I'm sorry but the Windows registry is the BEST THING EVAR and beats the dogshit off the "lets shotgun.txt files all over" that Linux uses. just FYI but NOBODY HAS TO obfuscate, they have the choice but its NOT forced, and thanks to the registry I can fix a multitude of problems by simply sending someone a.reg file. they don't have to do anything else, deal with bash bullshit, know anything complicated, simply "clicky clicky" and they are done.
I'd take a hundred Windows registries over the mess of txt crap that Linux uses, which too many distros take upon themselves to change just enough to make it incompatible with others. With Windows a single well written reg file can cover everything from XP-Win10, 15+ years of compatibility, Linux has nothing that comes close, nothing.
I am paying for an apt even though I have a nice 3 bed 2 bath sitting empty, why? Because its a block from where the lines end and neither the DSL or cable will run the whole block and a half to give me net. I can literally see the DSLAM and cable junction box from the backdoor but neither will hook me up the ONLY one that will? Herps De Derpa WISP which is so badly set up you can see everyone on a tower through network neighborhood on windows...I'm not shitting you, you can see every.single.person. on the tower through NN on Windows...yeah no, not gonna trust my CC info or my surfing on that shit.
Bimbo newton Crosby, they have generated such negative feelings from the very community REQUIRED to keep such a game alive (not like space sims are very popular and their community is small but loyal) so you can stick a fork, this thing is done. they'll probably bleed through what isn't taken in chargebacks in a few months and find their game is a ghostown and that will be that, just another failed MMO that nobody will remember a year from now.
Its a damned shame as I like Descent Freespace and Freelancer and would have looked into this upon release but not now, I don't support companies that treat their supporters like that.
If you use TOR or Freenet and have a family or are not a millionaire who can afford to throw away hundreds of thousands on lawyers you are a fool, simple as that. As my friend in the state crime lab pointed out the ways the laws are written when it comes to distribution and facilitation mean that anybody that runs an exit node or has a Freenet cache can be busted as a child pornographer and what do ya know, some countries are already doing just that.
Thanks to the vague as fuck ways these laws are written it DOES NOT MATTER that you can't see the files you cache on Freenet, that you aren't scanning the TOR traffic coming through your exit node or that you don't even see so much as a single jpg, it doesn't even matter if your PC is obviously hijacked by somebody else because at the end of the day ALL that matters is that CP passed through your router. That is all the court cares about, the cops who get increased federal funding for more CP busts sure has no fucks to give and the prosecutor? look at the virus link, even when shown proof that when the unit is connected to the net it is instantly controlled by another party he comes up with a "I bet he did that on purpose to cover up his crimes!" BS excuse. Why? Because I have no doubt he'll be running for public office and CP busts sell to the soccer mom set.
So you can believe its a honeypot (which is what I believe, too many "advocates" banging the "TOR is for freedom and privacy!" drum are getting their checks from the likes of Radio Free Asia and other CIA fronts. I seriously doubt any less than 90% of the money going into TOR isn't coming from 3 letter agencies and fronts for the same like RFA) or a bastion of freedom, doesn't matter, all that matters is the current laws as written mean you can spend the rest of your life behind bars for using it. I don't know about anybody else but I have no desire to spend the rest of my life rotting in a cell, especially if it turns out to be a giant honeypot for alphabet agencies to run spook shit overseas while giving them plenty of targets to bust.
But this still doesn't explain why, why would you take a distro known for stability and push something so bleeding edge and untested into the stable branch with so many screaming bloody murder? I mean you think this would be basic common sense, if your OS is known for stability and the system you have has been working without issue then DO NOT RISK FAILURE by slapping the untested and buggy replacement until its had time to be properly vetted in testing!
I'm starting to think the rumors are true that RH is ramming this down everybody's throats and giving everyone a "you are with us or you are against us" ultimatum, because logically the moves we have seen with regards to systemd simply do not make sense. The previous solution wasn't perfect but its not like X-Server where it hasn't kept up with the times and is crash prone so there really is no need to be pushing it THIS hard unless there is some politics involved. After Snowden ppointed out how tight RH and the NSA are? yeah I really don't blame folks for not wanting something untested that adds a giant single point of failure into their stable releases, especially when they seem to be ignoring everyone that doesn't want to jump on and trivializing their concerns.
The problem is the big ISPs have already cherry picked the places they want and have zero fucks to give about anybody else so anybody that isn't already covered by one of the majors gets "Herpa-de derp's wireless shitnet of infinite pain" which believe me going back to shotgunning modems would be better!
I should know as I ended up moving to get away from a Herp-de derp WISP. These "brilliant networking geniuses" decided I HAD to "have teh viruz!" because I used like 6GB of data (running WSUS Update through a VM to gather patches to update my desktops at the time) in a week so I brought the only system I was using on their WISP... a laptop running Xandros Linux Business. I sat there with my mouth dragging the floor as their "chief networking specialist" promptly TRIED TO INSTALL NORTON FOR WINDOWS ON A LINUX LAPTOP and when I pointed out that Norton for Windows wasn't gonna run on Linux? He broke out an AVG for Windows disc LOL! Needless to say I demanded and got my money back and started looking for a new place to live the next day.
So while this is a nice idea IN THEORY in reality none of the big boys will bother, after all if they had a single fuck to give they wouldn't have already taken 200 billion in tax dollars and given us a low res Goatse in return, so what you'll get is indie WISPs that know less than your average 15 year old halo player when it comes to networking.
Oh good so its not just me then? Because I thought I surely had to have missed something because Debian has the image of stability yet here we are with another "masterpiece" by the same guy that shoved Pulse out when it wasn't even alpha quality yet Debian is suddenly jumping on with this ultra bleeding edge? Why? Why would they risk their rep by shoving out the door something this uncooked?
I have a question, which I hope won't be ignored simply because I'm the "token Windows guy" here, because this one has been puzzling me when it comes to Debian..
Since Debian is known as the "super stable" distro and from what we've seen systemd obviously still has some issues to be worked out why not simply have systemd in testing and have stable without? Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it Debian has stable and testing yes? So why the rush to put systemd in stable when it appears to make more sense to have it in testing until all the bugs are ironed out, or at least not make it the default until the thing is ready?
I mean I could understand this if it were Ubuntu, whose motto might as well be "so bleeding edge the ISOs have stigmata" but that has never the kind of image that Debian has projected. While I'm not the conspiracy nut type having every distro push this including the ones known for being conservative? It DOES smell hinky as well as give off the whiff of a bit of "good old boys club", especially since its from the same guy that gave the world Pulse way way WAY before it was ready.
So I just don't get it, why not diffuse the whole thing, leave it in testing until the bugs are ironed out and once its features are all ironed out THEN put it in stable? I don't know all the backstage politics so maybe there is political considerations but from a strictly logical standpoint that sounds like the best way to go...so what am I missing?
And if they DO NOT WANT TO, what then? Let me guess, tax tax tax tax and oh yeah how about some tax?
I spent the majority of my life hard left until they frankly went full on statist, now its all "big mommy knows best" and you can solve everything with more taxes. I frankly hate the bible thumping bullshit of the right but at least they aren't trying to take my right to choose by taxing everything they don't like until only their rich prick asses can afford it.
Welcome to reality, where many teachers only care about being seen as the end all source of all knowledge and don't like anybody actually challenging their conventions. I know the feeling as I was nearly pushed to the point of coming to blows and dropping out of junior high because the math teacher had it in his head if you were better at math than him? Well you HAD to be a cheat! It was there I learned public schools are nothing but factories designed to crank out middle of the road drones, anyone that isn't perfectly average in every respect will be turned upon.
As for TFA I had a couple of pulpy horror books written in the CYOA style, universal monsters in comic style, IIRC one even came with a record and you changed tracks depending on your "choices" but IIRC the choices were "follow the story or werewolf bites your ass" so you quickly learned to stick with the A choice LOL. But back then when the closest you could get to an RPG for single player was Atari Adventure and those of us in the flyover states had better odds of a bag of money falling from the sky into our laps than finding a running D&D game the CYOA books was our first taste of the kind of interactivity we take for granted today. RIP Mr. Montgomery and thanks for the fun.
I think in the future Gerald Bull will be proven right and for non human payloads a supergun will be the way to go. Sadly he was hampered by the tech of his time but I could see something like a coilgun up the side of mountain on the equator being doable, hell you could probably harness both the wind on the mountainside and geothermal if you picked the right mountain and drive costs way down.
You might even be able to one day use it for human launches by firing it in stages, similar to the V3 of WWII
Not to mention the rumors are that below 22nm the yields and clockspeeds are going to shit, with Intel suffering as many as 40% bad per wafer and the remaining ones aren't hitting targeted clocks without a LOT of leakage. If these rumors are true you're gonna be seeing a shitload of sub 1.6Ghz parts from Intel and I'll be curious to see if these new chips will even run high performance software with the clocks getting so low and whether Intel will be able to make profit on them with so many getting binned as low tier or outright tossed.
Yeah where's my e-chocolate dammit! That sounded soooo fucking good, maybe chocolate flavoring over WiFi? I already have delicious chocolate over USB thanks to this nummy chocolate vape (tastes just like Special Dark BTW, love it!) hooked into this USB adapter but I thought this would cut out the middleman and finally give us the ultimate human achievement, a candy equivalent of push button bacon!
Oh why u so mean/. non-editors? teasing us with great candies only to show us bat dudes, and he don't even have a cool car or a bat credit card...lame.
Oh please, how batshit can you get FOSSie? Oh nice M$ BTW, you deserve a Linux Party!. Are you SERIOUSLY soooo fucking delusional that you think MSFT is gonna jump through all those hoops and go through all that bullshit for....what exactly? To attack your "precious" which is all but dead in the consumer space with the exception of the Google "Watch us pull a EEE on them dumb FOSSies" Android?
News Flash the NEW CEO IS NOT STEVE BALMER and therefor doesn't do things the old way. he sees no point in worrying about the copyrights and patents on a programming framework because hey! The value of a programming language is WHAT YOU BUILD WITH IT not what patents and copyrights you have on it! To everybody who isn't a batshit crazy FOSSie its obvious what he's doing, the more platforms a.NET application runs on the better and since Nadella seems to be heading into a more services and support direction this makes damned good business sense.
So you go back to living like its 1998 and its Billy Gates versus RMS and the rest of us will live in the 2010s,mmmkay?
Nope because while the "Bobs" (or as we call 'em locally "Velma the disaster area" after a particularly bad case that works at a local insurance firm) can cause some serious damage they don't hold a candle to "Chuck Porn" when it comes to sheer mountains of malware!
You see with Chuck Porn all you have to do is HINT that you will POSSIBLY give him some of his fetish of choice? he'll happily run any program from any website, follow any instructions said website gives him, even go so far as to uninstall his antivirus and disable his firewall, and all you have to do is give him a single JPG scraped from the CDUniverse porn section that matches whatever fetish he is looking for at that instant. You see with Bob or Velma you have to actually shoot an email with a subject that might catch their attention (and get past the spam filters) whereas with Chuck all you have to do is have a simple script return the name of whatever he is looking for with the thumbnail of the DVD, something like "Sure Chuck you can watch Tranny gangbang 47 for absolutely free! Just download and run "Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Codex.exe and be sure to disable your AV if it bitches, you don't want to miss seeing the gangbang do you?" and voila! Hook, line, and sinker.
the record for the most malware ever seen in my days of working shops was a Chuck that came into the previous shop I worked for, he had taken an i5 Toshiba laptop and turned it into a Pentium 3 when it came to performance by ending up with....drumroll....over 2400 active running malware infections on a single laptop! It took over an hour to boot the thing, but Doug wanted to see if it beat the previous record (also claimed by a Chuck) of 21 seventy something, which it beat by damned near 400 running infections. The final total was something like 2497, just nuts and nowhere near the 600-800 on average you'd see from a Bob or Velma.
Sorry but that's bullshit, it didn't have jack shit with "throwing the bums out" and everything to do with the fact that minorities and young folks don't vote in midterms so that every other election is given to white men over 50. Its really that simple, the young and minorities see congress as a pandering corrupt circlejerk so if the POTUS isn't on the line? They just do not care.
I can't say as I blame 'em, from the primaries through the election all my state had as "choices" were pre-bought corp whores and since my state doesn't support write ins and the only initiative on the ballot I gave a fuck about was predicted to pass by a huge amount? I skipped it. Unlike SOME here that think its fine to support evil by supporting the lesser of two evils that is STILL SUPPORTING EVIL and without a third party choice this year my only choice to avoid supporting an evil corrupt POS candidate was to avoid the polls altogether.
Call me names all you want but I refuse to legitimize a corrupt game by playing in it, and I refuse to support an obviously corrupt self serving candidate picked by a political machine designed to keep the old money insiders at the top. Perhaps one day we'll have the ability to have functional third parties but if I'm only given a choice of 1.- Fourth gen old money DINO whose family has been enriching themselves in politics since the 20s or 2.- First gen RINO whose only "stand" is "I hate Obama and promise to never vote for anything Obama supports EVAR, vote for me!" then the only moral choice is clear, avoid the cesspit altogether.
If you are #1 in a small market that still makes you #1 and frankly what is disturbing when it comes to RH is how much of their money comes from government contracts, specifically US government. I would frankly be amazed if the #1 server deployed in the US government and military wasn't RH and you know the old saying one doesn't bite the hand that feeds.
But if all you care about is income then frankly nobody should bother speaking of anything Linux at all as all Linux sales combined wouldn't even equal SAP, much less MSFT and APPL.
Nope, totally clean install AAMOF just using their very own tool to make a backup of the passwords and bookmarks...suuuucccckkkkkksssss! Any Blip videos are right out, black screen, YouTube is hit or miss with some playing WITH the security risking ads, some playing without, and some not at all like Blip, and again some sites work right and some shit the bed. On my second machine I restored from image back to 24.x and ya know what? Worked fine.
So while I still have it on there and will try it on each new release my go to browser is now Comodo Chromium Secure which blows away both Palemoon AND Comodo Dragon on raw speed, using the Google log in I was able to transfer from Dragon all my data in less than a minute, and most importantly adblock? actually works as intended, with just the content and ONLY the content loading!
if you haven't given it a spin try it, its really nice.
Or if the cheese has slipped their cracker simply open up the doors and blow up the rocket itself. I seriously doubt it'd be hard to make the fuel on one of those blow and I really don't know if I'd trust 40+ year old unmaintained safety measures on an MRV to work if the rocket itself went boom, after all yo'd only need one warhead to go off in the explosion to make a huge radiation disaster.
Sorry I don't have time to find a link but I remember reading several years back that one of the accidental bomb releases back in the 60s (when these things were actually well maintained) had caused 2 out of the 3 triggers to go off, despite no arm signal being sent to the device. Considering those electronics have been bathed in radioactive decay for 40+ years and haven't had squat spent on 'em since Bush Sr was in the White House I really don't think I'd want to bet my behind on those things being 100% stable if the rocket blew up, would you?
Tried it and FYI but buuuuulllllsssshhhhiiiitttt! Their static version of adblock is a bad joke, unless you consider videos not loading at all as "functional", many pages still won't load correctly or come up with the mobile version, the entire thing is a fucking mess. I kept the install and will be happy to give it a spin on each release but ATM its completely crippled compared to the 24.x branch. Sadly since there is a pretty severe security hole in 24.x the devs won't fix to force users to take the broken 25.x at this time I simply cannot in good conscience recommend PaleMoon to anybody.
Yes if the "victims" were gladly handing over the product in exchange for guns and gold. No WASP penis holders ever had to take a single step off the boat as the black slavers had the product lined up on the dock and ready to go, which ironically has changed very little in 400 years as today the only place I know of where you can buy slaves by the hundreds is from African slavers.
Pretending it was the WASP penis holders that made slavery a thriving viable business is nothing but doubleplusgood PC historical revisionism, because how long you think a couple hundred white men with nets and chains (after all guns would be worthless in that situation, not to mention the lousy fire rate of a flintlock wouldn't save your behind in jungle warfare) stomping around the African bush looking for potential slaves last? A week, maybe 2 at most? Nope then as now the African slave trade wouldn't have existed if it weren't for African racism and tribal bullshit. THAT is history, THAT was the reality, and we still have its traces today in America in the form of ebonics, the language of the slaver.
Here are some choices, Palemoon (used to be my go-to but the 25x release broke too much) Comodo Secure Chromium (my current go-to), Waterfox, Comodo Icedragon, Comodo Dragon, Kmeleon, SWIron, Opera, Seamonkey.
Try the above and see which fits you best, no point in accepting crappy practices with so much choice.
So its racist to point out what actually happened in the past with regards to slavery? politically correct much? Are your history books doubleplusgood and blame every bad thing in history on WASP penis holders?
And News Flash, the slave boats? yeah the crews never even had to step off the boat as BLACK SLAVERS had thousands lined up and ready to go before they even pulled into the harbor...after they were done raping and pillaging of course. There is even evidence that ebonics is based on the pigeon English picked up by black slavers to allow them to trade with the white boats.Ironically if you want to buy slaves in bulk in 2014 just as you did in 1814? You can go to the black Muslim slave traders in Africa and buy black slaves by the truckload. Now just as then it comes down to tribal bullshit but as we saw with those 5000 schoolgirls they are rolling like its 1799 over there, even raping and pillaging just as they did then if the reports are accurate.
Whether you choose to accept history or not doesn't change the fact that southern slavery would have not been able to function without the hard work and dedication of black slavers in providing product, 200 white guys wandering around in the African jungle looking for slaves would last about as long as a Christian street preacher would last in Mecca today.
Show up and do.....what exactly? My state DOES NOT HAVE the choice of leaving ballots blank, you HAVE to vote for somebody so if I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils where does that leave me? it leaves me not voting.
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I'm sorry but the Windows registry is the BEST THING EVAR and beats the dogshit off the "lets shotgun .txt files all over" that Linux uses. just FYI but NOBODY HAS TO obfuscate, they have the choice but its NOT forced, and thanks to the registry I can fix a multitude of problems by simply sending someone a .reg file. they don't have to do anything else, deal with bash bullshit, know anything complicated, simply "clicky clicky" and they are done.
I'd take a hundred Windows registries over the mess of txt crap that Linux uses, which too many distros take upon themselves to change just enough to make it incompatible with others. With Windows a single well written reg file can cover everything from XP-Win10, 15+ years of compatibility, Linux has nothing that comes close, nothing.
I am paying for an apt even though I have a nice 3 bed 2 bath sitting empty, why? Because its a block from where the lines end and neither the DSL or cable will run the whole block and a half to give me net. I can literally see the DSLAM and cable junction box from the backdoor but neither will hook me up the ONLY one that will? Herps De Derpa WISP which is so badly set up you can see everyone on a tower through network neighborhood on windows...I'm not shitting you, you can see every.single.person. on the tower through NN on Windows...yeah no, not gonna trust my CC info or my surfing on that shit.
Bimbo newton Crosby, they have generated such negative feelings from the very community REQUIRED to keep such a game alive (not like space sims are very popular and their community is small but loyal) so you can stick a fork, this thing is done. they'll probably bleed through what isn't taken in chargebacks in a few months and find their game is a ghostown and that will be that, just another failed MMO that nobody will remember a year from now.
Its a damned shame as I like Descent Freespace and Freelancer and would have looked into this upon release but not now, I don't support companies that treat their supporters like that.
If you use TOR or Freenet and have a family or are not a millionaire who can afford to throw away hundreds of thousands on lawyers you are a fool, simple as that. As my friend in the state crime lab pointed out the ways the laws are written when it comes to distribution and facilitation mean that anybody that runs an exit node or has a Freenet cache can be busted as a child pornographer and what do ya know, some countries are already doing just that.
Thanks to the vague as fuck ways these laws are written it DOES NOT MATTER that you can't see the files you cache on Freenet, that you aren't scanning the TOR traffic coming through your exit node or that you don't even see so much as a single jpg, it doesn't even matter if your PC is obviously hijacked by somebody else because at the end of the day ALL that matters is that CP passed through your router. That is all the court cares about, the cops who get increased federal funding for more CP busts sure has no fucks to give and the prosecutor? look at the virus link, even when shown proof that when the unit is connected to the net it is instantly controlled by another party he comes up with a "I bet he did that on purpose to cover up his crimes!" BS excuse. Why? Because I have no doubt he'll be running for public office and CP busts sell to the soccer mom set.
So you can believe its a honeypot (which is what I believe, too many "advocates" banging the "TOR is for freedom and privacy!" drum are getting their checks from the likes of Radio Free Asia and other CIA fronts. I seriously doubt any less than 90% of the money going into TOR isn't coming from 3 letter agencies and fronts for the same like RFA) or a bastion of freedom, doesn't matter, all that matters is the current laws as written mean you can spend the rest of your life behind bars for using it. I don't know about anybody else but I have no desire to spend the rest of my life rotting in a cell, especially if it turns out to be a giant honeypot for alphabet agencies to run spook shit overseas while giving them plenty of targets to bust.
But this still doesn't explain why, why would you take a distro known for stability and push something so bleeding edge and untested into the stable branch with so many screaming bloody murder? I mean you think this would be basic common sense, if your OS is known for stability and the system you have has been working without issue then DO NOT RISK FAILURE by slapping the untested and buggy replacement until its had time to be properly vetted in testing!
I'm starting to think the rumors are true that RH is ramming this down everybody's throats and giving everyone a "you are with us or you are against us" ultimatum, because logically the moves we have seen with regards to systemd simply do not make sense. The previous solution wasn't perfect but its not like X-Server where it hasn't kept up with the times and is crash prone so there really is no need to be pushing it THIS hard unless there is some politics involved. After Snowden ppointed out how tight RH and the NSA are? yeah I really don't blame folks for not wanting something untested that adds a giant single point of failure into their stable releases, especially when they seem to be ignoring everyone that doesn't want to jump on and trivializing their concerns.
The problem is the big ISPs have already cherry picked the places they want and have zero fucks to give about anybody else so anybody that isn't already covered by one of the majors gets "Herpa-de derp's wireless shitnet of infinite pain" which believe me going back to shotgunning modems would be better!
I should know as I ended up moving to get away from a Herp-de derp WISP. These "brilliant networking geniuses" decided I HAD to "have teh viruz!" because I used like 6GB of data (running WSUS Update through a VM to gather patches to update my desktops at the time) in a week so I brought the only system I was using on their WISP... a laptop running Xandros Linux Business. I sat there with my mouth dragging the floor as their "chief networking specialist" promptly TRIED TO INSTALL NORTON FOR WINDOWS ON A LINUX LAPTOP and when I pointed out that Norton for Windows wasn't gonna run on Linux? He broke out an AVG for Windows disc LOL! Needless to say I demanded and got my money back and started looking for a new place to live the next day.
So while this is a nice idea IN THEORY in reality none of the big boys will bother, after all if they had a single fuck to give they wouldn't have already taken 200 billion in tax dollars and given us a low res Goatse in return, so what you'll get is indie WISPs that know less than your average 15 year old halo player when it comes to networking.
Oh good so its not just me then? Because I thought I surely had to have missed something because Debian has the image of stability yet here we are with another "masterpiece" by the same guy that shoved Pulse out when it wasn't even alpha quality yet Debian is suddenly jumping on with this ultra bleeding edge? Why? Why would they risk their rep by shoving out the door something this uncooked?
I have a question, which I hope won't be ignored simply because I'm the "token Windows guy" here, because this one has been puzzling me when it comes to Debian..
Since Debian is known as the "super stable" distro and from what we've seen systemd obviously still has some issues to be worked out why not simply have systemd in testing and have stable without? Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it Debian has stable and testing yes? So why the rush to put systemd in stable when it appears to make more sense to have it in testing until all the bugs are ironed out, or at least not make it the default until the thing is ready?
I mean I could understand this if it were Ubuntu, whose motto might as well be "so bleeding edge the ISOs have stigmata" but that has never the kind of image that Debian has projected. While I'm not the conspiracy nut type having every distro push this including the ones known for being conservative? It DOES smell hinky as well as give off the whiff of a bit of "good old boys club", especially since its from the same guy that gave the world Pulse way way WAY before it was ready.
So I just don't get it, why not diffuse the whole thing, leave it in testing until the bugs are ironed out and once its features are all ironed out THEN put it in stable? I don't know all the backstage politics so maybe there is political considerations but from a strictly logical standpoint that sounds like the best way to go...so what am I missing?
And if they DO NOT WANT TO, what then? Let me guess, tax tax tax tax and oh yeah how about some tax?
I spent the majority of my life hard left until they frankly went full on statist, now its all "big mommy knows best" and you can solve everything with more taxes. I frankly hate the bible thumping bullshit of the right but at least they aren't trying to take my right to choose by taxing everything they don't like until only their rich prick asses can afford it.
Welcome to reality, where many teachers only care about being seen as the end all source of all knowledge and don't like anybody actually challenging their conventions. I know the feeling as I was nearly pushed to the point of coming to blows and dropping out of junior high because the math teacher had it in his head if you were better at math than him? Well you HAD to be a cheat! It was there I learned public schools are nothing but factories designed to crank out middle of the road drones, anyone that isn't perfectly average in every respect will be turned upon.
As for TFA I had a couple of pulpy horror books written in the CYOA style, universal monsters in comic style, IIRC one even came with a record and you changed tracks depending on your "choices" but IIRC the choices were "follow the story or werewolf bites your ass" so you quickly learned to stick with the A choice LOL. But back then when the closest you could get to an RPG for single player was Atari Adventure and those of us in the flyover states had better odds of a bag of money falling from the sky into our laps than finding a running D&D game the CYOA books was our first taste of the kind of interactivity we take for granted today. RIP Mr. Montgomery and thanks for the fun.
I think in the future Gerald Bull will be proven right and for non human payloads a supergun will be the way to go. Sadly he was hampered by the tech of his time but I could see something like a coilgun up the side of mountain on the equator being doable, hell you could probably harness both the wind on the mountainside and geothermal if you picked the right mountain and drive costs way down.
You might even be able to one day use it for human launches by firing it in stages, similar to the V3 of WWII
Not to mention the rumors are that below 22nm the yields and clockspeeds are going to shit, with Intel suffering as many as 40% bad per wafer and the remaining ones aren't hitting targeted clocks without a LOT of leakage. If these rumors are true you're gonna be seeing a shitload of sub 1.6Ghz parts from Intel and I'll be curious to see if these new chips will even run high performance software with the clocks getting so low and whether Intel will be able to make profit on them with so many getting binned as low tier or outright tossed.
Yeah where's my e-chocolate dammit! That sounded soooo fucking good, maybe chocolate flavoring over WiFi? I already have delicious chocolate over USB thanks to this nummy chocolate vape (tastes just like Special Dark BTW, love it!) hooked into this USB adapter but I thought this would cut out the middleman and finally give us the ultimate human achievement, a candy equivalent of push button bacon!
Oh why u so mean /. non-editors? teasing us with great candies only to show us bat dudes, and he don't even have a cool car or a bat credit card...lame.
Oh please, how batshit can you get FOSSie? Oh nice M$ BTW, you deserve a Linux Party!. Are you SERIOUSLY soooo fucking delusional that you think MSFT is gonna jump through all those hoops and go through all that bullshit for....what exactly? To attack your "precious" which is all but dead in the consumer space with the exception of the Google "Watch us pull a EEE on them dumb FOSSies" Android?
News Flash the NEW CEO IS NOT STEVE BALMER and therefor doesn't do things the old way. he sees no point in worrying about the copyrights and patents on a programming framework because hey! The value of a programming language is WHAT YOU BUILD WITH IT not what patents and copyrights you have on it! To everybody who isn't a batshit crazy FOSSie its obvious what he's doing, the more platforms a .NET application runs on the better and since Nadella seems to be heading into a more services and support direction this makes damned good business sense.
So you go back to living like its 1998 and its Billy Gates versus RMS and the rest of us will live in the 2010s,mmmkay?
Nope because while the "Bobs" (or as we call 'em locally "Velma the disaster area" after a particularly bad case that works at a local insurance firm) can cause some serious damage they don't hold a candle to "Chuck Porn" when it comes to sheer mountains of malware!
You see with Chuck Porn all you have to do is HINT that you will POSSIBLY give him some of his fetish of choice? he'll happily run any program from any website, follow any instructions said website gives him, even go so far as to uninstall his antivirus and disable his firewall, and all you have to do is give him a single JPG scraped from the CDUniverse porn section that matches whatever fetish he is looking for at that instant. You see with Bob or Velma you have to actually shoot an email with a subject that might catch their attention (and get past the spam filters) whereas with Chuck all you have to do is have a simple script return the name of whatever he is looking for with the thumbnail of the DVD, something like "Sure Chuck you can watch Tranny gangbang 47 for absolutely free! Just download and run "Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Codex.exe and be sure to disable your AV if it bitches, you don't want to miss seeing the gangbang do you?" and voila! Hook, line, and sinker.
the record for the most malware ever seen in my days of working shops was a Chuck that came into the previous shop I worked for, he had taken an i5 Toshiba laptop and turned it into a Pentium 3 when it came to performance by ending up with....drumroll....over 2400 active running malware infections on a single laptop! It took over an hour to boot the thing, but Doug wanted to see if it beat the previous record (also claimed by a Chuck) of 21 seventy something, which it beat by damned near 400 running infections. The final total was something like 2497, just nuts and nowhere near the 600-800 on average you'd see from a Bob or Velma.
Sorry but that's bullshit, it didn't have jack shit with "throwing the bums out" and everything to do with the fact that minorities and young folks don't vote in midterms so that every other election is given to white men over 50. Its really that simple, the young and minorities see congress as a pandering corrupt circlejerk so if the POTUS isn't on the line? They just do not care.
I can't say as I blame 'em, from the primaries through the election all my state had as "choices" were pre-bought corp whores and since my state doesn't support write ins and the only initiative on the ballot I gave a fuck about was predicted to pass by a huge amount? I skipped it. Unlike SOME here that think its fine to support evil by supporting the lesser of two evils that is STILL SUPPORTING EVIL and without a third party choice this year my only choice to avoid supporting an evil corrupt POS candidate was to avoid the polls altogether.
Call me names all you want but I refuse to legitimize a corrupt game by playing in it, and I refuse to support an obviously corrupt self serving candidate picked by a political machine designed to keep the old money insiders at the top. Perhaps one day we'll have the ability to have functional third parties but if I'm only given a choice of 1.- Fourth gen old money DINO whose family has been enriching themselves in politics since the 20s or 2.- First gen RINO whose only "stand" is "I hate Obama and promise to never vote for anything Obama supports EVAR, vote for me!" then the only moral choice is clear, avoid the cesspit altogether.
If you are #1 in a small market that still makes you #1 and frankly what is disturbing when it comes to RH is how much of their money comes from government contracts, specifically US government. I would frankly be amazed if the #1 server deployed in the US government and military wasn't RH and you know the old saying one doesn't bite the hand that feeds.
But if all you care about is income then frankly nobody should bother speaking of anything Linux at all as all Linux sales combined wouldn't even equal SAP, much less MSFT and APPL.
Nope, its electronic so you have CHECKBOXES, there is no "writing" involved so again my "choices" are 1.- Vote for evil or 2.- Not vote at all.
Since I refuse to support evil I have to do what is morally right and let the whole stinking thing rot along without me.
Nope, totally clean install AAMOF just using their very own tool to make a backup of the passwords and bookmarks...suuuucccckkkkkksssss! Any Blip videos are right out, black screen, YouTube is hit or miss with some playing WITH the security risking ads, some playing without, and some not at all like Blip, and again some sites work right and some shit the bed. On my second machine I restored from image back to 24.x and ya know what? Worked fine.
So while I still have it on there and will try it on each new release my go to browser is now Comodo Chromium Secure which blows away both Palemoon AND Comodo Dragon on raw speed, using the Google log in I was able to transfer from Dragon all my data in less than a minute, and most importantly adblock? actually works as intended, with just the content and ONLY the content loading!
if you haven't given it a spin try it, its really nice.
Or if the cheese has slipped their cracker simply open up the doors and blow up the rocket itself. I seriously doubt it'd be hard to make the fuel on one of those blow and I really don't know if I'd trust 40+ year old unmaintained safety measures on an MRV to work if the rocket itself went boom, after all yo'd only need one warhead to go off in the explosion to make a huge radiation disaster.
Sorry I don't have time to find a link but I remember reading several years back that one of the accidental bomb releases back in the 60s (when these things were actually well maintained) had caused 2 out of the 3 triggers to go off, despite no arm signal being sent to the device. Considering those electronics have been bathed in radioactive decay for 40+ years and haven't had squat spent on 'em since Bush Sr was in the White House I really don't think I'd want to bet my behind on those things being 100% stable if the rocket blew up, would you?
Tried it and FYI but buuuuulllllsssshhhhiiiitttt! Their static version of adblock is a bad joke, unless you consider videos not loading at all as "functional", many pages still won't load correctly or come up with the mobile version, the entire thing is a fucking mess. I kept the install and will be happy to give it a spin on each release but ATM its completely crippled compared to the 24.x branch. Sadly since there is a pretty severe security hole in 24.x the devs won't fix to force users to take the broken 25.x at this time I simply cannot in good conscience recommend PaleMoon to anybody.
Yes if the "victims" were gladly handing over the product in exchange for guns and gold. No WASP penis holders ever had to take a single step off the boat as the black slavers had the product lined up on the dock and ready to go, which ironically has changed very little in 400 years as today the only place I know of where you can buy slaves by the hundreds is from African slavers.
Pretending it was the WASP penis holders that made slavery a thriving viable business is nothing but doubleplusgood PC historical revisionism, because how long you think a couple hundred white men with nets and chains (after all guns would be worthless in that situation, not to mention the lousy fire rate of a flintlock wouldn't save your behind in jungle warfare) stomping around the African bush looking for potential slaves last? A week, maybe 2 at most? Nope then as now the African slave trade wouldn't have existed if it weren't for African racism and tribal bullshit. THAT is history, THAT was the reality, and we still have its traces today in America in the form of ebonics, the language of the slaver.
Here are some choices, Palemoon (used to be my go-to but the 25x release broke too much) Comodo Secure Chromium (my current go-to), Waterfox, Comodo Icedragon, Comodo Dragon, Kmeleon, SWIron, Opera, Seamonkey.
Try the above and see which fits you best, no point in accepting crappy practices with so much choice.
So its racist to point out what actually happened in the past with regards to slavery? politically correct much? Are your history books doubleplusgood and blame every bad thing in history on WASP penis holders?
And News Flash, the slave boats? yeah the crews never even had to step off the boat as BLACK SLAVERS had thousands lined up and ready to go before they even pulled into the harbor...after they were done raping and pillaging of course. There is even evidence that ebonics is based on the pigeon English picked up by black slavers to allow them to trade with the white boats.Ironically if you want to buy slaves in bulk in 2014 just as you did in 1814? You can go to the black Muslim slave traders in Africa and buy black slaves by the truckload. Now just as then it comes down to tribal bullshit but as we saw with those 5000 schoolgirls they are rolling like its 1799 over there, even raping and pillaging just as they did then if the reports are accurate.
Whether you choose to accept history or not doesn't change the fact that southern slavery would have not been able to function without the hard work and dedication of black slavers in providing product, 200 white guys wandering around in the African jungle looking for slaves would last about as long as a Christian street preacher would last in Mecca today.
Show up and do.....what exactly? My state DOES NOT HAVE the choice of leaving ballots blank, you HAVE to vote for somebody so if I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils where does that leave me? it leaves me not voting.