revolutionary gene-editing tool known as CRISPR to engineer humans with a "gene drive," which rapidly transmitted a sterilizing mutation through other members of the human's species........
The scientists used the revolutionary gene-editing tool known as CRISPR to engineer humans with a "gene drive," which rapidly transmitted a sterilizing mutation through other members of the human's species. After humans carrying the mutation were released into cages filled with unmodified humans in a high-security basement laboratory in London, virtually all of the humans were wiped out
The majority of people are unsalted peanuts. This is the biggest category of people, because salt costs money.
The second largest category is salted peanuts. This category is filled mostly with middle age humans, as they have had a few years to gather enough salt.
The third and final category is candied peanuts. This category is 100% comprised of drug dealers and sex workers.
There is also peanut butter, but that is an unrelated category.
The more more stories of normal consumers (not tech nerds) getting things taken away on account of DRM the better. The pressure is rising, and hopefully customers will begin to think twice about paying for the long term rentals our tech companies are masquerading as purchases.
Nintendo is notoriously bad at device security. Piracy is rampant, and the pirated content is downloaded directly from Nintendo servers. Now we're talking about paid services...... This will not end well.
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When I was deployed, a couple of idiot marines used personal cell phones to record themselves degrading prisoners by pissing on them and shit. Fkn stupids posted it to the net. I'm sure you can find it you care to wade through all of that hot garbage.
Personal cellphones possession became and instant article-15 the very next day. At least in my unit.
A few months prior to that, an infantryman butt-dialed his mother during a firefight and left an exciting voicemail. It made the American media and everything.... and nothing happened at all. I bet you can dig that one up as well.
Just goes to show- Your not allowed to hate the enemy, but your expected to hate your life.
For every 10 triggerpuller "Failed jock-strap douche bags" as you put it, there is a literal army of support personnel. An infantryman is not fooling around with tech like this, that's commos job, and the reason their not all dead is in part because commo don't fuck around with toys like this.
As a commo guy who has deployed to Afghanistan during OEF, I can tell you... The toys are all compromised. Every piece of tech not deemed mission critical is 100% owned by all of the pirated entertainment that gets shuffled around in theater. Every soldier on an outpost has a laptop with enough pirated holywood content on it to shame even the most unabashed pirate back home. It's all traded like baseball cards, and run on any damn thing with a screen that can be found.
Cam rips are "publicly" screened in the USO lounge in Khandahar. There are some real tools that get real field usage, but your not going to read about them on slashdot.
I was given the chance to"Demo" a lot of this kind of toy. At the end of the day they all have the same problem. Reliability. Real fighting men don't use these stupid toys for the same reason they take the scope off their rifle when qualifying with it. They can't be trusted when it counts.
Also, fuck you, you whimpy little bitch. The failed jockstrap douche eating dirt on the other side of the planet is why your ass is still speaking english.
And how tall does the mountain of machine-made-hamburgers get before the machine realizes nobody has the money to buy them?
A very big change is right on the horizon, but I don't think anybody can even comprehend the consequences.
My solution? \
Human sized hampster wheels to generate the power for the machines. Automation AND green power.
Nope. It's aliens.
The only thing that's gonna make us all stop wanting to fuck the other guy is the desire fuck the other planet instead.
I came to say the same, nearly word for word. +100
While the US military spending is past absurd, it's not just throwing away money. Just look back a generation or two for the real world tangible benefits. (You have to look back too, because those same generations made sure to drain that well as fast as they could, then paid the rest of us minimum wage to build the moats around their new castles. Those of us that came of age around '00 actually thanked them for the work.)
There are also the intangible bennies of such a large standing force. How often have average American citizens had to worry about geo-politics outside of the classroom since WWII? How many unskilled privates have picked up the skills they needed to at least chase the American dream a little bit after a few years of service? Here's a fun one.... which country do you think would be at us first had we NOT kept a standing fighting force all this time?
As far as foreign agents influencing American opinions on the other hand.... you really only need to look back a few months. That's a real testament to our democracy too. All people have a voice, but due to our system of government, Mr. Everyman American's opinion has very real value on the political stage, both foreign, AND domestic. Consider that next time something in the media (like this article, summary, and thread of comments) starts leading your thoughts.
What is it about the internet that makes people so vulnerable to such dead simple psi-ops?
I had the very same problem. First my house was robbed, then the package of security cameras and DVR system was stolen off my porch. I felt like I was being targeted.
My box was really simple, and was designed for a future deterrent, not a revenge tactic. I spoke to the police station about my idea before I built this and they told me that as long as I don't hurt anybody then the worst I would have to deal with would be a noise complaint.
.
I balanced a big bowl of double strong food coloring on brick inside the box, I had cut holes holes in the bottom of the box, and rigged an amazon rape whistles pin to break off and activate right under it, with the loud part epoxied to the box. Package went on my porch on my way out to work. It worked as designed, somebody got the dogshit scared out of em, flung blue food coloring all over themselves and my porch, and the whole street got to hear the whistle. They tell me it went for about 10 minutes before it died or was destroyed somewhere in the field behind our homes. The clown still took the package, but left my porch alone for the rest of the year. I'm certain somebody saw the thief, but nobody wants to be the next target so nobody talked.
I've been considering doing it again, my packages are disappearing again, and rape whistles are super cheap.
Vengeance is fun and feels good, but at the end of the day, I just want my packages left alone.
Drop the stink bomb, use food safe dyes, and make it really loud. According to my local PD, storing these things in a box on my porch is perfectly legal. This costs less than 20 bucks, as long as your amazon rape whistle is not stolen off your porch.
Amazon has really lost the magic in the past year or so. Come to think of it, pretty much everything e-com I've done lately has been a hassle.
I live in a shitty inner city area close to Seattle, tons of foot traffic out front, and churches feeding homeless every other day. My packages get swiped pretty regularly.
Amazon just leaves the shit on my porch at the top of the steps, not even near my door, like some kind of invitation. Sometimes they even take a picture to prove it got there because they KNOW it's gonna get stolen.
My last package listed "delivered- handed directly to resident" while I was at work. It arrived a week later after I'd already processed the return through amazon.
I had to google the support number, it was just nowhere to be found on the site itself. That one was usps, and it felt pretty good walking into the post office and loudly asking why this tracking data says they handed my box to some random person in front of my house. Big hassle though, and a long line to talk to somebody who's not paid enough to give a shit, on top of searching the damn site for a customer service number. My shitty new pin vice doesn't even work, but I got my money back before it even arrived so that's that.
I ordered $25000 worth of computers from a business distributor for work last week. Since I used my own name without any care-of name bullshit, Fed Ex helpfully changed my address for me, and delivered all of the clearly marked computers and monitors to my porch in the middle of the day, instead of the loading dock I had asked for. Nobody signed for em either. My leaky porch would have let the rain ruin all of it had I not been on top of the tracking like it was worth 25k. No shit there is a sticker over my work address with my home address on it on every single box. I called to complain and make sure this never happens again, but the fkn stickers covered the tracking numbers and I got nowhere.
Between this kind of shit, that kind of shit, and the holiday shopping season in full swing, I'm surprised mail is flowing at all.
Amazon is not cracking down on the weed in your textbooks.
My first bomb threat! The ransom was typed as $20.00 in BTC, not 20000.00. He also said it was just business, and he was not responsible for any property damage. It was an entertaining read, the whole office got a kick out of it, and talk of involving the FIB just led to stories about how the cops never do anything anyway, may find a way to pin it on you for making the call, and if we're gonna waste time at work, we don't need no fed telling us how.
Email was spoofed or compromised from some used car salesmen in Boise, ID. I'm sure it's gonna be an entertaining morning for that dude.
IDKFA
IDSPISPOPD
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ok, it's been to long, I cant remember any more. Do I get to keep my nerd card?
As of now, at least in techy western WA, public school children are issued chromebooks at grade-school level, and are set to use them all the way through high school. Assignments are given, graded, and studied from the google classroom portal. This is giving tech companies unprecedented access to the scholastic performance of our young people, and it scares the shit out of me. I've read the agreement, and it looks like the only concession made is the promise not to send ads to the users while they are on this specific device. I have reached out to the school, the principle, the district IT manager with my privacy concerns regarding this arrangement, but the decision makers love the arrangement, it makes tracking everything easier, keeps the students on task, and provides computer systems to the less fortunate students int he district. None of them even seem to be aware of (or refuse to consider) the possible downstream effects of providing such a complete picture of an entire generations scholastic performance, or the actual value of the massive amount of personal, and scholastic data these systems are providing to a commercial company whos whole model is monetizing this sort of data.
The reasoning I've been provided from the district while working this problem for my own student basically amounts to, "Well nobody else is complaining", and I've been told it is completely voluntary, and I am free to revoke my permission to use the device, which dooms my student to a classroom with no computers at all.
I've given my son permission to use his own device in class, setup a vpn to his workstation at home, and instructed him to use his mobile hotspot for any personal "webbing" he does while at school. So far nobody at the classroom level has taken issue, and they assume I've had success working with the district in securing my student permission to use his own device. As long as he is not caught fucking off in class, or playing AAA games while the rest of em are walled into mathblaster, this should at least last until the end of this year.
I see a future coming into focus that has Alphabet holding nearly perfect information on the perceived abilities of every single body entering the workforce. Algorithms will select candidates for hire (or uni selection) before they even apply, based on perceived abilities gleaned from this arrangement.
I fear that once the effect of such an arrangement is clear, it will be to late to do anything about it.
I'll be right behind you, spinning up the snake cult of emptiness.... that sort of thing is tax exempt right?
I've operated that forward base system. Can confirm your last. It also allowed me to look in the "windows" of the mud huts miles out, and catch the small boys f&cking in the poppy fields at night.
Neat toy.
I don't often eat fast food, and I do eat it even less frequently when i find myself in Seattle. That being said, I also know that the chains in "Seattle proper" have all got airport style prices for the same gutter-quality crap that is dollar menu everywhere else. I'm guessing here, but I think people put up with this in part because they know the workers are making what would have been almost close to a living wage 10 years ago, and it makes them feel good about themselves. Seattle is all about the good vibes and warm fuzzies after-all.
I honestly don't know why people still choose to spend 5 dollars on coffee, or 3 on a soft drink, or 10 on a meal from any of these chain restaurants. Their food is fucking poison. There are so many different styles of food in the Seattle area that may not be super healthy, but most are not as universally bad for you and addictive like these fast food chains all seem to be.
Seattle is stand-on-head crazy. Clap for 15/hr and smile while you write your 4000 rent check for your studio apartment?
Yes that's right. If your playing alone, input the classic Kanomi code. If playing with your buddies, drop in a select right before the final start key of the classic code. A/I: .......B-A-Select-Start.
Bam. Contra for the whole room.
Only for multiplayer. Dropping that select in at the end moves the pip fro 1 to 2 players. :)
That's....select start. There ARE more than one of us here.
The artist hand-built the shredder into the frame. Auto-shredding frames are not something you buy. I wanna know who changed the batteries.
Someone in power needs to think this through in a dispassionate manner.
The scientists COULD use the revolutionary gene-editing tool known as CRISPR to engineer humans with a "gene drive," which rapidly transmitted a sterilizing mutation through other members of the human's species........
The scientists used the revolutionary gene-editing tool known as CRISPR to engineer humans with a "gene drive," which rapidly transmitted a sterilizing mutation through other members of the human's species. After humans carrying the mutation were released into cages filled with unmodified humans in a high-security basement laboratory in London, virtually all of the humans were wiped out
And have concluded that:
The majority of people are unsalted peanuts. This is the biggest category of people, because salt costs money.
The second largest category is salted peanuts. This category is filled mostly with middle age humans, as they have had a few years to gather enough salt.
The third and final category is candied peanuts. This category is 100% comprised of drug dealers and sex workers.
There is also peanut butter, but that is an unrelated category.
If they can afford this and keep the lights on, it really shows how much we are all overpaying for higher education.
The more more stories of normal consumers (not tech nerds) getting things taken away on account of DRM the better. The pressure is rising, and hopefully customers will begin to think twice about paying for the long term rentals our tech companies are masquerading as purchases.
Nintendo is notoriously bad at device security. Piracy is rampant, and the pirated content is downloaded directly from Nintendo servers. Now we're talking about paid services...... This will not end well.
I like your sig. What would the KGB do with tech?