Fork the code. Maybe mozilla has no qualms about fucking its users with shady blobs but as a user, i sure as hell have a problem with it.
assert ($mad as $hell);
Britain and to a larger extent the United States both work hard to prop up repressive regimes they find benefitial to their interests. Somalia, Libya, hell even North Korea has received funds from the british taxpayer since 2012. To think that anyone in parliament gives two shits about some spyware is sadly wrong. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Open source community: this is excellent and we welcome the opportunity to enhance common protocols like smtp and http with this new mandate. Microsoft: we havent met an RFC we cant mangle. Exchange is so broken as to be unusable, Internet Explorer is more exploit than browser, and we hold patents on sharps and plusses for a clone of every major programming language in existence. dont expect this one to go anywhere fellas. Google: we'll add an option in chrome that you can click to disable monitoring. Clicking this option will cause a checkmark to appear. This checkmark will make the user feel feelings, and should probably do something with google plus. its a clickable option for google plus really. buy some of our neat glasses too. NSA: you realize Russ Housley and Brian Carpenter, both IETF former chairs, have worked with companies that rolled over when we asked for them to spy on you without telling anyone. Jari Arkko has only been around for a year, and we have enough IETF members in our pocket to keep it that way if we want. Go back to sleep, vote the two parties, and buy magnetic bumper ribbons during the next war to support what we tell you.
the BES or Blackberry Enterprise Server has been a piece of shit for as long as I can remember. I still have battle scars from managing it as it mangled inboxes and refused to connect to basics like exchange. They changed cryptography keys on it without notifying anyone and sometimes stopped supporting a legacy device entirely without any advanced notice. Third party companies that write their own management system might gain some traction for corporate offices that are sick to death of having to put up with blackberries 'fuck off and die' support. and hey, if your office is big enough, maybe blackberry will fork over some source and let your devops team write something that doesnt faceplant on the daily.
NSF:$15 million to support three, multi-institutional projects that will further develop, deploy and test future Internet architectures. news toilet:: science men confirm internet is fucking broken, and will efax new code to ensure epals can cyber talk better. Possibly related to hillary benghazi female kidnapping tea party obamacare, actually.
Rich man donating large sums of cash to education system shocked to find systems flaws are of great complexity and cannot be solved by simply shitting large sums of money into education. When reached for comment, Rich man was found paralyzed by indecisiveness during elusive hunt for tasty caviar on weekend aboard mega yacht.
Being so close to water and all, the entire idea of an e-reader for naval sailors is preposterous. The thought that a soldier for that matter would want or need an e-reader is equally absurd. an SOP is useless once the battery runs out. equipment manifests, authorized zone visitors for the day or coded diagrams all cease to exist if the device is dropped, run over, or damaged.
the enemies paper field manuals have just rendered two of your strongest allies in a battle, communication and comprehension, null.
"Thank you for playing our fine line of rental games. If you wish to continue playing, please upgrade to our latest game and continue paying your subscription fees in a timely manner."
Microsoft has been growing steadily against apache for a few reasons that are important to keep into perspective:
1. Park Webs: these are domain parking spaces that exist to sell targeted advertising in a users domain name until they change the DNS for the domain or add content in a shared/dedicated hosting environment. GoDaddy parkweb is exclusively Microsoft IIS for example as are many others as Parkwebs are static pages that dont need to be policed for vulnerability as, say, wordpress lamp stacks might. Its no skin off registrars and hosting providers backs to convert their parkwebs to IIS and usually microsoft will license it and do it for free or in GoDaddys case, pay them to switch to Microsoft IIS.
2.competitors: Nginx for example approaches near 20% marketshare. Its faster in some cases than apache and for many admins, easier to maintain.
the marketshare for active sites, not just all sites, is what is important (netcraft realized what microsoft was doing early on and should be commended for their countermeasure.) and when we consider that metric, Apache is still nearly 5 times more prevalent than IIS. Even Nginx beats out IIS in both the active and top busiest sites surveyed so when we take that into account, Microsoft is closing in on Apaches lead in much the same way a Windstar minivan closes in on a Ducati.
Because thats all Beats has ever been. The problem apple faces is that Dr. Dre is fast becoming Dr. Grey. in his last 5-10 years hes only made small guest vocal appearances on the behalf of his label members. his most famous songs, 'nuthin but a g thang' for example came out 20 years ago. so while the turtlenecks running apple might remember him from their kegger days in college it has yet to be seen if anyone born after 2000 will even care. Beats in cellular technology and tablets is powered, from what i can guess, by Cowon (a taiwanese manufacturer of high regard for their sound chips and DSP at a very competitive price.) The headphone line originally came from Monster Cable, but now is cranked off the same assembly in mainland china that produces most every other headphone in existence.
FWIW, If i were apple, i would have marketed a competing brand based on someone like Deadmau5 or Skrillex or Knife Party or any other band actual kids listen to. As an added benefit, these artists already heavily plug and leverage Apple as a brand.
Im currently running Gentoo. it offers systemd as a package and ive even run it a few times with success. What it offers, along with uefi, is a chance to drastically speed up the boot process but at a cost to the Linux ethos of 'do one thing and do it well.' Im just as conflicted, and seeing as i work in a RedHat shop i fear ill have to start using it eventually. TFA from sporkbox in the summary highlights the major pain points of systemd quite nicely but the other problem it poses is the homogenization of linux and what that means to numerous Linux community members personally. Linux used to be about choice, but so many distros are systemd/gnome/networkmangler now that its almost horrifying. I get that a unified platform is the key to a 'year of the linux desktop' but the sense of alienation and loss that systemd imparts is very palpable for many of us.
Back on topic though, Gentoos commitment to choice means you can run OpenRC. Its a fine time-tested alternative to SystemDoEverything and while your coworkers might be confused by it, at least you wont have to hack through binlogs for ages to fix a problem in it. You're best not trying to hack out systemd or any of its dependencies in distros like Fedora or Ubuntu as theyre basically so intrinsic to the OS as to render it useless if removed.
Sorry i cant offer more closure for the issue, I hope someone in the thread can though. For me i worry in another ten years ill be deploying machines that are exclusively systemd, quietly muttering the free software lyric, 'You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.'
modern technotopia devices leak data like a sieve and at so much as a passing interest, their providers will gladly ferry away any and all data youve entered into them directly into the hands of advertisers and government security agencies. It is, as RMS said, Stalins dream come true.
I for one wholly endorse this newfound libertarian dystopia and have devised a competitive service called turd auction. Heres how it works: i leave a bathroom stall at a public stadium or park, and users logged into my site then meet up and fight eachother to the death in mortal combat to determine who can then prostitute their children to raise enough money for the half roll of shit tickets left in the stall.
Uber seems like a libertarian scam at best. You have an unlicensed, unregulated cab service with unverified and wildly variant service levels. Compounding the issue further, youre faced with an entity that assumes the 'fare' it pays you is commensurate enough to ensure your maintenance, upkeep, and fuel costs. While it might be true for a 13 year old crown victoria, Im willing to guess the fare earned for a jaunt across town in some strangers Benz doesnt begin to cover ceramic brakes and ferromagnetic suspension work.
There is literally nothing in the contract agreements for Uber or even at the government regulatory level that would prevent what essentially amounts to 4chan on wheels from picking you up, driving you to the middle of nowhere, and kicking you out covered in mustard without saying a word. If you lost your phone or wallet in the car, no ones beholden to return it. The automobile provided might even be some dukes of hazard two seater with a supercharger, no seatbelts, and a dead hooker in the trunk and this is all perfectly acceptable based on the terms you agreed to with Uber. And the worst part is that protective measures like a commercial drives license simply dont exist. Your driver could be a meth-addled convict with a bottle of jagermeister between his legs, but since he never had to go through a background check or a drug test or even a physical, the hook he uses to steer the car between epileptic bouts of withdrawal is in Ubers understanding a sterling example of a world class taxi service without the hassle of icky cabs. When he wraps the front end of his 1971 plymouth duster with the missing front brake around a utility pole, nothing in his insurance (should he care to buy some) is required to cover any part of you the paramedics collect from the street as they hustle you to the ER.
This porridge, while thick and creamy, may also in fact come with maple syrup and fresh berries or should he plead guilty, a knob of butter and a dash of salt as would be the law in japan as it applies to sentencing and conviction within the bounds of the criminal porridge system. The whole grain oats, enriched generously with folate and iron, would serve to deter even the most wanton of breakfast criminal.
Ive used passphrases from passwdqc for quite some time. theyre just as complex and a whole lot easier to remember. The downside being many websites still restrict users to 8 or 10 character passwords whereas phrases can easily consume 17 or more characters.
I expect to get modded down for blaming the victim, but ill say it anyways. From everything in TFA crisis teams and even the local police department went to great lengths to ensure Sarah could be evacuated from the immediate viscinity of her threat. Instead of complying with the restraining order and severing all communication with her abuser, she allowed herself to become compromised once again by responding to an email from him. She returned to him and its as though technology has somehow exacerbated domestic violence to the point of her present scenario. She gave her attacker passwords, usernames, cellphone access, email access, and a host of other very sensitive information based solely on the pretext that he was 'an undercover FBI agent' and at no time thought to as for some form of confirmation or conclusory evidence to prove this. She never once stopped to wonder why an undercover FBI agent would ever tell anyone about themselves.
Hillariously enough she actually still lives in the same town as her attacker/abuser. from TFA:
"No body is going to believe all of this stuff," Sarah said. "Even now I have a lot of shame. I have a lot of blaming myself."
This is a natural response to realizing you have completely rendered the hard work and assistance of teams of crisis responders and police completely null and void. We all make mistakes, however Sarah seems functionally incapable of the cognitive process by which we learn from those mistakes and grow.
Warther Cutlery has an excellent 7" chefs knife made in Dover Ohio. Even the steel is from the USA (Crucible Industries in Solvay New York.) It is relatively pricey at $80 but in my experience is very well made and carries just as malevolent an edge as any Global.
Shun should get much more criticism in my opinion...Alton Brown and several other celebrity chefs have sworn by them ad infinitum, but the steel in order to hold such an edge is required to be much thinner, and much more brittle (VG10) than other manufacturers. The result as ive experienced it is a chefs knife that ends up with a cracked or chipped end. Even the relatively flat Nakiri wont hold its edge more than three or four months without succumbing to this. Their damascus patterning, exotic handles, and contemporary line of ken onion eccentric blades all add cost and questionable function to a design many seasoned chefs and home cooks have already come to know well. And as Ben alluded, one trip through the dishwashed and your $400 knife may be destroyed.
Here in america we have journalistic freedom of speech. If you oppose US foreign policy or help expose secret illegal government programs we find it to be patriotic and sacrosanct. Moxie Marlinspike once helped a foreign journalist expose illegal american programs and he certainly wasnt ever targeted for random detention in airports because that would be unamerican. We never secretly spied on the New York Times when they reported on the NSA's illegal activities either, because thats not what america stands for. Heck, we once had a famous American blogger named Anwar al-Awlaki who had a really controversial opinion of the american government but did we use a robotic drone to kill him and his son with a missile while he was in Yemen? of course not.
Moodle has been around since 2002. its open source and pretty easy to install and maintain. Google classroom, like most other google apps, ablates the responsibility of servers, networking, and an IT staff and in turn allows educational institutions to experience the full wealth of googles Software As A Service. Just imagine, your proctoring a major exam when suddenly your application just disappears in a fashion not unlike the massive gmail outage on 1/24/14. Google has no technical support, no publically available points of contact and zero fucks to give about your students or your lesson plan because you arent the consumer, you're the product.
the SaaS classroom is the ultimate opportunity to determine what a target demographic understands and how they understand it in the context of the larger world. If kids are all learning about the importance of the american revolution, but failing homework and exams, Google can take advantage of this by incorporating answers into its search results. Maybe iced tea companies would see their advertisements placed more prominently for this specific social studies class so as to exploit the subconscious link between the boston tea party and their product. More importantly, the ability to understand mathematics and science could be used to determine a basal comprehension level, which in turn may affect whether your advertisements are for TMZ and blingies or private colleges and bookstores. This is no different than a pharmaceutical company studying how angus cattle chew their cud so as to better learn what varieties of grains will best deliver their antibiotic.
The problem is Americans arent coughing up the cash. instead with the help of the FSF and other dedicated groups, courts are beginning to agree that IP addresses arent people. Most courts unanimously concede that movie studios cant sue regular people for infinite money either like they used to in the metallica napster days. And honestly, most ISP's are large enough to either ignore the service, lie about their compliance, or tell the RIAA to piss off. Comcast, who isnt an RIAA or MPAA member, could threaten to use DPI to black hole any references to a top ten artist for entire states like vermont if they were beholden to this extortion experiment.
Europe on the other hand (and lets not forget that abbott fucker whos slowly turning his country back into a prison colony) hasnt been privy to this dog and pony show. Maybe it will work, maybe it wont, but for Rightscorp to just sit on its rump and not try to expand means a slow death.
When the international communities remark with amazement at how recalcitrant american business, government, and even its own people are to even the suggestion of climate change I cant help but wonder if, as an american, people from other countries have a full understanding of just what it would mean for us to change...Everything we do, and all that we are, is prediacted upon cheap reliably supplied oil. this was a decision made after world war 2 and reinforced by the carter doctrine of foreign policy. it was a horrendous mistake.
We dont have local farms or slaughterhouses. everything is created in one place, and delivered by trucks that run on roads subsidized by american taxpayers from one of maybe a handful of factory farms dotted throughout the midwest. American markets have no season; if you want a jackfruit, it can and will be delivered more than two thousand miles to you and the ramifications of that is not even a cursory consideration. Drinks are kept cold, constantly. Ice is plentifully and liberally added to nearly any beverage you get. Beer hovers somewhere around the freezing mark. We can do this because the way we approach energy is just as we had in the 50's.
our rail system is no different than it was in the early 50's. slight modifications have been made to handle larger cargo, but the system runs at around 40 miles per hour and carries only the most cumbersome goods. Cars, Coal, shale oil and natural gas are the chief passengers. toxins too dangerous to transport by semi truck, things like hydrofluoric acid, are also frequently transported. Corridor rail systems used in boston and LA that do in fact transport people are powered exclusively by diesel, as are all our rail systems. We have minimal and fiercely debated electric light rail systems in some cities, and some have transitioned their busses to natural gas, however outside our largest four or five metropolitan areas every transportation request you have will be granted by the automobile.
Im not trying to justify what we do or why we do it. Its sad, and unsustainable in my opinion but whats important to understand is that acknowledging climate change and doing something productive about it in America means infrastructure overhaul not seen since Franklin Delano Rosevelt. It means the average 1 hour american car drive to work has to stop. Perpetually illuminated office buildings have to stop. Cities like phoenix will have to stop landscaping bluegrass lawns and water features into communities and we as a nation will have to swallow a nice big slice of 'we did it wrong' pie. The reasons we dont do anything about this problem are mostly political, but under the politics and the money, you have a system of society that is at its foundation based on conspicuous, questionless consumption and the planned obsolescence of nearly everything. anything to retard or stymy consumption is seen as a natural threat.
Im also hoping they deprecate the libraries in Team Fortress 2 that are patent encumbered before someone hauls them into a texas court. W have perfectly reasonable alternatives to S3TC.
Installation and posix portability are also on my wishlist but thats sort of offtopic and not likely to happen without a bit of ecosystem backlash..
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Fork the code. Maybe mozilla has no qualms about fucking its users with shady blobs but as a user, i sure as hell have a problem with it.
assert ($mad as $hell);
Britain and to a larger extent the United States both work hard to prop up repressive regimes they find benefitial to their interests. Somalia, Libya, hell even North Korea has received funds from the british taxpayer since 2012. To think that anyone in parliament gives two shits about some spyware is sadly wrong.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Open source community: this is excellent and we welcome the opportunity to enhance common protocols like smtp and http with this new mandate.
Microsoft: we havent met an RFC we cant mangle. Exchange is so broken as to be unusable, Internet Explorer is more exploit than browser, and we hold patents on sharps and plusses for a clone of every major programming language in existence. dont expect this one to go anywhere fellas.
Google: we'll add an option in chrome that you can click to disable monitoring. Clicking this option will cause a checkmark to appear. This checkmark will make the user feel feelings, and should probably do something with google plus. its a clickable option for google plus really. buy some of our neat glasses too.
NSA: you realize Russ Housley and Brian Carpenter, both IETF former chairs, have worked with companies that rolled over when we asked for them to spy on you without telling anyone. Jari Arkko has only been around for a year, and we have enough IETF members in our pocket to keep it that way if we want. Go back to sleep, vote the two parties, and buy magnetic bumper ribbons during the next war to support what we tell you.
the BES or Blackberry Enterprise Server has been a piece of shit for as long as I can remember. I still have battle scars from managing it as it mangled inboxes and refused to connect to basics like exchange. They changed cryptography keys on it without notifying anyone and sometimes stopped supporting a legacy device entirely without any advanced notice. Third party companies that write their own management system might gain some traction for corporate offices that are sick to death of having to put up with blackberries 'fuck off and die' support. and hey, if your office is big enough, maybe blackberry will fork over some source and let your devops team write something that doesnt faceplant on the daily.
NSF:$15 million to support three, multi-institutional projects that will further develop, deploy and test future Internet architectures.
news toilet:: science men confirm internet is fucking broken, and will efax new code to ensure epals can cyber talk better. Possibly related to hillary benghazi female kidnapping tea party obamacare, actually.
Rich man donating large sums of cash to education system shocked to find systems flaws are of great complexity and cannot be solved by simply shitting large sums of money into education. When reached for comment, Rich man was found paralyzed by indecisiveness during elusive hunt for tasty caviar on weekend aboard mega yacht.
"I'll pedal a bicycle made out of nightmares, straight up your ass"
--H.R. Giger, Probably.
Being so close to water and all, the entire idea of an e-reader for naval sailors is preposterous. The thought that a soldier for that matter would want or need an e-reader is equally absurd. an SOP is useless once the battery runs out. equipment manifests, authorized zone visitors for the day or coded diagrams all cease to exist if the device is dropped, run over, or damaged.
the enemies paper field manuals have just rendered two of your strongest allies in a battle, communication and comprehension, null.
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Thorium: Kills weeds dead!
"Thank you for playing our fine line of rental games. If you wish to continue playing, please upgrade to our latest game and continue paying your subscription fees in a timely manner."
--Regards,
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Microsoft has been growing steadily against apache for a few reasons that are important to keep into perspective:
1. Park Webs: these are domain parking spaces that exist to sell targeted advertising in a users domain name until they change the DNS for the domain or add content in a shared/dedicated hosting environment. GoDaddy parkweb is exclusively Microsoft IIS for example as are many others as Parkwebs are static pages that dont need to be policed for vulnerability as, say, wordpress lamp stacks might. Its no skin off registrars and hosting providers backs to convert their parkwebs to IIS and usually microsoft will license it and do it for free or in GoDaddys case, pay them to switch to Microsoft IIS.
2.competitors: Nginx for example approaches near 20% marketshare. Its faster in some cases than apache and for many admins, easier to maintain.
the marketshare for active sites, not just all sites, is what is important (netcraft realized what microsoft was doing early on and should be commended for their countermeasure.) and when we consider that metric, Apache is still nearly 5 times more prevalent than IIS. Even Nginx beats out IIS in both the active and top busiest sites surveyed so when we take that into account, Microsoft is closing in on Apaches lead in much the same way a Windstar minivan closes in on a Ducati.
Because thats all Beats has ever been. The problem apple faces is that Dr. Dre is fast becoming Dr. Grey. in his last 5-10 years hes only made small guest vocal appearances on the behalf of his label members. his most famous songs, 'nuthin but a g thang' for example came out 20 years ago. so while the turtlenecks running apple might remember him from their kegger days in college it has yet to be seen if anyone born after 2000 will even care. Beats in cellular technology and tablets is powered, from what i can guess, by Cowon (a taiwanese manufacturer of high regard for their sound chips and DSP at a very competitive price.) The headphone line originally came from Monster Cable, but now is cranked off the same assembly in mainland china that produces most every other headphone in existence.
FWIW, If i were apple, i would have marketed a competing brand based on someone like Deadmau5 or Skrillex or Knife Party or any other band actual kids listen to. As an added benefit, these artists already heavily plug and leverage Apple as a brand.
Im currently running Gentoo. it offers systemd as a package and ive even run it a few times with success. What it offers, along with uefi, is a chance to drastically speed up the boot process but at a cost to the Linux ethos of 'do one thing and do it well.' Im just as conflicted, and seeing as i work in a RedHat shop i fear ill have to start using it eventually. TFA from sporkbox in the summary highlights the major pain points of systemd quite nicely but the other problem it poses is the homogenization of linux and what that means to numerous Linux community members personally. Linux used to be about choice, but so many distros are systemd/gnome/networkmangler now that its almost horrifying. I get that a unified platform is the key to a 'year of the linux desktop' but the sense of alienation and loss that systemd imparts is very palpable for many of us.
Back on topic though, Gentoos commitment to choice means you can run OpenRC. Its a fine time-tested alternative to SystemDoEverything and while your coworkers might be confused by it, at least you wont have to hack through binlogs for ages to fix a problem in it. You're best not trying to hack out systemd or any of its dependencies in distros like Fedora or Ubuntu as theyre basically so intrinsic to the OS as to render it useless if removed.
Sorry i cant offer more closure for the issue, I hope someone in the thread can though. For me i worry in another ten years ill be deploying machines that are exclusively systemd, quietly muttering the free software lyric, 'You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.'
modern technotopia devices leak data like a sieve and at so much as a passing interest, their providers will gladly ferry away any and all data youve entered into them directly into the hands of advertisers and government security agencies. It is, as RMS said, Stalins dream come true.
I for one wholly endorse this newfound libertarian dystopia and have devised a competitive service called turd auction. Heres how it works: i leave a bathroom stall at a public stadium or park, and users logged into my site then meet up and fight eachother to the death in mortal combat to determine who can then prostitute their children to raise enough money for the half roll of shit tickets left in the stall.
Uber seems like a libertarian scam at best. You have an unlicensed, unregulated cab service with unverified and wildly variant service levels. Compounding the issue further, youre faced with an entity that assumes the 'fare' it pays you is commensurate enough to ensure your maintenance, upkeep, and fuel costs. While it might be true for a 13 year old crown victoria, Im willing to guess the fare earned for a jaunt across town in some strangers Benz doesnt begin to cover ceramic brakes and ferromagnetic suspension work.
There is literally nothing in the contract agreements for Uber or even at the government regulatory level that would prevent what essentially amounts to 4chan on wheels from picking you up, driving you to the middle of nowhere, and kicking you out covered in mustard without saying a word. If you lost your phone or wallet in the car, no ones beholden to return it. The automobile provided might even be some dukes of hazard two seater with a supercharger, no seatbelts, and a dead hooker in the trunk and this is all perfectly acceptable based on the terms you agreed to with Uber. And the worst part is that protective measures like a commercial drives license simply dont exist. Your driver could be a meth-addled convict with a bottle of jagermeister between his legs, but since he never had to go through a background check or a drug test or even a physical, the hook he uses to steer the car between epileptic bouts of withdrawal is in Ubers understanding a sterling example of a world class taxi service without the hassle of icky cabs. When he wraps the front end of his 1971 plymouth duster with the missing front brake around a utility pole, nothing in his insurance (should he care to buy some) is required to cover any part of you the paramedics collect from the street as they hustle you to the ER.
This porridge, while thick and creamy, may also in fact come with maple syrup and fresh berries or should he plead guilty, a knob of butter and a dash of salt as would be the law in japan as it applies to sentencing and conviction within the bounds of the criminal porridge system. The whole grain oats, enriched generously with folate and iron, would serve to deter even the most wanton of breakfast criminal.
Ive used passphrases from passwdqc for quite some time. theyre just as complex and a whole lot easier to remember. The downside being many websites still restrict users to 8 or 10 character passwords whereas phrases can easily consume 17 or more characters.
She returned to him and its as though technology has somehow exacerbated domestic violence to the point of her present scenario. She gave her attacker passwords, usernames, cellphone access, email access, and a host of other very sensitive information based solely on the pretext that he was 'an undercover FBI agent' and at no time thought to as for some form of confirmation or conclusory evidence to prove this. She never once stopped to wonder why an undercover FBI agent would ever tell anyone about themselves.
Hillariously enough she actually still lives in the same town as her attacker/abuser. from TFA:
"No body is going to believe all of this stuff," Sarah said. "Even now I have a lot of shame. I have a lot of blaming myself."
This is a natural response to realizing you have completely rendered the hard work and assistance of teams of crisis responders and police completely null and void. We all make mistakes, however Sarah seems functionally incapable of the cognitive process by which we learn from those mistakes and grow.
Warther Cutlery has an excellent 7" chefs knife made in Dover Ohio. Even the steel is from the USA (Crucible Industries in Solvay New York.) It is relatively pricey at $80 but in my experience is very well made and carries just as malevolent an edge as any Global.
Shun should get much more criticism in my opinion...Alton Brown and several other celebrity chefs have sworn by them ad infinitum, but the steel in order to hold such an edge is required to be much thinner, and much more brittle (VG10) than other manufacturers. The result as ive experienced it is a chefs knife that ends up with a cracked or chipped end. Even the relatively flat Nakiri wont hold its edge more than three or four months without succumbing to this. Their damascus patterning, exotic handles, and contemporary line of ken onion eccentric blades all add cost and questionable function to a design many seasoned chefs and home cooks have already come to know well. And as Ben alluded, one trip through the dishwashed and your $400 knife may be destroyed.
Here in america we have journalistic freedom of speech. If you oppose US foreign policy or help expose secret illegal government programs we find it to be patriotic and sacrosanct. Moxie Marlinspike once helped a foreign journalist expose illegal american programs and he certainly wasnt ever targeted for random detention in airports because that would be unamerican. We never secretly spied on the New York Times when they reported on the NSA's illegal activities either, because thats not what america stands for. Heck, we once had a famous American blogger named Anwar al-Awlaki who had a really controversial opinion of the american government but did we use a robotic drone to kill him and his son with a missile while he was in Yemen? of course not.
Moodle has been around since 2002. its open source and pretty easy to install and maintain. Google classroom, like most other google apps, ablates the responsibility of servers, networking, and an IT staff and in turn allows educational institutions to experience the full wealth of googles Software As A Service. Just imagine, your proctoring a major exam when suddenly your application just disappears in a fashion not unlike the massive gmail outage on 1/24/14. Google has no technical support, no publically available points of contact and zero fucks to give about your students or your lesson plan because you arent the consumer, you're the product.
the SaaS classroom is the ultimate opportunity to determine what a target demographic understands and how they understand it in the context of the larger world. If kids are all learning about the importance of the american revolution, but failing homework and exams, Google can take advantage of this by incorporating answers into its search results. Maybe iced tea companies would see their advertisements placed more prominently for this specific social studies class so as to exploit the subconscious link between the boston tea party and their product. More importantly, the ability to understand mathematics and science could be used to determine a basal comprehension level, which in turn may affect whether your advertisements are for TMZ and blingies or private colleges and bookstores. This is no different than a pharmaceutical company studying how angus cattle chew their cud so as to better learn what varieties of grains will best deliver their antibiotic.
The problem is Americans arent coughing up the cash. instead with the help of the FSF and other dedicated groups, courts are beginning to agree that IP addresses arent people. Most courts unanimously concede that movie studios cant sue regular people for infinite money either like they used to in the metallica napster days. And honestly, most ISP's are large enough to either ignore the service, lie about their compliance, or tell the RIAA to piss off. Comcast, who isnt an RIAA or MPAA member, could threaten to use DPI to black hole any references to a top ten artist for entire states like vermont if they were beholden to this extortion experiment.
Europe on the other hand (and lets not forget that abbott fucker whos slowly turning his country back into a prison colony) hasnt been privy to this dog and pony show. Maybe it will work, maybe it wont, but for Rightscorp to just sit on its rump and not try to expand means a slow death.
When the international communities remark with amazement at how recalcitrant american business, government, and even its own people are to even the suggestion of climate change I cant help but wonder if, as an american, people from other countries have a full understanding of just what it would mean for us to change...Everything we do, and all that we are, is prediacted upon cheap reliably supplied oil. this was a decision made after world war 2 and reinforced by the carter doctrine of foreign policy. it was a horrendous mistake.
We dont have local farms or slaughterhouses. everything is created in one place, and delivered by trucks that run on roads subsidized by american taxpayers from one of maybe a handful of factory farms dotted throughout the midwest. American markets have no season; if you want a jackfruit, it can and will be delivered more than two thousand miles to you and the ramifications of that is not even a cursory consideration. Drinks are kept cold, constantly. Ice is plentifully and liberally added to nearly any beverage you get. Beer hovers somewhere around the freezing mark. We can do this because the way we approach energy is just as we had in the 50's.
our rail system is no different than it was in the early 50's. slight modifications have been made to handle larger cargo, but the system runs at around 40 miles per hour and carries only the most cumbersome goods. Cars, Coal, shale oil and natural gas are the chief passengers. toxins too dangerous to transport by semi truck, things like hydrofluoric acid, are also frequently transported. Corridor rail systems used in boston and LA that do in fact transport people are powered exclusively by diesel, as are all our rail systems. We have minimal and fiercely debated electric light rail systems in some cities, and some have transitioned their busses to natural gas, however outside our largest four or five metropolitan areas every transportation request you have will be granted by the automobile.
Im not trying to justify what we do or why we do it. Its sad, and unsustainable in my opinion but whats important to understand is that acknowledging climate change and doing something productive about it in America means infrastructure overhaul not seen since Franklin Delano Rosevelt. It means the average 1 hour american car drive to work has to stop. Perpetually illuminated office buildings have to stop. Cities like phoenix will have to stop landscaping bluegrass lawns and water features into communities and we as a nation will have to swallow a nice big slice of 'we did it wrong' pie. The reasons we dont do anything about this problem are mostly political, but under the politics and the money, you have a system of society that is at its foundation based on conspicuous, questionless consumption and the planned obsolescence of nearly everything. anything to retard or stymy consumption is seen as a natural threat.
Im also hoping they deprecate the libraries in Team Fortress 2 that are patent encumbered before someone hauls them into a texas court. W have perfectly reasonable alternatives to S3TC.
Installation and posix portability are also on my wishlist but thats sort of offtopic and not likely to happen without a bit of ecosystem backlash..