There is some debate over where Mecca is currently situated and where it may have been located historically.
This is why hard core ‘Christians’ (and I use that term loosely) drive me bonkers.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
On hand at the launch (of The Institute at Ben-Gurion University), according to coverage, were officials from global firms like Microsoft and General Motors, as well as top-tier Israeli politicians, like Herzog, the president. (A spokesperson for GM told The Intercept they could not confirm the company’s attendance.)
An American auto maker showing up at the opening of a secretive cyberspying training academy in Israel is concerning.
A small blurb from The Guardian on why Andres Freund went looking in the first place.
So how was it spotted? A single Microsoft developer was annoyed that a system was running slowly. That’s it. The developer, Andres Freund, was trying to uncover why a system running a beta version of Debian, a Linux distribution, was lagging when making encrypted connections. That lag was all of half a second, for logins. That’s it: before, it took Freund 0.3s to login, and after, it took 0.8s. That annoyance was enough to cause him to break out the metaphorical spanner and pull his system apart to find the cause of the problem.
Patent trolls rank right up there with private equity firms that own massive amounts of housing. Scum of the earth right here.
exposed his genitals …
Jfc. Can somebody teach their sons not to pull their dick out in public already!
I bought second-hand and got a wicked deal (cause they thought the audio was gone, but for me it a quick fix). :)
My set-up doesn’t include a smart tv … I specifically stayed away from buying one because of the monitoring they can do on my usage.
So mine is a good LCD > HDMI’d to my laptop > running a good VPN > links to multiple streaming sources that offer everything from live sports to new movies/TV shows.
Been running this way for over 20 yrs now and it works for me.
Did you read the link I posted, cause if you had you would have found out there is little to no archeological evidence that Mecca’s current location matches its historical one.