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So one of the ACs on the other site decided to do a WHOIS on the addresses the Czech traffic analysis I linked to posted and what did he find? he find the telemetry data goes to MarkMonitor the anti piracy group. If this data proves factual we now know who the REAL customer of Windows 10 is, its the *.A.A who are gonna be able to find out every single song played and video watched by windows 10 users.

I don't know about the rest of you guys but I've seen enough to tell my customers Windows 10 is toxic and to be avoided.

Cixin Liu explains it in his 'Dark Forest'. This has turned into the best book I've read in years - and I still have the third book in the trilogy to read.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Forest-Cixin-Liu-ebook/dp/B00R13OYU6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1440699211&sr=1-1&keywords=cixin+liu+dark+forest

One year in as of today and still averaging over ~10K hits of the hashtag on slow days. Dead? The gaming press and SJWs should be so lucky. Gamers, we just don't quit until we win.

sic semper umbilicus

I've become accustomed to that "only x submissions in the queue" thingy. This morning, I stumbled across a story that seems worthy of discussion here, so I looked to see how many stories are in the queue. Ooops - it's gone!

Apparently, that bit of information disappears when the queue is deemed to be "full".

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/31/0829226

So, it's Women's Equality Day. Lot of you probably think about this time I'd be busting out with a sexist rant. Hate to disappoint but I'm all about equality. Actual equality though not this bullshit third-gen feminist version of equality where they think equality means special treatment for their tragic victimhood.

No, equality always has and always will mean equal treatment. Every single time. No exceptions for past mistreatment. No white-knighting up if someone with tits comes crying on your shoulder that people are mean to her just because she calls them misogynists, shitlords, tools of the patriarchy, etc...

In fact, no calling yourself a feminist period. If you do it as a woman it's saying you feel your entire gender has been victimized and should be given special treatment because it is incapable of taking care of itself. If you do it as a man you're saying an entire gender is in need of your protection.

You either treat a woman as if she's an adult and as capable of taking care of her own shit as you are, or you don't. There is no "yes, but" to it. Equal treatment or sexism, there are no other choices.

So I log on to SN after a busy weekend and find a story about the Hugo Awards, only it's a strange kind of story. It's biased, it's inflammatory, it's racist, it's sexist, and it links to the Urban Dictionary definition of the acronym "SJW". It simply isn't an appropriate piece for the front page of a respectable news aggregation site - it's biased, it mis-represents the proceedings, it's blatantly offensive towards innocent players and it's quite obviously a GamerGate propaganda piece.

The comments on the "article" were equally appalling, consisting primarily of GamerGate supporters shouting down their opponents, selectively redefining words to fit their purpose, conflating criticism with censorship and generally acting like a bunch of immature, angry, self-important morons who are incapable of holding an intelligent conversation without villifying and twisting the word of anyone who shows even the slightest disagreement with their party line.

I've been a supporter and submitter (and trainee editor) for SoylentNews since it's inception. I've submitted news stories about politics, economics, armed conflicts, espionage, upcoming technology, controversial trade agreements, video games, elections, terrorism and hackers. To be told by a senior member of Soylentnews staff that they can do without me because I don't support GamerGate...

Takyon, you should be ashamed of yourself for accepting that story in it's submitted form. Until yourself and The Mighty Buzzard have been entirely disassociated from SoylentNews, the site is dead to me.

I slapped a Mars, Ho! video up on YouTube. You can see it here.No, there's no nudity.

I'd like to take this oppurtunity to express my thanks to all the Hordes of Ultra Geeks, Groups of Rabid Barbarians, Teams of Overworked Monkeys, Cadres of Elite Robots, Barrels of Orange Soylents, Swarms of Psycho Ninjas and all the others I fail to remember now for working tirelessly on the generation of this wonderful page. Just for me!

This page was generated by a Swarm of Roaming Mongols for sudo rm -rf (2357).

I've spent the last three days working to fix the ePubs and AZW3s of Yesterday's Tomorrows. I had just ran it through Calibre and did a quick check, noting that the table of contents didn't display anything.

It took a lot of research and learning to fix the ToC, and while doing so discovered something even worse - some of the illustrations were covering up the text. Damn!

Trying to figure out the ToC I tried several things. One was installing the Write2epub extension to Open Office.

It really sucked, especially with this book. It had some ugly sans-serif typeface, and there were huge swaths large and bolded that I never told it to do. And there was still no table of contents.

While googling and reading and finding out that e'books were mostly based on HTML5, XML and a few other things, I got a little disheartened. This was going to take forever, because I had a lot I had to learn.

I ran across Google's e'book editor "Sigil" and installed it. I have no idea if it's any good, because there's no documentation and I can't make heads or tails out of it.

So I went back to Calibre and studied it some more, educated a little but not much by the internet, and saw a long string with an "and" in it, "h1 and h2" and recognised this from HTML and the rest of the garbage from programming for thirty years. Stupid Calibre was telling it to make everything part of the table!

It took a bit of trial and error to get the right parenthesis and brackets in the right spots that the conversion wouldn't crash with an error, but I finally got a working table of contents.

Now to address the obscured text. That took quite a bit of head scratching as well.

I finally just decided to make the input make the output behave, rather than trying to tweak the output itself. What finally worked was to load the offending images in GIMP and add a white space where it was covering the text. That worked.

So if you've already downloaded one of the e'books, you should delete them and download the new version.

ePub

AZW3

I think I'll take the day off tomorrow.

https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=8941

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metamesh/meta-mesh-community-wireless-networks-for-all

Funding Canceled

Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator 1 day ago.

http://www.metamesh.org/blog/2015/08/14/ks-closure

Today we decided to halt our Kickstarter campaign. In the past few weeks, Meta Mesh and its volunteers have had to face a lot of challenges, both in the business and personal realms. We received wide support from many of those we directly asked. For that, we are terrifically grateful.

We have decided to change the direction our company is headed. In no way are we finished. In fact, this Kickstarter experience revealed a lot to us about who we want to be and how to be it.

In the upcoming months we will be expanding PittMesh, launching a webstore where pre-configured routers can be purchased, and will be building a dedicated PittMesh Working Group where people who want to contribute to building a Community Wireless Network can learn about new technology, can gain new skills, and can network with inspired people.

Definitely stay tuned to our website and our social media feeds. In fact, mere moments after closing our Kickstarter campaign something occurred which we will announce shortly that has been months in the making and we are incredibly excited about.

We’re not done. No way. As they say, it’s hard to keep a good man down. We’ll be in touch with you all again shortly.