HUD is suing Facebook, not for actually discriminating, but for having tools that allow other people to discriminate. If Facebook was making the ad targeting decisions, you might have a point... *maybe*.
This is like suing Intel and Microsoft because of Napster music piracy. It *should* be laughed out of court, But this is the era of ignorance and feelz in law, so God knows what will happen.
I agree with the AC. I bear no love for Facebook, and I understand the importance of rules against housing discrimination. What I do not understand is why HUD is filing a complaint against Facebook. Facebook is not posting the ads.
What HUD ought to be doing is asking FB for a list of any instances where real entities posted illegal ads. Facebook has that data. Then HUD would have a list of entities to investigate for illegal activity. They may even be able to get FB to send them such lists periodically.
Does HUD want to guarantee the housing market by regulating Facebook, or do they actually want to go after the asshats who won't rent to protected classes?
Thank you (and eaglesrule) for responding. That does, indeed, seem to be a system that is hard to cheat, provided that minority party observers are not mysteriously disqualified. That does happen in some places, although I've never heard of it in Oregon.
You could have predicted that those types of entry-level complaints would have been addressed in the details of the law when I said "Oregon" and not "Jerrymanderistan" or whatever those flyover states are called.
I certainly could have predicted that such details would be accounted for, but rather than read the entire body of election laws, I figured I'd ask a person who conveniently lives there. This being Slashdot, I also could have predicted that someone would mistake my honest questions for insults and resort to tribalism.
How does Oregon prevent each of the following scenarios:
- Poll worker dislikes your vote and throws it away. (Yes, this is problem for counting paper ballots, too.) - Poll worker dislikes your vote so much that he or she records your name and address for later retaliation. (This is somewhat less of a problem for paper ballots because by the time they look at the ballot, yours is anonymous.)
Is the solution just to hire honest poll workers, or are there other safeguards?
Explain the difference between a DDOS coming from, say, an IoT botnet, and one coming from 1000 people all actively posting crap to a comment submission system.
After Jeff Kao posted a screenshot of Regex101.com highlighting some generated comments, his analysis across the dataset, and the source code to reproduce his results, I'm pretty sure you can make a determination on whether it was humans posting those submissions.
I don't think anyone was personally trying to take down the comment site.** It was merely lots of parties trying to push their viewpoint, including: (a) Lots of pro-NN people, some of whom watch HBO; (b) a handful of con-NN people; (c) a few moderate pro-NN bots; (d) a few exceedingly aggressive con-NN bots.
** Except Pai himself, after the Jon Oliver segment.
Let me introduce you to Sonder Design. I check back periodically to see if their product is finally for sale. The GIF on the homepage appears to show layouts for Photoshop, Half-Life 2, and a normal keyboard with hotkeys.
I'm a lamer, I know, but I'd like one of these to help learn more Vim/Emacs commands.
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> What I want are HARDWARE switches for: microphone, cameras, and radios on my devices. Funny how many devices USED to have such things in the past.
Ask, and ye shall receive: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ (development prototypes are currently being produced, first orders are expected to ship in January 2019).
Your Slashvertisement got lost in mod-0 hell, but I'm going to bump it anyway.
I was really imagining this was weasel-speak for an "off-by-one" error, and everyone was getting the feed from the customer's account with the ID one lower than theirs.
My guess would be that 1 of the devices was the last of a production run, and the other was the first of the next run.
Your theory is way more likely... and less interesting. =)
“We literally thought someone had shot the rocket,” Musk said in an interview last summer at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. “We found things that looked like bullet holes, and we calculated that someone with a high-powered rifle, if they had shot the rocket in the right location, the exact same thing would have happened.”
I'm too lazy to RTFA. Can someone who did explain whether this...
"Hurricane Harvey last year was a real outlier in terms of the amount of rain it dropped," he explains. "And the amount of rain it dropped was due, almost entirely, to the fact that it moved so slowly."
...means total rainfall, or just rainfall per area in the affected zone (which I presume is smaller)? i.e. Is there a certain amount of rain that a cyclone or hurricane holds and it's being distributed over a smaller area, or does the slower movement somehow increase the total water volume?
Which TV shows show ubiquitous civil assets forfeiture?
The Wire did that in one of the early series. If memory serves, they gave the bloke a receipt and told him he could have the money back if he could prove it came from a legal source.
You're starting to lose the moral high ground you had back at
You're the reason why nerds get beat up, and I no longer feel sorry about nerds getting beaten up since you're arseholes to people who are trying something new.
You're not sorry people get beaten up, yet I'm the arsehole?
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HUD is suing Facebook, not for actually discriminating, but for having tools that allow other people to discriminate. If Facebook was making the ad targeting decisions, you might have a point... *maybe*.
This is like suing Intel and Microsoft because of Napster music piracy. It *should* be laughed out of court, But this is the era of ignorance and feelz in law, so God knows what will happen.
I agree with the AC. I bear no love for Facebook, and I understand the importance of rules against housing discrimination. What I do not understand is why HUD is filing a complaint against Facebook. Facebook is not posting the ads.
What HUD ought to be doing is asking FB for a list of any instances where real entities posted illegal ads. Facebook has that data. Then HUD would have a list of entities to investigate for illegal activity. They may even be able to get FB to send them such lists periodically.
Does HUD want to guarantee the housing market by regulating Facebook, or do they actually want to go after the asshats who won't rent to protected classes?
Thank you (and eaglesrule) for responding. That does, indeed, seem to be a system that is hard to cheat, provided that minority party observers are not mysteriously disqualified. That does happen in some places, although I've never heard of it in Oregon.
You could have predicted that those types of entry-level complaints would have been addressed in the details of the law when I said "Oregon" and not "Jerrymanderistan" or whatever those flyover states are called.
I certainly could have predicted that such details would be accounted for, but rather than read the entire body of election laws, I figured I'd ask a person who conveniently lives there. This being Slashdot, I also could have predicted that someone would mistake my honest questions for insults and resort to tribalism.
How does Oregon prevent each of the following scenarios:
- Poll worker dislikes your vote and throws it away. (Yes, this is problem for counting paper ballots, too.)
- Poll worker dislikes your vote so much that he or she records your name and address for later retaliation. (This is somewhat less of a problem for paper ballots because by the time they look at the ballot, yours is anonymous.)
Is the solution just to hire honest poll workers, or are there other safeguards?
Explain the difference between a DDOS coming from, say, an IoT botnet, and one coming from 1000 people all actively posting crap to a comment submission system.
After Jeff Kao posted a screenshot of Regex101.com highlighting some generated comments, his analysis across the dataset, and the source code to reproduce his results, I'm pretty sure you can make a determination on whether it was humans posting those submissions.
I don't think anyone was personally trying to take down the comment site.** It was merely lots of parties trying to push their viewpoint, including: (a) Lots of pro-NN people, some of whom watch HBO; (b) a handful of con-NN people; (c) a few moderate pro-NN bots; (d) a few exceedingly aggressive con-NN bots.
** Except Pai himself, after the Jon Oliver segment.
Let me introduce you to Sonder Design. I check back periodically to see if their product is finally for sale. The GIF on the homepage appears to show layouts for Photoshop, Half-Life 2, and a normal keyboard with hotkeys.
I'm a lamer, I know, but I'd like one of these to help learn more Vim/Emacs commands.
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From the same link. For better or for worse.
Marketing bloke: It's like a salad of realities!
Here's someone who built the obligatory XKCD: https://gkoberger.github.io/st...
A Dave Barry column from 2004 gives credit to Gallagher.
Yeah, Dave, when are you going to Open Source the beer in the cellar? Fascist!
It's free as in "speech," not as in "beer."
Think of the planet, and play a board game instead.
A game made of tree pulp? I dare not. Think of the planet!
Our NEAREST star is over four light years away.
No, our nearest star is 150 million kilometers, or 10e-5 light years away.
With respect to your somewhat amusing pedantry, it is entirely reasonable to read GP's comment as including Sol in "Our."
I imagine 18th century people are much better at identifying trees and tree abnormalities than I ever was or will be.
> What I want are HARDWARE switches for: microphone, cameras, and radios on my devices. Funny how many devices USED to have such things in the past.
Ask, and ye shall receive: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ (development prototypes are currently being produced, first orders are expected to ship in January 2019).
Your Slashvertisement got lost in mod-0 hell, but I'm going to bump it anyway.
Don't worry: they can't patent kidnap and bank robbery!
or can they?
Don't miss next week's thrilling installment!
No they can't. The Government already has prior art.
a "one-off" incident
I was really imagining this was weasel-speak for an "off-by-one" error, and everyone was getting the feed from the customer's account with the ID one lower than theirs.
My guess would be that 1 of the devices was the last of a production run, and the other was the first of the next run.
Your theory is way more likely... and less interesting. =)
This is a non-story.
Speaking of "stories," I do not understand why no one has yet mentioned Gordon Dickson's classic short "Computers Don't Argue" from 1965.
Magazine reproduction
Text version (but atrocious background color)
I want my
I want my
I want my MTV.
Internal Combustion Engine.
Not exactly, but he did investigate sabotage when a SpaceX rocket blew up.
“We literally thought someone had shot the rocket,” Musk said in an interview last summer at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. “We found things that looked like bullet holes, and we calculated that someone with a high-powered rifle, if they had shot the rocket in the right location, the exact same thing would have happened.”
I'm too lazy to RTFA. Can someone who did explain whether this...
"Hurricane Harvey last year was a real outlier in terms of the amount of rain it dropped," he explains. "And the amount of rain it dropped was due, almost entirely, to the fact that it moved so slowly."
...means total rainfall, or just rainfall per area in the affected zone (which I presume is smaller)? i.e. Is there a certain amount of rain that a cyclone or hurricane holds and it's being distributed over a smaller area, or does the slower movement somehow increase the total water volume?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I heard this as "o. rich a.c.l.e.," but GGP might repurpose it again to say "racketeering."
Which TV shows show ubiquitous civil assets forfeiture?
The Wire did that in one of the early series. If memory serves, they gave the bloke a receipt and told him he could have the money back if he could prove it came from a legal source.
Either way, they can DIAF.
You're starting to lose the moral high ground you had back at
You're the reason why nerds get beat up, and I no longer feel sorry about nerds getting beaten up since you're arseholes to people who are trying something new.
You're not sorry people get beaten up, yet I'm the arsehole?