>I was trying to figure out how to turn on focus-follows-mouse in Ubuntu,
1. You can't even/do/ "focus follows mouse" or "sloppy focus" in Windows. 2. You're doing it wrong: http://i.imgur.com/46fP493.png 3. You find 3 ways to do it, pick the worst one, and imply that's the one that users have to do.
throw the ones responsible into jail for a long ass time to make a nice example.
While I applaud the sentiment behind this, the "ones responsible" will be some poor schmuck low on the totem pole sacrificed to the god Mammon. Probably a janitor somewhere that would be blamed for throwing away an "important memo" on "please don't do that" which didn't exist anyway.
In an ideal world, emails would be pulled, phone records retrieved, evidence recorded, and those up top would be held responsible for this. And in a really ideal world, none of this would happen. But this isn't an ideal world and fines are "just the cost of doing business."
Look at what Duke Energy got away with. Look at what they all get away with.
>letting the corporation survive
No. That won't fix anything. It has come to the point that corporate death penalties actually have to start happening to light a fire under the asses of employees that would see their livelihoods taken away by higher-ups in the corporation through mismanagement, along with boards seeing their corporate governance (and cash that goes with it) taken away, and stock holders wiped out. Only then will there be any motivation for good corporate governance.
Rooftop Solar is/less/ costly than any of the other alternatives, because it costs real money to get electricity from a centralized powerplant out to the customers.
Even if generating at the powerplant is free, the transmission costs alone are greater than the cost of rooftop solar.
The gyrations of wholesale power prices are rarely reflected in consumer power bills. But letâ(TM)s imagine that the wholesale price of electricity fell to zero and stayed there, and that the benefits were passed on to consumers. In effect, that coal-fired energy suddenly became free. Could it then compete with rooftop solar?
The answer is no. Just the network charges and the retailer charges alone add up to more than 19c/kWh, according to estimates by the Australian energy market commissioner. According to industry estimates, solar ranges from 12c/kWh to 18c/kWh, depending on solar resources of the area, Those costs are forecast to come down even further, to around 10c/kWh and lower.
Yahoo lost control of my login credentials *twice* that I know of. While I have never been to Sweden and Bulgaria, I have apprently sent mail from there. Yahoo is the only service that I have ever used that lost control of my login creds like that - since 1986. Y! mail is now a spamtrap for me. I will never use it again.
Knowing Yahoo, the private key be stored in plaintext on the user's profile page.
I don't think he had Internet access in 1987. That came a bit later, I believe. Certainly not on the Microvax. Andy didn't charge for access to the machine when it was a BBS which probably saved his butt.
Lots of time spent in Vax Multi-User Moria and VMS Phone.
I believe Daver was 12 or something when he wrote the full-screen editor for the BBS.
I saw that Microvax in Andy's basement. "Hey Andy, where'd ya get the Vax?" "We don't talk about that."
"...Ok..." >proceed to turn up Pink Floyd's DSOTM.
After he returned it, he got an ancient 780 and I believe 2 (or 3?) washing machine sized disks.
slightly related tangent -
Ferguson Perforating got rid of their Microvax II one day and I found out that it went to the landfill, because the guy they gave it to couldn't operate the damn thing "and it was old." I was catatonic with disappointment. "DO YOU THROW AWAY A MICROMETER BECAUSE IT'S NOT ELECTRONIC?!" I yelled.
It was 1993/4. Still the heyday of the BBS networks. I could have created a beast of a multiline setup bigger than Andy's. *grumble grumble*
The meters on traditional cabs may sometimes be tinkered with, but that's illegal
Like that stops anyone.
I knew it took 11 bux to get me home after a night of being out, no matter what cab I took from Downtown Providence.
Enter the guy with license plate #1 on his taxi. Someone who I had ridden with for years and thought was straight. Suddenly instead of 11 dollars, it was 15. "I'm paying you today, but don't expect to ever see me in your cab again."
He drove around for a few years after that still jacking his meter until the city finally had enough of his antics. Lawd knows how many people he screwed over.
-- BMO
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This is the principle of false equivalency - treating propaganda, vapid opinions, and just plain falsities with the same weight as facts, in the aim of being "fair and balanced." Letting the CIA, NSA, others speak at conferences where they are there to spread their own propaganda and to then treat these presentations as valuable facts is intellectually dishonest at best.
There is a time when various people need to be shunned to give them a wake-up-call, and not allowing these jerks to take time at our conferences.
The CIA fucking spied on the fucking Congress and made up "evidence" to turn over to Eric Holder to prosecute congressional staffers. Because they didn't like the investigation into plainly illegal torture.
And here's the teenager with no life experience whatsoever.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to rebuild just a power substation? Do you have any idea how few EEs, techs, riggers, and laborers we have to rebuild them en masse?
You don't. That much is plain.
backup generators
What fucking backup generators? They don't exist.
Call up National Grid. Ask them how many "backup generators" they have for a Carrington Event situation. The laughter should be loud.
Really? This would be devastating? We can't live without electricity, electronics, water pumps?
Can you farm without electricity? Gasoline? Do you have all the pre-electricity farm equipment that would allow you to grow food without a tractor, power tools, etc? Does your well pump even work without electricity? I'll bet it doesn't. I'll bet you can't really live off the grid unless you're Amish or Mennonite. You simply don't have the pre-industrial technology to get along in such a world.
Many in cities and suburbs, after 3 or 4 weeks, would wind up going out into the country to forage if they could find gasoline to pump (and gas pumps work with electricity!), because the supermarkets would be empty and all the food in the refrigerators/freezers would have spoiled after only a few days.
To your "off the grid" house. Probably.
inb4 "I have an arsenal of arms to keep them away"
Your best defense and survival depends on your neighbors. Because one lone person with a stash of food and arms can be out-sieged by the outside world.
I would suggest watching "The Trigger Effect," Episode 1 of James Burke's "Connections" series. Anyone (sensible) who watches that and looks around at the technology that supports all of us will come away with the conclusion that if it seriously went away for a month, we'd be fucked. The shit would so seriously hit the fan that your incredulousness indicates you are either completely out of touch with society at large, deliberately myopic, or some teenager that hasn't lived life enough to have any kind of broad view. Good luck with that.
There's no shortage of people who are literally insane in politics.
Indeed. 1 out of 4 people has a diagnosable mental illness.
An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older â" about one in four adults â" suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.
--NIMH
Consider what happens if the "Caliphate" gets their hands on some samples.
You mean the theocrats that are always talking about bringing the US back to its "christian" roots?
This was discussed here earlier after a poll showing that people with low knowledge of the Internet don't trust it, implying by omission that those that have more trust the Internet more, which is far from the case. The people with the most knowledge know what the flaws are.
Blind trust in any kind of technology is dumb.
Blind distrust of anything is also just as dumb.
Distrust of TOR because it was a US Navy project is practicing a type of ad-hominem. I'd rather distrust it based on either reading the code or the opinions and arguments of people better able than me at reading its code.
I've said it before about other things - there are plenty of reasons to dislike something without having to invent them. I use this when discussing GMO, because the "frankenfood" argument is specious - the real problem is the IP angle, for example.
Carnegie Mellon is suppressing de-anonymising TOR discussion at Black Hat.
Talk on cracking Internet anonymity service Tor withdrawn from conference
By Joseph Menn
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:05pm EDT
Technology
(Reuters) - A heavily anticipated talk on how to identify users of the Tor Internet privacy service has been withdrawn from the upcoming Black Hat security conference.
A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment. (Reporting by Joseph Menn; Editing by Chris Reese)
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My guess is that someone wants the hole (if there is one) kept open a while longer or the suspicion that TOR is somehow ineffective alive. Let your mind run wild with speculation.
"The population census has got him down as "dormanted". The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as "deleted". [â¦] Information Retrieval has got him down as "inoperative". And thereâ(TM)s another one - security has got him down as "excised". Administration has got him down as "completed". ⦠Heâ(TM)s dead."
No, it's not "on paper" and you seem to not know that Jack Conte (half of the duo Pomplamoose) is the CEO of Patreon. Patreon is the child of the experiences that Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte had with Youtube, and my posting of the interview on the BIRN and Nataly's closing of the other video was meant to be informative.
BIG bookstores are dying. The independent bookstores seem to be multiplying, after what seemed like iminent death at the hands of Borders, B&N and BAM.
Borders is gone. B&N is smaller, and BAM is simply disgusting and I won't go there ever again after going there once (it's a southern 'christian' company and it shows, especially in the whole two shelves of science books they had - I re-shelved Behe's "darwin's black box" in Fantasy). And when I was at BAM, I swear it was a whole lot of floor space for too few customers. Its days are numbered. Here in the Northeast, anyway.
But indie book shops where you get personal assistance and customer service? There's a renaissance.
Amazon isn't killing them. Amazon is killing the book-megastore.
Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn's experience with Youtube, and music publishers basically summed it up like this:
You can either go to a studio, sign a contract and/maybe/ make back your advance and/possibly/ hit the lottery and fill arenas
or
Cut out the middle-man and get more direct support and actually make a living. Nataly set up a Kickstarter for her first album and got 5x more than she expected.
Slashdot Mirror
It's almost like large organizations have voting rights.
What do you mean "almost"?
They have more voting rights than you, me, or anyone.
And you know what? We've got "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" who will fight you tooth-and-nail to defend that, in spite of their own interests.
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BMO
>I was trying to figure out how to turn on focus-follows-mouse in Ubuntu,
1. You can't even /do/ "focus follows mouse" or "sloppy focus" in Windows.
2. You're doing it wrong: http://i.imgur.com/46fP493.png
3. You find 3 ways to do it, pick the worst one, and imply that's the one that users have to do.
Idiot. Troll.
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BMO
throw the ones responsible into jail for a long ass time to make a nice example.
While I applaud the sentiment behind this, the "ones responsible" will be some poor schmuck low on the totem pole sacrificed to the god Mammon. Probably a janitor somewhere that would be blamed for throwing away an "important memo" on "please don't do that" which didn't exist anyway.
In an ideal world, emails would be pulled, phone records retrieved, evidence recorded, and those up top would be held responsible for this. And in a really ideal world, none of this would happen. But this isn't an ideal world and fines are "just the cost of doing business."
Look at what Duke Energy got away with. Look at what they all get away with.
>letting the corporation survive
No. That won't fix anything. It has come to the point that corporate death penalties actually have to start happening to light a fire under the asses of employees that would see their livelihoods taken away by higher-ups in the corporation through mismanagement, along with boards seeing their corporate governance (and cash that goes with it) taken away, and stock holders wiped out. Only then will there be any motivation for good corporate governance.
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BMO
There is a reason why you are "foed" here by me and others who have two brain cells to rub together:
You're dumb and a liar.
http://www.motherjones.com/blu...
Extract your Duke shilling head from your anus, you stupid fuck.
Sincerely,
Me.
Rooftop Solar is /less/ costly than any of the other alternatives, because it costs real money to get electricity from a centralized powerplant out to the customers.
Even if generating at the powerplant is free, the transmission costs alone are greater than the cost of rooftop solar.
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
Math, motherfuckers.
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BMO
Where is the private key stored?
It doesn't matter.
Yahoo lost control of my login credentials *twice* that I know of. While I have never been to Sweden and Bulgaria, I have apprently sent mail from there. Yahoo is the only service that I have ever used that lost control of my login creds like that - since 1986. Y! mail is now a spamtrap for me. I will never use it again.
Knowing Yahoo, the private key be stored in plaintext on the user's profile page.
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BMO
YOU BE HERE FOUR HOUR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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BMO
I don't think he had Internet access in 1987. That came a bit later, I believe. Certainly not on the Microvax. Andy didn't charge for access to the machine when it was a BBS which probably saved his butt.
Lots of time spent in Vax Multi-User Moria and VMS Phone.
I believe Daver was 12 or something when he wrote the full-screen editor for the BBS.
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BMO
>Yup. On a VAX stolen from Brown & Sharpe.
I saw that Microvax in Andy's basement. "Hey Andy, where'd ya get the Vax?" "We don't talk about that."
"...Ok..." >proceed to turn up Pink Floyd's DSOTM.
After he returned it, he got an ancient 780 and I believe 2 (or 3?) washing machine sized disks.
slightly related tangent -
Ferguson Perforating got rid of their Microvax II one day and I found out that it went to the landfill, because the guy they gave it to couldn't operate the damn thing "and it was old." I was catatonic with disappointment. "DO YOU THROW AWAY A MICROMETER BECAUSE IT'S NOT ELECTRONIC?!" I yelled.
It was 1993/4. Still the heyday of the BBS networks. I could have created a beast of a multiline setup bigger than Andy's. *grumble grumble*
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BMO
Hacking is supposed to be good stuff here, right? Or did something change?
Yes, something changed.
An Internet media "giant" bought Slashdot. Thus the "media" definition of hack, not ours. Jerks.
Our definition of hack would relate more to hot-rodding instead of this system-smashing claptrap.
>vw beetle
I agree.
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BMO
>My first taxi ride from Boston Logan to MIT
>taxi
Wut.
Logan -> Blue line -> Orange or Green Line -> Red line -> Kendall/MIT
How hard is that?
>3 years
Oh man...
--
BMO
The meters on traditional cabs may sometimes be tinkered with, but that's illegal
Like that stops anyone.
I knew it took 11 bux to get me home after a night of being out, no matter what cab I took from Downtown Providence.
Enter the guy with license plate #1 on his taxi. Someone who I had ridden with for years and thought was straight. Suddenly instead of 11 dollars, it was 15. "I'm paying you today, but don't expect to ever see me in your cab again."
He drove around for a few years after that still jacking his meter until the city finally had enough of his antics. Lawd knows how many people he screwed over.
--
BMO
This is the principle of false equivalency - treating propaganda, vapid opinions, and just plain falsities with the same weight as facts, in the aim of being "fair and balanced." Letting the CIA, NSA, others speak at conferences where they are there to spread their own propaganda and to then treat these presentations as valuable facts is intellectually dishonest at best.
There is a time when various people need to be shunned to give them a wake-up-call, and not allowing these jerks to take time at our conferences.
The CIA fucking spied on the fucking Congress and made up "evidence" to turn over to Eric Holder to prosecute congressional staffers. Because they didn't like the investigation into plainly illegal torture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08...
These people need to be shunned and locked out, not catered to. Many need to be in jail at the very least.
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BMO
And here's the teenager with no life experience whatsoever.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to rebuild just a power substation? Do you have any idea how few EEs, techs, riggers, and laborers we have to rebuild them en masse?
You don't. That much is plain.
backup generators
What fucking backup generators? They don't exist.
Call up National Grid. Ask them how many "backup generators" they have for a Carrington Event situation. The laughter should be loud.
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BMO
The concept that "the population would correct itself" is a pretty fucking bad euphemism for widespread famine.
You don't know anything about modern agriculture that feeds 7+ billion people.
Crikes, you're dumb.
--
BMO
Really? This would be devastating? We can't live without electricity, electronics, water pumps?
Can you farm without electricity? Gasoline? Do you have all the pre-electricity farm equipment that would allow you to grow food without a tractor, power tools, etc? Does your well pump even work without electricity? I'll bet it doesn't. I'll bet you can't really live off the grid unless you're Amish or Mennonite. You simply don't have the pre-industrial technology to get along in such a world.
Many in cities and suburbs, after 3 or 4 weeks, would wind up going out into the country to forage if they could find gasoline to pump (and gas pumps work with electricity!), because the supermarkets would be empty and all the food in the refrigerators/freezers would have spoiled after only a few days.
To your "off the grid" house. Probably.
inb4 "I have an arsenal of arms to keep them away"
Your best defense and survival depends on your neighbors. Because one lone person with a stash of food and arms can be out-sieged by the outside world.
I would suggest watching "The Trigger Effect," Episode 1 of James Burke's "Connections" series. Anyone (sensible) who watches that and looks around at the technology that supports all of us will come away with the conclusion that if it seriously went away for a month, we'd be fucked. The shit would so seriously hit the fan that your incredulousness indicates you are either completely out of touch with society at large, deliberately myopic, or some teenager that hasn't lived life enough to have any kind of broad view. Good luck with that.
--
BMO
There's no shortage of people who are literally insane in politics.
Indeed. 1 out of 4 people has a diagnosable mental illness.
--NIMH
Consider what happens if the "Caliphate" gets their hands on some samples.
You mean the theocrats that are always talking about bringing the US back to its "christian" roots?
spit
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BMO
It's dumb to trust any technology 100 percent.
This was discussed here earlier after a poll showing that people with low knowledge of the Internet don't trust it, implying by omission that those that have more trust the Internet more, which is far from the case. The people with the most knowledge know what the flaws are.
Blind trust in any kind of technology is dumb.
Blind distrust of anything is also just as dumb.
Distrust of TOR because it was a US Navy project is practicing a type of ad-hominem. I'd rather distrust it based on either reading the code or the opinions and arguments of people better able than me at reading its code.
I've said it before about other things - there are plenty of reasons to dislike something without having to invent them. I use this when discussing GMO, because the "frankenfood" argument is specious - the real problem is the IP angle, for example.
--
BMO
Carnegie Mellon is suppressing de-anonymising TOR discussion at Black Hat.
Talk on cracking Internet anonymity service Tor withdrawn from conference
By Joseph Menn
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:05pm EDT
Technology
(Reuters) - A heavily anticipated talk on how to identify users of the Tor Internet privacy service has been withdrawn from the upcoming Black Hat security conference.
A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment. (Reporting by Joseph Menn; Editing by Chris Reese)
------
My guess is that someone wants the hole (if there is one) kept open a while longer or the suspicion that TOR is somehow ineffective alive. Let your mind run wild with speculation.
--
BMO
http://www.reuters.com/article...
"The population census has got him down as "dormanted". The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as "deleted". [â¦] Information Retrieval has got him down as "inoperative". And thereâ(TM)s another one - security has got him down as "excised". Administration has got him down as "completed". ⦠Heâ(TM)s dead."
Brazil (1985)
this sounds great on paper,
No, it's not "on paper" and you seem to not know that Jack Conte (half of the duo Pomplamoose) is the CEO of Patreon. Patreon is the child of the experiences that Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte had with Youtube, and my posting of the interview on the BIRN and Nataly's closing of the other video was meant to be informative.
If you bothered to watch them. Which you didn't.
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BMO
Way to misquote me. I never said that such shops were "only for hipsters".
What a disingenuous complaint.
>mention a whole list of things such as lomography
>claim you're not talking about hipsters.
Yeah, whatever, man.
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BMO
Online shopping was going to kill brick and mortar entirely....
At least that was the story 15 years ago.
Brick and mortar retail is still there and taking up more real-estate than ever.
>indie bookstores are only for hipsters
Yeah, well, prejudicial bigotry gets you nowhere.
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BMO
Bookstores aren't dying.
BIG bookstores are dying. The independent bookstores seem to be multiplying, after what seemed like iminent death at the hands of Borders, B&N and BAM.
Borders is gone. B&N is smaller, and BAM is simply disgusting and I won't go there ever again after going there once (it's a southern 'christian' company and it shows, especially in the whole two shelves of science books they had - I re-shelved Behe's "darwin's black box" in Fantasy). And when I was at BAM, I swear it was a whole lot of floor space for too few customers. Its days are numbered. Here in the Northeast, anyway.
But indie book shops where you get personal assistance and customer service? There's a renaissance.
Amazon isn't killing them. Amazon is killing the book-megastore.
--
BMO
Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn's experience with Youtube, and music publishers basically summed it up like this:
You can either go to a studio, sign a contract and /maybe/ make back your advance and /possibly/ hit the lottery and fill arenas
or
Cut out the middle-man and get more direct support and actually make a living. Nataly set up a Kickstarter for her first album and got 5x more than she expected.
Thus the motivation for Patreon.
Watch this interview:
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And skip (if you want, the cover is pretty darn good) to the end of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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BMO