In the 90s I thought that the internet was a cool new frontier, opening up endless opportunities for the betterment of mankind. Nowadays I mostly think that it's a means of mass espionage that turns people into assholes.
They published his false research, that he was selling as genuine. He started with unbelievable bullshit, which was outright rejected; then he worked full-time tuning his false statements more and more until they were accepted; all of this with no scientific intent, and with a deliberate aim to hit his political opponents (which is why they only targeted "gender studies"). The false research was published indeed, and this is undeniably a problem as you rightly say; but it was also spotted as such shortly after, as one would expect.
If the experiments are not reproducible, it's not science.
An experiment can be not reproducible for multiple reasons: think about measuring the length of the tail of a thylacine, observing the explosion of a supernova, registering the behaviour of some hostages during a robbery, collecting a sample from a comet that won't return before 100 years.
He deliberately published a huge amount of false data in a professional context; even if his intentions were good, this behaviour couldn't be accepted in a system having claims of seriousness. Scientific publications rely on the good faith of the authors, particularly so when the experiments are not reproducible, so it's really no surprise if the operation of such an environment will be compromised when its participants are outright malicious. This hoax definitely shows that "gender studies" suffer from a lack of scientific rigour, but I'm convinced that we might find varying degrees of the same problem in other sectors, such as psychology and even economics.
Don't reduce this to a "Hillary vs Trump" fight. The Russians influenced more than the last American elections: for instance, they facilitated Brexit in Britain, and supported Salvini in Italy. I don't think you should reduce the problem to a "Hillary vs Trump" fight. The problem is people being convinced by incendiary propaganda on social networks, and the control of this mechanism by malicious actors. And in this case it was the Russians, but in the future it could very well be others to take advantage of it.
In the case of YouTube, I'd draw the line at the moment when monetization was brought in. Remember when one couldn't earn money by YouTube? Ironically, not making enough cash from monetization is everything those content producers are moaning about, all the while professing that the true spirit of the old times has been lost because of the commercialization of the platform.
It's just the outrage culture at work. In normal times, it would have been just another a cheesy promotional video to ignore. Nowadays, it has to be OMFG THE WORST VIDEO EVER MADE LOL (SUPREME) (100 POINTS). And about it there have to be newspaper articles, slashdot stories, sociologist analyses, youtuber rants, facebook pages, talk shows on tv,...
I'm convinced that the regulatory hurdles will vanish once the necessary technical advancements required to create a profitable business segment out of drones are available. For now, there's the problem that a small and light vehicle can carry only so much energy; there's also the problem that such a vehicle can be brought down with little effort by someone who wants to come in possession of its payload, or can't think of something better to do; and so on.
Once upon a time there was a law that required cars to be announced by a walking man with a flag and a horn. It was scrapped when cars changed from a novelty for enthusiasts to a business enabler.
Rich people puchase legislation, they never had too many problems with regulation. However, they can't buy away the laws of physics, which is why they should be more careful before giving deadlines for vaporware projects that only exist in their minds.
According to Intel, you can only use the executable installer provided by Intel or your PC maker. If you use the “INF/Have disk installation” or any other method of installing drivers, Intel warns that that could cause “minor to catastrophic issues or system instability.” That’s because it bypasses Intel’s own installation method.
Have they added back the seconds in the clock application or in any of the applets? There is currently no way for me to display a clock with seconds in Windows 10 (or I failed to find it). So if I need to adjust a watch I can't use my PC as a source. It is a pretty basic feature that was present in Windows presumably from version 1.0 and has been removed, with no replacement; because design I suppose.
I'd understand if the quality of Windows had lowered because of all the new features and improvements that they had to code. But these days every new version of Windows sees working features removed with no equivalent replacement, and feels even more unpolished and unfinished than the previous one. What are they busy coding, at Microsoft? Cortana? 3D paintbrush? To me it looks like the underlying OS is somewhat improving, while the development of the built-in applications and of the user interface is spiraling out of control.
Dear companion in old age, are you sure you remember the responsiveness of your C64, or lack thereof? Let's not talk in hyperboles to the point that words no longer have a meaning.
A problem with Linux is that after a while free software developers tend to get bored with the design of their programs and dedicate themselves to a new project that is cool to them, leaving the old one to bit-rot. Take X for example, it has been "deprecated" in the public opinion for years now, but the innovative replacements for it are not fully ready yet. I'm not saying this to be ungrateful, it's just that after many years I've grown skeptical of revolutions and more fond of incremental changes, and Linux today seems to be all about revolutions.
Windows 10 will automatically install gigabytes of software onto my machine without me knowing, approving, or having the choice of making it stop. This is unacceptable for a supposedly professional product that costed me 260 â. Also, it is me who is paying for the bandwidth required to download those unwanted applications and games, and for the disk space required for their installation. And I don't want to trust the developers of that software to have any kind of access to my computer or the data contained therein. It's incredible how greed trumps every other consideration in the behaviour of those multinational entities. If they can get away with something, they will do it; and as they grow in size, what they can get away with is more and more.
C is the worst offender. Other languages allow you to get low-level access to memory, but you have to request it explicitly. In C one gets all the dangerous behaviour by default, even though it's seldom needed.
The quotation in the previous comment is obviously broken as it's missing an end tag before my own comment. Sorry, but on the other end the mobile version of this site won't enable me to either preview my post before I send it, see its text in full, or edit it after posting when I see I've done a mistake.
They've already done that with HTTP/2 (SPDY). Now the protocol is designed to be a moving target. From the SCTP/QUIC comparison RFC:
A fundamental difference between QUIC and TCP or SCTP is that QUIC is a user space transport protocol, which allows rapid protocol revision without having to wait for system upgrades. To support rapid protocol revision, QUIC's connection setup goes through a negotiation process that involves determining the lowest common version supported between the two endpoints and a cryptographic handshake which incorporates TLS to provide a secure connection.
This thing is an operating system, not a transport protocol. De-commoditizing of basic protocols was one of the stated means to exert control by the Microsoft of the Halloween Documents. Now the actors have changed, but it looks like the play is always the same.
I don't think this happens in America, but in some countries people sell their vote, for money, food, jobs or to show "respect". As a result they elect mafious politicians who not only are grossly incompetent, but also deliberately keep their electors in a state of need, in which they will be easily led to sell their vote again and again. With the secret ballot, those politicians need various tricks to have their "clients" prove that they voted whom they had to vote. If they could instead have them vote by phone, comfortably in front of them or of one of their "representatives", their racket would be much easier, and this would further degrade the quality of the government.
It is more complicated than it seems. In the EU, northern countries (who seem to be the ones who actually care) want DST to be always off, while southern countries want it to be always on. So after the switch we might end up with "horizontal timezones" where previously we had no timezone difference at all, and this way incompetent programmers who store dates as strings will cause damage all year round instead of twice a year. In the US it might not be much of a problem because people are already used to different timezones.
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In the 90s I thought that the internet was a cool new frontier, opening up endless opportunities for the betterment of mankind. Nowadays I mostly think that it's a means of mass espionage that turns people into assholes.
They published his false research, that he was selling as genuine. He started with unbelievable bullshit, which was outright rejected; then he worked full-time tuning his false statements more and more until they were accepted; all of this with no scientific intent, and with a deliberate aim to hit his political opponents (which is why they only targeted "gender studies"). The false research was published indeed, and this is undeniably a problem as you rightly say; but it was also spotted as such shortly after, as one would expect.
An experiment can be not reproducible for multiple reasons: think about measuring the length of the tail of a thylacine, observing the explosion of a supernova, registering the behaviour of some hostages during a robbery, collecting a sample from a comet that won't return before 100 years.
He deliberately published a huge amount of false data in a professional context; even if his intentions were good, this behaviour couldn't be accepted in a system having claims of seriousness. Scientific publications rely on the good faith of the authors, particularly so when the experiments are not reproducible, so it's really no surprise if the operation of such an environment will be compromised when its participants are outright malicious.
This hoax definitely shows that "gender studies" suffer from a lack of scientific rigour, but I'm convinced that we might find varying degrees of the same problem in other sectors, such as psychology and even economics.
So because you didn't find a joke funny, you decided that you could publically insult the authors of a piece of software. Nice way to preach respect.
Don't reduce this to a "Hillary vs Trump" fight. The Russians influenced more than the last American elections: for instance, they facilitated Brexit in Britain, and supported Salvini in Italy. I don't think you should reduce the problem to a "Hillary vs Trump" fight. The problem is people being convinced by incendiary propaganda on social networks, and the control of this mechanism by malicious actors. And in this case it was the Russians, but in the future it could very well be others to take advantage of it.
In the case of YouTube, I'd draw the line at the moment when monetization was brought in. Remember when one couldn't earn money by YouTube? Ironically, not making enough cash from monetization is everything those content producers are moaning about, all the while professing that the true spirit of the old times has been lost because of the commercialization of the platform.
It's just the outrage culture at work. In normal times, it would have been just another a cheesy promotional video to ignore. Nowadays, it has to be OMFG THE WORST VIDEO EVER MADE LOL (SUPREME) (100 POINTS). And about it there have to be newspaper articles, slashdot stories, sociologist analyses, youtuber rants, facebook pages, talk shows on tv, ...
I'm convinced that the regulatory hurdles will vanish once the necessary technical advancements required to create a profitable business segment out of drones are available. For now, there's the problem that a small and light vehicle can carry only so much energy; there's also the problem that such a vehicle can be brought down with little effort by someone who wants to come in possession of its payload, or can't think of something better to do; and so on.
Once upon a time there was a law that required cars to be announced by a walking man with a flag and a horn. It was scrapped when cars changed from a novelty for enthusiasts to a business enabler.
Rich people puchase legislation, they never had too many problems with regulation. However, they can't buy away the laws of physics, which is why they should be more careful before giving deadlines for vaporware projects that only exist in their minds.
Yup, here comes modernity.
Doh! Thank you!
Have they added back the seconds in the clock application or in any of the applets? There is currently no way for me to display a clock with seconds in Windows 10 (or I failed to find it). So if I need to adjust a watch I can't use my PC as a source. It is a pretty basic feature that was present in Windows presumably from version 1.0 and has been removed, with no replacement; because design I suppose.
I'd understand if the quality of Windows had lowered because of all the new features and improvements that they had to code. But these days every new version of Windows sees working features removed with no equivalent replacement, and feels even more unpolished and unfinished than the previous one. What are they busy coding, at Microsoft? Cortana? 3D paintbrush? To me it looks like the underlying OS is somewhat improving, while the development of the built-in applications and of the user interface is spiraling out of control.
Dear companion in old age, are you sure you remember the responsiveness of your C64, or lack thereof? Let's not talk in hyperboles to the point that words no longer have a meaning.
A problem with Linux is that after a while free software developers tend to get bored with the design of their programs and dedicate themselves to a new project that is cool to them, leaving the old one to bit-rot.
Take X for example, it has been "deprecated" in the public opinion for years now, but the innovative replacements for it are not fully ready yet.
I'm not saying this to be ungrateful, it's just that after many years I've grown skeptical of revolutions and more fond of incremental changes, and Linux today seems to be all about revolutions.
Windows 10 will automatically install gigabytes of software onto my machine without me knowing, approving, or having the choice of making it stop. This is unacceptable for a supposedly professional product that costed me 260 â. Also, it is me who is paying for the bandwidth required to download those unwanted applications and games, and for the disk space required for their installation. And I don't want to trust the developers of that software to have any kind of access to my computer or the data contained therein. It's incredible how greed trumps every other consideration in the behaviour of those multinational entities. If they can get away with something, they will do it; and as they grow in size, what they can get away with is more and more.
C is the worst offender. Other languages allow you to get low-level access to memory, but you have to request it explicitly. In C one gets all the dangerous behaviour by default, even though it's seldom needed.
*On the other hand.
The quotation in the previous comment is obviously broken as it's missing an end tag before my own comment. Sorry, but on the other end the mobile version of this site won't enable me to either preview my post before I send it, see its text in full, or edit it after posting when I see I've done a mistake.
I don't think this happens in America, but in some countries people sell their vote, for money, food, jobs or to show "respect". As a result they elect mafious politicians who not only are grossly incompetent, but also deliberately keep their electors in a state of need, in which they will be easily led to sell their vote again and again.
With the secret ballot, those politicians need various tricks to have their "clients" prove that they voted whom they had to vote. If they could instead have them vote by phone, comfortably in front of them or of one of their "representatives", their racket would be much easier, and this would further degrade the quality of the government.
Do you like black coffee?
It is more complicated than it seems. In the EU, northern countries (who seem to be the ones who actually care) want DST to be always off, while southern countries want it to be always on. So after the switch we might end up with "horizontal timezones" where previously we had no timezone difference at all, and this way incompetent programmers who store dates as strings will cause damage all year round instead of twice a year. In the US it might not be much of a problem because people are already used to different timezones.
He debunks scams, even when they come from Elon Musk.