The real reason Republicans want to kill this quasi-public, self-funding agency is
because they can't make money (off the little guy) by buying stock in it and sucking
profits out through a golden straw. How dare the common man have a reliable
way to deliver mail that doesn't pay for their yachts?
Holy cow, you actually believe that stuff, don't you?
The Dem millionaire politicians, of course, all made their loot by farming (organic, of course!) unicorn poop.
The right likes to find our crazies and give them megaphones. It's easy to do because the American right wing owns the media.
You can't be serious. You can't. But you are.
Yes, Trump is is a pissing match with that known right winger, Bezos.
It's easy to "give your crazies a megaphone", because first, they have almost all the megaphones already (Hollywood, colleges, unions, bureaucracy, media), and secondly, there are so many of them and they are so very crazy.
The HD vinyl process involves converting audio digitally to a 3D topographic map. Lasers are then used to inscribe the map onto the "stamper,"
Or.. now hear me out on this one... or... we could just, you know, send the digitally converted audio, you know, without converting it back into a bumpy piece of plastic.
I know this might sound radical, but it seems to me that converting analog sound to digital format then to a digital 3d map then to a laser-cut stamper then to a piece of bumpy vinyl then to a vibrating stylus and into a varying electrical current to drive an amplification system to run the speakers that you listen to might just be a little more complicated than just taking the digital format for storage and transport and converting that back into analog sound at playback.
Next you'll be telling me that gold cables won't help.
Is this class signaling? A disclaimer in case someone mistake you for Android trash and not the awesome Apple bro you actually are? Because I can't imagine anyone supposedly "from Ars Technica" finding themselves mystified by anything on a modern Android device. That just doesn't compute.
Had the same thought.
"I am of course not very familiar with McDonald's, so don't consider this review of the Trump Burger a "review"..."
How is collecting data on non-users helpful in preventing reverse searches? It would seem to me that by not having that data non-users are best protected from searches?
I think he was saying that somehow collecting data on non FB users prevents the non users themselves from scraping data.
Or something. I'm not sure it was actually English.
I would say today we are mostly in the toddler phase of theocracy, about a half century in with the power of the theocrats waxing and waning.
We're importing lots of theocrats, quite mature ones. And the people who claim to be most worried about theocracy are the ones enthusiastically doing and supporting this importing.
It took the machine 18 days to complete its work. The article was pretty low on information, but it sounds like its work consisted of something roughly equivalent to framing (no electrical, plumbing, insulation, finish work, etc.). A regular crew could frame a 1000 square foot home much faster. I'm seeing things like this on other sites: "On average, crew of three experienced carpenters and two helpers able to complete framing of a new 1,900 ft2 – 2,100 ft2 two story simple house in 7 – 8 days." (rempros.com).
This is cool and all and I'm always glad to see investment in promising new tech, but it doesn't sound like it's any sort of end-all solution to housing problems.
Any real American patriot would be outraged by the thought of another state interfering secretly is US elections.
I take it for granted that all sorts of actors, foreign and domestic, will try to "influence" our elections.
American voters are expected to evaluate what they see and hear, and decide what to give credence to, and importance to, themselves.
(Yes, that's scary, blah blah. It's the worst form of government, except for all the others.)
It's the whole basis of democracy in the first place. If we're going to have gatekeepers decide what we can see and hear, and what we're allowed to think about it, then we may as well give up the whole idea now.
.. the way it is today, this is it. This is what a theocracy looks like in its infancy. Be afraid, my fellow humans, and fight while you have the opportunity.
30 years passes in the blink of an eye.
Um, no, it isn't how Iran got to be the way it is.
You don't actually have to have legal prostitution to avoid sharia.
You do, however, have to actually avoid sharia. You're right, 30 years does pass in the blink of an eye. Demographic change is fast, when you import those who are more fecund than you.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis
Pretty sure that Lewis was against legal prostitution. Just sayin. He wasn't libertarian.
Hmm, does that mean that the summary is biased against the Palestinians for suppressing the message or does that mean that the summary is biased for the Palestinians and against the Israelis by not mentioning that the hackers are spreading their message by damaging popular websites 100% unrelated to the conflict in question? Why not both?
Given that this is/. and it was posted by msmash, I'm thinking the latter.
Like... by publishing their "story" in the Washington Post? Yeah, what a coverup!:)
No, my point was that msmash was trying (knowing that few click to the articles) to omit the involvement/culpability of the agents of Religion of Pieces in this hacking that this/. story is about.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, yeah. When you can steal until you don't need to anymore, I guess that is kind of convenient ...
The man, who has not been named due to reporting restrictions surrounding the case
Thanks, I was utterly unable to sort through that logic ...
"The court declared that JOHN JONES must be forgotten ... "
Is the USPS a private for-profit company? No.
The real reason Republicans want to kill this quasi-public, self-funding agency is because they can't make money (off the little guy) by buying stock in it and sucking profits out through a golden straw. How dare the common man have a reliable way to deliver mail that doesn't pay for their yachts?
Holy cow, you actually believe that stuff, don't you?
The Dem millionaire politicians, of course, all made their loot by farming (organic, of course!) unicorn poop.
It's hard to know though, because of the secrecy surrounding the whole deal, as if the people involved were ashamed of it or something.
Oops, that almost seems like something bad that has nothing to do with Trump. Careful there, pardner!
The right likes to find our crazies and give them megaphones. It's easy to do because the American right wing owns the media.
You can't be serious. You can't. But you are.
Yes, Trump is is a pissing match with that known right winger, Bezos.
It's easy to "give your crazies a megaphone", because first, they have almost all the megaphones already (Hollywood, colleges, unions, bureaucracy, media), and secondly, there are so many of them and they are so very crazy.
Or.. now hear me out on this one... or ... we could just, you know, send the digitally converted audio, you know, without converting it back into a bumpy piece of plastic.
I know this might sound radical, but it seems to me that converting analog sound to digital format then to a digital 3d map then to a laser-cut stamper then to a piece of bumpy vinyl then to a vibrating stylus and into a varying electrical current to drive an amplification system to run the speakers that you listen to might just be a little more complicated than just taking the digital format for storage and transport and converting that back into analog sound at playback.
Next you'll be telling me that gold cables won't help.
... everyone would drive little individual trolleys? :)
NO! Ecological improvement must hurt, infidel!!
I disagree whole hardhearted. Its their money, its their Site. Dont like it? go make your own hate/lawful activity allowing site..
Until the hosting company pulls the plug ... or the ISP refuses to connect people to you ... or the domain registrar dumps you ...
I don't know what the solution is; just saying it's not as simple a problem as that.
And with free speech eroding on the internet and in general, what is next? Tought police?
UK already has that. You can go to jail for a Facebook post with unapproved opinions.
Is this class signaling? A disclaimer in case someone mistake you for Android trash and not the awesome Apple bro you actually are? Because I can't imagine anyone supposedly "from Ars Technica" finding themselves mystified by anything on a modern Android device. That just doesn't compute.
Had the same thought.
"I am of course not very familiar with McDonald's, so don't consider this review of the Trump Burger a "review" ..."
I knew even before I looked that I would find reasoned discussion of the need to deal with enemy capabilities, not "desperately wants to weaponize".
Sigh ...
How is collecting data on non-users helpful in preventing reverse searches? It would seem to me that by not having that data non-users are best protected from searches?
I think he was saying that somehow collecting data on non FB users prevents the non users themselves from scraping data.
Or something. I'm not sure it was actually English.
I would say today we are mostly in the toddler phase of theocracy, about a half century in with the power of the theocrats waxing and waning.
We're importing lots of theocrats, quite mature ones. And the people who claim to be most worried about theocracy are the ones enthusiastically doing and supporting this importing.
It took the machine 18 days to complete its work. The article was pretty low on information, but it sounds like its work consisted of something roughly equivalent to framing (no electrical, plumbing, insulation, finish work, etc.). A regular crew could frame a 1000 square foot home much faster. I'm seeing things like this on other sites: "On average, crew of three experienced carpenters and two helpers able to complete framing of a new 1,900 ft2 – 2,100 ft2 two story simple house in 7 – 8 days." (rempros.com).
This is cool and all and I'm always glad to see investment in promising new tech, but it doesn't sound like it's any sort of end-all solution to housing problems.
I'm guessing they paid the robot a lot less??
Any real American patriot would be outraged by the thought of another state interfering secretly is US elections.
I take it for granted that all sorts of actors, foreign and domestic, will try to "influence" our elections.
American voters are expected to evaluate what they see and hear, and decide what to give credence to, and importance to, themselves.
(Yes, that's scary, blah blah. It's the worst form of government, except for all the others.)
It's the whole basis of democracy in the first place. If we're going to have gatekeepers decide what we can see and hear, and what we're allowed to think about it, then we may as well give up the whole idea now.
What do they need the remaining ones for? Would you buy a blood test from these people?
People everywhere are already using their fingers and faces to 'unlock' their mobile phones and PCs, so this will be natural to them
Um, no. First of all, "people everywhere" do not use those, only a subset of them, and I suspect a small subset.
Secondly, access to an object normally in your physical control is not the same as access to remote websites.
In Soviet America, accusation is guilt.
I thought that was a good thing?
#metoo !!
93 counts for things that should have never been illegal in the first place.
Then change the laws. Until then, they are illegal.
.. the way it is today, this is it. This is what a theocracy looks like in its infancy. Be afraid, my fellow humans, and fight while you have the opportunity.
30 years passes in the blink of an eye.
Um, no, it isn't how Iran got to be the way it is.
You don't actually have to have legal prostitution to avoid sharia.
You do, however, have to actually avoid sharia. You're right, 30 years does pass in the blink of an eye. Demographic change is fast, when you import those who are more fecund than you.
One of my favorite quotes seems appropriate here:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis
Pretty sure that Lewis was against legal prostitution. Just sayin. He wasn't libertarian.
I'm kind of glad it got left out. There's far too much effort to drag politics into stories when there's plenty to discuss about the hacking itself.
A fair point.
Hmm, does that mean that the summary is biased against the Palestinians for suppressing the message or does that mean that the summary is biased for the Palestinians and against the Israelis by not mentioning that the hackers are spreading their message by damaging popular websites 100% unrelated to the conflict in question? Why not both?
Given that this is /. and it was posted by msmash, I'm thinking the latter.
Funny, you forgot to quote[...]
It's quite astonishing what some people will do to prevent anyone hearing their story.
Like ... by publishing their "story" in the Washington Post? Yeah, what a coverup! :)
No, my point was that msmash was trying (knowing that few click to the articles) to omit the involvement/culpability of the agents of Religion of Pieces in this hacking that this /. story is about.