It always seemed to me that applying paste was more of an art than it should be.
It's only an "art" to those who just can't leave well enough alone.
Put blob on CPU. No, don't effin' spread it. Put heat sink down. Clamp. Done. Don't worry that you don't think it will spread. When the CPU heats up, it'll spread more.
This business of "spread it thin with a credit card" and other such nonsense only introduces air bubbles. There is a rather popular youtube video with annoying audio that demonstrates exactly what happens with a glass slide.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."
â" Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
All a user would need to do (assuming they were literate enough to get networking..and not know they were infected, is remap the DNS section of their IP config to resolv the issue?
If it was really, really simple, yes. But I suspect that the authors of DNS Changer already thought of that and will prevent you from simply changing it manually, or at least run a scheduled task to keep it set wrong (the Macintosh variant does this with a crontab).
It was spread as a "video codec" on porn sites and then as "funny video" sites, which I guess is more popular. The internet was built on porn and lolcats.
In any case, if you have an updated malware removal tool, it should remove it. Removal is effective.
If your DNS servers are in these range, then you are affected.
Google and Yahoo both support IMAP. If I'm not interested in doing it through a shitty Java webmail client, I can fire up T-Bird, Claws, M2, Pine, Alpine, and any other MUA that supports IMAP and get the job done.
It allows me to use real editors, complex filtering, flagging, foldering, archiving, etc. It makes sending encrypted mail a whole heck of a lot easier.
Why aren't you using an IMAP MUA to connect to your webmail?
Any algorithm to decide what machine is infected remotely is not going to be any smarter than the designer, and probably a lot less so.
The thing is that there is no algorithm at work at all except the infection itself.
If you paid attention at all to the goings-on of this issue at all, you'd know that DNS Changer does what it's titled to do: point at a (formerly) criminally controlled set of DNS machines. These have since been commandeered by authorities and maintained. The infected machines are being artificially propped up. To "disconnect" people, all they have to do is turn these off and let the end users fend for themselves.
So let me repeat: there is no "remote turnoff" being done here. The computers are left without a DNS when the fake DNS machines are turned off. If your computer does not point at a valid DNS when they turn off the fake DNS, it is 100 percent guaranteed that you have the DNS Changer malware.
Knock them off the internet already so they know they have a problem. DNSChanger is probably not the only issue they have.
This. I have *never* seen a compromised system with just one piece of badware. These people are probably running around with dozens, if not hundreds of pieces of evil in their machines.
Knocking them off the net would be doing them a favour.
What part of the ECPA, the law that governs all this, do you not understand?
It's not a fucking wiretap.
Go read Netlaw by Lance Rose, who wrote all about this back when it was new law. It's no longer new law. And the law hasn't changed with respect to privacy either, much to everyone's dismay who has read the fucking law and keeps all their mail on a mail server for more than 180 days.
Indeed, The "Chat" that Facebook uses is a stored communication. It comes nowhere close to even a p2p chat like ICQ or AIM. It does not even come close to the "in-flight" recording of an actual wiretap or a tap on an internet connection catching data in-flight, which the ECPA gives the most protection to.
The instant you hit return on a Facebook "chat" it is stored on Facebook's server and echoed at the recipient. There is no "in-flight" here. It is analogous to email.
>Corporate policy
LET ME SAY ONCE AGAIN, THE ECPA SAYS THAT OPERATORS MAY LOOK AT MESSAGES EVEN IN FLIGHT IF IT IS IN THE COURSE OF THEIR DUTIES, AND IF THERE IS A PRIVACY POLICY INCREASING THE SCOPE OF THE LOOKING, AND YOU AGREE TO IT (WHICH YOU AGREED TO WHEN YOU SIGNED UP TO FACEBOOK), THEN THAT'S WHAT YOU GET. THE FACEBOOK PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT COME OUT AND SAY "YOU HAVE NO POLICY" IN FOUR WORDS, BUT AS FAR AS THE THE LAW IS CONCERNED, YOU HAVE NONE WHILE USING THEIR SERVERS BECAUSE YOU AGREED TO THE PRIVACY POLICY.
YOU WANT PRIVACY? USE A SERVICE THAT GIVES IT. ASSHOLE.
>This is private communication between two-parties over a telecommunications system,
The ECPA gives operators an "out" by letting them view traffic as a part of their duties as operators.
Without a stated privacy policy, an operator can only get in trouble by targeting specific people and literally going out of his way to view streams of live communication not related to getting the job done, but that's hard to prove. And if there is a policy saying that they have access to your data, well, expect no privacy. It's been this way for a long time, ever since the BBS days. Remember those blanket "expect no privacy" statements that suddenly appeared on login at Joe's single-line BBS at 1200bps in 1986? 26 long years.
From the Facebook private policy itself:
How we use the information we receive We use the information we receive about you in connection with the services and features we provide to you and other users like your friends, our partners, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site, and the developers that build the games, applications, and websites you use. For example, we may use the information we receive about you:
as part of our efforts to keep Facebook products, services and integrations safe and secure; to protect Facebook's or others' rights or property;
This here, also could be construed as protecting the right of a 13 year old to be free from online stalking.
to provide you with location features and services, like telling you and your friends when something is going on nearby; to measure or understand the effectiveness of ads you and others see, including to deliver relevant ads to you; to make suggestions to you and other users on Facebook, such as: suggesting that your friend use our contact importer because you found friends using it, suggesting that another user add you as a friend because the user imported the same email address as you did, or suggesting that your friend tag you in a picture they have uploaded with you in it; and
for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.
That last bit is a catch-all for what they're doing. What they don't tell you is that if they see anything untoward, they will call the cops.But they don't have to. They just have to tell you that they can see your stuff. Joe, back in 1986 might have called the cops if he saw someone stalking a 13 year old on his BBS or maybe not. Maybe Joe wouldn't want the bullshit of dealing with the police that wouldn't even comprehend what he was doing, but he would have been within his rights to do so.
If you're going to communicate privately, Facebook is not the way to do it. It should be obvious by the fact that chat messages do not disappear into the aether, but rather get archived on your page. If you want your messages to disappear into the aether, use a service and protocol that is forgetful, like even something as simple as ytalk (fancy versions of this we call old style instant messaging like ICQ).
It's not Facebook's fault that people, through their ignorance (wilful or not), don't use the correct tools.
FFS, if i want to talk about something private, i take it to a server in Denmark or set up a chat on the localhost.
And there you go. If you want privacy, you don't stand in the middle of the fucking Mall shouting your private friggin' business in real life. Why do it online?
>Where are the feds?
Being appreciative of Facebook's service and trolling/r/gonewild
Funny? no. Insightful? no. It's pretty obvious. Informative? only if you've been living under a rock Redundant? per the rules, it hasn't been repeated excessively, so no. Overrated? don't know, probably not. This is a chickenshit mod anyway. Underrated? Hasn't been already modded down, so no.
+1 "sad and disappointing to everyone who reads it because it reminds them of the reality. I'm gonna take some valium."
>Again, look at who's actually been in charge for the last three years and in control of such things.
The people in charge of SOPA and such, where all this shit originates, are the Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee which they own. If you watched (I did) the mark-up meeting, nearly every Republican was voting against every sensible amendment. Fortunately it died then, but Lamar Smith (R) is trying to shoehorn the worst of it in pieces now and he's got the rest of the committee behind him. Again, the House Judiciary Committee, which he heads.
It depends on how many Dems can be bought off. Polis(D), Issa(R), and Lundgren(D) and another R that I can't recall right now can't be bought off on SOPA kinda things, but they are in the very tiny minority. If a mutant SOPA can escape the committee and go to the floor, if enough Dems and Repubs (probably won't need to get bought, they'll just follow their leadership) get bought, it could cross Obama's desk and at that point I'd give it a 80 percent chance of signing, because it would be "bipartisan" (puke).
>A collection of the same old remoras that have been attached to previous Republican candidates would not be promising especially in that light.
That's exactly what's been going on. "Bush" never left, because the people who found a patsy in GWB, have found another patsy in Romney. These days of the Republican Party make me pine for the old days of Nixon. Friggin' seriously. Barry Goldwater is probably furiously rolling in his grave.
If an argument can be made that Obama is a patsy, at least he's a patsy for different people.
>voter fraud
Don't fall into the trap of bad vocabulary, what you really meant (and described) was electoral fraud. Voter fraud is the distraction brought up by the usual suspects to distract from the electoral fraud. The whole voter-ID thing is a solution looking for a problem.
And you betcha that vote flipping is going to happen especially in counties that have pure electronic voting (unlike here, where we have scantrons). I'll bet everything I own on it. Pair that with mass disenfranchisement through voter-id like in PA now, and the fix is in. For sure.
Anyway, that is my tinfoil. If you don't like my tinfoil, get your own.
>Not only is everything the fault of Republicans, this is even true when the things happening are in other countries *and* when State is run by liberals and the administration and Senate are run by Democrats. Unbelievable.
Currently it's the fault of the Republicans but we have had people previously like Senator Disney (aka Hollings) and Sonny Bono. Remember them? It all depends on who gets bought the most. The one needing to be bought this time just happens to be Lamar Smith since he runs the Judiciary Committee.
But what I was referencing in my closing statement about Romney was the foreign policy people he's got as his advisors and future members of the Cabinet. He's got the entire board, except for one obvious person, from the Foreign Policy Initiative, aka PNAC II. You think bullying American influence is bad now under Obama? Just you wait.
That it is, and if it's not direct, it's a wink and a nod, because our politicians can then turn around and tell us here in the states that we need to "harmonise" with our trade partners, and thus things like SOPA and Lamar Smith's recent shenanigans by chopping up SOPA into smaller bits and getting the pieces passed.
It's a gigantic circle jerk with nobody's actual rights, or even opinions, being considered except those of the media companies and the statists.
Just wait for Romney to be elected. The fix is in.
>Her solution for the problems of the world: kill humans. It's terrible, because there is people asking job and food, and she worry about kill humans before they have rights.
Can we stab editors that put headlines in the form of questions?
Are we locked into QWERTY for familiarity's sake?
Wrong question. The question also assumes that qwerty is only there because of familiarity and nothing else.
We are "locked into" QWERTY because it does a pretty good job of dividing the labour of typing between both hands. There's this urban myth that QWERTY was designed to slow down typists. Nothing could be further from the truth, because in the old days, there used to be typing contests among different vendors of typewriters. QWERTY typists outdid other typists. It's that simple.
Through Darwinian selection and market forces, we have one now that is pretty darn good. Some may say DVORAK may be better or another layout may be better and that the division of labour may be better, but the only advantage that DVORAK and others seem to have is speeding up learning for those who have never touched a keyboard, c.f., the Navy study on DVORAK. That's not much of a victory over a keyboard that is ubiquitous that you can use immediately anywhere once you've learned it. Yes QWERTY is familiar, but QWERTY became common because of other reasons than familiarity.
The Dextr keyboard is in alphabetical order
Oh god no. Kill it with fire then nuke it from orbit.
I have used keyboards like this, and I have to say from personal experience that alphabetical keyboards SUCK all around. Alphabetical keyboards are only good for calculators using a portrait oriented keyboard and at that point, you're using the letters for variable storage and hexadecimal.
You are correct on the name, but here it was known as "Demonstrations in Physics" on WGBH channel 2, which in the old days was a slightly snowy signal from Boston, but we were glad to have it down in southern Rhode Island.
Thank you! That's the very person! And the name of the show was "Demonstrations in Physics"!
You can't believe how fucking buried that was when I went looking for "science television children" and related searches in google and got all sorts of science fiction.
I would rather call it the Ninja Particle, because it's only there for a little while and we don't detect it directly, only its effects as it disappears.
American journalists are idiots when it comes to science reporting. They even fail at the "Mr. Wizard" level of science. It's truly abysmal.
And I took so long typing this, because I could not find the series of physics programs I grew up with as a kid in the early 70s. They involved a quite intense physics professor, and he used phrases like "boys and girls" when explaining things like magnetism and diamagnetism or thermal expansion and had this... unique way of pronouncing "thermometer" as "thermal meter"
It was on WGBH and it was a Canadian import.
Halp. This is driving me nuts.
But anyway, I was going to say that journalists also fail at that level too.
Yet there is one faction of our government here in the US that has played the religion card since the "Southern Strategy". Barry Goldwater decried that they would never be rid of them.
And so far he's been more than right - it's only gotten worse.
The percentage of people in the US who are creationists is always polled in the high 40s. We're not that far away from Pakistan. While it may seem like a good political idea to pander to religious nutters, all we have to do to look at what would happen without the "wall of separation between Church & State", as Jefferson put it in his letter to the Danbury Baptists, is to look to the governments of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, et al. And if you listen to many Republicans, especially the ones who are dominionists and members of The Family, they're not that far off from the Taliban. Don't forget, there were *four* Republican candidates running for President that "God" told them to run. Fortunately all 4 dropped out. God's got a sense of humour, apparently.
But the fact remains, we had 4 wild-eyed religious whackos running for President and they were all treated seriously. That was unprecedented. And the broader Republican caucus is full of moronic bible thumpers.
Barry Goldwater spins in his grave at high RPM. I am working on wrapping his dust and the dust of Roger Williams and William Penn in coils of wire to generate electricity and solve the energy crisis. I just need grant or VC money.
Grammar matters if you don't want to appear an utter clodpate. If anything, it keeps people from putting your message immediately into the trash. A bad idea wrapped up in good grammar will survive longer than a good idea written in gibberish.
Also, it keeps from being misunderstood.
"Let's eat, Grandma!" Is far different from "Let's eat Grandma!"
And to finish my message, any grammar checker tool is only as good as the person wielding it.
"You seem to be under the impression that I think dcwg.org IS untrustworthy."
Why else would you harp on this point and give people who are lazy fucks the benefit of the doubt when it takes less than 5 seconds to go look up whether dcwg is legitimate? It's not like search engines are a new thing. I'll say it again: The name and the TLD it operates under is IRRELEVANT when it comes to trust.
" That is not what I am arguing at all. What I am saying is that it APPEARS to be untrustworthy to people who do not know already what dcwg.org is."
Then that's their fault if they refuse to fucking read a goddamn thing. The only people who would call it untrustworthy are going by superficial appearances alone, and they get what they deserve in real life and on the net. Seriously. Because when they do something like that, they also do the opposite: call a site trustworthy because of the name. And this is an insane way to go through life.
THE NAME AND THE TLD ARE IRRELEVANT WRT TRUST.
I see you grasping at straws and the only thing that could possibly motivate you to continue arguing this ridiculous point is that you need to get the last word. Fine. You can have it. I'm done. But you've done a piss poor job of convincing me that I'm in any way wrong on this issue.
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It always seemed to me that applying paste was more of an art than it should be.
It's only an "art" to those who just can't leave well enough alone.
Put blob on CPU. No, don't effin' spread it. Put heat sink down. Clamp. Done. Don't worry that you don't think it will spread. When the CPU heats up, it'll spread more.
This business of "spread it thin with a credit card" and other such nonsense only introduces air bubbles. There is a rather popular youtube video with annoying audio that demonstrates exactly what happens with a glass slide.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."
â" Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
>Oh lovely modded as flamebait
That's because you made a sweeping generalization about "linux people" that was meant to paint us all in a bad light.
It's flamebait. Deal with it.
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since when does Yahoo support IMAP?
Since Gmail has offered IMAP for free. Because Y! has to find a way to remain relevant somehow.
19.95 for pop3 access doesn't cut it when Gmail offers both IMAP and pop3 for free. To stop the exodus, they had to drop this.
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Technically Yahoo supports IMAP on mobile devices BUT not on desktop clients! Even if you are a paying customer.
Lo, what is this? I'm using Tbird to connect to Y! mail via IMAP!
http://ompldr.org/vZXFsYg/Screenshot.png
Obviously, you've been doing something wrong.
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All a user would need to do (assuming they were literate enough to get networking..and not know they were infected, is remap the DNS section of their IP config to resolv the issue?
If it was really, really simple, yes. But I suspect that the authors of DNS Changer already thought of that and will prevent you from simply changing it manually, or at least run a scheduled task to keep it set wrong (the Macintosh variant does this with a crontab).
It was spread as a "video codec" on porn sites and then as "funny video" sites, which I guess is more popular. The internet was built on porn and lolcats.
In any case, if you have an updated malware removal tool, it should remove it. Removal is effective.
If your DNS servers are in these range, then you are affected.
64.28.176.1 - 64.28.191.254
67.210.0.1 - 67.210.15.254
77.67.83.1 - 77.67.83.254
85.255.112.1 - 85.255.127.254
93.188.160.1 - 93.188.167.254
213.109.64.1 - 213.109.79.254
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people still use email clients!?
Sure! Why the fuck not?
Google and Yahoo both support IMAP. If I'm not interested in doing it through a shitty Java webmail client, I can fire up T-Bird, Claws, M2, Pine, Alpine, and any other MUA that supports IMAP and get the job done.
It allows me to use real editors, complex filtering, flagging, foldering, archiving, etc. It makes sending encrypted mail a whole heck of a lot easier.
Why aren't you using an IMAP MUA to connect to your webmail?
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Any algorithm to decide what machine is infected remotely is not going to be any smarter than the designer, and probably a lot less so.
The thing is that there is no algorithm at work at all except the infection itself.
If you paid attention at all to the goings-on of this issue at all, you'd know that DNS Changer does what it's titled to do: point at a (formerly) criminally controlled set of DNS machines. These have since been commandeered by authorities and maintained. The infected machines are being artificially propped up. To "disconnect" people, all they have to do is turn these off and let the end users fend for themselves.
So let me repeat: there is no "remote turnoff" being done here. The computers are left without a DNS when the fake DNS machines are turned off. If your computer does not point at a valid DNS when they turn off the fake DNS, it is 100 percent guaranteed that you have the DNS Changer malware.
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Knock them off the internet already so they know they have a problem. DNSChanger is probably not the only issue they have.
This. I have *never* seen a compromised system with just one piece of badware. These people are probably running around with dozens, if not hundreds of pieces of evil in their machines.
Knocking them off the net would be doing them a favour.
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What part of the ECPA, the law that governs all this, do you not understand?
It's not a fucking wiretap.
Go read Netlaw by Lance Rose, who wrote all about this back when it was new law. It's no longer new law. And the law hasn't changed with respect to privacy either, much to everyone's dismay who has read the fucking law and keeps all their mail on a mail server for more than 180 days.
Indeed, The "Chat" that Facebook uses is a stored communication. It comes nowhere close to even a p2p chat like ICQ or AIM. It does not even come close to the "in-flight" recording of an actual wiretap or a tap on an internet connection catching data in-flight, which the ECPA gives the most protection to.
The instant you hit return on a Facebook "chat" it is stored on Facebook's server and echoed at the recipient. There is no "in-flight" here. It is analogous to email.
>Corporate policy
YOU WANT PRIVACY? USE A SERVICE THAT GIVES IT. ASSHOLE.
GO FUCKING READ NETLAW, YOU DUMB SHIT.
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>This is private communication between two-parties over a telecommunications system,
The ECPA gives operators an "out" by letting them view traffic as a part of their duties as operators.
Without a stated privacy policy, an operator can only get in trouble by targeting specific people and literally going out of his way to view streams of live communication not related to getting the job done, but that's hard to prove. And if there is a policy saying that they have access to your data, well, expect no privacy. It's been this way for a long time, ever since the BBS days. Remember those blanket "expect no privacy" statements that suddenly appeared on login at Joe's single-line BBS at 1200bps in 1986? 26 long years.
From the Facebook private policy itself:
This here, also could be construed as protecting the right of a 13 year old to be free from online stalking.
That last bit is a catch-all for what they're doing. What they don't tell you is that if they see anything untoward, they will call the cops.But they don't have to. They just have to tell you that they can see your stuff. Joe, back in 1986 might have called the cops if he saw someone stalking a 13 year old on his BBS or maybe not. Maybe Joe wouldn't want the bullshit of dealing with the police that wouldn't even comprehend what he was doing, but he would have been within his rights to do so.
If you're going to communicate privately, Facebook is not the way to do it. It should be obvious by the fact that chat messages do not disappear into the aether, but rather get archived on your page. If you want your messages to disappear into the aether, use a service and protocol that is forgetful, like even something as simple as ytalk (fancy versions of this we call old style instant messaging like ICQ).
It's not Facebook's fault that people, through their ignorance (wilful or not), don't use the correct tools.
FFS, if i want to talk about something private, i take it to a server in Denmark or set up a chat on the localhost.
Here, set up a chat server on the localhost: http://unite.opera.com/application/182/
And there you go. If you want privacy, you don't stand in the middle of the fucking Mall shouting your private friggin' business in real life. Why do it online?
>Where are the feds?
Being appreciative of Facebook's service and trolling /r/gonewild
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Let me think of a mod...
Funny? no.
Insightful? no. It's pretty obvious.
Informative? only if you've been living under a rock
Redundant? per the rules, it hasn't been repeated excessively, so no.
Overrated? don't know, probably not. This is a chickenshit mod anyway.
Underrated? Hasn't been already modded down, so no.
+1 "sad and disappointing to everyone who reads it because it reminds them of the reality. I'm gonna take some valium."
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>Again, look at who's actually been in charge for the last three years and in control of such things.
The people in charge of SOPA and such, where all this shit originates, are the Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee which they own. If you watched (I did) the mark-up meeting, nearly every Republican was voting against every sensible amendment. Fortunately it died then, but Lamar Smith (R) is trying to shoehorn the worst of it in pieces now and he's got the rest of the committee behind him. Again, the House Judiciary Committee, which he heads.
It depends on how many Dems can be bought off. Polis(D), Issa(R), and Lundgren(D) and another R that I can't recall right now can't be bought off on SOPA kinda things, but they are in the very tiny minority. If a mutant SOPA can escape the committee and go to the floor, if enough Dems and Repubs (probably won't need to get bought, they'll just follow their leadership) get bought, it could cross Obama's desk and at that point I'd give it a 80 percent chance of signing, because it would be "bipartisan" (puke).
>A collection of the same old remoras that have been attached to previous Republican candidates would not be promising especially in that light.
That's exactly what's been going on. "Bush" never left, because the people who found a patsy in GWB, have found another patsy in Romney. These days of the Republican Party make me pine for the old days of Nixon. Friggin' seriously. Barry Goldwater is probably furiously rolling in his grave.
If an argument can be made that Obama is a patsy, at least he's a patsy for different people.
>voter fraud
Don't fall into the trap of bad vocabulary, what you really meant (and described) was electoral fraud. Voter fraud is the distraction brought up by the usual suspects to distract from the electoral fraud. The whole voter-ID thing is a solution looking for a problem.
And you betcha that vote flipping is going to happen especially in counties that have pure electronic voting (unlike here, where we have scantrons). I'll bet everything I own on it. Pair that with mass disenfranchisement through voter-id like in PA now, and the fix is in. For sure.
Anyway, that is my tinfoil. If you don't like my tinfoil, get your own.
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>Not only is everything the fault of Republicans, this is even true when the things happening are in other countries *and* when State is run by liberals and the administration and Senate are run by Democrats. Unbelievable.
Currently it's the fault of the Republicans but we have had people previously like Senator Disney (aka Hollings) and Sonny Bono. Remember them? It all depends on who gets bought the most. The one needing to be bought this time just happens to be Lamar Smith since he runs the Judiciary Committee.
But what I was referencing in my closing statement about Romney was the foreign policy people he's got as his advisors and future members of the Cabinet. He's got the entire board, except for one obvious person, from the Foreign Policy Initiative, aka PNAC II. You think bullying American influence is bad now under Obama? Just you wait.
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>This is US policy by proxy.
That it is, and if it's not direct, it's a wink and a nod, because our politicians can then turn around and tell us here in the states that we need to "harmonise" with our trade partners, and thus things like SOPA and Lamar Smith's recent shenanigans by chopping up SOPA into smaller bits and getting the pieces passed.
It's a gigantic circle jerk with nobody's actual rights, or even opinions, being considered except those of the media companies and the statists.
Just wait for Romney to be elected. The fix is in.
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>Her solution for the problems of the world: kill humans. It's terrible, because there is people asking job and food, and she worry about kill humans before they have rights.
Every sperm is sacred, right mate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
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Because of your post, I'm going to start bolding my name at the end.
Have a nice day.
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Can we stab editors that put headlines in the form of questions?
Are we locked into QWERTY for familiarity's sake?
Wrong question. The question also assumes that qwerty is only there because of familiarity and nothing else.
We are "locked into" QWERTY because it does a pretty good job of dividing the labour of typing between both hands. There's this urban myth that QWERTY was designed to slow down typists. Nothing could be further from the truth, because in the old days, there used to be typing contests among different vendors of typewriters. QWERTY typists outdid other typists. It's that simple.
Through Darwinian selection and market forces, we have one now that is pretty darn good. Some may say DVORAK may be better or another layout may be better and that the division of labour may be better, but the only advantage that DVORAK and others seem to have is speeding up learning for those who have never touched a keyboard, c.f., the Navy study on DVORAK. That's not much of a victory over a keyboard that is ubiquitous that you can use immediately anywhere once you've learned it. Yes QWERTY is familiar, but QWERTY became common because of other reasons than familiarity.
The Dextr keyboard is in alphabetical order
Oh god no. Kill it with fire then nuke it from orbit.
I have used keyboards like this, and I have to say from personal experience that alphabetical keyboards SUCK all around. Alphabetical keyboards are only good for calculators using a portrait oriented keyboard and at that point, you're using the letters for variable storage and hexadecimal.
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You are correct on the name, but here it was known as "Demonstrations in Physics" on WGBH channel 2, which in the old days was a slightly snowy signal from Boston, but we were glad to have it down in southern Rhode Island.
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Thank you! That's the very person! And the name of the show was "Demonstrations in Physics"!
You can't believe how fucking buried that was when I went looking for "science television children" and related searches in google and got all sorts of science fiction.
Gah!
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I would rather call it the Ninja Particle, because it's only there for a little while and we don't detect it directly, only its effects as it disappears.
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American journalists are idiots when it comes to science reporting. They even fail at the "Mr. Wizard" level of science. It's truly abysmal.
And I took so long typing this, because I could not find the series of physics programs I grew up with as a kid in the early 70s. They involved a quite intense physics professor, and he used phrases like "boys and girls" when explaining things like magnetism and diamagnetism or thermal expansion and had this ... unique way of pronouncing "thermometer" as "thermal meter"
It was on WGBH and it was a Canadian import.
Halp. This is driving me nuts.
But anyway, I was going to say that journalists also fail at that level too.
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I couldn't agree more.
Yet there is one faction of our government here in the US that has played the religion card since the "Southern Strategy". Barry Goldwater decried that they would never be rid of them.
And so far he's been more than right - it's only gotten worse.
The percentage of people in the US who are creationists is always polled in the high 40s. We're not that far away from Pakistan. While it may seem like a good political idea to pander to religious nutters, all we have to do to look at what would happen without the "wall of separation between Church & State", as Jefferson put it in his letter to the Danbury Baptists, is to look to the governments of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, et al. And if you listen to many Republicans, especially the ones who are dominionists and members of The Family, they're not that far off from the Taliban. Don't forget, there were *four* Republican candidates running for President that "God" told them to run. Fortunately all 4 dropped out. God's got a sense of humour, apparently.
But the fact remains, we had 4 wild-eyed religious whackos running for President and they were all treated seriously. That was unprecedented. And the broader Republican caucus is full of moronic bible thumpers.
Barry Goldwater spins in his grave at high RPM. I am working on wrapping his dust and the dust of Roger Williams and William Penn in coils of wire to generate electricity and solve the energy crisis. I just need grant or VC money.
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Grammar matters if you don't want to appear an utter clodpate. If anything, it keeps people from putting your message immediately into the trash. A bad idea wrapped up in good grammar will survive longer than a good idea written in gibberish.
Also, it keeps from being misunderstood.
"Let's eat, Grandma!"
Is far different from
"Let's eat Grandma!"
And to finish my message, any grammar checker tool is only as good as the person wielding it.
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"You seem to be under the impression that I think dcwg.org IS untrustworthy."
Why else would you harp on this point and give people who are lazy fucks the benefit of the doubt when it takes less than 5 seconds to go look up whether dcwg is legitimate? It's not like search engines are a new thing. I'll say it again: The name and the TLD it operates under is IRRELEVANT when it comes to trust.
" That is not what I am arguing at all. What I am saying is that it APPEARS to be untrustworthy to people who do not know already what dcwg.org is."
Then that's their fault if they refuse to fucking read a goddamn thing. The only people who would call it untrustworthy are going by superficial appearances alone, and they get what they deserve in real life and on the net. Seriously. Because when they do something like that, they also do the opposite: call a site trustworthy because of the name. And this is an insane way to go through life.
THE NAME AND THE TLD ARE IRRELEVANT WRT TRUST.
I see you grasping at straws and the only thing that could possibly motivate you to continue arguing this ridiculous point is that you need to get the last word. Fine. You can have it. I'm done. But you've done a piss poor job of convincing me that I'm in any way wrong on this issue.
Bye.
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