Lost nuclear bombs are also called "Broken Arrow".
>the US Department of Defense has officially recognized 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents, including but not limited to
1950 British Columbia B-36 crash
1956 B-47 disappearance
1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
1961 Yuba City B-52 crash
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
1966 Palomares B-52 crash[6]
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident
* microUSB charging port, which is great. Not many feature phones have that. * lasts for 1-2 weeks * cheap but reasonably solid construction * fluid UI * only about $30
AMD's new x86 Zen CPUs contain an ARM based coprocessor.
Zen added the support for AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). Secure Memory Encryption is real time memory encryption done per page table entry. This is done utilizing the onboard "Security" Processor (ARM Cortex-A5) at boot time to encrypt each page, allowing any DDR-4 memory (including nonvolatile varieties) to be encrypted. AMD SME also makes the contents of the memory more resistant to memory snooping and cold boot attacks.
The hidden meaning of "smart" in "smart phone" and "smart light switch" actually implies something different, taken from the hard drive industry:
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
The purpose of these devices seems to be total monitoring of its users. A "smart" home usually means the vendor knows the state of every light switch, every door sensor, every movement down to the millisecond. I'm just waiting for a group of burglars to break into such a database to determine when and where to break into houses.
"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." -- Steve Jobs, 1996
As of now there are no commercially available smart phones that respect your freedom entirely. Depending on where you draw the line, your best bets are Replicant or at the very least CyanogenMod without any Google Apps.
F-Droid is a package manager for Android that only contains software that respects your freedom.
Sorry, didn't mean to put you on the defensive. You're doing that because your web browser does it. You didn't want to run some random application, but you did, at some point, load a web page which contained a script tag that shouldn't have been there. You say "but it's just a web browser!" and I'm explaining, "No, it's an Operating System." Eww.
You have a very good point and the user really is responsible for what they run in the end. I should use Tor Browser more often, which is less chatty. Someone ought to make a fork of Tor Browser without Tor. It really is superior to any other browser in that regard.
+1 Social networking and mass media definitely alter human behavior. It's a pity all this stuff is hard to measure and quantify. I agree with your sentiment about social pressure.
Apropos, the documentary that I actually meant to link to is "Critical Mass" (2012). It deals with overpopulation in general but also refers to Calhoun.
It's not money but oversocialization and overpopulation.
In the 1960s John B. Calhoun conducted extensive experiments with mice, examining changes in their social behavior in an Utopian world. Calhoun gave the mice clean housing and unlimited access to food.
After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed "the beautiful ones." Breeding never resumed and behavior patterns were permanently changed.
--- There's also a controversial opinion piece that partly aligns with Calhoun's scientific findings. Theodore Kaczynski's manifest "Industrial society and its future". http://editions-hache.com/essa...
What is the current meaning of the "cyber" prefix anyway? It seems to me it's only used in news and by politicians to imply "something unknown and scary on the Internet".
I understand that this is about the Navy who is actually capable of piracy. Reading further however makes it clear that it's just another case of copyright infringement. Piracy is, in fact, an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea.
A lot of the electronics offered on Amazon Prime Day was just rebranded Chinese stuff that you can find at the same or lower prices on DealExtreme, AliExpress or GearBest ALL YEAR LONG.
other "articles" that were obviously written by covert PR drones:
>"Microsoft's newest desktop operating system comes with a range of interesting features" >"[it's] fiscally conservative [to upgrade]" >Windows 10 skeptics are subtly portrayed as being scared of all things new https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... Followed by a good dose of sock puppetry.
>"Windows 10 offers a range of interesting features including virtual digital assistant Cortana. While these features and a substantial boost to performance and speeds could be a big reason for the fast adoption of Windows 10" https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
I find it puzzling that not a single vendor goes to market a laptop with a fully free as in freedom software stack, including the initializing program or BIOS. Programmable components apart from the CPU, say hard drive controllers or 4G modems, should be isolated with an IOMMU. The last laptops that don't tread on your freedom are from 2008: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl...
Is this problem too hard for corporations with billions of R&D money at their disposal? Are they forbidden to develop hardware that doesn't subjugate the user's freedom by 3 letter agencies? Or, is it simply that most people do not care?
Updates, constantly pinging Microsoft to ask about updating software. People are like, "Well Linux doesn't tell Debian what software you have installed! Windows 10 tells Microsoft EXACTLY what you have installed!" That works until you actually run apt-get upgrade and a series of HTTP GET requests hit the servers to get specific package names and versions.
I find it puzzling that Christians in particular seem to be irritated by the idea of a lack of free will. Isn't it conflictive to believe in an all-knowing and all-powerful deity while at the same believing in freedom of choice? More than once I've seen a religious person irritated when the notion of determinism came up in a discussion. What is the connection there?
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What's wrong with OpenJDK?
Lost nuclear bombs are also called "Broken Arrow".
>the US Department of Defense has officially recognized 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents, including but not limited to
1950 British Columbia B-36 crash
1956 B-47 disappearance
1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
1961 Yuba City B-52 crash
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
1966 Palomares B-52 crash[6]
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I use a Nokia 130 Dual SIM for work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* microUSB charging port, which is great. Not many feature phones have that.
* lasts for 1-2 weeks
* cheap but reasonably solid construction
* fluid UI
* only about $30
8/10, would recommend.
AMD's new x86 Zen CPUs contain an ARM based coprocessor.
Zen added the support for AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). Secure Memory Encryption is real time memory encryption done per page table entry. This is done utilizing the onboard "Security" Processor (ARM Cortex-A5) at boot time to encrypt each page, allowing any DDR-4 memory (including nonvolatile varieties) to be encrypted. AMD SME also makes the contents of the memory more resistant to memory snooping and cold boot attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Then there are the new ARM-based Opterons.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/produ...
Reminder that copyright infringement is not "piracy".
In fact a recent court decision declared it slander:
https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-...
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
Just get some ice from an asteroid and drop it in the oceans to solve the problem once and for all. Once and for all!
The hidden meaning of "smart" in "smart phone" and "smart light switch" actually implies something different, taken from the hard drive industry:
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
The purpose of these devices seems to be total monitoring of its users. A "smart" home usually means the vendor knows the state of every light switch, every door sensor, every movement down to the millisecond. I'm just waiting for a group of burglars to break into such a database to determine when and where to break into houses.
"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
-- Steve Jobs, 1996
If you run Windows Phone or Windows 10 you should say goodbye to any sort of privacy.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietar...
As of now there are no commercially available smart phones that respect your freedom entirely. Depending on where you draw the line,
your best bets are Replicant or at the very least CyanogenMod without any Google Apps.
F-Droid is a package manager for Android that only contains software that respects your freedom.
The booster's height is about 1/4 furlongs or 530 hands.
TIL that "hand" is an actual unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sorry, didn't mean to put you on the defensive. You're doing that because your web browser does it. You didn't want to run some random application, but you did, at some point, load a web page which contained a script tag that shouldn't have been there. You say "but it's just a web browser!" and I'm explaining, "No, it's an Operating System." Eww.
You have a very good point and the user really is responsible for what they run in the end.
I should use Tor Browser more often, which is less chatty. Someone ought to make a fork of Tor Browser without Tor. It really is superior to any other browser in that regard.
+1
Social networking and mass media definitely alter human behavior. It's a pity all this stuff is hard to measure and quantify.
I agree with your sentiment about social pressure.
Thank you for the hint. I will definitely check it out.
Here's a link for the other users: http://pdxscholar.library.pdx....
Apropos, the documentary that I actually meant to link to is "Critical Mass" (2012). It deals with overpopulation in general but also refers to Calhoun.
Why on Earth are browsers revealing my battery status to random websites?
Does Google dictate these changes in exchange for funding?
It's not money but oversocialization and overpopulation.
In the 1960s John B. Calhoun conducted extensive experiments with mice, examining changes in their social behavior in an Utopian world.
Calhoun gave the mice clean housing and unlimited access to food.
After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed "the beautiful ones." Breeding never resumed and behavior patterns were permanently changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A documentary on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
---
There's also a controversial opinion piece that partly aligns with Calhoun's scientific findings.
Theodore Kaczynski's manifest "Industrial society and its future".
http://editions-hache.com/essa...
What is the current meaning of the "cyber" prefix anyway?
It seems to me it's only used in news and by politicians to imply "something unknown and scary on the Internet".
I understand that this is about the Navy who is actually capable of piracy.
Reading further however makes it clear that it's just another case of copyright infringement.
Piracy is, in fact, an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...
A lot of the electronics offered on Amazon Prime Day was just rebranded Chinese stuff that you can find at the same or lower prices on DealExtreme, AliExpress or GearBest ALL YEAR LONG.
other "articles" that were obviously written by covert PR drones:
>"Microsoft's newest desktop operating system comes with a range of interesting features"
>"[it's] fiscally conservative [to upgrade]"
>Windows 10 skeptics are subtly portrayed as being scared of all things new
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Followed by a good dose of sock puppetry.
>"Windows 10 offers a range of interesting features including virtual digital assistant Cortana. While these features and a substantial boost to performance and speeds could be a big reason for the fast adoption of Windows 10"
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Uninstall Flash
I find it puzzling that not a single vendor goes to market a laptop with a fully free as in freedom software stack, including the initializing program or BIOS.
Programmable components apart from the CPU, say hard drive controllers or 4G modems, should be isolated with an IOMMU.
The last laptops that don't tread on your freedom are from 2008: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl...
Is this problem too hard for corporations with billions of R&D money at their disposal?
Are they forbidden to develop hardware that doesn't subjugate the user's freedom by 3 letter agencies?
Or, is it simply that most people do not care?
It could as well have been a weekend project by David Lynch.
I genuinely enjoyed it.
Updates, constantly pinging Microsoft to ask about updating software. People are like, "Well Linux doesn't tell Debian what software you have installed! Windows 10 tells Microsoft EXACTLY what you have installed!" That works until you actually run apt-get upgrade and a series of HTTP GET requests hit the servers to get specific package names and versions.
Come on, people.
You can use apt over Tor.
http://richardhartmann.de/blog...
Can you configure Windows 10 to only to talk to Microsoft's hidden services?
Employers struggle to find robots who solely live to serve.
I find it puzzling that Christians in particular seem to be irritated by the idea of a lack of free will.
Isn't it conflictive to believe in an all-knowing and all-powerful deity while at the same believing in freedom of choice?
More than once I've seen a religious person irritated when the notion of determinism came up in a discussion.
What is the connection there?