Fighting local terror is a police task. They are trained for that.
European police is generally not trained to deal with AKs and RPGs. The cop that was executed in Paris wasn't even armed. This is why France has GIGN.
Beside the will of "security people" we should fight terrorists with good police work and we should address the core issues which trigger people to become terrorists. One key ingredient for radicalization (which is a requirement to become a terrorist of any kind) is a feeling of powerlessness and the feeling of lack of communication. The latter includes that nobody really listens to you.
So, you have deep insights into french society, do you? Or is this just your normalcy bias speaking? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... There has been a lot of research into what makes someone turn to terrorism. Poverty, alienation, feelings of powerlessness etc are not key, it's the presence of a charismatic leader. Just look at Marseille, poor, over 40% muslim, high crime rates, but virtually no extremism. As for nobody listening, there has been a debate about islam and extremism in Europe for at least 25 years. I literally cannot turn on the tv or grab a newspaper without coming across an interview with muslim extremists, who predictably switch between issuing threats and playing the victim. It goes around in circles and never ends.
It is not enough when you are allowed to post or say anything, as long as no one is really engaging in a personal discussion (not debate) then there is no real communication in terms of the problems the people have. Also people get frustrated and angry, because what ever they do they are not getting anywhere.
And whose fault is that? There are different groups of muslims in Europe, in the Netherlands we have Ahmaddiya muslims of Indian extraction for example. They they know how to raise their kids and don't bother anybody. In contrast, immigrants from North-African villages are used to letting their children run around outside, they expect the public to correct them (=beat to a bloody pulp) when they get up to no good. This doesn't work in European cities, so they turn feral when they're 4-6 yo. It's hard to socialize kids after that, and given the complete lack of parental oversight, it goes downhill from there. They pick up street-skills like hotwiring cars, making molotovs, knive-fighting etc at a young age. Combined with their culture's ideas about masculinity and violence, and their disdain for book-learning, you get unemployable highschool dropouts. Combined with the out-group hostility of their culture, and the racism, sectarianism and ultranationalism they pick up from foreign satellite tv, you get a group that is open to extremist thought.
Btw 1000s of young people from Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey have gone to join IS, this is *not* a European problem.
In addition your school grades are similar effected (males) when you have a foreign name or if you have a name which is typical associated with low income (e.g. Kevin in Germany).
Yeah, loads of terrorist Kevins about, randomly beheading people.
They were al-Qaeda, not ISIS. The point of the whole thing was for AQIP to get back in the spotlight, since ISIS has kind of been upstaging them lately.
Other than that, I've thought similar things about european muslims burning down their own neighborhoods and complaining about police harassment. It might be a good idea to turn them into temporrary enclaves, ie build a fence around their ghettos and invite police from their countries of origin to patrol them for a year or so. Send anybody that gets arrested back to their countries of origin for trial and incarceration. I might clean up their act very quickly.
People tend to see anyone disagreeing with them as "harassment".
This. Sarkeesian is a good example, she collected comments on her videos and presented them to her followers as "mysogyny" and "harassment". If you actually read hem, they're pointing out the flaws in her videos (minor things like the controller being off, and the in-game footage being stolen from "let's play" videos). That's how cults work.
Note how I will get down-modded "troll" for the following sentence.
I've been modded troll here on/. simply for wondering why a story was on here (one of those misandrist pieces attacking the/. readership). I've seen it happen to others as lot lately, just for pointing out that developer jobs can be very stressful for example. The censorship that EFF is proposing has already been introduced here over a year ago, I've seen people claim it's CmdrTaco doing this. Twitter is also being censored now http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...
And when you are intolerant, you express blanket intolerance. Great way to make enemies and end up like Europe.
What in the world do you mean? Are you saying the attack was due to european "intolerance"? Way to blame the victim. And are you claiming islamists don't bear a grudge towards America? Riiiight..
Or it would make them feel oppressed and alienated, leading them to lend an ear to the extremists. Oh wait, this is exactly what is happening. You are your own worst enemy.
Are you saying the attackers joined al-Qaeda because of all the terrible oppression and discrimination? Research debunks that narrative time and time again, but some people just want to believe it I guess. If France is so bad, why have muslims flocked there ever since the doors were opened in '72? And why don't they go back? Also, thousands of N Africans have joined their local al-Qaeda branch, or went to Syria to join IS, many more than the european muslims. Do you realize they have waged a low-intensity civil war against French society for decades? Car burnings happen everyday, gang rapes targetting infidel women are common, as is rioting & looting. Just last month, I counted 5 "terrorist" attacks in France: 3 instances of muslims plowing cars into Christmas markets, one of stabbing a police officer, and one attempted strangling of a police officer. This goes on all over NW Europe. Muslims cry oppression even in Sweden. To illustrate the sense of entitlement, newly arrived Syrian refugees there protested against their "cold and rural" accomodations: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
I've lived in several large and medium-sized european cities, the stories I could tell.. I know plenty of people who have been stabbed, pistol whipped, beaten up, groped or raped by muslims, even witnessed a few attacks with my own eyes. Sometimes they film their attacks and put them online, very smart.
This is exactly what the (muslim) mayor of Rotterdam said yesterday: "if you don't like it here, if you don't like Western values, then pack your bags. Just fuck off".
I appreciate the sentiment, but it's not going to happen. Muslims didn't come to Europe for the culture, they came for the money. The 2nd generation still hold passports to the homeland of their parents, but they're not going back. They stay for the money, and also for the freedom - they'd never get away with their shit in their "host countries". Going to a different muslim country is no option either, since they don't grant citizenship to foreigners. This is one of the reasons that some find the Islamic State attractive, it doesn't care about passports and nationality.
You took the words out of my mouth. I'm surprised that the Slashdot editors didn't jump on the opportunity to continue the witchhunt and pin this on gamers. Or at least shift the blame to the dreaded mysoginistic White Man, who, of course, is the root of all evil. If all else fails, we could always blame the jews, or has that been declared sooooo 2014 by the Tumblerists?
If you want a "fish out of water" story, then how about Asians that have chosen to change their name in order to "fit in"?
Won't happen, because SJWs have decided that (when it suits them) Asians are classified as honorary whites. And feminist issues don't apply to asian women, because they tend to actually achieve, so they must be honorary men.
There is this collection of what are known as "Third Wave, Sex Negative, Feminists" that are making the rounds.
I'm in Europe (Netherlands), so I had no idea, thanks. We'll probably import this BS within a year, it's a dutch tradition. Right now the dutch media are too busy giving a platform to muslim SJWs who complain about islamophobia, while waving ISIS flags and swastikas and firebombing jewish homes (no joke). And a small number of very vocal black activists who discovered Malcolm X a few years ago and are now imitating him, very retro and completely ridiculous.
But it's not clear to me what Hillary Clinton has to do with it. I assume these femnazis want her to win the elections because it would be a symbolic victory for women. So they troll and spam from their campus bubbles like true armchair revolutionaries. Does Clinton support this stuff? I'm guessing she doesn't, with friends like that who needs enemies.
and they've been pissing off gamers lately with that whole gamer gate thing.
That made the evening news here (totally misrepresented of course). I only knew about it through slashdot.
They even went so far as to repeal due process in California universities with their "yes means yes" campaign.
I had to google that, and came across a quote by one Ezra Klein: "men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter". Wow.. just wow. I'm so happy I don't live in the US (no offense). Only other place I know that is that extreme is Sweden.
they're being humored in most places because no one wants to be called a bigot.
Sounds very familiar. But if they keep it up, people will get pissed off at some point and file claims against them for harassment/slander/false accusations etc. This happened yesterday to one of those `black activists' here, you can't go around accusing people of shit and not expect a backlash because you're hiding behind your genderor race.
But that's is what is going on. They're spamming the media with their nonsense.
My responsibilities in the work place to my co-workers; I must respect them, they are human beings. Their gender does not matter. If I can reconfigure our cisco routers, any women of any race with the same knowledge and expertise can do the same thing. I will provide them equal respect for this as I would a caucasian male. I will treat them professionally without discrimination. I will include them in any work related activities on a business level of productivity and participation within the company.
What is this talk of respect, equality and professionalism!? You don't sound black at all! The industry needs to change to make everyone feel included and accepted, so be more racist and sexist, like the author!
White men have to deal with these assholes too, sometimes they just don't "us" either, and we get treated with shitty condenscending comments where we're shocked we didn't punch them in the face for it and what they said is HR worthy.
Amen to that. I'd love to see such stories here, I bet there are plenty of/. readers who got tons of those.
Indeed, it seems that the author doesn't understand the terms `racism' and `diversity', or redefines them to mean something that suits her prejudices. Exhibit A:
I suspect THD’s diverse environment had something to do with being in Atlanta, a city that is 54% African-American. It’s hard not to be diverse when the local demographics force you to be.
The `diversity' of a working environment reflects the local `diversity', what a revelation! She still finds a way to spin this basic fact into something negative and racist. No wonder she needed therapy.
TFA is a barrage of micro- and not-so micro-agressions against white men. Yet another worthless article on medium.com, I sincerely (really, please don't mod me troll) wonder why this is on/., can anyone explain?
Okay... so you're saying feminism is just a giant political movement built around toxic daddy issues?
As (another?) AC wrote a few comments ago, "Speculatively children have easier identifying with the parent of the same gender as they have.", so this would be about toxic mommies, not daddies.
But feminism isn't really about blaming your bad life choices on mommy. It's about posting on a technology site as AC, complaining bitterly about your personal lack of interest in technology.
Explain again why I'm not supposed to laugh at you? Because it is really really hard.
It would be laughable, if we came across this kind of crap once a year. But/. has irrelevant, revisionist `stories' like this once a week now, and it's become really annoying. I'd really like to know what's behind this, but anyone complaining gets modded troll (just found out I have bad karma now). The extremists are trying to censor us.
PS I doubt AC ever read your reply. It would fall on deaf ears anyway, she sounds like a true beliver.
100's of stories, and a few of the are about women an you freak out. WTF is wrong with you?
This is Slashdot, not Femdot, Slashfem, Diversitydot etc. Take the activism (=whining, halftruths, lies, bullying, playing the victim card, demanding special treatment and general BS) somewhere else please.
This seems to be the new standard spin on these stories after simply trying to claim that there wasn't a problem failed. Now it's just "we are sick of hearing about the problems".
If you read some of the comments here, you will understand the "problem" is made up, see for example "Yeti/Area-51/LochNess story just won't die" above. TFA is a bunch of lies and whining.
Had the same thing when it was the rights of black people and the rights of gay people. Standard tactic to avoid addressing the issue directly.
Indeed, I read the same type of crap about black people here on Slashdot, claiming "hiring discrimination" in tech where there is none. Jesse Jackson is on the warpath again, extorting money from tech companies. You can't hire black developers that don't exist.
As for gays, I've never seen an article on Slashdot about the lack of (openly) gay astronauts. I think they have more right to complain though, they couldn't meet NASA's standards, because they included an airforce background.
The you throw in a few straw feminist arguments and some insults, revealing your true motive.
Can you point at the straw arguments, I guess you mean the other stories I mention? You can't deny there's a pattern there. My true motive huh? Please tell me what my motives are. Are you psychic?
What an absolutely perfect display of the frustration of someone losing unearned privilege. Not very self-aware are you?
I'm frustrated about the whining and the pollution of Slashdot by activists who post non-stories full of half-truths and lies, nothing else. Tell me what my privilege is exactly, I have a white penis but I never went to space.
Concerning self-awareness, do you realise that you prove my point by posting as AC?
Wtf happened to Slashdot? There's a story like this posted 5 times a week now, and I'm getting really sick of it. Donglegate, women hula hooping at GitHub, failed female astronauts, and a ton of other non-stories get posted here. And then a million femnazis come out of the woodwork and post as AC in support of the thesis that "All women would be super-rich internet entrepreneurs were it not for the developer-king patriarchs ruling Silicon Valley", ie "Boys are mean and girls are sugar and spice and everything nice".
Walter Isaacson "singles out the achievements of unheralded women" in computing in his latest book, and absurdly pretends that nobody ever heard of Ada Lovelace any credit..
STOP WHINING ALREADY YOU SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF SPOILED BRATS
Super hot fuck! Who does that? Who the fuck surpluses a secret government machine? Seriously, who the shit did this? Did no one account for the surplus process?
I agree that this is an epic fail. Apart from the obvious issues you point out, who would have a legitimate use for such a machine? And what is the financial benefit of selling these? This is mindless penny-pinching at its worst.
But imho the bigger fail is the security-through-obscurity mindset. Why not provide prototypes to security researchers, and find and fix the holes, BEFORE wasting hundreds of millions of tax dollars on these pieces of shit? You have to wonder, what did the bidding process look like, who signed for this? Very fishy.
Everybody already knew that backscatter machines are useless props in security theatre, and that they're a health hazard. But this makes it even worse, a new low. These things have to go.
My two cents, freely speculating here until we get more facts:
This sounds like the founder's wife is a loose cannon with a her own little unofficial organization within the company. I have seen this before. This seems like the founder's wife was trying to recruit her into her network of spies.
Wouldn't it be more plausible that the founder (Asshole Entrepreneur or AE for short) and his wife (Colossal Bitch or CB) were teaming up to create the `spy network'? It would explain why AE let her come to the office when she had no bussiness being there. AE let CB do the dirty work so that he has plausible deniability.
This is where things are going sideways and neither she nor her partner see what is going on. By Horvath's partner talking to the founder's wife, they both made it onto her enemy list and became targets.
Indeed. Horvath had turned down the offer, and was now a liability because she knew too much. Partner talks to AE, now he's also a threat to both.
This is an indication that HR has been made aware of a situation and is investigating it. This was probably initiated by the founder's wife via the founder because of Horvath's partner.
AE and CB want to fire the couple and sic the HR department on them.
This is the investigation.
"Investigation" = "thinking of ways to get rid of the couple".
She said that having her personal relationship dragged into her work life and put on show for her coworkers didn’t sit well with her.
That is always a danger when one dates or is married to a coworker
AE and CB see this as a weakness they can exploit. The colleague making a pass at Horvath is a spy for CB and clumsily attempts to drive a wedge between Horvath and partner. Or maybe provoke a complaint to HR, which AE might then be able to twist into a reason for firing the couple.
The meeting did not go well.
>If she thought it would, she was a fool
She didn't, that's why she wanted HR there. She was a fool for thinking that HR would protect her against AE though. He's their paymaster, so they do what he says (probably a good cop/bad cop routine).
Never trust HR slime! They won't stick their neck out for you, and even if they did, it'd be chopped off. They don't have any real power.
Did she ask when she supposedly did that or ask for evidence?
Horvath cried during the episode,
What? Seriously? Instead of acting offended she acted like a child.
She probably didn't get a chance to talk about evidence or anything else, This was not a conversation, just a shouting / bullying session. Not everybody can deal with that kind of psychological pressure.
It is a bad idea to to date coworkers.
It seems they had been dating for a while, so why didn't AE bring it up much earlier? He was just looking for weak spots.
This is why I think the founder's wife said Horvath's partner delivered threat or something similar. That iis the most likely scenario. There is no proof, so he can't be fired for it, and the probably have no paper trail to fire him. But, I have little doubt they are building one.
I don't think threats were involved, because they'd have fired him on the spot. There is probably no paper trail for anything, because managers like this don't like to commit *anything* to paper. Why document your own diabolical schemes and incompetence and build a case against yourself?
Regardless of what Horvath thinks, this isn't about her being female. It is about power plays by the founder and his wife. Horvath and her partner were too blind to see what was going on. The founder's wife wanted Horvath on her "team" and things would have been OK if
.Giving a shitty algorithm to solve a problem, and then saying that it would also solve SET COVER, does not imply that any algorithm for solving the first problem can be used to solve SET COVER via a Karp reduction.
Btw, SET COVER is relevant for some learning problems. Constructing a fastest learner for finite identification of a finite class of finite languages (`preset learner') is equivalent to SET COVER, see page 6 of http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dickdj/submission_COLT10_NGDdJ.pdf
Sure, it's NP-hard, but it's also nonrecursive via Rice's theorem.
That depends a bit on how the problem is formulated. When stated in full generality, ie "given an arbitrary UTM, decide whether it's a regex finder", it's obviously not decidable.
However, the full expressive power of Turing machines may not be needed. For some classes of grammars/automata, the question whether something is a member of the class can be decided by an automaton, this property is known as automaticity and has origins in the field of descriptive complexity. See for example http://semukhin.name/autofeed2.pdf
Giving a shitty algorithm to solve a problem, and then saying that it would also solve SET COVER, does not imply that any algorithm for solving the first problem can be used to solve SET COVER via a Karp reduction.
Indeed. See my posts above for a reference to a Karp reduction from VERTEX COLORING (for the automaton version). Previous hardness and non-approximability results for this and related problems were found by Gold (early 70s!), Angluin and Abe.
Myabe also worth mentioning that not all NP-hard problems are created equal. The natural parametrization of SET COVER is W[2]-hard, but there are no decent re-parametrizations known for coloring that give it a place in the W-hierarchy. I know only of one trivial one.
Coloring is still NP-hard when graphs are restricted to be 3-colorable, planar and having maximum degree 4. it seems to be a very hard problem in certain ways.
I guess you're saying that it's still a legitimate subject, and that progress is made by building on previous results. Nobody is disputing that.
But the TFA doesn't mention previous results or even the existence of the field, I have the impression that Norvig is not aware of it. So this is not contributing to the body of knowledge re automata induction, this is recreative CS. Nothing wrong with that per se, but there's also nothing wrong with providing some scientific background.
Btw in the blog post, the approximative approach is motivated by NP-hardness of the exact problem. Given the link (parameter-preserving reduction) with graph coloring already mentioned, the problem can't be approximated in polynomial time with arbitrary error, unless P=NP. This theoretical result is backed up by practical experiments with approximating coloring algorithms, which often find solutions 100% off from the optimal nr of colors. So good luck with that.
Perhaps surprisingly, the problem becomes tractable when the data is `complete', in the sense that it is consistent with just one single automaton (google RPNI).
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Fighting local terror is a police task. They are trained for that.
European police is generally not trained to deal with AKs and RPGs. The cop that was executed in Paris wasn't even armed. This is why France has GIGN.
Beside the will of "security people" we should fight terrorists with good police work and we should address the core issues which trigger people to become terrorists. One key ingredient for radicalization (which is a requirement to become a terrorist of any kind) is a feeling of powerlessness and the feeling of lack of communication. The latter includes that nobody really listens to you.
So, you have deep insights into french society, do you? Or is this just your normalcy bias speaking?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
There has been a lot of research into what makes someone turn to terrorism. Poverty, alienation, feelings of powerlessness etc are not key, it's the presence of a charismatic leader. Just look at Marseille, poor, over 40% muslim, high crime rates, but virtually no extremism.
As for nobody listening, there has been a debate about islam and extremism in Europe for at least 25 years. I literally cannot turn on the tv or grab a newspaper without coming across an interview with muslim extremists, who predictably switch between issuing threats and playing the victim. It goes around in circles and never ends.
It is not enough when you are allowed to post or say anything, as long as no one is really engaging in a personal discussion (not debate) then there is no real communication in terms of the problems the people have. Also people get frustrated and angry, because what ever they do they are not getting anywhere.
And whose fault is that? There are different groups of muslims in Europe, in the Netherlands we have Ahmaddiya muslims of Indian extraction for example. They they know how to raise their kids and don't bother anybody. In contrast, immigrants from North-African villages are used to letting their children run around outside, they expect the public to correct them (=beat to a bloody pulp) when they get up to no good. This doesn't work in European cities, so they turn feral when they're 4-6 yo. It's hard to socialize kids after that, and given the complete lack of parental oversight, it goes downhill from there. They pick up street-skills like hotwiring cars, making molotovs, knive-fighting etc at a young age. Combined with their culture's ideas about masculinity and violence, and their disdain for book-learning, you get unemployable highschool dropouts.
Combined with the out-group hostility of their culture, and the racism, sectarianism and ultranationalism they pick up from foreign satellite tv, you get a group that is open to extremist thought.
Btw 1000s of young people from Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey have gone to join IS, this is *not* a European problem.
In addition your school grades are similar effected (males) when you have a foreign name or if you have a name which is typical associated with low income (e.g. Kevin in Germany).
Yeah, loads of terrorist Kevins about, randomly beheading people.
They were al-Qaeda, not ISIS. The point of the whole thing was for AQIP to get back in the spotlight, since ISIS has kind of been upstaging them lately.
Other than that, I've thought similar things about european muslims burning down their own neighborhoods and complaining about police harassment. It might be a good idea to turn them into temporrary enclaves, ie build a fence around their ghettos and invite police from their countries of origin to patrol them for a year or so. Send anybody that gets arrested back to their countries of origin for trial and incarceration. I might clean up their act very quickly.
O hay, terror-apologist.
People tend to see anyone disagreeing with them as "harassment".
This. Sarkeesian is a good example, she collected comments on her videos and presented them to her followers as "mysogyny" and "harassment". If you actually read hem, they're pointing out the flaws in her videos (minor things like the controller being off, and the in-game footage being stolen from "let's play" videos). That's how cults work.
Note how I will get down-modded "troll" for the following sentence.
I've been modded troll here on /. simply for wondering why a story was on here (one of those misandrist pieces attacking the /. readership). I've seen it happen to others as lot lately, just for pointing out that developer jobs can be very stressful for example. The censorship that EFF is proposing has already been introduced here over a year ago, I've seen people claim it's CmdrTaco doing this. Twitter is also being censored now
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...
And when you are intolerant, you express blanket intolerance. Great way to make enemies and end up like Europe.
What in the world do you mean? Are you saying the attack was due to european "intolerance"? Way to blame the victim. And are you claiming islamists don't bear a grudge towards America? Riiiight..
Or it would make them feel oppressed and alienated, leading them to lend an ear to the extremists. Oh wait, this is exactly what is happening. You are your own worst enemy.
Are you saying the attackers joined al-Qaeda because of all the terrible oppression and discrimination? Research debunks that narrative time and time again, but some people just want to believe it I guess.
If France is so bad, why have muslims flocked there ever since the doors were opened in '72? And why don't they go back? Also, thousands of N Africans have joined their local al-Qaeda branch, or went to Syria to join IS, many more than the european muslims.
Do you realize they have waged a low-intensity civil war against French society for decades? Car burnings happen everyday, gang rapes targetting infidel women are common, as is rioting & looting. Just last month, I counted 5 "terrorist" attacks in France: 3 instances of muslims plowing cars into Christmas markets, one of stabbing a police officer, and one attempted strangling of a police officer. This goes on all over NW Europe.
Muslims cry oppression even in Sweden. To illustrate the sense of entitlement, newly arrived Syrian refugees there protested against their "cold and rural" accomodations:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
They are violent in their own countries as well, despite the repression. A few examples from N Africa:
Hooliganism (note the knifes, very typical):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Islamism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Terrorism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Riots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There's plenty more, google "muslim rape gang" some time. Example from India:
http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/...
I've lived in several large and medium-sized european cities, the stories I could tell.. I know plenty of people who have been stabbed, pistol whipped, beaten up, groped or raped by muslims, even witnessed a few attacks with my own eyes. Sometimes they film their attacks and put them online, very smart.
This is exactly what the (muslim) mayor of Rotterdam said yesterday: "if you don't like it here, if you don't like Western values, then pack your bags. Just fuck off".
I appreciate the sentiment, but it's not going to happen. Muslims didn't come to Europe for the culture, they came for the money. The 2nd generation still hold passports to the homeland of their parents, but they're not going back. They stay for the money, and also for the freedom - they'd never get away with their shit in their "host countries". Going to a different muslim country is no option either, since they don't grant citizenship to foreigners. This is one of the reasons that some find the Islamic State attractive, it doesn't care about passports and nationality.
You took the words out of my mouth. I'm surprised that the Slashdot editors didn't jump on the opportunity to continue the witchhunt and pin this on gamers. Or at least shift the blame to the dreaded mysoginistic White Man, who, of course, is the root of all evil. If all else fails, we could always blame the jews, or has that been declared sooooo 2014 by the Tumblerists?
Anyway, concerning the US media, have they reported at all on the 5 muslim attacks in France last month?
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Concerning French victories, they kicked some very nasty people out of Mali recently.
Do Muslims have exclusive skills and knowledge that Christians, Hindus, atheists, etc. don't?
Yes they do, haven't you seen the news lately? I'd like to be more specific, but I don't want to be modded troll.
If you want a "fish out of water" story, then how about Asians that have chosen to change their name in order to "fit in"?
Won't happen, because SJWs have decided that (when it suits them) Asians are classified as honorary whites. And feminist issues don't apply to asian women, because they tend to actually achieve, so they must be honorary men.
There is this collection of what are known as "Third Wave, Sex Negative, Feminists" that are making the rounds.
I'm in Europe (Netherlands), so I had no idea, thanks. We'll probably import this BS within a year, it's a dutch tradition.
Right now the dutch media are too busy giving a platform to muslim SJWs who complain about islamophobia, while waving ISIS flags and swastikas and firebombing jewish homes (no joke). And a small number of very vocal black activists who discovered Malcolm X a few years ago and are now imitating him, very retro and completely ridiculous.
But it's not clear to me what Hillary Clinton has to do with it. I assume these femnazis want her to win the elections because it would be a symbolic victory for women. So they troll and spam from their campus bubbles like true armchair revolutionaries. Does Clinton support this stuff? I'm guessing she doesn't, with friends like that who needs enemies.
and they've been pissing off gamers lately with that whole gamer gate thing.
That made the evening news here (totally misrepresented of course). I only knew about it through slashdot.
They even went so far as to repeal due process in California universities with their "yes means yes" campaign.
I had to google that, and came across a quote by one Ezra Klein: "men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter". Wow.. just wow. I'm so happy I don't live in the US (no offense). Only other place I know that is that extreme is Sweden.
they're being humored in most places because no one wants to be called a bigot.
Sounds very familiar. But if they keep it up, people will get pissed off at some point and file claims against them for harassment/slander/false accusations etc. This happened yesterday to one of those `black activists' here, you can't go around accusing people of shit and not expect a backlash because you're hiding behind your genderor race.
But that's is what is going on. They're spamming the media with their nonsense.
Thanks again for providing some context.
My responsibilities in the work place to my co-workers; I must respect them, they are human beings. Their gender does not matter. If I can reconfigure our cisco routers, any women of any race with the same knowledge and expertise can do the same thing. I will provide them equal respect for this as I would a caucasian male. I will treat them professionally without discrimination. I will include them in any work related activities on a business level of productivity and participation within the company.
What is this talk of respect, equality and professionalism!? You don't sound black at all! The industry needs to change to make everyone feel included and accepted, so be more racist and sexist, like the author!
White men have to deal with these assholes too, sometimes they just don't "us" either, and we get treated with shitty condenscending comments where we're shocked we didn't punch them in the face for it and what they said is HR worthy.
Amen to that. I'd love to see such stories here, I bet there are plenty of /. readers who got tons of those.
Indeed, it seems that the author doesn't understand the terms `racism' and `diversity', or redefines them to mean something that suits her prejudices. Exhibit A:
I suspect THD’s diverse environment had something to do with being in Atlanta, a city that is 54% African-American. It’s hard not to be diverse when the local demographics force you to be.
The `diversity' of a working environment reflects the local `diversity', what a revelation! She still finds a way to spin this basic fact into something negative and racist. No wonder she needed therapy.
TFA is a barrage of micro- and not-so micro-agressions against white men. Yet another worthless article on medium.com, I sincerely (really, please don't mod me troll) wonder why this is on /., can anyone explain?
Okay... so you're saying feminism is just a giant political movement built around toxic daddy issues?
As (another?) AC wrote a few comments ago, "Speculatively children have easier identifying with the parent of the same gender as they have.", so this would be about toxic mommies, not daddies.
But feminism isn't really about blaming your bad life choices on mommy. It's about posting on a technology site as AC, complaining bitterly about your personal lack of interest in technology.
Explain again why I'm not supposed to laugh at you? Because it is really really hard.
It would be laughable, if we came across this kind of crap once a year. But /. has irrelevant, revisionist `stories' like this once a week now, and it's become really annoying. I'd really like to know what's behind this, but anyone complaining gets modded troll (just found out I have bad karma now). The extremists are trying to censor us.
PS I doubt AC ever read your reply. It would fall on deaf ears anyway, she sounds like a true beliver.
Why do the editors keep accepting these bullshit stories? War games and Weird science chased women out of CS, seriously?
http://hugelolcdn.com/i700/235...
cosmopolitan media-shops bought-up slash-dot, Toms Hardware and Ars Tek there's a steady stream of bytch-dike drool from the mags
That would explain a lot, but which media-shops do you mean? Afaik, /. is owned by Geeknet.
And can I have a slice of pie too please?
100's of stories, and a few of the are about women an you freak out.
WTF is wrong with you?
This is Slashdot, not Femdot, Slashfem, Diversitydot etc. Take the activism (=whining, halftruths, lies, bullying, playing the victim card, demanding special treatment and general BS) somewhere else please.
http://roughcutmen.org/wp-cont...
This seems to be the new standard spin on these stories after simply trying to claim that there wasn't a problem failed. Now it's just "we are sick of hearing about the problems".
If you read some of the comments here, you will understand the "problem" is made up, see for example "Yeti/Area-51/LochNess story just won't die" above. TFA is a bunch of lies and whining.
Had the same thing when it was the rights of black people and the rights of gay people. Standard tactic to avoid addressing the issue directly.
Indeed, I read the same type of crap about black people here on Slashdot, claiming "hiring discrimination" in tech where there is none. Jesse Jackson is on the warpath again, extorting money from tech companies. You can't hire black developers that don't exist.
As for gays, I've never seen an article on Slashdot about the lack of (openly) gay astronauts. I think they have more right to complain though, they couldn't meet NASA's standards, because they included an airforce background.
The you throw in a few straw feminist arguments and some insults, revealing your true motive.
Can you point at the straw arguments, I guess you mean the other stories I mention? You can't deny there's a pattern there.
My true motive huh? Please tell me what my motives are. Are you psychic?
What an absolutely perfect display of the frustration of someone losing unearned privilege.
Not very self-aware are you?
I'm frustrated about the whining and the pollution of Slashdot by activists who post non-stories full of half-truths and lies, nothing else. Tell me what my privilege is exactly, I have a white penis but I never went to space.
Concerning self-awareness, do you realise that you prove my point by posting as AC?
Wtf happened to Slashdot? There's a story like this posted 5 times a week now, and I'm getting really sick of it. Donglegate, women hula hooping at GitHub, failed female astronauts, and a ton of other non-stories get posted here. And then a million femnazis come out of the woodwork and post as AC in support of the thesis that "All women would be super-rich internet entrepreneurs were it not for the developer-king patriarchs ruling Silicon Valley", ie "Boys are mean and girls are sugar and spice and everything nice".
Walter Isaacson "singles out the achievements of unheralded women" in computing in his latest book, and absurdly pretends that nobody ever heard of Ada Lovelace any credit..
STOP WHINING ALREADY YOU SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF SPOILED BRATS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Super hot fuck! Who does that? Who the fuck surpluses a secret government machine? Seriously, who the shit did this? Did no one account for the surplus process?
I agree that this is an epic fail. Apart from the obvious issues you point out, who would have a legitimate use for such a machine? And what is the financial benefit of selling these? This is mindless penny-pinching at its worst.
But imho the bigger fail is the security-through-obscurity mindset. Why not provide prototypes to security researchers, and find and fix the holes, BEFORE wasting hundreds of millions of tax dollars on these pieces of shit? You have to wonder, what did the bidding process look like, who signed for this? Very fishy.
Everybody already knew that backscatter machines are useless props in security theatre, and that they're a health hazard. But this makes it even worse, a new low. These things have to go.
My two cents, freely speculating here until we get more facts:
This sounds like the founder's wife is a loose cannon with a her own little unofficial organization within the company. I have seen this before. This seems like the founder's wife was trying to recruit her into her network of spies.
Wouldn't it be more plausible that the founder (Asshole Entrepreneur or AE for short) and his wife (Colossal Bitch or CB) were teaming up to create the `spy network'? It would explain why AE let her come to the office when she had no bussiness being there. AE let CB do the dirty work so that he has plausible deniability.
This is where things are going sideways and neither she nor her partner see what is going on. By Horvath's partner talking to the founder's wife, they both made it onto her enemy list and became targets.
Indeed. Horvath had turned down the offer, and was now a liability because she knew too much. Partner talks to AE, now he's also a threat to both.
This is an indication that HR has been made aware of a situation and is investigating it. This was probably initiated by the founder's wife via the founder because of Horvath's partner.
AE and CB want to fire the couple and sic the HR department on them.
This is the investigation.
"Investigation" = "thinking of ways to get rid of the couple".
She said that having her personal relationship dragged into her work life and put on show for her coworkers didn’t sit well with her.
That is always a danger when one dates or is married to a coworker
AE and CB see this as a weakness they can exploit. The colleague making a pass at Horvath is a spy for CB and clumsily attempts to drive a wedge between Horvath and partner. Or maybe provoke a complaint to HR, which AE might then be able to twist into a reason for firing the couple.
The meeting did not go well.
>If she thought it would, she was a fool
She didn't, that's why she wanted HR there. She was a fool for thinking that HR would protect her against AE though. He's their paymaster, so they do what he says (probably a good cop/bad cop routine).
Never trust HR slime! They won't stick their neck out for you, and even if they did, it'd be chopped off. They don't have any real power.
Did she ask when she supposedly did that or ask for evidence?
Horvath cried during the episode,
What? Seriously? Instead of acting offended she acted like a child.
She probably didn't get a chance to talk about evidence or anything else, This was not a conversation, just a shouting / bullying session. Not everybody can deal with that kind of psychological pressure.
It is a bad idea to to date coworkers.
It seems they had been dating for a while, so why didn't AE bring it up much earlier? He was just looking for weak spots.
This is why I think the founder's wife said Horvath's partner delivered threat or something similar. That iis the most likely scenario. There is no proof, so he can't be fired for it, and the probably have no paper trail to fire him. But, I have little doubt they are building one.
I don't think threats were involved, because they'd have fired him on the spot. There is probably no paper trail for anything, because managers like this don't like to commit *anything* to paper. Why document your own diabolical schemes and incompetence and build a case against yourself?
Regardless of what Horvath thinks, this isn't about her being female. It is about power plays by the founder and his wife. Horvath and her partner were too blind to see what was going on. The founder's wife wanted Horvath on her "team" and things would have been OK if
.Giving a shitty algorithm to solve a problem, and then saying that it would also solve SET COVER, does not imply that any algorithm for solving the first problem can be used to solve SET COVER via a Karp reduction.
Btw, SET COVER is relevant for some learning problems. Constructing a fastest learner for finite identification of a finite class of finite languages (`preset learner') is equivalent to SET COVER, see page 6 of
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dickdj/submission_COLT10_NGDdJ.pdf
Sure, it's NP-hard, but it's also nonrecursive via Rice's theorem.
That depends a bit on how the problem is formulated. When stated in full generality, ie "given an arbitrary UTM, decide whether it's a regex finder", it's obviously not decidable.
However, the full expressive power of Turing machines may not be needed. For some classes of grammars/automata, the question whether something is a member of the class can be decided by an automaton, this property is known as automaticity and has origins in the field of descriptive complexity. See for example
http://semukhin.name/autofeed2.pdf
Also relevant, work on the enumeration of regexps, eg
http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4982
Giving a shitty algorithm to solve a problem, and then saying that it would also solve SET COVER, does not imply that any algorithm for solving the first problem can be used to solve SET COVER via a Karp reduction.
Indeed. See my posts above for a reference to a Karp reduction from VERTEX COLORING (for the automaton version). Previous hardness and non-approximability results for this and related problems were found by Gold (early 70s!), Angluin and Abe.
Myabe also worth mentioning that not all NP-hard problems are created equal. The natural parametrization of SET COVER is W[2]-hard, but there are no decent re-parametrizations known for coloring that give it a place in the W-hierarchy. I know only of one trivial one.
Coloring is still NP-hard when graphs are restricted to be 3-colorable, planar and having maximum degree 4. it seems to be a very hard problem in certain ways.
I guess you're saying that it's still a legitimate subject, and that progress is made by building on previous results. Nobody is disputing that.
But the TFA doesn't mention previous results or even the existence of the field, I have the impression that Norvig is not aware of it. So this is not contributing to the body of knowledge re automata induction, this is recreative CS. Nothing wrong with that per se, but there's also nothing wrong with providing some scientific background.
Btw in the blog post, the approximative approach is motivated by NP-hardness of the exact problem. Given the link (parameter-preserving reduction) with graph coloring already mentioned, the problem can't be approximated in polynomial time with arbitrary error, unless P=NP. This theoretical result is backed up by practical experiments with approximating coloring algorithms, which often find solutions 100% off from the optimal nr of colors. So good luck with that.
Also, informed regular inference is already NP-hard when restricted to DFAs with just 2 states:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37064-9_25
Perhaps surprisingly, the problem becomes tractable when the data is `complete', in the sense that it is consistent with just one single automaton (google RPNI).