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New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors (spacetelescope.org)
StartsWithABang writes: When it comes to the structure of the Universe — forming the galaxies, clusters, and Universe as we see it — the normal matter we know of simply isn't enough. Given our best-understood laws of physics, including Einstein's general relativity, what we see of galaxies and the Universe in general simply doesn't match up to our predictions. The simplest solution, arguably, is to just add a new ingredient: a new form of matter, a dark matter if you will. But a counterargument is that we've got the laws of gravity wrong, and that no new matter is necessary. There's only one way to settle an argument like this: with data, evidence and the full suite of observations at our disposal. The newest Hubble release, along with four other independent lines of evidence, rule out modifications of gravity and leave dark matter as the only option standing.
*** Slashdot is spying on you. ****
*** Slashdot is spying on you. ****
*** Slashdot is spying on you. ****
Concealed on the /. page are the following tracking elements --
Doubleclick
Google AdWords Converter
Google Analytics
Google Dynamic Remarketing (lol. "dynamic remarketing" -- is this similar to synergistic intergration??? ) Just go commit Seppuku right now and end your miserable existence with some semblance of honor. I'm really shocked Google hired someone that speaks like this. This must be the work of that 35 year old bald MBA that everyone sees walking around the Google campus.
Janrain
ScoreCard Research Beacon
Taboola
I have **NO IDEA** what a "taboola" or a "janrain" is, and I certainly **never** consented to receive these elements in **my** browser -- whatsoever (but they sent them anyway, without asking, at all). Furthermore, I have **no** business relationship with Google or **any** of these other entities (ie. Taboola, etc.), so I consider all of this to be an invasion of my privacy, espionage, and possibly a breaking and entering offense into my premesis. All of these web page elements will be blocked immedilately, and will be reported to the European Court of Human Rights.
Next on to the Javscript --
janrain.com
(SURPRISE!!! -- This outfit again. Whatever the fuck they are -- ?? There is no explaination on this page regarding their purpose, what they are collecting, and they don't seem to provide any type of privacy policy to readers as required b lawy. This seems like espionage software, and I will block it immediately.
taboola.com
(SURPRISE! -- I also have no fucking clue what a "taboola" is (still), or why this entitiy also feels privileged enough to execute randon code within my web browser. Needless to say, this isn't going to happen, and this will also be blocked.
ooyala.com. /. or "ooyala.com" doesn't provide any explaination or privacy policy whatsoever (and doesn't mention they are spying on you). Also blocked for obvious reasons. See ya later alligator...
(SURPRISE!! -- I guess this is like a "taboola", but they don't explain exactly what their purpose is, so any relationship to a taboola is purely conjecture. I have no ***FUCKING IDEA*** what an ooyala is, and
**** BREAK ****
Can someone explain ****why**** I would *want* "janrain", "taboola", or "ooyala" running unknown code in my browser?
I doub't you can explain this to my satisfaction, but I might be willing to listen. Actually I probably won't be. I don't think you could provide any good reason so I really don't feel like listing. Instead I'll continue to broadcast --
More Javscript faucets --
ntv.io
rpxnow.now
google-analytics.com
googleadservices.com
googletagervices.com
Again, I have ***NO*** business relationship with Google or whatever the fuck an ntv.io or an rpxnow.now is. I didn't consent to these third party elements, and they have been redirected to /dev/null. I also consider this espionage software.
Slashdot seems very sleazy to me, and I probably won't be coming back due to the obvious American NSA surveillance components hidden all throghout these web pages.
AFAIK, Slashdot never made **any** announcement whatsoever regarding a "youoola" or "taboola", etc. surveillance, and never explaied **precisely** what these entities are collecting. I doubt the webmaster even knows what is being collected and probably doesn't give two shits about the collection either. He's getting US $1.50/year from "taboola" and "ooyola" so all is good, even if he can't articulate exactly what a taboola and ooyola is, or why he should be pushing their code into readers' web web browsers.