Lexmark bakes TPM and DRM into their media to prevent refilling and third party toner companies from encroaching on their razor blade model. arguably it does benefit the customer, as no toner barrel will permit more than a set number of copies from ever being exceeded which would result in poor print quality due to lack of toner. aftermarket toner is argued to be inferior to Lexmarks proprietary toner and in many cases, especially with Lexmarks shaped particulate technology, it is. region coding allows marketing to lock-in anticompetitive pricing for a product, but does little else.
that having been said, printing is an industry dying a slow death. consumers have been soured to printing ever since the media for inkjet began to cost more than human blood. The internet in turn has rendered most printing in the office environment nearly taboo. thermal printing survives based on outright artificially high prices for the printers themselves, as the paper is ubiquitous. Xerox wont face much backlash over this as their customers are almost exclusively businesses, and theyre one of a handful of vendors that support exotic markets like classified document printing.
In america we assume people are poor because they are lazy; its a very childlike answer to an enormously complex question. Further simplifying our approach, we generally only define wealth by financial terms. we base our welfare system in part on an inherent desire to punish the recipient for their perceived lack of participation and drive to accumulate money. a more appropriate analysis is to begin with the following assumption: a set of people will never contribute monetarily equal or greater amounts to a society in which they live. This may be due to a number of uncontrollable constraints like illness or ineptitude, but could also be a reflection of your society. Perhaps there is nothing worth doing in the case of the 'working poor' or perhaps there isnt any pay (and perhaps none is expected) in the case of many artists. The question is not how to motivate these people, but how to ensure they are sustained at a comfortable level proportionate to the societies acceptable living standards. In the united states our unspoken answer to this is death on skid row by preventable disease. in the USSR the answer was that everyone according to their means contributed at very least some working effort. artists would do art, the sick would work to get healthy, and others would contribute to foster the wealth of the society as they could, be it intellectual or monetarily.
If you're just now coming to realize the incredible inconvenience to consumers that planned obsolescence affords, and its only recently become a concern when contextualized in the form of a plastic trinket, then things are only going to get worse when you hear about how the rest of the modern consumer electronics market works.
Other states have experienced far more dire setbacks in electronic voting systems. for example florida: system glitch refuses to authorize voting outside the presence of an AARP membership. Arkansas: booth console ships with nuclear codes, launch access, and a hard coded option to launch against the city of Cleveland Ohio on vote for grover cleveland colorado: never actually purchased a voting machine but a large calculator Texas: Candidates hard coded to 6 deceased bush relatives, or a vote for Vladimir Putin California: Voting machine powered hydroelectrically
After graduating college and transitioning to my career at Taco Bell as a cream engineer (sour) I've taken the liberty in my extensive sabbatical time to research and in fact provide the slashdot community with a hardened, hackerproof vehicle that is both affordable as well as reliable. I give you, the 2001 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor.
The discerning customer will have acquired it through government auction between $600 and $800, where it will present not one, not two, but three indicator lights. One light, the engine light, serves to confirm an engine is present. The other two lights, ABS and the squiggly red noodle, are savvy decoys to confuse the hacker into presuming there is a functional breaking mechanism to exploit. Entering the vehicle the driver is greeted with the stench of so many dollar-menu breakfast sandwiches and carbon paper from a decade of parking citations. These aromas confound the hacker mind. Should the hackers persist, the vehicle contains plausible deniability technology for the engine itself. Instead of recirculating oil in the crankshaft, the security of this vehicle clandestinely burns the oil. Some people have heard of the chain of trust, and in this vehicle a sophisticated system called the chain of rust prevents tampering with idler and pitman suspension components as they are permanently affixed using oxidation technology. Finally, to seal their doom, hackers attempting to gain access to the glove box will become inextricably trapped in a foul blue, brown goo which is in fact the remenants of an exploded ballpoint pen and an old snickers bar, aged to perfection. Should the driver successfully decrypt the transmission and make it into first gear, the vehicle offers many moments of useful intermittent service.
As a valued member of the law enforcement community it pains me to see the lack of independent investigation into our scientific process. Several books have been published in the past 30 years including such titles as 'fundamentals of systemic mass incarceration' and 'scientific process for falsifying evidence during a confrontation in which an overwhelming disproportionate level of force was applied.' These titles are all extremely technical...quite academic you see. So perhaps I shall refer the layman to such titles as 'metal batons, the musical!' and 'chokeholds, the happy urban handshake.' My personal favourite is 'civil forfeiture and the vacation to maui'
Many poeple find that spending a decade of human life imprisoned for a victimless crime is rather heavy handed. some decry it as "disproportionate" while others have remarked that its "just shy of lovecraftian in its malevolence." Im here to lend a bit of clarification and state for the record there is a very real victim in thje crime of piracy, and that victim comes with hand stitched Corinthian leather. Im talking of course about my Rolls Royce.
Piracy deprives my rolls of a clean garage. It means I cant afford to pay my motor butler a decent wage and in turn it means the handles will persistently be wracked with smudges and fingerprints. It means I'll have to settle into something called 'the drivers seat' which makes it difficult, if not impossible to fetch the Perrier '65 Brut from the chiller (which as we all know is in the back seat.) Yes good people, Piracy could even mean -- and I shudder to envision this -- that I am forced to austerity and must drive a Bentley instead. So please, wont you reconsider sending those who pirate mellow folk sensation Roger Whittaker to a decade or more of prison? Its only fair after all.
Realizing id reached a heightened plane of potential, I started branding myself as a rockstar ages ago. I've even got my own talent manager. My clients, or fan-danglers as i call them, are generally anxious to get their hands on a 30something white guy with a slight gut and a penchant for autistic levels of Linux coding. Walking into the office I'm greeted with a bevy of young project managers and middle managers, their brows pregnant with sweat and their minds crucified by my presence. Dorris, the 68 year old long-timer will look up from the copier in awe and exclaim, "we are out of cyan again." Im just that majestic.
Often times, after my rockstar power lunch consisting of a double-stuffed chipotle burrito, I'll pick up a leg and crank loose a show stopping acapella solo from my album 'winds of a burrito timeless.' "jesus" my coworkers will amaze, "holy christ what was that!?" they'll remark. Its all in a days work for a rockstar like me and on special days, ill sometimes visit the rehearsal studio down the hall for the porcelain remix. Its a rough life as a rockstar, but someones got to eat 9 donuts from the breakroom every thursday and, well, i guess im just a special kind of person.
And I immediately quit reading. Id just as soon interview the jar of pickles in my refrigerator on the finer points of an interstellar mission to Mars. The pickles would probably have just as much purchase in the decision to or process of going to Mars. The Pickles however would have the upper hand, as they wouldn't say a fucking word about something which they are not only incapable of comprehending, but would likely never have a potential to affect in the future.
E-Books are rentable from the library. even the hardware is rentable, so aside from a slight learning curve and different constraints on the total number of titles i can check out, the disruption proposed by e-books is minimal. things like library reservations or intra-library requests are also processed much more quickly, given the nature of the book being digital.
Call me old fashioned, but there just isnt a valid replacement in my world for a physical book. If its a title i truly love, (hitchhikers guide, tolkien, etc...) I'll give sincere consideration to purchasing a copy for my personal bookshelf, but reaching for an e-reader on a rainy day still has no emotional context for me like a real book would. Ereaders are simultaneously more convenient and less convenient...leave one on a plane and its inexorably more expensive than buying a used copy online, but try taking your bookshelf with you everywhere you go. Theres no clear winner.
an individual taking on large corporations for copyright infrigement happens all the time. The corporation sends an army of their internal legal staff to stand around in a courthouse arguing semantics and dragging their feet until the plaintiff simply runs out of cash and has to go back to his proletariat wageslave job.
what is rare is an individual receiving any settlement, acceptance of wrongdoing, judgement, or even a trial outside of arbitration in these circumstances. You see, unless you're a corporation then the meat of copyright law is largely designed as punitive retribution against your blithe transgressions against a cartel media system. its not actually designed to or even intended to be taken to its logical conclusion by joe sixpack.
Im sure its comfy in that embassy and youre just itchin to get out. Well let me tell you, the US has a lot more dirt than just a one night stand to throw at you, Assange. Remember that time you bought falafel and a soda and then accidentally dropped garlic sauce on the pavement? looks like someones getting a warrant for littering. And that other time, remember when you bumped into that old lithuanian woman on the train? thats a heck of an assault you perpetrated.
working for an airline that rhymes with town crest, passenger and luggage weight is an issue thats usually handled automagically by a combination of pilots and flight crew. you'll rarely see it, but very large passengers will generally not get on a flight until they buy the adjacent seats for their row. Its a call made by the captain and crew to ensure drinks service and emergency procedures work. you might be refused a wing seat in an exit row, you might not get to sit in front. we try to avoid it because fat passengers are typically angry passengers.
passengers generally have been getting larger. the obesity epidemic makes flights heavier, fuel costlier, and boarding and deplaning slower. jetways have to handle more load and they see their pantographs serviced more frequently. and the bathrooms (or as we call it lav service) become a bigger issue thanks to the poor diet we're all subjected to and the confined nature of the space. its more frequent and the equipment ends up being serviced more often. passengers also pack more crap than they did 30 years ago, and in response we're trying to lighten flights by giving an economic incentive to 'pack light.' That turns out, in my opinion, not to have worked. instead more people are just forcibly insisting their checked luggage be treated as carry-on. Trust me, if its a packed flight and youre not boarding with a light backpack and a jacket, that bags getting checked no matter how quickly you try to shuffle through the line.
As a millenial, phonecalls never made sense to me. Unless I actively want to hear your voice (my parents for example) then i have an infinite and vastly superior cadre of resources with which to communicate. Another supreme irritation is when I email a person, but they call me back. maintain parity and answer the email. Accosting me for details just means im going to keep pointing you to the email.
But phones? no. Voicemail hell no. my voicemail is a tire fire of unanswered phonecalls from recruiters, cold callers, advertisers, sales droids, scammers, you name it. Bell make sure my generation never, ever wanted to use the telephone when they turned a blind eye to the fact that it was becoming a haven for garbage calls. comcast and company also turned me off to phones by reminding me how much i absolutely hate hanging on the line, waiting endlessly for some ESL speaker to fumble through my question or "escalate" me to another call center.
pilot: ladies and gentlemen we've turned on the fasten seatbelt sign in preparation for entry into earths orbit and the inevitable turbulence from the legendary orbital garbage layer that surrounds the planet.
Its worth remembering that while the conflict has claimed many lives, its being intentionally aggrevated by the US.
The US entered into the two plus four treaty with germany under the agreement it would move no further east after this unification. Even gorbachev noted this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All the united states has to do in order to de-escalate this conflict is to categorically reject Ukranian membership in NATO.
public: prosecutorial overreach contributed to the death of Aaron Schwartz proescutors: yeah,but he was a ruthless hacker. public it has built an unsustainable prison population, ensures perpetual incarceration, and disproportionately targets minorities and poor people. prosecutors: these people had the drugs, so were technically fighting a war on the drugs. mission success. public The average american breaks 3 laws per day, and if youre incapable of bail or restitution youre sent to prison for your debt. the united states leads the world in total citizens incarcerated. prosecutors:If you cant do the time, dont do the crime. Google: hey guise we heard u like privacy... Apple: ditto. iPrivacy. it werks. Prosecutors: phone encryption makes my job hard. turn it off.
I want to run to build a mandate for the fundamental change that our democracy desperately needs.
so you want to propose a mission statement? because as it stands 100 senators and 435 house representatives are and have been for more than 2 generations the "hack" used by oligarchs and plutocrats to ensure you dont get to just randomly pull the rug out from under them. They control the media, they control the message, and they ultimately decide what policies and procedures are adopted and enforced.
presidents dont make laws or set meaningful policy. they kiss babies, tour disaster areas, deliver platitudes, and offer a meaningful physical representation of a broad set of policies economic, social, and international that campaign donors can patronize and the average voter can gloss over until they have to juggle 2 jobs and a trip to the library to cast their vote for party A or party B before they pick up the kids and pay rent.
I know many security professionals may be alarmed at this practice but i can assure you other examples exist where this tactic proves effective. For example, by ignoring or forbidding climate change discussion we actually prevent it from ever happening (clapping your hands helps too.) prior to abstinence only education, teenage pregnancy was ridiculously prevalent in the US. now that most sex-education courses in america are unstandardized and avoid covering things like condoms, birth control even simple intercourse, kids are a model of puritanical living.
im also told that the nuanced and layered complexity of immigration reform and homeless war veterans can be tackled by a large wall, and simply not looking at homeless people.
I see we've continued the grand project of turning Firefox into a moneytrain. among the issues the community ardently voiced opposition to: suggested tiles: we will be monitoring your browsing habits and suggesting products and services for you to buy, because adblock was getting a little too good. conversations: a feature no one wanted or needed, conversations competes with skype, google chat, facebook, and about a dozen other voip apps to turn your browser into realmedia player. extension signing warning: no one cared about this except Mozilla. it means in the future they can quietly refuse to sign ad-block and script-block plugins and the average user can enjoy one more hurdle to a normal internet experience.
If they enjoy Uber then perhaps theyd really enjoy a taxi service. Taxis, offer all the benefits of Uber with the convenience of government controls like licensing, inspection, background checks, and safety standards for vehicles as well as passengers. Then again, theres nothing like taking an uber from the Khalid international airport and being forcibly driven to the middle of Highway 40, your new final destination.
While most americans may be content with things like the 'welcome back we'll be right back' nature of television and radio, its actually a pretty glaring annoyance for the rest of us. turning everything into a commodity is a very recent notion, and not one I might add that many people care for.
I block routes to known advertising servers, and i use the firefox microblock plugin for anything else. what advertisers often completely neglect is that theyre on my bandwidth. I pay the bill, i decide the content, end of discussion. the ads are often just another vector for exploits in the browser. The product almost never pertains to me, and i dont want it to. I dont want advertisers dickriding me into the sunset trying to exploit my personal interests. Instead when and if i need a product i want advertisers to focus on what the product does, and how well it does it. Do not pander endlessly about how good or noble a person im to become if i dole out cash for the product.
As a north korean coder this is actually a pretty welcome change. Some people would say its more work, that id have to submit zonedata updates, and that my applications would all have to be recompiled with patches for the new zone but those poeple have never seen the kind of inspiring motivation our leader brings to the team. Ever since I started sharing an office with my new coworker, a loaded 152 mm howitzer, ive been incredibly productive. You know what they say about morale in the office these days though, "lunch is an evil lie told by the west!"
Slashdot Mirror
Lexmark bakes TPM and DRM into their media to prevent refilling and third party toner companies from encroaching on their razor blade model. arguably it does benefit the customer, as no toner barrel will permit more than a set number of copies from ever being exceeded which would result in poor print quality due to lack of toner. aftermarket toner is argued to be inferior to Lexmarks proprietary toner and in many cases, especially with Lexmarks shaped particulate technology, it is. region coding allows marketing to lock-in anticompetitive pricing for a product, but does little else.
that having been said, printing is an industry dying a slow death. consumers have been soured to printing ever since the media for inkjet began to cost more than human blood. The internet in turn has rendered most printing in the office environment nearly taboo. thermal printing survives based on outright artificially high prices for the printers themselves, as the paper is ubiquitous. Xerox wont face much backlash over this as their customers are almost exclusively businesses, and theyre one of a handful of vendors that support exotic markets like classified document printing.
stars Adam Sandler
You sadistic bastards...as if an Adam Sandler film isnt a punishment unto itself.
In america we assume people are poor because they are lazy; its a very childlike answer to an enormously complex question. Further simplifying our approach, we generally only define wealth by financial terms. we base our welfare system in part on an inherent desire to punish the recipient for their perceived lack of participation and drive to accumulate money. a more appropriate analysis is to begin with the following assumption: a set of people will never contribute monetarily equal or greater amounts to a society in which they live. This may be due to a number of uncontrollable constraints like illness or ineptitude, but could also be a reflection of your society. Perhaps there is nothing worth doing in the case of the 'working poor' or perhaps there isnt any pay (and perhaps none is expected) in the case of many artists. The question is not how to motivate these people, but how to ensure they are sustained at a comfortable level proportionate to the societies acceptable living standards. In the united states our unspoken answer to this is death on skid row by preventable disease. in the USSR the answer was that everyone according to their means contributed at very least some working effort. artists would do art, the sick would work to get healthy, and others would contribute to foster the wealth of the society as they could, be it intellectual or monetarily.
If you're just now coming to realize the incredible inconvenience to consumers that planned obsolescence affords, and its only recently become a concern when contextualized in the form of a plastic trinket, then things are only going to get worse when you hear about how the rest of the modern consumer electronics market works.
Other states have experienced far more dire setbacks in electronic voting systems. for example
florida: system glitch refuses to authorize voting outside the presence of an AARP membership.
Arkansas: booth console ships with nuclear codes, launch access, and a hard coded option to launch against the city of Cleveland Ohio on vote for grover cleveland
colorado: never actually purchased a voting machine but a large calculator
Texas: Candidates hard coded to 6 deceased bush relatives, or a vote for Vladimir Putin
California: Voting machine powered hydroelectrically
After graduating college and transitioning to my career at Taco Bell as a cream engineer (sour) I've taken the liberty in my extensive sabbatical time to research and in fact provide the slashdot community with a hardened, hackerproof vehicle that is both affordable as well as reliable. I give you, the 2001 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor.
The discerning customer will have acquired it through government auction between $600 and $800, where it will present not one, not two, but three indicator lights. One light, the engine light, serves to confirm an engine is present. The other two lights, ABS and the squiggly red noodle, are savvy decoys to confuse the hacker into presuming there is a functional breaking mechanism to exploit. Entering the vehicle the driver is greeted with the stench of so many dollar-menu breakfast sandwiches and carbon paper from a decade of parking citations. These aromas confound the hacker mind. Should the hackers persist, the vehicle contains plausible deniability technology for the engine itself. Instead of recirculating oil in the crankshaft, the security of this vehicle clandestinely burns the oil. Some people have heard of the chain of trust, and in this vehicle a sophisticated system called the chain of rust prevents tampering with idler and pitman suspension components as they are permanently affixed using oxidation technology. Finally, to seal their doom, hackers attempting to gain access to the glove box will become inextricably trapped in a foul blue, brown goo which is in fact the remenants of an exploded ballpoint pen and an old snickers bar, aged to perfection. Should the driver successfully decrypt the transmission and make it into first gear, the vehicle offers many moments of useful intermittent service.
As a valued member of the law enforcement community it pains me to see the lack of independent investigation into our scientific process. Several books have been published in the past 30 years including such titles as 'fundamentals of systemic mass incarceration' and 'scientific process for falsifying evidence during a confrontation in which an overwhelming disproportionate level of force was applied.' These titles are all extremely technical...quite academic you see. So perhaps I shall refer the layman to such titles as 'metal batons, the musical!' and 'chokeholds, the happy urban handshake.' My personal favourite is 'civil forfeiture and the vacation to maui'
Many poeple find that spending a decade of human life imprisoned for a victimless crime is rather heavy handed. some decry it as "disproportionate" while others have remarked that its "just shy of lovecraftian in its malevolence." Im here to lend a bit of clarification and state for the record there is a very real victim in thje crime of piracy, and that victim comes with hand stitched Corinthian leather. Im talking of course about my Rolls Royce.
Piracy deprives my rolls of a clean garage. It means I cant afford to pay my motor butler a decent wage and in turn it means the handles will persistently be wracked with smudges and fingerprints. It means I'll have to settle into something called 'the drivers seat' which makes it difficult, if not impossible to fetch the Perrier '65 Brut from the chiller (which as we all know is in the back seat.) Yes good people, Piracy could even mean -- and I shudder to envision this -- that I am forced to austerity and must drive a Bentley instead. So please, wont you reconsider sending those who pirate mellow folk sensation Roger Whittaker to a decade or more of prison? Its only fair after all.
Realizing id reached a heightened plane of potential, I started branding myself as a rockstar ages ago. I've even got my own talent manager. My clients, or fan-danglers as i call them, are generally anxious to get their hands on a 30something white guy with a slight gut and a penchant for autistic levels of Linux coding. Walking into the office I'm greeted with a bevy of young project managers and middle managers, their brows pregnant with sweat and their minds crucified by my presence. Dorris, the 68 year old long-timer will look up from the copier in awe and exclaim, "we are out of cyan again." Im just that majestic.
Often times, after my rockstar power lunch consisting of a double-stuffed chipotle burrito, I'll pick up a leg and crank loose a show stopping acapella solo from my album 'winds of a burrito timeless.' "jesus" my coworkers will amaze, "holy christ what was that!?" they'll remark. Its all in a days work for a rockstar like me and on special days, ill sometimes visit the rehearsal studio down the hall for the porcelain remix. Its a rough life as a rockstar, but someones got to eat 9 donuts from the breakroom every thursday and, well, i guess im just a special kind of person.
Donald Trump Thinks
And I immediately quit reading. Id just as soon interview the jar of pickles in my refrigerator on the finer points of an interstellar mission to Mars. The pickles would probably have just as much purchase in the decision to or process of going to Mars. The Pickles however would have the upper hand, as they wouldn't say a fucking word about something which they are not only incapable of comprehending, but would likely never have a potential to affect in the future.
E-Books are rentable from the library. even the hardware is rentable, so aside from a slight learning curve and different constraints on the total number of titles i can check out, the disruption proposed by e-books is minimal. things like library reservations or intra-library requests are also processed much more quickly, given the nature of the book being digital.
Call me old fashioned, but there just isnt a valid replacement in my world for a physical book. If its a title i truly love, (hitchhikers guide, tolkien, etc...) I'll give sincere consideration to purchasing a copy for my personal bookshelf, but reaching for an e-reader on a rainy day still has no emotional context for me like a real book would. Ereaders are simultaneously more convenient and less convenient...leave one on a plane and its inexorably more expensive than buying a used copy online, but try taking your bookshelf with you everywhere you go. Theres no clear winner.
an individual taking on large corporations for copyright infrigement happens all the time. The corporation sends an army of their internal legal staff to stand around in a courthouse arguing semantics and dragging their feet until the plaintiff simply runs out of cash and has to go back to his proletariat wageslave job.
what is rare is an individual receiving any settlement, acceptance of wrongdoing, judgement, or even a trial outside of arbitration in these circumstances. You see, unless you're a corporation then the meat of copyright law is largely designed as punitive retribution against your blithe transgressions against a cartel media system. its not actually designed to or even intended to be taken to its logical conclusion by joe sixpack.
Im sure its comfy in that embassy and youre just itchin to get out. Well let me tell you, the US has a lot more dirt than just a one night stand to throw at you, Assange. Remember that time you bought falafel and a soda and then accidentally dropped garlic sauce on the pavement? looks like someones getting a warrant for littering. And that other time, remember when you bumped into that old lithuanian woman on the train? thats a heck of an assault you perpetrated.
working for an airline that rhymes with town crest, passenger and luggage weight is an issue thats usually handled automagically by a combination of pilots and flight crew. you'll rarely see it, but very large passengers will generally not get on a flight until they buy the adjacent seats for their row. Its a call made by the captain and crew to ensure drinks service and emergency procedures work. you might be refused a wing seat in an exit row, you might not get to sit in front. we try to avoid it because fat passengers are typically angry passengers.
passengers generally have been getting larger. the obesity epidemic makes flights heavier, fuel costlier, and boarding and deplaning slower. jetways have to handle more load and they see their pantographs serviced more frequently. and the bathrooms (or as we call it lav service) become a bigger issue thanks to the poor diet we're all subjected to and the confined nature of the space. its more frequent and the equipment ends up being serviced more often. passengers also pack more crap than they did 30 years ago, and in response we're trying to lighten flights by giving an economic incentive to 'pack light.' That turns out, in my opinion, not to have worked. instead more people are just forcibly insisting their checked luggage be treated as carry-on. Trust me, if its a packed flight and youre not boarding with a light backpack and a jacket, that bags getting checked no matter how quickly you try to shuffle through the line.
As a millenial, phonecalls never made sense to me. Unless I actively want to hear your voice (my parents for example) then i have an infinite and vastly superior cadre of resources with which to communicate. Another supreme irritation is when I email a person, but they call me back. maintain parity and answer the email. Accosting me for details just means im going to keep pointing you to the email.
But phones? no. Voicemail hell no. my voicemail is a tire fire of unanswered phonecalls from recruiters, cold callers, advertisers, sales droids, scammers, you name it. Bell make sure my generation never, ever wanted to use the telephone when they turned a blind eye to the fact that it was becoming a haven for garbage calls. comcast and company also turned me off to phones by reminding me how much i absolutely hate hanging on the line, waiting endlessly for some ESL speaker to fumble through my question or "escalate" me to another call center.
96 million "shade balls" could only mean one thing right? and im sure you're just itching to crack that joke, but youre wrong.
We've only got 38 million residents, and currently theyre divided up between hollywood, totally insane homeless people, and startup tech firms.
pilot: ladies and gentlemen we've turned on the fasten seatbelt sign in preparation for entry into earths orbit and the inevitable turbulence from the legendary orbital garbage layer that surrounds the planet.
Its worth remembering that while the conflict has claimed many lives, its being intentionally aggrevated by the US.
The US entered into the two plus four treaty with germany under the agreement it would move no further east after this unification. Even gorbachev noted this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All the united states has to do in order to de-escalate this conflict is to categorically reject Ukranian membership in NATO.
public: prosecutorial overreach contributed to the death of Aaron Schwartz
proescutors: yeah,but he was a ruthless hacker.
public it has built an unsustainable prison population, ensures perpetual incarceration, and disproportionately targets minorities and poor people.
prosecutors: these people had the drugs, so were technically fighting a war on the drugs. mission success.
public The average american breaks 3 laws per day, and if youre incapable of bail or restitution youre sent to prison for your debt. the united states leads the world in total citizens incarcerated.
prosecutors:If you cant do the time, dont do the crime.
Google: hey guise we heard u like privacy...
Apple: ditto. iPrivacy. it werks.
Prosecutors: phone encryption makes my job hard. turn it off.
I want to run to build a mandate for the fundamental change that our democracy desperately needs.
so you want to propose a mission statement? because as it stands 100 senators and 435 house representatives are and have been for more than 2 generations the "hack" used by oligarchs and plutocrats to ensure you dont get to just randomly pull the rug out from under them. They control the media, they control the message, and they ultimately decide what policies and procedures are adopted and enforced.
presidents dont make laws or set meaningful policy. they kiss babies, tour disaster areas, deliver platitudes, and offer a meaningful physical representation of a broad set of policies economic, social, and international that campaign donors can patronize and the average voter can gloss over until they have to juggle 2 jobs and a trip to the library to cast their vote for party A or party B before they pick up the kids and pay rent.
I know many security professionals may be alarmed at this practice but i can assure you other examples exist where this tactic proves effective. For example, by ignoring or forbidding climate change discussion we actually prevent it from ever happening (clapping your hands helps too.) prior to abstinence only education, teenage pregnancy was ridiculously prevalent in the US. now that most sex-education courses in america are unstandardized and avoid covering things like condoms, birth control even simple intercourse, kids are a model of puritanical living.
im also told that the nuanced and layered complexity of immigration reform and homeless war veterans can be tackled by a large wall, and simply not looking at homeless people.
I see we've continued the grand project of turning Firefox into a moneytrain. among the issues the community ardently voiced opposition to:
suggested tiles: we will be monitoring your browsing habits and suggesting products and services for you to buy, because adblock was getting a little too good.
conversations: a feature no one wanted or needed, conversations competes with skype, google chat, facebook, and about a dozen other voip apps to turn your browser into realmedia player.
extension signing warning: no one cared about this except Mozilla. it means in the future they can quietly refuse to sign ad-block and script-block plugins and the average user can enjoy one more hurdle to a normal internet experience.
If they enjoy Uber then perhaps theyd really enjoy a taxi service. Taxis, offer all the benefits of Uber with the convenience of government controls like licensing, inspection, background checks, and safety standards for vehicles as well as passengers. Then again, theres nothing like taking an uber from the Khalid international airport and being forcibly driven to the middle of Highway 40, your new final destination.
While most americans may be content with things like the 'welcome back we'll be right back' nature of television and radio, its actually a pretty glaring annoyance for the rest of us. turning everything into a commodity is a very recent notion, and not one I might add that many people care for.
I block routes to known advertising servers, and i use the firefox microblock plugin for anything else. what advertisers often completely neglect is that theyre on my bandwidth. I pay the bill, i decide the content, end of discussion. the ads are often just another vector for exploits in the browser. The product almost never pertains to me, and i dont want it to. I dont want advertisers dickriding me into the sunset trying to exploit my personal interests. Instead when and if i need a product i want advertisers to focus on what the product does, and how well it does it. Do not pander endlessly about how good or noble a person im to become if i dole out cash for the product.
As a north korean coder this is actually a pretty welcome change. Some people would say its more work, that id have to submit zonedata updates, and that my applications would all have to be recompiled with patches for the new zone but those poeple have never seen the kind of inspiring motivation our leader brings to the team. Ever since I started sharing an office with my new coworker, a loaded 152 mm howitzer, ive been incredibly productive. You know what they say about morale in the office these days though, "lunch is an evil lie told by the west!"