Disclaimer - I absolutely do not agree with Cyberwar being in any way equivocal to traditional war. No one dies in a ddos. I do however agree with controls on technology as I do the use of Military force, domestically.
Well, there's cyberwar, and there's espionage. Most of what has been done has been espionage, usually for economic gain, not military gain. But a cyberwar would be, say, electronically attacking infrastructure, such that it would be more difficult to coordinate and attack in a real war, and that WOULD result in casualties that can be linked to the cyberwar.
The world is heading towards a melt down and I want the US to have the weapons needed to come out on top.
Those two statements are self-contradicting. I always liked Carl Sagan's quote about the US and Soviet Union when we were worried about who had the bigger weapons:
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable.
Yeah...I was and still am, somewhat "shocked" that this story has dropped SO quickly off the news map....
It's certainly the top story here. But our news media loves to move from obsession to obsession, because obsessions sell.
I was guessing, that since a handgun was used, and it wasn't a 50yr old white guy with a problem, or a messed up kid, that it just didn't fit their current narrative that helps push the anti-gun movement currently in swing.
Or because, unlike most of the big-news shooting this last year, no one (aside from the shooter) died. Three injuries in total, and we don't really have any other information since then. "30 people died in a mass shooting" is orders of magnitude more important than "3 people were injured in an attempted shooting.." Why would you think the latter was in any way comparable?
It did accomplish something, were I youtube I would be taking a VERY hard look at how heavy handed their censorship and demonetization affects people and I would be doing it right goddamn now.
That is NOT how people respond to shootings and other attacks like that. Instead, most people think 1) This person was fucking crazy. 2) Her ideas were WAY too trivial to warrant shooting someone over. 3) Her ideas were pretty crazy too. 4) I don't think she had a good point.
Someone going in and attacking reinforces their own feeling of correctness, it stiffens their spine, it doesn't make them say "oh damn, someone fired a gun, maybe we went too far." Because when someone goes nutso and freaks out like that, it becomes all the easier to dismiss what they were upset about as the ravings of a madwoman. And they aren't wrong, either.
Looking through this comment and your posting history, you are pretty much the epitome of the "shit-poster only trying to sow as much discord as he can." I have no idea if you're a Russian account trying to poison the well; I have no way of knowing, really. But you really try to live up to the stereotype as much as you can.
As others have pointed out, ABC7 is not Sinclair. Her relatives, more than one, had made reports to police about her dangerous behavior. Her father called the police when she disappeared and told them she may be headed to the Youtube headquarters. Her brother said that she often complained that Youtube "ruined her life."
CBS she was believed to be the girlfriend of the man she shot
An initial report from the Daily Beast said that she went to Youtube to go after her boyfriend, but this is contracted by San Bruno police reports, where they say she did not know anyone at the company.
You have some of the most detestable opinions I have ever read on this site. No matter the issue, you always seem to take the worst side of it. I pity the people IRL who elect to put up with you.
I don't always (often? Haven't been counting) agree with Animojo, but what in the grandparent post was troll-worthy? Like.. should her graphic videos NOT have been age-restricted?
However, you'd expect these big automakers to be able to make EVs in any number (as long as they sell) easier than Tesla. Even if the electric drivetrain is 'new' to them, the bodywork, brakes, etc. is not. Te rest of the car is the same old thing they know -
The problem is the big automakers also suffer from a lack of imagination. Too often to them, making an EV is as simple as replacing the ICE components with EV components, done. Rather than design an EV from the ground up. Then they just stick batteries in the trunk or something ridiculous and you end up with no storage space. Of the big automakers making EVs (in 2016), I felt Nissan was the only one who got it right. Chevy EVs were cramped with no cargo space. Volkswagon and Fiat piped in artificial ICE engine sounds through the stereo system, a feature you could not turn off. The GM cars were cramped with absolutely no visibility through the windows. The Leaf was decent and had a better range then most of the others at the time, so that's what I went with.
Except the headline didn't specify that.. on the other hand with "But there is next to no chance Apple will replace Intel chips for ARM-based ones any time in the next five years.".. next to no chance? Go ahead, be bold, take a stand, dammit!
You're on Slashdot, so you should be used to stories whose headlines were written by different people than the stories themselves.:-)
This argument of "wah, I'm not making money!" is BS these days
It's not BS, it's the foundation of just about every role in society. Almost everything you need to actually survive (food, a roof, utilities) costs money. To get money, you get a job. At your job, you need to get paid. To get paid, the company needs to make money.
In what universe is FOSS running on millions of devices equivalent to being "tossed out the window"?
Because FOSS was always supposed to -empower users-. Chromebooks are far more limited and closed than even the classic closed-sourced Windows/Mac ecosystems, and the end user has far less choice and power over his own device. That very explicitly throws all the FOSS ideals out the window.
Because people are TERRIBLE at assessing risk. People probably felt pangs of fear while hearing the news reports in their car, completely oblivious to the irony.
I don't think they were actually afraid... it's just kindof fun and exciting to think about it.
Unfortunately "baffles scientists" is a phrase I've come associate with people who use it as a strawman
I thought it referred to a scientist when they made an astounding discovery, often concerning supernatural events reported in World Weekly News. WaPo's John Carlson mentioned that the WWN quoted a "baffled scientist" so often that the writers "started joking about an institution called the Academy of Baffled Scientists."
You'd think that the crowd that constantly yells about taxation being theft would be able to figure out that releasing someone's own money to them is not a "gift."
Already too many. That's not an anti-lawyer crack, just that there WAS a huge push for more lawyers, law schools churned out new graduates, and now the profession is over-saturated.
or medicine?
Too expensive.
or accounting?
How many accountants do you need?
Only a small minority of kids will go on to be programmers. The majority won't go anywhere near it.
Maybe not, but a familiarity with the concepts will benefit you a lot more than simply as a bath towards an entry level coding job. More and more non-technical jobs are being eliminated. The law and doctors are positions unlikely to be that affected (robot surgeons not withstanding), though accountants could be on the chopping block. Or at least, technology that reduces the job of three accountants to one.
In many places, programming is still a fairly immature field. It's a pyramid scheme in a certain sense, because it relies on a constant influx of young too-stupid-to-know-better devs who burn themselves out pretty quickly. It's also dominated by fads du jour, and "getting something quick" takes precedent over something good/maintainable.
Damn it you ifaggets need to spell it out you are so fucking stupid. SWIFT IS A DUMBED DOWN SUBSTITUTE FOR OBJECTIVE-C
Who cares? Does it work or doesn't it? Is it Apache-licensed, or is it not?
When I was introduced to programming, we used ye olde Logo (with the turtle) and Basic. Those sure as hell were dumbed down. That's how programming has always been taught -- simplified so the barriers to entry are lower.
Its not a Puritan mindset. The US politics of religious intervention stopped in the 1990's.
It has declined, but not stopped. Maybe the best way to think of it is "two steps forward, one step back." Culture will change, then there will be a pushback. Then it will change, and there will be more pushback. We're in the pushback era at the moment.
There's a mini-revival of Puritanism at the moment since the current President has put extreme religious conservatives into various departments. Trump doesn't actually seem that religious himself, in fact he acts quite often in a very un-Christian manner, but Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, said that "from a policy standpoint, he has delivered more than any other president in my lifetime." He's 54, so that includes Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes. Most on the left think Trump has done nothing and don't understand how someone could talk about his "accomplishments." But from an evangelical point of view, he's the president who has accomplished the most in their lifetime. There's a pretty wide gap of understanding between the two views.
From Tony Perkin's Politico interview: "Evangelical Christians “were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists, [...] And I think they are finally glad that there’s somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.”
What about turning the other cheek?
“You know, you only have two cheeks,” he said. “Look, Christianity is not all about being a welcome mat which people can just stomp their feet on.”
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Disclaimer - I absolutely do not agree with Cyberwar being in any way equivocal to traditional war. No one dies in a ddos. I do however agree with controls on technology as I do the use of Military force, domestically.
Well, there's cyberwar, and there's espionage. Most of what has been done has been espionage, usually for economic gain, not military gain. But a cyberwar would be, say, electronically attacking infrastructure, such that it would be more difficult to coordinate and attack in a real war, and that WOULD result in casualties that can be linked to the cyberwar.
Moderated -1, The Truth Hurts.
The world is heading towards a melt down and I want the US to have the weapons needed to come out on top.
Those two statements are self-contradicting. I always liked Carl Sagan's quote about the US and Soviet Union when we were worried about who had the bigger weapons:
Yeah...I was and still am, somewhat "shocked" that this story has dropped SO quickly off the news map....
It's certainly the top story here. But our news media loves to move from obsession to obsession, because obsessions sell.
I was guessing, that since a handgun was used, and it wasn't a 50yr old white guy with a problem, or a messed up kid, that it just didn't fit their current narrative that helps push the anti-gun movement currently in swing.
Or because, unlike most of the big-news shooting this last year, no one (aside from the shooter) died. Three injuries in total, and we don't really have any other information since then. "30 people died in a mass shooting" is orders of magnitude more important than "3 people were injured in an attempted shooting.." Why would you think the latter was in any way comparable?
It did accomplish something, were I youtube I would be taking a VERY hard look at how heavy handed their censorship and demonetization affects people and I would be doing it right goddamn now.
That is NOT how people respond to shootings and other attacks like that. Instead, most people think 1) This person was fucking crazy. 2) Her ideas were WAY too trivial to warrant shooting someone over. 3) Her ideas were pretty crazy too. 4) I don't think she had a good point.
Someone going in and attacking reinforces their own feeling of correctness, it stiffens their spine, it doesn't make them say "oh damn, someone fired a gun, maybe we went too far." Because when someone goes nutso and freaks out like that, it becomes all the easier to dismiss what they were upset about as the ravings of a madwoman. And they aren't wrong, either.
I thought the crazy bitch killed herself. Is she posting her bullshit from beyond the grave?
Iranians are a different ethnicity from arabs.
Looking through this comment and your posting history, you are pretty much the epitome of the "shit-poster only trying to sow as much discord as he can." I have no idea if you're a Russian account trying to poison the well; I have no way of knowing, really. But you really try to live up to the stereotype as much as you can.
As others have pointed out, ABC7 is not Sinclair.
Her relatives, more than one, had made reports to police about her dangerous behavior. Her father called the police when she disappeared and told them she may be headed to the Youtube headquarters. Her brother said that she often complained that Youtube "ruined her life."
CBS she was believed to be the girlfriend of the man she shot
An initial report from the Daily Beast said that she went to Youtube to go after her boyfriend, but this is contracted by San Bruno police reports, where they say she did not know anyone at the company.
You have some of the most detestable opinions I have ever read on this site. No matter the issue, you always seem to take the worst side of it. I pity the people IRL who elect to put up with you.
I don't always (often? Haven't been counting) agree with Animojo, but what in the grandparent post was troll-worthy? Like.. should her graphic videos NOT have been age-restricted?
Otherwise she wouldn't have been able to take out the shooter.
But the female police officers do have access to guns, and did take out the shooter. :P
I'm confused what you're trying to imply
According to news reports, the shooter was not taken out by police, her fatal injury was self-inflicted.
However, you'd expect these big automakers to be able to make EVs in any number (as long as they sell) easier than Tesla. Even if the electric drivetrain is 'new' to them, the bodywork, brakes, etc. is not. Te rest of the car is the same old thing they know -
The problem is the big automakers also suffer from a lack of imagination. Too often to them, making an EV is as simple as replacing the ICE components with EV components, done. Rather than design an EV from the ground up. Then they just stick batteries in the trunk or something ridiculous and you end up with no storage space. Of the big automakers making EVs (in 2016), I felt Nissan was the only one who got it right. Chevy EVs were cramped with no cargo space. Volkswagon and Fiat piped in artificial ICE engine sounds through the stereo system, a feature you could not turn off. The GM cars were cramped with absolutely no visibility through the windows. The Leaf was decent and had a better range then most of the others at the time, so that's what I went with.
Except the headline didn't specify that.. on the other hand with "But there is next to no chance Apple will replace Intel chips for ARM-based ones any time in the next five years.".. next to no chance? Go ahead, be bold, take a stand, dammit!
You're on Slashdot, so you should be used to stories whose headlines were written by different people than the stories themselves. :-)
This argument of "wah, I'm not making money!" is BS these days
It's not BS, it's the foundation of just about every role in society.
Almost everything you need to actually survive (food, a roof, utilities) costs money. To get money, you get a job. At your job, you need to get paid. To get paid, the company needs to make money.
FOSS got tossed out the fucking window.
In what universe is FOSS running on millions of devices equivalent to being "tossed out the window"?
Because FOSS was always supposed to -empower users-. Chromebooks are far more limited and closed than even the classic closed-sourced Windows/Mac ecosystems, and the end user has far less choice and power over his own device. That very explicitly throws all the FOSS ideals out the window.
Because people are TERRIBLE at assessing risk. People probably felt pangs of fear while hearing the news reports in their car, completely oblivious to the irony.
I don't think they were actually afraid... it's just kindof fun and exciting to think about it.
Unfortunately "baffles scientists" is a phrase I've come associate with people who use it as a strawman
I thought it referred to a scientist when they made an astounding discovery, often concerning supernatural events reported in World Weekly News. WaPo's John Carlson mentioned that the WWN quoted a "baffled scientist" so often that the writers "started joking about an institution called the Academy of Baffled Scientists."
The universe already has a pretty great wall.
It was their fucking money, you idiots.
You'd think that the crowd that constantly yells about taxation being theft would be able to figure out that releasing someone's own money to them is not a "gift."
Why not teach them to be lawyers?
Already too many. That's not an anti-lawyer crack, just that there WAS a huge push for more lawyers, law schools churned out new graduates, and now the profession is over-saturated.
or medicine?
Too expensive.
or accounting?
How many accountants do you need?
Only a small minority of kids will go on to be programmers. The majority won't go anywhere near it.
Maybe not, but a familiarity with the concepts will benefit you a lot more than simply as a bath towards an entry level coding job. More and more non-technical jobs are being eliminated. The law and doctors are positions unlikely to be that affected (robot surgeons not withstanding), though accountants could be on the chopping block. Or at least, technology that reduces the job of three accountants to one.
In many places, programming is still a fairly immature field. It's a pyramid scheme in a certain sense, because it relies on a constant influx of young too-stupid-to-know-better devs who burn themselves out pretty quickly. It's also dominated by fads du jour, and "getting something quick" takes precedent over something good/maintainable.
Damn it you ifaggets need to spell it out you are so fucking stupid. SWIFT IS A DUMBED DOWN SUBSTITUTE FOR OBJECTIVE-C
Who cares? Does it work or doesn't it?
Is it Apache-licensed, or is it not?
When I was introduced to programming, we used ye olde Logo (with the turtle) and Basic. Those sure as hell were dumbed down. That's how programming has always been taught -- simplified so the barriers to entry are lower.
The net affect: what appears to me to be a 90% dropoff in-game chat overall
Given the quality of chat, this sounds like a win for just about everyone.
Its not a Puritan mindset. The US politics of religious intervention stopped in the 1990's.
It has declined, but not stopped. Maybe the best way to think of it is "two steps forward, one step back." Culture will change, then there will be a pushback. Then it will change, and there will be more pushback. We're in the pushback era at the moment.
There's a mini-revival of Puritanism at the moment since the current President has put extreme religious conservatives into various departments. Trump doesn't actually seem that religious himself, in fact he acts quite often in a very un-Christian manner, but Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, said that "from a policy standpoint, he has delivered more than any other president in my lifetime." He's 54, so that includes Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes. Most on the left think Trump has done nothing and don't understand how someone could talk about his "accomplishments." But from an evangelical point of view, he's the president who has accomplished the most in their lifetime. There's a pretty wide gap of understanding between the two views.
From Tony Perkin's Politico interview: "Evangelical Christians “were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists, [...] And I think they are finally glad that there’s somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully.”
What about turning the other cheek?
“You know, you only have two cheeks,” he said. “Look, Christianity is not all about being a welcome mat which people can just stomp their feet on.”
Everyone is just going to think it's a Freudian thing and not typos, and you'll be in even more hot water.