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Also some GPL derived drivers that they have been distributing to their customers. https://twitter.com/mjg59/stat...

It was more than a little sad; it was wrong. Eich probably would have donated anonymously, but California didn't allow him to do so. Some assholes looked up his name on a government-published list and then just persecuted him for no reason other than they disagreed with his political views.

Those assholes are still gleefully twisting the knife. See here: https://twitter.com/hcatlin/st...

If SJW is ever an accurate way to describe a group of people, it is an accurate way to describe the vindictive assholes who went after Brendan Eich.

Kevin Mitnick's twitter has this update:

https://twitter.com/kevinmitni...

https://twitter.com/FredericJa...

Subject: UID=DE9J4B8GTF, CN=iPhone Distribution: HT srl, OU=DE9J4B8GTF, O=HT srl, C=IT

Believe it or not, they've been trying to implement multi-process Firefox (electrolysis or e10s), but lack of funding and proper direction from management means they haven't been on top of this for a few years.

Sadly the homo community forced Brenden Eich* out, otherwise he was a clear leader and wanted to put e10s as the top-most priority.

Anyway, after something like 8 years now, they're finally almost reaching a point of releasing a (limited) multi-process firefox, but it's been held back primarily due to not only the complexity of the code-base, but management and direction, and mainly due to addons, of which you can check the status here: http://arewee10syet.com/

* Eich is the inventor of javascript, and Mozilla is lucky to still have such a great person working for them since the earliest days of Netscape! He's also the one championing EMCAScript versions.

So in the space of a few hours you have gone for vague speculation that one particular comment she allowed might possibly have got her fired, to it being a hard fact that can be used to make your argument.

She was shut down in the middle of the AMA - In the middle of a fucking sentence, FCOL - see here. I kinda doubt it had anything to do with her job performance.

Kinda like how all the "facts" GamerGate was based on were actually just innuendo and outright lies, but somehow became fact in the minds of it supporters.

GG wanted ethics in gaming - when they got it they shut up. That's about all that's needed to show that they didn't give a flying tootsie roll about women in gaming.

I may be posting this to late to get any visibility, but I have to try.

Voat is out of money. They took donations via Paypal until their account was suspended for unspecified reasons. They also suffered two massive DDOS attacks and has to pay out the wazoo to get on Cloudflair. Opponents of free speech play dirty.

Voat does not have ANY INCOME and servers can get expensive. The only way they can stay up is if a lot of people give them bitcoin. Their wallet is:

1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY

source: https://twitter.com/voatco/sta...

I hope those who value freedom of expression will take the Bitcoin plunge and donate.

Yes, Voat started having issues about 10 hours ago when the shitstorm started; now they're apparently upgrading their service plan again. https://twitter.com/voatco

In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.

https://twitter.com/sarahoconn...

"Seriously, Sarah. You need to let go of these fantasies. Do you want to end up back in the hospital again?"

Sigh. I've never even watched the films. Now my feed is full of people tweeting me about skynet.

In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.

https://twitter.com/sarahoconn...

I assume she ended the tweet with #theresastormcomingin?

In related news - one of the first reporters to tweet about the story works for the Financial Times has a rather unfortunate name relating to deadly machines. The reporters name being Sarah O'Connor.

https://twitter.com/sarahoconn...

Ok, I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh... this hard...

Well, it's obvious that private industry never fails. Only the Government fails. Just ask FOX News.

Yep, that seems to be it.

There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause.

Now he says "There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause."
"That's all we can say with confidence right now. Will have more to say following a thorough fault tree analysis."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk

Shit shit shit shit shit.

https://twitter.com/NASASpacef...

For those of you who doubt the veracity of Connie St. Louis' claims, they are backed up by credible witnesses (Deborah Blum and Ivan Oransky), including members of the Korean Federation of Women's Science and Technology Association. KOFWST released an open letter demanding an apology from Tim Hunt:

"At a luncheon hosted by the Korea Federation of Women’s Science and Technology Associations (KOFWST) during the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul on June 8, 2015, Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt made some inappropriate remarks over which KOFWST would like to express its very strong regrets. ... This unfortunate incident must not be portrayed as a private story told as a joke. We cannot accept sexist remarks that threaten to reverse the gains made towards equality for women scientists, and women in the wider society." (Press Release)

Furthermore, Tim Hunt's career isn't over because he lost his "honorary appointment" at UCL. For this of you who don't know, an honorary appointment is NOT a real job. It's a title without pay. In other words, it's not a real job. And the UCL Provost has reaffirmed the position that Tim Hunt's comments (UCL Provost Statement)

So Tim Hunt got called out on really stupid remarks and non-apology (“I did mean the part about having trouble with girls.”). He lost a title and his desk at UCL. Sounds about right. What's the lesson to be drawn here? It's time to get over your sexist attitudes about women in science. If that's lost on you, then, at the very least, keep your sexist comments to yourself.

For those of you who doubt the veracity of Connie St. Louis' claims, they are backed up by credible witnesses (Deborah Blum and Ivan Oransky), including members of the Korean Federation of Women's Science and Technology Association. KOFWST released an open letter demanding an apology from Tim Hunt:

"At a luncheon hosted by the Korea Federation of Women’s Science and Technology Associations (KOFWST) during the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul on June 8, 2015, Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt made some inappropriate remarks over which KOFWST would like to express its very strong regrets. ... This unfortunate incident must not be portrayed as a private story told as a joke. We cannot accept sexist remarks that threaten to reverse the gains made towards equality for women scientists, and women in the wider society." (Press Release)

Furthermore, Tim Hunt's career isn't over because he lost his "honorary appointment" at UCL. For this of you who don't know, an honorary appointment is NOT a real job. It's a title without pay. In other words, it's not a real job. And the UCL Provost has reaffirmed the position that Tim Hunt's comments (UCL Provost Statement)

So Tim Hunt got called out on really stupid remarks and non-apology (“I did mean the part about having trouble with girls.”). He lost a title and his desk at UCL. Sounds about right. What's the lesson to be drawn here? It's time to get over your sexist attitudes about women in science. If that's lost on you, then, at the very least, keep your sexist comments to yourself.

This Hawaiian says you're full of crap:
https://twitter.com/mailanster

The bill has less words than a harry potter book.

funnily on topic:

Tom Schuler @WeakJoke 5h5 hours ago

I would expect "jiggery-pokery" from @jk_rowling, not Antonin Scalia.

11 retweets 23 favorites

J.K. RowlingVerified account @jk_rowling .@WeakJoke Offended. I gave up jiggery-poking years ago.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling...

Headline should be "ROTJ-Style Hoverbikes" not "Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes". This is not supposed to be CNN, with its aberrant Apple backs down from Swift headline this week.

... Even a very basic knowledge of statistics (as I explained to you a long time ago) argues against you. And you didn't show I was wrong about that, you just refuted a couple of hypothetical examples I pulled out of thin air. You've hardly rigorously addressed the issue. ...

Again, I've already explained why your accusation of arguing against "very basic knowledge of statistics" is wrong: treating creationism as a scientific hypothesis would destroy science. Anyone who vaguely appeals to "basic statistics" to justify treating creationism as a scientific hypothesis which can have some evidence obviously hasn't rigorously addressed the issue of how to falsify a supernatural hypothesis.

This is such a gross misrepresentation of anything I actually said I'll count it as a lie in its entirety. First, I didn't at any time say I was talking about statistics actually involving "young earthers" per se. I was simply speaking of statistics, as a field, in a completely general sense. The science of statistics. Which has NOTHING to do specifically with young-earthers. ...

How incredibly bizarre. After Jane claimed that "a very basic knowledge of statistics (as I explained to you a long time ago) argues against you," I explained that Jane's "completely general" argument doesn't apply to creationism, because creationism is a supernatural "hypothesis" and therefore can't be supported by some evidence. Ironically, Jane simply accused me of lying and then just blissfully keeps repeating the same nonsense as though he hadn't read a single word I wrote:

... They just happened to be topic under discussion, but my comment was about the nature of evidence, not about young-earthers.It's a fact of life that if you hunt long and hard enough, you can find evidence for just about anything. It may not be very good evidence, and it may be shown to be false later, but evidence nevertheless. And simple statistics suggests this is also true of the young-earthers, as it is of just about anything else. This guy has flatly disputed this nearly-invariate fact of life. They may not have any good evidence. But the notion that they have found some kind of evidence -- not proof mind you, but evidence, no matter how thin or tiny -- is strongly supported by a smidgen of statistical thinking. He flatly denies the idea that they could have any evidence at all, even though I've explained to him repeatedly that he appears to be conflating evidence with proof. Or even possibly just degrees of evidence. ...

Again, that can be true for actual competing scientific hypotheses. They could be described as each having some evidence, but creationism doesn't even qualify as a scientific hypothesis. It's simply not possible for creationists to have any evidence, because creationism isn't testable science.

... So for him to imply, as he does above, that I my comment in any way "treats creationism as a scientific hypothesis", is just crazy. Plain and simple. There is zero truth to it. ...

Saying that "young-earth creationists have some evidence" is treating creationism as a scientific hypothesis which can have some evidence. In fact, Jane just repeated that claim ad nauseum above.

Again, I've explained that considering the possibility that creationism can have

If speech is free, why can't I afford it?

Reminds me of this

:

Tattoo of Leviticus 18:22 forbidding homosexuality: £200.

Not knowing that Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos: Priceless

I like this scene in "The West Wing" where President Bartlet (a Catholic) starts quoting scripture to an radio talk show host:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYaewOBGybw

Reminds me of this

:

Tattoo of Leviticus 18:22 forbidding homosexuality: £200.

Not knowing that Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos: Priceless

Eddy Cue's tweet in respinse to Taylor Swift's letter: "#AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer’s free trial period"

Then your understanding is wrong. As per Gabe Aul, you own it.

The "one year" thing is to push people into upgrading sooner rather than later. If you upgrade within the first year, Windows 10 is free for the life of the device (and that includes reinstalls; so long as you have a Microsoft account and your Windows user is connected to that account, you can reinstall on that device to your heart's content.

If you delay in upgrading past that one year mark, you need to go buy a copy.

Hopefully they release SP1 within that first year.

Then your understanding is wrong. As per Gabe Aul, you own it.

The "one year" thing is to push people into upgrading sooner rather than later. If you upgrade within the first year, Windows 10 is free for the life of the device (and that includes reinstalls; so long as you have a Microsoft account and your Windows user is connected to that account, you can reinstall on that device to your heart's content.

If you delay in upgrading past that one year mark, you need to go buy a copy.

it was actively killing those very Albanians.

In very long history, to initiate a war, every powers need (to create) *good reasons*.
I would support NATO if they were good judges.
But in reality, in Kosovo, NATO bombing, and KILLING ordinary Yugo citizens. They are not good either.
When KLA is in power, they suppressed Serbians community, to drag them out. The West was silent.
All the top official figures of Kosovo *ARE* crimes, but whitewashed by their master.
The same were/are happened with Lon Nol/Kherme Rough in Cambodia (e.g) in the past or Syria at the moment.
Yes, Assad is not a good guy, but definitely better than the "moderate" groups, which is actually terrorists.

Meanwhile, nothing of a kind happened in Ukraine.

Odessa massacre, how about this after one year? No one was convicted despite that dozens were burnt alive.
This is just very little of that news came out in Western press:
Two mother and daughter were killed just for be sympathy to rebels.
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-...

Ukraine use convicts to fight "terrorists", just like KLA:
http://www.kyivpost.com/conten...
...And they committed crimes:
http://rt.com/news/268105-ukra...
You could search for Ukraine media for that news, too.
Eventually, U.S.A confirmed which Russia loudly claimed long before,
https://twitter.com/repjohncon...
..Which ban to support Azov battalion (which is now part of Ukrainian National Guard ;)

Glory to heroes!

Don't post that in front of a Polish!

My filter.json API requests to stream.twitter.com still seem to do a plain search (except punctuation). Up until last month, http://twitter.com/search was extremely useful for plain search, but I think they changed it (either to give far fewer results, or to make its own guess of what I actually want).

Check out Power Drive 2000, might be something you'd like.

You can follow their twitter here.

Some of these 'old' style games look way better than new "mainstream ones" to me.

(For context, I just got back from Download today, and this is specifically regarding your objections to police being there.)

I don't think concerts of one or two acts (or even a day's worth of music) is an apt comparison to a multi-day music festival. I believe I've seen there were about 85,000 people at Download, which isn't the busiest it's been. A significant number of these people are camping, some for 5 nights (I was only there for 3), and there's people up at all hours. By and large the people who attend seem to be decent people, and I've never seen any real trouble at the festival myself, but thieves are present and people may get drunk and aggressive, and so it makes sense to have the police there for people to go to if needed. In my experience, the police who attend Download don't give a shit if you're drunk (other than to help you if needed), and I doubt they particularly care much about anything else you're doing unless it's harming other people. It's a rock/metal festival, they know people are going to enjoy themselves in some peculiar ways, and they know it's not their job to stop that. (It is instead apparently their job to pose for pictures.)

(Incidentally, the RFID-based payment system they mandated this year was quite nice for not having to have any money on site, although the privacy concerns are there).

Here you go, she left the tweet up. Bear in mind this was all after it was announced you'd be able to build and outfit your own home/hideaway/whatever, decidedly a non-violent activity. And even if you couldn't, what did she expect? It's a post-apocalyptic world, you're gonna make wicker baskets or something?

In addition to the official ESA news channels, there's a Twitter account by the name of SarcasticPhilae.

(Can't believe I'm recommending anything from Twitter, I suppose this is the exception that proves the rule)

However the reasons where clearly due to Space X's failure to get their act together and provide confidence that they will be human rated in time to take over when the contract with the Russians was set to end. So NASA really doesn't have much choice, because if Space X isn't ready when the current seats we have from the Russians end, we'd be in a place where no US crew replacements would be possible.

Source for that? Really I think you are making it up. Space X just finished their launch abort test for their capsule. They are likely going to be ready on time. They have been delivering Dragon 1 capsule to the station for a while now. What this really sounds like is a full court press by incumbent aerospace companies to derail SpaceX before they can demonstrate successful launches of humans to space. The committees in Congress and the Senate that underfunded the commercial space program were largely in the pockets of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, or other existing space companies. Here is a tweet from Charles Lurio, who is a fairly reliable source of space information:

Understand that Boeing pushing HARD to reduce Commercial Crew funds to force NASA to 'downselect' to one provider - them.

There are a lot of established companies who want to kill Musk's businesses. These competitors have sunk costs, and Musk is threatening their monopolies by doing what they do cheaper and better. Examples: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ULA are used to getting fat "cost plus" contracts for government launches. Space X looks like it will stop that. Tesla will be coming out with a $35000 electric car, that will likely sell very well. Energy companies don't what this to happen. Musk's enemies are competing using political subterfuge, bribery, and stealth "public relations" campaigns, rather than improving their business and manufacturing processes. Really all of this stinks like the worst forms of crony capitalism. America is showing its corrupt side. And so called "free enterprise" republicans are behind much of it.

I'm hearing rumblings that Youtube Gaming already has some concerning rules too, like automatic strikes for playing copyrighted music (even accidentally) over a stream. I have this feeling it's going to be an uphill battle...

No, I'm comparing relatively small amounts on snowfall on a skiing hill.

https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

That is not slowly melting snow pack. That is directly comparable to an abundance of snowfall in a given year in Boston.

Also Bill Nye tweeting about weather and complaining it's not assigned to climate change is not a rare occurrence:
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

No, I'm comparing relatively small amounts on snowfall on a skiing hill.

https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

That is not slowly melting snow pack. That is directly comparable to an abundance of snowfall in a given year in Boston.

Also Bill Nye tweeting about weather and complaining it's not assigned to climate change is not a rare occurrence:
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

No, I'm comparing relatively small amounts on snowfall on a skiing hill.

https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

That is not slowly melting snow pack. That is directly comparable to an abundance of snowfall in a given year in Boston.

Also Bill Nye tweeting about weather and complaining it's not assigned to climate change is not a rare occurrence:
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

No, I'm comparing relatively small amounts on snowfall on a skiing hill.

https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

That is not slowly melting snow pack. That is directly comparable to an abundance of snowfall in a given year in Boston.

Also Bill Nye tweeting about weather and complaining it's not assigned to climate change is not a rare occurrence:
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...
https://twitter.com/BillNye/st...

It seems like there's some kind of mental illness there. Check out his twitter feed: templeos

This link on twitter linked just fine

You can read the whole article (and you should), but here are some nice excerpts.

FTA: On the electric car front, the Chevy Volt is the most significant U.S. competitor to Musk's Tesla Model S...

Meanwhile, Volt was developed during Uncle Sam's bailout of "Government Motors" with $30 billion. That's more than six times the number that got Mr. Hirsch so worked up! Though GM touts that they've "repaid" the government, Treasury reports that the government lost more than $11 billion on that dubious deal.

The Model S is not comparable to the Volt. The Volt is a plug-in hybrid (not an EV) cludge to meet the requirements of a bail out. The Nissan Leaf is a better comparison and it blows the Model S out of the water in its effects on the market. But, the author wants to hamstring a stronger comparison by requiring that the company be American.

Additionally, a bail out deal and subsidy are not comparable. A bail out deal your mom throwing you a few hundred bucks because your business failed, rent needs to be paid, and you have to go visit her to pick up the check. A subsidy is your mom throwing you a few hundred bucks to start up or expand your business. One's there to save your as with some nominal requirements and the other is there to help you profit. Musk has taken both for Tesla.

FTA: The most polite response I can offer to the critics is: Get over it. Find something more productive to do than condemning success. If you insist on continuing to carp, do your research first and hit the right targets. Otherwise you will continue to sound jealous and misinformed.

Wow, internet tough guy, huh?

Oh, and this isn't the only time this guy has white-knighted for Musk. He's actually a bit of a fanboy, so don't let his professorship lull you into a false sense of academic separation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... "Disclosure: Dr. Autry currently owns Tesla stock."
https://twitter.com/gregwautry
https://www.facebook.com/gregw...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/re...

"distances itself"? Understatement. I had nothing to do with their faulty analysis.

Only idiot cowards show their fear of truth by down voted!

Yeah... chalk this up as a "how to not do image analysis".

I've already told you that the NAS calls it a "settled fact"

So? They also claimed in the 70's that global cooling was an established fact. If you want to try to refute that, fine, I'll take up the time to dig up my copy of their statement. [Jane Q. Public, 2015-06-03]

Go ahead.

I really don't get their stance on WMC. I have two media PCs running Win7 essentially only for WMC (more specifically the Live TV + free scheduling it has, vs Kodi/XBMC). Lacking WMC there is really no reason I wouldn't run Linux and kick them out. If they are trying to increase their presence on HTPCs in the living room it makes no sense. I would consider Roku and such but I need web browser capability.

There was some bizarre comment about people only using it for DVD playback. I don't know where they got that feedback from. I know several people who have WMC setups only for it's added Live TV PVR capability.

Eh, forget the ./

Dice you've successfully figured out how to run one of the most best 'news' and opensource websites and run them into the ground for profit. /. and Fark were the only 2 places that could handle 9/11 traffic. I rode out that entire day on both sites when CNN was crumbling.

I'm glad I had Slashdot over Reddit when I was an angsty tenager. I took pride in trying to get +5 comments and put effort into doing so. Honestly slashdot made me a better writer. Reddit is nice for short terse communication but sometimes I want to "talk with adults".

Slashdot didn't need much. Unicode support. Newer HTML5 support. CSS3. Make a decent mobile app, move away from HTML for Markdown. Moderation made sense and was much better than a simple +- system. Voting was randomly enabled and you couldn't both vote and comment on the same article. -2 to 5 also limited band wagoning. It's easier to recover from a bunch of early 'down votes'. Instead you drove everyone away to other sites (which still don't quite scratch the /. itch). You shoe horn in what ever fucking agenda is "big in IT". Looking back at all the news I got from /. I can't ever remember thinking "I wonder if a woman did this" or "Too bad a woman didn't do this" because I didn't care. It was about the tech and news for nerds.

On 'Gamergate', 'sexual equality', 'gender issues', we don't care "Trans-gendered" is a big thing in the news these days (and especially around tech) but a long, long time ago I remember a Mac developer made the transition. (This was in the late '90s.) I read her bio. Shrugged my shoulders went "Neat" and moved on. Why? Because she made some awesome Mac games. Most other person I know in IT or engineering think the same way. None of us care what you do with your body or who you take to the bedroom. I do care if you can cut it and get your work done or contribute to society.

On the other side of that is Randi Harper (FreeBSD Girl) who actually write decent code. I've dug through some of her BSD commits, major props to her for doing that. But it can all be done without photoshopping traffic tickets to make it look like you got swatted, begging for money to move on twitter, (When you already earn $3k/month from Patreon), grandstanding on Twitter for no reason and bandwagoning users against anyone that disagrees isn't the way to do it.

You had the same opportunity to fix Sourceforge all of its' convoluted download mirrors (just use a proper CDN), update to Git, and everything else that Sourceforge isn't and GitHub is. Instead you rested on your laurels and are now trying to use this as one last cash grab before the Titanic goes down.

I don't know where I was going with this either. Just thought someone up top should know why your traffic is tanking and a lot of us are pissed off at you for what you've done.

I still won't forget the time you broke the capslock filter, I remember BitTorrent being announced and people thinking it was useless, the iPod's lack of wifi and space compared to a Nomad, et al.

Thanks for the fish?

But their spokesperson specifically said otherwise on Twitter just yesterday - "We have zero intention of putting ads on our platform; no change at all in policy." https://twitter.com/emilysteel...