... Trump talks like a gangster due to practice talking to the real thing...
Contrast that with that 'lawyer' inside the White House who is practically the biggest motherfooking gangster of all time
Even after Snowden expose how the American government has been eavesdropping on us, Obama came out accusing Snowden as a traitor, and vowing to continue his Saddam Hussein style of wiping his ass with our Constitution and Bill of Right
Although I was not born in the United States of America, I am still an American, and I am sick and tired of what has happened to my government for the past 30+ years !
It is time we kick out the D.C. establishment and get somebody else in
I am not saying that Donald Trump will be a great POTUS, but at the very least, compare to what Obama has done (for the past 7 years) and to what George W. Bush did (during his 8 year tenure) no matter how hard Donald J. Trump tries to screw up, he won't be as bad as Obama/GW Bush
I know... it's a 'whoosh' moment, but the 'terrorist' thing that you've brought up deserves more exposure...
A lot of weapons the terrorists are using came from the United States of America, and a lot of those weapons were supplied by the government of the United States of America
You may think that I hate America. It's the contrary !
I am an American and I love my adopted country
Because of my love for the United States I do not like what is happening to my government
The government of America not only runs shitty programs such as PRISM, but is actively supplying weapons / training / logistical supports to many terrorist groups (which the Obama administration term : friendly forces)
Those so-called 'friendly forces' are carrying out things that are as bad as the ones IS has been doing - they behead people, crucifying people, kidnapping young girls from minority tribes (usually the Christians) and use them as sex slaves, and so on, and so forth...
... and yet, the government of the United States of America, under Obama, chooses to ignore what is happening and continually to give support to those terrorists, supplying them weapons, and so on !
Just in case you don't know, the biggest terrorist group there is right now is running Turkey. Recep Tayyip ErdoÄYan is an Islamofascist, and his wife just publiclly called for the re-establishment of "Ottoman Harem', where teams of young girls are kept as sex slaves
What is the United States government doing?
Of course, continue its support for Recep Tayyip ErdoÄYan, the Islamofascist government !
... It should not shock you. Big companies write some of the worst apps. If a small company makes a crappy app, they are out of business. But a big company doesn't have much at stake...
In the years of yore, if you buy IBM you wouldn't get fired. It might even got you promoted
No matter how clunky, how useless, how bloated IBM's products were, many people (then) somehow equate IBM to 'excellence'
Same line of thinking is happening with brand names such as Facebook / Tweeter / Google
People can't seem to realize that they are continually duping themselves because of a certain 'brand names'
Years ago when we told others about the existence of Prism and many other oppressive projects, people say we wore tinfoil
Thanks to Snowden and many other brave souls, now the world knows how despicable the American government (at least part of it) has become
PRISM is far from being the only thing Uncle Sam has under its sleeves, there are other programs with equal dastardly scope / aim, or worse... exposing those will take more time
The world deserves to know how the American government - once the epitome of world Liberty - has become
... in the United State your entire quality of life depends on a) who you're parents are and then b) your job...
The hell is wrong with you?
If I were to depend my current quality of life entirely on my parents it would be... hmm... totally different
My parents? Peons in communist China
As for my job? I was the one who created my own job - as well as the businesses I run
The problem with you, and so many others just like you is that you prefer to wait for others to feed you, to clothe you, to hand you the so-called helicopter money, rather than create something for yourself
And it is because there are too many people like you in America that has caused the economy of the United States to go southbound
The pioneering spirit was the one thing that has made America great, unfortunately, it is no more
... The difference can be illustrated simply as: Standard programming is highly procedural, embedded programming is interrupt driven...
The funny - actually, not so funny - fact is that when we were developing software back then, we actually took great pains in counting the number of ticks per instruction and we frequently looked up the list of interrupts in the process of optimizing the software which we produce
Comparing the crop of programmers back in the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's to programmers nowadays, and the type of code that they have produced, more of the current-day programmers should be worrying about being supplanted by AI
Back then (1960's to 1980's) most of those who were doing programming tried all kinds of ways to sharpen their coding skills, and their efforts were not wasted
Despite not having all the tools / toys that the current crop of programmers get, programmers of yore produce codes which were far better than what we have right now
The chief problem with current crop of programmers is that they treat programming as a way to earn a living, while programmers of yours treat what they do as their passion
Without the 'passion' factor the codes produced today are not much different from what AI can produce - and in fact, in some cases AI are producing better codes than their human counterparts
... It's not always about raw performance vs price. Apple wouldn't be kicking the crap out of all the other...
For one, Raspberry Pi is no Apple, and Apple's mobile devices ain't driven by Raspberry Pi, either
... don't forget about other factors: compatibility, community, mindshare, design, ease-of-use, reliability, and so on...
While it is correct that all the other factors do matter, many from the Raspberry Pi community do engate with SoC from other vendors too, plus there are a lot of crossovers (both ways) from/to the arduino community as well
Call me anything you want, I ain't gonna buy this 'corporations standing up for the common people' crap
I've been in this field since the 1970's and the way I look at it is more like the following ---
Big Bad Corporations, being part and parcel of the big brother, already have backdoors built into devices they sell to the public
From time to time big brother will stage dog and pony shows designed to sway public mindset
This time they use the Islamic Terrorist attack on Christmas Party in California as the backdrop, claiming that they need to 'crack some encryption' of an iPhone belonged to one of the Islamic Terrorists, in order to find 'terrorist information'
And to maximize the impact, big brother stages it out in the open - pitting FBI/CIA/NSA on one side and the big corporations on the other side
This whole thing is nothing but a farce -
Big brother already got the backdoor handed to them prior to the release of iPhone to the public (else why the POTUS is not allowed to use iPhone as a communication device??)
Their main aim is to sway public's mindset into believing that the iPhone (and all the other communication devices) they use are 'safe' from big brother's prying eyes, plus the additional benefit of fooling countries such as Russia / China / Iran into letting their own top level people using the same devices, so that NSA/CIA could more easily eavesdropping on them
I had opportunity of meeting her decades ago and came away very impressed
But... like so many other brains, she worked for the wrong boss
No, it is not a sin to break codes - the only thing is that NSA has more interests in playing the role of a big brother sidekick than actually protecting our country
Who has never, ever had a cough, a fever, a muscle pull?
The term "Mental Illness", till today, still has the taboo that has the 'permanence' stigma tagged on it, but in truth, 'mental illness' like all other illnesses, could be big, permanent, or small, temporary
One could suffer from an illness that never goes away, a permanent handicap - similarly one could suffer from a mental illness that will stick for the entire lifetime
On the other hand, one could have a cold that goes away in a short while, and one could also be depressed which goes away in a few days
I am a geek, and I have been with many other geeks in my lifetime, and the one thing that makes geeks so geeky... is from something deep inside our psyche which drives us to behave so differently
Many of us had (and still have) to endure all kinds of insult from the world at large because of our own geekiness, and most of us suffered untold rounds of bullyings by those who think they are 'better' than us --- but still, we tough it out, come hell or high water, and remain as geeky as ever... WHY?
I wouldn't call geekiness 'mental illness' per se, but if we are to look from the logical perspective, why the geek insist on acting 'geeky' when the very act of 'geekiness' attracts bullies in pounce on them, not very far from waving red cloth in front of bulls attracting their attention?
The fact that we geeks remain geeks because of our illogical mental state, and it is that illogical conclusion that lead to our seemingly endless sufferings, at the hands of the bullies
In short... who can say they never, ever, suffer from mental illness?
I am a developer, I have been a developer for a number of decades, and I run businesses which deal in the tech scene in many location worldwide
I can tell you one thing about these 'devop', 'scrum', 'agile' or whatever the new fuck-of-the-day trend they manage to come up... PROGRAMMING IS PROGRAMMING and everything else is just addons
I have let some of my branches experiments with some of these bullshit schemes, just for experiment sake - and the result, at least to me, have yet to be impressive
Back when I started we have none of these, and yet we managed to squeeze in almost unimaginable functional stuffs within really ridiculous tiny confines (4K of RAM, 2K or ROM, for example) and today when we have almost unlimited memory space, all these bullshits that have been advertised as 'cure all' has yet to deliver
Perhaps I'm an old timer, perhaps the new hipster culture demand to have all these bullshits before they could even start doing anything, I dunno, but my feeling is, with or without these bullshit the most important factor is the PEOPLE
If you have the right folks with the right mindset, you will get great result
If what you ahve are lousy people with 'duh!' mindeset, no matter which of the new-fangled bullshit you adopt it ain't gonna give you any miracle
... One wrong (or many) does not make another wrong right...
This has nothing to do with one wrong / many worngs
This has everything to do with ***DOUBLE STANDARD ***
If the US can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it...
If the UK can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it...
if France can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it...
If the Western countries can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it...
Why can't Japan?
Just because the Japs ain't 'whites' does not make them any way 'inferior' to the people from the Western countries
Either everyone follows the 'international law' or no one follows it --- the same rules must be applied to all, and applied equally, or there is no rule to this game
... Japan is violating International Law while pretending to follow it. In effect, they are going back on their word, betraying their commitment, undermining the legitimacy of every international agreement they make...
I am not a fan of the Japs, but I need to say that they never betrays anything
The so-called 'international law' is nothing short of a sick joke ---
Did the French and the Brits respect any 'international law' when they attacked Libya?
Did George Bush respect any 'international law' when he attacked Iraq?
Does America / Western allies respect any 'international law' when they drop bombs on Syria?
How come when the Americans, the Brits, the French, and the rest of Western countries violate the 'international laws' it's okay, but when the Japs go for a hunting trip, it's not okay?
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I am getting really sick of you guys!
The Christian people are being sacrificed by the jihadists, as we speak, what are you guys doing here?
Pissing contest over whether or not Donald J. Trump is the right person?
Wake up, dudes , please!! Real Christians are being slaughtered, in the name of religion !
The link below is a very gory picture, of a religious sacrifice, whereby a Christian Lady being slaughtered
Be forewarned: Don't click the link if you ain't got the stomach !
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FRBJ...
Contrast that with that 'lawyer' inside the White House who is practically the biggest motherfooking gangster of all time
Even after Snowden expose how the American government has been eavesdropping on us, Obama came out accusing Snowden as a traitor, and vowing to continue his Saddam Hussein style of wiping his ass with our Constitution and Bill of Right
Although I was not born in the United States of America, I am still an American, and I am sick and tired of what has happened to my government for the past 30+ years !
It is time we kick out the D.C. establishment and get somebody else in
I am not saying that Donald Trump will be a great POTUS, but at the very least, compare to what Obama has done (for the past 7 years) and to what George W. Bush did (during his 8 year tenure) no matter how hard Donald J. Trump tries to screw up, he won't be as bad as Obama/GW Bush
[ Citation please ! }
I've been around the block quite a few times, and amongst the hackers' group I've encountered, anonymous is the most Marxist in nature
And regarding doxing ... they can't even begin to dox shit
... and because of that I always keep myself abreast of what's going on ... and ...
... ahead of my competitors
Remember what Andy Grove (of Intel) said ... Only the Paranoid Survives
I know ... it's a 'whoosh' moment, but the 'terrorist' thing that you've brought up deserves more exposure ...
A lot of weapons the terrorists are using came from the United States of America, and a lot of those weapons were supplied by the government of the United States of America
You may think that I hate America. It's the contrary !
I am an American and I love my adopted country
Because of my love for the United States I do not like what is happening to my government
The government of America not only runs shitty programs such as PRISM, but is actively supplying weapons / training / logistical supports to many terrorist groups (which the Obama administration term : friendly forces)
Those so-called 'friendly forces' are carrying out things that are as bad as the ones IS has been doing - they behead people, crucifying people, kidnapping young girls from minority tribes (usually the Christians) and use them as sex slaves, and so on, and so forth ...
... and yet, the government of the United States of America, under Obama, chooses to ignore what is happening and continually to give support to those terrorists, supplying them weapons, and so on !
Just in case you don't know, the biggest terrorist group there is right now is running Turkey. Recep Tayyip ErdoÄYan is an Islamofascist, and his wife just publiclly called for the re-establishment of "Ottoman Harem', where teams of young girls are kept as sex slaves
What is the United States government doing?
Of course, continue its support for Recep Tayyip ErdoÄYan, the Islamofascist government !
In the years of yore, if you buy IBM you wouldn't get fired. It might even got you promoted
No matter how clunky, how useless, how bloated IBM's products were, many people (then) somehow equate IBM to 'excellence'
Same line of thinking is happening with brand names such as Facebook / Tweeter / Google
People can't seem to realize that they are continually duping themselves because of a certain 'brand names'
Years ago when we told others about the existence of Prism and many other oppressive projects, people say we wore tinfoil
Thanks to Snowden and many other brave souls, now the world knows how despicable the American government (at least part of it) has become
PRISM is far from being the only thing Uncle Sam has under its sleeves, there are other programs with equal dastardly scope / aim, or worse ... exposing those will take more time
The world deserves to know how the American government - once the epitome of world Liberty - has become
Laser tracking system that makes use of MEMS technology to actively track targets
Device like that in the wrong hands would devastated many innocent lives
The truth is ugly, very ugly, and it is something most of us find it very hard to swallow ---
WE ARE ALL SHEEP
No matter what nationality you have, no matter to which government you pay your tax to, you are sheep
If you are not a sheep, why would you give away your hard earned money to some one else which has no relation to you?
If you are not a sheep, why should you obey the many stupid laws on the book?
If you are not a sheep, why should you obey the instruction from someone who call himself/herself a cop?
Face it, we are all sheep
The hell is wrong with you?
If I were to depend my current quality of life entirely on my parents it would be ... hmm ... totally different
My parents? Peons in communist China
As for my job? I was the one who created my own job - as well as the businesses I run
The problem with you, and so many others just like you is that you prefer to wait for others to feed you, to clothe you, to hand you the so-called helicopter money, rather than create something for yourself
And it is because there are too many people like you in America that has caused the economy of the United States to go southbound
The pioneering spirit was the one thing that has made America great, unfortunately, it is no more
The funny - actually, not so funny - fact is that when we were developing software back then, we actually took great pains in counting the number of ticks per instruction and we frequently looked up the list of interrupts in the process of optimizing the software which we produce
Comparing the crop of programmers back in the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's to programmers nowadays, and the type of code that they have produced, more of the current-day programmers should be worrying about being supplanted by AI
Back then (1960's to 1980's) most of those who were doing programming tried all kinds of ways to sharpen their coding skills, and their efforts were not wasted
Despite not having all the tools / toys that the current crop of programmers get, programmers of yore produce codes which were far better than what we have right now
The chief problem with current crop of programmers is that they treat programming as a way to earn a living, while programmers of yours treat what they do as their passion
Without the 'passion' factor the codes produced today are not much different from what AI can produce - and in fact, in some cases AI are producing better codes than their human counterparts
For one, Raspberry Pi is no Apple, and Apple's mobile devices ain't driven by Raspberry Pi, either
While it is correct that all the other factors do matter, many from the Raspberry Pi community do engate with SoC from other vendors too, plus there are a lot of crossovers (both ways) from/to the arduino community as well
TFA tells us that in 2016, 18.1GW (9.5GW of solar and 8.6GW of wind) renewable energy is expected to come online in America
Very good
On the other hand ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
According to bloomberg's article
China eyes at least 15 gigawatts of solar power additions ...
... in the same year, China gonna have at least35GW of new renewable energy coming online
We could do better
In fact, we should do better
Call me anything you want, I ain't gonna buy this 'corporations standing up for the common people' crap
I've been in this field since the 1970's and the way I look at it is more like the following ---
Big Bad Corporations, being part and parcel of the big brother, already have backdoors built into devices they sell to the public
From time to time big brother will stage dog and pony shows designed to sway public mindset
This time they use the Islamic Terrorist attack on Christmas Party in California as the backdrop, claiming that they need to 'crack some encryption' of an iPhone belonged to one of the Islamic Terrorists, in order to find 'terrorist information'
And to maximize the impact, big brother stages it out in the open - pitting FBI/CIA/NSA on one side and the big corporations on the other side
This whole thing is nothing but a farce -
Big brother already got the backdoor handed to them prior to the release of iPhone to the public ( else why the POTUS is not allowed to use iPhone as a communication device?? )
Their main aim is to sway public's mindset into believing that the iPhone (and all the other communication devices) they use are 'safe' from big brother's prying eyes, plus the additional benefit of fooling countries such as Russia / China / Iran into letting their own top level people using the same devices, so that NSA/CIA could more easily eavesdropping on them
Stop being fooled !
I sincerely hope that you are joking!
The adjective 'fast' and the noun 'internet' don't go together, at least not in the USA
We used to be the leader of the world in terms of connectivity, but now ...
http://www.academia.edu/375869...
The practice of Sky Burial was at one time, pretty common, from Anatolia to China
Even today, the Parsi people (whose ancestors came from Persia - currently known as Iran) in India still practice Sky Burial
http://www.treehugger.com/cult...
In Iran, "Towers of Silence" still exist, in remote places
http://www.slate.com/blogs/atl...
Ms. Caracristi was a real brainer
I had opportunity of meeting her decades ago and came away very impressed
But ... like so many other brains, she worked for the wrong boss
No, it is not a sin to break codes - the only thing is that NSA has more interests in playing the role of a big brother sidekick than actually protecting our country
RIP, Ms. Caracristi !
Who has never, ever had a cough, a fever, a muscle pull?
The term "Mental Illness", till today, still has the taboo that has the 'permanence' stigma tagged on it, but in truth, 'mental illness' like all other illnesses, could be big, permanent, or small, temporary
One could suffer from an illness that never goes away, a permanent handicap - similarly one could suffer from a mental illness that will stick for the entire lifetime
On the other hand, one could have a cold that goes away in a short while, and one could also be depressed which goes away in a few days
I am a geek, and I have been with many other geeks in my lifetime, and the one thing that makes geeks so geeky ... is from something deep inside our psyche which drives us to behave so differently
Many of us had (and still have) to endure all kinds of insult from the world at large because of our own geekiness, and most of us suffered untold rounds of bullyings by those who think they are 'better' than us --- but still, we tough it out, come hell or high water, and remain as geeky as ever ... WHY?
I wouldn't call geekiness 'mental illness' per se, but if we are to look from the logical perspective, why the geek insist on acting 'geeky' when the very act of 'geekiness' attracts bullies in pounce on them, not very far from waving red cloth in front of bulls attracting their attention?
The fact that we geeks remain geeks because of our illogical mental state, and it is that illogical conclusion that lead to our seemingly endless sufferings, at the hands of the bullies
In short ... who can say they never, ever, suffer from mental illness?
I am a developer, I have been a developer for a number of decades, and I run businesses which deal in the tech scene in many location worldwide
I can tell you one thing about these 'devop', 'scrum', 'agile' or whatever the new fuck-of-the-day trend they manage to come up ... PROGRAMMING IS PROGRAMMING and everything else is just addons
I have let some of my branches experiments with some of these bullshit schemes, just for experiment sake - and the result, at least to me, have yet to be impressive
Back when I started we have none of these, and yet we managed to squeeze in almost unimaginable functional stuffs within really ridiculous tiny confines (4K of RAM, 2K or ROM, for example) and today when we have almost unlimited memory space, all these bullshits that have been advertised as 'cure all' has yet to deliver
Perhaps I'm an old timer, perhaps the new hipster culture demand to have all these bullshits before they could even start doing anything, I dunno, but my feeling is, with or without these bullshit the most important factor is the PEOPLE
If you have the right folks with the right mindset, you will get great result
If what you ahve are lousy people with 'duh!' mindeset, no matter which of the new-fangled bullshit you adopt it ain't gonna give you any miracle
This has nothing to do with one wrong / many worngs
This has everything to do with *** DOUBLE STANDARD ***
If the US can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it ...
If the UK can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it ...
if France can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it ...
If the Western countries can ignore the 'international law' and get away with it ...
Why can't Japan?
Just because the Japs ain't 'whites' does not make them any way 'inferior' to the people from the Western countries
Either everyone follows the 'international law' or no one follows it --- the same rules must be applied to all, and applied equally, or there is no rule to this game
I am not a fan of the Japs, but I need to say that they never betrays anything
The so-called 'international law' is nothing short of a sick joke ---
Did the French and the Brits respect any 'international law' when they attacked Libya?
Did George Bush respect any 'international law' when he attacked Iraq?
Does America / Western allies respect any 'international law' when they drop bombs on Syria?
How come when the Americans, the Brits, the French, and the rest of Western countries violate the 'international laws' it's okay, but when the Japs go for a hunting trip, it's not okay?
Okay, we wake up, rise up and throw all the rascals out ... then WHAT??
What do we replace them with?
The same ol' shit?
It isn't that I am a cynic, but I've seen enough of the bullshit from inside the beltway to become extremely wary of the politicians