The guy you're replying to forgot that typical vegan don't count anything smaller than a bird as a living thing. They judge which forms of life are OK to kill and which are not. So all sort of bugs that get killed, dislocated or whatever when the harvest season begin - don't matter. They cannot see them, hence they're not important ( in the eyes of the vegans ).
> It's not like there are millions of Indians who are vegetarian, is it? Oh wait, there are.
Yeah, let's look at the Indians (i'm assuming you mean the ones that let cows roam and shit the streets because they think it's a Deity)... for the proper way of life. Not.
>Bullshit. Cattle live on land that is suitable for arable farming and take massive amounts of water
I grew up in a village, cows usually where taken to pastures where there's a lot of grass. Land that will never become farmland.. because it just isn't. The grass is growing there because it is and that was it. It's still grassland, 25 years after I've been there.
> Then the conversation proceeds about other, more important stuff, like what to have for dinner, what time to meet for the movie, trip, etc.
That's what I do when they ask me about programming. I switch topic as fast as possible. Even when other tech people want to talk about tech, let's say in a bar.
I registered an account in 1998, I still have it.. and use it. Before it was main chat tool for the companies I worked for. The employees had to have an account. I still see the same people online, even though I'm not working in those companies anymore.
Frankly, I don't know what kind of protocol it is, what servers they have...but from my perspective as a user, I don't see it any worse or better than any others out there.
I use some xmpp accounts, and have OTR on top of that... it's no better than ICQ in any way (from my perspective as a user) and in fact, ICQ seem to be faster.
> You have the right to do anything that isn't illegal. That's how our government is set up. I don't even see how the federal government has the power to regulate this - this is a state's rights issue.
To quote George Carlin; If it can be taken away, it's not a right.. it's a privilege.
All you got is bunch of arbitrary privileges, and those change by the day. That is... you have less every day.
This is general, not just for drones. But call it what it is.. it puts things in perspective, and shows you your place.
> Our society is being destroyed by stories like this. Civilization is doomed unless we fight back against this poison. We need to start being very, very vocal about these things.
When you do, you'll be labelled as white supremacist neo nazi misogynist, and they'll call antifa on your ass for being such a hitler.
> I found a bootleg PDF online. I tried to explain that he could just read that, but he freaked out. "That's illegal, Dad!"
Sounds to me his indoctrination is going well. Good job! And most slashdotters agree from what I see here in the comments section, and what's worse they're mixing concepts of legality with morality. Mother of God, save us.
Submitting to stupidity (or even worse, indoctrinating your kids and then tapping them on the back when they submit to stupidity) is everything what's wrong with modern society. This is how corporations rape people in the ass, the these copyright laws are extraordinary example of that, and greed. If I have to explain to you (I assume all here are adults) at this point in your life why submitting to stupidity JUST BECAUSE IT'S LAW ultimately makes more harm than good then you're already far too gone and explaining anything will just bounce off of you.
The alternative is not breaking the law.
Alternative is explaining how the system is designed to maximize their profits, and how you can bend it around in your favour without breaking the law, which you have to do because the system is set there to screw you over ( to which you're submitting). But of course, this requires the community and the parent to actually have brain, and not just being a drone / tool... trying to make his offspring to be yet another 9 to 5 tool slave.
> A specific claim like "it was a sonic weapon used by the Russians" might require extraordinary evidence.
Sure it does. They might as well write it was done by USG, testing some new weapon.. it holds the same amount of credibility as the "Russians did it" popular spin, if not more, considering what the USG is capable of.
Until they have evidence (and no, an "IP address" is not evidence) , everybody will choose to believe in some of these stories, most will think Russians did it because they are guillable like that.
> Oh, and only one party is effectively in league with the Russians. You will never live this down, you dirty fucking commies. Get out of my country.
I was just waiting for this after reading the first line.
Like... ok.. there must be Russians mentioned somewhere here. Grand conspiracy by the Russians to destroy American freedom.
You don't need no help from the Russians, you people (rep or dem, doesn't matter what puppet system is in place) are going to destroy it all by yourself, and you're well underway, this has been going on for the past 30 years. Bigger nanny / police state in history of modern world. That's what you have. And you can keep it, too.
Actually, PHP is pretty decent now as of version 7.1, with massive improvements over earlier versions + it remained backward compatible (for the most part).
Just shows that core PHP developers are committed.
Still too easy to make mistakes, that's it's biggest flaw. Too many new programmers copy/pasting outdated code from examples on internet without understanding how it works, and it allows you to do pretty much everything. With proper design, and testing this is not an issue, but again.. many don't do any of this.
> She is back from her trip, but the sexbot is still nice for when she isn't "in the mood". She has an appetite for about 3 times per week, and I prefer about twice that. So the doll makes up the difference.
So you're fucking a doll, while your wife is around (not that it's not bad enough that you have a doll at all) ?
That's the creepiest thing anybody admitted, ever.
What happened to good ol' jacking off to internet porn ?
> 1) Yes, quite, this is a measure of what people THINK makes them act in certain ways, with no double blind, no control, no measurement, in fact no science. Yawn.
The reason why people think like this, is because they did it 200 times and it always ends up the same.
I'm yet to hear somebody saying that they feel aggressive drinking beer, and slow and mellowed out on whiskey. Funny how nobody thinks that.
> Let's suppose that there are no malicious uses of web tracking, that it is solely used to improve the user experience. There's still a big problem, which is that a lot of software developers are just incompetent when it comes to security. And sorry to break it to you, but your post proves that you're one of them.
> If you don't see the problem with a key logger on a site that contains a password field, and then sending those logged keys to a third-party, and through unencrypted channels, then you need to be fired from your job as a web dev asap.
So, who's talking about security ? If you want to talk about security and how tracking is done, then open another thread that discusses security. This topic, and my reply to it is about tracking itself, and session replays.
Your assumption appears to be "if you track, you're bad at security" - which makes no sense at all.
I never said I don't see a problem with sending password fields, or sending them even clear text even. Again, where did you read that ?
What I said is that for people that are tracking, you are not afgam28, you are "a3727fd0a20d5eef697d3c2f41bf0e4d" for purposes of improving the UI, and automating certain things to, again, improve your experience in using our website.
So, this is completely overblown out of proportion. I'm a web dev, and more. Basically I've been deciding and implementing all sort of web things, including this
"tracking" everybody is hung up about. Everywhere I worked at, the "tracking" is used for the good of a consumer as in... analyzing data to provide better user experience, to make it easier for the users to find what they need ( granted: in effort to increase sales ), when they need it, and overall just increase user experience.
After 15 years of being in the business, I never seen tracking for malicious purposes (or purposes other than attempting to make it easier for YOU to use the website ).
I understand the concerns people are having, but jesus christ you people talk about it like we're filming you while in a shower, just because websites track where people click and what they insert into a web form ( on their own sites ) does not mean they CARE about you. No business cares about the individual.. but about statistics, percentages, numbers.
It's even said so in the article summary:
"Session replay scripts are used by companies to gain insight into how their customers are using their sites and to identify confusing webpages."
What on earth is so wrong about this ?
For people doing it, this is you "a3727fd0a20d5eef697d3c2f41bf0e4d". This is what they see and track, and care about.
> The obvious countermeasure is to have your own bot answer your phone and screen your calls before passing them on to you.
LOL... if I had some robot screening my phone calls when I call my friends, they wouldn't be my friends anymore.. seriously... only a nerd can think of something like this and get away with it.
> I had the same problem. But FF has a fix for this. Find the Help tab in the menu, then click on Troubleshooting Information. This opens a new tab, which has a button in the upper right corner called Refresh Firefox... Click that. Then FF starts doing some magic and after a while it's finished and your problem is over. At least, it worked for me. You need to re-set a few settings but nothing spectacular as far as I could see
Chrome also has a fix for it. Close the tab, then fire it up again.
Seriously though... I'm at my computer 10 hours a day. I have 6 GB of RAM, I'm running Mint Linux... and not once since I work at this computer did I have a problem with chrome / some rouge website eating all my RAM. What kind of websites are you people keeping open constantly ??
Just close the tabs if you're not on it... it works!
> I did it; I dropped my blood pressure from 128/86 to 105/60, without medication, through diet and exercise. It's not that hard, but the reason I succeeded where many like me fail is that as a geek measuring, tracking and evaluating data comes naturally to me.
The reason most people 'fail' is because they don't see results immediately. They lack patience, discipline and proper motivation (eg. it's not "i want to be sexy" or "handsome"). I was like this, my GF is like this, I have couple of friends that mentioned it.. etc. It's hard to simulate physical labor and "enjoy" it, or at least.. stick with it as a lifestyle.
Modern exercise is a simulation of real physical work which comes natural to us. Most people can do physical work, the work itself is a motivation and whatever the product of that work is... but when you take away that work (hence the product) and put a person on a treadmill, there is no natural goal anymore.. and health seems so abstract and far away that most people give up after an hour or so of running aimlessly ( so they feel ). And you have to plan for this, schedule it.. gym memberships etc. which adds to an extra headache.
I for one *hate* gyms. I don't like sharing space with other people, sharing sweat especially. I don't like locker rooms, public showers etc. either. You will not see me in a gym.
Point is. You don't need calculations, statistics and mathematics to stick with exercise. That might work for you, but I wouldn't agree it works for most people.
What people need is a sense of accomplishment, and health + muscle mass etc. to be a CONSEQUENCE, and a side effect, not the main goal.
If it's like this, and if people do physical labor for proper reasons, then the boredom, and lack of motivation sill not be an issue anymore.
> Controlling mild hypertension with prescriptions is a choice. You *can* do it with lifestyle changes.
This not being the common sense is what the problem is with modern society, especially western ones where this way of thinking seem to be prevalent.
I'm sure if we manage to not kill ourselves, this will be one of the things mentioned in the history books as that retarded thing people from 2000s thought it's ok. Like we think that people 2000 years ago were stupid, ignorant, barbaric, etc... this is going down in history as one of the things stupid people of 21 century did.
Stuff yourself with crap fake food full of chemicals that are not supposed to be there (preservatives, colorings, etc.) that, naturally, effect body chemistry as you're ingesting these, and then take more chemicals to try to fix the consequence of your bad diet and lack of physical movement... and then go about thinking it's actually normal to live like this.
> "inciting or engaging in harassment of others," "promoting hate and/or violence against, or directly attacking or threatening other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease
Fuck those 3 white supremacist dudes, but it's ok for tens of thousands ANTIFA and similar to spew hate, insult and otherwise promote hate and violence ?
Everybody is aware of this.. just making sure it's pointed out, as it should be, every time they do something like this where they decide who gets to have a voice and who doesn't.
> When a single btc will be worth $70k, those idiots will still spew their usual nonsense.
It's because they didn't think to buy any when it was $100, now they just hoping it's going to crash an dpeople loose money.
Just look at some comments here.. borderline 'hate' and hope it will crash for example, from above:
"It'll be a thing of beauty. A death spiral never before seen in any other 'bubble'."
And you can see this every time there's a bitcoin news here.
Disclaimer: I don't have any bitcoins. Wish I was smart enough to invest couple of K, 5 years ago.
> You do have to wonder why Wikileaks and Assange are so eager to target everything U.S. - the intelligence agencies, political fuck-ups, armed forces fuck-ups...
Russia, or China are mostly quiet, doing stuff in their own countries for the most part ( that YOU might consider as anti whatever, but locals not so much ).
The US on the other hand is a loud mouth cowboy who pretends he's all just and moral while bombing the crap out of everything, rigging elections, installing puppet presidents, doing assassinations, drug trade, and then complaining when somebody does similar.
Nobody gives a shit what China is doing... to other Chinese.
You cannot be on the top, deciding who gets what, and not having somebody to criticize you. So far, only wikileaks does that. Nobody expects anything from MSM anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Well that's it then... I'm getting one!
> Naked bullshit.
The guy you're replying to forgot that typical vegan don't count anything smaller than a bird as a living thing. They judge which forms of life are OK to kill and which are not. So all sort of bugs that get killed, dislocated or whatever when the harvest season begin - don't matter. They cannot see them, hence they're not important ( in the eyes of the vegans ).
> It's not like there are millions of Indians who are vegetarian, is it? Oh wait, there are.
Yeah, let's look at the Indians (i'm assuming you mean the ones that let cows roam and shit the streets because they think it's a Deity)... for the proper way of life. Not.
>Bullshit. Cattle live on land that is suitable for arable farming and take massive amounts of water
I grew up in a village, cows usually where taken to pastures where there's a lot of grass. Land that will never become farmland.. because it just isn't. The grass is growing there because it is and that was it. It's still grassland, 25 years after I've been there.
... and more! also.. to be banned, by 2120!
... we're so proud of being so progressive!1
Woohoo
> Then the conversation proceeds about other, more important stuff, like what to have for dinner, what time to meet for the movie, trip, etc.
That's what I do when they ask me about programming. I switch topic as fast as possible. Even when other tech people want to talk about tech, let's say in a bar.
I registered an account in 1998, I still have it.. and use it. Before it was main chat tool for the companies I worked for. The employees had to have an account. I still see the same people online, even though I'm not working in those companies anymore.
.. .but from my perspective as a user, I don't see it any worse or better than any others out there.
Frankly, I don't know what kind of protocol it is, what servers they have
I use some xmpp accounts, and have OTR on top of that... it's no better than ICQ in any way (from my perspective as a user) and in fact, ICQ seem to be faster.
> You have the right to do anything that isn't illegal. That's how our government is set up. I don't even see how the federal government has the power to regulate this - this is a state's rights issue.
.. it's a privilege.
To quote George Carlin; If it can be taken away, it's not a right
All you got is bunch of arbitrary privileges, and those change by the day. That is... you have less every day.
This is general, not just for drones. But call it what it is.. it puts things in perspective, and shows you your place.
> Our society is being destroyed by stories like this. Civilization is doomed unless we fight back against this poison. We need to start being very, very vocal about these things.
When you do, you'll be labelled as white supremacist neo nazi misogynist, and they'll call antifa on your ass for being such a hitler.
Well, only in US of A.
Besides, internet being what it is, this will open all kinds of new business ventures that circumvent these extra fee's.
It's yet another stupid thing that will fall flat on it's face eventually.
> I found a bootleg PDF online. I tried to explain that he could just read that, but he freaked out. "That's illegal, Dad!"
Sounds to me his indoctrination is going well. Good job! And most slashdotters agree from what I see here in the comments section, and what's worse they're mixing concepts of legality with morality. Mother of God, save us.
Submitting to stupidity (or even worse, indoctrinating your kids and then tapping them on the back when they submit to stupidity) is everything what's wrong with modern society. This is how corporations rape people in the ass, the these copyright laws are extraordinary example of that, and greed. If I have to explain to you (I assume all here are adults) at this point in your life why submitting to stupidity JUST BECAUSE IT'S LAW ultimately makes more harm than good then you're already far too gone and explaining anything will just bounce off of you.
The alternative is not breaking the law.
Alternative is explaining how the system is designed to maximize their profits, and how you can bend it around in your favour without breaking the law, which you have to do because the system is set there to screw you over ( to which you're submitting). But of course, this requires the community and the parent to actually have brain, and not just being a drone / tool... trying to make his offspring to be yet another 9 to 5 tool slave.
> A specific claim like "it was a sonic weapon used by the Russians" might require extraordinary evidence.
Sure it does. They might as well write it was done by USG, testing some new weapon.. it holds the same amount of credibility as the "Russians did it" popular spin, if not more, considering what the USG is capable of.
Until they have evidence (and no, an "IP address" is not evidence) , everybody will choose to believe in some of these stories, most will think Russians did it because they are guillable like that.
> Oh, and only one party is effectively in league with the Russians. You will never live this down, you dirty fucking commies. Get out of my country.
... ok.. there must be Russians mentioned somewhere here. Grand conspiracy by the Russians to destroy American freedom.
I was just waiting for this after reading the first line.
Like
You don't need no help from the Russians, you people (rep or dem, doesn't matter what puppet system is in place) are going to destroy it all by yourself, and you're well underway, this has been going on for the past 30 years. Bigger nanny / police state in history of modern world. That's what you have. And you can keep it, too.
Having said that, fuck Ajit Pai and the FCC.
Actually, PHP is pretty decent now as of version 7.1, with massive improvements over earlier versions + it remained backward compatible (for the most part).
Just shows that core PHP developers are committed.
Still too easy to make mistakes, that's it's biggest flaw. Too many new programmers copy/pasting outdated code from examples on internet without understanding how it works, and it allows you to do pretty much everything. With proper design, and testing this is not an issue, but again.. many don't do any of this.
> That is not a good alternative. The elevated trains are *bone-shatteringly* noisy
Not as a rule. In Bangkok there's Skytrain, while it does make noise... nobody blinks an eye.. especially in surrounding buildings.
> I'm charging my S8+ ~1.5 a day. 500 charges means that after just 1 year the battery is at 78% of capacity, What happens after 1.5 years?
If you ask samsung, or any other corporation that sells consumer products they would reply: Buy new one.
This is exactly what they _WANT_, and it's easy to see because everything you buy new lasts less than previous version of the same thing.
> Dishes are a solved problem. Cleaning up the other areas of kitchen: Not so much, apart from paying for a housekeeper.
Or a wife.
Not everybody is single you know. I'm perfectly happy with my wife. We don't even need a dishwasher, not that I ever had one.
> She is back from her trip, but the sexbot is still nice for when she isn't "in the mood". She has an appetite for about 3 times per week, and I prefer about twice that. So the doll makes up the difference.
So you're fucking a doll, while your wife is around (not that it's not bad enough that you have a doll at all) ?
That's the creepiest thing anybody admitted, ever.
What happened to good ol' jacking off to internet porn ?
> 1) Yes, quite, this is a measure of what people THINK makes them act in certain ways, with no double blind, no control, no measurement, in fact no science. Yawn.
The reason why people think like this, is because they did it 200 times and it always ends up the same.
I'm yet to hear somebody saying that they feel aggressive drinking beer, and slow and mellowed out on whiskey. Funny how nobody thinks that.
> Let's suppose that there are no malicious uses of web tracking, that it is solely used to improve the user experience. There's still a big problem, which is that a lot of software developers are just incompetent when it comes to security. And sorry to break it to you, but your post proves that you're one of them. > If you don't see the problem with a key logger on a site that contains a password field, and then sending those logged keys to a third-party, and through unencrypted channels, then you need to be fired from your job as a web dev asap. So, who's talking about security ? If you want to talk about security and how tracking is done, then open another thread that discusses security. This topic, and my reply to it is about tracking itself, and session replays.
Your assumption appears to be "if you track, you're bad at security" - which makes no sense at all.
I never said I don't see a problem with sending password fields, or sending them even clear text even. Again, where did you read that ?
What I said is that for people that are tracking, you are not afgam28, you are "a3727fd0a20d5eef697d3c2f41bf0e4d" for purposes of improving the UI, and automating certain things to, again, improve your experience in using our website.
So, this is completely overblown out of proportion. I'm a web dev, and more. Basically I've been deciding and implementing all sort of web things, including this "tracking" everybody is hung up about. Everywhere I worked at, the "tracking" is used for the good of a consumer as in ... analyzing data to provide better user experience, to make it easier for the users to find what they need ( granted: in effort to increase sales ), when they need it, and overall just increase user experience.
After 15 years of being in the business, I never seen tracking for malicious purposes (or purposes other than attempting to make it easier for YOU to use the website ).
I understand the concerns people are having, but jesus christ you people talk about it like we're filming you while in a shower, just because websites track where people click and what they insert into a web form ( on their own sites ) does not mean they CARE about you. No business cares about the individual.. but about statistics, percentages, numbers.
It's even said so in the article summary:
"Session replay scripts are used by companies to gain insight into how their customers are using their sites and to identify confusing webpages."
What on earth is so wrong about this ?
For people doing it, this is you "a3727fd0a20d5eef697d3c2f41bf0e4d". This is what they see and track, and care about.
Get over yourself, for god sake.
> The obvious countermeasure is to have your own bot answer your phone and screen your calls before passing them on to you.
LOL... if I had some robot screening my phone calls when I call my friends, they wouldn't be my friends anymore.. seriously... only a nerd can think of something like this and get away with it.
> I had the same problem. But FF has a fix for this. Find the Help tab in the menu, then click on Troubleshooting Information. This opens a new tab, which has a button in the upper right corner called Refresh Firefox... Click that. Then FF starts doing some magic and after a while it's finished and your problem is over. At least, it worked for me. You need to re-set a few settings but nothing spectacular as far as I could see
... and not once since I work at this computer did I have a problem with chrome / some rouge website eating all my RAM. What kind of websites are you people keeping open constantly ??
... it works!
Chrome also has a fix for it. Close the tab, then fire it up again.
Seriously though... I'm at my computer 10 hours a day. I have 6 GB of RAM, I'm running Mint Linux
Just close the tabs if you're not on it
> I did it; I dropped my blood pressure from 128/86 to 105/60, without medication, through diet and exercise. It's not that hard, but the reason I succeeded where many like me fail is that as a geek measuring, tracking and evaluating data comes naturally to me.
The reason most people 'fail' is because they don't see results immediately. They lack patience, discipline and proper motivation (eg. it's not "i want to be sexy" or "handsome"). I was like this, my GF is like this, I have couple of friends that mentioned it.. etc. It's hard to simulate physical labor and "enjoy" it, or at least.. stick with it as a lifestyle.
Modern exercise is a simulation of real physical work which comes natural to us. Most people can do physical work, the work itself is a motivation and whatever the product of that work is... but when you take away that work (hence the product) and put a person on a treadmill, there is no natural goal anymore.. and health seems so abstract and far away that most people give up after an hour or so of running aimlessly ( so they feel ). And you have to plan for this, schedule it.. gym memberships etc. which adds to an extra headache.
I for one *hate* gyms. I don't like sharing space with other people, sharing sweat especially. I don't like locker rooms, public showers etc. either. You will not see me in a gym.
Point is. You don't need calculations, statistics and mathematics to stick with exercise. That might work for you, but I wouldn't agree it works for most people.
What people need is a sense of accomplishment, and health + muscle mass etc. to be a CONSEQUENCE, and a side effect, not the main goal.
If it's like this, and if people do physical labor for proper reasons, then the boredom, and lack of motivation sill not be an issue anymore.
> Controlling mild hypertension with prescriptions is a choice. You *can* do it with lifestyle changes.
This not being the common sense is what the problem is with modern society, especially western ones where this way of thinking seem to be prevalent.
I'm sure if we manage to not kill ourselves, this will be one of the things mentioned in the history books as that retarded thing people from 2000s thought it's ok.
Like we think that people 2000 years ago were stupid, ignorant, barbaric, etc... this is going down in history as one of the things stupid people of 21 century did.
Stuff yourself with crap fake food full of chemicals that are not supposed to be there (preservatives, colorings, etc.) that, naturally, effect body chemistry as you're ingesting these, and then take more chemicals to try to fix the consequence of your bad diet and lack of physical movement... and then go about thinking it's actually normal to live like this.
Good luck to you all.
> "inciting or engaging in harassment of others," "promoting hate and/or violence against, or directly attacking or threatening other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease
Fuck those 3 white supremacist dudes, but it's ok for tens of thousands ANTIFA and similar to spew hate, insult and otherwise promote hate and violence ?
Everybody is aware of this.. just making sure it's pointed out, as it should be, every time they do something like this where they decide who gets to have a voice and who doesn't.
> When a single btc will be worth $70k, those idiots will still spew their usual nonsense.
It's because they didn't think to buy any when it was $100, now they just hoping it's going to crash an dpeople loose money.
Just look at some comments here.. borderline 'hate' and hope it will crash for example, from above:
"It'll be a thing of beauty. A death spiral never before seen in any other 'bubble'."
And you can see this every time there's a bitcoin news here.
Disclaimer: I don't have any bitcoins. Wish I was smart enough to invest couple of K, 5 years ago.
> You do have to wonder why Wikileaks and Assange are so eager to target everything U.S. - the intelligence agencies, political fuck-ups, armed forces fuck-ups...
Russia, or China are mostly quiet, doing stuff in their own countries for the most part ( that YOU might consider as anti whatever, but locals not so much ).
The US on the other hand is a loud mouth cowboy who pretends he's all just and moral while bombing the crap out of everything, rigging elections, installing puppet presidents, doing assassinations, drug trade, and then complaining when somebody does similar.
Nobody gives a shit what China is doing... to other Chinese.
You cannot be on the top, deciding who gets what, and not having somebody to criticize you. So far, only wikileaks does that. Nobody expects anything from MSM anymore.