The United States did an "assault weapon" ban for a full decade already. After it was all done there was no evidence that it reduced anything other than sales of "assault weapons" and the taxes collected on sales of "assault weapons."
How come half of America keep asking for things already tried, already shown not to work?
Gun Control is one such topic where this is true. Another is the supposed "gender disparity" bullshit.
If you notice, all the ignoring of past data and experiments literally originates within the mainstream media, who actively and dishonestly edit out any mention of these things in interviews.
America doesnt have a gun problem. It has a media problem.
Then: Republicans start using words like "Truth in Sentencing", which follow the same reasoning as these gun laws whereby maybe if we lock people up more and longer people will stop doing bad things and the crime will go away.
The 3 strikes laws were due to Bill Clinton. You know what the Clintons arent? Republicans.
Passmark isn't perfect, but is accurate enough to count as a general overview for basic purchasing requirements.
It is also hard to game because the results in the db are crowd-sourced with only the cpu model or gpu model being a fixed element. So some of the people running the bench have slow ddr, others fast, some have virus scanners running, others dont, and so on.
The results end up being close to the mean or median of what to expect if you buy or build a system featuring the part.
The benchmarks you find with "reviewers" can be gamed by the reviewer OR in some cases the manufacturer (who "generously" donated the part being benchmarked.) A simple way for the reviewer to make cpu's look better or worse in benchmarks, for example, is to set memory timing to be ultra liberal (so fast its unstable) ultra conservative (slow) in the bios. You can then video your benchmarking and nobody is the wiser. Just dont show the video where the instability manifested.
Now, its possible that passmark itself is playing games with their benchmark db..... however its STILL better than the single-data-point-and-easily-manipulated benchmarks of a reviewer.
So Chrome is virus scanning without permission. Where does it upload files when it finds something interesting? What else is it doing?
Several years ago I ran into Windows 7 or one of Microsofts security products (defender, security essentials) wanting to upload files so that they can be "examined" or whatever. The files it marked were all copyrighted products and it would be copyright infringement to upload them to Microsoft.
So now Google may also be in on this click-ok-to-become-a-criminal game? Good idea Google. Sooner or later the wrong file is going to get uploaded and you folks are going to be in a huge world of government hurt because it was the governments data you stole.
Some people for whatever reason demonstrate skill at prediction. Alvin Toffler was a futurist that nailed it repeatedly. We are right in the middle of Powershift.
and why does Slashdot still not allow comment editing?
Because its a stupid feature that would only benefit careless people such as yourself allowing you to feel no consequences for your carelessness, while potentially hurting everyone else who could then feel real consequences from your constant never ending carelessness.
This will stop the flow of "heard about it at work" folks adopting the kodi platform. The autocomplete gets them where they intended to go before they type "y"
Commercial space launches banned in Europe? I thought commercial space launches were why Ariane was developed in Europe in the 1970s in the first place...
The old space treaties were crafted precisely to stop commercial space flight, a very real thing in the late 70's to mid 80's. Libya was going to host commercial space launches as it had been recently banned in europe and america, so then europe got all skitish because that was equivalent to Libya getting ICBM's... treaty after treaty was signed..
The governments need to get the hell out of the way.
I think the point is that its easier than ever to find an escape. For one person its WoW, but for another its GTA Online. More than a few people at work spend their breaks dragging imaginary fruit around trying to make 4 or in row's or something.
Any propensity the population had to "escapism" is being maximized.
The debate is if "something should be done" about it, and I say screw that. Presuming an eventual post-scarcity society at some point, escapism is all there will be. Stop pestering people.
And many so called comments are a no-no. New programmers comment the steps in the procedure and they shouldn't. The code itself is supposed to be the documentation of the procedure. Name your variables and functions appropriately, refactor down large functions, and document the damn data.
The college board has no authority on this matter while also having no incentive to implement it even if they did. Colleges dont want a decline in enrollment. Full stop.
Soon I expect the size and cost of cellular circuits to be so small and low that even our junk mail will not only have tracking, but also have active audio recording.
The cost of executing an instruction is exponentially going to zero.
Well, you know, its the first superhero movie to feature a black hero and as such must be celebrated for pushing its diversity.
Blade, Hancock,... and those are just the more recent ones
How come you SJW's dont know shit about literally anything? You act like you are pioneering something thats already been fucking done, and done a lot better too, and at the time there didnt need to be a bunch of SJW's praising it.
The proposition that these companies arent trying to hire the best people for the money, aside from a small number of cases of nepotism and quid pro quo, is absurd. Everything about promoting diversity at the point of hire is promoting a deviation from optimal hiring practices, so any strategy that can boost diversity numbers with only minimal harm to the bottom line is valuable.
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The United States did an "assault weapon" ban for a full decade already. After it was all done there was no evidence that it reduced anything other than sales of "assault weapons" and the taxes collected on sales of "assault weapons."
How come half of America keep asking for things already tried, already shown not to work?
Gun Control is one such topic where this is true. Another is the supposed "gender disparity" bullshit.
If you notice, all the ignoring of past data and experiments literally originates within the mainstream media, who actively and dishonestly edit out any mention of these things in interviews.
America doesnt have a gun problem. It has a media problem.
Then: Republicans start using words like "Truth in Sentencing", which follow the same reasoning as these gun laws whereby maybe if we lock people up more and longer people will stop doing bad things and the crime will go away.
The 3 strikes laws were due to Bill Clinton. You know what the Clintons arent? Republicans.
My God...how did we EVER make alive to adulthood in the (not so long ago) days before cell phones of any type????
We did it by walking to school in that thunderstorm that he thinks is an issue in his point number 6.
Passmark isn't perfect, but is accurate enough to count as a general overview for basic purchasing requirements.
It is also hard to game because the results in the db are crowd-sourced with only the cpu model or gpu model being a fixed element. So some of the people running the bench have slow ddr, others fast, some have virus scanners running, others dont, and so on.
The results end up being close to the mean or median of what to expect if you buy or build a system featuring the part.
The benchmarks you find with "reviewers" can be gamed by the reviewer OR in some cases the manufacturer (who "generously" donated the part being benchmarked.) A simple way for the reviewer to make cpu's look better or worse in benchmarks, for example, is to set memory timing to be ultra liberal (so fast its unstable) ultra conservative (slow) in the bios. You can then video your benchmarking and nobody is the wiser. Just dont show the video where the instability manifested.
Now, its possible that passmark itself is playing games with their benchmark db..... however its STILL better than the single-data-point-and-easily-manipulated benchmarks of a reviewer.
Even if it's not actually dangerous, it certainly doesn't do good things for the speed of older hardware or heavily-loaded hardware.
The reduced longevity of a constantly reading spinning platter hard drive comes to mind also.
Dear Google. Dont destroy my hardware. K. TX.
So Chrome is virus scanning without permission. Where does it upload files when it finds something interesting? What else is it doing?
Several years ago I ran into Windows 7 or one of Microsofts security products (defender, security essentials) wanting to upload files so that they can be "examined" or whatever. The files it marked were all copyrighted products and it would be copyright infringement to upload them to Microsoft.
So now Google may also be in on this click-ok-to-become-a-criminal game? Good idea Google. Sooner or later the wrong file is going to get uploaded and you folks are going to be in a huge world of government hurt because it was the governments data you stole.
Some things are obvious and do not need a "Futurist" to predict it.
Then name names. You cant. Hand waving is not an argument.
It will be nothing but crickets now that you got the liars lies nailed down.
Some people for whatever reason demonstrate skill at prediction. Alvin Toffler was a futurist that nailed it repeatedly. We are right in the middle of Powershift.
and why does Slashdot still not allow comment editing?
Because its a stupid feature that would only benefit careless people such as yourself allowing you to feel no consequences for your carelessness, while potentially hurting everyone else who could then feel real consequences from your constant never ending carelessness.
This will stop the flow of "heard about it at work" folks adopting the kodi platform. The autocomplete gets them where they intended to go before they type "y"
Was?! It still is!
And Google itself has proven to be the best torrent search engine. filetype:torrent and Bobs your uncle.
Google went back into China. That tells you where Googles limit is w.r.t bending for governments. No limit at all.
Commercial space launches banned in Europe? I thought commercial space launches were why Ariane was developed in Europe in the 1970s in the first place...
Note how they dont launch in Europe. Get it yet?
The old space treaties were crafted precisely to stop commercial space flight, a very real thing in the late 70's to mid 80's. Libya was going to host commercial space launches as it had been recently banned in europe and america, so then europe got all skitish because that was equivalent to Libya getting ICBM's... treaty after treaty was signed..
The governments need to get the hell out of the way.
I wonder if they have fallen into Pandora's problem, where support for older versions of the app prevent mitigating the exploitation.
I think the point is that its easier than ever to find an escape. For one person its WoW, but for another its GTA Online. More than a few people at work spend their breaks dragging imaginary fruit around trying to make 4 or in row's or something.
Any propensity the population had to "escapism" is being maximized.
The debate is if "something should be done" about it, and I say screw that. Presuming an eventual post-scarcity society at some point, escapism is all there will be. Stop pestering people.
Indentation and comments.
And many so called comments are a no-no. New programmers comment the steps in the procedure and they shouldn't. The code itself is supposed to be the documentation of the procedure. Name your variables and functions appropriately, refactor down large functions, and document the damn data.
The college board has no authority on this matter while also having no incentive to implement it even if they did. Colleges dont want a decline in enrollment. Full stop.
Apple never fought against a National Security Letter, yet has admitted to receiving them, ergo they complied.
Soon I expect the size and cost of cellular circuits to be so small and low that even our junk mail will not only have tracking, but also have active audio recording.
The cost of executing an instruction is exponentially going to zero.
Well, you know, its the first superhero movie to feature a black hero and as such must be celebrated for pushing its diversity.
Blade, Hancock, ... and those are just the more recent ones
How come you SJW's dont know shit about literally anything? You act like you are pioneering something thats already been fucking done, and done a lot better too, and at the time there didnt need to be a bunch of SJW's praising it.
You people are awful.
The "not common" part is just double speak for "rarely" .. the rare exception that proves the rule.
Completely this.
The proposition that these companies arent trying to hire the best people for the money, aside from a small number of cases of nepotism and quid pro quo, is absurd. Everything about promoting diversity at the point of hire is promoting a deviation from optimal hiring practices, so any strategy that can boost diversity numbers with only minimal harm to the bottom line is valuable.
It's not exactly common but it's also not a strawman.
So its the exception that proves the rule that you are arguing against?