I really don't want to see some huge charge on my credit card 'cause the kids were playing with the computer....
If that's really your only hesitation you can get a prepaid Visa at Walmart for less than any of these apps used to cost, then you'll get them all.
Hey, I still use iMovie after trying to make any of the open source "options" work at all for very simple home-movie editing. They were all crash-prone, couldn't handle the video from my Android or Canon, or just had a UI that was so tough to use that I spent more time fixing problems than editing.
I don't even like the current iMovie - I'd really prefer a stable open source system that emulated iMovie from 15 years ago, but alas, that's not in the cards. And at least I can make a simple video with a few audio and video tracks in only 3x runtime with the current iMovie.
Psychologically, it's a "voice of authority". Humans seem to be hard-wired to accept authority. It's a good idea for keeping kids from being eaten by lions.
By adulthood, humans should learn to reject arbitrary authority. But it seems to be very easy for people to delay that maturation by decades or even forever - they accept gods, presidents, and televisions as "voices of authority" and obey their commands.
It's really not good for anybody to have adults thinking and behaving like children, except for those who wish to control them.
That one wasn't a great example of movie-making but it was the necessary one, and actually makes the trilogy both actual SciFi and reasonable philosophy.
Why? Because at the end of "The Matrix", Neo was flying around and shit, feeling all victorious. By the end of "Revolutions", Neo is in the "real world" doing supernatural stuff.
Does that make him The One? Does that make him magical?
No, it just means that the world that Morpheus helped Neo escape to was an outside fantasy, meant to contain those who could not accept the standard fantasy. There is no magic in the world of The Matrix. There's only the hard brutal reality of humans dominated by machines, and Neo can't do anything magical in the actual real world.
This gets back to Neo being offered two choices - the red pill and the blue pill. It's because he makes his choice from the palette of choices offered that he fails.
Do you want to vote red or vote blue? Pick one! But that "choice" is itself a means of control - to be free you have to make your own choices, and make the world what you want it to be on on your own terms. Be wary of anybody who offers you "freedom" on their terms.
The Matrix trilogy was a tragic allegory about control. Stop at film 1 if you want to remain in the fantasy.
I wonder how many of this "unknown bugs" used by "slick code" where put there on purpose in windows and how much is actual bugs.
If you talk to people who have seen the older parts of Windows source, you start to become less conspiratorial. Much of the code was written when these machines were only networked if the company had a Novell network (yeah, yeah, both of you who ran LANMan can pipe down) and security wasn't even on the RADAR. Modern programmers at Microsoft are either disgusted or terrified by it, from what I hear.
C'mon, if you're going to hold yourself out as a professional propagandist, at least put in the effort to get your possessive pronoun number agreement correct.
I'm glad I use Linux and not have to worry about these exploits and zero day attacks.
Hey, the NSA probably has more people working on breaking linux than we have working on building it. Be ready to apply updates when SB drops that tranche. Practice defense-in-depth.
World War 1 AND World war 2 both started in and where fought at least partially in Europe.... And that's just the highlights since the 19th Century... Welcome to the gutter with the rest of the "civilized" world.
Don't be fooled by labels - WWI and WW2 are just labels put on times. As the European colonial empires began to fade in the early twentieth century, they wished to re-exert their influence in the world and began a sequence of events that led into what was called WWI, and that sequence has not drawn to a close, with war still continuing today largely over the British partitioning of the Middle East.
Historians are obsessed with weaponry, but just because there were pauses in shooting doesn't mean that the totality of events in every society involved did not continue as a continuous sequence of atrocities and disasters (and of course the shooting starts up again, from time to time).
Wilson and Col. House certainly made things worse, but there was plenty of malfeasance for them to wade into, a consequence of European power mongering.
But those Americans sure like to eat fried food! (and seriously, cut out the sweets, 'murka).
Only while we remain tethered to the ISP. Some day, hopefully, the internet will become truly P2P, where no one can interfere
Right. The special irony here is that CloudFlare benefits from the massive centralization of the Internet that its creators hoped to avoid but the regulators have seen to.
A decentralized acceleration engine would have your neighbor down the street holding his recent copy of a website asset and your computer would find it with a proximity-sensitive and cryptographically-secure DHT algorithm and pull it from there. That would be cheaper for everybody involved, even if that request netted your neighbor a micro-satoshi.
In the real world, the ISP's ban any such "servers" and the PUC's protect them from competition, so we have CloudFlares who work to get one of their caches as close to you as possible.
Between the **AA and CloudFlare, it's still no contest who the good guys are.
Pretty sure Virgin is going to do the same thing that Comcast does now - separate IP range, separate SSID, separate MAC addys, separate bandwidth allocation/QoS...
And yet, the aforementioned SWAT Team / ICE brigate will demand _only_ to know the address where the traffic is coming from and by time Brad tells Tad tells Chad, that footnote on an administrative file will be brought up only in a wrongful death inquiry. (spoiler: use of force was justified).
I am so tired of TV news programs that show jiggly, bouncy, shaky video clips
OK, reason #759 to not watch television 'news'.
What is your excuse on the first 758? Obviously you have an Internet - make a news tab set and set up a smart list on your podcatcher.. Stop wasting your time/life on their ancient propaganda mechanism where they decide what you will know.
Let me know when it can convert the video to landscape mode and then punch the person who recorded it.
You can watch a vertical video on a landscape screen if you have to, but complaining about it instead of watching it on a vertical screen is just a sign of neuroticism.
You're missing all the death-by-a-thousand-cuts taxes, so the comparison really is useless, sorry.
80% of Americans have no savings and are living paycheck-to-paycheck. You won't have luck raising their taxes - that's why the Fed is holding down interest rates beyond all reasonable measures.
But the #1 hidden government cost ("taxes") is regulations which have an effective tax rate of 200% (see paper). This one factor is responsible for the vast majority of poverty in the US. And, frankly, reduced tax revenues, parallel to the Laffer Curve. All the other taxes pale in comparison.
On average, 205,300 jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth and not allow the unemployment situation to get worse.
So when you read "added 98,000" you have to understand "lost 108,000" relative to steady state.
And when the loyal press diligently repeats "and the unemployment rate fell" you can fall back on your fourth-grade mathematics to know that they're lying with statistics (like removing people who cannot find work).
Why this is important: since the Dot-Bomb the job market had not has a sustained period of permanent job growth. Throughout the "recovery" job rates have constantly declined. There is *no* evidence that the job market will *ever* recover.
Austrian economists understand that this is because of the time value of money and that artificially-suppressed interest rates prevent lending and by extension economic growth. But the Fed has both the responsibility to service the interest on the National Debt and setting the interest rates, and if rates rise to a more natural 8% or so, the US will default on debt payments. So they can either have the economy crash or crash the economy. That is their pickle and they have chosen to spread the misery rather than risk their seat of power. Unfortunately even for then, the current trajectory is unsustainable over a long term and this will eventually result in a currency crash, revolution, or tyranny (choose two). Keynesians believe that starting wars are the best way out of a bad economic situation and even though the Middle East wars haven't fixed the economy they're looking to knock over Syria and North Korea (damn the EMP's, or do those break wiindows?)
Fortunately we have the Feds' imposition of Common Core Math (Pearson style) so 4th-grade math won't be much of an impediment for long.
Lower the production and compliance costs or increase the number of people with the rare diseases. The second one isn't possible so the first one is mandatory. That is within the FDA's control.
Bureaucrats will tend to want to do neither and to make everybody else pay for their phoney baloney jobs but that does nothing to improve market incentives and only winds up increasing costs further.
"also you are banned for using the right pronouns and for blaspheming our Prophet (pbuh)."
Shit, I created a new business account this morning and got banned for uploading a profile pic (no funny business, just my business logo). It was tagged as "suspicious activity". I tried to reactive it but my business phone number (which I've had for 13 years now) is "unsupported" for a phone call or SMS to confirm.
I had the account open for, I think two minutes before getting banned. So, really, pronoun use and blasphemy must just be if you're not trying hard enough. Be a real rebel and complete your account profile!
I can't imagine how much fun it is to interface with their backend if this is the way the frontend works.
Slashdot Mirror
If they don't realize the odor, it's not strong enough to worry about.
When it comes to tech nerds, that's almost always entirely untrue.
Why would you care about how long it would take? You don't have to watch it to completion!
Single city dweller, eh? Or does your spouse take care of the laundry and kids?
I really don't want to see some huge charge on my credit card 'cause the kids were playing with the computer....
If that's really your only hesitation you can get a prepaid Visa at Walmart for less than any of these apps used to cost, then you'll get them all.
Hey, I still use iMovie after trying to make any of the open source "options" work at all for very simple home-movie editing. They were all crash-prone, couldn't handle the video from my Android or Canon, or just had a UI that was so tough to use that I spent more time fixing problems than editing.
I don't even like the current iMovie - I'd really prefer a stable open source system that emulated iMovie from 15 years ago, but alas, that's not in the cards. And at least I can make a simple video with a few audio and video tracks in only 3x runtime with the current iMovie.
I have seen it on TV, so it must be true.
Psychologically, it's a "voice of authority". Humans seem to be hard-wired to accept authority. It's a good idea for keeping kids from being eaten by lions.
By adulthood, humans should learn to reject arbitrary authority. But it seems to be very easy for people to delay that maturation by decades or even forever - they accept gods, presidents, and televisions as "voices of authority" and obey their commands.
It's really not good for anybody to have adults thinking and behaving like children, except for those who wish to control them.
That one wasn't a great example of movie-making but it was the necessary one, and actually makes the trilogy both actual SciFi and reasonable philosophy.
Why? Because at the end of "The Matrix", Neo was flying around and shit, feeling all victorious. By the end of "Revolutions", Neo is in the "real world" doing supernatural stuff.
Does that make him The One? Does that make him magical?
No, it just means that the world that Morpheus helped Neo escape to was an outside fantasy, meant to contain those who could not accept the standard fantasy. There is no magic in the world of The Matrix. There's only the hard brutal reality of humans dominated by machines, and Neo can't do anything magical in the actual real world.
This gets back to Neo being offered two choices - the red pill and the blue pill. It's because he makes his choice from the palette of choices offered that he fails.
Do you want to vote red or vote blue? Pick one! But that "choice" is itself a means of control - to be free you have to make your own choices, and make the world what you want it to be on on your own terms. Be wary of anybody who offers you "freedom" on their terms.
The Matrix trilogy was a tragic allegory about control. Stop at film 1 if you want to remain in the fantasy.
Now, any sane society would just have public transportation instead of "Public Transportation with a private company skimming 20% off the top"
Only if the government-run model were less expensive.
Many government programs are only 30% efficient. 80% would be seen as a miracle in most of the public sphere.
I wonder how many of this "unknown bugs" used by "slick code" where put there on purpose in windows and how much is actual bugs.
If you talk to people who have seen the older parts of Windows source, you start to become less conspiratorial. Much of the code was written when these machines were only networked if the company had a Novell network (yeah, yeah, both of you who ran LANMan can pipe down) and security wasn't even on the RADAR. Modern programmers at Microsoft are either disgusted or terrified by it, from what I hear.
Backwards compatibility cuts both ways.
C'mon, if you're going to hold yourself out as a professional propagandist, at least put in the effort to get your possessive pronoun number agreement correct.
I'm glad I use Linux and not have to worry about these exploits and zero day attacks.
Hey, the NSA probably has more people working on breaking linux than we have working on building it. Be ready to apply updates when SB drops that tranche. Practice defense-in-depth.
Nerd relevant? WTAF?
When the price of foreign currencies spikes like that, for people holding USD, they're sure going to wish they were holding cryptocurrencies.
TFTFY.
OK, I tried.
World War 1 AND World war 2 both started in and where fought at least partially in Europe.... And that's just the highlights since the 19th Century... Welcome to the gutter with the rest of the "civilized" world.
Don't be fooled by labels - WWI and WW2 are just labels put on times. As the European colonial empires began to fade in the early twentieth century, they wished to re-exert their influence in the world and began a sequence of events that led into what was called WWI, and that sequence has not drawn to a close, with war still continuing today largely over the British partitioning of the Middle East.
Historians are obsessed with weaponry, but just because there were pauses in shooting doesn't mean that the totality of events in every society involved did not continue as a continuous sequence of atrocities and disasters (and of course the shooting starts up again, from time to time).
Wilson and Col. House certainly made things worse, but there was plenty of malfeasance for them to wade into, a consequence of European power mongering.
But those Americans sure like to eat fried food! (and seriously, cut out the sweets, 'murka).
Only while we remain tethered to the ISP. Some day, hopefully, the internet will become truly P2P, where no one can interfere
Right. The special irony here is that CloudFlare benefits from the massive centralization of the Internet that its creators hoped to avoid but the regulators have seen to.
A decentralized acceleration engine would have your neighbor down the street holding his recent copy of a website asset and your computer would find it with a proximity-sensitive and cryptographically-secure DHT algorithm and pull it from there. That would be cheaper for everybody involved, even if that request netted your neighbor a micro-satoshi.
In the real world, the ISP's ban any such "servers" and the PUC's protect them from competition, so we have CloudFlares who work to get one of their caches as close to you as possible.
Between the **AA and CloudFlare, it's still no contest who the good guys are.
Pretty sure Virgin is going to do the same thing that Comcast does now - separate IP range, separate SSID, separate MAC addys, separate bandwidth allocation/QoS...
And yet, the aforementioned SWAT Team / ICE brigate will demand _only_ to know the address where the traffic is coming from and by time Brad tells Tad tells Chad, that footnote on an administrative file will be brought up only in a wrongful death inquiry. (spoiler: use of force was justified).
cf. Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
I am so tired of TV news programs that show jiggly, bouncy, shaky video clips
OK, reason #759 to not watch television 'news'.
What is your excuse on the first 758? Obviously you have an Internet - make a news tab set and set up a smart list on your podcatcher.. Stop wasting your time/life on their ancient propaganda mechanism where they decide what you will know.
Let me know when it can convert the video to landscape mode and then punch the person who recorded it.
You can watch a vertical video on a landscape screen if you have to, but complaining about it instead of watching it on a vertical screen is just a sign of neuroticism.
What is it...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BS...
Both of them can be California companies soon if #calexit would just hurry the eff up.
You're missing all the death-by-a-thousand-cuts taxes, so the comparison really is useless, sorry.
80% of Americans have no savings and are living paycheck-to-paycheck. You won't have luck raising their taxes - that's why the Fed is holding down interest rates beyond all reasonable measures.
But the #1 hidden government cost ("taxes") is regulations which have an effective tax rate of 200% (see paper). This one factor is responsible for the vast majority of poverty in the US. And, frankly, reduced tax revenues, parallel to the Laffer Curve. All the other taxes pale in comparison.
Which part of which constitution do you think does that?
If it exists, I don't think anybody is following it. cf. student loans, health insurance, roads, etc.
Wow, kids with early 4chan accounts are now assistant professors. Let that sink in a while.
Nope, it got reinstalled from the EFI rootkit.
128k
Newer estimates are higher:
So when you read "added 98,000" you have to understand "lost 108,000" relative to steady state.
And when the loyal press diligently repeats "and the unemployment rate fell" you can fall back on your fourth-grade mathematics to know that they're lying with statistics (like removing people who cannot find work).
Why this is important: since the Dot-Bomb the job market had not has a sustained period of permanent job growth. Throughout the "recovery" job rates have constantly declined. There is *no* evidence that the job market will *ever* recover.
Austrian economists understand that this is because of the time value of money and that artificially-suppressed interest rates prevent lending and by extension economic growth. But the Fed has both the responsibility to service the interest on the National Debt and setting the interest rates, and if rates rise to a more natural 8% or so, the US will default on debt payments. So they can either have the economy crash or crash the economy. That is their pickle and they have chosen to spread the misery rather than risk their seat of power. Unfortunately even for then, the current trajectory is unsustainable over a long term and this will eventually result in a currency crash, revolution, or tyranny (choose two). Keynesians believe that starting wars are the best way out of a bad economic situation and even though the Middle East wars haven't fixed the economy they're looking to knock over Syria and North Korea (damn the EMP's, or do those break wiindows?)
Fortunately we have the Feds' imposition of Common Core Math (Pearson style) so 4th-grade math won't be much of an impediment for long.
Lower the production and compliance costs or increase the number of people with the rare diseases. The second one isn't possible so the first one is mandatory. That is within the FDA's control.
Bureaucrats will tend to want to do neither and to make everybody else pay for their phoney baloney jobs but that does nothing to improve market incentives and only winds up increasing costs further.
Hehehe - sorry, I ran out of mod points this morning.
I wonder if the people exploiting Mirai for profit will start disinfecting this thing.
"also you are banned for using the right pronouns and for blaspheming our Prophet (pbuh)."
Shit, I created a new business account this morning and got banned for uploading a profile pic (no funny business, just my business logo). It was tagged as "suspicious activity". I tried to reactive it but my business phone number (which I've had for 13 years now) is "unsupported" for a phone call or SMS to confirm.
I had the account open for, I think two minutes before getting banned. So, really, pronoun use and blasphemy must just be if you're not trying hard enough. Be a real rebel and complete your account profile!
I can't imagine how much fun it is to interface with their backend if this is the way the frontend works.