Checking the site there are other causes listed that are far more important in my opinion:
Nokia Anonymous provides psychological counseling and moral support to victims who have spent billions on a cellular phone, only to spend billions more in an endless cycle of abuse.
the Explorer education program Teaches its members to become acid compliant, and learn to quit bad behaviors like ActiveX and browser preference stealing. Ultimately the explorer programs goal is to help its mentally challenged students to learn simple things like HTML5 and even simple forms.
The Steve Ballmer Institute: No one knows what condition afflicts steve ballmer. Hes a man once known to hurl furniture in fits of paranoid delusion, only to emerge days later caked in sweat and howling a chant of 'developers' over and over, in a schitzophrenic episode. The Ballmer institute seeks to heal by studying and, in time, formulating a treatment for this rare and profoundly sad disease.
Of course, the 747 and other airliners do not fly their maximum speed, ever. Most airlines in the 21st century are both morally and financially bankrupt. They've long since clustered together in a ragtag group of star alliance, world alliance, or one world team collusions designed in much the same way a homeless person trades in their shopping cart for a roller-bag to appear less disheveled.
Along with this transition came new rules. "international" airport in the 21st century means nothing, because airlines are constrained by financial obligation to route people like shit through a sewer. And as for maximum speed? its egregiously avoided at all costs because it burns much more fuel than a slow lope across the globe. It taxes engines and in turn drives up maintenance costs. So when we say a new player will emerge, those whom are financially beholden to this gilded superjet will likely dial back the engines to a more modest 1.1 mach...or in some cases never a mach at all and pocket your misplaced investment in the future of airline efficiency..
If anyone other than the toilet brush of the internet were to offer me this, id give it a go. However, it would be irresponsible of me to assume Comcast has any intention of offering a useful product that adheres to the advertised rate and doesnt screw up the billing. Comcast has over 20 years of proven malicious,reckless, and wanton disregard for their customers.
The service is $300 a month
You heard it folks, step right up for $300 a month in abusive customer service, random SRVFAIL hijacking, complete prohibition on running "a server" of any kind, advertisement injection, the resale of your personal information, and best of all an ardent refusal to cancel this service.
When did every waking moment of my life have to be a monetizeable asset? This all grinds to a halt with an informed consumer and the hacker is no different. We were the ones to create and install adblock, noscript, ssl everywhere, and refuse location data. We null-routed known advertisers IP ranges and took back our internet, and if the same dog-and-pony capitalism is coming to transportation, You can be damn sure we will hack it. And if it cant be hacked, I havent met a peripheral or device that cant be removed with the help of a solder rework station and a pair of needle nose pliers.
TL;DR: "I loved and lost someone close to me, and now i want you to feel bad too."
as a biomedical scientist this infuriates me. society promises a cure for everything because hope springs eternal and in this foul year of our lord 2015 we've harnessed all the worlds knowledge into a tiny device that puts us in contact with anyone, at any time, at the touch of a button. We're not defeatists. we never have been. We may not have cured your disease, but we have a fucking laundry list of ailments and once lethal diseases both genetic and viral that have all fallen in the might of our science. Diseases you no longer have to worry about because we didnt just settle for supportive therapy. but if thats a better idea, im sure there are companies lining up to build a nicer iron lung.
The scientific method is what TFA fails to understand. Its asking us to just make sure folks are comfortable while they shuffle off this mortal coil and take our defeats as final judgement. And just because a pharmaceutical company sells a supportive or analgesic medication for an ailment, doesnt mean its either safe or effective. Musinex is a worthless snake-oil with no scientifically proven effect, yet it sells millions. medicinal zinc is also wildly popular yet scientifically unverifiable. And all those medications for gout, inflammation, obesity, and nicer CPAP masks want to conveniently ignore the real problem: preventable disease through diet and exercise.
At the firewall Ive configured open access to the web, with a caching proxy only for videos and static content. I dont have an extra layer of DansGuardian or BlueCoat policing users. known attack pages are generally blocked by google safe browsing. I enforce a very strict policy on security awareness, so my users are generally careful around the web. Periodically, content logs are scanned from the firewall and I generate reports for the management and HR to review. theyre the only ones who care what you do on breaks anyhow.
lately Ive had my log script checking for data exfiltration...cc patterns and phone numbers mostly. Blacklisting is done through null-routing subnets and only if a request comes from a C level or HR.
As a close friend of bumblebees its hard seeing a familiar face disappear year after year. As for us in the hornet community, we're enjoying a resurgence the likes of which few have ever known. That picnic last month where we stung the living crap out of your dog? yes, good times..and that time you stepped on one of us while mowing the lawn in sandles? goodness we sure shared a chuckle while delivering inexorable sting after sting chasing you into the sliding glass door. Lets also not forget that time you reached into the mailbox! ho ho! surprised you didnt we? So in summation I guess what id like to say is that although the bumble bee and its kind gentle ways are slowly fading from existence, we still loathe, detest, and abhor each and every one of you giant two legged monsters.
Adblock plus has a coloured history of cherrypicking advertisers to quietly ignore. It was accused of accepting bribes from google to allow their ads. it has a whitelist of ads it considers tasteful enough to allow as well. Its also been fingered for slowing the browser experience for many users.
try microblock instead. And dont rely on just adblocking plugins to keep the network clean. null route known ad servers at home and work using a blacklist http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/. the same process can be applied to rooted android phones as well, creating an ad-free experience that saves you money.
This kind of application has been ported to about half a dozen different operating systems. i use it on a regular basis but for those not familiar I find it works best with legacy PHP. the "rm" command (or as its known in windows "del") uses an advanced algorythm to determine the target codes age, total number of lines, and any optimizations that are required in order to make it fully web 4.0 SOAP, ROPE, and DOPE compliant. It then quickly converts the code to the updated version by changing the physical structure of the space it occupies on the disk. My coworkers always seem amazed when they see me break out my legacy optimizer. "What have you done?!" they exclaim, baffled at my efficiency. "holy crap do you know how important that was?!?" they remark in awe
According to TFA 'peak driving' happened in 2004. more than a decade later states are waking up to empty highways. I think this is happening for a few reasons:
intractable recession: The US, in general, is a declining superpower and its starting to show. our skin-and-bones transportation budget, crumbling bridges, and pothole ridden highways are so common as to be a feature. A decade of intentional federal gridlock by republicans clammouring for austerity measures in the face of a housing market crisis and educational loan crisis didnt help. and a decade prior our zeal to fight the war without end amen depleated a lot of our reserves from the clinton adminstration that could have been used to shore up what 60 years ago was a mark of american achievement...namely our highway infrastructure.
Driving sucks: Millenials like myself hate driving. car companies assumed it was their cars, and raced to put cellphones and wifi computers in our cars hoping we would buy them all up, only to realize we're crippled by inexorable college debt and newfound levels of unaffordable housing. regular maintenance and gas, insurance and most importantly our general penchant for unemployment after the housing decline means we arent really interested in a car. if we get one, it will be a beater from a used lot. we're also mostly service sector employees, or we work from home because OAP's and boomers turned our economy into a giant mechanical turk. Combine this with our urban brethren and we have everything from groceries to the latest blu-ray delivered to us through the mail. we dont shop strip malls, we just buy what you ask for off the list you make online.
Going from ballmers dominator approach in which all markets become a subservient cash-cow for Microsoft product-driven walled gardens of commerce and perpetual licensing, to "we just want to make it a windows thing" is still completely missing the point. the 7 billion dollar writeoff is the business equivalent of a hangover from 30 years of chasing a white rabbit everyone else had already caught. focusing on windows isnt a business strategy, its a suicide letter.
For what windows does in the real world, other companies already do better and most importantly cheaper. games? steam is a household name. word processing? a google docs enabled chromebook has that covered in spades along with social networking and internet. While microsoft was busy jumping through hoops with zune, windows phone, and surface tablet, they completely ignored the fact that despite competitors dominating a product segment in terms of sales, their competitors had obsoleted the very birthright applications of redmond itself: the apps.
Microsoft has XBox (for now) and a contractual model of business licensing that will assume more and more the role of a monarchy over a colony as time marches on until finally the very same companies that targeted redmonds consumer products will begin to target their business divisions as well. A few more years here and there of fervent litigious hand waving will commence, more layoffs will ensue, and eventually Microsoft will have found itself not consumed 'cancerously' by the open source it vilified, but entirely sidestepped.
People will always want to 3d print a gun. In some cases 3d printing a gun or components to a firearm is an excellent idea. For example, in a rural or exurban environment where parts may be scarce, raw materials to remanufacture failing components of firearms for hunting or defense are more efficient. A farmer may be able to use the same 3d printer to rebuild a thresher, reprint a broken connector, and rebuild a rifle used for varmint hunting to protect his cattle.
there will always be bad guys. bad guys will always want to 3d print a gun that can't be traced and isn't registered. But it bares worth remembering, our present United States method of determining who is fit for ownership of a gun is basically a checklist and a phone call. Given the rash of recent mass shootings this system didn't prevent, its clearly lacking. Any attempt to regulate 3d printing of guns, should come with an overhaul of our background or application process for gun ownership. simply banning the devices, the knowledge, or their export is an ambitious but futile approach to the actual problem: wholesale gun violence in the united states as a manifestation of the permanent race based caste and class system inequality in the united states..
Price: battery powered vehicles that look like time machines or toys are still priced at the luxury vehicle level. the ones that look normal or respectable, tesla, are still commanding BMW dollars. Hell, even decent electric motorcycles start at 17k. if you want me to buy one, stop crashing the economy and start supporting a living wage. Range: most of these cars excel in stop and go traffic, with parking garages equipped with Chademo charge stations that dont cost anything. for the rest of america outside of Los Angeles and New York, we dont have this and our commute isnt as gridlocked as you may think.
congress critter:ill fund the f35 but only if its in my state, and only if it uses whatever is in my macbook. senate critter: make it fly faster than any jet we have, but also make it use this pork technology i funded in 2006 in my state. congressional overlord: we need to fund a new jet fighter, we all agree on this, but i think we're overlooking a critical point. this figher needs lasers so it can beat chinese surface to air clam demons i heard about on fox news. use the lasers were building in senator porkpies state senator porkpie: i stopped funding those things because special interests in my state swore they were blasphemous to jesus and part of the gay agenda Congressman moneysworth: make the jet use stem cells but also make sure it can deliver food aid in case we need to send security forces to stabilize a region and win hearts and minds. Senator drifty barnacle: ive served since the cleveland administration and i dont this new hamburger you all want to put in the kitchen...make sure the f35 still has katsup... engineer: [screaming intensifies]
outside of a very sophmoric attempt at content filtering, im not sure this service did much? (aside from molest dyndns' API for a user fee.) They basically poison NXDOMAIN for profit...under the auspices of attack prevention and puritanical righteousness.
we mandated ipv6 a while back and like alcoholics we refused to give up ipv4 for a myriad of nagging and petulent reasons. its coming back to haunt us now, with everything from legacy routers that cant grok ipv6 right to switches that cant tag or trunk v6. Many commercial firewalls even struggle to answer the questions "can you support ipv6?" and "can you route it?" with a definitive answer.
for the average user theres no clear or quick answer; youll just have to agree that some third party got it right. For slashdotters theres easy-rsa tools to start your CA and OpenVPN which has had support for ipv6 since 2.3. "leakage" is an ephemeral and undefined problem in TFA, but for those of us that live and breathe on planet RTFM an openvpn tunnel that supports v4 and v6 is trivial.
im speaking of the states, but here our cable and fibre providers have 90% coverage of a dual-stack configuration of ipv6 and ipv4 direct to the device. Sure, the modem only grants 1 ip for 1 customer (at least until the net neutrality suits are settled) but once you step into a fresh IPv6 address the measure of this ipv6 debacle becomes apparent. Big players arent playing: Amazons various services dont support ipv6 and most of your TLD's outside of the googleverse dont get AAAA. the open source community at freenode does support it however, and most shared/vps hosting providers do as well, so if you need a project this summer at least consider looking at your docsis3 options/ipv6 lease and get to work on that vpn!
if its anything like my general Ikea experience, im sure the security ops team was handed a cardboard box labelled "Schelli schocc" with a 7 page manual full of bloated looking stick figures and a tiny hex wrench. they were then left to figure it out over a long night of busted knuckles and impromptu invented curse words. by dawn, either the prod environement passed a nessus scan or theyd built a bed...or both.
As a researcher I can confirm this augmented reality threat is limited to a small minority of individuals. Peripheral vision, for example, has been entirely advanced out of the human genome for the average New Jersey driver. While judgements in relative motion are key for some individuals, the average floridian will be keen to realize movement, perceived or not, is irrelevant on highway 27 as the road itself seems to be immune to the passage of time while in a motor vehicle. Californians should not concern themselves with wearable technology and its impact upon vision and cognitive processes related to distance, as the technology will almost certainly be obsolete by the time they exit the 405 freeway.
Elon musk is building a space program and Bill Gates is fixing climate change. These are tactical and purile solutions to what amounts to a strategic problem that affects every person on the planet. Instead of pining for vainglorious deliverance from our greatest problems by the monied plutocracy, we need to address the actual issue. In many cases the very people who propose to solve these kinds of problems are in fact causing them.
climate change skepticism and denial is outrightly perpetrated by multinational oil and gas conglomerates with a vested disinterest in additional regulation and scrutiny of their investments and businesses. Bill gates funds them, quixotically, as he attempts to deep drinkly from the chalice of social welfare and altruistic good. initiatives to staunch additional investment into nasa and bleed dry the FDA, EPA, and FDC are backed, largely, by generous hedge fund and public investmet that arrives from the cauffers of people like Mr. Gates. Bill is never directly troubled by any of this, as most groups like alec and americans for prosperity dont need to divulge their donors, among which are Gates' own investment targets.
Its also incredibly egotistical. things like NASA, Kyoto, and environmental trusts as well as the EPA were all created to circumvent a single donors limited legacy. Once Bill is gone from this earth, his wealth will be divested and his future heirs will likely quietly mothball their fathers once glorious end-of-life decision to cure the world of global warming in favour of perhaps another yacht or mansion.
Online media has, like a meth junkie at a desert party, overdosed itself. The average slate or buzzfeed is a rats nest of unrelated yet increasingly predatory advertising that saps bandwidth and kills the user experience waiting for everyhting from monolithic flash ads to autoplay html5 elements to load. even your local newspaper is taking advantage of this to hose you for cash payments you wont make to read their clickbait articles that are written at the 4th grade level.
And what is this television thats slowly weaning itself off advertising? Watching Van Helsing in my hotel room I was treated to a 3 hour movie padded with advertising for everything from pain pills to fried chicken and cars. some ads even came back-to-back for the same damn product. television is rehabing from ads like a crack addict rehabs at the family reunion with a rail of white lightning in the bathroom. And dont think this excuses you, blu-ray and DVD titles are just as much television as the average CW network after school highly sensored puritanical life lesson sitcom. I have 12 to 20 minutes of un-skippable content in each of these disks where 10 years ago i was promised this wasnt ever going to happen. Im forced to watch advertisements and previews for products i dont give a shit about, just so i can get to the movie that includes (surprise) more product placement. Does anyone remember Oreo-bot from the transformers?
The only change in televisions model has been taking credit cards for things other than the ronco electric food dehydrator or the jack lalane power juicer. the guide feature in most provider services at the 1080p level still includes a myriad of floating chyron ads for weight loss and dick pills. buying anything pay-per-view will immediately forward your personal information to nearly two dozen affiliate advertisers and merchants. its a horrendous pain in the ass. And if you dont like it? two words: Its Comcastic.
cable and television service providers not only insult your intelligence and dignity but take it as a personal act of blasphemy if you try to cancel. simply calling up, youll be asked a phonebook of personal and insulting questions about your service and your personal likes and dislikes. its not the callcenters fault, some seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drone decided it was going to be a great idea to force the callcenter to carpet bomb customers in whats known as 'customer retention.' tactics.
the only thing this article isnt mentioning is that adblock is still a very real and useful thing, and that everything on television inevitably shows up on torrent.
The greek financial crisis was brought on by a neoliberal government that promised the moon and stars, never collected tax, and drove itself into bankruptcy by securing loans (some predatory) that it could never repay. 23 years of national economic policy are coming home to roost, much as they did in the united states during the housing collapse, except the frameworks are radically different.
Greeks aren't generally accustomed to paying tax. Free medical and social services, some wildly more generous than the average western nation, are normatives they enjoy, and expect to enjoy regardless of income. shifting greece from a two decade model of tax evasion to even moderate tax reform will be met with cars burning in the streets because the average greek voter isn't privy to the fact that the government, in order to remain popular and in power, basically spent itself into oblivion.
exiting the euro may be the cure. Greece seems to be a country that doesn't consider capitalism in the western sense. theyve shunned the world bank strategies of privatized education and water. Evergrowing GDP. endless investment, and cloistered monied elite don't necessarily factor into the countries priorities. It will be a hard road for greece because many other nations will be very reticent to trade after an exit, but it will also afford numerous opportunities for local industry to emerge and thrive.
Imagine a blue enter key, 7 row classic keyboard, 16:10 aspect ratio screen, multi-color ThinkPad
so, Imagine IBM. This won't happen, and not because of cost or market, but because Lenovo has betrayed its actual intent as a profiteering multinational. Superfish should be all the average slashdotter needs to know about this company to arrive at the inevitable conclusion that lenovo is committed to realizing a captive audience and perpetual marketing revenue stream through their hardware. The only reason superfish was stopped was because lenovo got caught, not because they cared about what you think or how you approach general purpose computing.
brand me a nihilist but commodity computing is dead. Dell, HP, and even apple all do the same marketing and targeted advertising song and dance. if its not bloatware its shady 'privacy settings' in the OS that are disabled by default. most laptops are nothing more than 20 gigs of branded content and apps store turd polishing. desktops are the literal epitome of the cheapest chinese plastic that can be extruded into peripheral and PCB form, combined with a disingenuous and underhanded disrespect for the users intelligence. restore partitions replaced media and the average consumer started getting coddled at the 4th grade level for everything from return and repairs to power user options and even system administration.
build your own. pick an OS you like that helps you do what you want, not what some think tank in a conference room whiteboarded. And as for lenovo, you can have my full size aluminum tower when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
as a qihoo wireless model 32 router owner I can say this is being completely blown out of proportion. my router has 6 very clearly labeled settings besides 'pregnant woman' mode and the article mentions nothing about them. Qihoo users like myself typically prefer to keep the router in 'surly wombat' mode to ensure best communication with devices that may be situated between an agitated or unruly wombat (as mine typically can be.) When i have company over I might set the router on 'roger whittaker' mode, which enables it to automatically emit up to 44 different songs from mellow folk sensation Roger Wittaker. You can even control time of day with different settings...for example around dinnertime ill set the router to 'defrost-reheat' which increases power levels accordingly and allows me to thaw and cook up to 15 pounds of turkey in my living room. And i challenge anyone to find a better mode than 'depeche' mode, which activates both gloomy QoS and tortured soul packet conditioning.
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Checking the site there are other causes listed that are far more important in my opinion:
Nokia Anonymous provides psychological counseling and moral support to victims who have spent billions on a cellular phone, only to spend billions more in an endless cycle of abuse.
the Explorer education program Teaches its members to become acid compliant, and learn to quit bad behaviors like ActiveX and browser preference stealing. Ultimately the explorer programs goal is to help its mentally challenged students to learn simple things like HTML5 and even simple forms.
The Steve Ballmer Institute: No one knows what condition afflicts steve ballmer. Hes a man once known to hurl furniture in fits of paranoid delusion, only to emerge days later caked in sweat and howling a chant of 'developers' over and over, in a schitzophrenic episode. The Ballmer institute seeks to heal by studying and, in time, formulating a treatment for this rare and profoundly sad disease.
Of course, the 747 and other airliners do not fly their maximum speed, ever. Most airlines in the 21st century are both morally and financially bankrupt. They've long since clustered together in a ragtag group of star alliance, world alliance, or one world team collusions designed in much the same way a homeless person trades in their shopping cart for a roller-bag to appear less disheveled.
Along with this transition came new rules. "international" airport in the 21st century means nothing, because airlines are constrained by financial obligation to route people like shit through a sewer. And as for maximum speed? its egregiously avoided at all costs because it burns much more fuel than a slow lope across the globe. It taxes engines and in turn drives up maintenance costs. So when we say a new player will emerge, those whom are financially beholden to this gilded superjet will likely dial back the engines to a more modest 1.1 mach...or in some cases never a mach at all and pocket your misplaced investment in the future of airline efficiency..
The service is $300 a month
You heard it folks, step right up for $300 a month in abusive customer service, random SRVFAIL hijacking, complete prohibition on running "a server" of any kind, advertisement injection, the resale of your personal information, and best of all an ardent refusal to cancel this service.
When did every waking moment of my life have to be a monetizeable asset? This all grinds to a halt with an informed consumer and the hacker is no different. We were the ones to create and install adblock, noscript, ssl everywhere, and refuse location data. We null-routed known advertisers IP ranges and took back our internet, and if the same dog-and-pony capitalism is coming to transportation, You can be damn sure we will hack it. And if it cant be hacked, I havent met a peripheral or device that cant be removed with the help of a solder rework station and a pair of needle nose pliers.
TL;DR: "I loved and lost someone close to me, and now i want you to feel bad too."
as a biomedical scientist this infuriates me. society promises a cure for everything because hope springs eternal and in this foul year of our lord 2015 we've harnessed all the worlds knowledge into a tiny device that puts us in contact with anyone, at any time, at the touch of a button. We're not defeatists. we never have been. We may not have cured your disease, but we have a fucking laundry list of ailments and once lethal diseases both genetic and viral that have all fallen in the might of our science. Diseases you no longer have to worry about because we didnt just settle for supportive therapy. but if thats a better idea, im sure there are companies lining up to build a nicer iron lung.
The scientific method is what TFA fails to understand. Its asking us to just make sure folks are comfortable while they shuffle off this mortal coil and take our defeats as final judgement. And just because a pharmaceutical company sells a supportive or analgesic medication for an ailment, doesnt mean its either safe or effective. Musinex is a worthless snake-oil with no scientifically proven effect, yet it sells millions. medicinal zinc is also wildly popular yet scientifically unverifiable. And all those medications for gout, inflammation, obesity, and nicer CPAP masks want to conveniently ignore the real problem: preventable disease through diet and exercise.
At the firewall Ive configured open access to the web, with a caching proxy only for videos and static content. I dont have an extra layer of DansGuardian or BlueCoat policing users. known attack pages are generally blocked by google safe browsing. I enforce a very strict policy on security awareness, so my users are generally careful around the web. Periodically, content logs are scanned from the firewall and I generate reports for the management and HR to review. theyre the only ones who care what you do on breaks anyhow.
lately Ive had my log script checking for data exfiltration...cc patterns and phone numbers mostly. Blacklisting is done through null-routing subnets and only if a request comes from a C level or HR.
As a close friend of bumblebees its hard seeing a familiar face disappear year after year. As for us in the hornet community, we're enjoying a resurgence the likes of which few have ever known. That picnic last month where we stung the living crap out of your dog? yes, good times..and that time you stepped on one of us while mowing the lawn in sandles? goodness we sure shared a chuckle while delivering inexorable sting after sting chasing you into the sliding glass door. Lets also not forget that time you reached into the mailbox! ho ho! surprised you didnt we? So in summation I guess what id like to say is that although the bumble bee and its kind gentle ways are slowly fading from existence, we still loathe, detest, and abhor each and every one of you giant two legged monsters.
Adblock plus has a coloured history of cherrypicking advertisers to quietly ignore. It was accused of accepting bribes from google to allow their ads. it has a whitelist of ads it considers tasteful enough to allow as well. Its also been fingered for slowing the browser experience for many users.
try microblock instead. And dont rely on just adblocking plugins to keep the network clean. null route known ad servers at home and work using a blacklist http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/. the same process can be applied to rooted android phones as well, creating an ad-free experience that saves you money.
This kind of application has been ported to about half a dozen different operating systems. i use it on a regular basis but for those not familiar I find it works best with legacy PHP. the "rm" command (or as its known in windows "del") uses an advanced algorythm to determine the target codes age, total number of lines, and any optimizations that are required in order to make it fully web 4.0 SOAP, ROPE, and DOPE compliant. It then quickly converts the code to the updated version by changing the physical structure of the space it occupies on the disk. My coworkers always seem amazed when they see me break out my legacy optimizer. "What have you done?!" they exclaim, baffled at my efficiency. "holy crap do you know how important that was?!?" they remark in awe
According to TFA 'peak driving' happened in 2004. more than a decade later states are waking up to empty highways. I think this is happening for a few reasons:
intractable recession: The US, in general, is a declining superpower and its starting to show. our skin-and-bones transportation budget, crumbling bridges, and pothole ridden highways are so common as to be a feature. A decade of intentional federal gridlock by republicans clammouring for austerity measures in the face of a housing market crisis and educational loan crisis didnt help. and a decade prior our zeal to fight the war without end amen depleated a lot of our reserves from the clinton adminstration that could have been used to shore up what 60 years ago was a mark of american achievement...namely our highway infrastructure.
Driving sucks: Millenials like myself hate driving. car companies assumed it was their cars, and raced to put cellphones and wifi computers in our cars hoping we would buy them all up, only to realize we're crippled by inexorable college debt and newfound levels of unaffordable housing. regular maintenance and gas, insurance and most importantly our general penchant for unemployment after the housing decline means we arent really interested in a car. if we get one, it will be a beater from a used lot. we're also mostly service sector employees, or we work from home because OAP's and boomers turned our economy into a giant mechanical turk. Combine this with our urban brethren and we have everything from groceries to the latest blu-ray delivered to us through the mail. we dont shop strip malls, we just buy what you ask for off the list you make online.
Bruce Schneier. They say pre-computes S-box tables dynamically from the key... over breakfast.
Going from ballmers dominator approach in which all markets become a subservient cash-cow for Microsoft product-driven walled gardens of commerce and perpetual licensing, to "we just want to make it a windows thing" is still completely missing the point. the 7 billion dollar writeoff is the business equivalent of a hangover from 30 years of chasing a white rabbit everyone else had already caught. focusing on windows isnt a business strategy, its a suicide letter.
For what windows does in the real world, other companies already do better and most importantly cheaper. games? steam is a household name. word processing? a google docs enabled chromebook has that covered in spades along with social networking and internet. While microsoft was busy jumping through hoops with zune, windows phone, and surface tablet, they completely ignored the fact that despite competitors dominating a product segment in terms of sales, their competitors had obsoleted the very birthright applications of redmond itself: the apps.
Microsoft has XBox (for now) and a contractual model of business licensing that will assume more and more the role of a monarchy over a colony as time marches on until finally the very same companies that targeted redmonds consumer products will begin to target their business divisions as well. A few more years here and there of fervent litigious hand waving will commence, more layoffs will ensue, and eventually Microsoft will have found itself not consumed 'cancerously' by the open source it vilified, but entirely sidestepped.
disclaimer: I am ardently anti-gun.
People will always want to 3d print a gun. In some cases 3d printing a gun or components to a firearm is an excellent idea. For example, in a rural or exurban environment where parts may be scarce, raw materials to remanufacture failing components of firearms for hunting or defense are more efficient. A farmer may be able to use the same 3d printer to rebuild a thresher, reprint a broken connector, and rebuild a rifle used for varmint hunting to protect his cattle.
there will always be bad guys. bad guys will always want to 3d print a gun that can't be traced and isn't registered. But it bares worth remembering, our present United States method of determining who is fit for ownership of a gun is basically a checklist and a phone call. Given the rash of recent mass shootings this system didn't prevent, its clearly lacking. Any attempt to regulate 3d printing of guns, should come with an overhaul of our background or application process for gun ownership. simply banning the devices, the knowledge, or their export is an ambitious but futile approach to the actual problem: wholesale gun violence in the united states as a manifestation of the permanent race based caste and class system inequality in the united states..
Price: battery powered vehicles that look like time machines or toys are still priced at the luxury vehicle level. the ones that look normal or respectable, tesla, are still commanding BMW dollars. Hell, even decent electric motorcycles start at 17k. if you want me to buy one, stop crashing the economy and start supporting a living wage.
Range: most of these cars excel in stop and go traffic, with parking garages equipped with Chademo charge stations that dont cost anything. for the rest of america outside of Los Angeles and New York, we dont have this and our commute isnt as gridlocked as you may think.
congress critter:ill fund the f35 but only if its in my state, and only if it uses whatever is in my macbook.
senate critter: make it fly faster than any jet we have, but also make it use this pork technology i funded in 2006 in my state.
congressional overlord: we need to fund a new jet fighter, we all agree on this, but i think we're overlooking a critical point. this figher needs lasers so it can beat chinese surface to air clam demons i heard about on fox news. use the lasers were building in senator porkpies state
senator porkpie: i stopped funding those things because special interests in my state swore they were blasphemous to jesus and part of the gay agenda
Congressman moneysworth: make the jet use stem cells but also make sure it can deliver food aid in case we need to send security forces to stabilize a region and win hearts and minds.
Senator drifty barnacle: ive served since the cleveland administration and i dont this new hamburger you all want to put in the kitchen...make sure the f35 still has katsup...
engineer: [screaming intensifies]
outside of a very sophmoric attempt at content filtering, im not sure this service did much? (aside from molest dyndns' API for a user fee.) They basically poison NXDOMAIN for profit...under the auspices of attack prevention and puritanical righteousness.
we mandated ipv6 a while back and like alcoholics we refused to give up ipv4 for a myriad of nagging and petulent reasons. its coming back to haunt us now, with everything from legacy routers that cant grok ipv6 right to switches that cant tag or trunk v6. Many commercial firewalls even struggle to answer the questions "can you support ipv6?" and "can you route it?" with a definitive answer.
for the average user theres no clear or quick answer; youll just have to agree that some third party got it right. For slashdotters theres easy-rsa tools to start your CA and OpenVPN which has had support for ipv6 since 2.3. "leakage" is an ephemeral and undefined problem in TFA, but for those of us that live and breathe on planet RTFM an openvpn tunnel that supports v4 and v6 is trivial.
im speaking of the states, but here our cable and fibre providers have 90% coverage of a dual-stack configuration of ipv6 and ipv4 direct to the device. Sure, the modem only grants 1 ip for 1 customer (at least until the net neutrality suits are settled) but once you step into a fresh IPv6 address the measure of this ipv6 debacle becomes apparent. Big players arent playing: Amazons various services dont support ipv6 and most of your TLD's outside of the googleverse dont get AAAA. the open source community at freenode does support it however, and most shared/vps hosting providers do as well, so if you need a project this summer at least consider looking at your docsis3 options/ipv6 lease and get to work on that vpn!
if its anything like my general Ikea experience, im sure the security ops team was handed a cardboard box labelled "Schelli schocc" with a 7 page manual full of bloated looking stick figures and a tiny hex wrench. they were then left to figure it out over a long night of busted knuckles and impromptu invented curse words. by dawn, either the prod environement passed a nessus scan or theyd built a bed...or both.
As a researcher I can confirm this augmented reality threat is limited to a small minority of individuals. Peripheral vision, for example, has been entirely advanced out of the human genome for the average New Jersey driver. While judgements in relative motion are key for some individuals, the average floridian will be keen to realize movement, perceived or not, is irrelevant on highway 27 as the road itself seems to be immune to the passage of time while in a motor vehicle. Californians should not concern themselves with wearable technology and its impact upon vision and cognitive processes related to distance, as the technology will almost certainly be obsolete by the time they exit the 405 freeway.
Elon musk is building a space program and Bill Gates is fixing climate change. These are tactical and purile solutions to what amounts to a strategic problem that affects every person on the planet. Instead of pining for vainglorious deliverance from our greatest problems by the monied plutocracy, we need to address the actual issue. In many cases the very people who propose to solve these kinds of problems are in fact causing them.
climate change skepticism and denial is outrightly perpetrated by multinational oil and gas conglomerates with a vested disinterest in additional regulation and scrutiny of their investments and businesses. Bill gates funds them, quixotically, as he attempts to deep drinkly from the chalice of social welfare and altruistic good. initiatives to staunch additional investment into nasa and bleed dry the FDA, EPA, and FDC are backed, largely, by generous hedge fund and public investmet that arrives from the cauffers of people like Mr. Gates. Bill is never directly troubled by any of this, as most groups like alec and americans for prosperity dont need to divulge their donors, among which are Gates' own investment targets.
Its also incredibly egotistical. things like NASA, Kyoto, and environmental trusts as well as the EPA were all created to circumvent a single donors limited legacy. Once Bill is gone from this earth, his wealth will be divested and his future heirs will likely quietly mothball their fathers once glorious end-of-life decision to cure the world of global warming in favour of perhaps another yacht or mansion.
Online media has, like a meth junkie at a desert party, overdosed itself. The average slate or buzzfeed is a rats nest of unrelated yet increasingly predatory advertising that saps bandwidth and kills the user experience waiting for everyhting from monolithic flash ads to autoplay html5 elements to load. even your local newspaper is taking advantage of this to hose you for cash payments you wont make to read their clickbait articles that are written at the 4th grade level.
And what is this television thats slowly weaning itself off advertising? Watching Van Helsing in my hotel room I was treated to a 3 hour movie padded with advertising for everything from pain pills to fried chicken and cars. some ads even came back-to-back for the same damn product. television is rehabing from ads like a crack addict rehabs at the family reunion with a rail of white lightning in the bathroom. And dont think this excuses you, blu-ray and DVD titles are just as much television as the average CW network after school highly sensored puritanical life lesson sitcom. I have 12 to 20 minutes of un-skippable content in each of these disks where 10 years ago i was promised this wasnt ever going to happen. Im forced to watch advertisements and previews for products i dont give a shit about, just so i can get to the movie that includes (surprise) more product placement. Does anyone remember Oreo-bot from the transformers?
The only change in televisions model has been taking credit cards for things other than the ronco electric food dehydrator or the jack lalane power juicer. the guide feature in most provider services at the 1080p level still includes a myriad of floating chyron ads for weight loss and dick pills. buying anything pay-per-view will immediately forward your personal information to nearly two dozen affiliate advertisers and merchants. its a horrendous pain in the ass. And if you dont like it? two words: Its Comcastic.
cable and television service providers not only insult your intelligence and dignity but take it as a personal act of blasphemy if you try to cancel. simply calling up, youll be asked a phonebook of personal and insulting questions about your service and your personal likes and dislikes. its not the callcenters fault, some seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drone decided it was going to be a great idea to force the callcenter to carpet bomb customers in whats known as 'customer retention.' tactics.
the only thing this article isnt mentioning is that adblock is still a very real and useful thing, and that everything on television inevitably shows up on torrent.
The greek financial crisis was brought on by a neoliberal government that promised the moon and stars, never collected tax, and drove itself into bankruptcy by securing loans (some predatory) that it could never repay. 23 years of national economic policy are coming home to roost, much as they did in the united states during the housing collapse, except the frameworks are radically different.
Greeks aren't generally accustomed to paying tax. Free medical and social services, some wildly more generous than the average western nation, are normatives they enjoy, and expect to enjoy regardless of income. shifting greece from a two decade model of tax evasion to even moderate tax reform will be met with cars burning in the streets because the average greek voter isn't privy to the fact that the government, in order to remain popular and in power, basically spent itself into oblivion.
exiting the euro may be the cure. Greece seems to be a country that doesn't consider capitalism in the western sense. theyve shunned the world bank strategies of privatized education and water. Evergrowing GDP. endless investment, and cloistered monied elite don't necessarily factor into the countries priorities. It will be a hard road for greece because many other nations will be very reticent to trade after an exit, but it will also afford numerous opportunities for local industry to emerge and thrive.
Imagine a blue enter key, 7 row classic keyboard, 16:10 aspect ratio screen, multi-color ThinkPad
so, Imagine IBM. This won't happen, and not because of cost or market, but because Lenovo has betrayed its actual intent as a profiteering multinational. Superfish should be all the average slashdotter needs to know about this company to arrive at the inevitable conclusion that lenovo is committed to realizing a captive audience and perpetual marketing revenue stream through their hardware. The only reason superfish was stopped was because lenovo got caught, not because they cared about what you think or how you approach general purpose computing.
brand me a nihilist but commodity computing is dead. Dell, HP, and even apple all do the same marketing and targeted advertising song and dance. if its not bloatware its shady 'privacy settings' in the OS that are disabled by default. most laptops are nothing more than 20 gigs of branded content and apps store turd polishing. desktops are the literal epitome of the cheapest chinese plastic that can be extruded into peripheral and PCB form, combined with a disingenuous and underhanded disrespect for the users intelligence. restore partitions replaced media and the average consumer started getting coddled at the 4th grade level for everything from return and repairs to power user options and even system administration.
build your own. pick an OS you like that helps you do what you want, not what some think tank in a conference room whiteboarded. And as for lenovo, you can have my full size aluminum tower when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Im pleasantly surprised the words 'black hole awakens after 26 years' isn't followed up with some sort of infuriating article on SCO.
as a qihoo wireless model 32 router owner I can say this is being completely blown out of proportion. my router has 6 very clearly labeled settings besides 'pregnant woman' mode and the article mentions nothing about them. Qihoo users like myself typically prefer to keep the router in 'surly wombat' mode to ensure best communication with devices that may be situated between an agitated or unruly wombat (as mine typically can be.) When i have company over I might set the router on 'roger whittaker' mode, which enables it to automatically emit up to 44 different songs from mellow folk sensation Roger Wittaker. You can even control time of day with different settings...for example around dinnertime ill set the router to 'defrost-reheat' which increases power levels accordingly and allows me to thaw and cook up to 15 pounds of turkey in my living room. And i challenge anyone to find a better mode than 'depeche' mode, which activates both gloomy QoS and tortured soul packet conditioning.