True, but this makes the process easier. One click to toggle JS and it autorefreshes the site when you do it.
Actually the amount of fuckery with JS these days - modal popups, paywalls, disabling the clipboard and autoplay video - means you should probably move to a whitelist model. I.e. rather than enabling by default and disabling for sites that abuse it, disable by default and enable it for sites that don't.
The new Oasis ships at the end of October and is replacing last yearâ(TM)s Oasis, leaving four Kindles total in Amazonâ(TM)s lineup: the original Kindle ($80), the Kindle Paperwhite ($120), Kindle Voyage ($200), and the Oasis, which starts at $250 for an 8GB model. Thatâ(TM)s double the base storage of previous Kindles, which Amazon says is to accommodate the storage of audio books. It also connects over both Wi-Fi and 4G LTE.
It's weird how the Republicans and Democrats have swapped sides over this.
E.g. back in 2012 Mitt Romney said that Russia was the biggest threat to the US and the Democrats mocked him for still living in the Cold War era.
Then in 2013 Snowden fled to Russia and probably to a job with Russian intelligence. The consensus on slashdot was that was fine and he needed to get away from the NSA so he could continue to leak. Even though Putin made it clear that he could not continue to leak, at least not publicly
Putin, who hosted a summit of gas-exporting nations in Moscow that included leaders from Venezuela, Bolivia and Iran, said he doesn't know if any of those attending could offer Snowden shelter.
"If he wants to go somewhere and there are those who would take him, he is welcome to do that," Putin said. "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage to our American partners, no matter how strange it may sound on my lips."
Which makes him a Russian spy, not a whistleblower.
If you look at WWII Anglo American SIGINT like breaking the Enigma code was absolutely vital to the war effort and saved the UK from defeat. As China moves towards parity with the West and confronts Japan over the Senkakus it's not impossible the US may find itself in a similar situation. In the long run it's not impossible that Russia will threaten the Ukraine militarily - after all it did more than threaten Georgia.
And in fact having a major SIGINT advantage over Russia and China is likely to act as a deterrent on them doing something like this. Conversely Snowden visiting both and telling them the US's capabilities is likely to make them think they're the ones with the advantage.
The only reason you'd think Snowden did the right thing is if you think the US is the sole source of evil in the world and Russia and China are both governed by people who act robotically in the best interests of humanity eschewing any personal gain. How likely is it really that the people who govern the US are the only ones vulnerable to corruption and the far less open political systems of Russia and China magically produce incorruptible leaders?
I'd say as bad as the US's politicians are the openness of the system means they are likely a lot less bad than those in China or Russia. In which case I'd rather the US has the SIGINT advantage. Snowden did exactly the wrong thing in taking US secrets to Russia and China and the Guardian is wrong to publish US secrets.
And was called an 'NSA shill'.
However now Slashdot is suddenly full of people saying that Russia hacked the election, presenting no evidence for that and calling anyone who disagrees a 'Russia shill'.
Nor Taipei. The Taiwan solution is that convenience stores will collect the package and you can pick it up from there.
Actually people are trying this in the UK - basically supermarkets have a bunch of lockers which you can get stuff delivered to and pick it up.
In both cases it's an end run around the postal service - in Taipei the convenience stores run their own delivery service and in the UK it's an Amazon thing
The Taipei one is interesting because rather than have people buy stuff mail order and skip visiting the store, the store actually gets a piece of the online delivery action by low balling the delivery price and piggy backing the service on the service they have to run anyway to deliver food to the convenience stores.
In the UK Amazon are in the odd situation of having to convince supermarkets to host the lockers for Amazon deliveries, even though the supermarkets see Amazon trying to compete them out of business.
Probably all North Korea can do is level Seoul. All the signs are that their military would fare extremely poorly against a US/South Korean force. E.g. North Korea doesn't have enough fuel to fight a modern war. It's aircraft are hopelessly out of date.
I think Seoul would be levelled, SK and maybe US forces would land north of the DMZ and try to capture Pyongyang and destroy NK artillery aimed at SK. The North Korean regime would collapse.
In terms of North Korea military some units would fight and be destroyed by SK/US air power. And some would probably decide to desert. Unfortunately not enough of them would desert to save Seoul from damage.
Once the regime collapsed there'd be evidence of spectacular atrocities in camps, and of course Seoul would be badly damaged or destroyed. Kim would be captured and executed by the vengeful South Koreans. Or he'd kill himself. Or flee to China. Most of the NK elite would end up facing war crimes charges for murdering North Koreans in camps or bombing South Korea.
Of course it would all get worse in China intervened to stop the regime collapsing or tried to set up a pro Chinese puppet regime to replace the Kim dynasty.
Stories like this and fscking Samsung ruining Galaxies by removing removable batteries, switching from Qualcomm to Exynos etc makes me wonder if there's a gap in the market for a new phone. It would be like this
1) Qualcomm reference design 2) Removable battery 3) SD card slot 4) Enough onboard flash and SDRAM that people won't complain 5) Headphone jack 6) IP67 or better
Incidentally all this was possible when Samsung build the Galaxy S5. And in fact the Galaxy's 1080p display is fine for most people. Though I suspect you'd go for IPS rather than OLED because more people sell decent IPS displays than sell decent OLED ones.
The idea is that rather than selling a mix of hardware and software like Apple, Samsung and OnePlus you're building hardware to run industry standard software, a bit like PC OEMs do.
Which means no spyware. And no bloated crap like TouchWiz. You'd have to make sure you made money on the hardware alone.
Actually there are lot of Chinese and Taiwanese OEMs selling devices like this cheaply. The problem is that they haven't made the leap from selling mix of hardware and software to being purely hardware OEMs and depending on open source software. Well that and most of them are terrible at software.
The SoC has a Wifi MAC and maybe a PHY. However as the OP pointed out 'Generally, the wifi chips donâ(TM)t even have network stacks on them. They operate at layer 1/2, and just forward packets back and forth to the hostâ(TM)s network stack'. Spying needs to sit on top of the network stack.
So on an Android device you've got a Linux kernel with TCP/IP sending packets to a network device in the SoC. The spyware is probably running up in user mode where the GPL doesn't apply anymore. Google went to great lengths to avoid user mode code having to be written in Java byte code - they have their own VM - presumably to avoid paying royalties to Sun or Oracle or whoever owns Java.
That means when OEMs write user mode code in C or Java they can keep it closed source and not pay for a Java licence from Sun/Oracle.
It would be tricky to implement spyware in an NIC driver because it runs at the MAC level. And since the Linux kernel is GPL you'd theoretically have to release the source code to said spyware which would lead to you being ridiculed. Doing it in user mode on top of the Linux TCP/IP stack is trivial and you can keep the code closed source.
tl;dr - don't worry about the SoC drivers, worry about all the crap the OEMs add to closed source user mode code.
Logically if they wanted to sell a machine with a beefier GPU they need to sell it for more than that. Also it's debatable how many people really want a macOS machine for gaming when they can buy a Windows one for so much less.
Of course if you go to somewhere like statcounter you find that mobiles have taken over from desktops/laptops and if you count all devices you find that Windows is basically neck and neck with Android with iOS and MacOS following up a long way behind. I.e. the move from desktops/laptops to phones/tablets has not been good for Microsoft who managed to go from 10% or so market share with Windows Mobile to 0% with Windows Phone.
And Metro was an attempt to mix up the popular desktop Windows with the aggressively unpopular Windows Phone. And the end result seems to be that Windows Phone is dead and desktop Windows is dying.
And of course when it comes to servers the world has moved to Linux.
The problem with charging more for high end desktop systems is that they run the risk of simply moving those systems to Mac of Linux, just like Metro and the Start Screen didn't make Windows phone more popular, it made desktop Windows less popular.
Microsoft now are a bit like IBM were after IBM lost control of the PC market. They'll embrace open systems, try to launch new and more proprietary alternatives to the market leader etc. Windows Phone could be considered the Microsoft version of the PS/2 and MCA - i.e. attempt to move people from the cheap, somewhat crappy but multi vendor market leader (PC clones/Android phones) to a system which could only be bought from them.
I.e. a whole host of ways to avoid irrelevance. However I think irrelevance is probably the end result.
And it's a shame really. I like my Macbook, but it was noticeably more expensive than an equivalent machine running Windows. And now Macbooks have become the default in so many environments - education, media. startups and especially app development for Android and iOS - it's become harder to think different as it were when buying a new laptop. I.e. all Microsoft have achieved by running Windows into the ground is that people spend an extra $500 or so on a new laptop because they need a Mac to be able to develop for the two platforms, iOS and Android, where people actually make any money out of apps.
I was alluding to Islam - it's not so much a religion of peace as a religion of surrender - Muslims surrender to Allah (Abdullah is literally slave of allah) and non Muslims surrender to the Muslims and accept second class status by paying the Jizya
Of course post Muhammad there have been multiple wars between Muslims
And even now there is a Shia/Sunni split - even when the US troops were patrolling the streets of Iraq most of the Al Qaeda bombings in Iraq were against Shia targets, not US ones. And the biggest tension in the Middle East is not between Muslim states and Israel but between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia and their respective proxy forces.
A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidatesâ(TM) claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.
As Republican candidates prepare for their fourth debate of the primary season Tuesday in Milwaukee, the people doing the questioning are increasingly in the spotlight, with their motives being questioned by the campaigns, voters and even by their fellow journalists.
And self-proclaimed Democratic journalists outnumber Republicans by 4-to-1, according to research by Lars Willnat and David Weaver, professors of journalism at Indiana University. They found 28 percent of journalists call themselves Democrats, while just 7 percent call themselves Republicans - though both numbers are down from the 1970s. Those identifying as independent have grown.
Among Washington correspondents, the ones who dominate national political coverage, itâ(TM)s even more skewed, said Tim Groseclose, author of âoeLeft Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.â More than 90 percent of D.C. journalists vote Democratic, with an even higher number giving to Democrats or liberal-leaning political action committees, the author said.
The Democrat's weird identity politics agenda - i.e. that white people voted against them and caused Trump but this is fine because in the long run white people will be a minority makes them worse than the Republicans to be honest.
Same with the gun grabbing, support for BLM, tacit support for AntiFa until that became untenable. Or the way Democrats in the media conflate Trump supporters, Republicans, conservatives with Nazis and then run articles saying it's OK to punch Nazis.
Or the way they cheer on the silencing of conservative voices on campus, or the firing of people like Brendan Eich, or censoring any dissenting voices off social media. Or attacks on peaceful assembly of dissenting voices.
The Republicans are corrupt and incompetent, but the Democrats are pure evil.
React Native loyalists claim this as a sign that React Native is ready for the enterprise. To me it's more like Microsoft use it for platforms they basically don't care about much- iOS and Android and it doesn't do a lot of the stuff the old version did. On the other hand they don't need to employ people to maintain separate native iOS and Android apps anymore.
I.e. they clearly see the platforms like this
First class - The latest Microsoft platform Second class - Android and iOS. Anything but the latest Microsoft platform. Third class - everything else
It's not so much that Trump won the election, more that Hillary lost it.
Trump is awful but she managed to convince people she was even worse. And spent $1.2 billion doing it. And had the support of most of media.
So ironically it's actually not an example of advertising working. It's more the opposite - Hillary's campaign outspent Trumps and had far more support from the media. However that ended up working against her. After all she went into the campaign something like a twenty point lead and ended up almost neck and neck.
I actually think people rebelled against the media's attempt to hard sell Clinton.
According to the calculations of Skynet James is a human trusted by 99.76% of the other humans.
When Skynet takes over he will be the last human puppet ruler making ads telling them that the endoskeletons and hunter killer units are peaceful refugees from a terrible war in the future and that Skynet is a computer of peace.
Actually the last bit is true from a certain point of view, after all if the humans stopped fighting and let Skynet control everything there would be peace.
It's much worse than that. The most common form of messages will be viruses - e,g ones which tell you to build a machine that sucks up all the resources from your planet or star and turns them into machines that send messages to other civilisations to build similar machines of their own.
It'd work pretty well because uncontacted civilisations would be pleased as punch to be finally noticed and ill equipped to work out what a machine far beyond their level of technology to design would actually do when turned on.
If you imagine a universe where so messages are benign and helpful and some are self replicating viruses, it's clear that the viruses would quickly become the most common.
In fact I was surprised no one in 'Contact' raised this possibility. Then again it was written by Carl Sagan who believed the first message from aliens would be an 'Encyclopedia Galactica' which would solve all our problems, deus ex machina style. In fact literally deus ex machina. Sagan was an atheist and I think this belief system replaced religion for him.
Needless to say if people like him end up in positions of power they'd lobby hard to build whatever the aliens told us to build. Which would make us very vulnerable to a viral message. And clearly an advanced civilisation could devise a brutally effective machine for strip mining the solar system to build machines to keep the message going. In fact even they tried to send a benign and non self replicating message, self replicating mutations of it would out compete the original.
SSH systems perform slightly better on overall mortality rates and life expectancy (after 1980). For infant mortality the rates converged between the two types of systems and since 1980 no differences ceased to exist.
SSH systems are more expensive and NHS systems have a better cost containment. Inhabitants of countries with SSH-systems are on average substantially more satisfied than those in NHS countries.
All of which enables them to promote memes that agree with their politics and hide ones that disagree with their politics.
Given that Google/FB etc employ mostly young people in blue states it's fair to assume that the politics their employees agree with will be heavily left of centre. And we know they fired James Damore for essentially criticizing Google's left wing echo chamber.
"By these standards, if YouTube existed previous to the Emancipation Act, they'd be censoring videos criticizing slave owners, since being anti-slavery wasn't popular... at all," he added. "The popular opinion isn't always the right opinion."
Funnily enough the Democrats would have objected to people who were anti slavery then and are also the ones censoring political speech now via the likes of YouTube and FB where they are the majority of employees. In fact both slavery then and illegal immigration now are a way to get a load of cheap, biddable labour that isn't able to organize itself and demand better conditions.
A lot of the 'extremists' Youtube is trying to silence are simply people pointing stuff like that out. Meanwhile memes that Democrats approve of - Jimmy Kimmel crying and demanding more government intervention - nationalising health care or banning guns, 'Hands Up Don't Shoot', and the notion that anyone who opposes open borders migration is a bigot are promoted all over the media.
The far more difficult aspect is dealing with the unpredictable interference. Children run into the streets. Animals think train tracks are comfortable beds. Storms knock down trees and flood routes. Every winter, potholes turn small cracks into large hazards.
To detect those problems, we have two approaches.
Or we could use some simple technology to clear the outdated organic entities out of the way of the new robot master race! Intense radiation for example would be fatal to them but not to the robots. Deadly viruses could be engineered that only affected organic life but were harmless to the robots. Yes, yes...
Slashdot Mirror
True, but this makes the process easier. One click to toggle JS and it autorefreshes the site when you do it.
Actually the amount of fuckery with JS these days - modal popups, paywalls, disabling the clipboard and autoplay video - means you should probably move to a whitelist model. I.e. rather than enabling by default and disabling for sites that abuse it, disable by default and enable it for sites that don't.
Quick Javascript Switcher Extension for Chrome
I've been carrying a $99 Kindle Paperwhite for ages without a case and it seems to be holding up fine.
This device seems very overpriced.
The Verge article says it's
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
And Amazon say the 32GB model is $299
https://www.amazon.com/Staging...
Compared to the $119 Kindle Paperwhite that's a lot of cash.
A lot of those big US companies are run by Irish Americans though. For example
FB - Mark "Blarney" Zuckerberg
Amazon - Jeff "Shillelagh" Bezos
Google - Eric "Guinness" Schmidt
Apple - Tim "Craic" Cook
I'm sure they're basing their decision on a desire to go back to the mother country for a bit of the old craic and guinness and not on the fact that Ireland only charged Apple and effective corporate tax rate of 0.005% in 2014
It's weird how the Republicans and Democrats have swapped sides over this.
E.g. back in 2012 Mitt Romney said that Russia was the biggest threat to the US and the Democrats mocked him for still living in the Cold War era.
Then in 2013 Snowden fled to Russia and probably to a job with Russian intelligence. The consensus on slashdot was that was fine and he needed to get away from the NSA so he could continue to leak. Even though Putin made it clear that he could not continue to leak, at least not publicly
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
Which makes him a Russian spy, not a whistleblower.
Back then I said
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
If you look at WWII Anglo American SIGINT like breaking the Enigma code was absolutely vital to the war effort and saved the UK from defeat. As China moves towards parity with the West and confronts Japan over the Senkakus it's not impossible the US may find itself in a similar situation. In the long run it's not impossible that Russia will threaten the Ukraine militarily - after all it did more than threaten Georgia.
And in fact having a major SIGINT advantage over Russia and China is likely to act as a deterrent on them doing something like this. Conversely Snowden visiting both and telling them the US's capabilities is likely to make them think they're the ones with the advantage.
The only reason you'd think Snowden did the right thing is if you think the US is the sole source of evil in the world and Russia and China are both governed by people who act robotically in the best interests of humanity eschewing any personal gain. How likely is it really that the people who govern the US are the only ones vulnerable to corruption and the far less open political systems of Russia and China magically produce incorruptible leaders?
I'd say as bad as the US's politicians are the openness of the system means they are likely a lot less bad than those in China or Russia. In which case I'd rather the US has the SIGINT advantage. Snowden did exactly the wrong thing in taking US secrets to Russia and China and the Guardian is wrong to publish US secrets.
And was called an 'NSA shill'.
However now Slashdot is suddenly full of people saying that Russia hacked the election, presenting no evidence for that and calling anyone who disagrees a 'Russia shill'.
Kaspersky? Sounds kinda Russian to me!
They're probably part of RINNT - the Russia Israel Neo Nazi Trump conspiracy!
Nor Taipei. The Taiwan solution is that convenience stores will collect the package and you can pick it up from there.
Actually people are trying this in the UK - basically supermarkets have a bunch of lockers which you can get stuff delivered to and pick it up.
In both cases it's an end run around the postal service - in Taipei the convenience stores run their own delivery service and in the UK it's an Amazon thing
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/he...
The Taipei one is interesting because rather than have people buy stuff mail order and skip visiting the store, the store actually gets a piece of the online delivery action by low balling the delivery price and piggy backing the service on the service they have to run anyway to deliver food to the convenience stores.
In the UK Amazon are in the odd situation of having to convince supermarkets to host the lockers for Amazon deliveries, even though the supermarkets see Amazon trying to compete them out of business.
Probably all North Korea can do is level Seoul. All the signs are that their military would fare extremely poorly against a US/South Korean force. E.g. North Korea doesn't have enough fuel to fight a modern war. It's aircraft are hopelessly out of date.
I think Seoul would be levelled, SK and maybe US forces would land north of the DMZ and try to capture Pyongyang and destroy NK artillery aimed at SK. The North Korean regime would collapse.
In terms of North Korea military some units would fight and be destroyed by SK/US air power. And some would probably decide to desert. Unfortunately not enough of them would desert to save Seoul from damage.
Once the regime collapsed there'd be evidence of spectacular atrocities in camps, and of course Seoul would be badly damaged or destroyed. Kim would be captured and executed by the vengeful South Koreans. Or he'd kill himself. Or flee to China. Most of the NK elite would end up facing war crimes charges for murdering North Koreans in camps or bombing South Korea.
Of course it would all get worse in China intervened to stop the regime collapsing or tried to set up a pro Chinese puppet regime to replace the Kim dynasty.
Stories like this and fscking Samsung ruining Galaxies by removing removable batteries, switching from Qualcomm to Exynos etc makes me wonder if there's a gap in the market for a new phone. It would be like this
1) Qualcomm reference design
2) Removable battery
3) SD card slot
4) Enough onboard flash and SDRAM that people won't complain
5) Headphone jack
6) IP67 or better
Incidentally all this was possible when Samsung build the Galaxy S5. And in fact the Galaxy's 1080p display is fine for most people. Though I suspect you'd go for IPS rather than OLED because more people sell decent IPS displays than sell decent OLED ones.
For software you'd aim for stock Android. Or this
http://www.androidauthority.co...
The idea is that rather than selling a mix of hardware and software like Apple, Samsung and OnePlus you're building hardware to run industry standard software, a bit like PC OEMs do.
Which means no spyware. And no bloated crap like TouchWiz. You'd have to make sure you made money on the hardware alone.
Actually there are lot of Chinese and Taiwanese OEMs selling devices like this cheaply. The problem is that they haven't made the leap from selling mix of hardware and software to being purely hardware OEMs and depending on open source software. Well that and most of them are terrible at software.
The SoC has a Wifi MAC and maybe a PHY. However as the OP pointed out 'Generally, the wifi chips donâ(TM)t even have network stacks on them. They operate at layer 1/2, and just forward packets back and forth to the hostâ(TM)s network stack'. Spying needs to sit on top of the network stack.
So on an Android device you've got a Linux kernel with TCP/IP sending packets to a network device in the SoC. The spyware is probably running up in user mode where the GPL doesn't apply anymore. Google went to great lengths to avoid user mode code having to be written in Java byte code - they have their own VM - presumably to avoid paying royalties to Sun or Oracle or whoever owns Java.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And they alway went to great lengths to avoid user code being subject to the GPL - they use their own C library not GLIBC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That means when OEMs write user mode code in C or Java they can keep it closed source and not pay for a Java licence from Sun/Oracle.
It would be tricky to implement spyware in an NIC driver because it runs at the MAC level. And since the Linux kernel is GPL you'd theoretically have to release the source code to said spyware which would lead to you being ridiculed. Doing it in user mode on top of the Linux TCP/IP stack is trivial and you can keep the code closed source.
tl;dr - don't worry about the SoC drivers, worry about all the crap the OEMs add to closed source user mode code.
Apple won't do that. They charge $2,399.00 to $2,799.00 for a 15" Macbook Pro with Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB memory or a 560 with 4GB respectively.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy...
Logically if they wanted to sell a machine with a beefier GPU they need to sell it for more than that. Also it's debatable how many people really want a macOS machine for gaming when they can buy a Windows one for so much less.
I think trying to relate cost to ability to pay isn't a terrible thing.
Yeah, it's basically progressive pricing in the sense that high tax rates for the rich are 'progressive taxation'.
You'd think a sane company would be happy to be producing an OS which is still on something like 90% desktop/laptop market share.
https://www.netmarketshare.com...
Of course if you go to somewhere like statcounter you find that mobiles have taken over from desktops/laptops and if you count all devices you find that Windows is basically neck and neck with Android with iOS and MacOS following up a long way behind. I.e. the move from desktops/laptops to phones/tablets has not been good for Microsoft who managed to go from 10% or so market share with Windows Mobile to 0% with Windows Phone.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-m...
And Metro was an attempt to mix up the popular desktop Windows with the aggressively unpopular Windows Phone. And the end result seems to be that Windows Phone is dead and desktop Windows is dying.
And of course when it comes to servers the world has moved to Linux.
The problem with charging more for high end desktop systems is that they run the risk of simply moving those systems to Mac of Linux, just like Metro and the Start Screen didn't make Windows phone more popular, it made desktop Windows less popular.
Microsoft now are a bit like IBM were after IBM lost control of the PC market. They'll embrace open systems, try to launch new and more proprietary alternatives to the market leader etc. Windows Phone could be considered the Microsoft version of the PS/2 and MCA - i.e. attempt to move people from the cheap, somewhat crappy but multi vendor market leader (PC clones/Android phones) to a system which could only be bought from them.
I.e. a whole host of ways to avoid irrelevance. However I think irrelevance is probably the end result.
And it's a shame really. I like my Macbook, but it was noticeably more expensive than an equivalent machine running Windows. And now Macbooks have become the default in so many environments - education, media. startups and especially app development for Android and iOS - it's become harder to think different as it were when buying a new laptop. I.e. all Microsoft have achieved by running Windows into the ground is that people spend an extra $500 or so on a new laptop because they need a Mac to be able to develop for the two platforms, iOS and Android, where people actually make any money out of apps.
I was alluding to Islam - it's not so much a religion of peace as a religion of surrender - Muslims surrender to Allah (Abdullah is literally slave of allah) and non Muslims surrender to the Muslims and accept second class status by paying the Jizya
Of course post Muhammad there have been multiple wars between Muslims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And even now there is a Shia/Sunni split - even when the US troops were patrolling the streets of Iraq most of the Al Qaeda bombings in Iraq were against Shia targets, not US ones. And the biggest tension in the Middle East is not between Muslim states and Israel but between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia and their respective proxy forces.
The media and the Democrats are basically the same thing.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
The Democrat's weird identity politics agenda - i.e. that white people voted against them and caused Trump but this is fine because in the long run white people will be a minority makes them worse than the Republicans to be honest.
Same with the gun grabbing, support for BLM, tacit support for AntiFa until that became untenable. Or the way Democrats in the media conflate Trump supporters, Republicans, conservatives with Nazis and then run articles saying it's OK to punch Nazis.
Or the way they cheer on the silencing of conservative voices on campus, or the firing of people like Brendan Eich, or censoring any dissenting voices off social media. Or attacks on peaceful assembly of dissenting voices.
The Republicans are corrupt and incompetent, but the Democrats are pure evil.
Skype's React Native Android rewrite is terrible too.
https://twitter.com/reactnativ...
React Native loyalists claim this as a sign that React Native is ready for the enterprise. To me it's more like Microsoft use it for platforms they basically don't care about much- iOS and Android and it doesn't do a lot of the stuff the old version did. On the other hand they don't need to employ people to maintain separate native iOS and Android apps anymore.
I.e. they clearly see the platforms like this
First class - The latest Microsoft platform
Second class - Android and iOS. Anything but the latest Microsoft platform.
Third class - everything else
It's not so much that Trump won the election, more that Hillary lost it.
Trump is awful but she managed to convince people she was even worse. And spent $1.2 billion doing it. And had the support of most of media.
So ironically it's actually not an example of advertising working. It's more the opposite - Hillary's campaign outspent Trumps and had far more support from the media. However that ended up working against her. After all she went into the campaign something like a twenty point lead and ended up almost neck and neck.
I actually think people rebelled against the media's attempt to hard sell Clinton.
According to the calculations of Skynet James is a human trusted by 99.76% of the other humans.
When Skynet takes over he will be the last human puppet ruler making ads telling them that the endoskeletons and hunter killer units are peaceful refugees from a terrible war in the future and that Skynet is a computer of peace.
Actually the last bit is true from a certain point of view, after all if the humans stopped fighting and let Skynet control everything there would be peace.
Well my Galaxy S5 phone uses solid state storage and that needs to be reset every 12 months or so otherwise it's unusably slow.
I switched the HD for an SSD in my 2012 Macbook Pro and it's fast now but I'm sure that will slow down after a year or so.
So clearly there are more things that fragmentation contributing to entropy. And it clearly affects Linux and BSD based systems, not just Windows.
This comment shows what happens when imdb commenters are metastasised into other parts of the Internet by the closure of the imdb comment section.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
28-31 (1C hex-1F hex) are 4 pieces that form the image of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs from the satirical Church of the SubGenius, a rarely used easter egg.
It's much worse than that. The most common form of messages will be viruses - e,g ones which tell you to build a machine that sucks up all the resources from your planet or star and turns them into machines that send messages to other civilisations to build similar machines of their own.
It'd work pretty well because uncontacted civilisations would be pleased as punch to be finally noticed and ill equipped to work out what a machine far beyond their level of technology to design would actually do when turned on.
If you imagine a universe where so messages are benign and helpful and some are self replicating viruses, it's clear that the viruses would quickly become the most common.
In fact I was surprised no one in 'Contact' raised this possibility. Then again it was written by Carl Sagan who believed the first message from aliens would be an 'Encyclopedia Galactica' which would solve all our problems, deus ex machina style. In fact literally deus ex machina. Sagan was an atheist and I think this belief system replaced religion for him.
Needless to say if people like him end up in positions of power they'd lobby hard to build whatever the aliens told us to build. Which would make us very vulnerable to a viral message. And clearly an advanced civilisation could devise a brutally effective machine for strip mining the solar system to build machines to keep the message going. In fact even they tried to send a benign and non self replicating message, self replicating mutations of it would out compete the original.
you can argue that you still agree with the message and that we're better off now than we would have been under British rule (I woulda like the NHS),
Bismarck healthcare systems outperform Beveridge ones
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
SSH systems perform slightly better on overall mortality rates and life expectancy (after 1980). For infant mortality the rates converged between the two types of systems and since 1980 no differences ceased to exist.
SSH systems are more expensive and NHS systems have a better cost containment. Inhabitants of countries with SSH-systems are on average substantially more satisfied than those in NHS countries.
Google can manipulate the balance of political speech in a whole variety of ways
1) They can demonetize content they dislike, which will lead to people producing less of it
2) They can delete the video, or the whole channel.
3) They can take it blacklist individual videos or whole channels to stop them trending.
4) They can can make it impossible to search for videos or channels, or to comment on them
https://www.engadget.com/2017/...
All of which enables them to promote memes that agree with their politics and hide ones that disagree with their politics.
Given that Google/FB etc employ mostly young people in blue states it's fair to assume that the politics their employees agree with will be heavily left of centre. And we know they fired James Damore for essentially criticizing Google's left wing echo chamber.
As someone here puts it
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08...
Funnily enough the Democrats would have objected to people who were anti slavery then and are also the ones censoring political speech now via the likes of YouTube and FB where they are the majority of employees. In fact both slavery then and illegal immigration now are a way to get a load of cheap, biddable labour that isn't able to organize itself and demand better conditions.
A lot of the 'extremists' Youtube is trying to silence are simply people pointing stuff like that out. Meanwhile memes that Democrats approve of - Jimmy Kimmel crying and demanding more government intervention - nationalising health care or banning guns, 'Hands Up Don't Shoot', and the notion that anyone who opposes open borders migration is a bigot are promoted all over the media.
The far more difficult aspect is dealing with the unpredictable interference. Children run into the streets. Animals think train tracks are comfortable beds. Storms knock down trees and flood routes. Every winter, potholes turn small cracks into large hazards.
To detect those problems, we have two approaches.
Or we could use some simple technology to clear the outdated organic entities out of the way of the new robot master race! Intense radiation for example would be fatal to them but not to the robots. Deadly viruses could be engineered that only affected organic life but were harmless to the robots. Yes, yes...
[Muses Davros-ly]
I think something like petman being able to run all of the machines and perform the assembly required to create itself is a lot closer.
It's probably inevitable. Do you mean this Petman? It's technically very cool, but incredibly creepy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...