As the smartest guy on the internet you probably already have my patented corporate overreach blocker installed. As you probably know it has been banned from freedom hating corporate repositories, meaning my elite followers are forced to download it from my exclusive website. What you may not know is that I just finished uploading the new version. The new version of the banned plugin can now shrink corporate overreach from the most powerful multi-nationals in the world down to the size of Donald Trump's fingers. It's really important that you and all your loved ones download the latest version NOW!!!! - My corporate spy team are telling me that the censors at google are about to delist my website, not sure when that will happen, it could be hours or days, but when it does happen I will be forced to move operations onto the dark web.
Yes slashdot is full of geeks, there are a couple of posts on here that succinctly explain why McAfee is full of shit in a technical sense. Essentially, the key they need is burnt into the chip, it can't be electronically copied because it is not in memory. None of that is denying the court action and the media circus appears to be a power grab by the FBI, and it's also not beyond the realms of possibility that the FBI genuinely believe they are "doing the right thing"..
Spot on, ISIS et-al want us to view it as a war against Islam since that automatically gives them a billion plus foot soldiers. They will happily claim any random act that fits their MO as an act of martyrdom for their cause. We had the same here in Sydney when a random nut with an ISIS flag held people in a coffee shop hostage for a few hours while the cops worked out how to kill him. By claiming these random nutters as their own agents, ISIS are elevating ordinary muslims as a threat, the backlash on muslims just creates more foot soldiers for their cause.
The IRA was (in large part) defeated because the government of the day realised that treating terrorists as common criminals is far more effective at reducing violence than waging war against an ideology or political grudge. It was also a deliberate decision on the part of the Irish and UK governments to allow the political wing of the IRA to remain intact and included in society provided the military arm was disavowed and defunded.
US culture strongly supports the notion that guns solve problems, and thus bigger guns solve bigger problems, so there is little political will to back down from a "war against X" once it has been (informally) declared.
Nice conspiracy theory, it neatly explains why a candidate often appears to represent the views of their party but how does it explain the fact that Trump is still breathing?
IMHO the majority of politicians enter politics with good intentions, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The court has ordered Apple to write a piece of software that Apple claims does not exist. Apple claim they can write the software but are refusing to do so because they consider such a tool to be "digital cancer". The legal argument appears to boil down to the definition of "reasonable burden", ie: is it reasonable to burden Apple with writing a piece of software that they claim would significantly damage their commercial reputation?
The court seems to be in a position of weighing up which of two things are more 'valuable', the unknown future value of the information vs the unknown future loss to Apple.
The recent rash of anti-science and pro-military actions of our government are a direct consequence of Abbot stacking the public service with far right loons when he became PM. Tony was Australia's Trump light, he was (and still is) itching for us to go to war with somebody, it doesn't seem to matter who that somebody is. As with Trump, Abbot (aka the mad monk) is a private school bully boy who drove a xenophobic wedge thru his own party to gain and hold onto personal power.
WP is an encyclopedia, encyclopedia have been around for well over a century, the middle class of my generation were raised with an encyclopedia on the family book shelf. It has never been acceptable to cite an encyclopedia as an academic source, it is however "standard practice" to use an encyclopedia to get a feel for the subject and quickly lead you to the primary sources.
In my personal experience of growing up with brittanica and using WP I have found WP to be just as reliable and far more relevant.
Well if you are thinking they are peodophiles you don't know much about pedophiles. Peodophiles do not normally display sympathy for peodophiles, they tend to advocate harsh punishment, and do so just a bit too loudly, at least up until they are caught. eg: the politician who gave the US its ridiculously broad sex offender list was caught propositioning 14yo male interns.
The energy stored in the hydrogen is released by recombining it with the oxygen to create water which can then be re-split using sunlight. It's a closed loop, that is driven by sunlight.
The same can be said of Trump, in fact he has already divided the GOP and conquered those who have remained "loyal". Sanders at least appeals for unity while taking pot shots at Hillary's policies and their sponsors, the word socialist may be taboo in the US but not so in the rest of the western world, much of what Sanders says he will do is just common sense bi-partisan social policy in the rest of the western world.
Both Hilary and Obama would be classified as "center-right" here in Australia, same political colour as our current prime minister. Sanders would be a very popular opposition leader right now in Oz. Sanders and Clinton have long, and very similar, voting records, for all practical purposes they are 90+% in violent agreement with each other. Sanders, Obama, The Clintons, Bush v1.0, even Ronald Reagan, are/were "democratic" in the true sense of the word - they all want(ed) their own party to be a "big tent" that can tolerate and even encourage a variety of viewpoints, Trump's textbook narcissism* wants to buy the biggest "tent" he can and he wants it filled with loyal sycophants.
*Trivia: Narcissus was a greek god who fell in love with his own reflection in a lake, he was so enchanted by his own image that he fell in and drowned.
Trump was a teenager in the 60's, he is not a product of his generation, observation suggests a lonely soldier date raped an Orangutang just as WW2 was winding up. By all accounts the Malaysian jungle did strange things to a soldier's mind.
And yes, I'm a "boomer" and no matter what generation you* come from you have your head up your arse if you think the civil rights movement and the invention of the contraceptive pill didn't dramatically change "everything".
You've got a few people there who support a very antagonizing US foreign policy while Trump has said....
...I'm going to build a wall to keep Mexican rapists out of the US and then I'm going to force them to pay for it. I'm going to build a metaphorical wall at entry points to keep a billion or so muslim out, etc.
I think he might also be tempted to say he will wipe Syria and Iran off the map as well, but that would upset Putin, and Trump appears to care what Putin thinks of him, at least more than he cares what all of Mexico think of him.
You or a friend may be out of work and it sucks, particularly in the US where the "social safety net" is virtually non-existent. However by any believable economic measure you care to name, that is despite what Obama has done to the US economy, rather than because of it.
Disclaimer: Not a democrat and I have healthy distrust of partisans. I've also never set foot in the US but by virtue of its global economic and military strength, its politics directly affects everyone in the western world.
At 57 I'm a few years older than the GP, Trump is 69, 12yrs older than me and possibly old enough to be your dad.:)
I agree, he is everything the 70's wasn't, the guy was 20 at the peak of the flower power era. He may technically be a "boomer" but he certainly isn't a stereotypical product of his era.
Yes, he has a remarkable knack for picking up angry soundbites in the crowd and amplifying them back at the audience. Some people see this as a clever politics, his followers don't see it at. But I dare say the vast majority of the english speaking world see it as embarrassingly obvious.
Simply put, Trump is a "demagogue", as were Hitler and Stalin, that doesn't mean he is inherently evil, it means he is using the same psychological tools to gain power. He has already divided and conquered the GOP with an old fashioned xenophobic wedge, it will take them decades to recover their solidarity. Right now the rest of the planet are just crossing their fingers hoping the American people will stop humouring this wannabe tyrant BEFORE he gets to the whitehouse and starts pushing buttons just to see what happens.
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As the smartest guy on the internet you probably already have my patented corporate overreach blocker installed. As you probably know it has been banned from freedom hating corporate repositories, meaning my elite followers are forced to download it from my exclusive website. What you may not know is that I just finished uploading the new version. The new version of the banned plugin can now shrink corporate overreach from the most powerful multi-nationals in the world down to the size of Donald Trump's fingers. It's really important that you and all your loved ones download the latest version NOW!!!! - My corporate spy team are telling me that the censors at google are about to delist my website, not sure when that will happen, it could be hours or days, but when it does happen I will be forced to move operations onto the dark web.
IIRC, probability = the area under the distribution curve = numerical or analytical calculus.
Yes slashdot is full of geeks, there are a couple of posts on here that succinctly explain why McAfee is full of shit in a technical sense. Essentially, the key they need is burnt into the chip, it can't be electronically copied because it is not in memory. None of that is denying the court action and the media circus appears to be a power grab by the FBI, and it's also not beyond the realms of possibility that the FBI genuinely believe they are "doing the right thing"..
Spot on, ISIS et-al want us to view it as a war against Islam since that automatically gives them a billion plus foot soldiers. They will happily claim any random act that fits their MO as an act of martyrdom for their cause. We had the same here in Sydney when a random nut with an ISIS flag held people in a coffee shop hostage for a few hours while the cops worked out how to kill him. By claiming these random nutters as their own agents, ISIS are elevating ordinary muslims as a threat, the backlash on muslims just creates more foot soldiers for their cause.
The IRA was (in large part) defeated because the government of the day realised that treating terrorists as common criminals is far more effective at reducing violence than waging war against an ideology or political grudge. It was also a deliberate decision on the part of the Irish and UK governments to allow the political wing of the IRA to remain intact and included in society provided the military arm was disavowed and defunded.
US culture strongly supports the notion that guns solve problems, and thus bigger guns solve bigger problems, so there is little political will to back down from a "war against X" once it has been (informally) declared.
Nice conspiracy theory, it neatly explains why a candidate often appears to represent the views of their party but how does it explain the fact that Trump is still breathing?
IMHO the majority of politicians enter politics with good intentions, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
"hard drive"???
Brisbane to Darwin in the wet season.
...deserves an informative mod, unfortunately I have none to give.
The court has ordered Apple to write a piece of software that Apple claims does not exist. Apple claim they can write the software but are refusing to do so because they consider such a tool to be "digital cancer". The legal argument appears to boil down to the definition of "reasonable burden", ie: is it reasonable to burden Apple with writing a piece of software that they claim would significantly damage their commercial reputation?
The court seems to be in a position of weighing up which of two things are more 'valuable', the unknown future value of the information vs the unknown future loss to Apple.
The placebo is strong in this one.
Actually the neuroscience is strong on mindfulness and Ruby Wax is well qualified to explain it in an entertaining manner.
I'm guessing Randi debunked your pet delusion at some stage, right?
Mate, I'd seriously consider buying a one way ticket for a wanker like you.
The recent rash of anti-science and pro-military actions of our government are a direct consequence of Abbot stacking the public service with far right loons when he became PM. Tony was Australia's Trump light, he was (and still is) itching for us to go to war with somebody, it doesn't seem to matter who that somebody is. As with Trump, Abbot (aka the mad monk) is a private school bully boy who drove a xenophobic wedge thru his own party to gain and hold onto personal power.
WP is an encyclopedia, encyclopedia have been around for well over a century, the middle class of my generation were raised with an encyclopedia on the family book shelf. It has never been acceptable to cite an encyclopedia as an academic source, it is however "standard practice" to use an encyclopedia to get a feel for the subject and quickly lead you to the primary sources.
In my personal experience of growing up with brittanica and using WP I have found WP to be just as reliable and far more relevant.
Wonder why...
Well if you are thinking they are peodophiles you don't know much about pedophiles. Peodophiles do not normally display sympathy for peodophiles, they tend to advocate harsh punishment, and do so just a bit too loudly, at least up until they are caught. eg: the politician who gave the US its ridiculously broad sex offender list was caught propositioning 14yo male interns.
In my mind tattooing "rock spider" on his forehead is how natural justice works, he would be hunted by his actions for life, just like his victims.
The energy stored in the hydrogen is released by recombining it with the oxygen to create water which can then be re-split using sunlight. It's a closed loop, that is driven by sunlight.
Oh you want this place to be an Asperger's echo chamber, got it.
Sorry, I don't get it? You have obviously learnt something nerdy from the headline, what more do you want from a site that promises "news for nerds"?
The same can be said of Trump, in fact he has already divided the GOP and conquered those who have remained "loyal". Sanders at least appeals for unity while taking pot shots at Hillary's policies and their sponsors, the word socialist may be taboo in the US but not so in the rest of the western world, much of what Sanders says he will do is just common sense bi-partisan social policy in the rest of the western world.
Both Hilary and Obama would be classified as "center-right" here in Australia, same political colour as our current prime minister. Sanders would be a very popular opposition leader right now in Oz. Sanders and Clinton have long, and very similar, voting records, for all practical purposes they are 90+% in violent agreement with each other. Sanders, Obama, The Clintons, Bush v1.0, even Ronald Reagan, are/were "democratic" in the true sense of the word - they all want(ed) their own party to be a "big tent" that can tolerate and even encourage a variety of viewpoints, Trump's textbook narcissism* wants to buy the biggest "tent" he can and he wants it filled with loyal sycophants.
*Trivia: Narcissus was a greek god who fell in love with his own reflection in a lake, he was so enchanted by his own image that he fell in and drowned.
Trump was a teenager in the 60's, he is not a product of his generation, observation suggests a lonely soldier date raped an Orangutang just as WW2 was winding up. By all accounts the Malaysian jungle did strange things to a soldier's mind.
And yes, I'm a "boomer" and no matter what generation you* come from you have your head up your arse if you think the civil rights movement and the invention of the contraceptive pill didn't dramatically change "everything".
*you - not you personally
You've got a few people there who support a very antagonizing US foreign policy while Trump has said....
...I'm going to build a wall to keep Mexican rapists out of the US and then I'm going to force them to pay for it. I'm going to build a metaphorical wall at entry points to keep a billion or so muslim out, etc.
I think he might also be tempted to say he will wipe Syria and Iran off the map as well, but that would upset Putin, and Trump appears to care what Putin thinks of him, at least more than he cares what all of Mexico think of him.
You or a friend may be out of work and it sucks, particularly in the US where the "social safety net" is virtually non-existent. However by any believable economic measure you care to name, that is despite what Obama has done to the US economy, rather than because of it.
Disclaimer: Not a democrat and I have healthy distrust of partisans. I've also never set foot in the US but by virtue of its global economic and military strength, its politics directly affects everyone in the western world.
At 57 I'm a few years older than the GP, Trump is 69, 12yrs older than me and possibly old enough to be your dad. :)
I agree, he is everything the 70's wasn't, the guy was 20 at the peak of the flower power era. He may technically be a "boomer" but he certainly isn't a stereotypical product of his era.
Yes, he has a remarkable knack for picking up angry soundbites in the crowd and amplifying them back at the audience. Some people see this as a clever politics, his followers don't see it at. But I dare say the vast majority of the english speaking world see it as embarrassingly obvious.
Simply put, Trump is a "demagogue", as were Hitler and Stalin, that doesn't mean he is inherently evil, it means he is using the same psychological tools to gain power. He has already divided and conquered the GOP with an old fashioned xenophobic wedge, it will take them decades to recover their solidarity. Right now the rest of the planet are just crossing their fingers hoping the American people will stop humouring this wannabe tyrant BEFORE he gets to the whitehouse and starts pushing buttons just to see what happens.
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Yes, tits are funny, especially on a bloke.