DNT was always a tongue in cheek sentiment. it was an industries attempt to divert attention from the widely embraced practice of turning users into cattle. the level of transparency through which disregard of the setting was employed only further served to relegate it to yet another pointless feature in an ecosystem of browsers that increasingly dont give two shits about their user
so we've got IE, which is the drooling invalid of browsers for all intents and purposes, telling us its no longer honouring an empty standard as if thats something new the brand has just recently started doing. Chrome, which while offered was never enabled and never honoured by the parent developer, made do not track into just another keeping up with the jones' hedge clipping effort. And finally firefox, which embeds google and bing as default search agents and pushes targeted advertising to the user through its tabs. Firefox is probably the last chance a user has at a truly open browsing experience for what its worth, video chat option not withstanding. what makes it useful is the fact that you can truly take privacy into your own hands.
Use duckduckgo, disable cookies, whitelist known sites, and employ bolt-ons like noscript, adblock, and https everywhere as well as flash cookie deletion plugins to turn the internet back into something recognizeable again. But remember, expecting the industry that makes money off paying internet users through their willful ignorance and by deceptive practices to get its fists out of the cookie jar and show some respect and restraint is like hoping a slaughterhouse starts caring about the color of the kill floor and the ambiance of the stun bolt.
In what magistrate, what court or patrio-tastic american legal system in this foul year of our lord 2015 is it possible for the 38th largest corporation in the entire world to be forced to answer for their actions? This is america for christ sake, land where a corporation is a person! its homophobia enshrined in law as a manifestation of its unquestionable religious beliefs. If we're going to start with AT&T being forced to abandon its totally legal and fair court of arbitration for this disgusting "justice of the people" then whats next? Companies that cant commit wage theft and union busting? Christ its enough to make me lose my appetite this very instant and had it not been for my sizeable campaign contribution I would turn this bugatti right around and head back to the manor post-haste. But given as its always election season, and dogs will bark, I suppose ill entertain a morsel of caviar for whatever politician has me in gucci shoes this afternoon but I warn you america....you're making corporations feel very hurt and sad.
The vision of homeland security is to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.
License plate tracking wouldnt have stopped the shoe bomber, the Aurora theatre shootings, the Arizona shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, the fort hood shooting, the innumerable school shootings in america, or the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch. a License plate tracking system wouldnt keep the average american safe, but the plutocracy? yes. License plate tracking systems allow you to monitor and track activists and protestors that organize around your government for systemic changes to policies and processes you benefit from disproportionately. Why, a plate tracking system could prevent proper media coverage of the next Fergusson shooting or even identify, proactively, members of the media that should be prevented from ever accessing the state. A plate tracking system would allow the government to create a plutocratically sanctioned whitelist of vehicles allowed to enter or leave DC. It would serve well to blacklist occupy protestors from financial areas, and regulate their entrance and exit to and from parks. It could also be used to collect citations and build cases against potential activists.
What a fellow says at a technical conference and the gilded intent of a multinational corporation couldnt be further from each other. Microsoft has proven in the past that it prefers to milk open source with a blend of strategic patent litigation against manufacturers, not participate. Its embrace-extend attempt with 3 of its own open source licenses fell flat with the usual day-late-dollar-short microsoft approach to competing in the marketplace, but that was partly because Redmond didnt understand the whole point. Open source was a categorical departure from microsofts business model, it was a cathartic rebellion from coders who were sick of a cloistered elite being given access to the source. It was an uprising against the idea of software as service only.
so as far as this opinion is concerned, it boils down to an obvious assumption. As the turd swirls the drain anything is possible. Windows could become open source, or it could become cloud, or it could become freeware, but as Microsoft sees fit to drive it Windows has only become more aggravating and less relevant. Nowhere is this truer than in XBox, where the successful game console has in true Redmond fashion been hobbled to the uncertain, haggared burro known as Windows 10 in a desperate attempt to pre-emptively save it. The real question is between surface, phone, azure, and the microsoft market how much more XBox cash can microsoft use as a salve for products they dont care to change and insist must be a part of a market that doesnt need them
As trade restrictions crumble its worth reiterating why cuba has been a sticking point in american foreign policy for so long. During our proxy war with Russia, most of the south and central american countries that endorsed socialism and communism were quite easy to crush. First we'd enlist the CIA to foster a coup by backing violent militias with arms and capital in return for targeting specific parts of government infrastructure like police departments and hospitals. Then once our ringer was in, we would establish NGO's (non government organizations) to divide and conquer society into rich, poor, and inbetween. the wealth of the nation, generally petrochemical, fruit, or limited manufacturing, would then be syphoned overseas to the United States under the guise of free market principal and democracy.
Cuba saw this coming from a mile away; give castro credit for that at least. He formed an alliance with Russias communist politburo and a symbiotic relationship was borne from mutual interest. Russia ensured the us wouldnt dare invade their member state, and in turn Cuba provided a close-range base for advanced russian ballistics. Taking a step back, Russia was pressured into the relationship when we planted missiles in Turkey, and before that a whole slew of brinksmanship "dick moves" that nearly blew us apart. At this point the US was furious at the deal, and knew ballistic non-nuclear missiles existed on the island but wanted proof. Rudolf Anderson was enlisted to fly a U2 over the island and, much to his surprise and Washingtons chagrin, Cuban commanders launched an S-75 Dvina missile that obliterated the plane in seconds. Defcon's were advanced, a US naval blockade of cuba began, and unbeknown to american politicians a 4 story tall akula class nuclear submarine slipped right past the fleet and into cuban waters. When people talk about how close we came to turning boca raton and washington into deserts, they are not kidding.
anyhow washington and russia eventually stepped back from the void, but the egg on washingtons face was well remembered for 40 years. American policitians didnt want to sacrifice votes from cuban ex-pats in florida and america as well as slews of boomers that were dyed in the wool anticommunists, so the embargo persisted. Fast forward to 2015 when America has lost both the afghanistan war (Taliban members hold seat in kharzai's government) and the Iraq war (no weapons were ever found and ISIS was formed.) We've shut the government down twice, we cant come to terms with even simple things like gay people or healthcare, and we're pretty much flat broke. We've been relegated to third-party observer in so much of the foreign world, the embargo was bound to collapse at some point.
slashdot 2001: Hey I uploaded a spoof RFC while rebalancing the cluster last night guys, the users are going to love it.
slashdot now: HEY Guys! we need to THINK up some more WAAAACKY pranks for that KOOKY april fools target date! lets really think outside the box on this one and task some actionables to those GOOF BALLS in MARKETING and see what deliverables they realize THIS quarter!
As widely known in the EU the preliminary content types are readily available for review.
1. France: ISIS recruitment videos are to be blocked, replaced with prophet muhammad dancing hardstyle.
2. Ireland: images of sheep deemed too racy for minors, miners, and farmers to be banned.
3. Italy: links to objective reporting on church scandals to be redirected to a gucci outlet.
4. Malta: widely understood to be the only member country in the EU capable of handling the actual internet, uncensored.
5. Poland: Images of potato will be confiscated by free potato man/secret police.
6. UK: video/depictions of tea being poured into milk will be redirected to a warning page, and a stern letter will be delivered regarding scalding of the milk.
Whos going to win the arms race? easy. Maalwarkstrodon. Its a mythical beast that speaks in pornographic subplots and maintains direct communication with your girlfriends every wants and desires so as better to inform you on how to best please her. It has the feet of bonzi buddy, the torso of that man who uses 1 weird trick to perfect his abs, and the arms of the scientists that hate her. Most impressively, Maalwarkstrodon has a skull made from a Viagra, Levitra, Cialis, and Propecia alloy. This beast of malware belches sexy singles from former east-bloc soviet satellite states and is cloaked in the finest fashions from paris and milan, imported directly from Fujian china.
Maalwarkstrodon is incapable of offering any less than the best deals at 80% to 90% off, and will not rest until your 2 million dollar per month work-at-home career comes to fruition and the spoils of all true nigerian royalty are delivered unto those most deserving of a kings riches.
Sticking my neck out here as a former marketing droid, Dyed in the wool fanboys will never drop apple without a knock-down drag-out fight. the problem apple faces is theyre in the same market as CocaCola and Phillip Morris: Users who use the brand are their most ardent and loyal, but new customers are next to impossible to attract. Part of this is the fact that Apple doesnt do a great job of understanding why customers of Android dont engage their brand, but part of it is also the fact that what they offer isnt distinct enough from what already exists at a lower pricepoint. Whats worse is that as time goes on, and evidence amasses, it becomes easier to ween fans away from the product. Apple does a decent job of whats called 'customer maintenance,' a fancy term for brand reinforcement, but throwing fistfuls of trade-in cash at the problem is an old automotive technique thats basically a wash unless you have something like cash for clunkers.
cue the flamebait moddown but i feel like it should be stated: its not a death spiral by any means, more like a slow death for the brand. There are ways to stop it though, pretty easy ones in fact. Coca Cola just bought up the brands that were outselling it overseas, and started buying out bottling and distribution for other local brands in the states that wouldnt sell. Phillip Morris and apple are a lot alike in that theyre both highly litigious when it comes to their product. PM sues for relaxed smoking taxes and legislation, apple sues for patent violations from importers. Another outlier that apple could emulate is Harley Davidson. Instead of competing in the market, harley just lobbied to have a massive import tarrif levied against imported motorcycles above a certain similar-to-harley size.
Speaking from experience, for those waiting to get their hands on the 10,000 dollar gold apple watch, good luck. apple makes this NEARLY impossible...heres all the crap ive had to put up with so far.
1. No helicopter landing at ANY apple store. I would have to park at an airport and find a limousine. who even does this anymore?
2. Usually the apple website is helpful for this, but with the appointment system and the weird locations of the apple store, It means i have to get off my yacht and actually enter the store. I didnt onboard a months supply of lox and champagne just to walk away from it. There are no ports of call on my island for the apple store
Either this system is implemented and a new era of clean, renewable energy from our single star is to be realized from the heart of the orient, or, takeaway from xishuangbanna goes from 15 minutes to 2 for the crispy pork belly.
Marylands mock-up white house will likely also include the current secret service qualification/training exam questions along with a few new ones developed by the pentagon to address recent lapses.
1. At what point during the mad dash through the side door of the whitehouse by an assailant is the benny hill theme to be activated?
Bonus: If Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is being chased through the west wing with a bust of grover cleveland, How many chesterfield cans can he fit under the lincoln bed?
2. If skeeter and bo-jack both drink 4 shots of bourbon, but skeeter has had 3 more beers than Bo-Jack but 1 less than when he accidentally shot the cleaning lady at marthas vinyard, when is it appropriate to invoke state secrets after slamming into a security fence at on-ramp speeds?
3. At what point should you tip a south american prostitute? (Hint: the US currency exchange rate is in your favour.)
untenable lemon socialism program phased out after results deemed detremental to the goals and objectives of the military industrial complex in such a way as to undermine its ability to create conflict and ensue future profit through neoimperialism and greed. But as for you, joe six pack, feel free to click the recliner back another notch! dont give this so much as a second thought. the contracts are buried so, so far deep, that its confusing just to think about the ramifications of a public private partnership that existed solely for the gratification of a cloistered elite class of pseudocitizenry. Why not pay attention to what REALLY matters! the game! its on! and all your favourite team members will, be playing it! be sure to eat and drink lots of the product, as that makes you a superfan!
I think i can shed light on this subject, having several years experience in this field. New programmers and seasoned alike often make this mistake, either through carelessness or ignorance. When working to write good code, you must make sure to set good="yes" or good="veryyes." ive written code for 20 years now and this has only ever failed me in PHP. Apparently the language does not support "good" code.
Conversations in online forums havent really taken the bulk of social-political discourse in america, because we're all still convinced the news media is capable of objectively reporting wars and foreign politics. the administration, any administration really, has made perfectly clear that those outliers that do not fall lock step with the new york times, fox, nbc, and other household staples will be punished. Expect wiretaps, spying, litigation to uncover your sources, accidental shelling of your foreign offices, and outright disinformation and lies from both houses of congress. Expect Joe Libermann to pen a strongly worded letter to your hosting provider, as in the case of wikileaks, that insists you should be shut down. Credit processing will cease, bank accounts will be frozen, and dubious arrest warrents will be issued once you begin to report on the actualities of american foreign policy and interventionalism. during both the iraq war as well as the Afhan war, we censored news coverage of planes returning with dead soldiers. We didnt do it because of television censor standards, we did it because coverage of that nature led to mass protest of the viet-nam war. peaceful demonstration is fine, but whenever we grow tired of it we install agent provocateurs and quickly crush the manufactured dissent.
narratives contrary to the song of exceptionalism aren't tolerated. In fergusson as in occupy we routinely arrested journalists that didnt belch the days talking points for 20 minutes, and immediately knock off to the hotel bar for steak and booze.
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to billions of people around the world.
Some restrictions apply, billions of people will be considered based on race, gender, social position and annual income as potential revenue factors when subscribing or continuing to use the product. underfunded schools and desolate post-capitalist urban areas wracked by systemic unemployment and without adequate starbucks will be avoided. Remember: you are the product, the drone is merely another way to deliver that product to consumer affiliate corporations.
A true gaming mouse is carved from the antimatter core of a dying nebula, and its casing carefully polished with the tears of 7 golden osprey held in a perpetual state of incorporeal bliss through the veil of time. Sure, you can find deals on lesser models, but youre still compromising IMHO.
Next, and this is probably obvious to anyone playing crysis currently, use a crystal forged in the heart of a collapsing sunstar and blessed by liagegam, the cursed red priest of the refrain of the million agonies. you'll need to carve the lense with this crystal and ive found the runes of the elders deep within the marianas trench actually do a great job of this. Finally, the laser itself must be a captured beam from the one explosion that wrought the galaxy, and space itself as we know it. harnesing the energy from this beam, into the crystal and past the lense will allow you to begin to use what, crudely, is known as a 'mouse' by non gamers.
Your integrated components and circuitry is dead simple however, and consists mostly of 128-qubit chipsets using quantum annealing. this will give a general method for finding the global minimum of a function by a process using quantum fluctuations, and in turn help you guide the pointer on the screen.
Christians: shariah muslim terrorists are responsible and this proves muslim islam is evil and wants to destroy the world. Muslims: Islam is a religion of peace, the jews did this because they are evil and wish to destroy muslims on this flight. Scientists: Humans are an unreliable, inefficient, and unpredictable element. we should do more science to remove them from commanding 400,000 pound flying machines.
some things we may not have considered:
1. Having to learn the phrase "can i have the key to the bathroom" in 7 languages.
2. understanding, yet never being entirely certain, when left or right lane driving applies but being totally sure your wife is probably wrong.
3. switching road trip snacks from potato chips, to Kotlety, to pea pats, to landjager, and finally back to potato chips but now you have to call them crisps while youre stuck in gridlock piccadilly traffic.
4. having to keep multiple bribe currencies for various checkpoints and rolling infractions.
5. The phrasebook doesnt have anything to get hungarian insurance scammers off the bonnet of your car at 3 am
6. GPS may not be capable of routing you safely around a drunken and somewhat bloated Jeremy Clarkson as he hurls homophobic remarks at you from the doorway of a run down pub in leeds.
Generally if you're looking to speed things up in RAM its not because youre concatenating a group of strings over and over, its because your overall read time improves dramatically as well. The study also doesnt take into account IO controller overhead...for example the overhead to write to RAM is generally mitigated in intel chips as the northbridge is merged into the processor and takes advantage of cool things like predictive instructions by the ALU. PERC raid controllers and HBA's are typically limited by the bandwidth of the bus and the clock speed of the controller on the other hand, as well as any pending rebuilds or cached data theyre committing or storing at any given time. JBOD configurations in some RAID cards also requre you to build an individual RAID for each disk, meaning the controller could have countless configurations it has to track.
an excellent example of where you want RAM to handle reads and writes is in email antispam. amavis queues get expensvie fast, despite optimized perl threading, but cutting this back to spamass-milter and keeping spamassassin in a ramdisk with its compiled ruleset there too means you can handle nearly the entire evaluation of the message without even touching the incoming queue on disk. issuing rejections at the handshake then greatly improves efficiency over having to issue bounces, which can touch up to 4 queues on disk in some cases.
Ive worked with numerous indian H1B holders. The ones that are smart enough to apply for citizenship and get the hell out of whatever indentured servitude theyve been thrust into are the ones I love working with. Eloquently spoken as always, they will be the ones that bring insight and technical expertise along for any meeting or project.
On the other hand, ive had many experiences with ESL H1B holders that amounted to nothing short of a phone tech in the states. Any H1B hired for any oracle product for example is a roll of the dice. Ive worked with a senior level RDBM that after an entire year of working on a project and requesting funding, quit when it was revealed the funding had all been directly applied to Oracle Gold support and remote hands. H1B sysadmins that just reboot servers all day long to fix problems, or feverishly post to message boards with an irate "please respond immediately" seem to be the bulk of what ive encountered in linux and unix. Ive been present for meeting room meltdowns and phantom disappearances where H1B holders just quit showing up for a project as well.
the Patriot act is affected through the Homeland Security Act, which in turn uses wings of the FBI and CIA to implement various measures but most importantly it uses the Department of Homeland Security. with a quarter of a million people employed and a sixty billion dollar budget, many southern senators and politicians would likely find the bill, or any bill that touches DHS for that matter, toxic. customs and border protection agents, largely composed of veterans who would otherwise find themselves unemployed, make up the bulk of nearly 60,000 employed by the agency. Expect Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico senators to turn a blind eye to this legislation as no one wants to face an election with the fact they voted to axe these jobs, however pointless and destructive.
expect the administration --any administration for that matter-- to object to strengthening whistleblower protection. The laundry list of whistleblowers in federal government whos actions have directly led to their chronic unemployment and ostracization from society is evidence enough that we as a society care more about the idea of american patriotism than the actual functional implementation and repercussions of it.
According to modern convention a 'cyber event' is any event where government or private industry is exposed to extended and unwarranted yet catastrophically revealing scrutiny that serves to radically alter a citizen or consumers outlook on the state or the product respectively. These incidents are generally prosecuted rigorously in a kangaroo court, and involve numerous fisa submissions and foia redactions.
by contrast if a substantial subset of consumers experience the unauthorized release of their personal credit card, social security numbers, addresses, and bank information then this is just an 'incident' or a 'breech.' it involves 'data security' and 'unintentional disclosure' and is in no way a cyber event, although the FBI will be invoked just as predictably as a benediction at sunday mass in order to maintain the illusion the company affected has some purchase in the matter.
the ultimate difference being "cyber events" are ginned up to sell wars and products. data incidents and breeches are to be forgotten as fast as the public can, and covered quite minimally by the news media.
The book is a visual study of the deactivated launch and research facilities that played an essential role in early American space exploration.
The book is a visual study of the deactivated launch and dilapidated research facilities that were promptly mothballed after successfully bankrupting a superpower and reducing an american legend into a shuddering husk for which funding is now maintained only through elaborately prostituting itself for pork expenditures and earmark cash on a state-by-state basis with the promise, however bleak and illogical, of a private space industry that always generates a profit.
Roland Miller's upcoming book, Abandoned in Place, serves as a masterful interpretation of many other United States research facilities in the coming century as this superpower furiously disregards climate change, global warming, income inequality, government corruption, and a failed foreign policy in a race to a dystopian hell the likes of which mankind has never known.
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DNT was always a tongue in cheek sentiment. it was an industries attempt to divert attention from the widely embraced practice of turning users into cattle. the level of transparency through which disregard of the setting was employed only further served to relegate it to yet another pointless feature in an ecosystem of browsers that increasingly dont give two shits about their user
so we've got IE, which is the drooling invalid of browsers for all intents and purposes, telling us its no longer honouring an empty standard as if thats something new the brand has just recently started doing. Chrome, which while offered was never enabled and never honoured by the parent developer, made do not track into just another keeping up with the jones' hedge clipping effort. And finally firefox, which embeds google and bing as default search agents and pushes targeted advertising to the user through its tabs. Firefox is probably the last chance a user has at a truly open browsing experience for what its worth, video chat option not withstanding. what makes it useful is the fact that you can truly take privacy into your own hands.
Use duckduckgo, disable cookies, whitelist known sites, and employ bolt-ons like noscript, adblock, and https everywhere as well as flash cookie deletion plugins to turn the internet back into something recognizeable again. But remember, expecting the industry that makes money off paying internet users through their willful ignorance and by deceptive practices to get its fists out of the cookie jar and show some respect and restraint is like hoping a slaughterhouse starts caring about the color of the kill floor and the ambiance of the stun bolt.
In what magistrate, what court or patrio-tastic american legal system in this foul year of our lord 2015 is it possible for the 38th largest corporation in the entire world to be forced to answer for their actions? This is america for christ sake, land where a corporation is a person! its homophobia enshrined in law as a manifestation of its unquestionable religious beliefs. If we're going to start with AT&T being forced to abandon its totally legal and fair court of arbitration for this disgusting "justice of the people" then whats next? Companies that cant commit wage theft and union busting? Christ its enough to make me lose my appetite this very instant and had it not been for my sizeable campaign contribution I would turn this bugatti right around and head back to the manor post-haste. But given as its always election season, and dogs will bark, I suppose ill entertain a morsel of caviar for whatever politician has me in gucci shoes this afternoon but I warn you america....you're making corporations feel very hurt and sad.
Regards, The plutocracy.
The vision of homeland security is to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.
License plate tracking wouldnt have stopped the shoe bomber, the Aurora theatre shootings, the Arizona shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, the fort hood shooting, the innumerable school shootings in america, or the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch. a License plate tracking system wouldnt keep the average american safe, but the plutocracy? yes. License plate tracking systems allow you to monitor and track activists and protestors that organize around your government for systemic changes to policies and processes you benefit from disproportionately. Why, a plate tracking system could prevent proper media coverage of the next Fergusson shooting or even identify, proactively, members of the media that should be prevented from ever accessing the state. A plate tracking system would allow the government to create a plutocratically sanctioned whitelist of vehicles allowed to enter or leave DC. It would serve well to blacklist occupy protestors from financial areas, and regulate their entrance and exit to and from parks. It could also be used to collect citations and build cases against potential activists.
What a fellow says at a technical conference and the gilded intent of a multinational corporation couldnt be further from each other. Microsoft has proven in the past that it prefers to milk open source with a blend of strategic patent litigation against manufacturers, not participate. Its embrace-extend attempt with 3 of its own open source licenses fell flat with the usual day-late-dollar-short microsoft approach to competing in the marketplace, but that was partly because Redmond didnt understand the whole point. Open source was a categorical departure from microsofts business model, it was a cathartic rebellion from coders who were sick of a cloistered elite being given access to the source. It was an uprising against the idea of software as service only.
so as far as this opinion is concerned, it boils down to an obvious assumption. As the turd swirls the drain anything is possible. Windows could become open source, or it could become cloud, or it could become freeware, but as Microsoft sees fit to drive it Windows has only become more aggravating and less relevant. Nowhere is this truer than in XBox, where the successful game console has in true Redmond fashion been hobbled to the uncertain, haggared burro known as Windows 10 in a desperate attempt to pre-emptively save it. The real question is between surface, phone, azure, and the microsoft market how much more XBox cash can microsoft use as a salve for products they dont care to change and insist must be a part of a market that doesnt need them
As trade restrictions crumble its worth reiterating why cuba has been a sticking point in american foreign policy for so long. During our proxy war with Russia, most of the south and central american countries that endorsed socialism and communism were quite easy to crush. First we'd enlist the CIA to foster a coup by backing violent militias with arms and capital in return for targeting specific parts of government infrastructure like police departments and hospitals. Then once our ringer was in, we would establish NGO's (non government organizations) to divide and conquer society into rich, poor, and inbetween. the wealth of the nation, generally petrochemical, fruit, or limited manufacturing, would then be syphoned overseas to the United States under the guise of free market principal and democracy.
Cuba saw this coming from a mile away; give castro credit for that at least. He formed an alliance with Russias communist politburo and a symbiotic relationship was borne from mutual interest. Russia ensured the us wouldnt dare invade their member state, and in turn Cuba provided a close-range base for advanced russian ballistics. Taking a step back, Russia was pressured into the relationship when we planted missiles in Turkey, and before that a whole slew of brinksmanship "dick moves" that nearly blew us apart. At this point the US was furious at the deal, and knew ballistic non-nuclear missiles existed on the island but wanted proof. Rudolf Anderson was enlisted to fly a U2 over the island and, much to his surprise and Washingtons chagrin, Cuban commanders launched an S-75 Dvina missile that obliterated the plane in seconds. Defcon's were advanced, a US naval blockade of cuba began, and unbeknown to american politicians a 4 story tall akula class nuclear submarine slipped right past the fleet and into cuban waters. When people talk about how close we came to turning boca raton and washington into deserts, they are not kidding.
anyhow washington and russia eventually stepped back from the void, but the egg on washingtons face was well remembered for 40 years. American policitians didnt want to sacrifice votes from cuban ex-pats in florida and america as well as slews of boomers that were dyed in the wool anticommunists, so the embargo persisted. Fast forward to 2015 when America has lost both the afghanistan war (Taliban members hold seat in kharzai's government) and the Iraq war (no weapons were ever found and ISIS was formed.) We've shut the government down twice, we cant come to terms with even simple things like gay people or healthcare, and we're pretty much flat broke. We've been relegated to third-party observer in so much of the foreign world, the embargo was bound to collapse at some point.
slashdot 2001: Hey I uploaded a spoof RFC while rebalancing the cluster last night guys, the users are going to love it.
slashdot now: HEY Guys! we need to THINK up some more WAAAACKY pranks for that KOOKY april fools target date! lets really think outside the box on this one and task some actionables to those GOOF BALLS in MARKETING and see what deliverables they realize THIS quarter!
As widely known in the EU the preliminary content types are readily available for review.
1. France: ISIS recruitment videos are to be blocked, replaced with prophet muhammad dancing hardstyle.
2. Ireland: images of sheep deemed too racy for minors, miners, and farmers to be banned.
3. Italy: links to objective reporting on church scandals to be redirected to a gucci outlet.
4. Malta: widely understood to be the only member country in the EU capable of handling the actual internet, uncensored.
5. Poland: Images of potato will be confiscated by free potato man/secret police.
6. UK: video/depictions of tea being poured into milk will be redirected to a warning page, and a stern letter will be delivered regarding scalding of the milk.
Whos going to win the arms race? easy. Maalwarkstrodon. Its a mythical beast that speaks in pornographic subplots and maintains direct communication with your girlfriends every wants and desires so as better to inform you on how to best please her. It has the feet of bonzi buddy, the torso of that man who uses 1 weird trick to perfect his abs, and the arms of the scientists that hate her. Most impressively, Maalwarkstrodon has a skull made from a Viagra, Levitra, Cialis, and Propecia alloy. This beast of malware belches sexy singles from former east-bloc soviet satellite states and is cloaked in the finest fashions from paris and milan, imported directly from Fujian china.
Maalwarkstrodon is incapable of offering any less than the best deals at 80% to 90% off, and will not rest until your 2 million dollar per month work-at-home career comes to fruition and the spoils of all true nigerian royalty are delivered unto those most deserving of a kings riches.
Sticking my neck out here as a former marketing droid, Dyed in the wool fanboys will never drop apple without a knock-down drag-out fight. the problem apple faces is theyre in the same market as CocaCola and Phillip Morris: Users who use the brand are their most ardent and loyal, but new customers are next to impossible to attract. Part of this is the fact that Apple doesnt do a great job of understanding why customers of Android dont engage their brand, but part of it is also the fact that what they offer isnt distinct enough from what already exists at a lower pricepoint. Whats worse is that as time goes on, and evidence amasses, it becomes easier to ween fans away from the product. Apple does a decent job of whats called 'customer maintenance,' a fancy term for brand reinforcement, but throwing fistfuls of trade-in cash at the problem is an old automotive technique thats basically a wash unless you have something like cash for clunkers.
cue the flamebait moddown but i feel like it should be stated: its not a death spiral by any means, more like a slow death for the brand. There are ways to stop it though, pretty easy ones in fact. Coca Cola just bought up the brands that were outselling it overseas, and started buying out bottling and distribution for other local brands in the states that wouldnt sell. Phillip Morris and apple are a lot alike in that theyre both highly litigious when it comes to their product. PM sues for relaxed smoking taxes and legislation, apple sues for patent violations from importers. Another outlier that apple could emulate is Harley Davidson. Instead of competing in the market, harley just lobbied to have a massive import tarrif levied against imported motorcycles above a certain similar-to-harley size.
Technology is neutral and amoral.
I'm an HP/UX administrator and beg to differ....
Speaking from experience, for those waiting to get their hands on the 10,000 dollar gold apple watch, good luck. apple makes this NEARLY impossible...heres all the crap ive had to put up with so far.
1. No helicopter landing at ANY apple store. I would have to park at an airport and find a limousine. who even does this anymore?
2. Usually the apple website is helpful for this, but with the appointment system and the weird locations of the apple store, It means i have to get off my yacht and actually enter the store. I didnt onboard a months supply of lox and champagne just to walk away from it. There are no ports of call on my island for the apple store
Either this system is implemented and a new era of clean, renewable energy from our single star is to be realized from the heart of the orient, or, takeaway from xishuangbanna goes from 15 minutes to 2 for the crispy pork belly.
Marylands mock-up white house will likely also include the current secret service qualification/training exam questions along with a few new ones developed by the pentagon to address recent lapses.
1. At what point during the mad dash through the side door of the whitehouse by an assailant is the benny hill theme to be activated?
Bonus: If Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is being chased through the west wing with a bust of grover cleveland, How many chesterfield cans can he fit under the lincoln bed?
2. If skeeter and bo-jack both drink 4 shots of bourbon, but skeeter has had 3 more beers than Bo-Jack but 1 less than when he accidentally shot the cleaning lady at marthas vinyard, when is it appropriate to invoke state secrets after slamming into a security fence at on-ramp speeds?
3. At what point should you tip a south american prostitute? (Hint: the US currency exchange rate is in your favour.)
untenable lemon socialism program phased out after results deemed detremental to the goals and objectives of the military industrial complex in such a way as to undermine its ability to create conflict and ensue future profit through neoimperialism and greed. But as for you, joe six pack, feel free to click the recliner back another notch! dont give this so much as a second thought. the contracts are buried so, so far deep, that its confusing just to think about the ramifications of a public private partnership that existed solely for the gratification of a cloistered elite class of pseudocitizenry. Why not pay attention to what REALLY matters! the game! its on! and all your favourite team members will, be playing it! be sure to eat and drink lots of the product, as that makes you a superfan!
I think i can shed light on this subject, having several years experience in this field. New programmers and seasoned alike often make this mistake, either through carelessness or ignorance. When working to write good code, you must make sure to set good="yes" or good="veryyes." ive written code for 20 years now and this has only ever failed me in PHP. Apparently the language does not support "good" code.
Conversations in online forums havent really taken the bulk of social-political discourse in america, because we're all still convinced the news media is capable of objectively reporting wars and foreign politics. the administration, any administration really, has made perfectly clear that those outliers that do not fall lock step with the new york times, fox, nbc, and other household staples will be punished. Expect wiretaps, spying, litigation to uncover your sources, accidental shelling of your foreign offices, and outright disinformation and lies from both houses of congress. Expect Joe Libermann to pen a strongly worded letter to your hosting provider, as in the case of wikileaks, that insists you should be shut down. Credit processing will cease, bank accounts will be frozen, and dubious arrest warrents will be issued once you begin to report on the actualities of american foreign policy and interventionalism. during both the iraq war as well as the Afhan war, we censored news coverage of planes returning with dead soldiers. We didnt do it because of television censor standards, we did it because coverage of that nature led to mass protest of the viet-nam war. peaceful demonstration is fine, but whenever we grow tired of it we install agent provocateurs and quickly crush the manufactured dissent.
narratives contrary to the song of exceptionalism aren't tolerated. In fergusson as in occupy we routinely arrested journalists that didnt belch the days talking points for 20 minutes, and immediately knock off to the hotel bar for steak and booze.
to beam the Internet down
*The internet in accordance with local and national regulations pertaining to censorship and surveillance.
to billions of people around the world.
Some restrictions apply, billions of people will be considered based on race, gender, social position and annual income as potential revenue factors when subscribing or continuing to use the product. underfunded schools and desolate post-capitalist urban areas wracked by systemic unemployment and without adequate starbucks will be avoided. Remember: you are the product, the drone is merely another way to deliver that product to consumer affiliate corporations.
A true gaming mouse is carved from the antimatter core of a dying nebula, and its casing carefully polished with the tears of 7 golden osprey held in a perpetual state of incorporeal bliss through the veil of time. Sure, you can find deals on lesser models, but youre still compromising IMHO.
Next, and this is probably obvious to anyone playing crysis currently, use a crystal forged in the heart of a collapsing sunstar and blessed by liagegam, the cursed red priest of the refrain of the million agonies. you'll need to carve the lense with this crystal and ive found the runes of the elders deep within the marianas trench actually do a great job of this. Finally, the laser itself must be a captured beam from the one explosion that wrought the galaxy, and space itself as we know it. harnesing the energy from this beam, into the crystal and past the lense will allow you to begin to use what, crudely, is known as a 'mouse' by non gamers.
Your integrated components and circuitry is dead simple however, and consists mostly of 128-qubit chipsets using quantum annealing. this will give a general method for finding the global minimum of a function by a process using quantum fluctuations, and in turn help you guide the pointer on the screen.
Christians: shariah muslim terrorists are responsible and this proves muslim islam is evil and wants to destroy the world.
Muslims: Islam is a religion of peace, the jews did this because they are evil and wish to destroy muslims on this flight.
Scientists: Humans are an unreliable, inefficient, and unpredictable element. we should do more science to remove them from commanding 400,000 pound flying machines.
some things we may not have considered:
1. Having to learn the phrase "can i have the key to the bathroom" in 7 languages.
2. understanding, yet never being entirely certain, when left or right lane driving applies but being totally sure your wife is probably wrong.
3. switching road trip snacks from potato chips, to Kotlety, to pea pats, to landjager, and finally back to potato chips but now you have to call them crisps while youre stuck in gridlock piccadilly traffic.
4. having to keep multiple bribe currencies for various checkpoints and rolling infractions.
5. The phrasebook doesnt have anything to get hungarian insurance scammers off the bonnet of your car at 3 am
6. GPS may not be capable of routing you safely around a drunken and somewhat bloated Jeremy Clarkson as he hurls homophobic remarks at you from the doorway of a run down pub in leeds.
Generally if you're looking to speed things up in RAM its not because youre concatenating a group of strings over and over, its because your overall read time improves dramatically as well. The study also doesnt take into account IO controller overhead...for example the overhead to write to RAM is generally mitigated in intel chips as the northbridge is merged into the processor and takes advantage of cool things like predictive instructions by the ALU. PERC raid controllers and HBA's are typically limited by the bandwidth of the bus and the clock speed of the controller on the other hand, as well as any pending rebuilds or cached data theyre committing or storing at any given time. JBOD configurations in some RAID cards also requre you to build an individual RAID for each disk, meaning the controller could have countless configurations it has to track.
an excellent example of where you want RAM to handle reads and writes is in email antispam. amavis queues get expensvie fast, despite optimized perl threading, but cutting this back to spamass-milter and keeping spamassassin in a ramdisk with its compiled ruleset there too means you can handle nearly the entire evaluation of the message without even touching the incoming queue on disk. issuing rejections at the handshake then greatly improves efficiency over having to issue bounces, which can touch up to 4 queues on disk in some cases.
Ive worked with numerous indian H1B holders. The ones that are smart enough to apply for citizenship and get the hell out of whatever indentured servitude theyve been thrust into are the ones I love working with. Eloquently spoken as always, they will be the ones that bring insight and technical expertise along for any meeting or project.
On the other hand, ive had many experiences with ESL H1B holders that amounted to nothing short of a phone tech in the states. Any H1B hired for any oracle product for example is a roll of the dice. Ive worked with a senior level RDBM that after an entire year of working on a project and requesting funding, quit when it was revealed the funding had all been directly applied to Oracle Gold support and remote hands. H1B sysadmins that just reboot servers all day long to fix problems, or feverishly post to message boards with an irate "please respond immediately" seem to be the bulk of what ive encountered in linux and unix. Ive been present for meeting room meltdowns and phantom disappearances where H1B holders just quit showing up for a project as well.
the Patriot act is affected through the Homeland Security Act, which in turn uses wings of the FBI and CIA to implement various measures but most importantly it uses the Department of Homeland Security. with a quarter of a million people employed and a sixty billion dollar budget, many southern senators and politicians would likely find the bill, or any bill that touches DHS for that matter, toxic. customs and border protection agents, largely composed of veterans who would otherwise find themselves unemployed, make up the bulk of nearly 60,000 employed by the agency. Expect Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico senators to turn a blind eye to this legislation as no one wants to face an election with the fact they voted to axe these jobs, however pointless and destructive.
expect the administration --any administration for that matter-- to object to strengthening whistleblower protection. The laundry list of whistleblowers in federal government whos actions have directly led to their chronic unemployment and ostracization from society is evidence enough that we as a society care more about the idea of american patriotism than the actual functional implementation and repercussions of it.
According to modern convention a 'cyber event' is any event where government or private industry is exposed to extended and unwarranted yet catastrophically revealing scrutiny that serves to radically alter a citizen or consumers outlook on the state or the product respectively. These incidents are generally prosecuted rigorously in a kangaroo court, and involve numerous fisa submissions and foia redactions.
by contrast if a substantial subset of consumers experience the unauthorized release of their personal credit card, social security numbers, addresses, and bank information then this is just an 'incident' or a 'breech.' it involves 'data security' and 'unintentional disclosure' and is in no way a cyber event, although the FBI will be invoked just as predictably as a benediction at sunday mass in order to maintain the illusion the company affected has some purchase in the matter.
the ultimate difference being "cyber events" are ginned up to sell wars and products. data incidents and breeches are to be forgotten as fast as the public can, and covered quite minimally by the news media.
The book is a visual study of the deactivated launch and research facilities that played an essential role in early American space exploration.
The book is a visual study of the deactivated launch and dilapidated research facilities that were promptly mothballed after successfully bankrupting a superpower and reducing an american legend into a shuddering husk for which funding is now maintained only through elaborately prostituting itself for pork expenditures and earmark cash on a state-by-state basis with the promise, however bleak and illogical, of a private space industry that always generates a profit.
Roland Miller's upcoming book, Abandoned in Place, serves as a masterful interpretation of many other United States research facilities in the coming century as this superpower furiously disregards climate change, global warming, income inequality, government corruption, and a failed foreign policy in a race to a dystopian hell the likes of which mankind has never known.