Well that's not very exciting... can't the culprit be something more like "capitalist guys in top hats smoking cigars and twirling their handlebar mustaches while chortling evil-y"???
These studies usually require a control group that represents those who do not have the distinguishing features of those being studied. In this case, young people who aren't exposed to screen time. Where will these people be found? In the Amazon jungles? And how can they objectively used as a control group? If there is a significant difference in the economic / geographical / ethnic / etc status of the control group, the study can't be valid.
All social science faces that problem. You do your best.
Anyway, there are certainly parents who, while otherwise part of modern society, significantly restrict their kids from screens, to greater or lesser degrees.
When nearly half of Americans get their news from Facebook, its newsfeed should be subjected to the same standards of fairness, decency and accuracy as newspapers, television and other media outlets....
OK, first of all, "newspapers, television and other media outlets" are not in any way synonymous with "fairness, decency and accuracy".
That said, Facebook is nothing like those things anyway. A Facebook feed is a crazy quilt mix of stuff your friends posted, ads, random crap FB thinks you might be interested in, random crap that pushes their political point of view, etc.
None of this can end well. There is no way that regulation can ensure "fairness, decency and accuracy".
With a hat tip to Winston Churchill, free speech is the worst way of handling this... except for all the other ways.
Does this reporter have any evidence of people using the source of OpenJDK and being somehow unable to cope with the comments or otherwise having problems because of the language?
It sounds to me like he's making shit up.
It's not about being "unable to cope".
All words are just arbitrary sounds that convey meaning. So what? Part of the meaning that offensive words convey is offensive meaning. They are literally intended to give offense; that's their meaning. Which is not appropriate in professional settings.
There's nothing superior about not knowing or caring (or pretending not to know or care) about the meanings of words.
You're not hurting the head makeup artist, the best boy or the gaffer.
Of course, you do hurt them all. Their jobs depend on their employer's being able to sell the fruits of their labors — and profiting from it. Diminishing the profit diminishes the pay. For everyone.
I think he's saying that you are not hurting the head makeup artist, the best boy or the gaffer who actually worked on BladeRunner.
Now, as you point out, if rampant copying is tolerated (well, if it is tolerated for all content, not just for decades old content), then you will hurt current and future workers, as it will become difficult for the movie industry to make money.
But that's a subtler point and more difficult for many to grasp.
>> I am pretty sure [thing promised by company will happen] in the next five years
No wonder companies continue advertise here: Slashdot remains a target-rich environment filled with consumers who are easily persuaded by flimsy promises. Why don't we go ahead an speculate on which flying cars we'll have in five years while we're at it?
I dunno, every time people say that Musk can't do something, he says "hold my bong"...
We were supposed to reach that 25 years ago or so. So I'm not holding my breath. Besides: what about recycling? Do that correctly, including taxes for electronics that go faulty too fast and you've fixed some of the problems with resources.
We did hit a "peak oil" in that it became increasingly more expensive to extract oil- but then new technologies pushed the slide back a little. We will probably see several mini-peaks where what's available becomes harder to extract and more expensive, and then new technology comes along that will make it cheaper again.
I've never used it, but I sure as hell block all of their domains at the browser level.
Hit a page, it's got dozens of references to one of the word press domains, and happily block them.
I don't trust WP as a visitor, because I've heard endless stories about how it infects users... and I wouldn't trust it on the back end because I've heard endless stories about how it's insecure.
At this point I have to conclude that WP is a steaming pile of shit, and have no idea why it's still in use.
I pretty much assume web sites that my blockers link to word press are not a site I'd *ever* trust to set cookies, have a login, or receive any personally identifiable information -- because either the admins are incompetent, or the software is defective, or both.
All popular CMSs - and even many unpopular CMSs - have had security issues. The open source ones tend to get fixed super quickly.
Plenty of wonky toolkits, runtimes, etc. - used by oh so super smart devs on their (at a higher level) completely custom websites - have had security issues too.
WP did have a rather distressing frequency in its early years, but has got much better and has been for quite some time now.
I don't take anything I read on Facebook as fact. If I care about it, I double check on some more reputable site. Facebook is like the phone service. They provide the means of communications, but aren't the ones making calls. Don't just believe all the random things your friends or pages you follow post.
Exactly. Facebook is like the fence between two gossipy ladies' back yards. Take what you hear with a grain of salt. Or a whole big shaker of it.
And along the same lines, I don't think the freakin' fence should be censoring their conversation either.
"With oil scarcity no longer a concern," Americans should be given a "choice in vehicles that best fit their needs," read a draft of a letter that Marathon helped to circulate to members of Congress over the summer
And?
Of course those who sell oil have the most incentive to make arguments. Doesn't automatically make the arguments invalid.
The only reason Texas is considered a "red" state is because of gerrymandering. It's changing, and fast. Soon, Texas will go back to being a Democratic state.
And then people can crap on the sidewalks at will, like Cali!
Thank... er, whatever folks like us thank... "goddess" I guess!
We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area.
"We"? Speak for yourself and only for yourself. Your opinion is not widely shared in Austin. People have been moving to Austin in droves precisely because it is a good place to live, the city is (mostly) well run, and there are great jobs to be had there as a tech hub. If that's not your brand of vodka, fine but that's your problem.
You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
A) You being uncomfortable with someone who isn't a conservative is your problem, not anyone else's
B) Evidently you've never actually been to Austin if you think it's overrun by conservatives. Hell I consider it a bastion of sanity in Texas.
C) The notion that Texas is uniformly conservative is a ridiculous myth. At most it's around 58%/42% skewing conservative based on recent election results.
The things that are attracting Apple to there - the low taxes and so forth - are due to the conservatism.
Remove the conservatism, you remove what is attracting them to there.
Maybe, we should not socialize the losses of coastal properties via our National Flood Insurance program? For all the talk of climate change, I see homes swept away by hurricanes and then even bigger ones replace them in under two years. In my lifetime NJ beachfronts now look like a glass wall with massive homes built as close to the beach as possible.
If the government insures a property and it is lost to floodwaters - a condition of claim payment should be that the property becomes prohibited to future development. If private landowners and private insurers want to take on this risk - good for them.
Building these homes over and over again sticks the taxpayer with the disaster bill.
Heresy! You surely don't mean that rich leftists should have to ensure their own coastal mansions??
Dang it, have to ruin my own snarkiness with a typo. Oh well...
Maybe, we should not socialize the losses of coastal properties via our National Flood Insurance program? For all the talk of climate change, I see homes swept away by hurricanes and then even bigger ones replace them in under two years. In my lifetime NJ beachfronts now look like a glass wall with massive homes built as close to the beach as possible.
If the government insures a property and it is lost to floodwaters - a condition of claim payment should be that the property becomes prohibited to future development. If private landowners and private insurers want to take on this risk - good for them.
Building these homes over and over again sticks the taxpayer with the disaster bill.
Heresy! You surely don't mean that rich leftists should have to ensure their own coastal mansions??
It's sad to see Slashdot taken over by anti-science scumbags, posting as "Anonymous Cowards" and lying that Global Warming isn't happening even with evidence all over the place. And then there's the overwhelming support for GW in the scientific community. What do they know!
I have to admire the plucky band of billionaires, conspiracy nutbars and oil companies bravely fighting back against all that nasty, evil science. Of course, the downside is that their kids will line up to piss on their graves.
Browse with only +2 visible and you won't see most of that.
As far as the PR effort goes, global warning was way oversold initially and the early dire predictions (that were sold via the media) didn't happen, or didn't happen anything like they were sold. That had a crying wolf effect.
Also, demonizing people and calling them stupid isn't a great way to win them over.
That said, any solution is going to be technological. Top down command and control isn't doing what you want it to do; it isn't succeeding (and yes, succeeding politically and socially is part of succeeding).
Slashdot Mirror
You mean like Scooby-Doo real estate developers?
And it would have worked, too!
Well that's not very exciting ... can't the culprit be something more like "capitalist guys in top hats smoking cigars and twirling their handlebar mustaches while chortling evil-y"???
And ... what?
This compares to recent previous years (using the same methodology) how? Better? Worse?
I bought some kind of washer (small part for something) it came in one of those big amazon boxes with bubble wrap etc. So incredibly wasteful.
Eh, maybe, maybe not.
The cardboard is obviously renewable. They usually use inflatable plastic stuff that once the air is out is very low volume.
The question is whether it's any worse than driving all over town looking for the washer would be.
I'm amazed to see articles in the Register and such saying this wasn't so great or that other people deserve credit.
El Reg simultaneously had an article "debunking" Engelbart ... and another one praising the "inventor of the word processor" (who really sorta wasn't).
These studies usually require a control group that represents those who do not have the distinguishing features of those being studied. In this case, young people who aren't exposed to screen time. Where will these people be found? In the Amazon jungles? And how can they objectively used as a control group? If there is a significant difference in the economic / geographical / ethnic / etc status of the control group, the study can't be valid.
All social science faces that problem. You do your best.
Anyway, there are certainly parents who, while otherwise part of modern society, significantly restrict their kids from screens, to greater or lesser degrees.
When nearly half of Americans get their news from Facebook, its newsfeed should be subjected to the same standards of fairness, decency and accuracy as newspapers, television and other media outlets....
OK, first of all, "newspapers, television and other media outlets" are not in any way synonymous with "fairness, decency and accuracy".
That said, Facebook is nothing like those things anyway. A Facebook feed is a crazy quilt mix of stuff your friends posted, ads, random crap FB thinks you might be interested in, random crap that pushes their political point of view, etc.
None of this can end well. There is no way that regulation can ensure "fairness, decency and accuracy".
With a hat tip to Winston Churchill, free speech is the worst way of handling this ... except for all the other ways.
Does this reporter have any evidence of people using the source of OpenJDK and being somehow unable to cope with the comments or otherwise having problems because of the language?
It sounds to me like he's making shit up.
It's not about being "unable to cope".
All words are just arbitrary sounds that convey meaning. So what? Part of the meaning that offensive words convey is offensive meaning. They are literally intended to give offense; that's their meaning. Which is not appropriate in professional settings.
There's nothing superior about not knowing or caring (or pretending not to know or care) about the meanings of words.
Of course, you do hurt them all. Their jobs depend on their employer's being able to sell the fruits of their labors — and profiting from it. Diminishing the profit diminishes the pay. For everyone.
I think he's saying that you are not hurting the head makeup artist, the best boy or the gaffer who actually worked on BladeRunner.
Now, as you point out, if rampant copying is tolerated (well, if it is tolerated for all content, not just for decades old content), then you will hurt current and future workers, as it will become difficult for the movie industry to make money.
But that's a subtler point and more difficult for many to grasp.
>> I am pretty sure [thing promised by company will happen] in the next five years No wonder companies continue advertise here: Slashdot remains a target-rich environment filled with consumers who are easily persuaded by flimsy promises. Why don't we go ahead an speculate on which flying cars we'll have in five years while we're at it?
I dunno, every time people say that Musk can't do something, he says "hold my bong" ...
Please, please adopt the metric system like the rest of the world. :(
I know, right?
Now more than ever (since we now all carry instant pocket conversion computers), we MUST all use the same units! Think of the children!!!
There are two types of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system and those that have walked on the moon.
Ironically, to go to the moon they used the metric system...
And?
They had a culture and economy that was more concerned with practicality and less with conformism.
Multiple studies have shown that 100% of energy needs can be met by renewables. We don't need fossil fuels. Here's a few... try Google for more... https://interestingengineering... https://physicsworld.com/a/100... https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
Then how come we aren't?
Because of rich guys in top hats smoking cigars, cackling with glee as the planet burns?
We were supposed to reach that 25 years ago or so. So I'm not holding my breath. Besides: what about recycling? Do that correctly, including taxes for electronics that go faulty too fast and you've fixed some of the problems with resources.
We did hit a "peak oil" in that it became increasingly more expensive to extract oil- but then new technologies pushed the slide back a little. We will probably see several mini-peaks where what's available becomes harder to extract and more expensive, and then new technology comes along that will make it cheaper again.
So, in other words, we didn't hit peak.
I've never used it, but I sure as hell block all of their domains at the browser level.
Hit a page, it's got dozens of references to one of the word press domains, and happily block them.
I don't trust WP as a visitor, because I've heard endless stories about how it infects users ... and I wouldn't trust it on the back end because I've heard endless stories about how it's insecure.
At this point I have to conclude that WP is a steaming pile of shit, and have no idea why it's still in use.
I pretty much assume web sites that my blockers link to word press are not a site I'd *ever* trust to set cookies, have a login, or receive any personally identifiable information -- because either the admins are incompetent, or the software is defective, or both.
All popular CMSs - and even many unpopular CMSs - have had security issues. The open source ones tend to get fixed super quickly.
Plenty of wonky toolkits, runtimes, etc. - used by oh so super smart devs on their (at a higher level) completely custom websites - have had security issues too.
WP did have a rather distressing frequency in its early years, but has got much better and has been for quite some time now.
Would you need a 50% discount to buy a used hammer?
I might.
That hammer head is going to come off some day, and that day will undoubtedly be sooner if it's been used.
I don't take anything I read on Facebook as fact. If I care about it, I double check on some more reputable site. Facebook is like the phone service. They provide the means of communications, but aren't the ones making calls. Don't just believe all the random things your friends or pages you follow post.
Exactly. Facebook is like the fence between two gossipy ladies' back yards. Take what you hear with a grain of salt. Or a whole big shaker of it.
And along the same lines, I don't think the freakin' fence should be censoring their conversation either.
Because iron-60 is radioactive, if it was formed with the Earth it would be long gone by now. So, it had to have been rained down on us
Joe: We know for sure how old the Earth is, because of radiometric dating.
Bob: Hey cool. BTW, what's that stuff there?
Joe: Iron-60.
Bob: Cool. Wait a minute, how could that still be there?
Joe: Well, it must have fallen on us.
Bob: Cool, how do you know that?
Joe: Er, well ... if it was formed with the Earth it would be long gone by now. So, it had to have been rained down on us.
Bob: Oh ... OK. That's logical ... I guess.
{...}
Bob: Er, so that other stuff over there ... how do you know that didn't rain down on us?.
Joe: I hate you.
"With oil scarcity no longer a concern," Americans should be given a "choice in vehicles that best fit their needs," read a draft of a letter that Marathon helped to circulate to members of Congress over the summer
And?
Of course those who sell oil have the most incentive to make arguments. Doesn't automatically make the arguments invalid.
Oh yah those low taxes are so great. The potholes in the streets in my hometown are intense cause all these cheap stingy rednecks
I see; so you think Apple is attracted by the potholes instead of the low taxes.
Houston is also a very liberal city.
The only reason Texas is considered a "red" state is because of gerrymandering. It's changing, and fast. Soon, Texas will go back to being a Democratic state.
And then people can crap on the sidewalks at will, like Cali!
Thank ... er, whatever folks like us thank ... "goddess" I guess!
We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area.
"We"? Speak for yourself and only for yourself. Your opinion is not widely shared in Austin. People have been moving to Austin in droves precisely because it is a good place to live, the city is (mostly) well run, and there are great jobs to be had there as a tech hub. If that's not your brand of vodka, fine but that's your problem.
You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
A) You being uncomfortable with someone who isn't a conservative is your problem, not anyone else's B) Evidently you've never actually been to Austin if you think it's overrun by conservatives. Hell I consider it a bastion of sanity in Texas. C) The notion that Texas is uniformly conservative is a ridiculous myth. At most it's around 58%/42% skewing conservative based on recent election results.
The things that are attracting Apple to there - the low taxes and so forth - are due to the conservatism.
Remove the conservatism, you remove what is attracting them to there.
Maybe, we should not socialize the losses of coastal properties via our National Flood Insurance program? For all the talk of climate change, I see homes swept away by hurricanes and then even bigger ones replace them in under two years. In my lifetime NJ beachfronts now look like a glass wall with massive homes built as close to the beach as possible.
If the government insures a property and it is lost to floodwaters - a condition of claim payment should be that the property becomes prohibited to future development. If private landowners and private insurers want to take on this risk - good for them.
Building these homes over and over again sticks the taxpayer with the disaster bill.
Heresy! You surely don't mean that rich leftists should have to ensure their own coastal mansions??
Dang it, have to ruin my own snarkiness with a typo. Oh well ...
Maybe, we should not socialize the losses of coastal properties via our National Flood Insurance program? For all the talk of climate change, I see homes swept away by hurricanes and then even bigger ones replace them in under two years. In my lifetime NJ beachfronts now look like a glass wall with massive homes built as close to the beach as possible.
If the government insures a property and it is lost to floodwaters - a condition of claim payment should be that the property becomes prohibited to future development. If private landowners and private insurers want to take on this risk - good for them.
Building these homes over and over again sticks the taxpayer with the disaster bill.
Heresy! You surely don't mean that rich leftists should have to ensure their own coastal mansions??
It's sad to see Slashdot taken over by anti-science scumbags, posting as "Anonymous Cowards" and lying that Global Warming isn't happening even with evidence all over the place. And then there's the overwhelming support for GW in the scientific community. What do they know!
I have to admire the plucky band of billionaires, conspiracy nutbars and oil companies bravely fighting back against all that nasty, evil science. Of course, the downside is that their kids will line up to piss on their graves.
Browse with only +2 visible and you won't see most of that.
As far as the PR effort goes, global warning was way oversold initially and the early dire predictions (that were sold via the media) didn't happen, or didn't happen anything like they were sold. That had a crying wolf effect.
Also, demonizing people and calling them stupid isn't a great way to win them over.
That said, any solution is going to be technological. Top down command and control isn't doing what you want it to do; it isn't succeeding (and yes, succeeding politically and socially is part of succeeding).