"Android phones" don't have this problem, certain phones from shady manufacturers do. And if you think iOS (and OS X for that matter) are free and clear of phone-home, the reality distortion field has really got you.
Personally, I don't find mobile banking or money-spending functions on my phone to be worth $500, or even $100. I can wait until I get to a real computer when I need to do something securely.
I was thinking along the lines of BPA, triclosan, and other chemicals that are common in food/drug related products that mimic estrogen.
I think the FDA recently banned triclosan from consumer products, but that might be too recent to have an impact on long-term studies yet.
As far as smells in the grocery store, typically things aren't cooked in the store throughout the day, and when they are it's in a separate room with probably separate ventilation. "Rooms" and "ventilation" are things that don't exist in a third-world open-air BBQ pit.
I don't know what they had available to them, and yet that has no bearing on anything I said. I'm sorry that you can't be educated without being butthurt.
I don't think he believes it, but he is perfectly happy to promote that perception to others. PR and branding are his bread and butter. You can be intelligent and still be a total piece of shit. That is, in fact, the most dangerous type of shithead.
What I think he believes deep down inside: "Although I don't actually run these companies, my greatness is such that I am owed the fruits of those who labor under my gilded logo." This is the attitude you will hear over and over again, more or less thinly veiled, when you ingest "conservative" media, or converse with anarcho-capitalists. Trump has tapped into a sort of feedback loop, or self-fulfilling prophecy with these ideas. He is absolutely steeped in them; he spends a good chunk of his evenings watching Fox News, even after winning the presidency. But, he also made regular appearances on Fox News going back 5 or 6 years at least. Since I don't watch reality TV, that's actually the first time I heard him speak - on Fox, claiming that Obama is a secret Muslim or something. The media created the monster. Then he got out of control and actually seized power, instead of the normal, predictable stooges they usually run.
Basically, ideas that were conceived simply as excuses for shitty behavior, have taken on a life of their own and are actually encouraging additional shitty behavior. Even when Trump is gone, there will still be people promoting this garbage, and there will still be tons of people who eat it up, in the face of their own self-interest. The long-haul battle against these ideas will be fought person-to-person as much as it is in the media.
Yes, he is serious. The film cameras these would have been shot on do not interlace. If the YouTube videos look like they have gone through a bad deinterlacing filter, that implies some things. The uploaded copies are at least two generations removed from the source material. Probably what happened is that the source material was converted to NTSC some time in the pre-digital era, which would be done for TV broadcast, or to make VHS tapes.
You don't need to have a magic Enhance button, but you do need to go to the original source material (assuming it is available) to be a competent archivist.
The names of the users will be revealed - to law enforcement, not the public. Law enforcement already knows the name of the company they are investigating. The public will too, when charges are filed.
The average buyer on one of these sites has only a cursory understanding of opsec. Even the sellers and the site admins often get it wrong, as we see in the story. With probably hundreds of thousands of transactions, and a decent chance of a fuckup from at least one of the parties in each transaction, there's a whole lot of information law enforcement can get from this.
I used to think there was basically no way to fight the emergence of these online markets, but my ideas on that are shifting now. With honeypot operations like this, they can essentially get a huge list of drug users' addresses. Never before has this type of data been amassed on that scale. The worst part of it is that the data set is skewed toward casual users; the dealers typically have better opsec. Additionally, the fact that these packages usually travel over state or national borders significantly ups the legal ante. With assholes like Jeff Sessions in power, I can see large numbers of people getting 30-year sentences for things that many local police departments wouldn't even make an arrest for. Simply because it happened on the internet.
This measure isn't aimed at the people getting hit by drones. It's aimed at the US-born Muslim who has nothing more than an ancestral connection to the Middle East, and gets radicalized entirely "by wire". Such people have committed a good chunk of the attacks on Western soil over the past few years.
That said, I don't think it will be particularly effective. And of course, we wouldn't have the foreign Jihadis or their recruitment videos in the first place, without the long history of military intervention in the region.
Reefer Madness was mildly amusing because of how ridiculously wrong parts of it were. When discussing Jihad, there's no need to make stuff up. (I mean, people do anyway - "Sharia law being implemented in 22 US states" etc. - but it's not strictly necessary, and the effect is far less amusing.)
It's likely this kind of video manipulation can be done better. When someone does do it better, we might not hear about it from "researchers" but see the videos begin to appear in the wild.
Now that the "small lie" that there was no collusion has been shot down, the strategy shifts to promoting the "big lie", which is that there's nothing wrong with the collusion.
The teams of Russian shills that get dispersed across the internet are no less real than the 50 Cent Party of China. Might I suggest researching it, as well as Russia's. since you appear not to know these types of projects are in deployment.
The only good thing is, it doesn't matter if its shills or not. A bad idea from a shill is no more difficult to discredit than a bad idea from someone who listened to a shill. The real challenge getting people to think critically. I know the cognitive dissonance between "my favorite reality TV star is president" and "the president treasonously colludes with foreign powers" hurts, and the propaganda machine gives you easy out to assuage that pain. But that sort of running from bad or difficult things stunts your intellectual growth. If you insist on doing it, please also refrain from voting or ever being in a position of authority.
It's starting to occur to me that Facebook might not always be the dominant social media platform, even though it certainly seems like that today. Usually when companies do things like this - squeezing/monetizing existing users - it means they think new users won't be coming in great numbers.
Of course, it may just mean Facebook has already locked in the whole planet and so things like this are their only option for further revenue growth.
Infrastructure is one of the things our taxes should pay for. The taxpayers are already paying for it anyway - they just write the checks to AT&T instead of Uncle Sam. In today's society, internet access is as essential as a car or a telephone. You don't get on without it. It's effectively a tax, but we have for-profit companies administering it, skimming their cut off the top. The competition that normally leads to efficiency in a free market doesn't exist when discussing infrastructure. And it's not due to government meddling, it's due to the shared nature of infrastructure itself. If we could somehow alter physical reality to allow 20 sets of roads, comm lines, etc to exist on top of each other... then maybe we could have meaningful competition in infrastructure.
No, the trick is to get one that distorts so little that it's imperceptible. Which is not hard, or expensive, with transistors.
If you want distortion for aesthetic reasons, the proper time to do that is while recording/producing the music. For example, with a guitar amp. Then your recording has the desired aesthetic baked-in. If your music doesn't sound good without extra post-processing (via tube stereo), it wasn't recorded right.
Also when you abandon tubes, you get to hear undistorted music in contexts where that's desirable, like classical or acoustic recordings.
If that's all it was, that would be fine. Spotify is going beyond that: claiming these works were developed independently of itself, when in fact they were commissioned. The quality of the music doesn't factor into it. It's people paying for one thing and being served something else.
It's perfectly logical when your goal is to create a wage-slave class. That requires full employment, low wages, and minimal public services. If there's no safety net, and no social mobility, your life is dependent on your total subservience to the company.
Feeling productive doesn't need to come from monetary employment. Hobbies and social pursuits (like raising children) can provide that. The fulfillment from that sort of thing is much deeper than (say) operating a cash register, or working as a receptionist, just so that you can collect a paycheck.
It uses the phrase "publicly available" then proceeds to list things that are generally not publicly available - varying by state of course.
Its hard to believe that those who drafted the letter are unaware of that, or of the proper procedures to follow when making such a request - even with the incompetence of this administration.
No, it seems more like the letter was sent specifically to capture this news cycle. The states, nearly all of them, predictably refused to comply. Now trump gets to paint the narrative exactly like he wants - "the states are helping to cover up millions of fraudulent votes". The rejection of this letter serves as a stand-in for actual evidence, which won't ever come.
You can expect plenty more posturing like this throughout the commission. The entire point of the commission, after all, is to provide a propaganda counter-point to the Russia investigation. A smooth way to change the subject while appearing not to change the subject.
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"Android phones" don't have this problem, certain phones from shady manufacturers do. And if you think iOS (and OS X for that matter) are free and clear of phone-home, the reality distortion field has really got you. Personally, I don't find mobile banking or money-spending functions on my phone to be worth $500, or even $100. I can wait until I get to a real computer when I need to do something securely.
I was thinking along the lines of BPA, triclosan, and other chemicals that are common in food/drug related products that mimic estrogen.
I think the FDA recently banned triclosan from consumer products, but that might be too recent to have an impact on long-term studies yet.
As far as smells in the grocery store, typically things aren't cooked in the store throughout the day, and when they are it's in a separate room with probably separate ventilation. "Rooms" and "ventilation" are things that don't exist in a third-world open-air BBQ pit.
How long could you push a Tesla at 80 or 90 mph? Would it overheat or just finish off the battery within the hour?
I don't know what they had available to them, and yet that has no bearing on anything I said. I'm sorry that you can't be educated without being butthurt.
I don't think he believes it, but he is perfectly happy to promote that perception to others. PR and branding are his bread and butter. You can be intelligent and still be a total piece of shit. That is, in fact, the most dangerous type of shithead.
What I think he believes deep down inside: "Although I don't actually run these companies, my greatness is such that I am owed the fruits of those who labor under my gilded logo." This is the attitude you will hear over and over again, more or less thinly veiled, when you ingest "conservative" media, or converse with anarcho-capitalists. Trump has tapped into a sort of feedback loop, or self-fulfilling prophecy with these ideas. He is absolutely steeped in them; he spends a good chunk of his evenings watching Fox News, even after winning the presidency. But, he also made regular appearances on Fox News going back 5 or 6 years at least. Since I don't watch reality TV, that's actually the first time I heard him speak - on Fox, claiming that Obama is a secret Muslim or something. The media created the monster. Then he got out of control and actually seized power, instead of the normal, predictable stooges they usually run.
Basically, ideas that were conceived simply as excuses for shitty behavior, have taken on a life of their own and are actually encouraging additional shitty behavior. Even when Trump is gone, there will still be people promoting this garbage, and there will still be tons of people who eat it up, in the face of their own self-interest. The long-haul battle against these ideas will be fought person-to-person as much as it is in the media.
Yes, he is serious. The film cameras these would have been shot on do not interlace. If the YouTube videos look like they have gone through a bad deinterlacing filter, that implies some things. The uploaded copies are at least two generations removed from the source material. Probably what happened is that the source material was converted to NTSC some time in the pre-digital era, which would be done for TV broadcast, or to make VHS tapes.
You don't need to have a magic Enhance button, but you do need to go to the original source material (assuming it is available) to be a competent archivist.
The names of the users will be revealed - to law enforcement, not the public. Law enforcement already knows the name of the company they are investigating. The public will too, when charges are filed.
The average buyer on one of these sites has only a cursory understanding of opsec. Even the sellers and the site admins often get it wrong, as we see in the story. With probably hundreds of thousands of transactions, and a decent chance of a fuckup from at least one of the parties in each transaction, there's a whole lot of information law enforcement can get from this.
I used to think there was basically no way to fight the emergence of these online markets, but my ideas on that are shifting now. With honeypot operations like this, they can essentially get a huge list of drug users' addresses. Never before has this type of data been amassed on that scale. The worst part of it is that the data set is skewed toward casual users; the dealers typically have better opsec. Additionally, the fact that these packages usually travel over state or national borders significantly ups the legal ante. With assholes like Jeff Sessions in power, I can see large numbers of people getting 30-year sentences for things that many local police departments wouldn't even make an arrest for. Simply because it happened on the internet.
This measure isn't aimed at the people getting hit by drones. It's aimed at the US-born Muslim who has nothing more than an ancestral connection to the Middle East, and gets radicalized entirely "by wire". Such people have committed a good chunk of the attacks on Western soil over the past few years.
That said, I don't think it will be particularly effective. And of course, we wouldn't have the foreign Jihadis or their recruitment videos in the first place, without the long history of military intervention in the region.
Reefer Madness was mildly amusing because of how ridiculously wrong parts of it were. When discussing Jihad, there's no need to make stuff up. (I mean, people do anyway - "Sharia law being implemented in 22 US states" etc. - but it's not strictly necessary, and the effect is far less amusing.)
There's plenty of actual Russian operations for you to deny, why are you wasting your time here?
It's likely this kind of video manipulation can be done better. When someone does do it better, we might not hear about it from "researchers" but see the videos begin to appear in the wild.
Now that the "small lie" that there was no collusion has been shot down, the strategy shifts to promoting the "big lie", which is that there's nothing wrong with the collusion.
Let's throw the Christians and Trumpkins in there too.
The teams of Russian shills that get dispersed across the internet are no less real than the 50 Cent Party of China. Might I suggest researching it, as well as Russia's. since you appear not to know these types of projects are in deployment. The only good thing is, it doesn't matter if its shills or not. A bad idea from a shill is no more difficult to discredit than a bad idea from someone who listened to a shill. The real challenge getting people to think critically. I know the cognitive dissonance between "my favorite reality TV star is president" and "the president treasonously colludes with foreign powers" hurts, and the propaganda machine gives you easy out to assuage that pain. But that sort of running from bad or difficult things stunts your intellectual growth. If you insist on doing it, please also refrain from voting or ever being in a position of authority.
It's starting to occur to me that Facebook might not always be the dominant social media platform, even though it certainly seems like that today. Usually when companies do things like this - squeezing/monetizing existing users - it means they think new users won't be coming in great numbers.
Of course, it may just mean Facebook has already locked in the whole planet and so things like this are their only option for further revenue growth.
Infrastructure is one of the things our taxes should pay for. The taxpayers are already paying for it anyway - they just write the checks to AT&T instead of Uncle Sam. In today's society, internet access is as essential as a car or a telephone. You don't get on without it. It's effectively a tax, but we have for-profit companies administering it, skimming their cut off the top. The competition that normally leads to efficiency in a free market doesn't exist when discussing infrastructure. And it's not due to government meddling, it's due to the shared nature of infrastructure itself. If we could somehow alter physical reality to allow 20 sets of roads, comm lines, etc to exist on top of each other... then maybe we could have meaningful competition in infrastructure.
No, the trick is to get one that distorts so little that it's imperceptible. Which is not hard, or expensive, with transistors.
If you want distortion for aesthetic reasons, the proper time to do that is while recording/producing the music. For example, with a guitar amp. Then your recording has the desired aesthetic baked-in. If your music doesn't sound good without extra post-processing (via tube stereo), it wasn't recorded right.
Also when you abandon tubes, you get to hear undistorted music in contexts where that's desirable, like classical or acoustic recordings.
If that's all it was, that would be fine. Spotify is going beyond that: claiming these works were developed independently of itself, when in fact they were commissioned. The quality of the music doesn't factor into it. It's people paying for one thing and being served something else.
They are all actually aliases of Aphex Twin.
The tracks were put on flash drives left in the parking lot of the Spotify offices.
It's not so much about the pedigree of the music as Spotify misrepresenting it.
It's perfectly logical when your goal is to create a wage-slave class. That requires full employment, low wages, and minimal public services. If there's no safety net, and no social mobility, your life is dependent on your total subservience to the company.
Feeling productive doesn't need to come from monetary employment. Hobbies and social pursuits (like raising children) can provide that. The fulfillment from that sort of thing is much deeper than (say) operating a cash register, or working as a receptionist, just so that you can collect a paycheck.
Three syllables:
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It uses the phrase "publicly available" then proceeds to list things that are generally not publicly available - varying by state of course. Its hard to believe that those who drafted the letter are unaware of that, or of the proper procedures to follow when making such a request - even with the incompetence of this administration. No, it seems more like the letter was sent specifically to capture this news cycle. The states, nearly all of them, predictably refused to comply. Now trump gets to paint the narrative exactly like he wants - "the states are helping to cover up millions of fraudulent votes". The rejection of this letter serves as a stand-in for actual evidence, which won't ever come. You can expect plenty more posturing like this throughout the commission. The entire point of the commission, after all, is to provide a propaganda counter-point to the Russia investigation. A smooth way to change the subject while appearing not to change the subject.