I'm wondering why he took a JPL phone containing potentially-sentitive info out of the country in the first place. THAT is the initial security breach.
In California, not exactly. The money that's been used so far for the high-speed rail to nowhere could have rebuilt the dam from scratch. And what's their latest wacky idea? Build beach cottages for low income vacationers, at taxpayer expense, I shit you not. But budget to maintain critical infrastructure, like a dam? Nope.
CA dams have had 30 years of neglect, because 1) they had decided the drought was permanent (apparently having forgotten the last time CA had floods, in the 1990s) hence dams are no longer needed, and 2) the envirowhacks want all the dams torn down anyway, so why bother to maintain them?
You want critical infrastructure maintained, pass state legislation requiring funds to go there FIRST, not as a maybe-afterthought like it's been done in CA for the last several decades. And unless you want lots of graft and corner-cutting, don't let the work out to private contractors (watched that become a debacle there too).
The reason they were pulled down is because the records contain home addresses, and animal rights groups use 'em to find targets to harass and destroy. I guess if you're all up for doxxing people you don't like, the records should stay public.
Oh yes... you toucha my monitor, I breaka you fingers!!
Besides, my monitor didn't come with a sling for my aching over-extended arm. Even if I didn't sit far enough away from it that I'd need to use a broomstick.
"These male Aboriginals are all cannibals. The height of a blackfella's ambition is to kill and eat some member of another tribe; although quite content to eat his own off-spring or barter them for weapons of exceptional value. When the children are considered fat enough the killing is not delayed."
16:9 is why when I had to buy a new monitor, my only criterion was max vertical screen height. Having to scroll up and down all the time is a PITA.
I think the shallow vertical of modern monitors explains why it's become fashionable to remove all the menu bars etc. from browsers -- because with a normal menu area, there goes half your screen.
Reminds me of my first experience with Android, coming from a flip phone. Could not for the life of me figure out how to answer a call. It wasn't at all intuitive or obvious that I had to touch and *drag away* the incoming-call indicator.
This is one of the two major reasons why I usually have site colors turned off -- SO I CAN READ ALL THE DAMN TEXT instead of having to peer at grey on grey.
I hadn't heard this part, so thanks. Hopefully AB will vote this current mess out before 40 years of prosperity is destroyed beyond recall. I remember when half of Calgary shopped in Great Falls (my home town:) because of high domestic prices and lack of options.
Really unfortunate when you have no good choices, but "Hold your nose and try the untried" is usually worse. And this craze for voting in "anyone who is not a white male" is bringing us a lot of Hillary Clintons and damn few Maggie Thatchers.
Best of luck getting it turned around. Canada is America's best friend in the world, and we don't want to lose you.
Yeah, I was like... Alberta is the only province that wasn't going down the toilet, why on earth did its voters want to change that? You reap what you vote for, folks...
Just spoke to someone on another forum -- Ontario resident who has the misfortune to own a house with electric heat. And in the past year their bills went from high but tolerable, to just under $700/month -- with the heat turned down as far as it can be without all the pipes freezing up, and their kids walking around wrapped in blankets.
The anti-warming types who raise such a fuss every time we have a hot summer are silent when an unusually cold winter kills a lot of people, whether through direct cold or financial hardship.
Bah. Down here in Billings, we count the number of turkey feathers left behind the previous spring. Only then can we know how to incubate ourselves come the next winter, when we hatch our nefarious schemes.
I just had occasion to look into the reason why curly quotes often go the wrong way (and grow spurious spaces around themselves), and it's because of a quirk (or bug) in how RTF (and exported-from-RTF) handles nesting for formatting codes.
Smart quotes depend on finding ON and OFF codes with a single block of formatting, but RTF likes to put paragraph breaks INSIDE the nearest adjacent paired formatting or on/off code. Which means the parser can't find the OFF code so it uses another ON code, and the user gets curly quotes pointing the wrong direction.
Same thing with smart single quotes.
Basically, it's bad tag nesting.
Once I got to really examining all the various cases, it was clear it was all one problem that can be triggered by any change in formatting including line breaks, but may look different depending on what else is adjacent, especially when there also a code with multiple manifestations, like that for the M-dash (which has two possible codes, and behaves differently depending on whether there are trailing spaces).
Every RTF editor and export-to-RTF I looked at had the same problem. So it's probably a failing of the RTF standard (such as that is... so many to choose from!) that sorta neglected to specify how code nesting must be handled.
I read the report. It's extremely vague; mostly quotes a Microsoft document on generally securing your shit. It doesn't actually put forth ANY hard evidence of ANY hack, Russian or otherwise -- closest it comes is citing a snippet of source code of unverified origin.
I hate to cite McAfee since he's such a nutjob, but I think he's completely correct here:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/... ==== "Any hacker capable of breaking into something is extraordinarily capable of hiding their tracks. If I were the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it I would use Russian language within the code. I would use Russian techniques of breaking into organisations so there is simply no way to assign a source for any attack -- this is a fallacy." He argued the report was part of a ploy to "manipulate our opinions".
Wild generalization: The retail price of a new car hovers around one year's worth of wages for the target consumer of that model car. So basic entry-level cars sell for about a year's worth of minimum wage, whatever that may be.
Actually, across much of the US, it does -- prevailing wind is from the southwest. Even if the solar part only worked in the afternoon, that would cover the period of heaviest summer demand. And I'm thinking of this as supplemental rather than primary generator.
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Probably, but why couldn't he take a burner phone instead?
I'm wondering why he took a JPL phone containing potentially-sentitive info out of the country in the first place. THAT is the initial security breach.
In California, not exactly. The money that's been used so far for the high-speed rail to nowhere could have rebuilt the dam from scratch. And what's their latest wacky idea? Build beach cottages for low income vacationers, at taxpayer expense, I shit you not. But budget to maintain critical infrastructure, like a dam? Nope.
CA dams have had 30 years of neglect, because 1) they had decided the drought was permanent (apparently having forgotten the last time CA had floods, in the 1990s) hence dams are no longer needed, and 2) the envirowhacks want all the dams torn down anyway, so why bother to maintain them?
You want critical infrastructure maintained, pass state legislation requiring funds to go there FIRST, not as a maybe-afterthought like it's been done in CA for the last several decades. And unless you want lots of graft and corner-cutting, don't let the work out to private contractors (watched that become a debacle there too).
Further, it puts Twitter in the position of being the arbiter over who gets to speak in this chaos. Which users shall we silence?
Dunno if this is real, but it's interesting:
http://archive.is/WwtOJ
The reason they were pulled down is because the records contain home addresses, and animal rights groups use 'em to find targets to harass and destroy. I guess if you're all up for doxxing people you don't like, the records should stay public.
Oh yes... you toucha my monitor, I breaka you fingers!!
Besides, my monitor didn't come with a sling for my aching over-extended arm. Even if I didn't sit far enough away from it that I'd need to use a broomstick.
Islam's "law of abrogation" in everyday life!
First link I came to (there are plenty more, both hostile and supportive):
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...
http://www.krackatinni.net.au/...
(javscript required, and it's still ugly)
"These male Aboriginals are all cannibals. The height of a blackfella's ambition is to kill and eat some member of another tribe; although quite content to eat his own off-spring or barter them for weapons of exceptional value. When the children are considered fat enough the killing is not delayed."
The one advantage of pinch-zoom is that you can select area and zoom as one. Which is fine for phones. I never want to see it on a desktop.
I heard it slightly different:
There are two kinds of fools.
One says "This is old, and therefore good."
The other says "This is new, and therefore better."
16:9 is why when I had to buy a new monitor, my only criterion was max vertical screen height. Having to scroll up and down all the time is a PITA.
I think the shallow vertical of modern monitors explains why it's become fashionable to remove all the menu bars etc. from browsers -- because with a normal menu area, there goes half your screen.
Reminds me of my first experience with Android, coming from a flip phone. Could not for the life of me figure out how to answer a call. It wasn't at all intuitive or obvious that I had to touch and *drag away* the incoming-call indicator.
This is one of the two major reasons why I usually have site colors turned off -- SO I CAN READ ALL THE DAMN TEXT instead of having to peer at grey on grey.
(The other is that glare-white hurts my eyes.)
Sooner the better!
I hadn't heard this part, so thanks. Hopefully AB will vote this current mess out before 40 years of prosperity is destroyed beyond recall. I remember when half of Calgary shopped in Great Falls (my home town :) because of high domestic prices and lack of options.
Really unfortunate when you have no good choices, but "Hold your nose and try the untried" is usually worse. And this craze for voting in "anyone who is not a white male" is bringing us a lot of Hillary Clintons and damn few Maggie Thatchers.
Best of luck getting it turned around. Canada is America's best friend in the world, and we don't want to lose you.
Yeah, I was like... Alberta is the only province that wasn't going down the toilet, why on earth did its voters want to change that? You reap what you vote for, folks...
Just spoke to someone on another forum -- Ontario resident who has the misfortune to own a house with electric heat. And in the past year their bills went from high but tolerable, to just under $700/month -- with the heat turned down as far as it can be without all the pipes freezing up, and their kids walking around wrapped in blankets.
The anti-warming types who raise such a fuss every time we have a hot summer are silent when an unusually cold winter kills a lot of people, whether through direct cold or financial hardship.
Has it been determined if this is actually a species, or just localized markings like with the so-called spotted owl?
I just discovered Sumatra a couple days ago. Was astonished how fast it is. But how would one use it as a browser plug-in?
Bah. Down here in Billings, we count the number of turkey feathers left behind the previous spring. Only then can we know how to incubate ourselves come the next winter, when we hatch our nefarious schemes.
I just had occasion to look into the reason why curly quotes often go the wrong way (and grow spurious spaces around themselves), and it's because of a quirk (or bug) in how RTF (and exported-from-RTF) handles nesting for formatting codes.
Smart quotes depend on finding ON and OFF codes with a single block of formatting, but RTF likes to put paragraph breaks INSIDE the nearest adjacent paired formatting or on/off code. Which means the parser can't find the OFF code so it uses another ON code, and the user gets curly quotes pointing the wrong direction.
Same thing with smart single quotes.
Basically, it's bad tag nesting.
Once I got to really examining all the various cases, it was clear it was all one problem that can be triggered by any change in formatting including line breaks, but may look different depending on what else is adjacent, especially when there also a code with multiple manifestations, like that for the M-dash (which has two possible codes, and behaves differently depending on whether there are trailing spaces).
Every RTF editor and export-to-RTF I looked at had the same problem. So it's probably a failing of the RTF standard (such as that is... so many to choose from!) that sorta neglected to specify how code nesting must be handled.
I read the report. It's extremely vague; mostly quotes a Microsoft document on generally securing your shit. It doesn't actually put forth ANY hard evidence of ANY hack, Russian or otherwise -- closest it comes is citing a snippet of source code of unverified origin.
I hate to cite McAfee since he's such a nutjob, but I think he's completely correct here:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
====
"Any hacker capable of breaking into something is extraordinarily capable of hiding their tracks. If I were the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it I would use Russian language within the code. I would use Russian techniques of breaking into organisations so there is simply no way to assign a source for any attack -- this is a fallacy." He argued the report was part of a ploy to "manipulate our opinions".
Wild generalization: The retail price of a new car hovers around one year's worth of wages for the target consumer of that model car. So basic entry-level cars sell for about a year's worth of minimum wage, whatever that may be.
Actually, across much of the US, it does -- prevailing wind is from the southwest. Even if the solar part only worked in the afternoon, that would cover the period of heaviest summer demand. And I'm thinking of this as supplemental rather than primary generator.