WW1 destroyed it all and we are still stuck there.
The illusion is that "WW1" is over - there have been lulls and diversions, but right now the US military is trying to keep together the partitioning of the Middle East that the British imposed in the early days of the World War.
Wilson and House's vision for a Pax Americana is just as wrong after a hundred years as it was then, and no amount of bombing the world for democracy can ever work. The premise and the goals of "WW1" are still playing out. Only once that strategy is abandoned can we be said to have given up the mantle of war.
Truly, here in America, we are born into an "we've always been at war" mindset and people believe it to be the normal.
Here's the relevant excerpt from Ballmer's recent Freakonmics interview:
BALLMER: Hoopers, hoopers, hoopers. It's a little more, running a basketball team. I mean, I own a basketball team. I actually have people who run the basketball team, which is great. In the case of Microsoft, you are worrying every day about the future of the enterprise. Are you going to grow? You got 100,000 people who work for you - are they going to be stable in their jobs? There's no question: a basketball team is not going out of business. It really isn't. You can do better and you can do worse. But at the end of the day, it's not really about people's lives. Except the players, where there's always issues about who stays and who goes. That's both the players choice as well as the team's choice.
DUBNER: We should say, one reason it's not going out of business - just to get to the nitty gritty of it - is that you are lucky enough to belong to what some people might call a cartel, right? When you own a pro sports team, you own a piece of the league and only you guys get to decide if there's added competition in. Obviously, there's competition among the 30 teams in the league. But that's a little bit weird, isn't it?
BALLMER: There's good reasons why - in this country, at least - there's been a clear regulatory framework with the sports leagues to promote the competition and excitement that people want in the U.S. Will these teams go bankrupt? They can, but they're not going to go bankrupt next year or the year after. The TV contracts are by and large locked in. There's a fan base that's very exciting. It is a little bit different than launching a new product at Microsoft. You hold your breath and say, "We put billions into this thing and will anybody buy it?" At the Clippers, what's the worst case? We overpay on payroll, we pay a bunch of luxury tax and we don't win a championship. Or our fans start getting angry and calling for heads, including mine. They say, "Come on boys we can win this thing." I'm not saying that's fun. But it's all different.
Sports teams and tech companies are fundamentally different - so spaketh the horse.
While not everybody knows about the yellow dots, almost everybody involved with infosec does. How can The Intercept can be trusted to hold or publish any leakers' information securely?
Was this one reporter who screwed up? Didn't he have a second person reviewing his work? Isn't there a team of people at The Intercept who discuss whistleblowing publications? Isn't anybody on such a team aware of digital privacy issues?
This will be a huge loss if The Intercept becomes useless as it was basically founded to handle stories like this. But given that, how could the outcome have been so bad in this case?
This was not Snowden or Manning style whistle blowing.
Because the NSA sitting on evidence of Russian hacking during the US election is totally not pertinent to the current political climate./derp
In fact, this allegedly shows that the Russian meddling was about phishing at the county level, not about involvement with the Trump campaign, so unless you want to claim that this Sanders supporter was supporting Trump to get back at Clinton, this is very poor political activism for "her side".
Once again, this is a low-level intelligence employee blowing the whistle on the NSA for concealing critically important information from The People (and that concealing is what is politically motivated).
The fact that she was politically active does not show that this action was partisan. Smearing the messenger is Alinsky 101, though - a typical leftist tactic.
I use wkhtmltopdf in one of my apps, but pagination doesn't work well (at least with the way I have it set up). I wonder if Chrome would do a better job.
Now that patent rights are terminated with any domestic or foreign sale, per the SCOTUS Lexmark decision, pretty soon the market is going to be able to tell Coury to go fuck himself.
In every situation I've seen where the boss asks the team to work 20-30 hours of unpaid overtime every week to get an impossible project out the door, the women say fuck you (well, "bless your heart", or something) and then go home on time.
The spineless nerd males stay and work on the project, and they and the managers resent the women for their self-respect. That is what generates the hostile work environment. A really great work environment would exist where the team were majority female, as this kind of behavior would not be feasible.
So, spineless men: women's issues in tech are your fault. Grow a pair (of ovaries, apparently). You* allow the kind of work environment that is hostile to women.
* All men who were not birthed by women are hereby excepted from this blame.
Winner, a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation, began working for a government agency based in Georgia in February.
Most agencies have offices all over the country, but which one is based in Georgia, other than the CDC? If this contractor was working for the CDC why would he have access to cyberhacking information? Cover?
Don't be stupid and lazy. We will definitely have electric cars that are cheaper to manufacture, cheaper to operate, and cheaper to maintain than ICE's in the very near future (this coming decade, guaranteed).
Any kind of mandates are just going to slow down the industry which is already on trajectory to exceed our ambitious desires.
YOU are not smarter than the people who are building these things, so stop pretending like you have more information than they do.
I was just listening to this guy on the radio yesterday. He's a UK "Liberal" who spends his time attacking the ideology of the Progressives he so vehemently opposes.
YouTube demonetized him and so he went to Patreon, but is only getting 1/4 of the revenue he was before (which he says is enough to pay the rent and keep the lights on, so he's continuing).
Google has a serious problem when it's shutting down legitimate political speech under the pretext of "Social Justice". Jesus, if I couldn't handle hearing the occasional "fuck you, political group" I'd be on Twitter, not YouTube. I hope Google gets its head on right about political speech and returns to supporting Western liberal values. Y'know, "Do The Right Thing". "Don't Be Evil" was a better moral compass, though.
The ironic thing is that this guy points out that WSJ, which started this kerfuffle, is not really attacking these particular YouTubers, it's attacking YouTube, as the most successful New Media platform. It's an Old vs. New fight, and Google is walking right into the trap and handing power back to the Obsolete Media.
Anyway, where can I find a list of sponsors who are pulling out over the ideologies of whichever YouTubers? I'd like to boycott them.
There is a good outcome: there is one more public case about sexual harassment and discrimination lies not getting one free money. The more companies are bold about exposing extortionists like this, the less false accusers there will be.
Right. Everybody considers the risks of acting, but few consider the risks of not acting. Musk's companies appear to be particularly good at balancing such risks.
Wouldn't the very first rule for any kind of platform like this, be that passwords are not decryptable without the user providing their key/password? I mean, that it's designed in such a way that this is a actually *impossible* without a brute-force breaking of the encryption?
LastPass works this way. You need something with a fully inspectable front-end and hopefully a code audit or two.
How could this ever happen? We need more technical details. Otherwise the level of incompetence would be downright astounding.
hey, you don't need to be. The US Constitution is 8th Grade material, and is meant to be understand all (part of that "consent of the governed" thing). It's a minimal requirement for a complete public education.
but AFAIK this sort of agreement is perfectly constitutional.
Sure, Interstate Compacts are perfectly constitutional, Article I Section 10. Congress just needs to approve them. The Port Authority of NY & NJ is one that many readers may be familiar with. There is an effort to have a group of States form a Healthcare compact as well.
The government being in the Paris agreement or not is totally independent of the U.S. leading in renewable energy development, which will continue to be true.
Bingo. Watch Tesla put up a few tens of millions of solar roofs and technological innovation will accomplish that which government treaties could never hope to.
They will probably do that the moment the Americans stop using the outputs of European research and industry, which will never happen, since the US wouldn't be able to produce or consume anything anymore if they did.
Show me the Americans complaining about European carbon pollution. We know about all the German coal and that giant natural gas pipeline from Russia, but we're not hypocrites.
I'm from the U.S., and you probably wouldn't even have to cite me any sources for me to believe we have generated the most cumulative CO2 of any other country. That doesn't seem like it should be news to anyone.
I'm sure the Europeans will stop using all the outputs of American research and industry any day now, to be ethically consistent.
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WW1 destroyed it all and we are still stuck there.
The illusion is that "WW1" is over - there have been lulls and diversions, but right now the US military is trying to keep together the partitioning of the Middle East that the British imposed in the early days of the World War.
Wilson and House's vision for a Pax Americana is just as wrong after a hundred years as it was then, and no amount of bombing the world for democracy can ever work. The premise and the goals of "WW1" are still playing out. Only once that strategy is abandoned can we be said to have given up the mantle of war.
Truly, here in America, we are born into an "we've always been at war" mindset and people believe it to be the normal.
Here's the relevant excerpt from Ballmer's recent Freakonmics interview:
Sports teams and tech companies are fundamentally different - so spaketh the horse.
While not everybody knows about the yellow dots, almost everybody involved with infosec does. How can The Intercept can be trusted to hold or publish any leakers' information securely?
Was this one reporter who screwed up? Didn't he have a second person reviewing his work? Isn't there a team of people at The Intercept who discuss whistleblowing publications? Isn't anybody on such a team aware of digital privacy issues?
This will be a huge loss if The Intercept becomes useless as it was basically founded to handle stories like this. But given that, how could the outcome have been so bad in this case?
This was not Snowden or Manning style whistle blowing.
Because the NSA sitting on evidence of Russian hacking during the US election is totally not pertinent to the current political climate. /derp
In fact, this allegedly shows that the Russian meddling was about phishing at the county level, not about involvement with the Trump campaign, so unless you want to claim that this Sanders supporter was supporting Trump to get back at Clinton, this is very poor political activism for "her side".
Once again, this is a low-level intelligence employee blowing the whistle on the NSA for concealing critically important information from The People (and that concealing is what is politically motivated).
The fact that she was politically active does not show that this action was partisan. Smearing the messenger is Alinsky 101, though - a typical leftist tactic.
Here's a HOWTO.
I use wkhtmltopdf in one of my apps, but pagination doesn't work well (at least with the way I have it set up). I wonder if Chrome would do a better job.
Now that patent rights are terminated with any domestic or foreign sale, per the SCOTUS Lexmark decision, pretty soon the market is going to be able to tell Coury to go fuck himself.
Hows about next year saving up all the action and dropping one article at the end of the day? Mmmkay?
Hey, man, I don't use Apple gear anymore, but WWDC is once a year, and I know how to scroll past stuff I'm not interested in.
I'll never understand why some people feel compelled to open every article posted. OCD is treatable, m'kay?
In every situation I've seen where the boss asks the team to work 20-30 hours of unpaid overtime every week to get an impossible project out the door, the women say fuck you (well, "bless your heart", or something) and then go home on time.
The spineless nerd males stay and work on the project, and they and the managers resent the women for their self-respect. That is what generates the hostile work environment. A really great work environment would exist where the team were majority female, as this kind of behavior would not be feasible.
So, spineless men: women's issues in tech are your fault. Grow a pair (of ovaries, apparently). You* allow the kind of work environment that is hostile to women.
* All men who were not birthed by women are hereby excepted from this blame.
Most agencies have offices all over the country, but which one is based in Georgia, other than the CDC? If this contractor was working for the CDC why would he have access to cyberhacking information? Cover?
WTF are they doing?
When is the last time Apple made something amazing? Who would want to work there at this point?
...and their abuse of copyright.
If you want to read an important SciFi/Fantasy book, try Never Let Me Go.
Don't be stupid and lazy. We will definitely have electric cars that are cheaper to manufacture, cheaper to operate, and cheaper to maintain than ICE's in the very near future (this coming decade, guaranteed).
Any kind of mandates are just going to slow down the industry which is already on trajectory to exceed our ambitious desires.
YOU are not smarter than the people who are building these things, so stop pretending like you have more information than they do.
I was just listening to this guy on the radio yesterday. He's a UK "Liberal" who spends his time attacking the ideology of the Progressives he so vehemently opposes.
YouTube demonetized him and so he went to Patreon, but is only getting 1/4 of the revenue he was before (which he says is enough to pay the rent and keep the lights on, so he's continuing).
Google has a serious problem when it's shutting down legitimate political speech under the pretext of "Social Justice". Jesus, if I couldn't handle hearing the occasional "fuck you, political group" I'd be on Twitter, not YouTube. I hope Google gets its head on right about political speech and returns to supporting Western liberal values. Y'know, "Do The Right Thing". "Don't Be Evil" was a better moral compass, though.
The ironic thing is that this guy points out that WSJ, which started this kerfuffle, is not really attacking these particular YouTubers, it's attacking YouTube, as the most successful New Media platform. It's an Old vs. New fight, and Google is walking right into the trap and handing power back to the Obsolete Media.
Anyway, where can I find a list of sponsors who are pulling out over the ideologies of whichever YouTubers? I'd like to boycott them.
Did the builds have debug symbols? That would be a goldmine for reverse-engineers.
These amandments I hear so much about: I think I am going to print them out as they have much more vallue as wall decoration.
They're most often used for toilet paper these days.
There is a good outcome: there is one more public case about sexual harassment and discrimination lies not getting one free money. The more companies are bold about exposing extortionists like this, the less false accusers there will be.
Right. Everybody considers the risks of acting, but few consider the risks of not acting. Musk's companies appear to be particularly good at balancing such risks.
they didn't just switch over to their DR site.
You forgot the mic drop.
Neither TFS or TFA say how any of the goals are going to be achieved.
Bonus points would have been awarded for some background on the cooling tech.
Nerd site fail.
Look into KeePassX if you like that style of tool. Bruce's was good for its time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wouldn't the very first rule for any kind of platform like this, be that passwords are not decryptable without the user providing their key/password? I mean, that it's designed in such a way that this is a actually *impossible* without a brute-force breaking of the encryption?
LastPass works this way. You need something with a fully inspectable front-end and hopefully a code audit or two.
How could this ever happen? We need more technical details. Otherwise the level of incompetence would be downright astounding.
Look into who was funding the company.
IANAL
hey, you don't need to be. The US Constitution is 8th Grade material, and is meant to be understand all (part of that "consent of the governed" thing). It's a minimal requirement for a complete public education.
but AFAIK this sort of agreement is perfectly constitutional.
Sure, Interstate Compacts are perfectly constitutional, Article I Section 10. Congress just needs to approve them. The Port Authority of NY & NJ is one that many readers may be familiar with. There is an effort to have a group of States form a Healthcare compact as well.
The government being in the Paris agreement or not is totally independent of the U.S. leading in renewable energy development, which will continue to be true.
Bingo. Watch Tesla put up a few tens of millions of solar roofs and technological innovation will accomplish that which government treaties could never hope to.
32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The previous Pirates movie also got 32% and grossed over a billion dollars.
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They will probably do that the moment the Americans stop using the outputs of European research and industry, which will never happen, since the US wouldn't be able to produce or consume anything anymore if they did.
Show me the Americans complaining about European carbon pollution. We know about all the German coal and that giant natural gas pipeline from Russia, but we're not hypocrites.
I'm from the U.S., and you probably wouldn't even have to cite me any sources for me to believe we have generated the most cumulative CO2 of any other country. That doesn't seem like it should be news to anyone.
I'm sure the Europeans will stop using all the outputs of American research and industry any day now, to be ethically consistent.