I understand there is scientific value to be had from this dashboard but honestly as a mad scientist I myself am both disappointed and frustrated by the lack of functionality. By no means am I new to doomsday dashboards (ive been shopping around for months now.) I've used KF245 Deathmaster consoles, BUE44 Death ray destructo console with the liquidator option and then finally im sure we're all familiar with MurderMatic's Dashboard-O-Doom with those oh so lovely cherry keyswitches. But the BAS Doomsday dashboard has not a single modern feature! not even the usual laz-o-tron scope or whir-o-blitz flashitizers. I stood in the shower for almost 20 minutes today practicing THE PERFECT villain speech, complete with "mark my words" and "tremble before the might" and for what? This stupid Doomsday Dashboard cant even target Washington DC?! And dont even get me started on the interface. How the hell do i LAUNCH any of these warheads?! I have ALWAYS WANTED to have site-based launch but i cant find the control ANYWHERE to launch!
In summation Atomic Scientists Bulletin, please, get your act together (you're embarassing the mad community.) Also please let the united nations know (because your dashboard CLEARLY CANT DO THIS) to wire 1 BILLION dollars in currency to skull island in no less than 5 hours, or we will have no choice but to...oh screw it you know what? i just realized i cant control SEA LEVEL OR CARBON DIOXIDE LEVEL AT ALL in this blasted stupid dashboard.
And to NBC, grow some balls and stop rolling over for blowjobs from advertisers. Monsanto is one of the largest agribusinesses in the world. its products are in everyones home, like it or not, in some form or another. For you to blatantly ignore a link to the article and dilute the fucking statement to a "probably" is nothing short of treasonous. Do your god damn job and stop worrying about the trolls.
Slashdot: this discovery broadens our understanding of biology and the world we live in. It is important to the understanding of the planet as well as our history on it.
Carolinians: the carolina butcher was placed there by Jesus to test your faith. ancient revival preachers would juggle them like snakes to prove gays were responsible for katrina and benghazi is a muslim shariah plot.
why they might be tempted to fall back on such blatant hyperbole.
Throughout the past 50 years as corporations amassed more power to both influence and control the vote through their vested media interests and campaign finance respectively, regular constituents through a system of gerrymandering and voter ID law have become an incresingly less influential component of the american election. "government officials" are merely politicians holding office. They hyperbolize the threat of a "cyber" anything because they know it generates revenue for their real constituents and in turn campaign finance for them if they pass legislation that works toward state sponsored lemon socialism for corporations that, arguably, do very little if anything to prevent the threat of a cyber flavoured event.
sadly due to this hyperbole, theyre also required to follow their parade of pandering through wallstreet with rabbit eared pockets, with a bevvy of legislation to convince the masses that not only is the threat real, but that theyre taking it seriously. they create a sort of reality in which theyre forced to operate and in turn we get things like anti cyber bullying legislation and Aaron Schwartz. the MPAA and RIAA, large corporate sponsors in and of themselves, endorse such legislation as it serves their agenda of convincing their members theyre actually effective in policing piracy and ensuring profit for agents and talent.
This is a preliminary workaround so im sure many of you will find bugs, but heres what im using:
1. unbox the router from your ISP. Many will come with an extra CAT 5 cord. Set this aside.
2. position the router (and wireless antennas should it come with wireless) directly above your garbage can
3. releasing the device will cause it to fall at 9.81m/s^2 directly into the bin (NOTE: this DOES NOT WORK or may respond slowly in areas without earth mode gravity...double check first.)
4. Wind the cat 5 cord in a pretty loop and hang it up with the rest of them.
5. continue instructions at: https://openwrt.org./
The US, a country that couldnt prevent 9/11, shut down its own government twice, couldnt stop the Boston Marathon bombers, couldnt protect against the fort hood shooting, cant pass legislation to protect itself from school shootings, and cant prosecute detainees in or close the prison at guantanamo bay is threatening to withhold intelligence information from the country it routinely wiretaps and spies on anyway?
im sure if Germans knew about this, the question of the day would be, "Who the fuck cares."
Build-a-Wall: that is stupid. it didnt work in berlin, it didnt work in china, it doesnt work in Israel, and its just a single donation to a government contractor. Immigration Reform: Powerball odds now more promising than reasonable reform legislation. The plutocracy does not share your interest in expanding the number of homebuilders and salad harvesters eligible for social security, medicare, healthcare, and especially disability compensation. Lets turn the place into Half Life 2: Yes please. Drones, Bioscanners, those lasers that sweep over people, xrays, drug sniffing robots, tasers, Terminators, and lots of plastic handcuffs and temporary prisons with indefinite detention. This system works perfectly to avoid the problem, ignore our melting pot ethos, and turn a profit for a quantifiable number of military and defense related government contractors. Tune in next year when we roll this shit out at stadiums, train stations, bus stops, and shopping malls.
for those of you negatively impacted by the data breech, for those who had to reissue credit cards and dispute tax returns and refute car loans and social security applications, get ready for a $5 target giftcard to salve those wounds.
Facebook institutes antisuicide systems because if it didnt, statistical analysis could eventually paint the social media network as a virtual Suicide forest. Bad publicity all around
Whatever your opinion of suicide, assisted or not, never question Facebooks arbitrary and mandatory policy of forced life support. Shane now has a very large healthcare bill that likely will not be covered by his insurance as he was never in any real jeopardy or harm (not that most american healthcare insurance covers mental wellbeing anyway.) Had shane decided to seek assisted suicide for a condition like inoperable brain cancer, thats a 72 hour mandatory sentence of agony and pointless testing courtesy of the marketing team and endorsed by users everywhere with a gleeful thumbs up.
the actual plan is pretty secretive but crap like Smallco at Nowheresville is easy to catch. all the NSA has to do is take a spammers approach when sifting through UPS and FEDEX databases pertaining to Cisco. Using Sparse Orthogonal Bigrams or CRM114 with a combination of known customer addresses and contacts allows the NSA to quickly weed out any future attempt to subvert its practice.
what isnt more difficult to thwart is a conscious customer, and thats the NSA's real problem. A shipment from San Francisco to Dallas for example, that takes a detour to Boson, could be good reason for suspicion. anti-tamper systems like tip-n-tell, environmental dyes, tamper seals, or a combination of these sytems as well as the much maligned DRM signed firmware could make the NSA's efforts substantially more difficult. Finally, getting out of lock-in technology monocultures like dell-everything shops and cisco-anything shops is helpful. a moving target is, after all, harder to hit.
Microsoft: upgrade to our locked down version of an OS no ones tested for compatibility with your existing applications so we can stamp out a tiny fraction of our perceived losses to piracy, and in exchange we will spare you nonexistent prosecution in an overloaded court system that generally doesnt care about your non-crime.
who is the sadistic ambulance chasing short fat attorney with the gin blossoms and seersucker suit thats convinced poor SCO to give this another go? Dear god man let the dead have their peace!
a behavior is: observable activity in a human or animal. the aggregate of responses to internal and external stimuli. a stereotyped, species-specific activity, as a courtship dance or startle reflex.
Driving is the appliaction of education, study, and practice of a specific set of rules and regulations pertaining to a specific type of motorized vehicle. the reason we have different licenses for motorcycles, cars, and semi tractor trailers is more than enough to discredit the idea that driving is a behavior itself. You could classify things like tailgating and jackrabbit starts as poor behaviors associated with operating a motor vehicle, but driving is far more of a learned skill than an expression of ones inability to cancel a turn signal.
if we distilled driving to behavior, as nvidia insists, we would have a car that refused to turn its headlights on in the rain and couldnt properly allow vehicles to overtake while passing. It would go 25 miles over the speed limit, ignore school zones, and divert 100% of its resources to text messages and cellular communication at random intervals. It would occasionally ignore green lights and red lights, and it would tailgate and merge without signaling almost religiously. it would erroneously yield right of way at a roundabout, it would ignore speed limits in construction zones, and it would short-stop at continuous merge lanes and wait for traffic to pass before entering. In short, it would be the single most dangerous thing on any tarmac or asphalt since Gary Busey.
Mastercard and Visa are the only two companies that handle credit card transactions at the end of the day, and theyve often admitted theyre effectively the same company. Apple is acting as a credit card processor, and affording nothing more than a luxurious API to developers and consumers at a premium that includes the credit card processing fee assessed by the only credit card processing monopoly in america. Its why credit card companies compete with, but ultimately dont care about, apple pay.they control the VAN (Value added networks) through which credit and debit cards get processed.
What Apple should be worried about here is fraud, for which credit card companies have zero tolerance outside their own fuckups. Screw up too many times and your processing fees go up and banks flag you for fraud analysis. screw up way too many times and they revoke your processing capability entirely.
Let me try my hand at this. I dont have a recruitment firm to clickbait but its worth a shot.
Analysis: people who eat marmite make better television repairmen
Analysis: people who ride motorcycles make better carpet salesmen
Analysis: people who chew on styrofoam and roll around in pickles make louder burps.
1. 4chan kickstarter successfully orders 128 hello barbies, a raspberry pi, and some old karaoke speakers. ISIS, NAZI, and Boko Haram propaganda are then looped through mplayer. blood curdling screams and pornographic soundtracks liven up the data collection.
2. 4chan kickstarter successfully purchases 16 hello barbies, straps them to the undercarriage of random long haul tractor trailers at undisclosed truck stops.
3. original plans failing, 256 Hello Barbies are purchased, locked in a closet, the question "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? " is asked. the barbies answer eachother for eternity.
Martine Aliana Rothblatt has a doctorate in Law, an undergraduate in communications studies, and is the highest paid CEO in America. In other words I doubt very seriously she's had anything to do with this surrogate technology outside of daydreaming it on a private jet.
For those mercifully outside the realm of this dreck:
South by Southwest is a set of film, whatever the hell "interactive" is, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas.it has never been a technical conference. and is the most successful tale in american history of a music festival that was branded and co-opted into a commercial capitalist cash-cow. Jay-Z, Bieber, miller light, at&T, and mcdonalds are all an important part of the venue. As independent artists caught onto this early on those who founded and nutured it cashed in and moved on while pseudoscientists and intellectual savants licked another page in their schedule and marked this masturbation-festival on their tour calendars. investors simply clung desparately to 'hacker' culture and whatever else it could bind together like so much cheap cordwood to sell at markup.
SXSW is nothing more than a trade-show with a soundtrack these days. If you want to learn about whatever the fuck 'startup accellerators' are or whatever HP is doing this year to tread water, book a flight.
Mars one is a not-for-profit not-for-profit organizations may include a membership roster which does directly benefit from the income of the organization. its basically a way charities distance themselves from lawsuits or legal repercussions of outright greed in the face of a noble goal or humanitarian ideal.
its been known for quite some time that Mars One is the equivalent of Kony 2012. The goal is great, but the project is a heel dragging competition to see how long investors and C-levels can jiggle a hotdog in front of a hungry public before disappearing into obscurity with close to a million in cash so far.
Microsoft has tried for damned near 7 years to shoehorn Bing into every single product and service it provides, and it doesnt work. The reason for this is when they finally managed to, by hook or by crook, buy Yahoos search technology, they were still buying an outmoded technology compared to what Google had. They paid through the nose for Yahoo, and eventually winded up flat-out copying google results in a desparate attempt to bolster their shrink-wrapped turd of a search engine. After all this, including bribing firefox to set Bing as the default engine and a militant campaign to maintain Bing as the search engine in every iteration of Internet Explorer regardless of user settings or preferences, Bing still ranks dead last.
it has nothing to do with the name, marketing, branding, or any nonsense about 'disruptive technology.' it has everything to do with microsoft showing up to the playground a day late and a dollar short. Google has an 11 year head start on a search engine predicated upon a technology that, when purchased, was already obsoleted to near bankruptcy by Google. After six years of trying to force users to use the search platform, Microsoft is now as a parent does sneaking the medicine in with the bland pudding in the hopes of cooking disingenuous numbers for investors that are already pretty angry about nosedive products like Windows Phone and Windows Surface.
this isnt new redmond here, its the same old midlevel manager tunnel visioned shady and underhanded tactics we put up with in the early nineties. Its a tired strategy that will ultimately piss off users and alienate even further the dwindling number of investors willing to tolerate Microsofts shit-sandwich of products. at the 8 year mark, when Google has all but blacklisted every redmond subnet and the search feature returns nothing but broken links to myspace and bonzi buddy clones, Microsoft will do as it has always done with the likes of, say, Zune. Bing will be quietly snuffed and tucked under the rug filled with other failed microsoft products like the surface and phone. These are Products that have outlived their usefulness long since their introduction and have suckled too much life support funding from XBox, arguably one of the only 3 ventures keeping Microsoft afloat outside the Office suite and corporate licensing.
Id be curious to see exactly how much of this 'range anxiety' is a users genuine sensation of anxiety in proportion to the new technology, versus manufactured fear from the media and pundits. Jeremy Clarkson from the BBC's top gear has done everything in his power, for example, to cast a very negative light on even the most powerful hybrid and electric vehicles.
that having been said, yes, vehicles have a definitive range. The same holds true for automobiles in that if you lead-foot it to work every day, you wont get the "advertised" mileage at all. If youre gingerly with the pedal and work to embrace things like hypermiling though, youll garner significantly higher gas mileage. The only thing different about 'electric' is the higher torque curve in most cases, the noise level, and the emissions depending on the fuel source of your local power plants and sometimes the transmission. The car still functions like any normal car, meaning that if you run your AC constantly in the summer you can also expect poor mileage. Mileage in winter will also decrease, just as in petrol automobiles because things like the Mass Airflow and temperature sensors will run the engine in 'worst case' mode to warm the engine quickly, thus burning more fuel.
We're upset that in the 21st century our status as an unchallenged international superpower is no longer valid. As a nation that relies on secret torture camps, extraordinary rendition, ubiquitous spying on all its citizens, and even their targeted assassination without trial or jury, we've really found ourselves in a pickle after two failed wars in the middle east that accidentally created a terror state in the process. We're incapable of maintaining a functioning government of our own, having forcibly shut down the largest economy in the world twice and lost two ratings grades with standard and poor. As a nation predicated on democracy, freedom, and liberty we're utterly incapable of peaceful foreign policy toward Iran, with the president working toward a diplomatic agreement while the congress works toward an israeli endorsed military strategy.
So if it seems like we're all for freedom and independence when it comes to our international interests, yet wholly opposed to them when it comes to Vietnams soverign military and international policy, it shouldnt come as too much of a surprise.
Slashdot Mirror
....PHP enthusiasts and detractors....
Who is this PHP "enthusiast" and how many drugs does he take to maintain this elaborate illusion...
I understand there is scientific value to be had from this dashboard but honestly as a mad scientist I myself am both disappointed and frustrated by the lack of functionality. By no means am I new to doomsday dashboards (ive been shopping around for months now.) I've used KF245 Deathmaster consoles, BUE44 Death ray destructo console with the liquidator option and then finally im sure we're all familiar with MurderMatic's Dashboard-O-Doom with those oh so lovely cherry keyswitches. But the BAS Doomsday dashboard has not a single modern feature! not even the usual laz-o-tron scope or whir-o-blitz flashitizers. I stood in the shower for almost 20 minutes today practicing THE PERFECT villain speech, complete with "mark my words" and "tremble before the might" and for what? This stupid Doomsday Dashboard cant even target Washington DC?! And dont even get me started on the interface. How the hell do i LAUNCH any of these warheads?! I have ALWAYS WANTED to have site-based launch but i cant find the control ANYWHERE to launch!
In summation Atomic Scientists Bulletin, please, get your act together (you're embarassing the mad community.) Also please let the united nations know (because your dashboard CLEARLY CANT DO THIS) to wire 1 BILLION dollars in currency to skull island in no less than 5 hours, or we will have no choice but to...oh screw it you know what? i just realized i cant control SEA LEVEL OR CARBON DIOXIDE LEVEL AT ALL in this blasted stupid dashboard.
Link to the actual fucking article:
http://www.thelancet.com/journ...
And to NBC, grow some balls and stop rolling over for blowjobs from advertisers. Monsanto is one of the largest agribusinesses in the world. its products are in everyones home, like it or not, in some form or another. For you to blatantly ignore a link to the article and dilute the fucking statement to a "probably" is nothing short of treasonous. Do your god damn job and stop worrying about the trolls.
Slashdot: this discovery broadens our understanding of biology and the world we live in. It is important to the understanding of the planet as well as our history on it.
Carolinians: the carolina butcher was placed there by Jesus to test your faith. ancient revival preachers would juggle them like snakes to prove gays were responsible for katrina and benghazi is a muslim shariah plot.
why they might be tempted to fall back on such blatant hyperbole.
Throughout the past 50 years as corporations amassed more power to both influence and control the vote through their vested media interests and campaign finance respectively, regular constituents through a system of gerrymandering and voter ID law have become an incresingly less influential component of the american election. "government officials" are merely politicians holding office. They hyperbolize the threat of a "cyber" anything because they know it generates revenue for their real constituents and in turn campaign finance for them if they pass legislation that works toward state sponsored lemon socialism for corporations that, arguably, do very little if anything to prevent the threat of a cyber flavoured event.
sadly due to this hyperbole, theyre also required to follow their parade of pandering through wallstreet with rabbit eared pockets, with a bevvy of legislation to convince the masses that not only is the threat real, but that theyre taking it seriously. they create a sort of reality in which theyre forced to operate and in turn we get things like anti cyber bullying legislation and Aaron Schwartz. the MPAA and RIAA, large corporate sponsors in and of themselves, endorse such legislation as it serves their agenda of convincing their members theyre actually effective in policing piracy and ensuring profit for agents and talent.
I was at Pwn2own and NEVER ONCE experienced an exploit thanks to my browser of the future: Links.
now if youll excuse me i need to gloat...there are some arpanet users on gopher that are going to be mighty impressed by this.
This is a preliminary workaround so im sure many of you will find bugs, but heres what im using:
1. unbox the router from your ISP. Many will come with an extra CAT 5 cord. Set this aside.
2. position the router (and wireless antennas should it come with wireless) directly above your garbage can
3. releasing the device will cause it to fall at 9.81m/s^2 directly into the bin (NOTE: this DOES NOT WORK or may respond slowly in areas without earth mode gravity...double check first.)
4. Wind the cat 5 cord in a pretty loop and hang it up with the rest of them.
5. continue instructions at: https://openwrt.org./
The US, a country that couldnt prevent 9/11, shut down its own government twice, couldnt stop the Boston Marathon bombers, couldnt protect against the fort hood shooting, cant pass legislation to protect itself from school shootings, and cant prosecute detainees in or close the prison at guantanamo bay is threatening to withhold intelligence information from the country it routinely wiretaps and spies on anyway?
im sure if Germans knew about this, the question of the day would be, "Who the fuck cares."
Build-a-Wall: that is stupid. it didnt work in berlin, it didnt work in china, it doesnt work in Israel, and its just a single donation to a government contractor.
Immigration Reform: Powerball odds now more promising than reasonable reform legislation. The plutocracy does not share your interest in expanding the number of homebuilders and salad harvesters eligible for social security, medicare, healthcare, and especially disability compensation.
Lets turn the place into Half Life 2: Yes please. Drones, Bioscanners, those lasers that sweep over people, xrays, drug sniffing robots, tasers, Terminators, and lots of plastic handcuffs and temporary prisons with indefinite detention. This system works perfectly to avoid the problem, ignore our melting pot ethos, and turn a profit for a quantifiable number of military and defense related government contractors. Tune in next year when we roll this shit out at stadiums, train stations, bus stops, and shopping malls.
for those of you negatively impacted by the data breech, for those who had to reissue credit cards and dispute tax returns and refute car loans and social security applications, get ready for a $5 target giftcard to salve those wounds.
Facebook institutes antisuicide systems because if it didnt, statistical analysis could eventually paint the social media network as a virtual Suicide forest. Bad publicity all around
Whatever your opinion of suicide, assisted or not, never question Facebooks arbitrary and mandatory policy of forced life support. Shane now has a very large healthcare bill that likely will not be covered by his insurance as he was never in any real jeopardy or harm (not that most american healthcare insurance covers mental wellbeing anyway.) Had shane decided to seek assisted suicide for a condition like inoperable brain cancer, thats a 72 hour mandatory sentence of agony and pointless testing courtesy of the marketing team and endorsed by users everywhere with a gleeful thumbs up.
the actual plan is pretty secretive but crap like Smallco at Nowheresville is easy to catch. all the NSA has to do is take a spammers approach when sifting through UPS and FEDEX databases pertaining to Cisco. Using Sparse Orthogonal Bigrams or CRM114 with a combination of known customer addresses and contacts allows the NSA to quickly weed out any future attempt to subvert its practice.
what isnt more difficult to thwart is a conscious customer, and thats the NSA's real problem. A shipment from San Francisco to Dallas for example, that takes a detour to Boson, could be good reason for suspicion. anti-tamper systems like tip-n-tell, environmental dyes, tamper seals, or a combination of these sytems as well as the much maligned DRM signed firmware could make the NSA's efforts substantially more difficult. Finally, getting out of lock-in technology monocultures like dell-everything shops and cisco-anything shops is helpful. a moving target is, after all, harder to hit.
Updated Date: 19-jan-2015
Creation Date: 20-mar-2012
Expiration Date: 20-mar-2016
so, uh....exactly how long did we know/did we think this would become a massive fucking issue?
Microsoft: upgrade to our locked down version of an OS no ones tested for compatibility with your existing applications so we can stamp out a tiny fraction of our perceived losses to piracy, and in exchange we will spare you nonexistent prosecution in an overloaded court system that generally doesnt care about your non-crime.
who is the sadistic ambulance chasing short fat attorney with the gin blossoms and seersucker suit thats convinced poor SCO to give this another go? Dear god man let the dead have their peace!
a behavior is: observable activity in a human or animal. the aggregate of responses to internal and external stimuli. a stereotyped, species-specific activity, as a courtship dance or startle reflex.
Driving is the appliaction of education, study, and practice of a specific set of rules and regulations pertaining to a specific type of motorized vehicle. the reason we have different licenses for motorcycles, cars, and semi tractor trailers is more than enough to discredit the idea that driving is a behavior itself. You could classify things like tailgating and jackrabbit starts as poor behaviors associated with operating a motor vehicle, but driving is far more of a learned skill than an expression of ones inability to cancel a turn signal.
if we distilled driving to behavior, as nvidia insists, we would have a car that refused to turn its headlights on in the rain and couldnt properly allow vehicles to overtake while passing. It would go 25 miles over the speed limit, ignore school zones, and divert 100% of its resources to text messages and cellular communication at random intervals. It would occasionally ignore green lights and red lights, and it would tailgate and merge without signaling almost religiously. it would erroneously yield right of way at a roundabout, it would ignore speed limits in construction zones, and it would short-stop at continuous merge lanes and wait for traffic to pass before entering. In short, it would be the single most dangerous thing on any tarmac or asphalt since Gary Busey.
Mastercard and Visa are the only two companies that handle credit card transactions at the end of the day, and theyve often admitted theyre effectively the same company. Apple is acting as a credit card processor, and affording nothing more than a luxurious API to developers and consumers at a premium that includes the credit card processing fee assessed by the only credit card processing monopoly in america. Its why credit card companies compete with, but ultimately dont care about, apple pay.they control the VAN (Value added networks) through which credit and debit cards get processed.
What Apple should be worried about here is fraud, for which credit card companies have zero tolerance outside their own fuckups. Screw up too many times and your processing fees go up and banks flag you for fraud analysis. screw up way too many times and they revoke your processing capability entirely.
Let me try my hand at this. I dont have a recruitment firm to clickbait but its worth a shot.
Analysis: people who eat marmite make better television repairmen
Analysis: people who ride motorcycles make better carpet salesmen
Analysis: people who chew on styrofoam and roll around in pickles make louder burps.
1. 4chan kickstarter successfully orders 128 hello barbies, a raspberry pi, and some old karaoke speakers. ISIS, NAZI, and Boko Haram propaganda are then looped through mplayer. blood curdling screams and pornographic soundtracks liven up the data collection.
2. 4chan kickstarter successfully purchases 16 hello barbies, straps them to the undercarriage of random long haul tractor trailers at undisclosed truck stops.
3. original plans failing, 256 Hello Barbies are purchased, locked in a closet, the question "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? " is asked. the barbies answer eachother for eternity.
Martine Aliana Rothblatt has a doctorate in Law, an undergraduate in communications studies, and is the highest paid CEO in America. In other words I doubt very seriously she's had anything to do with this surrogate technology outside of daydreaming it on a private jet.
For those mercifully outside the realm of this dreck: South by Southwest is a set of film, whatever the hell "interactive" is, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas.it has never been a technical conference. and is the most successful tale in american history of a music festival that was branded and co-opted into a commercial capitalist cash-cow. Jay-Z, Bieber, miller light, at&T, and mcdonalds are all an important part of the venue. As independent artists caught onto this early on those who founded and nutured it cashed in and moved on while pseudoscientists and intellectual savants licked another page in their schedule and marked this masturbation-festival on their tour calendars. investors simply clung desparately to 'hacker' culture and whatever else it could bind together like so much cheap cordwood to sell at markup.
SXSW is nothing more than a trade-show with a soundtrack these days. If you want to learn about whatever the fuck 'startup accellerators' are or whatever HP is doing this year to tread water, book a flight.
Mars one is a not-for-profit not-for-profit organizations may include a membership roster which does directly benefit from the income of the organization. its basically a way charities distance themselves from lawsuits or legal repercussions of outright greed in the face of a noble goal or humanitarian ideal.
its been known for quite some time that Mars One is the equivalent of Kony 2012. The goal is great, but the project is a heel dragging competition to see how long investors and C-levels can jiggle a hotdog in front of a hungry public before disappearing into obscurity with close to a million in cash so far.
Microsoft has tried for damned near 7 years to shoehorn Bing into every single product and service it provides, and it doesnt work. The reason for this is when they finally managed to, by hook or by crook, buy Yahoos search technology, they were still buying an outmoded technology compared to what Google had. They paid through the nose for Yahoo, and eventually winded up flat-out copying google results in a desparate attempt to bolster their shrink-wrapped turd of a search engine. After all this, including bribing firefox to set Bing as the default engine and a militant campaign to maintain Bing as the search engine in every iteration of Internet Explorer regardless of user settings or preferences, Bing still ranks dead last.
it has nothing to do with the name, marketing, branding, or any nonsense about 'disruptive technology.' it has everything to do with microsoft showing up to the playground a day late and a dollar short. Google has an 11 year head start on a search engine predicated upon a technology that, when purchased, was already obsoleted to near bankruptcy by Google. After six years of trying to force users to use the search platform, Microsoft is now as a parent does sneaking the medicine in with the bland pudding in the hopes of cooking disingenuous numbers for investors that are already pretty angry about nosedive products like Windows Phone and Windows Surface.
this isnt new redmond here, its the same old midlevel manager tunnel visioned shady and underhanded tactics we put up with in the early nineties. Its a tired strategy that will ultimately piss off users and alienate even further the dwindling number of investors willing to tolerate Microsofts shit-sandwich of products. at the 8 year mark, when Google has all but blacklisted every redmond subnet and the search feature returns nothing but broken links to myspace and bonzi buddy clones, Microsoft will do as it has always done with the likes of, say, Zune. Bing will be quietly snuffed and tucked under the rug filled with other failed microsoft products like the surface and phone. These are Products that have outlived their usefulness long since their introduction and have suckled too much life support funding from XBox, arguably one of the only 3 ventures keeping Microsoft afloat outside the Office suite and corporate licensing.
"Well the good news is Portage is ready to upgrade my Gentoo from the 2.2 to 3.17 kernel...but...jesus christ....what happened to Slashdot"
Id be curious to see exactly how much of this 'range anxiety' is a users genuine sensation of anxiety in proportion to the new technology, versus manufactured fear from the media and pundits. Jeremy Clarkson from the BBC's top gear has done everything in his power, for example, to cast a very negative light on even the most powerful hybrid and electric vehicles.
that having been said, yes, vehicles have a definitive range. The same holds true for automobiles in that if you lead-foot it to work every day, you wont get the "advertised" mileage at all. If youre gingerly with the pedal and work to embrace things like hypermiling though, youll garner significantly higher gas mileage. The only thing different about 'electric' is the higher torque curve in most cases, the noise level, and the emissions depending on the fuel source of your local power plants and sometimes the transmission. The car still functions like any normal car, meaning that if you run your AC constantly in the summer you can also expect poor mileage. Mileage in winter will also decrease, just as in petrol automobiles because things like the Mass Airflow and temperature sensors will run the engine in 'worst case' mode to warm the engine quickly, thus burning more fuel.
We're upset that in the 21st century our status as an unchallenged international superpower is no longer valid. As a nation that relies on secret torture camps, extraordinary rendition, ubiquitous spying on all its citizens, and even their targeted assassination without trial or jury, we've really found ourselves in a pickle after two failed wars in the middle east that accidentally created a terror state in the process. We're incapable of maintaining a functioning government of our own, having forcibly shut down the largest economy in the world twice and lost two ratings grades with standard and poor. As a nation predicated on democracy, freedom, and liberty we're utterly incapable of peaceful foreign policy toward Iran, with the president working toward a diplomatic agreement while the congress works toward an israeli endorsed military strategy.
So if it seems like we're all for freedom and independence when it comes to our international interests, yet wholly opposed to them when it comes to Vietnams soverign military and international policy, it shouldnt come as too much of a surprise.