Electing the first woman became more important that our fucking economy and natural security. Now we have alt-rights advising our president, chairs of oil companies being appointed to office
It'll be interesting how this argument fares for Ivanka in 2024:p
Hmm, I thought the primary meaning is still a bunch of water floating in the sky, with a marketing gimmick for someone else's unreliable computer being far on the list.
Malware, short for malicious software, is any software used to disrupt computer or mobile operations, gather sensitive information, gain access to private computer systems, or display unwanted advertising.
The kernel is pretty damn useless if the userland is inaccessible because the init system broke unexpectedly and the system didn't boot properly.
Duh, "apt purge systemd" and you can enjoy a reliable init. Just like the solution for most sound problems is "apt purge pulseaudio". Or, closing a link-local security hole by "apt purge avahi-daemon". I think you get the pattern.
Well, N900 is ancient but there's still no upgrade. Neo900 is expensive almost-same-spec vapourware (it gets you 512MB instead of 256MB memory, slightly better CPU and that's it, for $750 when you can get an used N900 for $25), Pyra is ridiculously thick vapourware (new phones are way too thin, Pyra goes the other extreme), Minotaur One looks more reasonable than Pyra but is even more vaporous. Both of these don't pretend to be phones, I think N900's thickness is about the sweet spot.
Nokia's default keymapping was downright retarded -- to get most symbols, you had to press a key combination to pull an on-screen menu then you had to click the symbol; the obvious solution is to assign shift-or-fn combinations to all keys, there's enough of them to cover all of ASCII.
Russia attacks their own citizens and neighbour countries because this gives Putin and his cronies more power. The US does so because a campaign donor gets to profit. While both don't give a flying intercourse about cost-benefit for their populations (much less others), the motivation differs.
Yeah, I'm pissed off! Where's all the riches and oil we were supposed to get from Iraq after we invaded? The US got snookered on that deal. We went and invaded Iraq and everything, and all we got was a deficit increase!
If a company gets $1 when the taxpayers lose $1000, it's still pure profit.
Wouldn't one of the attacks simply be: $5 wrench attack against a microcode engineer?
(If you thought hacking an entire datacenter or hacking an entire operating system was bad.... Try hacking ALL INTEL or ALL AMD cpus..... pretty crazy.)
You mean, something like Intel IME? Already there, in your CPU. I'm for one using an old AMD (Phenom 2) but I see no upgrade path at the moment. AMD's version of the backdoor is less vicious (no path from the network card) but not nice either.
There's no outright proof of Intel CPUs being backdoored, but they made a number of very weird design choices that make absolutely no sense when the purpose is anything but hiding a backdoor. So let's think who gets the keys.
I don't think this is what he meant by "grab them by the pussy"
Not that I'm supporting Trump (he's more evil than Cthulhu, almost as bad as Hillary), but have you noticed how those 30ish women who accused him of sexual assault all went silent the moment the election was over? Shouldn't they be trying to bring him to justice? Maybe, just maybe, it was all staged false accusations as certain people like this kind of methods? See Assange, or what esr was tipped about.
The most important part being killing off a significant part of every generation, to let only the fittest survive. Something tells me applying this to humans might make some carebears balk at this project.
Invented computers? I presume you refer to about those well known American innovators Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, and Alan Turing?
True that, the initial work and fundamental concepts came from elsewhere, but it's still Americans who brought computers from proof-of-concept stage to something present in many homes. (The last stage, present in every home and every pocket, was done by China and Korea with USians merely slapping a label.)
You're too late. Today he announced an evangelical woman who hates public schools as the Secretary of Education.
This is like in Civilization IV where the game tells you, "Your Golden Age has now ended".
Newsflash: the Golden Age of the USA has ended a generation ago. You had a generation that got us to the moon, then one that invented computers... followed by a generation that done nothing but designed rounded corners while other countries made all the improvements to electronics and so on.
Obama isn't any better than Trump here: instead of funding STEM fields, colleges and universities teach "gender studies" with negative signal-to-noise ratio. Trump's defunding of climate research is in at this point literally a crime against humanity, far worse than if he murdered a few mere millions, but so is not continuing our way to space after the Apollo program (the few gems like Mars rovers stay in contrast to a general regression). Trump wanting to get us into space for real is good news, it's sad that it's offset by terrible news of taking that money from climate rather than bullshit spewers.
If that were true, we wouldn't be in a democracy, but a plutocratic oligopoly pretending to be a democracy, living outside the Rule of Law like a Banana Republic...
I'm surprised that the blurb makes it all about pirates while in fact it's about state censorship.
And copyright abuses -- heck, copyright at all -- aren't a subset of state censorship, how exactly? From day one, when it was The Worshipful Company of Stationers?
I'd say Obama is, as of today, the single worst US president in history, beating even his predecessor (an immense accomplishment!). What other presidents usually considered the worst have done? Failing to be omniscient, wiretapping a single hotel, giving unfair handouts to a single oil company. Compare this with wiretapping every single American and most of the world, letting the Mother of Lies start multiple wars, ensuring the very financial institutions who caused the crisis retained most of the power by bailing them out with taxpayer money while lesser competition had no safety net, massive racial and gender discrimination (like, asians are at -140 SAT score penalty while blacks get a +310, hispanics +130 bonus for college admissions) , forcing a series of international agreements that push takeover of "intellectual" "property" all over the world, etc, etc.
As for Trump, we have yet to see. His first appointments show that his promises for draining the swamp were even less truthful than expected so he's on a good track of joining the worst presidents club, but let's wait till he at least starts his term. Unless you're one of those who give Nobel Prizes for nothing.
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Electing the first woman became more important that our fucking economy and natural security. Now we have alt-rights advising our president, chairs of oil companies being appointed to office
It'll be interesting how this argument fares for Ivanka in 2024 :p
There's the cloud and there's the cloud. There are billion-dollar companies whose businesses rely entirely on Amazon's cloud.
And they're up for a nasty surprise in not-so-distant future.
Although at this point, it's hard to claim they couldn't see it coming.
Hmm, I thought the primary meaning is still a bunch of water floating in the sky, with a marketing gimmick for someone else's unreliable computer being far on the list.
Yes, ads are malware. They waste your time, attention, bandwidth and battery time, and run hostile third-party code on your machine.
Let's take a look at Wikipedia take at it:
Malware, short for malicious software, is any software used to disrupt computer or mobile operations, gather sensitive information, gain access to private computer systems, or display unwanted advertising.
Check, check, check and check.
we can easily get by with 65% of the federal government
More like 10%, although that 10% doesn't include people Obama, Trump or Hillary would hire.
Use at least Linux 3.11 for Workgroups.
The kernel is pretty damn useless if the userland is inaccessible because the init system broke unexpectedly and the system didn't boot properly.
Duh, "apt purge systemd" and you can enjoy a reliable init. Just like the solution for most sound problems is "apt purge pulseaudio". Or, closing a link-local security hole by "apt purge avahi-daemon". I think you get the pattern.
Well, N900 is ancient but there's still no upgrade. Neo900 is expensive almost-same-spec vapourware (it gets you 512MB instead of 256MB memory, slightly better CPU and that's it, for $750 when you can get an used N900 for $25), Pyra is ridiculously thick vapourware (new phones are way too thin, Pyra goes the other extreme), Minotaur One looks more reasonable than Pyra but is even more vaporous. Both of these don't pretend to be phones, I think N900's thickness is about the sweet spot.
Nokia's default keymapping was downright retarded -- to get most symbols, you had to press a key combination to pull an on-screen menu then you had to click the symbol; the obvious solution is to assign shift-or-fn combinations to all keys, there's enough of them to cover all of ASCII.
On a site like Facebook that has an IQ cap, that's a reasonable remark. Non-toy phones, though, do have a physical space key.
In 99.9% cases, if you pwn that local user, you control everything that server is doing. Applies to client machines, too.
Russia attacks their own citizens and neighbour countries because this gives Putin and his cronies more power. The US does so because a campaign donor gets to profit. While both don't give a flying intercourse about cost-benefit for their populations (much less others), the motivation differs.
Yeah, I'm pissed off! Where's all the riches and oil we were supposed to get from Iraq after we invaded? The US got snookered on that deal. We went and invaded Iraq and everything, and all we got was a deficit increase!
If a company gets $1 when the taxpayers lose $1000, it's still pure profit.
Wouldn't one of the attacks simply be: $5 wrench attack against a microcode engineer?
(If you thought hacking an entire datacenter or hacking an entire operating system was bad.... Try hacking ALL INTEL or ALL AMD cpus..... pretty crazy.)
You mean, something like Intel IME? Already there, in your CPU. I'm for one using an old AMD (Phenom 2) but I see no upgrade path at the moment. AMD's version of the backdoor is less vicious (no path from the network card) but not nice either.
There's no outright proof of Intel CPUs being backdoored, but they made a number of very weird design choices that make absolutely no sense when the purpose is anything but hiding a backdoor. So let's think who gets the keys.
TRUMP 2016!!!
I don't think this is what he meant by "grab them by the pussy"
Not that I'm supporting Trump (he's more evil than Cthulhu, almost as bad as Hillary), but have you noticed how those 30ish women who accused him of sexual assault all went silent the moment the election was over? Shouldn't they be trying to bring him to justice? Maybe, just maybe, it was all staged false accusations as certain people like this kind of methods? See Assange, or what esr was tipped about.
In China, the censorship is from the government; this article is referring to private businesses. Clear enough?
As the Jakov Smirnoff joke goes, "In Soviet Union, the government controls the corporations".
The most important part being killing off a significant part of every generation, to let only the fittest survive. Something tells me applying this to humans might make some carebears balk at this project.
Sugar free. First good. Then bad. Then good. Now bad again.
This article doesn't say a word about sugar. It's not sugar that's good, it's aspartame that's worse.
And it was always a questionable ingredient, despite an overwhelming amount of sponsored research claiming that it's all ok.
you can't legally make or buy British "Champagne"
Try "Britiskoye Shampanskoye".
Or worse, Budweiser instead of beer from Budweis means urine from several places in America.
Invented computers? I presume you refer to about those well known American innovators Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, and Alan Turing?
True that, the initial work and fundamental concepts came from elsewhere, but it's still Americans who brought computers from proof-of-concept stage to something present in many homes. (The last stage, present in every home and every pocket, was done by China and Korea with USians merely slapping a label.)
You're too late. Today he announced an evangelical woman who hates public schools as the Secretary of Education.
This is like in Civilization IV where the game tells you, "Your Golden Age has now ended".
Newsflash: the Golden Age of the USA has ended a generation ago. You had a generation that got us to the moon, then one that invented computers... followed by a generation that done nothing but designed rounded corners while other countries made all the improvements to electronics and so on.
Obama isn't any better than Trump here: instead of funding STEM fields, colleges and universities teach "gender studies" with negative signal-to-noise ratio. Trump's defunding of climate research is in at this point literally a crime against humanity, far worse than if he murdered a few mere millions, but so is not continuing our way to space after the Apollo program (the few gems like Mars rovers stay in contrast to a general regression). Trump wanting to get us into space for real is good news, it's sad that it's offset by terrible news of taking that money from climate rather than bullshit spewers.
If that were true, we wouldn't be in a democracy, but a plutocratic oligopoly pretending to be a democracy, living outside the Rule of Law like a Banana Republic ...
And this is news, how?
I'm surprised that the blurb makes it all about pirates while in fact it's about state censorship.
And copyright abuses -- heck, copyright at all -- aren't a subset of state censorship, how exactly? From day one, when it was The Worshipful Company of Stationers?
If that's true, then it's a case of bad compression rather than any upsides of 4k.
I'd say Obama is, as of today, the single worst US president in history, beating even his predecessor (an immense accomplishment!). What other presidents usually considered the worst have done? Failing to be omniscient, wiretapping a single hotel, giving unfair handouts to a single oil company. Compare this with wiretapping every single American and most of the world, letting the Mother of Lies start multiple wars, ensuring the very financial institutions who caused the crisis retained most of the power by bailing them out with taxpayer money while lesser competition had no safety net, massive racial and gender discrimination (like, asians are at -140 SAT score penalty while blacks get a +310, hispanics +130 bonus for college admissions) , forcing a series of international agreements that push takeover of "intellectual" "property" all over the world, etc, etc.
As for Trump, we have yet to see. His first appointments show that his promises for draining the swamp were even less truthful than expected so he's on a good track of joining the worst presidents club, but let's wait till he at least starts his term. Unless you're one of those who give Nobel Prizes for nothing.