How is the word "bro" sexist and how is it even remotely the same as calling anyone a slut? I'm pretty sure lots of men would be surprised that they were being sexist when they call their friends "bros."
You snowflakes are so adorable.
Allow me to illustrate
"Tong Zou wasn't a stereotypical crypto bro bent on accumulating flashy trophies such as Lamborghinis when he deposited his life savings into Quadriga CX's digital exchange."
Ming Zou wasn't a stereotypical Crypto babe bent on accumulating flashy trophies such as huge wardrobes and a cloet full of shoes and makeup when she deposited her life's savings into.......
Now, it isn't such a big deal these days, because society is pretty much accustomed to great sensitivity if a female is involved, and men can be painted anyway we feel like. But its real and it's there.
> Unless you disassemble and inspect an IoT personal spying device, You must assume it has both a microphone and camera. Because it probably does. This Nest example pretty must rests my case.
The fact that they deliberately expunged this from the publicly available specs pretty much confirms it was put in with malicious intent. The fact that it could, at any time, have had a mandatory update pushed to it that overrode the older software and put the mic (that wasn't listed anywhere) into listen mode, that's shocking.
From the article:
"All devices that come with the Google Assistant built in are designed with privacy in mind. Once the Google Assistant is enabled, the mic is always on but only listening for the hotwords “Ok Google” or “Hey Google”. Google only stores voice-based queries after it recognizes those hotwords. Voice data and query contents are sent to Google servers for analysis and storage in My Activity. Through My Activity, users are in control of their information. They can view or delete voice queries in My Activity."
Translation:
Oh shit, we were caught. When we were going to enable the Google assistant, the mic will always be on, and listening. All audio is sent to Google for analysis and surveillance purposes. So it's all good citizens, Google only has Google's best interests in mind.
We really do need to face it - if it is IoT, it is a surveillance device, and will be used as exactly that.
That burning sensation in your lungs is ALL NATURAL!
Oh, that's a real strawman. People who arebig on hating tobacco use tend to be pretty puritanical about anything. Fear not - they hate those heepees that smoke the deviul's lettuce just fine.
Meanwhile, one favorite way of smoking weed is rolled as a mix with tabacky, a hollowed out cigar, aka a blunt
As far as I can tell, the people with a vested interest in opposing cigarettes are also vehemently opposed to e-cigarettes, despite their much lower risk profile.
Time and again I find myself reading "news" stories where e-cigarettes are lumped with tobacco use, and many anti-tobacco activists swear up and down that if you vape candy-flavored vape juice FOR SURE you will switch to Marlboro Reds at the first opportunity.
It is just another manifestation of most of humanity's deep seated need to hate. Just one out of several target to pick from. As well, the same group is really pissed off that vaper's have found a loophole.
The most popular bruduct is right, the kids ate never sovial medias costumers, social media is in the data collection buisniss, the kids, or rather targeted ads served to the kids, arethe product. Am I wrong.
Whoa, I think I know what someone has been smoking, and it isn't tabacky!
We need to find a way to keep vaping devices away from pre-18ers.
Unilateral permanent confiscation of the vaping device when they are caught, a criminal record that stays on file for the next 7 years even though they are a minor, and the threat of losing access to public education if they are caught again might do the trick, at the very least, it will put the parent(s) or guardians in the loop who might be better equipped to deal with whatever further disciplinary actions are required.
Holy fuck, you left out summary and immediate execution.
I suspect you are Poeing, but if not, I think it was W.F. Buckley, ont of my two favorite conservatives, who suffered fro glaucoma and went offshore to treat it with devil's lettuce that said:
" Marijuana laws have unquestionably destroyed more lives than marijuana ever did."
reminds me of your suggestion.
However, nicotine is much more addictive than caffeine. It would be a mistake to equate them. And there are a variety of other chemicals in the vapes, which may or may not be harmful. And nicotine itself may contribute to cancer too.
And maryjooanna - AKA devil's lettuce -makes black people violent! That sounds insane, but once upon a time, that was considered to be truth,
The nicotine causes cancer bugaboo is so easy to pull out. Yet it backfires on the puritans on occasion, like when they shit their panties about bacon and cured meats "causing cancer" then we found out that humans get most of their nitrate load from....... wait for it..... veggies!
We should make eating veggies illegal, just to be safe.
Life is invariably fatal. SO if you aren't doing harm, chillaxe, bro. And while you are at it, check out the effects of phytoestrogens, which are heavy in foods that are considered the most healthy things you can eat these days. It takes a suspension of logic to think that vaping is any worse than that.
Quite the opposite. Caffeine (and more broadly, the coffee that many people consume it in), has all sorts of wide ranging health benefits. There have been hundreds of studies by people trying to prove how unhealthy coffee (and caffeine) is, and all the studies ending up proving the exact opposite; that it actually reduces all sorts of illnesses.
In moderation though - I have a friend who damn near died from palpitations brought on by coffee consumption.
As well, the puritans who are shitting their pants because the tobacco users have found a loophole in vaping need vaping to be made as socially unacceptable as tobacco products.
As a coffee addict, I can tell you that they are hoping to latch onto it as the next thing to be eradicated.
No. Caffeine in the form of 4 cups or more of coffee per day actually has a preventative effect according to this meta-analysis:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
So anyhow - I know a woman who nearly died of heart palpitations from excess coffee - Perhaps you can draw up legislation to make over 4 cups of coffee illegal.
Hang on--I need to get some popcorn and watch the Rasp Pi flaming begin. (BTW, I agree with you; raspberry pi is plenty to start learning on. When you get to the limitations, you learn from them, and if necessary you can then get something "better". )
Sure won't get any Overcooked Pi's from me. Those little things are exactly what kids and adults should learn on. I think a lot of the more structured teachings try to get them into programming a bit too quickly - let 'em learn unix/linux first, then set 'em loose.
I guess it is more like adults are patient enough to wait out the period between the increased drive and the actual suppression of their depression.
And of course the nasty part is that teenagers are subject to ennui, so trying gauge between that and depression. Then again, I might have just said what you said with different words.
And um, Over the years, be it short skirts, open shoulders hair up or down, even bathing suits, if they are hiding tats they apparently are well hidden indeed.
They often are, because of judgemental people like you.
It's a different world, and in it, tats are considered as a tendency to make bad and impulsive judgements.
Which is why people put them in places you can't see.
I am very judgemental - even if in today's world, any criticism is seen as something destructive to the poor Victim-person being criticised.
And yes - we can make pretty good judgements based on what we see. If I see a person with a MAGA hat on - I can make judgements about who he or she is. If I see a person with tats on his or her face, I can make a pretty good guess that they are as likely as not racially motivated, and probably spent some time in prison.
I hope you know that you are every bit as judgemental as you believe I am. You are just making your judgements in a different direction. Me? I judge everyone. I'm not trying to make anything illegal or even ostracize anyone, but I pick and choose who surrounds me.
Now, between you, me, and the other chachalacas, I really don't give a damn if a person gets tats head to to, or splits their penis in half, brands themselves or puts gauges in their mouths or pierces their head to put in a copper pipe. I really don't.
But I'm not going to hire them. Now doesn't that seem terrible? I suppose so, but here's the kicker. Once you notice one thing that is a red flag, you can find the others without a lot of trouble.
How many people do you know that are depressed and/or have considered suicide?
I don't know any that have attempted suicide, but I know a few in the depressed/considered suicide area.
Anger over happy people is a bad reaction. That's a very low spot to be in. Medical help can assist with this.
But images of self destruction provides ideas and methods of one's potential self destruction. It feeds the problem.
The possible negative reaction to happy people is just a trigger at the moment, quickly forgotten (individual instances, it can sustain over time because people are generally nice and/or happy).
I'd rather have anger over a smile than consideration and instructions of self-harm from others.
By a long fucking shot.
Bridges might be the trigger that allows the potential suicide to decide they were going to jump off to do the deed. Or that finding out on the web that breathing in only nitrogen gas will cause you to black out and die peacefully
My point back a long time ago, is that we have to stop deciding that other people are responsible. If we make it verboten for people to see, hear or view anything that might be used to commit suicide, and declare them as guilty of homicide, we will need to go on a wisdom burning campaign that would make the national socialists blush and say we've gone too far.
Point is, give me a half hour, and I can probably find 20 ways to kill myself without even typing in direct search terms.
Oftentimes depression prone people feel powerless. And if we teach them that everyone else is responsible for their problem, it reinforces the idea. Self harm pictures on Instagram can be banned, and we can imprison anyone who posts such images for life. But people have killed themselves forever, be it from depression, pride, or honor. Long long before Instagram in the internet. I know the world we live in today encourages victimhood. But perhaps real empowerment - not the pop culture empowerment - might just help a little more than telling them that everyone else is responsible. No one is really responsible. because we have a person with a terrible problem , and well meaning people looking for blame targets. But they are wrong.
The new generation has finally found something so repulsive to their parents that they finally got out of that vicious cycle of us oldsters co-opting their culture 'cause we ain't *that* old! Tats, piercings, rap...need I go on? Perhaps a quick nod to purple hair?
I'm at the beach in Florida, and just saw a young woman with half her body covered in tattoos. Hopefully she isn't planning on a well paying career. Those will look simply awesome in 20 years, like a bad skin condition. Maybe she can sell meth.
You have to try a bunch before you find one where the side effects are acceptable. Apparently the effects are slow, so you have to take each for ages, then get withdrawal coming off it. You have to keep that up until you find one that fucks with your brain chemistry in the right way.
Never had to go through that but I know someone who has. It sounds horiffic.
I know a guy who was on Thorazine. It was indeed horrifying, like a straitjacket for his brain.
This is why they are not recommended for people under 25. Says so right there in the patient information leaflet.
Side note: Its interesting how young people have different reactions to meds. Ritalin for ADHD also shows a marked difference as one reaches adulthood for instance.
If you want to look at pictures of people harming themselves, go for it. Seriously, take your business somewhere else. Instagram will not miss you or anyone else coming to find pictures of suicidal people.
Whoosh! If I see something like that, it will get reported. You might look at it even like the person issuing a cry for help that is now taken away.
Great that it works for you, but if you have to create documents as (e.g. ppt files) and send them to third parties, knowing for certain that at least the most recent version of Office renders it properly is worth way more than the license fee.
But it doesn't render them properly. Between MacOS and Windows, the files most of the time need reworked. And of course, nothing for Linux.
And the answer isn't to go Windows only. We have programs on each platform that are platform specific.
You are engaging in some short of logical fallacy: you claim that because it is hard to draw a definite line is it also hard to know which things are very far removed from the line.
Never heard of the creep? If a group is successful at getting something, they push a little further. An example might be how the Right wing in the US hasgone so farther right every election cycle that now alomst everyone is too far left for them.
If this effort succeeds, look for more of the crybullying. The perennial victim group isn't ever really satisfied
And um, Over the years, be it short skirts, open shoulders hair up or down, even bathing suits, if they are hiding tats they apparently are well hidden indeed.
It's a different world, and in it, tats are considered as a tendency to make bad and impulsive judgements. Few men have them either. Deal with it.
Slashdot Mirror
software engineers are perfectly capable of charting out the future of the species in spaaaaaaaaaace
They are; just not Canadians.
Why can't Canadians be in space?
How is the word "bro" sexist and how is it even remotely the same as calling anyone a slut? I'm pretty sure lots of men would be surprised that they were being sexist when they call their friends "bros."
You snowflakes are so adorable.
Allow me to illustrate
"Tong Zou wasn't a stereotypical crypto bro bent on accumulating flashy trophies such as Lamborghinis when he deposited his life savings into Quadriga CX's digital exchange."
Ming Zou wasn't a stereotypical Crypto babe bent on accumulating flashy trophies such as huge wardrobes and a cloet full of shoes and makeup when she deposited her life's savings into.......
Now, it isn't such a big deal these days, because society is pretty much accustomed to great sensitivity if a female is involved, and men can be painted anyway we feel like. But its real and it's there.
How about some consistency in your outrage? If sexism is bad, then all forms of it are bad?
That is not how it works and you know it
Men cannot suffer sexism: https://www.bustle.com/article...,
Literally. Never.
> Unless you disassemble and inspect an IoT personal spying device, You must assume it has both a microphone and camera. Because it probably does. This Nest example pretty must rests my case.
The fact that they deliberately expunged this from the publicly available specs pretty much confirms it was put in with malicious intent. The fact that it could, at any time, have had a mandatory update pushed to it that overrode the older software and put the mic (that wasn't listed anywhere) into listen mode, that's shocking.
From the article:
"All devices that come with the Google Assistant built in are designed with privacy in mind. Once the Google Assistant is enabled, the mic is always on but only listening for the hotwords “Ok Google” or “Hey Google”. Google only stores voice-based queries after it recognizes those hotwords. Voice data and query contents are sent to Google servers for analysis and storage in My Activity. Through My Activity, users are in control of their information. They can view or delete voice queries in My Activity."
Translation:
Oh shit, we were caught. When we were going to enable the Google assistant, the mic will always be on, and listening. All audio is sent to Google for analysis and surveillance purposes. So it's all good citizens, Google only has Google's best interests in mind.
We really do need to face it - if it is IoT, it is a surveillance device, and will be used as exactly that.
Tobacco is BAD but Marijuana is OK!
That burning sensation in your lungs is ALL NATURAL!
Oh, that's a real strawman. People who arebig on hating tobacco use tend to be pretty puritanical about anything. Fear not - they hate those heepees that smoke the deviul's lettuce just fine.
Meanwhile, one favorite way of smoking weed is rolled as a mix with tabacky, a hollowed out cigar, aka a blunt
As far as I can tell, the people with a vested interest in opposing cigarettes are also vehemently opposed to e-cigarettes, despite their much lower risk profile.
Time and again I find myself reading "news" stories where e-cigarettes are lumped with tobacco use, and many anti-tobacco activists swear up and down that if you vape candy-flavored vape juice FOR SURE you will switch to Marlboro Reds at the first opportunity.
It is just another manifestation of most of humanity's deep seated need to hate. Just one out of several target to pick from. As well, the same group is really pissed off that vaper's have found a loophole.
The most popular bruduct is right, the kids ate never sovial medias costumers, social media is in the data collection buisniss, the kids, or rather targeted ads served to the kids, arethe product. Am I wrong.
Whoa, I think I know what someone has been smoking, and it isn't tabacky!
Unilateral permanent confiscation of the vaping device when they are caught, a criminal record that stays on file for the next 7 years even though they are a minor, and the threat of losing access to public education if they are caught again might do the trick, at the very least, it will put the parent(s) or guardians in the loop who might be better equipped to deal with whatever further disciplinary actions are required.
Holy fuck, you left out summary and immediate execution.
I suspect you are Poeing, but if not, I think it was W.F. Buckley, ont of my two favorite conservatives, who suffered fro glaucoma and went offshore to treat it with devil's lettuce that said:
" Marijuana laws have unquestionably destroyed more lives than marijuana ever did." reminds me of your suggestion.
However, nicotine is much more addictive than caffeine. It would be a mistake to equate them. And there are a variety of other chemicals in the vapes, which may or may not be harmful. And nicotine itself may contribute to cancer too.
And maryjooanna - AKA devil's lettuce -makes black people violent! That sounds insane, but once upon a time, that was considered to be truth,
The nicotine causes cancer bugaboo is so easy to pull out. Yet it backfires on the puritans on occasion, like when they shit their panties about bacon and cured meats "causing cancer" then we found out that humans get most of their nitrate load from....... wait for it..... veggies!
We should make eating veggies illegal, just to be safe.
The health affects of caffeine aren't fully known, but Nicotine does reduce your body's defenses against cancer.
You're right that vaping is definitely less unhealthy than cigarettes though.
I have some bad news for you about nitrates in vegetables. https://livehealthy.chron.com/... But bacon is bad!
Life is invariably fatal. SO if you aren't doing harm, chillaxe, bro. And while you are at it, check out the effects of phytoestrogens, which are heavy in foods that are considered the most healthy things you can eat these days. It takes a suspension of logic to think that vaping is any worse than that.
From your link:
Conclusions: The use of NRT is not associated with any increase in the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death.
So no, nicotine minus the tar, particulates, and carbon monoxide is NOT associated with an increased of cardiovascular risk.
Looks like you read what you (for some reason) wanted to read rather than what was written.
It is the modern purist's version of reefer madness. The puritans don't need actual facts.
As does caffeine!
Quite the opposite. Caffeine (and more broadly, the coffee that many people consume it in), has all sorts of wide ranging health benefits. There have been hundreds of studies by people trying to prove how unhealthy coffee (and caffeine) is, and all the studies ending up proving the exact opposite; that it actually reduces all sorts of illnesses.
In moderation though - I have a friend who damn near died from palpitations brought on by coffee consumption.
As well, the puritans who are shitting their pants because the tobacco users have found a loophole in vaping need vaping to be made as socially unacceptable as tobacco products.
As a coffee addict, I can tell you that they are hoping to latch onto it as the next thing to be eradicated.
No. Caffeine in the form of 4 cups or more of coffee per day actually has a preventative effect according to this meta-analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
So anyhow - I know a woman who nearly died of heart palpitations from excess coffee - Perhaps you can draw up legislation to make over 4 cups of coffee illegal.
People's health depends on it!
Hang on--I need to get some popcorn and watch the Rasp Pi flaming begin. (BTW, I agree with you; raspberry pi is plenty to start learning on. When you get to the limitations, you learn from them, and if necessary you can then get something "better". )
Sure won't get any Overcooked Pi's from me. Those little things are exactly what kids and adults should learn on. I think a lot of the more structured teachings try to get them into programming a bit too quickly - let 'em learn unix/linux first, then set 'em loose.
if a parent these days want their kids to learn then they can get a raspberry pi.
I suppose buying them a hammer will teach them architecture.
You are operating on the education ideal, which shows that gender studies programs make for better relationships between men and women?
I guess it is more like adults are patient enough to wait out the period between the increased drive and the actual suppression of their depression.
And of course the nasty part is that teenagers are subject to ennui, so trying gauge between that and depression. Then again, I might have just said what you said with different words.
And um, Over the years, be it short skirts, open shoulders hair up or down, even bathing suits, if they are hiding tats they apparently are well hidden indeed.
They often are, because of judgemental people like you.
It's a different world, and in it, tats are considered as a tendency to make bad and impulsive judgements.
Which is why people put them in places you can't see.
I am very judgemental - even if in today's world, any criticism is seen as something destructive to the poor Victim-person being criticised.
And yes - we can make pretty good judgements based on what we see. If I see a person with a MAGA hat on - I can make judgements about who he or she is. If I see a person with tats on his or her face, I can make a pretty good guess that they are as likely as not racially motivated, and probably spent some time in prison.
I hope you know that you are every bit as judgemental as you believe I am. You are just making your judgements in a different direction. Me? I judge everyone. I'm not trying to make anything illegal or even ostracize anyone, but I pick and choose who surrounds me.
Now, between you, me, and the other chachalacas, I really don't give a damn if a person gets tats head to to, or splits their penis in half, brands themselves or puts gauges in their mouths or pierces their head to put in a copper pipe. I really don't.
But I'm not going to hire them. Now doesn't that seem terrible? I suppose so, but here's the kicker. Once you notice one thing that is a red flag, you can find the others without a lot of trouble.
How many people do you know that are depressed and/or have considered suicide?
I don't know any that have attempted suicide, but I know a few in the depressed/considered suicide area.
Anger over happy people is a bad reaction. That's a very low spot to be in. Medical help can assist with this.
But images of self destruction provides ideas and methods of one's potential self destruction. It feeds the problem.
The possible negative reaction to happy people is just a trigger at the moment, quickly forgotten (individual instances, it can sustain over time because people are generally nice and/or happy).
I'd rather have anger over a smile than consideration and instructions of self-harm from others.
By a long fucking shot.
Bridges might be the trigger that allows the potential suicide to decide they were going to jump off to do the deed. Or that finding out on the web that breathing in only nitrogen gas will cause you to black out and die peacefully
My point back a long time ago, is that we have to stop deciding that other people are responsible. If we make it verboten for people to see, hear or view anything that might be used to commit suicide, and declare them as guilty of homicide, we will need to go on a wisdom burning campaign that would make the national socialists blush and say we've gone too far.
Point is, give me a half hour, and I can probably find 20 ways to kill myself without even typing in direct search terms.
Oftentimes depression prone people feel powerless. And if we teach them that everyone else is responsible for their problem, it reinforces the idea. Self harm pictures on Instagram can be banned, and we can imprison anyone who posts such images for life. But people have killed themselves forever, be it from depression, pride, or honor. Long long before Instagram in the internet. I know the world we live in today encourages victimhood. But perhaps real empowerment - not the pop culture empowerment - might just help a little more than telling them that everyone else is responsible. No one is really responsible. because we have a person with a terrible problem , and well meaning people looking for blame targets. But they are wrong.
Dammit, now he's going to have to come up with a different reason that he hates LO.
It doesn't have The Ribbon.
Oh, bugger...
Indeed! The ribbon was what got me to look at OO back in the day.
The new generation has finally found something so repulsive to their parents that they finally got out of that vicious cycle of us oldsters co-opting their culture 'cause we ain't *that* old! Tats, piercings, rap...need I go on? Perhaps a quick nod to purple hair?
I'm at the beach in Florida, and just saw a young woman with half her body covered in tattoos. Hopefully she isn't planning on a well paying career. Those will look simply awesome in 20 years, like a bad skin condition. Maybe she can sell meth.
You have to try a bunch before you find one where the side effects are acceptable. Apparently the effects are slow, so you have to take each for ages, then get withdrawal coming off it. You have to keep that up until you find one that fucks with your brain chemistry in the right way.
Never had to go through that but I know someone who has. It sounds horiffic.
I know a guy who was on Thorazine. It was indeed horrifying, like a straitjacket for his brain.
This is why they are not recommended for people under 25. Says so right there in the patient information leaflet.
Side note: Its interesting how young people have different reactions to meds. Ritalin for ADHD also shows a marked difference as one reaches adulthood for instance.
If you want to look at pictures of people harming themselves, go for it. Seriously, take your business somewhere else. Instagram will not miss you or anyone else coming to find pictures of suicidal people.
Whoosh! If I see something like that, it will get reported. You might look at it even like the person issuing a cry for help that is now taken away.
Great that it works for you, but if you have to create documents as (e.g. ppt files) and send them to third parties, knowing for certain that at least the most recent version of Office renders it properly is worth way more than the license fee.
But it doesn't render them properly. Between MacOS and Windows, the files most of the time need reworked. And of course, nothing for Linux.
And the answer isn't to go Windows only. We have programs on each platform that are platform specific.
You are engaging in some short of logical fallacy: you claim that because it is hard to draw a definite line is it also hard to know which things are very far removed from the line.
Never heard of the creep? If a group is successful at getting something, they push a little further. An example might be how the Right wing in the US hasgone so farther right every election cycle that now alomst everyone is too far left for them.
If this effort succeeds, look for more of the crybullying. The perennial victim group isn't ever really satisfied
And um, Over the years, be it short skirts, open shoulders hair up or down, even bathing suits, if they are hiding tats they apparently are well hidden indeed.
It's a different world, and in it, tats are considered as a tendency to make bad and impulsive judgements. Few men have them either. Deal with it.