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General Software Discussion / Re: Teamviewer mobile support
« Last post by Renegade on July 18, 2013, 10:43 PM »Thanks for the heads up. I've used the PC version before, and it's really good.
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The cloud is simply a bad idea. Period. Ahem... Snowden... surveillance... etc.-Renegade (July 18, 2013, 12:11 PM)
Agree that how it's implemented is usually bad. But Adobe's cloud is mainly a way to distribute their software and have a subscription based sales model. You only need to connect to the web about every 30-60 days to get an authorization token. The apps themselves get downloaded and run on your local machine. It works pretty much the way Steam does - except it's not quite as obnoxious about the web connection as Steam sometime is.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm a shrinkwrap bigot. And I'm nothing near being sold on cloud anything. I just handed a client over to another provider because I think they're making a big mistake (in this particular case) on insisting on going over to a fully cloud-based solution. But it's their call. And much as I hate to lose a client, I'll still refuse to sell somebody a broken solution.-40hz (July 18, 2013, 12:32 PM)
This, in a nutshell, is the never ending cycle of business.-Vurbal (July 18, 2013, 10:40 AM)
Time will tell if Adobe called it right with this one. FWIW, when it comes to CSS, I think they did.-40hz (July 18, 2013, 11:52 AM)
Unfortunately, I don't speak German, and was unable to read the article.-Renegade (July 18, 2013, 09:00 AM)
Oh... I just take for granted translation.-wraith808 (July 18, 2013, 10:12 AM)
(Dept. of Ed. is... ↓)No love for JC? The most honest president we've had in the last half-century gets no respect.
(And 10 good things he did, even in spite of the propaganda about him as a president)-wraith808 (July 18, 2013, 08:46 AM)
If Adobe doesn't amend its cloud-only subscription policy I'll be switching from Creative Suite to the first competitor to include the features that I want (I suspect that will take a while to occur).-cranioscopical (July 18, 2013, 08:45 AM)
That's a hard thing to do- especially with software that others use that you depend on, like skype. It's just a slow process... I mean, look at the adoption of word and how long it took (is taking) to get people to see alternatives.-wraith808 (July 18, 2013, 08:48 AM)
I can imagine if it does happen, that the little transmitter will have to be well hidden, otherwise it will be a target of annoyed commuters, bored youth, and of course, anarchists.-tomos (July 18, 2013, 04:57 AM)
@Vurbal - easily one of the best analyses ever posted here. Hope you do it some more.-40hz (July 18, 2013, 07:26 AM)
I would have thought though, that if you disagreed with the content of the article, that you could say that here. In this thread. All of this about the site - while I can very much relate to it, and find it nice and juicy - and sure, it gives us context - but it's irrelevant in terms of rebutting the content of the article.
What you're doing doesnt seem to me that different from someone looking at, say, a libertarian site, and saying - oh, look, they're libertarians - everything they say is dodgy biased propoganda.-tomos (July 18, 2013, 07:12 AM)
if you sort of step back from the situation and then look at it again, it's pretty much hysterically funny.-Renegade (July 17, 2013, 11:54 PM)
Hardly. I live here. I'm not laughing.-40hz (July 18, 2013, 05:15 AM)
Overview
Paranoia is a humorous role-playing game set in a dystopian future similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, Logan's Run and THX 1138 among others; however, the tone of the game is rife with black humor, frequently tongue-in-cheek rather than dark and heavy.
Setting
The game's main setting is an immense and futuristic city called Alpha Complex, which is controlled by The Computer, a civil service AI construct (a literal realization of the "Influencing Machine" that some schizophrenics fear). The Computer serves as the game's principal antagonist, and fears a number of threats to its 'perfect' society, such as The Outdoors, mutants, and secret societies (especially Communists). To deal with these threats, The Computer employs Troubleshooters, whose job is to go out, find trouble, and shoot it. Player characters are usually Troubleshooters, although later game supplements have allowed the players to take on other roles.
The player characters frequently receive mission instructions from the Computer that are incomprehensible, self-contradictory, or obviously fatal if adhered to, and side-missions which conflict the main mission. They are issued equipment that is uniformly dangerous, faulty or "experimental" (i.e. almost certainly dangerous and faulty). Additionally, each player character is generally an unregistered mutant and a secret society member, and has a hidden agenda separate from the group's goals, often involving stealing from or killing teammates. Thus, missions often turn into a comedy of errors, as everyone on the team seeks to double-cross everyone else while keeping their own secrets. The game's manual encourages suspicion between players, offering several tips on how to make the gameplay as paranoid as possible.
Every player's character is assigned six clones, known as a "six-pack," which are used to replace the preceding clone upon his or her death. The game lacks a conventional health system; most wounds the player characters can suffer are assumed to be fatal. As a result, Paranoia allows characters to be routinely killed, yet the player can continue instead of leaving the game. This easy spending of clones tends to lead to frequent firefights, gruesome slapstick, and the horrible yet humorous demise of most if not all of the player character's clone family. Additional clones can be purchased if one gains sufficient favour with the Computer.
The Paranoia rulebook is unusual in a number of ways; demonstrating any knowledge of the rules is forbidden, and most of the rulebook is written in an easy, conversational tone that often makes fun of the players and their characters, while occasionally taking digs at other notable role-playing games.
06_iran_strategy.pdf (1202.37 kB - downloaded 217 times.)Introduction
The Trouble with Tehran: U.S. Policy Options toward Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.
Part I
Dissuading Tehran: The Diplomatic Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 1: An Offer Iran Shouldn’t Refuse: Persuasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 2: Tempting Tehran: The Engagement Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Part II
Disarming Tehran: The Military Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 3: Going All the Way: Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 4: The Osiraq Option: Airstrikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chapter 5: Leave it to Bibi: Allowing or Encouraging an
Israeli Military Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Part III
Toppling Tehran: Regime Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 6: The Velvet Revolution: Supporting a Popular Uprising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 7: Inspiring an Insurgency: Supporting Iranian Minority
And Opposition Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Chapter 8: The Coup: Supporting a Military Move Against the Regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Part IV
Deterring Tehran: Containment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 9: Accepting the Unacceptable: Containment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Conclusion
Crafting an Integrated Iran Policy: Connecting the Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
The fact remains that there are countless "conspiracy theories" out there that are proven facts. Not matter for debate.-Renegade (July 17, 2013, 11:29 AM)
You're talking chalk and cheese here.
However, branding something as "a conspiracy" in order to deflect attention away from there being corroborating evidence to support its claims is no less a pile of dingo's kidneys than insisting something is "a conspiracy" to deflect attention away from its being an assertion without adequate corroborating evidence.-40hz (July 17, 2013, 01:21 PM)
'Conspiracy' has become an intellectually bankrupt term. Right up there with 'organic' and 'green' IMHO. Let's stop using it.-40hz (July 17, 2013, 01:21 PM)
Sky Deutschland has developed technology to transfer adverts from train windows directly and silently into commuters' heads.
Passengers leaning their head against the window will "hear" adverts "coming from inside the user's head", urging them to download the Sky Go app.
The proposal involves using bone conduction technology, which is used in hearing aids, headphones and Google's Glass headset, to pass sound to the inner ear via vibrations through the skull.
A video for the Talking Window campaign released by Sky Deutschland and ad agency BBDO Germany states: "Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows. Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No one else can hear this message."
The voice comes from a Sky-branded transmitter made by Audiva that is attached to the train window.
BBDO spokesman Ulf Brychcy told the BBC: "If our customer Sky Deutschland agrees, we will start with the new medium as quickly as possible.
"Some people don't like advertising in general. But this is really a new technology. [It might] not only be used for advertising, but also for music, entertainment, mass transport information, weather reports and so on."
Sky Deutschland said it had not made a decision on whether to launch the campaign.
The stakes would be considerably higher over here. These days you'd probably be charged with terrorism for busting one of those scanners.-40hz (July 17, 2013, 09:20 PM)
although the article is written from a conservative perspective, I dont think that affects the validity of it's content.-tomos (July 17, 2013, 11:24 AM)
The big problem with conspiracy theories in general is that they can (and are) used to explain any and everything through attributions of unproven causality.-40hz (July 17, 2013, 11:15 AM)
@Ren - did you actually read the entire article? Because I'm amazed the main thing you seem to have taken away from it was what you saw as a diss on conspiracy theories. That's awesome!-40hz (July 17, 2013, 11:15 AM)
Sometimes at least...)HBO sent a DMCA takedown to Google, listing a copy of the popular media player VLC as a copyright infringement.
Because the the rule that emerged from that tribunal was that crimes are committed by men, not abstract entities.
But the fact that MS was willing to call out the NSA and DOJ in a public forum is what was telling for me.-wraith808 (July 17, 2013, 10:39 AM)
Full article may be found here.-40hz (July 17, 2013, 08:10 AM)
Conspiracy theories and Big Brother fears always swirl at the margins of respectable opinion, threatening to go mainstream.
"The opinions of people that read and do their homework" always swirl at the margins of respectable opinion, threatening to go mainstream.
"Informed people" always swirl at the margins of respectable opinion, threatening to go mainstream.
...Knowing nearly nothing about development on Mac I did some research to find that this tool requires a recurring licensing cost that we'd like to avoid...-Ath (May 09, 2013, 04:36 AM)
)In that specific case, I think they were referring to the fact that they comply with the rule of law towards such things, i.e. you need a specific warrant, but they don't just let the government have direct access to all e-mails. At least, that's what I took it as.-wraith808 (July 17, 2013, 07:56 AM)
