16 in Belize, 18 in Guatemala. Ages of consent in North America But generalizations are dangerous and law and custom may differ --- something the American expatriate of a certain age would do well to remember.
Mr. McAfee has accused the Belize government of widespread corruption.
Says the sixty-seven year old guy who bought an off-shore island retreat for himself, seven barely-of-age sexual playmates, and the chance to fry his brain, and perhaps those of the girls as well, with an unlimited supply of home-brewed psychoactive drugs.
The boneheaded decisions of Canonical, plus the existence of Mint Linux, have all but decimated the Ubuntu userbase. Yes, I know there must be some Ubuntu users out there still, but they're somewhere at the fringe of society: you know nobody in your circle of friends, colleagues, family or acquaintances who uses Ubuntu.
The geek's circle of friends must be smaller than most.
The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie doesn't give you access to primary sources. It doesn't give you the money for restoration.
Steamboat Willie was released on nitrate stock using the Powers Cinephone sound-on-film system.
Maybe MoMA will lend you a print.
The expiration of the copyright doesn't give you access to the Disney archives. I remember a "Disneyland" episode recreating the original post-production recording session --- one of the first of its kind --- with the surviving crew and sound effects gear.
Extras like that make the DVD.
The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie doesn't give you the trademarked character designs for the Mouse, Minnie, Pete and the rest. It doesn't give you the right to produce anything but recognizable derivatives of Steamboat Willie.
No Goofy. No Pluto.
No Phantom Blot from the comic strips. No Sorcerer's Apprentice from "Fantasia." .
So how do you protect your privacy? Before calling your insurance company, (or before they get to the tow yard to yank your ACM) you can send someone to yank it out for you, or drill through it (it has to be replace when deployed anyhow!).
The fatality means your car will be impounded.
In any event, the tampering will be spotted in the blink of an eye. You can't possibly risk a jury verdict in civil or criminal court. But there is no damn food reason for anyone to cut you a deal when they can go for the max and almost certainly get it.
I live in the United States, where people enjoy the right to not testify against themselves. That means nothing if a person is forced to pay for and travel with a device that will record possibly incriminating testimony which must then be surrendered to the courts.
The historical root of the privilege against self-incrimination is the use of torture and intimidation to extract confessions. It is one of the few exceptions to the general rule that all relevant evidence is admissible.
In most trades and professions, there are log books or black boxes which record and document your actions every working hour.
It happens in industry. Finance. IT. Education. It happens to the self-employed. You need a license. You need insurance. You need a banker. You need an accountant. You need clients and customers who have been burnt once too often by the guy who works off-the-books.
Taking to the public roads is a privilege not a right.
You need to prove your competence to manage a mult-ton vehicle on both city streets and the high speed expressway an examiner. You need to establish your financial responsibility. The condition of your vehicle. Your sobriety on the road can be tested at any time.
If you crash, your vehicle can be impounded for forensic examination --- often very revealing black box or no black box.
ABC News is reporting that a Guatemala City hospital found no reason to keep McAfee overnight.
Call it an anxiety attack, if you like.
You might want to compare and contrast these two photographs:
[This photo of McAfee and Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro] included meta-data revealing their precise location, which a reader quickly pinpointed as ''next to the pool at Nana Juana Hotel Marina and Yacht Club'' in Guatemala. McAfee was soon arrested. Oops.
USA Today said he was accompanied by his 20 year old girlfriend to the hospital. Perhaps the 2 minor heart attacks were after a conjugal visit?
He had seven live-in "companions" that age in Belize.
The day before, I met "Tiffany" here. She claimed to be one of McAfee's girlfriends, one of seven. They all live together, sharing McAfee's houses and fantasies. He's 67. Tiffany says she's 23 and they have been lovers for three years. The girl beside her gives no name and only says she's 19.
I understand this guy founded a software company, but he's not exactly been a public figure until now. What's with all the fascination over this investigation?
It echoes strangely the Hans Reiser case.
In some ways it echoes every high-profile real-life and fictional encounter of the geek and the criminal law. The ego the size of the planet. There are the extra added attractions of the remote luxurious villainous Lair and the Bond women. The fulfillment of every adolescent sexual fantasy.
Border Areas: A long-standing border dispute between Belize and Guatemala has not been resolved and many areas of the border area are not adequately patrolled. Smugglers, narcotics traffickers and wildlife poachers enter Belize in the shared border region, and there have been incidents of clashes between some of these individuals and Belize military and law enforcement personnel, some of which included the exchange of gunfire. Visitors should avoid trekking or other activities near the Belize-Guatemala border to ensure that they do not inadvertently cross the border into Guatemala. The Embassy cautions U.S. citizens who choose to travel on cross-border public buses between Guatemala and Belize in response to a spike in armed bus attacks by bandits in January 2011. Illegal cross-border activities increase after nightfall. Visitors to the border areas should travel only during daylight.
CRIME AND SAFETY TIPS: Guatemala has one of the highest violent crime rates in Central America. Between January and September 2012, an average of 95 murders per week were reported countrywide in Guatemala. The vast majority of murders do not involve foreigners; however, the sheer volume of activity means that local officials, who are often inexperienced and underpaid, are unable to cope with the problem. Rule of law is lacking as the judicial system is weak, overworked, and inefficient. Criminals know there is little chance they will be caught or punished as the rate of convictions/resolution are very low.
The number of violent crimes reported by U.S. citizens and other foreigners has remained high and incidents have included, but are not limited to, assault, theft, armed robbery, carjacking, rape, kidnapping, and murder, even in areas of Guatemala City once considered safe.
Guatemala is a country with many different and firmly held local beliefs and customs. Particularly in small villages, residents are often wary and suspicious of outsiders. In the past, Guatemalan citizens have been lynched for suspicion of child abduction, so we recommend that U.S. citizens keep a distance from local children, and refrain from actions that could fuel such suspicions. In addition, U.S. citizens are advised to be aware of and avoid activities that might unintentionally violate a cultural or religious belief. The following recommendations will help residents and visitors alike to increase their safety:
Avoid gatherings of agitated people. Attempting to intervene may put you at risk of attacks from mobs.
Avoid close contact with local children, including taking photographs, especially in rural areas. Such contact can be viewed with deep suspicion and may provoke panic and violence.
Keep informed of possible demonstrations by following the local news and consulting hotel personnel and tour guides. Avoid areas where demonstrations are occurring.
An iPhone restrains you in certain ways but it also enables a whole lot of other things. It's all about trade-offs.
It's the difference between an actual prison, and a prison where you can eat delicious food, see your friends, travel to some extent, etc etc etc., versus living "free" in the woods.
Furthermore, they aren't "handcuffs" in that I can get out of them. I might lose some stuff, but then again, I might not -- it all depends on what I'm doing and how.
I won't say that Slashdot is user-unfriendly, however often the word "sheepie" is used around here. But their voices are absent.
I don't believe I've ever heard the geek's contempt for other trades, crafts and professions expressed quite so clearly as this. It certainly helps to explain his boundless sense of entitlement.
Don't jack up rates to pay those Disney people. We'll just move elsewhere
The cellar-dweller lives.
The Disney brand name has been a marketing powerhouse since the 1920s.
Disney and Warner Brothers were the first of the major studios to make the move into television production --- jump-starting the infant ABC television network: Disneyland and Davy Crockett. The Mickey Mouse Club. Zorro.
Disney's move to NBC and full color production was headline news and an enormous driver of sales of color television sets.
Disney was reluctant to move into home video --- but when it did move it came in with all guns blazing. It remains a safe bet that the Disney feature will reach the top ten lists in video sales and rentals through any all distribution channels, no matter how well or how poorly it performed in the theatrical market.
Disney through acqusitions is Marvel Comics.
ESPN. Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Muppets. LucasFilms....
He moved to a corrupt 3rd world banana republic with no rule of law, and failed to pay a bribe a couple months ago so they roughed him up, shot his dog for fun, trashed his place, what did he expect if he didn't pay his bribe in a country that's corrupt? So that's the background.
--- or are you just taking McAfee's self-serving blogs as gospel truth?
no it wont. It has $50 Tablet specs (shitty photoframe TN low resolution screen).
Back to the Future.
The one positive for Walmart in its five year mission to bring OEM Linux to the masses was the discovery that it could onload truckloads of worthless industrial surplus shit hardware to the geek so long as it was stickered with a Tux logo.
I wonder if win8 will ever pass the xp market share
I wonder if Linux will ever pass Win 8's market share.
---- and by "Linux" I mean the traditional community oriented Linux distribution, not Android.
Android is defined by Google and the manufacturer or distributor of the Android based device. The FOSS oriented geek may hack the device and side-load apps. But the FOSS oeienred geek is not by any stretch of the imagination a significant force in this market.
I've been looking for a more sophisticated follow-up to SimTower for a while now. I'd buy Otis Elevator Tycoon.
This gets modded up as a joke, but the interaction of tech and people within a mega-structure seems to me a solid foundation on which to build a game. But I can think of only Sim Tower and Startopia as examples.
Take code from GitHub, copy/paste, re-implement ideas you find there, possibly implemented badly.... C'mon, who gives a damn about copyright on GitHub ????
The owners. The courts. Your employers. Your clients, among others.
Successes and failures in other media can make or break you.
Star Trek and Star Wars have been so long identified with space opera that there is scarcely any room to breathe here. That both franchises are looking rather old and tired isn't helpful.
The mainstream publisher/distributer takes more chances then the gamer geek is often willing to admit:
From EA. Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum/Arkham City. From Rockstar, Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire. This stuff is much harder to pull off then it looks.
I find it disappointing that instead of actively fighting secure boot and making a BIG PUBLIC STINK about it and embarrassing everyone involved in implementing this, the community is aquiescing to the concept and "working with it."
The community is not united against secure boot. There are real benefits for the user.
One security threat that has been getting a lot of interest lately is the ability to ensure the integrity of the early boot sequence - the handoff of control from the lowest level system firmware (traditionally provided by the hardware vendor) through to the operating system kernel. This is important because there have increasingly been real-world exploits where fraudulently modified early boot code has introduced vulnerabilities into the operating system.
To confront this challenge, the upcoming generation of system firmware, referred to as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot, has capabilities in the system startup sequence designed to only pass control to operating system software that can be confirmed to be not tampered with. The mechanism used to confirm the integrity of operating system software is not novel, rather it uses traditional key signing and variations of checksumming. While these mechanisms have traditionally been used higher up in the software stack and later in the startup sequence - what is new is the fact that these validation checks are expected to now be available at the earliest points in the system startup sequence. Performing the checks early is crucial as it provides a safe, verified starting point.
UEFI Secure Boot [Tim Burke, vice president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat]
Slashdot Mirror
17 is not underage in most of the world.
16 in Belize, 18 in Guatemala. Ages of consent in North America But generalizations are dangerous and law and custom may differ --- something the American expatriate of a certain age would do well to remember.
Mr. McAfee has accused the Belize government of widespread corruption.
Says the sixty-seven year old guy who bought an off-shore island retreat for himself, seven barely-of-age sexual playmates, and the chance to fry his brain, and perhaps those of the girls as well, with an unlimited supply of home-brewed psychoactive drugs.
The guy who escaped to a country
The boneheaded decisions of Canonical, plus the existence of Mint Linux, have all but decimated the Ubuntu userbase. Yes, I know there must be some Ubuntu users out there still, but they're somewhere at the fringe of society: you know nobody in your circle of friends, colleagues, family or acquaintances who uses Ubuntu.
The geek's circle of friends must be smaller than most.
Dell Ubuntu Laptop Developer Speaks About Future Plans
Splashtop introduces remote Ubuntu to Android and iPhone
10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8
The point being that Ubuntu remains a remarkably successful distribution --- particularly in markets where Linux can seem all but invisible.
The free-to-view HTML 5 YouTube video?
It's already here, courtesy Disney Animation. Walt Disney Animations Steamboat Willie
If you want to better that, you have a problem.
The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie doesn't give you access to primary sources. It doesn't give you the money for restoration.
Steamboat Willie was released on nitrate stock using the Powers Cinephone sound-on-film system.
Maybe MoMA will lend you a print.
The expiration of the copyright doesn't give you access to the Disney archives. I remember a "Disneyland" episode recreating the original post-production recording session --- one of the first of its kind --- with the surviving crew and sound effects gear.
Extras like that make the DVD.
The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie doesn't give you the trademarked character designs for the Mouse, Minnie, Pete and the rest. It doesn't give you the right to produce anything but recognizable derivatives of Steamboat Willie.
No Goofy. No Pluto.
No Phantom Blot from the comic strips. No Sorcerer's Apprentice from "Fantasia."
.
So how do you protect your privacy? Before calling your insurance company, (or before they get to the tow yard to yank your ACM) you can send someone to yank it out for you, or drill through it (it has to be replace when deployed anyhow!).
The fatality means your car will be impounded.
In any event, the tampering will be spotted in the blink of an eye. You can't possibly risk a jury verdict in civil or criminal court. But there is no damn food reason for anyone to cut you a deal when they can go for the max and almost certainly get it.
I live in the United States, where people enjoy the right to not testify against themselves. That means nothing if a person is forced to pay for and travel with a device that will record possibly incriminating testimony which must then be surrendered to the courts.
The historical root of the privilege against self-incrimination is the use of torture and intimidation to extract confessions. It is one of the few exceptions to the general rule that all relevant evidence is admissible.
In most trades and professions, there are log books or black boxes which record and document your actions every working hour.
Nurses. Physicians. Pilots. Railroad engineers. Ship captains.
It happens in industry. Finance. IT. Education. It happens to the self-employed. You need a license. You need insurance. You need a banker. You need an accountant. You need clients and customers who have been burnt once too often by the guy who works off-the-books.
Taking to the public roads is a privilege not a right.
You need to prove your competence to manage a mult-ton vehicle on both city streets and the high speed expressway an examiner. You need to establish your financial responsibility. The condition of your vehicle. Your sobriety on the road can be tested at any time.
If you crash, your vehicle can be impounded for forensic examination --- often very revealing black box or no black box.
ABC News is reporting that a Guatemala City hospital found no reason to keep McAfee overnight.
Call it an anxiety attack, if you like.
You might want to compare and contrast these two photographs :
[This photo of McAfee and Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro] included meta-data revealing their precise location, which a reader quickly pinpointed as ''next to the pool at Nana Juana Hotel Marina and Yacht Club'' in Guatemala. McAfee was soon arrested. Oops.
McAfee, Vice, and the limits of hipster journalism
John McAfee Returned to Guatemala Detention Center After Hospitalization [Guatemala's National Police/AP Photo]
The impression I have is of a man who was flying high uo in the clouds only to come crashing down hard --- and not for the first time.
USA Today said he was accompanied by his 20 year old girlfriend to the hospital. Perhaps the 2 minor heart attacks were after a conjugal visit?
He had seven live-in "companions" that age in Belize.
The day before, I met "Tiffany" here. She claimed to be one of McAfee's girlfriends, one of seven. They all live together, sharing McAfee's houses and fantasies. He's 67. Tiffany says she's 23 and they have been lovers for three years. The girl beside her gives no name and only says she's 19.
A bizarre visit to John McAfee's pleasure palace in Belize
I understand this guy founded a software company, but he's not exactly been a public figure until now. What's with all the fascination over this investigation?
It echoes strangely the Hans Reiser case.
In some ways it echoes every high-profile real-life and fictional encounter of the geek and the criminal law. The ego the size of the planet. There are the extra added attractions of the remote luxurious villainous Lair and the Bond women. The fulfillment of every adolescent sexual fantasy.
The lawsuit follows an earlier case against Perez, which was filed in July 2011 by Dietz for unpaid invoices.
The first thing a lawyer will tell you to do when faced with a lawsuit is to keep your big mouth shut.
Don't feed ammunition to the plaintiff's attorneys.
Don't dig yourself in to a deeper hole.
Border Areas: A long-standing border dispute between Belize and Guatemala has not been resolved and many areas of the border area are not adequately patrolled. Smugglers, narcotics traffickers and wildlife poachers enter Belize in the shared border region, and there have been incidents of clashes between some of these individuals and Belize military and law enforcement personnel, some of which included the exchange of gunfire. Visitors should avoid trekking or other activities near the Belize-Guatemala border to ensure that they do not inadvertently cross the border into Guatemala. The Embassy cautions U.S. citizens who choose to travel on cross-border public buses between Guatemala and Belize in response to a spike in armed bus attacks by bandits in January 2011. Illegal cross-border activities increase after nightfall. Visitors to the border areas should travel only during daylight.
Belize
CRIME AND SAFETY TIPS: Guatemala has one of the highest violent crime rates in Central America. Between January and September 2012, an average of 95 murders per week were reported countrywide in Guatemala. The vast majority of murders do not involve foreigners; however, the sheer volume of activity means that local officials, who are often inexperienced and underpaid, are unable to cope with the problem. Rule of law is lacking as the judicial system is weak, overworked, and inefficient. Criminals know there is little chance they will be caught or punished as the rate of convictions/resolution are very low.
The number of violent crimes reported by U.S. citizens and other foreigners has remained high and incidents have included, but are not limited to, assault, theft, armed robbery, carjacking, rape, kidnapping, and murder, even in areas of Guatemala City once considered safe.
Guatemala is a country with many different and firmly held local beliefs and customs. Particularly in small villages, residents are often wary and suspicious of outsiders. In the past, Guatemalan citizens have been lynched for suspicion of child abduction, so we recommend that U.S. citizens keep a distance from local children, and refrain from actions that could fuel such suspicions. In addition, U.S. citizens are advised to be aware of and avoid activities that might unintentionally violate a cultural or religious belief. The following recommendations will help residents and visitors alike to increase their safety:
Avoid gatherings of agitated people. Attempting to intervene may put you at risk of attacks from mobs.
Avoid close contact with local children, including taking photographs, especially in rural areas. Such contact can be viewed with deep suspicion and may provoke panic and violence.
Keep informed of possible demonstrations by following the local news and consulting hotel personnel and tour guides. Avoid areas where demonstrations are occurring.
Guatemala
McAfee seems to have cut pretty close to the line in his pursuit of young women in Belize. Not a pedophile. But not someone to be trusted, either. A bizarre visit to John McAfee's pleasure palace in Belize
An iPhone restrains you in certain ways but it also enables a whole lot of other things. It's all about trade-offs.
It's the difference between an actual prison, and a prison where you can eat delicious food, see your friends, travel to some extent, etc etc etc., versus living "free" in the woods.
Furthermore, they aren't "handcuffs" in that I can get out of them. I might lose some stuff, but then again, I might not -- it all depends on what I'm doing and how.
I won't say that Slashdot is user-unfriendly, however often the word "sheepie" is used around here. But their voices are absent.
Yeah but the national median level of education, training, and experience is only slightly above a zoo monkey...
The numbers tell a different story. Educational attainment in the United States
"Zoo monkey."
I don't believe I've ever heard the geek's contempt for other trades, crafts and professions expressed quite so clearly as this. It certainly helps to explain his boundless sense of entitlement.
The median household income in the US is $52,000 USA Quick Facts
Don't jack up rates to pay those Disney people. We'll just move elsewhere
The cellar-dweller lives.
The Disney brand name has been a marketing powerhouse since the 1920s.
Disney and Warner Brothers were the first of the major studios to make the move into television production --- jump-starting the infant ABC television network: Disneyland and Davy Crockett. The Mickey Mouse Club. Zorro.
Disney's move to NBC and full color production was headline news and an enormous driver of sales of color television sets.
Disney was reluctant to move into home video --- but when it did move it came in with all guns blazing. It remains a safe bet that the Disney feature will reach the top ten lists in video sales and rentals through any all distribution channels, no matter how well or how poorly it performed in the theatrical market.
Disney through acqusitions is Marvel Comics.
ESPN. Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Muppets. LucasFilms....
He moved to a corrupt 3rd world banana republic with no rule of law, and failed to pay a bribe a couple months ago so they roughed him up, shot his dog for fun, trashed his place, what did he expect if he didn't pay his bribe in a country that's corrupt? So that's the background.
--- or are you just taking McAfee's self-serving blogs as gospel truth?
A bizarre visit to John McAfee's pleasure palace in Belize
Something that is designed to be used by people who actually make things instead of sitting there and drooling their life away.
The tool maker makes tools that make building or managing other things easier.
It doesn't make him superior to the business woman, artist or craftsman, who has the imagination to see their full potential.
It doesn't make him superior to those whose lives are centered around other tools and other tasks. "Drooling their lives away?" Not at all.
It should beat out that $99 walgreens tablet
no it wont. It has $50 Tablet specs (shitty photoframe TN low resolution screen).
Back to the Future.
The one positive for Walmart in its five year mission to bring OEM Linux to the masses was the discovery that it could onload truckloads of worthless industrial surplus shit hardware to the geek so long as it was stickered with a Tux logo.
I wonder if win8 will ever pass the xp market share
I wonder if Linux will ever pass Win 8's market share.
---- and by "Linux" I mean the traditional community oriented Linux distribution, not Android.
Android is defined by Google and the manufacturer or distributor of the Android based device. The FOSS oriented geek may hack the device and side-load apps. But the FOSS oeienred geek is not by any stretch of the imagination a significant force in this market.
I've been looking for a more sophisticated follow-up to SimTower for a while now. I'd buy Otis Elevator Tycoon.
This gets modded up as a joke, but the interaction of tech and people within a mega-structure seems to me a solid foundation on which to build a game. But I can think of only Sim Tower and Startopia as examples.
Take code from GitHub, copy/paste, re-implement ideas you find there, possibly implemented badly.... C'mon, who gives a damn about copyright on GitHub ????
The owners. The courts. Your employers. Your clients, among others.
The entertainment market is cyclical.
Genres go in and out of style.
Successes and failures in other media can make or break you.
Star Trek and Star Wars have been so long identified with space opera that there is scarcely any room to breathe here. That both franchises are looking rather old and tired isn't helpful.
The mainstream publisher/distributer takes more chances then the gamer geek is often willing to admit:
From EA. Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum/Arkham City. From Rockstar, Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire. This stuff is much harder to pull off then it looks.
I find it disappointing that instead of actively fighting secure boot and making a BIG PUBLIC STINK about it and embarrassing everyone involved in implementing this, the community is aquiescing to the concept and "working with it."
The community is not united against secure boot. There are real benefits for the user.
One security threat that has been getting a lot of interest lately is the ability to ensure the integrity of the early boot sequence - the handoff of control from the lowest level system firmware (traditionally provided by the hardware vendor) through to the operating system kernel. This is important because there have increasingly been real-world exploits where fraudulently modified early boot code has introduced vulnerabilities into the operating system.
To confront this challenge, the upcoming generation of system firmware, referred to as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot, has capabilities in the system startup sequence designed to only pass control to operating system software that can be confirmed to be not tampered with. The mechanism used to confirm the integrity of operating system software is not novel, rather it uses traditional key signing and variations of checksumming. While these mechanisms have traditionally been used higher up in the software stack and later in the startup sequence - what is new is the fact that these validation checks are expected to now be available at the earliest points in the system startup sequence. Performing the checks early is crucial as it provides a safe, verified starting point.
UEFI Secure Boot [Tim Burke, vice president, Linux Engineering, Red Hat]
Because the only thing that matters in life is money, right?
If you are managing a fundraiser for charities like the Red Cross, then yes.
If you are trying to help out an established developer in deep financial trouble or a newcomer who needs leg up, then yes.
The first Humble Bundle was advertised as DRM-free, and with a portion going to the EFF.
I don't recall a contribution to the EFF as being anything other than optional.