FFS, my 40+ bookmark urlicons and folders just disappeared, the bookmark bar is still there, it is blank now. 1-click access to sites gone and some indeterminate amount of time pissing about trying to get them back.
Because hey, who doesn't want to click-type-type-type-type-click-wait-click to visit their favourite sites.
Is this an admission by Verizon that normally their service is the slow lane and they will make everybody's service even slower to enable a small few to have a 'fast lane'.
Why don't they just put in the infrastructure needed for peoples internet to work like what they paid for already. Are they going to give refunds for not supplying the service they sold?
You seem to have completely ignored the post you replied to, it's not like MAD because MAD stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. Smallpox is not MAD it is MAILS (Mutually Assured Itchy Little Spots) and as such is a stupid crap weapon. Smallpox inoculation was used by the Chinese over 400 years ago.
As the parent mentioned, you don't need to keep stock because if your enemy has lost their marbles and launched itchy at you then you have a sample of it. And if you'd read the summary you'd know that you don't need live samples to research it and anyway, if someone made a weapon out of it they would have most likely mutated it in which case you wouldn't have a sample until they launched it at you.
You take the ramblings of two nutjobs in war torn Syria seriously and act like these two peoples threat to invade a country actually means something.
If you believe the ramblings of crazy people, what does that make you?
Bigotry is the state of mind of someone who, as a result of their prejudices, treats or views other people with fear, distrust or hatred on the basis of a person's ethnicity, race, religion...
I looked at the shoebat site and bigotry definitely fits the bill, note how there are only stories about muslims doing bad things and not cristians, Jewish etc. The site is wall to wall fear, distrust and hatred, that is very clear.
Yes, some badly run businesses may go out of business, but that is a regular occurrence anyway. A substantial increase in the minimum wage means poor employees have more money to spend in their local economies, which of course can lead to more jobs.
I personally think that there is an obvious overall benefit to the economy and crime is also likely to fall as some people no longer feel the need to commit crime to make ends meet. Having a high minimum wage is worth it because it takes people out of poverty and benefits the taxman with more taxes and means that other tax payers can pay less because they don't need to support poor people who are so badly paid that they are still claiming benefits whilst they work.
Why should tax-payers subsidise corporations like Walmart who pay low wages?
About 5% of workers are on minimum wage in the first place, out of those 5%, some will not be rehired
That doesn't make any sense, businesses don't hire people on a whim, they hire people because they have roles that need doing, minimum wage doesn't change that. Many European countries have a minimum wage, I've seen no evidence showing that is has a detrimental effect, including where I live where it was put in place over a decade ago.
Any business that doesn't hire the people it needs is cutting off it's nose to spite it's face, or shooting itself in the foot, take your pick.
No operating heavy machinery or participation in traffic while intoxicated.
It doesn't matter whether drugs are legal/illegal, medicinal or recreational, if they impair skill or judgement then there should be laws to prevent people from driving / operating machinery whilst taking them.
"In my world view", bollocks, don't go assuming that you know what my world view is, if you did know then you wouldn't come up with crap like "Yeah, the US military really hates a straight-up fight."
Actually these days they do hate a straight up fight, if the US entered a war now and as many US soldiers died as did enemy soldiers, the US public would hate it.
Because after you hear the same drum beat with the lack of substance, you start getting tired of it.
Set up an irrelevant straw man and knock it down why don't you.
But I would hardly consider what I responded to intellectual or hard evidence. It was little more than a look over here suggestion implying there was some fact that the NSA was doing something bad because some other country had.
You seem to need some caffeine, that is gibberish considering there is no parent post to yours.
This article of course does not lack substance, the source is NSAs own data.
Did the citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have a choice when US and UK went to war with them and bombed them (drones - Pakistan), after Tony Blair and George Bush had waited for the media to ready the public for war and the intelligence to be 'fixed' (WMDs).
1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don't discuss it -- especially if you are a public figure, news anchor , etc. If it's not reported, it didn't happen, and you never have to deal with the issues.
I don't think people appreciate the degree to which this is happening. The BBC denying that white phosphorus is used as a chemical weapon by the west is a classic example of propaganda.
If this stuff where painted around the entrance of a curved tunnel and sun light shone on to it, if you you could only see the painted material then you would most 100% definitively see sunlight shining off of it.
Bright daylight being 10,000 foot candles and 1 candle light being something that we can see, 0.035% = 2,857 to 1 ratio.
100Gb/s / 3 billion = 33b/s or 4 Bytes per second each.
100Gb / 10Mibt = 10,000, factor in 250/1 contention ratio and there's maybe enough bandwidth for 2.5million people, not bad but 99.9% short of 3 billion.
Whilst I can't say I've mentioned ECHELON, I've certainly known about it for at least 13 years. And why would anyone bother mentioning it when you would just have been labelled a tin-foil hat loon.
I think the consensus (amongst people who knew about ECHELON) back then was that all calls were recorded but they couldn't keep them for long.
How much evidence do you need considering that the NSA habitually lie and that whistle-blowers have said they record everything. They are spending a billion plus on a data centre when $27 million is estimated to be enough for the hardware to record all calls. If that doesn't sound like an attempt to record everything then I don't know what does.
Slashdot Mirror
FFS, my 40+ bookmark urlicons and folders just disappeared, the bookmark bar is still there, it is blank now. 1-click access to sites gone and some indeterminate amount of time pissing about trying to get them back.
Because hey, who doesn't want to click-type-type-type-type-click-wait-click to visit their favourite sites.
Is this an admission by Verizon that normally their service is the slow lane and they will make everybody's service even slower to enable a small few to have a 'fast lane'.
Why don't they just put in the infrastructure needed for peoples internet to work like what they paid for already. Are they going to give refunds for not supplying the service they sold?
Smallpox is not a MAD weapon like nuclear weapons, that analogy does not work.
Someone launches smallpox at you, what are you going to do, launch some kind of herpes at them?
Also, US has thousands of nuclear weapons, so the MAD argument again doesn't work because the US have far superior weapon at their disposal.
You seem to have completely ignored the post you replied to, it's not like MAD because MAD stands for Mutually Assured Destruction. Smallpox is not MAD it is MAILS (Mutually Assured Itchy Little Spots) and as such is a stupid crap weapon. Smallpox inoculation was used by the Chinese over 400 years ago.
As the parent mentioned, you don't need to keep stock because if your enemy has lost their marbles and launched itchy at you then you have a sample of it. And if you'd read the summary you'd know that you don't need live samples to research it and anyway, if someone made a weapon out of it they would have most likely mutated it in which case you wouldn't have a sample until they launched it at you.
I didn't get hit with that, I think ghostery or noscript nuked the bad stuff that got in the way of the page.
You can't use that defense anyway, ignorance is not an excuse legally speaking.
You take the ramblings of two nutjobs in war torn Syria seriously and act like these two peoples threat to invade a country actually means something.
If you believe the ramblings of crazy people, what does that make you?
I looked at the shoebat site and bigotry definitely fits the bill, note how there are only stories about muslims doing bad things and not cristians, Jewish etc. The site is wall to wall fear, distrust and hatred, that is very clear.
Yes, some badly run businesses may go out of business, but that is a regular occurrence anyway. A substantial increase in the minimum wage means poor employees have more money to spend in their local economies, which of course can lead to more jobs.
I personally think that there is an obvious overall benefit to the economy and crime is also likely to fall as some people no longer feel the need to commit crime to make ends meet. Having a high minimum wage is worth it because it takes people out of poverty and benefits the taxman with more taxes and means that other tax payers can pay less because they don't need to support poor people who are so badly paid that they are still claiming benefits whilst they work.
Why should tax-payers subsidise corporations like Walmart who pay low wages?
That doesn't make any sense, businesses don't hire people on a whim, they hire people because they have roles that need doing, minimum wage doesn't change that. Many European countries have a minimum wage, I've seen no evidence showing that is has a detrimental effect, including where I live where it was put in place over a decade ago.
Any business that doesn't hire the people it needs is cutting off it's nose to spite it's face, or shooting itself in the foot, take your pick.
Minimum wage comparison of countries chart Here
Australia's minimum wage is approx $17.50 USD, it doesn't seem to be wrecking their economy.
It doesn't matter whether drugs are legal/illegal, medicinal or recreational, if they impair skill or judgement then there should be laws to prevent people from driving / operating machinery whilst taking them.
You shouldn't follow the traffic laws because...?
That could be done with a jammer, no amount of fancy security would stop that... except you know, a car door key.
No, it didn't have to, EU just told it not to do this and many organisations and people strongly protested against such a move.
EU court just told UK that the data retention law is illegal - so what did they do? make another law to do exactly the same thing, WTF?
"In my world view", bollocks, don't go assuming that you know what my world view is, if you did know then you wouldn't come up with crap like "Yeah, the US military really hates a straight-up fight."
Actually these days they do hate a straight up fight, if the US entered a war now and as many US soldiers died as did enemy soldiers, the US public would hate it.
Oops, the parent link disappears when you're replying to a post, didn't know that.
Set up an irrelevant straw man and knock it down why don't you.
You seem to need some caffeine, that is gibberish considering there is no parent post to yours.
This article of course does not lack substance, the source is NSAs own data.
Did the citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have a choice when US and UK went to war with them and bombed them (drones - Pakistan), after Tony Blair and George Bush had waited for the media to ready the public for war and the intelligence to be 'fixed' (WMDs).
'Downing street memo'
I don't think people appreciate the degree to which this is happening. The BBC denying that white phosphorus is used as a chemical weapon by the west is a classic example of propaganda.
Handy in places where reflections are bad though such as telescopes and high end camera internals perhaps.
Unfortunately only very rich ninjas will be able to afford this material. (Pirates will just steal or copy it of course)
If this stuff where painted around the entrance of a curved tunnel and sun light shone on to it, if you you could only see the painted material then you would most 100% definitively see sunlight shining off of it.
Bright daylight being 10,000 foot candles and 1 candle light being something that we can see, 0.035% = 2,857 to 1 ratio.
So, if a fire's too hot then what's stopping you from making the fire smaller and distributing the heat a bit?
2.6Mb = 325KB = half a web page, not very useful.
100Gb/s / 3 billion = 33b/s or 4 Bytes per second each.
100Gb / 10Mibt = 10,000, factor in 250/1 contention ratio and there's maybe enough bandwidth for 2.5million people, not bad but 99.9% short of 3 billion.
Wikipedia says 12Gbit total per satellite: O3b (satellite)
Not enough for 3 billion people.
Whilst I can't say I've mentioned ECHELON, I've certainly known about it for at least 13 years. And why would anyone bother mentioning it when you would just have been labelled a tin-foil hat loon.
Dated 2001:
http://textuploader.com/kxe7
It's been on Wikipedia since then too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think the consensus (amongst people who knew about ECHELON) back then was that all calls were recorded but they couldn't keep them for long.
How much evidence do you need considering that the NSA habitually lie and that whistle-blowers have said they record everything. They are spending a billion plus on a data centre when $27 million is estimated to be enough for the hardware to record all calls. If that doesn't sound like an attempt to record everything then I don't know what does.
And a couple of slashdot links for good measure:
NSA Tapping Underwater Fiber Optics
One mentioning ECHELON:
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Can't you make some kind of setup that triggers if the update fails and alerts you / wakes you up with noise from your smartphone etc.
Or like the other poster who beat me to it - off-load your work to someone in a country where your 5am is mid-day in their country.