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Fri 03/18/16 02:20 PM
Anyone can claim they are with anonymous.

There are some people who associate with anonymous that are serious hackers and who work vigilantly to make the world a 'better place' (in their eyes, at least).


Then there are legions of wanna-be losers who just make noise.

Sounds like one of the wanna-bes is just embarrassing themselves ehre.

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Mon 03/14/16 06:32 PM

Melissa Click


Has anyone else ever read her papers ?
My God..this woman is cray cray!
If she wasn't paid so much to do it, it would actually be funny.


Yes, she is definitely out there. But all you have to do to be accepted and supported by some ideologues is just chant the right slogans.



There is more good news, though, in the fight between freedom of speech and crazy ideologues:


MINNESOTA PROFESSORS: FREE SPEECH MORE IMPORTANT THAN 'CLIMATE OF MUTUAL RESPECT'


BY MIKE MULLENMONDAY, MARCH 14, 2016

Outrage is all the rage on American college campuses. Both sides in a long-running but newly heated debate have dug in on their positions. On one side, some, most of them students, have pushed for campuses to be "safe spaces" where kids are free to pursue an education without the threat of an insult or offensive behavior that could ruin their learning experience.

On the other, free speech champions say students are grown-ups, or close enough, and should be able to handle potentially offensive speech if they plan to operate in the real world.

A powerful panel of University of Minnesota professors has taken its own position on the thorny topic, as detailed in the Washington Post. They're siding with free speech.

The University's Faculty Consultative Committee gave its support to a four-point statement that calls for the University to protect the free exchange of ideas — "paramount" to higher learning — even if some, or many, will find those ideas "offensive, uncivil, or even hateful."



From: http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesota-professors-free-speech-more-important-than-climate-of-mutual-respect-8122040

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Wed 03/02/16 04:42 PM
Edited by massagetrade on Wed 03/02/16 04:42 PM



Thanks, IgorFrankensteen. I hadn't considered that. I typically assume most people have a laptop similar to my Toshiba Satellite. I can upgrade both the RAM and hard drive in it. But you are correct to point out the smaller "netbook" and "ultrabook" machines which often don't allow for easy RAM, CPU or hard drive upgrades. I'd strongly recommend avoiding those at all costs unless you (A) can't afford anything more than that and/or (B) absolutely MUST have a computer that small.


Okay, this is the second time tonight I'm posting about Dell but I'm really excited about their latest XPS laptops. The XPS 15 has ultrabook proportions, while having a fully modular interior with easily replaced batteries, ram, harddrive, etc.

As far as I know, they are the only computer to produce such a powerful, modern machine in an ultrabook profile and STILL keep all of those components replaceable.


Either your chosen system is an outlier or Dell does things a bit differently than HP, which is the brand that I know more about. Interesting that your XPS 15 is, in fact, designed such that you can upgrade/replace RAM, hard drive and battery with ease. The little HP laptops my mom and sister have lack any such panels that most other systems have to allow easy replacement or upgrade of the main innards. This fact obviously suggests that these machines would have to be completely torn apart to get at the RAM, hard drive and battery assembly. I confess that I don't know every system out there and my experience with Dell computers is almost nonexistent beyond using the old computers at the library. My first laptop was an HP Compaq system and it had an easily replaceable battery pack, hard drive and memory. And it was not an ultrabook, but a 15" class full laptop system. My present Toshiba Satellite is much the same, just larger at 17 inches. That's what my suggested "advice" was based on.


Yes, exactly. The purpose of my post was to promote this amazing exception to the general rule, which you were correctly commenting on. Most ultrabooks (and too many regular size laptops for that matter) sacrifice the ability to do future upgrades. Macs are some of the worst.

These days, it seems like most consumers value either 'thin and light' or 'cheap' so much, they are willing to buy a laptop with a reduced lifespan.

The Dell XPS 15 is an outlier, in several excellent and exciting ways, including the fact that they have achieved an ultrabook profile while keeping a large screen and replaceable components.

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Wed 03/02/16 04:35 PM


Al Sharpton And Raven-Symoné Packing Up To Leave US If Republians Win.


I certainly hope that Sharpton does. Canada needs to be paid back for Justin Bieber. indifferent



laugh

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Wed 03/02/16 04:34 PM
In reality, for everyday computing, you don't need the command line.


Absolutely true.

And its nice that its there, as other people can often help you fix problems with your system very easily, by providing the commands that you can simply copy-paste into the terminal.

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Fri 02/26/16 06:40 PM
Ug, I admire your self discipline but she is definitely not attractive.

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Fri 02/26/16 06:35 PM
Wow!

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Fri 02/26/16 06:33 PM
Good luck.

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Fri 02/26/16 06:28 PM
Oh, the humanity!

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Thu 02/25/16 04:07 PM
Another article:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/univ-missouri-professor-melissa-click-fired-racially-charged/story?id=37200980

Click tried to "interfere" with police "who were carrying out their duties" at an October homecoming parade on the Columbia, Missouri, campus and "interfered" with members of the media and students "who were exercising their rights in a public space" during a protest in November, according to the statement.

The university said Click also called for physical intimidation against a student.

"The board believes that Dr. Click’s conduct was not compatible with university policies and did not meet expectations for a university faculty member," it said in a statement.

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Thu 02/25/16 04:06 PM
There is hope for us yet! Hateful radicals may dominate the policies of many universities, but sometimes the right decision gets made:

Melissa Click, a professor who gained national notoriety during the protests at the University of Missouri, has been fired.

Click made headlines when a video of her pushing a reporter away from protesters went viral; she could be heard calling for “muscle” to toss out reporters trying to cover the news. The protests had paralyzed the university and forced the resignation of the system president and chancellor.


Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/25/mizzou-professor-who-pushed-reporter-away-from-protesters-is-fired/

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Wed 02/24/16 03:14 PM


Apple is not now, and has never been 'for the people'. Apple only cares about profits and control.

Then they will have to keep their philosophy about being a secure comp. software company, because if they don't, they will be just like 'Windows'. Now they a fight on their hands to keep it the way.
it is. But it might change in the future. If I was a betting man, I'd bet your life that it will change. Check out Askleo.com. Article 588. Encryption, padlocks and back doors. To see what's REALLY going down.


Apple's history is not consistent with this alleged 'philosophy of security'. This is a marketing tactic that apple has started using in recent years. Apple was the company that pushed out poorly QAed SSL code, resulting in the 'goto fail' bug which would embarrass even a first year dev. Over the last ten years apple has been consistently late to embrace modern security protocols like two factor auth.

But since apple has been so aggressive about controlling and regulating their iOS platform, they decided to try to turn this into a marketing advantage and evolve iOS into the supposed platform of choice for the security conscious, where they too often rely on security through obscurity. Meanwhile, Apple has been proven to be spying on their users and will not allow third parties to confirm the nature and purpose of that spying. BlackPhone is a far more interesting project, if you really value security and privacy.

Apple does sometimes do the right thing - they need to walk the talk sometimes if they want to pretend to value our privacy - with respect to end to end encrypted communication and with respect to the encryption which is making the news.

But if apple is forced to give that up by the FBI/congress, while it may affect apple's image, it doesn't change much about the reality. Hell, this is a new feature that wasn't even present in its current form for at least the first half decade of iOS's existence.


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Tue 02/23/16 08:15 PM

Thanks, IgorFrankensteen. I hadn't considered that. I typically assume most people have a laptop similar to my Toshiba Satellite. I can upgrade both the RAM and hard drive in it. But you are correct to point out the smaller "netbook" and "ultrabook" machines which often don't allow for easy RAM, CPU or hard drive upgrades. I'd strongly recommend avoiding those at all costs unless you (A) can't afford anything more than that and/or (B) absolutely MUST have a computer that small.


Okay, this is the second time tonight I'm posting about Dell but I'm really excited about their latest XPS laptops. The XPS 15 has ultrabook proportions, while having a fully modular interior with easily replaced batteries, ram, harddrive, etc.

As far as I know, they are the only computer to produce such a powerful, modern machine in an ultrabook profile and STILL keep all of those components replaceable.

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Tue 02/23/16 08:13 PM

if I was buying it the first thing I would look for is the one which works I would not want to buy one that is good looking and not work you know what I mean?? maybe I can teach you to be a sharp smart shopper if you need moore help no problem come and lay the questions on me!


I have a question. How can I be a sharp smart shopper, too?

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Tue 02/23/16 08:09 PM
I understand Samsung has their reasons for staying with micro USB (existing rapid charge technology, interoperates with existing Galaxy Gear headsets without an adapter, etc) but personally I'm sticking to phones that support type c.

Like the LG G5. This is the most exciting phone I've seen since Handspring first made their phone module for their pdas!

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Tue 02/23/16 08:08 PM
Are you trying to start a religious argument? :D

While I'm no fan of the company apple, I'd have to say that if I was forced to choose between Windows and OS, X I'd choose OS X.

With with a proper shell just a keystroke away, and homebrew, you can easily make the system quite usable.

But when it comes to buying hardware, I would buy a PC over a Mac and simply install linux. If you are willing to spend mac level prices, you get much better hardware in the PC world than in the mac world.

Check out the latest XPS laptops from Dell! They designs are beautiful and thoughtful, and the screens on them are amazing.

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Tue 02/23/16 07:44 PM
Apple is not now, and has never been 'for the people'. Apple only cares about profits and control.

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Sat 12/26/15 03:22 AM
I do. I like him.

But why is his name in quotes?

Do you think it was a pseudonym?

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Mon 12/07/15 01:37 PM
What operating system are you using?

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Mon 12/07/15 01:11 PM
Most of us can read each others minds by observing (sometimes unconsciously) the activity of the muscles of the body, especially in the face and hands. Our brains are wired to our muscles, and our the activity of our muscles are there for anyone to see! Its like we walk around with a thought projecting device all the time: our own bodies.

Further, when a really capable person is constantly reading other people's thoughts, they can develop a good working model (again, sometimes unconsciously) of the other's mind, becoming able to predict the others thoughts and using that model fine tune their ability to read those thoughts unconsciusly revealed by our muscles.

Some people are so much better at this than others, that it seems as if those people can do impossible feats of mind reading.


To really prove that this is _not_ the mechanism by which one person reads another thoughts, you must (a) have them work with a complete stranger and (b) make sure they cannot see the other person. Better still if they cannot hear them.


Have this kid sit in another room when he reads the cards - that would be a real test of so called telepathy that is not accomplished by reading thoughts through muscle actions.

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