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Re:After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet
on Sunday December 06, 2015 @05:12PM (#10686896)
Don't forget Eisenhower's original wording described it as the military-industrial-congressional complex. The KC-X would be flying if the original contract to EADS had not been scuttled by Congress:
Re:3D Printed Revolver
on Thursday November 26, 2015 @10:17PM (#10635679)
Small arms are used to gain large arms. That's how it always works.
Re:Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle
on Thursday November 26, 2015 @10:13PM (#10635669)
While perpetuating ignorant propaganda. No one speaking against it helps bullshit spread.
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @08:11PM (#10630784)
Calling something or someone "disappointing" or "problematic" is how these people evade enumerating arguments while still attempting to establish themselves as intellectually superior to those they are criticizing. They assume to have the correct position and condescend to anyone who demurs.
Re:Blue Origin Makes Historic Rocket Landing
on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:04PM (#10622335)
Don't worry - it isn't.
Re:How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads...
on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:20PM (#10618312)
Sounds like WordFence. Email notifications are configurable. Turning off most of them is advisable. I've had trouble with users with nominally static IP addresses changing with sufficient frequency to be too much of an annoyance to stay with IP whitelist. Limiting the failed login attempts and maxing out the lockout period cuts down on a lot of the bot activity.
Re:How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads...
on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:12PM (#10618273)
Doesn't that break admin-ajax.php access? It sits behind /wp-admin/. WordPress recommends allowing access when using IP whitelists.
Apache:
# Allow access to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
<Files admin-ajax.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Files>
location /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php {
allow all;
}
Re:In Patagonia 2k years ago, it was common for people to modify skull...
on Sunday November 22, 2015 @10:53PM (#10612783)
In case you aren't just playing along: He's making a joke about braces.
Re:ULA bows out of Pentagon launch competition, paving way for SpaceX
on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @02:46AM (#10586513)
ULA's reasoning was pretty straightforward. The main reason they dropped out of the competition is because the bidding was to be decided largely on price,
The reason they had to drop out is because they're a space launch company without any goddamned engines. The chatter about the bid process is just the typical jawing members of the defense cartel engage in when they deign to speak of competitors. Sometimes they're even successful in reopening the bid process. [1]
Re:The War ISIS Wants
on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:54PM (#10582771)
They work but there has to be a commitment to seeing things through no matter the extent of the ensuing carnage, something most western countries have lost their stomach for. See: Chechnya.
Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:21AM (#10565196)
The slave trade had stopped years ago, and the pirate activity, while not over, was way down.
Thanks to military defeats at the hands of Americans, English, and Dutch.
Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:57PM (#10564378)
One example of an extremely sucessful, multicultural society is Singapore.
So that's one. And one overseen and enforced by an autocrat.
Re:Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
on Friday November 13, 2015 @10:51PM (#10564355)
Context: It was French colonization that put an end to the predations of the Barbary pirates and the Arab slave trade.
Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and...
on Friday November 13, 2015 @06:50PM (#10563342)
Breed.
Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make...
on Thursday November 12, 2015 @03:33PM (#10555900)
You will find no dispute from me as to whether banks actually do restrict themselves to limiting their credit creation to a ratio of their deposits. But that is how it is supposed to work.
Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make...
on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:27PM (#10550156)
The mechanics are incorrect but he has the general idea of the benefit banks accrue from each additional deposited dollar.
Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:03PM (#10548898)
What argument is there to be had with someone who will not even admit the elimination of the ritual immolation of widows as a salutary benefit of colonial rule? There's clearly no reason involved in such a stance but simply reflexive chauvinism.
Re:What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make...
on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @02:37PM (#10548711)
We don't determine "poverty" by living conditions but income. As someone who tries to "earn" as little as possible for tax-protest reasons, I can vouch for the parent commenter's statement. By picking the right location and work, I'm able to support a family on $20K (AGI) per year. The used cars I buy in cash get better every time I need to get another one. As people in my area moved to bigger houses in the perimeter of the city, I was able to buy a nice Victorian-era home with plenty of room for just north of the annual median U.S. income. (And I don't have a mortgage.) The home's location is easily walkable to schools, stores, shops, doctors, etc. My "living conditions" are really pretty great just making do with the castoff affluence around me. Yet my income level is considered by the federal government to be below the "poverty level". And compared to my great-grandparents, who were successful subsistence farmers, I'd say I have it pretty damn great as my "living conditions" are far superior to theirs, even though my "relative" poverty is greater.
Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
on Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:33PM (#10531234)
The topic was the banning of Sati. It was just one example of the benefits of British rule. That it is such a salutary example is why I mentioned it. You are welcome to keep crying on Twitter that people said things you don't like but I have nothing further to say to you.
Re:WordPress now runs a quarter of the web
on Sunday November 08, 2015 @03:09PM (#10529660)
On the funny end of the scale, I've seen five page static websites with a landing page, a few info pages and a form done with WP. Unbelievable. Are developers that lazy today that they throw WP at everything? Or is it easier at that level to charge X to do a WP site rather than charging the same for straight-up PHP/HTML/JS?
When the client says they want to be able to update site content themselves.... okay, here's your five page WordPress site with a single form.
Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:43AM (#10527667)
None of the other sensible men like Napier gave such a pithy and powerful quote on the topic.
Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:42AM (#10527664)
What utter nonsense. Do the Romans likewise owe reparations to the Turks, French, Spanish, and English?
Re:Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans
on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:42PM (#10497329)
I don't think you can tie this to economics alone. After all, blacks and hispanics have been feeling the economic pressures as well.
You have to be standing up to be knocked down.
Re:Linus meltdown on a Git pull
on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:37PM (#10497306)
Time for the quarterly "Linus said mean things to someone" post already?
Re:Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans
on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:20PM (#10496467)
The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014.
This should surprise no one. These are the people who work marginal jobs and they have been the most affected by so much manufacturing moving offshore, the resultant shift to service sector employment, and the downward push on service wages created by massive immigration of unskilled South American workers. (Not to mention the political and social demonization of this cohort.)
Re:How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor
on Monday October 26, 2015 @02:31AM (#10449865)
Terrible presentation on that site.
Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion
on Saturday October 24, 2015 @01:01PM (#10444169)
That's one of the most disingenuous statements I've ever read. The first European colonists were all scratching an existence out of the ground via their labor and celebrated, as was their religious tradition, the bountiful harvest they had "received" via Providence. That in no way resembles a modern nation-state making direct cash payments (money taken via taxes from the native population) to whoever makes it, by hook or by crook, across the border.
Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion
on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:43PM (#10442340)
Why can it not be the story of individual failure? It is not for no reason the fable of the Ant & the Grasshopper is a staple of western civilization. When corporations are bailed out for their poor decisions, it is reviled as moral hazard and considered to set a precedent of rewarding reckless behavior. Why not apply the same standards to individuals?
Re:Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion
on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:38PM (#10442332)
In the studies mentioned, were immigrants able to move into the areas receiving UBI and avail themselves of those funds? It doesn't appear so. What difference might that have made? And wouldn't that have made them more realistic experiments? (Were the experiments specifically designed to produce positive outcomes?) Can the experiments even be considered to have been about UBI? What does giving money to a small group and finding it makes them happy have to do with the likely outcome of a state-level wealth distribution scheme? Doesn't receiving money for nothing make everyone happier and more trusting?
Re:Prices for starter homes are crowding out millennials
on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:21PM (#10428793)
You are right, it is definitely harder than it was during the mid 2000s free-for-all. People are conflating "cheaper" with "easier" in this case. Just because rates are suppressed doesn't mean anyone can get a loan.