After redmond axed 4000 employees they really didnt show much afterwards. The tablet still hemmorages cash, the phone is clearly still on XBox revenue life support, and the OS looks more like the doomed airplane in the movie 'Flight' than an actual commercial product. the OS has existed, albeit forcibly, as the Microsoft moneytrain choo choo edition since arguably late into windows 7. Windows 8 turned everyones computers into touchscreens briefly, and sent businesses running for the hills of 7 despite numerous license discounts for the new version. The microsoft app store has been extended from the phone into the OS, but its usage statistics clearly arent enough to assuage investors and management. We went from evangelizing the latest version to issuing breakneck promises of reform and features in later versions but without a strong showing in functionality and usability, microsofts hand is beginning to show.
windows arguably isnt for users, its for businesses. Business licenses and xbox revenue along with patent chicannery in the android ecosystem make for the bulk of redmonds sustaining income, but home users have always been a hard sell unless its 'bundled' at a loss to them. Windows 365 is a way to not only get a foot in the door through dell and other PC manufacturers, but to maintain that revenue stream by periodically billing home users. Its likely not been pursued due to its high potential for disaster.
home windows users cling to the OS for games, facebook, and maybe a word processor. there are more than 10 flavours of easily installable linux that do this and dont charge users, and theres Apple as well who has the sense to hit the UI out of the park. "Windows is an excellent OS to download another OS with" is microsofts real nightmare, because it would call into question bundling with hardware. in 20 years you may have the very legitimate possibility of a userbase that only uses windows when they need to, not because they need to and hardware manufacturers that routinely shun the offering.
Because the risk outweighs the consequences and the reward can be monetized, corporations will never really care about your privacy or security in relation to their product. Part of it isnt their fault, but the nature of consumer capitalism as its evolved into a science of ever-growing profiteering. the EFF had to get involved before Samsung mentioned anything about the fact that their television was basically an Orwellian instrument of subjugation
Save money and check out a Raspberry pi for most of the functionality of a "smart" TV. XBMC is a terrific project that serves its users well, and maintains a transparent degree of security. If you're already a Samsung owner, most brands of electrical tape should take care of any privacy concerns.
Why not somewhere more appropriate or interesting like europe? India? Africa? Why of all places would you send this drone somewhere it would be detected, tracked and destroyed in all likelyhood upon arrival?
Granted "drone" and "north korea" make a senasational headline for a project but outside of being a punching bag for failed american international policy North Korea doesnt seem to bring any intrinsic value to this project outside of the fact that between seth rogan, sony pictures, and our international sanctions America seems to have a morbid fascination with the place.
Being a millenial, I can attest to the fact that growing up interested in technology and science automagically branded you a nerd. You were picked on relentlessly, harassed and ostricized socially, and generally spent a lot of time avoiding direct contact with interpersonal engagements that did not pass a battery of personal safety tests. Chess club or magic the gathering at school was considered your Turing test for a friend. Billy Graham and the moral majority however were convinced you were the devil incarnate for playing the game, which was verboten in many schools despite its keen ability to teach logic and strategy.
Fast forward through the sanguine post columbine era of education by doctrinal purity and it just got worse for nerds. after 1999 nerds faced a pretty large degree of scrutiny and fear. I for one wore a lot of black, kept to myself, made excellent grades, and played a lot of doom/heretic. My prize to claim for having spoken a bit too loudly with friends about a quake match and my affinity for the shotgun with quad damage was an entire week of suspension due to a 'zero tolerance' policy. I failed calculus, spanish, and was left scrambling to figure out how i was going to graduate based on this seemingly arbitrary application of "justice." my parents were angry at me, and i in turn was angry at them for having never taken my side in the ordeal but i digress. If you believe that the tech diversity problem is due to inherent gender affinity and poor marketing to minorities, you're sadly mistaken. People avoid STEM because they dont like being beaten down like subhumans.
Althought here is an efficiency increase, the reason most torrent users consider them obsolete is the ability for third parties to discern who has downloaded a specific file or torrent. Given the propensity for american media cartels to levy disproportionately heavy lawswuits for content, sometimes in the billions or trillions of US dollars, most people use magnet links.
I would be very suspicious of a new tracker thats gained in popularity using a technology that could widely be used to dragnet its userbase into lengthy and costly court proceedings. Especially after the recent pirate bay sting site.
if you thought the 100k IBM layed off was impressive, just watch how we, a company too big to fail, shit all over the peasantry if you dont get back to kissing our ass.
If a warrant is required, its generally granted. If its not granted, the FISA courts could be used. and if the FISA courts with their 99% rate of acceptance should fail, then most multinational corporations have no objection to forfeiting every document youve written and word you've uttered to local state and federal authorities on principal. In some cases, like telecom, theyre outright exempted from prosecution through blatant legislative mandate and their own kangaroo system of arbitration courts. in others, you'll never know they were the ones to divulge your information thanks to a rats nest of NDA agreements and lack of transparency.
Looking to congress and senate to ensure your security and freedom on the internet is as blind and misplaced as looking to the executioner to ensure your meals at the prison are healthy. https://prism-break.org/ is a collection of open source projects and applications with the altruistic, express intent to preserve your security and safety. Its not governed by politics, or election cycles, or "terror." It doesnt concede to stakeholders, doesnt serve to appease shareholders, and doesnt ask for your personal information. The internet doesnt need a bill or writ of law to protect its users, because its users have been iron clad in an armory of their own device for more than 30 years. Use crypto, study privacy, and enjoy a free internet.
Most 'farms' in america are part of multinational food corporations like Cargill and ADM. They have motor pools to repair fleets of farm equipment like tractors and harvesters. firmware updates and engine maintenance are often performed by representatives of the companies that manufacture the equipment. IT and information systems departments handle things like GPS and computer software and hardware related to the harvest. small, agrarian farming is almost obsolete in America unless you look into how poulty and pork are raised. In these cases its small contract farmers working for larger entities like Hormell. Even these small farmers though are forced into the disposable economy of modernization that takes them out of the direct path of machines they can work on.
Growing up on a farm in Ohio I remember having to weld equipment back together. I remember cleaning carbureators, hammering out feeders, and changing fluids. It was not fun, and it often meant drastic inefficiencies like having to leave hay out too long or work two days straight trying to get things in order after a break. In a lot of ways modern equipment is more resillient and not as prone to problems. these engine computers save a ton of fuel and effort. coupling, power takeoff, gears, speed, you name it and its probably in the hands of the computer. If i had to do it all over, I'd miss my old ford tractor but i wouldn't miss how it sputtered in cold weather.
the simple fact is that banks dont face consequences for lapses in security, not like google. Customers dont or cant lose trust in many banks because theyre just too big to fail. Banks also either never report fraud, never admit fault to hacking, or never admit the scope and impact of an incident fully enough for people to make an objective assessment of the situation. Banks are FDIC insured, and cardholders rarely lose money during fraudulent access that isnt remunerated by the financial institution. for every account google loses to a hacker or botnet, customers will lose a little trust and the system will function less efficiently. Google faces the real possibility of an exodus if a large breech of security takes place because theres no real inconvenience to pick a new email address. In contrast, banks are structured such that leaving one is practically impossible. You need to be present on their specific banking hours. you need to talk to a branch manager to close an account (but not to open one) and that branch manager will go to great lengths to stall you with offers you never asked for. finally you need to pick a new bank, handle direct deposit, checking, credit cards, and a whole host of other services that have been intentionally made disruptive in order to prevent you from having any real market choice.
We should be teaching machines to help us, not emulate our flaws and biases. beauty and ugliness, rich and poor, black and white, these are all concepts that in technology hold no relevance or meaning because theyre metrics by which we categorize and qualify people in often arbitrary and flawed ways.
rolling release, while in the case of Gentoo initially more tedious to set up than just 'click install' is a refreshing departure from packaged distros. from a devops standpoint its no more or less manageable either. I create a base gentoo image and DD it to servers. afterwards salt takes over and doles out configuration. port tree zaps, use, and merge can also be controlled and if some security vulnerability is found in a compiled option for an application, you can command your servers to recompile the affected package without that option instead of waiting for a workaround or patch, which might not be feasible in a production environment.
Although its not widely discussed, i find many of the other elements of the soviet survival kit fascinating:
1. PT3: tactical eating potato (1) if bear like potato
2. V92: Vodka (potato but liquid) for drink in case of bear
3. LL2: 40 pound brass bust of glorious comrade Lenin (maybe show bear)
4. C32: Camera, 3 photos for secret picture of bear (can also take picture of potato)
5. T21: Mikheil Jacks son cassete playing tape for when landing in america. to request bills jean lover can save life (do not show potato, do not play into bear)
6. PT2: Second potato (removed by secret police, holster only. is no second potato. you are of greed.)
Congratulations Georgia. In the face of the 21st century where we support the troops, these colours dont run, and freedom is championed above all else you've just shit all over the idea that we in any sense emerged triumphantly from 9/11. You've marched lock-step, just as any terrorist would hope his actions would inspire you to, to the beat of their drum and not reason so ive got an idea.
If every time someone sees a box, or a can, or a light bright sitting on the street we're gong to evacuate a city and lock down schools, then lets cut the "freedom and liberty" crap. If every time we get on a plane we have to be stripsearched by xray booths and patted down for even a pittance of liquid, lets stop saying we never negotiate with terrorists and start commending ourselves for doing just what they want. If I cant make a call, or send an email, or surf the internet or even drive car without the NSA and ubiquitous plate readers tracking my every move, then lets be frank about it and recycle the statue of liberty into something more useful like tear gas grenades or battery chargers for tazers.
its like commercial capitalism doesnt learn. Healthcare for example got so bad, so reprehensible and so broken in america that the federal government damned near stepped in and nationalized it. Internet access in america became so godforsaken slow and corrupt the government not only redefined the legal definition of broadband and tripled the speed, but re-classified internet service as common carrier. The institutional precedent for profiteering not withstanding, you'd think more multinational conglomerates would take a step back to avoid losing a large swath of their monopolies but no.
TPP proposes copyright legislation that could render generic pharmaceuticals nonexistent. It ships jobs away, strengthens corporate personhood, and turns regulations like the FCC, FDA, and OSHA into things that can actually be sued if they cause a loss in revene for a company. If you consider unemployment in america to include the legal definition as well as "jobless" which isn't typically counted, america hovers around 24% unemployment largely systemic and driven by things like NAFTA so what does the TPP mean in the long run?
Piracy can and will continue, and in large part may even become legitimized. Large scale work strikes and protests will likely see the return of unionization if recent protests are any indication. And finally if you grow the unemployment rate enough, you'll enjoy another round of occupy protests that might not be as peaceful as the last ones. But ultimately pushing this type of trade serves to de-legitimize american capitalism. You can no longer, with a straight face, stand in front of a room full of children and commend a system that will render so many of them unemployed and poor that to say it was their fault for being lazy would be a comic farse at best, and a grave insult at worst.
Root your phone, or buy a phone that can be rooted easily (I recommend the HTC 1.) From there install https://fdroid.org/ as your repository and download adaway. It will amend your hosts file to basically blackhole known advertising servers. Android used to have a package called the naked browser, which is much faster and secure than the default browser. disable all cookies and whitelist the useful sites you want.
The government actually did something people wanted, the president actually supported, and the FCC actually agreed with that a republican controlled house and senate couldn't shit on? Im shocked but I think i can shed a little light on what this regulation actually means for us Americans.
1. "Its Comcastic" can no longer be a punchline or an exclamation of furious rage
2. the libraries of congress will download at the same speed, but the ghost of Grover Cleveland will no longer be present to slow down the ASICS in the switch fabric.
3. healthcare.gov will now work for up to 9 simultaneous connections at speeds of up to 14.4kbps
4. Myspace's "Tom" will now attend funerals in person and apply blingies to the casket at no extra charge
5. The Supreme Court will now be given actual tubes of fresh, warm internet to help learn what it is. Clarence Thomas will now be rotated twice during his naps to prevent sores.
A sedentary lifestyle + poor diet = a cornucopia of preventable diseases that will slowly take away your quality of life. Working in devops is on par with being a long-haul trucker that happens to know python. The food is always fast, and the hours at the desk are as random as your sleep schedule. Ive found transitioning to a standing desk and taking walks around the office has helped some.
Imagine of you will a 224,000 square foot shangri la of office. An entire area devoted to a sea of elderly men browsing ink jet printers, remarking on how great a deal theyre getting, and haggling the price of toner cartridges. their revalry interrupted twice daily by the passing of a thunderous freight-train of 13 year olds wheeling through the store on castered office seating. Imagine a copier the size of a two story house that still cant manage to fax correctly. In one long aisle, a veritable modern art museum of van goghs who have tested billions of different markers and pens in search for the one true biro. Picture a moutain of paper manned by khaki clad teenage sherpas who will guide the worthy to the perfect gloss of 8x11 in a 12 man expedition, using the bodies of the dead to guide their way. This new realm of office will succor a distant memory of office stores of yore with its array of overly lit fluorescent display stands and vallies of fake laptops and monitors perched upon particle board desks assembled by a small factory of hung-over college kids. and when at long last you think it can offer no more, this store will offer the most pointless of all selections of office treats and candies in 600 pound bulk tyvek totes that can conveniently be stacked onto any customers shopping fork truck. This office store will be visible for miles from the thick rolling smoke emenating from the innumerable propped doors featuring a staff of thousands competing in a veritable olympic competition of cigarette consumption as they all collectively 'burn one' while having told a customer they will search a 'back room' that does not exist for a product that cannot be sold.
"client-centered libertarian medicine." is how assholes pronounce the words "snake oil" and It lives on the shelf with things like homeopathic remedies and juice cleansing. Testosterone, multi-inhaler asthma treatments, statin deficiency,and Circadian Dysrhythmia are all part of pharmaceutical corporations nose dive into profit with the concept of fear, forever and faith. Fear the disease, remember that once you have it you must always consume the product to relieve it, and finally never doubt your trust or faith in the product despite overwhelming evidence it may even be detrimental to your health.
people become old as a part of human life. Testosterone does not radically alter that condition because becoming old is not a problem but a feature of life itself. In the United states as we inch inexorably closer to single payer healthcare its becoming increasingly evident to medical corporations that an alternate revenue stream will need to be secured. As an example, cigarette manufacturers diversified into food and alcohol; they realize relatively little revenue from cancer sticks at all.
Layoff is the most disingenuous patronizing goddamned thing these rich assholes could say. Call it what it is. You don't want to give up a yacht this year, so you're firing a city the size of boulder Colorado.
Call me cynical, but the ship is officially sinking.
supplement company: check out our new herbal animal vegetable raw vegan youth potion penis elixer and life enhancer with guanaramalama and bilinko for supported function of your satrogenum B9 AG: this is nothing but brake dust, old chinese newspaper shreds, and windshield glass supplement company: well its been on the market for 2 years and is completely safe. AG: yeah but it doesnt do what it says and contains things it doesnt list. pull it. supplement company: sure thing buddy! let me just step over this large mountain of cash I earned and ill get right to it. sure am sorry about the mixup. Stores: oh we sure are super sorry too, turns out we got distracted by counting all this money. Supplement company: who wants to sell this new supplement! its got enhanced vigorators and revitalomic green tea tomato lyzopramic dyloricackles to enhance your penis life Stores: who are we do deny the customer! AG: THIS IS JUST SHREDDED PHONEBOOKS AND CAFFEINE supplement company: it iiiiiis? oh my worrrrd it happened again! goodness gracious.
Things like this bring to light a few issues that need addressing. if this action by ABP is in fact happening, a fork of the project should most certainly be considered as this 'whitelisting' violates an expected feature or function of the application by its community of users (and possibly developers.) Second, a layered approach that views advertisements/spam as part of an overarching security issue, not just nuisance patrol, should be adopted. Adblock, noscript, and null routes for known advertising servers should all be applied
its controversial to say it on slashdot (full disclosure, I consider myself a socialist) but i think advertising on the internet has gone from unintrusive to a bombastic affront to basic privacy and functional user experience. applications like ad blockers actually help to un-break the web of automatic videos barking product placement and resource sucking overly high definition adverts. ABP gives users a tool to fight back against what for many is a roary-boomy experience that requires a new laptop every year to keep up.
I for one have been waiting for the promise of a UEFI bootloader for some time, but as an avid Systemd fan I can't help but wonder when Pottering and the team are going to get off their lazy asses and implement a systemd version of the Kernel. The Kernel (linux, ganoo, whatever) is old, inefficient, and can be handled much better by systemd. dmesg is a confusing command too. to replace it in systemd you would just issue a simple systemctl service engage geiss wobble manager=1 --upchuck --lasermode/var/tmp/var/eng/lib/lib64/service/svc/portal/optimized/Skernel.wrapper to get the same data converted from a binary disk image into real text, imaginary text, a full color background, and a chart-topping indie song (--noyuke to remove yukelele) Its really quite simple and I dont understand why linux makes such a fuss about their old fashioned kernels.
Uber was a disruptive (read: sketcky) concept to begin with. Several cases of assault by drivers and even a rape in india are documented occurances in the Uber ecosystem that seem to be shrugged off by the company as "isolated incidents." And since everyones an independent contractor in Uber theyre fairly insulated against things like state or federal investigations into any problems. Then theres surge pricing, which is the combination of words that come out of a rich mans cocksucker when they mean to say price gouging. Basically, its unregulated and the fruits of such deregulation cut both ways. Uber black is predicated upon the deceptive idea that people in very nice cars would like to play taxi, whereas in the real world their time is worth far more than an uber pittance. In a regulated taxi service you have rules and regulations to adhere to in order to maintain your taxi cab license, so you follow those rules.
In Uber, there is no palpable consequence for driving a family of 4 to a corn field instead of Disney land because once hes finished his negative review of you, you're now stranded somewhere without a taxi and locked out of uber.
its to be expected. Sitting through 20 minutes of mandatory trailer before my bluray starts actually playing the movie i paid for is nothing short of a war crime.
smattering of porn
ew.
but in all actuality the lack of music is likely due to spotify, soundcloud, and pandora not to mention bandcamp and the rise of unsigned, independent artists using a 'pay if you want' model. stream rips from Youtube are also popular. If you're expecting to see the top 40's in the pirate bay you're mistaken as to their purpose. Top 40 music is played 3 times a day 21 times a week for 5 months because you're being conditioned to like it. Katy perry and other artists write lyrics at the 3rd grade level not because theyre illiterate, but because their producers and writers are targeting the widest potential demographic for the song.
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After redmond axed 4000 employees they really didnt show much afterwards. The tablet still hemmorages cash, the phone is clearly still on XBox revenue life support, and the OS looks more like the doomed airplane in the movie 'Flight' than an actual commercial product. the OS has existed, albeit forcibly, as the Microsoft moneytrain choo choo edition since arguably late into windows 7. Windows 8 turned everyones computers into touchscreens briefly, and sent businesses running for the hills of 7 despite numerous license discounts for the new version. The microsoft app store has been extended from the phone into the OS, but its usage statistics clearly arent enough to assuage investors and management. We went from evangelizing the latest version to issuing breakneck promises of reform and features in later versions but without a strong showing in functionality and usability, microsofts hand is beginning to show.
windows arguably isnt for users, its for businesses. Business licenses and xbox revenue along with patent chicannery in the android ecosystem make for the bulk of redmonds sustaining income, but home users have always been a hard sell unless its 'bundled' at a loss to them. Windows 365 is a way to not only get a foot in the door through dell and other PC manufacturers, but to maintain that revenue stream by periodically billing home users. Its likely not been pursued due to its high potential for disaster.
home windows users cling to the OS for games, facebook, and maybe a word processor. there are more than 10 flavours of easily installable linux that do this and dont charge users, and theres Apple as well who has the sense to hit the UI out of the park. "Windows is an excellent OS to download another OS with" is microsofts real nightmare, because it would call into question bundling with hardware. in 20 years you may have the very legitimate possibility of a userbase that only uses windows when they need to, not because they need to and hardware manufacturers that routinely shun the offering.
Because the risk outweighs the consequences and the reward can be monetized, corporations will never really care about your privacy or security in relation to their product. Part of it isnt their fault, but the nature of consumer capitalism as its evolved into a science of ever-growing profiteering. the EFF had to get involved before Samsung mentioned anything about the fact that their television was basically an Orwellian instrument of subjugation
Save money and check out a Raspberry pi for most of the functionality of a "smart" TV. XBMC is a terrific project that serves its users well, and maintains a transparent degree of security. If you're already a Samsung owner, most brands of electrical tape should take care of any privacy concerns.
Why not somewhere more appropriate or interesting like europe? India? Africa? Why of all places would you send this drone somewhere it would be detected, tracked and destroyed in all likelyhood upon arrival?
Granted "drone" and "north korea" make a senasational headline for a project but outside of being a punching bag for failed american international policy North Korea doesnt seem to bring any intrinsic value to this project outside of the fact that between seth rogan, sony pictures, and our international sanctions America seems to have a morbid fascination with the place.
Being a millenial, I can attest to the fact that growing up interested in technology and science automagically branded you a nerd. You were picked on relentlessly, harassed and ostricized socially, and generally spent a lot of time avoiding direct contact with interpersonal engagements that did not pass a battery of personal safety tests. Chess club or magic the gathering at school was considered your Turing test for a friend. Billy Graham and the moral majority however were convinced you were the devil incarnate for playing the game, which was verboten in many schools despite its keen ability to teach logic and strategy.
Fast forward through the sanguine post columbine era of education by doctrinal purity and it just got worse for nerds. after 1999 nerds faced a pretty large degree of scrutiny and fear. I for one wore a lot of black, kept to myself, made excellent grades, and played a lot of doom/heretic. My prize to claim for having spoken a bit too loudly with friends about a quake match and my affinity for the shotgun with quad damage was an entire week of suspension due to a 'zero tolerance' policy. I failed calculus, spanish, and was left scrambling to figure out how i was going to graduate based on this seemingly arbitrary application of "justice." my parents were angry at me, and i in turn was angry at them for having never taken my side in the ordeal but i digress. If you believe that the tech diversity problem is due to inherent gender affinity and poor marketing to minorities, you're sadly mistaken. People avoid STEM because they dont like being beaten down like subhumans.
Althought here is an efficiency increase, the reason most torrent users consider them obsolete is the ability for third parties to discern who has downloaded a specific file or torrent. Given the propensity for american media cartels to levy disproportionately heavy lawswuits for content, sometimes in the billions or trillions of US dollars, most people use magnet links.
I would be very suspicious of a new tracker thats gained in popularity using a technology that could widely be used to dragnet its userbase into lengthy and costly court proceedings. Especially after the recent pirate bay sting site.
if you thought the 100k IBM layed off was impressive, just watch how we, a company too big to fail, shit all over the peasantry if you dont get back to kissing our ass.
If a warrant is required, its generally granted. If its not granted, the FISA courts could be used. and if the FISA courts with their 99% rate of acceptance should fail, then most multinational corporations have no objection to forfeiting every document youve written and word you've uttered to local state and federal authorities on principal. In some cases, like telecom, theyre outright exempted from prosecution through blatant legislative mandate and their own kangaroo system of arbitration courts. in others, you'll never know they were the ones to divulge your information thanks to a rats nest of NDA agreements and lack of transparency.
Looking to congress and senate to ensure your security and freedom on the internet is as blind and misplaced as looking to the executioner to ensure your meals at the prison are healthy. https://prism-break.org/ is a collection of open source projects and applications with the altruistic, express intent to preserve your security and safety. Its not governed by politics, or election cycles, or "terror." It doesnt concede to stakeholders, doesnt serve to appease shareholders, and doesnt ask for your personal information. The internet doesnt need a bill or writ of law to protect its users, because its users have been iron clad in an armory of their own device for more than 30 years. Use crypto, study privacy, and enjoy a free internet.
Most 'farms' in america are part of multinational food corporations like Cargill and ADM. They have motor pools to repair fleets of farm equipment like tractors and harvesters. firmware updates and engine maintenance are often performed by representatives of the companies that manufacture the equipment. IT and information systems departments handle things like GPS and computer software and hardware related to the harvest. small, agrarian farming is almost obsolete in America unless you look into how poulty and pork are raised. In these cases its small contract farmers working for larger entities like Hormell. Even these small farmers though are forced into the disposable economy of modernization that takes them out of the direct path of machines they can work on.
Growing up on a farm in Ohio I remember having to weld equipment back together. I remember cleaning carbureators, hammering out feeders, and changing fluids. It was not fun, and it often meant drastic inefficiencies like having to leave hay out too long or work two days straight trying to get things in order after a break. In a lot of ways modern equipment is more resillient and not as prone to problems. these engine computers save a ton of fuel and effort. coupling, power takeoff, gears, speed, you name it and its probably in the hands of the computer. If i had to do it all over, I'd miss my old ford tractor but i wouldn't miss how it sputtered in cold weather.
the simple fact is that banks dont face consequences for lapses in security, not like google. Customers dont or cant lose trust in many banks because theyre just too big to fail. Banks also either never report fraud, never admit fault to hacking, or never admit the scope and impact of an incident fully enough for people to make an objective assessment of the situation. Banks are FDIC insured, and cardholders rarely lose money during fraudulent access that isnt remunerated by the financial institution. for every account google loses to a hacker or botnet, customers will lose a little trust and the system will function less efficiently. Google faces the real possibility of an exodus if a large breech of security takes place because theres no real inconvenience to pick a new email address. In contrast, banks are structured such that leaving one is practically impossible. You need to be present on their specific banking hours. you need to talk to a branch manager to close an account (but not to open one) and that branch manager will go to great lengths to stall you with offers you never asked for. finally you need to pick a new bank, handle direct deposit, checking, credit cards, and a whole host of other services that have been intentionally made disruptive in order to prevent you from having any real market choice.
We should be teaching machines to help us, not emulate our flaws and biases. beauty and ugliness, rich and poor, black and white, these are all concepts that in technology hold no relevance or meaning because theyre metrics by which we categorize and qualify people in often arbitrary and flawed ways.
rolling release, while in the case of Gentoo initially more tedious to set up than just 'click install' is a refreshing departure from packaged distros. from a devops standpoint its no more or less manageable either. I create a base gentoo image and DD it to servers. afterwards salt takes over and doles out configuration. port tree zaps, use, and merge can also be controlled and if some security vulnerability is found in a compiled option for an application, you can command your servers to recompile the affected package without that option instead of waiting for a workaround or patch, which might not be feasible in a production environment.
Although its not widely discussed, i find many of the other elements of the soviet survival kit fascinating:
1. PT3: tactical eating potato (1) if bear like potato
2. V92: Vodka (potato but liquid) for drink in case of bear
3. LL2: 40 pound brass bust of glorious comrade Lenin (maybe show bear)
4. C32: Camera, 3 photos for secret picture of bear (can also take picture of potato)
5. T21: Mikheil Jacks son cassete playing tape for when landing in america. to request bills jean lover can save life (do not show potato, do not play into bear)
6. PT2: Second potato (removed by secret police, holster only. is no second potato. you are of greed.)
Congratulations Georgia. In the face of the 21st century where we support the troops, these colours dont run, and freedom is championed above all else you've just shit all over the idea that we in any sense emerged triumphantly from 9/11. You've marched lock-step, just as any terrorist would hope his actions would inspire you to, to the beat of their drum and not reason so ive got an idea.
If every time someone sees a box, or a can, or a light bright sitting on the street we're gong to evacuate a city and lock down schools, then lets cut the "freedom and liberty" crap. If every time we get on a plane we have to be stripsearched by xray booths and patted down for even a pittance of liquid, lets stop saying we never negotiate with terrorists and start commending ourselves for doing just what they want. If I cant make a call, or send an email, or surf the internet or even drive car without the NSA and ubiquitous plate readers tracking my every move, then lets be frank about it and recycle the statue of liberty into something more useful like tear gas grenades or battery chargers for tazers.
its like commercial capitalism doesnt learn. Healthcare for example got so bad, so reprehensible and so broken in america that the federal government damned near stepped in and nationalized it. Internet access in america became so godforsaken slow and corrupt the government not only redefined the legal definition of broadband and tripled the speed, but re-classified internet service as common carrier. The institutional precedent for profiteering not withstanding, you'd think more multinational conglomerates would take a step back to avoid losing a large swath of their monopolies but no.
TPP proposes copyright legislation that could render generic pharmaceuticals nonexistent. It ships jobs away, strengthens corporate personhood, and turns regulations like the FCC, FDA, and OSHA into things that can actually be sued if they cause a loss in revene for a company. If you consider unemployment in america to include the legal definition as well as "jobless" which isn't typically counted, america hovers around 24% unemployment largely systemic and driven by things like NAFTA so what does the TPP mean in the long run?
Piracy can and will continue, and in large part may even become legitimized. Large scale work strikes and protests will likely see the return of unionization if recent protests are any indication. And finally if you grow the unemployment rate enough, you'll enjoy another round of occupy protests that might not be as peaceful as the last ones. But ultimately pushing this type of trade serves to de-legitimize american capitalism. You can no longer, with a straight face, stand in front of a room full of children and commend a system that will render so many of them unemployed and poor that to say it was their fault for being lazy would be a comic farse at best, and a grave insult at worst.
Root your phone, or buy a phone that can be rooted easily (I recommend the HTC 1.) From there install https://fdroid.org/ as your repository and download adaway. It will amend your hosts file to basically blackhole known advertising servers. Android used to have a package called the naked browser, which is much faster and secure than the default browser. disable all cookies and whitelist the useful sites you want.
The government actually did something people wanted, the president actually supported, and the FCC actually agreed with that a republican controlled house and senate couldn't shit on? Im shocked but I think i can shed a little light on what this regulation actually means for us Americans.
1. "Its Comcastic" can no longer be a punchline or an exclamation of furious rage
2. the libraries of congress will download at the same speed, but the ghost of Grover Cleveland will no longer be present to slow down the ASICS in the switch fabric.
3. healthcare.gov will now work for up to 9 simultaneous connections at speeds of up to 14.4kbps
4. Myspace's "Tom" will now attend funerals in person and apply blingies to the casket at no extra charge
5. The Supreme Court will now be given actual tubes of fresh, warm internet to help learn what it is. Clarence Thomas will now be rotated twice during his naps to prevent sores.
A sedentary lifestyle + poor diet = a cornucopia of preventable diseases that will slowly take away your quality of life. Working in devops is on par with being a long-haul trucker that happens to know python. The food is always fast, and the hours at the desk are as random as your sleep schedule. Ive found transitioning to a standing desk and taking walks around the office has helped some.
Imagine of you will a 224,000 square foot shangri la of office. An entire area devoted to a sea of elderly men browsing ink jet printers, remarking on how great a deal theyre getting, and haggling the price of toner cartridges. their revalry interrupted twice daily by the passing of a thunderous freight-train of 13 year olds wheeling through the store on castered office seating. Imagine a copier the size of a two story house that still cant manage to fax correctly. In one long aisle, a veritable modern art museum of van goghs who have tested billions of different markers and pens in search for the one true biro. Picture a moutain of paper manned by khaki clad teenage sherpas who will guide the worthy to the perfect gloss of 8x11 in a 12 man expedition, using the bodies of the dead to guide their way. This new realm of office will succor a distant memory of office stores of yore with its array of overly lit fluorescent display stands and vallies of fake laptops and monitors perched upon particle board desks assembled by a small factory of hung-over college kids. and when at long last you think it can offer no more, this store will offer the most pointless of all selections of office treats and candies in 600 pound bulk tyvek totes that can conveniently be stacked onto any customers shopping fork truck. This office store will be visible for miles from the thick rolling smoke emenating from the innumerable propped doors featuring a staff of thousands competing in a veritable olympic competition of cigarette consumption as they all collectively 'burn one' while having told a customer they will search a 'back room' that does not exist for a product that cannot be sold.
"client-centered libertarian medicine." is how assholes pronounce the words "snake oil" and It lives on the shelf with things like homeopathic remedies and juice cleansing. Testosterone, multi-inhaler asthma treatments, statin deficiency,and Circadian Dysrhythmia are all part of pharmaceutical corporations nose dive into profit with the concept of fear, forever and faith. Fear the disease, remember that once you have it you must always consume the product to relieve it, and finally never doubt your trust or faith in the product despite overwhelming evidence it may even be detrimental to your health.
people become old as a part of human life. Testosterone does not radically alter that condition because becoming old is not a problem but a feature of life itself. In the United states as we inch inexorably closer to single payer healthcare its becoming increasingly evident to medical corporations that an alternate revenue stream will need to be secured. As an example, cigarette manufacturers diversified into food and alcohol; they realize relatively little revenue from cancer sticks at all.
Layoff is the most disingenuous patronizing goddamned thing these rich assholes could say. Call it what it is. You don't want to give up a yacht this year, so you're firing a city the size of boulder Colorado. Call me cynical, but the ship is officially sinking.
supplement company: check out our new herbal animal vegetable raw vegan youth potion penis elixer and life enhancer with guanaramalama and bilinko for supported function of your satrogenum B9
AG: this is nothing but brake dust, old chinese newspaper shreds, and windshield glass
supplement company: well its been on the market for 2 years and is completely safe.
AG: yeah but it doesnt do what it says and contains things it doesnt list. pull it.
supplement company: sure thing buddy! let me just step over this large mountain of cash I earned and ill get right to it. sure am sorry about the mixup.
Stores: oh we sure are super sorry too, turns out we got distracted by counting all this money.
Supplement company: who wants to sell this new supplement! its got enhanced vigorators and revitalomic green tea tomato lyzopramic dyloricackles to enhance your penis life
Stores: who are we do deny the customer!
AG: THIS IS JUST SHREDDED PHONEBOOKS AND CAFFEINE
supplement company: it iiiiiis? oh my worrrrd it happened again! goodness gracious.
Things like this bring to light a few issues that need addressing. if this action by ABP is in fact happening, a fork of the project should most certainly be considered as this 'whitelisting' violates an expected feature or function of the application by its community of users (and possibly developers.) Second, a layered approach that views advertisements/spam as part of an overarching security issue, not just nuisance patrol, should be adopted. Adblock, noscript, and null routes for known advertising servers should all be applied
its controversial to say it on slashdot (full disclosure, I consider myself a socialist) but i think advertising on the internet has gone from unintrusive to a bombastic affront to basic privacy and functional user experience. applications like ad blockers actually help to un-break the web of automatic videos barking product placement and resource sucking overly high definition adverts. ABP gives users a tool to fight back against what for many is a roary-boomy experience that requires a new laptop every year to keep up.
I for one have been waiting for the promise of a UEFI bootloader for some time, but as an avid Systemd fan I can't help but wonder when Pottering and the team are going to get off their lazy asses and implement a systemd version of the Kernel. The Kernel (linux, ganoo, whatever) is old, inefficient, and can be handled much better by systemd. dmesg is a confusing command too. to replace it in systemd you would just issue a simple systemctl service engage geiss wobble manager=1 --upchuck --lasermode /var/tmp/var/eng/lib/lib64/service/svc/portal/optimized/Skernel.wrapper to get the same data converted from a binary disk image into real text, imaginary text, a full color background, and a chart-topping indie song (--noyuke to remove yukelele) Its really quite simple and I dont understand why linux makes such a fuss about their old fashioned kernels.
Uber was a disruptive (read: sketcky) concept to begin with. Several cases of assault by drivers and even a rape in india are documented occurances in the Uber ecosystem that seem to be shrugged off by the company as "isolated incidents." And since everyones an independent contractor in Uber theyre fairly insulated against things like state or federal investigations into any problems. Then theres surge pricing, which is the combination of words that come out of a rich mans cocksucker when they mean to say price gouging. Basically, its unregulated and the fruits of such deregulation cut both ways. Uber black is predicated upon the deceptive idea that people in very nice cars would like to play taxi, whereas in the real world their time is worth far more than an uber pittance. In a regulated taxi service you have rules and regulations to adhere to in order to maintain your taxi cab license, so you follow those rules.
In Uber, there is no palpable consequence for driving a family of 4 to a corn field instead of Disney land because once hes finished his negative review of you, you're now stranded somewhere without a taxi and locked out of uber.
plenty of movies
its to be expected. Sitting through 20 minutes of mandatory trailer before my bluray starts actually playing the movie i paid for is nothing short of a war crime.
smattering of porn
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but in all actuality the lack of music is likely due to spotify, soundcloud, and pandora not to mention bandcamp and the rise of unsigned, independent artists using a 'pay if you want' model. stream rips from Youtube are also popular. If you're expecting to see the top 40's in the pirate bay you're mistaken as to their purpose. Top 40 music is played 3 times a day 21 times a week for 5 months because you're being conditioned to like it. Katy perry and other artists write lyrics at the 3rd grade level not because theyre illiterate, but because their producers and writers are targeting the widest potential demographic for the song.