These players were designed from the ground up to keep you on a leash forever, so of course they will try every way to force firmware updates on you even if you deny yours access to the internet. They never thought much about keeping the device secure, except against the customer.
If you've never read it before, Feynman's original essay is more worth your time (especially the part about the lab rats). http://neurotheory.columbia.ed...
That explains why many news organizations are removing the ability to comment from their sites: because it was undermining the effectiveness of the favored propaganda they pass along as 'news'. Remember kids, journalistic bias is all about WHICH propaganda you decide to go to press with.
Yup.
Just last week, KOMO TV in Seattle aired a biasedGamergate story (though, as a sad indication of how low the bar is, it's way less biased than most news media). Three days later, there was a note at the bottom of every story, saying site comments are no more: http://www.komonews.com/news/l...
Looks like too many gamers were fact-checking their work, and it was too embarassing to let people see that happen.
As long as they can remain undetectable from beyond the range of their nuclear warheads*, they will be indispensible. You should even be glad your enemies have them, as they are one of the most stabilizing technologies because they discourage first strikes (by guaranteeing a second strike).
* I know the Virginia-class subs don't have nukes yet.
BTW if anyone is interested in the contents of the video but doesn't want to watch it, Qbertino provided a detailed.summary in the last story about it: http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Sorry to burst your tea party bubble, but freedom of speech only applies to government actions.
No, the First Amendment only applies to government actions. It may be hard for you to believe, but some of us find virtue in protecting freedom of speech even in cases where the law would let you get away with suppressing it.
Dunno why you'd bring up the tea party or twitter, but it is interesting that this story and last week's twitter story both neglected to use the censorship icon.
One of the most important reasons Gamergate hasn't died is that it exposed (as part of coordinated effort to stomp it out) forces with an apparent willingness and (more shockingly) ability to successfully censor vast swarths of the internet, including sites like slashdot, reddit, and 4chan that were taken for granted as free-speech strongholds.
Of course people are going to care now that they threaten Twitter, which has been second only to Youtube as a major thorn in the censors' sides.
The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and user comment/forum censorship didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
PC Gamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.
Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.
Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.
If you want people to not associate Gamergate with harassment, you're shooting yourself in the foot by bringing up Gamergate whenever someone talks about harassment.
Try this: link to the/. article that covers the Gamergate scandal without screaming about misogyny and harassment. You can't. And that's because overall, the Slashdot readership doesn't buy the "misogyny and harassment" narrative for one second. The editors quickly discovered that the discussion thread for any article that straightforwardly mentions Gamergate--even if it's one-sided--couldn't be trusted to go the way the editors demand.
For a while, they found limited success by posting articles with the template "misogyny, harassment, threats, misogyny, harassment, threats . . . oh btw Gamergate" (i.e. a br But even that's not working anymore, and the editors' credibility on this issue is shot. Permanently.
Slashdot wants desperately to cover Gamergate, but doesn't want to be honest and up front that it's doing so, and especially that it's taking the pro-corruption side. In the early weeks, they even tried to participate in the blackout, which led to almost every article about gaming at all becoming a Gamergate thread. The editors/ownership knew damn well what they were doing, and it's silly to blame anyone else for the consequences of refusing to cover Gamergate, except with propaganda.
The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and user comment/forum censorship didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only destroy those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
Last week PC Gamer became the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.
Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). The anti-GG side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.
Gamergate's Harassment Patrol has been decrying, detecting, and reporting such behavior for months, no matter which side it came from. Glad to see someone from the anti-GG side finally express willingness to follow their lead (this is an anti-harassment operation and not just a partisan anti-Gamergate PR stunt, right?).
I'd buy that if the anti-freedom anti-gamer crowd wasn't crowing about how they "got the EFF on their side."
Yeah, they also crow about Gamergate being dead, but despite all the funerals there's no body. Never mind what the anti-gamers say; they've been known to lie. EFF doesn't take sides on Gamergate, they only mention it as a "magnet for harassment", which I think is undeniable -- people on both sides have been doxxed, swatted, and mailed undesirable stuff.
I really wish you were right, but every single link about Gamergate in TFA is a one-sided propaganda hit piece that buys hook, line, and sinker in the "misogyny and harassment" narrative. I wonder if you could find a single reference to any of the pro-Gamergate people who've been harassed in any of it.
And there was also harassment that was described as harassment.
And that would have been fair enough if they hadn't also
a) pretended the tiny minority (and third parties) carrying out harassment accounted for the entire movement, in a transparent attempt to distract from and cover-up for the corrupt journalists, and
b) completely ignored all the harassment coming from the anti-GG "direction."
Therefore the coverage was intentionally biased, and decidedly anti-Gamergate rather than anti-harassment.
It is/. and the EFF who are too, uh, "lazy" (yeah that's the ticket) to investigate the actual harassment. Once again, a Slashdot article makes reference to Gamergate in the context of harassment, but all the victims mentioned just happen to be on the anti-GG side. I'm beginning to have doubts that this is an honest mistake.
An article that claims to know all about Gamergate appears completely ignorant of the majority of relevant harassment, not to mention the Harassment Patrol. At least the pro-GG side makes an effort to detect, condemn, and report this shitty behavior, no matter which side it comes from.
Slashdot Mirror
These players were designed from the ground up to keep you on a leash forever, so of course they will try every way to force firmware updates on you even if you deny yours access to the internet. They never thought much about keeping the device secure, except against the customer.
Seaman wouldn't have been the same without him marking the milestones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you've never read it before, Feynman's original essay is more worth your time (especially the part about the lab rats).
http://neurotheory.columbia.ed...
And no one should forget that she was also caught making at least one dick joke that same week:
http://media.tumblr.com/ed5aea...
I personally don't consider any of the jokes sexist, but they absolutely make her a hypocrite.
That explains why many news organizations are removing the ability to comment from their sites: because it was undermining the effectiveness of the favored propaganda they pass along as 'news'. Remember kids, journalistic bias is all about WHICH propaganda you decide to go to press with.
Yup.
Just last week, KOMO TV in Seattle aired a biased Gamergate story (though, as a sad indication of how low the bar is, it's way less biased than most news media). Three days later, there was a note at the bottom of every story, saying site comments are no more:
http://www.komonews.com/news/l...
Looks like too many gamers were fact-checking their work, and it was too embarassing to let people see that happen.
I can only be about 80% sure that you're fucking with us.
As long as they can remain undetectable from beyond the range of their nuclear warheads*, they will be indispensible. You should even be glad your enemies have them, as they are one of the most stabilizing technologies because they discourage first strikes (by guaranteeing a second strike).
* I know the Virginia-class subs don't have nukes yet.
BTW if anyone is interested in the contents of the video but doesn't want to watch it, Qbertino provided a detailed.summary in the last story about it:
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Sorry to burst your tea party bubble, but freedom of speech only applies to government actions.
No, the First Amendment only applies to government actions. It may be hard for you to believe, but some of us find virtue in protecting freedom of speech even in cases where the law would let you get away with suppressing it.
Dunno why you'd bring up the tea party or twitter, but it is interesting that this story and last week's twitter story both neglected to use the censorship icon.
One of the most important reasons Gamergate hasn't died is that it exposed (as part of coordinated effort to stomp it out) forces with an apparent willingness and (more shockingly) ability to successfully censor vast swarths of the internet, including sites like slashdot, reddit, and 4chan that were taken for granted as free-speech strongholds.
Of course people are going to care now that they threaten Twitter, which has been second only to Youtube as a major thorn in the censors' sides.
The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and user comment/forum censorship didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
PC Gamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.
Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...
Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.
Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.
Rate jokes aren't funny.
Look at the PDF you posted. It's not the poll.
Dammit, ignore this post, it is the same link as the GP.
Those are the results, not the methodology and order in which the the questions were asked. There's a link in the article but it's wrong.
I'm trying to download the poll document pdf and all I get is some Democrat advertising invoice.
What else would you possibly store on vinyl?
Superior analog video, of course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The central allegation no-one made?
"They claim it was for a review but there's no review!" is the oldest of the cover-up's lies.
A strangely specific denial, isn't it? It's eerily like all those damage control statements the NSA spewed out in Snowden's wake.
If you want people to not associate Gamergate with harassment, you're shooting yourself in the foot by bringing up Gamergate whenever someone talks about harassment.
Try this: link to the /. article that covers the Gamergate scandal without screaming about misogyny and harassment. You can't. And that's because overall, the Slashdot readership doesn't buy the "misogyny and harassment" narrative for one second. The editors quickly discovered that the discussion thread for any article that straightforwardly mentions Gamergate--even if it's one-sided--couldn't be trusted to go the way the editors demand.
For a while, they found limited success by posting articles with the template "misogyny, harassment, threats, misogyny, harassment, threats . . . oh btw Gamergate" (i.e. a br But even that's not working anymore, and the editors' credibility on this issue is shot. Permanently.
Slashdot wants desperately to cover Gamergate, but doesn't want to be honest and up front that it's doing so, and especially that it's taking the pro-corruption side. In the early weeks, they even tried to participate in the blackout, which led to almost every article about gaming at all becoming a Gamergate thread. The editors/ownership knew damn well what they were doing, and it's silly to blame anyone else for the consequences of refusing to cover Gamergate, except with propaganda.
The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and user comment/forum censorship didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only destroy those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
Last week PC Gamer became the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.
Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi... [twitter.com]
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20... [gamepolitics.com]
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-... [zenofdesign.com]
Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). The anti-GG side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.
Gamergate's Harassment Patrol has been decrying, detecting, and reporting such behavior for months, no matter which side it came from. Glad to see someone from the anti-GG side finally express willingness to follow their lead (this is an anti-harassment operation and not just a partisan anti-Gamergate PR stunt, right?).
still on the first page
http://mobile.slashdot.org/sto...
Yeah, they also crow about Gamergate being dead, but despite all the funerals there's no body. Never mind what the anti-gamers say; they've been known to lie. EFF doesn't take sides on Gamergate, they only mention it as a "magnet for harassment", which I think is undeniable -- people on both sides have been doxxed, swatted, and mailed undesirable stuff.
I really wish you were right, but every single link about Gamergate in TFA is a one-sided propaganda hit piece that buys hook, line, and sinker in the "misogyny and harassment" narrative. I wonder if you could find a single reference to any of the pro-Gamergate people who've been harassed in any of it.
And there was also harassment that was described as harassment.
And that would have been fair enough if they hadn't also
a) pretended the tiny minority (and third parties) carrying out harassment accounted for the entire movement, in a transparent attempt to distract from and cover-up for the corrupt journalists, and
b) completely ignored all the harassment coming from the anti-GG "direction."
Therefore the coverage was intentionally biased, and decidedly anti-Gamergate rather than anti-harassment.
It is /. and the EFF who are too, uh, "lazy" (yeah that's the ticket) to investigate the actual harassment. Once again, a Slashdot article makes reference to Gamergate in the context of harassment, but all the victims mentioned just happen to be on the anti-GG side. I'm beginning to have doubts that this is an honest mistake.
Pro-GG people have been doxxed:
http://imgur.com/BNlLKcn
So was the creator of #notyourshield, and his workplace was harassed until he was fired:
https://twitter.com/Moldybars/...
http://i.imgur.com/9ieHMu9.png
A prominent anti-GGer called for the doxxing of all Gamergate supporters:
http://i.gyazo.com/5db582013ac...
An article that claims to know all about Gamergate appears completely ignorant of the majority of relevant harassment, not to mention the Harassment Patrol. At least the pro-GG side makes an effort to detect, condemn, and report this shitty behavior, no matter which side it comes from.