Martin was defending himself from Zimmerman. He was being followed and harassed by an older, larger, armed man when we was himself doing nothing wrong. He had reason to fear Zimmerman and took action against him to protect himself. Zimmerman picked the fight and should be in jail, he had no business confronting Martin.
, his death solved the problem that neighborhood had.
You can't study a neighborhood in a vacuum. Can you support the notion that absolutely nothing else in that neighborhood changed? Nobody moved out, nobody changed jobs, police presence didn't change, taxes didn't change? Many things changed at the same time that had nothing to do with the senseless murder of a teenager. You cannot support the notion that his death somehow magically changed the neighborhood into Utopia.
That's not the same thing as just shooting anyone who looks suspicious.
Except that the fight was picked by the guy with the gun, not by the teenager who was "armed" only with a candy bar and a bottle of iced tea. The armed idiot could have followed the advice of the dispatcher instead and the unarmed kid would still be alive today.
Florida endorsed his terrible decision, and has let other similar idiots off the hook for shooting at people who they were afraid of (regardless of whether or not there was any reason for said fear).
It was already decided a few years ago that in Florid it is OK to just go ahead and shoot people you are afraid of (ie "suspicious people") and ask questions later (if ever). Why bother installing a smart doorbell when you are entitled to carry whatever gun fits your budget and ego?
Florida. If the heat doesn't kill you, the alligators will. If the alligators don't kill you, the viruses will. If the viruses don't kill you, the locals will.
... that terrible, awful, worthless insult to a pointing device they called their mouse. The person who thought that a round "hockey puck" mouse design was somehow a good idea was an idiot. I can't tell you how many times in various jobs I grabbed one of those miserable mice and started moving it only to realize I grabbed it sideways, upside-down, or at some angle other than normal and it was dutifully moving in a direction other than what I had expected.
Apple should be charged with environmental disposal costs for the truckloads of those miserable piles of failure that they made that invariably were sent to the trash. I recall (at least) one company made a plastic cover for it that a user could snap on to it to give it a normal - and useful - non-round shape.
Check your spam folder in gmail and see what's in there. If you just signed up recently there isn't much but it won't take long. Eventually you'll need to check it regularly to find out what you're missing that you actually want to read. Filters are only making the situation worse and that's all they can do from this point forward.
In the another 40 years the problem will be astronomically worse. In fact if all we do is keep trying to filter out spam, the problem will almost certainly be unbeatable within another decade. The spammers know that they are slowly winning the war against the filters as the signal:noise ratio keeps coming down ever so slightly as they get a little more spam through with each iteration. They know that the complement to this is that more legitimate communication ends up getting automatically junked by the same filters, which means that eventually the filters stop being useful.
The only way to end this problem going forward is to finally look at spam for what it is. Spam is an economic problem. Spammers don't send you spam to make you mad or to waste your time. Spammers send you spam to make money, plain and simple. The only way to end it is to stop them from making money on it. You can't legislate it away by throwing arbitrary penalties at spammers - we've even heard of spammers being murdered on the street and it didn't stop more spammers from coming up to take their place. The only way to stop spam is to stop them from getting paid.
This has been shown effective before. We need to track down how they are getting paid - it most often is based on click-throughs so we need to find who owns the spamvertised domain - and interfere with it. If the money doesn't get to the spammer, they no longer have a reason to send spam.
Everything else is a waste of time, money, storage, more money, and more time.
What's amazing is how quickly the russian trolls downvoted your comments. Can't believe they care about sites like this.
Are you trying to make a funny here or did you not check the moderation history on his comment? Roman posts at -1 because he has a habit of starting religious flamewars and showing no tolerance for those who are not adherents to his preferred religious movement. His comment was not moderated down at all; to the contrary it was only moderated up. In this rare case of him not writing a comment as a recruitment tool for his faith, he was duly up-moderated (some would call this karma-whoring).
- I always dispute it, so your statement is false. I do not believe in any form of collective oppression and violence, this means I am against the collective using such tactics regardless of the goals. All charity must be private and nobody should be forced to participate in it
You talk a big game but you also benefit from a shit-ton of charity on a daily basis. You are able to communicate in person with others due to the government building roads. You are able to communicate online due to the government aiding the telecomm networks. Other people are able to communicate with you because of government provided education. You benefit from clean water and a reasonable guarantee of fire protection as well, provided by the government.
You can bitch about your taxes all you want and keep pummeling us with your religious doctrine about "collectivism" and such associated bullshit, but ultimately you benefit mightily from the charity that you pretend to be opposed to. The charity that benefits you is what makes Canada a first world - and not a third world - country, though much of that charity has become common in those places as well.
Pirating earlier versions of windows had a purpose, as there was generally improvement with each iteration. Windows 7 was a marginal improvement over XP (which was hardly at all an improvement over Windows 2000). But Microsoft never gave any reason to expect 8 to be an improvement over 7, and indeed it wasn't.
Sure, some people pirated it just to pirate it. Make some sort of pointless statement or something. I can see that. I'm just really surprised it was pirated in large enough numbers - and at that with enough people pirating it repeatedly through the development cycle - that anyone noticed this.
I guess that's a better hobby than cooking meth or clubbing baby seals, but I can imagine plenty of more productive things one could do with time.
I'm surprised enough people were interested enough in getting their hands on development releases of windows 8 to be able to solve the puzzle at all. It was released almost 6 years ago and it's adoption rate in the market still has been somewhat lackluster.
How many non-users did Cambridge get information on? It's been known for some time - and was admitted in congress recently - that facebook has profiles for non-users as well as actual users. For myself and... well, I'm told repeatedly that I am the only remaining person alive between the age of 8 and 80 who doesn't have a profile there... it would be really interesting to know if Cambridge got information on "us" as well.
Comey publishes a memoir that exposes what a complete and utter fraud (and moron) Trump is and slashdot highlights only that Comey found encryption to be a moral quagmire. I wish I could say I find this surprising.
The very reason why facebook existed from the beginning was to sell personal information. Why did they take a job with them if they were concerned about the ethics of doing that?
Trump has been silent about other CEOs who he agrees with more than Bezos. Take for example Eddie Lampert who has been running Sears / KMart into the ground. They have been losing money constantly while doing nothing to reward employees or even maintain their stores. Nearly every month they announce more store closures. But Lampert's golden parachute just keeps getting better and better - he's first in line to cash out from Sears when he finally pulls the plug due to the special loans he's issued to them from his own funds.
When Sears finally goes kaput the job losses will vastly outnumber the largest number of coal miners we've had in this country in the past 100 years, and they are distributed across the country. These aren't just high school and college kids working retail until they can find a steady job either; retail at Sears used to be a steady job with a career path. Now every town has lost a Sears, a KMart, or both in the past 5-10 years. All that's left of it is a real estate firm now.
Yeah, I know I'll be down-modded into oblivion on this. Go ahead. If you are too cowardly to reply to ahead and hit me with "offtopic" and "overrated".
Can't tell if this will be a good thing or not. Since the first announcement of this, the consumer in the US has only seen the "Transit Connect", which isn't really a Transit van but rather a smaller imitation of one (that doesn't really quite fit into the minivan category either). The full size Transit is something of a replacement for the old Econoline vans, but Ford forgot to market them so they aren't really selling (and they are only supposed to be sold directly to commercial buyers for no obvious reason).
If this nebulously defined "new Transit van" is either an actual minivan (Ford hasn't had a minivan in quite some time - and with the exception of Chrysler the minivan segment has been thoroughly and utterly dominated in the US by Honda and Toyota) or an actual work van like the Econoline (but available on the sales floor for regular buyers) then they could have something.
As the genome is the collection of genes, the transcriptome is the collection of gene transcripts (expressed genes). As most learn in biology 101, the flow of information (generally) goes DNA -> RNA -> Protein (also called the central dogma of molecular biology). The RNA transcriptome is an exceptionally dynamic entity, changing over time and space normally.
Now if we can get more information on which genes changed the most in transcription while in space, that would be really interesting. Hopefully there is a paper coming up on that, or a data dump that we'll see soon so bioinformaticists can mine it.
I always used to buy my jeans from Levi's, and many years ago they were some of the most consistently manufactured jeans around - in particular, when most of their manufacturing was done in the USA. Much more recently I went to buy two pairs of (theoretically) identical jeans - same cut, same waist, same inseam, differing only by color - and they could have hardly been less similar when I tried them on. Then I checked the tag and realized one pair was made in South America and the other in Southeast Asia - again on the rack they differed only in color. Yet one was uncomfortably tight to button and the other was so loose in the waist that it would nearly fall off of me without a belt.
Their customer service has not been terribly useful either.
Even sourceforge does a better job of communicating its issues with users when they are having downtime (and they're on the same network). Here all we saw was a mostly broken front page and the inability to log in (which then gave an error message about offline status when we tried to log in). Even if the cause is unknown it would be nice to see something posted front and center saying "yeah, we're down, we know it - we're working on it". The attempt to present a business as usual appearance only adds to frustration.
On the topic of the overrated mod, I'd like to mention why I have more than once asked for it to go away permanently.
Back when metamoderation served a function here (several years ago it lost its function and became just a time-waster for those who wanted to know about random comments that had been moderated in the past couple weeks), people discovered that the overrated mod was never subjected to metamoderation. Hence it always stuck. This allowed mod-bombers to make their bombing runs more effective by using only this moderation against people they disliked, giving them a better chance of knocking down that person's karma. I myself had times when I would see mod bombers unleash 20 or more "overrated" mods on me in under 24 hours if I stepped on the wrong person's toes.
You do describe a place where overrated makes sense, however. Perhaps it should be a moderation that can only be applied to a comment with a score of at least +3 or so; mod bombers would throw it at un-moderated comments with scores of 1.
I don't doubt that the windows 10 "upgrade" process promptly wipes out the previous OS. I wouldn't be surprised if the process itself, as described somewhere deep in the documentation, is supposed to do exactly that.
However that is still very, very different from actual user data and user documents. If it blew away the documents that would be a terrible terrible problem and I would think we would have heard a lot about it from other users by now. Windows user data and user documents are not in C:\Windows - or at least they aren't in any sane installation of Windows I've seen in the past couple decades.
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Martin was defending himself from Zimmerman. He was being followed and harassed by an older, larger, armed man when we was himself doing nothing wrong. He had reason to fear Zimmerman and took action against him to protect himself. Zimmerman picked the fight and should be in jail, he had no business confronting Martin.
, his death solved the problem that neighborhood had.
You can't study a neighborhood in a vacuum. Can you support the notion that absolutely nothing else in that neighborhood changed? Nobody moved out, nobody changed jobs, police presence didn't change, taxes didn't change? Many things changed at the same time that had nothing to do with the senseless murder of a teenager. You cannot support the notion that his death somehow magically changed the neighborhood into Utopia.
You know that correlation is not causation, right?
That's not the same thing as just shooting anyone who looks suspicious.
Except that the fight was picked by the guy with the gun, not by the teenager who was "armed" only with a candy bar and a bottle of iced tea. The armed idiot could have followed the advice of the dispatcher instead and the unarmed kid would still be alive today.
Florida endorsed his terrible decision, and has let other similar idiots off the hook for shooting at people who they were afraid of (regardless of whether or not there was any reason for said fear).
It was already decided a few years ago that in Florid it is OK to just go ahead and shoot people you are afraid of (ie "suspicious people") and ask questions later (if ever). Why bother installing a smart doorbell when you are entitled to carry whatever gun fits your budget and ego?
Florida. If the heat doesn't kill you, the alligators will. If the alligators don't kill you, the viruses will. If the viruses don't kill you, the locals will.
... that terrible, awful, worthless insult to a pointing device they called their mouse. The person who thought that a round "hockey puck" mouse design was somehow a good idea was an idiot. I can't tell you how many times in various jobs I grabbed one of those miserable mice and started moving it only to realize I grabbed it sideways, upside-down, or at some angle other than normal and it was dutifully moving in a direction other than what I had expected.
Apple should be charged with environmental disposal costs for the truckloads of those miserable piles of failure that they made that invariably were sent to the trash. I recall (at least) one company made a plastic cover for it that a user could snap on to it to give it a normal - and useful - non-round shape.
Check your spam folder in gmail and see what's in there. If you just signed up recently there isn't much but it won't take long. Eventually you'll need to check it regularly to find out what you're missing that you actually want to read. Filters are only making the situation worse and that's all they can do from this point forward.
In the another 40 years the problem will be astronomically worse. In fact if all we do is keep trying to filter out spam, the problem will almost certainly be unbeatable within another decade. The spammers know that they are slowly winning the war against the filters as the signal:noise ratio keeps coming down ever so slightly as they get a little more spam through with each iteration. They know that the complement to this is that more legitimate communication ends up getting automatically junked by the same filters, which means that eventually the filters stop being useful.
The only way to end this problem going forward is to finally look at spam for what it is. Spam is an economic problem. Spammers don't send you spam to make you mad or to waste your time. Spammers send you spam to make money, plain and simple. The only way to end it is to stop them from making money on it. You can't legislate it away by throwing arbitrary penalties at spammers - we've even heard of spammers being murdered on the street and it didn't stop more spammers from coming up to take their place. The only way to stop spam is to stop them from getting paid.
This has been shown effective before. We need to track down how they are getting paid - it most often is based on click-throughs so we need to find who owns the spamvertised domain - and interfere with it. If the money doesn't get to the spammer, they no longer have a reason to send spam.
Everything else is a waste of time, money, storage, more money, and more time.
I'm not sure how one can tell the difference, temperature-wise. Might need slightly more sunblock I suppose, perhaps SPF 10e40?
What's amazing is how quickly the russian trolls downvoted your comments. Can't believe they care about sites like this.
Are you trying to make a funny here or did you not check the moderation history on his comment? Roman posts at -1 because he has a habit of starting religious flamewars and showing no tolerance for those who are not adherents to his preferred religious movement. His comment was not moderated down at all; to the contrary it was only moderated up. In this rare case of him not writing a comment as a recruitment tool for his faith, he was duly up-moderated (some would call this karma-whoring).
- I always dispute it, so your statement is false. I do not believe in any form of collective oppression and violence, this means I am against the collective using such tactics regardless of the goals. All charity must be private and nobody should be forced to participate in it
You talk a big game but you also benefit from a shit-ton of charity on a daily basis. You are able to communicate in person with others due to the government building roads. You are able to communicate online due to the government aiding the telecomm networks. Other people are able to communicate with you because of government provided education. You benefit from clean water and a reasonable guarantee of fire protection as well, provided by the government.
You can bitch about your taxes all you want and keep pummeling us with your religious doctrine about "collectivism" and such associated bullshit, but ultimately you benefit mightily from the charity that you pretend to be opposed to. The charity that benefits you is what makes Canada a first world - and not a third world - country, though much of that charity has become common in those places as well.
Pirating earlier versions of windows had a purpose, as there was generally improvement with each iteration. Windows 7 was a marginal improvement over XP (which was hardly at all an improvement over Windows 2000). But Microsoft never gave any reason to expect 8 to be an improvement over 7, and indeed it wasn't.
Sure, some people pirated it just to pirate it. Make some sort of pointless statement or something. I can see that. I'm just really surprised it was pirated in large enough numbers - and at that with enough people pirating it repeatedly through the development cycle - that anyone noticed this.
I guess that's a better hobby than cooking meth or clubbing baby seals, but I can imagine plenty of more productive things one could do with time.
I'm surprised enough people were interested enough in getting their hands on development releases of windows 8 to be able to solve the puzzle at all. It was released almost 6 years ago and it's adoption rate in the market still has been somewhat lackluster.
How many non-users did Cambridge get information on? It's been known for some time - and was admitted in congress recently - that facebook has profiles for non-users as well as actual users. For myself and ... well, I'm told repeatedly that I am the only remaining person alive between the age of 8 and 80 who doesn't have a profile there ... it would be really interesting to know if Cambridge got information on "us" as well.
Comey publishes a memoir that exposes what a complete and utter fraud (and moron) Trump is and slashdot highlights only that Comey found encryption to be a moral quagmire. I wish I could say I find this surprising.
The very reason why facebook existed from the beginning was to sell personal information. Why did they take a job with them if they were concerned about the ethics of doing that?
Trump has been silent about other CEOs who he agrees with more than Bezos. Take for example Eddie Lampert who has been running Sears / KMart into the ground. They have been losing money constantly while doing nothing to reward employees or even maintain their stores. Nearly every month they announce more store closures. But Lampert's golden parachute just keeps getting better and better - he's first in line to cash out from Sears when he finally pulls the plug due to the special loans he's issued to them from his own funds.
When Sears finally goes kaput the job losses will vastly outnumber the largest number of coal miners we've had in this country in the past 100 years, and they are distributed across the country. These aren't just high school and college kids working retail until they can find a steady job either; retail at Sears used to be a steady job with a career path. Now every town has lost a Sears, a KMart, or both in the past 5-10 years. All that's left of it is a real estate firm now.
Yeah, I know I'll be down-modded into oblivion on this. Go ahead. If you are too cowardly to reply to ahead and hit me with "offtopic" and "overrated".
I know slashdot is hurting, but now we're scraping the side of UHaul trucks for stories?
Can't tell if this will be a good thing or not. Since the first announcement of this, the consumer in the US has only seen the "Transit Connect", which isn't really a Transit van but rather a smaller imitation of one (that doesn't really quite fit into the minivan category either). The full size Transit is something of a replacement for the old Econoline vans, but Ford forgot to market them so they aren't really selling (and they are only supposed to be sold directly to commercial buyers for no obvious reason).
If this nebulously defined "new Transit van" is either an actual minivan (Ford hasn't had a minivan in quite some time - and with the exception of Chrysler the minivan segment has been thoroughly and utterly dominated in the US by Honda and Toyota) or an actual work van like the Econoline (but available on the sales floor for regular buyers) then they could have something.
As the genome is the collection of genes, the transcriptome is the collection of gene transcripts (expressed genes). As most learn in biology 101, the flow of information (generally) goes DNA -> RNA -> Protein (also called the central dogma of molecular biology). The RNA transcriptome is an exceptionally dynamic entity, changing over time and space normally.
Now if we can get more information on which genes changed the most in transcription while in space, that would be really interesting. Hopefully there is a paper coming up on that, or a data dump that we'll see soon so bioinformaticists can mine it.
I always used to buy my jeans from Levi's, and many years ago they were some of the most consistently manufactured jeans around - in particular, when most of their manufacturing was done in the USA. Much more recently I went to buy two pairs of (theoretically) identical jeans - same cut, same waist, same inseam, differing only by color - and they could have hardly been less similar when I tried them on. Then I checked the tag and realized one pair was made in South America and the other in Southeast Asia - again on the rack they differed only in color. Yet one was uncomfortably tight to button and the other was so loose in the waist that it would nearly fall off of me without a belt.
Their customer service has not been terribly useful either.
Even sourceforge does a better job of communicating its issues with users when they are having downtime (and they're on the same network). Here all we saw was a mostly broken front page and the inability to log in (which then gave an error message about offline status when we tried to log in). Even if the cause is unknown it would be nice to see something posted front and center saying "yeah, we're down, we know it - we're working on it". The attempt to present a business as usual appearance only adds to frustration.
On the topic of the overrated mod, I'd like to mention why I have more than once asked for it to go away permanently.
Back when metamoderation served a function here (several years ago it lost its function and became just a time-waster for those who wanted to know about random comments that had been moderated in the past couple weeks), people discovered that the overrated mod was never subjected to metamoderation. Hence it always stuck. This allowed mod-bombers to make their bombing runs more effective by using only this moderation against people they disliked, giving them a better chance of knocking down that person's karma. I myself had times when I would see mod bombers unleash 20 or more "overrated" mods on me in under 24 hours if I stepped on the wrong person's toes.
You do describe a place where overrated makes sense, however. Perhaps it should be a moderation that can only be applied to a comment with a score of at least +3 or so; mod bombers would throw it at un-moderated comments with scores of 1.
We've been slashing the IRS staffing so dramatically in recent years that it is rather unlikely anything would be done with that information.
I don't doubt that the windows 10 "upgrade" process promptly wipes out the previous OS. I wouldn't be surprised if the process itself, as described somewhere deep in the documentation, is supposed to do exactly that.
However that is still very, very different from actual user data and user documents. If it blew away the documents that would be a terrible terrible problem and I would think we would have heard a lot about it from other users by now. Windows user data and user documents are not in C:\Windows - or at least they aren't in any sane installation of Windows I've seen in the past couple decades.