I think I'll keep my Windows computers with updates disabled, as all the updates have been detrimental to the user, lately. Checking the eevblog thread, though it seems it affects Windows 10, which I also elected not to touch.
The concept of free speech is far bigger than the constitution of the USA. People outside of the USA cherish it just as much as you, and many are still dying exercising or protecting free speech. Twitter may have legal rights to engage in selective censorship, but that does not make it right.
Why? Because FUCK HDMI, that's why. I want my video port to send the video signal to my monitor without hand-shaking, asking for permissions and assuming I'm a pirate and kitten-murderer. HDMI takes so many rights and adds so many potential problems, that I find it hard to accept its presence in any of my devices. I have a ThinkPad with HDMI, but sure as hell am not going to use it.
There are many valid arguments against nuclear, but this isn't one of the stronger ones.
Actually, there aren't. On average, nuclear reactors are extremely clean and safe. Far, FAR safer than coal plants, and way more environment-friendly. In fact, nuclear plants are more environment-friendly than hydroplants.
Shia muslims don't do that stuff. It's an exclusively Sunni muslim thing. Whenever you hear of a mosque that was bombed, it was a Shia mosque, and the bomber was sunni.
I understand your point, but as long as alcohol is legal, all the discussion about cannabis being "not as safe as some people make it out to be" are meaningless.
Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let me leave it at that."
Lets see Mrs. Clinton is not currently serving in privileged to information government role. These are conversations that would have taken place after she left office. So some how she is being fed information she can't or won't share with the rest of us. Yet we are supposed to trust her and vote for her. Screw that. She is the ultimate insider. People always accused the GOP of solving things in the back room while the old men smoke cigars. Maybe there is truth in that maybe not. What is clear is that HRC is very much a part of that old boys club, no matter what she has between her legs.
She can't be trusted, full stop. A vote for Hillary is a vote against your interests because the only interests Hillary has is in what is good for her.
One words captures the thought and sentiment behind your comment: Billary.
Not quite. The H2 tanks are hefty, no arguing that, but the energy density of 700 bar Type III tanks is already far higher than the best Li-Po battery.
Unfortunately for Twitter, they have been shooting specific messengers already - banning accounts critical of Islam - and so they have a good chance of actually losing this lawsuit.
At first it may seem lunacy, except for the fact that Twitter does ban accounts in a very selective way - unfortunately for Twitter, there is a very well documented trend of banning accounts critical of Islam. For this very reason Twitter made themselves very susceptible to this lawsuit.
I agree - as I said to another parallel poster, I used the terms in the article as I assumed they are more commonly used. In fact, I disagree with pro-Arab as well - Al Jazeera is pro-Sunni Islamic. The Arab ethnicity has only coincidental connections with that particular flavor of Islam. One of my colleagues is Arab, but he's not Muslim (not Christian either, BTW).
I guess those are the standard terms used due to lack of insight (i.e. due to ignorance). The correct terms should be pro Sunni Islamic and anti-Jewish. I was just quoting the terminology used in the article, because I assumed that most people are only familiar with those.
I just read this article (which I missed back in June): a number of ex Al-Jazeera employees are (were?) suing the company due to sexism, anti-semitism and a pro-Arab agenda.
In many ways, it seems that it wasn't a very healthy journalistic environment.
Land of the free my ass. It's a nation of lunatics ruled by fear.
The law was stupid, there's no doubt about that, but every country in the world has some stupid rules. The reason why most people in the US don't care isn't because they agree with it, but simply that it doesn't affect them - when your school is 30 miles away, you have to take a car or a bus, and so it wouldn't really appear in their daily life.
Jesus FUCK! As a European, I find living 30 miles from the school your kids go to be totally batshit crazy.
Whether you like his music or not, there is no denying that David Bowie was a true artist, a real entertainer. There was nothing fake about him. Nowadays, we don't see real artists like him very often.
I suspect that you're seeing history through rose-tinted glasses. There were plenty of pop-acts in every era that Bowie overlapped with, we simply don't remember many of them.
Which is why we remember Bowie.
I wonder if anyone 30 years from now will remember Beyonce. We are officially in a worse period of music than disco.
Look, I am a lifelong classical music snob, and like a lot of jazz as well (especially the more modern jazz pianists and the new Japanese jazzists)... but I think also that disco was at least OK.
I've rarely seen a website so encumbered with shit, like Forbes'. Not only should one not stop using ad-blockers when visiting them, one should simply never visit Forbes at all. Add it to the list of blocked sites.
I would encourage the Mozilla team to maybe put their weight behind making Firefox a better browser. Are there no more avenues to making it a bit faster, maybe a bit less resource-hungry, maybe make is more secure? I mostly use Chrome, but because of Zotero I need to use Firefox from time to time, and I don't dislike it, I just wish more efforts were made in the directions I mentioned above.
I don't understand why you're surprised - this is 100% in character for Microsoft. I've known their methods for decades now, and I can tell you that this is normal.
I still use Windows XP regularly on my home desktop. I have never had any malware, let alone viruses, on this computer. I just use common sense when I browse. Sometimes I fire up Chrome in incognito mode. I also have flash and popup blockers. And don't open attachments that aren't from a trusted source.
Many or even most will move on, but once the pressure for new IPV4 addresses is off, the rest will probably keep them. I suspect that by 2020, between 30% and 60% of users will be IPV4-only.
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I think I'll keep my Windows computers with updates disabled, as all the updates have been detrimental to the user, lately.
Checking the eevblog thread, though it seems it affects Windows 10, which I also elected not to touch.
The concept of free speech is far bigger than the constitution of the USA. People outside of the USA cherish it just as much as you, and many are still dying exercising or protecting free speech. Twitter may have legal rights to engage in selective censorship, but that does not make it right.
A better question may be why they haven't come down harder on terrorist activities on Twitter
This is why. The Saudis have a Sunni supremacist agenda and they will use any leverage they have to promote it.
Why? Because FUCK HDMI, that's why. I want my video port to send the video signal to my monitor without hand-shaking, asking for permissions and assuming I'm a pirate and kitten-murderer. HDMI takes so many rights and adds so many potential problems, that I find it hard to accept its presence in any of my devices. I have a ThinkPad with HDMI, but sure as hell am not going to use it.
There are many valid arguments against nuclear, but this isn't one of the stronger ones.
Actually, there aren't. On average, nuclear reactors are extremely clean and safe. Far, FAR safer than coal plants, and way more environment-friendly. In fact, nuclear plants are more environment-friendly than hydroplants.
I agree with this comment 100%. Have my virtual upvote.
First Iranian in space?
Hmm.....First suicide bomber in space?
Shia muslims don't do that stuff. It's an exclusively Sunni muslim thing. Whenever you hear of a mosque that was bombed, it was a Shia mosque, and the bomber was sunni.
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I understand your point, but as long as alcohol is legal, all the discussion about cannabis being "not as safe as some people make it out to be" are meaningless.
Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let me leave it at that."
Lets see Mrs. Clinton is not currently serving in privileged to information government role. These are conversations that would have taken place after she left office. So some how she is being fed information she can't or won't share with the rest of us. Yet we are supposed to trust her and vote for her. Screw that. She is the ultimate insider. People always accused the GOP of solving things in the back room while the old men smoke cigars. Maybe there is truth in that maybe not. What is clear is that HRC is very much a part of that old boys club, no matter what she has between her legs.
She can't be trusted, full stop. A vote for Hillary is a vote against your interests because the only interests Hillary has is in what is good for her.
One words captures the thought and sentiment behind your comment: Billary.
Not quite. The H2 tanks are hefty, no arguing that, but the energy density of 700 bar Type III tanks is already far higher than the best Li-Po battery.
Does Totyota selectively sell cars to ISIS and not to Kurds or people critical of Islam? If that were true, you would have a point.
Unfortunately for Twitter, they have been shooting specific messengers already - banning accounts critical of Islam - and so they have a good chance of actually losing this lawsuit.
At first it may seem lunacy, except for the fact that Twitter does ban accounts in a very selective way - unfortunately for Twitter, there is a very well documented trend of banning accounts critical of Islam. For this very reason Twitter made themselves very susceptible to this lawsuit.
I agree - as I said to another parallel poster, I used the terms in the article as I assumed they are more commonly used. In fact, I disagree with pro-Arab as well - Al Jazeera is pro-Sunni Islamic. The Arab ethnicity has only coincidental connections with that particular flavor of Islam. One of my colleagues is Arab, but he's not Muslim (not Christian either, BTW).
I guess those are the standard terms used due to lack of insight (i.e. due to ignorance). The correct terms should be pro Sunni Islamic and anti-Jewish. I was just quoting the terminology used in the article, because I assumed that most people are only familiar with those.
I just read this article (which I missed back in June): a number of ex Al-Jazeera employees are (were?) suing the company due to sexism, anti-semitism and a pro-Arab agenda.
In many ways, it seems that it wasn't a very healthy journalistic environment.
Land of the free my ass. It's a nation of lunatics ruled by fear.
The law was stupid, there's no doubt about that, but every country in the world has some stupid rules. The reason why most people in the US don't care isn't because they agree with it, but simply that it doesn't affect them - when your school is 30 miles away, you have to take a car or a bus, and so it wouldn't really appear in their daily life.
Jesus FUCK! As a European, I find living 30 miles from the school your kids go to be totally batshit crazy.
Whether you like his music or not, there is no denying that David Bowie was a true artist, a real entertainer. There was nothing fake about him. Nowadays, we don't see real artists like him very often.
I suspect that you're seeing history through rose-tinted glasses. There were plenty of pop-acts in every era that Bowie overlapped with, we simply don't remember many of them.
Which is why we remember Bowie.
I wonder if anyone 30 years from now will remember Beyonce. We are officially in a worse period of music than disco.
Look, I am a lifelong classical music snob, and like a lot of jazz as well (especially the more modern jazz pianists and the new Japanese jazzists)... but I think also that disco was at least OK.
I've rarely seen a website so encumbered with shit, like Forbes'. Not only should one not stop using ad-blockers when visiting them, one should simply never visit Forbes at all. Add it to the list of blocked sites.
I would encourage the Mozilla team to maybe put their weight behind making Firefox a better browser. Are there no more avenues to making it a bit faster, maybe a bit less resource-hungry, maybe make is more secure? I mostly use Chrome, but because of Zotero I need to use Firefox from time to time, and I don't dislike it, I just wish more efforts were made in the directions I mentioned above.
I don't understand why you're surprised - this is 100% in character for Microsoft. I've known their methods for decades now, and I can tell you that this is normal.
I still use Windows XP regularly on my home desktop. I have never had any malware, let alone viruses, on this computer. I just use common sense when I browse. Sometimes I fire up Chrome in incognito mode. I also have flash and popup blockers. And don't open attachments that aren't from a trusted source.
If its forced upon you, shoved down your throat, then it's less than free.
Many or even most will move on, but once the pressure for new IPV4 addresses is off, the rest will probably keep them. I suspect that by 2020, between 30% and 60% of users will be IPV4-only.