I dunno man, this feels kind of like making the downs kid in the back of the class the butt of the joke. Antagonizing is not how you cleanse this shit from the collective consciousness, and it's not even a terribly funny sentiment.
What crime? They are asking users to take money to share that information for money. There is no deception, these idiots are agreeing to it. How is it a breach of privacy laws if these drones have agreed to this data collection, and are taking payment for it?
You're assuming I meant "more fines". I'm talking completely outlawed from sale and import unless you have a [$new_license_class] issued by the CAA, a commercial reason for the device, and are prepared to send all GPS positional logs back to the regulator at regular intervals for review.
Someone wants the hobby dead. Considering some of the dumb shit I have seen operators do, I'm not sure I blame them, and I say this has someone who flew RC fixed wing for years.
Sounds like someone trying to force the regulators hand. What better way to prompt regulation than fucking with the second largest airport in the UK at one of the busiest times of the year.
Recharge, therefore ramp turnaround time would be a huge issue as well. Unless you can cram those batteries full in no more than 90 minutes the gates are going to get real full, real quick, with the associated fee's to boot.
It took 4 days for the hacking of one of the biggest tech community sites on the internet to land on/.? Really? We gunna see a story about the Falcon 9 water landing next Friday?
This was first reported on the 29th of November, a week and a half ago. Old, old news.
Between the spam, the rubbish Betteridge-bait articles and the spam, why the hell would anyone use this site for discussion anymore? It's certainly not the commentary, it's been had elsewhere, and without the ASCII swastikas to boot. It's not for the latest news, because shit, even the lowest echelons of Australian print media were reporting on this the day it occurred. For a story like this to hit this late I must be surrounded by idiots who do not actually keep an eye on the news and are only now coming to some sort of realisation that this is/. worthy.
This is fucking sad. Last one out steal the light globes so no one else can turn the lights back on please.
The overlay loads but the scenes don't in any of the three browsers I have installed on my Win 10 machine, nor the two on my OSX machine. Loading the page on my phone results in a loaded scene that tilts and pans around like my accelerometer is on crack. Damn shame.
Adult apps are riddled with ads. Why is anyone surprised kids apps are as well? Why anyone would be deploying apps to children without playing enough of it to get a feel for how much junk it pumps should be beyond me, but considering how many parents just hand these things off as virtual babysitters without a second thought, sadly it is not. Pile on the fact that the populous seems to be blind to intrusive, oversaturating and pervasive advertising and it's not really shocking at all.
Pony up for quality content, or enjoy your child getting indoctrinated. If you're not paying for the product, you are the product, and so is your child.
Many of the buttons are situated beneath clear panels, intended to never be used, because they are often the third option after the touch screens and ground control of the Dragon.
There is a panel of buttons and a dirty great abort handle beneath the touchscreens to perform required operations during launch, once you are out of atmos there is no G loading or aerodynamic buffeting to cause problems getting the touch screen right. The thing basically flies itself to orbital insertion anyway, the crew are for the most part passengers.
I am a smoker, and as such I spend a lot of time around fellow smokers. I regularly see people standing a meter from a bin flick their butts into the gutter. I regularly see people flick butts out of their cars despite a good percentage of vehicles on the roads having ashtrays in them. And every time I see it, I tell these dipshits "you realise there is a bin literally right there don't you?", to which at best I get a shrug, and at worst I get told to fuck myself.
My biggest motivator to quit is to not be associated with these assholes. And it's not just a smoker thing. These are the same spanners that will drop rubbish a meter from a bin, throw a bottle out of the car window, spit gum out onto a footpath, and otherwise demonstrate them selves to be completely ignorant of keeping the environment in which they live clean. I have a small screw top jar in my sidebag for situations where there is not a bin, and if I don't have my sidebag, my butt goes back into the pack till next I am near a bin.
How dare you make excuses for such basic behaviour. More bins is not the answer. Teaching people to not act like 5 year olds who think it is everyone else's problem to clean up after them, is.
It's their platform, and you are not directly paying to access it. They are free to censor or filter content as they wish, and you are free to walk away from it at any time, just like any other online platform that has existed since usenet.
Why do people still treat it like they are entitled to do as they wish with zero consequence? Would you walk into a police station with an NWA "Fuck the police" shit on and expect to be left alone? Of course you wouldn't. If you choose to pull bullshit in someone else's house, expect to be called out. If you do not want to be called out, keep walking.
But then you miss the interesting points which may fly in the face of Slashdot group think, but are valid nonetheless. I read at -1 and apply my own mental filters. I don't need the opinion of the collective to decide that for me.
Flag it, flag it, and flag it some more. If we all do it hopefully they'll get sick enough of the giant queue of reports and do something. As much as the v2 ones break my balls, I would be happy with captchas at this point. Word and IP filters are useless now days.
BeauHD reserves the freedom to leave all racism and hate-speech in the comments
That's the concern.
To be honest, I questioned why a personal blog post was on the front page of/., but it didn't bother me enough to post. Seeing those two posts disappear, while the clusterfuck that is the first 60-odd posts on this story remain, certainly bother me enough to post.
If I had to choose, I'd take the clusterfuck over shadowy and inconsistent moderation any day. I choose to read at -1 and apply my own mental filters, I don't need, nor want, the editors to make that choice for me, especially on a story that is, as I say, a blog post at best. News for nerds? Medical nerds maybe. Stuff that matters? An issue which (based on the submissions quoted stat of 3.2 in 1000) effects one percent of less than a percent of the population? Absolutely not.
This smacks of editorial over reach, and I don't like it.
There were at least two AC comments on this story commenting to the effect of "not tech news, who cares" and "this is not a blog site, take it to twitter" etc
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For those wanting the unadulterated experience, including the slightly oddways landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I dunno man, this feels kind of like making the downs kid in the back of the class the butt of the joke. Antagonizing is not how you cleanse this shit from the collective consciousness, and it's not even a terribly funny sentiment.
What crime? They are asking users to take money to share that information for money. There is no deception, these idiots are agreeing to it. How is it a breach of privacy laws if these drones have agreed to this data collection, and are taking payment for it?
"How would more regulation help" you all asked?
You're assuming I meant "more fines". I'm talking completely outlawed from sale and import unless you have a [$new_license_class] issued by the CAA, a commercial reason for the device, and are prepared to send all GPS positional logs back to the regulator at regular intervals for review.
Someone wants the hobby dead. Considering some of the dumb shit I have seen operators do, I'm not sure I blame them, and I say this has someone who flew RC fixed wing for years.
Good chance they are on pre-programmed flight between GPS way points. Trivial to do with a uC and a vendetta.
Sounds like someone trying to force the regulators hand. What better way to prompt regulation than fucking with the second largest airport in the UK at one of the busiest times of the year.
Recharge, therefore ramp turnaround time would be a huge issue as well. Unless you can cram those batteries full in no more than 90 minutes the gates are going to get real full, real quick, with the associated fee's to boot.
It took 4 days for the hacking of one of the biggest tech community sites on the internet to land on /.? Really? We gunna see a story about the Falcon 9 water landing next Friday?
This was first reported on the 29th of November, a week and a half ago. Old, old news.
Between the spam, the rubbish Betteridge-bait articles and the spam, why the hell would anyone use this site for discussion anymore? It's certainly not the commentary, it's been had elsewhere, and without the ASCII swastikas to boot. It's not for the latest news, because shit, even the lowest echelons of Australian print media were reporting on this the day it occurred. For a story like this to hit this late I must be surrounded by idiots who do not actually keep an eye on the news and are only now coming to some sort of realisation that this is /. worthy.
This is fucking sad. Last one out steal the light globes so no one else can turn the lights back on please.
Halt and Catch Fire. I'll leave it up to you to google the rest.
The overlay loads but the scenes don't in any of the three browsers I have installed on my Win 10 machine, nor the two on my OSX machine. Loading the page on my phone results in a loaded scene that tilts and pans around like my accelerometer is on crack. Damn shame.
Adult apps are riddled with ads. Why is anyone surprised kids apps are as well? Why anyone would be deploying apps to children without playing enough of it to get a feel for how much junk it pumps should be beyond me, but considering how many parents just hand these things off as virtual babysitters without a second thought, sadly it is not. Pile on the fact that the populous seems to be blind to intrusive, oversaturating and pervasive advertising and it's not really shocking at all.
Pony up for quality content, or enjoy your child getting indoctrinated. If you're not paying for the product, you are the product, and so is your child.
I know you're all about innovating and being on the leading edge, but you really need to take it down a notch.
From TFA
Many of the buttons are situated beneath clear panels, intended to never be used, because they are often the third option after the touch screens and ground control of the Dragon.
There is a panel of buttons and a dirty great abort handle beneath the touchscreens to perform required operations during launch, once you are out of atmos there is no G loading or aerodynamic buffeting to cause problems getting the touch screen right. The thing basically flies itself to orbital insertion anyway, the crew are for the most part passengers.
What complete bullshit.
I am a smoker, and as such I spend a lot of time around fellow smokers. I regularly see people standing a meter from a bin flick their butts into the gutter. I regularly see people flick butts out of their cars despite a good percentage of vehicles on the roads having ashtrays in them. And every time I see it, I tell these dipshits "you realise there is a bin literally right there don't you?", to which at best I get a shrug, and at worst I get told to fuck myself.
My biggest motivator to quit is to not be associated with these assholes. And it's not just a smoker thing. These are the same spanners that will drop rubbish a meter from a bin, throw a bottle out of the car window, spit gum out onto a footpath, and otherwise demonstrate them selves to be completely ignorant of keeping the environment in which they live clean. I have a small screw top jar in my sidebag for situations where there is not a bin, and if I don't have my sidebag, my butt goes back into the pack till next I am near a bin.
How dare you make excuses for such basic behaviour. More bins is not the answer. Teaching people to not act like 5 year olds who think it is everyone else's problem to clean up after them, is.
It's their platform, and you are not directly paying to access it. They are free to censor or filter content as they wish, and you are free to walk away from it at any time, just like any other online platform that has existed since usenet.
Why do people still treat it like they are entitled to do as they wish with zero consequence? Would you walk into a police station with an NWA "Fuck the police" shit on and expect to be left alone? Of course you wouldn't. If you choose to pull bullshit in someone else's house, expect to be called out. If you do not want to be called out, keep walking.
Because why would you want to present to a global audience anyway?
Other options than setting filters at +1, and still seeing everything under +1?
I'm all ears.
But then you miss the interesting points which may fly in the face of Slashdot group think, but are valid nonetheless. I read at -1 and apply my own mental filters. I don't need the opinion of the collective to decide that for me.
Flag it, flag it, and flag it some more. If we all do it hopefully they'll get sick enough of the giant queue of reports and do something. As much as the v2 ones break my balls, I would be happy with captchas at this point. Word and IP filters are useless now days.
You must be new here. Editorial standards left with CmdrTaco.
So whats the deal with the two deleted posts from earlier in the day? Shitpost-y as they were, I thought editor overreach was not a thing here?
BeauHD reserves the freedom to leave all racism and hate-speech in the comments
That's the concern.
To be honest, I questioned why a personal blog post was on the front page of /., but it didn't bother me enough to post. Seeing those two posts disappear, while the clusterfuck that is the first 60-odd posts on this story remain, certainly bother me enough to post.
If I had to choose, I'd take the clusterfuck over shadowy and inconsistent moderation any day. I choose to read at -1 and apply my own mental filters, I don't need, nor want, the editors to make that choice for me, especially on a story that is, as I say, a blog post at best. News for nerds? Medical nerds maybe. Stuff that matters? An issue which (based on the submissions quoted stat of 3.2 in 1000) effects one percent of less than a percent of the population? Absolutely not.
This smacks of editorial over reach, and I don't like it.
There were at least two AC comments on this story commenting to the effect of "not tech news, who cares" and "this is not a blog site, take it to twitter" etc
Where did these posts go?