I remember receiving a copy of this stuff years ago to help keep me safe and it had several bugs.
1. The binary wont execute on System V release 4 (it came on a music CD i think.) Out of desparation I tried getting it to run on SGI and my trusty DEC but still, nothing. Wine seemed to be the only software that could get the damn thing working (I had to upgrade to a GNU/Linux personal computer)
2. It didnt work with lynx and curl. Even worse, it never worked as promised with my usenet newsreader NetNews. Slrn and Trn also didnt get protected and i was subjected to horribly lude stories on alt.sysadmin.recovery.
3. Id hoped it would finally keep me safe from that damned pirate radio station on 10 meter, but boy was I ever wrong. those tasteless SSTV scans? you guessed it, my sound card picked them right up! what a piece of junk.
4. my FidoNet dialup? I had to talk to the admins but Ben Baker said it wasnt compatible. can you imagine? not even compatible with FIDONET!
Wilsons goal of enabling anyone to privately fabricate an untraceable gun is part of a larger anarchist mission: To show how technology can render the entire notion of government obsolete. Hes spent the last two years developing firearms designed to be printed as easily as ink on a page, neutering attempts at gun control. 'This is a way to jab at the bleeding hearts of these total statists' Wilson says. 'Its about humiliating the power that wants to humiliate you,' he says.
I'm all on board the maker train (I own a makerbot at home) but Jesus tap-dancing Christ...Anarchy? You dont need to make "ghost" guns to skirt gun control. After 4 major shootings in the US in 2 years, lawmakers themselves refuse to enact any sort of gun control. Hell, getting a gun in america is as easy as filling out a form. the biggest hurtle is the waiting period and even that is only a sometimes kind of thing. We cant even use serialized guns to independently track homicide rates in our country unless we get a FoIA from the ATF, which incidentally hasnt had a full time director in years. News reports routinely redact the make and model of firearms used in shootings out of fearfulness they'll incur a defamation lawsuit from the NRA. if you really want to "humiliate the power" and "jab at hearts" you leak confidential information. Hell, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are national treasures and they did it without a gun.
my prediction is the homemade printable gun will be outlawed not from some evil 'obama gunna take muh gunz" scheme but by lobbying pressure from the NRA, who represent weapons manufacturers profit margins (not you.)
You'll have to go a lot further if you want to come close to United States levels of paranoia. We once shut down the entire city of boston because we couldnt tell the difference between a light-up sign and a bomb. Our monument to the last major terrorist attack on america is so heavily fortified its nicknamed "fear tower" and the public park in front of it requires extensive security screening as well as a reservation just to get in. We once spent 3 trillion dollars attacking a country that not only had nothing to do with 9/11, but that we supported extensively in the past. We used the phrase 'support the troops,' a sentiment also used by Nazi Germany, to make sure our citizens went along with a war we couldnt win. We've shamed and humiliated entire generations of US Citizens in our zeal to ensure the elderly and children arent carrying explosives. Hell, we once had a color coded scare-o-meter to tell people how nervous they should feel on any given day.
I cant tell you how many times ive roared down the highway at the breakneck speed of 50 miles per hour in my 1996 Chevy Sportvan (pedal to the METAL baby, thats how i roll.) Its got all the markings of a classic hot rod, from the 48 foot turning radius to that sporty 6600 pound curb weight. and man ive got one heck of a lead foot in this autobahn racer so its good to know i dodged this bullet. I bet those cops have no clue about my high performance 33 gallon gas tank and optional school bus conversion (with sweet anti-lock braking too)
"it shall run for 140 minutes in length, star shiah lebouf and will ferrel, be directed by Michael Bay in 3D, and be inexplicably green-lit for endless sequels until we produce a live action bejewelled starring the remaining cast of Firefly and a jar of expired mayonaisse." -Satan
Gentlemen I'm from the future, a microsoft you do not yet know, and I bring dire warnings. here in this foul year of 2054 where we've reached windows 456,776 elite premium solar helium wombat version, the releases never end.. The upcoming version is just a box with a nine volt battery and a stack of old playing cards but we cannot stop. newer products are being released every millisecond without so much as a tertiary consideration for what, if anything, users still want from us. The leaks are also getting worse, with version 914,135 electric pickle teleportation premium recently being leaked from the year 2089 by a screaming, sweating man in a time-suit known only as ball-mar. The latest version of Microsoft Windows RT CBBQ pro pony mobile implant indigestion premium was also mistakenly leaked to a confused Thomas Jefferson during a continental congress meeting of the Land Ordinance of 1784. this was approved by the Microsoft board of directors in the year 2153, despite the computer not even existing, with a standing ovation.
help us. Even now windows 11-14 are being released. First to feral cats off a european costal city, next to an air conditioner in tempe arizona, and finally to a street light in a dennys parking lot. Windows 28 will simultaneously require, and forbid, the use of a touchscreen to gain functionality to a windows "start" button (later this will be renamed the Gorloc device, in honor of Gorlok the malevolent for a future release predicted by the corporate runemaster during the coming interplanetary ork battle.) I beg you, stop the madness.
As a free-as-in-speech dyed in the wool ocarina playing software song singing arduino hacking saint ignucius conjuring acolyte im here to temper your joy with nuggets of duh.
1. Adobe photoshop blobs and binaries are coming to chromium OS, which happens to use the Linux kernel.
2. Adobes longstanding track record of outright contempt for users and their work will be a part of this release.
3. Adobe products will be slow, and limited to what can be accomplished in an architecture of 2 gigabytes of ram, an integrated Intel video card, and 16 gb of storage (most of which will be used by the OS.)
4. your EULA will have been drafted and proofread by former east-bloc Stazi.
Even after axing 4000 employees and preeching a new leaf culture, Microsoft is still so divorced from its customer base that it requires an intrusive surveillance program to figure out how to deliver a functional product.
Here are some hints for free: listen to your customers and stop treating them like unwashed hobos. shutter your dismal app store, stop making the OS contingent upon capacitive touch screen, release one, one version of the OS instead of a whole shit sandwich of different versions the average user cares nothing about. bring back the start button. Quit trying to make me use your internet browser, its a wretched piece of garbage. Stop with the search engine, its alexa rank is ten fold lower than yahoo and its results are worse than awful.
Trust is a pretty big thing here in America. Gravity? sure, i get it, i use that every day (unless its not still free. i do have a budget you know.) But sir isaac newton? seriously shady guy. how can i trust someone that looks that much like Weird Al Yankovik but never once dropped a mix tape...you have to approach the guy kinda carefully. dispersive prisms are sweet, but did you know that Pink Floyds dark side of the moon album uses them too? Isaac newton probably invented them so he could have a mix tape, but through the magic of Pink Floyd (prisms help roger waters rock harder) +1 to Isaac for helping out (maybe he can be trusted now. maybe.)
and climate change? sure, i get that and its been explained and it helped al gore invent the internet and now flights to florida are a lot cheaper than before. But 300 scientists around the world? hold on. can they be trusted? i mean what if they dont wash their hands after going to the bathroom? You cant trust people who dont use their turn signals either, so those guys are right out. What if climate change was secretly used in 9/11? do those scientists support the troops? EXACTLY. these are important questions about science that keep us up at night. Also if I disagree with it, then that makes it a THEORY and not a science fact, which means it can only be used in movies until they make it come true.
although somewhat offtopic, the scope and depth of this investigation shouldnt be left outside the context of the US foreign policy of the past 40 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... the fact that a south american country was once rocked out of socialist/communist sentiment by a US backed military coup from 1978 to 1983 is nothing new, but the pace at which its begun to return to self-determenance is rather intriguing. Under Nestor Kirchner's term as president, in 2003 the Argentine Congress revoked the longstanding amnesty laws, also called the "Pardon Laws." In 2005 the Argentine Supreme Court ruled these laws were unconstitutional. The government re-opened prosecution of war crimes committed largely against socialist/communist sympathizers in an effort to enforce a capitalist vote. Now, we have prosecution of tax evasion committed by the wealthy.
5 years of CIA terror in Argentina only staved off reform efforts and arguably a move 22 years later towards kirchner's leftist political policies of direct alignment with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro at the start of his term. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as is exhibited by her drone policy was certainly a clear enough threat for the US to parade the Maletinazo scandal out with the help of the FBI in an attempt to disqualify her election, however to no real effect.
Auto loans to borrowers considered subprime, those with credit scores at or below 640, have spiked in the last five years with roughly 25 percent of all new auto loans made last year subprime,
the rise of --and lets call it what it is, predatory lending -- in the auto industry is due to a number of factors. Auto purchases from first time buyers, millennials, are down by 30% and a number of millenials by age 18 simply never applied for a drivers license. The bump from cash-for-klunkers, while nice, hasnt been able to produce sustained profit increases for dealers in light of more efficient, less failure prone cars that see service less often. congressional calls for austerity and government shutdowns have reduced consumer confidence after a crushing economic recession. And finally, with american wages at an alltime low and the wealth gap ever expanding, its hard to imagine many dealers can resist the allure of a sales model that results in a more expensive vehicle that nets a longer period of recurring revenue for lending agencies that are basically wings of the automotive brand (Honda Financial Services for example)
The problem is systemic. industry practices like this dont emerge until the dregs have been drained and the market is contracting due to uncontrollable economic greed. outlaw these business practices and reform business related legislation in general to include more acceptance of a post-consumer capitalism that no longer expands inexorably
comparing interstellar research and exploration to consumer capitalism really is like comparing besan to jackfruit. The goals are entirely different, and the reward as well. Gravity, the film, may have cost more to produce than the Indian mars mission, but its jusified by a seven fold return of $716,392,705 dollars at the box office. wealth is its goal. After a month, the film will go on to blu-ray, netflix, and other less lucrative outlets. After a year it will be nearly forgotten. in 5 years Sandra Bullock will be getting AARP membership notices. in 10 years George Clooney will be well into the average age for a hip replacement surgery.
Mangalyaan's six month mission is about collecting data that will be studied, reviewed, and scrutinized for far longer than the age of a "Gravity" blu-ray. It will continue to pay dividends long after its orbit has decayed. its actions pave the way for discoveries into planetary physics and science, not coffee mugs and concession sales. Mangalyaan's science may one day help solve some of the most complex questions in astrophysics, or it may help start colonies on other planets. Mangalyaan's goal is science, knowledge, and progress toward a bright future.
Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison after he pled guilty to a felony. in america its important to distinguish misdemeanors and felonies as most employers dont care about the former. Misdemeanors are traffic citations or DUI first offense and many are willing to overlook them in white-collar professions. a felony however is a different matter. Felonies in the US ban you in many states from public assistance like food stamps or government housing assistance. a felony can get you apartment application rejected, you car insurance increased, your credit rating destroyed, and will (despite what you were convicted of) destroy your life forever. If you want to buy a home, most homeowners associations will categorically deny the sale if you have a prior felony conviction. Felons cant hold politcal office, and are often subject to very strict mandatory parole terms imposed after their sentence for up to a year or more. Whats worse is most prisons also require you to pay restitution for their "services" and while a misdemeanor is often expungeable from your criminal record, a felony is not. Prior felony convictions in many states cannot be served at bars, and may be forbidden from owning a firearm. Kiriakou isnt being punished for "helping the terrorists." Hes just learning what its like to live in americas untouchable caste, a scarlet letter that affects more than 5 million americans currently.
. By displaying the results front and center and tweeting about emmayouarenext.com's viral success, the campaign's organizers are perhaps more focused on promoting their own brand and services than issues of privacy and gender equality.
Forget the brand, forget the event, and forget this firm ever existed. We're talking about a fairly controversial site but what needs to be respected is the tenacity and seemingly endless realm of their users. after a cat was abused, they tracked down a fourteen year olds full name and address in under 24 hours. They tracked down a bomb threat in 2007 to a student in a High School in Pflugerville, Texas in under 6 hours and have a laundry list of relatively high profile internet attacks. Both Verizon and AT&T have banned the site at some time during its existence. Speaking as someone who works in hosting, What this ad agency fails to realize is once you become a target of 4chan we questionlessly invoke our right to terminate your service at any time. Its either a chargeback at worst on our credit card processing or we watch everything from signup to shared/vps hosting go up in flames.
America:Signatory country with no intention to ratify the treaty, with no binding targets China: Developing countries without binding targets
Developing countries do not have binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol, but are still committed under the treaty to reduce their emissions. the US not only refuses binding targets, but actively refuses to ratify the treaty. in other words, we signed it but we just dont give a fuck.
theres been a worldwide campaign to curb global warming since 1997 that america has ignored for more than a decade. Its about-face holier-than-thou shit like this makes america irrelevant as anything other than a periodic nuisance to other countries legitimately trying to address global challenges in the 21st century. 83 countries are already on this america. You missed the bus, not them.
As a PHB, im sorry for your unfortunate circumstances. I've never been allowed to hire a Ph.D, and its mostly because im told it reflects poorly on me if I hire candidates with no professional experience. yes, a stupid political reason precludes me from letting you put food on the table.
another reason is that if you're looking to be a software developer, "PhD" is incredibly overqualified. I dont look for a candidate that has a decade of collegiate experience because as you put it correctly, the landscape is a moving target. That is to say, im more interested in what youve achieved yourself and learned on your own than I am about your academic pedigree. Did you implement or design something? those are also bonuses. To be blunt, I've hired Iraq vets with no college experience as python devs, and never been happier (or more under budget.)
The problem I feel is that there are more Ph.D's than there are googles and nasas. Have you tried ANL or CERN? While im certain you wont be a computer programmer alone there, I can with a fair degree of certitude say you'll have better chances.
Government law enforcement realized private companies would eventually do this, so they dont target the devices directly. Its why warrantless wiretaps by major telecom companies were later granted retroactive immunity. this hurts local municipalities prosecuting sexting cases and drumming up charges to shore up votes for the prosecutors re-election, but the FBI and CIA dont care.
Correct! the Balfour Declaration from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild helped to calcify the Zionist Organization (ZO) in their drive to establish an israeli state after Jews took control of the region. My apologies.
the "islamic state" is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIS removed "Iraq and the Levant" from its name and began to refer to itself as the Islamic State, so for anyone who doesnt dive headfirst into whatever "foreign conflict" the US is interested in this week, theres that.
ISIS seeks the establishment of a caliphate, a type of Islamic state led by a group of religious authorities under a supreme leader (caliph) who is believed to be the successor to Mohammed. Thats fine. Many other countries in the middle east are governed in terms of the Qur'an. Heck, we divided up the middle east for the better half of 45 years into various citystates based on the misplaced concept of manifest destiny, which finds its origins in Christianity. Israel is governed as a Jewish state and believe me, if you arent a birthright Jew your options for public services and housing are severely limited.
The problem with ISIS is that it rejects the political divisions established by Western powers at the end of World War I in the Sykes-Picot Agreement as it absorbs territory in Syria and Iraq. Then again the United States basically ignored Palestine when it pulled israel from its magical sky god book and transported displaced Jews into it after WWII. Historically our response is to bomb the everloving snot out of anyone who disagrees with American anything but it cant work against a sustained, strategic effort. in short, Arabs are Muslim, and extremism preys on those who have become determined with nothing to lose.
If Australia wants a peek into the exact reason this keeps happening, its because of our foreign policy. Iran and Iraq are only the most recent that come to mind but this extremism only flourishes because of more than 50 years of americans, under pretexts ranging from anti communism to the carter doctrine, fucking with middle eastern countries. We tried to overthrow the palestinian freely-elected government, hamas, and when it didnt work, israel entered a 2008 land war and simply murdered their elected political officials. we overthrow countless governments and prop up dictators in the region that serve out interests while casting average arabs and persians, mostly muslim, into torment and strife. We choose who governs in syria by funding rebel groups, we determine if and when an Egyptian president stays or goes by funding military leaders and ensuring coups proceed as planned. Our problem is that we are completely blind to the fact that while we control political leadership across the region, we have forever lost "the hearts and minds" as george bush so eloquently phrased it, of the very people we we claim to help by bringing our special brand of democracy.
This is very controversial but ill say it anyhow. Osama Bin Laden had some, not all but some, reasonable requests of the US government in response to the terrorist event on 9/11 that we could have implemented along with domestic security measures that would provide a reasonable, but not perfect assurance, of our security. Instead, we chose to dump 3 trillion dollars into a 15 year campaign of scorched earth across afghanistan, and in the process created more terrorists. we dumped a portion of that cash into Iraq, murdered their elected leader (whom we supported during George HW Bush and whom was willing to negotiate a surrender and truce) and watched as sectarian violence killed millions. That was the democracy we brought. and in the wake of Iraq, we have the exisence of a militant group that not only rejects western democracy, but has slammed hard right into religeous extremism because after failing all else, most members are content with trying a nuclear option having exhausted their resources. Maybe it is allah punishing them, maybe its not, maybe its all arbitrary but at least its something, and so far the americans hate it so it must be correct.
researchers in 1973:Jesus christ we've just found a horrible disease in africa! Nixon: lol africa. researchers in 1995: jesus guys this outbreak just killed 250 people in the congo. the clinton: but i dont play the congo. researchers in 2007: guise this deathtoll is over 1000 so far and Western Uganda is looking pretty bad. Dubya: What do you mean western union kicks ass their commercials are funny. Ebola 2014: remember me? LOL KILLSTREAK=4000 and i took a few medics too u mad? Obama: I'm dedicating 175 million dollars to fight this horrible disease congress: nope.jpg Obama....seriously.... Congress: LOL y u mad bro?
If theres a magic number for tesla, somewhere theyre hoping to get in order to dramatically increase sales of their technological wonderland on wheels, theyre sadly mistaken. Your target demographic in the future does not fucking care.
According to the AAA, From 2007 to 2011, the number of cars purchased by people aged 18 to 34, fell almost 30%, and according to a study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, only 44% of teens obtain a drivers license within the first year of becoming eligible and just half, 54% are licensed before turning 18. Speaking as a millenial, let me be frank when I address the clearly shocked and disappointed Baby Boomer parents that find my lack of enthusiasm infuriating.
You're right, i want electric vehicles to staunch global warming and climate change. and I sure do like that cellphone I'm always carrying. However, You're delusional if you think I want a new car . You wrecked the economy, crushed the housing market, and saddled me with student loans that can never be forgiven and that will garnish my wages even after death. until last year, i didnt have a chance in hell of getting health insurance. Most of my friends work more than one job, not many of them earn a programmers salary like me and even if they did theyd be furious to find out most of it (after the universities generous cut) is going to an apartment owned by a capital investment firm that doesnt care about my broken shower. I've never met my landlord but i sure as hell know who my loan officer is. A car represents tax, title, license, maintenance, and fuel money I dont have. It represents parking tickets and accident insurance and a parking space. Not only do i lack the cash to buy this car, but chances are likely i'll never have the credit rating you did.
so drop it low. I dont care. I live downtown and I reverse-commute to the exurbs because the traffic is easier and im not as frightened of minorities as your generation was. I own a bicycle and take the bus if theres inclimate weather. The car is a 2001 crown victoria fleet vehicle I purchased used from the city with a broken door lock switch and a sagging headliner and honestly, i dont care. cars do not exemplify who I am or my success as a person and as more companies become copacetic with telecommuting, they'll only become less relevant to me.
Logitech has some serious issues to contend with. Namely, they dont adhere to standards entirely like bluetooth and expect users to install management and configuration software. this software is cloud based and requires an internet connection to function as well as constant communication with the logitech servers. The other issue is that this might not be the right direction at all. Home ownership has sharply declined after the great recession. the new owners are investment firms that bought up the property for a song and would seek to minimize expenses like regular maintenance and home automation upgrades for their tenents. At best their venture will amount to a bunch of neat devices that still dont entirely play nice with eachother, and a few houses with enough background RF radiation to broil a turkey in the living room.
Tim cook, talking head who has only ever held managerial roles in various fortune 100 companies, expels platitudes about the sanctity of the iGalaxy for users who slept through FISA and NSA backdoors and only recently began giving a shit when selfies and nudes were leaked from the magical cloud by notorious hacker 4chan.
Once a company can questionlessly assert the music you like, add and remove content, and that content is no longer in your immediate control, then no, its not your device. One could argue that the DRM structure imposed upon apple devices alone should be enough to convince the buyer to re-evaluate their purchase. Apple users should seriously question what it is that theyve invested in, if anything, and review the terms and conditions of their iPods, Pads, and music service to determine just what it is they dropped $200 or more on to listen to the music they like.
And if it comes to it, consider alternatives. You're the customer after all and your privacy and conditions should largely be non negotiable. Amazon sells DRM-free music, as does beatport. Use LibMTP for your mtp transfers, or better yet pick a device that hasnt adopted a slower, serialized transfer standard designed to cripple the users rights.
AT&T is reaching out and offering a nicely wrapped turd to customers because its seen SOPA and PIPA go down in utter flames thanks to internet advocacy. We may not have caught Kony 2012, and ALS certainly wasnt cured with a bucket of ice, but the fact remains that internet users have inundated social media as well as the FCC formal request system with insistant pleas for net neutrality. AT&T is at a weak point, as its general position of ramming controversial and problematic legislation through in order to lube the wheels of its moneytrain has run into a plutocrats biggest problem. Namely, that if regular people are all allowed to vote and voice their opinions individually, your ability to control the outcome in your favour is eliminated. Its why we have the electoral college instead of an FCC-type system that permits individual input.
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I remember receiving a copy of this stuff years ago to help keep me safe and it had several bugs.
1. The binary wont execute on System V release 4 (it came on a music CD i think.) Out of desparation I tried getting it to run on SGI and my trusty DEC but still, nothing. Wine seemed to be the only software that could get the damn thing working (I had to upgrade to a GNU/Linux personal computer)
2. It didnt work with lynx and curl. Even worse, it never worked as promised with my usenet newsreader NetNews. Slrn and Trn also didnt get protected and i was subjected to horribly lude stories on alt.sysadmin.recovery.
3. Id hoped it would finally keep me safe from that damned pirate radio station on 10 meter, but boy was I ever wrong. those tasteless SSTV scans? you guessed it, my sound card picked them right up! what a piece of junk.
4. my FidoNet dialup? I had to talk to the admins but Ben Baker said it wasnt compatible. can you imagine? not even compatible with FIDONET!
Wilsons goal of enabling anyone to privately fabricate an untraceable gun is part of a larger anarchist mission: To show how technology can render the entire notion of government obsolete. Hes spent the last two years developing firearms designed to be printed as easily as ink on a page, neutering attempts at gun control. 'This is a way to jab at the bleeding hearts of these total statists' Wilson says. 'Its about humiliating the power that wants to humiliate you,' he says.
I'm all on board the maker train (I own a makerbot at home) but Jesus tap-dancing Christ...Anarchy? You dont need to make "ghost" guns to skirt gun control. After 4 major shootings in the US in 2 years, lawmakers themselves refuse to enact any sort of gun control. Hell, getting a gun in america is as easy as filling out a form. the biggest hurtle is the waiting period and even that is only a sometimes kind of thing. We cant even use serialized guns to independently track homicide rates in our country unless we get a FoIA from the ATF, which incidentally hasnt had a full time director in years. News reports routinely redact the make and model of firearms used in shootings out of fearfulness they'll incur a defamation lawsuit from the NRA. if you really want to "humiliate the power" and "jab at hearts" you leak confidential information. Hell, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are national treasures and they did it without a gun.
my prediction is the homemade printable gun will be outlawed not from some evil 'obama gunna take muh gunz" scheme but by lobbying pressure from the NRA, who represent weapons manufacturers profit margins (not you.)
You'll have to go a lot further if you want to come close to United States levels of paranoia. We once shut down the entire city of boston because we couldnt tell the difference between a light-up sign and a bomb. Our monument to the last major terrorist attack on america is so heavily fortified its nicknamed "fear tower" and the public park in front of it requires extensive security screening as well as a reservation just to get in. We once spent 3 trillion dollars attacking a country that not only had nothing to do with 9/11, but that we supported extensively in the past. We used the phrase 'support the troops,' a sentiment also used by Nazi Germany, to make sure our citizens went along with a war we couldnt win. We've shamed and humiliated entire generations of US Citizens in our zeal to ensure the elderly and children arent carrying explosives. Hell, we once had a color coded scare-o-meter to tell people how nervous they should feel on any given day.
I cant tell you how many times ive roared down the highway at the breakneck speed of 50 miles per hour in my 1996 Chevy Sportvan (pedal to the METAL baby, thats how i roll.) Its got all the markings of a classic hot rod, from the 48 foot turning radius to that sporty 6600 pound curb weight. and man ive got one heck of a lead foot in this autobahn racer so its good to know i dodged this bullet. I bet those cops have no clue about my high performance 33 gallon gas tank and optional school bus conversion (with sweet anti-lock braking too)
"it shall run for 140 minutes in length, star shiah lebouf and will ferrel, be directed by Michael Bay in 3D, and be inexplicably green-lit for endless sequels until we produce a live action bejewelled starring the remaining cast of Firefly and a jar of expired mayonaisse."
-Satan
Gentlemen I'm from the future, a microsoft you do not yet know, and I bring dire warnings. here in this foul year of 2054 where we've reached windows 456,776 elite premium solar helium wombat version, the releases never end.. The upcoming version is just a box with a nine volt battery and a stack of old playing cards but we cannot stop. newer products are being released every millisecond without so much as a tertiary consideration for what, if anything, users still want from us. The leaks are also getting worse, with version 914,135 electric pickle teleportation premium recently being leaked from the year 2089 by a screaming, sweating man in a time-suit known only as ball-mar. The latest version of Microsoft Windows RT CBBQ pro pony mobile implant indigestion premium was also mistakenly leaked to a confused Thomas Jefferson during a continental congress meeting of the Land Ordinance of 1784. this was approved by the Microsoft board of directors in the year 2153, despite the computer not even existing, with a standing ovation.
help us. Even now windows 11-14 are being released. First to feral cats off a european costal city, next to an air conditioner in tempe arizona, and finally to a street light in a dennys parking lot. Windows 28 will simultaneously require, and forbid, the use of a touchscreen to gain functionality to a windows "start" button (later this will be renamed the Gorloc device, in honor of Gorlok the malevolent for a future release predicted by the corporate runemaster during the coming interplanetary ork battle.) I beg you, stop the madness.
As a free-as-in-speech dyed in the wool ocarina playing software song singing arduino hacking saint ignucius conjuring acolyte im here to temper your joy with nuggets of duh.
1. Adobe photoshop blobs and binaries are coming to chromium OS, which happens to use the Linux kernel.
2. Adobes longstanding track record of outright contempt for users and their work will be a part of this release.
3. Adobe products will be slow, and limited to what can be accomplished in an architecture of 2 gigabytes of ram, an integrated Intel video card, and 16 gb of storage (most of which will be used by the OS.)
4. your EULA will have been drafted and proofread by former east-bloc Stazi.
Even after axing 4000 employees and preeching a new leaf culture, Microsoft is still so divorced from its customer base that it requires an intrusive surveillance program to figure out how to deliver a functional product.
Here are some hints for free: listen to your customers and stop treating them like unwashed hobos. shutter your dismal app store, stop making the OS contingent upon capacitive touch screen, release one, one version of the OS instead of a whole shit sandwich of different versions the average user cares nothing about. bring back the start button. Quit trying to make me use your internet browser, its a wretched piece of garbage. Stop with the search engine, its alexa rank is ten fold lower than yahoo and its results are worse than awful.
Trust is a pretty big thing here in America. Gravity? sure, i get it, i use that every day (unless its not still free. i do have a budget you know.) But sir isaac newton? seriously shady guy. how can i trust someone that looks that much like Weird Al Yankovik but never once dropped a mix tape...you have to approach the guy kinda carefully. dispersive prisms are sweet, but did you know that Pink Floyds dark side of the moon album uses them too? Isaac newton probably invented them so he could have a mix tape, but through the magic of Pink Floyd (prisms help roger waters rock harder) +1 to Isaac for helping out (maybe he can be trusted now. maybe.)
and climate change? sure, i get that and its been explained and it helped al gore invent the internet and now flights to florida are a lot cheaper than before. But 300 scientists around the world? hold on. can they be trusted? i mean what if they dont wash their hands after going to the bathroom? You cant trust people who dont use their turn signals either, so those guys are right out. What if climate change was secretly used in 9/11? do those scientists support the troops? EXACTLY. these are important questions about science that keep us up at night. Also if I disagree with it, then that makes it a THEORY and not a science fact, which means it can only be used in movies until they make it come true.
although somewhat offtopic, the scope and depth of this investigation shouldnt be left outside the context of the US foreign policy of the past 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
the fact that a south american country was once rocked out of socialist/communist sentiment by a US backed military coup from 1978 to 1983 is nothing new, but the pace at which its begun to return to self-determenance is rather intriguing. Under Nestor Kirchner's term as president, in 2003 the Argentine Congress revoked the longstanding amnesty laws, also called the "Pardon Laws." In 2005 the Argentine Supreme Court ruled these laws were unconstitutional. The government re-opened prosecution of war crimes committed largely against socialist/communist sympathizers in an effort to enforce a capitalist vote. Now, we have prosecution of tax evasion committed by the wealthy.
5 years of CIA terror in Argentina only staved off reform efforts and arguably a move 22 years later towards kirchner's leftist political policies of direct alignment with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro at the start of his term. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as is exhibited by her drone policy was certainly a clear enough threat for the US to parade the Maletinazo scandal out with the help of the FBI in an attempt to disqualify her election, however to no real effect.
Auto loans to borrowers considered subprime, those with credit scores at or below 640, have spiked in the last five years with roughly 25 percent of all new auto loans made last year subprime,
the rise of --and lets call it what it is, predatory lending -- in the auto industry is due to a number of factors. Auto purchases from first time buyers, millennials, are down by 30% and a number of millenials by age 18 simply never applied for a drivers license. The bump from cash-for-klunkers, while nice, hasnt been able to produce sustained profit increases for dealers in light of more efficient, less failure prone cars that see service less often. congressional calls for austerity and government shutdowns have reduced consumer confidence after a crushing economic recession. And finally, with american wages at an alltime low and the wealth gap ever expanding, its hard to imagine many dealers can resist the allure of a sales model that results in a more expensive vehicle that nets a longer period of recurring revenue for lending agencies that are basically wings of the automotive brand (Honda Financial Services for example)
The problem is systemic. industry practices like this dont emerge until the dregs have been drained and the market is contracting due to uncontrollable economic greed. outlaw these business practices and reform business related legislation in general to include more acceptance of a post-consumer capitalism that no longer expands inexorably
comparing interstellar research and exploration to consumer capitalism really is like comparing besan to jackfruit. The goals are entirely different, and the reward as well. Gravity, the film, may have cost more to produce than the Indian mars mission, but its jusified by a seven fold return of $716,392,705 dollars at the box office. wealth is its goal. After a month, the film will go on to blu-ray, netflix, and other less lucrative outlets. After a year it will be nearly forgotten. in 5 years Sandra Bullock will be getting AARP membership notices. in 10 years George Clooney will be well into the average age for a hip replacement surgery.
Mangalyaan's six month mission is about collecting data that will be studied, reviewed, and scrutinized for far longer than the age of a "Gravity" blu-ray. It will continue to pay dividends long after its orbit has decayed. its actions pave the way for discoveries into planetary physics and science, not coffee mugs and concession sales. Mangalyaan's science may one day help solve some of the most complex questions in astrophysics, or it may help start colonies on other planets. Mangalyaan's goal is science, knowledge, and progress toward a bright future.
Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison after he pled guilty to a felony. in america its important to distinguish misdemeanors and felonies as most employers dont care about the former. Misdemeanors are traffic citations or DUI first offense and many are willing to overlook them in white-collar professions. a felony however is a different matter. Felonies in the US ban you in many states from public assistance like food stamps or government housing assistance. a felony can get you apartment application rejected, you car insurance increased, your credit rating destroyed, and will (despite what you were convicted of) destroy your life forever. If you want to buy a home, most homeowners associations will categorically deny the sale if you have a prior felony conviction. Felons cant hold politcal office, and are often subject to very strict mandatory parole terms imposed after their sentence for up to a year or more. Whats worse is most prisons also require you to pay restitution for their "services" and while a misdemeanor is often expungeable from your criminal record, a felony is not. Prior felony convictions in many states cannot be served at bars, and may be forbidden from owning a firearm. Kiriakou isnt being punished for "helping the terrorists." Hes just learning what its like to live in americas untouchable caste, a scarlet letter that affects more than 5 million americans currently.
. By displaying the results front and center and tweeting about emmayouarenext.com's viral success, the campaign's organizers are perhaps more focused on promoting their own brand and services than issues of privacy and gender equality.
Forget the brand, forget the event, and forget this firm ever existed. We're talking about a fairly controversial site but what needs to be respected is the tenacity and seemingly endless realm of their users. after a cat was abused, they tracked down a fourteen year olds full name and address in under 24 hours. They tracked down a bomb threat in 2007 to a student in a High School in Pflugerville, Texas in under 6 hours and have a laundry list of relatively high profile internet attacks. Both Verizon and AT&T have banned the site at some time during its existence. Speaking as someone who works in hosting, What this ad agency fails to realize is once you become a target of 4chan we questionlessly invoke our right to terminate your service at any time. Its either a chargeback at worst on our credit card processing or we watch everything from signup to shared/vps hosting go up in flames.
America:Signatory country with no intention to ratify the treaty, with no binding targets
China: Developing countries without binding targets
Developing countries do not have binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol, but are still committed under the treaty to reduce their emissions. the US not only refuses binding targets, but actively refuses to ratify the treaty. in other words, we signed it but we just dont give a fuck.
theres been a worldwide campaign to curb global warming since 1997 that america has ignored for more than a decade. Its about-face holier-than-thou shit like this makes america irrelevant as anything other than a periodic nuisance to other countries legitimately trying to address global challenges in the 21st century. 83 countries are already on this america. You missed the bus, not them.
As a PHB, im sorry for your unfortunate circumstances. I've never been allowed to hire a Ph.D, and its mostly because im told it reflects poorly on me if I hire candidates with no professional experience. yes, a stupid political reason precludes me from letting you put food on the table.
another reason is that if you're looking to be a software developer, "PhD" is incredibly overqualified. I dont look for a candidate that has a decade of collegiate experience because as you put it correctly, the landscape is a moving target. That is to say, im more interested in what youve achieved yourself and learned on your own than I am about your academic pedigree. Did you implement or design something? those are also bonuses. To be blunt, I've hired Iraq vets with no college experience as python devs, and never been happier (or more under budget.)
The problem I feel is that there are more Ph.D's than there are googles and nasas. Have you tried ANL or CERN? While im certain you wont be a computer programmer alone there, I can with a fair degree of certitude say you'll have better chances.
Government law enforcement realized private companies would eventually do this, so they dont target the devices directly. Its why warrantless wiretaps by major telecom companies were later granted retroactive immunity. this hurts local municipalities prosecuting sexting cases and drumming up charges to shore up votes for the prosecutors re-election, but the FBI and CIA dont care.
Correct! the Balfour Declaration from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild helped to calcify the Zionist Organization (ZO) in their drive to establish an israeli state after Jews took control of the region. My apologies.
the "islamic state" is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIS removed "Iraq and the Levant" from its name and began to refer to itself as the Islamic State, so for anyone who doesnt dive headfirst into whatever "foreign conflict" the US is interested in this week, theres that.
ISIS seeks the establishment of a caliphate, a type of Islamic state led by a group of religious authorities under a supreme leader (caliph) who is believed to be the successor to Mohammed. Thats fine. Many other countries in the middle east are governed in terms of the Qur'an. Heck, we divided up the middle east for the better half of 45 years into various citystates based on the misplaced concept of manifest destiny, which finds its origins in Christianity. Israel is governed as a Jewish state and believe me, if you arent a birthright Jew your options for public services and housing are severely limited. The problem with ISIS is that it rejects the political divisions established by Western powers at the end of World War I in the Sykes-Picot Agreement as it absorbs territory in Syria and Iraq. Then again the United States basically ignored Palestine when it pulled israel from its magical sky god book and transported displaced Jews into it after WWII. Historically our response is to bomb the everloving snot out of anyone who disagrees with American anything but it cant work against a sustained, strategic effort. in short, Arabs are Muslim, and extremism preys on those who have become determined with nothing to lose.
If Australia wants a peek into the exact reason this keeps happening, its because of our foreign policy. Iran and Iraq are only the most recent that come to mind but this extremism only flourishes because of more than 50 years of americans, under pretexts ranging from anti communism to the carter doctrine, fucking with middle eastern countries. We tried to overthrow the palestinian freely-elected government, hamas, and when it didnt work, israel entered a 2008 land war and simply murdered their elected political officials. we overthrow countless governments and prop up dictators in the region that serve out interests while casting average arabs and persians, mostly muslim, into torment and strife. We choose who governs in syria by funding rebel groups, we determine if and when an Egyptian president stays or goes by funding military leaders and ensuring coups proceed as planned. Our problem is that we are completely blind to the fact that while we control political leadership across the region, we have forever lost "the hearts and minds" as george bush so eloquently phrased it, of the very people we we claim to help by bringing our special brand of democracy.
This is very controversial but ill say it anyhow. Osama Bin Laden had some, not all but some, reasonable requests of the US government in response to the terrorist event on 9/11 that we could have implemented along with domestic security measures that would provide a reasonable, but not perfect assurance, of our security. Instead, we chose to dump 3 trillion dollars into a 15 year campaign of scorched earth across afghanistan, and in the process created more terrorists. we dumped a portion of that cash into Iraq, murdered their elected leader (whom we supported during George HW Bush and whom was willing to negotiate a surrender and truce) and watched as sectarian violence killed millions. That was the democracy we brought. and in the wake of Iraq, we have the exisence of a militant group that not only rejects western democracy, but has slammed hard right into religeous extremism because after failing all else, most members are content with trying a nuclear option having exhausted their resources. Maybe it is allah punishing them, maybe its not, maybe its all arbitrary but at least its something, and so far the americans hate it so it must be correct.
researchers in 1973:Jesus christ we've just found a horrible disease in africa! ....seriously....
Nixon: lol africa.
researchers in 1995: jesus guys this outbreak just killed 250 people in the congo.
the clinton: but i dont play the congo.
researchers in 2007: guise this deathtoll is over 1000 so far and Western Uganda is looking pretty bad.
Dubya: What do you mean western union kicks ass their commercials are funny.
Ebola 2014: remember me? LOL KILLSTREAK=4000 and i took a few medics too u mad?
Obama: I'm dedicating 175 million dollars to fight this horrible disease
congress: nope.jpg
Obama
Congress: LOL y u mad bro?
If theres a magic number for tesla, somewhere theyre hoping to get in order to dramatically increase sales of their technological wonderland on wheels, theyre sadly mistaken. Your target demographic in the future does not fucking care.
According to the AAA, From 2007 to 2011, the number of cars purchased by people aged 18 to 34, fell almost 30%, and according to a study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, only 44% of teens obtain a drivers license within the first year of becoming eligible and just half, 54% are licensed before turning 18. Speaking as a millenial, let me be frank when I address the clearly shocked and disappointed Baby Boomer parents that find my lack of enthusiasm infuriating.
You're right, i want electric vehicles to staunch global warming and climate change. and I sure do like that cellphone I'm always carrying. However, You're delusional if you think I want a new car . You wrecked the economy, crushed the housing market, and saddled me with student loans that can never be forgiven and that will garnish my wages even after death. until last year, i didnt have a chance in hell of getting health insurance. Most of my friends work more than one job, not many of them earn a programmers salary like me and even if they did theyd be furious to find out most of it (after the universities generous cut) is going to an apartment owned by a capital investment firm that doesnt care about my broken shower. I've never met my landlord but i sure as hell know who my loan officer is. A car represents tax, title, license, maintenance, and fuel money I dont have. It represents parking tickets and accident insurance and a parking space. Not only do i lack the cash to buy this car, but chances are likely i'll never have the credit rating you did.
so drop it low. I dont care. I live downtown and I reverse-commute to the exurbs because the traffic is easier and im not as frightened of minorities as your generation was. I own a bicycle and take the bus if theres inclimate weather. The car is a 2001 crown victoria fleet vehicle I purchased used from the city with a broken door lock switch and a sagging headliner and honestly, i dont care. cars do not exemplify who I am or my success as a person and as more companies become copacetic with telecommuting, they'll only become less relevant to me.
Logitech has some serious issues to contend with. Namely, they dont adhere to standards entirely like bluetooth and expect users to install management and configuration software. this software is cloud based and requires an internet connection to function as well as constant communication with the logitech servers. The other issue is that this might not be the right direction at all. Home ownership has sharply declined after the great recession. the new owners are investment firms that bought up the property for a song and would seek to minimize expenses like regular maintenance and home automation upgrades for their tenents. At best their venture will amount to a bunch of neat devices that still dont entirely play nice with eachother, and a few houses with enough background RF radiation to broil a turkey in the living room.
Tim cook, talking head who has only ever held managerial roles in various fortune 100 companies, expels platitudes about the sanctity of the iGalaxy for users who slept through FISA and NSA backdoors and only recently began giving a shit when selfies and nudes were leaked from the magical cloud by notorious hacker 4chan.
Once a company can questionlessly assert the music you like, add and remove content, and that content is no longer in your immediate control, then no, its not your device. One could argue that the DRM structure imposed upon apple devices alone should be enough to convince the buyer to re-evaluate their purchase. Apple users should seriously question what it is that theyve invested in, if anything, and review the terms and conditions of their iPods, Pads, and music service to determine just what it is they dropped $200 or more on to listen to the music they like.
And if it comes to it, consider alternatives. You're the customer after all and your privacy and conditions should largely be non negotiable. Amazon sells DRM-free music, as does beatport. Use LibMTP for your mtp transfers, or better yet pick a device that hasnt adopted a slower, serialized transfer standard designed to cripple the users rights.
AT&T is reaching out and offering a nicely wrapped turd to customers because its seen SOPA and PIPA go down in utter flames thanks to internet advocacy. We may not have caught Kony 2012, and ALS certainly wasnt cured with a bucket of ice, but the fact remains that internet users have inundated social media as well as the FCC formal request system with insistant pleas for net neutrality. AT&T is at a weak point, as its general position of ramming controversial and problematic legislation through in order to lube the wheels of its moneytrain has run into a plutocrats biggest problem. Namely, that if regular people are all allowed to vote and voice their opinions individually, your ability to control the outcome in your favour is eliminated. Its why we have the electoral college instead of an FCC-type system that permits individual input.
So stick it to these assclowns. Keep fighting. https://www.fcc.gov/comments