More grades in one building isn't so bad - when you aren't scooping them up from all over the city. Bonus, they could take the same bus and wouldn't need staggered start times.
Quick question... do you always buy the cheapest car possible? I'm pretty sure you don't. This fantasy that consumers always go for the cheapest product is false and blaming consumers for the industry's lazyness and lack of vision is also lazy IMHO.
Cheers
No, but there's a balance to be achieved. I also don't buy the most expensive car available.
The whole reason that higher level languages and libraries exist is so everybody doesn't have to re-implement everything in machine code. Are you wringing every last drop of performance out when you use them? No. Are productivity gains so great that you don't care? For most cases, yes.
but that does not negate the fact that the Russians are actively posing as western citizens and pumping out propaganda to influence elections and sow political discontent throughout the West and not just in the US.
And on the internet, I can actively pose as your sister.
Seriously, if 100K of ludicrous FB ads actually decided the election, then it doesn't matter what we do.
The right to speak out on global issues that cross borders is an important principle. Organizations such as UNICEF, Oxfam or religious organizations depend on the ability to communicate - and advertise - their views in a wide range of countries. While we may not always agree with the positions of those who would speak on issues here, we believe in their right to do so - just as we believe in the right of Americans to express opinions on issues in other countries.
Precisely.
You know perfectly well that if in late October, say, some French group bought Facebook ads admonishing Americans to "stop being racist, take action, vote, etc. you know who we're talking about, wink wink" that FB would have not the slightest problem with it. Nor would the media or the permanent bureaucracy that is so worried about "foreign meddling".
I really wish you folks wouldn't leave me with no option but conspiracy theories. I don't like conspiracy theories.
But... well, if the "oh noes Russia" thing were a false flag operation to cover Facebook going all in in helping Democrats and suppressing dissent, how would things look any different?
I mean, not only is it obviously true, but it even turns out that societies share the same moral values, even when individual members have different or no religions.
i.e. religion does not shape moral values, but the opposite occurs.
That's so clearly false on the face of it that's hard to know where to begin.
Take pagan Rome and Christianity, for example. Not the same values, which is why all the conflict.
There's a pretty big debate on, for example, whether you can have morality without God. This is a notch on the atheist's side since it implies socializing might have a generalized chemical factor to it.
Um, right, because giving ecstasy to females to make them warm up to strange males is the height of morality...
Being correct does not preclude you from being an asshole. If people are always thinking you're an asshole, maybe that says something about your communication style?
Depends on the "people".
If they are Chinese villagers during the cultural revolution, for example, not so much.
It may just mean that the "people" are driven by an ideology that says you are wrong and bad by definition.
Linux's elite developers, who are overwhelmingly male, tend to share their leader's aggressive self-confidence. There are very few women among the most prolific contributors, though the foundation and researchers estimate that roughly ten per cent of all Linux coders are women.
So women are the same as men, and if you don't think so, you are a knuckle dragging sexist.
On the other hand, women are so different from men that they bring magical special goodness to a project. So we need to do whatever we can to bring them in.
So the bad guys got a 3rd party certificate? Last time I got one (Codomo I think) for my mail server they actually verified my identity by phone in order to actually issue the certificate for me.
Is that not routine now? How could the bad guys not be traced if they want so far as to buy a cert?
They got a certificate for a "similar" domain.
The code siphoned off credit card data from unsuspecting customers to a server controlled by the hackers with a similar domain name -- likely to avoid detection.
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What about going back to neighborhood schools?
More grades in one building isn't so bad - when you aren't scooping them up from all over the city. Bonus, they could take the same bus and wouldn't need staggered start times.
You claim it was a joke, then go on to explain in detail why the claim in your purported joke has merit. I'm confused.
The best jokes have some degree of truth to them.
Whether this is it (or one of them) or not ... any solution will be technological, in this vein.
The solution will not be political and social badgering to make the hoi poloi give up modern life.
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo ...
Totalitarians of a feather flock together.
And? What if we don't need it to keep getting endless faster?
Quick question ... do you always buy the cheapest car possible? I'm pretty sure you don't. This fantasy that consumers always go for the cheapest product is false and blaming consumers for the industry's lazyness and lack of vision is also lazy IMHO.
Cheers
No, but there's a balance to be achieved. I also don't buy the most expensive car available.
The whole reason that higher level languages and libraries exist is so everybody doesn't have to re-implement everything in machine code. Are you wringing every last drop of performance out when you use them? No. Are productivity gains so great that you don't care? For most cases, yes.
Market forces, affect Apple? Blasphemy!!
Maybe we could engineer insects to eat it all and then fly into traps.
Apple is working more closely with China than I thought ...
but that does not negate the fact that the Russians are actively posing as western citizens and pumping out propaganda to influence elections and sow political discontent throughout the West and not just in the US.
And on the internet, I can actively pose as your sister.
Seriously, if 100K of ludicrous FB ads actually decided the election, then it doesn't matter what we do.
The right to speak out on global issues that cross borders is an important principle. Organizations such as UNICEF, Oxfam or religious organizations depend on the ability to communicate - and advertise - their views in a wide range of countries. While we may not always agree with the positions of those who would speak on issues here, we believe in their right to do so - just as we believe in the right of Americans to express opinions on issues in other countries.
Precisely.
You know perfectly well that if in late October, say, some French group bought Facebook ads admonishing Americans to "stop being racist, take action, vote, etc. you know who we're talking about, wink wink" that FB would have not the slightest problem with it. Nor would the media or the permanent bureaucracy that is so worried about "foreign meddling".
Some foreign meddling is more equal than others.
I really wish you folks wouldn't leave me with no option but conspiracy theories. I don't like conspiracy theories.
But ... well, if the "oh noes Russia" thing were a false flag operation to cover Facebook going all in in helping Democrats and suppressing dissent, how would things look any different?
... Hindenburg!
I mean, not only is it obviously true, but it even turns out that societies share the same moral values, even when individual members have different or no religions. i.e. religion does not shape moral values, but the opposite occurs.
That's so clearly false on the face of it that's hard to know where to begin.
Take pagan Rome and Christianity, for example. Not the same values, which is why all the conflict.
There's a pretty big debate on, for example, whether you can have morality without God. This is a notch on the atheist's side since it implies socializing might have a generalized chemical factor to it.
Um, right, because giving ecstasy to females to make them warm up to strange males is the height of morality ...
I guess you see what you want to see, lol
Oh great; now we're going to have an #octotoo thing ...
Being correct does not preclude you from being an asshole. If people are always thinking you're an asshole, maybe that says something about your communication style?
Depends on the "people".
If they are Chinese villagers during the cultural revolution, for example, not so much.
It may just mean that the "people" are driven by an ideology that says you are wrong and bad by definition.
If it happened because of the existence of guns, or because non state agents have some, you would have some kind of point.
Since it didn't, it's just you politicizing a murder.
What does this have to do with tech news?
Because guns! If only Linus had told them not to carry guns, this never would have happened.
I'd like to see at least a couple of proofs of this egregiously dubious statement.
Yeah, for one thing it's not a "cult" if you actually deliver the miracles, lol Which Linus did.
If folks disagree, they can show everyone how easy it is to make (and manage) a Unix workalike. Maybe they could get a head start by using Hurd ...
Linux's elite developers, who are overwhelmingly male, tend to share their leader's aggressive self-confidence. There are very few women among the most prolific contributors, though the foundation and researchers estimate that roughly ten per cent of all Linux coders are women.
So women are the same as men, and if you don't think so, you are a knuckle dragging sexist.
On the other hand, women are so different from men that they bring magical special goodness to a project. So we need to do whatever we can to bring them in.
Look at the actual thing to be measured, not a poorly defined process that tries to look at how something MIGHT be measured. .
While I am against what they are doing, I'm curious how you would suggest they actually measure your fitness, if not by any of the doable measures.
This is an editorial.
So the bad guys got a 3rd party certificate? Last time I got one (Codomo I think) for my mail server they actually verified my identity by phone in order to actually issue the certificate for me.
Is that not routine now? How could the bad guys not be traced if they want so far as to buy a cert?
They got a certificate for a "similar" domain.
The code siphoned off credit card data from unsuspecting customers to a server controlled by the hackers with a similar domain name -- likely to avoid detection.
Could have used Let's Encrypt.