Well you gave them the right to abuse this so they are taking it, isn't that economics 101? If you want to let anybody contact you, just publish your email adress on a publicly searchable webpage next to your name and picture.
My personal itch is that we are at a point where BIOS and firmware can be suspected of hiding some backdoors. Having a verifiable design with 100% of the source of any code running on any chip inside is actually an interesting goal.
This is worse that that. I have several options to pay my taxes. They are all hard to understand and seem to fail at logic in several ways. The question "which one should I pay?" do not seem to be computable. The only computable question is "which option is the cheapest legal for me"? I would actually be happy if I paid more taxes but had a single clear option available, saving me the cost of an expert to pay my damn taxes...
Really brings into question why we have a state religion
To crown sovereigns and to decide on royal divorces without interference from a foreign power. This is really the only reason. I don't see England getting rid of state religion without getting rid of the monarchy. However, in practice, UK is a secular state. The state religion is not forced to anyone, it is more a mere folklore than a real endorsement by all the government officials.
You mean that the isolated nation of North Korea doesn't have a network of tracking stations that can keep the contact with the satellite over its orbital path? I am shocked...
By the way, I dislike NK as much as anyone here, maybe a bit more as I have relatives in Japan, but nothing would ne more dangerous than underestimating them. Their second attempt at a 3 stage rocket put a satellite into orbit. If I am not mistaken, this is one of the cleanest record of any space power. Losing just one rocket is incredible.
Building satellites is hard and the objective of this launch is unknown (unless you are willing to believe the weather-satellite-on-a-perfect-spy-orbit fable). The lack of details makes it hard to know how much of a failure this really is. If they fear it becomes a durable debris, it means it is not currently on an unstable orbit.
NK has about 50 nukes and satellite launching abilities. It is not a laughing stock. It is a major problem for the world. Just laughing is silly. This kind of news seems to say "Haha, what clowns, we can't do anything about them so let's just mock them"
Actually what they are protecting them is that they have put a huge artillery arsenal in range of Seoul, possibly loaded with chemical weapons. The minute an attack is launched on North Korea, the most lethal bombing since WWII begins. They have taken hostages. They really don't need nuclear weapons for the stand-off to continue. I am really scared about their possible plans for these.
"free software" = "control over the software that runs on your machine". If you are deceiving the user into running spyware, you are running contrary to the free software philosophy.
What you call the workforce today is not what we used to call the workforce. Your 9% do not include people over 65, students, handicapped, and (depending on the country you are talking about) people not actively looking for a job like housemoms.
Just look at the average person : life expectancy is more than 80, you will work ~ from 25 to 65. 50% of your life.
Of all the persons who are physically able to work, we are probably at about 50% of them not working. Sure, we will continue to be at about 5-10% of the workforce unemployed, but automation will allow to reduce what we call workforce...
I couldn't agree more. Having a stable software is a very good thing, for a stable protocol. I hate it when a stable software is being broken by some newcomers that thought that a "modern UI paradigm" was needed and that unstability was a good price for that.
I believed this jazz and bought an AMD/ATI laptop after being bitten by nVidia's optimus comment (my nvidia laptop got stolen). Now I miss my nvidia laptop. The Radeon driver is really lacking, has a very high battery consumption, doesn't work well with many applications. The fglrx (proprietary) driver won't work with several Xorg version without that considered a major bug by the dev team.
It is very possible that right now, if you want pure open source, Intel may be the one offering the most supported punch. I will really consider this option for my next one. I wonder if CUDA can be done with intel cards.
The alternative is to use bumblebee on nvidia proprietary driver, which drains battery but allows to enjoy a decent graphical acceleration.
But Windows is not just a UI, it is an operating system. I wonder if it finally copies file correctly, and if it is possible to pause/resume this operation. A feature I have waited for decades now.
Actually I like this system : for a long term project to succeed, it requires it to be consistent, non-partisan and well done. Arguably, the Yucca project had a lot of shortcomings, and the increasing maturity of fast-breeder reactors makes it likely that some of the wastes we want to bury will actually be usable as very precious and energetic fuel in 20 years. It makes sense to keep it stored in a more accessible fashion.
So easy that you don't even have to be employed to find work. Most of the people I know working in the IT and of my generation (early thirties) have walked the plank and are now freelances. In my case it was a double on the salary. (which I actually used to work half of the time)
This is why they install a keylogger. Unless you keep your laptop 24/24 with you, and sleep over it, you are vulnerable to this. Palladium leaks indicated that they loved the unused PCMCIA slots on many laptops that allowed to install a device without anyone noticing for a very long period of time.
Has Al-Jazeera ever mentionned the Qatari warriors in Libya?
Russia is big and well known. Russia Today has a lot of internal news about Russia so its bias is clearly visible. But be weary of the bias that is more subtle.
Al-Jazeera is a growing chain, right now they are getting a good reputation, but they are totally under control by special interests too. Plurality of information is good. Russia Today is a very good source of military information. They usually have far more details than their CNN counterparts. I consider RT far more relialable than Al-Jazeera for a simple reason : I know its bias far better. I know that a RT news about Syrian fighters winning something is probably true, I know that a CNN news about Syrian governement winning something is probably true. I don't know on which side Al-Jazeera is supposed to be trustworthy.
As Randall remarked when criticizing the comments of the form "you can't win the whitehouse if...", we live in a world where a white man can not access to the whitehouse after he has been mentioned on twitter.
Oh, and I forgot : they go (more or less) in a straight line unlike modern naval missiles we can basically dance a tango around their target before striking them.
Working on artillery? This is a claim I highly doubt.
Anti missiles work by making there target explode. That works well when said target is a tube half-filled with rocket fuel. It doesn't work as well when it is an empty tube with an armored warhead, as Russian ballistic missiles are a few minutes after launch or on a mass of iron protecting an explosive warhead, as artillery shells are.
Palestinian rockets are weak and old fashioned, their warhead is not protected and in mid-flight they are still burning fuel. That is why these anti-missiles work.
Man, with 40 millions cyber-terrorists to catch, I surely hope the cyber-defense department is well funded... Do we have to repeat such numbers when they are obviously irrelevant? There have obviously not been 40 millions different attacks. They have probably counted the number of connections from a DDoS attempt. By putting such a number here, we have strictly no informations on the number of attacks. It could be a single DDoS so far as we know...
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Well you gave them the right to abuse this so they are taking it, isn't that economics 101? If you want to let anybody contact you, just publish your email adress on a publicly searchable webpage next to your name and picture.
Compile it yourself, then.
My personal itch is that we are at a point where BIOS and firmware can be suspected of hiding some backdoors. Having a verifiable design with 100% of the source of any code running on any chip inside is actually an interesting goal.
This is worse that that. I have several options to pay my taxes. They are all hard to understand and seem to fail at logic in several ways. The question "which one should I pay?" do not seem to be computable. The only computable question is "which option is the cheapest legal for me"? I would actually be happy if I paid more taxes but had a single clear option available, saving me the cost of an expert to pay my damn taxes...
Really brings into question why we have a state religion
To crown sovereigns and to decide on royal divorces without interference from a foreign power. This is really the only reason. I don't see England getting rid of state religion without getting rid of the monarchy. However, in practice, UK is a secular state. The state religion is not forced to anyone, it is more a mere folklore than a real endorsement by all the government officials.
Sorry, the estimation is 12 to 23. The figure I had in mind was the estimation for 2016 : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9487574/North-Korea-could-have-fuel-for-48-nuclear-weapons-by-2015.html
You mean that the isolated nation of North Korea doesn't have a network of tracking stations that can keep the contact with the satellite over its orbital path? I am shocked...
By the way, I dislike NK as much as anyone here, maybe a bit more as I have relatives in Japan, but nothing would ne more dangerous than underestimating them. Their second attempt at a 3 stage rocket put a satellite into orbit. If I am not mistaken, this is one of the cleanest record of any space power. Losing just one rocket is incredible.
Building satellites is hard and the objective of this launch is unknown (unless you are willing to believe the weather-satellite-on-a-perfect-spy-orbit fable). The lack of details makes it hard to know how much of a failure this really is. If they fear it becomes a durable debris, it means it is not currently on an unstable orbit.
NK has about 50 nukes and satellite launching abilities. It is not a laughing stock. It is a major problem for the world. Just laughing is silly. This kind of news seems to say "Haha, what clowns, we can't do anything about them so let's just mock them"
Actually what they are protecting them is that they have put a huge artillery arsenal in range of Seoul, possibly loaded with chemical weapons. The minute an attack is launched on North Korea, the most lethal bombing since WWII begins. They have taken hostages. They really don't need nuclear weapons for the stand-off to continue. I am really scared about their possible plans for these.
"free software" = "control over the software that runs on your machine". If you are deceiving the user into running spyware, you are running contrary to the free software philosophy.
What you call the workforce today is not what we used to call the workforce. Your 9% do not include people over 65, students, handicapped, and (depending on the country you are talking about) people not actively looking for a job like housemoms.
Just look at the average person : life expectancy is more than 80, you will work ~ from 25 to 65. 50% of your life. Of all the persons who are physically able to work, we are probably at about 50% of them not working. Sure, we will continue to be at about 5-10% of the workforce unemployed, but automation will allow to reduce what we call workforce...
Yes, performance-wise, Intel cards are still low, but I wonder if they do not even beat ATI cards when using only open source drivers.
I couldn't agree more. Having a stable software is a very good thing, for a stable protocol. I hate it when a stable software is being broken by some newcomers that thought that a "modern UI paradigm" was needed and that unstability was a good price for that.
I believed this jazz and bought an AMD/ATI laptop after being bitten by nVidia's optimus comment (my nvidia laptop got stolen). Now I miss my nvidia laptop. The Radeon driver is really lacking, has a very high battery consumption, doesn't work well with many applications. The fglrx (proprietary) driver won't work with several Xorg version without that considered a major bug by the dev team.
It is very possible that right now, if you want pure open source, Intel may be the one offering the most supported punch. I will really consider this option for my next one. I wonder if CUDA can be done with intel cards.
The alternative is to use bumblebee on nvidia proprietary driver, which drains battery but allows to enjoy a decent graphical acceleration.
But Windows is not just a UI, it is an operating system. I wonder if it finally copies file correctly, and if it is possible to pause/resume this operation. A feature I have waited for decades now.
Actually I like this system : for a long term project to succeed, it requires it to be consistent, non-partisan and well done. Arguably, the Yucca project had a lot of shortcomings, and the increasing maturity of fast-breeder reactors makes it likely that some of the wastes we want to bury will actually be usable as very precious and energetic fuel in 20 years. It makes sense to keep it stored in a more accessible fashion.
So easy that you don't even have to be employed to find work. Most of the people I know working in the IT and of my generation (early thirties) have walked the plank and are now freelances. In my case it was a double on the salary. (which I actually used to work half of the time)
Well it still beats out all of the other FSF-endorsed chips out there...
This is why they install a keylogger. Unless you keep your laptop 24/24 with you, and sleep over it, you are vulnerable to this. Palladium leaks indicated that they loved the unused PCMCIA slots on many laptops that allowed to install a device without anyone noticing for a very long period of time.
Has Al-Jazeera ever mentionned the Qatari warriors in Libya?
Russia is big and well known. Russia Today has a lot of internal news about Russia so its bias is clearly visible. But be weary of the bias that is more subtle.
Al-Jazeera is a growing chain, right now they are getting a good reputation, but they are totally under control by special interests too. Plurality of information is good. Russia Today is a very good source of military information. They usually have far more details than their CNN counterparts. I consider RT far more relialable than Al-Jazeera for a simple reason : I know its bias far better. I know that a RT news about Syrian fighters winning something is probably true, I know that a CNN news about Syrian governement winning something is probably true. I don't know on which side Al-Jazeera is supposed to be trustworthy.
Because my time has a value too.
As Randall remarked when criticizing the comments of the form "you can't win the whitehouse if...", we live in a world where a white man can not access to the whitehouse after he has been mentioned on twitter.
but would you want to actually change that?
Uh... yes? I miss something, what is there to lose there?
Oh, and I forgot : they go (more or less) in a straight line unlike modern naval missiles we can basically dance a tango around their target before striking them.
Working on artillery? This is a claim I highly doubt.
Anti missiles work by making there target explode. That works well when said target is a tube half-filled with rocket fuel. It doesn't work as well when it is an empty tube with an armored warhead, as Russian ballistic missiles are a few minutes after launch or on a mass of iron protecting an explosive warhead, as artillery shells are.
Palestinian rockets are weak and old fashioned, their warhead is not protected and in mid-flight they are still burning fuel. That is why these anti-missiles work.
Man, with 40 millions cyber-terrorists to catch, I surely hope the cyber-defense department is well funded... Do we have to repeat such numbers when they are obviously irrelevant? There have obviously not been 40 millions different attacks. They have probably counted the number of connections from a DDoS attempt. By putting such a number here, we have strictly no informations on the number of attacks. It could be a single DDoS so far as we know...