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Comment Consumerism at its best (Score 1) 233

"SALE", "DISCOUNT", "% OFF", "LIMITED OFFER", "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS", "BUY 2 GET ONE", "BOGO", All scream the same to those who are paying attention: Oh you are raising your prices for these products. Have you people ever wondered why it is a sale only on specific items? How are trends set.. by those who have the most money? If you seriously thought you were getting a screaming deal from Amazon during this day.. you are a consumer, don't be afraid, just keep living paycheck to paycheck and You Must Have The Best Stuff and nothing should stop you from that goal. You Must Have what other people have.. because You don't have it... and they do. .. Now on to what I truly want to say: The vendor is butt hurt because they didn't get the payout that Amazon did on this great "sale day".

Comment Re:Who is denying it? (Score 0) 389

You are one of the reasons this "political" stance even exists. For years women have been subjugated to the role society placed them in.. "motherhood" while the men went out and had to provide. The survival of the fittest reigned free: Those who survived were normally misogynistic unenlightened farmers until a "political" system started being fashioned out of the revolts and years of enslavement to a monarch. We are the offspring of such a society. When such a society becomes as transparent as ours has, problems with the "treatment" of our fellow humans becomes "news". Lets face it.. life is not easy and will continue to push the weak out of existence.

Submission + - Google patents human fly paper hood (theverge.com)

Etrahkad writes: Soon, automated google vehicles will have pedestrian fly-paper to stick to if the inevitable happens: "A google car hits a pedestrian crossing the road." It is easily not fool proof but the idea has some merit for some scenarios if a google car hits someone.

Submission + - Unreal Engine 4 Is Now Free 1

jones_supa writes: In 2014, Epic Games took the step of making Unreal Engine 4 available to everyone by subscription for $19 per month. Today, this general-purpose game engine is available to everyone for free. This includes future updates, the full C++ source code of the engine, documentation, and all sorts of bonus material. You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. The business scheme that Epic set in the beginning, remains the same: when you ship a commercial game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter. Epic strived to create a simple and fair arrangement in which they succeed only when your product succeeds.

Submission + - A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month

cartechboy writes: It's 2014. Where the heck are our flying cars? We were promised flying cars. We should be living like The Jetsons, right? Well, we aren't, but we are about to take one step closer: a production-ready flying car is debuting this month. Slovakia's Aeromobil has planning to unveil its "Flying Roadster" at the Pioneers Festival in Vianna, Austria on October 29. The latest iteration is called the Aeromobil 3.0, and work on it dates back to 1990. The Aeromobil 2.5 prototype made its first flight about a year ago. The Aeromobil transforms from plane to car by folding its wings behind the cockpit. Supposedly, the Aerobmoil will fit in a standard parking spot and run on pump gas. In less than a month, our dreams could become a reality.

Comment Google search is already doing that: (Score 0) 320

Put your android or apple phone in front of you. Say a word that you normally wouldn't say. Repeat it 3 times. Start typing it in google search. Google pulls it up pretty quickly but it is normally #3 in the list the word that you said. Is it perfect...no. Google search app mind you. And yes I tested this on an IPhone 4, not 4s+ (no siri). What I'm upset about is... how much of my reported bandwidth that Cox is forcing down my throat this "feature". Am I currently paying for google to throw advertising (or selling my info)? Trolls... yes you have to have internet.

Comment Re:Practical application is the only way (Score 1) 306

Now apply unit testing. Start by making unit tests for current functionality so when you are refactoring, the same outcome exists each step of the way. It's like the paradigm of fail fast, fail often, test fast, test often. When refactoring code into better units of work one must refactor into conceptual entities rather than refactor functions. Separate the logic from the factory so to speak.

Comment Re:Money climax (Score 4, Interesting) 356

I would say once enough of the middle class are unable to continue throwing billions of dollars at the corporate entities and that bubble does finally pop, mass starvation will hit. I would believe that is when the revolution and major changes will take place. It is not a question of If but when (is that the question anymore?).

Comment Re:Knowing someone who is infected is the conditio (Score 1) 171

For this reason, we have a rule. Always ssh FROM the more trusted machine TO the less trusted one, never the other way around. For scp and rsync, that means always PUSH files to a client's machine or any server on the public internet, never PULL to a less trusted machine from a more trusted one.

How would that work? Honestly I don't know so don't troll me ;P. How would I connect to my local ssh server from a work resource (that uses rsa key concatination), from my house?

Security

Submission + - How do YOU establish a secure computing environment? 3

sneakyimp writes: We've seen increasingly creative ways for bad guys to compromise your system like infected pen drives, computers preloaded with malware, mobile phone apps with malware, and a $300 app that can sniff out your encryption keys.
On top of these obvious risks, there are lingering questions about the integrity of common operating systems and cloud computing services. Do Windows, OSX, and linux have security holes? Does Windows supply a backdoor for the U.S. or other governments? Should you really trust your linux multiverse repository? Do Google and Apple data mine your private mobile phone data for private information? Does Ubuntu's sharing of my data with Amazon compromise my privacy? Can the U.S. Government seize your cloud data without a warrant? Can McAfee or Kaspersky really be trusted?
Naturally, the question arises of how to establish and maintain an ironclad workstation or laptop for the purpose of handling sensitive information or doing security research. DARPA has approached the problem by awarding a $21.4M contract to Invincea to create a secure version of Android. What should we do if we don't have $21.4M USD? Is it safe to buy a PC from any manufacturer? Is it even safe to buy individual computer components and assemble one's own machine? Or might the MOBO firmware be compromised?
What steps can one take to insure a truly secure computing environment? Is this even possible? Can anyone recommend a through checklist or suggest best practices?
Patents

Submission + - Fark.com founder Drew Curtis links patent trolls with 'terrorists' (foxnews.com)

Velcroman1 writes: Other than the shifty eyes and faint smell of cheap aftershave, it’s often hard to identify a patent troll. The derogatory term "patent troll" describes a company established as a legal entity solely to make cash through patent lawsuits — stifling creativity and emptying the bank accounts of even the smartest Silicon Valley start-up. According to a 2011 report by the Boston University School of Law, patent trolls have cost U.S. companies about $500 billion in lost capital. Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com, calls them terrorists to be avoided at all costs. “It boils down to one thing: don’t negotiate with terrorists,” Curtis said during a talk at the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, Calif. He explained how he won a patent dispute over e-mail newsletters by refusing to settle.

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