It's comment like "redneck Trump voters" that helped get Trump elected. Stereotyping and insulting anyone who wouldn't bend the knee to the burgeoning Clinton empire actually attracted Trump voters or turn people off voting for anyone which also hurt Clinton more than Trump.
Post election research has shown that getting Trump elected is one thing that rednecks (as in poor rural white people) are actually pretty innocent of. The bulk of Trump voters were relatively well educated and affluent people in the upper income brackets so blaming rednecks and working class whites rather unfair. Most Trump voters were relatively well to do white suburbanites, evangelicals and conservative Latinos. As for bending the knee to the Clinton empire, you guys bent the knee for the Bush dynasty twice (although I suppose that does not count with them being right thinking Republicans) and then when confronted with the choice of normal corruption under the Clintons and complete incompetence, utter debauchery and national humiliation under Trump you guys chose Trump.
By "russian investors" you mean KG&B Inc. ?
"no less than nine US government agencies" -- so if everybody else does it then all good. Not to pick on anybody specifically but w.t.f...
Generally I'm against allowing the Russians to invest in anything of any strategic or military value. However, I also feel compelled to ask why, if the deal was approved by nine different US government agencies, are you cherrypicking Hillary Clinton and the State department to be the focus of your fury instead of venting your righteous outrage equally on the leaders of all nine agency heads? Also I was under the impression that Trump and Vladimir are besties now. According to surveys, Big Vlad is enjoying great popularity and an all time high approval rating among Trump supporters. So why exactly is it such a source of blind rage for you right-wingers that a Russian company owns a Canadian company that in turn owns 20% of your uranium production capacity even if it is true that it has ties to the FSB and Big Vlad?...especially since none of the uranium they produce can leave the United States without the express permission of the Trump administration.
Does this count the number of times he golfed? Or just the number of times he went to a golf course? He owns a bunch of them, you know...
If the former, then he gets an amazing amount of work done while golfing. If the latter, well - fake news is fake, ya know?
Hmmm... Let's click the nifty complete data table link and find out shall we...
40 confirmed golfing trips.
28 probable golfing trips.
17 probably non-golfing related trips to a Golf course.
So even if we discard everything except Trump's confirmed golf trips he's been golfing every eight days at a cost of at least $42,510,956 to the tax payer. I'm sure you'll consider that a good investment of your taxes.
but then, you are not an infantile narcissist who is looking to sell the US to the highest bidder
Good thing Hilldog only got to sell Uranium to Russia and not the entire country. Now we just have to wait for the Rove style politics to fade away so people can come to reality and see that Trump is not involved with Russia, that the leftists are just gaslighting the country.
She never sold any Uranium to Russia, she was one of numerous people whose government agency approved a deal where Russian investors were allowed to buy a company that controls 20% of the US uranium manufacturing capacity. If Trump ever decides that this Russian owned company's US based Uranium manufacturing operation is up to any kind of shenanigans he can send in the FBI, HLS, CIA, National Guard, Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and anybody else the thinks best qualified to put a stop to it. Not that I expect that Trump will need to or want to do that in view of what good terms he is with his bestest friend Vladimir. (Fun fact: The Uranium One deal was unanimously approved by no less than nine US government agencies and Hillary only had control over one of them, the State Department).
So you read my post, filtered out everything except the word 'bot' and instantly boiled over? From what I can tell this bot just monitored impersonator trolls and warned people about them. If Twitter used it to spam their abuse regulators instead of users with reports of what known trolls are doing, when they are abusing somebody and how severe the abuse is and then warned the users and suspended the troll once they had enough evidence I'd say that would constitute a solution to a certain very pervasive problem.
Yeah but Twitter's biggest problem is also how to clamp down on abusive trolls. A former Twitter employee called the platform: "a honeypot for a**holes”, even Twitter's CEO started worrying about the a**hole factor when celebrities got fed up with the trolls and started abandoning Twitter. It seems to me this bot might be the answer to Twitter's problems rather than one of their problems even if they only used it to monitor the abusers more effectively. They should be sending these people joboffers instead of ban notices.
In Vietnam they fight wrongful views, we're fighting fake news, can someone tell me what the difference is?
Preferably someone from the agreeable reality department.
They guys complaining about 'wrongful views' are the spawn of Satan the fat old orange guy with the comb over complaining about 'fake news' is the greatest leader of all time. That is also true in reverse by the way although the semantics may differ. It all depends on your point of view. Extremism is like a computer, you can run "Bat-shit-crazy Commie OS" on it or you can run "Bat-shit-crazy Republican OS", on it. If you want to spice up your life you can get two of them. Run "Bat-shit-crazy Muslim Fundamentalist OS" on one, "Bat-shit-crazy Christian Fundamentalist OS" on the other and then connect them with an ethernet cable. I recommend doing so remotely from a bunker about 80 kilometres away since the reaction on when you connect those two tends to be both instant and very explosive.
So if that was the case then why don't they build new pipelines to somewhere else?
Because gas in general is getting too expensive and you'd be better off spending your money on renewables, even the Wall Street banksters and the sovereign wealth funds of the Gulf States are beginning to figure that out.
Or invest in other types of energy-production? Or start building houses with better insulation to reduce the heating-requirements >90%.
I think you'll find that this is what many N-European countries are doing. Both of these trends translate into bad news for Russia though since Putin relies on oil and gas money to pay for his war machine and buy popularity with the people.
The ultimate test will be of energy prices in the US fall dramatically due to Trump's anti-environmental polices.
The real test of all of this has actually happened in the Gulf. The Arabs are actually pumping oil and gas around with solar power because it is cheaper than generating electricity by burning gas, so they stopped burning gas, sold it off and pocketed the difference... that's writing on a wall,... large amounts of wall street money moving into renewables is writing on a wall. You'll know renewables are winning when the average price of solar & wind per kWh dips below that of gas in Europe and N-America and it is about to do that (according to Bloomberg it already is). What you are seeing in those graphs is the natural gas and coal industries with their ever increasing extraction costs at war with renewables and their ever decreasing production prices due to ever increasing economy of scale and it was Germany who played a large part in setting that off with it's Energiewende. Form the point of view of a renewables enthusiast the fun is only beginning now. Germany and China are going to be the biggest players in the renewables techology scene and from their point of view Donald Trump and his presidency is a 4-8 year grace period to leave their American competitors behind as they struggle to defend themselves against Trump's efforts to put them out of business. Just watching the US delegations show up at these energy technology and climate conferences and giving presentations about how coal and gas are the future are regarded as comedy performances, people are actually laughing at these people.
The renewables aren't just about getting off coal. They're about getting off Russian energy supplies, and away from Russian price manipulation.
If the price was going to be too much for nations in free Europe they are free to not sign the next contract and consider the costs of new gas imports with ships.
Firstly, you just confirmed what the said, the Russians set prices at what they want and tell people they can always freeze in the cold over the winter becaue as you know full well gas consumption would be hard to cover by sea routes. Russia uses gas as a political blackmail instrument so it's about more than just the gas prices, it's about politics and blackmail. Secondly, renewables are now getting cheaper than even natural gas, renewables are simply shaping up to be less expensive in every way so investing in them is investing in the future of energy production.
Well, it depends on your point of view if the price in 2007 was 50% of what it is now then it has doubled, if the price is now what it was in 2007 plus 50% of what it was then the price has gone up by 34%. The actual electricity price increase in Germany since 2007 is more like 27-8%. This is not wildly different from what has happened to energy prices in the US since 2005. The difference being that Germany built renewables while the USA built coal and gas and blamed price hikes due to rising extraction costs and good old fashioned price gouging on the EPA. Extraction prices are only going up, renewable prics are going down due to economy of scale in production and the absencenof extraction costs. I’d say the Germans are betting on the right horse in this race.
That's why I told your mother to lay off the mexican food on the day before my weekly trip thru her town. All day long people have been asking me if I have shit on my chin, and I just point to your mom and say "Ask her."
Here we see Trump Derangement Syndrome in full effect. A story completely unrelated to Trump, and yet the poster manages to shoehorn a spittle-flecked rant into the thread. AND it got modded up. That's collective derangement. Remember folks, these people losing their shit are the same ones who told us they were qualified to rule us because they were so educated and erudite. Would actual educated people be throwing temper tantrums and acting out in public like this?
If 25 Million isn't a big city.... What the heck is? Seriously though, why 25 Million? Is it just because they have already burned past 20 million and are all, "Well, guess we can't kick people out now, so let's just call it at 25"? What "Big City diseases" can they avoid at 25 million that aren't happening at 30? And further, is this just Shanghi proper, or is this going to limit the Shanghi region which is already pushing 35 million people.
Tokyo is at 33 million and projected to reach 37 million by 2030. If you count the greater Tokyo area they are already coming up on 40 million meaning that they'll probably top 50 million by 2030.
Here we see Trump Derangement Syndrome in full effect. A story completely unrelated to Trump, and yet the poster manages to shoehorn a spittle-flecked rant into the thread. AND it got modded up. That's collective derangement. Remember folks, these people losing their shit are the same ones who told us they were qualified to rule us because they were so educated and erudite. Would actual educated people be throwing temper tantrums and acting out in public like this?
OK, I resent that. I was comparing Trump's success at fooling 62,979,879 separate instances of the same natural intelligence to what these scientists achieved. If anything Trump's achievement is greater since each one of the 62,979,879 instances of the NI Trump fooled with his garbage data is a functionally quite distinct variation of the base NI whereas these scientists only managed to bamboozle a single variant of a much more primitive AI with much less variation from instance to instance. How is that unrelated?... plus I have done nothing but heap praise on Mr. Trump for his skills at generating highly plausible garbage data. I find it most interesting from a purely scientific point of view that NIs are every bit as easy to fool by feeding them complete garbage data as artificial AIs are even though NIs are supposed to be more sophisticated. In fact Mr. Trump, with his political career, may have significantly advanced our understanding of how NIs deal with adversarial examples.
Donald Trump conned half the US electorate into believing he would be a competent president who'd bring change and reform that'd benefit the common man at the expense of the super wealthy. So it seems to me that artificial intelligence and natural intelligence suffer from the same flaw, feed them enough garbage data and they'll believe anything.
You know... The guy who was put in power by Boris Yeltsin. Who himself was put in power by 300 million election funds by the USA, funnelled to him via the world bank. Versus 5 million for his competitor, whose hotel booking was always strangely cancelled by some "prankster", among other forms of permanent harassment. Something the CIA themselves openly admit nowadays.
Aka: Yet another convenient scapegoat troll in the closet, that the US can take out, whenever things aren't going so great at home. Like Saddam, for example, until dumbass W. Bush emptied that closet.
Yeah, yeah, if you trace anything that ever went tits-up in the history of Russia back far enough you can blame it on the west. I've heard that one before so excuse me for yawning.
So if you think Putin got Trump into power... ROFL.
So why is Big Vlad scared enough to 'monitor the activities of certain social media companies' if it is not fear of revenge?
In the intelligence community the person who runs an intelligence asset is called a 'handler' so technically, Putin is Trump's FSB handler which also explains James Clapper's recent comment on Trump for those who didn't get it, although Clapper probably meant it to be taken as sarcasm.
Linux desktop may very well become the only desktop in the future. Not because it won. It's because the other desktops died.
The only real use for a desktop now is for business use. Personal use of desktops is crashing. Mobile devices have effectively taken over personal use.
The browser has taken over as the OS on desktops. The applications are provided mostly by website interfaces. I have desktop machines that no longer have office suites installed, or graphical manipulation programs.
We will still see beefed up machines. But only for the purpose of running online application via the browser.
Personally I run Linux on basically every device attached to a monitor or TV as well as all my server gear. I have token windows and apple devices / vm's. But even a Linux fan boy like myself knows Linux desktop will never have it's big year. Simply because the desktop is dead.
I predict that Linux will become the sole unchallenged hegemon of the desktop the same year that broccoli flavoured ice cream overtakes chocolate in popularity.
Maybe satellite internet (per previous Slashdot article) isn't such a bad idea?
It is, right up until they start shooting down each others satellites. On the bright side though, whoever finds an economic way to clean up massive amounts of orbital debris stands to make a killing once the shooting stops.
The US used to (still does, I bet) tap Russian cables. Turnabout is fair play?
Read "Blind Man's Bluff" for stories of us playing all sorts of crazy sub games against the Russians.
Kinda feels like we've got a new Cold War, don't it? Only now it's an Information / Data / Commerce thing, not a Nukes thing.
And the Russians spied on the US, got a hold of US naval cipher machines, decoded US naval signals traffic into the 1980s, stole all kids of other military information and industrial trade secrets, compromised and blackmailed politicians, the list goes on. It's not as if the Russians were somehow unfairly victimised and that we should let them tap our signals traffic wholesale to make up for our past unfair transgressions against poor mother Russia because there weren't any. I say chase these subs off, if they refuse to leave sink them. If they claim their subs are't there the won't be missed when they are torpedoed. That's what the Russians would do if NATO subs refused to stop skulking around their undersea cables and no mistake about it. One thing is for sure, the NATO countries had better start checking these cables every couple of months or so for bugging devices. Either way, you'd better start encrypting all of your signals traffic, if the Russians aren't listening it's the NSA, the Brits, the French, the Germans, the Chinese.....
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It's comment like "redneck Trump voters" that helped get Trump elected. Stereotyping and insulting anyone who wouldn't bend the knee to the burgeoning Clinton empire actually attracted Trump voters or turn people off voting for anyone which also hurt Clinton more than Trump.
Post election research has shown that getting Trump elected is one thing that rednecks (as in poor rural white people) are actually pretty innocent of. The bulk of Trump voters were relatively well educated and affluent people in the upper income brackets so blaming rednecks and working class whites rather unfair. Most Trump voters were relatively well to do white suburbanites, evangelicals and conservative Latinos. As for bending the knee to the Clinton empire, you guys bent the knee for the Bush dynasty twice (although I suppose that does not count with them being right thinking Republicans) and then when confronted with the choice of normal corruption under the Clintons and complete incompetence, utter debauchery and national humiliation under Trump you guys chose Trump.
By "russian investors" you mean KG&B Inc. ? "no less than nine US government agencies" -- so if everybody else does it then all good. Not to pick on anybody specifically but w.t.f...
Generally I'm against allowing the Russians to invest in anything of any strategic or military value. However, I also feel compelled to ask why, if the deal was approved by nine different US government agencies, are you cherrypicking Hillary Clinton and the State department to be the focus of your fury instead of venting your righteous outrage equally on the leaders of all nine agency heads? Also I was under the impression that Trump and Vladimir are besties now. According to surveys, Big Vlad is enjoying great popularity and an all time high approval rating among Trump supporters. So why exactly is it such a source of blind rage for you right-wingers that a Russian company owns a Canadian company that in turn owns 20% of your uranium production capacity even if it is true that it has ties to the FSB and Big Vlad? ...especially since none of the uranium they produce can leave the United States without the express permission of the Trump administration.
Does this count the number of times he golfed? Or just the number of times he went to a golf course? He owns a bunch of them, you know...
If the former, then he gets an amazing amount of work done while golfing. If the latter, well - fake news is fake, ya know?
Hmmm... Let's click the nifty complete data table link and find out shall we...
40 confirmed golfing trips.
28 probable golfing trips.
17 probably non-golfing related trips to a Golf course.
So even if we discard everything except Trump's confirmed golf trips he's been golfing every eight days at a cost of at least $42,510,956 to the tax payer. I'm sure you'll consider that a good investment of your taxes.
Including an intimate evening with Kellyanne Conway.
I think I threw up a little in my mouth. Does she cosplay as Skeletor for you at the same time?
Skeletor? I always thought of Kellyanne as more of a cursed mummy.
but then, you are not an infantile narcissist who is looking to sell the US to the highest bidder
Good thing Hilldog only got to sell Uranium to Russia and not the entire country. Now we just have to wait for the Rove style politics to fade away so people can come to reality and see that Trump is not involved with Russia, that the leftists are just gaslighting the country.
She never sold any Uranium to Russia, she was one of numerous people whose government agency approved a deal where Russian investors were allowed to buy a company that controls 20% of the US uranium manufacturing capacity. If Trump ever decides that this Russian owned company's US based Uranium manufacturing operation is up to any kind of shenanigans he can send in the FBI, HLS, CIA, National Guard, Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and anybody else the thinks best qualified to put a stop to it. Not that I expect that Trump will need to or want to do that in view of what good terms he is with his bestest friend Vladimir. (Fun fact: The Uranium One deal was unanimously approved by no less than nine US government agencies and Hillary only had control over one of them, the State Department).
You think bots spamming is the solution, really?
So you read my post, filtered out everything except the word 'bot' and instantly boiled over? From what I can tell this bot just monitored impersonator trolls and warned people about them. If Twitter used it to spam their abuse regulators instead of users with reports of what known trolls are doing, when they are abusing somebody and how severe the abuse is and then warned the users and suspended the troll once they had enough evidence I'd say that would constitute a solution to a certain very pervasive problem.
Yeah, Twitter has a bot policy.
https://help.twitter.com/en/ru...
Yeah but Twitter's biggest problem is also how to clamp down on abusive trolls. A former Twitter employee called the platform: "a honeypot for a**holes”, even Twitter's CEO started worrying about the a**hole factor when celebrities got fed up with the trolls and started abandoning Twitter. It seems to me this bot might be the answer to Twitter's problems rather than one of their problems even if they only used it to monitor the abusers more effectively. They should be sending these people joboffers instead of ban notices.
You can vote for Putin, the dead guy, or the guy who isn't allowed to run.
...and the pustule riddled guy in the wheelchair who glows in the dark because he forgot to scan his food with a geiger counter.
In Vietnam they fight wrongful views, we're fighting fake news, can someone tell me what the difference is?
Preferably someone from the agreeable reality department.
They guys complaining about 'wrongful views' are the spawn of Satan the fat old orange guy with the comb over complaining about 'fake news' is the greatest leader of all time. That is also true in reverse by the way although the semantics may differ. It all depends on your point of view. Extremism is like a computer, you can run "Bat-shit-crazy Commie OS" on it or you can run "Bat-shit-crazy Republican OS", on it. If you want to spice up your life you can get two of them. Run "Bat-shit-crazy Muslim Fundamentalist OS" on one, "Bat-shit-crazy Christian Fundamentalist OS" on the other and then connect them with an ethernet cable. I recommend doing so remotely from a bunker about 80 kilometres away since the reaction on when you connect those two tends to be both instant and very explosive.
So if that was the case then why don't they build new pipelines to somewhere else?
Because gas in general is getting too expensive and you'd be better off spending your money on renewables, even the Wall Street banksters and the sovereign wealth funds of the Gulf States are beginning to figure that out.
Or invest in other types of energy-production? Or start building houses with better insulation to reduce the heating-requirements >90%.
I think you'll find that this is what many N-European countries are doing. Both of these trends translate into bad news for Russia though since Putin relies on oil and gas money to pay for his war machine and buy popularity with the people.
The ultimate test will be of energy prices in the US fall dramatically due to Trump's anti-environmental polices.
The real test of all of this has actually happened in the Gulf. The Arabs are actually pumping oil and gas around with solar power because it is cheaper than generating electricity by burning gas, so they stopped burning gas, sold it off and pocketed the difference... that's writing on a wall, ... large amounts of wall street money moving into renewables is writing on a wall. You'll know renewables are winning when the average price of solar & wind per kWh dips below that of gas in Europe and N-America and it is about to do that (according to Bloomberg it already is). What you are seeing in those graphs is the natural gas and coal industries with their ever increasing extraction costs at war with renewables and their ever decreasing production prices due to ever increasing economy of scale and it was Germany who played a large part in setting that off with it's Energiewende. Form the point of view of a renewables enthusiast the fun is only beginning now. Germany and China are going to be the biggest players in the renewables techology scene and from their point of view Donald Trump and his presidency is a 4-8 year grace period to leave their American competitors behind as they struggle to defend themselves against Trump's efforts to put them out of business. Just watching the US delegations show up at these energy technology and climate conferences and giving presentations about how coal and gas are the future are regarded as comedy performances, people are actually laughing at these people.
The renewables aren't just about getting off coal. They're about getting off Russian energy supplies, and away from Russian price manipulation.
If the price was going to be too much for nations in free Europe they are free to not sign the next contract and consider the costs of new gas imports with ships.
Firstly, you just confirmed what the said, the Russians set prices at what they want and tell people they can always freeze in the cold over the winter becaue as you know full well gas consumption would be hard to cover by sea routes. Russia uses gas as a political blackmail instrument so it's about more than just the gas prices, it's about politics and blackmail. Secondly, renewables are now getting cheaper than even natural gas, renewables are simply shaping up to be less expensive in every way so investing in them is investing in the future of energy production.
Since when is +50% the same as x2?
Well, it depends on your point of view if the price in 2007 was 50% of what it is now then it has doubled, if the price is now what it was in 2007 plus 50% of what it was then the price has gone up by 34%. The actual electricity price increase in Germany since 2007 is more like 27-8%. This is not wildly different from what has happened to energy prices in the US since 2005. The difference being that Germany built renewables while the USA built coal and gas and blamed price hikes due to rising extraction costs and good old fashioned price gouging on the EPA. Extraction prices are only going up, renewable prics are going down due to economy of scale in production and the absencenof extraction costs. I’d say the Germans are betting on the right horse in this race.
Indeed, it's too brown and odorous to be spittle.
That's why I told your mother to lay off the mexican food on the day before my weekly trip thru her town. All day long people have been asking me if I have shit on my chin, and I just point to your mom and say "Ask her."
Just for the record ... that last one wasn't me.
Here we see Trump Derangement Syndrome in full effect. A story completely unrelated to Trump, and yet the poster manages to shoehorn a spittle-flecked rant into the thread. AND it got modded up. That's collective derangement. Remember folks, these people losing their shit are the same ones who told us they were qualified to rule us because they were so educated and erudite. Would actual educated people be throwing temper tantrums and acting out in public like this?
OK, I resent that.
Fine. Now go wipe the spittle off your chin.
Projecting are we?
If 25 Million isn't a big city.... What the heck is? Seriously though, why 25 Million? Is it just because they have already burned past 20 million and are all, "Well, guess we can't kick people out now, so let's just call it at 25"? What "Big City diseases" can they avoid at 25 million that aren't happening at 30? And further, is this just Shanghi proper, or is this going to limit the Shanghi region which is already pushing 35 million people.
Tokyo is at 33 million and projected to reach 37 million by 2030. If you count the greater Tokyo area they are already coming up on 40 million meaning that they'll probably top 50 million by 2030.
Donald Trump conned....
And that's different from any other President...how?
Well DUH! .... the level, quantity and quality of the garbage data (or 'adversarial examples' if you wanna get technical), what else?
Here we see Trump Derangement Syndrome in full effect. A story completely unrelated to Trump, and yet the poster manages to shoehorn a spittle-flecked rant into the thread. AND it got modded up. That's collective derangement. Remember folks, these people losing their shit are the same ones who told us they were qualified to rule us because they were so educated and erudite. Would actual educated people be throwing temper tantrums and acting out in public like this?
OK, I resent that. I was comparing Trump's success at fooling 62,979,879 separate instances of the same natural intelligence to what these scientists achieved. If anything Trump's achievement is greater since each one of the 62,979,879 instances of the NI Trump fooled with his garbage data is a functionally quite distinct variation of the base NI whereas these scientists only managed to bamboozle a single variant of a much more primitive AI with much less variation from instance to instance. How is that unrelated? ... plus I have done nothing but heap praise on Mr. Trump for his skills at generating highly plausible garbage data. I find it most interesting from a purely scientific point of view that NIs are every bit as easy to fool by feeding them complete garbage data as artificial AIs are even though NIs are supposed to be more sophisticated. In fact Mr. Trump, with his political career, may have significantly advanced our understanding of how NIs deal with adversarial examples.
Donald Trump conned half the US electorate into believing he would be a competent president who'd bring change and reform that'd benefit the common man at the expense of the super wealthy. So it seems to me that artificial intelligence and natural intelligence suffer from the same flaw, feed them enough garbage data and they'll believe anything.
You know... The guy who was put in power by Boris Yeltsin. Who himself was put in power by 300 million election funds by the USA, funnelled to him via the world bank. Versus 5 million for his competitor, whose hotel booking was always strangely cancelled by some "prankster", among other forms of permanent harassment. Something the CIA themselves openly admit nowadays.
Aka: Yet another convenient scapegoat troll in the closet, that the US can take out, whenever things aren't going so great at home. Like Saddam, for example, until dumbass W. Bush emptied that closet.
Yeah, yeah, if you trace anything that ever went tits-up in the history of Russia back far enough you can blame it on the west. I've heard that one before so excuse me for yawning.
So if you think Putin got Trump into power ... ROFL.
So why is Big Vlad scared enough to 'monitor the activities of certain social media companies' if it is not fear of revenge?
AKA, Trump's owner
In the intelligence community the person who runs an intelligence asset is called a 'handler' so technically, Putin is Trump's FSB handler which also explains James Clapper's recent comment on Trump for those who didn't get it, although Clapper probably meant it to be taken as sarcasm.
Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead
I find myself lacking words that can adequately describe just how stupid that idea is.
Linux desktop may very well become the only desktop in the future. Not because it won. It's because the other desktops died.
The only real use for a desktop now is for business use. Personal use of desktops is crashing. Mobile devices have effectively taken over personal use.
The browser has taken over as the OS on desktops. The applications are provided mostly by website interfaces. I have desktop machines that no longer have office suites installed, or graphical manipulation programs.
We will still see beefed up machines. But only for the purpose of running online application via the browser.
Personally I run Linux on basically every device attached to a monitor or TV as well as all my server gear. I have token windows and apple devices / vm's. But even a Linux fan boy like myself knows Linux desktop will never have it's big year. Simply because the desktop is dead.
I predict that Linux will become the sole unchallenged hegemon of the desktop the same year that broccoli flavoured ice cream overtakes chocolate in popularity.
Maybe satellite internet (per previous Slashdot article) isn't such a bad idea?
It is, right up until they start shooting down each others satellites. On the bright side though, whoever finds an economic way to clean up massive amounts of orbital debris stands to make a killing once the shooting stops.
The US used to (still does, I bet) tap Russian cables. Turnabout is fair play?
Read "Blind Man's Bluff" for stories of us playing all sorts of crazy sub games against the Russians.
Kinda feels like we've got a new Cold War, don't it? Only now it's an Information / Data / Commerce thing, not a Nukes thing.
And the Russians spied on the US, got a hold of US naval cipher machines, decoded US naval signals traffic into the 1980s, stole all kids of other military information and industrial trade secrets, compromised and blackmailed politicians, the list goes on. It's not as if the Russians were somehow unfairly victimised and that we should let them tap our signals traffic wholesale to make up for our past unfair transgressions against poor mother Russia because there weren't any. I say chase these subs off, if they refuse to leave sink them. If they claim their subs are't there the won't be missed when they are torpedoed. That's what the Russians would do if NATO subs refused to stop skulking around their undersea cables and no mistake about it. One thing is for sure, the NATO countries had better start checking these cables every couple of months or so for bugging devices. Either way, you'd better start encrypting all of your signals traffic, if the Russians aren't listening it's the NSA, the Brits, the French, the Germans, the Chinese .....