The one thing spy agencies hate is transparency. We need to get the ASIO spying on the NSA and vice-versa. And independent groups spying on the lot of them. Then we can all stop using the internet, having become nothing more than a useless ad agency tool.
Terrorism, the universal justification for pretty much every imaginable government abuse. Far better than blaming a conspiracy of an ethnic group like the previous generation fascists chose, terrorism is better because it can apply to anyone, regardless of ethnic makeup. Plus, it never ends, there will no doubt always be terrorists, or at least always someone that can be accused of it. Anyone you don't like can be accused of "helping the terrorists." When in actual fact, blaming terrorists itself helps the terrorists. See? We can all play that game.
Start looking for denial of service attacks that constitute an army of comandeered drones swarming around its intended target. Just imagine what pwning the Amazon drone fleet would net you...
Yep, the 1% sees their assets at risk. So it gets news coverage. Try protesting against Citizen's United or the banking abuses, and it would take far more people than 400,000 to get any kind of coverage. As far as I am concerned, SCREW THEM. Let their mansions get washed out to sea. If they can't address the complete corruption of money in politics, I don't give a damn about climate change. Bring it on.
It's worse than that! The company I work for has one negative review on Yelp, but several positive reviews "pending" that they won't publish unless we pay them! And the negative review was over the fact that they didn't yet have a quote from us for custom work for which they hadn't provided us the requested details.
Looking at the page now, it does look like they published two of the positive reviews, but there are still a handful held in limbo. How long between the authoring and publishing of the negative review, though? No time at all.
This is enough reason right here to distrust EVERY review on Yelp. So what are the best anti-yelp sites? Has Yelp bought YelpSucks.com yet?
The problem with Angie's list is I moved to a small town (200K people) that was clearly too small to have reached critical mass-- I looked for service recommedations and found essentially, nothing. Cancelled the service because it was useless.
My physiology professor explained it to me years ago. There's two reasons. First, we're told to cut salt not because salt is bad, but because we eat shitty food filled with salt. Telling people to avoid salt is easier than telling them to avoid bad foods.
Yeah, that's what I did. Avoided salt and went for the carbs instead. Now I've both high blood pressure AND am type 2. Worked great. Protein, often high in salt, or carbs. Choose your poison.
old languages never die, the programmers just start charging a prohibitive amount of money to code in them. Forth is only justifiable doing embedded programming when you don't have an OS. APL and J are only justifiable if you don't have a popular OS, AND you're stuck with a low speed printing terminal.
Science is not consensus, and therefore my favorite random blog rant is equally credible? Somehow, I just don't see the former point supporting the latter...
The theory behind grid-tied home solar systems is that you can give your surplus power to the utility company who will give you credit in return for times when you need more power than you are generating. In effect, you are using the utility company as your storage battery, so you don't have to buy and maintain your own. This only works as long as there are always enough customers paying for electricity rather than generating their own. Eventually it's no longer cost effective for the utility company to provide storage service for free. They make their money charging for electricity, but if enough people only need them to store it temporarily, they are going to have to start charging for that service.
Given these things are going to be noisy-- I live in a quiet neighborhood. If that ends up being disturbed by the buzzing of drones I won't be ordering products from companies that use them.
the area around Chernobyl is uninhabitable. Before the accident, 120,000 people lived there. The Fukushima exclusion zone is currently a 30 km radius where all residents Were evacuated and is also a no-fly zone. The US Embassy subsequently advised Americans to keep a 80 km distance. Radiation induced cancers take decades to play out, and the claim that "no one died from Fukushima other than a few plant workers" is complete hogwash, as it's too soon to tell the longer term effects.
So did I. I gave up in Firefox once they moved away from the "less is more" school of design, several years ago. Same reason I gave up on Netscape before that-- creeping featurism. What I want in a browser is lean and mean. REALLY mean. The more complicated a browser is, the bigger the risk of security flaws.
The actual disturbing trend is for the news agencies to stop placing comment sections on their articles. They don't really care what you think. And frankly, in that case I don't care what they think either, and won't patronize such sites...
It's probably good that we are regularly reminded that the world is full of assholes, and that walled gardens are not the sum total of reality. It may be that many people are assholes simply BECAUSE they are excluded from some of these gardens-- no doubt many of those within the gardens are assholes too, just of a different type. And if you can't figure how to deal with assholes without becoming one yourself, you deserve what you get...
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The one thing spy agencies hate is transparency. We need to get the ASIO spying on the NSA and vice-versa. And independent groups spying on the lot of them. Then we can all stop using the internet, having become nothing more than a useless ad agency tool.
Terrorism, the universal justification for pretty much every imaginable government abuse. Far better than blaming a conspiracy of an ethnic group like the previous generation fascists chose, terrorism is better because it can apply to anyone, regardless of ethnic makeup. Plus, it never ends, there will no doubt always be terrorists, or at least always someone that can be accused of it. Anyone you don't like can be accused of "helping the terrorists." When in actual fact, blaming terrorists itself helps the terrorists. See? We can all play that game.
Start looking for denial of service attacks that constitute an army of comandeered drones swarming around its intended target. Just imagine what pwning the Amazon drone fleet would net you...
Look for those that need security clearances and US citizens. They like PhDs because they know how to toe the line, and have the budget for them.
Yep, the 1% sees their assets at risk. So it gets news coverage. Try protesting against Citizen's United or the banking abuses, and it would take far more people than 400,000 to get any kind of coverage. As far as I am concerned, SCREW THEM. Let their mansions get washed out to sea. If they can't address the complete corruption of money in politics, I don't give a damn about climate change. Bring it on.
It's worse than that! The company I work for has one negative review on Yelp, but several positive reviews "pending" that they won't publish unless we pay them! And the negative review was over the fact that they didn't yet have a quote from us for custom work for which they hadn't provided us the requested details. Looking at the page now, it does look like they published two of the positive reviews, but there are still a handful held in limbo. How long between the authoring and publishing of the negative review, though? No time at all.
This is enough reason right here to distrust EVERY review on Yelp. So what are the best anti-yelp sites? Has Yelp bought YelpSucks.com yet?
The problem with Angie's list is I moved to a small town (200K people) that was clearly too small to have reached critical mass-- I looked for service recommedations and found essentially, nothing. Cancelled the service because it was useless.
Software developers wanted for programming project, must have 10 years experience with Reactive development methodologies.
My physiology professor explained it to me years ago. There's two reasons. First, we're told to cut salt not because salt is bad, but because we eat shitty food filled with salt. Telling people to avoid salt is easier than telling them to avoid bad foods.
Yeah, that's what I did. Avoided salt and went for the carbs instead. Now I've both high blood pressure AND am type 2. Worked great. Protein, often high in salt, or carbs. Choose your poison.
That's no excuse for their lack of readability. The only excuse for that is a low baud rate. Or perhaps, hunt & peck typing ability.
And of course x86 or RISC Assembler...
old languages never die, the programmers just start charging a prohibitive amount of money to code in them. Forth is only justifiable doing embedded programming when you don't have an OS. APL and J are only justifiable if you don't have a popular OS, AND you're stuck with a low speed printing terminal.
Science is not consensus, and therefore my favorite random blog rant is equally credible? Somehow, I just don't see the former point supporting the latter...
So much for tail -f | grep
Actually, Proxomitron can handle https, you just have to know how to set it up: http://www.proxomitron.info/45...
The theory behind grid-tied home solar systems is that you can give your surplus power to the utility company who will give you credit in return for times when you need more power than you are generating. In effect, you are using the utility company as your storage battery, so you don't have to buy and maintain your own. This only works as long as there are always enough customers paying for electricity rather than generating their own. Eventually it's no longer cost effective for the utility company to provide storage service for free. They make their money charging for electricity, but if enough people only need them to store it temporarily, they are going to have to start charging for that service.
Given these things are going to be noisy-- I live in a quiet neighborhood. If that ends up being disturbed by the buzzing of drones I won't be ordering products from companies that use them.
Men are the ones most pressured by their careers to 'splain shit. If you can't 'splain shit, you are shit. Women aren't expected to 'splain shit.
Why should they be immune to what's happening to the rest of us?
And not how to think. You only need to do that if your ideas are not convincing and yet you have a vested interest in getting people to believe them.
And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
the area around Chernobyl is uninhabitable. Before the accident, 120,000 people lived there. The Fukushima exclusion zone is currently a 30 km radius where all residents Were evacuated and is also a no-fly zone. The US Embassy subsequently advised Americans to keep a 80 km distance. Radiation induced cancers take decades to play out, and the claim that "no one died from Fukushima other than a few plant workers" is complete hogwash, as it's too soon to tell the longer term effects.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
66% of all websites get hacked. So if you predict EVERY website will get hacked, you'll be right 66% of the time.
The FBI and NSA knew it was shit years ago.
Just sayin...
So did I. I gave up in Firefox once they moved away from the "less is more" school of design, several years ago. Same reason I gave up on Netscape before that-- creeping featurism. What I want in a browser is lean and mean. REALLY mean. The more complicated a browser is, the bigger the risk of security flaws.
The actual disturbing trend is for the news agencies to stop placing comment sections on their articles. They don't really care what you think. And frankly, in that case I don't care what they think either, and won't patronize such sites...
It's probably good that we are regularly reminded that the world is full of assholes, and that walled gardens are not the sum total of reality. It may be that many people are assholes simply BECAUSE they are excluded from some of these gardens-- no doubt many of those within the gardens are assholes too, just of a different type. And if you can't figure how to deal with assholes without becoming one yourself, you deserve what you get...