as people buy electric cars the interest in clean energy will increase because who wouldn't want 'free travel'?
i dont even know where to start, but i'll try. the authors argument is predicated by the tacit agreement that major multibillion dollar energy conglomerates would simply just 'let this all happen.' As more people invest in solar, traditional electric grids will find ways to properly charge their solar users for grid participation. this has already been covered on slashdot.
as gasoline becomes scarce more investment by energy companies will shift to solar and electric, but not because youre somehow now entitled to free transportation and energy at their expense. transit rail systems will allow you to absorb the cost of solar, and although batteries are cheap the model of charging will absolutely take into account any gains that may negate a healthy profit margin at the electric company.
not to point out the obvious, but im sure its quite clear whos funneling cash to the Cameron administration when it comes to the policy of Imaginary Property.
What astounds me the most is that most foreign governments can simply choose to ignore the mpaa/riaa. future trade agreements with the states may be coloured by ones choice in dealings with them, but the large reality stands that no major disruption will occur if you pay them no regard as is evidenced by China. the problem stands that most foreign govrenments are chaired by a handful of plutocrats or career politicians that will gladly accept funding for continued operation in the contrary interest of their constituents that have comparatively no funding. A tipping point is reached at some point but by then the ruling class doesnt care; it was all just a game. They leave politics and become advisors or consultants, pad the lining of their pockets just a few dollars more, and retire comfortably in obscurity having not even the slightest notion what a 10 year prison sentence looks like outside of a newspaper article they once inspired during their tenure.
as an american bounties piss me off. There was no bounty for the golden gate bridge, the interstate highway system, or the exploration of the moon. the empire state building had no bounty for successful construction and neither did the hoover dam. These works were constructed by private companies that paid a living wage and considered the welfare of their employees sacrosanct. You hired talented individuals to do a job and feel rewarded and engaged in that job.
instead of hiring more security engineers and challenging developers to write safer stronger code, Facebook has decided to award scraps of cash to talented people who find flaws in their code that could conceivably end their business. They do this to save money on health, dental, vision, and live insurance and to decrease expenditures on their #1 overhead, employees. they get away with this because unscrupulous conglomerates headed by sociopathic billionaires have plunged this economy so far into an intractable recession that any critical analysis of their low wage cubicle farm mentality is tantamount to anticapitalism.
code bugs and exploits are constant. However, just because your team doesnt find a new one every hour doesnt mean they arent working. in turn it doesnt give you the right to commoditize the effort when your competitor in this market would easily base his expenditures on triple your measly reward. employmen should not be a tap that can be turned on and off at the whim of some jackboot in platinum cuffs.
eh, greybeard here so maybe its the metamucil talking but IBM never stood much chance in the server realm. not that they didnt make a damn fine x86...most were quiet and powerful, but the market hat was looking toward IBM was too different and weird.
if you wanted a workstation for simple 2D cad stuff your clear alternative was dell. it was cheap, came with whatever copy of windows you wanted, and didnt bankrupt your small shop with overhead from licensing and support contracts....other than whatever autodesk was gouging you for.
a litle higher up the chain, if you were doing some composite rendering or computational fluid thermodynamics you had Sun microsystems. they made the bulletproof UNIX the grads from the local alma-mater recognized, and the hardware was dependable. sun servers chugged through the heavy arithmetic but the deskside SPARCstation was the sterling ally of the well-weathered fogie in the corner office who occasionally appeared for his 'laureate engineer' paperweight. the IT department appreciated suns no-nonsense RTFM mentality.
BIS, corporate informatics and number-crunchery that fed paychecks through the line printers and requisitions across the department heads was the golden child of IBM...heck, its in the name! BUSINESS machines! the AS400 ran cobol and from its cobwebbed confines were excreted every known model and function of how the money made the business and vice versa. "terminals" kept the cost of doing dirty work down and a few cloistered chosen were sequestered into office space to stitch new lovecraftian code whenever an earnings summary needed a tweak or a new way of visualizing things 'outside the box' needed rendering in code. AS400 turned into Z's and E's and I's and soon JDEdwards became Oracle and the new reality of deadlocked transactions and segfaulted Business Objects servers were a daily bain for the IT department but the song never changed. this was to become IBM. Because the reports were a touchstone of the business these machines lived to become behemoths and their triumphs accoladed from on high by watsons and oh so many marketeers that knew no boundaries in the iron they could sell. IBM was the Iron Business Marauder, the Intractable Bloat of the Management, the only way your applications would ever imply support for your way of doing business in the ERP EAP SAP clusterfuck that BIS and management had conceeded was somehow a necessity now. IBM could never hope to sell X86, because IBM sold complicity and approval in the licensing agreements for Oracle and enterprise, not hardware.
and while they toiled over the iron they sold, Dell and HP slowly absorbed the engineering fallout from SGI implosions and cheap commodity x86 incursion around a SUN that comparatively stood as a more expensive and only slightly quicker means of doing what the engineers had always done. Goosed a bit by linux, no doubt.
can we please agree that linking paywall articles is as productive to slashdot as not linking any source at all? can someone scrape for justice?
This likely wasnt the work of an american NGO. American manufacturing and trade has a substantial dependence upon the stability of the chinese government. as corporations are the voice of the american people in the context of 21st century democratic discourse, its undeniable most corporations would fight to maintain the censorship and regime heirarchy in china. If we cared about chinese human rights more than just lip service soundbites in presidential primaries, we would focus on our factories and labor practices (the part of chinese society we exercise greatest control over).
instead american presidents ignore foxconn and freedom intentionally until the political climate is convenient or the message is dialed in to a specific local demographic like chinese ex-pats.
this would seem to suggest most t-mobile customers are what the industry commonly considers 'un-banked.' Day laborers, undocumented immigrants, and the working poor should they not already be allotted their salary as a credit card are being targeted for financial services through their mobile phone provider.
its a win for t-mobile who likely consider this a pittance for the ability to ensure a customer makes their payments in a timely manner, but shortsighted in that it is predicated on the notion that customers lack the convenience necessary to pay a bill. Wage stagnation, housing market collapse, rising unemployment and systemic poverty in America are all fundamental factors that check-cashing wont help. T-Mobile already offers a very affordable $50 plan with or without a credit check for their customers, which can genuinely help some low income customers. their pre-pay model IMHO will be far more appealing to a wider demographic than check cashing, for which an undeniable subset of customers are already beholden to.
the D-Wave, once we wade through the marketing schtick and look at the technical specifications is a quantum annealer. its not designed to solve a calculation but rather to put us close...it does this from the global minimum of a given objective function over a given set of candidate solutions (candidate states), by a process using quantum fluctuations.
im not trolling over semantics though! annealers are extremely important to solving very difficult mathematic equations, and in many examples quantum annealing has been vastly superior to traditional computational methods. We should do machines like the D-Wave better justice though. Compare it instead to a traditional annealer.
Googles bottom line is to make advertising through its networks and its platforms as seamless and easy as possible. The only reason this model would be shunned is if its not generating appropriate revenue for google. Given the unorthodox nature of the advertisements, and the fact they circumvent per-click revenue entirely, they will probably see a crackdown.
but dont take this to imply Google cares how and when you get to see advertising. If you need proof, just try to find AdBlock Plus on the play store. google unceremoniously axed it in 2010 because the platform isnt designed to do what you want in spite of the models lucrative approach to its users as a saleable product. the ad-only vendors in Chrome will be warned to include some marketable widget or product. A cud if you will for the consumer that is their cow to chew.
Greaybeards can surely recall the longstanding problem of fridges that sent out spam in our youth. usually the payload was cloaked, sandwiched unknowingly in our lunchboxes between two slices of bread or interleaved undetected in the dinnertime protocols frequent 'casserole' traffic. Even worse, the fridge administrator commonly ignored the issue! it wasnt until we had the option to provision and deploy our own refrigerators that we correctly addressed this problem.
given their natural habitat and evolutionary traits, this means its only a matter of time until those ferocious Drop Bears go extinct.
the bad news of course is that we can no longer use the drop bear as an excuse for americans to choose New Zealand as their holiday destination.
Granted its also important to note that should americans agree to reduce their carbon footprint and sign the damn kyoto treaty, we wont have to resort to shipping drop bears to safer climates in the states.
Thats nothing. we've created an entire marine organism made of plastic. we track its age (it was born in 1988) and migratory habits throughout the seasons. we also monitor its feeding patterns and chart its growth too. remarkably enough it has almost no known predator, but seems enirely peaceful.
it might not really be alive but...i want to believe.
1. the nature of OpenBSD means build servers are the word of god on the lips and hearts of every developer and user. their physical verifiability and integrity is sacrosanct. finding a remote build location in this the year of our NSA 2014 would prove difficult if not impossible.
2. this is controversial. its not an attempt to stoke a flamewar, but it i feel must be said. the BSD license itself hinders the visibility of the projects its designed to protect. It allows corporations, the very entities that theo wants his electric bill 'on their books' to ignore the project entirely and slurp down releases whenever a security hole shows up on their product. Other than a README most corporations arent required to think twice about the code, let alone where it comes from, under the BSD. IMHO only when openbsd.org starts returning srvfail will these companies know what theyve lost. GPLvN remind companies on a per-release basis where the bread for which their butter goes comes from. code must face the scrutiny of developers, engineers, legal teams, managers and a multitude of other stakeholders.
For those of us americans who are rather new to the idea of a doomsday clock, its been in existence since 1947. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the Science and Security Board believes the world to be to global disaster.
the clock was and has been largely deprecated in american society regardless of the fact that we have precipitated many of its advancements. Its a confusing decision but easily understood once explained. Anything that detracts from regularly scheduled trips to the consumatorium is generally frowned upon by the leaders. In addition, anything that causes you to question or forego extra toppings on your convenience food is to be avoided as well. Doomsday clocks, nutritional information and living "within ones means" are all notions and fancies you'll not find tolerable in this the year of our lord 2014.
as an american I was sorely disappointed when I realized id confused Phil Zimmerman with a Zimmerman of far greater notoriety. My definition of the Blackphone however became far more reasonable and tasteful.
Ive found several benefits to removing Java 8 entirely.
1. budget performance: by reducing expenditures on support contracts and Oracle licensing fees my budget has stopped looking like a Syrian casualty report.
2. maintenance productivity: developers have stopped hurling themselves nude through my expensive plate glass windows as they wail 'exception access violation!' This frees up maintenance to address more urgent concerns.
3. Environmental impact: We've reduced out environmental footprint by shredding our tear-stained contracts, and mulching them with our ancient blood-soaked documentation to create a spreadable compost that just brings out the absolute best in the landscaping.
4. Wellness impact: Thanks to removing Java our datacenter now runs closer to the temperatures the CRACS were designed to endure. While common HR functions like the weekly jboss report run luau-themed weenie roast have unfortunately been ended, the number of sysops that survive provisioning has improved. Analysts are also no longer permitted to refer to the datacenter provisioning process as 'the trip to mordor'
Its important to reinforce the fact that violations in transivity, while rational, may never be appropriate under some circumstances.
in a TSA checkpoint. is your transivity under 3 ounces? did you remove your A and B before walking through C?
if transivity is for loading and unloading only. dont just put your blinkers on either or C will tow your A to B.
if you clicked through the EULA for windows 8 without reading, boy will you ever be sorry. You cant violate transivity or Internet explorer will responding. You could downgrade to B but A says you shouldnt otherwise you wont C your excel spreadsheets ever again..
to date, while most slashdotters have been accustomed for some time to the governments radio pathways implanted in their teeth, the idea that somehow these same menacing devices may have found their way into the basement and, god forbid, into the VAX or Altair is truly terrifying.
this could never have been the anticipated action of a poorly regarded yet widely recognized patent troll. In other news
toast nationwide falls jellyjam side down!
the blinky signage never lasts long enough to navigate across the road!
politicians found to be corrupt and unreliable champions of their constituents!
icecream zealously consumed begets raging cranial agony!
religious doctrine conspicuously omits reason when confronted by legitimate debate!
im also beginning to suspect this version of windows is in fact NOT the best version ever...despite what the install screen insists.
The sentencing is a formality, a boilerplate. It is to send a message to any other would-be ne'er do wells that should you cooperate and come quietly the government will absolve you of your sins. Lulzsec for all their antics were champions of the government transparency inherent in a democracy contrived by the people and for the people.
the lesson from this is that ideas never die. Next time if you want to be a hero, you need to take a good hard look at your life and decide "is it worth it?" in Sabus case his family and children were used as leverage against him by the government to help crush dissent. its something we americans are only accustomed to hearing when informed by our respective media channels of transgressions undertaken by this years "supreme evil dictatorship." Its also worth noting that what the government was threatening Sabu with was nothing short of torture; a lifetime of silence, discipline and remorse for a crime that took no lives.
Sabu gave us hope and he taught us lessons. Edward Snowden played a chessmasters game in his defection and for it our government is left to do nothing more but ensure negative propaganda against him is dissemenated appropriately to all media outlets and further steps taken to mitigate a repeat performance. The only difference between a soviet system, the one we feared for 20 years, and our system, is that every 4 years we're burdened with the task of shuffling off to a school or church to apply our endorsement for a party. there are normally only ever two however. Neither actually operates in the service of its citizenry.
the lesson the government misses is this: just because Lulzsec is gone doesnt mean a mission wasnt accomplished or a task wasnt set into motion. more disaffected citizens and netizens will take their place. Chelsea manning, Julian Assange, and countless others will have paved the road to the hill upon which the casket of imperialist fascism is laid to rest.
theres been a recent boom in privatized space launches and exploration, and while im sure its a good thing for the economy I have my reservations. the START database is an excellent example: https://standards.nasa.gov/
nasa publishes interesting scientific standards publically which helps further the study of space travel. It also provides a source of independent verification for different components and systems. Privatized space exploration is routinely under intense pressure to redact or restrict access to this information as it is of a "trade secret" nature. Im willing to bet most of the standards data Orbital and SpaceX rely upon and likely refuse to disclose are in fact based upon the START repository.
privatizing space travel and exploration is also in the disinterest of society as historically its natural progression is to increase quarterly revenue in the standard definition of a corporation. issues like environmental impacts then fall to the wayside as 'externalities' and, at worst we turn from sagans starry eyed space voyage to a wal-mart in the stars.
im old, so maybe im overreacting...but I sincerely believe there needs to be some system of independent audit and evaluation in place so that the spirit of space travel doesnt end up a thing of the past.
the mayor of Fort Lee has nothing to do with this:
Recently Christie had unloaded on Democrats in a particularly angry press conference concerning the renomination battle of a N.J. Supreme Court judge, a battle that had been several years in the making. The woman who headed the state Senate committee causing embarrassment for Christie at the time was N.J. state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D), who happens to represent Fort Lee.
this pissing contest has waged for 3 years now. whenever a clear victor is decided the judgement is appealed, and appealed again upon the overturn. your circle-jerk is an affront to the concept of justice.
we gave you assholes your own legal system called the arbitration. we gave it to you so you could fuck customers and avoid the repercussions of class action, but im telling you to pack your shit and go. Find an "arbitrator" or whatever it is you need and figure this out on your own, but I have real court cases id like to preside over before i die from natural causes.
sweden: ok Denmark here ya go. Finland, tell Denmark This hooligan is wanted for pirating everything from independence day to terminator. finnish translator relays information Denmark: Jesus Christ this guys the Terminator and hes trying to destroy our independence?! Finnish translator:....perkele.....
The argument is premised on the idea that Americas largest multinational corporations are somehow so divorced from the legislative and governance process of the United States as to need to seek asylum in a foreign country.
companies only care about customer data if consumer market research data indicates negative shifts in earnings as a result of their inability to assauage customers of the validity, sanctity and security of their data. A prime example is the Target scandal recently. the cost to shore up security was probably much greater than the cost to issue apologies in the media. Target further mitigated the impact by using weasel words like "may have" or "possibly" when describing the outcome of their data breech. This in turn led the financial companies beholden to the cardholders to issue, of course, similar statements with a key advisory to "watch" your credit card, not to replace it which while effective would have been vastly more expensive for the financial company.
when companies face any real backlash from their customers, they legislate their way around it through the appropriate channels. AT&T demanded immunity from Bush wiretapping and received it. had they cared about your data, they would have fought the government to eliminate warrantless surveillance of this kind. But the law is ever on their side as they are the ones who craft it. Verizon lobbied extensively for stricter laws protecting arbitration clauses. They did it in response to a string of class action lawsuits related to overbilling customers. had they cared about the letter of the law, they would have made major changes and improvements to their billing system that prevented the plaintiffs from suffering the ridiculous mischarges in the first place.
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as people buy electric cars the interest in clean energy will increase because who wouldn't want 'free travel'?
i dont even know where to start, but i'll try. the authors argument is predicated by the tacit agreement that major multibillion dollar energy conglomerates would simply just 'let this all happen.' As more people invest in solar, traditional electric grids will find ways to properly charge their solar users for grid participation. this has already been covered on slashdot.
as gasoline becomes scarce more investment by energy companies will shift to solar and electric, but not because youre somehow now entitled to free transportation and energy at their expense. transit rail systems will allow you to absorb the cost of solar, and although batteries are cheap the model of charging will absolutely take into account any gains that may negate a healthy profit margin at the electric company.
not to point out the obvious, but im sure its quite clear whos funneling cash to the Cameron administration when it comes to the policy of Imaginary Property.
What astounds me the most is that most foreign governments can simply choose to ignore the mpaa/riaa. future trade agreements with the states may be coloured by ones choice in dealings with them, but the large reality stands that no major disruption will occur if you pay them no regard as is evidenced by China. the problem stands that most foreign govrenments are chaired by a handful of plutocrats or career politicians that will gladly accept funding for continued operation in the contrary interest of their constituents that have comparatively no funding. A tipping point is reached at some point but by then the ruling class doesnt care; it was all just a game. They leave politics and become advisors or consultants, pad the lining of their pockets just a few dollars more, and retire comfortably in obscurity having not even the slightest notion what a 10 year prison sentence looks like outside of a newspaper article they once inspired during their tenure.
as an american bounties piss me off. There was no bounty for the golden gate bridge, the interstate highway system, or the exploration of the moon. the empire state building had no bounty for successful construction and neither did the hoover dam. These works were constructed by private companies that paid a living wage and considered the welfare of their employees sacrosanct. You hired talented individuals to do a job and feel rewarded and engaged in that job.
instead of hiring more security engineers and challenging developers to write safer stronger code, Facebook has decided to award scraps of cash to talented people who find flaws in their code that could conceivably end their business. They do this to save money on health, dental, vision, and live insurance and to decrease expenditures on their #1 overhead, employees. they get away with this because unscrupulous conglomerates headed by sociopathic billionaires have plunged this economy so far into an intractable recession that any critical analysis of their low wage cubicle farm mentality is tantamount to anticapitalism.
code bugs and exploits are constant. However, just because your team doesnt find a new one every hour doesnt mean they arent working. in turn it doesnt give you the right to commoditize the effort when your competitor in this market would easily base his expenditures on triple your measly reward. employmen should not be a tap that can be turned on and off at the whim of some jackboot in platinum cuffs.
eh, greybeard here so maybe its the metamucil talking but IBM never stood much chance in the server realm. not that they didnt make a damn fine x86...most were quiet and powerful, but the market hat was looking toward IBM was too different and weird.
if you wanted a workstation for simple 2D cad stuff your clear alternative was dell. it was cheap, came with whatever copy of windows you wanted, and didnt bankrupt your small shop with overhead from licensing and support contracts....other than whatever autodesk was gouging you for.
a litle higher up the chain, if you were doing some composite rendering or computational fluid thermodynamics you had Sun microsystems. they made the bulletproof UNIX the grads from the local alma-mater recognized, and the hardware was dependable. sun servers chugged through the heavy arithmetic but the deskside SPARCstation was the sterling ally of the well-weathered fogie in the corner office who occasionally appeared for his 'laureate engineer' paperweight. the IT department appreciated suns no-nonsense RTFM mentality.
BIS, corporate informatics and number-crunchery that fed paychecks through the line printers and requisitions across the department heads was the golden child of IBM...heck, its in the name! BUSINESS machines! the AS400 ran cobol and from its cobwebbed confines were excreted every known model and function of how the money made the business and vice versa. "terminals" kept the cost of doing dirty work down and a few cloistered chosen were sequestered into office space to stitch new lovecraftian code whenever an earnings summary needed a tweak or a new way of visualizing things 'outside the box' needed rendering in code. AS400 turned into Z's and E's and I's and soon JDEdwards became Oracle and the new reality of deadlocked transactions and segfaulted Business Objects servers were a daily bain for the IT department but the song never changed. this was to become IBM. Because the reports were a touchstone of the business these machines lived to become behemoths and their triumphs accoladed from on high by watsons and oh so many marketeers that knew no boundaries in the iron they could sell. IBM was the Iron Business Marauder, the Intractable Bloat of the Management, the only way your applications would ever imply support for your way of doing business in the ERP EAP SAP clusterfuck that BIS and management had conceeded was somehow a necessity now. IBM could never hope to sell X86, because IBM sold complicity and approval in the licensing agreements for Oracle and enterprise, not hardware.
and while they toiled over the iron they sold, Dell and HP slowly absorbed the engineering fallout from SGI implosions and cheap commodity x86 incursion around a SUN that comparatively stood as a more expensive and only slightly quicker means of doing what the engineers had always done. Goosed a bit by linux, no doubt.
can we please agree that linking paywall articles is as productive to slashdot as not linking any source at all? can someone scrape for justice?
This likely wasnt the work of an american NGO. American manufacturing and trade has a substantial dependence upon the stability of the chinese government. as corporations are the voice of the american people in the context of 21st century democratic discourse, its undeniable most corporations would fight to maintain the censorship and regime heirarchy in china. If we cared about chinese human rights more than just lip service soundbites in presidential primaries, we would focus on our factories and labor practices (the part of chinese society we exercise greatest control over).
instead american presidents ignore foxconn and freedom intentionally until the political climate is convenient or the message is dialed in to a specific local demographic like chinese ex-pats.
this would seem to suggest most t-mobile customers are what the industry commonly considers 'un-banked.' Day laborers, undocumented immigrants, and the working poor should they not already be allotted their salary as a credit card are being targeted for financial services through their mobile phone provider.
its a win for t-mobile who likely consider this a pittance for the ability to ensure a customer makes their payments in a timely manner, but shortsighted in that it is predicated on the notion that customers lack the convenience necessary to pay a bill. Wage stagnation, housing market collapse, rising unemployment and systemic poverty in America are all fundamental factors that check-cashing wont help. T-Mobile already offers a very affordable $50 plan with or without a credit check for their customers, which can genuinely help some low income customers. their pre-pay model IMHO will be far more appealing to a wider demographic than check cashing, for which an undeniable subset of customers are already beholden to.
the D-Wave, once we wade through the marketing schtick and look at the technical specifications is a quantum annealer. its not designed to solve a calculation but rather to put us close...it does this from the global minimum of a given objective function over a given set of candidate solutions (candidate states), by a process using quantum fluctuations.
im not trolling over semantics though! annealers are extremely important to solving very difficult mathematic equations, and in many examples quantum annealing has been vastly superior to traditional computational methods. We should do machines like the D-Wave better justice though. Compare it instead to a traditional annealer.
Googles bottom line is to make advertising through its networks and its platforms as seamless and easy as possible. The only reason this model would be shunned is if its not generating appropriate revenue for google. Given the unorthodox nature of the advertisements, and the fact they circumvent per-click revenue entirely, they will probably see a crackdown.
but dont take this to imply Google cares how and when you get to see advertising. If you need proof, just try to find AdBlock Plus on the play store. google unceremoniously axed it in 2010 because the platform isnt designed to do what you want in spite of the models lucrative approach to its users as a saleable product. the ad-only vendors in Chrome will be warned to include some marketable widget or product. A cud if you will for the consumer that is their cow to chew.
Greaybeards can surely recall the longstanding problem of fridges that sent out spam in our youth. usually the payload was cloaked, sandwiched unknowingly in our lunchboxes between two slices of bread or interleaved undetected in the dinnertime protocols frequent 'casserole' traffic. Even worse, the fridge administrator commonly ignored the issue! it wasnt until we had the option to provision and deploy our own refrigerators that we correctly addressed this problem.
given their natural habitat and evolutionary traits, this means its only a matter of time until those ferocious Drop Bears go extinct. the bad news of course is that we can no longer use the drop bear as an excuse for americans to choose New Zealand as their holiday destination.
Granted its also important to note that should americans agree to reduce their carbon footprint and sign the damn kyoto treaty, we wont have to resort to shipping drop bears to safer climates in the states.
Thats nothing. we've created an entire marine organism made of plastic. we track its age (it was born in 1988) and migratory habits throughout the seasons. we also monitor its feeding patterns and chart its growth too. remarkably enough it has almost no known predator, but seems enirely peaceful.
it might not really be alive but...i want to believe.
1. the nature of OpenBSD means build servers are the word of god on the lips and hearts of every developer and user. their physical verifiability and integrity is sacrosanct. finding a remote build location in this the year of our NSA 2014 would prove difficult if not impossible.
2. this is controversial. its not an attempt to stoke a flamewar, but it i feel must be said. the BSD license itself hinders the visibility of the projects its designed to protect. It allows corporations, the very entities that theo wants his electric bill 'on their books' to ignore the project entirely and slurp down releases whenever a security hole shows up on their product. Other than a README most corporations arent required to think twice about the code, let alone where it comes from, under the BSD. IMHO only when openbsd.org starts returning srvfail will these companies know what theyve lost. GPLvN remind companies on a per-release basis where the bread for which their butter goes comes from. code must face the scrutiny of developers, engineers, legal teams, managers and a multitude of other stakeholders.
For those of us americans who are rather new to the idea of a doomsday clock, its been in existence since 1947. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the Science and Security Board believes the world to be to global disaster.
the clock was and has been largely deprecated in american society regardless of the fact that we have precipitated many of its advancements. Its a confusing decision but easily understood once explained. Anything that detracts from regularly scheduled trips to the consumatorium is generally frowned upon by the leaders. In addition, anything that causes you to question or forego extra toppings on your convenience food is to be avoided as well. Doomsday clocks, nutritional information and living "within ones means" are all notions and fancies you'll not find tolerable in this the year of our lord 2014.
as an american I was sorely disappointed when I realized id confused Phil Zimmerman with a Zimmerman of far greater notoriety. My definition of the Blackphone however became far more reasonable and tasteful.
Ive found several benefits to removing Java 8 entirely.
1. budget performance: by reducing expenditures on support contracts and Oracle licensing fees my budget has stopped looking like a Syrian casualty report.
2. maintenance productivity: developers have stopped hurling themselves nude through my expensive plate glass windows as they wail 'exception access violation!' This frees up maintenance to address more urgent concerns.
3. Environmental impact: We've reduced out environmental footprint by shredding our tear-stained contracts, and mulching them with our ancient blood-soaked documentation to create a spreadable compost that just brings out the absolute best in the landscaping.
4. Wellness impact: Thanks to removing Java our datacenter now runs closer to the temperatures the CRACS were designed to endure. While common HR functions like the weekly jboss report run luau-themed weenie roast have unfortunately been ended, the number of sysops that survive provisioning has improved. Analysts are also no longer permitted to refer to the datacenter provisioning process as 'the trip to mordor'
Its important to reinforce the fact that violations in transivity, while rational, may never be appropriate under some circumstances.
in a TSA checkpoint. is your transivity under 3 ounces? did you remove your A and B before walking through C?
if transivity is for loading and unloading only. dont just put your blinkers on either or C will tow your A to B.
if you clicked through the EULA for windows 8 without reading, boy will you ever be sorry. You cant violate transivity or Internet explorer will responding. You could downgrade to B but A says you shouldnt otherwise you wont C your excel spreadsheets ever again..
to date, while most slashdotters have been accustomed for some time to the governments radio pathways implanted in their teeth, the idea that somehow these same menacing devices may have found their way into the basement and, god forbid, into the VAX or Altair is truly terrifying.
this could never have been the anticipated action of a poorly regarded yet widely recognized patent troll. In other news
toast nationwide falls jellyjam side down!
the blinky signage never lasts long enough to navigate across the road!
politicians found to be corrupt and unreliable champions of their constituents!
icecream zealously consumed begets raging cranial agony!
religious doctrine conspicuously omits reason when confronted by legitimate debate!
im also beginning to suspect this version of windows is in fact NOT the best version ever...despite what the install screen insists.
The sentencing is a formality, a boilerplate. It is to send a message to any other would-be ne'er do wells that should you cooperate and come quietly the government will absolve you of your sins. Lulzsec for all their antics were champions of the government transparency inherent in a democracy contrived by the people and for the people.
the lesson from this is that ideas never die. Next time if you want to be a hero, you need to take a good hard look at your life and decide "is it worth it?" in Sabus case his family and children were used as leverage against him by the government to help crush dissent. its something we americans are only accustomed to hearing when informed by our respective media channels of transgressions undertaken by this years "supreme evil dictatorship." Its also worth noting that what the government was threatening Sabu with was nothing short of torture; a lifetime of silence, discipline and remorse for a crime that took no lives.
Sabu gave us hope and he taught us lessons. Edward Snowden played a chessmasters game in his defection and for it our government is left to do nothing more but ensure negative propaganda against him is dissemenated appropriately to all media outlets and further steps taken to mitigate a repeat performance. The only difference between a soviet system, the one we feared for 20 years, and our system, is that every 4 years we're burdened with the task of shuffling off to a school or church to apply our endorsement for a party. there are normally only ever two however. Neither actually operates in the service of its citizenry.
the lesson the government misses is this: just because Lulzsec is gone doesnt mean a mission wasnt accomplished or a task wasnt set into motion. more disaffected citizens and netizens will take their place. Chelsea manning, Julian Assange, and countless others will have paved the road to the hill upon which the casket of imperialist fascism is laid to rest.
theres been a recent boom in privatized space launches and exploration, and while im sure its a good thing for the economy I have my reservations. the START database is an excellent example:
https://standards.nasa.gov/
nasa publishes interesting scientific standards publically which helps further the study of space travel. It also provides a source of independent verification for different components and systems. Privatized space exploration is routinely under intense pressure to redact or restrict access to this information as it is of a "trade secret" nature. Im willing to bet most of the standards data Orbital and SpaceX rely upon and likely refuse to disclose are in fact based upon the START repository.
privatizing space travel and exploration is also in the disinterest of society as historically its natural progression is to increase quarterly revenue in the standard definition of a corporation. issues like environmental impacts then fall to the wayside as 'externalities' and, at worst we turn from sagans starry eyed space voyage to a wal-mart in the stars.
im old, so maybe im overreacting...but I sincerely believe there needs to be some system of independent audit and evaluation in place so that the spirit of space travel doesnt end up a thing of the past.
the mayor of Fort Lee has nothing to do with this:
Recently Christie had unloaded on Democrats in a particularly angry press conference concerning the renomination battle of a N.J. Supreme Court judge, a battle that had been several years in the making. The woman who headed the state Senate committee causing embarrassment for Christie at the time was N.J. state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D), who happens to represent Fort Lee.
this pissing contest has waged for 3 years now. whenever a clear victor is decided the judgement is appealed, and appealed again upon the overturn. your circle-jerk is an affront to the concept of justice.
we gave you assholes your own legal system called the arbitration. we gave it to you so you could fuck customers and avoid the repercussions of class action, but im telling you to pack your shit and go. Find an "arbitrator" or whatever it is you need and figure this out on your own, but I have real court cases id like to preside over before i die from natural causes.
sweden: ok Denmark here ya go. Finland, tell Denmark This hooligan is wanted for pirating everything from independence day to terminator.
finnish translator relays information
Denmark: Jesus Christ this guys the Terminator and hes trying to destroy our independence?!
Finnish translator:....perkele.....
JQuery.
The argument is premised on the idea that Americas largest multinational corporations are somehow so divorced from the legislative and governance process of the United States as to need to seek asylum in a foreign country.
companies only care about customer data if consumer market research data indicates negative shifts in earnings as a result of their inability to assauage customers of the validity, sanctity and security of their data. A prime example is the Target scandal recently. the cost to shore up security was probably much greater than the cost to issue apologies in the media. Target further mitigated the impact by using weasel words like "may have" or "possibly" when describing the outcome of their data breech. This in turn led the financial companies beholden to the cardholders to issue, of course, similar statements with a key advisory to "watch" your credit card, not to replace it which while effective would have been vastly more expensive for the financial company.
when companies face any real backlash from their customers, they legislate their way around it through the appropriate channels. AT&T demanded immunity from Bush wiretapping and received it. had they cared about your data, they would have fought the government to eliminate warrantless surveillance of this kind. But the law is ever on their side as they are the ones who craft it. Verizon lobbied extensively for stricter laws protecting arbitration clauses. They did it in response to a string of class action lawsuits related to overbilling customers. had they cared about the letter of the law, they would have made major changes and improvements to their billing system that prevented the plaintiffs from suffering the ridiculous mischarges in the first place.