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According to one feminist (Steph Guthrie), he was justified. I think to everyone else: She made the bed she lay in. Thunderf00t probably could have done without the company page and I think it wasn't the best of moves but... If you don't like shit flung at you, don't fling it around to begin with. (and her 'come at me bro' wasn't in good taste either, remember these letters were sent in January, nothing would have happened if LW had just left it as is instead of prodding TF with rumors)

tacitly endorsed.

I think that is a little bit of a stretch. He used what she gave publicly against her. Does this post tacitly endorse doxxing? I think not. When you get to the realm of subtleties nothing is simple. Would the outcome have been different if at the end of the video he said "Don't contact her or her business"? I don't think so.

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Thunderf00t was demonstrating, or performing a way to challenged Laughing Witch's IRL campaign. Thunderf00t couldn't control what people did. But he could model the type of engagement he wanted and hope to see if others followed.

His lead/model, was using Laughing Witch's own words against her and posting a video about it. Perhaps, others would find her leadership objectionable. What part of his lead "controlled" people to contact a business with an unethical Vice President?

According to one feminist (Steph Guthrie), he was justified. I think to everyone else: She made the bed she lay in. Thunderf00t probably could have done without the company page and I think it wasn't the best of moves but... If you don't like shit flung at you, don't fling it around to begin with. (and her 'come at me bro' wasn't in good taste either, remember these letters were sent in January, nothing would have happened if LW had just left it as is instead of prodding TF with rumors)

tacitly endorsed.

I think that is a little bit of a stretch. He used what she gave publicly against her. Does this post tacitly endorse doxxing? I think not. When you get to the realm of subtleties nothing is simple. Would the outcome have been different if at the end of the video he said "Don't contact her or her business"? I don't think so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thunderf00t was demonstrating, or performing a way to challenged Laughing Witch's IRL campaign. Thunderf00t couldn't control what people did. But he could model the type of engagement he wanted and hope to see if others followed.

His lead/model, was using Laughing Witch's own words against her and posting a video about it. Perhaps, others would find her leadership objectionable. What part of his lead "controlled" people to contact a business with an unethical Vice President?

Because there is an official War on Drugs and only an unofficial war on guns. Tracing and tracking ammo was tried from 1968 through 1986, it didn't help anything so was dropped. Perhaps we'll get lucky and the same will happen with sudafed.

All other things being equal, maybe the person with 50k rounds is going here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... (knob creek night shoot)

And who cares? /sarcasm Because no-one ever clones physical hardware

Whether a product is open or closed is irrelevant. It won't stop people from cloning it.

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Only an self-entitled idiot wants to rob Paul to pay Peter

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I wouldn't call the SPJ airplay men-focused but it is relevant to the conversation. http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

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I wouldn't call the SPJ airplay men-focused but it is relevant to the conversation. http://news.slashdot.org/comme...

Are we all forgetting the video of the shot down drone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's clearly well above the tree line. Why was this not used in court?

you have to lead the target.

Here is some sport flying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... but the pilot is still trying to keep the quad-copter in the field of view of the video-camera.

Figures Florida would be behind this.

There is no requirement to obtain a prescription in this state for any drug. Because of this, people are bussed in from all around the east coast to buy Oxycontin, etc., and these drugs end up on the black market in New York:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Bruces sketch.

Yeah man, it's just about ethics in game journalism.

Except if you read about what actually happened... (A hard concept for someone trapped in tribal politics, but hear me out.)

The GamerGaters got permission to have a panel in response to all this talk about them supposedly being some sort of cross between Hitler and the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. So right there, that wrecks this "GamerGate harassed the panel into oblivion" -- why would GamerGate harass a convention right after fighting for the right to speak at it?

Also, You'll note that's what's always missing in these discussions -- anything from the POV of the "other side." We're just supposed to accept as fact that GamerGate are evil right wing MRAs that are dedicated to harassing innocent women online and keeping gaming "pure."

We're definitely not supposed to ask for evidence of this supposed harassment or actually ask the GamerGaters what their take on all this is or ask any of the dozens of POC or Women in GamerGate for their view on things (or even acknowledge they exist).

Nope, some con artists pretending to be victimized feminists like Zoe Quinn or Anita Sarkeesian said GamerGate is bad and by god, our entire critical thinking processes shut down the second that happens -- to the point that they're requesting that the UN force the US to censor the entire internet to prevent people from making fun of them when they say or do something stupid.

Listen and Believe.

In reality we've seen this happen at multiple GamerGate meetups, including the one the Society of Professional Journalists was putting on -- if GamerGate is being allowed to speak, these psychotic faux social justice sociopaths call in bomb threats, harass the venue, try to blackmail people into silencing them, et cetera. The one thing that can get one of these lazy entitled pink haired twits to actually get off of Twitter and Tumblr and DO something is seeing GamerGate possibly be allowed to speak someplace.

So here's the question that you should be asking if you still have your critical reasoning skills: Why?

If GamerGate is some sort of reactionary far right hate mob then why not let them speak and prove that they're some kind of group of monsters? Why call in up to 10 bomb threats at a single venue just to silence them? Is the mere fact that some supposed trollish conservative neckbeard dudebros speaking THAT dangerous to society at large? These Social Justice troll types don't go around threatening the Westboro guys with bomb threats, or try to get the GOP convention shut down for "regressive anti-trans opinions," so it's obviously not about Social Justice.

Could it possibly be that the reason they don't want GamerGate to speak is that the bullshit story they keep feeding people -- that GamerGate is supposedly a group of white male nerds who hate women -- has absolutely nothing to do with reality? That there's an incredible amount of money to be made in being a professional victim (read: con artist) but that relies on you making absolutely certain the boogieman you have helped create remains some sort of amorphous source of dread and is never, ever allowed to defend themselves?

are they difficult to build?

Quite easy.

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls - 31 July 2010

Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - 17 Mar 2012

How to spoof a cell phone tower (cell site, base station) — homemade IMSI-Catcher - 16 Feb. 2012

Seeing as how we have good reason to believe that Anita Sarkeesian's entire life narrative as presented to the gaming public is a lie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You'd be a fool to take any other claims she's made at face value.

No comment on Zoe Quinn.

Dammit.

What really pissed me off about this is that my submission about the thorough debunking of the UN cyber violence paper was deleted by a /. admin.

Could you please be less obvious, Slashdot? No one with three brain cells is missing the bias here, but I want to pretend I'm missing it. It dulls the blatant insult to my intelligence.

Yeah, the place is a real paradise... Maybe I've been watching too many Humphrey Bogart movies...

"Don't you forget,
It's my site,
It never ends!"

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for the record No Doubt did a pretty cool cover version of the song as well, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You sound just like your typical computer illiterate person getting mad when listening to a programmer complain that the programming in a TV show is nonsense. "What is it with you, why do you have to comment about how your job is represented in movies or TV series?"

To use a Nickelback analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I am sure that you believe that you are 'insightful' like the fools that marked you up.

Here is another reason that the government is evil, listen to the speech of the man who tried to educate the American public and died in prison in USA, a political prisoner put there for fighting against the oppression and trying to educate people.

If you want to hear awful have a listen to 2 koalas fighting...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Skip it to about half way through and you will get the demon possession noises...

I live out on acreage and have a eucalyptus reserve running through my property. I hear this every night during spring (ie now)

Harris (the maker of Stingrays) will not sell them to "civilians" Additionally there is Federal law (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) that forbids an un-authorized person from listening on cellular phone calls. There is a "sort of" hack: Info on this youtube video from DEFCON 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"The TPP isn't even approved by Congress yet. Crap like this happening will be a cakewalk in comparison to what things will be like if and when Congress approves it. Call and/or write your congressperson now, tell them to vote against it!"

Sorry to tell you...

Democracy Inc

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs Democracy

"The TPP isn't even approved by Congress yet. Crap like this happening will be a cakewalk in comparison to what things will be like if and when Congress approves it. Call and/or write your congressperson now, tell them to vote against it!"

Sorry to tell you...

Democracy Inc

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs Democracy

"The TPP isn't even approved by Congress yet. Crap like this happening will be a cakewalk in comparison to what things will be like if and when Congress approves it. Call and/or write your congressperson now, tell them to vote against it!"

Sorry to tell you...

Democracy Inc

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs Democracy

video

Sounds like Obama said it was wrong and illegal, from his own press conference. Funny how some of us REMEMBER what actually happened instead of this weeks DNC talking points. Remember the days when a truthful comment was insightful instead of your trash?

What is really out there

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

Yee haw

The American Chemical Society better explains this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh, my god. Way too much vocal fry.

My understanding is that the Stock Video owner Mitch Martinez makes high quality background videos. Martinez enter into a licensing agreement with Epic Records a Sony subsidiary and supplied Epic Records with a background video for a videotaped music performance. The Sony bot crawling Youtube.com saw Martinez's stock footage posted there and correctly identified it as the same as in the Epic Records video, Sony then without performing adequate due diligence issued a take down notice with youtube and thereby breaching the terms of the licence and thereby committing copyright infringement by distributing a derivative work of Martinez's video without licence and defaming Martinez by claiming he was distributing copyrighted works without licence.

For example, when I was working on this problem in college, there was no GPS. What would driverless cars of today be without gps? They'd have to either have special roads built or have good vision systems, or more accurate vision systems. That in the field translates into faster which means faster computers. A car drove mostly autonomously across he country in the late 80's or 90's using a trunk full of PCs (48 class), but it did so at about 4mph. With 1,000x faster computers, you can process 100x as many images and drive faster. With gps you can reduce your reliance on only the vision part and cut the processing budget by a factor of 10. So using the same 15 year old technology and just replacing the old computers with news ones (limiting changes to only timing adjustment tweaks and maybe a gps position update integration (maybe a page of C code), you have a premade (in 1991) diverless car.

Of course with all your extra processing power, you're going to start fine tuning certain aspects, but fundamentally nothing new.

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Sadly, they're pushing even more Teach The Test in New York. The narrative now is that public school teachers are incompetent idiots who are failing our students. To prove this, there are high stakes tests are factored into annual teacher evaluations. In fact, half of their rating is determined by the tests. If the student doesn't improve on the second test by the amount that State Ed deems he/she should improve, then the teacher is judged to have failed and will be rated "ineffective." Even if the principal observes the classroom and sees that the teacher is doing a great job and the class is learning well, this doesn't override "the kids did poorly on the tests."

Teachers who get rated ineffective two years in a row can be fired in 90 days. If a teacher is rated ineffective three years in a row, then they MUST be fired within 30 days.

Needless to say, this has led to teachers focusing solely on the tests. After all, any time spent working on something other than the tests is time that might lead to the teacher being fired.

What's more, the tests are intentionally rigged against the teachers/students. The questions are confusing and the scoring can be skewed by the testing organization to lower student scores to better match how they thought the students would score. As John Oliver put it when he covered the standardized tests, it's like umpires in baseball being told "I know that was a home run, but this team has had too many home runs so just score it as a double instead."

The entire thing is sickening which is why my kids have opted out of the tests every year. The state doesn't like it when we do this, but we've been joined by more people every year. Last year, 200,000 students in NY opted out. The state has all but declared war on us. They've said that we're just pawns of the union and don't know what we're doing. (We were opting out before the teacher's union got involved.) They've callied parents a "special interest group." (And yet, apparently, charter schools whose businesses contribute to political campaigns AREN'T one.) They've insinuated that opting out is illegal despite saying in other venues that it's a parents right. Some have even said that Child Protective Services should be called on parents whose kids opt-out.

The end goal of all of this testing? To get rid of public schools and replace them with Charter Schools who pull public money, get to pick and choose students, send some of that money to politicians as campaign contributions, and make a profit off of our kids. NY's Governor Cuomo has come out and said he wants a "death penalty" (his exact words) for public schools and has put in place a receivership system to take the bottom performing schools and grant outside individuals full reign over the schools - including turning them into Charter Schools. Of course, there will always be bottom performing schools so it's just a matter of time before he gets his way and kills off public education. The Democrats are all lined up behind him (stabbing public education in the back while trying to excuse it by saying "it's with a heavy heart") and the Republicans are little better (not supporting Common Core, but in favor of more Charter Schools).

Obligatory Talkie Toaster

Always amazed by these ideas.

Dijkstra (EWD) said it best:
"People thought that [higher level languages] would make programming a lot easier, even solve the programming problem. But when you look closely the trivial aspects of programming had been automated while the hard ones remained. The higher programming languages which had been intended to facilitate programming proved, coupled with the increasing ambitions of the applications, to be more intellectually demanding to the programmer."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Slashdot is like a marginally tech related Bart's people

"Yes, it also CAN cause costly boondoggles because there's little incentive for a cost/benefit analysis."

You're talking about the corporate world right? The biggest freeloaders in the world.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

"In a semi-related point to your misrepresentation libertarianism, there is a branch of libertarianism called Voluntaryism "

Except your idea of voluntaryism is a historical fiction, libertarianism as you describe it is the freedom for the poor to submit the already rich. Your beliefs are ahistorical nonsense. Big business is all about state intervention. The rich of corporate america know they are in a geopolitical war with china.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks on TTIP

https://youtu.be/ABDiHspTJww?t=17

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs democracy

On libertarianism

On Libertarianism

"In a semi-related point to your misrepresentation libertarianism, there is a branch of libertarianism called Voluntaryism "

Except your idea of voluntaryism is a historical fiction, libertarianism as you describe it is the freedom for the poor to submit the already rich. Your beliefs are ahistorical nonsense. Big business is all about state intervention. The rich of corporate america know they are in a geopolitical war with china.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks on TTIP

https://youtu.be/ABDiHspTJww?t=17

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs democracy

On libertarianism

On Libertarianism

"In a semi-related point to your misrepresentation libertarianism, there is a branch of libertarianism called Voluntaryism "

Except your idea of voluntaryism is a historical fiction, libertarianism as you describe it is the freedom for the poor to submit the already rich. Your beliefs are ahistorical nonsense. Big business is all about state intervention. The rich of corporate america know they are in a geopolitical war with china.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Wikileaks on TTIP

https://youtu.be/ABDiHspTJww?t=17

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

Capitalism vs democracy

On libertarianism

On Libertarianism

When I read this story I immediately thought of this

Now when they don't need a special surface to function, then they can call it a hoverboard.

That's likely to be a while off. Technically a strong enough magnetic field will work but it needs to be a few orders of magnitude higher than what you need for a Lenz' law effect like this. In a high enough magnetic field you can turn any atom into a tiny magnet which will repel the field but the field strength needs to be several tens of Tesla. Still if you can achieve that you can have some fun.

I was doing superconductor levitation back in the 1980's, as a kids's science fair project. Now, at the time, I shouldn't afford enough materials to stand on, but this is exactly the same thing.

Lots of techno-babble in TFS & TFA.

For those who haven't seen it in action, random youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Lexus says; 'Your shit sucks!'

This is a hoverboard. it might not have a very long run time, but it's decades ahead of your Kickstarter ripoff.

The American Chemical Society better explains this...

I'm not sure anything like that video- obviously aimed at ADHD 12-year-olds with its chop-and-changing animated-slideshow pointlessness and inanely intrusive library music- could be described as "better".

I think del_diablo explained it better without any of that crap. (If you want the only part of the video that's worth seeing, it's here, and that could be shown just as well as static images).

Black is an interesting color.

Black paint absorbs 90-95% of light, the military has Z306 that absorbs 96% of light (and is used for paint as well as coatings for telescopes). NASA has developed materials that absorb 99.95% of light, and Vantablack is 99.965%. The ultimate black is of course, a black hole which absorbs all light (barring quantum phenomena that results in hawking radiation).

The human eye cannot comprehend sucn black - since our black objects all reflect significant amounts of light back. Looking at Vantablack or this, your mind actually sees a hole and doesn't register that there's something there.

The American Chemical Society better explains this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

None more black

Blackity Black Black?

"Experience and Knowledge are not smarts "

You are correct, but knowing what to value regardless of intelligence is hard. Finding the right information and looking at it the right way is a non trivial undertaking, a smart person knows they won't know where the next big idea will pop up. The world is much vaster then the primate brain regardless of its IQ. The human brain is a deeply limited organ.

Science, on human reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Future Shock is coming true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

My Phasers are set to sexy. I haven't used lasers in generations.