If you think this kind of corruption is typical of iran, a bit of light should be shed to help. this type of nearly parasitic marketplace is the direct result of 40 years of unsuccessful economic sanctions and trade embargoes by the west. When Iran says, for example, its nuclear program is peaceful its quite easy to see why: imports of X-Ray and medical isotopes from nato countries are severely restricted if not outright banned. Iran is entirely dependent upon Russia for the nuclear material they receive, and 100% is directed toward the bushehr power plant. Irans every export from rugs to simple spices like cumin are forbidden by western allies. And once every other year, the United States toys with the idea of an invasion, bombing, assassination, or plot to destroy Iranian infrastructure as part of a sadistic and misguided foreign policy of stopping a communist threat that never existed. For americans, this video helps explain some of the market eccentricities of the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
impact is what counts, and groups like Shabaab understand that even if they are incapable of rendering an attack, its the threat that counts most. Commercial targets instituting checkpoints and screening are what these groups are going for, as these hallmarks serve as a consistent reminder that Shabaabs presence is taken seriously by america as a legitimate threat they cannot proactively reduce or mitigate through normal foreign policy to a level that would permit the american "way of life."
legitimate terrorist attacks have no source, no warnings, are unpredictable and incur large-scale casualties. The boston marathon bombing is an excellent example of a functional implementation of terrorism. One or two of these every 10 years and you dont need funding or training for anything else. just send a tweet or post a youtube, and the target entity will do all the work to ensure your message and intent are expressed.
Your data plan doesnt take into account advertisements which are basically subsidized at your expense. It doesnt count the silent data collection performed by most apps, or silent updates performed in the background. root your phone, install http://fdroid.org/ and download adaway to null-route advertising servers and reclaim some of your data plan
legitimate question: what slashdotter still uses the stock OS on a laptop they purchase? not even businesses, arguably lenovos primary audience, maintain the original image in most cases. most bloatware just existed as testament to the hubris and aggrandized perspective most laptop manufacturers have of themselves anyhow. extra assistants, widgets, software with limited documentation and no tenable lifecycle outside the make and model of pc or tablet a customer purchased basically made the OS a moot point of the purchase at best.
I get that the adware is bad, the introduction of a zero day attack vector however is even worse, but i wonder what if any damage this will do to Lenovo.
https://iojs.org/ IO.js is the current fork of node.js, but controversial as it may be to say this java has been a trainwreck for a decade or more. Running a full size java weblet, bean, or whatever the hell its called requires tomcat, which requires mod_jk if you want it to scale past a webserver written in, well, Java. this stateless proxying between a java process, tomcat, apache/nginx, and the load balancer/user is a hellish nightmare to debug. tomcat caches DNS entries which means the whole service has to restart to avoid insanity during renumbering, and if its tied into mod_jk tomcat generally will not gracefully stop or restart. jk workers, true, can be pointed to a load balancer but load balanced tomcat? now youre writing lockers and working out 4j unified logging either in catalina or perhaps as a syslog service. And what about connectors? if underlying database calls for some reason in connectionfactory cant be made, connectors will not start and a cryptic glob of errors is excreted into catalina for review by qualified madmen.
cyber-security is looking to be the safest career path an undergraduate could pursue.
Ok put away the grease gun, we get it. our cybers need more warriors, because our government (at least here in the united states) can only solve problems by declaring a misguided overfuned underperforming war on them. but next-gen cyber warriors only makes sense in a country that hasnt ranked 31st in mathematics, 23rd in science, and 17th in reading on a global stage. next generation technology "warriors" in a country that thinks global warming isnt real and evolution has "alternate" theories is an uphill climb but lets say for the sake of argument we can get past it. Youre now proposing undergraduate education, something consistently underfunded in every state, every year, is the way forward? This type of education represents one of the statistically largest amounts of debt in the US, and its in all likelyhood forecasted as the next bubble to burst. Its a type of education that by all indications has the same rate of employment after completion as having never attended college at all due to 'lack of experience.'
so lets assume we make this a government priority and not a privatized military like halliburton. what then? The glaring problem in the armed forces isnt funding or training, its plummeting recruitment rates. You see, you can only have a few wars that fail before the limbless vets and combat shocked alcoholics start piling up in society, first outside the VA, and next outside freeway onramps and alleys. Eventually it doesnt matter why youre fighting, they wont join. For the few left who really want to fight a war, Most potential Army reservists are addicted to prescription drugs, are overweight, have mental health problems, or too many tattoos that prohibit them from joining the military. http://www.newsmax.com/Health-...
The rifle is really pretty slick. Some of the other underdocumented features include:
1. voice recording of stephen harper espousing platitudes about patriotism and freedom, automatically activated when any american president declares a 'coalition' of anything.
2. tactical Rick Mercer video will automatically be deployed in the event of house of lords/house of commons dispute over military action or funding
3. much like the leafs general manager change, this weapon does not statistically improve the likelyhood of winning.
4. can equip with molson or Labatt, and in the event of an emergency can replace most domestic tap handles.
5. 3 fire modes, single, auto, and 'prorogue' designed to assist in saving political leadership from being packed up and shipped back to their strip mall constituency in alberta.
6. 40mm launcher can fire traditional incendiary and gas ordinances as well as store timbits.
7. Dissipated barrel heat is recycled to bake up to 2 butter tarts.
Anyone with a recent version of linux can experiece the mind of a schizophrenic with Systemd. Unlike audio tests or videos that show you a first-person perspective of schizophrenic experiences, Systemd allows you to experience the neurosis first hand!
As an industry leading executive for the Maytag corporation, shenanigans like this are an outrage. Our washers have performed flawlessly for years on the other hand, with no outside intervention required to ensure your dress shirts are ripped, your trousers are torn, and the laundry left in 3 gallons of cold murky water. We work tirelessly, I assure you without any 'sabotage,' to create a washer capable of squirting tepid water out of the sides, and delivering that warm rolling black and grey smoke that you've come to expect from Maytag. Its why our slogan is more than just a statement, its a promise.
Gentlemen as an american i belive i can lend clarity to this alarmist list of, as you say, poppycock. 1. Extreme Climate Change: not a problem. climate change is actually just a theory, not a fact, advanced by scienists in order to get attention and grant money. 2. Nuclear War: no problem at all. If iraq, afghanistan, and viet-nam are any indication then rest assured America would win a nuclear war by winning the hearts and minds of whatever we were bombing. 3. Ecological Catastrophe: Again, we solved this by offering loans to banks and car companies in exchange for not restroying our ecology and creating more jobs. 4. Global Pandemic: Well obviously Ebola is a great example. Here we have a disease that has existed undetected by american scientists for probably 10 years, and then we cured it through declaring war on it. now theres no more ebola. 5. Global System Collapse: Easily defeated by avoiding taco bell and undercooked meat. 6. Major Asteroid Impact: during simulations and documentary, science has proven bruce willis would defeat the asteroid. 7. Supervolcano: not sure what that one is, but if its not a flavour of frozen confection or a menu item at ChiChis, we've got a war for it. 8. Synthetic Biology: clearly outlawed according to jesus unless we're talking about chia pets. 9. Nanotechnology: in america we have soap with little plastic scrubby beads that comes out of a pump. we're using nanotechnology responsibly and a lemon-scented fresh way. 10. Artificial Intelligence: Was an excellent movie but also did you know? we have self driving cars that use artificial intelligence to get us through the mcdonalds drive through safely without having to get the dashboard all greasy 11. Uncertain Risks: sometimes those are the risks you gotta take, like for example during our patrio-tastic invasion mind saving trip to iraq for freedom...how did we know ISIS would suddenly appear out of nowhere? thats why we have a plan for uncertain risks and a friend in jesus. 12. Future Bad Global Governance: Electing Jeb Bush or Sarah Palin would help the globals by making sure the governance is true and strong. and patriotic. we'd keep a list of baddies too, and probably make an axis of awesome countries that would be in charge of truthiness and justice.
Pilgrim Power Plant in Plymouth was taken offline line Saturday in anticipation of the weekend snowstorm.
I can understand concerns about grid underservice...thats capitalism. What i cant understand is cycling down a nuclear facility because you're worried about power supplied from external source. you are a nuclear facility power is in and of your nature. This is the second time you've done this, so stop placating investors and be truthful: either the state of Massachusetts is no longer capable if funding a power grid that can endure normal weather patterns, or global climate change is an immediate concern we should all address.
youtube, and the internet == new mass media. Try this experiment in the states for example: Delete your cookies, clear your flash cache, and load up youtube. You'll come to find that without your 'targeted' content youtube is just feeding you the same shit your TV does. So, what do you get?
CNN, CBS, MTV, Vevo, and the same fistful of extremely powerful multinational media companies pushing the same shit from their traditional media stations. Sure, you get a few locals like PewDiePie but at the end of the day those are all scripted and manufactured to youtubes content standards. content, duration, and script are all controlled to a certain standard.
There was no revolution, the cattle just got a shinier car. Look back at every Youtube music awards show and theyre all dominated by signed, industry backed artists in generally heavy rotation on radio and TV. If youtube were a legitimate way for small artists to distribute and promote their music, the RIAA would have shoveled google head-first into a woodchipper of litigation. Hell, not just the front page but look at your search results. chances are likely industry promoted, highly visible artists and performers will be casually interspersed regardless of their relevance because youtube is simply a means of consuming a product and generating revenue through targeted advertisement.
Teaching everyone to code is like teaching everyone to become prostitutes. for some it wont be interesting enough to continue as a profession, for others they wont be proficient enough. However, if you're a wealthy man looking for a prostitute who doesnt entirely understand sex, its the deal of a lifetime and pennies on the dollar.
tech industry: we need guidelines on what we can and cant do WH: ok, so how about letting users opt out of data collection and tracking entirely tech industry:JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOURE KILLING US WITH REGULATIONS STALIN. here lets just take it to the courts on a case by case basis. Antonin Scalia: what the hell is an E-Mail. is that what the kids do now? email? is that why they listen to hip hops? Clarence thomas: zzZZZzzzzZZZZ John Roberts: this talking sack of unmarked large bills keeps sending me on vacations when I try to form an opinion. Stephen Breyer: the cafeteria is out of those little breakfast eggroll things again. who wants lox?
to be frank, "We Are Legion," "Expect Us" and "We Do Not Forget" sound just as appropriate as major oil company slogans as they do a hacking collective.
If we want to see the world of open source software grow, we should encourage users to pay for its development; otherwise it'll be underfunded or developers will have to resort to backdoor deals and advertising.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what open source is and why. It doesnt have to be free as in beer, but you do need to provide the source code. If you want to charge customers for the service of compiling that code for them, so be it, but shaming them with zero dollars misses the point. Open source can generate revenue through support, as is evidenced by RedHat. Deployment and professional services are also other methods to fund open source, but insisting developers will eventually be forced to cobble their projects like bootloaders and ui elements to adware is misplaced. in many cases open source software exists explicitly because this intrusive model of profiteering is a detrement to some aspect of computing.
open source will grow with or without cash money millionaires funding project managers and department leads; thats never been what open source is fundamentally about. Its about a hacker ethos, the drive to solve problems for fame and the challenge. Doing that kind of work can land you a legitimate spot developing the kernel at RedHat, or working on the next Barracuda firewall or netapp filer because you've proven through participation that youre capable and highly skilled. It seems to me the only people who wouldnt benefit from this donation are C levels, management, and people who dont just shut up and hack.
1. That giant frozen bullet train traveling at six times the speed of sound through crowded metropolitan areas is not only fake, but scientifically impossible.
2. Budweiser is found with friends and during good times, but is also accompanied by its lesser known entourage blurred vision, karaoke, screaming, and in high levels nudity and parking lot fits of vomiting.
3. The anthropomorphic frogs could never enunciate a trademarked brand name, and the black screaming "whats up" men were no more than modern day black minstrel charicatures. your black friends cannot be counted on to make this noise as consistently as claimed.
4. patron, fireball, hennessey, hypnotiq, and hundreds of other brands arent directly marketed to youth. Unless you count about a hundred different songs or more that directly associate them with happiness, friendship, and success.
5. 7 martinis and a suit makes you a vomiting insurance liability, not james bond.
6. Dogs and clydesdales do not drink or transport alcohol anymore. Alcohol is transported through a sophisticated network of trucking and trans national freight.
7. Your government lies to you about alcohol because it enjoys a sizeable degree of revenue from its sale through artificially imposed monopoly, driving checkpoints, fines, and incarceration.
Nasa:: we have an awesome plan for a submarine that would explore the seas of liquid hydrocarbons at the Titanian poles. Senator:: We already defeated communism we dont need anymore submarines. Nasa:: but you dont understand, this is space exploration! we've never been to titan and it's been established that there are three large polar seas on Titan consisting of methane and ethane in a composition similar to that of liquified natural gas. Congressman: so you want to do...fracking for gas? we already do that in my state. Tea Party Senator: this sounds satanic. Kraken Mare is probably some goat demon trying to sneak gay marriage into the fema concentration camps. NASA: no this is...this is interplanetary exploration.... Senator: you already went to mars what else do you want? didnt Steven Segal start the reactor or something? and so thats how we have intenet? NASA: ok you know what? this just changed. its not a probe anymore its going to be a manned submarine.
Television is not, nor was it ever arguably, designed with your education or entertainment in mind. Ever since Winston Cigarettes the primary objective of television has been to deliver flashing lights and colours in order to captivate viewers. These viewers would then be marketed a product, and as television advertising grew the methods and systems used to achieve this goal would change. most TV is drama, and peddles fear uncertainty and doubt as powerful emotions to ensure you'll consume related products and services to either fictitious (house, ER) plots, or "real" stories (Dr. Oz, or Gupta.)
when people marvel, "gee, i cant believe how cheap a $n inch tv is these days" what they fail to realize is the only entity capitalizing value off the television is advertisers. That consumers are literally paying money to be offered goods and services which in turn consume more of their income is laughable. So when we come full-stop to samsungs offering of what basically amounts to a fist clenched cash grab from the viewer its almost offensive to think we've ever cared what the television did before, let alone now. This one listens to your conversations, where as the old "dumb" tv's would just use market research to determine what you could be forced into consuming. This one injects ads, whereas before tivo, the hopper, and every major DVR from a cable company did the exact same thing.
on an unrelated note: siri, amazon, and google have all offered a product that listens to your conversations but doesnt provide the distraction of television. The problem isnt that a product we've always trusted is becoming unweildy, is that a product thats never served us is becoming an affront to privacy.
In case you're recently joining us in Linux after a long hiatus, or are coming from the sanity that is BSD, its worth clarifying a few points and I as a formal neckbeard am here to help
The kids: this has been a problem since Subversion but it rears its ugly head now and again with the sun mircosystems crowd that insists the network is the system. These kids dont want to be bothered by man pages or perldoc, so instead they ship a stub with a reference to their CSS/HTML5/Web 5.0 project discovery special snowflake site. The page includes a full colour mascot, links to all the social sites for the project, and videos of the latest con/talk/pep speech the kid with the most pogs/pokemon badges for the project gave with ample references to cats, cheeseburgers, and memes. Loading it up in links gets you a neat scrabble game. Let me be clear: linking your webpage in the absence of man is a waste of time. it is literally the Unix ethos equivalent of "check out my mixtape"
2. The god damn pottering man:
Hes controversially steamrolled most major distros into giving up everything from competent init scripts to non binary logs and even the bootloader in favour of 1 single process capable of doing everything, forever. The backlash was delayed but as of recent, its been pretty consistent. The root of the problem is new developers with a raging hardon for Apple design philosophy. At its peak, this madness turned gnome into a screaming hell-mouth of fades, pans, jiggles, wiggles, and performance tests for even the beefiest video cards. Everything comes with a widget now, and even the console eats 30 megs of ram. configuring gnome or kde with simple text files is now totally impossible, because modern developers have created a MacOS UI managed by a Windows XP system of registry values and control touples. What we gained from this is a frustrating ecosystem of security-questionable user switching and a network stack thats controlled by the user with the mouse. Perfect if you're about to load up team fortress, but crazier than a shithouse rat if you need to, say, run a production firewall.
that having been said ive had enough and you should too. Come join Gentoo, or Arch, or any BSD with more sanity than Unity (Ubuntu.) Gain back that big goose egg we all remember as freedom 0: to run the application the way you want. And on behalf of the POSIX community, the Unix geezers and the hackers, get these goddamned kids off my lawn.
Dan is part of the Digital Citizens group, a United States non-profit organization focused on Internet safety issues. In 2014 in response to leaked Sony emails, former attorney general Peggy Lautenschlager said the DCA had inappropriately influenced politician Jim Hood. The organization hired lobbyist Mike Moore, who also served Hood as a consultant on a pro-bono basis. The article alleged he used his relationship to serve the agenda of private industry, such as Microsoft and the movie industry. Basically, theyre a collaborative shill for the industry designed to influence government policy.
as for the darknet, its almost as though a small segment predicated up on the subversion of 50 years of failed americian drug policy is a trivial part of what is becoming a vast, collaborative response to an illegal government surveillance program that citizens do not want, and politicians are uninterested in stopping. Its as though the more corrupt governments become, the more inequality is manifest and expressed in the criminalization of speech and knowledge, then the larger this entity grows until it becomes necessary to caricaturize it. That the darknet is universally revered by our media institutions for piracy, spam, theft, and drugs instead of as a safe haven for speech and collaboration is telling to say the least.
diet and exercise are important determinants of your cholesterol and overall health. as a vegan, I typically find getting enough saturated fat to be a challenge but this hasnt been the case in the american diet for the last 40 years.
the book, sugar salt fat by Michael Moss highlights important and often uncontrolled changes in the american diet over the past 50 years. the combination of ever greater amounts of these 3 ingredients in a race toward addiction and market dominance created a crisis in american health that was only compounded by our ever sedentary lifestyles. at its peak, a lunchable had 300% of the RDA of sodium in a single serving and a hungry man dinner was approaching 3000 calories. This trend was abated largely due to tobacco companies entering the prepared and processed foods industry with dire warnings. Just like cigarettes, food products that contribute directly toward high levels of preventable disease can be regulated into oblivion and entire brands can go extinct in the public interest. Manufacturers have pulled back, but generally where one declines another rises. Less salt? more fat. less sugar? more salt. manufactured, processed foods without these additives generally taste very similar to the machines theyre made on
another contribution to the obesity epidemic is the inability to cook a healthy meal. this is due partly to the USDAs dual mandate to promote as well as police the industry, but its also partly because home economics was supplanted by the Kraft corporation largely to ensure boxed meals, prepared casserole dishes, stir fry and rice seasonings had a section in the market. Betty Crocker and Sarah Lee became surrogate homemakers people could aspire to; they never existed outside of a marketing meeting. And so the average grocery store is just a clever arrangement of corn, soy, and rice products not because people crave these items, but because theyre durable commodities that store and trade well. Most americans wouldnt know a jicama from a yucca root, or a rutabaga from a turnip, because the US grocery store has no discernable season.
at first, microsoft offered Azure to the general public with a free trial and a smile. AWS, VPS, dedicated hosting, and shared hosting already existed, and offered an endless selection of linux and bsd whereas microsoft offered exactly 1 linux image and it was nearly double the cost of windows.
Then microsoft buttered up corporations with free azure credits in their licensing fees. Refusal of the credits meant an increase in fees, so most corporations took them only to realize they werent very applicable. Hosted exchange an in-house microsoft products were still in most cases more established and cheaper than Azure. They afforded greater accountability and control over the reboot cycle as well. Microsoft recently started revoking, quietly, these credits.
now, like a drunken pimp, microsoft is peddling azure to...startups. Most of these companies are actively developing and using technologies that scale far beyond Windows and traditional servers, and always have. What for microsoft is a new offering is something these companies have already established api code and configuration automation with. Yes, you can convert from X provider to azure easily, but microsoft hasnt offered a compelling reason why you should outside of pricing. And then theres the glaring problem of portability and relevance. Microsofts other internet offerings, bing and explorer, no seasoned developer or devops engineer can approach on a full stomach. decades of lock in, embrace extend extinguish, and the fond memory of the last pain-in-the-ass bug they had to code around for IE because it was a "market leader" is largely enough to make them skip it. Microsoft hasnt given any compelling evidence to suggest they wont lock in the infrastructure you build, but they have provided a wealth of historical evidence to suggest they plan to.
the system is inherently asinine. No one wants paper documents, what they want are the PDF digital documents the DEA cross-reference, index, and search using OCR. But these cant be redacted as easily. Redaction is important in criminal FOIA requests because no government agency wants to get caught sitting on its balls with revelation of massive civil forfeiture and potential constitutional civil rights challenges to their water tight witch hu...er...delivery of justice.
and its no surprise "the war on drugs" was the most bombastically expensive subject into which inquiry could be made. We're talking about a failed 50 year policy, menacingly intertwined with cold war politics, that packs prisons with nonviolent offenders, funds CIA coups against governments, and has a truce called every time a senator or congressman admits to having smoked a joint or snorted a rail of china white with a rolled up benjamin in a posh nightclub bathroom.
"The malware will only be installed in a system if it has been launched with superuser (root) privileges"
aaaand i've already gone back to my tea.
any sysop worth her salt knows the rules:
0. It will build without root or not at all.
1. It will come from a repository or reputable source.
2. It will check its md5 and check it twice.
3. It will be compatible with standard secops tools like chroot, jails, cgroups, propolice, and selinux. this includes sandboxing.
4. Isolate, quarantine, and deploy the secops team. any compromised machine, any network, any server without question.
5. Slap about with a large bit of herring or trout the dev or luser in accordance with LART policies.
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If you think this kind of corruption is typical of iran, a bit of light should be shed to help. this type of nearly parasitic marketplace is the direct result of 40 years of unsuccessful economic sanctions and trade embargoes by the west. When Iran says, for example, its nuclear program is peaceful its quite easy to see why: imports of X-Ray and medical isotopes from nato countries are severely restricted if not outright banned. Iran is entirely dependent upon Russia for the nuclear material they receive, and 100% is directed toward the bushehr power plant. Irans every export from rugs to simple spices like cumin are forbidden by western allies. And once every other year, the United States toys with the idea of an invasion, bombing, assassination, or plot to destroy Iranian infrastructure as part of a sadistic and misguided foreign policy of stopping a communist threat that never existed. For americans, this video helps explain some of the market eccentricities of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
impact is what counts, and groups like Shabaab understand that even if they are incapable of rendering an attack, its the threat that counts most. Commercial targets instituting checkpoints and screening are what these groups are going for, as these hallmarks serve as a consistent reminder that Shabaabs presence is taken seriously by america as a legitimate threat they cannot proactively reduce or mitigate through normal foreign policy to a level that would permit the american "way of life."
legitimate terrorist attacks have no source, no warnings, are unpredictable and incur large-scale casualties. The boston marathon bombing is an excellent example of a functional implementation of terrorism. One or two of these every 10 years and you dont need funding or training for anything else. just send a tweet or post a youtube, and the target entity will do all the work to ensure your message and intent are expressed.
Your data plan doesnt take into account advertisements which are basically subsidized at your expense. It doesnt count the silent data collection performed by most apps, or silent updates performed in the background. root your phone, install http://fdroid.org/ and download adaway to null-route advertising servers and reclaim some of your data plan
legitimate question: what slashdotter still uses the stock OS on a laptop they purchase? not even businesses, arguably lenovos primary audience, maintain the original image in most cases. most bloatware just existed as testament to the hubris and aggrandized perspective most laptop manufacturers have of themselves anyhow. extra assistants, widgets, software with limited documentation and no tenable lifecycle outside the make and model of pc or tablet a customer purchased basically made the OS a moot point of the purchase at best.
I get that the adware is bad, the introduction of a zero day attack vector however is even worse, but i wonder what if any damage this will do to Lenovo.
https://iojs.org/ IO.js is the current fork of node.js, but controversial as it may be to say this java has been a trainwreck for a decade or more. Running a full size java weblet, bean, or whatever the hell its called requires tomcat, which requires mod_jk if you want it to scale past a webserver written in, well, Java. this stateless proxying between a java process, tomcat, apache/nginx, and the load balancer/user is a hellish nightmare to debug. tomcat caches DNS entries which means the whole service has to restart to avoid insanity during renumbering, and if its tied into mod_jk tomcat generally will not gracefully stop or restart. jk workers, true, can be pointed to a load balancer but load balanced tomcat? now youre writing lockers and working out 4j unified logging either in catalina or perhaps as a syslog service. And what about connectors? if underlying database calls for some reason in connectionfactory cant be made, connectors will not start and a cryptic glob of errors is excreted into catalina for review by qualified madmen.
cyber-security is looking to be the safest career path an undergraduate could pursue.
Ok put away the grease gun, we get it. our cybers need more warriors, because our government (at least here in the united states) can only solve problems by declaring a misguided overfuned underperforming war on them. but next-gen cyber warriors only makes sense in a country that hasnt ranked 31st in mathematics, 23rd in science, and 17th in reading on a global stage. next generation technology "warriors" in a country that thinks global warming isnt real and evolution has "alternate" theories is an uphill climb but lets say for the sake of argument we can get past it. Youre now proposing undergraduate education, something consistently underfunded in every state, every year, is the way forward? This type of education represents one of the statistically largest amounts of debt in the US, and its in all likelyhood forecasted as the next bubble to burst. Its a type of education that by all indications has the same rate of employment after completion as having never attended college at all due to 'lack of experience.'
so lets assume we make this a government priority and not a privatized military like halliburton. what then? The glaring problem in the armed forces isnt funding or training, its plummeting recruitment rates. You see, you can only have a few wars that fail before the limbless vets and combat shocked alcoholics start piling up in society, first outside the VA, and next outside freeway onramps and alleys. Eventually it doesnt matter why youre fighting, they wont join. For the few left who really want to fight a war, Most potential Army reservists are addicted to prescription drugs, are overweight, have mental health problems, or too many tattoos that prohibit them from joining the military. http://www.newsmax.com/Health-...
The rifle is really pretty slick. Some of the other underdocumented features include:
1. voice recording of stephen harper espousing platitudes about patriotism and freedom, automatically activated when any american president declares a 'coalition' of anything.
2. tactical Rick Mercer video will automatically be deployed in the event of house of lords/house of commons dispute over military action or funding
3. much like the leafs general manager change, this weapon does not statistically improve the likelyhood of winning.
4. can equip with molson or Labatt, and in the event of an emergency can replace most domestic tap handles.
5. 3 fire modes, single, auto, and 'prorogue' designed to assist in saving political leadership from being packed up and shipped back to their strip mall constituency in alberta.
6. 40mm launcher can fire traditional incendiary and gas ordinances as well as store timbits.
7. Dissipated barrel heat is recycled to bake up to 2 butter tarts.
Anyone with a recent version of linux can experiece the mind of a schizophrenic with Systemd. Unlike audio tests or videos that show you a first-person perspective of schizophrenic experiences, Systemd allows you to experience the neurosis first hand!
As an industry leading executive for the Maytag corporation, shenanigans like this are an outrage. Our washers have performed flawlessly for years on the other hand, with no outside intervention required to ensure your dress shirts are ripped, your trousers are torn, and the laundry left in 3 gallons of cold murky water. We work tirelessly, I assure you without any 'sabotage,' to create a washer capable of squirting tepid water out of the sides, and delivering that warm rolling black and grey smoke that you've come to expect from Maytag. Its why our slogan is more than just a statement, its a promise.
Maytag: We'll trip a breaker.
Gentlemen as an american i belive i can lend clarity to this alarmist list of, as you say, poppycock.
1. Extreme Climate Change: not a problem. climate change is actually just a theory, not a fact, advanced by scienists in order to get attention and grant money.
2. Nuclear War: no problem at all. If iraq, afghanistan, and viet-nam are any indication then rest assured America would win a nuclear war by winning the hearts and minds of whatever we were bombing.
3. Ecological Catastrophe: Again, we solved this by offering loans to banks and car companies in exchange for not restroying our ecology and creating more jobs.
4. Global Pandemic: Well obviously Ebola is a great example. Here we have a disease that has existed undetected by american scientists for probably 10 years, and then we cured it through declaring war on it. now theres no more ebola.
5. Global System Collapse: Easily defeated by avoiding taco bell and undercooked meat.
6. Major Asteroid Impact: during simulations and documentary, science has proven bruce willis would defeat the asteroid.
7. Supervolcano: not sure what that one is, but if its not a flavour of frozen confection or a menu item at ChiChis, we've got a war for it.
8. Synthetic Biology: clearly outlawed according to jesus unless we're talking about chia pets.
9. Nanotechnology: in america we have soap with little plastic scrubby beads that comes out of a pump. we're using nanotechnology responsibly and a lemon-scented fresh way.
10. Artificial Intelligence: Was an excellent movie but also did you know? we have self driving cars that use artificial intelligence to get us through the mcdonalds drive through safely without having to get the dashboard all greasy
11. Uncertain Risks: sometimes those are the risks you gotta take, like for example during our patrio-tastic invasion mind saving trip to iraq for freedom...how did we know ISIS would suddenly appear out of nowhere? thats why we have a plan for uncertain risks and a friend in jesus.
12. Future Bad Global Governance: Electing Jeb Bush or Sarah Palin would help the globals by making sure the governance is true and strong. and patriotic. we'd keep a list of baddies too, and probably make an axis of awesome countries that would be in charge of truthiness and justice.
Pilgrim Power Plant in Plymouth was taken offline line Saturday in anticipation of the weekend snowstorm.
I can understand concerns about grid underservice...thats capitalism. What i cant understand is cycling down a nuclear facility because you're worried about power supplied from external source. you are a nuclear facility power is in and of your nature. This is the second time you've done this, so stop placating investors and be truthful: either the state of Massachusetts is no longer capable if funding a power grid that can endure normal weather patterns, or global climate change is an immediate concern we should all address.
youtube, and the internet == new mass media. Try this experiment in the states for example: Delete your cookies, clear your flash cache, and load up youtube. You'll come to find that without your 'targeted' content youtube is just feeding you the same shit your TV does. So, what do you get?
CNN, CBS, MTV, Vevo, and the same fistful of extremely powerful multinational media companies pushing the same shit from their traditional media stations. Sure, you get a few locals like PewDiePie but at the end of the day those are all scripted and manufactured to youtubes content standards. content, duration, and script are all controlled to a certain standard.
There was no revolution, the cattle just got a shinier car. Look back at every Youtube music awards show and theyre all dominated by signed, industry backed artists in generally heavy rotation on radio and TV. If youtube were a legitimate way for small artists to distribute and promote their music, the RIAA would have shoveled google head-first into a woodchipper of litigation. Hell, not just the front page but look at your search results. chances are likely industry promoted, highly visible artists and performers will be casually interspersed regardless of their relevance because youtube is simply a means of consuming a product and generating revenue through targeted advertisement.
Teaching everyone to code is like teaching everyone to become prostitutes. for some it wont be interesting enough to continue as a profession, for others they wont be proficient enough. However, if you're a wealthy man looking for a prostitute who doesnt entirely understand sex, its the deal of a lifetime and pennies on the dollar.
tech industry: we need guidelines on what we can and cant do
WH: ok, so how about letting users opt out of data collection and tracking entirely
tech industry:JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOURE KILLING US WITH REGULATIONS STALIN. here lets just take it to the courts on a case by case basis.
Antonin Scalia: what the hell is an E-Mail. is that what the kids do now? email? is that why they listen to hip hops?
Clarence thomas: zzZZZzzzzZZZZ
John Roberts: this talking sack of unmarked large bills keeps sending me on vacations when I try to form an opinion.
Stephen Breyer: the cafeteria is out of those little breakfast eggroll things again. who wants lox?
to be frank, "We Are Legion," "Expect Us" and "We Do Not Forget" sound just as appropriate as major oil company slogans as they do a hacking collective.
If we want to see the world of open source software grow, we should encourage users to pay for its development; otherwise it'll be underfunded or developers will have to resort to backdoor deals and advertising.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what open source is and why. It doesnt have to be free as in beer, but you do need to provide the source code. If you want to charge customers for the service of compiling that code for them, so be it, but shaming them with zero dollars misses the point. Open source can generate revenue through support, as is evidenced by RedHat. Deployment and professional services are also other methods to fund open source, but insisting developers will eventually be forced to cobble their projects like bootloaders and ui elements to adware is misplaced. in many cases open source software exists explicitly because this intrusive model of profiteering is a detrement to some aspect of computing.
open source will grow with or without cash money millionaires funding project managers and department leads; thats never been what open source is fundamentally about. Its about a hacker ethos, the drive to solve problems for fame and the challenge. Doing that kind of work can land you a legitimate spot developing the kernel at RedHat, or working on the next Barracuda firewall or netapp filer because you've proven through participation that youre capable and highly skilled. It seems to me the only people who wouldnt benefit from this donation are C levels, management, and people who dont just shut up and hack.
1. That giant frozen bullet train traveling at six times the speed of sound through crowded metropolitan areas is not only fake, but scientifically impossible.
2. Budweiser is found with friends and during good times, but is also accompanied by its lesser known entourage blurred vision, karaoke, screaming, and in high levels nudity and parking lot fits of vomiting.
3. The anthropomorphic frogs could never enunciate a trademarked brand name, and the black screaming "whats up" men were no more than modern day black minstrel charicatures. your black friends cannot be counted on to make this noise as consistently as claimed.
4. patron, fireball, hennessey, hypnotiq, and hundreds of other brands arent directly marketed to youth. Unless you count about a hundred different songs or more that directly associate them with happiness, friendship, and success.
5. 7 martinis and a suit makes you a vomiting insurance liability, not james bond.
6. Dogs and clydesdales do not drink or transport alcohol anymore. Alcohol is transported through a sophisticated network of trucking and trans national freight.
7. Your government lies to you about alcohol because it enjoys a sizeable degree of revenue from its sale through artificially imposed monopoly, driving checkpoints, fines, and incarceration.
Nasa:: we have an awesome plan for a submarine that would explore the seas of liquid hydrocarbons at the Titanian poles.
Senator:: We already defeated communism we dont need anymore submarines.
Nasa:: but you dont understand, this is space exploration! we've never been to titan and it's been established that there are three large polar seas on Titan consisting of methane and ethane in a composition similar to that of liquified natural gas.
Congressman: so you want to do...fracking for gas? we already do that in my state.
Tea Party Senator: this sounds satanic. Kraken Mare is probably some goat demon trying to sneak gay marriage into the fema concentration camps.
NASA: no this is...this is interplanetary exploration....
Senator: you already went to mars what else do you want? didnt Steven Segal start the reactor or something? and so thats how we have intenet?
NASA: ok you know what? this just changed. its not a probe anymore its going to be a manned submarine.
Television is not, nor was it ever arguably, designed with your education or entertainment in mind. Ever since Winston Cigarettes the primary objective of television has been to deliver flashing lights and colours in order to captivate viewers. These viewers would then be marketed a product, and as television advertising grew the methods and systems used to achieve this goal would change. most TV is drama, and peddles fear uncertainty and doubt as powerful emotions to ensure you'll consume related products and services to either fictitious (house, ER) plots, or "real" stories (Dr. Oz, or Gupta.)
when people marvel, "gee, i cant believe how cheap a $n inch tv is these days" what they fail to realize is the only entity capitalizing value off the television is advertisers. That consumers are literally paying money to be offered goods and services which in turn consume more of their income is laughable. So when we come full-stop to samsungs offering of what basically amounts to a fist clenched cash grab from the viewer its almost offensive to think we've ever cared what the television did before, let alone now. This one listens to your conversations, where as the old "dumb" tv's would just use market research to determine what you could be forced into consuming. This one injects ads, whereas before tivo, the hopper, and every major DVR from a cable company did the exact same thing.
on an unrelated note: siri, amazon, and google have all offered a product that listens to your conversations but doesnt provide the distraction of television. The problem isnt that a product we've always trusted is becoming unweildy, is that a product thats never served us is becoming an affront to privacy.
In case you're recently joining us in Linux after a long hiatus, or are coming from the sanity that is BSD, its worth clarifying a few points and I as a formal neckbeard am here to help
The kids: this has been a problem since Subversion but it rears its ugly head now and again with the sun mircosystems crowd that insists the network is the system. These kids dont want to be bothered by man pages or perldoc, so instead they ship a stub with a reference to their CSS/HTML5/Web 5.0 project discovery special snowflake site. The page includes a full colour mascot, links to all the social sites for the project, and videos of the latest con/talk/pep speech the kid with the most pogs/pokemon badges for the project gave with ample references to cats, cheeseburgers, and memes. Loading it up in links gets you a neat scrabble game. Let me be clear: linking your webpage in the absence of man is a waste of time. it is literally the Unix ethos equivalent of "check out my mixtape"
2. The god damn pottering man:
Hes controversially steamrolled most major distros into giving up everything from competent init scripts to non binary logs and even the bootloader in favour of 1 single process capable of doing everything, forever. The backlash was delayed but as of recent, its been pretty consistent. The root of the problem is new developers with a raging hardon for Apple design philosophy. At its peak, this madness turned gnome into a screaming hell-mouth of fades, pans, jiggles, wiggles, and performance tests for even the beefiest video cards. Everything comes with a widget now, and even the console eats 30 megs of ram. configuring gnome or kde with simple text files is now totally impossible, because modern developers have created a MacOS UI managed by a Windows XP system of registry values and control touples. What we gained from this is a frustrating ecosystem of security-questionable user switching and a network stack thats controlled by the user with the mouse. Perfect if you're about to load up team fortress, but crazier than a shithouse rat if you need to, say, run a production firewall.
that having been said ive had enough and you should too. Come join Gentoo, or Arch, or any BSD with more sanity than Unity (Ubuntu.) Gain back that big goose egg we all remember as freedom 0: to run the application the way you want. And on behalf of the POSIX community, the Unix geezers and the hackers, get these goddamned kids off my lawn.
Dan is part of the Digital Citizens group, a United States non-profit organization focused on Internet safety issues. In 2014 in response to leaked Sony emails, former attorney general Peggy Lautenschlager said the DCA had inappropriately influenced politician Jim Hood. The organization hired lobbyist Mike Moore, who also served Hood as a consultant on a pro-bono basis. The article alleged he used his relationship to serve the agenda of private industry, such as Microsoft and the movie industry. Basically, theyre a collaborative shill for the industry designed to influence government policy.
as for the darknet, its almost as though a small segment predicated up on the subversion of 50 years of failed americian drug policy is a trivial part of what is becoming a vast, collaborative response to an illegal government surveillance program that citizens do not want, and politicians are uninterested in stopping. Its as though the more corrupt governments become, the more inequality is manifest and expressed in the criminalization of speech and knowledge, then the larger this entity grows until it becomes necessary to caricaturize it. That the darknet is universally revered by our media institutions for piracy, spam, theft, and drugs instead of as a safe haven for speech and collaboration is telling to say the least.
diet and exercise are important determinants of your cholesterol and overall health. as a vegan, I typically find getting enough saturated fat to be a challenge but this hasnt been the case in the american diet for the last 40 years.
the book, sugar salt fat by Michael Moss highlights important and often uncontrolled changes in the american diet over the past 50 years. the combination of ever greater amounts of these 3 ingredients in a race toward addiction and market dominance created a crisis in american health that was only compounded by our ever sedentary lifestyles. at its peak, a lunchable had 300% of the RDA of sodium in a single serving and a hungry man dinner was approaching 3000 calories. This trend was abated largely due to tobacco companies entering the prepared and processed foods industry with dire warnings. Just like cigarettes, food products that contribute directly toward high levels of preventable disease can be regulated into oblivion and entire brands can go extinct in the public interest. Manufacturers have pulled back, but generally where one declines another rises. Less salt? more fat. less sugar? more salt. manufactured, processed foods without these additives generally taste very similar to the machines theyre made on
another contribution to the obesity epidemic is the inability to cook a healthy meal. this is due partly to the USDAs dual mandate to promote as well as police the industry, but its also partly because home economics was supplanted by the Kraft corporation largely to ensure boxed meals, prepared casserole dishes, stir fry and rice seasonings had a section in the market. Betty Crocker and Sarah Lee became surrogate homemakers people could aspire to; they never existed outside of a marketing meeting. And so the average grocery store is just a clever arrangement of corn, soy, and rice products not because people crave these items, but because theyre durable commodities that store and trade well. Most americans wouldnt know a jicama from a yucca root, or a rutabaga from a turnip, because the US grocery store has no discernable season.
at first, microsoft offered Azure to the general public with a free trial and a smile. AWS, VPS, dedicated hosting, and shared hosting already existed, and offered an endless selection of linux and bsd whereas microsoft offered exactly 1 linux image and it was nearly double the cost of windows.
Then microsoft buttered up corporations with free azure credits in their licensing fees. Refusal of the credits meant an increase in fees, so most corporations took them only to realize they werent very applicable. Hosted exchange an in-house microsoft products were still in most cases more established and cheaper than Azure. They afforded greater accountability and control over the reboot cycle as well. Microsoft recently started revoking, quietly, these credits.
now, like a drunken pimp, microsoft is peddling azure to...startups. Most of these companies are actively developing and using technologies that scale far beyond Windows and traditional servers, and always have. What for microsoft is a new offering is something these companies have already established api code and configuration automation with. Yes, you can convert from X provider to azure easily, but microsoft hasnt offered a compelling reason why you should outside of pricing. And then theres the glaring problem of portability and relevance. Microsofts other internet offerings, bing and explorer, no seasoned developer or devops engineer can approach on a full stomach. decades of lock in, embrace extend extinguish, and the fond memory of the last pain-in-the-ass bug they had to code around for IE because it was a "market leader" is largely enough to make them skip it. Microsoft hasnt given any compelling evidence to suggest they wont lock in the infrastructure you build, but they have provided a wealth of historical evidence to suggest they plan to.
the system is inherently asinine. No one wants paper documents, what they want are the PDF digital documents the DEA cross-reference, index, and search using OCR. But these cant be redacted as easily. Redaction is important in criminal FOIA requests because no government agency wants to get caught sitting on its balls with revelation of massive civil forfeiture and potential constitutional civil rights challenges to their water tight witch hu...er...delivery of justice.
and its no surprise "the war on drugs" was the most bombastically expensive subject into which inquiry could be made. We're talking about a failed 50 year policy, menacingly intertwined with cold war politics, that packs prisons with nonviolent offenders, funds CIA coups against governments, and has a truce called every time a senator or congressman admits to having smoked a joint or snorted a rail of china white with a rolled up benjamin in a posh nightclub bathroom.
"The malware will only be installed in a system if it has been launched with superuser (root) privileges"
aaaand i've already gone back to my tea.
any sysop worth her salt knows the rules:
0. It will build without root or not at all.
1. It will come from a repository or reputable source.
2. It will check its md5 and check it twice.
3. It will be compatible with standard secops tools like chroot, jails, cgroups, propolice, and selinux. this includes sandboxing.
4. Isolate, quarantine, and deploy the secops team. any compromised machine, any network, any server without question.
5. Slap about with a large bit of herring or trout the dev or luser in accordance with LART policies.