I'm wondering why the recruiters didn't stop right there and wait for a question within the context of their purpose for being on the campus. I know college is a place to explore and have liberal discussion, but this looks like the childish behavior I'd expect when reading article comments on CNN.
This is why the government seems secretive and not forthcoming with information. The media just tries to tear apart anything said and puts people that have no business of being on the record for an event they have nothing to do with in the public eye. There recruiters were not upper level decision makers, just folks trying to do their job.
All well and good, but their job was recruitment for an agency currently in the public spotlight for behaving illegally and then lying to Congress about it. If the recruiters are unwilling to deal with that as part of recruitment, they'd be better off to pack up and go home until this fiasco blows over. As it was, being part of the public face of the NSA, they actually ended up making the NSA's image worse instead of better.
And yes, recruitment is tied to marketing -- the NSA should have handled this better and never allowed the recruiters on to the campus without some situational training they obviously never received.
Is a LOT easier to hire a fanatic, if you can promise him (usually male, not always) a pile of money for the family afterwards.
You can promise him anything you want -- afterwards he'll be dead and can't really do anything to ensure to stick to your promises. Or are we talking about principled fanatic terrorists here?
Much simpler explanation: it's parents codling their sons. Says as much right in the summary: they live in their parent's house. You can't stay holed up in a single room unless you're being supported or have taken serious preparations. The parents are supporting the hermits and have been over sheltering of them to get them to that point. It's hardly a mystery. "Why are they refusing to leave their rooms?" Because they're weak and are being allowed to. Stop feeding them. They will find the strength within themselves to put on clothing and walk outside of their room.
From the summary:
age of hikikomori also seems to have risen over the last two decades. Before it was 21 — now it is 32
So in 20 years, the age has risen 11 years -- what that says is that in the last 20 years, many of those same individuals continued to stay where they were.
Unfortunately, in Japanese society, I think that if some of these people stopped being fed, they'd just starve. The issue here is a collision of cultures resulting in social contradictions that can't be adequately dealt with in all situations -- so some people consciously or subconsciously choose to avoid these interactions altogether. You see this in North America too, on a much lower volume -- but because of cultural differences, it more often manifests as suicide, antisocial behaviour and criminal activity.
So another set of data to look at might be: what is the average age of a minor offender serving time in jail? My guess is we'd have a similar demographic; 21-32 year old males holed up in rooms provided by the state.
It's different, IMO, since it's part of the site. It's the difference between going to a concert and the band selling CD's, and going to a concert and the band painting a Wal-Mart logo on the stage.
More like the ticket takers selling attendance stats to Wal-Mart while handing out serialized flyers as people come in the door.
Indeed; if there is other more intelligent life out there that has achieved "interstellar travel" (if this even means anything significant to them), they likely aren't carbon-based homonids with a penchant for enslavement of weaker physical beings.
Hey... for all we know, we're (as a planet or possibly solar system or galaxy) already the equivalent to a gut bacterium to some other higher conscious being out there....
Jury selection for his trial might be interesting though. There's enough people that think he's a hero that it would be virtually guaranteed some of them would be called. Some of them might actually be inspired to stick their own neck out and say whatever's necessary to get on the jury and vote not guilty.
That's assuming he's not just shuffled off to Gitmo and never heard from again, of course.
Actually, the truth would be trickier than that... the government would just delay his trial until they were confident that the majority of people who fit the "jury duty" demographic in the area where he'd be tried would consider him a traitor. One thing that politicians have learned over the past few decades is how to take advantage of demographic manipulation. Without an equal opposing force (the defense being allowed to delay/accelerate jury selection until a favorable time), the government really does hold the power in this situation.
See, when there's a crime against The People, the government usually does a good job of representing The People. However, when there's a crime against The Government (whose outcome could end up implicating people in said government), they make a really bad prosecutor, despite the separation of governing bodies that's supposed to prevent this sort of situation.
Right, and you know who ratified the Constitution? The People. If the authority isn't specifically listed in the Constitution, the people have not consented, and the authority is not legitimate.
I see an eerie resemblance between this argument and that of morality/ethics with Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians....
Its almost like the discussion about having DRM support in HTML 5 was for real-world practical reasons, rather than just killing puppies and taking your freedom.
Its better than flash and silverlight because this could become standard if everyone takes their head out of the sand and accepts that HTML5 video needs DRM support to be attractive to the people selling video.
FTFY.
Interestingly, the times when I've watched stuff on NetFlix, about half of it has been stuff by people who are against DRM (but can't distribute via NetFlix without it).
Networking? It gets really difficult when the people you know have retired, died or in one way or another moved on. Reality is a lot of younger people can be really insecure and hiring an older more experienced person can be threatening. How will the older individual take instruction from a much younger person, how out of date is the older persons knowledge and how long will they last.
So age as in really aged will be troublesome. Alternate marketing is required, you come from an age and developed your skills when no or only limited mobile phone available. Hence you are more focused, you are better a direct personal interactions, greater loyalty to your company (as long as your record proves that), greater focus on integrity and workmanship and yet you have kept up to date.
Be more creative with your application and promote the benefits of a more experienced hire. When it comes to the resume make sure the introductory letter, points out the benefits of a senior hire and how it will specifically benefit the company (in the letter mention some gleaned details of the companies needs, customer base etc. and how you would benefit them). Rather than a generic application, target your application to the specific company, do the research. Your application exude mature self confidence with being arrogant.
The target is to get them to give you a shot, what can it hurt it's just another interview.
While I agree with parts of this, I have to say... if your network has all died or moved on... what have you been doing for most of your life? "Networking" doesn't mean hanging around with the guys your age who do what you do... it means continually building relationships with those who share common interests (and to find those people, you have to be sociable with EVERYONE). The people I network with span a 70-year age range, multiple genders, many nationalities and languages. Some I network with in-person; some online, some via work, some via hobbies, etc. A network is not something you start building when you reach the age of 55 and are looking for work; it's something you start building when you're around 3 years old, and build for the rest of your life... and if you're smart, it doesn't limit itself.
Many of the great networking successes I've had have been when stumbling across people who had "moved on" and hadn't been part of my active network for 10 years or so -- in a few cases it's been a case of connecting with the children of people I once knew.
A network never "moves on" -- it just grows. Even dead people in your network can be useful leverage if they talked about you when they were alive.
This is interesting, as it raises one of the issues that I had to wrestle with as I got older: networking vs. anonymity. Since the early 90's, I've made it a habit to separate my offline life from what goes on the Internet. However, you get to this point where you've been without work for 9 months, and you see all of those networking opportunities you've built up over the years.... I like to think that there's still not much correlation online about me, but I can attribute more than one contract to saying "oh yeah; I'm the person who goes by that handle on that forum".
Try to keep a balance, but use your online networks when useful. Just remember to think about the future and how that knowledge could be abused down the road.
3.) Network. You're likely to get your best paying gigs as contractor/consultant via people who know you. One of the things you tend to get along with the accomplishments and gray hairs is a long network of contacts, people you know, etc. Another benefit is that if you revisit people you worked with early in your career, you'll find that many of them are managers now, and have the power to make hiring decisions (including designing a job around your specific capabilities). It doesn't always work -- I once had a job custom designed for me, and then HR stepped in and killed it (due to interdepartmental politics), but these things often work out quite well. As an Old Guy (TM), never try the cold call, or submitting your resume as the first thing you do. Get in via contacts.
We *won* a Macbook a few years ago - got it for free - so I figured I couldn't go wrong . . . and so many things are wrong, all the time. My wife uses it for iPhoto, and that's about it.
I encountered exactly the same "Why would you want to do that?" responses to *any* question I asked of Apple support or the company making the one accessory I was foolish enough to buy (won't even dignify them by adding their name). If it's not in the application, then nobody could possibly want it, and if it is, then nobody could possibly want it differently.
As someone who's been using Macs for more years than most current Apple employees have been employed at Apple, I can tell you there are always things to love to hate. However, the mindset among people like me is different from the Apple passivists, the Linux tweakers and the Windows powerusers -- When you look at Apple products as "they've packed all sorts of potential in, and then coated it with a 'don't scratch this' exterior," you start to see how you can reclaim the device for yourself. I don't tend to use a lot of Apple add-on software; having a BSD background, I DO tend to tweak the underlying systems a lot. I've also modified my share of Apple motherboards (to add components I then write drivers for, tweak functionality, etc).
In sort, if you get the response of "Why would you want to do that?" the question is either legitimate (so that you can be pointed to the best method of doing what you want) or you're asking the wrong people.
The bits I still haven't bothered fixing are global paste middleclick (there's a third party solution for that), fixing power management security, and re-jigging the way iCloud works with my local keychains so that I'm the one in final control of my data and security, not Apple.
These things can be done though, I just haven't found them worth the effort (I've been command-c/v/xing since the Apple ][ days, long before working in X with a mouse).
Exactly. And that ignores the fact that it's a 15-minute (or longer) process to get the battery out of an iPhone. If you were going to get your phone wet, and then immediately try to stop the damage, you'd do better to have a bag of rice on hand to drop it into.
Indeed... I've actually (successfully) pulled this trick. Just don't touch the buttons on the device, even to turn it off, prior to the rice trick. One device where I pressed the buttons was bricked because of it (even though I was attempting to turn it off) -- one device I've tried it on, as soon as I realized it was dunked, it went in a bag of rice for 3 days. THEN it got taken apart to ensure there weren't hidden pockets of water. THEN reassembled, recharged, and turned on.
If you start fiddling with screws on a wet electronics device, you're, well, screwed. You're more likely to let water IN to where it's not supposed to be than to keep it OUT.
Right, because switching to pentalobe stopped how many people from taking apart an iPhone?
Wouldn't the answer be anyone who didn't have a pentalobe screwdriver? It doesn't permanently prevent anyone determined to get inside an iPhone as they can just buy one of these screwdrivers as they are not in a normal set.
If you think Apple chose pentalobe (which has been a standard screw type available my entire life) to stop people from opening up their case to replace the soldered in battery, you're just a moron.
No I think that Apple is betting on human nature. The more steps you put into a procedure the less likely the average person will complete the procedure. It's the same reason why syncing an iPhone/iPod is one step: plug in the cable. Now it doesn't take a genius to complete a second step like clicking on a "Sync" button. However that extra step discourages people.
I bought an iPod years ago to hold my entire music collection. My brother bought a Dell model. At the time, he was boasting the superiority of his device. Two years later I was still using my iPod. He kept his in a drawer. It was too much of a hassle to keep it updated, he said.
A normal set of screwdrivers doesn't include a Jeweler's size 2 Philip's head driver. You need to get a custom set to get it. However, the pentagram set that came with my drill/driver set handles pentalobular screws just fine. Sure, it doesn't fit all along the outside edge, but the interior angles line up, which gives more than enough torque.
Then again, I've used a few sizes of slotted head drivers to take apart everything for years; even used them to take apart a Mac Plus (Torx) back in the day to fix the infamous solder issue (they used cold solder on stress points on a fanless PC). Slotted drivers have the benefit of also being able to break traces on circuit boards when needed, slice through wiring, and do just about anything else you want -- assuming they're properly hardened. Been using the same set for the last 20 years (my previous sets weren't properly hardened, and I kept chipping them).
It sounds like you are only with one type, chain cuffs. They were popular for a few decades. They could be opened with a wire while wearing them,especially if not double locked.
Most cuffs before and since don't have the chain in the middle, so if applied correctly it's nearly impossible to TOUCH the keyhole, much less pick it. If you can get the sound your butt and legs, you might be able to learn to pick them while holding the pick in your mouth.
If I wasn't already in this thread, I'd moderate you up:)
Using encryption and TOR guarantees the NSA is archiving your data (as they can't be sure you're a US citizen), and TOR, while great at onion routing, doesn't offer privacy from the likes of the NSA (read the TOR website details -- they explicitly state this). TOR offers privacy from realtime packet analysis, not from Big Data graphing analysis (although it does make that more difficult).
Yea well, if the NSA doesn't have a positive ID on you (and they don't try very hard) you get the foreigner rules applied to you.
Enjoy.
Plus, I take it from GP's stance that you don't mind at all if foreigners (most of the world) are spying on you, even if that involves foreign intelligence agencies sharing such wide-net intel with the FBI, Customs, and Secret Service (or Homeland Security) on request.
So even if you aren't considered a foreigner due to them not being able to guarantee you're actually a US citizen, this is still a bad precedent to set.
Thus, the faggotry that inspires the name of many OSS projects
Do you realize that you use of the term 'faggotry', particularly in relation to totally irrelevant matters like OSS, is a sure sign that you are gay, but repressed? You really need to work with suitable professionals toward being 'out and proud' instead of 'repressed and bigoted'.
Well, it's also possible that he's inferring the GGP spent too much time on smoke breaks and not enough applying himself.
Which brings me to another point: it seems like the original poster in this thread (and the "name sounds gay" commenters) like names that sound American or are acronyms. If the name sounds Indian or African (and most of the OSS names mentioned are one or the other) then it sounds "gay".
These are the same people who groused about Nintendo for the Wii. My guess is that to most of the computer-using world, software names like "Windows" sound significantly odder (and are more unpronouncable) than names like Daala.
That said, I doubt most people will ever see this name, just as most never see Theora anywhere, but (might) know what an MKV is.
to figure out a route between what I want to say and my speech centers
Interestingly, some studies have found that at least some of the time, you actually say things before you create the "memory" that you want to -- your brain then constructs the memory that you intended to say that after the fact. Spooky stuff.
However, something else that I'm curious about is this: it's known that male and female brains, while sharing the same generic topography, are actually significantly different, both in use of grey and white matter,, and in density of neurons in various areas and development of various areas.
So, while this will tell us a lot about the female brain, are they planning to do the same thing for the male brain so we have better understanding about similarities and differences at this level? Because without a larger and distributed sample set, even with the immense amount of data they've retrieved, only a tiny fraction of it will be useful for anything more than the most general of studies about the physical brain.
No one gives a fuck. Seriously. So the boy was a loon who fragged himself. Is that any reason to rewrite laws and honor the bitch? I don't think so. Give me one good reason to honor this lump of shit besides the fact that your wittle head hurts from all the emotional pain.
Go fuck yourself.
I see our Anonymous Coward has some emotional (and grammatical) issues to work through. Believe it or not, most adults actually care about other people. Those who don't tend to end up with deep-rooted emotional issues that dog (not bitch) them for the rest of their lives.
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I'm wondering why the recruiters didn't stop right there and wait for a question within the context of their purpose for being on the campus. I know college is a place to explore and have liberal discussion, but this looks like the childish behavior I'd expect when reading article comments on CNN.
This is why the government seems secretive and not forthcoming with information. The media just tries to tear apart anything said and puts people that have no business of being on the record for an event they have nothing to do with in the public eye. There recruiters were not upper level decision makers, just folks trying to do their job.
All well and good, but their job was recruitment for an agency currently in the public spotlight for behaving illegally and then lying to Congress about it. If the recruiters are unwilling to deal with that as part of recruitment, they'd be better off to pack up and go home until this fiasco blows over. As it was, being part of the public face of the NSA, they actually ended up making the NSA's image worse instead of better.
And yes, recruitment is tied to marketing -- the NSA should have handled this better and never allowed the recruiters on to the campus without some situational training they obviously never received.
Is a LOT easier to hire a fanatic, if you can promise him (usually male, not always) a pile of money for the family afterwards.
You can promise him anything you want -- afterwards he'll be dead and can't really do anything to ensure to stick to your promises. Or are we talking about principled fanatic terrorists here?
Much simpler explanation: it's parents codling their sons. Says as much right in the summary: they live in their parent's house. You can't stay holed up in a single room unless you're being supported or have taken serious preparations. The parents are supporting the hermits and have been over sheltering of them to get them to that point. It's hardly a mystery. "Why are they refusing to leave their rooms?" Because they're weak and are being allowed to. Stop feeding them. They will find the strength within themselves to put on clothing and walk outside of their room.
From the summary:
age of hikikomori also seems to have risen over the last two decades. Before it was 21 — now it is 32
So in 20 years, the age has risen 11 years -- what that says is that in the last 20 years, many of those same individuals continued to stay where they were.
Unfortunately, in Japanese society, I think that if some of these people stopped being fed, they'd just starve. The issue here is a collision of cultures resulting in social contradictions that can't be adequately dealt with in all situations -- so some people consciously or subconsciously choose to avoid these interactions altogether. You see this in North America too, on a much lower volume -- but because of cultural differences, it more often manifests as suicide, antisocial behaviour and criminal activity.
So another set of data to look at might be: what is the average age of a minor offender serving time in jail? My guess is we'd have a similar demographic; 21-32 year old males holed up in rooms provided by the state.
It's different, IMO, since it's part of the site. It's the difference between going to a concert and the band selling CD's, and going to a concert and the band painting a Wal-Mart logo on the stage.
More like the ticket takers selling attendance stats to Wal-Mart while handing out serialized flyers as people come in the door.
Indeed; if there is other more intelligent life out there that has achieved "interstellar travel" (if this even means anything significant to them), they likely aren't carbon-based homonids with a penchant for enslavement of weaker physical beings.
Hey... for all we know, we're (as a planet or possibly solar system or galaxy) already the equivalent to a gut bacterium to some other higher conscious being out there....
Clearly, Pluto.
Oh, is it a planet again this week?
I wonder how much of the information the US collected was industrial intelligence and found it's way to companies like Boeing?
Just remember: any intelligence collected by the US is known by China too :)
-Explains why I didn't bat an eye when I read "Boeing" as "Bejing"
Jury selection for his trial might be interesting though. There's enough people that think he's a hero that it would be virtually guaranteed some of them would be called. Some of them might actually be inspired to stick their own neck out and say whatever's necessary to get on the jury and vote not guilty.
That's assuming he's not just shuffled off to Gitmo and never heard from again, of course.
Actually, the truth would be trickier than that... the government would just delay his trial until they were confident that the majority of people who fit the "jury duty" demographic in the area where he'd be tried would consider him a traitor. One thing that politicians have learned over the past few decades is how to take advantage of demographic manipulation. Without an equal opposing force (the defense being allowed to delay/accelerate jury selection until a favorable time), the government really does hold the power in this situation.
See, when there's a crime against The People, the government usually does a good job of representing The People. However, when there's a crime against The Government (whose outcome could end up implicating people in said government), they make a really bad prosecutor, despite the separation of governing bodies that's supposed to prevent this sort of situation.
Legitimacy is given by the people
Right, and you know who ratified the Constitution? The People. If the authority isn't specifically listed in the Constitution, the people have not consented, and the authority is not legitimate.
I see an eerie resemblance between this argument and that of morality/ethics with Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians....
s/People/God/g
s/Consitution/Bible/g
s/Elect/Inspire/g
We're beginning to have a schism between fundamentalist constitutionalists and catholic (lower-"c") traditionalists in the US....
Its almost like the discussion about having DRM support in HTML 5 was for real-world practical reasons, rather than just killing puppies and taking your freedom.
Its better than flash and silverlight because this could become standard if everyone takes their head out of the sand and accepts that HTML5 video needs DRM support to be attractive to the people selling video.
FTFY.
Interestingly, the times when I've watched stuff on NetFlix, about half of it has been stuff by people who are against DRM (but can't distribute via NetFlix without it).
Networking? It gets really difficult when the people you know have retired, died or in one way or another moved on. Reality is a lot of younger people can be really insecure and hiring an older more experienced person can be threatening. How will the older individual take instruction from a much younger person, how out of date is the older persons knowledge and how long will they last.
So age as in really aged will be troublesome. Alternate marketing is required, you come from an age and developed your skills when no or only limited mobile phone available. Hence you are more focused, you are better a direct personal interactions, greater loyalty to your company (as long as your record proves that), greater focus on integrity and workmanship and yet you have kept up to date.
Be more creative with your application and promote the benefits of a more experienced hire. When it comes to the resume make sure the introductory letter, points out the benefits of a senior hire and how it will specifically benefit the company (in the letter mention some gleaned details of the companies needs, customer base etc. and how you would benefit them). Rather than a generic application, target your application to the specific company, do the research. Your application exude mature self confidence with being arrogant.
The target is to get them to give you a shot, what can it hurt it's just another interview.
While I agree with parts of this, I have to say... if your network has all died or moved on... what have you been doing for most of your life? "Networking" doesn't mean hanging around with the guys your age who do what you do... it means continually building relationships with those who share common interests (and to find those people, you have to be sociable with EVERYONE). The people I network with span a 70-year age range, multiple genders, many nationalities and languages. Some I network with in-person; some online, some via work, some via hobbies, etc. A network is not something you start building when you reach the age of 55 and are looking for work; it's something you start building when you're around 3 years old, and build for the rest of your life... and if you're smart, it doesn't limit itself.
Many of the great networking successes I've had have been when stumbling across people who had "moved on" and hadn't been part of my active network for 10 years or so -- in a few cases it's been a case of connecting with the children of people I once knew.
A network never "moves on" -- it just grows. Even dead people in your network can be useful leverage if they talked about you when they were alive.
This is interesting, as it raises one of the issues that I had to wrestle with as I got older: networking vs. anonymity. Since the early 90's, I've made it a habit to separate my offline life from what goes on the Internet. However, you get to this point where you've been without work for 9 months, and you see all of those networking opportunities you've built up over the years.... I like to think that there's still not much correlation online about me, but I can attribute more than one contract to saying "oh yeah; I'm the person who goes by that handle on that forum".
Try to keep a balance, but use your online networks when useful. Just remember to think about the future and how that knowledge could be abused down the road.
3.) Network. You're likely to get your best paying gigs as contractor/consultant via people who know you. One of the things you tend to get along with the accomplishments and gray hairs is a long network of contacts, people you know, etc. Another benefit is that if you revisit people you worked with early in your career, you'll find that many of them are managers now, and have the power to make hiring decisions (including designing a job around your specific capabilities). It doesn't always work -- I once had a job custom designed for me, and then HR stepped in and killed it (due to interdepartmental politics), but these things often work out quite well. As an Old Guy (TM), never try the cold call, or submitting your resume as the first thing you do. Get in via contacts.
http://gizmodo.com/the-surest-sign-yet-that-apple-tv-will-be-a-gaming-cons-513191654
Voters are idiots
Are you saying you don't vote, or that you are an idiot?
In Australia, it's illegal not to vote. So you're either a voter or a criminal (I guess at one point in AU history, most people were probably both).
We *won* a Macbook a few years ago - got it for free - so I figured I couldn't go wrong . . . and so many things are wrong, all the time. My wife uses it for iPhoto, and that's about it.
I encountered exactly the same "Why would you want to do that?" responses to *any* question I asked of Apple support or the company making the one accessory I was foolish enough to buy (won't even dignify them by adding their name). If it's not in the application, then nobody could possibly want it, and if it is, then nobody could possibly want it differently.
As someone who's been using Macs for more years than most current Apple employees have been employed at Apple, I can tell you there are always things to love to hate. However, the mindset among people like me is different from the Apple passivists, the Linux tweakers and the Windows powerusers -- When you look at Apple products as "they've packed all sorts of potential in, and then coated it with a 'don't scratch this' exterior," you start to see how you can reclaim the device for yourself. I don't tend to use a lot of Apple add-on software; having a BSD background, I DO tend to tweak the underlying systems a lot. I've also modified my share of Apple motherboards (to add components I then write drivers for, tweak functionality, etc).
In sort, if you get the response of "Why would you want to do that?" the question is either legitimate (so that you can be pointed to the best method of doing what you want) or you're asking the wrong people.
The bits I still haven't bothered fixing are global paste middleclick (there's a third party solution for that), fixing power management security, and re-jigging the way iCloud works with my local keychains so that I'm the one in final control of my data and security, not Apple.
These things can be done though, I just haven't found them worth the effort (I've been command-c/v/xing since the Apple ][ days, long before working in X with a mouse).
You're principals are fucking retarded
OK, I'm not usually one to play the pedant, but wow.
Now for an unpacking of that phrase...
"You are multiple chief administrators of an education facility are having sexual intercourse delayed."
[/asshat pedantry]
Exactly. And that ignores the fact that it's a 15-minute (or longer) process to get the battery out of an iPhone.
If you were going to get your phone wet, and then immediately try to stop the damage, you'd do better to have a bag of rice on hand to drop it into.
Indeed... I've actually (successfully) pulled this trick. Just don't touch the buttons on the device, even to turn it off, prior to the rice trick. One device where I pressed the buttons was bricked because of it (even though I was attempting to turn it off) -- one device I've tried it on, as soon as I realized it was dunked, it went in a bag of rice for 3 days. THEN it got taken apart to ensure there weren't hidden pockets of water. THEN reassembled, recharged, and turned on.
If you start fiddling with screws on a wet electronics device, you're, well, screwed. You're more likely to let water IN to where it's not supposed to be than to keep it OUT.
Right, because switching to pentalobe stopped how many people from taking apart an iPhone?
Wouldn't the answer be anyone who didn't have a pentalobe screwdriver? It doesn't permanently prevent anyone determined to get inside an iPhone as they can just buy one of these screwdrivers as they are not in a normal set.
If you think Apple chose pentalobe (which has been a standard screw type available my entire life) to stop people from opening up their case to replace the soldered in battery, you're just a moron.
No I think that Apple is betting on human nature. The more steps you put into a procedure the less likely the average person will complete the procedure. It's the same reason why syncing an iPhone/iPod is one step: plug in the cable. Now it doesn't take a genius to complete a second step like clicking on a "Sync" button. However that extra step discourages people.
I bought an iPod years ago to hold my entire music collection. My brother bought a Dell model. At the time, he was boasting the superiority of his device. Two years later I was still using my iPod. He kept his in a drawer. It was too much of a hassle to keep it updated, he said.
A normal set of screwdrivers doesn't include a Jeweler's size 2 Philip's head driver. You need to get a custom set to get it.
However, the pentagram set that came with my drill/driver set handles pentalobular screws just fine. Sure, it doesn't fit all along the outside edge, but the interior angles line up, which gives more than enough torque.
Then again, I've used a few sizes of slotted head drivers to take apart everything for years; even used them to take apart a Mac Plus (Torx) back in the day to fix the infamous solder issue (they used cold solder on stress points on a fanless PC). Slotted drivers have the benefit of also being able to break traces on circuit boards when needed, slice through wiring, and do just about anything else you want -- assuming they're properly hardened. Been using the same set for the last 20 years (my previous sets weren't properly hardened, and I kept chipping them).
It sounds like you are only with one type, chain cuffs. They were popular for a few decades.
They could be opened with a wire while wearing them,especially if not double locked.
Most cuffs before and since don't have the chain in the middle, so if applied correctly it's nearly impossible to TOUCH the keyhole, much less pick it. If you can get the sound your butt and legs, you might be able to learn to pick them while holding the pick in your mouth.
I sure hope you typed that on an iPhone...
If I wasn't already in this thread, I'd moderate you up :)
Using encryption and TOR guarantees the NSA is archiving your data (as they can't be sure you're a US citizen), and TOR, while great at onion routing, doesn't offer privacy from the likes of the NSA (read the TOR website details -- they explicitly state this). TOR offers privacy from realtime packet analysis, not from Big Data graphing analysis (although it does make that more difficult).
Yea well, if the NSA doesn't have a positive ID on you (and they don't try very hard) you get the foreigner rules applied to you.
Enjoy.
Plus, I take it from GP's stance that you don't mind at all if foreigners (most of the world) are spying on you, even if that involves foreign intelligence agencies sharing such wide-net intel with the FBI, Customs, and Secret Service (or Homeland Security) on request.
So even if you aren't considered a foreigner due to them not being able to guarantee you're actually a US citizen, this is still a bad precedent to set.
Thus, the faggotry that inspires the name of many OSS projects
Do you realize that you use of the term 'faggotry', particularly in relation to totally irrelevant matters like OSS, is a sure sign that you are gay, but repressed? You really need to work with suitable professionals toward being 'out and proud' instead of 'repressed and bigoted'.
Well, it's also possible that he's inferring the GGP spent too much time on smoke breaks and not enough applying himself.
Which brings me to another point: it seems like the original poster in this thread (and the "name sounds gay" commenters) like names that sound American or are acronyms. If the name sounds Indian or African (and most of the OSS names mentioned are one or the other) then it sounds "gay".
These are the same people who groused about Nintendo for the Wii. My guess is that to most of the computer-using world, software names like "Windows" sound significantly odder (and are more unpronouncable) than names like Daala.
That said, I doubt most people will ever see this name, just as most never see Theora anywhere, but (might) know what an MKV is.
to figure out a route between what I want to say and my speech centers
Interestingly, some studies have found that at least some of the time, you actually say things before you create the "memory" that you want to -- your brain then constructs the memory that you intended to say that after the fact. Spooky stuff.
However, something else that I'm curious about is this: it's known that male and female brains, while sharing the same generic topography, are actually significantly different, both in use of grey and white matter,, and in density of neurons in various areas and development of various areas.
So, while this will tell us a lot about the female brain, are they planning to do the same thing for the male brain so we have better understanding about similarities and differences at this level? Because without a larger and distributed sample set, even with the immense amount of data they've retrieved, only a tiny fraction of it will be useful for anything more than the most general of studies about the physical brain.
No one gives a fuck. Seriously. So the boy was a loon who fragged himself. Is that any reason to rewrite laws and honor the bitch? I don't think so. Give me one good reason to honor this lump of shit besides the fact that your wittle head hurts from all the emotional pain.
Go fuck yourself.
I see our Anonymous Coward has some emotional (and grammatical) issues to work through. Believe it or not, most adults actually care about other people. Those who don't tend to end up with deep-rooted emotional issues that dog (not bitch) them for the rest of their lives.