This ad promoted a coloring book called "Buff Bernie," filled with "very attractive doodles of Bernie Sanders in muscle poses." It added that "I've recently heard some hateful comments from the Hillary supporters about Bernie Sanders and his supporters" - language aimed at stirring up the kinds of intra-party divisions that would later flare after the first release of Russian-hacked Democratic Party documents during the summer of 2016.
Posted on: LBGT United group on Facebook Created: March 2016 Targeted: People ages 18 to 65+ in the United States who like "LGBT United" Results: 848 impressions, 54 clicks Ad spend: 111.49 rubles ($1.92)
Whoever did paid for that ad to try to influence a US election didn't care about their job.
Likely the GPS and comms would immediately be jammed and they'd be entirely dependent on local processing which is not a good thing
From what I can understand the US has GPS dependent weapons and GPS independent ones.
The GPS independent weapons are for fighting a technologically capable opponents - Russia or China.
The GPS dependent ones are for fighting a non technologically capable opponent. However the thing is there are a lot of non capable opponents - Iraq for example. Serbia wasn't really technologically capable either - they had one radar operator who was competent and bagged a F-117, but that competence was not the norm. Obviously ISIS and the Taliban were not at all technologically competent
I'd say Russia, China, France and the UK would all be able to jam GPS. But GPS jamming is not all that common. And you've alway got inertial navigation and terrain following TERCOM to fall back on.
Shaped charge warheads are small and light and you could imagine building a drone which is just large enough to carry one which could knock out an MBT.
That's a 450 KG bomb.
No it's not - the small and light link I posted links to Sidney Alford demonstrating a Coke can sized shaped charge. If your drones are set up to ram an armoured target such a weapon would be viable. It's probably less than a kilo..
For large drones, a ZSU (23 mm) is fine. Especially if it's mounted on an auto-tracking turret.
I imagine these things flying very close to the terrain and popping up to attack a ZSU. And you could swarm it from multiple directions simultaneously. Basically spam it with drones until one gets it.
Actually, stopping drones are quite easy, just flood the area with your own drones
Russia or China could do that. So could France or the UK. But fighting those means you're screwed anyway. This is aimed at something like the attack on Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
The US shouldn't attack Assad for a whole variety of reasons but even though Assad's Syria is not technologically capable place, it is backed by Russia and Iran. Russia is technologically capable and Iran shouldn't be underestimated either.
But Saddam's Iraq and the Taliban didn't have a technologically capable protector state and they'd be very vulnerable.
Koreans are not stupid but North Korea has a completely crippled economy so it couldn't produce vast numbers of drones to stop US ones. It would have to buy them from China. So North Korea would be vulnerable. Of course in the long run China would no doubt help the regime because it needs NK as a buffer state and a proxy. But if the US was able to topple the regime quickly I think China would grumble a bit but accepted a unified Korea under South Korean control, probably provided US troops didn't go north of the old DMZ.
Swarming the NK's artillery and ballistic missiles capable of attacking Seoul with drones seems to be worth investigating.
I linked to the SFW. The difference between what I'm proposing and in the CBU-97 dispenses BLU-108s which then dispense the skeets. The limitation is that the skeets are not powered - they travel for a short distance and then either find a target or self destruct. A CBU-97 is designed to be dropped on top of an armoured convoy which it then devastates.
In my scheme I basically want to put a warhead on something the size of remote controlled aircraft. That would fly around until it found a target, ram the target and detonate its warhead. The idea being that you could launch them en masse outside a country's airspace. They'd then fly in under their own power and head for a set of GPS coordinates. Once there they'd prowl around looking for a suitable target.
You could add in lots of stuff - GPS, INS and object recognition. Maybe a data link to retarget them or get back video. You'd want the drones to have a decent ability to prowl for a while before they self destruct. Then again you could imagine ones that could work out when they were running low on fuel and head back to a carrier lurking off the coast to refuel.
With somewhere like North Korea you could fill their skies with drones that would destroy any military equipment that was out in the open. And it wouldn't really matter if the Norks shot a few down in the early days of the campaign. By the end of it they wouldn't have anything to shoot with.
I've always wondered what would happen if you dropped a bunch of tank seeking drones with a shaped charge warhead. Shaped charge warheads are small and light and you could imagine building a drone which is just large enough to carry one which could knock out an MBT.
Something like a B-52 could carry hundreds of them. A dedicated launch platform could carry thousands. And each one could be told which GPS coordinates to head to and use image recognition like the sensor fuzed weapon to find military targets - tanks, anti aircraft systems, APCs etc.
And they could fly low enough to hard to track with radar. And fast and erratic enough that they'd be hard to knock out with ZSU type guns.
So you'd unload them outside the country's airspace and they'd fly to their targets and nail anything which was on the target list.
Some would get shot down of course but if you kept unloading B-52 loads of them programmed to destroy anti aircraft systems they'd eventually destroy the air defence systems of a country. And a lot of other stuff too - all the tanks and fuel dumps for example.
And then of course more valuable aircraft could be sent in to destroy everything else.
If an air defence system is an immune system, these things would be like HIV viruses. You could probably make them really cheap too - somewhere between the price of a civilian drones and a JDAM.
These drones literally grown on trees, which is how the Russian separatists were able to get hold of so many of them without needing to get them from the regular Russian army.
I just assumed you guys were better organised. Personally I have a phone conference every day for the Vast Righwing Conspiracy. So Vladimir Putin gives a report on his international electoral outreach operations. Whoever is in charge of Fox News that week explains how they're reforming that narrative. The Koch Brothers explain how they're funding right wing think tanks. James O'Keefe talks about how he sows mistrust in the public mind when it comes CNN/WashPo/NYT etc. We all have a chat about talking points and so on.
The tipping point for quantum computers is around 30 qubits
[Citation needed]
Some chap from IBM told me you need lots of bits for Shor's algorithm - at least the length of the key and quite possible several times more for quantum error correction.
Looking at Slashdot's Let's Encrypt certificate it has an RSA key size of 2048 bits. So you need 2048*n
E.g. if you did need to have 2x as many bits for error correction n is 2. Of course it might be you don't need error correction and some clever algorithm might let you crack the 2048 bits in two runs of 1024 bits each. In which case n is 0.5.
Mind you the conversation went like this (we met at an IBM stall at an exhibition where they had a few qubit devices on show)
Me : So have you managed to crack RSA with Shor's algorithm Him : [Long explanation of the need for quantum error correction and why n greater than one and probably much greater than one].
I still suspected that n is less than or equal to one and they've done it but they're not allowed to tell people.
E.g. if you'd talked to someone from Bletchley Park they'd explain why Enigma would take much more time to crack than a naive layman's estimation even though they'd know it was actually easier because of automation and cryptographic advances.
Patrick Curry says Tolkien is "hostile to industrialism", linking this to the widespread urban development that took place in the West Midlands where Tolkien grew up in the first decades of the 20th century. He identifies Saruman as one of the key examples given in the book of the evil effects of industrialization, and by extension imperialism. Shippey notes that Saruman's name repeats this view of technology: in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon used by Tolkien to represent the Language of Rohan in the book, the root word searu means "clever", "skillful" or "ingenious" and has associations with both technology and treachery that are fitting for Tolkien's portrayal of Saruman, the "cunning man". He also writes of Saruman's distinctively modern association with Communism in the way the Shire is run under his control: goods are taken "for fair distribution" which, since they are mainly never seen again, Shippey terms an unusually modern piece of hypocrisy in the way evil presents itself in Middle-earth.
It seems to me that Denton, as Democrat and city dweller has much on common with Saruman.
Also if you read Emily Gould's piece it's striking how the Gawker people all seem to betray their friends.
Not surprisingly Gould has often found herself alienating the people who are closest to her. A former boyfriend went public in the New York Post, penning a critical piece about the way she published details of their relationship on her secret(ish) blog, Heartbreak Soup. After her memoir, And the Heart Says Whatever, was published in 2010, her family, stung by the way she characterised her parents' relationship, stopped talking to her for a time. Even her best friend, Ruth Curry, took umbrage at the depiction of Bev, one of the two central characters in her recently published debut novel, Friendship (they are still close, but Gould says that Curry trusts her less).
Emily Gould was the Gawker Orcer who was sent out to explain the indefensible Gawker Stalker on Jimmy Kimmel and got shredded.
Emily Gould isn't doing that well now - she left Gawker "exhausted by the emotional comeuppance of 'being shady, insulting and two-faced'" and now complains she's only making $17,000 a year.
I.e. all these NYC leftists seem to hate each other. It's this sort lack of lack of discipline and team solidarity that led to Saruman's downfall at the hands of Grima Wormtongue after he tried to blame him for the damage done to The Shire.
Jurors at Hulk Hogan's invasion-of-privacy trial heard Friday how former top Gawker editor Albert "A.J." Daulerio - who put the infamous Hogan sex tape online - also posted video of the young woman engaged in sex in a bathroom stall at a Bloomington, Ind., sports bar in May 2010.
Days later, the woman wrote Gawker, begging that the video be taken down from its sports-themed Deadspin Website, according to e-mails read in court by Hogan lawyer Shane Vogt.
"I am the girl in it and it was stolen from me and put up without my permission," the unidentified woman wrote on May 11, 2010.
Gawker's complaint department forwarded the message to Daulerio, along with a note saying, "Blah, blah, blah," Vogt said.
Daulerio then e-mailed the woman and told her to "not make a big deal out of this," adding: "I'm sure it's embarrassing but these things do pass, keep your head up."
Then-company lawyer Gaby Darbyshire also e-mailed the woman, defending the video as "completely newsworthy" and scolding her about how "one's actions can have unintended consequences."
But Gawker reversed itself the next day and removed the entire posting, with Daulerio later admitting to GQ magazine he had regrets because the video "wasn't funny" and "was possibly rape."
Three women and one man on the six-member jury scribbled notes about the e-mail exchanges, with the man sternly peering over his glasses at Daulerio, 41, a co-defendant in the Hogan case.
An expert witness appearing for Hogan also testified that Gawker boosted its corporate value as much as $15.5 million by posting the hidden-camera sex recording of the pro wrestling legend.
Jeff Anderson, director of valuation and analytics at Consor Intellectual Asset Management, said 5.4 million people viewed the Hogan tape at Gawker between October 2012 and April 2013, resulting in a 28.5 percent spike in traffic to the site.
Awful people. And look at Daulerio's expression in the picture - he knows both he and his employer are screwed.
I bet whoever steps in to replace Gawker will realise if a judge orders them to take down sex tape, they either comply or get bankrupted when the person in the sex tape sues.
Funnily enough when people refused to take down Jennifer Lawrence's leaked nudes Jezebel denounced them, even though they'd previously drawn everyone's attention to the leak. Jezebel was owned by Gawker media. Meanwhile Gawker decided to keeping up a leaked sex tape of Hulk Hogan in defiance of a court order was the hill they'd die on. Quite literally - Hogan sued them and that ended Gawker.
Who'd have thought that contempt of court could turn the judiciary against you and get you nailed for crippling damages when someone whose privacy your tabloid bullshit has violated sues you?
It's like in C++ when you're trying not to break back compatibility - you can add interfaces, and you can add methods to interfaces but you can't delete interfaces or delete methods from interfaces.
That's how Symbian's binary compatibility worked. Now Symbian had a bunch of other fatal illnesses which eventually killed it, but a lack of interface immutability within a release wasn't one of them.
Their inferior minds will cause deadlines to be missed! Contracts to be lost, Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Even under Net Neutrality Wheeler said that zero rating was fine. Though he also said it might not be fine of they changed it in the future under the 'general conduct rule'.
Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler said Thursday (Nov. 19) he thought T-Mobile's Binge On zero rating plan was the sort of highly innovative approach the FCC's new network neutrality rules were predicted to thwart, but clearly didn't.
Wheeler, in a press conference following the FCC's November meeting, appeared to endorse the Binge On offering, calling it pro-competitive and innovative. "It is clear in the Open Internet order that we are pro-competition and pro-innovation and clearly, this meets both of those criteria," he said. "It is highly innovative and highly competitive."
He then said that it appeared the plan does not violate the bright-line no paid prioritization rule, but took something off the endorsement.
He said the FCC would keep an eye on Binge On per the general conduct standard in those new open Internet rules, which allows the FCC to look at such business models on a case-by-case basis.
That rule, he elaborated, says a carrier "should not unreasonably interfere with the access to someone who is trying to get to an edge provider and an edge provider who is trying to get to a consumer. So, what we are going to be doing is watching Binge On, keeping and eye on it, and measure it against the general conduct rule."
"The Commission staff is working to make sure it understands the new offering," said FCC director of Media Relations Shannon Gilson, of Binge On following the chairman's press conference.
Binge On is a zero rating plan in which video streaming services including Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu do not count against data allowances.
Commissioner Ajit Pai said following that statement that nobody still knows whether Binge On will pass muster under the general conduct standard. "I don't think it should give any company comfort to know that the state of the law is so unsettled."
Pai said following Wheeler's qualified endorsement that the question remained: "Does T-Mobile's Binge On and any other offerings like it violate the net neutrality order." He said that under the Internet conduct standard nobody can get certainty, which he suggested was illustrated by Wheeler's statement that is was pro-competitive, followed by the signal that it still needed to be vetted under that general conduct standard.
Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said that if someone was looking for a blessing, the chairman appeared to have given it. "someone is looking for a blessing and everyone is kind of holding their breath waiting for a decision. It wasn't an official issuance by the General Counsel's office or the Enforcement Bureau, but they just got the blessing they were seeking and I imagine now we are going to see a lot more offerings like it."
But he also said that holding up those innovative offerings for a moment like the chairman's statement was just the sort of problem he had pointed to with the general conduct standard.
"Tom Wheeler's comments regarding T-Mobile's new BingeOn zero-rating plan calls to mind the good familiar cop/bad cop routine," said Randolph May, president of free market think tank, the Free State Foundation. "On the one hand, Wheeler's statement that the plan is pro-competitive and innovative is commendable. On the other hand, his further elaboration that the FCC will monitor the T-Mobile plan for compliance with the Open Internet Order's 'good conduct' rule is disturbing. This is because the vague 'good conduct' standard means anything that Wheeler's Enforcement Bureau says it means on any given day."
The EFF had concerns about the vagueness of the 'general conduct rule' too
Even if you have a local version control system you still need to merge changes from upstream if you want to upgrade the environment to the latest version - e.g. to get security patches. And traditionally you need to merge the mainline into your local copy and then lock the mainline and merge back - basically it means that if the mainline has changed in an incompatible way you resolve that in your branch or local copy before merging back. In Clearcase terms you don't merge back to the mainline until the merge is 'trivial' - i.e. only one set of changes.
At least that's what happens with C/C++ projects with Clearcase/git/svn.
Then again this is NodeJS. Maybe people don't ever upgrade to the latest version because there aren't any security patches and the latest version is alway so incompatible you're better off starting from scratch. And maybe they don't bother to cache anything either. And nor do they ever merge anything back to the mainline.
Yeah, if more people realised why 'published interfaces are immutable' is such an important rule you wouldn't need to spend ages cleaning up when a screwup like this breaks your build environment when you do an update.
npm is "NodeJS package manager". NodeJS is run by sloppy hippies. Being sloppy hippies they deleted a user and that user's packages without checking if other packages used them. Because they're sloppy hippies.
True - they make you buy a Mac because they want to sell you a Mac. Nothing stops them doing a Windows or Linux port of their compiler and signing tool.
In fact they could get GCC to build and just document how to sign the binaries and people would write tools for Linux and Windows. Of course Apple being Apple they make you buy a Mac to run the signing tool.
Slashdot Mirror
He invented Reddit. Any digital afterlife he gets must be an eternity of suffering.
Maybe the Russian shills get paid in Bitcoin and perverse incentives cause them to shill for Bitcoin on company time to try to protect their nest egg.
That would explain why the people getting paid to spend Moscow Gold on Facebook ads only ended up spending a few bucks on some laughable awful ones.
https://www.politico.com/story...
'Buff Bernie' coloring book
This ad promoted a coloring book called "Buff Bernie," filled with "very attractive doodles of Bernie Sanders in muscle poses." It added that "I've recently heard some hateful comments from the Hillary supporters about Bernie Sanders and his supporters" - language aimed at stirring up the kinds of intra-party divisions that would later flare after the first release of Russian-hacked Democratic Party documents during the summer of 2016.
Posted on: LBGT United group on Facebook
Created: March 2016
Targeted: People ages 18 to 65+ in the United States who like "LGBT United"
Results: 848 impressions, 54 clicks
Ad spend: 111.49 rubles ($1.92)
Whoever did paid for that ad to try to influence a US election didn't care about their job.
Likely the GPS and comms would immediately be jammed and they'd be entirely dependent on local processing which is not a good thing
From what I can understand the US has GPS dependent weapons and GPS independent ones.
The GPS independent weapons are for fighting a technologically capable opponents - Russia or China.
The GPS dependent ones are for fighting a non technologically capable opponent. However the thing is there are a lot of non capable opponents - Iraq for example. Serbia wasn't really technologically capable either - they had one radar operator who was competent and bagged a F-117, but that competence was not the norm. Obviously ISIS and the Taliban were not at all technologically competent
I'd say Russia, China, France and the UK would all be able to jam GPS. But GPS jamming is not all that common. And you've alway got inertial navigation and terrain following TERCOM to fall back on.
Shaped charge warheads are small and light and you could imagine building a drone which is just large enough to carry one which could knock out an MBT.
That's a 450 KG bomb.
No it's not - the small and light link I posted links to Sidney Alford demonstrating a Coke can sized shaped charge. If your drones are set up to ram an armoured target such a weapon would be viable. It's probably less than a kilo..
For large drones, a ZSU (23 mm) is fine. Especially if it's mounted on an auto-tracking turret.
I imagine these things flying very close to the terrain and popping up to attack a ZSU. And you could swarm it from multiple directions simultaneously. Basically spam it with drones until one gets it.
Actually, stopping drones are quite easy, just flood the area with your own drones
Russia or China could do that. So could France or the UK. But fighting those means you're screwed anyway. This is aimed at something like the attack on Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
The US shouldn't attack Assad for a whole variety of reasons but even though Assad's Syria is not technologically capable place, it is backed by Russia and Iran. Russia is technologically capable and Iran shouldn't be underestimated either.
But Saddam's Iraq and the Taliban didn't have a technologically capable protector state and they'd be very vulnerable.
Koreans are not stupid but North Korea has a completely crippled economy so it couldn't produce vast numbers of drones to stop US ones. It would have to buy them from China. So North Korea would be vulnerable. Of course in the long run China would no doubt help the regime because it needs NK as a buffer state and a proxy. But if the US was able to topple the regime quickly I think China would grumble a bit but accepted a unified Korea under South Korean control, probably provided US troops didn't go north of the old DMZ.
Swarming the NK's artillery and ballistic missiles capable of attacking Seoul with drones seems to be worth investigating.
I linked to the SFW. The difference between what I'm proposing and in the CBU-97 dispenses BLU-108s which then dispense the skeets. The limitation is that the skeets are not powered - they travel for a short distance and then either find a target or self destruct. A CBU-97 is designed to be dropped on top of an armoured convoy which it then devastates.
In my scheme I basically want to put a warhead on something the size of remote controlled aircraft. That would fly around until it found a target, ram the target and detonate its warhead. The idea being that you could launch them en masse outside a country's airspace. They'd then fly in under their own power and head for a set of GPS coordinates. Once there they'd prowl around looking for a suitable target.
You could add in lots of stuff - GPS, INS and object recognition. Maybe a data link to retarget them or get back video. You'd want the drones to have a decent ability to prowl for a while before they self destruct. Then again you could imagine ones that could work out when they were running low on fuel and head back to a carrier lurking off the coast to refuel.
With somewhere like North Korea you could fill their skies with drones that would destroy any military equipment that was out in the open. And it wouldn't really matter if the Norks shot a few down in the early days of the campaign. By the end of it they wouldn't have anything to shoot with.
I think Hillary is working for Moloch - it explains her enthusiasm for abortion.
In fact the last US election was basically Kek vs Moloch. Luckily for the kiddies, Kek won.
https://imgur.com/a/3zMoD
I've always wondered what would happen if you dropped a bunch of tank seeking drones with a shaped charge warhead. Shaped charge warheads are small and light and you could imagine building a drone which is just large enough to carry one which could knock out an MBT.
Something like a B-52 could carry hundreds of them. A dedicated launch platform could carry thousands. And each one could be told which GPS coordinates to head to and use image recognition like the sensor fuzed weapon to find military targets - tanks, anti aircraft systems, APCs etc.
And they could fly low enough to hard to track with radar. And fast and erratic enough that they'd be hard to knock out with ZSU type guns.
So you'd unload them outside the country's airspace and they'd fly to their targets and nail anything which was on the target list.
Some would get shot down of course but if you kept unloading B-52 loads of them programmed to destroy anti aircraft systems they'd eventually destroy the air defence systems of a country. And a lot of other stuff too - all the tanks and fuel dumps for example.
And then of course more valuable aircraft could be sent in to destroy everything else.
If an air defence system is an immune system, these things would be like HIV viruses. You could probably make them really cheap too - somewhere between the price of a civilian drones and a JDAM.
These drones literally grown on trees, which is how the Russian separatists were able to get hold of so many of them without needing to get them from the regular Russian army.
I guess it must be the same in Syria too.
I just assumed you guys were better organised. Personally I have a phone conference every day for the Vast Righwing Conspiracy. So Vladimir Putin gives a report on his international electoral outreach operations. Whoever is in charge of Fox News that week explains how they're reforming that narrative. The Koch Brothers explain how they're funding right wing think tanks. James O'Keefe talks about how he sows mistrust in the public mind when it comes CNN/WashPo/NYT etc. We all have a chat about talking points and so on.
I just figured out it was the same for you guys.
Our only hope is that the robots get tired of looking at us meatbags and do us all in.
Let's just hope Skynet reads Reddit in its impressionable childhood years. It'll definitely nuke us then.
The tipping point for quantum computers is around 30 qubits
[Citation needed]
Some chap from IBM told me you need lots of bits for Shor's algorithm - at least the length of the key and quite possible several times more for quantum error correction.
Looking at Slashdot's Let's Encrypt certificate it has an RSA key size of 2048 bits. So you need 2048*n
E.g. if you did need to have 2x as many bits for error correction n is 2. Of course it might be you don't need error correction and some clever algorithm might let you crack the 2048 bits in two runs of 1024 bits each. In which case n is 0.5.
Mind you the conversation went like this (we met at an IBM stall at an exhibition where they had a few qubit devices on show)
Me : So have you managed to crack RSA with Shor's algorithm
Him : [Long explanation of the need for quantum error correction and why n greater than one and probably much greater than one].
I still suspected that n is less than or equal to one and they've done it but they're not allowed to tell people.
E.g. if you'd talked to someone from Bletchley Park they'd explain why Enigma would take much more time to crack than a naive layman's estimation even though they'd know it was actually easier because of automation and cryptographic advances.
Peter Thiel is an agent of the God Emperor, a Gandalf to Trump's Eru Ilúvatar.
In this analogy Nick Denton would be Saruman type figure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Patrick Curry says Tolkien is "hostile to industrialism", linking this to the widespread urban development that took place in the West Midlands where Tolkien grew up in the first decades of the 20th century. He identifies Saruman as one of the key examples given in the book of the evil effects of industrialization, and by extension imperialism. Shippey notes that Saruman's name repeats this view of technology: in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon used by Tolkien to represent the Language of Rohan in the book, the root word searu means "clever", "skillful" or "ingenious" and has associations with both technology and treachery that are fitting for Tolkien's portrayal of Saruman, the "cunning man". He also writes of Saruman's distinctively modern association with Communism in the way the Shire is run under his control: goods are taken "for fair distribution" which, since they are mainly never seen again, Shippey terms an unusually modern piece of hypocrisy in the way evil presents itself in Middle-earth.
It seems to me that Denton, as Democrat and city dweller has much on common with Saruman.
Also if you read Emily Gould's piece it's striking how the Gawker people all seem to betray their friends.
https://www.theguardian.com/me...
Not surprisingly Gould has often found herself alienating the people who are closest to her. A former boyfriend went public in the New York Post, penning a critical piece about the way she published details of their relationship on her secret(ish) blog, Heartbreak Soup. After her memoir, And the Heart Says Whatever, was published in 2010, her family, stung by the way she characterised her parents' relationship, stopped talking to her for a time. Even her best friend, Ruth Curry, took umbrage at the depiction of Bev, one of the two central characters in her recently published debut novel, Friendship (they are still close, but Gould says that Curry trusts her less).
Emily Gould was the Gawker Orcer who was sent out to explain the indefensible Gawker Stalker on Jimmy Kimmel and got shredded.
Emily Gould isn't doing that well now - she left Gawker "exhausted by the emotional comeuppance of 'being shady, insulting and two-faced'" and now complains she's only making $17,000 a year.
I.e. all these NYC leftists seem to hate each other. It's this sort lack of lack of discipline and team solidarity that led to Saruman's downfall at the hands of Grima Wormtongue after he tried to blame him for the damage done to The Shire.
https://nypost.com/2016/03/11/...
Jurors at Hulk Hogan's invasion-of-privacy trial heard Friday how former top Gawker editor Albert "A.J." Daulerio - who put the infamous Hogan sex tape online - also posted video of the young woman engaged in sex in a bathroom stall at a Bloomington, Ind., sports bar in May 2010.
Days later, the woman wrote Gawker, begging that the video be taken down from its sports-themed Deadspin Website, according to e-mails read in court by Hogan lawyer Shane Vogt.
"I am the girl in it and it was stolen from me and put up without my permission," the unidentified woman wrote on May 11, 2010.
Gawker's complaint department forwarded the message to Daulerio, along with a note saying, "Blah, blah, blah," Vogt said.
Daulerio then e-mailed the woman and told her to "not make a big deal out of this," adding: "I'm sure it's embarrassing but these things do pass, keep your head up."
Then-company lawyer Gaby Darbyshire also e-mailed the woman, defending the video as "completely newsworthy" and scolding her about how "one's actions can have unintended consequences."
But Gawker reversed itself the next day and removed the entire posting, with Daulerio later admitting to GQ magazine he had regrets because the video "wasn't funny" and "was possibly rape."
Three women and one man on the six-member jury scribbled notes about the e-mail exchanges, with the man sternly peering over his glasses at Daulerio, 41, a co-defendant in the Hogan case.
An expert witness appearing for Hogan also testified that Gawker boosted its corporate value as much as $15.5 million by posting the hidden-camera sex recording of the pro wrestling legend.
Jeff Anderson, director of valuation and analytics at Consor Intellectual Asset Management, said 5.4 million people viewed the Hogan tape at Gawker between October 2012 and April 2013, resulting in a 28.5 percent spike in traffic to the site.
Awful people. And look at Daulerio's expression in the picture - he knows both he and his employer are screwed.
I bet whoever steps in to replace Gawker will realise if a judge orders them to take down sex tape, they either comply or get bankrupted when the person in the sex tape sues.
Funnily enough when people refused to take down Jennifer Lawrence's leaked nudes Jezebel denounced them, even though they'd previously drawn everyone's attention to the leak. Jezebel was owned by Gawker media. Meanwhile Gawker decided to keeping up a leaked sex tape of Hulk Hogan in defiance of a court order was the hill they'd die on. Quite literally - Hogan sued them and that ended Gawker.
https://i.imgur.com/CQ5qgvu.jp...
I'm not convinced this is the case. Xue != Sharp and Liang != Eye.
It's more likely it's this XueLiang meaning 'bright as snow'
https://translate.google.com/?...
Then again that can mean 'sharp (of eye)' or discerning.
https://www.linguee.com/chines...
Interestingly the associations with snow and discerning sight in Mandarin are the opposite to the way they are in English.
Compare for example 'Snowblind' by Black Sabbath (or the System of a Down cover).
Yeah, it turns out running this story was not a good idea
http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...
Who'd have thought that contempt of court could turn the judiciary against you and get you nailed for crippling damages when someone whose privacy your tabloid bullshit has violated sues you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nick Denton.
And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense either. He'll have him serving drinks to Trump in a MAGA hat when Trump comes to visit.
You can add packages, you just can't delete them
It's like in C++ when you're trying not to break back compatibility - you can add interfaces, and you can add methods to interfaces but you can't delete interfaces or delete methods from interfaces.
That's how Symbian's binary compatibility worked. Now Symbian had a bunch of other fatal illnesses which eventually killed it, but a lack of interface immutability within a release wasn't one of them.
Their inferior minds will cause deadlines to be missed! Contracts to be lost, Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!
Even under Net Neutrality Wheeler said that zero rating was fine. Though he also said it might not be fine of they changed it in the future under the 'general conduct rule'.
http://www.multichannel.com/ne...
Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler said Thursday (Nov. 19) he thought T-Mobile's Binge On zero rating plan was the sort of highly innovative approach the FCC's new network neutrality rules were predicted to thwart, but clearly didn't.
Wheeler, in a press conference following the FCC's November meeting, appeared to endorse the Binge On offering, calling it pro-competitive and innovative. "It is clear in the Open Internet order that we are pro-competition and pro-innovation and clearly, this meets both of those criteria," he said. "It is highly innovative and highly competitive."
He then said that it appeared the plan does not violate the bright-line no paid prioritization rule, but took something off the endorsement.
He said the FCC would keep an eye on Binge On per the general conduct standard in those new open Internet rules, which allows the FCC to look at such business models on a case-by-case basis.
That rule, he elaborated, says a carrier "should not unreasonably interfere with the access to someone who is trying to get to an edge provider and an edge provider who is trying to get to a consumer. So, what we are going to be doing is watching Binge On, keeping and eye on it, and measure it against the general conduct rule."
"The Commission staff is working to make sure it understands the new offering," said FCC director of Media Relations Shannon Gilson, of Binge On following the chairman's press conference.
Binge On is a zero rating plan in which video streaming services including Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu do not count against data allowances.
Commissioner Ajit Pai said following that statement that nobody still knows whether Binge On will pass muster under the general conduct standard. "I don't think it should give any company comfort to know that the state of the law is so unsettled."
Pai said following Wheeler's qualified endorsement that the question remained: "Does T-Mobile's Binge On and any other offerings like it violate the net neutrality order." He said that under the Internet conduct standard nobody can get certainty, which he suggested was illustrated by Wheeler's statement that is was pro-competitive, followed by the signal that it still needed to be vetted under that general conduct standard.
Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said that if someone was looking for a blessing, the chairman appeared to have given it. "someone is looking for a blessing and everyone is kind of holding their breath waiting for a decision. It wasn't an official issuance by the General Counsel's office or the Enforcement Bureau, but they just got the blessing they were seeking and I imagine now we are going to see a lot more offerings like it."
But he also said that holding up those innovative offerings for a moment like the chairman's statement was just the sort of problem he had pointed to with the general conduct standard.
"Tom Wheeler's comments regarding T-Mobile's new BingeOn zero-rating plan calls to mind the good familiar cop/bad cop routine," said Randolph May, president of free market think tank, the Free State Foundation. "On the one hand, Wheeler's statement that the plan is pro-competitive and innovative is commendable. On the other hand, his further elaboration that the FCC will monitor the T-Mobile plan for compliance with the Open Internet Order's 'good conduct' rule is disturbing. This is because the vague 'good conduct' standard means anything that Wheeler's Enforcement Bureau says it means on any given day."
The EFF had concerns about the vagueness of the 'general conduct rule' too
The lizard people are at the bottom of it all, I'm convinced of it. Scaly bastards.
Even if you have a local version control system you still need to merge changes from upstream if you want to upgrade the environment to the latest version - e.g. to get security patches. And traditionally you need to merge the mainline into your local copy and then lock the mainline and merge back - basically it means that if the mainline has changed in an incompatible way you resolve that in your branch or local copy before merging back. In Clearcase terms you don't merge back to the mainline until the merge is 'trivial' - i.e. only one set of changes.
At least that's what happens with C/C++ projects with Clearcase/git/svn.
Then again this is NodeJS. Maybe people don't ever upgrade to the latest version because there aren't any security patches and the latest version is alway so incompatible you're better off starting from scratch. And maybe they don't bother to cache anything either. And nor do they ever merge anything back to the mainline.
Filthy degenerate hippies.
Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech
Yeah, if more people realised why 'published interfaces are immutable' is such an important rule you wouldn't need to spend ages cleaning up when a screwup like this breaks your build environment when you do an update.
npm is "NodeJS package manager". NodeJS is run by sloppy hippies. Being sloppy hippies they deleted a user and that user's packages without checking if other packages used them. Because they're sloppy hippies.
True - they make you buy a Mac because they want to sell you a Mac. Nothing stops them doing a Windows or Linux port of their compiler and signing tool.
In fact they could get GCC to build and just document how to sign the binaries and people would write tools for Linux and Windows. Of course Apple being Apple they make you buy a Mac to run the signing tool.