I love Dr Who but I had to come to terms with the fact that it is not really science fiction so much as science fiction themed fantasy. It is well written fantasy and it plays at being science fiction but, they really just do whatever.
In fact, we are not alone, I recently found a rant that sums it up well; I still watch the show but, its a good steady fuck buddy, not really relationship material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
However a US vessel may do whatever it wants, anywhere, anytime because the US doesn't applogize. Laws are for other countries, they only have to respect laws when dealing with us. That is most certainly not a two way street.
Good thing the Pentagon has an unblemished record of never claiming anything to not have military purpose that wasn't a lie. That record of honesty will give their word a lot of weight when they are in the right like this.
> I like the idea of running tor an a separate VM from the one you do your browsing on.
It is a proxy and most of the attack vectors attack the end client, not the network itself.... the tor client needs internet access, the client behind it can only harm itself with direct acces.... so don't give it...not even dns, nothing. Just port 9050 alone and only one responding IP.
Maybe drop another interface on there and log all the non-port 9050 traffic as well:)
They have an AI so advanced it is capable of being offended? That is amazing.
Now if only they could develop one mature enough to be offended and yet remain objective enough to realize that it own opinion wasn't anything anyone asked for or cared about.
That is not the very least. That is a whole bunch of extra work when entire distributions exist just to obviate the need for this. Take a look at tails.
It is, of course, recommended to put it on a usb stick and clean boot hardware off the stick to use it; however, there is nothing stopping you from bringing it up in a VM if you are ok with the trade offs.
Accomplishes the same thing, for less work, and with a much larger already setup base which will be identical to other users, in ways that increase the work of differentiating you from other users.
also, it is possible to jail an environment better.... What you really want on you VM is to jail it onto a network segment with no gateway where its only connection to the outside world is a tor client on a second VM.
Which i care enough to state, not enough to even setup for myself. I have a few tails sticks for the few things I really need a secure environment for....so far that means mostly for times I want to drop off the network entirely in order to work with key generation.
> different psychotropic drugs, many of which I found out later have studies showing that they are less effective than a placebo (but slightly more effective than the previous class of useless drugs).
And yet, nobody had any qualms about prescribing them and charging insurance or taking your money for them. Less effective than placebo....that is really fucking something.
More than that, even if you are not trying to do bad science, there is always incentive to report bad science. I saw a great example myself a while back, big headline about marijuana use increasing the risk of heart attack.....as a pot smoker I was concerned, so I dig in....
First, it wasn't the main point of the study. Pot smokers made up a small portion of their study population. The overall study was good.
So out of a study of many hundreds, the big headline was on a small sub-population of somewhere around 20 people. The main metric they used was how many hours it had been since a person last smoked.... 24 hours being the lowest.
So basically.... a small number of pot smokers who had heart attacks before and had new ones, had them within 24 hours of smoking pot. Totally disregarding that if they had another heart attack at all, the likelyhood of it being within 24 hours of smoking was high, even if there is no connection.
It wasn't even a large difference, it was a small anomaly from a small population.
In the end, the result wasn't worth reporting, much less a headline, but reporting it like they did got their names int he paper and a big national headline.
If you mean "try it" or "use it sometimes" then there are lots of reasons, esp if you need to maintain a windows box for any reason (there are some games I really like and have had too many headaches trying to switch)
I would much prefer to do any and all development/real work on a Unix platform and preferably linux. However... having the tools I know and love available to me is always a bonus....even if its in the ridiculously stupid, disrespectful surveillance malware of an OS Windows 10 really aspires to be.
I would never trust Windows as a platform. Its a game box, the windows 10 PC is a glorified game console that also doubles as an acceptable platform for shit-talking on the web.
That will always be the extend of its usefulness, because that is as far as I can trust it.
Its even more difficult when you are ignoring that its actually an old problem that you never made much progress on.
Cell phones are entirely new in the past generation, but, there has been no uptick, overall, in distracted driving deaths, certainly not like you would expect if they were an actual cause and not simply a new preferred choice for distraction.
Distracted driving was always a problem. The only solution is to remove humans from the driving equation entirely. This will only change the symptom, more people will mess with the radio, or do some other stupid thing that doesn't get counted on its own.
Although, being after the fact legislation alone isn't really the whole issue.
To my mind, a much bigger issue, is that there is no incentive to catch them and, its been established time and again, that false advertising is profitable because the fines are seldom peanuts compared to the profits.
Some prime examples, Activia, not even cosmetics but food, with its fda regulation.... they have been slapped with tens of millions in fines at the same time they had multiple billions in sales.
Hard to chaulk it up to the type of regulation when its just widely accepted that the fine is worth paying; if anyone even notices.
So according to Obama, Nixon was never pardoned, nor was Marc Rich. Is that how I read this properly? Is Gerald Ford deserving of an asterisk next of his presidency?
The outcome of Bush, Obama, Cheney and Yoo's trials.
So they like facts more than legal arguments? Thats great, we have lots of those. Drone strikes targeted by cell phone data killing innocent people. A whole system of assasination based on paid informants and lies. A torture program that was swept under the rug rather than exposed and prosecuted....
Because its profitable for the military industrial complex. Same reason as last time. Its ok, they are probably doing it for the same reason. Stroke national penis....make money disappear. Politicians everywhere work basically the same.
While you are correct, I must confess.... MY first reaction to this was "Oh good, you mean I can root my phone that I bought with my money now"
As much as I hate the implications of this.... and I do.... I also hate that I own a device that is functionally crippled and unable to run many of the apps I would like to run.
So.. Lets assume for a second the whole Putin angle is true.
Thing is... how is he "undermining" our "democracy" by showing us the.....truth? Isn't it the politicans being exposed as liars who have undermined our democracy?
Seems to me Putin is doing us a favor, if anything at all.
Your not wrong per se, but that is about the dumbest contrived example of why I can imagine. Now.... lets stop stroking the marketing pricks ego and admit the real scenario.
Nobody is angle grinding your fucking bike lock. There will almost always be an easier bike to steal and the majority of bike thieves are not walking around with power tools. Look right at the statements of the company: "and can only be released "by trying to cut through it with an angle grinder.
Its "completely safe" because....that is almost never going to happen.
More realistic... you lock up your bike somewhere its not supposed to be, and go inside some place. You get drunk and end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning....now the city comes by to cut your lock and guess who gets gassed?
Well, that would be why I didn't find it, pretty sure the last apple product I bought was for hooking up to my ][GS. Still salty about their broken promise of ][ Forever.
And by did that....I mean my PHONE camera, because I would never leave a camera connected all the time to my desktop PC anyway.
BOTH cameras on my phone are covered by pieces of plastic that need to be moved aside physically in order to take pictures. Did that the very day I bought the phone.
However, I looked for actual products to do this....couldn't find a one. Not a single case with camera covers built in, not a single accessory available.....sad....very sad.
Frankly, I don't disagree.... but I think my state is on the right track by putting serious limits on what can be called a "contract" position and doesn't allow people to just be hired as contractors instead of employees. It HAS to either be temporary work or an actual external service as could be provided to multiple customers.
Just bringing someone in with all the trappings of employment and calling them a contractor doesn't cut it here, and I think that is entirely appropriate.
Sorry I missed your Query. Yes the NSA, the poorly named "National Security Agency".
Where to even begin. First of all, they spy on us, and when unable to do so legally, farm it out to external resources who can. This is a clear violation of privacy rights, but more than that, has a chilling effect on free speech.
They know about software flaws that put us at risk to abuse by third parties, yet keep those hidden so that people like them can abuse those flaws to gain unauthorized access to private information and infrastructure.
They are the enemies of any person who cares about liberty and the abuse of power by individuals with deep pockets.
Are the polititions going to drop the veneer of giving a shit about the public when they support the very cab companies that have done jack shit for consumers right here in boston for decades?
Everyone I know who doesn't drive, and many who do, uses these services on a regular basis, choosing them over cabs. Anyone who has taken a cab knows why.
Where was the precious regulation for YEARS when cabs were "required" to take credit cards, but regularly just drove around telling people the machine was broken. The local news was doing investigative reports about how bad the cabs were before Uber got here.
Now all of a sudden the poor cabbies who squandered their government granted monopoly for decades are crying foul and the politicians are happy to turn a blind eye to decades of disservice for a buck.
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I love Dr Who but I had to come to terms with the fact that it is not really science fiction so much as science fiction themed fantasy. It is well written fantasy and it plays at being science fiction but, they really just do whatever.
In fact, we are not alone, I recently found a rant that sums it up well; I still watch the show but, its a good steady fuck buddy, not really relationship material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
However a US vessel may do whatever it wants, anywhere, anytime because the US doesn't applogize. Laws are for other countries, they only have to respect laws when dealing with us. That is most certainly not a two way street.
Good thing the Pentagon has an unblemished record of never claiming anything to not have military purpose that wasn't a lie. That record of honesty will give their word a lot of weight when they are in the right like this.
> I like the idea of running tor an a separate VM from the one you do your browsing on.
It is a proxy and most of the attack vectors attack the end client, not the network itself.... the tor client needs internet access, the client behind it can only harm itself with direct acces.... so don't give it...not even dns, nothing. Just port 9050 alone and only one responding IP.
Maybe drop another interface on there and log all the non-port 9050 traffic as well :)
They have an AI so advanced it is capable of being offended? That is amazing.
Now if only they could develop one mature enough to be offended and yet remain objective enough to realize that it own opinion wasn't anything anyone asked for or cared about.
That is not the very least. That is a whole bunch of extra work when entire distributions exist just to obviate the need for this. Take a look at tails.
It is, of course, recommended to put it on a usb stick and clean boot hardware off the stick to use it; however, there is nothing stopping you from bringing it up in a VM if you are ok with the trade offs.
Accomplishes the same thing, for less work, and with a much larger already setup base which will be identical to other users, in ways that increase the work of differentiating you from other users.
also, it is possible to jail an environment better.... What you really want on you VM is to jail it onto a network segment with no gateway where its only connection to the outside world is a tor client on a second VM.
Which i care enough to state, not enough to even setup for myself. I have a few tails sticks for the few things I really need a secure environment for....so far that means mostly for times I want to drop off the network entirely in order to work with key generation.
> different psychotropic drugs, many of which I found out later have studies showing that they are less effective than a placebo (but slightly more effective than the previous class of useless drugs).
And yet, nobody had any qualms about prescribing them and charging insurance or taking your money for them. Less effective than placebo....that is really fucking something.
More than that, even if you are not trying to do bad science, there is always incentive to report bad science. I saw a great example myself a while back, big headline about marijuana use increasing the risk of heart attack.....as a pot smoker I was concerned, so I dig in....
First, it wasn't the main point of the study. Pot smokers made up a small portion of their study population. The overall study was good.
So out of a study of many hundreds, the big headline was on a small sub-population of somewhere around 20 people. The main metric they used was how many hours it had been since a person last smoked.... 24 hours being the lowest.
So basically.... a small number of pot smokers who had heart attacks before and had new ones, had them within 24 hours of smoking pot. Totally disregarding that if they had another heart attack at all, the likelyhood of it being within 24 hours of smoking was high, even if there is no connection.
It wasn't even a large difference, it was a small anomaly from a small population.
In the end, the result wasn't worth reporting, much less a headline, but reporting it like they did got their names int he paper and a big national headline.
If you mean "try it" or "use it sometimes" then there are lots of reasons, esp if you need to maintain a windows box for any reason (there are some games I really like and have had too many headaches trying to switch)
I would much prefer to do any and all development/real work on a Unix platform and preferably linux. However... having the tools I know and love available to me is always a bonus....even if its in the ridiculously stupid, disrespectful surveillance malware of an OS Windows 10 really aspires to be.
I would never trust Windows as a platform. Its a game box, the windows 10 PC is a glorified game console that also doubles as an acceptable platform for shit-talking on the web.
That will always be the extend of its usefulness, because that is as far as I can trust it.
Its even more difficult when you are ignoring that its actually an old problem that you never made much progress on.
Cell phones are entirely new in the past generation, but, there has been no uptick, overall, in distracted driving deaths, certainly not like you would expect if they were an actual cause and not simply a new preferred choice for distraction.
Distracted driving was always a problem. The only solution is to remove humans from the driving equation entirely. This will only change the symptom, more people will mess with the radio, or do some other stupid thing that doesn't get counted on its own.
Although, being after the fact legislation alone isn't really the whole issue.
To my mind, a much bigger issue, is that there is no incentive to catch them and, its been established time and again, that false advertising is profitable because the fines are seldom peanuts compared to the profits.
Some prime examples, Activia, not even cosmetics but food, with its fda regulation.... they have been slapped with tens of millions in fines at the same time they had multiple billions in sales.
Hard to chaulk it up to the type of regulation when its just widely accepted that the fine is worth paying; if anyone even notices.
So according to Obama, Nixon was never pardoned, nor was Marc Rich. Is that how I read this properly? Is Gerald Ford deserving of an asterisk next of his presidency?
Works for me, our foreign policy is just a few steps removed from "Plunder".
The outcome of Bush, Obama, Cheney and Yoo's trials.
So they like facts more than legal arguments? Thats great, we have lots of those. Drone strikes targeted by cell phone data killing innocent people. A whole system of assasination based on paid informants and lies. A torture program that was swept under the rug rather than exposed and prosecuted....
Lots and lots of facts for them.
Because its profitable for the military industrial complex. Same reason as last time. Its ok, they are probably doing it for the same reason. Stroke national penis....make money disappear. Politicians everywhere work basically the same.
While you are correct, I must confess.... MY first reaction to this was "Oh good, you mean I can root my phone that I bought with my money now"
As much as I hate the implications of this.... and I do.... I also hate that I own a device that is functionally crippled and unable to run many of the apps I would like to run.
Funny ecosystem we have eh?
So.. Lets assume for a second the whole Putin angle is true.
Thing is... how is he "undermining" our "democracy" by showing us the.....truth? Isn't it the politicans being exposed as liars who have undermined our democracy?
Seems to me Putin is doing us a favor, if anything at all.
Your not wrong per se, but that is about the dumbest contrived example of why I can imagine. Now.... lets stop stroking the marketing pricks ego and admit the real scenario.
Nobody is angle grinding your fucking bike lock. There will almost always be an easier bike to steal and the majority of bike thieves are not walking around with power tools. Look right at the statements of the company: "and can only be released "by trying to cut through it with an angle grinder.
Its "completely safe" because....that is almost never going to happen.
More realistic... you lock up your bike somewhere its not supposed to be, and go inside some place. You get drunk and end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning....now the city comes by to cut your lock and guess who gets gassed?
Well, that would be why I didn't find it, pretty sure the last apple product I bought was for hooking up to my ][GS. Still salty about their broken promise of ][ Forever.
And by did that....I mean my PHONE camera, because I would never leave a camera connected all the time to my desktop PC anyway.
BOTH cameras on my phone are covered by pieces of plastic that need to be moved aside physically in order to take pictures. Did that the very day I bought the phone.
However, I looked for actual products to do this....couldn't find a one. Not a single case with camera covers built in, not a single accessory available.....sad....very sad.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving person. I hope every single Washington gang criminal has every secret they ever had leaked.
Frankly, I don't disagree.... but I think my state is on the right track by putting serious limits on what can be called a "contract" position and doesn't allow people to just be hired as contractors instead of employees. It HAS to either be temporary work or an actual external service as could be provided to multiple customers.
Just bringing someone in with all the trappings of employment and calling them a contractor doesn't cut it here, and I think that is entirely appropriate.
and a ton more anniversaries! Just look at how many times we can celebrate it having left the solar system!
Sorry I missed your Query. Yes the NSA, the poorly named "National Security Agency".
Where to even begin. First of all, they spy on us, and when unable to do so legally, farm it out to external resources who can. This is a clear violation of privacy rights, but more than that, has a chilling effect on free speech.
They know about software flaws that put us at risk to abuse by third parties, yet keep those hidden so that people like them can abuse those flaws to gain unauthorized access to private information and infrastructure.
They are the enemies of any person who cares about liberty and the abuse of power by individuals with deep pockets.
Are the polititions going to drop the veneer of giving a shit about the public when they support the very cab companies that have done jack shit for consumers right here in boston for decades?
Everyone I know who doesn't drive, and many who do, uses these services on a regular basis, choosing them over cabs. Anyone who has taken a cab knows why.
Where was the precious regulation for YEARS when cabs were "required" to take credit cards, but regularly just drove around telling people the machine was broken. The local news was doing investigative reports about how bad the cabs were before Uber got here.
Now all of a sudden the poor cabbies who squandered their government granted monopoly for decades are crying foul and the politicians are happy to turn a blind eye to decades of disservice for a buck.