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Does your phone spend days crunching through the data on a truckload of giant hard disks?

Interesting graph on the BBC today, illustrating the amount raised from individual donations by the Rs and Ds: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/...

The Democrats got about twice as much from individuals this year. Normally it's quite close.

Unfortunately they don't show overall campaign donations. I wonder if corporate donations bring the Republicans up to the same level.

The warning isn't fucking unobtrusive, that's the problem.

They changed the "(i)" icon to now say "(i) Not Secure" just to the left of the URL in the address bar.

How is that obtrusive?

Do you consider the padlock icon with the words "Secure" equally as obtrusive?
They are now the exact same length as each other.

Too bad nerds like you quite often have shorter sight than your coke-bottle glasses lets on.

No, we just prefer to ignore assholes that make shit up that is demonstrably not true.

This is literally the change you are bitching up a storm about as "The warning isn't fucking unobtrusive"

This is true. However in all of 2017 there were 3 times as many murders in NYC compared to London. I think, that looking at this graph https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/... it's somewhat difficult to imagine that this year there will be fewer murders in London than NYC. Then again, maybe I'm wrong. The signals are noisy, on a short enough time scale it's possible make any sort of unfavourable comparison. If some guy breaks a five year dry spell by getting laid in the last half hour it doesn't make him Don Juan.

It may well be that he still used an ancient machine to actually write his novels that he had been using for some time. If all you're doing is some simple word processing, you could probably get by with using something from the 80's. Probably not a bad idea if you don't want the possibility of distraction.

Hate to break that lovely idea, but Terry Pratchett was the opposite. He was a big advocate of complicated Word processors, used MS Word to write his novels, and did so with all the wonderful distraction of a computer with 6 monitors.
Here's a picture of his writing workdesk from an older BBC interview: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/image...

He often quoted as never being without a computer and frequently moved between laptop and the many computers he had in his house.

Not to mention that his last few novels he was using dictation software. It's about as complicated and far from the "quirky weird writers" as it can get.
 

an artifact of what Black Culture has become (gangsta, edgy).

Have you seen what White Culture has become?

https://media.boingboing.net/w...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/...

https://o.aolcdn.com/images/di...

Yeah, I'm in the UK, voted remain It was mostly the very old who voted for Brexit, see this graph: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news... from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...

Actually the percentage of all old people that voted remain is HIGHER than the percentage of all young people that voted remain.

Yeah, I'm in the UK, voted remain

It was mostly the very old who voted for Brexit, see this graph:

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news...

from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...

It's not invulnerable to things like this and this.

Why do you say SJWs aren't a thing?

Because they're not.

That's as much bullshit as claiming that racist Trump supporters don't exist. Off the top of my head:

Game of Thrones was "glamorizing" rape in a scene that was supposed to be creepy as fuck: her brother forcing himself on her over the corpse of their dead son. The SWJ's on Salon got half a dozen articles out of that, but DGAF about cannibals murdering an entire village in the same episode, and Theon's far worse fate in a previous season.

All the ratfucking aimed at Bernie Sander's way when he said "excuse me, I'm talking" during a debate - ermagerd he's so sexist to shout down the wooman in the race! When in reality she had constantly been interrupting him, and Sanders was just speaking up for himself.

The craters made in fainting couches over Marvel's variant cover of Spider-Women, even though Spider-Man often drawn in the same pose. In the same vein, the pearls clutched over Apocalypse holding Mystique by the throat, ignoring the fact that is also a common display of dominance from both antagonists and protagonists.

Of course SJW's exist. They are the left wing equivalent of right wingers who rail against trans people using bathrooms or Muslims - assholes who use demagoguery to control conversation and shut people up.

How do you put a solar roof on this?

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

Wow. Talk about fake news. And from the BBC, too, I really don't know who to believe anymore!

Thanks AC for bringing us this nugget of truth.

Not only Northern Ireland, take a closer look at this map. You might see a certain trend in a part that already had a referendum concerning the separation from Britain before, and where the main reason to stay was the fear that if they split, they might be cast out of the EU.

Well, nationally too. The SNP don't make it into fourth place nationally. They're barely ahead of the Green party ffs.

the changes at Holyrood kinda makes a point that image eh?
2010 's Westminster seats in Scotland
and after the 2015 election the electoral map looked like this
Also... just ahead of the greens?.. quite an achievement considering they only stand for election in Scottish seats and have no need or interest in campaigning in English/Welsh or Irish seats. They have the votes of the vast majority of Scots but i suppose that doesn't count as if it's of any importance eh?

Well, nationally too. The SNP don't make it into fourth place nationally. They're barely ahead of the Green party ffs.

the changes at Holyrood kinda makes a point that image eh?
2010 's Westminster seats in Scotland
and after the 2015 election the electoral map looked like this
Also... just ahead of the greens?.. quite an achievement considering they only stand for election in Scottish seats and have no need or interest in campaigning in English/Welsh or Irish seats. They have the votes of the vast majority of Scots but i suppose that doesn't count as if it's of any importance eh?

Apologies, only 8.3bn
https://fullfact.org/europe/ou...
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

Let's call it what it is: FRAUD. The "X" symbol in the top right corner of a window has been used to close a window since windows has existed. Therefore there's a pretty clear precedent established that when a user clicks there, he means to close the window. Changing the meaning of this symbol and causing it to do something completely opposite to what is intended without prior notice is a completely deceptive practice.

Let's call it what it is: You only ever read the article summary and for some reason trust Slashdot summaries. Here's a link to the popup. Notice anything? Keep looking. Oh, that's right, it's a pop up letting you know that Windows 10 is now a recommended update and your computer is set to automatically install recommended updates so click here to change your settings if you do not want to do this.

But, by all means, keep repeating your version.

US is just serving their own interests, just like Russia is, I wouldnt expect either of them to do otherwise

I'm from Sweden.

http://www.viewsoftheworld.net...
http://www.viewsoftheworld.net...

2005-2013: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpb... 2013: https://warewhulf.files.wordpr...
Beginning of 2014: http://gatesofvienna.net/wp-co...
Beginning of 2015: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

Can't find a similar image for 2015 (that's what I'm googling for but yeah.. it didn't become prettier.)

Our "elected" "leaders" and "representatives" of "the people" and the "nation" currently focus mostly on trying to get Sweden into the UN security council or whatever it is and then I guess they focus on trying to make it into EU or UN politics. Fuck the Swedes for all they care, it's all about what they can force the Swedes to do for the citizens of any other country.

Even Xuanzang of Tang made a Journey To The West to receive wisdom.

Oops--still to the east of Europe, though.

Taiyang zuihong! Mao zhushi zuiqin!

they're the ones that have to take the fall for Europes refugees

When it comes to asylum seekers per capita, we get...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

Ok look, we're in position 22 of 33 with something like one thirtieth of the rate of the worst affected country, and comfortably below the average. As a proportion of population, Sweden have to deal with far more refugees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Actually it looks like we've even taken half the absolute, unscaled numbers.

We are part of Europe, and compared to the other countries, we are very much not doing our bit.

"The thing is, Putin can get away with bombing Syrian rebels because he is very effective (compared to allied sorties) also against ISIS targets."

He's barely even hit ISIS targets, he's been focussing on moderates an al Qaeda, his actions have, more than anything, helped ISIS, because they've massively damaged one of ISIS enemies - moderate rebels, and in fact, as moderate rebels have been losing ground as a result of this, ISIS have been gaining ground. Putin wants to create an Assad vs. ISIS scenario to force the West to support ISIS.

Here are some sources. This map shows the pattern of Russia's bombing campaign compared to that of the West. There are a lot of maps from a lot of sources showing the same pattern if you don't trust the BBC FWIW:

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news...

Here's a fairly detailed analysis showing the advances:

http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

You can actually find similar evidence even on Russian news sources, although they label moderate/al Qaeda areas as ISIS, even though no one in the entire rest of the world including the people in those areas actually identify with ISIS. At best Russia's done a handful of actual strikes on ISIS to try and maintain this false credibility that it's about hitting ISIS, rather than supporting Assad and ISIS to help turn the tide in favour of Assad and force everyone to rally with him against ISIS, because the fact is, if it comes to that kind of two way fight as Putin wants, the West will have no choice but to back Assad against ISIS.

"The thing is that UK and EU public opinion is very much in favor of Russian airstrikes in Syria."

I don't think this is even remotely true. I don't know anyone in the UK or any of my friends in Europe who even remotely support Russia. Support for Russia largely exists on the fringes in groups that feel under-represented in Europe, such as far right groups like the BNP and their supporters.

"I have seen BBC News stories where the comment section was flooded with messages in support of the Russian attacks (it was a story about Turkey warning Russia not to interfere in its air space). And practically all the highest-voted comments were pro-Russian strikes."

Rather than take that as a reasonable vox pop of public opinion, you need to understand that the BBC comments section is fundamentally broken and does not even remotely represent popular opinion. It is a favour melting pot of government propagandists, and zealots. The same comments section on political stories also suggests 80% support for xenophobic and racist parties like UKIP, but actual general election day polls gave them a meagre 13%. You can't discern anything of merit from the BBC comments section, it's a cesspit of nonsense and even the moderators are part of the problem. There was a UKIPer calling Polish people a bunch of lazy spongers, and I responded saying I've actually found the Polish to be incredibly hard working, often more so than many British folk. Guess which one of us got censored and which did not? When the leanings of the moderators there (I believe the BBC contract that work out to a 3rd party company so it's not their direct staff at fault but the company they subcontract to) supports that world view, is it surprising that that view is more prominent there?

I do agree that Russia is more effective though, you're right about that, but it's largely because whilst the West at least tries (even though it regularly fails) to avoid civilian casualties, Russia just doesn't even care about them. If there's a rebel fighter in a hospital of 100 innocents, Putin is happy to see that hospital bombed to get that one fighter - he's a leader who after all openly broke the Geneva Convention and admitted to committing a war crime by removing identifying marks

"Well, I don't know exactly how many American and British tourists there really are in Egypt. If you're American and you go, if you don't know the risks, which have been around for more than a decade now (cough cough - ask Mexico about that if you need to), I really don't know what to say."

Perhaps it's a less popular destination for Americans but Sharm El Sheikh is a massively popular tourist destination for British tourists. It's largely been free from the insecurities that have plagued the rest of Egypt. Obviously it's declined since the arab spring regardless, but have a look here, there's still 300,000 people a year visiting. That's a lot of targets:

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news...

Hand it back of course - during school though. Whereas, I take it you would strip search every student just in case they have a bomb hidden in a body cavity somewhere - after all small amounts of explosives can be hidden in lots of unlikely looking places. Or do you only strip search the children who have a watch or a phone with them since only electronic devices can set off bombs...

And http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news... looks no more like a bomb trigger than my cell phone or thumb drive or laptop or calculator or lighter or a snap circuits jnr set

As far as I remember, at first the international investigators couldn't begin the investigation because of the fighting near the crash site. So it wasn't "deep in the rebel controlled area". This picture from the BBC web site also proves it: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news... (from this page: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... )

It's a bit of a mouthful but try this: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/medi...

Because in Egypt the military was using aircraft and snipers to shoot protesters. So it's common there now to "lase" aircraft to point them out to other people so they know to take cover.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeat...
http://static2.businessinsider...
http://s3files.core77.com/blog...
http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/...

Notice there are hundreds of lasers on these things... yet there's a a surprising lack of blind pilots or aircraft crashing into crowds.

Yes, it's technically possible this could hard the pilot. But practically? Not very likely. These pilots circled the crowds for hours every night for months with hundreds of lasers trained on them the entire time without incident.