He was tasked with creating internal propaganda and he did an excellent job of that. The NSA doesn't want its workers to suffer bad moral or be forced to question the ethics of the orders they carry out.
Dear Advertisers, Figure out how to do ads in a trustworthy way (i.e. no privacy invasive behavior tracking and little or no risk of malware exposure) and I'll be happy to allow those ads. I'd prefer the ads to be static HTML hosted within the site I visit. I don't want my browser touching 15 domains that all run scripts every time I visit a page. As long as ads compromise my privacy and security I will consider advertising networks the enemy and treat them accordingly.
It's hardly a bargain compared to my tin-foil hat and face mask. It`s really great that we feel the need to evade facial recognition rather than banning it. I applaud the effort to provide people with tools to shield their privacy, but it needs work. Until we have something simple and easy that doesn`t look out of place to those around you or to those watching the cameras, it`s useless. Protecting your privacy and security by standing out isn`t effective. The ability to blend in is a basic requirement.
Water will always be an available option, but it gets boring and considering the number of bottled waters consumed each year, clearly consumers feel a need to pay for water, so beverages are not completely competing with a free product. Consumers like variety and taste stimuli. I'm not convinced the only commercially viable products are bottled water and soda with 35g of sugar per serving. Personally I buy unsweetened iced tea regularly and I don't even like tea without a small amount of sugar, but there isn't any middle ground. Is the point of soda really to sell sugar? I think the point is to sell something for far more than it costs to produce it, in which case there are many ways to meet that goal. I wouldn't feel like I wasn't getting my moneys worth if it didn't have 35g of sugar. I acknowledge the addiction aspect of the consumer relationship. They likely are afraid to disrupt that addiction cycle by offering less toxic choices and of course they cannot admit there is any health problem with sucking down diluted corn syrup or its aspartame enriched alternative. They are, I imagine even frightened by the implication that might be inferred by offering healthier alternatives.
Maybe the soft drink companies should think of something new. Very lightly sweetened teas or highly diluted fruit juice drinks without carbonation would be nice. Please no artificial tasting crap like Fruitopia. I don`t see why there can`t be perfectly good tasting beverages with 8-10g sugar max and without artificial sweeteners. I don't always just want plain water, but often the only options are water, high calorie juice, or soda. People are going to continue to drink something, so how about the beverage industry being innovative instead of obstinate? Soda whether diet or regular is garbage and isn't even enjoyable to many of us.
Good luck in your search. I can certainly see how I may end up in similar spot. I never imagined I'd work in tech for decades and not have enough wealth to sustain myself without depending on an employer, but it happens. When I was twenty I'd look at older people in tech who still needed the work and think they were pathetic. Now having lost anything I built in the past and only having 10 or 15 years where I can still be taken seriously I see that being a real possibility. Anyone who's working in the earlier stages of their career, I hope you are putting away $10K per year for your future and making wealth building a real priority. Currently my idea of early retirement involves spending my 70th birthday with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver.
No, no. We must have a more complex solution. People who know nothing about guns have to many irrational fears. They will be much more comfortable with a sonic gyro-disruptor.
The problem with polarized magnets is that as much as one side wants to repel, the other side wants to attract. So try and do a kick flip and your board is just going to stick to the surface upside down. The board is going to want to flip over and stick to the surface upside down all the time and you'll have to balance to offset those forces constantly. This sort of stake park sounded like a great idea when I thought of it when I was 8 years old. Now, not so much.
This is why none of this should be patent eligible. It's harmful to allow software to be patented especially when the patent is overly broad and general in it's language. It's harmful to allow any configuration of systems and software to be patented. The USPTO is completely incapable of telling the difference between what's patent worthy and what's bullshit in these areas.
Only giving the ability in the Enterprise version might be ok IF you could by it retail and not only on a volume license. Congratulations Microsoft. Windows 10 might have been something worth nerds getting excited about, but no, thanks to your bullshit ways it will be hated from the start. Fucking idiots.
A Trillion dollar plus bridge connecting us to a country we don't even like doesn't make sense to you? I can't imagine why, it's not like we have any domestic infrastructure that needs funding.
There is not much incentive to reduce premiums on something people are legally required to maintain. They can simply say they have to charge a lot because the risk profile is not yet known. I don't know what analysts are there that are predicting the effect on auto insurers when there isn't yet a single autonomous vehicle available to the public. I think people are vastly overestimating the adoption rate of this technology. The insurance certainly won't be any cheaper so long as it remains a niche market with many unknowns.
This man's arrest is absurd. The arresting officers should be ashamed of themselves for trampling on his rights. Rights that cannot be defended with impunity and without apology are not rights at all.
Yes, but brake lines are needed, where as communication systems permitting external input are not needed. When vulnerabilities are created by add-on features that aren't truly necessary, but expose life safety and theft risks, that can be negligence. I hope out of this issue, that message is understood before lawmakers start mandating V2V communications.
What if they just steal the ad revenue and pretend to send the ad? If it's invisible it does no good to send it at all. Even in matters of fraud, please no half measures. We could even have a service where a host out the cloud takes your place and receives ads and even pretends to click links and thus pretends to be you for all advertising purposes, yet your phone or PC never has to receive the data at all. The advertising profile could be attached to a pseudonym, so it doesn't compromise your privacy or security. Your favorite websites get paid, advertisers get righteously fucked and the villagers rejoice.
Lifelock lost any real value it may have had when they were ordered to stop filing repeated fraud-alerts on the customer's behalf as the core of their service, thanks to the FTC! It's a service one can provide for themselves if they wish to be troubled to do so every 90 days. Credit freeze may be vastly more effective for anyone that actually cares to invest the effort. One tip I have for anyone setting fraud-alerts in hopes they will contract you about new credit issues is to make sure you update your phone number with the agencies before setting the fraud alert. I didn't think about that and now I can't check on my credit because they want to call a 5 year old number.
Do you have any tangible examples of sexist hiring from your own life? Not subjective issues of cultural comfort in the workplace or percentages hired, but instances where you really feel gender affected a hiring decision where it shouldn't have. If so was this in Silicon Valley or elsewhere?
The typical shotgun bird-shot or bean bag loads aren't totally well suited. It's time for law enforcement to do some basic research on a suitable solution for mid-range drone mitigation using readily available tools. Possibly workable would be 12 gauge with 32" barrel chambered for 3 1/2 inch magnum shells and having a tight choke and shot cup designed for maximum range without exceeding #6 shot size for safety. This configuration would probably double the effective range compared to a cylinder choked defensive shotgun with target load bird-shot. Defining the best load for the defensive shotguns issued to police would take some trial and error and with some needed compromise could probably be workable out to about 40 yards max. I'd rather see a purpose built weapon for issue to helicopters in flight as they would no doubt have unique challenges and concerns. Assuming the pilot is in range it also might be effective to simply announce on the load-speaker that the pilot will be arrested if the drone is not grounded immediately.
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He was tasked with creating internal propaganda and he did an excellent job of that. The NSA doesn't want its workers to suffer bad moral or be forced to question the ethics of the orders they carry out.
Dear Advertisers, Figure out how to do ads in a trustworthy way (i.e. no privacy invasive behavior tracking and little or no risk of malware exposure) and I'll be happy to allow those ads. I'd prefer the ads to be static HTML hosted within the site I visit. I don't want my browser touching 15 domains that all run scripts every time I visit a page. As long as ads compromise my privacy and security I will consider advertising networks the enemy and treat them accordingly.
It's hardly a bargain compared to my tin-foil hat and face mask. It`s really great that we feel the need to evade facial recognition rather than banning it. I applaud the effort to provide people with tools to shield their privacy, but it needs work. Until we have something simple and easy that doesn`t look out of place to those around you or to those watching the cameras, it`s useless. Protecting your privacy and security by standing out isn`t effective. The ability to blend in is a basic requirement.
Water will always be an available option, but it gets boring and considering the number of bottled waters consumed each year, clearly consumers feel a need to pay for water, so beverages are not completely competing with a free product. Consumers like variety and taste stimuli. I'm not convinced the only commercially viable products are bottled water and soda with 35g of sugar per serving. Personally I buy unsweetened iced tea regularly and I don't even like tea without a small amount of sugar, but there isn't any middle ground. Is the point of soda really to sell sugar? I think the point is to sell something for far more than it costs to produce it, in which case there are many ways to meet that goal. I wouldn't feel like I wasn't getting my moneys worth if it didn't have 35g of sugar. I acknowledge the addiction aspect of the consumer relationship. They likely are afraid to disrupt that addiction cycle by offering less toxic choices and of course they cannot admit there is any health problem with sucking down diluted corn syrup or its aspartame enriched alternative. They are, I imagine even frightened by the implication that might be inferred by offering healthier alternatives.
Elon Musk is not a hippie.
Maybe the soft drink companies should think of something new. Very lightly sweetened teas or highly diluted fruit juice drinks without carbonation would be nice. Please no artificial tasting crap like Fruitopia. I don`t see why there can`t be perfectly good tasting beverages with 8-10g sugar max and without artificial sweeteners. I don't always just want plain water, but often the only options are water, high calorie juice, or soda. People are going to continue to drink something, so how about the beverage industry being innovative instead of obstinate? Soda whether diet or regular is garbage and isn't even enjoyable to many of us.
Good luck in your search. I can certainly see how I may end up in similar spot. I never imagined I'd work in tech for decades and not have enough wealth to sustain myself without depending on an employer, but it happens. When I was twenty I'd look at older people in tech who still needed the work and think they were pathetic. Now having lost anything I built in the past and only having 10 or 15 years where I can still be taken seriously I see that being a real possibility. Anyone who's working in the earlier stages of their career, I hope you are putting away $10K per year for your future and making wealth building a real priority. Currently my idea of early retirement involves spending my 70th birthday with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver.
My refusal to view untrusted video for security reasons has once again resulted in misguided commentary.
No, no. We must have a more complex solution. People who know nothing about guns have to many irrational fears. They will be much more comfortable with a sonic gyro-disruptor.
The problem with polarized magnets is that as much as one side wants to repel, the other side wants to attract. So try and do a kick flip and your board is just going to stick to the surface upside down. The board is going to want to flip over and stick to the surface upside down all the time and you'll have to balance to offset those forces constantly. This sort of stake park sounded like a great idea when I thought of it when I was 8 years old. Now, not so much.
This is why none of this should be patent eligible. It's harmful to allow software to be patented especially when the patent is overly broad and general in it's language. It's harmful to allow any configuration of systems and software to be patented. The USPTO is completely incapable of telling the difference between what's patent worthy and what's bullshit in these areas.
Only giving the ability in the Enterprise version might be ok IF you could by it retail and not only on a volume license. Congratulations Microsoft. Windows 10 might have been something worth nerds getting excited about, but no, thanks to your bullshit ways it will be hated from the start. Fucking idiots.
A Trillion dollar plus bridge connecting us to a country we don't even like doesn't make sense to you? I can't imagine why, it's not like we have any domestic infrastructure that needs funding.
There is not much incentive to reduce premiums on something people are legally required to maintain. They can simply say they have to charge a lot because the risk profile is not yet known. I don't know what analysts are there that are predicting the effect on auto insurers when there isn't yet a single autonomous vehicle available to the public. I think people are vastly overestimating the adoption rate of this technology. The insurance certainly won't be any cheaper so long as it remains a niche market with many unknowns.
This man's arrest is absurd. The arresting officers should be ashamed of themselves for trampling on his rights. Rights that cannot be defended with impunity and without apology are not rights at all.
Kickstarter to save Slashdot and Sourceforge from the clutches of evil? So for how much will you be selling this non-profit?
Well... if a stranger is willing to pay $20 for my record, I'd pay $80 to remove it from circulation.
Yes, but brake lines are needed, where as communication systems permitting external input are not needed. When vulnerabilities are created by add-on features that aren't truly necessary, but expose life safety and theft risks, that can be negligence. I hope out of this issue, that message is understood before lawmakers start mandating V2V communications.
Or Jim Webb, there are other options than Hillary.
Don't Bring Your Drone to New Zealand While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
- Please, Flight of the Concords, make this spoof.
What if they just steal the ad revenue and pretend to send the ad? If it's invisible it does no good to send it at all. Even in matters of fraud, please no half measures. We could even have a service where a host out the cloud takes your place and receives ads and even pretends to click links and thus pretends to be you for all advertising purposes, yet your phone or PC never has to receive the data at all. The advertising profile could be attached to a pseudonym, so it doesn't compromise your privacy or security. Your favorite websites get paid, advertisers get righteously fucked and the villagers rejoice.
Lifelock lost any real value it may have had when they were ordered to stop filing repeated fraud-alerts on the customer's behalf as the core of their service, thanks to the FTC! It's a service one can provide for themselves if they wish to be troubled to do so every 90 days. Credit freeze may be vastly more effective for anyone that actually cares to invest the effort.
One tip I have for anyone setting fraud-alerts in hopes they will contract you about new credit issues is to make sure you update your phone number with the agencies before setting the fraud alert. I didn't think about that and now I can't check on my credit because they want to call a 5 year old number.
Do you have any tangible examples of sexist hiring from your own life? Not subjective issues of cultural comfort in the workplace or percentages hired, but instances where you really feel gender affected a hiring decision where it shouldn't have. If so was this in Silicon Valley or elsewhere?
Have you had trouble finding work in tech because of your race? If so, was it in Silicon Valley or elsewhere?
The typical shotgun bird-shot or bean bag loads aren't totally well suited. It's time for law enforcement to do some basic research on a suitable solution for mid-range drone mitigation using readily available tools. Possibly workable would be 12 gauge with 32" barrel chambered for 3 1/2 inch magnum shells and having a tight choke and shot cup designed for maximum range without exceeding #6 shot size for safety. This configuration would probably double the effective range compared to a cylinder choked defensive shotgun with target load bird-shot. Defining the best load for the defensive shotguns issued to police would take some trial and error and with some needed compromise could probably be workable out to about 40 yards max. I'd rather see a purpose built weapon for issue to helicopters in flight as they would no doubt have unique challenges and concerns. Assuming the pilot is in range it also might be effective to simply announce on the load-speaker that the pilot will be arrested if the drone is not grounded immediately.