Free Republic 1st Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $74,893
92%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 92%!! Thank you everyone!! God bless.

Articles Posted by ShadowAce

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Inside Biden's Head: The Inside Out Parody

    03/18/2024 3:18:39 PM PDT · by ShadowAce · 2 replies
    Youtube ^ | 18 March 2024 | Babylon Bee
    What goes on inside Joe Biden's head, exactly? Take a deep dive into the master inner workings of our president's brain.
  • Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide

    03/04/2024 11:49:47 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 21 replies
    linuxiac ^ | 3 March 20224 | Bobby Borisov
    Linux has surpassed a 4% share in the desktop operating system market as of the end of February 2024. According to the latest data from StatCounter, a leading web traffic analysis tool, Linux’s market share has reached 4.03%.At first glance, the number might seem modest, but it represents a significant leap. Let’s break it down. It took Linux 30 years to secure a 3% share of desktop operating systems, a milestone reached last June.Impressively, the open-source operating system has surged by an additional 1% in the last eight months.Linux desktop market share, February 2024Now, we’re all curious about the journey...
  • TRUCKER BOYCOTT Causes 30% Receiver Fee INCREASE For NYC Load Deliveries: Food Prices To SURGE

    02/21/2024 6:12:44 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 37 replies
    Youtube ^ | 20 February 2024 | Route Rethinker
    In the video, I will discuss the escalating trucker boycott in NYC, the soaring food prices, and the dramatic impact of Grant Cardone's business decisions on the city. Discover the potential future of New York amid these unprecedented challenges.
  • Who’s behind these mysterious deliveries? Woodside man showered with products he didn’t order

    02/19/2024 8:32:28 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 40 replies
    Mercury News ^ | 7 February 2024 | Lisa M. Krieger
    Daniel Williams, come pick up your junk.For more than six months, a parade of unsolicited Amazon packages — large and small, cheap and expensive, free or fraudulently billed — have arrived at John DeFiore’s rural Woodside home, addressed to a mysterious Mr. Williams.“It’s like the Twilight Zone,” said DeFiore, 61, an electrical engineer who is meticulous about his online shopping habits and credit card use.“We don’t want any of this stuff,” he said. “It’s not ours. We have everything we need.”Online shopping offers near-infinite choice and convenience. But it has also created a global gathering place for digital crooks, fraudsters...
  • Texas Versus DC at the Border Is the Most Important Political Battle in Decades

    01/25/2024 7:06:12 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 65 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | 25 January 2024 | J.D. Rucker
    Hyperbole has never been my style. I balk every four years when I hear how THIS presidential election is the most important of our lifetime. Passionate political commentators have said that about every election since Bush-Dukakis.I cringe when I hear about this or that being the most important battle in generations… except for now since I’m the one saying it. The battle between Texas and the United States government, between Governor Greg Abbott and Joe Biden, really is the most important political battle in ages. It’s not just our sovereignty at stake with a border invasion in progress. That alone...
  • IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office

    01/19/2024 11:30:57 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 123 replies
    The Register ^ | 18 January 2024 | Thomas Claburn
    IBM Consulting this week told its US-based executives and people managers that, effective immediately, they must work from a corporate office at least three days per week, or face the consequences.John Granger, SVP of IBM Consulting, told staff in an email this is a company-wide policy that extends beyond the Consulting division. He issued a similar, if less emphatic, memo in 2022 that called for being in the workplace three days per week, "wherever possible," and exempted those designated as "work-at-home" employees from the office or client-site attendance.The email sent this week, however, tells those affected that they should "separate...
  • What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it

    12/29/2023 10:54:39 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 4 replies
    The Register ^ | 27 December 2023 | Thomas Claburn
    Interview Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the Open Source movement, is ready for what comes next: the Post-Open Source movement. "I've written papers about it, and I've tried to put together a prototype license," Perens explains in an interview with The Register. "Obviously, I need help from a lawyer. And then the next step is to go for grant money."Perens says there are several pressing problems that the open source community needs to address.I feel that IBM has gotten everything it wants from the open source developer community now, and we've received something of a middle finger from...
  • The Toaster

    12/21/2023 9:54:02 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 59 replies
    FR Mail | Got it on 12/21/23 | FR Mail
    The Toaster Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. “What do you think this is?” One advisor, an engineer, answered first. “It is a toaster,” he said. The king asked, “How would you design an embedded computer for it?” The engineer replied, “Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades...
  • Meet The Ukrainian Sniper Who Broke World Record After Killing Russian Soldier From 3.8 Km Away

    12/07/2023 7:20:02 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 32 replies
    NDTV World ^ | 06 December 2023 | Anjali Thakur
    Mr Kovalskiy waited for hours in freezing temperatures before he shot the targetThe Ukrainian sniper who killed a Russian soldier from a record 3.8 kilometres (around 2.3 miles) is a 58-year-old ex-businessman, Vyacheslav Kovalskiy. The shot by Mr. Kovalskiy, spanning 12,468 feet, covered a distance greater than that of two Brooklyn Bridges in approximately 9 seconds, ultimately resulting in the death of the enemy soldier."I was thinking that Russians would now know that is what Ukrainians are capable of," the previously unidentified sniper told The Wall Street Journal in his first media interview."Let them sit at home and be afraid."The...
  • Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables

    12/06/2023 10:44:55 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 24 replies
    Tom's Hardware ^ | 05 December 2023 | Roshan Ashraf Shaikh
    (Image credit: Shutterstock)A team of researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of L’Aquila have achieved a groundbreaking transmission that demonstrates the possibility of transmitting up to 22.9 petabits per second (Pb/s) through a single optic cable composed of multiple fibers. This is a significant increase in transmission capacity, as the previous world record was 10.66 Pb/s.The old record was broken last June, with 1.8 Pb/s by researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Then it was broken multiple times...
  • Jeremy Kyle FURIOUSLY Clashes With Palestine Activist For Saying Hamas "Are Not Terrorists"

    11/21/2023 8:05:50 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 12 replies
    Youtube ^ | 21 November 2023 | TalkTV
    A five-day humanitarian pause deal is on the verge of being finalised, brokered by the US and Qatar. The deal will reportedly see around 250 Israeli hostages being released by Hamas in groups every 24 hours in exchange for an halt to Israeli airstrikes. Israel has revised downwards the death toll from an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, to approximately 1,200 people against a previous government estimate of 1,400. “Around 1,200 is the official number of victims of the October 7 massacre,” spokesperson Lior Haiat of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday in a written statement....
  • Top500 Supercomputers: Who Gets The Most Out Of Peak Performance?

    11/17/2023 11:03:26 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 15 replies
    The Next Platform ^ | 13 November 2023 | Timothy Prickett Morgan
    The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. That’s fun and interesting, of course, but the real thing about the Top500 is the architectural lessons it gives us when we see new systems emerge on the Top500 and we get to see how choices of compute, memory, interconnect, storage, and budget all play out at a system level and across nations and industries.We would normally walk through the top ten machines on the list and then delve into the statistics...
  • A Message to All Jews Around the World

    10/22/2023 5:05:34 PM PDT · by ShadowAce · 9 replies
    Youtube ^ | 22 October 2023 | Jewish Learning Institute
    IDF Spokesperson RAdm Daniel Hagari with a moving message to Jews around the world. ABOUT JLIServing learning centers in over 1,800 communities and on the internet, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is the world's preeminent provider of Jewish learning.The mission of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is to inspire Jewish learning worldwide and to transform Jewish life and the greater community through Torah study. To make Jewish learning accessible and personally meaningful to every Jew, regardless of background or affiliation. JLI's insightful curriculum utilizes cutting-edge pedagogical techniques, embracing the multiple intelligence model and utilizing multimedia and an array of...
  • 42 really is the answer to these 5 fundamental questions

    10/19/2023 12:05:22 PM PDT · by ShadowAce · 36 replies
    BigThink ^ | 19 October 2023 | Ethan Siegel
    Although we still don't know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities. The answer to the ultimate question about life, the Universe, and everything has been asserted to be 42 by the infamous Douglas Adams. But... if 42 is the answer, what's the question? Credit: Ben Gibson/Big ThinkKey Takeaways If you programmed the ultimate supercomputer to give the answer to the ultimate question in the Universe, legend has it that, after 7.5 million years, the answer would at last be revealed: 42. Only, what's the point of knowing...
  • Why All IT Talent Should Be Irreplaceable

    10/05/2023 7:25:22 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 114 replies
    CIO.com ^ | 03 October 2023 | Bob Lewis
    Forget the conventional wisdom about firing irreplaceable employees. Because if your employees aren’t irreplaceable, you’re doing something wrong. Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock“The graveyards,” General De Gaulle once ironically observed, “are full of indispensable men.” Maybe so, but the same may not be so easily said about organizations whose success did depend on irreplaceable managers and staff.Take, for example, Apple. Under Steve Jobs it created the iPod, iPhone, App Store, and iPad — products and services that ranged from radical departures to entirely new concepts.Under Tim Cook? What his Apple has introduced to the marketplace are copycat items: A streaming service,...
  • Supercharging Linux: Tips & Tricks to Beat the Threat Landscape

    10/03/2023 9:05:02 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 28 replies
    LinuxSecurity ^ | 26 September 2023 | Brittany Day
    You have already read 0%Do you love Linux because of its user-friendly, exceptionally secure, heavy-duty, and open-source, making it easy to customize and maintain? If so, you’re not alone.It is no wonder that Linux has captured the lion's share of the IT market. Business leaders and IT decision makers have poured their trust into Linux and prefer it for almost every business use case, and today, ZDNet reports that 96.3% of the top web servers run on Linux. The downside is that attacks on Linux are steadily rising, as cybercriminals have come to recognize the OS as an increasingly viable...
  • Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed

    09/28/2023 11:55:39 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 12 replies
    The Register ^ | 28 September 2023 | Richard Speed
    The Raspberry Pi 5 arrives in October with both a leap in performance and an incremental price rise. But will you be able to get your hands on one?Originally aimed at hobbyists and educators, the Raspberry Pi has evolved into a serious bit of kit over the years despite its diminutive size. The latest generation has continued that evolution into a machine that can chew through most productivity workloads while retaining many of the expansion options beloved by its customers. However, elements have also been dropped, and the architecture remains more evolutionary than revolutionary.First, the good news. Performance is impressive...
  • More Frightening But 100% True Facts About Guns

    08/21/2023 7:53:59 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 37 replies
    Youtube ^ | 18 August 2023 | Babylon Bee
    It is super important to know your stuff when it comes to debating ultra-MAGA Republicans about guns. This video will arm you (but not "arm" as in the scary gun way) with completely true knowledge nuggets about guns and gun crime. END GUN VIOLENCE TODAY.Video here
  • Almost all VPNs are vulnerable to traffic-leaking TunnelCrack attacks

    08/17/2023 5:32:22 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 9 replies
    HelpNet Security ^ | 14 August 2023 | Zeljka Zorz
    Several vulnerabilities that affect most VPN products out there can be exploited by attackers to read user traffic, steal user information, or even attack user devices, researchers have discovered.“Our attacks are not computationally expensive, meaning anyone with the appropriate network access can perform them, and they are independent of the VPN protocol being used,” claim Nian Xue of New York University; Yashaswi Malla, Zihang Xia, and Christina Pöpper of New York University Abu Dhabi; and Mathy Vanhoef of KU Leuven University.“Even if the victim is using another layer of encryption such as HTTPS, our attacks reveal which websites a user...
  • 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’

    08/15/2023 10:58:01 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 88 replies
    cnbc ^ | 11 August 2023 | Morgan Smith
    After three years of haphazard plans for getting workers back at their desks, the return-to-office movement has entered a phase of remorse. A whopping 80% of bosses regret their initial return-to-office decisions and say they would have approached their plans differently if they had a better understanding of employees' office attendance, their usage of office amenities and other related factors, according to new research from Envoy. "Many companies are realizing they could have been a lot more measured in their approach, rather than making big, bold, very controversial decisions based on executives' opinions rather than employee data," Larry Gadea, Envoy's...