Some internet trolls take a meme and dress it up to be anti-semitic. For some odd reason this (out of the thousand others that work just the same way) gets the attention of the ADL and they declare the meme, not the dress-up, but the meme, to be anti-semitic.
Seriously, if I was the troll, I'd feel on top of the world. This must be the apex of trolldom. Ultimate validation.
Said theory says that you cannot outlaw a medium that is used by dissenting parties once it has been adopted by the masses to look at cute cats, because then the outcry would be too big and people would notice that you're the bully. In this case, people have already learned that Spongebob is a cute cartoon and labeling him a Nazi symbol would show the public that you're full of shit and have no idea what you're talking about.
But as long as it's just a rather obscure internet meme that only an "in-circle" of people knows about, you're fine.
It's wrong to discriminate against a group due to a statistics that doesn't say anything about that group, I give you that.
What does the statistic say? The essence is "most financial fraudsters are white males". It is NOT permissible to turn it around and say "white males commit financial fraud". It is not even permissible to say "white males are more prone to commit financial fraud than other groups of people". Because a crucial element is missing: The population. What such conclusions omit is taking into account what fraction of people who are in a position to commit financial fraud are white males. When you take that into account, you will come to the result that the vast majority of people who are in this position are white males. So anything but finding that the majority of financial fraudsters being white males would actually be a surprise.
Statistics have no agenda. Statistics just is. Unfortunately, it is easy to abuse statistics if you do. And even more unfortunately, people believe statistics because it's just numbers without an agenda, and people do not understand statistics and how it may be used to draw conclusions.
OK, you cannot decrypt them per se. Let's agree that you can find a combination of characters that will produce the correct hash and hence be accepted as a valid version of the password.
Actually: Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine as a desperate attempt to try to Keep You Safe from all the other threats to your privacy.
Remember: It's hard to sell data everyone already has.
No, I think it's apt. VBS was bloated, slow, a security concern and essentially useless once you outgrew it, which happened about the second day you used it.
That's the, what now, 4th? time that MS is promising that its browser will be sandboxed and virtualized and whatnot. Guess what: They managed to botch it every single time.
Wake me when they actually deliver, their promises are less credible than that of a politician or a religious figurehead.
At least check your crappy analogy that it's at least true. Don't get me wrong, the analogy holds as much water as a sieve, but it also simply being a blatant lie is just the icing on the shit cake.
So the analogy is apt, considering that the "maintenance" on the cables is dwarfed by the overhead for bureaucracy, bookkeeping, advertising, management and all the other crap you don't give a shit about.
And they will only have one guy handing out cookies. This works ok as long as you're the only one wanting cookies. It works decently when there's like a dozen people. But they won't hire more just 'cause they now have hundreds of hungry people wanting cookies. So you better eat your cookie slowly, it's gonna be a while 'til you get the next one.
You know why healthy food is "healthy"? Because we have the free choice of what food we eat. And what do we eat, given the choice? Well, of course food that is best tasting. What is best tasting? Fat and sugar (or, more specifically, carbon hydrates). Why? Because they bring along a load of energy. And why is that something that we consider "tasty"? Because those ancestors that ate a lot of that stuff survived because back then food wasn't easy to get and plentiful, and only those survived that managed to eat enough to not starve to death.
That's basically the gist of it. Fat and sugar are tasty because back in the "good ol' days", they were rare and eating as much of that stuff as possible was a benefit. So selection favored those that wanted to eat mostly fat and sugar.
And why is it unhealthy now? Because it's not rare anymore. Fat and sugar is not a treat anymore, whereas we ordinarily survive on a staple of vegetables. Fat and sugar is something we can (and do) eat daily. That IS our new staple, and that's simply not healthy.
That's not to say that we should follow bullshit fads like some "paleo diet". Really? We should eat like back in a time when people got to the ripe age of 30 on average? That's healthy? C'mon, be reasonable. But we should ponder what our body really needs and what, hence, is what it would expect to get. Yes, of course it "wants" fat and sugar, but that doesn't mean we should simply give in.
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Some internet trolls take a meme and dress it up to be anti-semitic. For some odd reason this (out of the thousand others that work just the same way) gets the attention of the ADL and they declare the meme, not the dress-up, but the meme, to be anti-semitic.
Seriously, if I was the troll, I'd feel on top of the world. This must be the apex of trolldom. Ultimate validation.
No, Spongebob is saved by a variant of the Cute cat theory of digital activism.
Said theory says that you cannot outlaw a medium that is used by dissenting parties once it has been adopted by the masses to look at cute cats, because then the outcry would be too big and people would notice that you're the bully. In this case, people have already learned that Spongebob is a cute cartoon and labeling him a Nazi symbol would show the public that you're full of shit and have no idea what you're talking about.
But as long as it's just a rather obscure internet meme that only an "in-circle" of people knows about, you're fine.
There isn't even two.
Put it on the label pile back there, I ignore it later.
So I guess whoever slapped swastikas on that frog can now say "mission accomplished"?
As opposed to getting in line and do what the outraged, loudmouthed minority says?
Office 365 doesn't sound like a product but rather like a reason to get a union going.
I'm a Microsoft flag waver- for the last 20 years. It's been core to my career.
20 years is really a long time in antivirus development and security consulting...
MS does have a really great record of choosing product names, don't they?
Makes "Zune" really stand out as the only one where the product was indeed worse than its name. That's not saying much, though.
I'm still working on who is who.
I'm no native speaker, but even I am fairly sure that "keeping" doesn't mean what you think it does.
This is one of the few moments I wish I had mod points.
It's wrong to discriminate against a group due to a statistics that doesn't say anything about that group, I give you that.
What does the statistic say? The essence is "most financial fraudsters are white males". It is NOT permissible to turn it around and say "white males commit financial fraud". It is not even permissible to say "white males are more prone to commit financial fraud than other groups of people". Because a crucial element is missing: The population. What such conclusions omit is taking into account what fraction of people who are in a position to commit financial fraud are white males. When you take that into account, you will come to the result that the vast majority of people who are in this position are white males. So anything but finding that the majority of financial fraudsters being white males would actually be a surprise.
Statistics have no agenda. Statistics just is. Unfortunately, it is easy to abuse statistics if you do. And even more unfortunately, people believe statistics because it's just numbers without an agenda, and people do not understand statistics and how it may be used to draw conclusions.
OK, you cannot decrypt them per se. Let's agree that you can find a combination of characters that will produce the correct hash and hence be accepted as a valid version of the password.
Actually: Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine as a desperate attempt to try to Keep You Safe from all the other threats to your privacy.
Remember: It's hard to sell data everyone already has.
No, I think it's apt. VBS was bloated, slow, a security concern and essentially useless once you outgrew it, which happened about the second day you used it.
And as it was, so it shall be.
This.
That's the, what now, 4th? time that MS is promising that its browser will be sandboxed and virtualized and whatnot. Guess what: They managed to botch it every single time.
Wake me when they actually deliver, their promises are less credible than that of a politician or a religious figurehead.
Well... Sony told me the PS3 can run Linux...
Actually, they're cheaper.
Double stuf vs normal.
At least check your crappy analogy that it's at least true. Don't get me wrong, the analogy holds as much water as a sieve, but it also simply being a blatant lie is just the icing on the shit cake.
So the analogy is apt, considering that the "maintenance" on the cables is dwarfed by the overhead for bureaucracy, bookkeeping, advertising, management and all the other crap you don't give a shit about.
And they will only have one guy handing out cookies. This works ok as long as you're the only one wanting cookies. It works decently when there's like a dozen people. But they won't hire more just 'cause they now have hundreds of hungry people wanting cookies. So you better eat your cookie slowly, it's gonna be a while 'til you get the next one.
Actually, they sell you the promise of delivering 20 boxes of cookies a day, but you won't get more than 60 boxes a month.
Why would a berry lie?
Just create a new flavor of Oreos, the "Coconut Oreo", which is even three times healthier than the original ones.
You know why healthy food is "healthy"? Because we have the free choice of what food we eat. And what do we eat, given the choice? Well, of course food that is best tasting. What is best tasting? Fat and sugar (or, more specifically, carbon hydrates). Why? Because they bring along a load of energy. And why is that something that we consider "tasty"? Because those ancestors that ate a lot of that stuff survived because back then food wasn't easy to get and plentiful, and only those survived that managed to eat enough to not starve to death.
That's basically the gist of it. Fat and sugar are tasty because back in the "good ol' days", they were rare and eating as much of that stuff as possible was a benefit. So selection favored those that wanted to eat mostly fat and sugar.
And why is it unhealthy now? Because it's not rare anymore. Fat and sugar is not a treat anymore, whereas we ordinarily survive on a staple of vegetables. Fat and sugar is something we can (and do) eat daily. That IS our new staple, and that's simply not healthy.
That's not to say that we should follow bullshit fads like some "paleo diet". Really? We should eat like back in a time when people got to the ripe age of 30 on average? That's healthy? C'mon, be reasonable. But we should ponder what our body really needs and what, hence, is what it would expect to get. Yes, of course it "wants" fat and sugar, but that doesn't mean we should simply give in.