In 2003, one year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school's intranet and asking users to rate their hotness. Obviously, it caused an outcry. The website's developer quickly proffered an apology. "I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter," wrote a young Mark Zuckerberg. "I definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light."
> Like DVD, KFC or BP, the term BFR doesn't formally stand for anything.
DVD, KFC, and BP no longer have official meanings, but they all were legit initialisms at first -- Digital Video Disc, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and British Petroleum, respectively. Just because something doesn't mean anything now, doesn't mean it never did.
A mass-market paperback is a small, usually non-illustrated, inexpensive bookbinding format. This includes the U.K. A-format books of 110 mm x 178 mm (4.3 in x 7.0 in) and the U.S. "pocketbook" format books of a similar size.
That gives an area of 30 square inches. From TFA:
Picador released mini books by Denis Johnson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Hermann Hesse and Marilynne Robinson -- the tiny editions are 5 13/16 inches tall by 3 11/16 inches wide -- to celebrate the imprintâ(TM)s 20th anniversary.
That is 21.4 square inches. So it's 1/3 smaller than a current small paperback. Possibly useful, but not revolutionary.
Well, there are two problems here. (Actually, there are a thousand, but I'll just talk about two.)
First is the recent problems. You do know that ICE has deported people who are here legally, right? And it has deported people who were TECHNICALLY here illegally but lived here 20 years, paid taxes, etc.? And tore apart families, etc.? THAT is why people are pissed at ICE at the moment.
And secondly, > I think we could look to encourage more immigration from those that are educated > and can come to the US and help the workforce and economy right away.... wow. Yeah, I'm sure all those educated people want to come here and pick lettuce and do roofing and build houses and do all the other shit work that illegals currently do. And I'm sure all the educated citizens here would be happy to pay more for their lettuce, knowing it was picked by educated, legal workers.
When people say "we need to keep terrorists out!!!!111" what they really mean is "we need to keep brown people out!!!!!11"
Yes, we should protect our borders. But we don't have to be dicks while we do it.
My father is undocumented but has lived in the United States since 1998. He has raised four children, all American citizens, on income from construction work. He pays his taxes and plays by the rules. He himself has been a perfect citizen -- although, of course, he can't call himself that... My dad wanted to follow the rules. He has been trying to adjust his status with the help of relatives since 2001. [emphasis mine] We filed the correct paperwork, paid the fees and lined up all his references, only for my dad to be dragged out of a little office and locked up. ICE could have chosen to grant my dad his residency, per the suggestion of our immigration officer. Instead, my father, a man who has filed his taxes every year, has no criminal record and is the sole provider for four children, wasn't even put out on monitor or bond. He is still being held in a detention center in Aurora, Colo., and is awaiting deportation proceedings unless ICE grants him the cancellation of his removal.
Came here with the same thought. Care should be taken to be aware of words that can be both nouns and verbs, especially when used in headline style with articles and prepositions missing. (Eg., "A NASA astronaut details his fall to Earth..." would be readable.)
The worst headline I ever saw was "QUAKE'S RUINS YIELD LIVES". The all-caps made the apostrophe disappear so it looked like "quakes", and EVERY WORD in that headline could be a noun or a verb. It literally took me 4 or 5 tries to parse it.
If the least productive members of society are actually able to get off the treadmill of a minimum-wage job, they'll have time to better themselves through education, training, reading, etc should they desire to.
And there's the key. Those last 4 words. If they don't desire to, they'll just sit around, take money, and contribute nothing.
I was in the path of totality last year. During the moments it was dark, bugs (cicadas or something) started making all their usual dusk noises, but just for that couple of minutes.
The Pixel 3 starts at $799 for 64GB, with the 3 XL costing $899. Add $100 to either for the 128GB storage option. Thatâ(TM)s a $150 and $50 premium over last yearâ(TM)s models, respectively.
Ah, so it's not just Apple that's inching up their pricing year over year.
"It has a resolution of 3,000 x 2,000 -- i.e., a pixel density of 293 ppi, which Google says is the highest for a premium 12-inch tablet. For reference, the Surface Pro 6 and iPad Pro (12.9 inch) come in at 267 ppi and 264 ppi, respectively."
So its pixel density is 11% higher than the competition. Big friggin' deal. Each device runs a drastically different OS, and that is what will cause people to buy or ignore each product. It's not like that 11% difference will enable any magical abilities on the Google product that are unachievable on the others.
Honestly, I'm happier about the 3:2 aspect ratio. 16:9 sucks. 16:10 sucks slightly less. 3:2 and 4:3 are better. Good on them for not just going with 16:9.
Seriously? Comparing millennials (born mid-80s to early-90s, currently around 20-30 years old) to boomers (born mid-40s to ~1960, currently in their 60s and 70s)? They're more likely to fall for scams BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNGER AND HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE. There may be more vectors for them to be scammed these days, but I don't think they're any more or less gullible than boomers were *at that same age*.
Also, didn't slashdot used to warn us about (or better yet, not link to) sites with autoplaying video?
And it's not like he nabbed her off the street. He met her BECAUSE SHE SIGNED UP ON A HOOKUP SITE. So don't give me any "innocent victim" shit. She wasn't sold into slavery and she wasn't abducted. SHE WENT AND SIGNED UP ON A SITE SO SHE COULD FUCK OLD GUYS AND GET MONEY FOR IT.
Just in time for papers to never be printed, or evaluated by page length! This font will do you no good when you're entering text into a box in an LMS with a built-in word count feature.
Also, if you can write 5,833 words on something, you can probably write 847 more. It's not like this will turn a 2-page paper into a 3-page paper.
If you fall and are unresponsive for a minute the apple watch series 4 will call the emergency number for you. Also sends your info to your emergency contact. AW also can now detect and alert on low heart rate and screen your heart rhythm and alert if it detects a-fib
How much does Apple care about this heart-analysis feature? Here's the president of the American Heart Association to call it "game changing."
You can have my Apple Watch when you pry it off my cold, dead wrist. Literally.:-)
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> Browsers only warn on non-ssl sites if you are submitting data back to
> them. Not a single one warns if you don't do that.
WRONG. Go to an HTTP site in Chrome and it says (i) Not Secure in the URL bar starting with the very first visit.
Wired ran a similar story in April: Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook
In 2003, one year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school's intranet and asking users to rate their hotness. Obviously, it caused an outcry. The website's developer quickly proffered an apology. "I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter," wrote a young Mark Zuckerberg. "I definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light."
> Like DVD, KFC or BP, the term BFR doesn't formally stand for anything.
DVD, KFC, and BP no longer have official meanings, but they all were legit initialisms at first -- Digital Video Disc, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and British Petroleum, respectively. Just because something doesn't mean anything now, doesn't mean it never did.
You thought that this new, cutting-edge technology would be "fool-proof"?
You thought that any technology, *anywhere*, was "fool-proof"?
Idiot.
Trying to kill the Amazon, Amazon?
I've gotten, I think, $17 and $40 from AT&T and someone else in recent years. It's usually worth a few minutes of your time.
Android phone? Because it takes just a few taps to disable purchases or downloads of any kind in iOS.
From Wikipedia:
A mass-market paperback is a small, usually non-illustrated, inexpensive bookbinding format. This includes the U.K. A-format books of 110 mm x 178 mm (4.3 in x 7.0 in) and the U.S. "pocketbook" format books of a similar size.
That gives an area of 30 square inches. From TFA:
Picador released mini books by Denis Johnson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Hermann Hesse and Marilynne Robinson -- the tiny editions are 5 13/16 inches tall by 3 11/16 inches wide -- to celebrate the imprintâ(TM)s 20th anniversary.
That is 21.4 square inches. So it's 1/3 smaller than a current small paperback. Possibly useful, but not revolutionary.
Well, there are two problems here. (Actually, there are a thousand, but I'll just talk about two.)
First is the recent problems. You do know that ICE has deported people who are here legally, right? And it has deported people who were TECHNICALLY here illegally but lived here 20 years, paid taxes, etc.? And tore apart families, etc.? THAT is why people are pissed at ICE at the moment.
And secondly, ... wow. Yeah, I'm sure all those educated people want to come here and pick lettuce and do roofing and build houses and do all the other shit work that illegals currently do. And I'm sure all the educated citizens here would be happy to pay more for their lettuce, knowing it was picked by educated, legal workers.
> I think we could look to encourage more immigration from those that are educated
> and can come to the US and help the workforce and economy right away.
When people say "we need to keep terrorists out!!!!111" what they really mean is "we need to keep brown people out!!!!!11"
Yes, we should protect our borders. But we don't have to be dicks while we do it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
My father is undocumented but has lived in the United States since 1998. He has raised four children, all American citizens, on income from construction work. He pays his taxes and plays by the rules. He himself has been a perfect citizen -- although, of course, he can't call himself that... My dad wanted to follow the rules. He has been trying to adjust his status with the help of relatives since 2001. [emphasis mine] We filed the correct paperwork, paid the fees and lined up all his references, only for my dad to be dragged out of a little office and locked up. ICE could have chosen to grant my dad his residency, per the suggestion of our immigration officer. Instead, my father, a man who has filed his taxes every year, has no criminal record and is the sole provider for four children, wasn't even put out on monitor or bond. He is still being held in a detention center in Aurora, Colo., and is awaiting deportation proceedings unless ICE grants him the cancellation of his removal.
THAT is why people are pissed at ICE these days.
"... the light of the satellite is similar to a dusk-like glow, so it should not affect animals' routines..."
I'm pretty sure animals that wait for night don't start until AFTER dusk. If it's always dusk, then...?
Well, good news for crepuscular animals, then, though they may get tired from being active for 12 hours instead of 30 minutes...
Came here with the same thought. Care should be taken to be aware of words that can be both nouns and verbs, especially when used in headline style with articles and prepositions missing. (Eg., "A NASA astronaut details his fall to Earth..." would be readable.)
The worst headline I ever saw was "QUAKE'S RUINS YIELD LIVES". The all-caps made the apostrophe disappear so it looked like "quakes", and EVERY WORD in that headline could be a noun or a verb. It literally took me 4 or 5 tries to parse it.
YouTube goes down, and a few hours later it's reported "US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade". Coincidence?
See also https://www.theonion.com/48-ho...
If the least productive members of society are actually able to get off the treadmill of a minimum-wage job, they'll have time to better themselves through education, training, reading, etc should they desire to.
And there's the key. Those last 4 words. If they don't desire to, they'll just sit around, take money, and contribute nothing.
I was in the path of totality last year. During the moments it was dark, bugs (cicadas or something) started making all their usual dusk noises, but just for that couple of minutes.
The Pixel 3 starts at $799 for 64GB, with the 3 XL costing $899. Add $100 to either for the 128GB storage option. Thatâ(TM)s a $150 and $50 premium over last yearâ(TM)s models, respectively.
Ah, so it's not just Apple that's inching up their pricing year over year.
"It has a resolution of 3,000 x 2,000 -- i.e., a pixel density of 293 ppi, which Google says is the highest for a premium 12-inch tablet. For reference, the Surface Pro 6 and iPad Pro (12.9 inch) come in at 267 ppi and 264 ppi, respectively."
So its pixel density is 11% higher than the competition. Big friggin' deal. Each device runs a drastically different OS, and that is what will cause people to buy or ignore each product. It's not like that 11% difference will enable any magical abilities on the Google product that are unachievable on the others.
Honestly, I'm happier about the 3:2 aspect ratio. 16:9 sucks. 16:10 sucks slightly less. 3:2 and 4:3 are better. Good on them for not just going with 16:9.
First Amazon, now Facebook... I'm anxiously awaiting the announcement of a Slashdot smart cam that I can buy.
Many (many) years ago, my mom told me, "Don't put how many words per minute you can type on your resume unless you want to get a job as a typist."
> live.com was the primary domain for the rebranding, live.net
> was presumably "protective" to catch mis-types of TLD.
$28k is a lot in that case, since no one in the history of the WWW has ever mis-typed '.net' when they meant '.com'. :-)
Seriously? Comparing millennials (born mid-80s to early-90s, currently around 20-30 years old) to boomers (born mid-40s to ~1960, currently in their 60s and 70s)? They're more likely to fall for scams BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNGER AND HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE. There may be more vectors for them to be scammed these days, but I don't think they're any more or less gullible than boomers were *at that same age*.
Also, didn't slashdot used to warn us about (or better yet, not link to) sites with autoplaying video?
Nope, you are FUCKING (pardon the term) WRONG.
Age of consent is 16 in MOST states -- 31 of 50, and D.C. It's 17 in 8 states and 18 in just 11.
https://www.ageofconsent.net/s...
And it's not like he nabbed her off the street. He met her BECAUSE SHE SIGNED UP ON A HOOKUP SITE. So don't give me any "innocent victim" shit. She wasn't sold into slavery and she wasn't abducted. SHE WENT AND SIGNED UP ON A SITE SO SHE COULD FUCK OLD GUYS AND GET MONEY FOR IT.
Just in time for papers to never be printed, or evaluated by page length! This font will do you no good when you're entering text into a box in an LMS with a built-in word count feature.
Also, if you can write 5,833 words on something, you can probably write 847 more. It's not like this will turn a 2-page paper into a 3-page paper.
Pine is good, but it's not Elm.
from https://twitter.com/sixcolorse... :
If you fall and are unresponsive for a minute the apple watch series 4 will call the emergency number for you. Also sends your info to your emergency contact. AW also can now detect and alert on low heart rate and screen your heart rhythm and alert if it detects a-fib
How much does Apple care about this heart-analysis feature? Here's the president of the American Heart Association to call it "game changing."
You can have my Apple Watch when you pry it off my cold, dead wrist. Literally. :-)
> We are told we need single-family houses to make us happy and wealthy - so we buy single-family houses.
Is that why we buy them? I bought mine so I wouldn't have to share walls with inconsiderate assholes.