Yeah I know how Lime works - and it's insecure, and leads to software problems.
Are we sure about cause and effect here? If my software had this sort of problem, I'd feel insecure too! Maybe they just know it is a shit design?
Yeah, it could be - well it is a shit design. Something like a scooter should never lock the sprags. And running such a simple machine with software control like that just tells me that some people are trying to extend software where it shouldn't be.
Citation? I clearly said it was my personal experience. I have been stationed in many states. In order of residence
Ohhhh, an opinion backed by nothing! Well now, you know what they say about opinions. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, and most of them stink.
That dear child would be yours. Other's opinions differ, Others quote facts. I like facts, I like stats. Sumtymez I lyke spelink errs. Especially when they become half of your argument against me. Good day sir, come back when you can do something more than spout an opinion.
Old school keys? So you want people to 1) be handed a key in person to use a scooter and then 2) return the key to a lime station after riding?
Do you know how lime scooters work?
Yeah I know how Lime works - and it's insecure, and leads to software problems. Kinda like what the story is about.
Dearest Coward, you can get keys sent to you in the mail, you can even use your key with an app to unlock the scooter. All it will take is the app and acceptance of the key's programming. Since these things are internet connected, it's not hardly difficult at all. That way the software can be kept away from the brakes.
As I suspected, you have no citations, only my stats getting you really pissed off. Produce the citations, or you're just another gun nut, beholden to the NRA and it's Russian backers.
Here's your idea of a polite society, Afghanistan, where even the children are armed http://images.mid-day.com/2013... I'm certain that you can get a free all expenses pad vacation there, even a free rifle for your collection. A very peaceful place.
I'm not a liberal, and I'm armed. But you and your ilk make gun owners look like retards. Once again - howbow da citations?
Hillary and bubba were both solidly behind war in Iraq.
I was listening to some revisionist history this morning. Trying to claim that Dubya got bad intel that made him decide to go into Iraq. Funny, as I recall at the time that the Intel community was pissed because he ignored their input, just like the pre 9-11 input was ignored.
One of the things that Trump supporters believed, erroneously of course, was that Trump would avoid needless wars. They believed it because he broke from the pack and actually called out specific politicians for that behavior, the Clintons among them. Of course, that was a lot of crap. I criticized Obama for drone strikes... Which have increased under Trump. And we're still in Iraq. And anyone who believed that he'd back off from those policies is a tool.
One of the issues we are now facing is that we have been at war, and spending a lot of money since 2002. Which sounds remarkably like one of the things that helped break the old Soviet Union up. No country can engage in endless warfare without bankrupting itself, and if anything real comes up, we are well and truly screwed.
As to his supporters, it has become clear over time, that they were just handing a big "Fuck You!!!" to the establishment. Problem was, they elected a person who exemplified the worst part of the establishment, coupled with a remarkable lack of insight other than what lines his pockets. Meanwhile, the farmers around here who haven't even harvested the soybeans that are rotting in the field have taken down their Trump-Pence MAGA signs. Seems that their man believes that tariff wars are easy to win, and I guess rotting soybeans are just a sign of winning.
But the 1960's trailers with all the washers, dryers, and cars sitting in the yard still have their signs up. Maybe it serves as a windbreak.
Did anyone else think of the old game character Kirby?
Anyhow, if they can implement this without making the cars look too weird, and manage to keep the things from getting clogged with road dirt, this could be quite cool.
The internet hasn't met capitalism. The infrastructure is heavily regulated by the government with a view to limiting the number of competing providers. You can argue about whether or not that's a good thing, but you can't say that is a free market. Limiting the number of providers will always result in lower quality, and higher priced, service.
Psssst..... that's what they call capitalism these days.
Again with the Hillary issues...you do realize the election was two years ago but you still seem intent on reliving it. Move on, come up to speed, cook with gas. "Sure my guy is a dolt, but that Hillary...whoa!!".
Hey - they are still pissed off about Franklin D Roosevelt. So my guess is they'll be able to to raise their blood pressure about ol' Hellery for another 50 years or so.
" We aren't operating at that level."
Except we are, this statement seems to be in denial of the fact that we are a mass of atoms.
I do not consider that my thoughts are based on random interactions between atoms. It is possible that many random interactions happen, and somehow the thought process is tied to a selection, but that gets into conciousness, not free will. If that is denial, than so be it.
Some scientists would say that we aren't really making decisions we are simply conscious of the decisions being made by are brains and we are in effect simply watching those decisions which feel like us because that's how consciousness works.
I am my brain. When presented with input and the need for a decision, I take the input, think about different possible actions, than make the one I think is best. Others may and very often make a different decision. While this may involve chemical reactions, my brain - which is me - has given thought and weighed options, then come to a decision.
There is also a non-thought based reaction process. These are reflexes. If I bite my tongue, it unleases a reflex action that doesn't even reach my brain for processing. There is no free will in that. My jaw springs open almost immediately.
To me - if it is all fixed, there is no need for a brain at all. Just nerve centers, where every process is a reflexive reaction to an external stimulus.
And you don't think male CEOs have pulled crap like that?
They surely have pulled crap like that.
The fun is when people go into denial that it is even possible for a woman to pull crap like that. In fact, a large number of people believe and claim that Elizabeth holmes is the victim in all of this. https://www.businessinsider.co... I wonder what he thinks today?
Anyhow, we have been force fed the concept that women are not only capable of being CEOs - of course they are - but that they are remarkably better than men. Even just being a mother makes you a better CEO http://fortune.com/2015/05/07/...
So while in an equality based system - yes women can be just as qualified to run a company as men - we aren't in an equality based system, we are in one that states that men are inferior to woman in the matter of leading companies .
And that is simply bullshit. But we can look forward to more women grifters taking advantage of the political climate.
I think greed and optimism make a plausible explanation as well.
Many factors are involved. Where we run into trouble is the large number of people who become angry and go into denial when the slightest suggestion is made that there is no sexual aspect involved.
She's an attractive woman with conman abilities. It would be pretty naive to think that she wouldn't use every tool at her disposal.
The major operating factor is indeed greed and avarice, and misplaced optimism. But her ability to make men stupid and the political incorrectness that would dare say that a woman was anything but much better at being a CEO than any man - Google women make better CEOs than men and enjoy the evening's reading. Apparently everyone but "A Voice for Men" believes that women are simply and inarguably better, even just being a mom makes you better qualified than any male.
So here we have Thanos. Or would it be better named Thanatos?
Please. Those old fools made a bad investment because of her looks. This should be obvious to most men.
She did have more than looks. She had a con man's ability to bullshit people and make up stuff. She is at least a sociopath, or just as likely a non-violent psychopath.
But make no mistake, men can become remarkably stupid around an attractive woman, so it would be very unlikely that she didn't use her sex as another tool in the toolbox.
And yes, there is political pressure to increase the number of women CEOs to a bit over half - at least. It would be naive to think otherwise.
So your motto is "go with the women, they're just as bad as the men"?
I believe in equality, women are just as capable as scamming investors out of capital as men have been.
True. Reading the article, what she did was manage to convince people that the basis of success was not ability, but eccentricity. She also had an ability to schmooze people. That is not a genitals specific thing.
I don't know if I understand your response. To be clear: the problem that YouTube is trying to solve is that some videos of children were used by pedophiles. The comment sections of those videos contained adult persons making vulgar appreciations of a sexual nature about the minor subjects of the video,
Gee - why doesn't Youtube and law enforcement go after....... wait for it....... the pedophiles?
Children participate in things like gymnastics. Normal people don't see a child and think that they want to have sex with the kid.
Perhaps if someone makes a comment about boinking a youngster in YT comments, Youtube could just Kick them, and notify Law enforcement. Otherwise we'll end up having it illegal to show images of anyone under the age of 18 on the Intertoobz.
tl;dr version: It isn't the lady's fault, it's the perv's
Ironically, you might not see this post because my karma is bad. My karma is bad because I said some very, very critical things about the slashdot community chasing politics over the quest for science. Even here, censorship happens.
Why would you think that you are censored? The rating system might hide your post if you have it set to a certain level. But here you are at 1, just like most of us Non-AC's.
Slashdot's rating system is one of the few ways that people can moderate a list, and not kick off those who are posting off topic or abusive posts. I do admittedly hide heverything below 1 when I'm not moderating. But if I for some reason wanted to see the posts about gay sex or 3000 word screeds, I could do it.
Remember, your free speech does not require me to listen.
In response to a mother's inquiry into why her son's gymnastics videos were deemed not advertiser friendly
Explain to me how a mother trying to get revenue on her son's gymnastics videos isn't creepy as FUCK, and probably pedophilic.
Geeze fellow, the idea that it's pedophilic never occured to me, at least. There seems to be this expanding idea that if there is a picture or video of a child, that it is somehow encouraging sex with kids. You do know that normal people don't even think that way.
My concerns are that now that Israel has interjected their desert god religion into the mix, are we going to extend the religion based wars onto the moon as well?
Ask Buzz Aldrin, who took communion on the Moon
They had the famous Apollo 8 Christmas message too. As an Atheist, I still find the words a great choice. And the act of taking bread and wine is hardly warlike.
Before you decide that I'm denigrating Israel - Well, I'm denigrating the Bible. I would not want a superior spacefaring race to find that, and interpret the old Testament as the defining book on how humans act. Some groups might find that the whole human race is either LWA, or a feral population that needs eradicated.
that "Israeli spacecraft" has better things to do than carry a bunch of kitsch to the fucking moon.
I respectfully disagree. The spacecraft includes a science payload too, but it didn't have to. The people who donated money to build and launch it get to pick what goes on it. If they wanted to have it land for an eggplant selfie that is their prerogative. Those who write the checks make the choice. If you don't like it write your own checks.
Yeah. My concerns are that now that Israel has interjected their desert god religion into the mix, are we going to extend the religion based wars onto the moon as well? I mean - what if their enemies here on earth decide to launch their own version of the angry desert god. They can presumably donate and decide what they want on the rocket they are paying for. Then in a couple hundred years, we can have the first religion war on the moon.
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One of the issues we are now facing is that we have been at war, and spending a lot of money since 2002.
We've been at war in Iraq since when, the sixties?
But we weren't sucking the treasury dry. The family bitchfight that was the Dubya war, was pointless. Halliburton did well though.
Yeah I know how Lime works - and it's insecure, and leads to software problems.
Are we sure about cause and effect here? If my software had this sort of problem, I'd feel insecure too! Maybe they just know it is a shit design?
Yeah, it could be - well it is a shit design. Something like a scooter should never lock the sprags. And running such a simple machine with software control like that just tells me that some people are trying to extend software where it shouldn't be.
Citation? I clearly said it was my personal experience. I have been stationed in many states. In order of residence
Ohhhh, an opinion backed by nothing! Well now, you know what they say about opinions. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, and most of them stink. That dear child would be yours. Other's opinions differ, Others quote facts. I like facts, I like stats. Sumtymez I lyke spelink errs. Especially when they become half of your argument against me. Good day sir, come back when you can do something more than spout an opinion.
Old school keys? So you want people to 1) be handed a key in person to use a scooter and then 2) return the key to a lime station after riding?
Do you know how lime scooters work?
Yeah I know how Lime works - and it's insecure, and leads to software problems. Kinda like what the story is about.
Dearest Coward, you can get keys sent to you in the mail, you can even use your key with an app to unlock the scooter. All it will take is the app and acceptance of the key's programming. Since these things are internet connected, it's not hardly difficult at all. That way the software can be kept away from the brakes.
As I suspected, you have no citations, only my stats getting you really pissed off. Produce the citations, or you're just another gun nut, beholden to the NRA and it's Russian backers.
Here's your idea of a polite society, Afghanistan, where even the children are armed http://images.mid-day.com/2013... I'm certain that you can get a free all expenses pad vacation there, even a free rifle for your collection. A very peaceful place.
I'm not a liberal, and I'm armed. But you and your ilk make gun owners look like retards. Once again - howbow da citations?
Hillary and bubba were both solidly behind war in Iraq.
I was listening to some revisionist history this morning. Trying to claim that Dubya got bad intel that made him decide to go into Iraq. Funny, as I recall at the time that the Intel community was pissed because he ignored their input, just like the pre 9-11 input was ignored.
One of the things that Trump supporters believed, erroneously of course, was that Trump would avoid needless wars. They believed it because he broke from the pack and actually called out specific politicians for that behavior, the Clintons among them. Of course, that was a lot of crap. I criticized Obama for drone strikes... Which have increased under Trump. And we're still in Iraq. And anyone who believed that he'd back off from those policies is a tool.
One of the issues we are now facing is that we have been at war, and spending a lot of money since 2002. Which sounds remarkably like one of the things that helped break the old Soviet Union up. No country can engage in endless warfare without bankrupting itself, and if anything real comes up, we are well and truly screwed.
As to his supporters, it has become clear over time, that they were just handing a big "Fuck You!!!" to the establishment. Problem was, they elected a person who exemplified the worst part of the establishment, coupled with a remarkable lack of insight other than what lines his pockets. Meanwhile, the farmers around here who haven't even harvested the soybeans that are rotting in the field have taken down their Trump-Pence MAGA signs. Seems that their man believes that tariff wars are easy to win, and I guess rotting soybeans are just a sign of winning.
But the 1960's trailers with all the washers, dryers, and cars sitting in the yard still have their signs up. Maybe it serves as a windbreak.
Again, not saying this was handled right, but let's be honest about what was involved.
There is the old dictum - shoot first, and let God work out the details. That is as honest as it gets.
I find the areas with the strictest gun control have the most asshole, abusive cops.
Y'all are going to have to produce the citations for that, my man. Meanwhile, here's one for you:
https://www.worldatlas.com/art...
The top ten in reverse order are:
10. West Virginia
9. California
8. Alaska
7. Montana
6. Wyoming
5. Nevada
4. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
2. District of Columbia
1. New Mexico
According to your experience, California and DC and New York should be 1 through three, but New York isn't even on the list.
What do you think? Liberal hogwash?
I'm sure everyone here knows what that means......
Of all the things that deserve a link, here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anyhow, if they can implement this without making the cars look too weird, and manage to keep the things from getting clogged with road dirt, this could be quite cool.
now Lims is paying for that decision, they should have just prevented the motor from turning until it was rented
Sounds like an attack vector for the Internet of Scooters as well. I guess those old school keys are just not cool enough.
The internet hasn't met capitalism. The infrastructure is heavily regulated by the government with a view to limiting the number of competing providers. You can argue about whether or not that's a good thing, but you can't say that is a free market. Limiting the number of providers will always result in lower quality, and higher priced, service.
Psssst..... that's what they call capitalism these days.
Again with the Hillary issues...you do realize the election was two years ago but you still seem intent on reliving it. Move on, come up to speed, cook with gas. "Sure my guy is a dolt, but that Hillary...whoa!!".
Hey - they are still pissed off about Franklin D Roosevelt. So my guess is they'll be able to to raise their blood pressure about ol' Hellery for another 50 years or so.
It's just what they do as opposed to solutions.
" We aren't operating at that level." Except we are, this statement seems to be in denial of the fact that we are a mass of atoms.
I do not consider that my thoughts are based on random interactions between atoms. It is possible that many random interactions happen, and somehow the thought process is tied to a selection, but that gets into conciousness, not free will. If that is denial, than so be it.
Some scientists would say that we aren't really making decisions we are simply conscious of the decisions being made by are brains and we are in effect simply watching those decisions which feel like us because that's how consciousness works.
I am my brain. When presented with input and the need for a decision, I take the input, think about different possible actions, than make the one I think is best. Others may and very often make a different decision. While this may involve chemical reactions, my brain - which is me - has given thought and weighed options, then come to a decision.
There is also a non-thought based reaction process. These are reflexes. If I bite my tongue, it unleases a reflex action that doesn't even reach my brain for processing. There is no free will in that. My jaw springs open almost immediately.
To me - if it is all fixed, there is no need for a brain at all. Just nerve centers, where every process is a reflexive reaction to an external stimulus.
And you don't think male CEOs have pulled crap like that?
They surely have pulled crap like that.
The fun is when people go into denial that it is even possible for a woman to pull crap like that. In fact, a large number of people believe and claim that Elizabeth holmes is the victim in all of this. https://www.businessinsider.co... I wonder what he thinks today? Anyhow, we have been force fed the concept that women are not only capable of being CEOs - of course they are - but that they are remarkably better than men. Even just being a mother makes you a better CEO http://fortune.com/2015/05/07/...
So while in an equality based system - yes women can be just as qualified to run a company as men - we aren't in an equality based system, we are in one that states that men are inferior to woman in the matter of leading companies .
And that is simply bullshit. But we can look forward to more women grifters taking advantage of the political climate.
I think greed and optimism make a plausible explanation as well.
Many factors are involved. Where we run into trouble is the large number of people who become angry and go into denial when the slightest suggestion is made that there is no sexual aspect involved.
She's an attractive woman with conman abilities. It would be pretty naive to think that she wouldn't use every tool at her disposal.
The major operating factor is indeed greed and avarice, and misplaced optimism. But her ability to make men stupid and the political incorrectness that would dare say that a woman was anything but much better at being a CEO than any man - Google women make better CEOs than men and enjoy the evening's reading. Apparently everyone but "A Voice for Men" believes that women are simply and inarguably better, even just being a mom makes you better qualified than any male.
So here we have Thanos. Or would it be better named Thanatos?
People were so desperate to have a female CEO...
Please. Those old fools made a bad investment because of her looks. This should be obvious to most men.
She did have more than looks. She had a con man's ability to bullshit people and make up stuff. She is at least a sociopath, or just as likely a non-violent psychopath.
But make no mistake, men can become remarkably stupid around an attractive woman, so it would be very unlikely that she didn't use her sex as another tool in the toolbox.
And yes, there is political pressure to increase the number of women CEOs to a bit over half - at least. It would be naive to think otherwise.
So your motto is "go with the women, they're just as bad as the men"?
I believe in equality, women are just as capable as scamming investors out of capital as men have been.
True. Reading the article, what she did was manage to convince people that the basis of success was not ability, but eccentricity. She also had an ability to schmooze people. That is not a genitals specific thing.
It is true, that she is quite physically attractive. This cannot be totally disregarded. https://www.psychologytoday.co...
But probably a detail that is a telling thing is that her father was an executive at Enron. So she is no stranger to corruption in business.
I don't know if I understand your response. To be clear: the problem that YouTube is trying to solve is that some videos of children were used by pedophiles. The comment sections of those videos contained adult persons making vulgar appreciations of a sexual nature about the minor subjects of the video,
Gee - why doesn't Youtube and law enforcement go after....... wait for it....... the pedophiles?
Children participate in things like gymnastics. Normal people don't see a child and think that they want to have sex with the kid.
Perhaps if someone makes a comment about boinking a youngster in YT comments, Youtube could just Kick them, and notify Law enforcement. Otherwise we'll end up having it illegal to show images of anyone under the age of 18 on the Intertoobz.
tl;dr version: It isn't the lady's fault, it's the perv's
Ironically, you might not see this post because my karma is bad. My karma is bad because I said some very, very critical things about the slashdot community chasing politics over the quest for science. Even here, censorship happens.
Why would you think that you are censored? The rating system might hide your post if you have it set to a certain level. But here you are at 1, just like most of us Non-AC's.
Slashdot's rating system is one of the few ways that people can moderate a list, and not kick off those who are posting off topic or abusive posts. I do admittedly hide heverything below 1 when I'm not moderating. But if I for some reason wanted to see the posts about gay sex or 3000 word screeds, I could do it.
Remember, your free speech does not require me to listen.
One thing first....
Explain to me how a mother trying to get revenue on her son's gymnastics videos isn't creepy as FUCK, and probably pedophilic.
Geeze fellow, the idea that it's pedophilic never occured to me, at least. There seems to be this expanding idea that if there is a picture or video of a child, that it is somehow encouraging sex with kids. You do know that normal people don't even think that way.
Royal Egyptian or Mesopotamian?
Well, Pre flood it was the Babylonian, probably the Egyptian version now.
My concerns are that now that Israel has interjected their desert god religion into the mix, are we going to extend the religion based wars onto the moon as well?
Ask Buzz Aldrin, who took communion on the Moon
They had the famous Apollo 8 Christmas message too. As an Atheist, I still find the words a great choice. And the act of taking bread and wine is hardly warlike.
Before you decide that I'm denigrating Israel - Well, I'm denigrating the Bible. I would not want a superior spacefaring race to find that, and interpret the old Testament as the defining book on how humans act. Some groups might find that the whole human race is either LWA, or a feral population that needs eradicated.
it's about the size of a kitchen table.
It that a metric or an imperial kitchen table?
It's in cubits, you insensitive clod!
I respectfully disagree. The spacecraft includes a science payload too, but it didn't have to. The people who donated money to build and launch it get to pick what goes on it. If they wanted to have it land for an eggplant selfie that is their prerogative. Those who write the checks make the choice. If you don't like it write your own checks.
Yeah. My concerns are that now that Israel has interjected their desert god religion into the mix, are we going to extend the religion based wars onto the moon as well? I mean - what if their enemies here on earth decide to launch their own version of the angry desert god. They can presumably donate and decide what they want on the rocket they are paying for. Then in a couple hundred years, we can have the first religion war on the moon.
I suppose it is inevitable.