I'm pretty sure this is about the seventh time in as many months that Twitter has announced they're making Big Changes in the way deal with trolling, with the help of a giant list of Concerned Parties that always includes Feminist Frequency.
I am also pretty sure that such announcements will be a regular occurrence for as long as they appear to have some effect on investor confidence.
Slashdot's mobile site is ugly hot garbage, and I only use it because the only Android app I've found that even works half the time (and only half the time) doesn't allow posting. The ad at the bottom consistently obscures the login button, which means that every time I want to post something, I have to fight with it to avoid pressing whatever stupid trash it's hawking that I don't care about because I'm the opposite of a businessman and have no use for any of the products or services regularly advertised here.
Also, "Informative" and "Insightful," as well as "Troll" and "Flamebait," are too similar to each other. It'd probably be better to consolidate them. We could probably also do with a "-1 Incorrect."
So, in other words, it's completely pointless and may in fact have a deleterious effect.
Math and PE have both been required portions of a public school curriculum for more than a century. In that time, each generation has consistently been fatter and more afraid of numbers than the last.
If we require programming as a way of "teaching logic and reasoning," we can likely expect future high school graduates to be unable to send an email without help from a government case worker.
I am getting really tired of people suggesting this. Small change is vital to stretching funds for those of us living in poverty.
It is definitely a problem that pennies are worth more as metal than coinage. So just make them out of plastic, already. Nations with enough forward-thinking ideas about currency to have dropped small coins already have plastic bills, so why not?
I definitely want to pay a steep premium to purchase my own tiny little train car. I especially can't wait until the release the software update that automatically drives me to the police station if the computer hears me say anything seditious.
People seem to really like trying to use their horns for that. Maybe we should just give every car a twitter account that goes HONK when the driver honks the horn. In addition to high volumes of HonkNet activity alerting people to traffic congestion, perhaps it could also be used to investigate crashes, tell your friends you're ready to pick them up, or make sure the whole internet knows you think that ass is fine.
Why do we even need to address how monumentally bad it would be to introduce the sociological machinery that creates investment bubbles to the political process? The only way this wouldn't be a disaster is if elections were exactly as much of a sham as I've long believed they are. People were upset about the color of the President's suit for a little while, and are rarely upset about the worst of his policies. We would be better served by picking a new absolute monarch by lottery every three months.
Besides that, online voting was already a completely terrible idea. I'd think that was a settled argument around here.
MS should really consider keeping him on as a consultant. They could pay him hundreds of millions of dollars a year to talk about anything that crosses his mind, and they'd turn a huge profit so long as they do the exact opposite of whatever he says.
It prohibits the militarization and/or colonization of space. It says fuckall about what to do with any stuff we collect there. What a disingenuous asshole.
It doesn't matter if you "overshoot", as it just means there will be a longer time until you get hungry.
You are wrong. You have to eat at regular intervals, regardless of how much you ate earlier, in order to correctly modulate blood sugar. This is the entire mechanism of how people get both obesity and diabetes. Please actually read something about this topic before talking about it.
In one stroke, I've increased the chance its functionality will actually be improved at some point, slowed the creep of ads getting stuffed into it, improved Steam's (and therefore any Steam game's) voice functionality significantly, and introduced a glimmer of hope that the client source might be opened.
Nope. I don't even use Facebook. CAN'T, in fact. Had an account years ago and intentionally scrambled my password, since I only even signed up to talk to one person who I then fell out of contact with. Why the hell would I engage with that shitpile on purpose? Why would anyone? People "like" Facebook for the same reason they "like" their bank or their employer. Not having to use Facebook is the sole benefit of being incredibly unpopular.
Thank you, Slashdot Mobile, for not alerting me to the fact I had exceeded my character limit. Obviously, John McAfee would've been just as good a candidate for Emperor of Rome.
Oh, well shit. So I guess what actually happened is SXSW noticed what they were doing and said "er, uhhh, THERE WERE THREATS" so that they could prevent the whole goddamn festival from being double picketed by morons?
"People are sick of the politically correct narrative! SJWs won't stop playing the victim card!"
THIS WAS A PRO-GAMERGATE PANEL YOU NUMBNUTS. MERCEDES CARRERA WAS ONE OF THE PANELISTS.
I'm not even IN it anymore and I knew that, but people here see "panel about harassment in gaming at SXSW" and they go full fucking cultist. Incidentally, this kind of dumb shit is WHY I'm not in it. The longer any given group exists on the internet, the more likely it will turn into a bunch of howler monkeys that get triggered and assblasted by words they're afraid of. The fact that tumblr SJ trash did it first and loudest doesn't make this any less idiotic.
As a man disabled by sleep dysregulation who is well aware of the consequences of his choices, as well as which contributing factors are legitimately out of my control, I can tell you exactly the difference between ourselves and paleolithic man. Paleo guy wasn't so goddamn fat he needs a machine to keep from choking to death on his own throat at night. He also didn't have anything particularly interesting to do after it got dark except fuck, which is pretty draining if you're doing it right.
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I'm pretty sure this is about the seventh time in as many months that Twitter has announced they're making Big Changes in the way deal with trolling, with the help of a giant list of Concerned Parties that always includes Feminist Frequency.
I am also pretty sure that such announcements will be a regular occurrence for as long as they appear to have some effect on investor confidence.
Slashdot's mobile site is ugly hot garbage, and I only use it because the only Android app I've found that even works half the time (and only half the time) doesn't allow posting. The ad at the bottom consistently obscures the login button, which means that every time I want to post something, I have to fight with it to avoid pressing whatever stupid trash it's hawking that I don't care about because I'm the opposite of a businessman and have no use for any of the products or services regularly advertised here.
Also, "Informative" and "Insightful," as well as "Troll" and "Flamebait," are too similar to each other. It'd probably be better to consolidate them. We could probably also do with a "-1 Incorrect."
So, in other words, it's completely pointless and may in fact have a deleterious effect.
Math and PE have both been required portions of a public school curriculum for more than a century. In that time, each generation has consistently been fatter and more afraid of numbers than the last.
If we require programming as a way of "teaching logic and reasoning," we can likely expect future high school graduates to be unable to send an email without help from a government case worker.
I am getting really tired of people suggesting this. Small change is vital to stretching funds for those of us living in poverty. It is definitely a problem that pennies are worth more as metal than coinage. So just make them out of plastic, already. Nations with enough forward-thinking ideas about currency to have dropped small coins already have plastic bills, so why not?
Being poor as hell, I recently got my first ever car with keyfob.
"Where did we park?"
*press trunk button on keyfob*
"Find the car that just raised its hand."
I definitely want to pay a steep premium to purchase my own tiny little train car. I especially can't wait until the release the software update that automatically drives me to the police station if the computer hears me say anything seditious.
People seem to really like trying to use their horns for that. Maybe we should just give every car a twitter account that goes HONK when the driver honks the horn. In addition to high volumes of HonkNet activity alerting people to traffic congestion, perhaps it could also be used to investigate crashes, tell your friends you're ready to pick them up, or make sure the whole internet knows you think that ass is fine.
Why do we even need to address how monumentally bad it would be to introduce the sociological machinery that creates investment bubbles to the political process? The only way this wouldn't be a disaster is if elections were exactly as much of a sham as I've long believed they are. People were upset about the color of the President's suit for a little while, and are rarely upset about the worst of his policies. We would be better served by picking a new absolute monarch by lottery every three months.
Besides that, online voting was already a completely terrible idea. I'd think that was a settled argument around here.
You can get a 12-year-old to say anything if you scare them enough. Ever read The Crucible?
It sounds more like a flaw with traffic laws.
MS should really consider keeping him on as a consultant. They could pay him hundreds of millions of dollars a year to talk about anything that crosses his mind, and they'd turn a huge profit so long as they do the exact opposite of whatever he says.
It prohibits the militarization and/or colonization of space. It says fuckall about what to do with any stuff we collect there. What a disingenuous asshole.
It doesn't matter if you "overshoot", as it just means there will be a longer time until you get hungry.
You are wrong. You have to eat at regular intervals, regardless of how much you ate earlier, in order to correctly modulate blood sugar. This is the entire mechanism of how people get both obesity and diabetes. Please actually read something about this topic before talking about it.
They're called "computer monitors."
n/t
In one stroke, I've increased the chance its functionality will actually be improved at some point, slowed the creep of ads getting stuffed into it, improved Steam's (and therefore any Steam game's) voice functionality significantly, and introduced a glimmer of hope that the client source might be opened.
Texting is asynchronous, and requires no engagement with that disgusting ass nightmare of a website.
Pepperidge Farms can remember that shit, I'm good. :V
Nope. I don't even use Facebook. CAN'T, in fact. Had an account years ago and intentionally scrambled my password, since I only even signed up to talk to one person who I then fell out of contact with. Why the hell would I engage with that shitpile on purpose? Why would anyone? People "like" Facebook for the same reason they "like" their bank or their employer. Not having to use Facebook is the sole benefit of being incredibly unpopular.
Thank you, Slashdot Mobile, for not alerting me to the fact I had exceeded my character limit. Obviously, John McAfee would've been just as good a candidate for Emperor of Rome.
If the CinC is a security expert, we won't have to read about clownshoes bullshit like this anymore.
Oh, well shit. So I guess what actually happened is SXSW noticed what they were doing and said "er, uhhh, THERE WERE THREATS" so that they could prevent the whole goddamn festival from being double picketed by morons?
"People are sick of the politically correct narrative! SJWs won't stop playing the victim card!"
THIS WAS A PRO-GAMERGATE PANEL YOU NUMBNUTS. MERCEDES CARRERA WAS ONE OF THE PANELISTS.
I'm not even IN it anymore and I knew that, but people here see "panel about harassment in gaming at SXSW" and they go full fucking cultist. Incidentally, this kind of dumb shit is WHY I'm not in it. The longer any given group exists on the internet, the more likely it will turn into a bunch of howler monkeys that get triggered and assblasted by words they're afraid of. The fact that tumblr SJ trash did it first and loudest doesn't make this any less idiotic.
So you guys made such a big fuckin' deal about inventing the "blackest material ever," even though it clearly has backlight bleed?
As a man disabled by sleep dysregulation who is well aware of the consequences of his choices, as well as which contributing factors are legitimately out of my control, I can tell you exactly the difference between ourselves and paleolithic man. Paleo guy wasn't so goddamn fat he needs a machine to keep from choking to death on his own throat at night. He also didn't have anything particularly interesting to do after it got dark except fuck, which is pretty draining if you're doing it right.