I expect in the morning the conservative talking heads on radio and TV will trip over each other to be the first to take credit for Stewart's departure. Considering how much he - the admitted source of fake news - has made them look like buffoons routinely over the years, they likely won't mourn him much.
I am not a programmer for any of the giant game companies, so I might be missing out on something here. I expected that the games called back to the producer's servers by hard-coded names or IPs; this would make it rather difficult for fans to set up their own servers unless they did something a lot more clever than just setting up a server in their basement. Has there been a proof-of-principle on this with a reasonably recent game that has had its online components neutered by its parent company?
I didn't expect there would be thousands of Floridians who were smart enough to know how to use email yet interested in contacting Jeb. Are we sure they aren't thousands of throwaway email addresses used by just a few people?
Slashdot was completely unusable for at least 8 hours today. Are we going to hear what happened? Granted, my boss might be thankful for what it did to my productivity (similar to how a facebook outage improved he productivity of everyone else in the group) but still it would be nice to know.
I recall a while back here on slashdot there was a trial (that lasted a day or two) of a commenting system for writing comments - rather than replies - about user comments. It was here for a short while, and then disappeared.
That said, as the slashdot philosophy is generally "release code, talk about developing it, and then leave it in place and forget about it", I would have expected that by default wikipedia or WMF would have done better.
There is no informational content to be gained by watching this video. There is plenty of emotional content to be gathered though.
The same could be said with >>99% of all videos posted online today. Doesn't matter if it's Fox, CNN, CSPAN, or just straight from Youtube. Videos are actually generally rather poor vehicles of information. However, the current age of information does call for videos, so they are made available.
That said I still think it is acceptable to post it and make it available for those who want to see it. I see it as being of virtually zero value to people who have any concern of the conflict but still worthwhile to have up for those who wish to see it. I don't see how someone would see this and become an ISIS supporter any more than someone would see this and decide to take action - beyond participating in online forums - against ISIS over it.
To me, Fox got it right this time. They put the video up, with big graphic disclaimers of how barbaric it is. Nobody was ever forced to click on it, you don't have to watch it if you don't want to. Even more so, it seems rather unlikely that anyone who was considering aligning themselves with ISIS would go to Fox for information and become persuaded to join ISIS after watching this video there. ISIS is certainly tech-savvy enough to be able to distribute this through other channels to get to the people they want to get it in front of.
That said, Fox posted this likely for no reason other than to draw eyes - and with them, hopefully money - to their website. So much like Ron Paul, Fox News is most often wrong but on rare occasions right for the wrong reasons.
The headline is written such that it left me to think at first that it was for handling dangerous live insects (say, killer bees, fire ants, etc). The headline should really specify it is for handling insect specimens - or that the device ensures the safety of the insect rather than the handler.
Sure, the phone beats out the camera for convenience. But if you need to take two pictures in less than 10 seconds? Forget it, most phones do a truly awful job of that - if they can do it at all. Camera makers need to sell more cameras that can take pictures FAST. When the camera can go from off to having taken a picture in less than 10 seconds, and take another in less than that amount of time, it is faster than any phone out there.
A lot of people say it's all about the optics, which is true when comparing cameras to cameras. But people who take lots of pictures on their phones aren't concerned about high quality optics and spectacular zoom, they are concerned about ease of use. Make the digital camera FAST and the consumers will come back. A lot of cameras out there can't do what I just described. Even better is a camera that can do both of those in half the time.
The proper term is ideological fanaticism, not religious.
No, I very deliberately used the term religious. Randians and Paullowers use Rand's writings as a basis for their very existence; to them the ideas in her book(s) are just as important as any in the Torah, Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, or any other religious text you can think of. While Randians - particularly the one in charge of Sears - are often to economics what Al-Qaeda is to religion, they are still clearly crusading for their religion.
Because that was decades ago. While I was quite sure that (Mandarin) Chinese would be more useful than either Spanish or German in my future life, I had no option to take Mandarin and had started Spanish in middle school (where it was literally the only option). Had I known that German would be more useful (than Spanish) to my future I would have switched to that.
Had I known back then that not only would German be useful than Spanish but also that I am tone-mute, I would have taken German rather than wondering if I could ever hack Chinese.
I recall back in high school the foreign language options were Spanish, German, and French. In my field German might be the 4th or 5th most spoken language (with English being the first) but Spanish and French might not even crack the top 10. Two years of C++ would have been vastly more useful to me than the two years I wasted learning Spanish (in college I subsequently took C++ and forgot Spanish).
Have we seen any mergers refused in the past 10+ years? At this point if Microsoft wanted to merge with Sony and then buy out Apple I wouldn't expect refusals of any of that either.
The only industry that has more power over the government than the banking/financial industry is the insurance industry - and the two are in cahoots. You won't get anywhere against them legally. Your sister should probably go request a new social security number immediately and cancel all her credit cards, then get ready to watch for activity. They banks aren't obligated to do much of anything, and they will dig in their heels to do as little of that as possible.
He also pitted the different sections of the company against each other. Rather than cooperatively working as a whole unit to make profits, he seems to think that making the online regular store compete with the brick-and-mortar store, and making the online outlet store compete with the brick-and-mortar outlet stores is a good idea.
That is exactly what I meant by the Lord of the Flies reference. He basically has scared the employees into stabbing each other in the back. At some point he might actually come to realize that Atlas Shrugged is fiction and not a how-to, but by then many thousands more will be out of work because of his religious fanaticism.
In what alternate reality do you think that is true?
It is what he signed.
He signed it to ensure that he would have a legacy as the president who signed a health care (related) bill into law. He knew there would not be another to make it to his desk had he opted to veto it instead.
This is all that matters.
So to you, reality doesn't matter then? That would explain a lot.
Craftsman used to be a great brand: I have power tools from my grandfather that still run AND for which I can still get parts (from Sears!). I have bought a few mysef over the last 5-10 years the the quality is rubbish.
Indeed. Craftsman used to be American made, too. Now >90% of all the Craftsman merchandise at Sears is made in China or Taiwan. The quality went away with it. The warranty is still there but that doesn't help when there are fewer stores open shorter hours than there were back in the 80s.
If you're wondering how this happened, just look at the Sears/KMart CEO. He's a devout Randian who is turning Sears into Lord of the Flies as he tries to abolish "collectivism" from his stores. To keep his employees in constant fear he is also known to phone in to company meetings and scream at people from thoussands of miles away on a video screen.
It's possible for them to turn around, though, should they care to do so.
The only way they could possibly do that would be by shit-canning their idiot CEO. Unfortunately when he took control he also made it nearly impossible to fire him. He'll ride that ship down and then find some clever trick to cash out.
That requires them to have inventory. Have you been to a Radio Shack lately? Unless you're looking for iPhone cases in 5,000 different colors (which are carried at the kiosk in front of Radio Shack for the same or lower price) you likely won't find anything you want there.
In what alternate reality do you think that is true? Why would he have put so much effort into trying to sell us on something very different - before the GOP writing this bill - if this was what he wanted instead?
Granted, it serves his masters well, but it was not what he campaigned on or had ever voted in favor of.
Obama was left with no other choice than to embrace this steaming pile of failure. He knew that there was absolutely no chance of any other bill relating in the least to health care ever making it to his desk again.
Obama could simply not have signed it.
You really should try reading before you start writing. You would make yourself look less ridiculous.
Perhaps you at least are aware of the contribution to writing that was made by the republicans,
So? What matters is the law in its entirety.
Thank you for admitting that you were lying when you tried to claim that Obama wrote and/or introduced the bill. I'm sorry it was so painful for you to admit that you know almost nothing about how the bill came to be.
I used to be a Democrat and am ashamed to say that I actually voted for Obama.
A lot of conservatives like to write that because even if they aren't knowledgeable on politics they have seen that line used enough to know that it is essentially impossible for someone else to disprove it. I have three ears and commute to work in a learjet piloted by the resurrection of Helen Keller; can you disprove that?
Then I suggest you go try living in Somalia or Afghanistan
I'd settle for Switzerland, Hong Kong, or Singapore, all of which have substantially lower government spending than the US.
Those three all also have single-payer health care systems. They also have governments who manage their education systems to a much greater extent than the American system. You really need to try Somalia or Afghanistan to get the government away from you to the extent you are asking for. I'm sorry that you are so terribly uninformed on these matters.
The grown ups here would like to see America get better for the future.
Yes, we do. That's why infantile views like yours, namely that money is handed out like pocket money from an all powerful paternalistic government, need to stop.
You pulled that assumption out of nowhere. You would do yourself a favor to read before writing.
the money goes into a big pot, and infrastructure spending won't substantially increase as a result of this
You really should read into how the federal government budget works before you go and shove your foot in your mouth like that.
Infrastructure spending is being crowded out by entitlement spending
First of all, they come from different budgets. If you knew anything about the federal government you would probably know that. Infrastructure spending can't take money from "entitlement" spending, nor can the other happen either. Turn off fox news for a while and go read some literature on the matter that is written by someone who has a clue.
The conservatives deny this, which makes it a liberal matter - just like climate change, health care, education, space exploration, scientific research, and diplomacy.
You're absolutely right, and I want the federal government to do next to nothing in any of those areas.
Then I suggest you go try living in Somalia or Afghanistan for a while both of their governments have been pursuing those ambitions like that for some time. The grown ups here would like to see America get better for the future.
Obama did not propose this law. Congress wrote it and he signed it, but he did not propose it.
Are you kidding?
No. I am absolutely serious. He did not propose it.
"Passing the ACA" is considered one of the great accomplishments of this administration by its proponents.
Obama was left with no other choice than to embrace this steaming pile of failure. He knew that there was absolutely no chance of any other bill relating in the least to health care ever making it to his desk again. He either signed this conservative piece of garbage into law or went down in history as the guy who campaigned for health care reform and then subsequently vetoed a health care bill.
Trying to split hairs over whether he "proposed it" is irrelevant.
This is not in any way splitting hairs. The person i replied to falsely claimed that it was proposed by Obama. The fact that he signed it does not mean he proposed it. The fact that - by way of fox news et al - it came to be associated with his name also does not mean he proposed it.
By your same logic WWII was caused by FDR because he was president when we entered it.
Actually, it's worse than that. It is the largest corporate handout in the history of government.
Yes, and it was endorsed, passed, signed, and implemented by President Obama and the Democrats, who evidently are in the pocket of big corporations.
I noticed you neglected to use the term "written". Perhaps you at least are aware of the contribution to writing that was made by the republicans, who subsequently protested against it only out of their desire to do everything possible to tarnish the legacy of the democrat at 1600 Pennsylvania?
That said, everyone in DC (with the sole exception of Bernie Sanders) is owned by the insurance industry. it just so happened that at this time the bailout was able to pass without republicans voting for it. If they were needed then the industry would have forced them to vote for it as well.
Naturally the conservative bend on slashdot wants to leave people to assume that this money would be handed out to inner city drug-dealing / pimping high school dropouts to encourage them to have 12 more kids. The reality that slashdot couldn't be bothered to share is that the money would go to infrastructure. Whie conservatives like to claim that "the incoming tide raises all ships" and other such bullshit, infrastructure is a government responsibility in the rest of the industrialized world. We need to get our infrastructure up to snuff to keep our country relevant in the modern era. The conservatives deny this, which makes it a liberal matter - just like climate change, health care, education, space exploration, scientific research, and diplomacy.
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I expect in the morning the conservative talking heads on radio and TV will trip over each other to be the first to take credit for Stewart's departure. Considering how much he - the admitted source of fake news - has made them look like buffoons routinely over the years, they likely won't mourn him much.
I am not a programmer for any of the giant game companies, so I might be missing out on something here. I expected that the games called back to the producer's servers by hard-coded names or IPs; this would make it rather difficult for fans to set up their own servers unless they did something a lot more clever than just setting up a server in their basement. Has there been a proof-of-principle on this with a reasonably recent game that has had its online components neutered by its parent company?
I didn't expect there would be thousands of Floridians who were smart enough to know how to use email yet interested in contacting Jeb. Are we sure they aren't thousands of throwaway email addresses used by just a few people?
Slashdot was completely unusable for at least 8 hours today. Are we going to hear what happened? Granted, my boss might be thankful for what it did to my productivity (similar to how a facebook outage improved he productivity of everyone else in the group) but still it would be nice to know.
I recall a while back here on slashdot there was a trial (that lasted a day or two) of a commenting system for writing comments - rather than replies - about user comments. It was here for a short while, and then disappeared.
That said, as the slashdot philosophy is generally "release code, talk about developing it, and then leave it in place and forget about it", I would have expected that by default wikipedia or WMF would have done better.
There is no informational content to be gained by watching this video. There is plenty of emotional content to be gathered though.
The same could be said with >>99% of all videos posted online today. Doesn't matter if it's Fox, CNN, CSPAN, or just straight from Youtube. Videos are actually generally rather poor vehicles of information. However, the current age of information does call for videos, so they are made available.
That said I still think it is acceptable to post it and make it available for those who want to see it. I see it as being of virtually zero value to people who have any concern of the conflict but still worthwhile to have up for those who wish to see it. I don't see how someone would see this and become an ISIS supporter any more than someone would see this and decide to take action - beyond participating in online forums - against ISIS over it.
To me, Fox got it right this time. They put the video up, with big graphic disclaimers of how barbaric it is. Nobody was ever forced to click on it, you don't have to watch it if you don't want to. Even more so, it seems rather unlikely that anyone who was considering aligning themselves with ISIS would go to Fox for information and become persuaded to join ISIS after watching this video there. ISIS is certainly tech-savvy enough to be able to distribute this through other channels to get to the people they want to get it in front of.
That said, Fox posted this likely for no reason other than to draw eyes - and with them, hopefully money - to their website. So much like Ron Paul, Fox News is most often wrong but on rare occasions right for the wrong reasons.
... and I should really use the preview button more often. My comment on a poorly written headline ended up itself having poorly written HTML in it.
The headline is written such that it left me to think at first that it was for handling dangerous live insects (say, killer bees, fire ants, etc). The headline should really specify it is for handling insect specimens - or that the device ensures the safety of the insect rather than the handler.
Sure, the phone beats out the camera for convenience. But if you need to take two pictures in less than 10 seconds? Forget it, most phones do a truly awful job of that - if they can do it at all. Camera makers need to sell more cameras that can take pictures FAST. When the camera can go from off to having taken a picture in less than 10 seconds, and take another in less than that amount of time, it is faster than any phone out there.
A lot of people say it's all about the optics, which is true when comparing cameras to cameras. But people who take lots of pictures on their phones aren't concerned about high quality optics and spectacular zoom, they are concerned about ease of use. Make the digital camera FAST and the consumers will come back. A lot of cameras out there can't do what I just described. Even better is a camera that can do both of those in half the time.
The proper term is ideological fanaticism, not religious.
No, I very deliberately used the term religious. Randians and Paullowers use Rand's writings as a basis for their very existence; to them the ideas in her book(s) are just as important as any in the Torah, Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, or any other religious text you can think of. While Randians - particularly the one in charge of Sears - are often to economics what Al-Qaeda is to religion, they are still clearly crusading for their religion.
Why did you not take German then?
Because that was decades ago. While I was quite sure that (Mandarin) Chinese would be more useful than either Spanish or German in my future life, I had no option to take Mandarin and had started Spanish in middle school (where it was literally the only option). Had I known that German would be more useful (than Spanish) to my future I would have switched to that.
Had I known back then that not only would German be useful than Spanish but also that I am tone-mute, I would have taken German rather than wondering if I could ever hack Chinese.
I recall back in high school the foreign language options were Spanish, German, and French. In my field German might be the 4th or 5th most spoken language (with English being the first) but Spanish and French might not even crack the top 10. Two years of C++ would have been vastly more useful to me than the two years I wasted learning Spanish (in college I subsequently took C++ and forgot Spanish).
Have we seen any mergers refused in the past 10+ years? At this point if Microsoft wanted to merge with Sony and then buy out Apple I wouldn't expect refusals of any of that either.
The only industry that has more power over the government than the banking/financial industry is the insurance industry - and the two are in cahoots. You won't get anywhere against them legally. Your sister should probably go request a new social security number immediately and cancel all her credit cards, then get ready to watch for activity. They banks aren't obligated to do much of anything, and they will dig in their heels to do as little of that as possible.
He also pitted the different sections of the company against each other. Rather than cooperatively working as a whole unit to make profits, he seems to think that making the online regular store compete with the brick-and-mortar store, and making the online outlet store compete with the brick-and-mortar outlet stores is a good idea.
That is exactly what I meant by the Lord of the Flies reference. He basically has scared the employees into stabbing each other in the back. At some point he might actually come to realize that Atlas Shrugged is fiction and not a how-to, but by then many thousands more will be out of work because of his religious fanaticism.
In what alternate reality do you think that is true?
It is what he signed.
He signed it to ensure that he would have a legacy as the president who signed a health care (related) bill into law. He knew there would not be another to make it to his desk had he opted to veto it instead.
This is all that matters.
So to you, reality doesn't matter then? That would explain a lot.
Craftsman used to be a great brand: I have power tools from my grandfather that still run AND for which I can still get parts (from Sears!). I have bought a few mysef over the last 5-10 years the the quality is rubbish.
Indeed. Craftsman used to be American made, too. Now >90% of all the Craftsman merchandise at Sears is made in China or Taiwan. The quality went away with it. The warranty is still there but that doesn't help when there are fewer stores open shorter hours than there were back in the 80s.
If you're wondering how this happened, just look at the Sears/KMart CEO. He's a devout Randian who is turning Sears into Lord of the Flies as he tries to abolish "collectivism" from his stores. To keep his employees in constant fear he is also known to phone in to company meetings and scream at people from thoussands of miles away on a video screen.
It's possible for them to turn around, though, should they care to do so.
The only way they could possibly do that would be by shit-canning their idiot CEO. Unfortunately when he took control he also made it nearly impossible to fire him. He'll ride that ship down and then find some clever trick to cash out.
That requires them to have inventory. Have you been to a Radio Shack lately? Unless you're looking for iPhone cases in 5,000 different colors (which are carried at the kiosk in front of Radio Shack for the same or lower price) you likely won't find anything you want there.
This is the bill he wanted
In what alternate reality do you think that is true? Why would he have put so much effort into trying to sell us on something very different - before the GOP writing this bill - if this was what he wanted instead?
Granted, it serves his masters well, but it was not what he campaigned on or had ever voted in favor of.
Obama was left with no other choice than to embrace this steaming pile of failure. He knew that there was absolutely no chance of any other bill relating in the least to health care ever making it to his desk again.
Obama could simply not have signed it.
You really should try reading before you start writing. You would make yourself look less ridiculous.
Perhaps you at least are aware of the contribution to writing that was made by the republicans,
So? What matters is the law in its entirety.
Thank you for admitting that you were lying when you tried to claim that Obama wrote and/or introduced the bill. I'm sorry it was so painful for you to admit that you know almost nothing about how the bill came to be.
I used to be a Democrat and am ashamed to say that I actually voted for Obama.
A lot of conservatives like to write that because even if they aren't knowledgeable on politics they have seen that line used enough to know that it is essentially impossible for someone else to disprove it. I have three ears and commute to work in a learjet piloted by the resurrection of Helen Keller; can you disprove that?
Then I suggest you go try living in Somalia or Afghanistan
I'd settle for Switzerland, Hong Kong, or Singapore, all of which have substantially lower government spending than the US.
Those three all also have single-payer health care systems. They also have governments who manage their education systems to a much greater extent than the American system. You really need to try Somalia or Afghanistan to get the government away from you to the extent you are asking for. I'm sorry that you are so terribly uninformed on these matters.
The grown ups here would like to see America get better for the future.
Yes, we do. That's why infantile views like yours, namely that money is handed out like pocket money from an all powerful paternalistic government, need to stop.
You pulled that assumption out of nowhere. You would do yourself a favor to read before writing.
the money goes into a big pot, and infrastructure spending won't substantially increase as a result of this
You really should read into how the federal government budget works before you go and shove your foot in your mouth like that.
Infrastructure spending is being crowded out by entitlement spending
First of all, they come from different budgets. If you knew anything about the federal government you would probably know that. Infrastructure spending can't take money from "entitlement" spending, nor can the other happen either. Turn off fox news for a while and go read some literature on the matter that is written by someone who has a clue.
The conservatives deny this, which makes it a liberal matter - just like climate change, health care, education, space exploration, scientific research, and diplomacy.
You're absolutely right, and I want the federal government to do next to nothing in any of those areas.
Then I suggest you go try living in Somalia or Afghanistan for a while both of their governments have been pursuing those ambitions like that for some time. The grown ups here would like to see America get better for the future.
Obama did not propose this law. Congress wrote it and he signed it, but he did not propose it.
Are you kidding?
No. I am absolutely serious. He did not propose it.
"Passing the ACA" is considered one of the great accomplishments of this administration by its proponents.
Obama was left with no other choice than to embrace this steaming pile of failure. He knew that there was absolutely no chance of any other bill relating in the least to health care ever making it to his desk again. He either signed this conservative piece of garbage into law or went down in history as the guy who campaigned for health care reform and then subsequently vetoed a health care bill.
Trying to split hairs over whether he "proposed it" is irrelevant.
This is not in any way splitting hairs. The person i replied to falsely claimed that it was proposed by Obama. The fact that he signed it does not mean he proposed it. The fact that - by way of fox news et al - it came to be associated with his name also does not mean he proposed it.
By your same logic WWII was caused by FDR because he was president when we entered it.
Actually, it's worse than that. It is the largest corporate handout in the history of government.
Yes, and it was endorsed, passed, signed, and implemented by President Obama and the Democrats, who evidently are in the pocket of big corporations.
I noticed you neglected to use the term "written". Perhaps you at least are aware of the contribution to writing that was made by the republicans, who subsequently protested against it only out of their desire to do everything possible to tarnish the legacy of the democrat at 1600 Pennsylvania?
That said, everyone in DC (with the sole exception of Bernie Sanders) is owned by the insurance industry. it just so happened that at this time the bailout was able to pass without republicans voting for it. If they were needed then the industry would have forced them to vote for it as well.
What is 'liberal' about this proposal?
Naturally the conservative bend on slashdot wants to leave people to assume that this money would be handed out to inner city drug-dealing / pimping high school dropouts to encourage them to have 12 more kids. The reality that slashdot couldn't be bothered to share is that the money would go to infrastructure. Whie conservatives like to claim that "the incoming tide raises all ships" and other such bullshit, infrastructure is a government responsibility in the rest of the industrialized world. We need to get our infrastructure up to snuff to keep our country relevant in the modern era. The conservatives deny this, which makes it a liberal matter - just like climate change, health care, education, space exploration, scientific research, and diplomacy.