A shame the kids themselves don't get a say in their indoctrination & skewed education...
... in so far as the kids allow themselves to be indoctrinated.
I could have become one of the millions of "Red Guards" of the People Republic of China. I could have waved that "Little Red Book", just like millions of others, smashing homes of those accused of being "counter-revolutionary", ransacking their properties, beating/killing the people inside, just because Chairman Mao allowed those things to happen.
But I didn't, because to me it was something very wrong.
I ran away from my own family. I ran away from my hometown. I traveled alone, from the Northeastern China down to the Southern China, to Guangdong, and then, I followed people who were determined to get to Hong Kong, and in the middle of a moonless night, we went into the water, and started swimming, while the Chinese border guards were shooting at us.
As I said, I could have just accepted what I was "destined" to --- the society around me, my own clan people --- were all very supportive of Chairman Mao.
But not me.
I steadfastly refused (and still refuse) to obey leaders who have no moral. I rather die than working for authority which does not put the people first.
...first, there may be content of value on the iPad, like photos or something...
What matters is not photos or something, for Apples, so long as there is no profit to be made, they do not care.
Furthermore, the family only a simple garden variety family of peons, and anything short of the NSA (and/or GCHQ) Apple won't give a rat ass about anything.
It isn't about whether the iPad can be unlocked or not ~ of course Apple can unlock it with ease ( Apple, like any other American companies, must engineer in at least a backdoor in all their products to be utilized by the NSA), it's about the snobbish attitude of Apple towards its customers.
Perhaps I'm kinda dimmed right now, but where did you get that "disclaimer" from ??
Back to that hyperlink that Mr. Brown is charged under... anyone with a brain which consists of at least two neurons rubbing together will know that a hyperlink is a LINK and can *NEVER* become a re-publication (or a copy of) whatever content the hyperlink points to.
Furthermore, a hyperlink is merely a placeholder to a certain container (folder, site) in which the content may not be static.
For example, this link - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... points to a placeholder within the/. structure (a discussion thread in this case) and the content (the discussion thread in question) changes as more people adding more comments onto it.
As an American, I am sadden, very sadden that the government of the United States of America has become so fascist that they even try to charge people over a hyperlink !!!
In related news - mission to feed the poor in India still dependent on foreign aid
[citation needed]
As far as I know, India actually sent foreign aids amounts to millions of dollars to African countries.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but a country which is rich enough and has the money to send aids to other countries suppose to be not receiving any more aids.
I mean, India has all the rights that all the other nations (whether it be USA or Russia) have to send their craft to Sun, Moon, Mars or wherever they want to send them to.
Or just because it's India that you guys think they'll somehow fucked up ?
The truth is everybody has had hick-ups in their own space missions - NASA included.
There were a lot of groups that were equally great or even greater.
Back then sky is the limit and there were an endless supply of enthusiasm.
From Blackhat research to Whitehat to every hue of color in between, a lot of guys/kids were hopping from one chatroom into another, opening up multiple chatrooms and participating on all of them all under one screen is not uncommon.
THat was before them Moslems brought down the WTC which gave the NSA and all the other spooks their legitimate claim to spy on everyone.
In fact, a lot of NSA researchers (fulltime/partime) were recruited from those groups.
"We liked to tinker with things,â says Bowie. "We liked to create, manipulate and, most importantly, discover technology. We researched everything from discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, security tools ranging from password analysis to packet generation to exploit platforms."
Haven't carried out a detail search on the said patent, but if TFA's description is to be believable
electronic signal to control machinery
...that gonna be one heck of a very broad and very VERY valuable patent !!
'The patent office doesn't want to be embarrassed that they might issue a broad patent that would have a sweeping impact on the technology sector. Rather than be embarrassed, they're just bottling it up.'
Oh sure! With the issuance of that patent now many manufacturers / users of devices that use that technology may start receiving lawyer's letter demanding $$$, if that patent ended up being sold to some patent trolls.
Dr Bronner's is a great travel soap--you can do laundry with it, wash your body or hair (if you are not picky about how it rinses out), and even brush your teeth (if you are brave)
LOL !
You sure can wash your dog or mop the floor with the soap, but if you try to brush your teeth with it... See this link --- http://www.businessinsider.com...
3. Use As Toothpaste: You can do this (just put a drop on your toothbrush), and some people do. However, not only will it foam a lot, but it does not taste like peppermint or citrus or almond - it tastes like soap.
Chinese philosophy, even today and which makes it so amenable to communism, is to favor central authority over individualism. Whether that philosophy is for the best remains to be seen. Western attempts at the same resulted in concentrating power in inept individuals
The Chinese do not fear inept individuals as emperors. They fear emperors who have too many of those "bright ideas" which often result in the death of untold millions.
The last "Emperor" that the Chinese had had was Mao, and under his tutelage, more than 60 million Chinese perished, mostly of starvation.
Long term expect many interesting new ideas with proven tech
The term "Proven Tech" implies that the technology has been proven by others first, or in other words, "borrowed technology", just like China is doing.
But anyway, all power to the Indian space missions !!
the prisons are full of blacks and people from underprivileged backgrounds
Would you mind educate us what do you mean by "underprivileged", background or otherwise?
I mean, I've seen this word "underprivileged" thrown everywhere, as if it's something that can ensure one to win an argument or such.
Why are the "blacks" "underprivileged" while others, including the Asians (such as I am) are not?
I arrived in America with nothing, yes, with not even the ability of understanding English, and yet, through the decades of struggle I've at least achieved to gain the things that I have (knowledge, skills, financial rewards).
Was I "underprivileged" when I landed on America? Was I ever included in the "underprivileged" lineup, per your definition ?
Why then when I, and many many hundreds of thousands of immigrants (even those who migrated from Africa) could climb up the social ladder while the "indigenous" blacks can't ? Or is it because they lack the incentive to do so ?
Stop throwing around that "underprivileged" word as if it's the one thing people will buy into. I for one, do not, and will never buy into that kind of bullshit.
One's life is under one's mastership - and if one refused to master his/her own life, don't you tell me that they are "underprivileged" because they gave up before the struggle begins.
Yeah, I like making sweeping generalizations about tens of thousands of people that I've never met to justify horrific and inhumane treatment too.
Unless the prisoners were being imprisoned in North Korea or China or Sudan or any of those fascist countries, most of the prisoners who were incarcerated in (more civilized) countries such as the United States of America were there because they have committed crimes.
Not that all of them deserve to be treated inhumanely but we gotta understand that most of them do pose a real harm to the society at large.
how can we be sure that an exchange won't be hacked?
There is a simple way out of the mess... do NOT keep your coins in the exchanges.
I have offline wallets - yes, chip based wallets that keep my virtual currencies from prying parties.
I'll hook them up online when I need to use them to load or unload the virtual currencies - mostly, to convert the virtual currencies into real world assets.
I do not have the link right now but I remember there *was* an interactive map from NASA that allows user to input the sea-level (either hike or lower the sea/river/lake-level ) and see the changes appear in seconds.
I'll try to find that link (no guarantee), but if anyone has that link as well, mind sharing it with us ?
Thats a clever way to get users to tie billing info to their accounts and would add lots of value.
Wonder how many of the 450 million subscribers would sign up for the $1 refund ?
Some might not sign up because they didn't know about it, some might not sign up because it's merely $1, but then... some might not sign up because their privacy is worth much more than $1.
Consider that a typical top-end solar panel can get 255 Wp (Wp = Watts at Peak) for a panel. The referenced panel holds 60 156x156mm monocrystalline polysilicon cells, totaling about 1.4602m^2 , or roughly 174.6Wp/m^2
1,100,000 km^2 (from above) comes to 192 terawatts of electricity under ideal lab conditions.
All is good and all that, except for the energy input required to produce the solar cells.
Assuming we produce the solar cells here, at the bottom of the gravity well, and transport them to the moon - even if we do not include the energy required to transport that much solar cells to the moon - the energy requirement in the production of the solar cells itself would further deplete the fosiil fuels that are left on Planet Earth.
GGP talked about the possibility of coating the entire surface of the moon
... The moon has an area of 37,932,000 square km...
, would there be sufficient power left on planet Earth to produce that many solar cells ?
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, US used to be the top country in the world in term of broadband competition.
I was one of the many thousands who were pulling cables in order to hook up the communities - and then the government stepped in, and gave the telco / cable operator the rights over others - which leads to what we have today, a scene where competition has been artificially choked off, and the country has suffered for it !
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Not that I want to make malicious apps running on Android. I only want to see how that thing function.
A shame the kids themselves don't get a say in their indoctrination & skewed education ...
I could have become one of the millions of "Red Guards" of the People Republic of China. I could have waved that "Little Red Book", just like millions of others, smashing homes of those accused of being "counter-revolutionary", ransacking their properties, beating/killing the people inside, just because Chairman Mao allowed those things to happen.
But I didn't, because to me it was something very wrong.
I ran away from my own family. I ran away from my hometown. I traveled alone, from the Northeastern China down to the Southern China, to Guangdong, and then, I followed people who were determined to get to Hong Kong, and in the middle of a moonless night, we went into the water, and started swimming, while the Chinese border guards were shooting at us.
As I said, I could have just accepted what I was "destined" to --- the society around me, my own clan people --- were all very supportive of Chairman Mao.
But not me.
I steadfastly refused (and still refuse) to obey leaders who have no moral. I rather die than working for authority which does not put the people first.
So please, stop all the excuses.
...first, there may be content of value on the iPad, like photos or something...
What matters is not photos or something, for Apples, so long as there is no profit to be made, they do not care.
Furthermore, the family only a simple garden variety family of peons, and anything short of the NSA (and/or GCHQ) Apple won't give a rat ass about anything.
It isn't about whether the iPad can be unlocked or not ~ of course Apple can unlock it with ease ( Apple, like any other American companies, must engineer in at least a backdoor in all their products to be utilized by the NSA), it's about the snobbish attitude of Apple towards its customers.
Didn't he have this useful disclaimer ?
Perhaps I'm kinda dimmed right now, but where did you get that "disclaimer" from ??
Back to that hyperlink that Mr. Brown is charged under ... anyone with a brain which consists of at least two neurons rubbing together will know that a hyperlink is a LINK and can *NEVER* become a re-publication (or a copy of) whatever content the hyperlink points to.
Furthermore, a hyperlink is merely a placeholder to a certain container (folder, site) in which the content may not be static.
For example, this link - /. structure (a discussion thread in this case) and the content (the discussion thread in question) changes as more people adding more comments onto it.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... points to a placeholder within the
As an American, I am sadden, very sadden that the government of the United States of America has become so fascist that they even try to charge people over a hyperlink !!!
That's forming a bank, not impersonating one
Alright wiseguy, share with us details on how to impersonate a bank then ...
I want nubile girlfriends !
...but are you sexy enough to match her ?
And the AC typifies what's wrong with the world today
...researchers conducted an experiment on the impact of the number of Facebook friends a person has on impression formation...
I read and re-read that quoted sentence and still I came away a feeling of something is amiss.
1. What kind of "researchers" are they to carry out such useless research ?
2. What kind of "research subjects" they choose ? From the dumb and dumber category ?
In related news - mission to feed the poor in India still dependent on foreign aid
[citation needed]
As far as I know, India actually sent foreign aids amounts to millions of dollars to African countries.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but a country which is rich enough and has the money to send aids to other countries suppose to be not receiving any more aids.
... you guys just have to make crude jokes ?
I mean, India has all the rights that all the other nations (whether it be USA or Russia) have to send their craft to Sun, Moon, Mars or wherever they want to send them to.
Or just because it's India that you guys think they'll somehow fucked up ?
The truth is everybody has had hick-ups in their own space missions - NASA included.
Damn, those w00w00 guys are good
There were a lot of groups that were equally great or even greater.
Back then sky is the limit and there were an endless supply of enthusiasm.
From Blackhat research to Whitehat to every hue of color in between, a lot of guys/kids were hopping from one chatroom into another, opening up multiple chatrooms and participating on all of them all under one screen is not uncommon.
THat was before them Moslems brought down the WTC which gave the NSA and all the other spooks their legitimate claim to spy on everyone.
In fact, a lot of NSA researchers (fulltime/partime) were recruited from those groups.
"We liked to tinker with things,â says Bowie. "We liked to create, manipulate and, most importantly, discover technology. We researched everything from discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, security tools ranging from password analysis to packet generation to exploit platforms."
How times have changed.
Nowadays all the 'ploits have price tags on them.
Haven't carried out a detail search on the said patent, but if TFA's description is to be believable
electronic signal to control machinery
...that gonna be one heck of a very broad and very VERY valuable patent !!
'The patent office doesn't want to be embarrassed that they might issue a broad patent that would have a sweeping impact on the technology sector. Rather than be embarrassed, they're just bottling it up.'
Oh sure! With the issuance of that patent now many manufacturers / users of devices that use that technology may start receiving lawyer's letter demanding $$$, if that patent ended up being sold to some patent trolls.
Dr Bronner's is a great travel soap--you can do laundry with it, wash your body or hair (if you are not picky about how it rinses out), and even brush your teeth (if you are brave)
LOL !
You sure can wash your dog or mop the floor with the soap, but if you try to brush your teeth with it ... See this link --- http://www.businessinsider.com...
3. Use As Toothpaste: You can do this (just put a drop on your toothbrush), and some people do. However, not only will it foam a lot, but it does not taste like peppermint or citrus or almond - it tastes like soap.
Chinese philosophy, even today and which makes it so amenable to communism, is to favor central authority over individualism. Whether that philosophy is for the best remains to be seen. Western attempts at the same resulted in concentrating power in inept individuals
The Chinese do not fear inept individuals as emperors. They fear emperors who have too many of those "bright ideas" which often result in the death of untold millions.
The last "Emperor" that the Chinese had had was Mao, and under his tutelage, more than 60 million Chinese perished, mostly of starvation.
Starting price is $10,000...
What is $10,000 in today's currency when an ash tray already cost $900, in 1985 money ?
Source:
http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...
Haven't rtfa yet, but my cynical side tells me that the settlement might be limited to Mr. Lessig and that Auzzie recording company.
MAAFIA won't sit still if the settlement is open to all - meaning, fair use for all to use songs / compilation from all record companies.
Spy vs. Spy slapstick at it's finest.
Before this, whatever we put online we have to worry about the spooks from China as well as the spooks from NSA.
Now, we have to worry about the spooks from China, spooks from NSA, and the RESIDENT spooks.
Whatever you want to call it - progression or regression - I call it scary.
Long term expect many interesting new ideas with proven tech
The term "Proven Tech" implies that the technology has been proven by others first, or in other words, "borrowed technology", just like China is doing.
But anyway, all power to the Indian space missions !!
the prisons are full of blacks and people from underprivileged backgrounds
Would you mind educate us what do you mean by "underprivileged", background or otherwise?
I mean, I've seen this word "underprivileged" thrown everywhere, as if it's something that can ensure one to win an argument or such.
Why are the "blacks" "underprivileged" while others, including the Asians (such as I am) are not?
I arrived in America with nothing, yes, with not even the ability of understanding English, and yet, through the decades of struggle I've at least achieved to gain the things that I have (knowledge, skills, financial rewards).
Was I "underprivileged" when I landed on America? Was I ever included in the "underprivileged" lineup, per your definition ?
Why then when I, and many many hundreds of thousands of immigrants (even those who migrated from Africa) could climb up the social ladder while the "indigenous" blacks can't ? Or is it because they lack the incentive to do so ?
Stop throwing around that "underprivileged" word as if it's the one thing people will buy into. I for one, do not, and will never buy into that kind of bullshit.
One's life is under one's mastership - and if one refused to master his/her own life, don't you tell me that they are "underprivileged" because they gave up before the struggle begins.
Yeah, I like making sweeping generalizations about tens of thousands of people that I've never met to justify horrific and inhumane treatment too.
Unless the prisoners were being imprisoned in North Korea or China or Sudan or any of those fascist countries, most of the prisoners who were incarcerated in (more civilized) countries such as the United States of America were there because they have committed crimes.
Not that all of them deserve to be treated inhumanely but we gotta understand that most of them do pose a real harm to the society at large.
Why isn't she using the law to have these fanatics hauled in front of a judge for the death threats they sent her?
Could it be related to the fact that there is a "Hussein" in the POTUS's name ?
how can we be sure that an exchange won't be hacked?
There is a simple way out of the mess ... do NOT keep your coins in the exchanges.
I have offline wallets - yes, chip based wallets that keep my virtual currencies from prying parties.
I'll hook them up online when I need to use them to load or unload the virtual currencies - mostly, to convert the virtual currencies into real world assets.
I do not have the link right now but I remember there *was* an interactive map from NASA that allows user to input the sea-level (either hike or lower the sea/river/lake-level ) and see the changes appear in seconds.
I'll try to find that link (no guarantee), but if anyone has that link as well, mind sharing it with us ?
Thats a clever way to get users to tie billing info to their accounts and would add lots of value.
Wonder how many of the 450 million subscribers would sign up for the $1 refund ?
Some might not sign up because they didn't know about it, some might not sign up because it's merely $1, but then ... some might not sign up because their privacy is worth much more than $1.
Consider that a typical top-end solar panel can get 255 Wp (Wp = Watts at Peak) for a panel. The referenced panel holds 60 156x156mm monocrystalline polysilicon cells, totaling about 1.4602m^2 , or roughly 174.6Wp/m^2
1,100,000 km^2 (from above) comes to 192 terawatts of electricity under ideal lab conditions.
All is good and all that, except for the energy input required to produce the solar cells.
Assuming we produce the solar cells here, at the bottom of the gravity well, and transport them to the moon - even if we do not include the energy required to transport that much solar cells to the moon - the energy requirement in the production of the solar cells itself would further deplete the fosiil fuels that are left on Planet Earth.
GGP talked about the possibility of coating the entire surface of the moon
... The moon has an area of 37,932,000 square km ...
, would there be sufficient power left on planet Earth to produce that many solar cells ?
It's not competition, it's service
Say what ??
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, US used to be the top country in the world in term of broadband competition.
I was one of the many thousands who were pulling cables in order to hook up the communities - and then the government stepped in, and gave the telco / cable operator the rights over others - which leads to what we have today, a scene where competition has been artificially choked off, and the country has suffered for it !
... and yes, Fuck http://beta.slashdot.org/ !!