This is great, but similar to Brexit, is counterproductive. Nowadays is a matter of proudness to be an ignorant asshole. I honestly don't know how to counter that argument, I don't think you can, and unfortunately I predict Trump is going to win.

It's impotant to remember that most of the terrorist had Belgian passports and been living in Belgium almost all their lives, it has nothing to do with the refugees from Syria.

I've been a user for a while, I still don't know at what step they changed the default domain .ch to .com; At the time it was a big deal because in theory the US government couldn't request easily access to a foreign server. was a fan of the early stage, I dislike the new inbox redesign.

On a day like today, rainy and a bit cold, a Straffe Hendrik.

I want to get into homebrewing, how does a very warm and humid climate affects a brew?

I read the trilogy almost 20 years ago. I borrowed it to who later would be my boss, after a several hour conversation about the book during a road trip. We never talked about it afterwards and he never asked about the 2 other books. I enjoyed it, back when I used to spend a lot of money on books.

Microsoft MSFT -1.89% has been on a roll lately. Its massive Windows 10 update ‘Threshold 2’ has far more good features than bad ones, the ‘free upgrade’ rules have been improved and even Microsoft’s Black Friday 2015 deals are surprisingly great. But a new discovery has been made which isn’t good news – at all…

Earlier this month Microsoft finally went on record admitting that automatic spying within Windows 10 cannot be stopped. This sparked a lot of outrage and with ‘Threshold 2’ it appeared Microsoft had done a sharp U-turn because the background service at the heart tracking (the ‘Diagnostics Tracking Service’ aka ‘DiagTrack’) appeared to have been removed. Critics celebrated and it was another well deserved pat on the back for Microsoft.

Except it turns out Microsoft had just been very sneaky. What Tweakhound discovered and was subsequently confirmed by BetaNews, is Microsoft simply renamed DiagTrack. It is now called the ‘Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service’ – which is both a) deliberately vague, and b) misleading (don’t ‘Connected User Experiences’ sound great).

Even sneakier is, in being renamed, Microsoft also reset users preferences. Those who dug deep into the Windows 10 registry to disable DiagTrack will find it has been re-enabled now it is called the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service. Yes, tracking is back and without any warning and your preferences were irrelevant.

The good news is you can disable the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service the same way as DiagTrack:

Hold down the Windows key and tap the R key

In the box that opens type ‘services.msc’ and press the Enter key

In the ‘Services (Local)’ section locate ‘Connected User Experiences and Telemetry’ and double-click it

In the ‘Service status’ section click ‘Stop’

Under the ‘Startup type’ drop down menu select ‘Disabled’ and then confirm this and close the window by clicking ‘OK’

Note: it is advisable to disable Not delete the service. Deleting it can cause problems

Windows 10 prior to the Threshold 2 update shows 'Connected User Experiences And Telemetry'. Image credit: Tweakhound

Windows 10 prior to the Threshold 2 update shows ‘Connected User Experiences And Telemetry’ which executes the exact same service as DiagTrack. Image credit: Tweakhound

So what is Microsoft thinking here? I’ve reached out to the company but, despite recognising my enquiry, it has yet to issue a statement. I’ll update this post when it does.

While Microsoft thinks about what to say, I’d say the problem with the DiagTrack rebrand is the company wasn’t thinking. Subtle under the hood changes will always be picked up for such a high profile product. That said such a move is consistent with the negatives in Threshold 2 namely: it resets many user preferences (including basics like your preferred web browser) if they weren’t Microsoft product/services as well as silently deleting third party system monitoring apps like: CPU-Z, speccy, 8gadgetpack, SpyBot, HWMonitor and more.

In my opinion it is this kind of overriding desire for control and a disregard for user choices which is harming Windows 10. At its core Windows 10 is a modern and highly capable platform, but it has been buried under ludicrous layers of control. Worst still it has created a two tier customer base where consumers are forced to take updates which businesses can delay, effectively turning everyday users into bug testers for corporations.

It all feels unsavoury and unnecessary and (while it could be coincidence) there has been a dramatic slowdown in Windows 10 growth after an explosive beginning. For the first ever Free version of Windows, that’s not great.

How can Microsoft reignite the love for Windows 10? I’d say a good start would be to stop doing daft things like this…

The billion dollar is true. Soros and the break of the Bank of England in 1992.

The idea sounds great, proper implementation makes for a great source of information.

This reminds me of a very old joke/hoax going on in some parts of Europe regarding frivolous lawsuits and human stupidity. The owner of a recently purchased RV set the cruise control while on the highway and went to the back the RV to pick up something while he left the cruise control in control. Of course he crashed and then proceeded to suit the manufacturer of the RV for false advertising and damages.

Here we are 30 years later with reality surpassing fiction.

There is indeed a difference and thank you for the work.

Yes, there is indeed a difference, some weeks there is no spam at all.

There are accounts now 20 days old that are spamming, and using tags that perhaps would be useful in the future.

At that price I'd better build my dream instead of buying someone else's dream.

https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/

Anti-Adblock Killer is a userscript aiming to circumvent many protections used on some websites that force the user to disable AdBlockers.

Relevant to the thread, ff anyone wants to give it a try.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/

Big brother has installed on the west, the good news it just wants money for now, and most people are ok with it. The bad news is that it's just one click away to turn ugly.

I was on reddit the other day talking about how whatsapp mines your message history and uses that context to display relevant ads on Facebook. The comment I got was: "so what, use adblock." It's like Snowden and company have been for nothing.

A lot of countries are closing on file-sharing (I was in UK a couple of weeks ago and it was impossible to access mininova, kickass or rarbg) but I don't feel the scene has died at all. There are a lot of private trackers, which also require a good level of responsibility sharing back.

It is certainly more difficult to find things online, but once you find a way, it's the same as before. At least that's my take on it. Except apps and games. I find it ridiculous that a lot of content it's only accessible through mobile apps (not that you can open a VM and run it from there), but the average user doesn't know that.

I had trouble reading in that format, so here it is:

Ten years separate the talk given by Frank Rieger and Rop Gonggrijp at the 2005 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin and the one given by Peter Sunde of Piratbyrån and The Pirate Bay at Transmediale in the same city in 2015, but their message is the same --- we lost. We, who believed the Internet could change society, that technology could take other paths than surveillance, centralization and consumerism. The battle is lost and the juggernaut of the security industry, power and capital has been unable to stop.

What is also lost is the potential of the now so popular artistic hacking practices at a time when the tech industry on the one hand supersedes any artistic attempt at parody of it when they make themselves look like idiots in more extravagant ways every day and on the other hand continues to be able to incorporate critic and creativity to make itself stronger.

Realizing that you lost can be a powerful thing both depressing and liberating.

There are different reactions to the realization that you lost. The first impulse is to give up. Giving up leads to cynicism, disconnection from social contexts or postponing any action until you "figured things out". Needless to say this is a dark path. But equally bad is denial of loss. Believing that if you just keep going, the next time you will really show them. It's just around the corner, just a few more projects away. Just have to try a little harder next time. The longer time passes the more the feeling that it won't happen keeps creeping up on you. The new projects and ideas seem just a little bit more hollow than the last ones. You should have stopped already a long time ago.

The more active reaction is to shut down. Determined, proactive, and with intent. There are different ways of shutting down. Piratbyrån burned the file sharing debate in a big book burning when it had run its course. KLF burned a million pounds when they left the music industry. Both The Pirate Bay themselves and their adversaries have been trying to shut it down for years but it keeps being reborn. Only by quiting forcefully before it is too late can a loss be turned into something else than a defeat.

But there is never a good point to shut down. Either you are too early and people think you are making a fuss about nothing and are just destroying the party with your negativity, or you are too late and no one cares anymore. The shutdown becomes a fade away and looses its liberatory powers. You need to shut something down that you still care deeply about. If you can't decide if it is the right thing to do or not, it probably is.

The context of the talk from Chaos Communication Congress of how we lost the war came out of the last great battles for privacy and against biometric identification in a Germany with the cold war still fresh in memory and from the fight against surveillance in a terrorism-frightened Netherlands. In the talk they project forward ten years to 2015. Technological limits for data retention that existed in 2005 are done away with and technical capacities for surveillance are infinite. Yet they also postpone the hope of a new resistance ten years into the future. Maybe in 2015 people have had enough and ten years of capacity building for technological resistance can change society. It is these promises of a large "prosecution of the criminals of the security industry in 2015" that sound the most depressing today. Ten years later we catch up with those predictions in Peter's talk that comes a few months after he came out of prison and his exhaustion from ten years of activism against copyright laws, trade agreements and in the backwaters of massive leaks of information about surveillance that led to absolutely nothing.

It would be unwise to predict ten years into the future again. But one thing is clear, tactics of the last 5 years whether legal, political, activist or artistic have resulted in little progress and have not kept up with the latest control measures. There's no use banging our heads against the wall anymore. Either your head will explode or they will simply open the door and let you in. Either way, no house will come crumbling down. It was as true in 2005 as when Peter says it in 2015. Let's face it, we lost, we all lost.

If you don't want to have an account, for now they can only put good reviews of yourself. They cannot put bad reviews of people without accounts because you need one to defend yourself from accusations. Although nothing stops somebody from rating someone 5 stars and saying he is a scumbag on the comments.

I've been to 4chan after that image was posted, and there is a lot of congratulation to the scum that did this. So far I have only seen one post denouncing that guy (at least one that really popped up among so much crap), and reddit is too busy complaining about 4chan and the algorithms.

Nobody is blaming guns.

I've been reading that about the Tesla, and it seems it only has an oversized HEPA cabin filter.

Bing is extremely good for searching videos and photographs. It is the default search on windows phones, which some of them are gaining popularity due to price in Europe, and it is good enough to not be missing google all the time.

I have lived in China for 9 years, and my wife is Chinese. I have been involved more in other social media than here in hubski, and I do usually share both good and bad.

Of course it is speculation, the visit hasn't happened yet, but then check if Lafayette Park is usually closed during foreign head of state visits ( I am not American, but the search I've been doing let me to believe is not that common).

If you know about the United Front, then you probably know that they are very active in foreign universities and social media.

How about the recent crackdown on VPNs and the coercion by Chinese police to the developer of Shadowsocks to remove his code from github (not to mention the numerous DDoS attacks to github from China). If you watch the news in China, the news only portray what the government wants to portray, you don't need to go further than to Black Monday some weeks ago and their narrative that the crash didn't have anything to do with China. Of course nobody believed that and that was a piece directed to the Chinese audience.

Activists and their family members in China and in the US have been told by Chinese authorities not to participate in protests during the visit, threatening unspecified consequence

Even my wife's Weixin acts weird when she posts something against the government official mouth work. (again, most recently during the Black Monday crash). Take it as you will, but nobody can't deny that Xi has adopted a hard stance compared to Hu.

Also, horrible is in your vocabulary, not in the linked article. Nobody is comparing them to Goebbels but yourself.

edit: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/world/asia/china-president-xi-jinping-state-visit-to-washington.html?_r=0

China’s chief protocol officers were in Washington a few weeks ago, reviewing every step of the trip. One of their requests: United States security personnel guarantee that protesters will be kept out of sight and earshot of Mr. Xi. The Chinese worry that protesters from Falun Gong, the spiritual sect, or critics of China’s policies in Tibet might appear in the same camera frame as Mr. Xi. In 2006, a Falun Gong protester disrupted a reception for President Hu on the White House lawn, an episode Mr. Xi’s trip planners do not want repeated.

The weather was crystal clear. I have quiet good skies here, and I would say I can see any satellite with a brightness below 5 without having to spend 2 hours getting used to darkness. At first I thought it was Sirius, but then it starting getting brighter and Sirius is never that bright, and Venus doesn't rise from that part of the sky. We are talking of a magnitude -7 for over a minute, like wait a minute, this thing is so bright and for so long that perhaps I have time to go pick my camera and take a picture. It was a satellite because when it starting dimming it was just a tiny magnitude 3 dot until I couldn't see it anymore and it seemed to be moving then. What surprised me the most was the length of the flare and that it seemed stationary. Second thing that surprised me was that I thought it was an iridium flare but when I went to look at it on heavens above there wasn't any object with that brightness. Could have been an airplane, no helicopters at night, since I'm relatively near Barcelona airport and there are several airways over my place, but I am 99% sure it wasn't an airplane.

You say you can't relate to other people in your group because you have a different set of expectations. Well, unless you are unbelievably charming, most of the people you meet are not going to follow you in your world of expectations. Don't reject their goals because they are different, don't reject their experiences because they are different to yours, as a matter of fact, try to find where they are the same, what brings them enjoyment or sadness. That when you are at that moment with them, forget how different they are and just be with them, listening and interacting with them. Life is a set of experiences, and a more fulfilled life is a life that doesn't go around rejecting possible outcomes all of the time. I mean, is not like you are in a ghetto or in a war environment and your life is at risk of ending if you follow someone different than you for a while, the worst that can happen is that you end up bored.

Well, that's just my opinion.

I would start by being open about other people values, goals and experiences. Another thing you should be aware of is the hedgehog dilemma.

If you don't want to be open about other persons experiences, then you should put yourself in a situation where more like minded people like yourself gather.

A third option I would try is meditation and embrace the loneliness.

I do know that they are approximations, but have never found a case where it was the opposite of the predicted magnitude (of course I wasn't looking for it) The rocket body I am most familiar with is the cosmos, and have found heavens above predictions quite accurate. I am really interested in what others have to say.

Seems about right except for the brightness, should be negative instead of positive. Probably that's why I didn't catch it when I looked at the table. Also, didn't know they flared for that long.

Isn't the KH-11 the spy telescope NRO project that ended up with the hubble?

Just finished "The masks of the illuminati", about to start "Illuminatus" and "Meditation in plain english" about half way.

Plenty of good recommendations here. I would like to add Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, you can find it in the link Creativity gave you.