Supporting banks and credit unions include Bank of America, BECU, Chase, First Tech, Fifth Third Bank, People's United Bank, US Bank and Virginia Credit Union.
but its hard to imagine 180 recording artists snored through 40 years of being bankrupted by the RIAA, MPAA, and Ticketmaster only to suddenly give a shit when www.youtube.com started returning their names in search queries. These arent artists, theyre brands owned by their respective copyright holders. And those copyright holders --the RIAA and MPAA -- have decided to use their purchased products to shill congress. its really no different than, say, an automaker driving to Washington in a hybrid SUV that will never see production, only to beg for a bailout
Even if a phone call is encrypted, the very act of making a call provides a wealth of data to spies.
implying you know what a phonecall looks like encrypted. TLS from services like signal on android look indistinguishable from any other VPN traffic you might see on the wire. Couple the phone with openvpn's client, and you have a phone that well, doesnt emit phonelike traffic at all.
non-smartphones can be viewed as superior to smartphones as they generate a smaller data footprint. Going a step further, a pager can be viewed as superior to a non-smartphone because communication on the user's end is further constrained, as well as not anchored to a particular phone line.
but that footprint is guaranteed to use public infrastructure that is readily intercepted by a malicious state actor. you no longer have a cryptographic option, or very much insight into what traffic is leaving the phone. A pager routinely hits a cell tower and emits user-identifiable data that will always be relayed through a carrier network that is part of the state apparatus for spycraft. Pagers havent been safe since the DEA realized they could intercept them during drug investigations.
Perhaps, in certain cases, the best solution is to follow the lead of Russian spymasters and simply opt out.
In some cases, yes. Do you absolutely need your cellphone on you at all times? you would be surprised how many events dont require it but its present anyhow; do an audit. For events that do require a cellphone, use your situational awareness to limit its emissions, and ensure the device as well as its traffic is encrypted.
Check out Prism Break for more information on how to avoid state sponsored unlawful surveillance.
I noticed the vaio I ordered gets a little warm when gaming, but nothing to be concerned about so far. FWIW crysis seems to run just fine on the SVE17133@!!!#[NO CARRIER]
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has run into another setback.
He also faces a fine of one million euros if the content continues to be shared via The Pirate Bay
pretty extraordinary considering he hasnt been part of the pirate bay for nearly a fucking decade. Again, content isnt being shared, only metadata to acquire it from a distributed network of people who have it. Im sure the same media companies that employ metadata to track every iota of their customers lives are well versed in the concept.
Sunde and Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm owe large sums of money to copyright holders following adverse decisions in cases dating back years.
the point of this is you do not, and cannot win these court cases. The cases arent the point, its biblical retribution for anyone who even dares to challenge the protection racket of music and video. Most of the attorneys are just showing up to bleed the defendant dry and ruin as much of them as possible. Its harder to do in more liberal european nations, however its getting easier. Media companies have a direct in with the FBI and ICE. They can lobby to have your generally trustworthy host countries police force arrive in full tactical regalia to drag you in handcuffs to jail for a victimless crime. Kim Dot Com doesnt get to win his cases either. your money is confiscated, youre made to be tried in absentia, your case is as obfuscated as possible, and the judge has more chromosomes than a sperm bank.
I find YouTube's business to be very disingenuous.
Yeah? And what about your how to destroy angels album? You never really took the time to explain this was a new band, rather, you springboarded your talented wife on the shoulders of Nine Inch Nails to limitless failure. Mariqueen Maandig is a talentless millennial styled rocker, meaning shes just another mumford and suns "ho ho hey hey oooh ooh" regurgutation of 40 year old folk music, freeze dried and repackaged as some living fucking anachronism of the bygone era of hair flowers and legitimate lyricists as singers. She will never be Roger Whittaker, she will never be the Almond brothers, and your bullshit contribution of rehashed samples from the downward spiral only served to highlight the fact that you lied to us.
You should have titled the band, "how to castrate a legend." Angels is a passionless and apathetic ode to the foot-shuffling special snowflake ripoff artists that infest modern rock like a plague.
And i think i speak for us all when I say I'll be in the cold cold ground before i ever trust some bull-shit packager repository more than portage. Shuttleworth can eat my ass like groceries.
another closed source OS filesystem is not what the world wants or needs, regardless of just how many "solid" features you think are in it. Take a page from microsoft and spare the countless BSD and Linux ussers mounting flaky FUSE partitions for android developers and MPD partitions for our mp3 players. in a decade or two when you get tired of the filesystem, and inevitably abandon it for whatever white rabbit the board of directors is chasing in the never ending story of capitalism, im sure new versions of APFS will exist for linux and BSD admins such as goddamn APFS, and fucking APFS to torture us long after your soiree is completed..
are left to wonder, is this cycle of trust, greed, and betrayal an inextricable part of the experience? Is the lennart pottering libertarian stance of "well no ones making you use it" simply how we're to approach these cabals of internet service? They do no wrong, offer a service, and we're to accept the illusion of choice?
shouldnt we, the product of sites like facebook, have more say in how the site is managed or what happens to our data? or are these sites just doomed to decline, obsolescence, and venture capital buyout without any accountability for the years of activity they had on the web vis-a-vis AOL?
Microsoft over the past 15 years has evolved from an OS that runs applications to a rats nest of "do everything forever." its a web browser, an app store, a media center, an XBOX, some kind of amorphous social platform, and occasionally an office and development workstation. But it all comes from Microsoft, a company thats historically maintained an ethos of crippling software like email clients and spreadsheets that run on its OS. Its a rock and a hard place for sure because if you insist on doing everything, you rarely do anything.
Looking at BSD and Linux, these projects are just OS, period. GNU offers some very stable tools to manage the OS, but you're by no means required to use them (some distros dont include them.) If you want a media center, MPD has an entire team of people working on making that a thing you can do. some might work on netbsd, but netBSD isnt about to attempt the backflips necessary to show up ready-to-go as a media server for everyone. BSD and Linux are more centric to a users specific needs not because they try to be the wal-mart of personal computing tasks, but because they foster a productive and well-running sandbox in which creative teams can come up with applications that solve problems and do things people are trying to do on their terms.
as a lexus driver im accustomed to certain quirks but this is unreal. First the car comes with "turning signals" which honestly I dont see any reason to use, and now the GPS, my only means of figuring out how to make a left turn against 5 lanes of traffic at 90 miles per hour is broken?! Whats next?? youll tell me the little L on the front of my car hasnt doesnt give me godlike powers over traffic?
3 hours in a checkpoint with my shoes off, my laptop out, and my belt in a plastic tub as i shuffle with my pants now around my ankles into a giant microwave oven only to have boarded a flight where a thick beard or a mathematics equation on a napkin will get me sent to torture prison wasnt enough. Now, the very agency purportedly keeping me safe from the "terrorists" has knocked out the global system used to guide everything from uber to cruise missiles and my flight to Phoenix is now a flight to Scotland.
Is that blackberry spent 17 years being the most expensive phone on the planet until Apple, with the lowest quality handsets in the history of north american cellular communications, and the most unreliable corporate email integration since the advent of SMTP, only to emerge unaccountably as a player in the Android marketplace.
at this point RIM is akin to a boardroom full of geriatrics huffing their own farts and insisting that a phone with only 23 million users in the world is somehow expected to be bought at nearly three times the price of a phone with 90 million users in the US alone. That, magically, Blackberry is supposed to commit to and compete with a marketplace that has offered 1080p, N wireless, wimax, NFC, and an open API with a product that still requires a hobbled network of randomly unavailable email proxies for its devices explicit use.
windows 10 users: conversion to xbox will be automatic, once you click the red X for X box on the prompt to upgrade Linux/BSD/Mac: A drunken and slightly bloated Steve Ballmer clad in black spandex will shimmy up a drainpipe and into your bedroom window, where he will sail moistly past your desktop and furiously begin applying "x-box" stickers to the mini fridge in the corner of the room while furiously grunting "developers" over and over again under his breath.
Once Time Warner introduced a data cap on my broadband service, I instituted several efficiency improvements on my network. Im certain most ISP's will understand, after all, many of these are just content throttling to improve my user experience.
1. Null routing known advertisers: Its a fact of life, that many advertisers cause a strain on my network by utilising far more bandwidth than they should. If advertisers wish to continue, they can purchase additional bandwidth from me or enroll in my advertiser affiliate program for a nominal monthly fee.
2. Ad blocking software: ublock, and noscript are used to help curtail loading flash, tracking, or advertisements that some websites feature. these services also prevent downloading injected advertisements by my network provider (see affiliate program for more information.)
3. torrents: Netflix and hulu use an inefficient protocol in many cases compared to torrents and magnet links. I can watch the same video or listen to the same song at my leisure, whenever I feel like it, without reaching the cap or limit imposed by my provider.
Real slashdotters such as myself needn't worry, as Facebooks failure to support elinks/links browsers made it easy to pass up. Netflix neither supports BSD, or Linux, and as we all know is incapable of streaming to the VAX in the basement or even the raspberry pi running crosscompiled gentoo and a custom graphics firmware based on an old episode of Dr. Who, so of course Not-flix will not be an issue.
Linkedin, Tumblr or MySpace.
Linkedin, hah. All our real recruiters spend summers camped out on our front lawn singing poetry and roasting fine cuts of meat in a vain attempt to win our favour. Tumblr for slashdotters? I hardly think the internet has much of an opinion outside the warm green glow...unless you're up late like the rest of us posting comedy gold to the gophernet. and MySpace? Ive got all the music and pop culture I need from the newsgroups and my trusty Sound Blaster Pro Midi...thats right...myspace is laughable once youve heard the DOOM soundtrack in glorious 16 bit audio.
ECTR's arent a formal technical definition, its a smoke-and-mirrors piece of jargon invented by the FBI to conceal the meaning and definition of what it really wants and to prevent overstepping the "metadata" line.
ECTRs are apache, postfix, nginx, and php logs from transactions. they are asking for your system logs.
dimitri: Am of posting fresh potato, look. this is of good flavor too from sister svetlana garden. Svetlana: I hope you are into enjoyment of the flavor! dimitri:look! of even better potato! this potato i get today, click here for your potato too! Svetlana:what?!?! am not of into giving other potato!! Ivan: this is not of happenings dimitri! how is this? no one have TWO POTATO you are of into LIE?? dimitri: nyet! was not potato from my postings! is hacker of my account! potato was not my potato!!! Ivan: you should change potato. this potato is not of secure then. maybe do not eat insecurity potato. Svetlana: American burger with chees! I just got my free burger at the free burger site pls click here for delicious burger hams with a breadroll from actual american!! Putin:...please into showing me where burger is....
is that North Korea has invented some sort of entropy rocket that can explode unpredictably at low altitude, only to emerge again quickly reassembled for a new flight. Its the ballistic equivalent of the US Republican party.
Speaking as a representative from the Home Office, I can assure you as citizenry there is nothing to be alarmed about. We've compiled this database to detect certain abberant behavior in britons that may indicate nefarious intent similar to a terrorist. Among these behaviors:
1. Milk applied before the tea, such as to scald it
2. too much milk in the tea, such as to coddle the weak gullet of a terrorist.
3. Milk and lemon in the tea, a sure sign of a deviant madman hellbent on the destruction of our great nation
4. Enjoying, or not, marmite. we havent decided ourselves (janice in signals detection says it works on pizza too?)
5. Questioning, mentioning, or affording any opinion on the Faulkand Islands. You know who you are violet ortiz born 6/3/1970 and wed to mister lonnie harvey of 2592 dane st who also happens to have a half eaten bottle of vegemite from holiday last year in Perth. We keep those sheep very well fed thank you kindly now back to your Reddit and dont leave that crisp wrapper on the train like last time, you caused an awful lot of anxiety for that polish maid sitting behind you.
advancing science and technology is all well and good, but the reason we fixate on those pesky "political issues" is because the plutocratic class of which mr Schmidt is most certainly a member have structured modern society in such a means that it is no longer possible to casually ignore the state of affairs in which we the lowly mankind live. Outside the gilded fencing, normal americans have to work multiple jobs to earn subsistance or poverty wages. They have health insurance thats not only unaffordable but now mandatory in its coverage of almost nothing. Americans since the decline of manufacturing and labor sectors may not have a terrible unemployment rate, but the labour partitipation rate is still barely 60%.
We live in a constant state of federally mandated terror in which our every move and utterance is recorded in some clandestine bunker for future analysis. our government still runs a secret torture prison in cuba, fights secret wars in the middle east, runs an entire secret court system with secret warrants, and once killed a US citizen with a drone because they didnt like his opinion. Yet despite all this wartime money our government fails to fund even basic veterans healthcare. We spend more than 2 hours in checkpoints just for simple travel, ostensibly to protect us from the terrorists that each year kill hundreds of times fewer of us than the heroin epidemic ravaging the nation that receives no attention.
And what is this political process we're so encumbered by? that we could just ignore and move on to developing the next phone? Its represented by an entire wing that shut the government down twice with impunity. The other half lies pathologically about its intent and governs through--surprise--a direct line from the monied elite. Its not got a solution for our broken immigration system or our rotting school system, but fear not because its just passed another trade deal that will spirit away american prosperity and jobs in favour of sweatshop labour and jackbooted copyright law.
so yeah, if we've inconvenienced the advance of civilization at your behest we're truly sorry. Its just between our uncle returning with untreated PTSD from 3 wars, our sister who spends the day high under a bridge, and the payday lending place thats slowly waterboarding us out of a home, we've been a little busy. but im sure you can find an H1B to fill in for now.
Lenovo spokesperson: This certainly didnt meet our expectations...we should learn and grow from the experience. Microsoft spokesperson: The Windows phone is, and will always be, a perfect success. our acquisition from Nokia was, and always will be, a good decision. less than 1% market share is precisely the finest definition of this success. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to shovel a few more coal-like employees into the furnace of unemployment, that our steam engine of failure might surge ever mightier into oblivion in its quest for bankruptcy.
joes diner: great food, cursed cheese cake provides listeria as advertised. mega dental: Excellent, fast service set to the pace of a live speed metal band. understandable you must work the sound board properly. Wal Mart: Theme park for the well to do. Got to beat a real human being with a sack of potatoes. set fire to aisle 12 and dispatched my own fire department. Holiday shopping for boiled shrimp and car tires unfortunately interrupted by Aer Lingus flight 8901 coming in from heathrow.
The company has struggled with steadily rising wages across the continent, where it employs around a million people.
for the uninitiated, companies like Adidas manufacture shoes in asian countries under a system of Export Processing Zones or EPZ's. the EPZ is not under formal government control, is policed by the host countries military, and obtains waivers for any and all outstanding labor laws that may govern minimum wage or safety. EPZ's in the phillipines for example can force a 17 hour workday and hire women as young as 12. Young women are preferred as theyre uneducated and less likely to form a union or protest labor conditions in general. EPZ's that do successfully form a labour union are subsequently torn down and shipped out to other countries, with many of the middle managers that facilitate manufacturing Adidas and other shoes still managing the new workforce.
sweatshops have been a known problem for almost 40 years. What adidas is combatting is the fact that consumers are now able to give their brand an autopsy through the internet and find out just how much blood it takes to make a set of new sneakers. Consumer brands are different than products, because you are insisted upon to adopt the brand and its ethos. Once you become close to a brand, you relate to all its social norms and pretexts. People dont see a company anymore, so once it comes to light that an Adidas factory caught fire after a 16 hour shift with barricaded exists and no fire safety equipment, you as a consumer become collateral damage. the same psychological relationship used to relate the brand to you now applies to how you relate to the deaths of 150 workers. You, through brand identity, become a murderer.
that and to a lesser extent the declining influence and ability of -through repressive imperialist foreign policy- western nation states to exert and enforce networks of EPZ's at the behest of their respective shareholders. Robots are now a heck of a lot cheaper than overthrowing a government, installing a puppet, and murdering a labor rebellions leader.
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who all responded, "Windows has a phone?"
but its hard to imagine 180 recording artists snored through 40 years of being bankrupted by the RIAA, MPAA, and Ticketmaster only to suddenly give a shit when www.youtube.com started returning their names in search queries. These arent artists, theyre brands owned by their respective copyright holders. And those copyright holders --the RIAA and MPAA -- have decided to use their purchased products to shill congress. its really no different than, say, an automaker driving to Washington in a hybrid SUV that will never see production, only to beg for a bailout
Even if a phone call is encrypted, the very act of making a call provides a wealth of data to spies.
implying you know what a phonecall looks like encrypted. TLS from services like signal on android look indistinguishable from any other VPN traffic you might see on the wire. Couple the phone with openvpn's client, and you have a phone that well, doesnt emit phonelike traffic at all.
non-smartphones can be viewed as superior to smartphones as they generate a smaller data footprint. Going a step further, a pager can be viewed as superior to a non-smartphone because communication on the user's end is further constrained, as well as not anchored to a particular phone line.
but that footprint is guaranteed to use public infrastructure that is readily intercepted by a malicious state actor. you no longer have a cryptographic option, or very much insight into what traffic is leaving the phone. A pager routinely hits a cell tower and emits user-identifiable data that will always be relayed through a carrier network that is part of the state apparatus for spycraft. Pagers havent been safe since the DEA realized they could intercept them during drug investigations.
Perhaps, in certain cases, the best solution is to follow the lead of Russian spymasters and simply opt out.
In some cases, yes. Do you absolutely need your cellphone on you at all times? you would be surprised how many events dont require it but its present anyhow; do an audit. For events that do require a cellphone, use your situational awareness to limit its emissions, and ensure the device as well as its traffic is encrypted. Check out Prism Break for more information on how to avoid state sponsored unlawful surveillance.
I noticed the vaio I ordered gets a little warm when gaming, but nothing to be concerned about so far.
FWIW crysis seems to run just fine on the SVE17133@!!!#[NO CARRIER]
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has run into another setback.
He also faces a fine of one million euros if the content continues to be shared via The Pirate Bay
pretty extraordinary considering he hasnt been part of the pirate bay for nearly a fucking decade. Again, content isnt being shared, only metadata to acquire it from a distributed network of people who have it. Im sure the same media companies that employ metadata to track every iota of their customers lives are well versed in the concept.
Sunde and Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm owe large sums of money to copyright holders following adverse decisions in cases dating back years.
the point of this is you do not, and cannot win these court cases. The cases arent the point, its biblical retribution for anyone who even dares to challenge the protection racket of music and video. Most of the attorneys are just showing up to bleed the defendant dry and ruin as much of them as possible. Its harder to do in more liberal european nations, however its getting easier. Media companies have a direct in with the FBI and ICE. They can lobby to have your generally trustworthy host countries police force arrive in full tactical regalia to drag you in handcuffs to jail for a victimless crime. Kim Dot Com doesnt get to win his cases either. your money is confiscated, youre made to be tried in absentia, your case is as obfuscated as possible, and the judge has more chromosomes than a sperm bank.
I find YouTube's business to be very disingenuous.
Yeah? And what about your how to destroy angels album? You never really took the time to explain this was a new band, rather, you springboarded your talented wife on the shoulders of Nine Inch Nails to limitless failure. Mariqueen Maandig is a talentless millennial styled rocker, meaning shes just another mumford and suns "ho ho hey hey oooh ooh" regurgutation of 40 year old folk music, freeze dried and repackaged as some living fucking anachronism of the bygone era of hair flowers and legitimate lyricists as singers. She will never be Roger Whittaker, she will never be the Almond brothers, and your bullshit contribution of rehashed samples from the downward spiral only served to highlight the fact that you lied to us.
You should have titled the band, "how to castrate a legend." Angels is a passionless and apathetic ode to the foot-shuffling special snowflake ripoff artists that infest modern rock like a plague.
And i think i speak for us all when I say I'll be in the cold cold ground before i ever trust some bull-shit packager repository more than portage. Shuttleworth can eat my ass like groceries.
another closed source OS filesystem is not what the world wants or needs, regardless of just how many "solid" features you think are in it. Take a page from microsoft and spare the countless BSD and Linux ussers mounting flaky FUSE partitions for android developers and MPD partitions for our mp3 players. in a decade or two when you get tired of the filesystem, and inevitably abandon it for whatever white rabbit the board of directors is chasing in the never ending story of capitalism, im sure new versions of APFS will exist for linux and BSD admins such as goddamn APFS, and fucking APFS to torture us long after your soiree is completed..
are left to wonder, is this cycle of trust, greed, and betrayal an inextricable part of the experience? Is the lennart pottering libertarian stance of "well no ones making you use it" simply how we're to approach these cabals of internet service? They do no wrong, offer a service, and we're to accept the illusion of choice?
shouldnt we, the product of sites like facebook, have more say in how the site is managed or what happens to our data? or are these sites just doomed to decline, obsolescence, and venture capital buyout without any accountability for the years of activity they had on the web vis-a-vis AOL?
and unless this computer predicted the rise of low-traffic clickbait, im not interested.
Microsoft over the past 15 years has evolved from an OS that runs applications to a rats nest of "do everything forever." its a web browser, an app store, a media center, an XBOX, some kind of amorphous social platform, and occasionally an office and development workstation. But it all comes from Microsoft, a company thats historically maintained an ethos of crippling software like email clients and spreadsheets that run on its OS. Its a rock and a hard place for sure because if you insist on doing everything, you rarely do anything.
Looking at BSD and Linux, these projects are just OS, period. GNU offers some very stable tools to manage the OS, but you're by no means required to use them (some distros dont include them.) If you want a media center, MPD has an entire team of people working on making that a thing you can do. some might work on netbsd, but netBSD isnt about to attempt the backflips necessary to show up ready-to-go as a media server for everyone. BSD and Linux are more centric to a users specific needs not because they try to be the wal-mart of personal computing tasks, but because they foster a productive and well-running sandbox in which creative teams can come up with applications that solve problems and do things people are trying to do on their terms.
as a lexus driver im accustomed to certain quirks but this is unreal. First the car comes with "turning signals" which honestly I dont see any reason to use, and now the GPS, my only means of figuring out how to make a left turn against 5 lanes of traffic at 90 miles per hour is broken?! Whats next?? youll tell me the little L on the front of my car hasnt doesnt give me godlike powers over traffic?
3 hours in a checkpoint with my shoes off, my laptop out, and my belt in a plastic tub as i shuffle with my pants now around my ankles into a giant microwave oven only to have boarded a flight where a thick beard or a mathematics equation on a napkin will get me sent to torture prison wasnt enough. Now, the very agency purportedly keeping me safe from the "terrorists" has knocked out the global system used to guide everything from uber to cruise missiles and my flight to Phoenix is now a flight to Scotland.
Is that blackberry spent 17 years being the most expensive phone on the planet until Apple, with the lowest quality handsets in the history of north american cellular communications, and the most unreliable corporate email integration since the advent of SMTP, only to emerge unaccountably as a player in the Android marketplace.
at this point RIM is akin to a boardroom full of geriatrics huffing their own farts and insisting that a phone with only 23 million users in the world is somehow expected to be bought at nearly three times the price of a phone with 90 million users in the US alone. That, magically, Blackberry is supposed to commit to and compete with a marketplace that has offered 1080p, N wireless, wimax, NFC, and an open API with a product that still requires a hobbled network of randomly unavailable email proxies for its devices explicit use.
windows 10 users: conversion to xbox will be automatic, once you click the red X for X box on the prompt to upgrade
Linux/BSD/Mac: A drunken and slightly bloated Steve Ballmer clad in black spandex will shimmy up a drainpipe and into your bedroom window, where he will sail moistly past your desktop and furiously begin applying "x-box" stickers to the mini fridge in the corner of the room while furiously grunting "developers" over and over again under his breath.
Once Time Warner introduced a data cap on my broadband service, I instituted several efficiency improvements on my network. Im certain most ISP's will understand, after all, many of these are just content throttling to improve my user experience.
1. Null routing known advertisers: Its a fact of life, that many advertisers cause a strain on my network by utilising far more bandwidth than they should. If advertisers wish to continue, they can purchase additional bandwidth from me or enroll in my advertiser affiliate program for a nominal monthly fee.
2. Ad blocking software: ublock, and noscript are used to help curtail loading flash, tracking, or advertisements that some websites feature. these services also prevent downloading injected advertisements by my network provider (see affiliate program for more information.) 3. torrents: Netflix and hulu use an inefficient protocol in many cases compared to torrents and magnet links. I can watch the same video or listen to the same song at my leisure, whenever I feel like it, without reaching the cap or limit imposed by my provider.
Facebook and Netflix
Real slashdotters such as myself needn't worry, as Facebooks failure to support elinks/links browsers made it easy to pass up. Netflix neither supports BSD, or Linux, and as we all know is incapable of streaming to the VAX in the basement or even the raspberry pi running crosscompiled gentoo and a custom graphics firmware based on an old episode of Dr. Who, so of course Not-flix will not be an issue.
Linkedin, Tumblr or MySpace.
Linkedin, hah. All our real recruiters spend summers camped out on our front lawn singing poetry and roasting fine cuts of meat in a vain attempt to win our favour. Tumblr for slashdotters? I hardly think the internet has much of an opinion outside the warm green glow...unless you're up late like the rest of us posting comedy gold to the gophernet. and MySpace? Ive got all the music and pop culture I need from the newsgroups and my trusty Sound Blaster Pro Midi...thats right...myspace is laughable once youve heard the DOOM soundtrack in glorious 16 bit audio.
ECTR's arent a formal technical definition, its a smoke-and-mirrors piece of jargon invented by the FBI to conceal the meaning and definition of what it really wants and to prevent overstepping the "metadata" line.
ECTRs are apache, postfix, nginx, and php logs from transactions. they are asking for your system logs.
dimitri: Am of posting fresh potato, look. this is of good flavor too from sister svetlana garden.
Svetlana: I hope you are into enjoyment of the flavor!
dimitri:look! of even better potato! this potato i get today, click here for your potato too!
Svetlana:what?!?! am not of into giving other potato!!
Ivan: this is not of happenings dimitri! how is this? no one have TWO POTATO you are of into LIE??
dimitri: nyet! was not potato from my postings! is hacker of my account! potato was not my potato!!!
Ivan: you should change potato. this potato is not of secure then. maybe do not eat insecurity potato.
Svetlana: American burger with chees! I just got my free burger at the free burger site pls click here for delicious burger hams with a breadroll from actual american!!
Putin:...please into showing me where burger is....
is that North Korea has invented some sort of entropy rocket that can explode unpredictably at low altitude, only to emerge again quickly reassembled for a new flight. Its the ballistic equivalent of the US Republican party.
Speaking as a representative from the Home Office, I can assure you as citizenry there is nothing to be alarmed about. We've compiled this database to detect certain abberant behavior in britons that may indicate nefarious intent similar to a terrorist. Among these behaviors:
1. Milk applied before the tea, such as to scald it
2. too much milk in the tea, such as to coddle the weak gullet of a terrorist.
3. Milk and lemon in the tea, a sure sign of a deviant madman hellbent on the destruction of our great nation
4. Enjoying, or not, marmite. we havent decided ourselves (janice in signals detection says it works on pizza too?)
5. Questioning, mentioning, or affording any opinion on the Faulkand Islands. You know who you are violet ortiz born 6/3/1970 and wed to mister lonnie harvey of 2592 dane st who also happens to have a half eaten bottle of vegemite from holiday last year in Perth. We keep those sheep very well fed thank you kindly now back to your Reddit and dont leave that crisp wrapper on the train like last time, you caused an awful lot of anxiety for that polish maid sitting behind you.
advancing science and technology is all well and good, but the reason we fixate on those pesky "political issues" is because the plutocratic class of which mr Schmidt is most certainly a member have structured modern society in such a means that it is no longer possible to casually ignore the state of affairs in which we the lowly mankind live. Outside the gilded fencing, normal americans have to work multiple jobs to earn subsistance or poverty wages. They have health insurance thats not only unaffordable but now mandatory in its coverage of almost nothing. Americans since the decline of manufacturing and labor sectors may not have a terrible unemployment rate, but the labour partitipation rate is still barely 60%.
We live in a constant state of federally mandated terror in which our every move and utterance is recorded in some clandestine bunker for future analysis. our government still runs a secret torture prison in cuba, fights secret wars in the middle east, runs an entire secret court system with secret warrants, and once killed a US citizen with a drone because they didnt like his opinion. Yet despite all this wartime money our government fails to fund even basic veterans healthcare. We spend more than 2 hours in checkpoints just for simple travel, ostensibly to protect us from the terrorists that each year kill hundreds of times fewer of us than the heroin epidemic ravaging the nation that receives no attention.
And what is this political process we're so encumbered by? that we could just ignore and move on to developing the next phone? Its represented by an entire wing that shut the government down twice with impunity. The other half lies pathologically about its intent and governs through--surprise--a direct line from the monied elite. Its not got a solution for our broken immigration system or our rotting school system, but fear not because its just passed another trade deal that will spirit away american prosperity and jobs in favour of sweatshop labour and jackbooted copyright law.
so yeah, if we've inconvenienced the advance of civilization at your behest we're truly sorry. Its just between our uncle returning with untreated PTSD from 3 wars, our sister who spends the day high under a bridge, and the payday lending place thats slowly waterboarding us out of a home, we've been a little busy. but im sure you can find an H1B to fill in for now.
Lenovo spokesperson: This certainly didnt meet our expectations...we should learn and grow from the experience.
Microsoft spokesperson: The Windows phone is, and will always be, a perfect success. our acquisition from Nokia was, and always will be, a good decision. less than 1% market share is precisely the finest definition of this success. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to shovel a few more coal-like employees into the furnace of unemployment, that our steam engine of failure might surge ever mightier into oblivion in its quest for bankruptcy.
joes diner: great food, cursed cheese cake provides listeria as advertised.
mega dental: Excellent, fast service set to the pace of a live speed metal band. understandable you must work the sound board properly.
Wal Mart: Theme park for the well to do. Got to beat a real human being with a sack of potatoes. set fire to aisle 12 and dispatched my own fire department. Holiday shopping for boiled shrimp and car tires unfortunately interrupted by Aer Lingus flight 8901 coming in from heathrow.
The company has struggled with steadily rising wages across the continent, where it employs around a million people.
for the uninitiated, companies like Adidas manufacture shoes in asian countries under a system of Export Processing Zones or EPZ's. the EPZ is not under formal government control, is policed by the host countries military, and obtains waivers for any and all outstanding labor laws that may govern minimum wage or safety. EPZ's in the phillipines for example can force a 17 hour workday and hire women as young as 12. Young women are preferred as theyre uneducated and less likely to form a union or protest labor conditions in general. EPZ's that do successfully form a labour union are subsequently torn down and shipped out to other countries, with many of the middle managers that facilitate manufacturing Adidas and other shoes still managing the new workforce.
sweatshops have been a known problem for almost 40 years. What adidas is combatting is the fact that consumers are now able to give their brand an autopsy through the internet and find out just how much blood it takes to make a set of new sneakers. Consumer brands are different than products, because you are insisted upon to adopt the brand and its ethos. Once you become close to a brand, you relate to all its social norms and pretexts. People dont see a company anymore, so once it comes to light that an Adidas factory caught fire after a 16 hour shift with barricaded exists and no fire safety equipment, you as a consumer become collateral damage. the same psychological relationship used to relate the brand to you now applies to how you relate to the deaths of 150 workers. You, through brand identity, become a murderer.
that and to a lesser extent the declining influence and ability of -through repressive imperialist foreign policy- western nation states to exert and enforce networks of EPZ's at the behest of their respective shareholders. Robots are now a heck of a lot cheaper than overthrowing a government, installing a puppet, and murdering a labor rebellions leader.