Comment Re:i would have killed him. (Score 1) 666
Magic of caching..
Okay Fernando = Dick.
"Never Mind" - Emily Latilla
Magic of caching..
Okay Fernando = Dick.
"Never Mind" - Emily Latilla
Been drinking a bit too much caffeine today?
While this alleged incident is reprehensible, I don't think it warrants going John Wayne Bobbit on the perp. It's no excuse for the behavior however I do wonder why from the blog posting there's this:
Note: There will be no names named here. The perpetrator is not named. Likewise the heroes of the story who probably saved me from going to jail and at the very least comforted me when it felt like the floor was going to fall through are left unnamed. That said if you want to know the names I am willing to discuss it privately.
Okay, this raises a few questions, no names mentioned, no charges filed and I guess maybe the Police were involved or not but... shit, the blog posting reads more like "The Vagina Monologues" and goes wandering around. It may make a great chapter in an upcoming novel but I'm not discounting what she's saying either, it just doesn't ring true when you won't say "Look, this MF named Mr. ______ tried to rape me. And these other folks ______ _______ saw it." Look, if you're assaulted go to the authorities, file charges and name names. If this guy is a bad apple and he needs to be called out otherwise this is an incident that *maybe* happened and without at least some other folks stepping forward and saying "yeah, I saw it" or "yeah, he raped me" then these can be considered hearsay or fiction. If you're going to put it in a Blog, put the names down for Christ sake.. Shit last year two guys making jokes were lambasted as being chauvinists all across the Internet for something that is magnitudes less significant than this supposed incident. You know what, I call that offensive but it's also free speech.
Now, I'm not condoning violence against women, especially Rape but let's also not forget how lynchings start and recently the infamous case of DSK and how that all fell apart. Yeah DSK was(or is) a womanizer and probably didn't deserve all the BS he received, or maybe he did: including losing his position with the World Bank. I kind of put these kinds of stories in along with what Roseann Barr did a few years ago with "Repressed Memories."
So please put the chainsaw down and look objectively at what this person and their story and certainly cheer for her standing up to this guy but don't start eviscerating every guy out there.
According to my Ghostery window right now for this page. I have blocked:
Three Double Clicks.
One Google Adwords
One Google Analytics
One Scorecard Beacon
and Four Jainrain
Anybody ever try it on Weather.com or CNN.com? Everybody is into tracking..
"To Serve Man,
LOL, so your traffic will go in a perpetual loop around the world with no where to get out. Reminds me of the X.25 days...
I think he died of asphyxiation from having a small dog stuck in his throat.
That and probably the fact that they priced it outrageously. OS/2 2.0 was great, OS 2 3.0 even better then ultimately WARP but by then Windows and Windows NT were eroding the marketplace. I've spent years writing software for Windows and OS/2 and technically in some areas, OS/2 was much better and in others, not so much. IBM didn't really push the home consumer market but they were big in the corporate world where they still sold a lot of mid-range and mainframe systems. That and a lot of Token Ring crap as well and that's where IBM pushed the O/S. They could have competed much better but IBM had been their hardware groups split up, PCs (PS/2 w/Microchannel), Midrange and Mainframe and the Software group was split from that. PS/2 systems were priced higher and had higher margin vs. COTS Clone PCs which were gaining in market share. I remember going to computer fairs in Southern California in the late 80s / early 90s and you could literally get bidding wars between vendors across the aisle for your business for a 386 or 486 based system. IBM didn't play in that arena and Windows 3.1 for example had an MSRP of $149 when it came out in 1992.. and nobody really paid that in the wholesale market (I used to get legal copies for less than $100 and threw them in on PC hardware deals) OS/2 2.0 was originally started by Microsoft at the time they were partners with IBM but that became estranged when IBM saw their development money being funneled over to this Windows NT thingy. They broke up and IBM released OS/2 1.3, the first release completely done by IBM as well as OS/2 2.0 in 1992. From what I remember, OS/2 2.0 was about $500 for the software and at the time when you could get a screamer 486DX based system for less than $1000 with Windows 3.x in the early 90s a PS/2 loaded with OS/2 2.0 was well over $3000. Businesses would pay that and get the nice IBM support along with it, but not the home consumer market. When Windows 95 came out it was lights out for IBM and OS/2 in the consumer market.
Microsoft and their tactics didn't help but rather than fight in the marketplace, IBM chose to keep pushing the higher margin business deals. Their cost structure was higher of course and that was also a big issue in their competitive edge. Yes, Microsoft was disreputable in their dealings with IBM around OS/2 and the PC market, that's now part of history. It should be pointed out that IBM's corporate history isn't exactly squeeky clean when it comes to some of their business dealings either.
Pavarotti is already dead.
Wikipedia is a source of information but it's not necessarily the definitive source of information.
Teller could beat that anyday and he was conducting experiments with radioactive materials and nuclear devices in Project Chariot.
Let's also not forget he suggested using nukes do close off the Straits of Gibraltar to make the Mediterranean Sea rise, freshen and then irrigate the Sahara.
He did of course acknowledge that this would mean losing Venice and other sea-level cities along the Mediterranean.
Let's also not forget that it was his assertions on Lasers and orbiting Nukes that got Reagan thinking about Star Wars...
It was Teller’s misleading views on the potential of the X-ray laser that first roused Reagan’s passionate interest in Star Wars. The idea was straightforward enough. Put into orbit nuclear weapons – which would require opting out of the Outer Space Treaty. Faced with an attack, the United States would set off the nukes to generate multiple beams of radiation to demolish incoming missiles. Teller claimed that a single, desk-sized laser could strike as many as 100,000 targets all at once, something others scientists said grotesquely overstated the case.
When this professor gets his own Nationally funded lab, personnel, materials and access to the White House and Congress, then we start worrying.
Just sayin.. Build Skynet.. Massively distributed and with the added bonus of viral tendencies it'll take over the other Exascale computing resources in no time.
You bring up a good point and part of the reason why Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos have those nice big supercomputers testing decay rates and doing simulations on warheads.
There's an interesting device in the Bradbury Science Museum aka the Atomic Museum in Los Alamos, It's a phone..
Anyway, from this: http://www.nationaltlcservice.us/2013/05/report-from-the-hilltop-highlights-of-the-los-alamos-bradbury-science-museum-museum-profile-1/
A phone analogy inaugurated the display: Adjacent to a clear-plastic telephone (which reminded me of those see-through Swatch phones of the 80s), a placard explains: “Like many of the weapons currently in the nuclear arsenal, this phone was manufactured in the late 1960s and was designed to last about 15 years. You were asked to verify that this phone will work—but you weren’t allowed to make or receive a call to fully test it.” Nearby, the question “What does this phone have to do with nuclear weapons?” is answered with the motto: “safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapons.” The exhibit further explains the connection to LANL’s mission: “We are asked to verify that the weapons in the stockpile are safe and reliable—but without performing underground nuclear tests. Instead, we use an integrated set of scientific tools to inspect and evaluate individual parts and subsystems. The military counts on us to guarantee that US nuclear weapons will perform as designed if they are ever needed. That’s our mission, and that’s a call we can make.”
The DOE still has quite a few on the Top 500 List..
Agreed, however TOR provides an anonymous network (or as much as can be) if your client is insecure (in the case of the one link you referenced re: Bittorrent clients) then you may be exposed, hence they don't recommend it. Not saying you can't, but anyway.. I wouldn't do it because yeah, the performance would probably suck. There may be other attacks based on theory or practice against TOR but as the original posting article states, the NSA is possibly watching TOR under the guise:
For instance, a person whose physical location is unknown—which more often than not is the case when someone uses anonymity software from the Tor Project—"will not be treated as a United States person, unless such person can be positively identified as such, or the nature or circumstances of the person's communications give rise to a reasonable belief that such person is a United States person,"
So net, net, if they see traffic where they don't know where it originates or is destined to, you're considered a viable candidate for data collection unless they find out you're in the US and a citizen. Wow, I wonder what that algorithm looks like? They don't specifically say TOR is being watched, but it would increase your chances. That's like standing 10 miles from a nuclear test explosion = being watched, vs standing in uranium mine for 10 years = possibly watched. At a minimum, I would imagine that they'd be watching the exit node traffic and any other peers they can identify since a lot is publicly available there are a lot of exit nodes in the US and in friendly countries. If those other countries are friendly, they may just let the NSA tap in at the far end. So, you originate in the US, your traffic is in a TLS wrapper, it goes to France, then to
I'd just watch out for those TOR exit nodes in unfriendly territory.. Say, an exit node in Afghanistan or Lebanon, maybe Syria (that's a joke by the way)
Note, that above link although the article is from 2010, the data from teksimple.com appears to be kept up to date I'm not sure about the KML file though.
Shit, to paraphrase Farnsworth: "now I'll need a fake ID to download ultra-porn!"
Define "Communication Purposes Only."
Does anyone still believe them?
No.
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