Websites are sandboxed to hell and back. When it works (which is not always) a website cant break out of the browser and mess with your PC.
But these HTML as faux-native apps can. The Node.js runtime has all the same access any native app has, can write and read from your file system, hook to arbitrary dll/dylib/.so libs, network card access, and beyond.
Its a *huge* difference, especially if the app is linking off to random-ass CDNs to pull code off the net every time you open a window.
"the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment and........... ah fuck it, fire some lasers at it"
This oxford "study" never bothers to define in any objective way what they mean by "junk news", so what they are "measuring" is completely subjective.
Even worse, their 2 primary references about what constitute "junk news" are papers by some of the same authors, which in turn do not clearly define what "junk news" is.
So we have incestuous junk science trying to lecture us about fake news.
I never thought I'd see 'research' sink this low. And from Oxford... shameful.
Or you could read the paper and see they do in fact outline, quite extensively, their criteria, and how it was determined.
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a dummy spit. For those following along at home however, I'll reproduce an excerpt of their definition here. Apologies for the humiliation "Jane Q Public".
These sources deliberately publish misleading, deceptive or incorrect information purporting to be real news about politics, economics or culture. This content includes various forms of propaganda and ideologically extreme, hyper-partisan, or conspiratorial news and information. For a source to be labelled as junk news at least three of the following five characteristics must apply: â Professionalism: These outlets do not employ the standards and best practices of professional journalism. They refrain from providing clear information about real authors, editors, publishers and owners. They lack transparency, accountability, and do not publish corrections on debunked information.
â Style: These outlets use emotionally driven language with emotive expressions,hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, misleading headlines, excessive capitalization, unsafe generalizations and fallacies, moving images, graphic pictures and mobilizing memes.
â Credibility: These outlets rely on false information and conspiracy theories, which they often employ strategically. They report without consulting multiple sources and do not employ fact-checking methods. Their sources are often untrustworthy and their standards of news production lack credibility.
â Bias: Reporting in these outlets is highly biased and ideologically skewed, which is otherwise described as hyper-partisan reporting. These outlets frequently present opinion and commentary essays as news.
â Counterfeit: These outlets mimic professional news media. They counterfeit fonts, branding and stylistic content strategies. Commentary and junk content is stylistically disguised as news, with references to news agencies, and credible sources, and headlines written in a news tone, with bylines, date, time and location stamps
Only an excerpt. The full sections around 4 pages, including the links and weightings.
A leftist institution publishes a study that only the rightists news is fake? Naaaaaah... no possible way for bias in that!
Well the Guardian might have bias , but this does not reflect on what the actual study says. So heres the abstract
What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before President Donald Trumpâ(TM)s first State of the Union Address. Drawing on a list of sources that consistently publish political news and information that is extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary, fake news and other forms of junk news, we find that the distribution of such content is unevenly spread across the ideological spectrum. We demonstrate that (1) on Twitter, a network of Trump supporters shares the widest range of known junk news sources and circulates more junk news than all the other groups put together; (2) on Facebook, extreme hard right pagesâ"distinct from Republican pagesâ"share the widest range of known junk news sources and circulate more junk news than all the other audiences put together; (3) on average, the audiences for junk news on Twitter share a wider range of known junk news sources than audiences on Facebookâ(TM)s public pages.
Suggestion: Argue the topic, dont shoot the messenger
Yep. Itâ(TM)s mind boggling just how advanced weâ(TM)ve become in our scientific endevors. We can detect planets at unimaginable distances , and particles unimaginably small. Science works folks, we ought defend it
A hell of a lot of the boomers lost their retirement savings in the 2007 crash. My father pretty much had to unretire himself and go back to work for ten years just to make ends meet.
But your missing the point. Its not about averages, its about the fact that senior citizens and children cant necessarily go to work to make ends meet, but unless disabled (who get discounts too) 20yos and 30yos CAN.
Yes. All the credit cards prohibit using their facilities to facilitate illegal transactions.
What happens if an unscrupulous bitcoin dealer (Yes, I know, it is so unlikely - all the bitcoin dealers I know are incredibly honest. The idea of one bending the law is unthinkable...;D) codes the sale as "one flash drive with associated software, price $88,000 + $15 handling fee". After it goes through, will they cancel the sale and reverse the charge? Will they demand to see the software on the flash drive? Will they cancel the merchant account of the seller without seeing the bitcoin on the drive?
If the credit cards fraud department gets evidence that thia sort of thing is going on, you can absolutely guarantee that accounts getting frozen. Its the law.
Morons pass stupid rules that do nothing except PROTECT THE COMPANY from being sued.
The principle reason for "Senior discounts" is that elderly folks are often poorer (Not always, theres plenty of rich old folk), and have likely been of a "service to the community" in the sense of having lived through conscription wartimes, and so on. So therefore its reasonable to offer a discount to the elderly, in the same way some businesses might offer a discount to the disable or unemployed.
Tinder in fact argued that in this case users under 30 where more likely to be "budget constrained" than a user over 30 and thus it justifed the policy. The supreme court considered this in detail and noted that the difference is that a 25 and a 35 both have a capacity to earn more money, however a retired senior citizen or a child does not have that capacity and thus the underlying generalizations are different, particularly as the same legislature that enables the anti discrimination laws also limits the ability of the very elderly or the very young to work and thus it carves out its own excemptions there to permit discounts for seniors and children.
Slashdot trolls in 2017 are fucking lame. Come on man put some effort into it. This is not/b/, itâ(TM)s Slashdot and our trolls traditionally put effort into their work
I've always felt uncomfortable about meat, and animal suffering. In the past we where able to console ourself that animals are not conscious, dont have feelings, etc, but as science progresses we're realising that this isn't the case.
BUT, I absolutely detest vegans and vegetarians who insist on forcing their shitty diet on us using moral blackmail and abusive insinuation that meat eaters are murderers , etc. And anyway, I really like meat.
So this might be the way forward. Tasty tasty cowflesh, without the dead cow.
Im sure the vegan holier than though folks will still think up some reason to hate it. Fuck em
Best thing my father ever did was sell the TV set, back in the 80s. Forced us kids to go and make our own entertainment, and I think I had a much more enjoyable youth as a result.
"We are now almost fifteen years into this litigation and still neither side is broke, like seriously wtf!"
Oh SCO died of bankerupcy long ago. The last thing they did was sell off the right to sue to lawyers and promptly shat the bed and died.
Frusturatingly for IBM, the one claim that stuck was that SCO owed IBM a *lot* of money, but instead of the handing over that money they spent it all on lawyers refiling again and again until there was nothing left for IBM to claim.
Which ought be completely illegal, but apparently it is not.
[blockquote]Sorry, I programmed with Tcl and Tcl/Tk and Expect for about 8 years. You're so wrong, I wonder if you've ever seen a Tcl program[/blockquote]
Yes I have written tonnes of TCL, and it baffles me that you don't understand this. The core TCL specification is not turing complete. Thats a fact. The branching and looping commands are part of the standard library.
No, the managing computers and users is not the "bit nobody uses", its the whole damn point of OSX server. Almost everywhere I've seen OSX server deployed, its to provide directory and authentication services to macs on a corporate network. Its basically a mac AD-like domain host.
And while the apache stuff has had use in internal networks, nobody sensible is trying to deploy websites to the public on it. That seems like a bizarre waste of resources unless people have built special snowflake swift websites or have some ancient mac transcoding server software that's going to become redundant next OSX when they finally finish supporting 32bit APIs.
He's actually right. TCLs core syntax has no branching or looping capabilities and thus is not turing complete. But you'll never encounter a TCL without those capacities and your ifs and thens and what not come in as part of the standard TCL command library.
I'm as skeptical of the pee tape thing as the next guy (Although it would be goddamn hilarious if it was true), but wheres the evidence that/pol/ had anything to do with it. That would require them to have had access to the intelligence guy who did the report well before anyone really had any idea the guy was working on this project.
Now/pol/ taking credit for it, just to make shit even sillier, thats a probability.
Any OSX app going back to the start of the intel era still runs, so this is the first break in compatibility. However itâ(TM)s entirely reasonable , itâ(TM)s been a very long time since apples actually made a 32bit machine and weâ(TM)re talking about 12 year old software
I think one of the most painful projects I ever had was trying to interface Filemaker, a campus Oracle DB and Mailman. Take student records from the Oracle db, transfer them to Filemaker for , god knows what reason, then push them later to mailman for mass mail. The first demo somehow the mailman instance broke and turned into a kind of loop that spammed about 9000 students with nearly 100 mails each, mostly just repeated "out of office" messages.
The high court is New Zealand is hugely different to the corrupt US top court where all sorts of paid for fanciful interpretations are allowed. The high priest of law system is in place ie the judges are scrupulous on the letter of the law interpretation, not happy rewrite the law, don't try to get us to corruptly interpret it like the US. So it would not have lasted any where near this long, if the New Zealand government was not fucked and knew it and was extending it out to forgotten history and a reasonable payout whereby the US governments foots the bill.
Its the difference an english style justice system makes. One of the fatal mistakes the US has made with its justitce system is the way it appoints judges has become utterly politicized, to the point where , somewhat bafflingly, in some states they actually vote for them, which has led to mindboggling corruption in so many cases.. There should be no such thing as a "conservative" or "liberal" judge, its an absurdity. More to the point, where theres electoral politics , even in the case of indirect electoral politics (Ie appointment of judges by elected officials) theres always the chance of corruption where interests can say "Give us this judge who we know always votes against consumers in copyright cases, and we'll throw another million into the electoral fund"
The way the rest of the world does it, the court apoints new judges as the need emerges, with the government simply approving the choices. If the govt intervenes it better have a damn good reason, or theres trouble.
Here in australia we had one case recently where the previous conservative government in Queensland (Its kind of like our Arizona, meth lab of democracy), put some crazy asshole with almost no qualification into the supreme court, throwing a huge protest up from the supreme court itself because it was unconscionable interference with the courts by a government that repeatedly kept violating the constitution and federal laws and thus had come into pretty serious conflict with the court. Fortunately the dodgy appointment soon realised he was way out of his depth and quit.
The problem with "common sense" is for the most part, its neither common, nor sense. Theres a lot of things that "common sense" says is right , but reality disagrees. Things like migration , crime and punishment , foreign relations, military tactics, climate change, and so on, all having counter intuitive truths behind them that defy "common" sense.
Its a problem thats been recognized all the way back to the ancient greeks. Plato though a good alternative was the Philosopher King, putting the smartest man in greece in charge (presumably, him). Fortunately for democracy later thinkers noted dictatorships tended to favor military experts rather than civil experts, and kindoms favored heredity.
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Websites are sandboxed to hell and back. When it works (which is not always) a website cant break out of the browser and mess with your PC.
But these HTML as faux-native apps can. The Node.js runtime has all the same access any native app has, can write and read from your file system, hook to arbitrary dll/dylib/.so libs, network card access, and beyond.
Its a *huge* difference, especially if the app is linking off to random-ass CDNs to pull code off the net every time you open a window.
Revised definition of science;-
"the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment and........... ah fuck it, fire some lasers at it"
Or you could read the paper and see they do in fact outline, quite extensively, their criteria, and how it was determined.
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a dummy spit. For those following along at home however, I'll reproduce an excerpt of their definition here. Apologies for the humiliation "Jane Q Public".
Only an excerpt. The full sections around 4 pages, including the links and weightings.
Well the Guardian might have bias , but this does not reflect on what the actual study says.
So heres the abstract
Suggestion: Argue the topic, dont shoot the messenger
Yep. Itâ(TM)s mind boggling just how advanced weâ(TM)ve become in our scientific endevors. We can detect planets at unimaginable distances , and particles unimaginably small. Science works folks, we ought defend it
Before throwing around accusations of stupidity I suggest actually reading the article.
If the cavalry horse-shoe maker was intentionally acting to cause this chain of events, then yes, yes the king should.
Otherwise your analogy seriously misses the point here.
A hell of a lot of the boomers lost their retirement savings in the 2007 crash. My father pretty much had to unretire himself and go back to work for ten years just to make ends meet.
But your missing the point. Its not about averages, its about the fact that senior citizens and children cant necessarily go to work to make ends meet, but unless disabled (who get discounts too) 20yos and 30yos CAN.
Yes. All the credit cards prohibit using their facilities to facilitate illegal transactions.
Not sure why you think that this is moronic?
Its a reasonable question in this context.
The principle reason for "Senior discounts" is that elderly folks are often poorer (Not always, theres plenty of rich old folk), and have likely been of a "service to the community" in the sense of having lived through conscription wartimes, and so on. So therefore its reasonable to offer a discount to the elderly, in the same way some businesses might offer a discount to the disable or unemployed.
Tinder in fact argued that in this case users under 30 where more likely to be "budget constrained" than a user over 30 and thus it justifed the policy. The supreme court considered this in detail and noted that the difference is that a 25 and a 35 both have a capacity to earn more money, however a retired senior citizen or a child does not have that capacity and thus the underlying generalizations are different, particularly as the same legislature that enables the anti discrimination laws also limits the ability of the very elderly or the very young to work and thus it carves out its own excemptions there to permit discounts for seniors and children.
Fair point!
Slashdot trolls in 2017 are fucking lame. Come on man put some effort into it. This is not /b/, itâ(TM)s Slashdot and our trolls traditionally put effort into their work
I've always felt uncomfortable about meat, and animal suffering. In the past we where able to console ourself that animals are not conscious, dont have feelings, etc, but as science progresses we're realising that this isn't the case.
BUT, I absolutely detest vegans and vegetarians who insist on forcing their shitty diet on us using moral blackmail and abusive insinuation that meat eaters are murderers , etc. And anyway, I really like meat.
So this might be the way forward. Tasty tasty cowflesh, without the dead cow.
Im sure the vegan holier than though folks will still think up some reason to hate it. Fuck em
No, its a reference to my actual name.
Best thing my father ever did was sell the TV set, back in the 80s. Forced us kids to go and make our own entertainment, and I think I had a much more enjoyable youth as a result.
Oh SCO died of bankerupcy long ago. The last thing they did was sell off the right to sue to lawyers and promptly shat the bed and died.
Frusturatingly for IBM, the one claim that stuck was that SCO owed IBM a *lot* of money, but instead of the handing over that money they spent it all on lawyers refiling again and again until there was nothing left for IBM to claim.
Which ought be completely illegal, but apparently it is not.
[blockquote]Sorry, I programmed with Tcl and Tcl/Tk and Expect for about 8 years. You're so wrong, I wonder if you've ever seen a Tcl program[/blockquote]
Yes I have written tonnes of TCL, and it baffles me that you don't understand this. The core TCL specification is not turing complete. Thats a fact. The branching and looping commands are part of the standard library.
No, the managing computers and users is not the "bit nobody uses", its the whole damn point of OSX server. Almost everywhere I've seen OSX server deployed, its to provide directory and authentication services to macs on a corporate network. Its basically a mac AD-like domain host.
And while the apache stuff has had use in internal networks, nobody sensible is trying to deploy websites to the public on it. That seems like a bizarre waste of resources unless people have built special snowflake swift websites or have some ancient mac transcoding server software that's going to become redundant next OSX when they finally finish supporting 32bit APIs.
He's actually right. TCLs core syntax has no branching or looping capabilities and thus is not turing complete. But you'll never encounter a TCL without those capacities and your ifs and thens and what not come in as part of the standard TCL command library.
I'm as skeptical of the pee tape thing as the next guy (Although it would be goddamn hilarious if it was true), but wheres the evidence that /pol/ had anything to do with it. That would require them to have had access to the intelligence guy who did the report well before anyone really had any idea the guy was working on this project.
Now /pol/ taking credit for it, just to make shit even sillier, thats a probability.
But I could be wrong.
Any OSX app going back to the start of the intel era still runs, so this is the first break in compatibility. However itâ(TM)s entirely reasonable , itâ(TM)s been a very long time since apples actually made a 32bit machine and weâ(TM)re talking about 12 year old software
I think one of the most painful projects I ever had was trying to interface Filemaker, a campus Oracle DB and Mailman. Take student records from the Oracle db, transfer them to Filemaker for , god knows what reason, then push them later to mailman for mass mail. The first demo somehow the mailman instance broke and turned into a kind of loop that spammed about 9000 students with nearly 100 mails each, mostly just repeated "out of office" messages.
I never drank so hard as I did that night.
Its the difference an english style justice system makes. One of the fatal mistakes the US has made with its justitce system is the way it appoints judges has become utterly politicized, to the point where , somewhat bafflingly, in some states they actually vote for them, which has led to mindboggling corruption in so many cases.. There should be no such thing as a "conservative" or "liberal" judge, its an absurdity.
More to the point, where theres electoral politics , even in the case of indirect electoral politics (Ie appointment of judges by elected officials) theres always the chance of corruption where interests can say "Give us this judge who we know always votes against consumers in copyright cases, and we'll throw another million into the electoral fund"
The way the rest of the world does it, the court apoints new judges as the need emerges, with the government simply approving the choices. If the govt intervenes it better have a damn good reason, or theres trouble.
Here in australia we had one case recently where the previous conservative government in Queensland (Its kind of like our Arizona, meth lab of democracy), put some crazy asshole with almost no qualification into the supreme court, throwing a huge protest up from the supreme court itself because it was unconscionable interference with the courts by a government that repeatedly kept violating the constitution and federal laws and thus had come into pretty serious conflict with the court. Fortunately the dodgy appointment soon realised he was way out of his depth and quit.
The problem with "common sense" is for the most part, its neither common, nor sense. Theres a lot of things that "common sense" says is right , but reality disagrees. Things like migration , crime and punishment , foreign relations, military tactics, climate change, and so on, all having counter intuitive truths behind them that defy "common" sense.
Its a problem thats been recognized all the way back to the ancient greeks. Plato though a good alternative was the Philosopher King, putting the smartest man in greece in charge (presumably, him). Fortunately for democracy later thinkers noted dictatorships tended to favor military experts rather than civil experts, and kindoms favored heredity.
Ignore the last line. Its supposed to read: United States, Mexico