this will never happen and is reflected in the structure of our government. Special air planes and multi million dollar car-shaped tanks are perfect expressions of how neurotic and misguided our approach to government security is. Being a government official means you represent the people. it means you take that risk every day that it could be the last day you come to work. Being indoors makes the white house staff pretty safe from the kinds of drones our SS are worried about, the president included, as he is just staff with a special title. there are numerous ways to shoot a drone out of the sky, or render it functionless, but it starts a needless arms race between drone hobbyists and some classified faction of the government that is unaccountably mysterious.
the ultimate solution to americas psychosis of security is to take a step back and try to work with or call a truce between the people hell bent on killing americans and government workers. "They cant be reasoned with" is a dishonest statement in most cases meant to whitewash public opinion. Did anyone know one of Osama Bin Ladens requests was for america to ease up on our blank-cheque support of the Palestinian apartheid? Sounds cost effective and reasonable but instead we embarked on an 80 trillion dollar campaign of senseless bloodshed that alienated us reason and plunged countless lives into misery. It also formed ISIS. So maybe this time we ease up and let people fly hobby drones.
As a millenial I dont find racism offensive, I find it contemptuous. it serves as reminder that a sizeable minority of americans willfully refuse to be a part of modern society. That theyre given a voice, taken seriously and sincerely at their word, and that they participate in my government and interact with my society is infuriating. that despite the best efforts of millions, there will always without question be a remainder of those who would rather cling tenaciously to racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia than get onboard and tackle real issues and challenges is a absurd to no end. You can live for yourself today, or you can work together to build a brighter and better tomorrow for everyone.
Disclaimer: I dont own anything made by apple, and cant justify donating a kidney for a wrist watch.
HBO Now standalone streaming service coming to Apple TV and iOS apps in early April for $14.99 a month.
not really an innovation but, okay. There was nothing stopping this from happening before, why did it need an event?
Lowered price of Apple TV to $69.
Okay, market competition is good. this too would have happened inevitably and regardless of any innovation, unless youre an accountant on the apple campus that happens to be particularly proud of their excel pivot tables related to this.
Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines by the end of the year.
Ah so the great war to control the pocketbook rages on I see. Considering soda sales have been in sharp and inexplicable decline since 2013, im not sure what this does for apple...but kudos to the innovators at Coca Cola for implementing the Apple pay api!
ResearchKit Announced: Is open source and allows medical researchers to create apps, and use the iPhone as a diagnostic tool.
Cool, but the apps store is still a draconian gulag. expect a dearth of crisis pregnancy apps to get written and a bunch of Abortion assistance apps to get flagged and removed as part of our nations proud tradition of culture warfare. And how do we handle HIPAA here?
New MacBook: Lightest ever at 2 pounds, 13.1mm at its thickest point. 2304x1440 display, consumes 30% less energy. Fanless, powered with Intel's Core M processor. 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0. and 9 hours of web browsing battery life. Supports many protocols through one connector USB-C. Ships April 10, starting at $1,299.
Small laptop gets smaller, faster, better, and more expensive despite industry-standard hardware used and widely available at lower cost but without the little white light up apple.
iOS 8.2 is available today
iOS=iOS++....I'd be concerned if the OS werent periodically patched and updated but to the apple engineers making this OS possible, good on ya!
Apple Watch: Accurate within 50ms of UTC. Read and delete email, built-in speaker and mic so you can receive calls. It tracks your movement and exercise. Use Apple Pay, play your music, use Siri and get any notification you get on iPhone today. 18 hour battery life in a typical day. Sport model starting at $349, stainless steel price: $549-$1049 for 38mm, 42mm is $599-$1099, and gold edition starting at $10k. Pre-orders begin April 10th, available April 24th.
Our phones do all of this, are in ubiquitous use, wont stop working if we carelessly wash our hands, and havent cost this much for nearly a decade. And the real kick in the ass is that apple will immediately slash prices 80% once an android competitor comes out and hangs around in this artificial market long enough until people realize singing talking wrist watches are about as practical as google glass.
the average job offer these days is a toilet brush of bullshit, especially coming from established corporations asking for immediate and deep expertise in 15 year old nearly defunct software only they have heard of and that is made mandatory for consideration. and startups, oh man. The constant "what do you LOVE about us?" and "explain why YOU want to work here" crap is an insult to intelligence. ive once answered "what makes YOU the best devops engineer?!" For starters, I have the power to condense an entire resume, into which i have invested considerable time and effort, into a single textbox entry on a broken website soliciting engineers with an alphabet soup of industry buzzwords lifted from a dell sales brochure and a TV remote instruction manual.
the interview process isnt a lot better. Google waterboards candidates with a barrage of questions that betray just how much money they make off you. 'how do you build a datacenter on the moon' and 'how many hard disks fit into a schoolbus' are questions that, in any other corporate interview paying airfare and hotel, would send HR managers through the roof. GoDaddy once asked me, in an interview, if i 'felt lucky.' Considering Im not paying for the hotel sauna or food, yes, i and my lobster thermador feel very lucky indeed. other job interview questionaires have included questions about what was the most "constipated" technology id encountered.
fake support calls are eerily similar to 419 scams in confidence artistry but it bears remembering why and when these scandals have taken place. In nigerias case oil discovery led to british and american interests propping up a series of dictators favourable to their interests yet despotic to their own people. After a few violent uprisings, oil export dropped to 40%, and largely has never returned. nationalized exports, systemic corruption, and a dearth of unemployment with a sizeable population of educated adults led to the 419 artistry and arguably an increase in piracy.
in Indias case, rampant corruption and high unemployment combined with a tech industry that favours low worker pay and aggressively combats everything from workplace safety to union organization and benefits has led to the tech support scam, born from the confidence and trust of americans and europeans accustomed to the dulcet tones of the south asian tech support worker.
oh christ this article. First, nowhere, and I mean Nowhere does tfa or the document mention anything about whatever the fuck "red button" autonomy is...
second, its like these guys just sit in a dark theater watching NCIS reruns and transformers, jerking eachother off, and coming up with authoritative yet meaningless and outright reprehensible approaches to something that they havent a clue about. There are no cyber 'counter attacks,' no missiles to launch or boats to sink, and thats what has these blowhards chestthumping the armageddon drum. well, that and federal budgets for 20xx need to be spent. Cyber anything is always predicated solely on defense. it arguably doesnt have a meaningful offensive component beacuse its the equivalent of tai chi in the context of modern warfare. network systems and computer security, none of this cyber nonsense, requires things like a cornerstone education in computer sciences to be proficient in, full stop. And to be frank the US has way more pressing problems like low mathematics comprehension, outbreaks of preventable disease, declining literacy rates, a patchwork system of healthcare, and a broken criminal justice system thats founded on systemic abuse and biblical retribution. Listening to the NSA director harp about his need for cyber anything is like listening to a six year old wax prophetic on what their favourite car is.
The FTC's best solution is to investigate these robocalls with their own system of honeypots. order a product from the caller, set up a sting, and sentence a CEO and a few managers to some hard time in prison. but thats punishing success and in americas land of the fee and home of the paid, we're all about the invisible hand of the market.
The argument being asserted is predicated on the idea that in 10 years everyone will be a drooling simpleton incapable of action outside of consuming the product. you're always going to have hackers writing pedometers for android and scoffing at a pay for play system that puts them at a genuine disadvantage. Its why safety razors and thrift shop clothing are making a comeback despite a multibillion dollar shoe sales convention with a rubber ball.
Those without a timeline will be at a huge disadvantage.
you told me the same thing about google plus, facebook, myspace, twitter, instagram, youtube, vine, secondlife, and tumblr. I seem to have suffered no loss in "advantage" though. Let me put it in your terms, maybe that will help. #GETOFFMYLAWN.
Sun died a slow death following 1970's midwest business principals in a 2000's world. Even its open source efforts, although noble, were crippled by managements tunnel vision. Sun was practically predicated on the phrase "cash money millionaires" and everything, absolutely everything was licensed and contracted in perpetuity. The allure of Linux combined with chipset advances and the culture, in my opinion, are what killed Sun.
the help was no help either. Suns doc portal online was a festering carbunkle with a search feature and their community of greybeards on IRC were nothing less than violent toward anyone who dared to question the OS without having studiously memorized the entire canon of SUN scriptures. Being gobbled up by Oracle/whatever was an inevitability.
now, does Mozilla fit that profile? maybe yes, maybe who cares. theyre already the realmedia player of the browser world with a video chat system and an inline tile targeted advertising program. They validate your searches with google by default, and often times new releases steamroll your configuration options like download path. They arguably havent worked toward their stated mission since 2006 but that isnt the point. Mozillas license alone gives the community so much power over its direction that its path and principle arent relevant. One profoundly stupid move is all it takes before a massive fork, and there have been forks. iceweasel itself is proof the mozilla brand is only as effective as its adherence to principal.
Combining windows with XBox is the business strategy equivalent of winding christmas tree lights around a turd. Xbox is already in familiar territory financially, as its revenue is routinely used to float Azure, the phone program, and the tablet. Hell, Zune even had a run on the XBox moneytrain until Microsoft finally decided to bury that abortion. If i were a shareholder id be very alarmed at Microsofts decision to hobble an already proven revenue stream with an on-again off-again business machine OS.
Speaking as a NASA scientist for the project I can tell you this rover has been trickier than the others to operate. Its far more advanced, since keith secured funding for hooker headers and flowmaster pipes we've also had to upgrade to a new edelbrock carb (i threw in the holly mild cam for better low range torque.) I took a few days to tint the windows on it and, despite what my colleagues say, I think "suckin gas and haulin ass" was an excellent choice of stencil in the rear window next to the JEGS stickers. current and voltage anomalies can often be explained by the fact that neil doesnt think he has to terminate speaker wires properly and instead just wraps them in electrical tape (thats why the left front speaker cuts out all the time on the highway.) Also, and im not saying his brother does a bad job, but when we had to replace the distributor suddenly the power locks stopped working. Its not a showstopper, we're still exploring mars after all, but it makes grocery trips a pain in the ass. Ill be more than preturbed however if this is another 'caroline' scenario where we arent moving because she cant get the goddamn thing out of neutral. Its a short-throw four speed shifter Carol, for god sakes just practice in the parking lot. and for the last time, we are not arguing about the 8 ball shifter anymore its a muscle centerpiece you uncultured swine
The "Loser edit" if it really is something we should wory about, and seek to avoid, has some rather dire consequences. I mean, think about it. Without the loser edit people like Justin Bieber are OK guys despite 18 documented police interventions and a drug conviction. It means that despite Pat Robertsons direct connection to a diamond mine in the congo that itself was responsible for decades of bloodshed and terror, hes an alright guy with a pretty gruff outlook on the gays. and worse yet, it means Dick Cheney, a man directly responsible for the death of nearly a million Iraqi citizens, is just a misunderstood old fogey.
Based on historic evidence, the US has absolutely zero intention of honouring a 'fair' and 'impartial' trial. Chelsea manning leaked a video of US soldiers murdering an ambulance of civillians and was gifted 35 years in prison for a largely victimless crime. KSM and about 100 other 'detainees' at guantanamo, although routinely and repeatedly insisted that they face American justice are in fact completely in limbo. the FBI has been caught spying on defense council and fabricating evidence and the US Congress, once they realized a program of torture and forced rendition would open these individuals to american courts and the possibility of acquittal immediately moved to isolate, restrict, and outlaw transport or trial of any detainee in an american court.
Civil forfeiture entirely usurps legal process in favour of a carte blanche land and property grab in the pursuit of the "war on drugs." Police are routinely found murdering people in suspicious or controversial situations only to never face trial. the financial collapse of 2008 involved some of the largest banks and securities companies committing fraud on a massive scale, and not a single arrest or trial has taken place. So please, Edward, I understand youre homesick for the first few years in a new place but you need to consider the very legitimate possibility that "american justice" is completely and utterly arbitrary and held to no reasonable, impartial international standard. it exists and functions by virtue of its own existence. Martyring yourself wont change anything, wont alter systems like foreign policy or defense at all. You wont face reason. You will be hanged, and then there will be cake and spin to continue insisting the system of american exceptionalism works.
sure this will get downvoted to offtopic but i think it very much is part of the topic of the community. Design changes.
Slashdot implemented beta and it failed, so instead of leaving that which isnt broken alone they decided to slowly, quietly roll out beta in a boiled-frog approach. posting is sinisterly difficult, tracking replies or just general community discussions has been made more cumbersome, and no offer to revert to the old, unbroken ui has been made.
If you dont like this change, if you dont like slashdot pushing this turd of a design without so much as a second thought to the community that generates its revenue, if you like the old slashcode, check out http://soylentnews.org/
sheet cakes have already had printers for quite some time now, but its worth noting you still need to prepare the ingredients for this device. If i were at home this printer would be cumbersome, but I also work in a professional kitchen and as a chef, If im catering for 120, having a machine that would print gold leaf would be awesome. Petit fours are a pain in the ass, and every time i send my crew to make them i get a round of angry scowls. Having a rack of foodinis printing them off though? yes please. My prep work isnt of concern as most of the ingredients go through a hobart mixer or robot coupe. where this device would shine is tedious, labour intensive hand prep and finishing.
Comcast:no, FCC:...thats a nice internet you have there.... Verizon: No. Time Warner:NO Republican party: NO! POTUS: sure would be nice if it were just.... AT&T: NO GOD NO FCC:......a little more neutral. Rogers:...eh we're more of a callcenter these days anyway.
I know its rather offtopic, but for non-US readers its relevant:
For anyone confused as to the situation of american politics in the past 8 years, the republican party has worked tirelessly to obstruct practically every piece of legislation after the ACA (healthcare legislation.) Theyve played a brinksmanship game with an artificially imposed budget limit, ironically created by them as a kudgel to complain about $cur_president's spending policies but with real power. This "debt ceiling" has been used twice to literally shut down the government. Mail didnt run, troops werent paid, contractors were furloughed, the FCC FTC and even the FDA were all deactivated not once, but twice in a bid to force the presidents hand to concede his high ground and allow their minority legislation to pass. this nihilism cost us 2 credit ratings and an estimated 24 billion dollars. Republicans gained nothing.
fast forward to 2015 when both our houses of legislature, the senate and congress, are now controlled by a gerrymandered republican electorate. The president is on his last term, something we call 'lame duck' and is now openly advocating for everything from free education to immigration reform policies. Republicans, with this control, still havent proposed an alternative to any legislation facing them, and wont even vote on major issues like campaign finance reform or immigration. whats worse, theyre still operating in a 2010 mindset of obstruct and destroy, so we're facing another brinksmanship game in which they threaten to stop funding for the Department of Homeland Security. about 240,000 employees would go unpaid, but be required to work, and every airport in the nation would likely experience a significant impact. Random government shutdowns have major repercussions in world markets that rely on a confident and reliable american government to back things like currencies and bonds.
so for republicans to back down on net neutrality is a serious step forward in a party that generally toes every corporate lobbyists hard line. Remember: theyre the party that apologized for inconveniencing BP during the largest oil spil in recent american history, and yet at this moment have conceeded to the will of the public.
NSA: we currently have to go through the secret fisa rubber stamp factory to read encrypted data. thats cumbersome, you're a criminal and we just need time to build...er...prove...it. EFF: ok so you can read crypto...thats new...we're going to educate people on crypto...the strong flavor.... NSA: thats probably evidence of a crime...people shouldnt hide things they dont... Google: we just upped our ssl cyphers...so...up yours. NSA: guise...come on...just because we can read SOME crypto doesnt mean all of it...we have to tap googles data centerrrrr- Google: Oh? Nice. Also all our devices ship with crypto enabled. by default. for, you know. security. Apple: Ditto....and it just works.... NSA:ok...seriously guise you dont understand...this is different. sometimes we listen to everyones phonecalls and, well sometimes there are terrorists that... Moxie Marlinspike:sshhhhhhh...redphone....from whispersystems... NSA: arent you locked up in an airport somewhere? er...no. you still dont understand!! damnit we need LEGAL access to snoop on encrypted data now theres just too much... Tor: hey. I2P: hey guise i heard you like crypto cryptocat: M30w NSA: wait....just hang on we need to get together and talk about this, its just a big misunderstanding this is about security. DefCON: is it, NSA senpai? you've changed. I heard Schneier-san thinks youre baka. NSA:ITS NOT ME ITS SNOWDEN! hes the real traitor and that AARON SCHWARTZ is trying to CHELSEA MANNING the FREEDOM!! The Community: I'll just...leave this here....
If you click the "Read" button below this paragraph, the video interview will play automatically.
nice try. on behalf of all the slashdotters who have tolerated incremental skullfucking of the original slashcode and bullshit that is Beta, This is why your userbase is dwindling and participation is falling. Noscript, microblock, adaway, and yet after all this we still get 1080p slashvertising turds that magic-play when we click to read the comments that make your site worthwhile at all?
on behalf of all of us, Fuck you dice. heres hoping https://soylentnews.org/ takes off.
the hijackers for the world trade center bombings: Mohamed Atta (Egyptian) held a technical degree, Abdulaziz al-Omari (Saudi Arabian) held a religious degree from a cleric, Wail al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian) was mentally ill and had gone to numerous clerics for assistance, Waleed al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian) had no education, Satam al-Suqami (Saudi Arabian) dropped out of law school.
Atta was a rather brilliant individual beaten down in egypt by a regime that at the time was supported directly by the United States. Atta was enraged by Egypt's ruling elite and its crackdown on dissenting political groups. He was ultimately an educated minority yet what I advocate and what you fail to recognize is an educated majority. Islam, Witchcrat, Atheism, Mormonism, Communism, Catholicism, and Blacks have all been demonized based on a complex structure of pseudointellectual dogma thats designed to ensure they remain the enemy despite reason and critical thinking. Islam is convenient, because it foregoes critical discussion of a disasterous western foreign policy perpetuated by the carter doctrine and a gerrymandered warhawk political elite.
can you imagine a "10x rockstar developer" swaggering into a job interview with his negotiating team?
Stop. please. just stop. lets take the pretend train to imaginary town and derail it for a minute:
1. the people who sincerely think coders need agents are the people who contribute nothing to the coding process. these are parasites running out of options in a dwindling music and video talent market.
2. the kinds of coders who think they need a talent agent are the kinds of sycophantic cocksuckers that harass employees, alienate managers, fracture teams, and haul companies into sexual harassment lawsuits. they might be bombshell coders, but the truth is even with james bond, 7 martinis and an aston martin makes you a stumbling insurance liability with a gun.
3. we already have a huge problem with recruiting. I cleared 37 voicemail messages from recuiting mills that dont even source their call centers in the US. most of this was for 3 month contract or 6 month contract work, shit that is beneath anyone but that corporations feel like theyre fucking entitled to. I routinely roll out of bed for calls from these shitlords at 2 AM because someone didnt set the callcenter ntp server in india properly.
4. Corporations are another side of the problem. Apply for imgur, facebook, or any other rewarding employment position and you'll be waterboarded with masturbatory inquisition like 'what makes you such a great fit?' and 'what do you looooove about our company?' Motherfuckers I want a job, your work is interesting, and the pay is commensurate. beyond that im still human capital remember?
so for anyone thinking rockstars pornstars or coked up overweight perl jockeys with poor attendance and a penchant for lashing out at coworkers in a 10 am alcohol fueled rage are in need of some kind of dedicated legion of cocksuckers to treat them like a special snowflake, get bent.
The most recent use of this technology was in tracking down the Baton Rouge serial killer, although the same problem exists here as does DNA evidence. Namely that close enough is good enough in the eyes of a court of law, particularly in the southern half of the United States.
There was some argument that Derrick Lee was perhaps incompetent to stand trial; during psychiatric evaluations he scored an average of 65 on various standardized I.Q. tests, and a score below 69 is considered to be the threshold for what can be considered mental retardation. Lee was, however, deemed fit to stand trial.
But like phrenology, lie detectors, and to some degree the shrouded witchcraft code of the breathalizer, its a modern tool in the fight against "the bad guy"
Its worth noting this enforcement is largely designed to target terrorist attacks against the Pakistani government. The longterm solution to Pakistans terrorism problems is largely structural and political. Increased education funding, crackdowns on government corruption, increased employment, and most of all a more vocal and political opposition to the United States drone war. Nawaz Sharif is kept in power by coup and crackdown, not free election, while the united states basically shovels money into his political fund. The fingerprint system is, conveniently, also an excellent means by which to deter active protests and dissent.
people are terrorists due to a combination of desparation, isolation, and doctrine. Once a person becomes determined with nothing to lose, then theyre not easily dissuaded from terrorist acts. Having your village razed by foreign aircraft you could never see is one thing, but for your government to turn a blind eye just adds insult to injury and paves the way for neurotic warlords and clerics to fill the void.
id like to take time out of my busy day to remind slashdotters that before the invention of poison gas warfare, wars themselves would drag on forever. Sure, you had trenches and all that but disease was still a slow and tedious way to get to the point. machine guns might have been a teriffic improvement, but nothing is quite as effective as a good gas attack against "the enemy." Anyhow thats just my two cents, and i really need to be going as ive a full itinerary ahead of me. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan...heck im not sure how ill make it to most of these African destinations but i sure people forgive my tardiness.
--Sincerely,
Death, the reaper
Destroyer of worlds.
P.S. im not sure what all the fuss about modern patriotism is. I've always supported both sides of the war.
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this will never happen and is reflected in the structure of our government. Special air planes and multi million dollar car-shaped tanks are perfect expressions of how neurotic and misguided our approach to government security is. Being a government official means you represent the people. it means you take that risk every day that it could be the last day you come to work. Being indoors makes the white house staff pretty safe from the kinds of drones our SS are worried about, the president included, as he is just staff with a special title. there are numerous ways to shoot a drone out of the sky, or render it functionless, but it starts a needless arms race between drone hobbyists and some classified faction of the government that is unaccountably mysterious.
the ultimate solution to americas psychosis of security is to take a step back and try to work with or call a truce between the people hell bent on killing americans and government workers. "They cant be reasoned with" is a dishonest statement in most cases meant to whitewash public opinion. Did anyone know one of Osama Bin Ladens requests was for america to ease up on our blank-cheque support of the Palestinian apartheid? Sounds cost effective and reasonable but instead we embarked on an 80 trillion dollar campaign of senseless bloodshed that alienated us reason and plunged countless lives into misery. It also formed ISIS. So maybe this time we ease up and let people fly hobby drones.
As a millenial I dont find racism offensive, I find it contemptuous. it serves as reminder that a sizeable minority of americans willfully refuse to be a part of modern society. That theyre given a voice, taken seriously and sincerely at their word, and that they participate in my government and interact with my society is infuriating. that despite the best efforts of millions, there will always without question be a remainder of those who would rather cling tenaciously to racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia than get onboard and tackle real issues and challenges is a absurd to no end. You can live for yourself today, or you can work together to build a brighter and better tomorrow for everyone.
HBO Now standalone streaming service coming to Apple TV and iOS apps in early April for $14.99 a month.
not really an innovation but, okay. There was nothing stopping this from happening before, why did it need an event?
Lowered price of Apple TV to $69.
Okay, market competition is good. this too would have happened inevitably and regardless of any innovation, unless youre an accountant on the apple campus that happens to be particularly proud of their excel pivot tables related to this.
Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines by the end of the year.
Ah so the great war to control the pocketbook rages on I see. Considering soda sales have been in sharp and inexplicable decline since 2013, im not sure what this does for apple...but kudos to the innovators at Coca Cola for implementing the Apple pay api!
ResearchKit Announced: Is open source and allows medical researchers to create apps, and use the iPhone as a diagnostic tool.
Cool, but the apps store is still a draconian gulag. expect a dearth of crisis pregnancy apps to get written and a bunch of Abortion assistance apps to get flagged and removed as part of our nations proud tradition of culture warfare. And how do we handle HIPAA here?
New MacBook: Lightest ever at 2 pounds, 13.1mm at its thickest point. 2304x1440 display, consumes 30% less energy. Fanless, powered with Intel's Core M processor. 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0. and 9 hours of web browsing battery life. Supports many protocols through one connector USB-C. Ships April 10, starting at $1,299.
Small laptop gets smaller, faster, better, and more expensive despite industry-standard hardware used and widely available at lower cost but without the little white light up apple.
iOS 8.2 is available today
iOS=iOS++....I'd be concerned if the OS werent periodically patched and updated but to the apple engineers making this OS possible, good on ya!
Apple Watch: Accurate within 50ms of UTC. Read and delete email, built-in speaker and mic so you can receive calls. It tracks your movement and exercise. Use Apple Pay, play your music, use Siri and get any notification you get on iPhone today. 18 hour battery life in a typical day. Sport model starting at $349, stainless steel price: $549-$1049 for 38mm, 42mm is $599-$1099, and gold edition starting at $10k. Pre-orders begin April 10th, available April 24th.
Our phones do all of this, are in ubiquitous use, wont stop working if we carelessly wash our hands, and havent cost this much for nearly a decade. And the real kick in the ass is that apple will immediately slash prices 80% once an android competitor comes out and hangs around in this artificial market long enough until people realize singing talking wrist watches are about as practical as google glass.
the average job offer these days is a toilet brush of bullshit, especially coming from established corporations asking for immediate and deep expertise in 15 year old nearly defunct software only they have heard of and that is made mandatory for consideration. and startups, oh man. The constant "what do you LOVE about us?" and "explain why YOU want to work here" crap is an insult to intelligence. ive once answered "what makes YOU the best devops engineer?!" For starters, I have the power to condense an entire resume, into which i have invested considerable time and effort, into a single textbox entry on a broken website soliciting engineers with an alphabet soup of industry buzzwords lifted from a dell sales brochure and a TV remote instruction manual.
the interview process isnt a lot better. Google waterboards candidates with a barrage of questions that betray just how much money they make off you. 'how do you build a datacenter on the moon' and 'how many hard disks fit into a schoolbus' are questions that, in any other corporate interview paying airfare and hotel, would send HR managers through the roof. GoDaddy once asked me, in an interview, if i 'felt lucky.' Considering Im not paying for the hotel sauna or food, yes, i and my lobster thermador feel very lucky indeed. other job interview questionaires have included questions about what was the most "constipated" technology id encountered.
fake support calls are eerily similar to 419 scams in confidence artistry but it bears remembering why and when these scandals have taken place. In nigerias case oil discovery led to british and american interests propping up a series of dictators favourable to their interests yet despotic to their own people. After a few violent uprisings, oil export dropped to 40%, and largely has never returned. nationalized exports, systemic corruption, and a dearth of unemployment with a sizeable population of educated adults led to the 419 artistry and arguably an increase in piracy.
in Indias case, rampant corruption and high unemployment combined with a tech industry that favours low worker pay and aggressively combats everything from workplace safety to union organization and benefits has led to the tech support scam, born from the confidence and trust of americans and europeans accustomed to the dulcet tones of the south asian tech support worker.
oh christ this article. First, nowhere, and I mean Nowhere does tfa or the document mention anything about whatever the fuck "red button" autonomy is...
second, its like these guys just sit in a dark theater watching NCIS reruns and transformers, jerking eachother off, and coming up with authoritative yet meaningless and outright reprehensible approaches to something that they havent a clue about. There are no cyber 'counter attacks,' no missiles to launch or boats to sink, and thats what has these blowhards chestthumping the armageddon drum. well, that and federal budgets for 20xx need to be spent. Cyber anything is always predicated solely on defense. it arguably doesnt have a meaningful offensive component beacuse its the equivalent of tai chi in the context of modern warfare. network systems and computer security, none of this cyber nonsense, requires things like a cornerstone education in computer sciences to be proficient in, full stop. And to be frank the US has way more pressing problems like low mathematics comprehension, outbreaks of preventable disease, declining literacy rates, a patchwork system of healthcare, and a broken criminal justice system thats founded on systemic abuse and biblical retribution. Listening to the NSA director harp about his need for cyber anything is like listening to a six year old wax prophetic on what their favourite car is.
The FTC's best solution is to investigate these robocalls with their own system of honeypots. order a product from the caller, set up a sting, and sentence a CEO and a few managers to some hard time in prison. but thats punishing success and in americas land of the fee and home of the paid, we're all about the invisible hand of the market.
Those without a timeline will be at a huge disadvantage.
you told me the same thing about google plus, facebook, myspace, twitter, instagram, youtube, vine, secondlife, and tumblr. I seem to have suffered no loss in "advantage" though. Let me put it in your terms, maybe that will help. #GETOFFMYLAWN.
Sun died a slow death following 1970's midwest business principals in a 2000's world. Even its open source efforts, although noble, were crippled by managements tunnel vision. Sun was practically predicated on the phrase "cash money millionaires" and everything, absolutely everything was licensed and contracted in perpetuity. The allure of Linux combined with chipset advances and the culture, in my opinion, are what killed Sun.
the help was no help either. Suns doc portal online was a festering carbunkle with a search feature and their community of greybeards on IRC were nothing less than violent toward anyone who dared to question the OS without having studiously memorized the entire canon of SUN scriptures. Being gobbled up by Oracle/whatever was an inevitability.
now, does Mozilla fit that profile? maybe yes, maybe who cares. theyre already the realmedia player of the browser world with a video chat system and an inline tile targeted advertising program. They validate your searches with google by default, and often times new releases steamroll your configuration options like download path. They arguably havent worked toward their stated mission since 2006 but that isnt the point. Mozillas license alone gives the community so much power over its direction that its path and principle arent relevant. One profoundly stupid move is all it takes before a massive fork, and there have been forks. iceweasel itself is proof the mozilla brand is only as effective as its adherence to principal.
Combining windows with XBox is the business strategy equivalent of winding christmas tree lights around a turd. Xbox is already in familiar territory financially, as its revenue is routinely used to float Azure, the phone program, and the tablet. Hell, Zune even had a run on the XBox moneytrain until Microsoft finally decided to bury that abortion. If i were a shareholder id be very alarmed at Microsofts decision to hobble an already proven revenue stream with an on-again off-again business machine OS.
Speaking as a NASA scientist for the project I can tell you this rover has been trickier than the others to operate. Its far more advanced, since keith secured funding for hooker headers and flowmaster pipes we've also had to upgrade to a new edelbrock carb (i threw in the holly mild cam for better low range torque.) I took a few days to tint the windows on it and, despite what my colleagues say, I think "suckin gas and haulin ass" was an excellent choice of stencil in the rear window next to the JEGS stickers. current and voltage anomalies can often be explained by the fact that neil doesnt think he has to terminate speaker wires properly and instead just wraps them in electrical tape (thats why the left front speaker cuts out all the time on the highway.) Also, and im not saying his brother does a bad job, but when we had to replace the distributor suddenly the power locks stopped working. Its not a showstopper, we're still exploring mars after all, but it makes grocery trips a pain in the ass. Ill be more than preturbed however if this is another 'caroline' scenario where we arent moving because she cant get the goddamn thing out of neutral. Its a short-throw four speed shifter Carol, for god sakes just practice in the parking lot. and for the last time, we are not arguing about the 8 ball shifter anymore its a muscle centerpiece you uncultured swine
The "Loser edit" if it really is something we should wory about, and seek to avoid, has some rather dire consequences. I mean, think about it. Without the loser edit people like Justin Bieber are OK guys despite 18 documented police interventions and a drug conviction. It means that despite Pat Robertsons direct connection to a diamond mine in the congo that itself was responsible for decades of bloodshed and terror, hes an alright guy with a pretty gruff outlook on the gays. and worse yet, it means Dick Cheney, a man directly responsible for the death of nearly a million Iraqi citizens, is just a misunderstood old fogey.
Based on historic evidence, the US has absolutely zero intention of honouring a 'fair' and 'impartial' trial. Chelsea manning leaked a video of US soldiers murdering an ambulance of civillians and was gifted 35 years in prison for a largely victimless crime. KSM and about 100 other 'detainees' at guantanamo, although routinely and repeatedly insisted that they face American justice are in fact completely in limbo. the FBI has been caught spying on defense council and fabricating evidence and the US Congress, once they realized a program of torture and forced rendition would open these individuals to american courts and the possibility of acquittal immediately moved to isolate, restrict, and outlaw transport or trial of any detainee in an american court.
Civil forfeiture entirely usurps legal process in favour of a carte blanche land and property grab in the pursuit of the "war on drugs." Police are routinely found murdering people in suspicious or controversial situations only to never face trial. the financial collapse of 2008 involved some of the largest banks and securities companies committing fraud on a massive scale, and not a single arrest or trial has taken place. So please, Edward, I understand youre homesick for the first few years in a new place but you need to consider the very legitimate possibility that "american justice" is completely and utterly arbitrary and held to no reasonable, impartial international standard. it exists and functions by virtue of its own existence. Martyring yourself wont change anything, wont alter systems like foreign policy or defense at all. You wont face reason. You will be hanged, and then there will be cake and spin to continue insisting the system of american exceptionalism works.
sure this will get downvoted to offtopic but i think it very much is part of the topic of the community. Design changes.
Slashdot implemented beta and it failed, so instead of leaving that which isnt broken alone they decided to slowly, quietly roll out beta in a boiled-frog approach. posting is sinisterly difficult, tracking replies or just general community discussions has been made more cumbersome, and no offer to revert to the old, unbroken ui has been made.
If you dont like this change, if you dont like slashdot pushing this turd of a design without so much as a second thought to the community that generates its revenue, if you like the old slashcode, check out http://soylentnews.org/
seriously. come join us over on http://www.soylentnews.org/
sheet cakes have already had printers for quite some time now, but its worth noting you still need to prepare the ingredients for this device. If i were at home this printer would be cumbersome, but I also work in a professional kitchen and as a chef, If im catering for 120, having a machine that would print gold leaf would be awesome. Petit fours are a pain in the ass, and every time i send my crew to make them i get a round of angry scowls. Having a rack of foodinis printing them off though? yes please. My prep work isnt of concern as most of the ingredients go through a hobart mixer or robot coupe. where this device would shine is tedious, labour intensive hand prep and finishing.
Comcast:no, ...eh we're more of a callcenter these days anyway.
FCC:...thats a nice internet you have there....
Verizon: No.
Time Warner:NO
Republican party: NO!
POTUS: sure would be nice if it were just....
AT&T: NO GOD NO
FCC:......a little more neutral.
Rogers:
I know its rather offtopic, but for non-US readers its relevant:
For anyone confused as to the situation of american politics in the past 8 years, the republican party has worked tirelessly to obstruct practically every piece of legislation after the ACA (healthcare legislation.) Theyve played a brinksmanship game with an artificially imposed budget limit, ironically created by them as a kudgel to complain about $cur_president's spending policies but with real power. This "debt ceiling" has been used twice to literally shut down the government. Mail didnt run, troops werent paid, contractors were furloughed, the FCC FTC and even the FDA were all deactivated not once, but twice in a bid to force the presidents hand to concede his high ground and allow their minority legislation to pass. this nihilism cost us 2 credit ratings and an estimated 24 billion dollars. Republicans gained nothing.
fast forward to 2015 when both our houses of legislature, the senate and congress, are now controlled by a gerrymandered republican electorate. The president is on his last term, something we call 'lame duck' and is now openly advocating for everything from free education to immigration reform policies. Republicans, with this control, still havent proposed an alternative to any legislation facing them, and wont even vote on major issues like campaign finance reform or immigration. whats worse, theyre still operating in a 2010 mindset of obstruct and destroy, so we're facing another brinksmanship game in which they threaten to stop funding for the Department of Homeland Security. about 240,000 employees would go unpaid, but be required to work, and every airport in the nation would likely experience a significant impact. Random government shutdowns have major repercussions in world markets that rely on a confident and reliable american government to back things like currencies and bonds.
so for republicans to back down on net neutrality is a serious step forward in a party that generally toes every corporate lobbyists hard line. Remember: theyre the party that apologized for inconveniencing BP during the largest oil spil in recent american history, and yet at this moment have conceeded to the will of the public.
NSA: we currently have to go through the secret fisa rubber stamp factory to read encrypted data. thats cumbersome, you're a criminal and we just need time to build...er...prove...it.
EFF: ok so you can read crypto...thats new...we're going to educate people on crypto...the strong flavor....
NSA: thats probably evidence of a crime...people shouldnt hide things they dont...
Google: we just upped our ssl cyphers...so...up yours.
NSA: guise...come on...just because we can read SOME crypto doesnt mean all of it...we have to tap googles data centerrrrr-
Google: Oh? Nice. Also all our devices ship with crypto enabled. by default. for, you know. security.
Apple: Ditto....and it just works....
NSA:ok...seriously guise you dont understand...this is different. sometimes we listen to everyones phonecalls and, well sometimes there are terrorists that...
Moxie Marlinspike:sshhhhhhh...redphone....from whispersystems...
NSA: arent you locked up in an airport somewhere? er...no. you still dont understand!! damnit we need LEGAL access to snoop on encrypted data now theres just too much...
Tor: hey.
I2P: hey guise i heard you like crypto
cryptocat: M30w
NSA: wait....just hang on we need to get together and talk about this, its just a big misunderstanding this is about security.
DefCON: is it, NSA senpai? you've changed. I heard Schneier-san thinks youre baka.
NSA:ITS NOT ME ITS SNOWDEN! hes the real traitor and that AARON SCHWARTZ is trying to CHELSEA MANNING the FREEDOM!!
The Community : I'll just...leave this here....
If you click the "Read" button below this paragraph, the video interview will play automatically.
nice try. on behalf of all the slashdotters who have tolerated incremental skullfucking of the original slashcode and bullshit that is Beta, This is why your userbase is dwindling and participation is falling. Noscript, microblock, adaway, and yet after all this we still get 1080p slashvertising turds that magic-play when we click to read the comments that make your site worthwhile at all?
on behalf of all of us, Fuck you dice. heres hoping https://soylentnews.org/ takes off.
the hijackers for the world trade center bombings:
Mohamed Atta (Egyptian) held a technical degree,
Abdulaziz al-Omari (Saudi Arabian) held a religious degree from a cleric,
Wail al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian) was mentally ill and had gone to numerous clerics for assistance,
Waleed al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian) had no education,
Satam al-Suqami (Saudi Arabian) dropped out of law school.
Atta was a rather brilliant individual beaten down in egypt by a regime that at the time was supported directly by the United States. Atta was enraged by Egypt's ruling elite and its crackdown on dissenting political groups. He was ultimately an educated minority yet what I advocate and what you fail to recognize is an educated majority. Islam, Witchcrat, Atheism, Mormonism, Communism, Catholicism, and Blacks have all been demonized based on a complex structure of pseudointellectual dogma thats designed to ensure they remain the enemy despite reason and critical thinking. Islam is convenient, because it foregoes critical discussion of a disasterous western foreign policy perpetuated by the carter doctrine and a gerrymandered warhawk political elite.
can you imagine a "10x rockstar developer" swaggering into a job interview with his negotiating team?
Stop. please. just stop. lets take the pretend train to imaginary town and derail it for a minute:
1. the people who sincerely think coders need agents are the people who contribute nothing to the coding process. these are parasites running out of options in a dwindling music and video talent market.
2. the kinds of coders who think they need a talent agent are the kinds of sycophantic cocksuckers that harass employees, alienate managers, fracture teams, and haul companies into sexual harassment lawsuits. they might be bombshell coders, but the truth is even with james bond, 7 martinis and an aston martin makes you a stumbling insurance liability with a gun.
3. we already have a huge problem with recruiting. I cleared 37 voicemail messages from recuiting mills that dont even source their call centers in the US. most of this was for 3 month contract or 6 month contract work, shit that is beneath anyone but that corporations feel like theyre fucking entitled to. I routinely roll out of bed for calls from these shitlords at 2 AM because someone didnt set the callcenter ntp server in india properly.
4. Corporations are another side of the problem. Apply for imgur, facebook, or any other rewarding employment position and you'll be waterboarded with masturbatory inquisition like 'what makes you such a great fit?' and 'what do you looooove about our company?' Motherfuckers I want a job, your work is interesting, and the pay is commensurate. beyond that im still human capital remember?
so for anyone thinking rockstars pornstars or coked up overweight perl jockeys with poor attendance and a penchant for lashing out at coworkers in a 10 am alcohol fueled rage are in need of some kind of dedicated legion of cocksuckers to treat them like a special snowflake, get bent.
There was some argument that Derrick Lee was perhaps incompetent to stand trial; during psychiatric evaluations he scored an average of 65 on various standardized I.Q. tests, and a score below 69 is considered to be the threshold for what can be considered mental retardation. Lee was, however, deemed fit to stand trial.
But like phrenology, lie detectors, and to some degree the shrouded witchcraft code of the breathalizer, its a modern tool in the fight against "the bad guy"
Its worth noting this enforcement is largely designed to target terrorist attacks against the Pakistani government. The longterm solution to Pakistans terrorism problems is largely structural and political. Increased education funding, crackdowns on government corruption, increased employment, and most of all a more vocal and political opposition to the United States drone war. Nawaz Sharif is kept in power by coup and crackdown, not free election, while the united states basically shovels money into his political fund. The fingerprint system is, conveniently, also an excellent means by which to deter active protests and dissent.
people are terrorists due to a combination of desparation, isolation, and doctrine. Once a person becomes determined with nothing to lose, then theyre not easily dissuaded from terrorist acts. Having your village razed by foreign aircraft you could never see is one thing, but for your government to turn a blind eye just adds insult to injury and paves the way for neurotic warlords and clerics to fill the void.
id like to take time out of my busy day to remind slashdotters that before the invention of poison gas warfare, wars themselves would drag on forever. Sure, you had trenches and all that but disease was still a slow and tedious way to get to the point. machine guns might have been a teriffic improvement, but nothing is quite as effective as a good gas attack against "the enemy." Anyhow thats just my two cents, and i really need to be going as ive a full itinerary ahead of me. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan...heck im not sure how ill make it to most of these African destinations but i sure people forgive my tardiness.
--Sincerely,
Death, the reaper
Destroyer of worlds.
P.S. im not sure what all the fuss about modern patriotism is. I've always supported both sides of the war.