Haha, to be honest I typed the headline quickly because I knew I had to get back to actual work at some point. But seriously, if I had spelled it correctly, I would've gotten a lot fewer comments. Typos FTW.
Sure, that is how people will perceive it, sadly. Too bad for them. Samsung is definitely my favorite brand of phone; I hate Apple products and prefer the freedom of Android all the way. But from my experience--I've had a number of Androids, but of course I haven't tried all of the manufacturers--Samsung provides the best Android experience that I have tried. They have great standard apps and extras in addition to great hardware.
There's rarely a need to bring right and wrong into these matters, and an apology is basically an admission of guilt.
I've been pondering this a lot lately. As ridiculous as Trump is, his lack of remorse for anything and everything has shown a kind of fault line in the way in which today's culture has become a culture of blame. Most public figures, when confronted with something that brings public ire, try to apologize even if they don't really feel bad about it, because they think that apologies will diffuse the situation. But these days an apology is not just an admission of guilt; it's also an admission of weakness. It causes people to go in for the kill like a pack of wolves. Trump is just about the only person who can survive in such a situation, precisely because he refuses to apologize and simply "misremembers" what he said or did in a convenient way. Thus ironically it's the kind of witch hunt culture today that has helped to cement Trump's position. Every time people attack him, he shows his dominance by refusing to apologize.
This is visible, for example, in the difference between the affairs of Bill Clinton and Trump's tryst with Stormy Daniels. Now in terms of morality, both deeds are of course gravely sinful, despite being mutual (notwithstanding the illicit power dynamic in the case of Bill, though Hillary still refuses to acknowledge it). But looking at the cultural/political impact, apart from the question of right and wrong, it's fascinating how Trump is able to weather the storm simply by refusing to apologize. It's almost as if, in the public eye, it's the apology that constitutes the sin.
Didn't I read on Slashdot that Germany was a world leader in renewable energy? So why does this article seem to indicate that Germany is particularly bad for producing cars using fossil fuels?
Exactly. And as soon as Bing does exactly what one expects it to do--show the most-clicked items--then the person who looked to be offended can be satisfied that his fears are well-proven, that indeed this shows "concerted action by far-right groups to skew responses." Of course far-right (or the media's beloved alt-right) people are not the only ones who are racist and who click on racist memes. But as long as we can play the blame game and "prove" the evil of some sinister Other, then we can be well-assured of our own basic righteousness. I think the Chris Hoffmans of the world might be terribly sad on the day when all search engines are filtered enough to avoid the slightest offense, because then they might be forced to look critically at themselves, and that is a terrifying prospect.
Since I'm Mexican I always like to point out how even though most movies and TV come from California, there's almost no Hispanics visible. There are typically more LGBTQ characters on TV than Mexicans, and of course any Mexican characters are usually gangsters and/or drug dealers. Why?--Because there are power dynamics even in these things. California is loaded with us Mexicans, but we do not currently have the same political value as other diversity causes.
That isn't a shadow profile. What they are describing is an existing Facebook account which has a phone number tied to it that the user never provided to Facebook but was presumably attached by other sources.
I see what you mean, but that's probably precisely the kind of word game that allowed Zuckerberg to deny the practice. It's not technically a shadow profile in terms of a profile belonging to a person who has never signed up. However, it is shadow data attached to a voluntary profile, or in other words, hidden data scraped from online shadow profiles but associated with a non-shadow profile so that the claim can be made that it is not, in fact, a shadow profile. But this is mere semantics. Not only can this be understood as a shadow profile hiding underneath a voluntary profile, but it's even possible that the shadow data is actually stored separately and only probatively associated with the voluntary profile, in which case only this loose and volatile association would ground the pretense that it is not a shadow profile.
My question is whether the damage to the microbiome necessarily leads to bee fatality. I'm not sure--from my minimal understanding--whether that has really been demonstrated here. This study is important, but it does seem to be very limited in its actual findings. There needs to be testing to see what else damages the microbiome and what are the immediate and long term consequences of this damage. As usual, some of the reporters seem to be too rash in making simplistic claims about the dangers of the chemical. It's easy to see glyphosate as part of the faceless evil of the big corporation, but the truth is that even the people at Monsanto have no interest in killing off the bees. Bees are a vital part of agriculture (and I don't think Monsanto has brought their Roundup brand genetically-modified glyphosate-resistant extra-killer honey bees to market yet).
I'm no authority, but as far as I can tell PayPal should be unaffected. It sounds like data was scooped off the front-end of the web site, i.e., from filling out the forms. But PayPal does not fill out forms; it sends data directly. So it should not be affected.
I am guessing also that my card number was not stolen since I used a saved number, rather than entering it in. However, Newegg always has you retype the CVV code, so that was definitely stolen in my case.
I got my main email address early on Gmail when it was still invitation-only, and I made it a common Christian phrase without any numbers. Consequently, I get emails meant for everyone and their grandmother, because many individuals, charities, and ecclesial communities use some variation of my email address, then give it out while forgetting to mention whatever numbers are supposed to be appended. At first, I did try to notify people, but I got tired of it because they just kept flowing on in. Once in a while I will notify people if it looks like I get something extremely important; once, for example, someone accidentally sent me money on PayPal and I refunded them. But most of the time it's just a huge nuisance. People sign me up for services that I don't want, or sometimes I try to make an account somewhere and it claims that my account already exists. It's messed up how many web sites will create accounts without first verifying an email address.
I agree that these UBI trials are silly, but don't be too quick to equate them with socialism or communism. There are underlying philosophical differences that add up to more than the superficial similarity. To my limited knowledge, one might be able to summarize it in this way: UBI awards money based on the basic objective dignity of the human person, with the hope that this will result in work. Communism ensures employment based on the dignity of the worker, according to his or her ability and need. UBI is still basically an extra intervention within an overarching capitalist framework, and this may in fact be its particular weakness (notwithstanding the many problems of all-out communism).
I really want to try out an Amazon device. I have a third-party Google Home and it is pretty disappointing. Google refuses to update the firmware, so it doesn't do broadcast and several other things. I can't use it to take notes (other than useless grocery lists), schedule appointments, send texts, etc. I would hope that Amazon's third-party integration would give it more useful features. Right now my Google Home is mostly a glorified music player.
And worst of all, I can only play my songs by uploading every single one to Google Play Music. In doing so, it takes forever but doesn't actually upload the songs, but simply replaces them with their own versions of the same song--which sometimes are not quite right. Then I have to re-upload all of the same songs under my wife's account so that it will let her play music. Then I try to do the same for my daughter, and find out that you can only do it twice from the same PC. And then half the time my wife asks it to play toddler music, and it starts playing gangster rap or some such.
Sure, it's easy to think that evil is a mere matter of mental health--and I agree that plenty of bad things are the result of people either not seeking or not having the means to acquire proper treatment. But the fact is that healthy people are still able to make decisions, and many of our decisions selfishly build up ourselves at the expense of others. Being healthy does not cause us to choose morally good or helpful activities all of the time.
No one of us can say for sure whether this particular case was a matter of mental illness or not, but we shouldn't assume from the start that simply because he did something harmful that he was not free in doing so. If we are not free to do evil, then how can we pretend to be free to do anything good? If we don't hold ourselves responsible for our bad decisions, how can we claim any merit for our good ones? Or to put it in another manner: how can we be sure that our good actions are not also the byproduct of mental health issues?
A short a (like apple) makes a certain sense because the original Latin is irregular and has a short a. However, it actually makes more sense that it transformed into a long a in most common pronunciation because of the rules of English. Since it is followed by a single consonant, it implies that the vowel is long, and most (though not all) long a's in English are pronounced like ape. Example: saber/sabre.
Exactly, it's all economics. The "declining use" of reviews is simply because Netflix has long prevented reviews from appearing in their apps. They didn't want reviews, and it has little to do with trolling. They want you to watch things; they don't want to warn you not to watch things, no matter how much they suck. They want to convince you that they know what is right for you, and what is right is what they have.
I'm sure there's FERPA discussion, but FERPA is just a silly catch-all for anything and everything someone doesn't like. In my experience, about 90% of the things discussed in academia in light of FERPA actually have nothing to do with FERPA. Most people who bring it up have never read the document, and have no clue what is talks about. FERPA in no way prohibits listening devices in students' rooms. It is only a regulation about the release (not even the securing, but really the release) of educational records to interested parties. Sure somebody could twist FERPA and get some admins to believe that it forbids Alexas in rooms, but in actual text and intention it really has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I'm not even sure who has access if it's managed by SLU, because SLU very recently fired all or nearly all of their IT staff and outsourced everything to Dell and Microsoft. To my understanding, what local staff remains has experienced significant turnover, and has very little control over anything.
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Wonderful! If she keeps going at this rate, pretty soon she'll be working for the TSA.
Haha, to be honest I typed the headline quickly because I knew I had to get back to actual work at some point. But seriously, if I had spelled it correctly, I would've gotten a lot fewer comments. Typos FTW.
Sure, that is how people will perceive it, sadly. Too bad for them. Samsung is definitely my favorite brand of phone; I hate Apple products and prefer the freedom of Android all the way. But from my experience--I've had a number of Androids, but of course I haven't tried all of the manufacturers--Samsung provides the best Android experience that I have tried. They have great standard apps and extras in addition to great hardware.
There's rarely a need to bring right and wrong into these matters, and an apology is basically an admission of guilt.
I've been pondering this a lot lately. As ridiculous as Trump is, his lack of remorse for anything and everything has shown a kind of fault line in the way in which today's culture has become a culture of blame. Most public figures, when confronted with something that brings public ire, try to apologize even if they don't really feel bad about it, because they think that apologies will diffuse the situation. But these days an apology is not just an admission of guilt; it's also an admission of weakness. It causes people to go in for the kill like a pack of wolves. Trump is just about the only person who can survive in such a situation, precisely because he refuses to apologize and simply "misremembers" what he said or did in a convenient way. Thus ironically it's the kind of witch hunt culture today that has helped to cement Trump's position. Every time people attack him, he shows his dominance by refusing to apologize.
This is visible, for example, in the difference between the affairs of Bill Clinton and Trump's tryst with Stormy Daniels. Now in terms of morality, both deeds are of course gravely sinful, despite being mutual (notwithstanding the illicit power dynamic in the case of Bill, though Hillary still refuses to acknowledge it). But looking at the cultural/political impact, apart from the question of right and wrong, it's fascinating how Trump is able to weather the storm simply by refusing to apologize. It's almost as if, in the public eye, it's the apology that constitutes the sin.
At least that way when they run someone over, hopefully it will be someone that we meant to kill.
Didn't I read on Slashdot that Germany was a world leader in renewable energy? So why does this article seem to indicate that Germany is particularly bad for producing cars using fossil fuels?
Exactly. And as soon as Bing does exactly what one expects it to do--show the most-clicked items--then the person who looked to be offended can be satisfied that his fears are well-proven, that indeed this shows "concerted action by far-right groups to skew responses." Of course far-right (or the media's beloved alt-right) people are not the only ones who are racist and who click on racist memes. But as long as we can play the blame game and "prove" the evil of some sinister Other, then we can be well-assured of our own basic righteousness. I think the Chris Hoffmans of the world might be terribly sad on the day when all search engines are filtered enough to avoid the slightest offense, because then they might be forced to look critically at themselves, and that is a terrifying prospect.
So that’s "safe sex."
Hispanics? In California?! Oh my...
Since I'm Mexican I always like to point out how even though most movies and TV come from California, there's almost no Hispanics visible. There are typically more LGBTQ characters on TV than Mexicans, and of course any Mexican characters are usually gangsters and/or drug dealers. Why?--Because there are power dynamics even in these things. California is loaded with us Mexicans, but we do not currently have the same political value as other diversity causes.
Who needs drugs when you have a pocket knife? Just look at this instructional video.
That isn't a shadow profile. What they are describing is an existing Facebook account which has a phone number tied to it that the user never provided to Facebook but was presumably attached by other sources.
I see what you mean, but that's probably precisely the kind of word game that allowed Zuckerberg to deny the practice. It's not technically a shadow profile in terms of a profile belonging to a person who has never signed up. However, it is shadow data attached to a voluntary profile, or in other words, hidden data scraped from online shadow profiles but associated with a non-shadow profile so that the claim can be made that it is not, in fact, a shadow profile. But this is mere semantics. Not only can this be understood as a shadow profile hiding underneath a voluntary profile, but it's even possible that the shadow data is actually stored separately and only probatively associated with the voluntary profile, in which case only this loose and volatile association would ground the pretense that it is not a shadow profile.
The NSA didn't; he brought the code home, and it was his home PC that leaked it.
My question is whether the damage to the microbiome necessarily leads to bee fatality. I'm not sure--from my minimal understanding--whether that has really been demonstrated here. This study is important, but it does seem to be very limited in its actual findings. There needs to be testing to see what else damages the microbiome and what are the immediate and long term consequences of this damage. As usual, some of the reporters seem to be too rash in making simplistic claims about the dangers of the chemical. It's easy to see glyphosate as part of the faceless evil of the big corporation, but the truth is that even the people at Monsanto have no interest in killing off the bees. Bees are a vital part of agriculture (and I don't think Monsanto has brought their Roundup brand genetically-modified glyphosate-resistant extra-killer honey bees to market yet).
I'm no authority, but as far as I can tell PayPal should be unaffected. It sounds like data was scooped off the front-end of the web site, i.e., from filling out the forms. But PayPal does not fill out forms; it sends data directly. So it should not be affected.
I am guessing also that my card number was not stolen since I used a saved number, rather than entering it in. However, Newegg always has you retype the CVV code, so that was definitely stolen in my case.
I got my main email address early on Gmail when it was still invitation-only, and I made it a common Christian phrase without any numbers. Consequently, I get emails meant for everyone and their grandmother, because many individuals, charities, and ecclesial communities use some variation of my email address, then give it out while forgetting to mention whatever numbers are supposed to be appended. At first, I did try to notify people, but I got tired of it because they just kept flowing on in. Once in a while I will notify people if it looks like I get something extremely important; once, for example, someone accidentally sent me money on PayPal and I refunded them. But most of the time it's just a huge nuisance. People sign me up for services that I don't want, or sometimes I try to make an account somewhere and it claims that my account already exists. It's messed up how many web sites will create accounts without first verifying an email address.
I agree that these UBI trials are silly, but don't be too quick to equate them with socialism or communism. There are underlying philosophical differences that add up to more than the superficial similarity. To my limited knowledge, one might be able to summarize it in this way: UBI awards money based on the basic objective dignity of the human person, with the hope that this will result in work. Communism ensures employment based on the dignity of the worker, according to his or her ability and need. UBI is still basically an extra intervention within an overarching capitalist framework, and this may in fact be its particular weakness (notwithstanding the many problems of all-out communism).
There’s lots of things at the mountains of madness... Finally, we can open it up for tourism.
I really want to try out an Amazon device. I have a third-party Google Home and it is pretty disappointing. Google refuses to update the firmware, so it doesn't do broadcast and several other things. I can't use it to take notes (other than useless grocery lists), schedule appointments, send texts, etc. I would hope that Amazon's third-party integration would give it more useful features. Right now my Google Home is mostly a glorified music player.
And worst of all, I can only play my songs by uploading every single one to Google Play Music. In doing so, it takes forever but doesn't actually upload the songs, but simply replaces them with their own versions of the same song--which sometimes are not quite right. Then I have to re-upload all of the same songs under my wife's account so that it will let her play music. Then I try to do the same for my daughter, and find out that you can only do it twice from the same PC. And then half the time my wife asks it to play toddler music, and it starts playing gangster rap or some such.
Sure, it's easy to think that evil is a mere matter of mental health--and I agree that plenty of bad things are the result of people either not seeking or not having the means to acquire proper treatment. But the fact is that healthy people are still able to make decisions, and many of our decisions selfishly build up ourselves at the expense of others. Being healthy does not cause us to choose morally good or helpful activities all of the time.
No one of us can say for sure whether this particular case was a matter of mental illness or not, but we shouldn't assume from the start that simply because he did something harmful that he was not free in doing so. If we are not free to do evil, then how can we pretend to be free to do anything good? If we don't hold ourselves responsible for our bad decisions, how can we claim any merit for our good ones? Or to put it in another manner: how can we be sure that our good actions are not also the byproduct of mental health issues?
A short a (like apple) makes a certain sense because the original Latin is irregular and has a short a. However, it actually makes more sense that it transformed into a long a in most common pronunciation because of the rules of English. Since it is followed by a single consonant, it implies that the vowel is long, and most (though not all) long a's in English are pronounced like ape. Example: saber/sabre.
Exactly, it's all economics. The "declining use" of reviews is simply because Netflix has long prevented reviews from appearing in their apps. They didn't want reviews, and it has little to do with trolling. They want you to watch things; they don't want to warn you not to watch things, no matter how much they suck. They want to convince you that they know what is right for you, and what is right is what they have.
I'm sure there's FERPA discussion, but FERPA is just a silly catch-all for anything and everything someone doesn't like. In my experience, about 90% of the things discussed in academia in light of FERPA actually have nothing to do with FERPA. Most people who bring it up have never read the document, and have no clue what is talks about. FERPA in no way prohibits listening devices in students' rooms. It is only a regulation about the release (not even the securing, but really the release) of educational records to interested parties. Sure somebody could twist FERPA and get some admins to believe that it forbids Alexas in rooms, but in actual text and intention it really has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I'm not even sure who has access if it's managed by SLU, because SLU very recently fired all or nearly all of their IT staff and outsourced everything to Dell and Microsoft. To my understanding, what local staff remains has experienced significant turnover, and has very little control over anything.
So how's it going to drive on AZ's many 45 mph streets without jamming up traffic?
Aha! That's how the aliens did it. They must use the methane clouds to fuel their UFOs, and the giant waves to go surfing....