Yeah, that's a problem. But the answer is not to deliberately degrade public streets so you cannot physically drive faster than ten miles an hour less than the speed limit on them. Honest, law abiding citizens get punished for the acts of a few, and that's not a good answer.
Tough shit. As I posted in a previous post, some asshole who had to go down our 25 mile an hour street at 55 was going to be hit with a deliberate maze of our cars parked as far out in the street as possible. Fortunately, the local cop I tipped off to her playing NASCAR nailed her with a couple of tickets and made certain her insurance rates went up. She drives a nice 25 mph down the street now.
But the neighbors and I will do it if we need to. And do stop by to complain, we'll give your license number to our buddy and you can have further discussions with him, because people who speed in residential zones usually speed everywhere.
That does not mean anything if we do not know what happened or the layout of the street. Perhaps that car was speeding, but by how much? Perhaps the kid was jumping in front of the car and would have been injured anyway.
What happens in Europe is that they start making the streets in such a way that they are automatically so that you drive a lower speed. Especially in neighbourhoods where people live.
Just a couple thoughts. We have a 25 mph speed limit on the street I live on, and have had some troubles in the past with speeders. I do happen to be friendly with the local police, and after one young lady who sometimes zipped down our street at around 55 miles per hour, I got her license plate and gave it to him. As it turns out, people who like to drive 55 in a 25 zone tend to drive really fast everywhere. So he just waited for her, and enriched the township's coffers. After a couple tickets, she saw the error of her ways, and now drives within the speed limit I think her insurance company is aware of her problem.
I don't really care how fast people drive on the interstates. In a neighborhood totally lined with houses, that is a non-starter.
Our neighbors were also aware of her and a few others speeding. If my officer friend didn't take care of the problem, we planned on turning the street into an obstacle course by parking our cars as far in the road as possible.
For example a car designed in 1970 handles terrible out of the factory compared to one built today. We've made the tire sidewalls smaller, moved from gearbox to rack and pinion steering, added ABS, and a whole host of other improvements that make modern vehicles safer to operate at speed.
And yet, we have not seen any improvement in driver reaction time, have we? You can have a formula 1 car, but if the operator doesn't react in time, it will crash just as easily as that 1970's vehicle.
Things happen very quickly at 80 miles per hour and above. I'd surmise that 80 percent of people do not have the reaction times to drive in traffic at that speed.
At least in California, other than the absolute maximum, and things like school zones, roads have to be surveyed periodically, and the speed limits must reflect the prevailing speed. If it is 85% near some higher number, including mass transit, then the limit is too low.
Fascinating. Here in Pennsylvania, most people travel about 10 MPH higher than the posted speed. Since when the speed was raised from 55 they rtravelled 65, then it became 65, and they travelled 75, now in places where it has been riesd to 70 they are going 80, often 85 I think you can see where this little positive feedback loop will end up. How fast yo can go is how fast your vehicle can go.
Except for pragmatism. Pragmatism only deals with things that work.
That's still a problem, though, because you have to establish a standard of "what works". Pragmatically, the current system works wonderfully for those with money and power, but not nearly as well for the average citizen.
We can observe what happens in the world. I have observed that highly idealistic isms tend to fail, usually because of some fundamental mistakes in determining human nature, as well as ideology needing to become ever more "pure".
Communism does not allow for the inherent wish for humans to advance themselves.
Fundamentalist religion allows for no compromise, and it's need tor enemies and ever increasing purity eventually kills it.
Capitalism, which relies on the greed factor, if unchecked means that once enough capital is obtained, those who have attained it seek to destroy the free market. This should be self evident as the drive that produces the wealth will end up making the most greedy accumulating as much of the wealth as possible, and often by any means.
Socialism comes close, but only because it is the closest to pragmatism. Problem is, there are so many definitions of socialism these days, we have to evaaluate. on a case by case basis.
Libertarianism is another ism that is a little difficult at this point to evaluate, because what passes for modern libertarianism is just a quirky form of Republicanism. I'll note that the downfall of traditional Libertarianism is a miscalculation of human nature, assuming everyone is intelligent and law abiding. Perhaps they would stand a better chance if they didn't have to pander to the social conservative base of the party they choose to identify with. It's been sickening to watch Rand Paul try to pander to the religious right http://crooksandliars.com/2015..., Play George Bush the third by doing the aircraft carrier tough guy biz http://dailycaller.com/2015/03... - the only thing missing was the "Mission Accomplished banner! Then he forgot that there is no compromise, no room for anything that he is told that he has to believe, because if you do not do exactly that, this happens to you. http://teejaw.com/rand-paul-ju....
Actual Libertarianism is not compatible with the Republican party.
And if I'm tough on Paul, he deserves it. Libertarianism comes closest to pragmatism, as long as you remember that you can't run a pure ideology.
So in my heretical pick and choose pragmatism, Capitalism with brakes to protect itself from itself, coupled with Libertarianism with it's willingness to respect the individual's rights and obligations (not what currently goes for Libertarianism, and progressive understanding that there are some things that should not be run for profit, and some that should. Banks and producing goods should always be run for profit - health care should not, makes for a pretty good version of pragmatism.
I also have this weird idea that a country becomes wealthy by having as many people have money as possible, not by concentrating it in the hands of a few. And this is not done by taking money from the wealthy at all, but by having as much of the populous enjoy the fruits of their labors by pecuniary renumeration as possible. People with money buy the stuff the job creators make. The present situation of making as many Americans as poor as possible, and having me the taxpayer make up for the shitty wages some industry wants to pay is a race to the bottom.
Am I supposed to think there is anything actually good about the cloud changes?
More complicated.
A trend toward moving toward "bare metal" physical boxes for the computing.
Moving to Cell phone company like who the hell knows what is what pricing.
All I know is that it seems just as likely a catastrophe in waiting, and given the state of backdooring, ain't happening if I'm a business, because every detail would be exposed.
That's standing up for what's right, and there's not enough of that in this country, which is how all this crap gets started in the first place
You want to play the hero, get fired and have a pity party, knock yourself out. My obligation tis to put food on the table by bringing home the money. That's capitalism, baby.
I am glad to finally get hold of someone who has all of the answers, as well as has great clairvoyant powers.
What do you do, if the company replaces you and gives you the bum's rush escort by either security or the police? No notice, just 15 minutes to clear the desk and you are out on the street. Because its standard procedure these days.You must have a good resume to be hired in that 15 minutes.
Anyhow, your ideas are very interesting - I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
You libertarians drive me nuts sometimes, and you have to be one to call this the 'victim game'. You know what? When companies do illegal things they need to be held to account for it. That's not playing the victim game.
That's because present day libertarians are merely Republicans who are selfish pricks, who can't put up with anyone telling them what to do
This is not an example of capitalism. In fact, we're not much of a capitalistic nation anymore.
Because that's what happens to capitalism. As soon as someone gets enough capital, they want to keep and increase it. A system acknowledged to be built on greed means without any controls, the greediest wins. And there is no limit. Then there may be a revolt.
Capitalism has the seeds of success, but just like a formula one engine, it needs help to keep it from blowing itself to bits. Do some research on the boom and bust nature of pure Capitalism, and notice how especially in earlier times in the US, there were roughly 2 year cycles of boom and bust.
Any "ism" i it's pure form will destroy itself. Except for pragmatism. Pragmatism only deals with things that work.
Which makes it pretty rare these days, especially as those with great financial interests manage to play on idealism. There are people in the USA who believe that Capitalism is based on the Baksheesh paid to politicians to ensure that those who pay it remain in favor and wealth. So - it's complicated, but yeah, it isn't capitalism.
Thank goodness you took time from your busy schedule to post on a topic you don't care about. Now everyone knows, via your post on the internet, that this topic isn't worth posting about.
A complaint is a gift.
And your complaint about a complaint leads me to say:
Yo dawg, we hear you like complaining about complaints, so we complained and got a complainer container so you can complain while complaining about complaint complaints.
Some people using the site now were probably not even born when "DLL hell" was still something that was actually a problem, rather than just a term that Slashdotters parroted.
That would mean people who haven't been born yet. Revo uninstaller to the rescue
As few weeks later, Skype wasnâ(TM)t logged in or running, all my Skype contacts, including work contacts, start getting malware-ridden spam links coming from me..
Ugh! I've heard that Skype accesses your email recipients - even if you tell it not to So there's the proof that it does, and that not only Microsoft and law enforcement have the keys to the kingdom now.
Most people can't afford those big trucks, either. You may have seen "several" in your area, and so have I... but I've seen several Teslas, too. Hell, I finally saw one actually in Lake county, and there sure ain't no superchargers around here.
For certain. I just get a little spun up when someone pulls the "electric cars are too expensive", while not having an issue with the expensive petrofueled cars or trucks, and then plays the "Progressive liberal shithead card".
Plus: whatever "good guys" is. Your "good guys"? My "good guys"? Bachar AL Assad's "good guys"? Putin's "good guys"?
For certain. And seeing the gaping back doors in Skype, I would never allow it on any machine except one that has nothing else on it. No email, no passwords, no credit card purchases. Skype is that much of a threat to the user. Kind of like what I did with a Windows 10 computer. I set it up to learn about W10, but decided to keep it separate from everything else. The entire Windows ecosystem wants to know everything about you, and the door is wide open.
Scientific racism is the use of scientific and pseudo-scientific techniques and hypotheses to support or justify the belief in racism, racial inferiority, racialism, racial superiority, or alternatively the practice of classifying individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races (Wikipedia). Scientific racism is what caused separate-but-equal, eugenics, forced sterilization, and widespread labor discrimination against blacks. It was widely preached by progressives, and still is to this day.
And I have a lovely bunch of coconuts! Have you perhaps been indulging in the more potent forms of Kava to extrapolate that from my postings?
Even from my other posts on this subject, I've noted that even the southern poverty law center, considers the so called native Hawaiians a racist group. https://www.splcenter.org/figh...
And they are just that. I don't say they are racist because of some DNA heritage, but because they have left adequate proof of their racism. From "Kill Hao
LOL! You're a scientific racist! That's precious. They're new, you should probably break 'em in right. I was tempted to write 'em a novella on your behalf but I'm just too lazy and you can stand up for yourself.
That is, that's too cute. You scientific racist, you!
My gast has been flabbered! But stand by, I shall reply to the lad. I'm now dealing with the urge to be unkind, but.... Ah, to heck with it...
Searching for images of "Cortana" and turning off Safesearch will yield some surprising results.
And don't even think of searching for "Cortana rule 34" unless you want to loose what innocence you may have left.
AACH! You warned me, but Just like Stimpy's button temptation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I couldn't resist.
So I went to Wikipedia,searched rule 34 and even it was disturbing. Calvin and Hobbes porn? What the hell?
Cortana porn? More of the what the hell. Perhaps Microsoft could have come up with a different name - the dumasses.
No, sorry, that's not true. "Your community" has no input into whether you build 300 ft structures on your 1000 ac of private property out in unincorporated land.
HAW HAW HAW
Tell you what. Go forth and give it a shot, and see how it goes — make sure to defend it to the bitter end. You won't have to get back to us to let us know how it went, because you'll be on the news.
I think ooloorie is just here to disagree with others, and I'm certain he'll defend whatever the hell he is talking about to the bitter end.
Maybe he lives in Houston Texas, Where you might find a 1950 mobile home next to a skyscraper, but I have a number of restrictions I have to deal with. Less restrictions than many places, I can put up a radio tower, but it can't be so tall it will fall on my neighbor's house. I can't park an unregistered vehicle on the street. I can't allow my grass to grow taller than 6 inches without cutting it.
And I can't keep chickens - although they are working on allowing that.
And his scientific racism bullshit still has me scratching my head. Kinda like that uncle who comes to family functions and wants to argue with everyone even when they agree.
Why would anyone even care about your Skype conversations? Is this like for black mail purposes or do people really discuss state secrets using Skype?
Read AC's links On Linux, the backdoors give access to all your passwords, and on everything will access your address book even when you tell it not to - shades of Windows 10 telemetry. Now imagine when coupled with some service like Linkedin, where you give them your email passwords so Linkedin can harvest your address book. Fun fun for everyone.
You put a backdoor in software for the good guys, it's only a matter of time until the bad guys have it as well.
Skype is a privacy clusterfuck. It is already well and thoroughly backdoored. Adding another back door is akin to adding a second screen door to your submarine.
Skype is a security danger even if you don't have it running. You have to uninstall it.
Possibly one of those cases when if you put a backdoor in "for the good guys", the bad guys will discover it and use it, in the end, decreasing security. Get rid of it, because even if you have nothing to hide, you're just opening your computer up to the world.
Right now, comments on this article are 100% Anonymous Cowards, who all agree this is dumb and won't go anwhere. And that's pretty much par for the course here - people dumping on random consumer tech, websites, every company in software, VR, robotics, AI, self-driving cars.
I think VR is going to be big.
While I sort of agree that Slashdot has a fair number of posters who simply hate everything new, let us not forget that not everything new is automatically wonderful.
But now that we are past that, I'm not seeing 3D as becoming really widely adopted until the delivery method goes past the helmet on the head paradigm. I'm seeing a direct immersion, probably using brain implants, or some way of acceptably stimulating the optic nerve (which by the way will be a boon for the blind) Sit back in the chair or couch, close your eyes (or not) and you are totally immersed in the movie or game No visual borders. I'm also envisioning a complete immersive game or first person movie where you take a concoction that allows you to feel the movement, but be in a sleeplike muscle inhibited mode especially in the movie experience where you are going along for whatever the main character's experience is.
I suppose it's not surprising that someone who believes in scientific racism (as you obviously do) also would think that a religious symbol on your neighbor's property is the equivalent of an unshielded nuclear reactor.
I am sort of surprised that you took a comment noting that property rights are not 100 percent on the side of the property owner, and gyrating that to scientific racism. Especially, what the hell is scientific racism anyhow?
If I wanted to place a 300 foot cross on my property in my neighborhood, I wouldn't be allowed. If I wanted to pan for gold, I wouldn't be allowed.
What the hell are we arguing about anyhow? We seem to be more or less on the same page, except my attempt at humor upset you. Hint, I don't even think the most rabid property rights advocate would want to put an unshielded nuc reactor on his property. My training tells me that he wouldn't own the property much longer. They're kinda nasty thingies if you don't keep them in their jars.
As I said, personally, I don't consider Hawaiians anything at all, since I don't believe there is such a thing as a "Hawaiian".
What there is is "native Hawaiian groups", which seem pretty similar to something like the Thule Society.
Yes, you are right. There is a lot of ambiguity over the original Hawaiians, Polynesians, Tahitian, and Maori and even possible pre-Columbian Americas influence. As well as the dates of occupation. Some have even noted some sort of "little people" living there, although that is disputed.
So Ol Olsoc doesn't think a pure Hawaiian exists at all - and that's just another knock against these folks. I pretty much dispute their claim over the islands any more than anyone else's.
I also dispute that some deity lives in that mountain, and find the original lease agreement is valid. Any claim they have - especially to the mountaintop is as valid as Dominionist dogma. They are part of the US now, and if they want to rebel, they'll need to take up arms and declare war on us.
I can see why the natives would be upset, having been invaded and subjugated by the US army and their land taken.
Not sure how that affects building telescopes though.
Yes, wrong is wrong. The thing is that they aren't exactly innocent or pure. Their religion is a caste system, their religion practices human sacrifice, segregates men and women and as far as I can tell, the Tahiti takeover (Disputed) or Maori merely shows whatever they are, they aren't the first, so they have no permanent claim.
Some researchers think they may even had pre-Columbian American contact due to the presence of the sweet potato in Hawaii.
Lest we think only white 'murricans are evil, the Hawaiians (whichever were the presumed original ones) introduced the Pacific rat to the islands, which precipitated an early extinction event.
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Yeah, that's a problem. But the answer is not to deliberately degrade public streets so you cannot physically drive faster than ten miles an hour less than the speed limit on them. Honest, law abiding citizens get punished for the acts of a few, and that's not a good answer.
Tough shit. As I posted in a previous post, some asshole who had to go down our 25 mile an hour street at 55 was going to be hit with a deliberate maze of our cars parked as far out in the street as possible. Fortunately, the local cop I tipped off to her playing NASCAR nailed her with a couple of tickets and made certain her insurance rates went up. She drives a nice 25 mph down the street now.
But the neighbors and I will do it if we need to. And do stop by to complain, we'll give your license number to our buddy and you can have further discussions with him, because people who speed in residential zones usually speed everywhere.
That does not mean anything if we do not know what happened or the layout of the street. Perhaps that car was speeding, but by how much? Perhaps the kid was jumping in front of the car and would have been injured anyway.
What happens in Europe is that they start making the streets in such a way that they are automatically so that you drive a lower speed. Especially in neighbourhoods where people live.
Just a couple thoughts. We have a 25 mph speed limit on the street I live on, and have had some troubles in the past with speeders. I do happen to be friendly with the local police, and after one young lady who sometimes zipped down our street at around 55 miles per hour, I got her license plate and gave it to him. As it turns out, people who like to drive 55 in a 25 zone tend to drive really fast everywhere. So he just waited for her, and enriched the township's coffers. After a couple tickets, she saw the error of her ways, and now drives within the speed limit I think her insurance company is aware of her problem.
I don't really care how fast people drive on the interstates. In a neighborhood totally lined with houses, that is a non-starter.
Our neighbors were also aware of her and a few others speeding. If my officer friend didn't take care of the problem, we planned on turning the street into an obstacle course by parking our cars as far in the road as possible.
For example a car designed in 1970 handles terrible out of the factory compared to one built today. We've made the tire sidewalls smaller, moved from gearbox to rack and pinion steering, added ABS, and a whole host of other improvements that make modern vehicles safer to operate at speed.
And yet, we have not seen any improvement in driver reaction time, have we? You can have a formula 1 car, but if the operator doesn't react in time, it will crash just as easily as that 1970's vehicle.
Things happen very quickly at 80 miles per hour and above. I'd surmise that 80 percent of people do not have the reaction times to drive in traffic at that speed.
At least in California, other than the absolute maximum, and things like school zones, roads have to be surveyed periodically, and the speed limits must reflect the prevailing speed. If it is 85% near some higher number, including mass transit, then the limit is too low.
Fascinating. Here in Pennsylvania, most people travel about 10 MPH higher than the posted speed. Since when the speed was raised from 55 they rtravelled 65, then it became 65, and they travelled 75, now in places where it has been riesd to 70 they are going 80, often 85 I think you can see where this little positive feedback loop will end up. How fast yo can go is how fast your vehicle can go.
Except for pragmatism. Pragmatism only deals with things that work. That's still a problem, though, because you have to establish a standard of "what works". Pragmatically, the current system works wonderfully for those with money and power, but not nearly as well for the average citizen.
We can observe what happens in the world. I have observed that highly idealistic isms tend to fail, usually because of some fundamental mistakes in determining human nature, as well as ideology needing to become ever more "pure".
Communism does not allow for the inherent wish for humans to advance themselves.
Fundamentalist religion allows for no compromise, and it's need tor enemies and ever increasing purity eventually kills it.
Capitalism, which relies on the greed factor, if unchecked means that once enough capital is obtained, those who have attained it seek to destroy the free market. This should be self evident as the drive that produces the wealth will end up making the most greedy accumulating as much of the wealth as possible, and often by any means.
Socialism comes close, but only because it is the closest to pragmatism. Problem is, there are so many definitions of socialism these days, we have to evaaluate. on a case by case basis.
Libertarianism is another ism that is a little difficult at this point to evaluate, because what passes for modern libertarianism is just a quirky form of Republicanism. I'll note that the downfall of traditional Libertarianism is a miscalculation of human nature, assuming everyone is intelligent and law abiding. Perhaps they would stand a better chance if they didn't have to pander to the social conservative base of the party they choose to identify with. It's been sickening to watch Rand Paul try to pander to the religious right http://crooksandliars.com/2015..., Play George Bush the third by doing the aircraft carrier tough guy biz http://dailycaller.com/2015/03... - the only thing missing was the "Mission Accomplished banner! Then he forgot that there is no compromise, no room for anything that he is told that he has to believe, because if you do not do exactly that, this happens to you. http://teejaw.com/rand-paul-ju....
Actual Libertarianism is not compatible with the Republican party.
And if I'm tough on Paul, he deserves it. Libertarianism comes closest to pragmatism, as long as you remember that you can't run a pure ideology. So in my heretical pick and choose pragmatism, Capitalism with brakes to protect itself from itself, coupled with Libertarianism with it's willingness to respect the individual's rights and obligations (not what currently goes for Libertarianism, and progressive understanding that there are some things that should not be run for profit, and some that should. Banks and producing goods should always be run for profit - health care should not, makes for a pretty good version of pragmatism.
I also have this weird idea that a country becomes wealthy by having as many people have money as possible, not by concentrating it in the hands of a few. And this is not done by taking money from the wealthy at all, but by having as much of the populous enjoy the fruits of their labors by pecuniary renumeration as possible. People with money buy the stuff the job creators make. The present situation of making as many Americans as poor as possible, and having me the taxpayer make up for the shitty wages some industry wants to pay is a race to the bottom.
Pragmatism - its not just for breakfast any more.
How about it's a good reason to never download Java in the first place?
No no. This version is secure, just like all the other new versions of Java...... oh, never mind..
More complicated.
A trend toward moving toward "bare metal" physical boxes for the computing.
Moving to Cell phone company like who the hell knows what is what pricing.
All I know is that it seems just as likely a catastrophe in waiting, and given the state of backdooring, ain't happening if I'm a business, because every detail would be exposed.
That's standing up for what's right, and there's not enough of that in this country, which is how all this crap gets started in the first place
You want to play the hero, get fired and have a pity party, knock yourself out. My obligation tis to put food on the table by bringing home the money. That's capitalism, baby.
I am glad to finally get hold of someone who has all of the answers, as well as has great clairvoyant powers.
What do you do, if the company replaces you and gives you the bum's rush escort by either security or the police? No notice, just 15 minutes to clear the desk and you are out on the street. Because its standard procedure these days.You must have a good resume to be hired in that 15 minutes.
Anyhow, your ideas are very interesting - I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
You libertarians drive me nuts sometimes, and you have to be one to call this the 'victim game'. You know what? When companies do illegal things they need to be held to account for it. That's not playing the victim game.
That's because present day libertarians are merely Republicans who are selfish pricks, who can't put up with anyone telling them what to do
This is not an example of capitalism. In fact, we're not much of a capitalistic nation anymore.
Because that's what happens to capitalism. As soon as someone gets enough capital, they want to keep and increase it. A system acknowledged to be built on greed means without any controls, the greediest wins. And there is no limit. Then there may be a revolt.
Capitalism has the seeds of success, but just like a formula one engine, it needs help to keep it from blowing itself to bits. Do some research on the boom and bust nature of pure Capitalism, and notice how especially in earlier times in the US, there were roughly 2 year cycles of boom and bust.
Any "ism" i it's pure form will destroy itself. Except for pragmatism. Pragmatism only deals with things that work.
Which makes it pretty rare these days, especially as those with great financial interests manage to play on idealism. There are people in the USA who believe that Capitalism is based on the Baksheesh paid to politicians to ensure that those who pay it remain in favor and wealth. So - it's complicated, but yeah, it isn't capitalism.
Thank goodness you took time from your busy schedule to post on a topic you don't care about. Now everyone knows, via your post on the internet, that this topic isn't worth posting about.
A complaint is a gift.
And your complaint about a complaint leads me to say:
Yo dawg, we hear you like complaining about complaints, so we complained and got a complainer container so you can complain while complaining about complaint complaints.
Some people using the site now were probably not even born when "DLL hell" was still something that was actually a problem, rather than just a term that Slashdotters parroted.
That would mean people who haven't been born yet. Revo uninstaller to the rescue
As few weeks later, Skype wasnâ(TM)t logged in or running, all my Skype contacts, including work contacts, start getting malware-ridden spam links coming from me..
Ugh! I've heard that Skype accesses your email recipients - even if you tell it not to So there's the proof that it does, and that not only Microsoft and law enforcement have the keys to the kingdom now.
Most people can't afford those big trucks, either. You may have seen "several" in your area, and so have I... but I've seen several Teslas, too. Hell, I finally saw one actually in Lake county, and there sure ain't no superchargers around here.
For certain. I just get a little spun up when someone pulls the "electric cars are too expensive", while not having an issue with the expensive petrofueled cars or trucks, and then plays the "Progressive liberal shithead card".
And I'm waiting hopefully for a Jeep EV.
Plus: whatever "good guys" is. Your "good guys"? My "good guys"? Bachar AL Assad's "good guys"? Putin's "good guys"?
For certain. And seeing the gaping back doors in Skype, I would never allow it on any machine except one that has nothing else on it. No email, no passwords, no credit card purchases. Skype is that much of a threat to the user. Kind of like what I did with a Windows 10 computer. I set it up to learn about W10, but decided to keep it separate from everything else. The entire Windows ecosystem wants to know everything about you, and the door is wide open.
Scientific racism is the use of scientific and pseudo-scientific techniques and hypotheses to support or justify the belief in racism, racial inferiority, racialism, racial superiority, or alternatively the practice of classifying individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races (Wikipedia). Scientific racism is what caused separate-but-equal, eugenics, forced sterilization, and widespread labor discrimination against blacks. It was widely preached by progressives, and still is to this day.
And I have a lovely bunch of coconuts! Have you perhaps been indulging in the more potent forms of Kava to extrapolate that from my postings?
Even from my other posts on this subject, I've noted that even the southern poverty law center, considers the so called native Hawaiians a racist group. https://www.splcenter.org/figh...
And they are just that. I don't say they are racist because of some DNA heritage, but because they have left adequate proof of their racism. From "Kill Hao
LOL! You're a scientific racist! That's precious. They're new, you should probably break 'em in right. I was tempted to write 'em a novella on your behalf but I'm just too lazy and you can stand up for yourself.
That is, that's too cute. You scientific racist, you!
My gast has been flabbered! But stand by, I shall reply to the lad. I'm now dealing with the urge to be unkind, but.... Ah, to heck with it...
Searching for images of "Cortana" and turning off Safesearch will yield some surprising results.
And don't even think of searching for "Cortana rule 34" unless you want to loose what innocence you may have left.
AACH! You warned me, but Just like Stimpy's button temptation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I couldn't resist. So I went to Wikipedia,searched rule 34 and even it was disturbing. Calvin and Hobbes porn? What the hell?
Cortana porn? More of the what the hell. Perhaps Microsoft could have come up with a different name - the dumasses.
No, sorry, that's not true. "Your community" has no input into whether you build 300 ft structures on your 1000 ac of private property out in unincorporated land.
HAW HAW HAW
Tell you what. Go forth and give it a shot, and see how it goes — make sure to defend it to the bitter end. You won't have to get back to us to let us know how it went, because you'll be on the news.
I think ooloorie is just here to disagree with others, and I'm certain he'll defend whatever the hell he is talking about to the bitter end.
Maybe he lives in Houston Texas, Where you might find a 1950 mobile home next to a skyscraper, but I have a number of restrictions I have to deal with. Less restrictions than many places, I can put up a radio tower, but it can't be so tall it will fall on my neighbor's house. I can't park an unregistered vehicle on the street. I can't allow my grass to grow taller than 6 inches without cutting it.
And I can't keep chickens - although they are working on allowing that.
And his scientific racism bullshit still has me scratching my head. Kinda like that uncle who comes to family functions and wants to argue with everyone even when they agree.
Why would anyone even care about your Skype conversations? Is this like for black mail purposes or do people really discuss state secrets using Skype?
Read AC's links On Linux, the backdoors give access to all your passwords, and on everything will access your address book even when you tell it not to - shades of Windows 10 telemetry. Now imagine when coupled with some service like Linkedin, where you give them your email passwords so Linkedin can harvest your address book. Fun fun for everyone.
You put a backdoor in software for the good guys, it's only a matter of time until the bad guys have it as well.
Skype is a privacy clusterfuck. It is already well and thoroughly backdoored. Adding another back door is akin to adding a second screen door to your submarine.
Skype is a security danger even if you don't have it running. You have to uninstall it.
Possibly one of those cases when if you put a backdoor in "for the good guys", the bad guys will discover it and use it, in the end, decreasing security. Get rid of it, because even if you have nothing to hide, you're just opening your computer up to the world.
Right now, comments on this article are 100% Anonymous Cowards, who all agree this is dumb and won't go anwhere. And that's pretty much par for the course here - people dumping on random consumer tech, websites, every company in software, VR, robotics, AI, self-driving cars.
I think VR is going to be big.
While I sort of agree that Slashdot has a fair number of posters who simply hate everything new, let us not forget that not everything new is automatically wonderful.
But now that we are past that, I'm not seeing 3D as becoming really widely adopted until the delivery method goes past the helmet on the head paradigm. I'm seeing a direct immersion, probably using brain implants, or some way of acceptably stimulating the optic nerve (which by the way will be a boon for the blind) Sit back in the chair or couch, close your eyes (or not) and you are totally immersed in the movie or game No visual borders. I'm also envisioning a complete immersive game or first person movie where you take a concoction that allows you to feel the movement, but be in a sleeplike muscle inhibited mode especially in the movie experience where you are going along for whatever the main character's experience is.
I suppose it's not surprising that someone who believes in scientific racism (as you obviously do) also would think that a religious symbol on your neighbor's property is the equivalent of an unshielded nuclear reactor.
I am sort of surprised that you took a comment noting that property rights are not 100 percent on the side of the property owner, and gyrating that to scientific racism. Especially, what the hell is scientific racism anyhow?
If I wanted to place a 300 foot cross on my property in my neighborhood, I wouldn't be allowed. If I wanted to pan for gold, I wouldn't be allowed.
What the hell are we arguing about anyhow? We seem to be more or less on the same page, except my attempt at humor upset you. Hint, I don't even think the most rabid property rights advocate would want to put an unshielded nuc reactor on his property. My training tells me that he wouldn't own the property much longer. They're kinda nasty thingies if you don't keep them in their jars.
As I said, personally, I don't consider Hawaiians anything at all, since I don't believe there is such a thing as a "Hawaiian".
What there is is "native Hawaiian groups", which seem pretty similar to something like the Thule Society.
Yes, you are right. There is a lot of ambiguity over the original Hawaiians, Polynesians, Tahitian, and Maori and even possible pre-Columbian Americas influence. As well as the dates of occupation. Some have even noted some sort of "little people" living there, although that is disputed.
So Ol Olsoc doesn't think a pure Hawaiian exists at all - and that's just another knock against these folks. I pretty much dispute their claim over the islands any more than anyone else's.
I also dispute that some deity lives in that mountain, and find the original lease agreement is valid. Any claim they have - especially to the mountaintop is as valid as Dominionist dogma. They are part of the US now, and if they want to rebel, they'll need to take up arms and declare war on us.
I can see why the natives would be upset, having been invaded and subjugated by the US army and their land taken.
Not sure how that affects building telescopes though.
Yes, wrong is wrong. The thing is that they aren't exactly innocent or pure. Their religion is a caste system, their religion practices human sacrifice, segregates men and women and as far as I can tell, the Tahiti takeover (Disputed) or Maori merely shows whatever they are, they aren't the first, so they have no permanent claim.
Some researchers think they may even had pre-Columbian American contact due to the presence of the sweet potato in Hawaii.
Lest we think only white 'murricans are evil, the Hawaiians (whichever were the presumed original ones) introduced the Pacific rat to the islands, which precipitated an early extinction event.
Here's an interesting link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I have great sympathy for a lot of the people that we Americans may have run roughshod over. The "native" Hawaiians simply aren't one of them.