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https://medium.com/@fernnews/i...

that article was up on slashdot a while back..

what really caught my attention was the plot of introduction and bacterial resistance over time. the newest antibiotics produced had a "shelf-life" of an order of magnitude less than their predecessors. One of the contributing factors seems to be that the pharmaceutical companies aren't trying to recoup their costs over the lifetime of their patents, but over the 1-5 year period until resistance pops up.

Downvoting destroys, so there is an effect.

Maybe WBC is a poor choice of analogy, I'm probably not familiar enough with them to just casually throw them around as an example. However this is also irrelevant since that clearly wasn't the point, which I'll restate....

It's not possible to completely disassociate yourselves from people claiming to be a part of your group, especially (as you said) trolls... All you can do is restate your actual goals, and work to point out that the harassers, trolls, whatever, don't represent the views of the movement as a whole, not even a small percentage. You even illustrated it perfectly with your moderate Muslim example.

Please correct the headline, thanks:

https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

There's a reason why the taxi number and driver name are posted on the back seat. If you have a problem, you take it up with your local transit board about it (or livery commission) and file a complaint. Or even with the taxi company itself (whose name is prominently displayed).

Right. Nevada knows this, which is why they make it so easy for consumers to report when they are getting ripped off. All you need to do is download and print a PDF. Then you need to complete the affidavit and have it notarized, then mail or fax it to the Department of Business and Industry. Which is way easier than giving your driver a rating and leaving comments on your phone. Blake Ross suggests that you pack a few items with you while you're taking a taxi:

Given that, here are a few insider "tips and tricks" to keep in mind when cabbing in Vegas:

- Wear a fanny pack containing a desktop computer, a printer, envelopes, stamps, a fax machine, a notary, and food pellets for your notary.
- While in the cab, note the driver’s full name, permit number, cab company name, cab number, license plate number, and physical appearance. If you don’t have this information memorized for some reason, just ask the driver while you’re locked in the car with him. If he wants to know why you need it, explain that you’re trying to have him fired and ask for a selfie to fulfill the physical description requirement.
- Remember to bring $10 to pay the notary to witness you sign your complaint that you were overcharged by $10.
- If you need transportation to a notary, consider taking a taxi cab.

Didn't Iran just cancel their space program?

https://medium.com/war-is-bori...

that was pure disinformation put out by an obvious iran hater.
what the iranians did was transfer responsibility for their space program from the vice president's department for science and technology to a presidential department of the same name.
this was mention on PressTV a while back.

Didn't Iran just cancel their space program?

https://medium.com/war-is-bori...

https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

Came here to suggest this. Besides doing a static image, you can also use it as a motion detector so that at night, if there is a break-in, there's a chance of getting a snapshot of the robbers.

Here's a link: http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/...

This looks interesting: https://medium.com/@Cvrsor/how...

This issue: Bonjour over AWDL is still happening on 10.10.2. Wifi download speeds immediately plummet when any service that relies on bonjour activates. You can reproduce this issue by starting a speed test of your choice and clicking anything that requires bonjour. The speed will fall like a rock.

Issuing a:
sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

will immediately restore the connection speed. It's so certain that I've been able to basically play ping pong with the DL speeds by clicking the AirPlay icon to cause it to dive and then dropping the awdl0 connection to bounce it back up. There's also a lingering disconnect problem that seems to infect Apple devices trying to connect or remain connected to WPA 2 (AES) networks although I've not seen this behavior since 10.10.2 arrived, although my testing has been limited.

Annoying how top comments are all stupid jokes, so I'll hijack it. It's already known that âoeBallooningâ Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift

Facts: https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

Funny how everyone doesn't realize that Google = CIA = US Government. And yet people think they are a just a private corporation hahahaaha.

"The key point that Wigner’s friend experiment raises is that consciousness seems necessary to determine the result of a quantum mechanical measurement process. Without consciousness, all the elements of the experiment remain in a superposition of all possible states." link

The logic here is faulty, the observer is something in the rest of the universe that is affected by the collapse of the wave function, and that doesn't have to be conscious. See also

medium is the goatse of words.

A flight from New York to Singapore is usually around $1,300. A Suite Class ticket from New York to Singapore is $23,000.
https://medium.com/travel-adve...

People already pay 20x coach to fly comfortably for 18 hours. If you reduced the flight time to 2-3 hours and people didn't need a bed, shower and other amenities associated with a full day in the sky then you would be price competitive.

Here is another example. I rent a camera for $1,500+ for about 36 hours. If you hard a cargo flight that could do a point-to-point delivery from Indonesia to my door and it cost 1/10th of 10x the price of a ticket ($10,000) per 160lbs for a 16lb package then it would cost them $1,000 for shipping vs $1,500 for an extra day of rental. That would save them $500. You could even include a courier to the spaceport and back. I'm certain that there are items today that could use a sub-orbital delivery and save money at $100 per lb.

To be fair, either Uber needs to meet the same requirements as traditional taxi companies, or the conditions need to be lifted for all firms wishing to offer cars and drivers for hire.

Well, let's face it, the latter isn't going to happen. Last time Uber came up we were discussing India where the regulations spell out how many phone lines you need going to your (New Delhi based) HQ. The people running taxi licensing there hadn't even heard of Uber before some local media blowup. Taxi licensing is so sclerotic, so fragmented and so beholden to the existing taxi companies that the chances of the system reforming itself appear to be zero.

That leaves option (1), Uber complying with the existing regulations. There are two different issues here.

One is, do Uber customers get the same protections that customers of existing taxi companies do? Although I've never used Uber, from what I can tell the answer seems to be yes ... at least in that Uber polices their drivers for scamming and other poor service. The commercial insurance issue seems still unresolved, but I read conflicting things about this. But I see no evidence that local government regulators can do a better job of policing drivers than Uber, and frequent evidence that they cannot.

Two is, do the regulations Uber ignore even make sense? Frequently the main regulation they're violating is lack of a license, which is not itself any consumer protection at all. In a lot of American cities licensing seems to have become some kind of horribly corrupt and utterly unreformable racket. To get upset about Uber drivers ignoring the New York medallion system for example, you would have to believe that law is the same as morality and that driving without a medallion is ipso facto unethical, as opposed to "just" illegal.

The first sentence in the Wikipedia article: "Andrea Rossi (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian convicted fraudster, inventor and entrepreneur." (Though the footnote to "fraudster" indicates he was ultimately acquitted, on what appears to be a technicality, of the major charges relating to an alleged oil-from-trash scam.) The best you can say about E-Cat is that Rossi seems to be doing everything possible to make it look like a scam (Starts with a Bang.)

Rossi's E-Cat was the first thing I thought of when I read of Gates trip to Italy, but he was apparently visiting the Frascati ENEA labs of the University of Verona, which is "recognized for excellence in [cold] nuclear fusion research", whatever that means. I do not know if it has any connection to Rossi.

Supermassive Black Hole At The Centre Of The Galaxy May Be A Wormhole In Disguise, Say Astronomers https://medium.com/the-physics...

About two months ago I launched a web app that's just like Wikipedia for news, but where events are linked together by their causes and effects:

causemap.org

Anybody can edit it, and make links between situations based on their causality. For example:

• 2 causes for 35 000 Walrus showing up on an Alaskan shore
• 4 causes and 10 effects of the unrest in Ferguson MI
• 3 causes and 3 effects of #Gamergate

What do you think? Could this do the trick? I published a 3-minute introduction to it on Medium

Oh no... Not the f***ing gamergate again! It's spreading!

Look, kid, why don't you go watch your porn and masturbate while the adults discuss about interesting stuff that actually happened?

Google doesn't make money processing your emails for marketing information?

https://medium.com/the-physics...

Gave us the most influential person in world history was Linnaeus

Just to be Anglo centric I don't even see William Shakespeare as eligible on the new list.

Maybe this should be recategorized funny things you can do with computers ?

If you're passionate enough about it, you'll *make* it happen.

Of course. That's almost a tautology.

The question is, how much passion does it take? I submit that an inner-city black kid would have required even more passion than you had to do the things that you did. He'd not only have had to overcome the "geek" label, but the "white" label as well. I've been studying a lot of black American history lately and I can't blame blacks at all for wanting to hold proudly to their racial identity, not after what they've been through (and don't fool yourself that just because few living black Americans lived directly under slavery or its even more pernicious and brutal reincarnation during Jim Crow that blacks today aren't really affected), but it's an unfortunate truth that black racial pride often views education-based economic success, or anything that might lead that way, as "whiteness".

In addition, it doesn't end even after people make it out, get through school and land a job. Consider this story, of a black woman who succeeded in IT but then found that the unremitting small stresses of being "different" took a major toll on her happiness, and even her health. Like many chronic stressors, she didn't even fully realize what merely feeling like an outsider all the time was doing to her, until she happened to spend a little time in a place where she didn't stand out.

There are other minorities in IT who don't suffer the same pain of differentness, who are less sensitive to it. And there are others who are much more sensitive; most of them just wouldn't make it where Erica did. I happen to know that I'm mildly sensitive to "differentness" myself, though it takes months of being immersed in an environment where I'm the only tall white guy before I start to feel it.

So, you can't just sweep it under the rug with "if they care enough, they'll do it", because while that's true, it may be that enough is way too much. And it's a multi-faceted problem. Cultural obstacles, stereotypes in school and workplace, not fitting in, and there'e probably more.

All of these layers of obstacles can be overcome by passion, sure. But, jeez, at some point the hurdles are so high that hardly anyone is passionate enough.

We can't remove all of the obstacles, or even just all of the obstacles except the ones that you and I had to face, but we should do what we can and it starts by not sweeping the issue under the rug with "If you're passionate enough about it, you'll make it happen."

Actually there isn't evidence for the "gamergate is harassment" narrative. There IS evidence of the GNAA and other outside trolls going to the lengths of paying up to $20 for people to tweet while pretending to be part of gamergate, there IS evidence of the gamergate harassment patrol going to the lengths of tracking down the person behind much of Anita's harassment and even filing reports on him with the FBI, there ARE multiple statistical analyses empirically proving gamergate is NOT about harassment...

But there is absolutely no evidence for the conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of men, women, LGBT, and minority gamers from all over the world have banded together dedicated to the cause of driving women out of gaming by raising over $100,000 for charity... including $70,000 for feminists to get women INTO game development.

There is however a fuckton of evidence that a toxic clique of people with incestuous financial and personal ties are pushing a narrative defending themselves while rallying around someone multiple feminists have pointed out is blatantly a gaslighting domestic abuser.

Just like there's a fuckton of evidence for their vicous abusive behavior up to and including, like I said, a whole ton of doxings:

Because it's completely impossible to find out about serious criminal attacks like people getting sent dead animals without following each and every single person individually. Gotcha. If only there were websites where people talked about things that happened, all in one place.

Or even a website that lets you look for things elsewhere on the internet...

https://twitter.com/FartToCont...
https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
https://twitter.com/ForemanEri...
https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn (six people)
http://i.imgur.com/jpRvb52.jpg
https://twitter.com/Ash_Effect...
https://twitter.com/DanielleGi...
https://twitter.com/coolguyqui...
https://twitter.com/AlephXZero...
https://twitter.com/PlayDanger...
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Actually there isn't evidence for the "gamergate is harassment" narrative. There IS evidence of the GNAA and other outside trolls going to the lengths of paying up to $20 for people to tweet while pretending to be part of gamergate, there IS evidence of the gamergate harassment patrol going to the lengths of tracking down the person behind much of Anita's harassment and even filing reports on him with the FBI, there ARE multiple statistical analyses empirically proving gamergate is NOT about harassment...

But there is absolutely no evidence for the conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of men, women, LGBT, and minority gamers from all over the world have banded together dedicated to the cause of driving women out of gaming by raising over $100,000 for charity... including $70,000 for feminists to get women INTO game development.

There is however a fuckton of evidence that a toxic clique of people with incestuous financial and personal ties are pushing a narrative defending themselves while rallying around someone multiple feminists have pointed out is blatantly a gaslighting domestic abuser.

Just like there's a fuckton of evidence for their vicous abusive behavior up to and including, like I said, a whole ton of doxings:

Because it's completely impossible to find out about serious criminal attacks like people getting sent dead animals without following each and every single person individually. Gotcha. If only there were websites where people talked about things that happened, all in one place.

Or even a website that lets you look for things elsewhere on the internet...

https://twitter.com/FartToCont...
https://twitter.com/GGfeminist...
https://twitter.com/ForemanEri...
https://twitter.com/milky_cand...
http://i.imgur.com/892hZ1A.png
https://twitter.com/FabioFacch...
https://twitter.com/CodeusaSof...
http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn (six people)
http://i.imgur.com/jpRvb52.jpg
https://twitter.com/Ash_Effect...
https://twitter.com/DanielleGi...
https://twitter.com/coolguyqui...
https://twitter.com/AlephXZero...
https://twitter.com/PlayDanger...
ht

I find it hilarious that I haven't seen one GG proponent say a damn thing about Chris Kluwe's complete skewering of GG.

https://medium.com/the-cauldro...

Buncha hardcore cowards as far as I am concerned.

It's certainly what they like to claim, yet they're mainly concerned with the massive corruption surrounding a little indie game that's free and not making anyone any money, while they're ignoring the very large scale corruption surrounding major publishers demanding positive reviews in exchange for money and review copies (Shadows of Mordor anyone?). I have addressed this with GamerGaters before, and they defended it, stating that Shadows of Mordor is objectively good, while Depression Quest is objectively bad. And that apparently makes one type of corruption okay, and the other type a really serious problem.

First off the Shadows of Mordor story was uncovered by gamergate. That's how woefully uninformed or just plain wrong you are about this, you're literally trying to condemn gamergate for not caring about the story that gamergate uncovered and reported on. Second your entire demand here boils down to "why isn't gamergate doing what journalists are supposed to be doing for them!". That's a self answering question.

And yet it's the women that keep getting attacked. Who even knows the names of the men involved? GamerGaters keep harping on about Zoe Quinn, despite her being supposedly irrelevant to what their cause is really supposed to be about.

There have been multiple statistical analyses plainly proving that the "attack" and "harassment" narratives are provably false. You can literally cut out every single mention of Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, and hell even Feminism itself and the metrics barely change.

And yet GamerGate started with attacks on women, and any woman that speaks up about GamerGate gets doxed (see Felicia Day), whereas men don't (Chris Kluwe, for example).

A domestic abuse victim posting about his abuse is not an "attack on women". Furthermore if you actually give a damn about women who speak up and get doxed for it how about the somewhere around 30 people (primarily women and minorities) that anti-gghave not only doxed and sent death/rape threats to but also gotten fired from their jobs, had their utilities turned off, income halted by fraudulent reports, bank accounts hacked, and even gotten syringes, knives, and dead animals in the mail?

If you care so much why don't you go after the people actually behind this, like the GNAA and somethingawful trolls that have repeatedly been proven to be false-flagging the hashtag and paying up to $20 per tweet to do it? People Zoe Quinn herself has been caught retweeting offers for false-flag tweets from?Hell literally just the other day yet another anti-gamergate user was caught posting doxx on 8chan and then trying to blame gamergate for it.

You're sending a very clear message here: You don't actually care about women at all, you only care about women that agree with you.

That is not exactly my experience with the ones I've tried to argue with. Every single one started with these exact same arguments, and every single one came up mostly with irrelevant arguments, ended up talking about Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian were killing their hobby, and when they ran out of arguments, slipped up with a dose of homophobic and misogynist slurs (which at least one of them then tried to cover up).

I haven't seen

It's certainly what they like to claim, yet they're mainly concerned with the massive corruption surrounding a little indie game that's free and not making anyone any money, while they're ignoring the very large scale corruption surrounding major publishers demanding positive reviews in exchange for money and review copies (Shadows of Mordor anyone?). I have addressed this with GamerGaters before, and they defended it, stating that Shadows of Mordor is objectively good, while Depression Quest is objectively bad. And that apparently makes one type of corruption okay, and the other type a really serious problem.

First off the Shadows of Mordor story was uncovered by gamergate. That's how woefully uninformed or just plain wrong you are about this, you're literally trying to condemn gamergate for not caring about the story that gamergate uncovered and reported on. Second your entire demand here boils down to "why isn't gamergate doing what journalists are supposed to be doing for them!". That's a self answering question.

And yet it's the women that keep getting attacked. Who even knows the names of the men involved? GamerGaters keep harping on about Zoe Quinn, despite her being supposedly irrelevant to what their cause is really supposed to be about.

There have been multiple statistical analyses plainly proving that the "attack" and "harassment" narratives are provably false. You can literally cut out every single mention of Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, and hell even Feminism itself and the metrics barely change.

And yet GamerGate started with attacks on women, and any woman that speaks up about GamerGate gets doxed (see Felicia Day), whereas men don't (Chris Kluwe, for example).

A domestic abuse victim posting about his abuse is not an "attack on women". Furthermore if you actually give a damn about women who speak up and get doxed for it how about the somewhere around 30 people (primarily women and minorities) that anti-gghave not only doxed and sent death/rape threats to but also gotten fired from their jobs, had their utilities turned off, income halted by fraudulent reports, bank accounts hacked, and even gotten syringes, knives, and dead animals in the mail?

If you care so much why don't you go after the people actually behind this, like the GNAA and somethingawful trolls that have repeatedly been proven to be false-flagging the hashtag and paying up to $20 per tweet to do it? People Zoe Quinn herself has been caught retweeting offers for false-flag tweets from?Hell literally just the other day yet another anti-gamergate user was caught posting doxx on 8chan and then trying to blame gamergate for it.

You're sending a very clear message here: You don't actually care about women at all, you only care about women that agree with you.

That is not exactly my experience with the ones I've tried to argue with. Every single one started with these exact same arguments, and every single one came up mostly with irrelevant arguments, ended up talking about Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian were killing their hobby, and when they ran out of arguments, slipped up with a dose of homophobic and misogynist slurs (which at least one of them then tried to cover up).

I haven't seen

Medium is like a crowd-sourced blog with no ads... what's the issue you have with it?

Of all the BS on Slashdot, this is much more akin to its roots of aggregating less-know tech articles.

Ummm... No. Medium is not really "crowd-sourced". And it certainly has ads, it just doesn't have "obvious" advertising of products, rather the whole thing is to include lots of "native advertising". Or ... "product placement" if you prefer. I signed up for Medium a long time ago. I do like some of the stories - some are informative in that they prompt me to research deeper in some topics. But don't suffer from the illusion that this is some popular, organically grown blog site, with authors submitting stories like commentators and submitters on /. It's more like what /. is trying to become: Something that looks like a user-driven comment site, but that's actually a new media channel for companies. In this case, I suspect it's an attempt by Wales and other officers at Wikipedia as part of a marketing campaign to drive up donations. But Medium is that kind of vehicle for any corporation.

Medium doesn't really hide what they do, but you have to dig a little bit to figure out what they are and what they are doing. These are journalists that know journalism is a lousy way to try to make a living these days, with newspapers and magazines dying out, and advertising as an Internet news funding model unable to generate enough revenue to support the kind of staff that traditional print, and even cable news, has been able to support in the past. So this is another idea to generate that revenue (not that there is anything wrong with that, but people should be aware of what's going on, and the funding that is driving the agenda).

Have you noticed that you can only create an "account" on Medium with a Twitter or Facebook account link? Yea, that's the case? Is Facebook helping fund Medium? Maybe. Twitter money certainly is They are trying to bring in companies and especially start-ups to get their marketing messages out on Medium. If you look around, you can find plenty of articles that come down to shameless promotion, which is how I view this one. How many news stories show up on cable and network news that are primarily done for someone promoting a book? That's not incidental to Medium stories - it's what the built Medium FOR.

So, I don't know if you can really call it "crowd sourced". It's another Silicon Valley startup, with no obvious business model, but lots of funding and wealthy Silicon Valley Gen Xer's running it.

Medium is like a crowd-sourced blog with no ads... what's the issue you have with it?

Of all the BS on Slashdot, this is much more akin to its roots of aggregating less-know tech articles.

Ummm... No. Medium is not really "crowd-sourced". And it certainly has ads, it just doesn't have "obvious" advertising of products, rather the whole thing is to include lots of "native advertising". Or ... "product placement" if you prefer. I signed up for Medium a long time ago. I do like some of the stories - some are informative in that they prompt me to research deeper in some topics. But don't suffer from the illusion that this is some popular, organically grown blog site, with authors submitting stories like commentators and submitters on /. It's more like what /. is trying to become: Something that looks like a user-driven comment site, but that's actually a new media channel for companies. In this case, I suspect it's an attempt by Wales and other officers at Wikipedia as part of a marketing campaign to drive up donations. But Medium is that kind of vehicle for any corporation.

Medium doesn't really hide what they do, but you have to dig a little bit to figure out what they are and what they are doing. These are journalists that know journalism is a lousy way to try to make a living these days, with newspapers and magazines dying out, and advertising as an Internet news funding model unable to generate enough revenue to support the kind of staff that traditional print, and even cable news, has been able to support in the past. So this is another idea to generate that revenue (not that there is anything wrong with that, but people should be aware of what's going on, and the funding that is driving the agenda).

Have you noticed that you can only create an "account" on Medium with a Twitter or Facebook account link? Yea, that's the case? Is Facebook helping fund Medium? Maybe. Twitter money certainly is They are trying to bring in companies and especially start-ups to get their marketing messages out on Medium. If you look around, you can find plenty of articles that come down to shameless promotion, which is how I view this one. How many news stories show up on cable and network news that are primarily done for someone promoting a book? That's not incidental to Medium stories - it's what the built Medium FOR.

So, I don't know if you can really call it "crowd sourced". It's another Silicon Valley startup, with no obvious business model, but lots of funding and wealthy Silicon Valley Gen Xer's running it.

Medium is like a crowd-sourced blog with no ads... what's the issue you have with it?

Of all the BS on Slashdot, this is much more akin to its roots of aggregating less-know tech articles.

Ummm... No. Medium is not really "crowd-sourced". And it certainly has ads, it just doesn't have "obvious" advertising of products, rather the whole thing is to include lots of "native advertising". Or ... "product placement" if you prefer. I signed up for Medium a long time ago. I do like some of the stories - some are informative in that they prompt me to research deeper in some topics. But don't suffer from the illusion that this is some popular, organically grown blog site, with authors submitting stories like commentators and submitters on /. It's more like what /. is trying to become: Something that looks like a user-driven comment site, but that's actually a new media channel for companies. In this case, I suspect it's an attempt by Wales and other officers at Wikipedia as part of a marketing campaign to drive up donations. But Medium is that kind of vehicle for any corporation.

Medium doesn't really hide what they do, but you have to dig a little bit to figure out what they are and what they are doing. These are journalists that know journalism is a lousy way to try to make a living these days, with newspapers and magazines dying out, and advertising as an Internet news funding model unable to generate enough revenue to support the kind of staff that traditional print, and even cable news, has been able to support in the past. So this is another idea to generate that revenue (not that there is anything wrong with that, but people should be aware of what's going on, and the funding that is driving the agenda).

Have you noticed that you can only create an "account" on Medium with a Twitter or Facebook account link? Yea, that's the case? Is Facebook helping fund Medium? Maybe. Twitter money certainly is They are trying to bring in companies and especially start-ups to get their marketing messages out on Medium. If you look around, you can find plenty of articles that come down to shameless promotion, which is how I view this one. How many news stories show up on cable and network news that are primarily done for someone promoting a book? That's not incidental to Medium stories - it's what the built Medium FOR.

So, I don't know if you can really call it "crowd sourced". It's another Silicon Valley startup, with no obvious business model, but lots of funding and wealthy Silicon Valley Gen Xer's running it.

Great news! I'm a strong html5/javascript advocate. 6 months ago, I released a mobile WEB app to create mobile web apps (http://adsy.me). We've already signed up 22,300 users, a pretty nice proof of concept for an open web project, outside the native walled gardens. It works on ios/ANDROID/pc, a true cross-platform app. I believe it's the future, in a post-appstores era (here is a piece I wrote about this: https://medium.com/@adsy_me/7-...)

Compare/Contrast with this article:

"How Google Kills Your App"

Firstly you need standing to bring a suit under the law, otherwise all you can do is report things and hope it makes it through the paperwork maze. Second... we HAVE. You'll notice @GGFeminist below had already reported her doxxing to the police by the time she posted about it.

Feminist writer explains domestic abuse: https://twitter.com/Eldritchlo...
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Zoe and the GNAA paying for fake threats to her account: https://twitter.com/MaxShillin...
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While I fully agree we could make this place a Star Trek-like utopian society (a la The Economics of Star Trek), the point is that no matter how seaworthy you make a ship, it can still be sunk. The Earth could still suffer an extinction event that we can't prevent. Mars is really our best Plan B. We have to get in more boats to make sure we stay afloat as a species.

Mars is the easiest of the options. The others - the moon (too little gravity, can never be terraformed), a giant space station (extremely large structure required to contain 1 million humans), Venus (cloud cities perhaps), Jovian satellites (radiation, extreme cold) are tougher options.

No, that's only the nearly statewide class 4 drought that has hit California.

You know, the one that made it illegal to wait for you water to heat up.

It's simple, get control of a domain and you can redirect all email. Redirect all email and you can reset passwords without needing to ever worry about the actual mailbox password (which is probably stronger than the registrar password but obviously is just as important).

Exhibit A, in which this exact scenario happened:
https://medium.com/p/24eb09e02...

https://medium.com/@RickWebb/t...

Apple's current approach seems to parallel what they're doing with iTunes which really favors the labels over the artists. What they should look at is, instead, creating a community for social discovery and interaction - in short, what Amazon has done a fairly good job of (all review systems have faults and can be gamed, but it's clear that the average App Store review is generally of a lower quality than your average Amazon product review).

While I do like seeing "featured" stuff, I also like seeing what others buy based on what I bought, and whether there are any reviews.

Part of this may revolve around making reviews more seamless [1] while also putting down the ban-hammer on apps that have fake/bought reviews.

Also, I'd suggest Apple also adopt a "return period" - they support this for some jurisdictions (S.Korea? HK? I forget).

Absent this kind of reform, the App Store is simply a device for pushing the interests of publishers, not developers, let alone users.

[1] https://medium.com/@hliriani/r...

A _good_ site allows people to upvote the signal and downvote the noise

I remember seeing a post on Slashdot a while ago about a study that said that downvoting actually makes the trollers and nutters more pernicious and persistent. So maybe a good site actually only allows upvoting, but starts all posts below the "normal" view level?

Of course, this is nothing new, the same tactics are recommended to deal with "problem" children who attention through negative behaviour (breaking things, tantrums, foul language, etc). I've even seen posters on Slashdot, with a history of being factually wrong and scientifically illiterate, brag about how being downmodded only proves that they are, in fact, correct. They then reach the conclusion that their insightful correctness must be a danger to the dark powers that control Slashdot, or some similar tripe, and that they must continue to battle at all costs. When it seems to me that the reason they were downmodded was because they were posting junk that was stupid and wrong.

It's simple, everyone would rather believe that they are oppressed freeedom fighters rather than ignorant buffoons, even though the latter is far more more frequently true.

Blackphone rooted at DefconâS -- Part 1

Greetings from Def Con! Thus far Team Blackphone has been having a very positive Con. We have been receiving a lot of positive feedback and praise for taking on the flag of building and maintaining a secure and private smartphone system. This was a challenge that we knew full well would not be easy, but if it were easy then anyone could do it.

The researcher @TeamAndIRC was a little miffed at our initial response to his inquiry and I understand his point. In response, he had a t-shirt made that stated he rooted the Blackphone at Def Con. The ironic part to this is I would have absolutely gone over and made that t-shirt for him myself once the full vulnerability was explained. @TeamAndIRC and I had a chat here at Def Con. I would like to thank him for not blowing the issue out of proportion and going back to the twittersphere for a little more transparency by explaining that direct user interaction is required and that we had already patched one of the vulnerabilities through the OTA update.

According to @TeamAndIRC there were three issues discovered. The first one is that he was able to get ADB turned on. Turning ADB on is not a vulnerability as this is part of the Android operating system. We turned ADB off because it causes a software bug and potentially impacts the user experience, a patch is forthcoming. His second discovery is accurate and here is the point I want to stress to the community. We found this vulnerability on July 30, had the patch in QA on July 31, and the OTA update released on August 1. That is pretty fast, no?

When @TeamAndIRC details the third vulnerability today at Def Con around 2pm PST we will be on the floor. We will get the details, and feel confident that we will have the system patched just as fast as last time. That is our commitment to the community â" to close the threat window faster than any other OEM. So, for now stay tuned as we will have an update later today.

Sincerely,

Dan Ford, D.Sc. (@netsecrex)
Chief Security Officer
SGP Technologies

In this case, however, one athlete had an technological benefit that others could not easily obtain.

If disability has become a superpower, then how can others "not easily obtain" this benefit, other than surgeons covering their own behinds by refusing to amputate an otherwise healthy limb?

> Using publically visible information (nametag & gate sign) to state an opinion constitutes harassment?

YES! Because "public" is not a binary function.
Her nametag was only visible to people in her immediate vicinity, not the entire internet.

What he did was threatening. It was "I'm going to try to get thousands of people to hate you personally. If I'm lucky they will dox you and make your life suck for a year or more."

The USSR tried—and failed—to breed man and chimp

It really doesn't help that everything is broken.

Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many?

Google self-driving cars are presumably programmed to protect their passengers. So, when a traffic situation gets nasty, the car you're in will take all the defensive actions it can to keep you safe.

But what will robot cars be programmed to do when there’s lots of them on the roads, and they're networked with one another?

We know what we as individuals would like. My car should take as its Prime Directive: “Prevent my passengers from coming to harm.” But when the cars are networked, their Prime Directive well might be: “Minimize the amount of harm to humans overall.” And such a directive can lead a particular car to sacrifice its humans in order to keep the total carnage down. Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics don't provide enough guidance when the robots are in constant and instantaneous contact and have fragile human beings inside of them.

It’s easy to imagine cases. For example, a human unexpectedly darts into a busy street. The self-driving cars around it rapidly communicate and algorithmically devise a plan that saves the pedestrian at the price of causing two cars to engage in a Force 1 fender-bender and three cars to endure Force 2 minor collisionsbut only if the car I happen to be in intentionally drives itself into a concrete piling, with a 95% chance of killing me. All other plans result in worse outcomes, where “worse” refers to some scale that weighs monetary damages, human injuries, and human deaths.

Or, a broken run-off pipe creates a dangerous pool of water on the highway during a flash storm. The self-driving cars agree that unless my car accelerates and rams into a concrete piling, all other configurations of joint actions result in a tractor trailing jack-knifing, causing lots of death and destruction. Not to mention The Angelic Children’s Choir school bus that would be in harm’s way. So, the swarm of robotic cars makes the right decision and intentionally kills me.

In short, the networking of robotic cars will change the basic moral principles that guide their behavior. Non-networked cars are presumably programmed to be morally-blind individualists trying to save their passengers without thinking about others, but networked cars will probably be programmed to support some form of utilitarianism that tries to minimize the collective damage. And that’s probably what we'd want. Isn’t it?

But one of the problems with utilitarianism is that there turns out to be little agreement about what counts as a value and how much it counts. Is saving a pedestrian more important than saving a passenger? Is it always right try to preserve human life, no matter how unlikely it is that the action will succeed and no matter how many other injuries it is likely to result in? Should the car act as if its passenger has seat-belted him/herself in because passengers should do so? Should the cars be more willing to sacrifice the geriatric than the young, on the grounds that the young have more of a lifespan to lose? And won't someone please think about the kids—those adorable choir kids?

https://medium.com/@dweinberger/would-a-google-car-sacrifice-you-for-the-sake-of-the-many-e9d6abcf6fed

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I'd rather live in 200 years with higher seas and 2214-level tech than slightly lower seas and year 2114-level tech.

Why wait for 2214? One solution to the current problem is to go full steam ahead with a technology revolution. Humanity has spent most of its existence getting energy by burning shit. We have an opportunity adopt newer energy technologies that could be disruptive in the same order of magnitude as the internet. This scares the heck out people heavily invested in existing industries who would like to hold us back, but that isn't a good reason to remain stuck with the technologies of the past.

"While solar currently accounts for less than 1% of the energy supply, it is an exponentially improving technology, both in terms of price (14%/year) and pace of construction (60%/year). Already it is approaching parity with other energy sources in the Western US. Assuming this trend continues for another 10 to 20 years, and there’s no reason not to, solar power will become 5 to 10 times more cost effective than it is today. This raises an interesting question. What happens if solar becomes an order of magnitude cheaper than other sources of power?

This is the nature of disruptive technology. It represents such an improvement that it renders existing industries obsolete. We saw waves of disruption take place as the Internet upended entire industries. Expect to see a lot of this in the coming years." - https://medium.com/armchair-ec... .

Seriously, you are going to tell the pilot: "ok you have to spend ALL of your fuel before you land...because if you don't it will burn all of your skin...that is, if you are lucky not to catch fire". At least kamikaze pilots didn't have doubt about their plane flying them to death.

As for Valkyire, for a plane that costed more then 10x its worth in gold it should be expected operational use, not the gathering of "aeronautical data". No mather what was the change in military doctrine, after building working prototypes, couple of more planes could have need used for fast-response operations. If you think that is unreasonable, I will remind you that sr-71, plane that had similar flying characteristics, but much lower cargo load was in use until 1998. Which brings us to real reason - plane had problems: pieces of intake flew into the engine, wheels would lock up on landing, and electric currents where causing corrosion of the plane damaging the structural integrity. One of the problems that Concord technicians noted was difficulty in maintaining 2 internal engines...I can only imagine what would they say about Valkyires 6. The one prototype that survived was limited to 2.5mach speed because the honey-comb panels wouldn't really sustain 3+mach speeds.

Tomcat? Best time-to climb performance? No. Manuverability per size? Hell no. Phoenix missile was awesome, but plane doesn't take credit for it. For its service best plane that it took down was MIG-23...which is on this very list of "fails". For the way it looks, the plane is pure pornography, but for anything else...

And F-35....you are really going to defend that one? The one that can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run?. The one that its cost is in the trillions? Seriously? Don't need to google, just check slashdot for the list of fails here, here and here it has been already discussed in the detail.