i am a fan of trolling, even extreme trolling a la Weev, but seriously, given Alex Jones' well-known history of starting disagreements and escalating them to physical violence, i would basically classify that incident as harassment verging on assault. it has literally happened before.
No, that's more of a "tragedy of the commons" situation as well as a plain old ToS violation.
The putative scamming comes in the multiple layers of portals and redirects before the user finds the content. There will be several ads which are going to be even less effective than usual ads. These are placed by a robust marketplace of simulating so-called "organic" ad views, and are often used to bulk up claimed impression numbers. You could argue that it's a matter of the advertisers getting what they paid for, but since there is little in the way of self-regulation and the impressions are sold as genuine (rather than spammed through pop-ups and nested redirects), it's arguably fair to call it a scam. Marginally, the profit is pathetic, but it scales well.
Some of the portals will also try to trick users with the usual "install this totally legitimate virus scanner!" crap. Probably no one on slashdot will fall for this, but it's still a scam albeit an obvious one. There might be more devious javascript running also, but i'm not sure about that.
my guess is that some self-appointed white knight found something disturbing on a porn site he "happened to stumble upon", and then took it upon himself to Sherlock his way, through whois and google maps, into thinking that these girls were being held at the physical location associated with the porn site through multiple cross-referenced databases.
this sounds insane, and it is, but people really are like that and always have been. everyone is looking to right someone else's wrong and be a hero, often because their own lives are cesspits of denial.
even technical people fall for versions of this. there are many forums where technically-savvy but otherwise irrational people wax poetic on why the DoD would be sending packets to their networks, when in fact it's a just tracking pixel/js hosted by ad companies on IPv4 address blocks which were once grossly over-allocated to DoD and then auctioned off. i'm sure they'll update the database eventually; it's not important, right?
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Buy your own protein powder and caffeine. Add some l-theanine if you want, whatever.
The last group of people who had food powder marketed to them so they could be more efficient for their overlords was housewives in the 1950s, and you don't have to be a feminist to see how fucking terrible their lives were.
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another possible alternative for a fully functioning system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as (sort of) defined by POSIX. This so-called Linux distribution is really a distribution of GNU/Windows!
Ability? Christ, it's practically a default. I configured my MacBook to handle my SMSes through message.app because it's much more comfortable and ergonomic. A few months later, I get two-factor SMS authentication as part of work. Yeah, not exactly two-factor.
Using SMS for two-factor authentication is an anachronism, and I wouldn't mind the government stopping people from calling SMS "two-factor authentication", anymore than I mind when it stops people from selling industrial effluent as baby formula. It's just plain old fraud.
That difference only matters to hardware designers and hackers. 99% of buyers (and 99.9% of money spent) could not possibly care less, except maybe that a 2.5mm-3.5mm adapter is going to be cheaper but then again Apple users aren't looking for bargains. To them, it's just a slightly different shaped thingie you have to put in your phone to make it works with the headphones you have. Either that, or you use the change-over as an opportunity to buy those new "Beats-2.5mm Apple-Certified Dr. Bass Cans with NSASync"!, and so on.
So the "world of difference" really just boils down to a fairly simple market analysis problem, and you pick the one that makes you the most money. That's all.
PR? The code is on github, and imho a very nice accessible explanation of their algorithm is in the linked article. They developed some neat software to save money by essentially modernizing JPEG to compress beyond the 8x8 blocks it was designed to use and, having done that, are now letting other people use it too. What is with your crabby, paranoid attitude? Instead of being an asshole, you could just, you know, build the code yourself and experiment with it, rather than sneering at a gift horse. This is exactly the use case for open source software.
Although I would prefer if they explained the sampling methodology for their images, they do present a few simple scatterplots of (de-)compression performance as a function of original JPEG file size. It's not as in-depth as xiph.org foundation's stuff, but it's a hell of a lot more than a PR piece.
people are probably looking at the second derivative of "productivity improvements" with respect to time, not the overall historical gains. they're selfish that way, i guess. at any rate, it doesn't look particularly rosy. i wonder if slashdot's opinion about how the wonders of productivity improvement will change once the programmers are the ones being replaced.
hostess has been dogshit for years. if it really was unions (as opposed to simple consumer preference or mismanagement or whatever) that killed it temporarily, then great. if it's resurrected by robotics, that's also great, but for other reasons.
people are, on average, don't care, or notice, that their internet sucks as long as they can watch netflix. and if you live in a fancy building in NYC, you're either a multimillionaire or daddy is footing the bill (or both), so you won't feel the pinch there either.
someone not in china or dubai really needs to build a new and better city.
Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors at any time.
That's okay; it works fine as is. I can use an old kernel if I have to. It's well worth it for the CUDA libraries and performance. The rest of the computer is mostly there to feed the GPU, honestly.
Blobs cannot be audited.
That's not really true. You can rev eng the shit out of them, as the accompanying folk song points out. The card itself is a much harder target, and that's true whether or not the glorified API is open source or not.
Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus less portable.
So is the graphics card...
Blobs are quite often massively bloated.
I just bought 32 gigs of RAM for less than an hour's pay.
nVidia offers plenty of support for open source systems. their support just happens to take the form of a proprietary driver for their already proprietary card, to which i can only say "who gives a shit?"
there's no reason to think that this will be significantly better than an nVidia GTX 970, which you can get now for just ~$50 more. or you can wait for the GTX 1070 to be commonly available and then either get that (~$380), or a further-discounted GTX 970. if you suspect AMD will suck, why risk it? wait a month or two, read some real-world reviews, and then buy. the market is only going to get better for this range of card.
unless there was a woman giving a blowjob in exchange for a positive review, in which case make a fuss about it. everyone should have to pay for positive reviews with cold, hard, equitable cash. this is america.
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you mean "maneshs" just might be a native Hindi speaker? the hell you say. ;-)
i am a fan of trolling, even extreme trolling a la Weev, but seriously, given Alex Jones' well-known history of starting disagreements and escalating them to physical violence, i would basically classify that incident as harassment verging on assault. it has literally happened before.
he's a Mossad/MI-6/Zurich/Reptilian plant, you poor deluded fool! take those pills at your own peril!
Normally, I'd make a joke that watching Alex Jones is like watching a really immersive Let's Play of Illuminati: New World Order.
However, (some of) these nutbags seem to actually believe that Steve Jackson Games is in on it: http://yournewswire.com/illumi...
Just amazing. Satire is truly obsolete.
No, that's more of a "tragedy of the commons" situation as well as a plain old ToS violation.
The putative scamming comes in the multiple layers of portals and redirects before the user finds the content. There will be several ads which are going to be even less effective than usual ads. These are placed by a robust marketplace of simulating so-called "organic" ad views, and are often used to bulk up claimed impression numbers. You could argue that it's a matter of the advertisers getting what they paid for, but since there is little in the way of self-regulation and the impressions are sold as genuine (rather than spammed through pop-ups and nested redirects), it's arguably fair to call it a scam. Marginally, the profit is pathetic, but it scales well.
Some of the portals will also try to trick users with the usual "install this totally legitimate virus scanner!" crap. Probably no one on slashdot will fall for this, but it's still a scam albeit an obvious one. There might be more devious javascript running also, but i'm not sure about that.
"OMG these sites i don't pay to use are advertising to me and that's evil!"
okay, use noscript.
"but that's hard and there are other ways i can be tracked."
okay, i'll build and maintain a secure browser for $5 a month.
"i can't afford that."
okay, $5 a year.
"information wants to be FREE, man!"
okay, then i guess i'll go to work for an online advertising company.
my guess is that some self-appointed white knight found something disturbing on a porn site he "happened to stumble upon", and then took it upon himself to Sherlock his way, through whois and google maps, into thinking that these girls were being held at the physical location associated with the porn site through multiple cross-referenced databases.
this sounds insane, and it is, but people really are like that and always have been. everyone is looking to right someone else's wrong and be a hero, often because their own lives are cesspits of denial.
even technical people fall for versions of this. there are many forums where technically-savvy but otherwise irrational people wax poetic on why the DoD would be sending packets to their networks, when in fact it's a just tracking pixel/js hosted by ad companies on IPv4 address blocks which were once grossly over-allocated to DoD and then auctioned off. i'm sure they'll update the database eventually; it's not important, right?
Soylent, bringing specious scientific claims to nerds, because over-priced nutritional supplements aren't just for ignorant mouth-breathers anymore!
Buy your own protein powder and caffeine. Add some l-theanine if you want, whatever.
The last group of people who had food powder marketed to them so they could be more efficient for their overlords was housewives in the 1950s, and you don't have to be a feminist to see how fucking terrible their lives were.
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another possible alternative for a fully functioning system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as (sort of) defined by POSIX. This so-called Linux distribution is really a distribution of GNU/Windows!
eh, fair enough. this is the defense the SMS auth providers would use. it's a fairly weak case imho, but yeah, it is not nothing.
Ability? Christ, it's practically a default. I configured my MacBook to handle my SMSes through message.app because it's much more comfortable and ergonomic. A few months later, I get two-factor SMS authentication as part of work. Yeah, not exactly two-factor.
Using SMS for two-factor authentication is an anachronism, and I wouldn't mind the government stopping people from calling SMS "two-factor authentication", anymore than I mind when it stops people from selling industrial effluent as baby formula. It's just plain old fraud.
That difference only matters to hardware designers and hackers. 99% of buyers (and 99.9% of money spent) could not possibly care less, except maybe that a 2.5mm-3.5mm adapter is going to be cheaper but then again Apple users aren't looking for bargains. To them, it's just a slightly different shaped thingie you have to put in your phone to make it works with the headphones you have. Either that, or you use the change-over as an opportunity to buy those new "Beats-2.5mm Apple-Certified Dr. Bass Cans with NSASync"!, and so on.
So the "world of difference" really just boils down to a fairly simple market analysis problem, and you pick the one that makes you the most money. That's all.
Adapter? I just lathed down my headphone plug by 0.5mm.
PR? The code is on github, and imho a very nice accessible explanation of their algorithm is in the linked article. They developed some neat software to save money by essentially modernizing JPEG to compress beyond the 8x8 blocks it was designed to use and, having done that, are now letting other people use it too. What is with your crabby, paranoid attitude? Instead of being an asshole, you could just, you know, build the code yourself and experiment with it, rather than sneering at a gift horse. This is exactly the use case for open source software.
Although I would prefer if they explained the sampling methodology for their images, they do present a few simple scatterplots of (de-)compression performance as a function of original JPEG file size. It's not as in-depth as xiph.org foundation's stuff, but it's a hell of a lot more than a PR piece.
people are probably looking at the second derivative of "productivity improvements" with respect to time, not the overall historical gains. they're selfish that way, i guess. at any rate, it doesn't look particularly rosy. i wonder if slashdot's opinion about how the wonders of productivity improvement will change once the programmers are the ones being replaced.
hostess has been dogshit for years. if it really was unions (as opposed to simple consumer preference or mismanagement or whatever) that killed it temporarily, then great. if it's resurrected by robotics, that's also great, but for other reasons.
"i concluded that the suspect was a threat because he turned off his police communications app."
yup, the GTX 970 is already down to $270 on amazon. it will probably be down to $240 within a month or two.
people are, on average, don't care, or notice, that their internet sucks as long as they can watch netflix. and if you live in a fancy building in NYC, you're either a multimillionaire or daddy is footing the bill (or both), so you won't feel the pinch there either.
someone not in china or dubai really needs to build a new and better city.
Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors at any time.
That's okay; it works fine as is. I can use an old kernel if I have to. It's well worth it for the CUDA libraries and performance. The rest of the computer is mostly there to feed the GPU, honestly.
Blobs cannot be audited.
That's not really true. You can rev eng the shit out of them, as the accompanying folk song points out. The card itself is a much harder target, and that's true whether or not the glorified API is open source or not.
Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus less portable.
So is the graphics card...
Blobs are quite often massively bloated.
I just bought 32 gigs of RAM for less than an hour's pay.
it's open source; why don't you fix the kernel "bug" (possibly intentionally ideological crippling) yourself? that's the strength of it, right?
nVidia offers plenty of support for open source systems. their support just happens to take the form of a proprietary driver for their already proprietary card, to which i can only say "who gives a shit?"
there's no reason to think that this will be significantly better than an nVidia GTX 970, which you can get now for just ~$50 more. or you can wait for the GTX 1070 to be commonly available and then either get that (~$380), or a further-discounted GTX 970. if you suspect AMD will suck, why risk it? wait a month or two, read some real-world reviews, and then buy. the market is only going to get better for this range of card.
Moot, not mute.
unless there was a woman giving a blowjob in exchange for a positive review, in which case make a fuss about it. everyone should have to pay for positive reviews with cold, hard, equitable cash. this is america.