from tfa the mockup shows a typical suburb, but in a city collecting trash is much more complex. offices and apartment complexes often store their dumpsters in the buildings parking garage or in a tight alleyway. garbage trucks cant get to them directly, and so rely on smaller positioning vehicles to take the dumpster to a location the truck can safely reach. on large streets, dumpsters can take up an entire lane of traffic or parking while waiting for a garbage pickup. at the end of the day, positioning vehicles return the dumpster to its original location.
as a kid I took Paxil briefly for depression, but never received any therapy so it was basically worthless. the drug was pretty brutal. I could function at school, but at 14 i felt like i was a drugged 40 year old junkie. I was exhausted all the time and had a near constant headache. between the nervousness and weight loss after the first year, i certainly wasnt depressed anymore but i was an emotional tire fire. I became violently opposed to the idea of dating, physical contact, or interpersonal relationship and extremely paranoid around adults. I still dont rememeber why this was, but I kept a notebook log of places to avoid and things people said.
And it got worse. Kicking paxil after highschool took an entire year of auditory hallucinations, nightmares, suicidal thoughts, crying, you name it.
The reason people started moving to Android, and kept using android, wasnt because iPhones migration options were hard. iTunes integration was a breeze and contact synchronization was always done through a quick vcard dump.
Mac became too expensive. it was always too expensive for a majority demographic of americans that earn minimum wage or work paycheck to paycheck, but it really got bad during the financial collapse of 2008. a $600 iphone left a very bitter taste in the mouths of most consumers, but they soon found flavours like kitkat, lollypop, and eclair that were not only just as good as iPhone, but much cheaper. Google maps came with an option to select and search for public transportation routes whereas apple maps just assumed you had a car. Googles ecosystem of phone apps also didnt require special software to sync music, whereas it was assumed iphone owners had bought into the full mac experience and already owned an itunes account. finally, durability. most iPhone users were accustomed to enduring spiderweb screens until their next upgrade, but increasingly more and more android users were finding the phones to be not only more durable, but simpler and cheaper to replace.
now the same corporation that released a ten thousand dollar wristwatch is banking on the return of customers thanks to, a sync app?
coming from windows and mac, its hard to imagine youd need a definition. For a linux user, the answer is simply whenever the application does something i did not tell it to do. when i read its changelog and its now, for example like firefox, going to include a targeted advertising system. If the application lies about its intended function, or prevents me from using my computer as I've set out to use it.
For some of us, malware is an ethos, foretold by Richard Stallman. in Linux the word of root is sacrosanct. there are no upgrades, no updates, and no communication from the system or its processes that is not controlled by or intrinsically authorized by root. For myself, Windows and Mac have been malware for quite some time.
sure, you could use balloons or crowdfunding but can we just stick to the tried and true scientific method. For example, Ive successfully distributed internet to several cities by strapping cellphones to squirrels with a roll of duct tape. Sometimes ill see them in trees (they do this to gain the best signal.) All youve gotta do is shout your http request to them, for example, "download the latest memes, squirrel!" simple really.
Another method ive tried for more remote locations, small rural towns, is to painstakingly construct a large trebuchet over a period of many months. Once complete, and loaded with a garbage bag full of laptops and cats, I launch the world wide web into the town to a cacophony of thankful citizens and excited felines no doubt working to eat a cheese burger or play an electric piano.
many owners will be reluctant to climb into the new porsche electric. As a lead marketing and test analyst however, I can assure you we at porsche are keeping the finer appointments of the vehicle just the way they are. Turn Signals, or that strange stalk present in some cars, are of course removed to enhance sophistication. lane position assist helps ensure you maintain a comfortable 45 miles per hour in the left most lane of any road, as the Porsche aficionado is accustomed. and finally, our cup-a-fart seats allow you to continuously enjoy reap the rewards of a hard days work. As always, we offer available specialty armrests for customers who have recently fractured the appendage while vigorously masturbating to their own achievements.
rewarding luddite states with accolade when they comply with something widely understood and accepted is not remarkable, but it certainly seems to be en-vogue. The real question to ask is what changed? For the uninitiated outside of the US, states like Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, and Florida all boast a distinctly anti-scientific approach to education and public policy. Everything from contraception to carbon emissions, although widely understood, are suddenly a furious haze of confusion and rhetoric when approached by these states. the federal government largely permits the antebellum myred south to engage in wackiness like abstinence only education and bans on the ban on fracking, so theres no external pressure to suddenly decide policy on things like transvaginal ultrasound are morally reprehensible.
but in this case what changed? did the Alabama legislature finally concede to the fear that their children would be laughed out of college and postsecondary educations outside the field of philosophy and religion? or was is pressure from tech and science industries starved for talent and no longer willing to tolerate a legislature that willfully stupefies the state at its most fundamental level? what caused this state to set aside the purile jackassery of sticker disclaimers and alternate theories for a season and consider for a moment the possibility there is no controversy?
Its not uncommon to have middle management or even upper management that get a little overzealous with the amount of power they wield.
Working for a hosting company, I once had a manager that was absolutely furious that we hosted a domain that endorsed abortions and facilitated service provider interactivity. my manager didnt have access to the accounts database, but she knew members of her team surely did. She wanted log summaries of people who visited, which is a request that has to go through InfoSec. Once they denied it based on lack of a warrant, she started trolling the team for info during lunch. The fact that we dont obsess over every single site, let alone her problem child, seemed to make her upset. She submitted 3 requests for content review by the abuse department, and finally quit when their manager kept sending the original report back. She hit all of us up for accounts information for the user, and even tried logging in as the tape backup administrator after finding their username in some documentation. She was eventually fired after trying to tie our performance raises for the account information.
biometric technology originally fascinated and excited me. After spending 2 months hacking the fitbit flex and fitbit one im all but broken. the system uses asymmetric cryptography to ensure you never have independent access to the data it collects. the transmission protocol it uses is simple, ANT in most cases, but the private key to decrypt my footsteps and data lies solely on their servers. One would think that without independent evaluation of the data its gleaning, most major pharmaceuticals and insurance companies would be wary but that doesnt appear to be the case. like breathalizers and OBD/ECM monitors from car insurance companies, no one seems interested in their accuracy.
my last 3 jobs have offered these fitbits. the first one, an option, subsidized the device. The next two jobs basically ordered it for me and stated that if i wanted a discount on my health insurance, id better strap in. the privacy policy for fitbit outright states theyre going to sell your data to other companies, like it or not. So why do people put up with this? does anyone know of an open-source and accurate alternative for the fitbit?
people are worried about this buyout and its usually because Murdoch owned fox news and the Wallstreet Journal slid hard right when they were bought by him,but i think its important to put this in perspective. hes a businessman.
Ive seen upcoming articles, and they look promising. "Gazelles, harbingers of homosexual war on christmas" seems to tackle a subject in a fair and balanced manner. "Penguins, natures undercover abortion factories" and "pot smoking illegal immigrant peregrine falcon migrations" might sound a bit heavy handed but the cover art is very dynamic.
As I graduated last year and assumed my engineering role at mcdonalds (ketchup extrusion/mustard analytics) I became aware of this 2010 exploit and, in keeping with slashdots hacker culture, created my own workaround in case my vehicle were to make the list of coveted hackable hardware.
my 2001 crown victoria police interceptor has been modified slightly to emit a protective haze of burnt oil to stealthfully evade hackers. Whats more, the suspension has been recalibrated to bob and duck at the slightest bump, and shake violently at speeds above 40 miles per hour in an attempt to elude hackers signals. Finally, I use crippling student debt technology to ensure that flipping on my dome light and barking orders to OnStar does virtually nothing to the vehicle. For added protection, you can put the car into 'stealth mode' if you have an arts degree by avoiding oil changes and fuel in exchange for more ramen this month.
ya know those phones they all have run BSD or Linux these days;)
all kidding aside
cromebooks are also a PITA to use outside of google apps and might run afoul of some privacy issues. USB stick computers cant run a real OS because ubuntu and mint both require horsepower for graphics, overlays, audio, widgets and FX. Android is based on gentoo, the Mad Max car of linux. extra ram is dedicated much like the Pi to bus resources for the USB/network.
the salvation army cant be expected to bankroll an entire class with spare computers that may, or may not work. kinda a non option here.
Raspberry Pi
power supplies can quite literally be anything. a wal-wart, a cheap USB hub, another students laptop or an adjacent desktop. phone chargers for android students will work on the pi. putting a pi in a case, in most cases, requires no tools (the rainbow case for example.) your real problem here is getting them a monitor.
tablets and cellphones are toys. you need to teach students how to get a library card. Modern american libraries have pools of computers you can use to complete job applications, school assigments, you name it. www.freeshell.org will give them network storage and a unix login, but i suspect that might be a little much for an english class (perfect if you want to teach unix though!)
hackers: this is going to be awesome and we are going to revolutionize 3d immersive gaming and computing with your kickstarter help Zuckerberg: I will literally choke you with a dick made of cash until you sell this to me. hackers: We are going to buy a mansion in mansion land now. your funding has helped us build a solid gold toilet in this mansion. so, thanks.
This is a newspaper -- bought and wholly owned by Rupert Murdoch and beholden to so much baggage of the gloomy old party-- advocating for at best copyright reform and at worst, a long winded cry for help to their sons and daughters to figure out how to get the DVR to record matlock tonight. DRM is preventing them from figuring out how to get steely dans greatest hits from iTunes to their Zune and its high time something be done.
for those of us in locksport (the art of lockpicking purely for personal enjoyment and challenge) some of these key masters are just criminally bad...the TSA probably asked for masters because they didnt want to break the lock during picking. for example TSA004: Just a tipped ward. you neednt make a master for this, its already in pretty much everyones kit or some old womans hair serving as a bobby pin. handcuffs have better wards. TSA003: how many pins is this? who cares, it came off a chinese assembly line and some 7 year old is setting the mechanism. a longing glance is good enough to pop this, but a master is probably an exercise in compliance more than a tool the TSA uses. TSA001: rinse and repeat, this pin set was determined by the cost of pot-steel, not the security of someones goods.
among the winners however we have... TSA007: nice...bidirectional pinsets (albeit just 3) will occupy most people for another 2-3 minutes before they pull out a jiggler set/rake and just bitch pick it. TSA006: I want this. TSA006 has something very, very nice in their luggage and they take it seriously. transverse (lateral) pins, probably a trap pinset in there somewhere. and those rails along the end? what are those, guides? do i have to pick THOSE too? NEAT!
then again, the TSA Dont seriously need masters because theyve been using the ballpoint zipper trick for decades now. its traceless, harmless, and quick. demanding masters seems like a power trip designed to test the limits of what consumers and manufacturers were willing to actually tolerate.
Working a a sysadmin means ive been saddled with a corporate phone account for about 200 road warriors and marketing drones. Ive had people come to me asking to reset their phones for vague or meaningless reasons, only to find this crap installed. Aside from the utterly purile grasp the authors present of the various branches of US justice/law enforcement, the cameraphone picture is usually worth a quick chuckle. I keep a folder of mugshots as a trophy for removing this garbage app.
a quick call to the android SDK adb command is much faster than mashing volume buttons to get into the boot loader.
I dont use facebook, instagram, twitter, or other social networks so a smartphone is mostly quick access to the internet, text messages and google maps. the phone part is a ubiquitous inconvenience that languishes from voicemail to voicemail in a perpetual stage of sixty-something missed calls from recruiters and that boat horn that tries to sell me a cruise package in the bahamas. the battery is guaranteed to be shit after about a year and a half, and in some of the sexiest and priciest phones it can never be replaced. I can hack a cheapo phone easier than the brand new iDevice, and if i brick it well its cheap.
i spend 16 eye bleeding hours a day on the internet or in front of a computer. ive been a sysadmin for so long i no longer care about the cool-factor for phones or tablets, or e-readers or any of that stuff. Most of the top-of-the-line models turn into craigslist fodder or suffer early adopter syndromes of varying degrees that spirit them off to the landfill. each new iteration of a sex symbol phone is a new chance to adopt a new charging standard, whereas cheapo phones are usually some ubiquitous USB standard i have in a box of cables somewhere.
all the inconvenience of putting on pants and schlepping to a brick and mortar, now with the added detest of having to enter the state of florida for something.
I work as a storage tech for a police video footage storage company. we guarantee indefinite archives, with five 9's of uptime in a secure location. At first people were skeptical of the prices, but using the latest high speed storage devices on a linux platform, theres simply no beating our performance.
Storage to/dev/null (our in-house application) is automatic, and a monthly bill is generated once the null fills up which includes maintenance fees like replacing the old null with a fresh, empty null for storage. This fee, also referred to as an "invoice for the purchase of a Rolls Royce" is our only frustration as our billing system is confusing for customers. Things like "Vacation package, Spain" are actually the normal cost of sourcing fresh nulls and installing them. invoices for services such as "yacht" and "truffle pheasant" refer to our restore service which uses "/dev/urandom" technology to provide nearly infinite high quality video.
child: Father, do you ever think that some day our humble shelter will grow lettuce and fresh produce for people who cant use bicycles with any gears on them? father: how do you mean, my child? child: Well, i just want to know, do you think some day people can grow organic vegetables here to sell at a little weekend market that also sells expensive soaps, honey, and pita dips to people who ride broken bicycles father: Jesus god put your mask on child! the germans are attacking with GAS that makes your children MAD!
Every time i see someone at work using mutt, or its recommended online, my general inclination is to give it a go. This time will be different, and ill finally get the hang of one of the most powerful and flexible email clients ever written!
2 months later ive deleted send mail, spawned 52 deleted mail boxes and permanently added 50 megs of/dev/urandom to my sig. I can send an email but it requires connecting to my localhost, which in turn connects to the server, then gets routed through my cat (the part that survived configuring) and across the internet to the receiving MTA. Fortunately for the past 20 or so messages, German chancellor Angela Merkel has kindly forwarded my correspondence to the intended recipient. Im hopeful I'll learn how to enable GPG and threads before food runs out.
Ive started writing vulnerabilities for iStan as of about a month ago, and i have got to say its one of the easier platforms to exploit. friends asked why id bother with such a limited platform as it doesnt have many applications outside of education but i beg to differ. Heres my application list so far:
1.stastan.img: loading this image causes stan to die on contact during any simulation scenario.
2.polterstan.img: sync stans bilateral cartoid pulse to integer width, or roughly 32,768 bpm.
3.superstanl3y.img: CPR attempts trigger unending string of bowel noises. noises.wav replaced with the USSR national anthem
4. b00g3ystan.img: stans bilateral brachial pulse synchronizes to bowel noises. Noises.wav replaced by daft punks get lucky.
5. didn35stan.img: breath sounds replaced with slot machine noises. all 5 bleeding zones (and urinary output) triggered.
6. sw33tstan.img: stans heartbeat entirely dependent upon urination. voice replaced with the 1850 Millard Fillmore presidential address. pulse is now a Fibonacci sequence leading to the GPS coordinates of a geocache filled with macaroni and cheese.
Sorry for the economics majors in the room, but you're not dealing with scientific constraints in the concept of modern hyperconsumer capitalism.
economists don't use math as a tool to describe reality
They can't. economic realities predicated upon hysteresis or long term analytical trends are constructed with touchstones of bogus equations founded on wild conjecture. a sizeable component of many modern economies are unquantifiable, having been intentionally obscured by human interest. Why did the fed hold reserve rates? what is the nature of a cyclical economy when infused with more than one trillion dollars of emergency funding to prevent an uncodifiable collapse? what factor or theorem transmogrifies and determines the value of liabilites as assets? So much of what economics seeks to do is undermined by the fact that most economies work by the rules of human nature. the Federal reserve practically has its own language to communicate change or lack thereof, and it is intentionally designed to avoid concrete resolution or effable transmission of meaningful information.
Marx as an economist is one of the few to provide a very broad overview of the concept as it applies to modern capitalism. he describes the capitalist economy as a cycle similar to a bird with a broken wing. it builds, booms, collapses and in turn affords a widely acceptable cycle of observed failure. From the great depression to the lincoln savings and loan scandal to the United States Failed leveraged buyout of United Airlines to the dotcom bubble and finally the great recession of 2007 we've all grown to accept this cycle as normative.
Most of the socks identified are pointless spam. Theyre a drain on resources for articles pertaining to companies that exist to pump-and-dump stocks, or lend legitimacy to an advertising campaign. They arent the malicious chicanery that goes on in articles like the Iraq war where verbiage is literally inserted to de-emphasize for example the categorical failure of the united states to identify WMD's.
more attention needs to be lent to dealing with controversial articles on the RIAA, the trans continental partnership, and the nature of large entities that can afford to muddle their tracks. For example, how many edits to the Coca Cola wiki article have been made and by whom? What edits get made to pages on the gulf oil disaster and on Time Warners article?
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from tfa the mockup shows a typical suburb, but in a city collecting trash is much more complex. offices and apartment complexes often store their dumpsters in the buildings parking garage or in a tight alleyway. garbage trucks cant get to them directly, and so rely on smaller positioning vehicles to take the dumpster to a location the truck can safely reach. on large streets, dumpsters can take up an entire lane of traffic or parking while waiting for a garbage pickup. at the end of the day, positioning vehicles return the dumpster to its original location.
as a kid I took Paxil briefly for depression, but never received any therapy so it was basically worthless. the drug was pretty brutal. I could function at school, but at 14 i felt like i was a drugged 40 year old junkie. I was exhausted all the time and had a near constant headache. between the nervousness and weight loss after the first year, i certainly wasnt depressed anymore but i was an emotional tire fire. I became violently opposed to the idea of dating, physical contact, or interpersonal relationship and extremely paranoid around adults. I still dont rememeber why this was, but I kept a notebook log of places to avoid and things people said.
And it got worse. Kicking paxil after highschool took an entire year of auditory hallucinations, nightmares, suicidal thoughts, crying, you name it.
The reason people started moving to Android, and kept using android, wasnt because iPhones migration options were hard. iTunes integration was a breeze and contact synchronization was always done through a quick vcard dump.
Mac became too expensive. it was always too expensive for a majority demographic of americans that earn minimum wage or work paycheck to paycheck, but it really got bad during the financial collapse of 2008. a $600 iphone left a very bitter taste in the mouths of most consumers, but they soon found flavours like kitkat, lollypop, and eclair that were not only just as good as iPhone, but much cheaper. Google maps came with an option to select and search for public transportation routes whereas apple maps just assumed you had a car. Googles ecosystem of phone apps also didnt require special software to sync music, whereas it was assumed iphone owners had bought into the full mac experience and already owned an itunes account. finally, durability. most iPhone users were accustomed to enduring spiderweb screens until their next upgrade, but increasingly more and more android users were finding the phones to be not only more durable, but simpler and cheaper to replace.
now the same corporation that released a ten thousand dollar wristwatch is banking on the return of customers thanks to, a sync app?
As a californian, 250k might not seem like a lot, but with that kind of cash you could afford to water the lawn AND take a shower after!
coming from windows and mac, its hard to imagine youd need a definition. For a linux user, the answer is simply whenever the application does something i did not tell it to do.
when i read its changelog and its now, for example like firefox, going to include a targeted advertising system. If the application lies about its intended function, or prevents me from using my computer as I've set out to use it.
For some of us, malware is an ethos, foretold by Richard Stallman. in Linux the word of root is sacrosanct. there are no upgrades, no updates, and no communication from the system or its processes that is not controlled by or intrinsically authorized by root. For myself, Windows and Mac have been malware for quite some time.
sure, you could use balloons or crowdfunding but can we just stick to the tried and true scientific method. For example, Ive successfully distributed internet to several cities by strapping cellphones to squirrels with a roll of duct tape. Sometimes ill see them in trees (they do this to gain the best signal.) All youve gotta do is shout your http request to them, for example, "download the latest memes, squirrel!" simple really.
Another method ive tried for more remote locations, small rural towns, is to painstakingly construct a large trebuchet over a period of many months. Once complete, and loaded with a garbage bag full of laptops and cats, I launch the world wide web into the town to a cacophony of thankful citizens and excited felines no doubt working to eat a cheese burger or play an electric piano.
many owners will be reluctant to climb into the new porsche electric. As a lead marketing and test analyst however, I can assure you we at porsche are keeping the finer appointments of the vehicle just the way they are. Turn Signals, or that strange stalk present in some cars, are of course removed to enhance sophistication. lane position assist helps ensure you maintain a comfortable 45 miles per hour in the left most lane of any road, as the Porsche aficionado is accustomed. and finally, our cup-a-fart seats allow you to continuously enjoy reap the rewards of a hard days work. As always, we offer available specialty armrests for customers who have recently fractured the appendage while vigorously masturbating to their own achievements.
rewarding luddite states with accolade when they comply with something widely understood and accepted is not remarkable, but it certainly seems to be en-vogue. The real question to ask is what changed? For the uninitiated outside of the US, states like Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, and Florida all boast a distinctly anti-scientific approach to education and public policy. Everything from contraception to carbon emissions, although widely understood, are suddenly a furious haze of confusion and rhetoric when approached by these states. the federal government largely permits the antebellum myred south to engage in wackiness like abstinence only education and bans on the ban on fracking, so theres no external pressure to suddenly decide policy on things like transvaginal ultrasound are morally reprehensible.
but in this case what changed? did the Alabama legislature finally concede to the fear that their children would be laughed out of college and postsecondary educations outside the field of philosophy and religion? or was is pressure from tech and science industries starved for talent and no longer willing to tolerate a legislature that willfully stupefies the state at its most fundamental level? what caused this state to set aside the purile jackassery of sticker disclaimers and alternate theories for a season and consider for a moment the possibility there is no controversy?
Its not uncommon to have middle management or even upper management that get a little overzealous with the amount of power they wield.
Working for a hosting company, I once had a manager that was absolutely furious that we hosted a domain that endorsed abortions and facilitated service provider interactivity. my manager didnt have access to the accounts database, but she knew members of her team surely did. She wanted log summaries of people who visited, which is a request that has to go through InfoSec. Once they denied it based on lack of a warrant, she started trolling the team for info during lunch. The fact that we dont obsess over every single site, let alone her problem child, seemed to make her upset. She submitted 3 requests for content review by the abuse department, and finally quit when their manager kept sending the original report back. She hit all of us up for accounts information for the user, and even tried logging in as the tape backup administrator after finding their username in some documentation. She was eventually fired after trying to tie our performance raises for the account information.
biometric technology originally fascinated and excited me. After spending 2 months hacking the fitbit flex and fitbit one im all but broken. the system uses asymmetric cryptography to ensure you never have independent access to the data it collects. the transmission protocol it uses is simple, ANT in most cases, but the private key to decrypt my footsteps and data lies solely on their servers. One would think that without independent evaluation of the data its gleaning, most major pharmaceuticals and insurance companies would be wary but that doesnt appear to be the case. like breathalizers and OBD/ECM monitors from car insurance companies, no one seems interested in their accuracy.
my last 3 jobs have offered these fitbits. the first one, an option, subsidized the device. The next two jobs basically ordered it for me and stated that if i wanted a discount on my health insurance, id better strap in. the privacy policy for fitbit outright states theyre going to sell your data to other companies, like it or not. So why do people put up with this? does anyone know of an open-source and accurate alternative for the fitbit?
people are worried about this buyout and its usually because Murdoch owned fox news and the Wallstreet Journal slid hard right when they were bought by him,but i think its important to put this in perspective. hes a businessman.
Ive seen upcoming articles, and they look promising. "Gazelles, harbingers of homosexual war on christmas" seems to tackle a subject in a fair and balanced manner. "Penguins, natures undercover abortion factories" and "pot smoking illegal immigrant peregrine falcon migrations" might sound a bit heavy handed but the cover art is very dynamic.
As I graduated last year and assumed my engineering role at mcdonalds (ketchup extrusion/mustard analytics) I became aware of this 2010 exploit and, in keeping with slashdots hacker culture, created my own workaround in case my vehicle were to make the list of coveted hackable hardware.
my 2001 crown victoria police interceptor has been modified slightly to emit a protective haze of burnt oil to stealthfully evade hackers. Whats more, the suspension has been recalibrated to bob and duck at the slightest bump, and shake violently at speeds above 40 miles per hour in an attempt to elude hackers signals. Finally, I use crippling student debt technology to ensure that flipping on my dome light and barking orders to OnStar does virtually nothing to the vehicle. For added protection, you can put the car into 'stealth mode' if you have an arts degree by avoiding oil changes and fuel in exchange for more ramen this month.
ya know those phones they all have run BSD or Linux these days ;)
all kidding aside cromebooks are also a PITA to use outside of google apps and might run afoul of some privacy issues.
USB stick computers cant run a real OS because ubuntu and mint both require horsepower for graphics, overlays, audio, widgets and FX. Android is based on gentoo, the Mad Max car of linux. extra ram is dedicated much like the Pi to bus resources for the USB/network.
the salvation army cant be expected to bankroll an entire class with spare computers that may, or may not work. kinda a non option here.
Raspberry Pi power supplies can quite literally be anything. a wal-wart, a cheap USB hub, another students laptop or an adjacent desktop. phone chargers for android students will work on the pi. putting a pi in a case, in most cases, requires no tools (the rainbow case for example.) your real problem here is getting them a monitor.
tablets and cellphones are toys. you need to teach students how to get a library card. Modern american libraries have pools of computers you can use to complete job applications, school assigments, you name it. www.freeshell.org will give them network storage and a unix login, but i suspect that might be a little much for an english class (perfect if you want to teach unix though!)
hackers: this is going to be awesome and we are going to revolutionize 3d immersive gaming and computing with your kickstarter help
Zuckerberg: I will literally choke you with a dick made of cash until you sell this to me.
hackers: We are going to buy a mansion in mansion land now. your funding has helped us build a solid gold toilet in this mansion. so, thanks.
This is a newspaper -- bought and wholly owned by Rupert Murdoch and beholden to so much baggage of the gloomy old party-- advocating for at best copyright reform and at worst, a long winded cry for help to their sons and daughters to figure out how to get the DVR to record matlock tonight. DRM is preventing them from figuring out how to get steely dans greatest hits from iTunes to their Zune and its high time something be done.
for those of us in locksport (the art of lockpicking purely for personal enjoyment and challenge) some of these key masters are just criminally bad...the TSA probably asked for masters because they didnt want to break the lock during picking. for example
TSA004: Just a tipped ward. you neednt make a master for this, its already in pretty much everyones kit or some old womans hair serving as a bobby pin. handcuffs have better wards.
TSA003: how many pins is this? who cares, it came off a chinese assembly line and some 7 year old is setting the mechanism. a longing glance is good enough to pop this, but a master is probably an exercise in compliance more than a tool the TSA uses.
TSA001: rinse and repeat, this pin set was determined by the cost of pot-steel, not the security of someones goods.
among the winners however we have...
TSA007: nice...bidirectional pinsets (albeit just 3) will occupy most people for another 2-3 minutes before they pull out a jiggler set/rake and just bitch pick it.
TSA006: I want this. TSA006 has something very, very nice in their luggage and they take it seriously. transverse (lateral) pins, probably a trap pinset in there somewhere. and those rails along the end? what are those, guides? do i have to pick THOSE too? NEAT!
then again, the TSA Dont seriously need masters because theyve been using the ballpoint zipper trick for decades now. its traceless, harmless, and quick. demanding masters seems like a power trip designed to test the limits of what consumers and manufacturers were willing to actually tolerate.
Working a a sysadmin means ive been saddled with a corporate phone account for about 200 road warriors and marketing drones. Ive had people come to me asking to reset their phones for vague or meaningless reasons, only to find this crap installed. Aside from the utterly purile grasp the authors present of the various branches of US justice/law enforcement, the cameraphone picture is usually worth a quick chuckle. I keep a folder of mugshots as a trophy for removing this garbage app.
a quick call to the android SDK adb command is much faster than mashing volume buttons to get into the boot loader.
I dont use facebook, instagram, twitter, or other social networks so a smartphone is mostly quick access to the internet, text messages and google maps. the phone part is a ubiquitous inconvenience that languishes from voicemail to voicemail in a perpetual stage of sixty-something missed calls from recruiters and that boat horn that tries to sell me a cruise package in the bahamas. the battery is guaranteed to be shit after about a year and a half, and in some of the sexiest and priciest phones it can never be replaced. I can hack a cheapo phone easier than the brand new iDevice, and if i brick it well its cheap.
i spend 16 eye bleeding hours a day on the internet or in front of a computer. ive been a sysadmin for so long i no longer care about the cool-factor for phones or tablets, or e-readers or any of that stuff. Most of the top-of-the-line models turn into craigslist fodder or suffer early adopter syndromes of varying degrees that spirit them off to the landfill. each new iteration of a sex symbol phone is a new chance to adopt a new charging standard, whereas cheapo phones are usually some ubiquitous USB standard i have in a box of cables somewhere.
all the inconvenience of putting on pants and schlepping to a brick and mortar, now with the added detest of having to enter the state of florida for something.
I work as a storage tech for a police video footage storage company. we guarantee indefinite archives, with five 9's of uptime in a secure location. At first people were skeptical of the prices, but using the latest high speed storage devices on a linux platform, theres simply no beating our performance. /dev/null (our in-house application) is automatic, and a monthly bill is generated once the null fills up which includes maintenance fees like replacing the old null with a fresh, empty null for storage. This fee, also referred to as an "invoice for the purchase of a Rolls Royce" is our only frustration as our billing system is confusing for customers. Things like "Vacation package, Spain" are actually the normal cost of sourcing fresh nulls and installing them. invoices for services such as "yacht" and "truffle pheasant" refer to our restore service which uses "/dev/urandom" technology to provide nearly infinite high quality video.
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child: Father, do you ever think that some day our humble shelter will grow lettuce and fresh produce for people who cant use bicycles with any gears on them?
father: how do you mean, my child?
child: Well, i just want to know, do you think some day people can grow organic vegetables here to sell at a little weekend market that also sells expensive soaps, honey, and pita dips to people who ride broken bicycles
father: Jesus god put your mask on child! the germans are attacking with GAS that makes your children MAD!
Every time i see someone at work using mutt, or its recommended online, my general inclination is to give it a go. This time will be different, and ill finally get the hang of one of the most powerful and flexible email clients ever written!
/dev/urandom to my sig. I can send an email but it requires connecting to my localhost, which in turn connects to the server, then gets routed through my cat (the part that survived configuring) and across the internet to the receiving MTA. Fortunately for the past 20 or so messages, German chancellor Angela Merkel has kindly forwarded my correspondence to the intended recipient. Im hopeful I'll learn how to enable GPG and threads before food runs out.
2 months later ive deleted send mail, spawned 52 deleted mail boxes and permanently added 50 megs of
Ive started writing vulnerabilities for iStan as of about a month ago, and i have got to say its one of the easier platforms to exploit. friends asked why id bother with such a limited platform as it doesnt have many applications outside of education but i beg to differ. Heres my application list so far:
1.stastan.img: loading this image causes stan to die on contact during any simulation scenario.
2.polterstan.img: sync stans bilateral cartoid pulse to integer width, or roughly 32,768 bpm.
3.superstanl3y.img: CPR attempts trigger unending string of bowel noises. noises.wav replaced with the USSR national anthem
4. b00g3ystan.img: stans bilateral brachial pulse synchronizes to bowel noises. Noises.wav replaced by daft punks get lucky.
5. didn35stan.img: breath sounds replaced with slot machine noises. all 5 bleeding zones (and urinary output) triggered.
6. sw33tstan.img: stans heartbeat entirely dependent upon urination. voice replaced with the 1850 Millard Fillmore presidential address. pulse is now a Fibonacci sequence leading to the GPS coordinates of a geocache filled with macaroni and cheese.
economists don't use math as a tool to describe reality
They can't. economic realities predicated upon hysteresis or long term analytical trends are constructed with touchstones of bogus equations founded on wild conjecture. a sizeable component of many modern economies are unquantifiable, having been intentionally obscured by human interest. Why did the fed hold reserve rates? what is the nature of a cyclical economy when infused with more than one trillion dollars of emergency funding to prevent an uncodifiable collapse? what factor or theorem transmogrifies and determines the value of liabilites as assets? So much of what economics seeks to do is undermined by the fact that most economies work by the rules of human nature. the Federal reserve practically has its own language to communicate change or lack thereof, and it is intentionally designed to avoid concrete resolution or effable transmission of meaningful information.
Marx as an economist is one of the few to provide a very broad overview of the concept as it applies to modern capitalism. he describes the capitalist economy as a cycle similar to a bird with a broken wing. it builds, booms, collapses and in turn affords a widely acceptable cycle of observed failure. From the great depression to the lincoln savings and loan scandal to the United States Failed leveraged buyout of United Airlines to the dotcom bubble and finally the great recession of 2007 we've all grown to accept this cycle as normative.
Most of the socks identified are pointless spam. Theyre a drain on resources for articles pertaining to companies that exist to pump-and-dump stocks, or lend legitimacy to an advertising campaign. They arent the malicious chicanery that goes on in articles like the Iraq war where verbiage is literally inserted to de-emphasize for example the categorical failure of the united states to identify WMD's.
more attention needs to be lent to dealing with controversial articles on the RIAA, the trans continental partnership, and the nature of large entities that can afford to muddle their tracks. For example, how many edits to the Coca Cola wiki article have been made and by whom? What edits get made to pages on the gulf oil disaster and on Time Warners article?