Is it quite simply a relationship measure ie censorship in Iran vs we do not give a fuck what you say in the US we can ignore you any way, main stream media says so, again and again and again and again an nausea. So they basically censor you internally unless you say what they want to hear versus blocking you from 'hmm' listening to other people they do not want you to listen to.
For the likes of Iran that means switching from a IP blocking system to an IP allowing system ie all IPs are blocked, until they are given permission for access. Than all IPs are monitored for traffic flow to see if those traffic flows are in accordance with expected usage patterns for the particular IP holder, if the exceed that significantly than likely an alternate traffic route for broader traffic.
Of course if you tell people, you are going to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, again and again and well, you get the picture, they are going to get pretty seriously paranoid. Especially when you have idiots, mind you elected idiots, wanting to use nuclear weapons and kill every man, woman, child, grammy, gramps, puppy, kitten and even budgerigar in your home town, well, they are going to be checking every bit of data, every bit of everything they can.
Never to forget, we all know what up tight kind of dicks religious types can be when it comes to blasphemy of any possible interpretive form, from challenging gods chosen the only life in the entire universe (second only to god mind you), evolution is evil and what ever else flat earther nonsense they want to promote (see, hint, hint, there is a comparison to the religious nut USA right(snigger) in there, a secular state trying to become a religious state versus an actual religious state). The idea not being to take away from what one country is but a reminder of what another country is becoming, thanks lead poisoning (may that particular dick rot in the hell of strangling beds, not that I believe in a Hell of that form or pretty much any other beyond what we allow a bunch of greedy psychopaths create right where we are now).
Yeah bye, snigger, snigger because an internet where you only communicate with yourself is not internet at all. So if you communicate with a windows 10 computer, well guess what both sides of the not so private chat are still up for grabs. All that data on your computer had to come from somewhere, so their idea, no matter what the fuck you do they are planning to track and record as much as they possibly can do why, because they are pervs http://www.urbandictionary.com... , that's why (plus of course insider business knowledge is monumentally profitable, can't hack the business, then hack all and I mean all of the employees when they get home). Overall pretty naught stuff and the reason why they are able to get away with it without the government (except Russia) complaining (super wide open gaping great back doors, except Russia;D ). Warrant, pashaw you don't even need a letter, just the cheque will be fine, made out to the Ireland or the Bahamas or the Switzerland office, you know the game.
They would actually say AI is pretty invasive because sarcasm is not just contextual but also social and cultural. Your require a shared social and intellectual basis in order to properly express and understand sarcasm. The AI would need to know the person in order to effectively interpret their sarcasm. AI is required for quality translation services as contextual understanding is required. This requires multiple independent interpretation of the data provided (letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, punctuation et al, their cross correlation relationships and then perversely enough the typical humans inability to use them properly and correct for that). and the results then correlated to the broader conversation and the particular individual. So a whole series of algorithms running continuously (the longer they run the better, with data flowing through them of course) into which data is fed, in fact it is the overall pattern of the algorithms being used more than the individual algorithms themselves, except the core controlling algorithms which are more complex, than the actual data processing algorithms of which there are many.
Perhaps Neanderthal types just need more sleep. You know the further north you go the longer the nights are and hence evolutionary adoption to longer sleep periods. Not to forget, this whole work to make other people richer ethic is still pretty new evolutionary speaking, this versus hunting the morning for a bit, eating a bunch, snoozing a bit futzing about a bit with you stone tools and weapons in the afternoon, chatting around the fire in the early evening than nookie and sleep pretty early in the night. Wake up with the birds (pre-dawn ie bright sky sun still beyond horizon), rinse, well, no rinse unless the is a pool nearby and repeat, maybe much on some leftovers first, something like a 2 to 4 hour work day. Then a bunch of psychos got greedy and demanded the rest do their work as well and build edifices to worship their superiority because that will publicly torture you to death 'er' 'no wait because they were selected by the Gods, yeah that's right, they were the Gods chosen, so you should worship them and call them royalty. Perhaps it is not the genes on their own as much as those people did not evolve to become working in poverty slaves and that is an unhealthy life style and super fucking depressing.
What Chinese companies with the government of China's backing is actually doing, is offloading crappy US dollar debt, before the big bang. They'll be buying all sorts of stuff with the US dollars the US government owes them and whole bunch of countries are going to get burdened with what looks to become a pretty vaporous currency, they are basically swapping dollar debt for capital assets (shh, the era of the petro-dollar has come to an end).
Why bother with all the cost and hassle of fighting off silly local state laws. Just supply the phone without the software and provide an international link to download and install the software like, hmm, I don't know perhaps a link to https://play.google.com/store. All you have to do is ensure the store and it's infrastructure is not in that location. Quite simply it makes far more sense to deliver phones in that condition, absolute minimum of software in the package, so that it complies with that locations requirements patents, regulations, what ever and they get the end user to, well, possibly technically infringe by downloading what they want (you only need to keep the host distribution centre up to date with local laws at it's location). Then you can point to your phone as sold and say, encryption nope doesn't do it, swippy stuff doesn't do it, funny faces doesn't do it, decode DVD doesn't do it, in fact the only thing the phone is capable of as sold is downloading software, that the user chooses to install from the internet. So the whole thing is kind of stupid, push comes to shove and it will happen, in point of fact it is actually the most sensible thing to do and they should be doing it by default already ie start off with a bare bones lock screen and the first thing you do is install the latest versions of the software included an upgrade lock screen.
Most likely a newly minted Linux distribution managed by a government department and an association of Russian universities, quite simply the most logical way for a country to manage it's core operating system. As you pay those Universities to in part manage and develop the operating system (a government department would do the admin and hosting), your fund the professors and incorporate the operating system directly into the students curricula and masters and doctoral students along with professors can make contributions to the operating system and commercially establish their credentials (keeps them on the bleeding edge and in best position to apply their knowledge upon completing the course). This of course should extend to core computer software, the expanded office suite. Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation suite, graphics, animation, database, cad/cam (cad/cam especially because of industrial espionage) and planning software (again because of espionage).
Pretty much any country that wants to be considered independent of foreign corporate dominance (they are foreign to everyone once they become multinationals), should be doing exactly the same thing. When it comes down to global trillion dollar tax fraud and pain and suffering brought about by austerity lies, well, we all know exactly what the honest and just legal response should really be, extended custodial sentences together with confiscation and liquidation of assets (individual and corporate).
Can Russia produce a better OS, why not, they certainly can make a better jet but of course no where near a super profitable as the current US tribute jet (the one countries have to buy or else, nothing more than a blatant tribute demand).
Yeah, real warning in that, you do not hack the IRS, the IRS hacks you and in every way imaginable. The amount of investigatory they will put into this hack will be positively mind boggling, ain't no company going to say no to the IRS's request for information.
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The establishment backing Clinton in the face of the exact democratic opposite would mean it really should change it's name from the Democrats to Republicans lite (as opposed to Republicans bagger edition). The blatant corruption is on show and it will blow right up in their faces if they keep attempting to force the issue, the corrupt control of politics versus the electorates attempts to recover control of their politics. The corporate controlled DNC "Bent on backing Clinton", 'bent' being a very appropriate word choice. Reality is we win either way.
Let me see, exactly how abusive were wired. I seem to remember that they were that piece of shit rag that betrayed a certain Manning character in order to sell more copy (their greed led to the betrayal of a individual who was then tortured in the most sexually humiliating ways possible and then falsely prosecuted for exposing the global criminal activity of the state, including state sanctioned murder of journalists, this yet to be challenged). I stopped with that piece of shit rag there in and am glad to see it further down the path to it's justful demise. Only web losers kick into subscriptions and there are a whole bunch of web sites far more honourable and worthwhile of everyone's time.
It would be stunning. Observe a huge chunk of the galaxy and even be able to see planets around other stars. A entire complex of radars and telescopes, awesome stuff. Close to the horizon though, so that earth and solar observations could still be made and streamed live. A planetary effort.
So it can be done. That is all that counts, so why waste money on a 'temporary' make do solution, when there is something much more worthwhile to achieve. A galactic observatory for scanning to a depth never before achievable and across a broad range of space. A truly effective early warning of impact system, a great planetary observation base and the likely ability to see planets in nearby star systems. It is feasible right now, it just requires the will. Perhaps a little less focus on killing each other in wars and a bit more focus on space will take use much further.
You are completely ignoring psychological comfort. Imagine how long a typical couch potato would be willing to watch an idiot box if they had to stand up to do it or if they had to continually twist and flex their neck or it caused nausea. I write this from a lazy boy rocker recliner with a customised over bed table to hold my desktop, in the lounge with a nice view out the window and a big screen TV. Yeah, comfort counts and VR doesn't really cut it, in those stakes but hell, I don't care either way. You know what, lets run a test, grab some people and make the use VR 8 hours a day for a week and see what they feel like, hmm, OK? (now ramp that up to a month or how about 8 hours at work and 4 hours at home).
Simple immersion 3D video and sound are going to be difficult enough to make comfortable with extended use, without demanding people will never be allowed to rest their heads or even entire body (stresses building up in the neck, affects the persons entire physiology).
Sure likely to be fun with limited use but extended use will be hugely problematic. Simple immersion systems with no motion just cheaply extending the usability of a smart phone, turning the small screen into a very big screen, fairly cheaply with a huge improvement in usability but still likely to have limitations on extended use due to discomfort.
Seriously knuckle head, you can't seriously expect anyone could possibly believe people would accept TV if they had to wear a face mask to watch it and not be lounging about with their family, in the lounge room munching, oh yeah forget that bit huh, drinks and munchies, oh my, what will you do (hmm grope around making a mess or stop every time you had a thirst or hunger, oh yeah, that will go down well with the typical gamer). Let alone getting stoned whilst drinking and playing VR, more than the screen will be technicolor http://www.urbandictionary.com....
Don't worry this change has nothing what so ever to do with climate. This is all about "science that can be easily commercialized". So basically they have stuck a typical right wing dick head fuck wit in at the top and if doesn't produce commercialised profit ie government pays for the research, corporation buy the patent on the cheap and then sell rights to that patent for maximum profits, it won't get researched.
So take vermin control. No research on natural programs that control the problem with limited expenditure by Australians and 100% research of chemical agents that can be patented and the patents sold to foreign corporations who will then charge Australians top dollar for it. No fucking way can you invest in research only to effectively give it away for free, that is crazy, just ask any right wing idiot. They hired a right wing fuck wit and it is down to business, forget about Australians saving money, it is all about making the maximum possible corporate profit out of Australians, fuck curing any problems, lets just focus on treating the symptoms for ever, profit first, profit last and everything in between profit (yeah, I have a pretty low 'opinion' of what is going on and those involved).
So the new CSIRO is not about preventing climate change but all about how to profit out of everyone's suffering, sick, sick, sick.
Nope, works like this. When you stop spending money on maintenance to taking stupid short right wing cuts you end up poisoning 90,000 citizens with lead. Across the board the US has failed to spend money on maintenance of infrastructure as a result of a crazy idiotic shift to the right (factually brought about by lead poisoning, seriously) and now has to spend trillions of dollars to catch up on infrastructure maintenance or face infrastructure collapse across the board.
So yeah, they have to build up tech agencies from the ground up because of all the failed idiotic contracting and outsourcing that went on (all right wing, profits first, profits last and profits everything in between, any provision of service is purely by accident and the board will be firing those responsible because it likely cost money and short changed profit). Austerity produces nothing but guess what austerity across the board except of course for the insane psychopaths at the top.
Face it Twitter is the kindergarten play ground of public forums. They basically want to control it by gagging the children and chaining them to a stake in the ground so they can't pester each other. Any idiot can scream anything, at one point you just have to give up and walk away from Twitter, from the start most said it would simply fail for this exact reason and Twitter are desperate to keep it going because of the quite silly pretend worth of Twitter and the total bullshit level of advertising and PR=B$ et al on there.
If they do find it amusing to sit in a tree and tweet angrily at the other 'hmmm' twits so be it, don't like doing that, well, I am afraid they will just have to give up 'twit' roost and walk away from twitter. It is it's very nature, never went on there for that exact reason and I really just do not get it. It really has to be quite the most empty narcissist activity imaginable.
Don't like the mess that twitter is, simply erase the account and never go back.
Cough, cough, how about this If you really wanted to interrogate them that much, then maybe you should not have shot them to bits. Surely you don't want the evidence to prosecute dead people? Maybe, might be fishing expedition are no excuse (no bullshit with 6 degrees of separation means you can investigate everyone on the planet).
They have got the individuals and every weapon and ammo and residence, a field mine of DNA to track down and you will get far more from the DNA than you will the phone. You know both of them recently where in Saudi Arabia for an extended period and these two went off exactly like you would imagine brain washed sleeper agents being accidentally trigger and going for the wrong target. Want to know what really happened stick a roto-rooter up the collective backsides of the House of Saud, they seem to be getting rid of a bunch more brain washed sleeper agents at this time (try questioning them away from Saudia Arabia before they are silenced for ever or just ask NATO they know exactly what is going on in Saudi Arabia).
So what does a backdoor in phones have to do with that glaring missing backdoor into the corrupt activities of NATO (technically there should be one for the FBI and other NATO countries police investigatory agencies) and Saudi Arabia (which is where NATO has a near complete electronic backdoor and to which the FBI should be demanding access, shit bucket ton more evidence than that mobile phone).
Factually an 'acceptable' level and form of advertising does exist, and friend, that is for you to decide for yourself, just as it is for everyone else to decide for themselves. It is up to adblock plus to identify ads for the end user and let the end user decide which advertising companies get through, which advertising agencies are allowed through and which web sites (quite often people stumble through to them by chance) get through and which combination of the above, that you choose for yourself and everyone else chooses for themselves. Adblock should have gone to the end users and not the advertisers. A user managed database managed by individuals users or managed by groups of users ie political progressive group acceptable ads or environmentalists group acceptable ads, as examples, as each individual chooses.
Problem is, not simply the policy, it is flaws in the policy that allow, say psychopathic individuals in those agencies to exploit those flaws. This demands plenty of checks, balancers and hurdles, to slow up those individuals and trap them, when they seek to exploit those flaws for their own criminal advantage. This includes exploiting those flaws for promotional advantage. Until the US justice system heals itself, it can no longer be trusted. Failure to properly prosecute torture, prison abuses, abusive charging practices, purposefully extended trials incorporating confinement (extending out beyond any realistic penalty). Quite simply until the US takes on the proper mantle of justice and integrity it should be excluded from the international justice system except where any claim made by the US government is proven in court in the targeted citizens country. Want to play bullshitting wolf boy, then be treated as bullshitting wolf boy, until you have proven different.
If you are reaching for the stars, then god dam it reach for the stars, build the fucker on the moon and build the base around it to support it. Stop with these stupid half arsed set ups pretending you are doing something. I want a big arsed telescope on there on the moon where it belongs. Want more build some out in the asteroid belt as well, time to stop dicking about with token efforts at space exploration, time to get serious. Whose is the cheap luddite who is afraid to leave the surface of the earth and make real, serious investments into the future of humanity as a galactic species and not just a bunch of mud monkeys as entertainment of the rest of the galaxy. Stop fucking dreaming small, start to dream big and work to making it come true.
Yeah, my neighbours leave their emptied bins out on the street for days at a time resolving that particular issue (when their parents visit they often end it by bringing in the bins themselves).
So basically M$ has decided to shove size 1000 feet into their own mouths by stupidly emphasising the idea that cortana is a female slave on purpose, just so fucking stupid. A computer assistant should be sexless unless the end user chose to put an personality in there. Whether that personality be grammy or gramps, or mum or dad, or brother or sister or revenge against a particular annoying drill sergeant (you get to swear back and it must apologise and obey) or what ever the fuck the end user finds amusing at any particular time but never ever specifically a female slave, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Apple got away with it simply because first to the post and hence people where more tolerant. Google smartly made it adjustable to preference with default largely being empty of personality computer voice. M$ should have grown half a brain and created customisable user based choices personality but of course M$ has always be 100% solidly anti-customer choice, demanding customers do it the M$ way no matter how much it sucks balls, so does cortana suck balls or just M$ management.
Fast vs cheap, when it comes to major environmental savings for the majority use, fast has to be ignored in favour of cheap. So flying wing, no windows (use VR), more leg room (it comes with the substantial increase in floor area made available by a flying wing, so mass no leg room limits number of passenger), no banking rudder turns only (being further away from the centre line makes banking very, very undesirable, only sufficient banking to counter centrifugally balance out the turn). Big area, means solar panels become worthwhile, especially sitting waiting on the tarmac between flights.
You also need to separate take off from flight. So say hydrogen fueled combustion engine for take off and gaining altitude as well as a weather boost (wind blowing the wrong way), bit fat wings provide loads of storage space and only a percentage of the required energy for the total flight. Batteries need to provide structural reinforcement, hmm, say the floor panels (floor frame supports the seats and people walk on the batteries, connections in cargo space).
Slow will be totally acceptable as long as it is comfortable and cheap. Things like separate cabins become possible, built around wing framing, because the floor area is there, beyond mass limits. Great big fat slow flying wings, very fuel efficient and very comfortable (with big wing tip rudders with landing gear built in, need it for the bank limited turns). Put people to sleep comfortably for eight hours and no time passes, put people together in separate cabins with friends and no time passes.
These planes will also have the advantage in operating times due to low noise output in metropolitan areas.
VR is hugely problematic in terms of extended use. Sure it's a thrill for the first time and the first few hours but what happens on day three after say 12 hours of use, how long can people keep going before it becomes psychological undesirable and they just stop and put it on a shelf and loathe the idea of taking it down ie negative reinforcement due to psychological stresses.
Now from the Android perspective VR becomes IR and not infra-red but immersive reality, extended a smart phone into a massive in your face big screen, that you control by hand, whilst sitting or lying back and relaxing (well you body, not so much your mind, well, not all the time, sometimes yeah, immersion in an interactive tropical scene with the right sounds).
So comfortable head set ( a lot trickier than it sounds) no motion detection just 3D immersion, quality sound output to feed that immersion and just lying back relaxing whilst flexing you hands and fingers and then power than with an Android smart phone. For comfort, I suppose check out what they are doing with high bike helmets in terms of contact distribution, keeping in mind relaxing you head back on a pillow and what makes a comfortable hat and what are comfortable glasses. Extended contact with the scalp seems more psychologically acceptable than extended contact with the face ie googles. When it comes to appearance, well, admit it will always suck, so play it down, make fun of it, do not try to make it look cool, it never will, until lens design is completely redone and built into nothing more than something like a typical sun glass frame with ear buds.
North Korea is simply a insane party for psychopaths, to play with a population to feed the egos of those at the top, something psychopaths all over the world are trying to achieve, whether they are the ones running NATO or US corporations, or terrorist armies, same shit all over the world. Why is the stalemate allowed to occur so publicly in North Korea because it is not worth any countries efforts to deal with it, in any meaningful manner.
Like terrorist armies, the psychopaths pretending to be on our side, like to keep the fear factor going so they can exploit it. So for the terrorist armies, stopping fucking naming them, stop giving them an identity to exploit, they are organised crime gangs and should only be named after their gang lords. This so that anyone joining them knows they are just going to be a gullible idiot enslaving themselves to some egoistic psychopathic freak, so the freak can enrich themselves and feed their ego on the blood of others, no lies of hiding behind religion, those freaks believe in nothing but themselves (this doesn't happen on purpose because our psychopaths want to feed the greed of the military industrial complex, they want to war to keep going for decades to come, they have publicly stated so, decades of terrorist war).
Just the same as North Korea, they do not want it to end, they are pumping the nuclear fear for all the billions in arms sales that it is worth, striving to keep it going and never let it end. Want it to end, simply cut North Korea off from everything and dump it is a problem on China, a constant economic drain an endless source of problems. Don't let them out, don't give them anything, don't supply anything and do not feed into their troll bullshit. They are trapped, do anything too aggressive and their insane psychopath party at the expense of the trapped population ends and so do they (if that trapped population are unwilling to free themselves, then convince them to choose between die trying to free themselves or die a slave, they did so once before, they can do so again). North Korea is trapped in inaction and we can be freed by that exact same inaction. Bar their ships from any port, deny them all trade, inform their population, remind them of what they once achieved and can achieve again. Once North Korea becomes a sufficient problem for China, North Korea trapped with no where else to go, will be a problem solved by China (when it is worth more to China to end the problem rather than just largely ignore it, they will). Stop pandering to North Korea, if they do anything stupid target the chain of command, any escalation and they know the result. They are a totally paranoid government, feed them mass misinformation about betrayal in their own ranks, feed their fears, let their own fears consume them but do not be stupidly drawn into the same trap.
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Is it quite simply a relationship measure ie censorship in Iran vs we do not give a fuck what you say in the US we can ignore you any way, main stream media says so, again and again and again and again an nausea. So they basically censor you internally unless you say what they want to hear versus blocking you from 'hmm' listening to other people they do not want you to listen to.
For the likes of Iran that means switching from a IP blocking system to an IP allowing system ie all IPs are blocked, until they are given permission for access. Than all IPs are monitored for traffic flow to see if those traffic flows are in accordance with expected usage patterns for the particular IP holder, if the exceed that significantly than likely an alternate traffic route for broader traffic.
Of course if you tell people, you are going to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, again and again and well, you get the picture, they are going to get pretty seriously paranoid. Especially when you have idiots, mind you elected idiots, wanting to use nuclear weapons and kill every man, woman, child, grammy, gramps, puppy, kitten and even budgerigar in your home town, well, they are going to be checking every bit of data, every bit of everything they can.
Never to forget, we all know what up tight kind of dicks religious types can be when it comes to blasphemy of any possible interpretive form, from challenging gods chosen the only life in the entire universe (second only to god mind you), evolution is evil and what ever else flat earther nonsense they want to promote (see, hint, hint, there is a comparison to the religious nut USA right(snigger) in there, a secular state trying to become a religious state versus an actual religious state). The idea not being to take away from what one country is but a reminder of what another country is becoming, thanks lead poisoning (may that particular dick rot in the hell of strangling beds, not that I believe in a Hell of that form or pretty much any other beyond what we allow a bunch of greedy psychopaths create right where we are now).
Yeah bye, snigger, snigger because an internet where you only communicate with yourself is not internet at all. So if you communicate with a windows 10 computer, well guess what both sides of the not so private chat are still up for grabs. All that data on your computer had to come from somewhere, so their idea, no matter what the fuck you do they are planning to track and record as much as they possibly can do why, because they are pervs http://www.urbandictionary.com... , that's why (plus of course insider business knowledge is monumentally profitable, can't hack the business, then hack all and I mean all of the employees when they get home). Overall pretty naught stuff and the reason why they are able to get away with it without the government (except Russia) complaining (super wide open gaping great back doors, except Russia ;D ). Warrant, pashaw you don't even need a letter, just the cheque will be fine, made out to the Ireland or the Bahamas or the Switzerland office, you know the game.
They would actually say AI is pretty invasive because sarcasm is not just contextual but also social and cultural. Your require a shared social and intellectual basis in order to properly express and understand sarcasm. The AI would need to know the person in order to effectively interpret their sarcasm. AI is required for quality translation services as contextual understanding is required. This requires multiple independent interpretation of the data provided (letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, punctuation et al, their cross correlation relationships and then perversely enough the typical humans inability to use them properly and correct for that). and the results then correlated to the broader conversation and the particular individual. So a whole series of algorithms running continuously (the longer they run the better, with data flowing through them of course) into which data is fed, in fact it is the overall pattern of the algorithms being used more than the individual algorithms themselves, except the core controlling algorithms which are more complex, than the actual data processing algorithms of which there are many.
Perhaps Neanderthal types just need more sleep. You know the further north you go the longer the nights are and hence evolutionary adoption to longer sleep periods. Not to forget, this whole work to make other people richer ethic is still pretty new evolutionary speaking, this versus hunting the morning for a bit, eating a bunch, snoozing a bit futzing about a bit with you stone tools and weapons in the afternoon, chatting around the fire in the early evening than nookie and sleep pretty early in the night. Wake up with the birds (pre-dawn ie bright sky sun still beyond horizon), rinse, well, no rinse unless the is a pool nearby and repeat, maybe much on some leftovers first, something like a 2 to 4 hour work day. Then a bunch of psychos got greedy and demanded the rest do their work as well and build edifices to worship their superiority because that will publicly torture you to death 'er' 'no wait because they were selected by the Gods, yeah that's right, they were the Gods chosen, so you should worship them and call them royalty. Perhaps it is not the genes on their own as much as those people did not evolve to become working in poverty slaves and that is an unhealthy life style and super fucking depressing.
The place where News Corporations money went to die?
What Chinese companies with the government of China's backing is actually doing, is offloading crappy US dollar debt, before the big bang. They'll be buying all sorts of stuff with the US dollars the US government owes them and whole bunch of countries are going to get burdened with what looks to become a pretty vaporous currency, they are basically swapping dollar debt for capital assets (shh, the era of the petro-dollar has come to an end).
Why bother with all the cost and hassle of fighting off silly local state laws. Just supply the phone without the software and provide an international link to download and install the software like, hmm, I don't know perhaps a link to https://play.google.com/store. All you have to do is ensure the store and it's infrastructure is not in that location. Quite simply it makes far more sense to deliver phones in that condition, absolute minimum of software in the package, so that it complies with that locations requirements patents, regulations, what ever and they get the end user to, well, possibly technically infringe by downloading what they want (you only need to keep the host distribution centre up to date with local laws at it's location). Then you can point to your phone as sold and say, encryption nope doesn't do it, swippy stuff doesn't do it, funny faces doesn't do it, decode DVD doesn't do it, in fact the only thing the phone is capable of as sold is downloading software, that the user chooses to install from the internet. So the whole thing is kind of stupid, push comes to shove and it will happen, in point of fact it is actually the most sensible thing to do and they should be doing it by default already ie start off with a bare bones lock screen and the first thing you do is install the latest versions of the software included an upgrade lock screen.
Most likely a newly minted Linux distribution managed by a government department and an association of Russian universities, quite simply the most logical way for a country to manage it's core operating system. As you pay those Universities to in part manage and develop the operating system (a government department would do the admin and hosting), your fund the professors and incorporate the operating system directly into the students curricula and masters and doctoral students along with professors can make contributions to the operating system and commercially establish their credentials (keeps them on the bleeding edge and in best position to apply their knowledge upon completing the course). This of course should extend to core computer software, the expanded office suite. Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation suite, graphics, animation, database, cad/cam (cad/cam especially because of industrial espionage) and planning software (again because of espionage).
Pretty much any country that wants to be considered independent of foreign corporate dominance (they are foreign to everyone once they become multinationals), should be doing exactly the same thing. When it comes down to global trillion dollar tax fraud and pain and suffering brought about by austerity lies, well, we all know exactly what the honest and just legal response should really be, extended custodial sentences together with confiscation and liquidation of assets (individual and corporate).
Can Russia produce a better OS, why not, they certainly can make a better jet but of course no where near a super profitable as the current US tribute jet (the one countries have to buy or else, nothing more than a blatant tribute demand).
Yeah, real warning in that, you do not hack the IRS, the IRS hacks you and in every way imaginable. The amount of investigatory they will put into this hack will be positively mind boggling, ain't no company going to say no to the IRS's request for information.
The establishment backing Clinton in the face of the exact democratic opposite would mean it really should change it's name from the Democrats to Republicans lite (as opposed to Republicans bagger edition). The blatant corruption is on show and it will blow right up in their faces if they keep attempting to force the issue, the corrupt control of politics versus the electorates attempts to recover control of their politics. The corporate controlled DNC "Bent on backing Clinton", 'bent' being a very appropriate word choice. Reality is we win either way.
Let me see, exactly how abusive were wired. I seem to remember that they were that piece of shit rag that betrayed a certain Manning character in order to sell more copy (their greed led to the betrayal of a individual who was then tortured in the most sexually humiliating ways possible and then falsely prosecuted for exposing the global criminal activity of the state, including state sanctioned murder of journalists, this yet to be challenged). I stopped with that piece of shit rag there in and am glad to see it further down the path to it's justful demise. Only web losers kick into subscriptions and there are a whole bunch of web sites far more honourable and worthwhile of everyone's time.
It would be stunning. Observe a huge chunk of the galaxy and even be able to see planets around other stars. A entire complex of radars and telescopes, awesome stuff. Close to the horizon though, so that earth and solar observations could still be made and streamed live. A planetary effort.
So it can be done. That is all that counts, so why waste money on a 'temporary' make do solution, when there is something much more worthwhile to achieve. A galactic observatory for scanning to a depth never before achievable and across a broad range of space. A truly effective early warning of impact system, a great planetary observation base and the likely ability to see planets in nearby star systems. It is feasible right now, it just requires the will. Perhaps a little less focus on killing each other in wars and a bit more focus on space will take use much further.
You are completely ignoring psychological comfort. Imagine how long a typical couch potato would be willing to watch an idiot box if they had to stand up to do it or if they had to continually twist and flex their neck or it caused nausea. I write this from a lazy boy rocker recliner with a customised over bed table to hold my desktop, in the lounge with a nice view out the window and a big screen TV. Yeah, comfort counts and VR doesn't really cut it, in those stakes but hell, I don't care either way. You know what, lets run a test, grab some people and make the use VR 8 hours a day for a week and see what they feel like, hmm, OK? (now ramp that up to a month or how about 8 hours at work and 4 hours at home).
Simple immersion 3D video and sound are going to be difficult enough to make comfortable with extended use, without demanding people will never be allowed to rest their heads or even entire body (stresses building up in the neck, affects the persons entire physiology).
Sure likely to be fun with limited use but extended use will be hugely problematic. Simple immersion systems with no motion just cheaply extending the usability of a smart phone, turning the small screen into a very big screen, fairly cheaply with a huge improvement in usability but still likely to have limitations on extended use due to discomfort.
Seriously knuckle head, you can't seriously expect anyone could possibly believe people would accept TV if they had to wear a face mask to watch it and not be lounging about with their family, in the lounge room munching, oh yeah forget that bit huh, drinks and munchies, oh my, what will you do (hmm grope around making a mess or stop every time you had a thirst or hunger, oh yeah, that will go down well with the typical gamer). Let alone getting stoned whilst drinking and playing VR, more than the screen will be technicolor http://www.urbandictionary.com....
Don't worry this change has nothing what so ever to do with climate. This is all about "science that can be easily commercialized". So basically they have stuck a typical right wing dick head fuck wit in at the top and if doesn't produce commercialised profit ie government pays for the research, corporation buy the patent on the cheap and then sell rights to that patent for maximum profits, it won't get researched.
So take vermin control. No research on natural programs that control the problem with limited expenditure by Australians and 100% research of chemical agents that can be patented and the patents sold to foreign corporations who will then charge Australians top dollar for it. No fucking way can you invest in research only to effectively give it away for free, that is crazy, just ask any right wing idiot. They hired a right wing fuck wit and it is down to business, forget about Australians saving money, it is all about making the maximum possible corporate profit out of Australians, fuck curing any problems, lets just focus on treating the symptoms for ever, profit first, profit last and everything in between profit (yeah, I have a pretty low 'opinion' of what is going on and those involved).
So the new CSIRO is not about preventing climate change but all about how to profit out of everyone's suffering, sick, sick, sick.
Nope, works like this. When you stop spending money on maintenance to taking stupid short right wing cuts you end up poisoning 90,000 citizens with lead. Across the board the US has failed to spend money on maintenance of infrastructure as a result of a crazy idiotic shift to the right (factually brought about by lead poisoning, seriously) and now has to spend trillions of dollars to catch up on infrastructure maintenance or face infrastructure collapse across the board.
So yeah, they have to build up tech agencies from the ground up because of all the failed idiotic contracting and outsourcing that went on (all right wing, profits first, profits last and profits everything in between, any provision of service is purely by accident and the board will be firing those responsible because it likely cost money and short changed profit). Austerity produces nothing but guess what austerity across the board except of course for the insane psychopaths at the top.
Face it Twitter is the kindergarten play ground of public forums. They basically want to control it by gagging the children and chaining them to a stake in the ground so they can't pester each other. Any idiot can scream anything, at one point you just have to give up and walk away from Twitter, from the start most said it would simply fail for this exact reason and Twitter are desperate to keep it going because of the quite silly pretend worth of Twitter and the total bullshit level of advertising and PR=B$ et al on there.
If they do find it amusing to sit in a tree and tweet angrily at the other 'hmmm' twits so be it, don't like doing that, well, I am afraid they will just have to give up 'twit' roost and walk away from twitter. It is it's very nature, never went on there for that exact reason and I really just do not get it. It really has to be quite the most empty narcissist activity imaginable.
Don't like the mess that twitter is, simply erase the account and never go back.
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If you really wanted to interrogate them that much, then maybe you should not have shot them to bits.
Surely you don't want the evidence to prosecute dead people?
Maybe, might be fishing expedition are no excuse (no bullshit with 6 degrees of separation means you can investigate everyone on the planet).
They have got the individuals and every weapon and ammo and residence, a field mine of DNA to track down and you will get far more from the DNA than you will the phone. You know both of them recently where in Saudi Arabia for an extended period and these two went off exactly like you would imagine brain washed sleeper agents being accidentally trigger and going for the wrong target. Want to know what really happened stick a roto-rooter up the collective backsides of the House of Saud, they seem to be getting rid of a bunch more brain washed sleeper agents at this time (try questioning them away from Saudia Arabia before they are silenced for ever or just ask NATO they know exactly what is going on in Saudi Arabia).
So what does a backdoor in phones have to do with that glaring missing backdoor into the corrupt activities of NATO (technically there should be one for the FBI and other NATO countries police investigatory agencies) and Saudi Arabia (which is where NATO has a near complete electronic backdoor and to which the FBI should be demanding access, shit bucket ton more evidence than that mobile phone).
Factually an 'acceptable' level and form of advertising does exist, and friend, that is for you to decide for yourself, just as it is for everyone else to decide for themselves. It is up to adblock plus to identify ads for the end user and let the end user decide which advertising companies get through, which advertising agencies are allowed through and which web sites (quite often people stumble through to them by chance) get through and which combination of the above, that you choose for yourself and everyone else chooses for themselves. Adblock should have gone to the end users and not the advertisers. A user managed database managed by individuals users or managed by groups of users ie political progressive group acceptable ads or environmentalists group acceptable ads, as examples, as each individual chooses.
Problem is, not simply the policy, it is flaws in the policy that allow, say psychopathic individuals in those agencies to exploit those flaws. This demands plenty of checks, balancers and hurdles, to slow up those individuals and trap them, when they seek to exploit those flaws for their own criminal advantage. This includes exploiting those flaws for promotional advantage. Until the US justice system heals itself, it can no longer be trusted. Failure to properly prosecute torture, prison abuses, abusive charging practices, purposefully extended trials incorporating confinement (extending out beyond any realistic penalty). Quite simply until the US takes on the proper mantle of justice and integrity it should be excluded from the international justice system except where any claim made by the US government is proven in court in the targeted citizens country. Want to play bullshitting wolf boy, then be treated as bullshitting wolf boy, until you have proven different.
If you are reaching for the stars, then god dam it reach for the stars, build the fucker on the moon and build the base around it to support it. Stop with these stupid half arsed set ups pretending you are doing something. I want a big arsed telescope on there on the moon where it belongs. Want more build some out in the asteroid belt as well, time to stop dicking about with token efforts at space exploration, time to get serious. Whose is the cheap luddite who is afraid to leave the surface of the earth and make real, serious investments into the future of humanity as a galactic species and not just a bunch of mud monkeys as entertainment of the rest of the galaxy. Stop fucking dreaming small, start to dream big and work to making it come true.
Yeah, my neighbours leave their emptied bins out on the street for days at a time resolving that particular issue (when their parents visit they often end it by bringing in the bins themselves).
So basically M$ has decided to shove size 1000 feet into their own mouths by stupidly emphasising the idea that cortana is a female slave on purpose, just so fucking stupid. A computer assistant should be sexless unless the end user chose to put an personality in there. Whether that personality be grammy or gramps, or mum or dad, or brother or sister or revenge against a particular annoying drill sergeant (you get to swear back and it must apologise and obey) or what ever the fuck the end user finds amusing at any particular time but never ever specifically a female slave, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Apple got away with it simply because first to the post and hence people where more tolerant. Google smartly made it adjustable to preference with default largely being empty of personality computer voice. M$ should have grown half a brain and created customisable user based choices personality but of course M$ has always be 100% solidly anti-customer choice, demanding customers do it the M$ way no matter how much it sucks balls, so does cortana suck balls or just M$ management.
Fast vs cheap, when it comes to major environmental savings for the majority use, fast has to be ignored in favour of cheap. So flying wing, no windows (use VR), more leg room (it comes with the substantial increase in floor area made available by a flying wing, so mass no leg room limits number of passenger), no banking rudder turns only (being further away from the centre line makes banking very, very undesirable, only sufficient banking to counter centrifugally balance out the turn). Big area, means solar panels become worthwhile, especially sitting waiting on the tarmac between flights.
You also need to separate take off from flight. So say hydrogen fueled combustion engine for take off and gaining altitude as well as a weather boost (wind blowing the wrong way), bit fat wings provide loads of storage space and only a percentage of the required energy for the total flight. Batteries need to provide structural reinforcement, hmm, say the floor panels (floor frame supports the seats and people walk on the batteries, connections in cargo space).
Slow will be totally acceptable as long as it is comfortable and cheap. Things like separate cabins become possible, built around wing framing, because the floor area is there, beyond mass limits. Great big fat slow flying wings, very fuel efficient and very comfortable (with big wing tip rudders with landing gear built in, need it for the bank limited turns). Put people to sleep comfortably for eight hours and no time passes, put people together in separate cabins with friends and no time passes.
These planes will also have the advantage in operating times due to low noise output in metropolitan areas.
VR is hugely problematic in terms of extended use. Sure it's a thrill for the first time and the first few hours but what happens on day three after say 12 hours of use, how long can people keep going before it becomes psychological undesirable and they just stop and put it on a shelf and loathe the idea of taking it down ie negative reinforcement due to psychological stresses.
Now from the Android perspective VR becomes IR and not infra-red but immersive reality, extended a smart phone into a massive in your face big screen, that you control by hand, whilst sitting or lying back and relaxing (well you body, not so much your mind, well, not all the time, sometimes yeah, immersion in an interactive tropical scene with the right sounds).
So comfortable head set ( a lot trickier than it sounds) no motion detection just 3D immersion, quality sound output to feed that immersion and just lying back relaxing whilst flexing you hands and fingers and then power than with an Android smart phone. For comfort, I suppose check out what they are doing with high bike helmets in terms of contact distribution, keeping in mind relaxing you head back on a pillow and what makes a comfortable hat and what are comfortable glasses. Extended contact with the scalp seems more psychologically acceptable than extended contact with the face ie googles. When it comes to appearance, well, admit it will always suck, so play it down, make fun of it, do not try to make it look cool, it never will, until lens design is completely redone and built into nothing more than something like a typical sun glass frame with ear buds.
North Korea is simply a insane party for psychopaths, to play with a population to feed the egos of those at the top, something psychopaths all over the world are trying to achieve, whether they are the ones running NATO or US corporations, or terrorist armies, same shit all over the world. Why is the stalemate allowed to occur so publicly in North Korea because it is not worth any countries efforts to deal with it, in any meaningful manner.
Like terrorist armies, the psychopaths pretending to be on our side, like to keep the fear factor going so they can exploit it. So for the terrorist armies, stopping fucking naming them, stop giving them an identity to exploit, they are organised crime gangs and should only be named after their gang lords. This so that anyone joining them knows they are just going to be a gullible idiot enslaving themselves to some egoistic psychopathic freak, so the freak can enrich themselves and feed their ego on the blood of others, no lies of hiding behind religion, those freaks believe in nothing but themselves (this doesn't happen on purpose because our psychopaths want to feed the greed of the military industrial complex, they want to war to keep going for decades to come, they have publicly stated so, decades of terrorist war).
Just the same as North Korea, they do not want it to end, they are pumping the nuclear fear for all the billions in arms sales that it is worth, striving to keep it going and never let it end. Want it to end, simply cut North Korea off from everything and dump it is a problem on China, a constant economic drain an endless source of problems. Don't let them out, don't give them anything, don't supply anything and do not feed into their troll bullshit. They are trapped, do anything too aggressive and their insane psychopath party at the expense of the trapped population ends and so do they (if that trapped population are unwilling to free themselves, then convince them to choose between die trying to free themselves or die a slave, they did so once before, they can do so again). North Korea is trapped in inaction and we can be freed by that exact same inaction. Bar their ships from any port, deny them all trade, inform their population, remind them of what they once achieved and can achieve again. Once North Korea becomes a sufficient problem for China, North Korea trapped with no where else to go, will be a problem solved by China (when it is worth more to China to end the problem rather than just largely ignore it, they will). Stop pandering to North Korea, if they do anything stupid target the chain of command, any escalation and they know the result. They are a totally paranoid government, feed them mass misinformation about betrayal in their own ranks, feed their fears, let their own fears consume them but do not be stupidly drawn into the same trap.