(Optional) autoupdating would be even better. But at least one click is a minimum these days. The manual screwing around that you have to do to update Drupal is absurd.
(Not difficult, just absurd. It's because it isn't difficult that it's absurd that it isn't automated.)
The autonomous programming detects items around the vehicle and operators fine-tune its sensitivity to make sure it only reacts to true threats (solid objects instead of bags, for example).
Then it's an easy fix. Just move the "sensitivity" slider a little to the left.
Actually, it's kind of terrifying that all that stands between life and death is a sensitivity setting.
Absolutely.
I hope they use material design so the settings are all hard to see.
And I really hope it's totally ambiguous whether you have to click Save, or if the changes to the Sensitivity slider will just save automatically, just because you touched them or something.
My time (and cell phone minutes) are also worth money, and its costs me, too. A cost that I am absolutely unwilling to bear. There are better ways to put an end to this nonsense that don't cost me more of my limited time or money.
Like what, litigating?
That guy came up with his bots because overall there hasn't been a better way, yet. Not saying there shouldn't be; just that there isn't yet.
Actually, the most interesting part of his service isn't the bots per se, it's the filtering out of known spam #s. The bot part is just emotionally satisfying...
"Why aren't we even trying to make designs that good? Instead all you get is stupid little gimmicks like rounded corners or notches in the screen."
Because having phones that last longer is in direct conflict with the motives of literally every competitor making phones. Even if they never sit in a room and collude they'll reach the same result simply by acting out of self-interest. Why would they compete with each other on more durable phones or in any real way on cost when those things hurt their bottom lines? Better to make everyone replace their phone on a regular basis and compete for pieces of the next round of purchases.
Er, for the same reason that all consumer products don't disintegrate in just one day?
If they go too far in planned obsolescence, then they leave themselves wide open to a competitor who does not.
They'd just considered googling as quicker and more efficient.
Well, maybe it was.
Unless you use the bookmarks bar and keep it showing, typing a few letters and autocompleting your way there (whether autocompleted URL or autocompleted search term) quite likely is faster.
geofencing is not exactly a new concept. At least it finally is being used for good (privacy protection) rather then for evil (arbitrary geographical media blocking)
So, am I liable for serving EU visitors who are already using VPNs (to lie about where they are coming from due to arbitrary geographical media blocking)?
While trusting users to load and execute Javascript is hopelessly naive (any company relying on this to avoid huge fines, is about to pay some huge fines) how is wanting to avoid huge fines the "wrong reasons?"
This is shockingly stupid implementation, not stupid motivation.
Personally, I'd do it server side, sure.. but it raises the question: since IP geolocation is inherently fuzzy, how good is good enough?
Something less than perfect is going to have to suffice as due diligence. The WWW is in fact world wide, and the world is full of different regulatory environments. It isn't reasonable for every website to have to ask every visitor where they are from (even if you could trust the answer).
Some EU people already use VPNs for various reasons to appear as though they come from the US. What about them?
That's as it should be. If the regulatory costs of serving a region exceed the benefits to the company, then they don't serve that region.
If visitor lie about where they are from because they are just dying to use that juicy non-EU website, then fine, they don't get the regulatory protection. The company did due diligence to keep them out.
Abject poverty, along with the idea that anyone should spend more than half their waking life at work, are purely modern constructs of greed-oriented society.
I was with you until that sentence. Abject poverty and spending more than half your waking life at "work" tasks long, LONG predates modernity.
If you are advertising a product or service of any kind online, and making "promises" as to the "benefits" of throwing your "real world money" at it will have for you, shouldn't there be a solid record - a name, an ID number, a contact email and phone number, a valid business or personal address - of who the hell you are? If it is possible to buy online advertising anonymously - no ID of any kind required, just transfer some money somehow - you just made life super-easy for any kind of scammer selling any kind of scam online, whether political, or financial, or otherwise.
And?
The X-ray specs sold from ads in the back of comic books didn't work either. The republic survived somehow.
Everybody needs to learn to take everything - including the "legitimate" news media - with a grain of salt. Some folks won't be able to do so, but most can, if they try. And none of this is new.
Because voter impersonation is mathematically the dumbest way to rig an election. It's high risk for low reward, and the risk grows exponentially, so you couldn't rig an election for dogcatcher without getting caught. Any other method, including legitimate campaigns, would be a much more effective strategy.
Then why not require IDs? What are you afraid of? It won't change anything, right?
and we're no worse off than just having a driver behind the wheel.
That's demonstrably untrue. Humans are terrible at partial attention. Partial automation (like Tesla's misnamed Autopilot) lulls humans into a state of inattentiveness.
"Although the crash did not affect the vote tallies or the integrity of the election, this is not something that should happen,"
How the fuck do they know vote tallies and the "integrity of the election" were not affected? It's like all the people who say, 'Russian interference in 2016 didn't affect the outcome of the election". What else can they say? "Yes, the outcome was affected and now we're in no-man's land"? I expect to hear this a lot in 2018 and 2020: "We were hacked (meddled, colluded, ratfucked) but it didn't affect the outcome!"
It was a website.
Unless you think they were using a WordPress plugin for voting, the systems were likely separate.
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Drupal needs one click updating for core.
(Optional) autoupdating would be even better. But at least one click is a minimum these days. The manual screwing around that you have to do to update Drupal is absurd.
(Not difficult, just absurd. It's because it isn't difficult that it's absurd that it isn't automated.)
Then it's an easy fix. Just move the "sensitivity" slider a little to the left.
Actually, it's kind of terrifying that all that stands between life and death is a sensitivity setting.
Absolutely.
I hope they use material design so the settings are all hard to see.
And I really hope it's totally ambiguous whether you have to click Save, or if the changes to the Sensitivity slider will just save automatically, just because you touched them or something.
My time (and cell phone minutes) are also worth money, and its costs me, too. A cost that I am absolutely unwilling to bear. There are better ways to put an end to this nonsense that don't cost me more of my limited time or money.
Like what, litigating?
That guy came up with his bots because overall there hasn't been a better way, yet. Not saying there shouldn't be; just that there isn't yet.
Actually, the most interesting part of his service isn't the bots per se, it's the filtering out of known spam #s. The bot part is just emotionally satisfying ...
"Why aren't we even trying to make designs that good? Instead all you get is stupid little gimmicks like rounded corners or notches in the screen." Because having phones that last longer is in direct conflict with the motives of literally every competitor making phones. Even if they never sit in a room and collude they'll reach the same result simply by acting out of self-interest. Why would they compete with each other on more durable phones or in any real way on cost when those things hurt their bottom lines? Better to make everyone replace their phone on a regular basis and compete for pieces of the next round of purchases.
Er, for the same reason that all consumer products don't disintegrate in just one day?
If they go too far in planned obsolescence, then they leave themselves wide open to a competitor who does not.
Our business still runs Windows 7. My personal machines still run Windows 7. Why do you say that you don't have a choice?
Perhaps after two years, some machines aged and needed to be replaced.
They'd just considered googling as quicker and more efficient.
Well, maybe it was.
Unless you use the bookmarks bar and keep it showing, typing a few letters and autocompleting your way there (whether autocompleted URL or autocompleted search term) quite likely is faster.
yeah, but how usefull is the internet when half of it pulls out of your location??
Just as useful, since they will just use the same VPNs that they use now to watch that awful American TV that they hate.
geofencing is not exactly a new concept. At least it finally is being used for good (privacy protection) rather then for evil (arbitrary geographical media blocking)
So, am I liable for serving EU visitors who are already using VPNs (to lie about where they are coming from due to arbitrary geographical media blocking)?
While trusting users to load and execute Javascript is hopelessly naive (any company relying on this to avoid huge fines, is about to pay some huge fines) how is wanting to avoid huge fines the "wrong reasons?"
This is shockingly stupid implementation, not stupid motivation.
Personally, I'd do it server side, sure .. but it raises the question: since IP geolocation is inherently fuzzy, how good is good enough?
Something less than perfect is going to have to suffice as due diligence. The WWW is in fact world wide, and the world is full of different regulatory environments. It isn't reasonable for every website to have to ask every visitor where they are from (even if you could trust the answer).
Some EU people already use VPNs for various reasons to appear as though they come from the US. What about them?
That's as it should be. If the regulatory costs of serving a region exceed the benefits to the company, then they don't serve that region.
If visitor lie about where they are from because they are just dying to use that juicy non-EU website, then fine, they don't get the regulatory protection. The company did due diligence to keep them out.
Seems reasonable.
Abject poverty, along with the idea that anyone should spend more than half their waking life at work, are purely modern constructs of greed-oriented society.
I was with you until that sentence. Abject poverty and spending more than half your waking life at "work" tasks long, LONG predates modernity.
voter ID is going to do nothing, not one thing but eliminate a trite old chestnut of a talking point.
Then why not do it? What are you (your party) so afraid of? Why the opposition, the BS lawsuits, etc.?
Don't you want to eliminate a talking point of your opponents?
Thanks goodness that is solved; we wouldn't want a free market breaking out or anything!
If you are advertising a product or service of any kind online, and making "promises" as to the "benefits" of throwing your "real world money" at it will have for you, shouldn't there be a solid record - a name, an ID number, a contact email and phone number, a valid business or personal address - of who the hell you are? If it is possible to buy online advertising anonymously - no ID of any kind required, just transfer some money somehow - you just made life super-easy for any kind of scammer selling any kind of scam online, whether political, or financial, or otherwise.
And?
The X-ray specs sold from ads in the back of comic books didn't work either. The republic survived somehow.
Everybody needs to learn to take everything - including the "legitimate" news media - with a grain of salt. Some folks won't be able to do so, but most can, if they try. And none of this is new.
Because voter impersonation is mathematically the dumbest way to rig an election. It's high risk for low reward, and the risk grows exponentially, so you couldn't rig an election for dogcatcher without getting caught. Any other method, including legitimate campaigns, would be a much more effective strategy.
Then why not require IDs? What are you afraid of? It won't change anything, right?
"if Fortnite were a website, it would be one of the top five in the United States."
But as a quick Google Trends search reveals, Fortnite has become a hotter search term than Reddit.
Er ... the one thing does not follow from the other. At all.
Maybe everybody is just searching to see what the heck all this astroturfing is talking about?
If threats don't work, you move onto punishments. Or is that crazy talk?
Yep, that's considered crazy talk now ... look up "restorative justice" ...
Thank goodness that is solved now; we wouldn't want a free market breaking out or anything!!
Wait, what? I thought Slashdot just told me the other day that they were all fleeing to Canada because Trump.
and we're no worse off than just having a driver behind the wheel.
That's demonstrably untrue. Humans are terrible at partial attention. Partial automation (like Tesla's misnamed Autopilot) lulls humans into a state of inattentiveness.
What's the advantage of being a logged in viewer? Yet another reimplementation of bookmarks?
How the fuck do they know vote tallies and the "integrity of the election" were not affected? It's like all the people who say, 'Russian interference in 2016 didn't affect the outcome of the election". What else can they say? "Yes, the outcome was affected and now we're in no-man's land"? I expect to hear this a lot in 2018 and 2020: "We were hacked (meddled, colluded, ratfucked) but it didn't affect the outcome!"
It was a website.
Unless you think they were using a WordPress plugin for voting, the systems were likely separate.
Probably a designer ...
Don't you remember Saturday Night Fever? Tony Manero had to look *perfect*!!
Touche!
A new age indeed ... "boys purchasing outfits" didn't use to be much of a business model ...