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O. Try the article that was published in Wired,

An article in Wired.com is not proof for an argument. Right up there with the Guardian or Vox. They are known for their SJW bias, keeping people like you in a little safe space bubble.

Only one of the people who contributed to that article was the author of a cited paper, and he said "maybe, maybe not" about Damore's conclusion. Try the article that was published in Wired, which goes into detail about why he is wrong.

Are there any computer languages that are well-designed and well-documented?

Why was there enthusiasm for Python? It seems to me that now there is less enthusiasm for Python. Is that correct?

I can remember when Pascal was popular. Then, about 2 years later, Pascal was dead.

Why do programmers adopt new languages so enthusiastically? Is that an interesting hobby?

The Next Big Programming Language You've Never Heard Of (July 7, 2014) Quote: "People are constantly creating new programming languages, but because the software world is already saturated with so many if them, the new ones rarely get used by more than a handful of coders..."

Facebook, sure, OK. But so typical of humanity. We will charge at the red cape, and think we have achieved something. The real threat to us is companies like this which no one ever heard about and thus will never get called to testify to Congress.

https://www.vox.com/conversati... https://www.wired.com/story/pe...

tiny photos?
https://media.wired.com/photos...
https://media.wired.com/photos...

tiny photos?
https://media.wired.com/photos...
https://media.wired.com/photos...

Just because a legal use exists doesn't ignore how it is used illegally, or the proportionality of legal/illegal use.

There are plenty of legal reasons to have a hidden compartment in your car... you know, to store valuables when you are away from your vehicle... of course, if the police find out you build them or have one, you may be headed to jail for assisting the drug trade: https://www.wired.com/2013/03/...

Plenty of people own apartment buildings, some of those building have illegal activity occurring in/around it. Some owners ignore it... those owners too are risking losing what they have by being complicit in the activities.

Does the CEO of Smith and Wesson go to jail because people commit crimes with the guns "he" produces?
Does Colt's CEO go to jail because of how the AR-15 is used in school shootings or Las Vegas hotels?

You seem to be under the impression that the expression "Rob a million and you go to jail. Rob 1 billion and you're just a Wall Street banker" is totally fine and that there's no issue there...

because valid uses for the service mean it's legal, just like the government can't ban ownership of crowbars

Just because a legal use exists doesn't ignore how it is used illegally, or the proportionality of legal/illegal use.

There are plenty of legal reasons to have a hidden compartment in your car... you know, to store valuables when you are away from your vehicle... of course, if the police find out you build them or have one, you may be headed to jail for assisting the drug trade: https://www.wired.com/2013/03/...

they can't beat him for offering services that hundreds of other companies offer.

Plenty of people own apartment buildings, some of those building have illegal activity occurring in/around it. Some owners ignore it... those owners too are risking losing what they have by being complicit in the activities.

Dave Winer seems to think this is a Google thing. In point of fact, HTTPS Everywhere is sponsored by the EFF and Tor. And Let's Encrypt is run by an umbrella organization whose members include the EFF and Mozilla as well as Google, Cisco, and Akamai.

I don't have much trust for Google, but I do have a lot more trust for the EFF than I do for some random software developer. Even if he's old. I'm sure Winer is well-intentioned (given his history), but he doesn't seem to have done his research very well, in this case.

The EFF's reasons for supporting https are a lot stronger than Winer seems to realize. Google's reasons, I can't address, since I'm not familiar with them, but the EFF's arguments are pretty strong. MITM attacks at the government actor level are not just hypothetical.

From the EFF's page:

Content injection is when someone adds data or code to your communications with an HTTP web page. For example, it's how GCHQ and NSA took over a Belgian ISP's computers. Content injection is also how China took down GitHub with a massive DDoS attack, dubbed "The Great Cannon". Content injection is also becoming popular with ISPs. Verizon injected tracking headers into every request made by their customers. And Comcast injects pop-ups into sites where they don't belong. All of these attacks can be stopped by HTTPS, provided it is implemented and made default on enough sites.

Now, I admit there are still some questions which aren't as frequently discussed as they should be, such as private LANs where https isn't an option. (I have http services running on such a LAN myself.) But that can be dealt with. For IP4, it's fairly easy--whitelist private ranges. For IP6, you'd have to have a way of designating your trusted network. But it can be dealt with. And the public Internet should be encrypted. Anyone who argues otherwise is simply clueless. (Or culpable.)

Are you insane? I regularly use a mouse with 13 buttons and only very rarely accidentally hit one.

Amateur. I couldn't use anything less than my 18 button mouse.

If they make it to Slashdot, the fanboys will explain how it's actually a feature and how every other car brand will copy it.

I'm not sure how the fanbois managed to explain away Tesla's recent problem with the software for the braking system on the model 3 as a feature.

Oh yes, now I remember:

They focused on how "brilliant" it was that Tesla could write a patch for the faulty software and apply it 'over the air' in a couple of days.

They ignored the fact that Tesla had managed to release software for a critical subsystem of their cars, the brakes, into production which had bugs which significantly impaired it's performance. Seemingly, a fairly trivial bug as they managed to test and apply the patch in a couple of days.

I suspect that if that happened with any other car maker, the NTSB would have instructed that their cars be removed from the road immediately and not allowed back on the road until the maker (or subcontractor) had demonstrated the safety of their software and it's development.

I disagree! https://www.wired.com/story/re...

Linux is the gift that is going to keep on giving for years to come. At least a windows box can be usually fixed. Good luck getting a vendor that went out of business 3 years ago to help you.

For those who lack imagination:

Tennessee is one example.
Michigan Republicans are trying something similar.
It's part of a push by the Koch brothers.
And their effort has been quite successful.

Vey smart people have found that in the 1970, 1980, 1990. 2000... 2018. With decades of funding and experts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe some Seeding Intelligence https://www.wired.com/1997/07/...
"...program only basic behaviors into the device, give it a way to experience sensory perception, and allow it to learn from experience.. "

Duct-tape an AR-15 onto it, spray on a camo paint job, and call it a SPACE FORCE unmanned recon ship. Funding guaranteed!

(Of course that could have dire consequences, but doesn't everything these days?)

I also understand that WPA3 will get forward secrecy, and sessions will negotiate a temporary ("ephemeral") key for symmetric cryptography (assuming AES).

Should the traffic be recorded, it cannot be decrypted later if the password is broken.

The other benefit comes in the event that your password gets compromised nonetheless. With this new handshake, WPA3 supports forward secrecy, meaning that any traffic that came across your transom before an outsider gained access will remain encrypted. With WPA2, they can decrypt old traffic as well.

The JWs noticed those wacky Mormons adding billions of names to their books and wanted a slice of the holy database action, so now, according to researcher Orla Long, The Watchtower is being used to amass email addresses to save souls via the internet.

"The problem is, existing software has not been exposed to enough images of people of color to be confidently relied upon to identify them."

Are you sure? And if so, why hasn't it?

Have you been living under a rock? When the iPhone consistently can't see black people, and lots of other examples ... as a pasty white guy, even I am aware of this.

Who cares?

Lots of people apparently.

Sports are meaningless.

So's everything else, ultimately.

But they should replace cops, judges and politicians with AI as soon as it's possible.

They're trying an it's gone about as well as could be predicted:

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/...

Whereas some professional sports (cricket, tennis, fotball) have adopted ball tracking for some refereeing tasks. The rules are straightforward (does the ball cross the line) the physics of ball flight is complex but easy enough to model especially with high speed tracking which is also very much doable with specialised cameras.

Krzanich's immediate resignation was accepted to show "that all employees will respect Intel's values and adhere to the company's code of conduct," according to Intel.

after being caught

... and with 3D XPoint halfway still born.

Intel's Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret) — March 2017

"This is truly transformational," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich tells WIRED. "It allows architects—both at the PC level and the data center level—to rethink how they build the system."

But in the end, it only transformed Intel's board to rethink Brian Krzanich.

One of your sources is "Most popular digital brands in the United States in from May to July 2017, ranked by monthly user engagement (in hours.minutes)" on Statista. #4 is Amazon, which I mentioned. Video on Amazon is either pay-per-view or included with an Amazon Prime subscription. #1 is Google, and Google Play Music is also a subscription service.

If we talk about nerd sites : /. , reddit , wired are free . Stack* sites

In order: Correct, correct, outdated, and correct. On February 1, 2018, WIRED put up a metered paywall.

Nope, it means "Universal". Look in the title of the /. story, it's right there.
The Wikipedia article on basic income also says it means "Universal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Also WhatIs: https://whatis.techtarget.com/...
Also Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/th...

You're right that basic income doesn't really fit the definition if it's taken away when you get a job, if it works like that it's just another name for welfare or unemployment. Basic income should be unconditional to work as advertised, but that isn't what the 'U' means. This experiment doesn't seem to fit any of the definitions of UBI, it's not universal and if they take it away when the recipient gets other income then it's not basic income.

If we're going to toss around whataboutism's, Trump was using an unsecured Android for at least a year.

"Regulation" is what's keeping the current monopolies monopolies in the first place.

If you think neutrality "at the media layer" is irrelevant to the issue of private platform censorship, give this a read.

It would not surprise me to see several items on your list happen - not right away, that'd get too much pushback, but in time... they are patient. This can also happen even if many of the individuals inside Microsoft like Github, personally, and want to leave it alone. The organization's goal is not necessary the goal of many people in it.

MicroSoft starts removing projects that contradict their business models or just generally displease them

Related: How will Microsoft's Github Handle Controversial Code?" - story about exactly the point you raise above.

. . . and many of them were shown to be hackable . . .

I think pretty much all of them have been shown to have more holes than a sieve. You can thank me for the dramatic hyperbole later.

JetBrains started development of the language in 2010 because they were tired of how old-fashioned Java was. Here's a Wired article about it:
https://www.wired.com/story/ko...

Go back to that Kotlin Wikipedia page you cited: it first appeared publicly in 2011

And no, it's not ridiculous the the JVM is too slow for what I do. I do machine learning, virtual & augmented reality development, modeling & simulation / game development, and embedded systems. While you can use Java for game development, it's not great at it... And Java is completely unsuitable for those other tasks. I know Java, I don't even mind using Java when it's appropriate (cross-platform back-end), but it's one of many tools in my tool-belt, it is NOT one-size fits all, and Oracle has done the language no favors.

It used to be that Java was THE way to provide interactive content (Remember Applets?), and it used to be that Java was one of the first things I installed on a computer build. Now? I have entire labs where I haven't bothered to put Java on a single machine

With modern forecasting, getting people out of the way (who want to get out of the way) is not a problem.

Oh boy, are you wrong.

https://www.wired.com/story/hu...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/razers-project-valerie-insane-laptop-3-screens/

I'm not sure about production of it though.

Lenovo had a laptop that did exactly that at one time - had a 2nd 10" screen that slid out from behind the main display screen.
They don't make it anymore though as far as I know..
https://www.wired.com/2009/01/...

I bet you will be really pissed when you find out what Apple has announced for Safari. https://www.wired.com/story/ap...

This is a known characteristic of the Tesla "autopilot". I wouldn't even call it a "defect" per se as it is simply operating as it is designed to work.

It won't pick up stationary objects, particularly if there is another vehicle in front of the autopilot vehicle, going about the same speed, and then that vehicles move aside with the stationary object right in the middle of the lane.

This is one reason of many why the Tesla system requires constant supervision by the human driver.

Of course the reason the whole type of system is a really bad idea is because it works great 99.9% of the time. Thus lulling the human driver into a false sense of security and safety. So then the human driver tunes out. Then 2000 miles later (or whatever) the "Autopilot" encounters a situation it can't handle and you wham into the back of a firetruck or whatever.

And no, I'm not making this up:

https://www.wired.com/story/te...

http://www.newsweek.com/tesla-...

https://www.teslarati.com/tesl...

If you truly believe this (and never for a second considered that YouTube is forcing a leonine situation on some of these people), you have not kept up with all the YouTube monetization shenanigans. I mean, yes, it's their platform, but they're acting like a capricious business partner.

150 hp still doesn't sound like much. How much jam does it have at highway speed for passing?

Quoted from a wired review:

Once up to full speed, I did some “passing speed” behavior to see how the car would perform in traffic. When accelerating from 50 to 65 mph and 55 to 70 mph, the Volt performed like a conventional car but without the downshift and sudden surge you often experience. The Volt performs perfectly well on the highway and you’ll have no trouble overtaking slower cars with ease.

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/...

I'm in my 50's now and both the car I learned to drive on and the first car I owned had V8's. Both were heavier cars than the Volt and bricks by comparison to the Volt in terms of aerodynamics. Neither accelerated as well. The standard engine on 1973 Catalina (the car I learned to drive on) was a 2 barrel 350 ci V8 engine that generated... 150 hp. The car that the Volt is replacing was a 4 cyl that generated 125 hp and I never felt that it's acceleration was inadequate except for perhaps when we had 6 people crammed in it with a trunk full of crap.

My point is that the number of cylinders, the displacement, and the horsepower aren't the only factors that determine how well a car is going to perform. And of course, it's all subjective. If you're used to a 300+ HP engine in a sedan, then 150 HP in a Volt may not feel adequate to you even though it might be more than enough for 80% of drivers.

What is electric power steering for $500, Alex?
I'm not exactly new to OBD-II tinkering.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/...
"Unintended acceleration and slamming on the car's brakes or turning the vehicle's steering wheel at any speed"

Alright, I'll give you a hint :

How this Tesla update is related to OBD-II?

The Overton window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] has moved to full 1984 in CA.
Police, city, state and federal task forces now have the digital freedom to track every US citizen in CA.

California has the best privacy protection laws in the United States, by far.

https://www.comparitech.com/bl...

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/...

The only vehicles with these new plates are state-owned vehicles. Also, there are strict limits with what law enforcement is allowed to do in California with information taken from license plate readers. The data must be destroyed in 60 days. In Texas, there are absolutely no restrictions on the use of license plate readers.

What is electric power steering for $500, Alex?
I'm not exactly new to OBD-II tinkering.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/...
"Unintended acceleration and slamming on the car's brakes or turning the vehicle's steering wheel at any speed"

Wired magazine, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO:
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/...

WTF happened to the bribe flow going into the 'Clinton Global Fund' after she lost?

You could fool yourself that it was on the up and up, until the day after the election. Since then...you can't even believe it yourself. Cognitive dissonance isn't healthy for your mind.

You do know that a quid pro quo requires evidence right?

From all accounts their foundation, whats the phrase, yes, their foundation actually helped people. link

The Trump one, on the other hand, didn't much do that.

I'll take the Clinton's foundation record here. Could they have been even more transparent. Probably, but then you don't get to take the moral high ground on transparency when Cadet Bone Spurs still hasn't released any taxes ever, and we all know that his "they are under audit" crap is a fucking lie. Even if it was true for some subset, it wasn't true for all time, and even then he could have released everything at any time.

He values his dark secrets, such as probably wanting to hide, among other things shady dealings and generally not being worth as much as he says he is. It wouldn't even surprise me if his net worth was below zero, if you counted assets vs liabilities. Either way he is hiding some dark crap, or he wouldn't have lied for so long about it.

In short you don't get to do an AB comparison, when you know a crap ton about A and nothing about B, other than B is hiding _everything_.

One trusted worker can watch a lot of people. The US has a lot of people who can watch.
"5.1 million Americans have security clearances. That’s more than the entire population of Norway." (March 24, 2014)
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Who has security clearance? More than 4.3M people" (June 6, 2017 )
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Security Clearances (07.23.12)
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/...

Don't know. Maybe they should ask a computer to do it.

https://www.wired.com/story/wh...

I don't claim to be able to identify whole body nudes. Just labia, those are like fingerprints.

So are ears.

Pro Tip: Don't confuse labia and ears.

Job's quote doesn't change the fact Apple already had ten times as much liquid assets as the $150 million investment from Microsoft:

For Apple, the cash is symbolic. While the company has been bleeding money, it has about $1.2 billion in cash, according to its last quarterly earnings report, and doesn't need Microsoft's money to fend off immediate starvation.

Aside from that pile of money, Apple could have sold some of their real estate or their vast patent portfolio if they had to. They didn't have to.

Microsoft was the target of an antitrust action in the late 90s / early 2000s. Then they ramped up their lobbying spending. The problem went away. Mnuchin is just looking to shake the money tree.

Reminds me of the odd cases where neural networks break down and reveal surprising problems with their ability to accurately discern what they are shown. You know, where the machine is shown a bunch of pixels and responds with 85% accuracy "This is a cat."

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/...

In a traditional permission system where you tell your OS what you will and won't allow, you could still run the Facebook app and notice when it fails to work normally—or when the OS terminates it outright.

But that's not what we have. Imagine a town where everyone feels socially obligated to leave a house key under the door matt for the town priest, who basically just sleeps wherever he wants.

Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook — 6 April 2018

Concert dates: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2018.

This is a priest with a known history.

He is also a priest with a known drinking problem, and anyone slipping him a ten spot in a dark alley will be quickly rewarded with choice gossip. To put it bluntly, sharing gossip is really the only thing that gets him out of bed in the morning.

So what's he doing with all those house keys left conveniently under the door matt?

Nobody knows, not for sure. I guess you just kind of close your eyes and pray that your children don't have any closer-to-God than God intended loose pyjama experiences.

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Me, I'm heading for the atheist exit. My phone is down to three apps: Firefox, Signal, and a password store (and some legacy cruft that won't survive my next phone purchase). Oh yeah, and a Google thing that plays podcasts (but mostly I still use my old iPod as a dedicated podcast device).

I consider my phone the worst technology I've ever owned, and this list includes several different computers purchased before anyone not in the 1% could afford an actual hard drive.

The "killer app" meme isn't what it once was, but here we have it: geographic and social ubiquity. And it was good. It was so good that two high priests strolled into town, wearing different hats, but both basically saying the same thing: "hey, everybody, start leaving your house keys under your front door matt" and don't worry, be happy if we share your close personal affairs with political operatives.

And now we have an entire generation raising under a regime of not just tolerating, but pocketing quasi-consensual corporo-totalitarian spyware.

———

Merely becoming a real atheist isn't good enough anymore. Now the motivated atheist needs to also live on the outskirts of town, and subsist on a routine diet of social media juniper berries.

Fortunately, I've never much liked my illiterate fellow man. And this is a weird thing, because this is golden era like no other era before, where I can surround myself exclusively by the glitterati of every intellectual endeavour of life, whether print or YouTube on demand. I casually consume hours of books/lectures per day from the rock stars of the modern academy at basically no marginal cost (my computer is so weirdly configured, Google rarely delivers a single ad, and when an ad does come up on something that's not fungible in under 5 s, I slide the window to another desktop and mute my audio for 30 s, before returning for a quick rewind to content begin).

I'm basically the Dwight Freeney of commercial bullshit.

Athletes with Weird Eating Quirks

For example, in the week leading up to a game that season, âoe[Freeney] ate beef and pinto beans and nothing else, not even for breakfast. ⦠If he goes to a restaurant, he brings his own ingredients and instructs the chef on how he wants it prepared—no oil, no pepper, no garlic, no garnish, no powder and certainly no pan spray.â

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Where are all the other mental athletes out there, with similar dietary rigidity? The body is your temple, but your mind is junk heap? I guess while the abusive jocks were preening, all the sad-sack geeks internalized lazy, don't give a shit. Vi

My point was P(pickup), not P(found). But you knew that.

If you really want to challenge my argument, instead of a strawman you should challenge me to provide citations of this (and similar) douchey behavior happening prior to the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order. If you did that, I would list:

* Major ISPs throttling Netflix, et al.
* Verizon stating on-record that they would like to charge services for better access to their subscribers
* Madison River (ISP) blocking vonage
* Comcast (ISP) blocking P2P applications
* Telus (ISP) blocking access to a website critical of them
* Shaw (ISP) charging a 'QoS fee' to subscribers using competing VoIP solutions
* AT&T blocking VoIP apps on the iPhone
* AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon blocking Google Wallet
* Verizon blocking tethering apps
* AT&T charging extra if iPhone users want to use facetime, instead of AT&T's competing product

No one would put up with a power company that charged more for electricity to power appliances that weren't also bought from them. And yet, when a company that is a combination of ISP and content provider decides to trollishly increase the cost of competitive content streaming, somehow that's OK? SMH.

You ended with a point about opening up more spectrum & increasing service (which I take to mean that the former would cause the latter.) I can't personally speak to the matter of opening up more spectrum, because I don't know how much spectrum sits fallow. I would be surprised if much did.

You may be surprised to find that a great number of Western Christians are involved in middle eastern politics, in fact they have been actively working to get the Israelis to destroy the Dome of the Rock and build a new Solomon's Temple, because that is a sign of the second coming of Christ...

Crazy Christians