Yep, because it is a mess of a country. You want to get murdered by a jeep full of thugs with AK-47s? Perhaps, you would like to discuss your elegant views of government as you are boarded by some of their famed nautical entrepreneurs. Or perhaps drink some chemically polluted water because a 'captain of industry' upstream from you decided the easiest way of getting rid of toxic chemicals was to just pour it into the river? Don't try to make it sound like some sort of romantic utopian government experiment, because I am not buying it for a second.
Who paid for that, in dollars and blood over the last several centuries?
- who do you think did? Businesses. Individuals who built businesses created the wealth and that was the wealth that built the infrastructure in USA.
The government can try and take credit, but the government is only stealing the money and distributing it, including into government projects, and that's wrong.
Business are self interested entities. They will help the community when it is in their self interest to do so. They need a road built to the harbor to move goods? No problem. The city needs roads built everywhere? Fuck em. The Government can do things to improve society that no individual business can or would ever try to do, things that generate opportunities for new business to grow and flourish. You say that someone would have invented the Internet eventually, which is true. But what kind of Internet would it be? It would be a highly controlled, limited scope project for the wealthy. By designing something to be open ended and not just for profit, it created a bedrock that allowed the modern Internet to flourish. This is exactly the sort of thing the government should be doing.
I have heard people with your sort of arguments before. 'The criminal government steals from me' and 'Taxes are slavery' seem to be just a coded dog whistle rallying cry for people who just are too selfish to see beyond their personal wants and desires. 'I don't see a need for (some bit of public infrastructure), so why should I have to pay for it?'. There is a self-centered minority that worships at the alter of Ayn Rand's delude rantings, and they parrot her dogma in a way that would make a propaganda minster's hear swell with pride. Almost every time I hear the anti-tax spiel, it is followed with something tired like a comment about John Galt. Rand's writings where a hysterical over-reaction reaction to being raised in the worst period of Communist Russia, and should be regarded as nothing more than her personal attempt at poorly written psychological therapy. If you actually think that taxes are slavery, you should try out the real deal, and then get back to me about how awful it is to have to pay a few bucks to help build some hospitals.
I moved, by the way, I am not in USA or even North America, I moved somewhere much more aligned with my ideology, an actual libertarian nation (not because the gov't wants it to be, because the people don't want a strong national gov't and they don't allow it to become one).
I commend you for this, by the way, you should try to live your life in line with your beliefs. I hope you have a long and prosperous life wherever it is you have settled in a manner that is morally congruent with your beliefs.
It is money of the investors who are willing to pay for FB shares, and you are not paying for it..
Your assumptions are incorrect, he is benefiting from all the advantages that being in the US confer that were paid for by you and I. You think that FB could have got of the ground in a country without a government or infrastructure, like Somalia? Who paid for that, in dollars and blood over the last several centuries? The people of the US. You want to be a patriot? Don't try to cheat the system by cutting and running in order to save yourself from paying taxes.
I am not advocating that he pay more than anyone else, just because he has money. I think that he should play only exactly as much as the law says he owes, (without trying to exploit loopholes). He is saying that 2 billion dollars is worth more to him than contributing to the country that gave him a chance to succeed, and fuck the law, he will take is money and run when given the chance.
You say that there shouldn't be taxes, while enjoying all the benefits that the provide you. You are spouting off against taxes ON THE INTERNET, WHICH WAS STARTED WITH GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Show the strength of your conviction. Stop paying taxes, turn off your Internet access, unplug your phones, turn off your water and sewage and tell the police and fire department that you don't ever want or need their help. You and all the small minded fools like you that rail against paying the very modest taxes that are asked of you are short sighted selfish twits. Walk the walk little man, renounce all the blessings that society pays for with taxes. I dare you.
No, he should be completely free to come and go as he chooses, and to renounce being a member of any country at will. Allowing such behavior is a basic freedom that any and all should be allowed to exercise. What I said has nothing to do with this in the slightest.
What I object to is his using the US as a platform to grow billions in wealth, and then not contributing back when he should be. There are billions, perhaps trillions of dollars that US citizens have invested into infrastructure of the country over the last several hundred years, and that makes it a great place to start a business. The country has roads, a mail system, decent public education, and non-corrupt public servants. There are fire departments, airports and Intranet infrastructure. The country is stable, secure, and there is a developed banking and financial network. People want to live here, and there is plenty of highly skilled talent. All of this came at a cost that was paid for by taxpayers. And now that this guy makes several billion dollars, enough money that he could never even realistically spend it under ordinary circumstances, he abandons his citizenship to avoid paying his taxes. He is no less than a common thief, abet one with a lot of personal accountants advising him on how to cheat the American people. He is about to steal 2 billion dollars from the country, a country that worked hard to give him a chance at his dreams of success.
But you guys better be prepared for the consequence - GE and all the other corporations will move out of USA once you guys do that, resulting more millions of Americans queuing in front of the unemployment offices
Its really simple: You want to sell to Americans, You are an American Company who pays their fair share of taxes, or you pay a stiff import tariff. You want to take advantage of the developed infrastructure and stable developed economy, you have to contribute to it. Is it that unreasonable to expect companies to contribute to give back to the people who made their success possible?
And as far as this Eduardo Saverin asshole is concerned, he ought to be lynched as a traitor. He takes advantage of the benefits of the US when it is convent to do so, but when he makes lavish amounts of money, hes ready to pick up an move in order to avoid paying it. And this isn't for a little money. This guy is going have billions with a B. Do you realize how much money a billion dollars is? If he had to pay 50% of his money in taxes, he still will have close to 2 BILLION dollars. He will be able to buy mansions, jets and boats without blinking, and he can't man up an pay his fucking share of the bill. I hope the stinking ratfuck is slowly raped to death by Somali pirates. Burn in hell, Saverin.
We all can see that the Internet is getting slower.
Can we? It looks like it has been getting faster to me....
According to researchers, the cause is persistently full buffers,
What researchers? What buffers? Server buffers? Router buffers? Local browser buffers? Your statements are so vague as to be useless.
and the problem is only made worse by the increasing availability of cheap memory, which is then immediately filled with buffered data.
Buffering is a way of speeding servers up immensely. Memory is orders of magnitude faster than disk, and piling RAM on and creating huge caches can only help performance. I call bullshit on your entire claim. This summary is so awful, I don't even want to read whatever article you linked to.
PS. The "F-F-F-Fuck the FBI! Fuck the police!" attitude is juvenile. If we want them to solve crimes the FBI and Police need to be able to serve warrants and gather evidence. If people are inconvenienced; too bad, that is the price we pay for justice. I bet you attitude would change if a loved one received a credible threat.
Is it? If you ask the average person if they trusted a law enforcement official, what do you think the answer would be. I am a truly boring person in the legal sense, but even I don't trust them an inch. There is a famous proverb that people shouldn't be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people. Law enforcement is here to serve and protect, not harass and intimidate.
I will gladly be inconvenienced for justice. I will not be inconvenienced because I want to get on an airplane and they are trying to strip search me. I will not be inconvenienced because some cop decides to tear gas every single demonstrator on a block I happen to be walking down. I will not be inconvenienced because they decide to steal a server that I use and is shared with a fucking re-mailer that they can't even get any info from anyway.
This would be less likely to happen in state such as Texas or Arizona where there are very liberal (ie right wing in this case) conceal carry laws. If one in twenty people are carrying a gun, your AK-47 rampage is ending very quickly.
Have you ever seen an assault rifle in action? They are built to put a lot of people in the ground, and fast. They have been refined to do this well for the past 60 years. If I had a 9mm Tupperware gun, and some guy opened up with an assault rifle, I would not be trying to take him out. I would be grabbing cover and running.
The fact that Tx and Az have liberal gun laws isn't a solution to the problem, it feeds it by making it easier for dangerous people to get guns.
I am not advocating saying pretty please to criminals. I am advocating trying to cause less collateral damage in its investigations, and making sure that they are issuing warrants for the right people.
I suggest that your premise, successful terrorists are not "dime store idiots" is flawed. First of all, anyone who would blow himself up, to "help out" his chosen all-powerful deity is a madman or a fool, or both.
Those aren't the people you want to catch. The real people you are after are the scouting teams and recruiters. The scouting teams are the educated people who plan terrorist ops (yes they are real, and the alphabet soup agencies know about them. I have a friend in security who was briefed about them by the feds) and recon potential attack locations. Putting these people away prevents well planned and coordinated attacks like 9-11 and the WTC bombing. Additionally, if you catch these people, you can probably get names of people they have recruited and names of financiers.
They are much more difficult to catch and charge, since they aren't really doing anything by gathering info, which isn't illegal in and of itself. Every agent working on busting dumb people is one not working on catching this much harder quarry. The deluded and confused don't generally plan things that kill and maim thousands by themselves.
Does it really matter if the FBI or the colocation compant told the server owner it was back?
Well, you are correct, legally, they probably did everything they needed to. The problem the FBI has, however, is that is perceived as a bunch of power happy bullies that throw their legal weight around whenever it suits them. Wither this is the case or not is moot, if this is the public perception.
What they should be doing is apologizing more and, and talking and working with people more before just seizing servers right and left. In the long run, you catch more flys with honey than vinegar. I am a pretty honest person, but if the FBI showed up at my front door, my first reaction would be to tell them to fuck off, just based on their reputation. They do some good work trying to catch some really nasty people, but they definitely have a PR problem.
Additionally, the shouldn't need to hold computers as evidence for more than a few days. I believe police procedure is to pull and mirror the drives before they do anything to the machine so holding hardware is really just being vindictive.
This is not all the FBI is doing though. The "suspect" not presented with a plot on day one and then ignored forever if they say no thanks. These guys are softened up first and encouraged to become more radical. Then maybe a plot is suggested, and suggested over and over until their resistance is worn down. The FBI is not infiltrating existing terrorist cells or finding existing terrorists.
The real problem with this, isn't the entrapment angle. Yeah, they are finding dumb people who don't make good life choices and push them in the wrong direction, and that isn't really right. The real problem with this though, is they are wasting time and money doing this shit when they could be doing better things like building legitimate human Intel in places where the professionals might show up. But this is hard and tedious work that may or may not ever pay off, so they waste time and tax payer dollars running these sort of dog and pony show stings that they can put people in front of a federal DA and say, 'Look we are being effective.'
Quit fucking around with these dime store idiots, FBI, and get to work in preventing damage the pros will inflict. They will be much harder to catch than losers who hand around cargo vans behind the local mosque that have signs saying, 'Free Stingers'.
that quote has always bugged me. i'd rather be killed first and then raped and then sewn into their clothing; that would be much better. the only other alternative, being sewn into the clothing and then raped and then killed seems only slightly worse than the so-called "very, very lucky" scenario.
We can analyze this using a 'truth table' approach..
1st 2nd 3rd Conclusion
1) Kill Rape Sew Bad
2) Kill Sew Rape Bad
3) Rape Kill Sew Bad+
4) Rape Sew Kill Bad++
5) Sew Kill Rape Bad+
6) Sew Rape Kill Bad++
The question is, which is worse, option 4 or option 6? This will of course vary, depending on what kind of seamstresses the Reavers are. Clearly it will not be pleasant.
A deeper and more interesting question is, what is the nature of 'Reaver Space'? If the zone of space they inhabit is a spherical shell, then I can understand why Mal flies near Reaver space, he has no choice. It is a min-max game between the Alliance core and the spherical shell of Reavers that lurk outside that zone, where he keeps maximum distance between both groups. However, in the movie, they indicate that there is a central location that the Reavers originated from. If that is the case, why doesn't he just fly to the other end of known space where there are no Reavers?
From NSA's point of view, right now your gmail account is noise. But everyone's political views change over time as a natural part of the process of growing up. Sometimes things go wrong, and perfectly normal people who hold perfectly normal views turn into monsters. There's a 99.99999% probability that you're not one of them. But for the sake of 3 lousy gigs out of a yottabyte, there's a 100% chance that someone's 3GB of noise will contain signal.
And this is what is wrong with America. People will go to any end to have 100% safety, including sell out their rights and privacy if they think there is an IOTA of a chance it will protect their measly worthless backsides.
I am proud to say I believe in freedom and the beliefs of the founding fathers.I am willing to die for the country in the name of freedom. I don't want to, but I accept that risk as a cost of living in a free society. If that means that there is a small chance that I die because the plane/train/buss I am on destroyed in a terrorist attack, I freely accept that risk. The rest of America needs to wake up and realize that selling privacy and freedom will not buy them any more safety and security.
Data intercept is just plain wrong. Nobody has license to spy on America domestically, there is a reason why warrants are required legally to engage in surveillance.
Facebook uses PHP as their internal language and the majority of CS-wonk new hires have never even used it. This is 100% by-design.
Facebook uses PHP because it is open source, and as a result much cheaper than ASP.NET or some other proprietary tool. They started out as a small company with little capital for expensive software licenses, and when they started growing, there is even less incentive to rewrite everything in some other language.
And whatever Zuckerberg says can probably be ignored, because you just know he's the type that, when he's getting on a bit, will be saying that age and experience are what counts.
Zuckerberg runs a big company. He might have spent a few years coding, but he isn't a programmer anymore. I doubt that he put in enough time and sweat behind a compiler to be anything more than a clever amateur, so his opinion on the topic counts for zero. So basically, you have a college kid's level of experience in computer science making sweeping statements about who is and isn't a skilled expert in the field.
Once he is an expert in the field of software engineering, I will listen to what he has to say on the topic. Looking at the quality of his software, it is pretty obvious what dismissing experience gets you.
The funny thing is, not only are they $60-70, they honestly aren't of the quality that some $20-30 "indy" companies like Nippon Ichi or XSeed put out, to say nothing about true indy games out there.
The interesting thing is that I suspect that if you adjusted the cost of a 1986 NES game for inflation, you would end up at modern game prices. I don't recall hearing people complain too much about the cost of carts back when I was a kid. People who where 14 and wanted the top 10 games just got a paper route and bought them. I agree that the quality of many triple A titles is very much lacking these days, and I think that is the real problem. I have no problem paying $100 for a video game that provides me with 100+ hours of entertainment, and that is the problem with a lot of games. Price is no guarantee of quality, unfortunately.
I have a theory that the 8 and 16 bit games era was the golden age of video game design, because the hardware resources were so limited. They had to design the hell out of games to make them work and fit in the systems of the time, and I will speculate that they spent a lot more time thinking carefully about core mechanics and fun. I can fire up a compiler nowadays and have my computer rendering 60+fps on a 10k poly count model in about an hour. That doesn't mean that the resulting game will be well designed, though.
The light at the end of the tunnel is that the market will find its level, and wherever we end up there will be games. On the way though, there will be some companies that are eaten by a grue.
This. Especially not bad books. I quite enjoyed Cryptonomicon, and so right now I'm trying to read The Baroque Cycle.
What self-indulgent drivel it is. Pages and pages of History lessons than don't advance the plot at all, or even serve to improve the historical context. It is a case of: Neal read something interesting in a history book, and so is going to jam the detail into his prose regardless of whether it is relevant or useful.
I rather enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of Les Miserables, in that the story immersed you in the history of what was happening at the time. It is the very opposite of trying to tell a 'timeless tale', and it is very detailed about the period as a result. While I can understand why most people wouldn't like having to invest a lot of effort into a book, I found that after the first few chapters I got the feel of the style and quite enjoyed it.
Neal has bought into his own celebrity and lost all sense of what made him a decent author. I bet the dude thinks each of his individual farts has a unique and pleasant aroma, and so is worth preserving for posterity.
You know, I think that you just invalidated any opinion I had for you prior critique. Do you actually believe this, or are you just talking because you think you are clever and witty?
You are probably right though, Neal sat at his computer typing away merrily and thought to himself,' Right! Those stupid wankers are almost paying me by the word! I'll really cash in in their willingness to read any drivel I toss off! Say, I wonder if I can make audio recordings of my Farts...?'
I know, right? Here are several sounds I will mod into my first electric
1) The sound of a fomula1 car driving at full speed.
2) The sounds of a rabbit screaming as it is ripped apart by a pack of hungry dogs.
3) Automatic weapon fire. If that doesn't discourage nearby jaywalkers, nothing will.
4) A steam locomotive sound. Bonus points for the steam whistle.
5) A looped sample of a teen comedy scene where someone is taking a dump in a bathroom.
6) UHF white noise.
7) Overly excited commentator narration from the Daytona 500 (..ANDHEREHECOMESDOWNTHEBACKSTRETCHOHNOBOBBYJOHNESJRHASACCIDENTALLYTAPPEDHISREAR PANNELITSATOTALWIPEOUT!)
8) looped slurping sounds
9) looped dubstep music, played in reverse. (Who could tell the difference?)
10) The David Letterman reading 10 ten lists.
All of these would be played the an enhanced PA system I'd mod on the car to generate up to 110db of sound, because we wouldn't want anyone to not hear me coming.
Sounds like we need a new term for players like Honeywell, since they're far worse than trolls; they just want to impede all progress if it isn't made by them, and use bogus patents to do so.
ProgressTrolls? Sounds accurate and properly demeaning...
Oh, and: Fuck you Honeywell. Man up and get in the game with a real product to compete with instead of a stack of USPO filings and legal briefs or get out of the way so some grownups can, you know, advance society.
I don't trust anything the FBI says. Any more than I would trust an announcement from the NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). What is the purpose of this announcement supposed to be? To induce paranoia and racism against any student whose genetics cannot be traced from Western Europe?
OMFG the little yellow people with the funny eyes want to steal everything we own! They are a threat to the AMURICAN WAY OF LIFE, and they would steal that too! They aren't even real commies, they are yellow instead of red!
I too tire of this constant barrage of borderline racist propaganda from the media. While I distrust the motives of the alphabet soup agents, the real culprit is the media. Say the FBI does a study about corporate espionage in China, at the request of a senator or some other asshole in Washington that has hear there is a 'Yellow menace', and wants to know more. They do a report, and find 3k companies that are stealing shit from us. (Aside: 3k companies in a country of 1.5 BILLION people that are illicit, really? BTW, how many companies are in all of China? How do you know they are stealing stuff? How many companies are there in the US that are conducting corporate espionage?) They write the report and that would be the end of it, except some jerk editor throws a story on the wire about how China is stacked 10 people deep with thieves which causes everybody else to believe it too, because the media always tells the truth.
Lets be real here, China has a problem with corruption, and there are some people there stealing stuff and committing IP violations. Guess what, so does every other country in the world. Enough with the propaganda.
to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act...
That is a pretty subjective bit of language, so I suspect that someone will get charged with it and just appeal ad nauseaum, on the grounds that speaking their mind, however lewd and hateful, is a freedom of speech issue. I mean, otherwise KKK and neo-nazi groups would have been jailed and run out of the country decades ago, right?
GG Arizona on creating yet more useless paperwork to tie up the courts with for the next twenty years.
Your comment is probably spot on. I read something awhile back, where psychiatrists have a manual that describes mental disorders, and their proper diagnosis. This is important for them to be able to agree on the definition and symptoms of a particular mental disorder. Every time it is revised, the definitions of disorders are effectively being revised, so any diagnosis is shooting at a constantly moving target.
Part of the reason I think that psychiatrists are quacks, is that there is so little consensus on the problems they are treating.
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Yep, because it is a mess of a country. You want to get murdered by a jeep full of thugs with AK-47s? Perhaps, you would like to discuss your elegant views of government as you are boarded by some of their famed nautical entrepreneurs. Or perhaps drink some chemically polluted water because a 'captain of industry' upstream from you decided the easiest way of getting rid of toxic chemicals was to just pour it into the river? Don't try to make it sound like some sort of romantic utopian government experiment, because I am not buying it for a second.
Who paid for that, in dollars and blood over the last several centuries?
- who do you think did? Businesses. Individuals who built businesses created the wealth and that was the wealth that built the infrastructure in USA.
The government can try and take credit, but the government is only stealing the money and distributing it, including into government projects, and that's wrong.
Business are self interested entities. They will help the community when it is in their self interest to do so. They need a road built to the harbor to move goods? No problem. The city needs roads built everywhere? Fuck em. The Government can do things to improve society that no individual business can or would ever try to do, things that generate opportunities for new business to grow and flourish. You say that someone would have invented the Internet eventually, which is true. But what kind of Internet would it be? It would be a highly controlled, limited scope project for the wealthy. By designing something to be open ended and not just for profit, it created a bedrock that allowed the modern Internet to flourish. This is exactly the sort of thing the government should be doing.
I have heard people with your sort of arguments before. 'The criminal government steals from me' and 'Taxes are slavery' seem to be just a coded dog whistle rallying cry for people who just are too selfish to see beyond their personal wants and desires. 'I don't see a need for (some bit of public infrastructure), so why should I have to pay for it?'. There is a self-centered minority that worships at the alter of Ayn Rand's delude rantings, and they parrot her dogma in a way that would make a propaganda minster's hear swell with pride. Almost every time I hear the anti-tax spiel, it is followed with something tired like a comment about John Galt. Rand's writings where a hysterical over-reaction reaction to being raised in the worst period of Communist Russia, and should be regarded as nothing more than her personal attempt at poorly written psychological therapy. If you actually think that taxes are slavery, you should try out the real deal, and then get back to me about how awful it is to have to pay a few bucks to help build some hospitals.
I moved, by the way, I am not in USA or even North America, I moved somewhere much more aligned with my ideology, an actual libertarian nation (not because the gov't wants it to be, because the people don't want a strong national gov't and they don't allow it to become one).
I commend you for this, by the way, you should try to live your life in line with your beliefs. I hope you have a long and prosperous life wherever it is you have settled in a manner that is morally congruent with your beliefs.
It is money of the investors who are willing to pay for FB shares, and you are not paying for it..
Your assumptions are incorrect, he is benefiting from all the advantages that being in the US confer that were paid for by you and I. You think that FB could have got of the ground in a country without a government or infrastructure, like Somalia? Who paid for that, in dollars and blood over the last several centuries? The people of the US. You want to be a patriot? Don't try to cheat the system by cutting and running in order to save yourself from paying taxes.
I am not advocating that he pay more than anyone else, just because he has money. I think that he should play only exactly as much as the law says he owes, (without trying to exploit loopholes). He is saying that 2 billion dollars is worth more to him than contributing to the country that gave him a chance to succeed, and fuck the law, he will take is money and run when given the chance.
You say that there shouldn't be taxes, while enjoying all the benefits that the provide you. You are spouting off against taxes ON THE INTERNET, WHICH WAS STARTED WITH GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Show the strength of your conviction. Stop paying taxes, turn off your Internet access, unplug your phones, turn off your water and sewage and tell the police and fire department that you don't ever want or need their help. You and all the small minded fools like you that rail against paying the very modest taxes that are asked of you are short sighted selfish twits. Walk the walk little man, renounce all the blessings that society pays for with taxes. I dare you.
No, he should be completely free to come and go as he chooses, and to renounce being a member of any country at will. Allowing such behavior is a basic freedom that any and all should be allowed to exercise. What I said has nothing to do with this in the slightest.
What I object to is his using the US as a platform to grow billions in wealth, and then not contributing back when he should be. There are billions, perhaps trillions of dollars that US citizens have invested into infrastructure of the country over the last several hundred years, and that makes it a great place to start a business. The country has roads, a mail system, decent public education, and non-corrupt public servants. There are fire departments, airports and Intranet infrastructure. The country is stable, secure, and there is a developed banking and financial network. People want to live here, and there is plenty of highly skilled talent. All of this came at a cost that was paid for by taxpayers. And now that this guy makes several billion dollars, enough money that he could never even realistically spend it under ordinary circumstances, he abandons his citizenship to avoid paying his taxes. He is no less than a common thief, abet one with a lot of personal accountants advising him on how to cheat the American people. He is about to steal 2 billion dollars from the country, a country that worked hard to give him a chance at his dreams of success.
But you guys better be prepared for the consequence - GE and all the other corporations will move out of USA once you guys do that, resulting more millions of Americans queuing in front of the unemployment offices
Its really simple: You want to sell to Americans, You are an American Company who pays their fair share of taxes, or you pay a stiff import tariff. You want to take advantage of the developed infrastructure and stable developed economy, you have to contribute to it. Is it that unreasonable to expect companies to contribute to give back to the people who made their success possible?
And as far as this Eduardo Saverin asshole is concerned, he ought to be lynched as a traitor. He takes advantage of the benefits of the US when it is convent to do so, but when he makes lavish amounts of money, hes ready to pick up an move in order to avoid paying it. And this isn't for a little money. This guy is going have billions with a B. Do you realize how much money a billion dollars is? If he had to pay 50% of his money in taxes, he still will have close to 2 BILLION dollars. He will be able to buy mansions, jets and boats without blinking, and he can't man up an pay his fucking share of the bill. I hope the stinking ratfuck is slowly raped to death by Somali pirates. Burn in hell, Saverin.
We all can see that the Internet is getting slower.
Can we? It looks like it has been getting faster to me....
According to researchers, the cause is persistently full buffers,
What researchers? What buffers? Server buffers? Router buffers? Local browser buffers? Your statements are so vague as to be useless.
and the problem is only made worse by the increasing availability of cheap memory, which is then immediately filled with buffered data.
Buffering is a way of speeding servers up immensely. Memory is orders of magnitude faster than disk, and piling RAM on and creating huge caches can only help performance. I call bullshit on your entire claim. This summary is so awful, I don't even want to read whatever article you linked to.
PS. The "F-F-F-Fuck the FBI! Fuck the police!" attitude is juvenile. If we want them to solve crimes the FBI and Police need to be able to serve warrants and gather evidence. If people are inconvenienced; too bad, that is the price we pay for justice. I bet you attitude would change if a loved one received a credible threat.
Is it? If you ask the average person if they trusted a law enforcement official, what do you think the answer would be. I am a truly boring person in the legal sense, but even I don't trust them an inch. There is a famous proverb that people shouldn't be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people. Law enforcement is here to serve and protect, not harass and intimidate.
I will gladly be inconvenienced for justice. I will not be inconvenienced because I want to get on an airplane and they are trying to strip search me. I will not be inconvenienced because some cop decides to tear gas every single demonstrator on a block I happen to be walking down. I will not be inconvenienced because they decide to steal a server that I use and is shared with a fucking re-mailer that they can't even get any info from anyway.
This would be less likely to happen in state such as Texas or Arizona where there are very liberal (ie right wing in this case) conceal carry laws. If one in twenty people are carrying a gun, your AK-47 rampage is ending very quickly.
Have you ever seen an assault rifle in action? They are built to put a lot of people in the ground, and fast. They have been refined to do this well for the past 60 years. If I had a 9mm Tupperware gun, and some guy opened up with an assault rifle, I would not be trying to take him out. I would be grabbing cover and running.
The fact that Tx and Az have liberal gun laws isn't a solution to the problem, it feeds it by making it easier for dangerous people to get guns.
I am not advocating saying pretty please to criminals. I am advocating trying to cause less collateral damage in its investigations, and making sure that they are issuing warrants for the right people.
I suggest that your premise, successful terrorists are not "dime store idiots" is flawed. First of all, anyone who would blow himself up, to "help out" his chosen all-powerful deity is a madman or a fool, or both.
Those aren't the people you want to catch. The real people you are after are the scouting teams and recruiters. The scouting teams are the educated people who plan terrorist ops (yes they are real, and the alphabet soup agencies know about them. I have a friend in security who was briefed about them by the feds) and recon potential attack locations. Putting these people away prevents well planned and coordinated attacks like 9-11 and the WTC bombing. Additionally, if you catch these people, you can probably get names of people they have recruited and names of financiers.
They are much more difficult to catch and charge, since they aren't really doing anything by gathering info, which isn't illegal in and of itself. Every agent working on busting dumb people is one not working on catching this much harder quarry. The deluded and confused don't generally plan things that kill and maim thousands by themselves.
they are seventeen steps ahead of us and already have infiltrated my underwear drawer.
Shit! Yours too? I was afraid I was the only one here wearing tinfoil boxers....
Does it really matter if the FBI or the colocation compant told the server owner it was back?
Well, you are correct, legally, they probably did everything they needed to. The problem the FBI has, however, is that is perceived as a bunch of power happy bullies that throw their legal weight around whenever it suits them. Wither this is the case or not is moot, if this is the public perception.
What they should be doing is apologizing more and, and talking and working with people more before just seizing servers right and left. In the long run, you catch more flys with honey than vinegar. I am a pretty honest person, but if the FBI showed up at my front door, my first reaction would be to tell them to fuck off, just based on their reputation. They do some good work trying to catch some really nasty people, but they definitely have a PR problem.
Additionally, the shouldn't need to hold computers as evidence for more than a few days. I believe police procedure is to pull and mirror the drives before they do anything to the machine so holding hardware is really just being vindictive.
This is not all the FBI is doing though. The "suspect" not presented with a plot on day one and then ignored forever if they say no thanks. These guys are softened up first and encouraged to become more radical. Then maybe a plot is suggested, and suggested over and over until their resistance is worn down. The FBI is not infiltrating existing terrorist cells or finding existing terrorists.
The real problem with this, isn't the entrapment angle. Yeah, they are finding dumb people who don't make good life choices and push them in the wrong direction, and that isn't really right. The real problem with this though, is they are wasting time and money doing this shit when they could be doing better things like building legitimate human Intel in places where the professionals might show up. But this is hard and tedious work that may or may not ever pay off, so they waste time and tax payer dollars running these sort of dog and pony show stings that they can put people in front of a federal DA and say, 'Look we are being effective.'
Quit fucking around with these dime store idiots, FBI, and get to work in preventing damage the pros will inflict. They will be much harder to catch than losers who hand around cargo vans behind the local mosque that have signs saying, 'Free Stingers'.
that quote has always bugged me. i'd rather be killed first and then raped and then sewn into their clothing; that would be much better. the only other alternative, being sewn into the clothing and then raped and then killed seems only slightly worse than the so-called "very, very lucky" scenario.
We can analyze this using a 'truth table' approach..
1st 2nd 3rd Conclusion
1) Kill Rape Sew Bad
2) Kill Sew Rape Bad
3) Rape Kill Sew Bad+
4) Rape Sew Kill Bad++
5) Sew Kill Rape Bad+
6) Sew Rape Kill Bad++
The question is, which is worse, option 4 or option 6? This will of course vary, depending on what kind of seamstresses the Reavers are. Clearly it will not be pleasant.
A deeper and more interesting question is, what is the nature of 'Reaver Space'? If the zone of space they inhabit is a spherical shell, then I can understand why Mal flies near Reaver space, he has no choice. It is a min-max game between the Alliance core and the spherical shell of Reavers that lurk outside that zone, where he keeps maximum distance between both groups. However, in the movie, they indicate that there is a central location that the Reavers originated from. If that is the case, why doesn't he just fly to the other end of known space where there are no Reavers?
From NSA's point of view, right now your gmail account is noise. But everyone's political views change over time as a natural part of the process of growing up. Sometimes things go wrong, and perfectly normal people who hold perfectly normal views turn into monsters. There's a 99.99999% probability that you're not one of them. But for the sake of 3 lousy gigs out of a yottabyte, there's a 100% chance that someone's 3GB of noise will contain signal.
And this is what is wrong with America. People will go to any end to have 100% safety, including sell out their rights and privacy if they think there is an IOTA of a chance it will protect their measly worthless backsides.
I am proud to say I believe in freedom and the beliefs of the founding fathers.I am willing to die for the country in the name of freedom. I don't want to, but I accept that risk as a cost of living in a free society. If that means that there is a small chance that I die because the plane/train/buss I am on destroyed in a terrorist attack, I freely accept that risk. The rest of America needs to wake up and realize that selling privacy and freedom will not buy them any more safety and security.
Data intercept is just plain wrong. Nobody has license to spy on America domestically, there is a reason why warrants are required legally to engage in surveillance.
Facebook uses PHP as their internal language and the majority of CS-wonk new hires have never even used it. This is 100% by-design.
Facebook uses PHP because it is open source, and as a result much cheaper than ASP.NET or some other proprietary tool. They started out as a small company with little capital for expensive software licenses, and when they started growing, there is even less incentive to rewrite everything in some other language.
And whatever Zuckerberg says can probably be ignored, because you just know he's the type that, when he's getting on a bit, will be saying that age and experience are what counts.
Zuckerberg runs a big company. He might have spent a few years coding, but he isn't a programmer anymore. I doubt that he put in enough time and sweat behind a compiler to be anything more than a clever amateur, so his opinion on the topic counts for zero. So basically, you have a college kid's level of experience in computer science making sweeping statements about who is and isn't a skilled expert in the field.
Once he is an expert in the field of software engineering, I will listen to what he has to say on the topic. Looking at the quality of his software, it is pretty obvious what dismissing experience gets you.
The funny thing is, not only are they $60-70, they honestly aren't of the quality that some $20-30 "indy" companies like Nippon Ichi or XSeed put out, to say nothing about true indy games out there.
The interesting thing is that I suspect that if you adjusted the cost of a 1986 NES game for inflation, you would end up at modern game prices. I don't recall hearing people complain too much about the cost of carts back when I was a kid. People who where 14 and wanted the top 10 games just got a paper route and bought them. I agree that the quality of many triple A titles is very much lacking these days, and I think that is the real problem. I have no problem paying $100 for a video game that provides me with 100+ hours of entertainment, and that is the problem with a lot of games. Price is no guarantee of quality, unfortunately.
I have a theory that the 8 and 16 bit games era was the golden age of video game design, because the hardware resources were so limited. They had to design the hell out of games to make them work and fit in the systems of the time, and I will speculate that they spent a lot more time thinking carefully about core mechanics and fun. I can fire up a compiler nowadays and have my computer rendering 60+fps on a 10k poly count model in about an hour. That doesn't mean that the resulting game will be well designed, though.
The light at the end of the tunnel is that the market will find its level, and wherever we end up there will be games. On the way though, there will be some companies that are eaten by a grue.
This. Especially not bad books. I quite enjoyed Cryptonomicon, and so right now I'm trying to read The Baroque Cycle.
What self-indulgent drivel it is. Pages and pages of History lessons than don't advance the plot at all, or even serve to improve the historical context. It is a case of: Neal read something interesting in a history book, and so is going to jam the detail into his prose regardless of whether it is relevant or useful.
I rather enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of Les Miserables, in that the story immersed you in the history of what was happening at the time. It is the very opposite of trying to tell a 'timeless tale', and it is very detailed about the period as a result. While I can understand why most people wouldn't like having to invest a lot of effort into a book, I found that after the first few chapters I got the feel of the style and quite enjoyed it.
Neal has bought into his own celebrity and lost all sense of what made him a decent author. I bet the dude thinks each of his individual farts has a unique and pleasant aroma, and so is worth preserving for posterity.
You know, I think that you just invalidated any opinion I had for you prior critique. Do you actually believe this, or are you just talking because you think you are clever and witty? You are probably right though, Neal sat at his computer typing away merrily and thought to himself,' Right! Those stupid wankers are almost paying me by the word! I'll really cash in in their willingness to read any drivel I toss off! Say, I wonder if I can make audio recordings of my Farts...?'
Nothing in says you cannot disconnect the box. Paranoid much?
I see a huge modding community on the horizon...
I know, right? Here are several sounds I will mod into my first electric
1) The sound of a fomula1 car driving at full speed.
2) The sounds of a rabbit screaming as it is ripped apart by a pack of hungry dogs.
3) Automatic weapon fire. If that doesn't discourage nearby jaywalkers, nothing will.
4) A steam locomotive sound. Bonus points for the steam whistle.
5) A looped sample of a teen comedy scene where someone is taking a dump in a bathroom.
6) UHF white noise.
7) Overly excited commentator narration from the Daytona 500 (..ANDHEREHECOMESDOWNTHEBACKSTRETCHOHNOBOBBYJOHNESJRHASACCIDENTALLYTAPPEDHISREAR PANNELITSATOTALWIPEOUT!)
8) looped slurping sounds
9) looped dubstep music, played in reverse. (Who could tell the difference?)
10) The David Letterman reading 10 ten lists.
All of these would be played the an enhanced PA system I'd mod on the car to generate up to 110db of sound, because we wouldn't want anyone to not hear me coming.
Sounds like we need a new term for players like Honeywell, since they're far worse than trolls; they just want to impede all progress if it isn't made by them, and use bogus patents to do so.
ProgressTrolls? Sounds accurate and properly demeaning...
Oh, and: Fuck you Honeywell. Man up and get in the game with a real product to compete with instead of a stack of USPO filings and legal briefs or get out of the way so some grownups can, you know, advance society.
I don't trust anything the FBI says. Any more than I would trust an announcement from the NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). What is the purpose of this announcement supposed to be? To induce paranoia and racism against any student whose genetics cannot be traced from Western Europe?
OMFG the little yellow people with the funny eyes want to steal everything we own! They are a threat to the AMURICAN WAY OF LIFE, and they would steal that too! They aren't even real commies, they are yellow instead of red!
I too tire of this constant barrage of borderline racist propaganda from the media. While I distrust the motives of the alphabet soup agents, the real culprit is the media. Say the FBI does a study about corporate espionage in China, at the request of a senator or some other asshole in Washington that has hear there is a 'Yellow menace', and wants to know more. They do a report, and find 3k companies that are stealing shit from us. (Aside: 3k companies in a country of 1.5 BILLION people that are illicit, really? BTW, how many companies are in all of China? How do you know they are stealing stuff? How many companies are there in the US that are conducting corporate espionage?) They write the report and that would be the end of it, except some jerk editor throws a story on the wire about how China is stacked 10 people deep with thieves which causes everybody else to believe it too, because the media always tells the truth.
Lets be real here, China has a problem with corruption, and there are some people there stealing stuff and committing IP violations. Guess what, so does every other country in the world. Enough with the propaganda.
to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act...
That is a pretty subjective bit of language, so I suspect that someone will get charged with it and just appeal ad nauseaum, on the grounds that speaking their mind, however lewd and hateful, is a freedom of speech issue. I mean, otherwise KKK and neo-nazi groups would have been jailed and run out of the country decades ago, right? GG Arizona on creating yet more useless paperwork to tie up the courts with for the next twenty years.
You know its a joke, I mean, 'he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time'? WTF LOL....
Your comment is probably spot on. I read something awhile back, where psychiatrists have a manual that describes mental disorders, and their proper diagnosis. This is important for them to be able to agree on the definition and symptoms of a particular mental disorder. Every time it is revised, the definitions of disorders are effectively being revised, so any diagnosis is shooting at a constantly moving target.
Part of the reason I think that psychiatrists are quacks, is that there is so little consensus on the problems they are treating.