Don't you know that it's been decided for you that the debate will be about racism and bigotry and intolerance (only on one side though), not freedom of speech and censorship? Just like it was decided ahead of time for those civil war game devs (and all the other creators) whose content was removed.
Either that or it's all a big misunderstanding, and the./ editors "forgot" the censorship icon for this story (just like they forgot it for the story on the reddit banfest).
In an effort to make Green Bank more navigable, Schou made some requests of local businesses. A Dollar Store was opening, but its fluorescent and halogen lights would be intolerable. She asked that they were changed. “They wouldn’t do it. And without the light it gets very dark in there, so they’re not willing to turn off the power.” She took to eating her meals in the senior citizens’ centre, where a gap in the lighting gave her some peace. But walking to collect her food entailed exposure to problem bulbs, so she would ask others to wait on her.
Things came to a head. A town meeting was called. “She became very demanding, asking other people to turn their lights off or replace their bulbs,” said Stewart. “It was too much. And Schou was encouraging other sensitives to move here, and this is not a town with many jobs or houses to begin with.”
Where the locals might have been happy to tolerate one or two of the sensitives, the mass migration was beyond the pale. Another sensitive who moved to Green Bank was reported to have flown into a rage at the library, denouncing the “dumb hillbillies”. “People tell me to stop encouraging others to move here, and to stop bringing them into stores,” Schou confirms. “The hostility continues.” People would walk towards Schou with concealed electronics, in an effort to provoke a reaction. A meeting she and her husband organised to help educate the others about electrosensivity descended into a slanging match. Schou, who has called herself a “technological leper,” said the ill will went further: “I had a visitor staying, a fellow refugee, and the air was let out of our car tyres overnight.”
At best, she is a nuisance demanding everyone accommodate her invisible disability that she has zero evidence for. At worst, it sounds like she might be trying to literally take over the town by creating a solid electro-senstive voting block.
As for the townsfolk harrassing her, well we once again have only her word on that. And after almost a year seeing unverified and outright known to be false accusations of harrassment trumpeted in the media--the Guardian itself being one of the (very) guilty outlets--yeah, I'm gonna need some substantial evidence before I believe a word of that either.
Sony dominated the market with the PS1 and PS2, and the resulting arrogance showed in the design and launch of the PS3. Its Cell CPU architecture was powerful enough, but so bizarre and confusing that it took unnecessary effort and time for developers to learn it. Porting games to and from the PS3 was a pain in the ass, which IMO was by design. PS3 expected to continue dominating the market and therefore many publishers, when faced with the extra cost of developing for two consoles with different architectures, would choose to focus their efforts on the dominant console.
This worked as planned, except that the dominant console (especially early in the cycle) turned out to be the XBox 360 due to Sony's disastrous launch missteps.*
Sony somewhat returned to reality with the PS4, and it shows in their early lead over the X-Bone (also note Microsoft's initial X-Bone arrogance vs. later backpedalling over always-online DRM, 2nd hand games, the Kinect, and now backwards compatibility). So unlike Microsoft, I did actually believe Sony when they said backwards compatitibility with PS3 games was unfeasible (because of their own stupid Cell architecture mistake).
* five hundred and ninety-nine U.S. dollars, Ridge Racer, massive damage, etc.
Just last week, the Guardian issued a false DMCA takedown to suppress the free speech of a popular Youtuber who criticised one of the Guardian's videos.
http://www.breitbart.com/londo...
If you're wondering why you haven't seen it reported here (or anywhere else I bet), the Youtuber is pro-Gamergate, and we all know how that goes (i.e. against the narrative).
P.S. Apologies if you intended your post to be solely anti-Murdoch instead of partisan/anti-right.
Even if there are never any charges, the bad (Snowden) PR of the news story itself is enough motivation for them to manufacture an issue (if they think they can get away with it). No one ever actually charged Assange with rape, did they?
That might be a major reason for this crackdown. Reddit has unbelievable traffic and reach, so stuff that earns popularity there gets spread to virtually everywhere and everyone.
It's exposure that marketers (of anything: products, politics, whatever) would kill for. They want to buy their way in, but not if some dirty peasant can tell the truth and (through sheer merit) get voted up and be taken just as seriously (or more seriously) than their bought & paid for message.
So Reddit sees advertisers chomping at the bit to throw money at it, but first Reddit has to demonstrate that it can crush contrary opinions at will.
Many, many submissions critical of the new selectively-enforced policies were voted up and made it to the front page (and especially r/all). They've now vote-locked subreddits where those posts tend to come from, meaning those subreddits' users can't vote them up any more (nor can they even affect the order of posts in the subreddit itself).
This is blatant, shameful astroturfing by the admins and ownership hide content and opinions before they have a chance to take off. It couldn't be clearer that the reddit regime is afraid not of harrassment, but widespread, popular criticism.
Isn't v38 the current ESR major version? Does that mean they're going to shove brand new features into a minor point release in the ESR channel, which is exactly what they said they wouldn't do (because that's the very reason they created ESR in the first place)?
The ARC has called me three times a week for several months asking for someone by name. Fuck if I know what they want, but after telling them 3 or 4 times that I've never heard of the guy they're looking for, I added their number to my call blocker.
Anyone buying the "busy weekend" excuse? Can't say I am, since the story broke near the middle of last week, and we've seen/. willfully ignore the community so many times. Look at the amount of pushback it took to defeat Beta and Bennet Hasselton.
Wonder if they'll ever drop the anti-Gamergate narrative too (probably not, since they have most of the tech media circling wagons with them on the pro-corruption side)?
IMO all of the reporting on this is ambiguous and expects us to know what stuff like "City-safe" means, without defining it.
Surely the vehicle already has to avoid obstacles to park?* Why does avoiding pedestrians cost extra?
It would be very helpful if someone who truly understand this could clear it up. Is the driver really a dumbass who should have known better, or is Volvo insanely treating "not plowing through human beings" as an optional extra?
* Or does it? I admit I have no experience with self-parking cars. How much preparation/setup (i.e. like "pre-washing" for a dishwasher) is required on the part of the driver? Is the driver expected to position the car in a certain way, and make sure certain obstacles aren't present?
This is almost as bad as "smart" platforms in cars. Way too much software functionality will be put into devices that will last far longer than the manufacturer's interest in upgrading or supporting it (especially since they'll probably have no interest in the first place). Any TV that lists "smart" as a feature should be avoided like those that list "3D."
Where in this article you love so dearly is a mention of crowdfunding? In the part that's behind a high-cost paywall? If so, tough luck.
He mentions it in the video, and shows in the paper where he thanks his Youtube contributors.
Slashdot has rarely -- really never -- linked to paywall-restricted articles.
Thank you, that (linking the original paper but no news articles) was a problem with my submission that I didn't consider. That said, the BBC and other coverage is easy to find.
++ And FYI, I personally love to interview people like Dr. Mason. I think I'll send him a message through YouTube now, since that seems to be where he's most active online. Thanks for the tip, which you can stop repeating now. I read it the first time, believe it or not.
OK, I promise not to post it again (not even if there's a Part 3 tomorrow).
a) An already-completed crowdfunded study in the hard sciences that resulted in a major discovery about a widely-known and supposedly well-understood chemical reaction, published in Nature Chemistry, or
b) this unfinished study asking all of us for money, complete with glorious slashdot video, pointlessly spread out over two days?
I know how it sounds to complain that your one submission (out of the many/. receives) didn't get accepted, but I've tried submitting this recent scientific discovery (published in Nature Chemistry) a few times. IMO it's perfect material for Slashdot: an interesting new hypothesis (about a supposedly "well-understood" reaction) put to the test via regularly evolving experiments and apparatuses. And it was even largely funded through Youtube viewers (who the lead scientist thanks in the paper) and documented with (at least one) well-done video.
But/. never ran it. I can't help but think that part of the problem is that the scientist is Dr. Phil Mason, aka thunderf00t, who is known for his vids that expose Atheism+ and anti-Gamergate types as fools. Think about the lousy submissions that do often make it on the front page, especially those that push an agenda.
This is why things like Gamergate (and Slashdot's atrocious coverage of it) matter, even if you yourself don't personally care about videogames; it is a fight against neo-puritans who want to filter ALL types of content (not just games, comics, music, movies, etc) you're allowed to see, and refuse to acknowledge the work of those who don't buy into the "narrative."
P.S. Clearly I'm biased, so if any of you think that my article submission is unworthy for some other reason, let me know (seriously).
What made the editors to go to all the effort to post even one article about this?
its funding is unique; the money for this study is coming, at least in part, from crowdfunding.
This isn't unique. In fact, three times I've submitted news of a crowdfunded, already completed, ground-breaking scientific discovery published in Nature Chemistry, and/. couldn't be bothered to run it. But somehow, this study gets the "deluxe" Slashdot video treament, plus a pointless second article, plus a call to action to "pitch in."
So, would/. rather read about a major discovery in the hard sciences or about this unfinished (unstarted?) study asking all of us for money?
repost that sums it up (don't feel like typing it all again):
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I know how it sounds to complain that your one submission (out of the many/. receives) didn't get accepted, but I've tried submitting this recent scientific discovery (published in Nature Chemistry) a few times. IMO it's perfect material for Slashdot: an interesting new hypothesis (about a supposedly "well-understood" reaction) put to the test via regularly evolving experiments and apparatuses. And it was even largely funded through Youtube viewers (who the lead scientist thanks in the paper) and documented with (at least one) well-done video.
But/. never ran it. I can't help but think that part of the problem is that the scientist is Dr. Phil Mason, aka thunderf00t, who is known for his vids that expose Atheism+ and anti-Gamergate types as fools. Think about the lousy submissions that do often make it on the front page, especially those that push an agenda.
This is why things like Gamergate (and Slashdot's atrocious coverage of it) matter, even if you yourself don't personally care about videogames; it is a fight against neo-puritans who want to filter ALL types of content (not just games, comics, music, movies, etc) you're allowed to see, and refuse to acknowledge the work of those who don't buy into the "narrative."
P.S. Clearly I'm biased, so if any of you think that my article submission is unworthy for some other reason, let me know (seriously).
This is exactly right. Microsoft is sick and tired of customers resisting their latest shiny upgrade, especially when they do so successfully, as with Vista and 8. Keeping the actual version a secret might cause enough confusion to blunt dissent (and damn the negative side effects).
Please. This was an event held for the advertised purpose of this contest at a neutral location open to the public. If muslims don't like it, they can simply not attend.
You're seriously comparing that to someone going (what, tresspassing?) into a synagogue and forcing an activity into others' faces? Anyone doing that would be forcing others to go out of their way to avoid them.
Alright, so we've established that most jews probably wouldn't tolerate a lot of activities in their place of worship. But they don't give a shit if you do it elsewhere, including at public events. The difference is that certain muslims won't tolerate (under penalty of instant death) some benign activities anywhere on the planet.
Come on now, if you try very hard to get people angry why the shock when it happens?
I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him.
Drawing a cartoon of Muhammad that violates the extremists' sensibilities is trivial. AFAIK a stick figure labeled by name or "the prophet" will do. Sending these people into a murderous rage is unbelievably easy, and that's the point: it illustrates just how dangerous to (and incompatible with western society) they really are.
all of that crap you quoted about custom firmware and open recovery mode has zero to bearing on their financial status and problems.
That might (or might not) be true, but it should have some bearing (as it did for me) on whether people who expect hackability should buy one, even at a clearance price.
the employee is right, almost no one, relatively speaking, is going to base their decision to purchase an Ouya on whether it supports custom firmware.
I suspect the promise of such on their kickstarter page (positively) influenced their backers' donations, just like Ouya knew it would. Why promise it, unless they know it's something people want?
Slashdot Mirror
Don't you know that it's been decided for you that the debate will be about racism and bigotry and intolerance (only on one side though), not freedom of speech and censorship? Just like it was decided ahead of time for those civil war game devs (and all the other creators) whose content was removed.
./ editors "forgot" the censorship icon for this story (just like they forgot it for the story on the reddit banfest).
Either that or it's all a big misunderstanding, and the
In an effort to make Green Bank more navigable, Schou made some requests of local businesses. A Dollar Store was opening, but its fluorescent and halogen lights would be intolerable. She asked that they were changed. “They wouldn’t do it. And without the light it gets very dark in there, so they’re not willing to turn off the power.” She took to eating her meals in the senior citizens’ centre, where a gap in the lighting gave her some peace. But walking to collect her food entailed exposure to problem bulbs, so she would ask others to wait on her.
Things came to a head. A town meeting was called. “She became very demanding, asking other people to turn their lights off or replace their bulbs,” said Stewart. “It was too much. And Schou was encouraging other sensitives to move here, and this is not a town with many jobs or houses to begin with.”
Where the locals might have been happy to tolerate one or two of the sensitives, the mass migration was beyond the pale. Another sensitive who moved to Green Bank was reported to have flown into a rage at the library, denouncing the “dumb hillbillies”. “People tell me to stop encouraging others to move here, and to stop bringing them into stores,” Schou confirms. “The hostility continues.” People would walk towards Schou with concealed electronics, in an effort to provoke a reaction. A meeting she and her husband organised to help educate the others about electrosensivity descended into a slanging match. Schou, who has called herself a “technological leper,” said the ill will went further: “I had a visitor staying, a fellow refugee, and the air was let out of our car tyres overnight.”
At best, she is a nuisance demanding everyone accommodate her invisible disability that she has zero evidence for. At worst, it sounds like she might be trying to literally take over the town by creating a solid electro-senstive voting block.
As for the townsfolk harrassing her, well we once again have only her word on that. And after almost a year seeing unverified and outright known to be false accusations of harrassment trumpeted in the media--the Guardian itself being one of the (very) guilty outlets--yeah, I'm gonna need some substantial evidence before I believe a word of that either.
Also the NRA since he wants to protect constitutional rights and the ACLU has a few embarrassing gaps in that regard.
I was thinking of this project too. Perhaps we should not train drivers that every pedestrian is accompanied by flashing lights.
Sony dominated the market with the PS1 and PS2, and the resulting arrogance showed in the design and launch of the PS3. Its Cell CPU architecture was powerful enough, but so bizarre and confusing that it took unnecessary effort and time for developers to learn it. Porting games to and from the PS3 was a pain in the ass, which IMO was by design. PS3 expected to continue dominating the market and therefore many publishers, when faced with the extra cost of developing for two consoles with different architectures, would choose to focus their efforts on the dominant console.
This worked as planned, except that the dominant console (especially early in the cycle) turned out to be the XBox 360 due to Sony's disastrous launch missteps.*
Sony somewhat returned to reality with the PS4, and it shows in their early lead over the X-Bone (also note Microsoft's initial X-Bone arrogance vs. later backpedalling over always-online DRM, 2nd hand games, the Kinect, and now backwards compatibility). So unlike Microsoft, I did actually believe Sony when they said backwards compatitibility with PS3 games was unfeasible (because of their own stupid Cell architecture mistake).
* five hundred and ninety-nine U.S. dollars, Ridge Racer, massive damage, etc.
Oops, my mistake, the Guardian's censorious copyright takedown was not through the DMCA, but Youtube's system.
Just last week, the Guardian issued a false DMCA takedown to suppress the free speech of a popular Youtuber who criticised one of the Guardian's videos. http://www.breitbart.com/londo...
If you're wondering why you haven't seen it reported here (or anywhere else I bet), the Youtuber is pro-Gamergate, and we all know how that goes (i.e. against the narrative).
P.S. Apologies if you intended your post to be solely anti-Murdoch instead of partisan/anti-right.
Even if there are never any charges, the bad (Snowden) PR of the news story itself is enough motivation for them to manufacture an issue (if they think they can get away with it). No one ever actually charged Assange with rape, did they?
Maybe just because it's Friday on /., but for me the "force STEM on girls" vibe brought this Onion vid to mind:
http://www.clickhole.com/video...
a small oligopoly of corporations
That might be a major reason for this crackdown. Reddit has unbelievable traffic and reach, so stuff that earns popularity there gets spread to virtually everywhere and everyone.
It's exposure that marketers (of anything: products, politics, whatever) would kill for. They want to buy their way in, but not if some dirty peasant can tell the truth and (through sheer merit) get voted up and be taken just as seriously (or more seriously) than their bought & paid for message.
So Reddit sees advertisers chomping at the bit to throw money at it, but first Reddit has to demonstrate that it can crush contrary opinions at will.
it is no longer free speech when you threaten specific people
Amen. It's a good thing, then, that reddit provided specific evidence of such a threat in their ban announcement . . . oh wait . . .
Many, many submissions critical of the new selectively-enforced policies were voted up and made it to the front page (and especially r/all). They've now vote-locked subreddits where those posts tend to come from, meaning those subreddits' users can't vote them up any more (nor can they even affect the order of posts in the subreddit itself).
This is blatant, shameful astroturfing by the admins and ownership hide content and opinions before they have a chance to take off. It couldn't be clearer that the reddit regime is afraid not of harrassment, but widespread, popular criticism.
Isn't v38 the current ESR major version? Does that mean they're going to shove brand new features into a minor point release in the ESR channel, which is exactly what they said they wouldn't do (because that's the very reason they created ESR in the first place)?
The ARC has called me three times a week for several months asking for someone by name. Fuck if I know what they want, but after telling them 3 or 4 times that I've never heard of the guy they're looking for, I added their number to my call blocker.
Anyone buying the "busy weekend" excuse? Can't say I am, since the story broke near the middle of last week, and we've seen /. willfully ignore the community so many times. Look at the amount of pushback it took to defeat Beta and Bennet Hasselton.
Wonder if they'll ever drop the anti-Gamergate narrative too (probably not, since they have most of the tech media circling wagons with them on the pro-corruption side)?
Self parking is irrelevant, since that was not being used in the case in question.
Thank you. That alone clears up a lot of confusion. Damn reporters . . .
IMO all of the reporting on this is ambiguous and expects us to know what stuff like "City-safe" means, without defining it.
Surely the vehicle already has to avoid obstacles to park?* Why does avoiding pedestrians cost extra?
It would be very helpful if someone who truly understand this could clear it up. Is the driver really a dumbass who should have known better, or is Volvo insanely treating "not plowing through human beings" as an optional extra?
* Or does it? I admit I have no experience with self-parking cars. How much preparation/setup (i.e. like "pre-washing" for a dishwasher) is required on the part of the driver? Is the driver expected to position the car in a certain way, and make sure certain obstacles aren't present?
This is almost as bad as "smart" platforms in cars. Way too much software functionality will be put into devices that will last far longer than the manufacturer's interest in upgrading or supporting it (especially since they'll probably have no interest in the first place). Any TV that lists "smart" as a feature should be avoided like those that list "3D."
Where in this article you love so dearly is a mention of crowdfunding? In the part that's behind a high-cost paywall? If so, tough luck.
He mentions it in the video, and shows in the paper where he thanks his Youtube contributors.
Slashdot has rarely -- really never -- linked to paywall-restricted articles.
Thank you, that (linking the original paper but no news articles) was a problem with my submission that I didn't consider. That said, the BBC and other coverage is easy to find.
++ And FYI, I personally love to interview people like Dr. Mason. I think I'll send him a message through YouTube now, since that seems to be where he's most active online. Thanks for the tip, which you can stop repeating now. I read it the first time, believe it or not.
OK, I promise not to post it again (not even if there's a Part 3 tomorrow).
A reposted article deserves a reposted reply.
/. receives) didn't get accepted, but I've tried submitting this recent scientific discovery (published in Nature Chemistry) a few times. IMO it's perfect material for Slashdot: an interesting new hypothesis (about a supposedly "well-understood" reaction) put to the test via regularly evolving experiments and apparatuses. And it was even largely funded through Youtube viewers (who the lead scientist thanks in the paper) and documented with (at least one) well-done video.
/. never ran it. I can't help but think that part of the problem is that the scientist is Dr. Phil Mason, aka thunderf00t, who is known for his vids that expose Atheism+ and anti-Gamergate types as fools. Think about the lousy submissions that do often make it on the front page, especially those that push an agenda.
Which would you rather read about, Slashdot?
a) An already-completed crowdfunded study in the hard sciences that resulted in a major discovery about a widely-known and supposedly well-understood chemical reaction, published in Nature Chemistry, or
b) this unfinished study asking all of us for money, complete with glorious slashdot video, pointlessly spread out over two days?
repost that sums it up:
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I know how it sounds to complain that your one submission (out of the many
But
This is why things like Gamergate (and Slashdot's atrocious coverage of it) matter, even if you yourself don't personally care about videogames; it is a fight against neo-puritans who want to filter ALL types of content (not just games, comics, music, movies, etc) you're allowed to see, and refuse to acknowledge the work of those who don't buy into the "narrative."
P.S. Clearly I'm biased, so if any of you think that my article submission is unworthy for some other reason, let me know (seriously).
its funding is unique; the money for this study is coming, at least in part, from crowdfunding.
This isn't unique. In fact, three times I've submitted news of a crowdfunded, already completed, ground-breaking scientific discovery published in Nature Chemistry, and /. couldn't be bothered to run it. But somehow, this study gets the "deluxe" Slashdot video treament, plus a pointless second article, plus a call to action to "pitch in."
/. rather read about a major discovery in the hard sciences or about this unfinished (unstarted?) study asking all of us for money?
/. receives) didn't get accepted, but I've tried submitting this recent scientific discovery (published in Nature Chemistry) a few times. IMO it's perfect material for Slashdot: an interesting new hypothesis (about a supposedly "well-understood" reaction) put to the test via regularly evolving experiments and apparatuses. And it was even largely funded through Youtube viewers (who the lead scientist thanks in the paper) and documented with (at least one) well-done video.
/. never ran it. I can't help but think that part of the problem is that the scientist is Dr. Phil Mason, aka thunderf00t, who is known for his vids that expose Atheism+ and anti-Gamergate types as fools. Think about the lousy submissions that do often make it on the front page, especially those that push an agenda.
So, would
repost that sums it up (don't feel like typing it all again):
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I know how it sounds to complain that your one submission (out of the many
But
This is why things like Gamergate (and Slashdot's atrocious coverage of it) matter, even if you yourself don't personally care about videogames; it is a fight against neo-puritans who want to filter ALL types of content (not just games, comics, music, movies, etc) you're allowed to see, and refuse to acknowledge the work of those who don't buy into the "narrative."
P.S. Clearly I'm biased, so if any of you think that my article submission is unworthy for some other reason, let me know (seriously).
This is exactly right. Microsoft is sick and tired of customers resisting their latest shiny upgrade, especially when they do so successfully, as with Vista and 8. Keeping the actual version a secret might cause enough confusion to blunt dissent (and damn the negative side effects).
Remember when Mozilla tried to remove FF's version number from the About Box as a prelude the wacky wapid release schedule?
Please. This was an event held for the advertised purpose of this contest at a neutral location open to the public. If muslims don't like it, they can simply not attend.
You're seriously comparing that to someone going (what, tresspassing?) into a synagogue and forcing an activity into others' faces? Anyone doing that would be forcing others to go out of their way to avoid them.
Alright, so we've established that most jews probably wouldn't tolerate a lot of activities in their place of worship. But they don't give a shit if you do it elsewhere, including at public events. The difference is that certain muslims won't tolerate (under penalty of instant death) some benign activities anywhere on the planet.
Come on now, if you try very hard to get people angry why the shock when it happens?
I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him.
Drawing a cartoon of Muhammad that violates the extremists' sensibilities is trivial. AFAIK a stick figure labeled by name or "the prophet" will do. Sending these people into a murderous rage is unbelievably easy, and that's the point: it illustrates just how dangerous to (and incompatible with western society) they really are.
all of that crap you quoted about custom firmware and open recovery mode has zero to bearing on their financial status and problems.
That might (or might not) be true, but it should have some bearing (as it did for me) on whether people who expect hackability should buy one, even at a clearance price.
the employee is right, almost no one, relatively speaking, is going to base their decision to purchase an Ouya on whether it supports custom firmware.
I suspect the promise of such on their kickstarter page (positively) influenced their backers' donations, just like Ouya knew it would. Why promise it, unless they know it's something people want?