What was happening previously was that racy books were showing up for searches for normal books, often absurdly unrelated searches. They were gaming the searches like it was the early days of Google.
I don't know if Amazon was weighting the sales numbers too highly in their algorithm or what, but even quite specific searches for normal topics might have the bizarre racy results showing higher than strongly selling normal books.
So I say, good: it's about time.
If this is a problem somehow, then fine, give us an easy, prominent account setting to say "no smut". Then go back to your old algorithms to your heart's content.
Ahh yes, an old fuck complaining about obsolete technology on Slashdot. Slashdot. The one written in Perl.
I was wondering if they'd let you out of your room on a day pass long enough to show up, still calling everything Micro$$$haft and proclaiming Gentoo to be the way of the future perchance?
You think he's old?!?
by xxxJonBoyxxx ( 565205 )
I'll show ya old, sonny. Sheesh, kids these days...
Think of it as the revenge of the nerds upon the jocks. If you preferred gym to a Math class, you should be paid less the rest of your life, and have fewer children so that humanity could continue evolving.
That works until your particular nerd skills get automated. Which happens.
We've been failing at speech recognition so long, maybe it's time to re-train humans to speak in a non-ambiguous language designed with clear sounds that machines can better understand.
Good luck with that; we could call it something like "Esperanto"...
Of course. The only thing saner than phony currency, or even saner than phony currency created by a south american drug lord's brother (see earlier/. story), is phony currency bought with student loans.
Only a luddite technophobe could oppose this stuff. No pyramid scheme bubbles here, no siree!
What's better?
Lets just look at the current POTUS. Clear case of lots of Self and in a desperate need to adjust anything not agreeing with it so it agrees.
Is this a way to live? Seems a pretty busy undertaking and in a larger amount of collisions with not agreeing Selfs and that following unhappiness with inner conflict because in such a big Self, unhappiness cannot be shown or tolerated.
I'd say, lesser self is a wiser choice.
Some med to dissolve your obsession with Trump would be nice, lol
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
You're way off-base. They're on Spotify. DigitalDust's Rudy Van Gelder playlist is 500 tracks long and that's just the Rudy Van Gelder Editions. jazzwhat has a playlist of records on the Impulse label from the 60s and 70s that goes 2,364 tracks deep. That's just one label.
There are jazz records on Spotify that aren't even in print any more so you can't buy them on CD or vinyl at any price.
Same here, but with things like Irish Traditional Music and 80's rock. It would cost an insane amount of money to buy everything I listen to. And I would need a room just to keep the CDs in.
Any examples of content on Facebook that anyone has ever seen that are actually more than promotional contest giveaways, and chat/email/scheduling analogues?
How about "blog analogs"?
But so what? How many things in the world are original anyway? It's the "all in one place", and "network effect" that matter.
If someone wants to start an online group now (like, say, for families with kids with a certain disease, it's not all trivial stuff), they do it on Facebook. I don't like it, but if I want to be part of that group, then I have to play.
What really makes me sad is how many of the younger generation in the USA are perfectly ok with censorship, as long as the people censored are the ones they dislike.
It's not just the US.
You can go to jail in the UK for a facebook post expressing unapproved thoughts, for pete's sake.
Folders have always been an awful way to organise things, they were just easy to implememt in filesystems, and so weâ(TM)ve been stuck with them for decades. Labels, filters, searches and automatic photo analysis is so much better, itâ(TM)s not even funny.
I find just the opposite. Folders are an absolute way to reference data/content. Labels, filters, searches etc. are fuzzy.
Well, labels are OK - they work well in, for example, Gmail.
So maybe my dislike of anything but folders in filesystems is just due to familiarity. Dang you, logic!
Owning legal copies of music is cheaper in the long run than paying over and over again for streaming it..
It is?
Buying one CD a month cost more than what I pay for streaming each month. And who bought just one per month?
To each their own - I prefer to pay a nominal fee and have a giant catalog at my fingertips, that I don't need to worry about storing, backing up, converting, dusting off, agonizing about whether I want it anymore or to throw it away, etc.
I've been through having to switch services (miss you MOG, sniff) and yeah, I had to build new playlists, etc. but it wasn't a big deal for me.
I can understand why some people want to own it. But to each their own. Streaming works for me.
Humor, and especially satire, is a corner stone of an enlightened civilization.
Pull that stick out of your ass -- because censoring humor and preventing people from poking fun of the establishment does NOT help people get over "taboo" topics, dogma, or corruption any quicker.
This is China. The "establishment" is a communist dictatorship, and has been for a long time. None of this is surprising.
Any accidental freedoms in this regard were purely transitory oversights, however long they may have popped up. Which probably wasn't very long. Because China is a communist dictatorship.
Trump dosent need those dotards. He is now going to represent himself and testify in front of Mueller. I was losing faith in him, but with this it is restored.
Har de har...
Yeah, he might be doomed this time... what is this, like the 500th time he's been doomed?
Or, you might be Wile E Coyote... with your can't fail Acme thing about to fall on your head, again. We'll see.
My money's on the anvil, just from the track record so far...
Ah, yes, the only thing more trustworthy and reliable than pyramid scheme fake pseudo "currency" is pyramid scheme fake pseudo "currency" created by a Colombian drug lord's brother.
I was a teenager in the late 80s and early 90s and was deeply passionate about technology. I was excited about the Amiga, Unix, and C++. Those days have NOTHING on today.
Depends on your criteria, I guess.
Yeah, a modern PC can do unfathomably more than my Vic-20 did.
Does that make the typical modern PC user more excited and "techie" than the typical Vic-20 user was? Um, no.
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What was happening previously was that racy books were showing up for searches for normal books, often absurdly unrelated searches. They were gaming the searches like it was the early days of Google.
I don't know if Amazon was weighting the sales numbers too highly in their algorithm or what, but even quite specific searches for normal topics might have the bizarre racy results showing higher than strongly selling normal books.
So I say, good: it's about time.
If this is a problem somehow, then fine, give us an easy, prominent account setting to say "no smut". Then go back to your old algorithms to your heart's content.
But something was not right before, in any case.
Ahh yes, an old fuck complaining about obsolete technology on Slashdot. Slashdot. The one written in Perl.
I was wondering if they'd let you out of your room on a day pass long enough to show up, still calling everything Micro$$$haft and proclaiming Gentoo to be the way of the future perchance?
You think he's old?!?
by xxxJonBoyxxx ( 565205 )
I'll show ya old, sonny. Sheesh, kids these days ...
Think of it as the revenge of the nerds upon the jocks. If you preferred gym to a Math class, you should be paid less the rest of your life, and have fewer children so that humanity could continue evolving.
That works until your particular nerd skills get automated. Which happens.
These cleaners can deliver your and your neighbor's Amazon purchases when they visit too. They can even pick up things you're selling through Amazon.
Why not? I'm sure it's not the first time someone had a trusted housekeeper pick up their mail.
We've been failing at speech recognition so long, maybe it's time to re-train humans to speak in a non-ambiguous language designed with clear sounds that machines can better understand.
Good luck with that; we could call it something like "Esperanto" ...
I wonder how many "rebels" will wear masks, sunglasses, wigs, overcoats, and walk with a limp as they jaywalk, just to "beat the man".
None? It's a communist dictatorship, not an American high school.
Of course. The only thing saner than phony currency, or even saner than phony currency created by a south american drug lord's brother (see earlier /. story), is phony currency bought with student loans.
Only a luddite technophobe could oppose this stuff. No pyramid scheme bubbles here, no siree!
What's better? Lets just look at the current POTUS. Clear case of lots of Self and in a desperate need to adjust anything not agreeing with it so it agrees. Is this a way to live? Seems a pretty busy undertaking and in a larger amount of collisions with not agreeing Selfs and that following unhappiness with inner conflict because in such a big Self, unhappiness cannot be shown or tolerated. I'd say, lesser self is a wiser choice.
Some med to dissolve your obsession with Trump would be nice, lol
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
You're way off-base. They're on Spotify. DigitalDust's Rudy Van Gelder playlist is 500 tracks long and that's just the Rudy Van Gelder Editions. jazzwhat has a playlist of records on the Impulse label from the 60s and 70s that goes 2,364 tracks deep. That's just one label.
There are jazz records on Spotify that aren't even in print any more so you can't buy them on CD or vinyl at any price.
Same here, but with things like Irish Traditional Music and 80's rock. It would cost an insane amount of money to buy everything I listen to. And I would need a room just to keep the CDs in.
Who needs that?
Any examples of content on Facebook that anyone has ever seen that are actually more than promotional contest giveaways, and chat/email/scheduling analogues?
How about "blog analogs"?
But so what? How many things in the world are original anyway? It's the "all in one place", and "network effect" that matter.
If someone wants to start an online group now (like, say, for families with kids with a certain disease, it's not all trivial stuff), they do it on Facebook. I don't like it, but if I want to be part of that group, then I have to play.
What really makes me sad is how many of the younger generation in the USA are perfectly ok with censorship, as long as the people censored are the ones they dislike.
It's not just the US.
You can go to jail in the UK for a facebook post expressing unapproved thoughts, for pete's sake.
Folders have always been an awful way to organise things, they were just easy to implememt in filesystems, and so weâ(TM)ve been stuck with them for decades. Labels, filters, searches and automatic photo analysis is so much better, itâ(TM)s not even funny.
I find just the opposite. Folders are an absolute way to reference data/content. Labels, filters, searches etc. are fuzzy.
Well, labels are OK - they work well in, for example, Gmail.
So maybe my dislike of anything but folders in filesystems is just due to familiarity. Dang you, logic!
Trump's the roadrunner ...
Owning legal copies of music is cheaper in the long run than paying over and over again for streaming it. .
It is?
Buying one CD a month cost more than what I pay for streaming each month. And who bought just one per month?
To each their own - I prefer to pay a nominal fee and have a giant catalog at my fingertips, that I don't need to worry about storing, backing up, converting, dusting off, agonizing about whether I want it anymore or to throw it away, etc.
I've been through having to switch services (miss you MOG, sniff) and yeah, I had to build new playlists, etc. but it wasn't a big deal for me.
I can understand why some people want to own it. But to each their own. Streaming works for me.
Humor, and especially satire, is a corner stone of an enlightened civilization.
Pull that stick out of your ass -- because censoring humor and preventing people from poking fun of the establishment does NOT help people get over "taboo" topics, dogma, or corruption any quicker.
This is China. The "establishment" is a communist dictatorship, and has been for a long time. None of this is surprising.
Any accidental freedoms in this regard were purely transitory oversights, however long they may have popped up. Which probably wasn't very long. Because China is a communist dictatorship.
Trump dosent need those dotards. He is now going to represent himself and testify in front of Mueller. I was losing faith in him, but with this it is restored.
Har de har ...
Yeah, he might be doomed this time ... what is this, like the 500th time he's been doomed?
Or, you might be Wile E Coyote ... with your can't fail Acme thing about to fall on your head, again. We'll see.
My money's on the anvil, just from the track record so far ...
Ah, yes, the only thing more trustworthy and reliable than pyramid scheme fake pseudo "currency" is pyramid scheme fake pseudo "currency" created by a Colombian drug lord's brother.
He still thinks the US has a trade deficit with Canada!
It's worse than that.
He BRAGS about knowing jack shit - and then making shit up when faced with facts.
He's literally offering lies and delusional fantasies as reasons and motivation for things he does.
And yet, he still does better than the professional politicians.
That is not, despite what you think, an argument in favor of the professional politicians.
I actually knew that was coming, the second I hit submit, lol
Ledger CEO Eric Larcheveque claimed that there were no reports of the vulnerability effecting any active devices.
Too bad; I'd be impressed if a vulnerability could create an active device out of thin air!
I'm sure Facebook is quaking in its boots over that.
Let me guess, the "terrorists" are rich American Presbyterians.
Half of Mexico and all of Chicago's dead vote in our elections, but by gum, we're going to get to the bottom of this Facebook stuff!
The US government is just as shitty as China's,.
Um, no, it's actually, very objectively not.
For just one blindingly obvious example, you can trash Trump 24/7 and not go to jail. Try that in China.
I was a teenager in the late 80s and early 90s and was deeply passionate about technology. I was excited about the Amiga, Unix, and C++. Those days have NOTHING on today.
Depends on your criteria, I guess.
Yeah, a modern PC can do unfathomably more than my Vic-20 did.
Does that make the typical modern PC user more excited and "techie" than the typical Vic-20 user was? Um, no.