in most of americas cinemas such as lowes, thanks to their generally poor quality
smells: enjoy the stench of burnt popcorn and rancid palm kernel oil from a cooker that hasnt seen regular service since the carter administration. the smell of butter mysteriously absent from the product is provided through the carpets at no charge!
seat motions: folding seats with fewer bolts and screws remaining than the last republican vice presidential candidate. Most patrons find watching a film to be indistinguishable from a light pilates and yoga session, other than the slightly higher cost of the film.
additional effects such as strobe lights and fog: check out the popcorn maker in the lobby as it synergizes with the weenie roller and the nacho cheese melter for its daily 4:00 meltdown. the ensuing blast, if experienced during the 3:15 showing of the Dark Knight Rises, transports viewers directly into the movie (through the screen, past the drywall, and into the parking lot in most cases!)
is optimum for an optimum world. where it fails is in assuming the right to squander knowledge and remove ideas from the public domain, the right to close the source, is a "right." How soon the regents have forgotten their lawsuit with AT&T, and how readily they concede good faith in every major multinational afforded their hard work and the hard work of thousands of BSD developers. Oracle the BSD license erodes security and undermines open source projects by sequestering a codebase that is neither independently verifiable nor auditable on any level. if you consider programmers the means of production, the BSD license enables us to relive the era of controlled production known in the early 20th century.
closed source is to computing as cloistered monks and the church were to the middle ages. youll have your decree read, youll not see the writing, and if you could youd not understand it anyhow.
congress and senate are bayesian in nature. surely a theoretical mapping could get us a future bill that does what we want, and gets passed:
cyber: 2.0
Protection 2.0
Intelligence: 2.0
(gun|assault|weapon|magazine|clip) + ban: -2.0
terror: 5.0
freedom: 5.0
healthcare: -4.0
immigration: -2.0
reform: 2.0
and just for good measure, a few tags that appear to have some effect on the tracking and analysis process:
X-Voted-On-Before: y/n
X-Fillibstr?: y/n
Pander:1/0
:0
* H ?? ^From:.*@linkedin\.com /dev/null
Linkedin is to employment as pakistani callcenters are to recruiting. I consider it another "social" site into which people excrete personal details and act perplexed when they receive an influx of redplum junkettes and robocalls. i save my "professional networking" for SCALE, LISA, and pertanent mailing lists.
gets shit thrown at it from both sides. providers dont feel the need to invest in more towers and users understandably get angry when this problem manifests in dropped calls and network outages.
to curtail the issue, emergency coverage services like COW and COLT (Cellular on Wheels, Cellular on Light Truck) have been bastardized by carriers to augment connectivity for sports events and serve as standby relays during repairs. COW and COLT were designed by the industries to respond to hurricanes and tornados but the allure of having a tower-on-wheels it understandably too budget-friendly for any carrier to pass up. oversubscription and markup are what keep cellular industries alive, just like shared hosting or airlines.
the other issue is as TFA highlights, cellular is just not as robust as say, 25 core ASTRO multi-zone digital radio...arguably because the need just isnt there. if 1 in 5 people cant make contact during an emergency its not a problem, cellphones can be borrowed or the calls can be retried. in law enforcement and emergency services, the PTT button has to work every time no matter what, as a loss of service could result in an emergency turning into a catastrophe.
finally, what i consider 'dark devices' can also create an outage automatically. fire alarms, burglary alarms, and even SIGALERT and some EAS systems (yes, EAS, its cost saving/kickback jack-assery found in flyover states all the time.) for the city/state are critically dependent on cellular networks. in the event of an emergency the activation of hundreds of these devices at once can black out the network pretty fast.
s/DDoS specialist Prolexic/DDoS services vendor Prolexic./
or in other words, "company that specializes in the mitigation and treatment of DDoS reports DDoS threats are extremely bad right now"
is the fact that bitcoins design explicitly resists things like command and control from a centralized banking institution. sure, it makes bitcoin far more volatile than other currencies, but the fact that one group of people cannot arbitrarily decide to revalue the currency means that risk inherent in bitcoin investment comes with it a monumentally more concrete level of consequence. The problem with the dollar, as we've seen, is that if ever we get too far in over our heads with irresponsible investment like 'credit default swaps' we can simply "hack" our way out of the free market by injecting a ton of extra cash and propping up institutions with lemon socialism (warren buffets choice of purchase price and terms for an auto maker, or a bank for example.) Bitcoin economies have the real potential to destroy houses of finance and investment that do not respect them. they also implicitly mandate a more even playing field for things like wealth and equality as free market capitalisms inefficiencies and dangers require not just tacid but overt acceptance and understanding. fairer prices for housing and the outright ban on deceptive lending would be nearly impossible to avoid, meaning many forms of credit might not continue to exist.
"This defendant participated in a fraudulent scheme in which he would either reap huge profits through the unauthorized purchase of approximately $1 billion of Apple stock or, if he faced huge losses, explain it away as simple human error"
how is this in any way different than regular financial trading? it seems to me the word 'unauthorized' was applied after the investment company decided this guy was a nuisance.
again:
"Risk is inherent in the investment world, but that risk should never be borne from the actions of investment professionals who choose to serve their own financial agendas rather than those of their client" stated FBI Special Agent in Charge Mertz.
if investment bankers didnt serve their own financial agendas im sure Lexus would be a far less profitable company and the hamptons would have a few less mailboxes. this guy wasnt arrested for anything as far as the FBI is concerned related to a specific SEC violation. i venture he was arrested for
that during an immediate crisis or disaster, cellular networks will become quickly overloaded. network providers acknowledge this and tout things like COW and COLT (Cellular on Wheels and Cellular on Light Truck) as a solution. what isnt clearly stated is that these systems may be hundreds of miles from the immediate area, or may rely on existing trunks and uplinks that are themselves completely saturated, if they havent been destroyed by $crisis || $disaster. cellular providers also have a terrible habit of booking these emergency systems for sporting events to augment their second rate cellular networks.
For geeks who understand how cellular works its limitations are pretty obvious, so im seriously wondering if amateur radio played any part in assisting during this crisis? ham was designed from its inception to help in a civil emergency, and it would be hard to imagine an event like the boston marathon without at least one 2 meter or 6 meter general class or extra present.
does boston use ASTRO? or EDACS radio networks for emergency services? if so how did these networks perform?
avoid the protracted outages, painful licensing, free access by federal authorities and data mining by a private multinational and just do this instead http://hypertable.org/
purchase a time machine and go back 6-8 years to the point at which Richard M Stallman told you this would be a problem.
how do I make sure my children get my iTunes, and amazon movies?
you dont. amazon cloud drive products as well as iTunes are non-transferrable. there is no resale or loaning, or even giving away an ebook for example. Besides, as the standards are rather closed in most cases, you couldnt even if you wanted to. read the terms and conditions.
I have plenty of mp4 movies on my server that will just set itself to admin with no password after I do not log in within a 6 month time frame.
Again, unless they hold the license for these movies, you're only gifting them a visit from the MPAA.
But what about the huge amount spent on digital content every year? What's the best way to make sure your "digital inheritance" gets passed down?"
As a consumer, you're late to the party. the "digital" as you call them contents of your personal life upon which you so openly spend are covered under an inumerable number of intractable license agreements and content restrictions. these are legally binding, force you into arbitration disputes, and come with an army of attorneys ready to turn you into a fine red mist if you so much as dare challenge them outside of it. to make matters worse an estate attorney would be about as useful here as tits on a bishop.
the only answer is to open the formats you have. stop treating the cloud as something designed to help you, and when storing locally plan your data backups. consider a key-based authentication system that your children have access too after your death (yubikey for example) and if you're seriously intent on giving them your movies, consider creating PDF's of the invoices/receipts from amazon.com or itunes from when you purchased the content. bonus points if it can be matched up to a financial statement.
The Russian space programme has been hurt in recent years by the catastrophic collapse of the USSR
Fact: the USSR basically owned space lock, stock, and barrel. For perspective: the USSR was the first to put a person in space, the first to launch a satellite and the first to place an autonomous rover on the moon. they also invented the ion engine, the space suit, space food, the space station salyut 1, the luna 1 space probe, and quixotically the baikonur cosmodrome. they landed a rover on mars 30 years ago. the USSR was, for lack of more appropriate descriptor, the swinging dick of technology and science. at least until america decided with the truman doctrine to embark on a 45 year mission to shit all over it.
but hey. at least theyre not communist anymore.
upon the type of work im doing. if i need access to a wiki article or something at work, netcat is fine. other times i might need to download the latest version of some software to test, so ill defer to curl (i understand its a resource hog, but im getting lazier as an admin in my old age.) One of the most frustrating things ive had to deal with at work however is sharepoint. Ive submitted several bug reports for the software but frankly, i cant get it to render properly in anything i use. even a full-featured monster like lynx cant handle it! For now ive worked around it by taking dd snapshots of the sharepoint san and parsing them using ed for the relevant articles.
go something like this: Samsung:we're instituting a policy to limit the amount of flash you can purchase from our company. Apple: and now that we own Samsung, we're rescinding the policy, firing the management that instituted it, buying their homeowners association, and forcing them to live out the rest of their days in an underpass near the airport.
Samsung: we dont think thats a very good idea Apple:: then think different while you're fighting for that big piece of cardboard tonight.
No, im pretty sure hes still a republican shill. this time just for a different cause. %s/halliburton/RIAA/ from TFA:
"Rogers believes the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act (CISPA) can help counter that threat. "
phenomenon is just another symptom of the failure of modern capitalism in my opinion. although peculiar to the tech industry it seeks to turn a valuable service into a race to the bottom commodity at the expense of human beings much as in every other sector. Other examples are Wal-Mart, which touts health benefits to their full time employees while carefully ensuring nearly everyone is working only 38 hours. or general contractors in texas which skirt employment laws to deliver the lowest cost 3000 square foot new home at the expense of paid labor and federal social security taxes by classifying every parking lot central american nailswatter as a "private contractor."
Or recruiters who somehow think that sub-sub-subcontracting their cold-calls to the lowest bidding third world country to successfully game their english language skills requirement will earn them more successful placements.
the free market as we know it. give'er another 20 years and the occupy protest will, if not already, become a staple of american life. people will only tolerate so much serfdom before someone loses a head.
is planning in terms of warfare, but so far his campaign seems to be extremely effective in its ability to insight terror. He even made some large superpower play chess with its missile defense, at their own expense.
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in most of americas cinemas such as lowes, thanks to their generally poor quality
smells: enjoy the stench of burnt popcorn and rancid palm kernel oil from a cooker that hasnt seen regular service since the carter administration. the smell of butter mysteriously absent from the product is provided through the carpets at no charge!
seat motions: folding seats with fewer bolts and screws remaining than the last republican vice presidential candidate. Most patrons find watching a film to be indistinguishable from a light pilates and yoga session, other than the slightly higher cost of the film.
additional effects such as strobe lights and fog: check out the popcorn maker in the lobby as it synergizes with the weenie roller and the nacho cheese melter for its daily 4:00 meltdown. the ensuing blast, if experienced during the 3:15 showing of the Dark Knight Rises, transports viewers directly into the movie (through the screen, past the drywall, and into the parking lot in most cases!)
is optimum for an optimum world. where it fails is in assuming the right to squander knowledge and remove ideas from the public domain, the right to close the source, is a "right." How soon the regents have forgotten their lawsuit with AT&T, and how readily they concede good faith in every major multinational afforded their hard work and the hard work of thousands of BSD developers. Oracle the BSD license erodes security and undermines open source projects by sequestering a codebase that is neither independently verifiable nor auditable on any level. if you consider programmers the means of production, the BSD license enables us to relive the era of controlled production known in the early 20th century.
closed source is to computing as cloistered monks and the church were to the middle ages. youll have your decree read, youll not see the writing, and if you could youd not understand it anyhow.
congress and senate are bayesian in nature. surely a theoretical mapping could get us a future bill that does what we want, and gets passed:
cyber: 2.0
Protection 2.0
Intelligence: 2.0
(gun|assault|weapon|magazine|clip) + ban: -2.0
terror: 5.0
freedom: 5.0
healthcare: -4.0
immigration: -2.0
reform: 2.0
and just for good measure, a few tags that appear to have some effect on the tracking and analysis process:
X-Voted-On-Before: y/n
X-Fillibstr?: y/n
Pander:1/0
* H ?? ^From:
Linkedin is to employment as pakistani callcenters are to recruiting. I consider it another "social" site into which people excrete personal details and act perplexed when they receive an influx of redplum junkettes and robocalls. i save my "professional networking" for SCALE, LISA, and pertanent mailing lists.
Darren Kitchen: "There's not a consumer demand for security; it's not a feature that will sell it."
PfSense: "Speak of the devil and he shall appear."
gets shit thrown at it from both sides. providers dont feel the need to invest in more towers and users understandably get angry when this problem manifests in dropped calls and network outages.
to curtail the issue, emergency coverage services like COW and COLT (Cellular on Wheels, Cellular on Light Truck) have been bastardized by carriers to augment connectivity for sports events and serve as standby relays during repairs. COW and COLT were designed by the industries to respond to hurricanes and tornados but the allure of having a tower-on-wheels it understandably too budget-friendly for any carrier to pass up. oversubscription and markup are what keep cellular industries alive, just like shared hosting or airlines.
the other issue is as TFA highlights, cellular is just not as robust as say, 25 core ASTRO multi-zone digital radio...arguably because the need just isnt there. if 1 in 5 people cant make contact during an emergency its not a problem, cellphones can be borrowed or the calls can be retried. in law enforcement and emergency services, the PTT button has to work every time no matter what, as a loss of service could result in an emergency turning into a catastrophe.
finally, what i consider 'dark devices' can also create an outage automatically. fire alarms, burglary alarms, and even SIGALERT and some EAS systems (yes, EAS, its cost saving/kickback jack-assery found in flyover states all the time.) for the city/state are critically dependent on cellular networks. in the event of an emergency the activation of hundreds of these devices at once can black out the network pretty fast.
s/DDoS specialist Prolexic/DDoS services vendor Prolexic./
or in other words, "company that specializes in the mitigation and treatment of DDoS reports DDoS threats are extremely bad right now"
is the fact that bitcoins design explicitly resists things like command and control from a centralized banking institution. sure, it makes bitcoin far more volatile than other currencies, but the fact that one group of people cannot arbitrarily decide to revalue the currency means that risk inherent in bitcoin investment comes with it a monumentally more concrete level of consequence. The problem with the dollar, as we've seen, is that if ever we get too far in over our heads with irresponsible investment like 'credit default swaps' we can simply "hack" our way out of the free market by injecting a ton of extra cash and propping up institutions with lemon socialism (warren buffets choice of purchase price and terms for an auto maker, or a bank for example.) Bitcoin economies have the real potential to destroy houses of finance and investment that do not respect them. they also implicitly mandate a more even playing field for things like wealth and equality as free market capitalisms inefficiencies and dangers require not just tacid but overt acceptance and understanding. fairer prices for housing and the outright ban on deceptive lending would be nearly impossible to avoid, meaning many forms of credit might not continue to exist.
"This defendant participated in a fraudulent scheme in which he would either reap huge profits through the unauthorized purchase of approximately $1 billion of Apple stock or, if he faced huge losses, explain it away as simple human error"
how is this in any way different than regular financial trading? it seems to me the word 'unauthorized' was applied after the investment company decided this guy was a nuisance.
again:
"Risk is inherent in the investment world, but that risk should never be borne from the actions of investment professionals who choose to serve their own financial agendas rather than those of their client" stated FBI Special Agent in Charge Mertz.
if investment bankers didnt serve their own financial agendas im sure Lexus would be a far less profitable company and the hamptons would have a few less mailboxes. this guy wasnt arrested for anything as far as the FBI is concerned related to a specific SEC violation. i venture he was arrested for
frustrated by the fact that I as do many geeks already wear glasses.
that during an immediate crisis or disaster, cellular networks will become quickly overloaded. network providers acknowledge this and tout things like COW and COLT (Cellular on Wheels and Cellular on Light Truck) as a solution. what isnt clearly stated is that these systems may be hundreds of miles from the immediate area, or may rely on existing trunks and uplinks that are themselves completely saturated, if they havent been destroyed by $crisis || $disaster. cellular providers also have a terrible habit of booking these emergency systems for sporting events to augment their second rate cellular networks.
For geeks who understand how cellular works its limitations are pretty obvious, so im seriously wondering if amateur radio played any part in assisting during this crisis?
ham was designed from its inception to help in a civil emergency, and it would be hard to imagine an event like the boston marathon without at least one 2 meter or 6 meter general class or extra present.
does boston use ASTRO? or EDACS radio networks for emergency services? if so how did these networks perform?
when you pry it from my cold dead hand!
avoid the protracted outages, painful licensing, free access by federal authorities and data mining by a private multinational and just do this instead http://hypertable.org/
how do I make sure my children get my iTunes, and amazon movies?
you dont. amazon cloud drive products as well as iTunes are non-transferrable. there is no resale or loaning, or even giving away an ebook for example. Besides, as the standards are rather closed in most cases, you couldnt even if you wanted to. read the terms and conditions.
I have plenty of mp4 movies on my server that will just set itself to admin with no password after I do not log in within a 6 month time frame.
Again, unless they hold the license for these movies, you're only gifting them a visit from the MPAA.
But what about the huge amount spent on digital content every year? What's the best way to make sure your "digital inheritance" gets passed down?"
As a consumer, you're late to the party. the "digital" as you call them contents of your personal life upon which you so openly spend are covered under an inumerable number of intractable license agreements and content restrictions. these are legally binding, force you into arbitration disputes, and come with an army of attorneys ready to turn you into a fine red mist if you so much as dare challenge them outside of it. to make matters worse an estate attorney would be about as useful here as tits on a bishop.
the only answer is to open the formats you have. stop treating the cloud as something designed to help you, and when storing locally plan your data backups. consider a key-based authentication system that your children have access too after your death (yubikey for example) and if you're seriously intent on giving them your movies, consider creating PDF's of the invoices/receipts from amazon.com or itunes from when you purchased the content. bonus points if it can be matched up to a financial statement.
steak sauce, im thinking the problem can be eradicated fairly quickly.
http://eideard.com/2009/07/04/how-to-prepare-african-land-snail-for-dinner/
...slow day for news on slashdot eh?
what in the actual fuck is "the roof of the world"
The Russian space programme has been hurt in recent years by the catastrophic collapse of the USSR
Fact: the USSR basically owned space lock, stock, and barrel.
For perspective: the USSR was the first to put a person in space, the first to launch a satellite and the first to place an autonomous rover on the moon. they also invented the ion engine, the space suit, space food, the space station salyut 1, the luna 1 space probe, and quixotically the baikonur cosmodrome. they landed a rover on mars 30 years ago. the USSR was, for lack of more appropriate descriptor, the swinging dick of technology and science. at least until america decided with the truman doctrine to embark on a 45 year mission to shit all over it.
but hey. at least theyre not communist anymore.
upon the type of work im doing. if i need access to a wiki article or something at work, netcat is fine. other times i might need to download the latest version of some software to test, so ill defer to curl (i understand its a resource hog, but im getting lazier as an admin in my old age.) One of the most frustrating things ive had to deal with at work however is sharepoint. Ive submitted several bug reports for the software but frankly, i cant get it to render properly in anything i use. even a full-featured monster like lynx cant handle it! For now ive worked around it by taking dd snapshots of the sharepoint san and parsing them using ed for the relevant articles.
go something like this:
Samsung:we're instituting a policy to limit the amount of flash you can purchase from our company.
Apple: and now that we own Samsung, we're rescinding the
policy, firing the management that instituted it, buying their homeowners association,
and forcing them to live out the rest of their days in an underpass near the airport.
Samsung: we dont think thats a very good idea
Apple:: then think different while you're fighting for that big piece of cardboard tonight.
ranting and bitching about Steve Ballmer for almost a decade with no results. Turns out the correct method is twitter?
No, im pretty sure hes still a republican shill. this time just for a different cause. %s/halliburton/RIAA/ from TFA: "Rogers believes the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act (CISPA) can help counter that threat. "
except for the "his company makes money while developing and relying purely on open source software."
we dont need more assholes building code monastaries.
phenomenon is just another symptom of the failure of modern capitalism in my opinion. although peculiar to the tech industry it seeks to turn a valuable service into a race to the bottom commodity at the expense of human beings much as in every other sector. Other examples are Wal-Mart, which touts health benefits to their full time employees while carefully ensuring nearly everyone is working only 38 hours. or general contractors in texas which skirt employment laws to deliver the lowest cost 3000 square foot new home at the expense of paid labor and federal social security taxes by classifying every parking lot central american nailswatter as a "private contractor." Or recruiters who somehow think that sub-sub-subcontracting their cold-calls to the lowest bidding third world country to successfully game their english language skills requirement will earn them more successful placements.
the free market as we know it. give'er another 20 years and the occupy protest will, if not already, become a staple of american life. people will only tolerate so much serfdom before someone loses a head.
is planning in terms of warfare, but so far his campaign seems to be extremely effective in its ability to insight terror. He even made some large superpower play chess with its missile defense, at their own expense.