It may be convenient and tempting to blame Obama for this, but its actually something he benefits from thats existed for more than a hundred years. Namely, how wealth learns and lives as opposed to the rest of us.
While most of us go to public school, eat school lunches and attend public universities when and if possible, the cloistered elite do not. An entire parallel yet grossly superior system of education exists for millionaires and billionaires, and everything from its fundamentals to its lunchtime is radically different. While we are playing gym and learning typing in highschool, the children of wealth learn elocution, policy, and various other traits that help them to accept their future roles as C level management, elite constitutional law attorneys, and even members of world banking organizations. If obamas children are learning programming, its merely as a jovial introduction into the world of directing, managing, or guiding long-term and broad stroke efforts in the field. They will not themselves become a "programmer."
that having been said, the children of the elite will always benefit disproportionately from government grants alongside their already generous foundation and nonprofit donations. they have overwhelming resources to secure and exploit them that public, and many private institutions, do not.
I see the argument, but its deeper than just math
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disclosure: Im a systems engineer, and have never had trouble with basic algebra.
in the US at least, we seem to have this fever-dream mentality when it comes to education and employment. Namely, that we presume so long as everyone can "code" and learn maths, that they can one day successfully achieve gainful employment and become a productive member of the workforce to lead a meaningful life. We assume little johnny needs to code because thats what his employers want, but it couldnt be further from the truth. Most businesses want a few engineers, but they dont want to spend a lot of money on them. They want the nuts-and-bolts sorted out so that reproduceability obsoletes them and permits them to hire cheaper workers because truthfully business is a job-creator as a last resort.
the issue we need to sort out as a nation is how we value work in general, whichs seems to have gone off the rails since the early nineties and NAFTA/CAFTA. Cooks, carpenters, welders, EMT's, and auto mechanics are all incredibly important --and in some cases in high demand -- professions for people to consider. However the pay and hours in these fields is a form of misery not seen since the old testament. You cant raise a family on any of these careers, and for some of them retirement isnt really an option. we use education as a whipping stick for these careers to insist theyre worth "less" than they really are, or at least so we can justify it to ourselves. If you want to see this self-fulfilling prophecy of underemployment in the real world, just look at the trucking industry. Perpetually understaffed, underpaid long-haul tractor-trailer drivers that get no vacation, sick leave, or retirement fund yet are in such ridiculous demand that most trucking companies like Dart or Swift will pay the driver to finish their CDL education. The demand is so high, drivers with a good record can quit a job and be hired at another in the same day.
So, If you want to obsolete maths like algebra, I propose we obsolete the puritanical tradition of shitting on trades that dont always rely on it. And while we're at it, lets take a sobering step back and realize that not everyone needs to code to lead a fulfilling life.
the candidate debates arent meant as a meaningful or informative approach to education of the viewer as to the appropriate policical candidate to select for office. Debates drive ad revenue and clickthrough rate for major media corporations, which in turn fuel contributions to candidates the networks deem fit-for-purpose to operate the nation. As for allegations of corporate bias, this is intended. you may be voting for a candidate, but through a convoluted system of redistricting, superdelegates, electoral colleges, shadow donors, overt print television and radio bias, and voter ID and registration regulation as a form of vote-suppression the real candidates you are in fact to choose from are quietly selected for you.
This isnt to say major corporations want you to vote for their candidate, far from the case. the plutocratic class wants you to want to vote for their candidate. Without you overtly insisting your support, the entire concept of voting is revealed to be a sham. The most egregious theme of american elections however is this: even without a majority turnout of americans, and with that minority still largely uninformed and voting on personal opinion at best, the united states continues to elect a president and that president continues to be one for which overwhelming support by a corporate citizenry is undeniably afforded.
To meaningfully understand consumer backlash to advertising means we need to go back all the way to 1986. It was here, when advertisers switched from building a product to building a brand and decoupling their reliance on a product entirely. Its also worth noting many scholars reference the 80s to a period of peak consumption. we had more choices than ever, and could no longer reliably rely on quality as a metric for purchases. by the 90s manufacturers through NAFTA and CAFTA had cemented this concept of american "brand" consumption entirely. Advertising, arguably, now had to become entirely predatory.
luxury cars were no longer sold on quality and luxury, but on a brand of cultivated superiority and projection of affluence. Athletic shoes, appliances, food, you name it, suddenly became a feature of a culture you could define yourself by and not a product you were actually seeking. "what does it do, how well does it do it" was no longer offered to be considered. And as brands forced more and more lifestyle and experience into their products they began to run out of understanding of culture, or the entropy by which their brand-centric consumerism thrived.
fast forward to this foul year 2016. ads now track you, sites track you, and campaigns overtly demand your input. there are entire analytic suites and social science departments that study you like a petri dish for any semblance of clue as to what defines your wants, and how to exploit your desires. they do this because without information about who you are and what you do, the product cant be targeted to appeal to what lifestyle you can be made to desire. Be it astronaut, playboy, or racecar driver. unless the idea of brand-as-culture is dialed back, this is only going to get worse.
what we're seeing online is a revolt against the intrusiveness of ads from bandwidth to page view and browser experience, but its also a revolt against the idea of a consumer as a lab-rat
the US is a country spending nearly 1.4 trillion dollars per year on defense. It dwarfs the spending of the next 7 largest countries combined. Americans endured this sort of breakneck spending for 50 years under the guise that, once communism fell, we would embrace a newfound wave of peace in the west.
instead we've invented boogeymen by hook and by crook. We invented ISIS by the iraq war. We invented the iraq war by weapons of mass destruction. we invented the war on terror by 9/11. we invented 9/11 by founding and training al-quaeda. we invented al-quaeda by funding an training the mujahadeen. we invented the war in afghanistan by proxy through our desire to defeat russias communism. we invented communism as a threat through the implicit desire of our oligarchy and capital class to disarm any real objection to capitalism by any means necessary.
now we're faced with a guerilla enemy, as we were when we created most of our proxy wars in central and south america...but the rules have changed. our "wars" before were innocuous as they werent winnable or loseable, only profitable. we would fight until public opinion turned, then broker a peace deal and leave. Sometimes with oil contracts, other times with infrastructure contracts. Now with the advent of a perfect shield by which our newly created enemy can conceal their intent, we are all but on a level playing field. an actor needs no longer obtain advanced weapons or tactics to defeat us, they merely need to plan extensively.
the solution is to step back from the carter doctrine of foreign policy, and deprecate our dependency on defense economy.
Using drones to spot sharks is untested technology with no backing in scientific method of research, analysis, or peer review ...and as a member of the Australian scientific community I for fear of spending a decade in prison wholly endorse our new beach drones!
Kill yourself. As a veteran Linux sysadmin seeing BCM in the lsmod or lspci for ANY machine is enough to make me dive out a window and head for the hills. Broadcom wireless --christ even broadcom wired -- is a whole other level of shit-tier performance in Linux. enjoy your frozen interfaces and unsupported modes.
To the Pi team: Why god why couldnt you have chosen something like an Intel or atheros?
PHB: were firing everyone and going with robots. who here knows SCADA HR: I uh...yes, i know SCADA.
six months later...
PHB: ok robots arent working out as we'd intended so we're selling all of them and sending the programmers packing. Were going to be hiring a substantial number of new associates starting tomorrow...so...do any of you have any personnel or management experience? SCADA coder: I used to do our payroll and holiday time scheduling! PGB: Holy shit a talking SCADA programmer!
For those still running windows, and not Chrome OS, Mac, Linux or BSD consider this...an intervention on behalf of the slashdot community. im sure you have some immediate concerns -- reasons perhaps -- that you cannot part with your abuser. ill try my best to assuage your fears. 1. But I use windows for gaming!
Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux. Popular indie games and mainstream shoot-em-ups alike. they even offer steam machines as a platform if youd rather not fuss with Ubuntu. 2. I need it for office documents.
No, it needs you. Libreoffice and a host of other tools let you edit and author office documents easily from any modern operating system. 3. well its what my office uses so...
your office and about a million others use windows, but likely still windows 7. Things like email, calendaring, and federated login have existed for decades before Microsoft bundled them into their OS. Most of the services you use online arent contingent on your windows domain. Windows exists in the office out of comfort, standard, and price. corporations license their infrastructure for a fraction of what it would cost you to buy it. 4. $os_name is hard. it doesn do $feature.
its hard because learning new things requires effort. that other OS might not do exactly what windows does, but it still accomplishes the same tasks you need it to do in a different way. Maybe it even does it better. But like a productive relationship, it helps you do important things with respect. and this brings us to our #1 point:
Windows does not respect you or your work. It insults your intelligence and flagrantly ignores your privacy. it sacrifices your productivity and needs for its own. the things it shows you and teaches you arent always things you set out to do or want from the OS, but theyre things the OS wants from you. Buy a new videogame, download a new app, pay for a new upgrade. Your operating system is shallow and narcissistic. perhaps 8 years ago it was meaningful, but times have changed.
Gaza is a lawless place, and Drones would give Palestinian terrorists a distinct advantage in launching their attacks by providing crucial Intel. Drones could observe troop movement or the location of convoys, or the beating of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer after he exits a flight from London and is detained without reason. One could even abuse these drones and seek out hospitals, where you could watch Omer spend an entire week recovering from the beating. Palestinian terrorists could fly these drones near government buildings where they would dastardly observe the knesset disavowing any knowledge of or responsibility for the Shin Bets actions.
This technology is certainly meaningful, but could easily be bypassed by twins or worse, casual photographers. My solution is both elegant and simple.
whenever asked for photo confirmation, unfold my patented visual verification sheet. The sheet, which is a visual depiction of george W bush and the words, "War Criminal," will quickly identify your presence for a transaction. For those wondering about the security of this system I can assure you, each VV sheet is unique. For example, one may contain a depiction of Hillary Clinton and the words "Corporate Citizen" to help distinguish unique transactions for a customer.
its bears remembering that while the zone of avoidance may be removed from concern, other zones are still legitimately relevant to the night sky. among them: the zone of unease: rather quite uncomfortable. best not even to mention it. the zone of overbearing parenting: we just think it would be better for you to not spend to much time in it. ok? have we made ourselves clear? Autozone: not terrible unless youre after something important and in which case youll spend a very long time indeed searching until you either run out of patience or buy new wiper blades. the zone: actually a mis-calibration. some orion telescopes will erroneously track to this small strip club in hollywood, california. this setting however can observe most partial solar eclipses visible as well from Germany's Neumayer Station, so, not a total loss...
Apache v2.0 License..so uh..enjoy your collection of neat forks.
small footprint, modular, scalable, connected, real-time OS
or literally any one of about 30 different flavours of BSD or linux that at present accomplish this goal and have done so for 30 years.
The Zephyr Project's RTOS implements both a small footpoint microkernel and an even tinier nanokernel
not good enough...i wont rest until you start using femto, atto, and zepto kernels. this kernel needs to be small enough to route the DNA in my cells.
10KB of RAM on 32-bit microcontrollers
great. another 32 bit architecture for my 64 bit environment. let me just break out my crossdev toolchain and hang myself by the coffee maker cord.
get off my goddamn lawn and stop trying to make this a thing. Wind Rivers pelvic-thrust into the internet of things isnt a meaningful contribution when so much of it is already handled nicely by alix, pi, and small form factor x64 where necessary.
Syed Rizwan Farook: political power grab to set a precedent for forcing manufacturers to decrypt the private data of their customers. both shooters are dead. their motive and operation are both known. we're chasing ghosts to advance an agenda.
attacks which struck Paris last November: are the result of a determined minority of disenfranchised extremists with nothing left to lose. a 65 year policy of proxy wars and foreign backed government coups to install lifelong dictators has left them jaded and dead inside. these are truly desperate people, clinging to $diety for some hope of retribution and justice against a system of international dominionist and interventionalist policy that has ultimately led them to perpetual misery. the solution is not to backdoor every crypto, but make structural and systemic changes in a concerted multinational fashion to help reduce and eliminate the instances of and impact from blind foreign intervention to advance imperialistic goals championed by 18th century conquistadors and feudal lords.
tplink still makes quite a number of decent standalone wireless access points with injector capability. ive never used their AIO devices, but instead ive built a network at the office with a central gentoo router connected to a switch, and the AP's locked to vlans with an IDS sniffing the network. FWIW if you need alternatives, pc engines Geode based alix routers are great (AND include AES offload at the cpu level for true random number generator acceleration.)
the challenge for providers is not how to comply with the law, but how to maintain customer trust while removing themselves from the burdensomme and dangerous position of having to be subject to it in the first place.
apples enclave is...as loathe as i am to admit it as a non-fanboy....genius. The system allows them to protect users and in doing so protect their brand. At the same time, it thwarts legislative intervention because apple has taken such a hands-off approach to the way ios does pki.
sadly though google doesnt have to stand with them on this. in fact it may benefit them not to speak out at all, as this would call attention to their own PKI system and its similar nature: absolve the manufacturer from the legal process entirely.
Ive run my own mailserver for quite some time as both a mark of hacker pride and a means of circumventing what has historically (until google started giving a shit because snowden made them) been a very lax SMTP ecosystem. I use the DJB curve primes, i use 256 bit tls 1.2, i use multifactor, but as for other mailservers? crypto doesnt seem to be even a slight consideration. ive had to leave it enabled opportunistically on my mailserver, however most of the time I fallback and dont use it.
1. Donald Trump: BRING HIM HOME.
2. Martin Schkreli: are we entirely sure martial air is toxic? this is for science damn you.
3. Justin Bieber: yes...but...can we sing in martian atmosphere...thats the real question.
microsoft certrified AP: I was trained in a microsoft approved and endorsed course sponsored by a carte blanc effort by taxpayers to learn to code or die trying. I couldnt tell a router from a switch, but so long as its in visual basic im good to code!
anyone else: I couldnt afford harvard, couldnt afford community college, but spent my nights and weekends playing doom and hacking underhanded C. I wrote my own autoresponder in perl. I interfaced my coffeemaker in python with an arduino. ive been "suspended" from school for a combination of wearing too much black, not attending enough pep functions, and knowing more about computers than the teacher. I will be hired for 1/3rd the salary of the AP grad, but be charged with fixing or replacing nearly everything he did. but dont worry about all that...just fixate on the fact that im a girl, and girls + code == important.
US President->Next() learn to code! future! grlz in coding! programming is fun! everyone must code! code is future! all glory to the hypnocode!
cern manager: we've disconnected 4 cables...can anyone confirm on the console that these are disconnected? cern engineer: nothing new here chief. cern researcher: my panini press stopped working. cern manager: ok wrong cable cern engineer: janice had a panini press in her office?! I want one cern manager: guys lets not get off track here... cern mathematician: Where do I file a report about the espresso maker? its seemed to quit working entirely. cern laureate: my jack lalane power juicer just cut out and im mid-smoothie, this is urgent... cern manager: just use the vitamix in my lab. cern engineer: vitamix?! am i the only one here whos been drinking freeze dry sanka for 5 years?! cern mathematician: of course not Ive been drinking your sanka too...
I know its a bit of a stretch but math loves physics...What I got as a poor child growing up at christmas was the best a loving parent could offer: a set of two hydrogens and an oxygen.
Oh I had fun all day long with those little atoms. I lent my friends the hydrogens and kept that oxygen for months, categorizing its weight and marveling at its gaseous nature. Right up until mom decided I should share it with my sister and the last thing i remember after an argument about splitting it was one hell of a blaze and my old man barking something about the furnace being on the fritz.
In the states, we have pharmaceutical ads on television that are usually suffixed with a chyron or various disclaimers and a string of long-winded and frankly quite mumbly side effects all played over the backdrop of a beautiful sunset or a babbling brook. As someone whos worked in pharmaceuticals in the past, the biggest favour you can do for yourself when watching one of these commercials is to suffix your own side effect onto the drug at the end, one they often refer to mention. "Or death."
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It may be convenient and tempting to blame Obama for this, but its actually something he benefits from thats existed for more than a hundred years. Namely, how wealth learns and lives as opposed to the rest of us.
While most of us go to public school, eat school lunches and attend public universities when and if possible, the cloistered elite do not. An entire parallel yet grossly superior system of education exists for millionaires and billionaires, and everything from its fundamentals to its lunchtime is radically different. While we are playing gym and learning typing in highschool, the children of wealth learn elocution, policy, and various other traits that help them to accept their future roles as C level management, elite constitutional law attorneys, and even members of world banking organizations. If obamas children are learning programming, its merely as a jovial introduction into the world of directing, managing, or guiding long-term and broad stroke efforts in the field. They will not themselves become a "programmer."
that having been said, the children of the elite will always benefit disproportionately from government grants alongside their already generous foundation and nonprofit donations. they have overwhelming resources to secure and exploit them that public, and many private institutions, do not.
disclosure: Im a systems engineer, and have never had trouble with basic algebra.
in the US at least, we seem to have this fever-dream mentality when it comes to education and employment. Namely, that we presume so long as everyone can "code" and learn maths, that they can one day successfully achieve gainful employment and become a productive member of the workforce to lead a meaningful life. We assume little johnny needs to code because thats what his employers want, but it couldnt be further from the truth. Most businesses want a few engineers, but they dont want to spend a lot of money on them. They want the nuts-and-bolts sorted out so that reproduceability obsoletes them and permits them to hire cheaper workers because truthfully business is a job-creator as a last resort.
the issue we need to sort out as a nation is how we value work in general, whichs seems to have gone off the rails since the early nineties and NAFTA/CAFTA. Cooks, carpenters, welders, EMT's, and auto mechanics are all incredibly important --and in some cases in high demand -- professions for people to consider. However the pay and hours in these fields is a form of misery not seen since the old testament. You cant raise a family on any of these careers, and for some of them retirement isnt really an option. we use education as a whipping stick for these careers to insist theyre worth "less" than they really are, or at least so we can justify it to ourselves. If you want to see this self-fulfilling prophecy of underemployment in the real world, just look at the trucking industry. Perpetually understaffed, underpaid long-haul tractor-trailer drivers that get no vacation, sick leave, or retirement fund yet are in such ridiculous demand that most trucking companies like Dart or Swift will pay the driver to finish their CDL education. The demand is so high, drivers with a good record can quit a job and be hired at another in the same day.
So, If you want to obsolete maths like algebra, I propose we obsolete the puritanical tradition of shitting on trades that dont always rely on it. And while we're at it, lets take a sobering step back and realize that not everyone needs to code to lead a fulfilling life.
the candidate debates arent meant as a meaningful or informative approach to education of the viewer as to the appropriate policical candidate to select for office. Debates drive ad revenue and clickthrough rate for major media corporations, which in turn fuel contributions to candidates the networks deem fit-for-purpose to operate the nation. As for allegations of corporate bias, this is intended. you may be voting for a candidate, but through a convoluted system of redistricting, superdelegates, electoral colleges, shadow donors, overt print television and radio bias, and voter ID and registration regulation as a form of vote-suppression the real candidates you are in fact to choose from are quietly selected for you.
This isnt to say major corporations want you to vote for their candidate, far from the case. the plutocratic class wants you to want to vote for their candidate. Without you overtly insisting your support, the entire concept of voting is revealed to be a sham. The most egregious theme of american elections however is this: even without a majority turnout of americans, and with that minority still largely uninformed and voting on personal opinion at best, the united states continues to elect a president and that president continues to be one for which overwhelming support by a corporate citizenry is undeniably afforded.
To meaningfully understand consumer backlash to advertising means we need to go back all the way to 1986. It was here, when advertisers switched from building a product to building a brand and decoupling their reliance on a product entirely. Its also worth noting many scholars reference the 80s to a period of peak consumption. we had more choices than ever, and could no longer reliably rely on quality as a metric for purchases. by the 90s manufacturers through NAFTA and CAFTA had cemented this concept of american "brand" consumption entirely. Advertising, arguably, now had to become entirely predatory.
luxury cars were no longer sold on quality and luxury, but on a brand of cultivated superiority and projection of affluence. Athletic shoes, appliances, food, you name it, suddenly became a feature of a culture you could define yourself by and not a product you were actually seeking. "what does it do, how well does it do it" was no longer offered to be considered. And as brands forced more and more lifestyle and experience into their products they began to run out of understanding of culture, or the entropy by which their brand-centric consumerism thrived.
fast forward to this foul year 2016. ads now track you, sites track you, and campaigns overtly demand your input. there are entire analytic suites and social science departments that study you like a petri dish for any semblance of clue as to what defines your wants, and how to exploit your desires. they do this because without information about who you are and what you do, the product cant be targeted to appeal to what lifestyle you can be made to desire. Be it astronaut, playboy, or racecar driver. unless the idea of brand-as-culture is dialed back, this is only going to get worse.
what we're seeing online is a revolt against the intrusiveness of ads from bandwidth to page view and browser experience, but its also a revolt against the idea of a consumer as a lab-rat
the US is a country spending nearly 1.4 trillion dollars per year on defense. It dwarfs the spending of the next 7 largest countries combined. Americans endured this sort of breakneck spending for 50 years under the guise that, once communism fell, we would embrace a newfound wave of peace in the west.
instead we've invented boogeymen by hook and by crook. We invented ISIS by the iraq war. We invented the iraq war by weapons of mass destruction. we invented the war on terror by 9/11. we invented 9/11 by founding and training al-quaeda. we invented al-quaeda by funding an training the mujahadeen. we invented the war in afghanistan by proxy through our desire to defeat russias communism. we invented communism as a threat through the implicit desire of our oligarchy and capital class to disarm any real objection to capitalism by any means necessary.
now we're faced with a guerilla enemy, as we were when we created most of our proxy wars in central and south america...but the rules have changed. our "wars" before were innocuous as they werent winnable or loseable, only profitable. we would fight until public opinion turned, then broker a peace deal and leave. Sometimes with oil contracts, other times with infrastructure contracts. Now with the advent of a perfect shield by which our newly created enemy can conceal their intent, we are all but on a level playing field. an actor needs no longer obtain advanced weapons or tactics to defeat us, they merely need to plan extensively.
the solution is to step back from the carter doctrine of foreign policy, and deprecate our dependency on defense economy.
Using drones to spot sharks is untested technology with no backing in scientific method of research, analysis, or peer review
...and as a member of the Australian scientific community I for fear of spending a decade in prison wholly endorse our new beach drones!
Ebay: free shit we can rebrand and sell. 2016 is comin up ebay!
Creative Commons uses DMCA, its super effective!
Ebay: Fuck...
BCM43438 wireless âoecomboâ chip.
Kill yourself. As a veteran Linux sysadmin seeing BCM in the lsmod or lspci for ANY machine is enough to make me dive out a window and head for the hills. Broadcom wireless --christ even broadcom wired -- is a whole other level of shit-tier performance in Linux. enjoy your frozen interfaces and unsupported modes.
To the Pi team: Why god why couldnt you have chosen something like an Intel or atheros?
PHB: were firing everyone and going with robots. who here knows SCADA
HR: I uh...yes, i know SCADA.
six months later...
PHB: ok robots arent working out as we'd intended so we're selling all of them and sending the programmers packing. Were going to be hiring a substantial number of new associates starting tomorrow...so...do any of you have any personnel or management experience?
SCADA coder: I used to do our payroll and holiday time scheduling!
PGB: Holy shit a talking SCADA programmer!
For those still running windows, and not Chrome OS, Mac, Linux or BSD consider this...an intervention on behalf of the slashdot community. im sure you have some immediate concerns -- reasons perhaps -- that you cannot part with your abuser. ill try my best to assuage your fears.
1. But I use windows for gaming! Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux. Popular indie games and mainstream shoot-em-ups alike. they even offer steam machines as a platform if youd rather not fuss with Ubuntu.
2. I need it for office documents. No, it needs you. Libreoffice and a host of other tools let you edit and author office documents easily from any modern operating system.
3. well its what my office uses so... your office and about a million others use windows, but likely still windows 7. Things like email, calendaring, and federated login have existed for decades before Microsoft bundled them into their OS. Most of the services you use online arent contingent on your windows domain. Windows exists in the office out of comfort, standard, and price. corporations license their infrastructure for a fraction of what it would cost you to buy it.
4. $os_name is hard. it doesn do $feature.
its hard because learning new things requires effort. that other OS might not do exactly what windows does, but it still accomplishes the same tasks you need it to do in a different way. Maybe it even does it better. But like a productive relationship, it helps you do important things with respect. and this brings us to our #1 point:
Windows does not respect you or your work. It insults your intelligence and flagrantly ignores your privacy. it sacrifices your productivity and needs for its own. the things it shows you and teaches you arent always things you set out to do or want from the OS, but theyre things the OS wants from you. Buy a new videogame, download a new app, pay for a new upgrade. Your operating system is shallow and narcissistic. perhaps 8 years ago it was meaningful, but times have changed.
I know the site has a pretty staunch libertarian lean, but its important to rememember: Google rakes in around 17 billion dollars per quarter.
france wants backtaxes for multiple years totalling ~2% of an entire years revenue.
Gaza is a lawless place, and Drones would give Palestinian terrorists a distinct advantage in launching their attacks by providing crucial Intel. Drones could observe troop movement or the location of convoys, or the beating of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer after he exits a flight from London and is detained without reason. One could even abuse these drones and seek out hospitals, where you could watch Omer spend an entire week recovering from the beating. Palestinian terrorists could fly these drones near government buildings where they would dastardly observe the knesset disavowing any knowledge of or responsibility for the Shin Bets actions.
This technology is certainly meaningful, but could easily be bypassed by twins or worse, casual photographers. My solution is both elegant and simple.
whenever asked for photo confirmation, unfold my patented visual verification sheet. The sheet, which is a visual depiction of george W bush and the words, "War Criminal," will quickly identify your presence for a transaction. For those wondering about the security of this system I can assure you, each VV sheet is unique. For example, one may contain a depiction of Hillary Clinton and the words "Corporate Citizen" to help distinguish unique transactions for a customer.
its bears remembering that while the zone of avoidance may be removed from concern, other zones are still legitimately relevant to the night sky. among them:
the zone of unease: rather quite uncomfortable. best not even to mention it.
the zone of overbearing parenting: we just think it would be better for you to not spend to much time in it. ok? have we made ourselves clear?
Autozone: not terrible unless youre after something important and in which case youll spend a very long time indeed searching until you either run out of patience or buy new wiper blades.
the zone: actually a mis-calibration. some orion telescopes will erroneously track to this small strip club in hollywood, california. this setting however can observe most partial solar eclipses visible as well from Germany's Neumayer Station, so, not a total loss...
to foster an open source
Apache v2.0 License..so uh..enjoy your collection of neat forks.
small footprint, modular, scalable, connected, real-time OS
or literally any one of about 30 different flavours of BSD or linux that at present accomplish this goal and have done so for 30 years.
The Zephyr Project's RTOS implements both a small footpoint microkernel and an even tinier nanokernel
not good enough...i wont rest until you start using femto, atto, and zepto kernels. this kernel needs to be small enough to route the DNA in my cells.
10KB of RAM on 32-bit microcontrollers
great. another 32 bit architecture for my 64 bit environment. let me just break out my crossdev toolchain and hang myself by the coffee maker cord.
get off my goddamn lawn and stop trying to make this a thing. Wind Rivers pelvic-thrust into the internet of things isnt a meaningful contribution when so much of it is already handled nicely by alix, pi, and small form factor x64 where necessary.
Syed Rizwan Farook: political power grab to set a precedent for forcing manufacturers to decrypt the private data of their customers. both shooters are dead. their motive and operation are both known. we're chasing ghosts to advance an agenda.
attacks which struck Paris last November: are the result of a determined minority of disenfranchised extremists with nothing left to lose. a 65 year policy of proxy wars and foreign backed government coups to install lifelong dictators has left them jaded and dead inside. these are truly desperate people, clinging to $diety for some hope of retribution and justice against a system of international dominionist and interventionalist policy that has ultimately led them to perpetual misery. the solution is not to backdoor every crypto, but make structural and systemic changes in a concerted multinational fashion to help reduce and eliminate the instances of and impact from blind foreign intervention to advance imperialistic goals championed by 18th century conquistadors and feudal lords.
tplink still makes quite a number of decent standalone wireless access points with injector capability. ive never used their AIO devices, but instead ive built a network at the office with a central gentoo router connected to a switch, and the AP's locked to vlans with an IDS sniffing the network. FWIW if you need alternatives, pc engines Geode based alix routers are great (AND include AES offload at the cpu level for true random number generator acceleration.)
the challenge for providers is not how to comply with the law, but how to maintain customer trust while removing themselves from the burdensomme and dangerous position of having to be subject to it in the first place.
apples enclave is...as loathe as i am to admit it as a non-fanboy....genius. The system allows them to protect users and in doing so protect their brand. At the same time, it thwarts legislative intervention because apple has taken such a hands-off approach to the way ios does pki.
sadly though google doesnt have to stand with them on this. in fact it may benefit them not to speak out at all, as this would call attention to their own PKI system and its similar nature: absolve the manufacturer from the legal process entirely.
Ive run my own mailserver for quite some time as both a mark of hacker pride and a means of circumventing what has historically (until google started giving a shit because snowden made them) been a very lax SMTP ecosystem. I use the DJB curve primes, i use 256 bit tls 1.2, i use multifactor, but as for other mailservers? crypto doesnt seem to be even a slight consideration. ive had to leave it enabled opportunistically on my mailserver, however most of the time I fallback and dont use it.
Tor: App that helps americans avoid morality police
1. Donald Trump: BRING HIM HOME.
2. Martin Schkreli: are we entirely sure martial air is toxic? this is for science damn you.
3. Justin Bieber: yes...but...can we sing in martian atmosphere...thats the real question.
microsoft certrified AP: I was trained in a microsoft approved and endorsed course sponsored by a carte blanc effort by taxpayers to learn to code or die trying. I couldnt tell a router from a switch, but so long as its in visual basic im good to code!
anyone else: I couldnt afford harvard, couldnt afford community college, but spent my nights and weekends playing doom and hacking underhanded C. I wrote my own autoresponder in perl. I interfaced my coffeemaker in python with an arduino. ive been "suspended" from school for a combination of wearing too much black, not attending enough pep functions, and knowing more about computers than the teacher. I will be hired for 1/3rd the salary of the AP grad, but be charged with fixing or replacing nearly everything he did. but dont worry about all that...just fixate on the fact that im a girl, and girls + code == important.
US President->Next() learn to code! future! grlz in coding! programming is fun! everyone must code! code is future! all glory to the hypnocode!
cern manager: we've disconnected 4 cables...can anyone confirm on the console that these are disconnected?
cern engineer: nothing new here chief.
cern researcher: my panini press stopped working.
cern manager: ok wrong cable
cern engineer: janice had a panini press in her office?! I want one
cern manager: guys lets not get off track here...
cern mathematician: Where do I file a report about the espresso maker? its seemed to quit working entirely.
cern laureate: my jack lalane power juicer just cut out and im mid-smoothie, this is urgent...
cern manager: just use the vitamix in my lab.
cern engineer: vitamix?! am i the only one here whos been drinking freeze dry sanka for 5 years?!
cern mathematician: of course not Ive been drinking your sanka too...
I know its a bit of a stretch but math loves physics...What I got as a poor child growing up at christmas was the best a loving parent could offer: a set of two hydrogens and an oxygen.
Oh I had fun all day long with those little atoms. I lent my friends the hydrogens and kept that oxygen for months, categorizing its weight and marveling at its gaseous nature. Right up until mom decided I should share it with my sister and the last thing i remember after an argument about splitting it was one hell of a blaze and my old man barking something about the furnace being on the fritz.
In the states, we have pharmaceutical ads on television that are usually suffixed with a chyron or various disclaimers and a string of long-winded and frankly quite mumbly side effects all played over the backdrop of a beautiful sunset or a babbling brook. As someone whos worked in pharmaceuticals in the past, the biggest favour you can do for yourself when watching one of these commercials is to suffix your own side effect onto the drug at the end, one they often refer to mention. "Or death."