Yes, I don't change my sig often. I whitelisted slashdot in noscript, with the classic discussion system it's a lot better than it was when I wrote that. I will edit my sig, thanks.
and make your own blog. Or use Google blogger. Or any of a thousand different ways. Why is this even news?
If generic blogs were an acceptable substitute for what Tumblr does, they wouldn't have 100 million users.
I like pr0n as much as the next guy but a Slashdot groupthink seems to be developing that any entity restricting porn is bad evil censorship.
Why is it good when it's non-governmental? The loss of utility is the same whether it's done by a government or by a corporation. It may be less bad when it's not backed up by force, but it's still a shameful act by Yahoo, and they deserve to be shamed for it.
I think the point is that they're not allowing spiders to crawl pornographic tumblrs. That affects everyone who uses a search engine that respects robots.txt.
But social media is becoming increasingly important as well.
The more important it gets, the more beholden to big money interests it would be. Obama has the money to astroturf the shit out of facebook. The US Pirate Party? Not so much.
As for crypto-nerds, honestly I wouldn't want them in most positions anyway, such people have a tendency to think things should behave logically, and are thus largely unsuitable for interacting with the law or trying to guide the actions of "normal" people.
Things should behave logically. Especially the law. When the law is illogical, it is also unjust.
People aren't logical, but their reactions to policies can be measured and predicted, and that can form the basis for logical policy. People like Bruce Schnier have a much better grasp on how people work than anyone in Congress.
No, you'd expect low income workers to lean towards the left. Nobody needs social safety nets more than the poor. The oddity is when low income people vote Republican, which could not possibly be more against their interests. You can thank Nixon's southern strategy, and Reagan's religious rhetoric for this anomaly.
Exigent circumstances do not eliminate the need for probable cause. They only save you time standing in front of a judge. If there is no probable cause, anything you found during your search is inadmissible in court.
Not at all. Ceasing to have faith is easy, because faith is useless. There is no value in believing things that are not true. Money on the other hand is useful. Currency based economies simply work better than the barter system.
So rally your disillusioned friends for the next election
That takes money and media exposure. Those with money benefit from the status quo, and the media has a long history of blacking out third party candidates. Voting for Nader didn't help. Voting for Ron Paul didn't help.
Face it, a bunch of crypto nerds are not going to get elected, period. The country is ruled by people that make soccer moms feel safe. I don't see any way to change that.
I want to point out that the apathy isn't mine. I care a great deal, and I'd be on the streets today if I thought it would make a difference, and I was on the streets in the fall of 2011. America is so far gone that an American Bouazizi would be little more than something to make the hosts of Today gasp and cluck their tongues.
Those of us who have identified the problem care a great deal. Most of America is too fat and stupid to give a shit though.
Each and every time a device listed above is used in the manner described, it's in a way that using a regular laptop/computer, while certainly feasible, just wouldn't be as a good experience as using the tablet.
That's the part that's hard to understand. The ipad can do all the things you mentioned, but what makes it better at them than a laptop?
You can't. If you vote for a candidate that promises to be the most transparent administration in history, you get one that imprisons more whistle blowers than all other presidents in history combined. Voting won't change anything, and direct action will only get you labeled a terrorist. There's absolutely nothing that can be done. Democracy and the rule of law is dead in America.
All we can do is sit around and wait for another Enlightenment, and then refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Slashdot Mirror
Avatar wasn't a rubber stamp?
Have you ever tried getting young people interested in older media? "This is what I watched when I was your age" is not a selling point.
Why is this modded down? Movies were formulaic and not worth watching well before 2005.
That observation is as old as Marx. The Communist Manifesto states that "the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself".
Whargarbl!
Yes, I don't change my sig often. I whitelisted slashdot in noscript, with the classic discussion system it's a lot better than it was when I wrote that. I will edit my sig, thanks.
Also, I had noticed that most Tumblr pages did not have any warning for adult content.
When are they going to start warning people about childish content?
and make your own blog. Or use Google blogger. Or any of a thousand different ways. Why is this even news?
If generic blogs were an acceptable substitute for what Tumblr does, they wouldn't have 100 million users.
I like pr0n as much as the next guy but a Slashdot groupthink seems to be developing that any entity restricting porn is bad evil censorship.
Why is it good when it's non-governmental? The loss of utility is the same whether it's done by a government or by a corporation. It may be less bad when it's not backed up by force, but it's still a shameful act by Yahoo, and they deserve to be shamed for it.
That could be interpreted as unauthorized access under the CFAA.
Isn't the result the same? Whether you take it down or hide it, people who want it can't find it.
I think the point is that they're not allowing spiders to crawl pornographic tumblrs. That affects everyone who uses a search engine that respects robots.txt.
But social media is becoming increasingly important as well.
The more important it gets, the more beholden to big money interests it would be. Obama has the money to astroturf the shit out of facebook. The US Pirate Party? Not so much.
As for crypto-nerds, honestly I wouldn't want them in most positions anyway, such people have a tendency to think things should behave logically, and are thus largely unsuitable for interacting with the law or trying to guide the actions of "normal" people.
Things should behave logically. Especially the law. When the law is illogical, it is also unjust.
People aren't logical, but their reactions to policies can be measured and predicted, and that can form the basis for logical policy. People like Bruce Schnier have a much better grasp on how people work than anyone in Congress.
No, you'd expect low income workers to lean towards the left. Nobody needs social safety nets more than the poor. The oddity is when low income people vote Republican, which could not possibly be more against their interests. You can thank Nixon's southern strategy, and Reagan's religious rhetoric for this anomaly.
Exigent circumstances do not eliminate the need for probable cause. They only save you time standing in front of a judge. If there is no probable cause, anything you found during your search is inadmissible in court.
That's not hyperbole.
Not at all. Ceasing to have faith is easy, because faith is useless. There is no value in believing things that are not true. Money on the other hand is useful. Currency based economies simply work better than the barter system.
So rally your disillusioned friends for the next election
That takes money and media exposure. Those with money benefit from the status quo, and the media has a long history of blacking out third party candidates. Voting for Nader didn't help. Voting for Ron Paul didn't help.
Face it, a bunch of crypto nerds are not going to get elected, period. The country is ruled by people that make soccer moms feel safe. I don't see any way to change that.
I want to point out that the apathy isn't mine. I care a great deal, and I'd be on the streets today if I thought it would make a difference, and I was on the streets in the fall of 2011. America is so far gone that an American Bouazizi would be little more than something to make the hosts of Today gasp and cluck their tongues.
Those of us who have identified the problem care a great deal. Most of America is too fat and stupid to give a shit though.
Using a sledgehammer to swat a fly is bad, not because the fly doesn't need to be swatted.
Each and every time a device listed above is used in the manner described, it's in a way that using a regular laptop/computer, while certainly feasible, just wouldn't be as a good experience as using the tablet.
That's the part that's hard to understand. The ipad can do all the things you mentioned, but what makes it better at them than a laptop?
You can't. If you vote for a candidate that promises to be the most transparent administration in history, you get one that imprisons more whistle blowers than all other presidents in history combined. Voting won't change anything, and direct action will only get you labeled a terrorist. There's absolutely nothing that can be done. Democracy and the rule of law is dead in America.
All we can do is sit around and wait for another Enlightenment, and then refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Welp...there goes EVERY U.S. President in history then.
Quite true. Not one president in living memory (I'm not historian enough to say "in history") has clean hands. Decent Americans should be ashamed.
Why does that excuse complicity in genocide?
Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Price
So was Obama. And Kissinger. And Yasser Arafat.
There weren't really any policies that Carter set out that were bad.
Selling weapons to Indonesia while they were committing genocide in East Timor is bad.