This is about being "overweight" by body mass index(yes I looked), as opposed to body fat percentage. As such I'm going to ignore the whole study.You can easily have a higher than average BMI and still be very healthy.
Nah, it's just pre-positioning for the upcoming presidential debates, identity politics, and red vs blue circus. pro tip: both sides are pro-authoritarian, pro-surveillance, and pro-1%
Here's a wild and far-out prediction: get this, BOTH CANDIDATES will be prescreened by the same group of plutocrats, who will have invested years ahead based on the results they intend. Here's another: any third party candidate that looks like he has a chance of success will be given precisely measured media attention calculated to allow the preselected candidate to win. Here's a third: media attention and tens of thousands of individual comments on Slashdot and other social media will come prepayed, courtesy of people whose names you will never learn.
Truecrypt is very popular, (more eyes and faster bugfixes) user friendly, and is the ONLY audited, open-source software with its features. I don't see any reason to use something else.
Fuck anonymous donations. As an act of civil disobedience I intend to donate directly from an account with my real name on it. They can come and get me.
A good workplace is one that naturally creates transparency in work goals. There are often conflicting directives between elements of an organization. A well designed working environment involves getting all those sources of conflict out in the open and re-working job descriptions where necessary.
For example it's QA's job to stand in the way of getting software published if it's not as good as possible. It's Development's job to get that software out there as soon as possible. If QA and Devs aren't on the same page you've got a recipe for a nasty stew of workplace politics. It's one guy's job to keep the employees happy. It may be another guy's job to keep costs down. Again: conflict, politics.
The more you take into consideration what you're actually asking different people to do the less stress you'll see. In my opinion well designed work flow counts for more than all the free gourmet coffee in Columbia.
I don't want to hear about how things are inside the NSA so much as what Congress is doing to fix these laws that can be "misinterpreted" so badly. It's easy and low-friction to just accuse the NSA but the blame belongs on the shoulders of congress, both those members doubtlessly complying due to the availability of blackmail material and those complying because they want to be the top dogs in a 1984 universe.
Seconded. it's illegal to ask about family and religion at a job interview in the US because it permits discrimination based on whether you think someone will ask for extra days off. Employers skirt this and other equal opportunity laws by asking for your Facebook info instead. If they're playing that kind of game I don't want to work for them.
That kind of warehouse workers are replaceable in a second and Amazon knows this. If they have to or want to fire one there's a sheaf of a hundred resumes equally qualified to trudge about scanning items and bringing them to the packing area. It's absolute bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. This is the only reason most amazon warehouses aren't replaced by robots now: humans at slave wages cost less.
You say this, but most people wouldn't. I'm not going to address the arguments about sexism but the "they don't convert" argument misses one point: They may be there not to make immediate sales but to make the brand stand out in buyers' minds.
Cynical, unprofessional, or sexist as it may be associating "hardware manufacturer x" with "a pleasant funny feeling in my pants" isn't the least desirable outcome for X.
The elephant in the room is the fact that colleges and forced cheap, easy student loans are being used to keep unemployment numbers down in the recession. Many millions of US student are in college because they couldn't find a good job. Many of them would stop attending immediately if a good job were offered.
"Verifiability not truth" is the shelter biased and power-hungry Wikipedia editors hide behind. Post an article or fact they don't like and they'll do their level best to claim it's not a good source using nebulous definitions and intra-Wiki politics. The author of a cited article can himself say, "that's not what I meant" and it will be rejected.
One symptom of this source problem is a lack of consistently followed, useful guidelines for source material. Oh, there are guideline, they're just not consistently followed and entrenched interests have allowed their definitions of a good source to slide to support various point of view various editors want to push. NPOV is a religion they follow like a Baptist in his cups.
The problem isn't the bureaucrats in question, rather the culture of fear and secrecy in which our government had steeped these last several decades. This problem needs to be addressed at its cultural roots, starting with your family and friends -- Tell them fear will do infinitely more harm than the things we're, as a society, afraid of.
I would be happy to pay a little extra for this service for non-critical hardware. But if I were actually concerned the NSA would want to twist my knickers there's no way in hell I would: It's a huge red flag for them. Instead I would bribe someone at a different company to accept my shipment and forward it to me.
But let's be honest, if the NSA is interested enough in you to install extras on your hardware, they probably already know your favorite porn, your underwear size, and what you had for breakfast. I'm happy to see extra services appearing for privacy-loving individuals but I don't think this particular one will help.
An internet bully's power is the attention he is given. Ignore her and he'll go away unsatisfied. I want to believe this can be a force for good; that only real, credible threats that deserve the attention of the police will be reported. But I know that won't be the case. Either this will generate so many reports that it will be utterly ignored or, much worse, there will be political pressure to respond inappropriately to tweets that should be ignored.
Anyone seriously intent on harassing someone using Twitter will spend the tens of dollars for an account or, more likely, make a zero day egg account from a throw-away email address. It costs surprisingly little to buy a fake Twitter account. In fact I would wager this whole exercise is a cynical attempt to get Twitter into the news again. So bravo, Slashdot. As for reporting functionality there just isn't the manpower, on twitter or on government payrolls, to filter from the mass of hurt feelings the few actually actionable reports. The most this can accomplish is a slight chance to catch the very stupidest/youngest harassers and/or build a case against them after they're caught by other means.
The solution to an escrow company absconding with the money in escrow is a tertiary risk market of insured backers.
I support appropriate regulation as much as you do, but I have to point out that if the government wasn't fighting the drug trade they would be free to openly sell the risk. In this case blaming the free market is inappropriate.
That's not the point. Requiring steam is requiring a separate application that must be let online, that tracks your usage and purchases, and that is everything evil about "always online" except the relatively minor inconvenience of actually being required to connect.
This is a real problem and I don't mean to minimize it. But weak encryption is infinitely better than none, and the solution to this is immensely easier than the solution to the many, many wholly unencrypted connections that are happening this very moment. I think we should prioritize getting all connections everywhere encrypted somehow.
Recently there was a video going around of a racist beating up a child. With some searching I was curiously unable to find the raw video so here is a news article about it. This video was banned from Youtube for "encouraging bullying". When you're claiming presentation of evidence is encouraging the crime you've gone one step too far. It becomes censorship. If we don't see it it hasn't actually happened? The only reason I know about this at all, given youtube taking it down, is the wide news reporting on it. Imagine it were something even more controversial: "senator kicks kitten". Would any news organization report it? Sure if enough people found out about that hypothetical video for the Streisand effect to kick in it would be all over the chans but besides that. And how many of you go to the chans for news anyway? I know I don't.
The point of all this is that anything sufficiently sufficiently controversial is getting censored in the name of protecting our fragile little minds with a very real, very strong chilling effect. It will be a sad day when I have to make my own website mirrored on Tor to proactively report on anything that might get censored but I can see that day coming.
Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises? Even doing organ swaps where a male-to-female trades with a compatible female-to-male? I realize tissue rejection can be a bitch but I can't imagine the artificial organs they make from the patient's own cells are particularly useful.
The way it crashed was to halt and quarantine every running process. This lead to endless individual program crashes and attempts to run programs throwing "perimeter incorrect", which looks just like what happens with ransomware. Another possible side effect (one that I experienced) is a "This copy of Windows is not valid" on reboot and failed Windows updates.
Anyone not running Panda will laugh but this mistake resulted in a LOT of lost man-hours for a lot of people out there. Because I trust the company I, for one, lost four weeks of work due to not backing up properly and using an encryption program that kept Windows Repair from working properly. I'm still running Panda: I think they'll learn from the mistake. But one more fuckup and I won't. Also I'm no longer recommending the program.
It's funny how you think there's an association between any two of the groups in your title. It kind of shows how little you know about any of those sets of beliefs.
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This is about being "overweight" by body mass index(yes I looked), as opposed to body fat percentage. As such I'm going to ignore the whole study.You can easily have a higher than average BMI and still be very healthy.
Nah, it's just pre-positioning for the upcoming presidential debates, identity politics, and red vs blue circus. pro tip: both sides are pro-authoritarian, pro-surveillance, and pro-1% Here's a wild and far-out prediction: get this, BOTH CANDIDATES will be prescreened by the same group of plutocrats, who will have invested years ahead based on the results they intend. Here's another: any third party candidate that looks like he has a chance of success will be given precisely measured media attention calculated to allow the preselected candidate to win. Here's a third: media attention and tens of thousands of individual comments on Slashdot and other social media will come prepayed, courtesy of people whose names you will never learn.
Truecrypt is very popular, (more eyes and faster bugfixes) user friendly, and is the ONLY audited, open-source software with its features. I don't see any reason to use something else.
Fuck anonymous donations. As an act of civil disobedience I intend to donate directly from an account with my real name on it. They can come and get me.
A good workplace is one that naturally creates transparency in work goals. There are often conflicting directives between elements of an organization. A well designed working environment involves getting all those sources of conflict out in the open and re-working job descriptions where necessary.
For example it's QA's job to stand in the way of getting software published if it's not as good as possible. It's Development's job to get that software out there as soon as possible. If QA and Devs aren't on the same page you've got a recipe for a nasty stew of workplace politics. It's one guy's job to keep the employees happy. It may be another guy's job to keep costs down. Again: conflict, politics.
The more you take into consideration what you're actually asking different people to do the less stress you'll see. In my opinion well designed work flow counts for more than all the free gourmet coffee in Columbia.
I don't want to hear about how things are inside the NSA so much as what Congress is doing to fix these laws that can be "misinterpreted" so badly. It's easy and low-friction to just accuse the NSA but the blame belongs on the shoulders of congress, both those members doubtlessly complying due to the availability of blackmail material and those complying because they want to be the top dogs in a 1984 universe.
Seconded. it's illegal to ask about family and religion at a job interview in the US because it permits discrimination based on whether you think someone will ask for extra days off. Employers skirt this and other equal opportunity laws by asking for your Facebook info instead. If they're playing that kind of game I don't want to work for them.
That kind of warehouse workers are replaceable in a second and Amazon knows this. If they have to or want to fire one there's a sheaf of a hundred resumes equally qualified to trudge about scanning items and bringing them to the packing area. It's absolute bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. This is the only reason most amazon warehouses aren't replaced by robots now: humans at slave wages cost less.
source: I once worked in an Amazon warehouse.
You say this, but most people wouldn't. I'm not going to address the arguments about sexism but the "they don't convert" argument misses one point: They may be there not to make immediate sales but to make the brand stand out in buyers' minds.
Cynical, unprofessional, or sexist as it may be associating "hardware manufacturer x" with "a pleasant funny feeling in my pants" isn't the least desirable outcome for X.
The elephant in the room is the fact that colleges and forced cheap, easy student loans are being used to keep unemployment numbers down in the recession. Many millions of US student are in college because they couldn't find a good job. Many of them would stop attending immediately if a good job were offered.
It's not education, it's welfare.
"Verifiability not truth" is the shelter biased and power-hungry Wikipedia editors hide behind. Post an article or fact they don't like and they'll do their level best to claim it's not a good source using nebulous definitions and intra-Wiki politics. The author of a cited article can himself say, "that's not what I meant" and it will be rejected. One symptom of this source problem is a lack of consistently followed, useful guidelines for source material. Oh, there are guideline, they're just not consistently followed and entrenched interests have allowed their definitions of a good source to slide to support various point of view various editors want to push. NPOV is a religion they follow like a Baptist in his cups.
The problem isn't the bureaucrats in question, rather the culture of fear and secrecy in which our government had steeped these last several decades. This problem needs to be addressed at its cultural roots, starting with your family and friends -- Tell them fear will do infinitely more harm than the things we're, as a society, afraid of.
What I'm wondering is whether the limit is 2.71828 or so.
I would be happy to pay a little extra for this service for non-critical hardware. But if I were actually concerned the NSA would want to twist my knickers there's no way in hell I would: It's a huge red flag for them. Instead I would bribe someone at a different company to accept my shipment and forward it to me.
But let's be honest, if the NSA is interested enough in you to install extras on your hardware, they probably already know your favorite porn, your underwear size, and what you had for breakfast. I'm happy to see extra services appearing for privacy-loving individuals but I don't think this particular one will help.
An internet bully's power is the attention he is given. Ignore her and he'll go away unsatisfied. I want to believe this can be a force for good; that only real, credible threats that deserve the attention of the police will be reported. But I know that won't be the case. Either this will generate so many reports that it will be utterly ignored or, much worse, there will be political pressure to respond inappropriately to tweets that should be ignored.
Anyone seriously intent on harassing someone using Twitter will spend the tens of dollars for an account or, more likely, make a zero day egg account from a throw-away email address. It costs surprisingly little to buy a fake Twitter account. In fact I would wager this whole exercise is a cynical attempt to get Twitter into the news again. So bravo, Slashdot. As for reporting functionality there just isn't the manpower, on twitter or on government payrolls, to filter from the mass of hurt feelings the few actually actionable reports. The most this can accomplish is a slight chance to catch the very stupidest/youngest harassers and/or build a case against them after they're caught by other means.
The solution to an escrow company absconding with the money in escrow is a tertiary risk market of insured backers.
I support appropriate regulation as much as you do, but I have to point out that if the government wasn't fighting the drug trade they would be free to openly sell the risk. In this case blaming the free market is inappropriate.
That's not the point. Requiring steam is requiring a separate application that must be let online, that tracks your usage and purchases, and that is everything evil about "always online" except the relatively minor inconvenience of actually being required to connect.
As far as I can tell Skylines is only available on Steam, which is too close to "forced to play online" for me to be happy with it.
This is a real problem and I don't mean to minimize it. But weak encryption is infinitely better than none, and the solution to this is immensely easier than the solution to the many, many wholly unencrypted connections that are happening this very moment. I think we should prioritize getting all connections everywhere encrypted somehow.
I'll just leave this and this here.
Recently there was a video going around of a racist beating up a child. With some searching I was curiously unable to find the raw video so here is a news article about it. This video was banned from Youtube for "encouraging bullying". When you're claiming presentation of evidence is encouraging the crime you've gone one step too far. It becomes censorship. If we don't see it it hasn't actually happened? The only reason I know about this at all, given youtube taking it down, is the wide news reporting on it. Imagine it were something even more controversial: "senator kicks kitten". Would any news organization report it? Sure if enough people found out about that hypothetical video for the Streisand effect to kick in it would be all over the chans but besides that. And how many of you go to the chans for news anyway? I know I don't.
The point of all this is that anything sufficiently sufficiently controversial is getting censored in the name of protecting our fragile little minds with a very real, very strong chilling effect. It will be a sad day when I have to make my own website mirrored on Tor to proactively report on anything that might get censored but I can see that day coming.
Serious question:
Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises? Even doing organ swaps where a male-to-female trades with a compatible female-to-male? I realize tissue rejection can be a bitch but I can't imagine the artificial organs they make from the patient's own cells are particularly useful.
The way it crashed was to halt and quarantine every running process. This lead to endless individual program crashes and attempts to run programs throwing "perimeter incorrect", which looks just like what happens with ransomware. Another possible side effect (one that I experienced) is a "This copy of Windows is not valid" on reboot and failed Windows updates. Anyone not running Panda will laugh but this mistake resulted in a LOT of lost man-hours for a lot of people out there. Because I trust the company I, for one, lost four weeks of work due to not backing up properly and using an encryption program that kept Windows Repair from working properly. I'm still running Panda: I think they'll learn from the mistake. But one more fuckup and I won't. Also I'm no longer recommending the program.
I think to qualify it would have to have a way to move said small molecules to site and bind them as and where needed.
It's funny how you think there's an association between any two of the groups in your title. It kind of shows how little you know about any of those sets of beliefs.