You could never really run Linux on the PS3, you could run it on some hypervisor on the PS3 that prevent access to the interesting hardware.
Informative! Kind of like saying nobody really walks on the ground as there's always some small distance separating the molecules of your feet from the ground. Why split hairs?
Excellent story, thanks. Also from the comments there (I haven't read this yet):
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes.
So they demanded that he pick one of two options, the least unpalatable of which to him was changing the domain name and to continue to obfuscate for whom he was soliciting donations.
Isn't it? That's the way it sounds when I say it. Judging by what I've read from you thus far, I'd say AC nailed you perfectly.
"Heshel was a type he'd always known, what they called in Yiddish a Luftmensch. These Luftmenschen, it meant men of the air or men without substance, could be seen every morning but the Sabbath, standing around in front of the local synagogue, hands in pockets, waiting for a day's work, an errand, whatever might come their way. They were men who seemed to have no family or village, a restless population of day labourers that moved through eastern Poland, the Ukraine, Byelorussia, all over the Jewish districts, available to whoever had a few kopecks to pay them. The word had a second, ironic, meaning that, like many Yiddish expressions, embellished its literal translation. Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls, young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafes and drifting through the student communities of Europe -- gifted, bright, but never truly finding themselves.
-- "Dark Star" by Alan Furst
Fits you to a T, I think. You squander your birthright in panning Snowden.
This thing would need a reinforced mating surface on the bottom for train mode...
How about eliminating "mode"? Make it a self-contained capsule that can be carried on a train, then hauled into/onto (eg.) a C5 aircraft. Passengers board the capsule and relax until it reaches its destination. Make the capsule pressurizable with room for food, water, sanitation, and even parachutes in case of engine trouble (eject it from the C5 and land it wherever, awaiting whatever can recover the capsule to take it to an airport).
You could then even design/engineer the aerial flight component to be little more than engines and wings, possibly automated. That wouldn't even need to land to pick up the capsule then gently haul it in.
The best part is your baggage goes by train to be eventually delivered to your destination saving lots on transporting dead weight baggage, minimizing baggage handling & etc.
This's all already been done in one way or another.
How do you imagine it would it be worse under libertarian rule?
Well, instead of bribing politicians for favours, the rich simply do what they please.
And? What is it you're afraid of? That they might spend money? "Oh nooooos! They might offer me a job!" They'll finally be subject to the same laws you and I are subject to and unable to buy protection from corrupt authorities. They'd only have one vote just like you, and there's a lot more out there like you than there is of them. Where's the downside? I suppose they could hire their own private army of security guards/goons, but how far will that get them with all of us lining up against them? They could buy nukes! Yeah, and I'll be the first to put a bullet into anyone who tries to sell them one!
You haven't put much thought into this. You're worrying about things that aren't there.
A consequence of libertarian policies is that the rich no longer need goverment favouritism.
And?!? What can they do with that mountain of cash that so threatens you? Buy up all the food/water/air/..., or what?
I would argue the first in the nation primary makes NH MORE valuable than Ohio...
I predict that if the FSP pulls it off, the NH primary will instantly become irrelevant. Libertarians will likely win it every time, the other parties won't even bother to show up to contest it, and the MSM won't bother to report the result.
I have a feeling that Obama didn't (and maybe still doesn't) know the extent of the NSA's technological reach.
One of his primary functions is to nominate people who would know and be responsible. The Senate then goes through elaborate confirmation hearings to ensure his choices are reasonable.
Lots of blame to go around for anyone so inclined.
I don't consider a system where the rich rule over the rest of us like unchecked gods to be very liberating (unless you're rich, of course--then it's pretty damned sweet).
How do you expect that would work? Now, the rich/corporations buy political favours when corrupt politicians sell them to finance their political campaigns. How do you imagine it would it be worse under libertarian rule?
I'd consider a politician's campaign promises to be a binding verbal contract subject to recall minimum, likely followed by lawsuits. So, how are the rich going to get away with favouritism from gov't if they can't buy it?
Similarly I find it hypocritical that right wingers read Any Rand and glorify her teachings of greed and selfishness...
I take it that you've never actually read any of her stuff.
I have. Please elaborate on where he is wrong.
Rand "taught" that "From each according to their means, to each according to their need" was greed; that an obligation to be charitable is the opposite of charity.
Rand "taught" that everyone had the right to be paid for the fruits of their labour, not coerced to give it up just because someone else wanted it. The former is justice. The latter is greedy. She did not glorify greed. She "taught" that selfishness is a virtuous right of all, because we all deserve that right because of what we are.
Rand "taught" that the smallest minority is the individual, and if you can't defend individuals' rights you can't defend anyone.
Rand was never a defender of Wall St. and cozy deals with government going easy on the rich. She despised corporatocracy.
"An idea is not responsible for those who hold it", and I'll be the first to agree a lot of very slimey characters have used her ideas to justify their actions.
It's the thief of Europe - at least everyone else is trying their best to pay back what they owe unlike Iceland that just outright stole and are now carrying on as if nothing happened because they bankrupted themselves and just refuse to ever pay back everything they took.
Holy crap, Batman! 2008 was only five years ago, yet you've forgotten already?!?
Iceland (along with the rest of the world) *finally* wised up to the fact that Wall St. was bundling crap mortgages (that never had a chance of being paid for) into investments that they flogged to every sucker willing to believe them. Iceland correctly viewed this as fraud and quit the game realizing the croupiers had it rigged.
You're just jealous you didn't come to the same conclusion in time. Sucker!
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
It's an expansive definition of left wing that includes Hitler.
It just punctuates the stupidity of using "left vs. right" (and liberal vs. conservative) in modern day politics. The typical moron in a hurry (at both ends of this imagined spectrum) thinks the Commies/Soviets were leftist. Both Lenin and Stalin were far from it. Both the Soviets and Nazis were Fascists, and they both excelled in PR obfuscation to get away with it (for some time).
Now, if only the USA can re-learn what folly was Nazi Germany...
It wasn't folly at all.
Of course it was! Attempting to take over two continents and umpteen countries, decimating their existing populations because they're inferior races, and expecting to get away with it? That's the definition of megalomaniacal.
The Nazis failed because the Russian winter showed up when they weren't equipped for it, because Hitler decided to take the Balkans first.
As long as they don't create death camps (which they won't, because they don't have any irrational hatred of specific ethnic groups like Hitler and his henchmen did)...
Checked the size of your prison population lately?
... and don't try to start a giant war with the rest of the developed world...
The jews never submitted weakly to tyrany. Like the communists, roma, homosexuals and others they took arms up, and rioted and turned the ghettos up side down at war with the nazi oppressor.
Some did (Sobibor, Warsaw ghetto). The vast majority didn't. Those trains didn't arrive at the camps full of dead bodies.
I'd question that (cf. the DoD budget and your prison population), and I forgot to mention the DEA in my rogue's gallery. They've extended their reach to other continents.
... and of use of the information.
"He's makin' a list, checkin' it twice..." There's no need to telegraph your intentions. Once all the data's collected and sorted, just hit "Print." "Night of The Long Knives II" or "Kristallnacht II"?
So far, we've seen little sign that the NSA or CIA are directly involving themselves in day to day politics.
Neither did the Gestapo or Stasi. They were just "the muscle".
And they've simply not been as pervasive in getting neighbors to report on each other, or blackmailing people to do so.
"If you see something, say something.", and (though a bit tangential) I think what Aaron Swartz experienced could reasonably be considered blackmail or extortion. Bradley Manning has seen some of this too. In their cases, they've turned it around so "to report on each other" is considered a crime.
... or at least it's not been exposed as being so corrupt.
No? Biden's cozy relationship with the *AAs? Chris Dodd? The USTR? The revolving door between legislators and lobbyists/campaign contributors?
I think the USA may be in a massive state of denial. The only real anomaly I see is your judiciary appears to (so far) still be independent. Even FDR was cluefull enough to want to pack the SCOTUS. I wonder what's in store for them.
But teens who send or receive sexts of themselves and friends are child pornographers.
That is quite literally, correct
... If you're a US prosecutor. Anyone with any common sense would be stretching it to call them exhibitionists. Think about it. Why would a teen want to send their SO porn?
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Fuckload more than any other company involved has ever done.
Ignorant morons like you shouldn't be welcome anywhere.
You could never really run Linux on the PS3, you could run it on some hypervisor on the PS3 that prevent access to the interesting hardware.
Informative! Kind of like saying nobody really walks on the ground as there's always some small distance separating the molecules of your feet from the ground. Why split hairs?
Plug "ps3 supercomputer" into a search engine.
Excellent story, thanks. Also from the comments there (I haven't read this yet):
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes.
Holy. Crap.
If I wanted nmy statement politicized, I'd have done it myself.
Yeah, don't bother to consider that anyone might have thought it already was politicised.
As for the 'to him' crack ...
Just pointing out that he chose this course of action. He could have just clarified the situation. Instead, ...
As a native English speaker and literate, I see nothing obscure about his solicitation for donations.
Irrelevant. Debian did think so, and it was their choice to make.
This is why you never use anything associated with freetards.
Such as The World Wide Web? Okay, bye! That's one less imbecilic AC we'll need to deal with. You're welcome. :-)
So they demanded that he pick one of two options, the least unpalatable of which to him was changing the domain name and to continue to obfuscate for whom he was soliciting donations.
FTFY.
"Statist". Nice snarl word.
Isn't it? That's the way it sounds when I say it. Judging by what I've read from you thus far, I'd say AC nailed you perfectly.
"Heshel was a type he'd always known, what they called in Yiddish a
Luftmensch. These Luftmenschen, it meant men of the air or men
without substance, could be seen every morning but the Sabbath,
standing around in front of the local synagogue, hands in pockets,
waiting for a day's work, an errand, whatever might come their way.
They were men who seemed to have no family or village, a restless
population of day labourers that moved through eastern Poland, the
Ukraine, Byelorussia, all over the Jewish districts, available to
whoever had a few kopecks to pay them. The word had a second, ironic,
meaning that, like many Yiddish expressions, embellished its literal
translation. Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls,
young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafes and
drifting through the student communities of Europe -- gifted, bright,
but never truly finding themselves.
-- "Dark Star" by Alan Furst
Fits you to a T, I think. You squander your birthright in panning Snowden.
haven't seen the word "queue" in a long time.
Your lack of geek cred is showing: enlighten thyself.
Even after eliminating transporting baggage, or even caring what's in the baggage (eliminating baggage handling; who cares if a baggage car blows up)?
[I've not read TFA.]
This thing would need a reinforced mating surface on the bottom for train mode ...
How about eliminating "mode"? Make it a self-contained capsule that can be carried on a train, then hauled into/onto (eg.) a C5 aircraft. Passengers board the capsule and relax until it reaches its destination. Make the capsule pressurizable with room for food, water, sanitation, and even parachutes in case of engine trouble (eject it from the C5 and land it wherever, awaiting whatever can recover the capsule to take it to an airport).
You could then even design/engineer the aerial flight component to be little more than engines and wings, possibly automated. That wouldn't even need to land to pick up the capsule then gently haul it in.
The best part is your baggage goes by train to be eventually delivered to your destination saving lots on transporting dead weight baggage, minimizing baggage handling & etc.
This's all already been done in one way or another.
How do you imagine it would it be worse under libertarian rule?
Well, instead of bribing politicians for favours, the rich simply do what they please.
And? What is it you're afraid of? That they might spend money? "Oh nooooos! They might offer me a job!" They'll finally be subject to the same laws you and I are subject to and unable to buy protection from corrupt authorities. They'd only have one vote just like you, and there's a lot more out there like you than there is of them. Where's the downside? I suppose they could hire their own private army of security guards/goons, but how far will that get them with all of us lining up against them? They could buy nukes! Yeah, and I'll be the first to put a bullet into anyone who tries to sell them one!
You haven't put much thought into this. You're worrying about things that aren't there.
A consequence of libertarian policies is that the rich no longer need goverment favouritism.
And?!? What can they do with that mountain of cash that so threatens you? Buy up all the food/water/air/..., or what?
I would argue the first in the nation primary makes NH MORE valuable than Ohio ...
I predict that if the FSP pulls it off, the NH primary will instantly become irrelevant. Libertarians will likely win it every time, the other parties won't even bother to show up to contest it, and the MSM won't bother to report the result.
I have a feeling that Obama didn't (and maybe still doesn't) know the extent of the NSA's technological reach.
One of his primary functions is to nominate people who would know and be responsible. The Senate then goes through elaborate confirmation hearings to ensure his choices are reasonable.
Lots of blame to go around for anyone so inclined.
I don't consider a system where the rich rule over the rest of us like unchecked gods to be very liberating (unless you're rich, of course--then it's pretty damned sweet).
How do you expect that would work? Now, the rich/corporations buy political favours when corrupt politicians sell them to finance their political campaigns. How do you imagine it would it be worse under libertarian rule?
I'd consider a politician's campaign promises to be a binding verbal contract subject to recall minimum, likely followed by lawsuits. So, how are the rich going to get away with favouritism from gov't if they can't buy it?
Similarly I find it hypocritical that right wingers read Any Rand and glorify her teachings of greed and selfishness ...
I take it that you've never actually read any of her stuff.
I have. Please elaborate on where he is wrong.
Rand "taught" that "From each according to their means, to each according to their need" was greed; that an obligation to be charitable is the opposite of charity.
Rand "taught" that everyone had the right to be paid for the fruits of their labour, not coerced to give it up just because someone else wanted it. The former is justice. The latter is greedy. She did not glorify greed. She "taught" that selfishness is a virtuous right of all, because we all deserve that right because of what we are.
Rand "taught" that the smallest minority is the individual, and if you can't defend individuals' rights you can't defend anyone.
Rand was never a defender of Wall St. and cozy deals with government going easy on the rich. She despised corporatocracy.
"An idea is not responsible for those who hold it", and I'll be the first to agree a lot of very slimey characters have used her ideas to justify their actions.
... Uncle Tom Obama or The Shrub or Darth Cheney ...
I was with you until the idiotic partisan ending.
Reading comprehension failure.
It's the thief of Europe - at least everyone else is trying their best to pay back what they owe unlike Iceland that just outright stole and are now carrying on as if nothing happened because they bankrupted themselves and just refuse to ever pay back everything they took.
Holy crap, Batman! 2008 was only five years ago, yet you've forgotten already?!?
Iceland (along with the rest of the world) *finally* wised up to the fact that Wall St. was bundling crap mortgages (that never had a chance of being paid for) into investments that they flogged to every sucker willing to believe them. Iceland correctly viewed this as fraud and quit the game realizing the croupiers had it rigged.
You're just jealous you didn't come to the same conclusion in time. Sucker!
As a matter of fact, the thing most extreme left regimes from the past have in common is that they tend to slaughter quite a few of their citizens.
Yeah, like Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Britain's India, ...
Oh, wait ...
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
It's an expansive definition of left wing that includes Hitler.
It just punctuates the stupidity of using "left vs. right" (and liberal vs. conservative) in modern day politics. The typical moron in a hurry (at both ends of this imagined spectrum) thinks the Commies/Soviets were leftist. Both Lenin and Stalin were far from it. Both the Soviets and Nazis were Fascists, and they both excelled in PR obfuscation to get away with it (for some time).
Similarly I find it hypocritical that right wingers read Any Rand and glorify her teachings of greed and selfishness ...
I take it that you've never actually read any of her stuff.
Now, if only the USA can re-learn what folly was Nazi Germany ...
It wasn't folly at all.
Of course it was! Attempting to take over two continents and umpteen countries, decimating their existing populations because they're inferior races, and expecting to get away with it? That's the definition of megalomaniacal.
The Nazis failed because the Russian winter showed up when they weren't equipped for it, because Hitler decided to take the Balkans first.
As long as they don't create death camps (which they won't, because they don't have any irrational hatred of specific ethnic groups like Hitler and his henchmen did) ...
Checked the size of your prison population lately?
... and don't try to start a giant war with the rest of the developed world ...
So far, so good.
The jews never submitted weakly to tyrany. Like the communists, roma, homosexuals and others they took arms up, and rioted and turned the ghettos up side down at war with the nazi oppressor.
Some did (Sobibor, Warsaw ghetto). The vast majority didn't. Those trains didn't arrive at the camps full of dead bodies.
The primary differences are of scale ...
I'd question that (cf. the DoD budget and your prison population), and I forgot to mention the DEA in my rogue's gallery. They've extended their reach to other continents.
... and of use of the information.
"He's makin' a list, checkin' it twice ..." There's no need to telegraph your intentions. Once all the data's collected and sorted, just hit "Print." "Night of The Long Knives II" or "Kristallnacht II"?
So far, we've seen little sign that the NSA or CIA are directly involving themselves in day to day politics.
Neither did the Gestapo or Stasi. They were just "the muscle".
And they've simply not been as pervasive in getting neighbors to report on each other, or blackmailing people to do so.
"If you see something, say something.", and (though a bit tangential) I think what Aaron Swartz experienced could reasonably be considered blackmail or extortion. Bradley Manning has seen some of this too. In their cases, they've turned it around so "to report on each other" is considered a crime.
... or at least it's not been exposed as being so corrupt.
No? Biden's cozy relationship with the *AAs? Chris Dodd? The USTR? The revolving door between legislators and lobbyists/campaign contributors?
I think the USA may be in a massive state of denial. The only real anomaly I see is your judiciary appears to (so far) still be independent. Even FDR was cluefull enough to want to pack the SCOTUS. I wonder what's in store for them.
But teens who send or receive sexts of themselves and friends are child pornographers.
That is quite literally, correct
... If you're a US prosecutor. Anyone with any common sense would be stretching it to call them exhibitionists. Think about it. Why would a teen want to send their SO porn?
Is there any common sense left in the USA?
more proof that reading slashdot at (-1) is the only way to find comments worth reading.
The mods do appear to be lacking a sense of humour.