Can't you just email a screenshot of explorer into the cloud and have it automagically appear on the printer right next to you as determined by the ever watchful eye of Facebook knowing where you are at any given moment?
I still use Midnight Commander on Linux from time to time
I still use Midnight Commander... period. It is absolutely awesome. On windows I use Directory Opus which is also a keyboard shortcutable dual window file manager.
Trading 'likes' on what you ate for breakfast, or that killer workout you didn't actually do?
What you think people do on Facebook and what most people actually do seems to be very different. Not everyone is a 14 year old teenage girl.
there's other solutions that are less invasive (like.. email)
No. Just No. Email is not an alternative to keeping in contact with an extended group on a social media platform. If it were, then people wouldn't have started using Facebook in the first place. Email is an alternative to Facebook Messenger, but beyond that (and the horrible limits of email sizes) there are fundamentally different communications mediums with fundamentally different use cases.
And while you seem to think that Facebook is a messaging service specialising in kittens there's far more to it. Hell I barely use it for anything other than the Event section which highlights a whole host of real things that are happening in your local area. Whole lines of business now exist only on Facebook. My local Japanese Korean fusion restaurant no longer has a website, they have a Facebook business listing, and recently my own house has a business listing and I managed to rent it out on Facebook faster than the realestate agent was able to find a tenant (and then quite amusingly one of my friends made a "suggested edit" to my business listing to change the business type to a gay bar).
99% of what I see on facebook could be replaced by imgur/r/dawww or just googling "cute animal pictures".
Okay I'll relent a little. Not everyone on facebook is a 14 year old teenage girl... and her mom.
And the time wasted. The key part about a social network is the social part. No one uses Facebook because it's good, they use it because the other people use it.
As for the getting on just fine business, that depends on what you do. My local underground music scene has pretty much moved entirely onto Facebook these days. They even stopped goeying up posters and putting them on walls. I don't use Facebook much, but when I do it's to send a message or two to my parents and to look up the events section.
Thanks for the braindead / troll response. But here's some real info for you:
The world is bigger than your front doorstep. Going outside is not a substitute for communicating and staying in touch with people on the other side of the world. But even just outside my door. What will I do? I have an idea. *Logs into Facebook*, hey look at that there's a beer festival down the street tomorrow listed in "Events near me." Thanks Facebook.
That's why they have to move out of the building, not why they are closing. We also had a rich company buy our offices at once point. We just moved 2km down the road and made a lot of money for our efforts.
They are closing for the reason's I mentioned. Except the life expectancy bit, that was a typo that was supposed to say people's expectations on equipment life expectancy.
It's a natural outcome [washingtonpost.com] of first past the post [wikipedia.org] voting systems and it's resulted in a stable government for 150 years and the wealthiest country in the world.
Who said anything about stable? No one is arguing that the USA isn't stable. Just that it's a piss poor example of democracy in action. As for your natural outcome, you are right of course. That said, or rather as you said, the USA managed to get there in record time.
Pick the poison that works for you but understand that every system has its flaws.
I didn't say other systems were perfect. You're the one getting defensive, not me.
You talk about those legislative tactics as if they are something new.
Nope. I talk about them as if they are completely and utterly retarded and against the spirit of a functioning democracy. There's a reason why some countries ban the practice in their constitutions. Likewise in terms of corporate interference in governments that exists in every system, but none are quite as good as it as they are in the USA. You have piss poor protections against it.
Only to those who are predisposed to believe such circular reasoning.
Wait what? I thought you were the one who just said all systems have flaws? Are you now saying that democracy by definition is perfect? Or were you talking about your own circular reasoning?
Quite frankly 1/3rd of post seems to agree that the USA's system is inherently flawed, another 1/3rd says this is the case everywhere (not in dispute), and the last third isn't even relevant as you clearly didn't read my post. I never said the USA isn't a democracy, I called out your bullshit statement and then said there are undemocratic processes in the USA not present in other countries implying that while you are still a democracy, you are so by definition and definitely not by shining example.
That's the "before" part, when you do not let them out of sight near a pool or lake.
Yep because we all know that parents are in 100% complete control over their toddlers at all times and there isn't ever a possibility that someone has a pool at their house, or god forbid a parent decides to actually leave the house sometime over their first 3 years.
There's two kinds of people in the world:
Those who think they are in complete control, and people who have had kids.
1 and 3 yes, but you need to prove number 2. An end of life product that communicates over a network and has to interprate code to draw on the screen by its nature cannot be considered secure.
I typed in Thunderbird into the Windows store. I got 2 games and an older cartoon. Are you speaking in some kind of code? Are "thunderbirds" what the kids are doing these days?
That Windows 10 Mail is so disappointing is more evidence Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner, while it chases the cloud.
Oh please, the default mail client has been going down hill since back in 1998 and the only clouds we had back then were ones in the sky and those coming out of the back of a poorly tuned diesel engine.
Every successive version of whatever mail app Microsoft ships has been worse than the previous one, and that includes its cloud efforts.
Oh good, another person who thinks that nothing should be implemented unless it's 100% foolproof.
I hope you don't do.... errr.... anything. God knows just looking at this message is likely to distract and kill someone so this whole Slashdot thing really is a non-starter as well.
A kid who isn't supposed to go into the pool isn't going to wear their special wristband
A kid who knows they aren't supposed to go in the pool and clever enough to not wear the wristband is also mature enough to have learnt how to swim and there is a different solution to that problem.
You should listen to a recording of sound underwater to understand why that doesn't make sense. You're looking for a change in noise in a noisy environment that is absolutely dominated by constantly changing noise. Birds in the pool, branches falling it, rain, thunder storms, people running near not even in the pool, all of these are picked up sonically underwater.
It is much easier finding a known pattern than characteristing a changing one.
One thing is missing here - why it is closing? The answer is - because Google has
Nope, wrong. The answer is because the world has changed. Shopping habits have changed. Desire to repair equipment has changed. People's life expectancy has changed.
This has nothing to do with Google, and even less to do with Seattle. These places are closing all over the western world.
You cannot factor in possible future improvements as an argument for implementation now.
Sure you can and for three reasons:
1) If you train something in a lab it will be very good in a lab and will never be able to leave a lab. Therefore it makes far more sense to implement and train something in the field.
2) Recent fuckups are minor in comparison to the number of people who died on the road and also quite statistically insignificant due to a lack of data. But locking something in a lab means we never gather the data and round and round we go forever.
3) We already do just that. Not all vehicles on the road are created equal. There are some that are quite poor at stopping. There are some that don't protect drivers very well. Your argument against this basically also rules out any car that doesn't achieve a 5 start safety rating, because the technology used is imperfect and could cause a death.
The media should stop saying that this was a death caused by self-driving cars.
And yet it was. You see fundamentally the problem here is that the race to self-driving technology is one that involves keeping your trade secrets and technology close locked away for yourself. Uber may have owned the car that killed a person, but the fact that someone else's technology locked behind patents and IP could have prevented the death is THE problem with self driving cars.
At least Volvo had the decency to patent the seatbelt for the express purpose of opening it up to everyone and preventing any single company from owning life saving technology. That history of motorvehcile safety seems to be lost in this pissing contest.
Once you factor in manual interventions, "autopilot" systems become much less safe
Once you factor in experience and development they become continuously improving systems.... Unlike say the squishy mass of mostly water held together with a bit of protien that kills people continuously because it fundamentally is a fallible non-deterministic distraction machine.
What? One person died? There's 325699999 others to contribute to the economy. America has gotten on just fine killing close to 5500 pedestrians every year, one more won't make a difference.
Which country are you from and is that a commercial license?
Hell no. This was a state in Australia, but there are plenty of cases that are similar. Austria, Germany and the NL also require quite a lot of lessons. Hell Austria especially is an annoying case where getting a drivers license will probably cost you more than buying your first car.
Mind you there's plenty of worse places as well. e.g. China where drivers licenses in some provinces can effectively simply be bought.
...snip... a bunch of irrelevant stuff because...snip... All of those places mentioned are defined as "semi-public" in law.
And there it is. Goal posts moved.
And even at that, private property can fall under the protections
Can. In a small subset of cases and a small subset of countries of the west.
And yet, I can find plenty of case law from other countries that state otherwise. Maybe you should try the same?
And you're doing a cracking job of it so far. You can start by finding a single example. But really I'm done with this pointless game. You'll find an example because I know of them. But you're still wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy away from... and I quote: "Most of the west" which is just a load of garbage.
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Can't you just email a screenshot of explorer into the cloud and have it automagically appear on the printer right next to you as determined by the ever watchful eye of Facebook knowing where you are at any given moment?
I still use Midnight Commander on Linux from time to time
I still use Midnight Commander... period. It is absolutely awesome. On windows I use Directory Opus which is also a keyboard shortcutable dual window file manager.
Trading 'likes' on what you ate for breakfast, or that killer workout you didn't actually do?
What you think people do on Facebook and what most people actually do seems to be very different. Not everyone is a 14 year old teenage girl.
there's other solutions that are less invasive (like.. email)
No. Just No. Email is not an alternative to keeping in contact with an extended group on a social media platform. If it were, then people wouldn't have started using Facebook in the first place. Email is an alternative to Facebook Messenger, but beyond that (and the horrible limits of email sizes) there are fundamentally different communications mediums with fundamentally different use cases.
And while you seem to think that Facebook is a messaging service specialising in kittens there's far more to it. Hell I barely use it for anything other than the Event section which highlights a whole host of real things that are happening in your local area. Whole lines of business now exist only on Facebook. My local Japanese Korean fusion restaurant no longer has a website, they have a Facebook business listing, and recently my own house has a business listing and I managed to rent it out on Facebook faster than the realestate agent was able to find a tenant (and then quite amusingly one of my friends made a "suggested edit" to my business listing to change the business type to a gay bar).
99% of what I see on facebook could be replaced by imgur/r/dawww or just googling "cute animal pictures".
Okay I'll relent a little. Not everyone on facebook is a 14 year old teenage girl ... and her mom.
It wouldn't cost me anything
And the time wasted. The key part about a social network is the social part. No one uses Facebook because it's good, they use it because the other people use it.
As for the getting on just fine business, that depends on what you do. My local underground music scene has pretty much moved entirely onto Facebook these days. They even stopped goeying up posters and putting them on walls. I don't use Facebook much, but when I do it's to send a message or two to my parents and to look up the events section.
Thanks for the braindead / troll response. But here's some real info for you:
The world is bigger than your front doorstep. Going outside is not a substitute for communicating and staying in touch with people on the other side of the world. But even just outside my door. What will I do? I have an idea. *Logs into Facebook*, hey look at that there's a beer festival down the street tomorrow listed in "Events near me." Thanks Facebook.
That's why they have to move out of the building, not why they are closing. We also had a rich company buy our offices at once point. We just moved 2km down the road and made a lot of money for our efforts.
They are closing for the reason's I mentioned. Except the life expectancy bit, that was a typo that was supposed to say people's expectations on equipment life expectancy.
Are you just figuring that out Steve or were you once okay with that arrangement and have since soured on it?
Never underestimate the power of a good bandwagon.
It's a natural outcome [washingtonpost.com] of first past the post [wikipedia.org] voting systems and it's resulted in a stable government for 150 years and the wealthiest country in the world.
Who said anything about stable? No one is arguing that the USA isn't stable. Just that it's a piss poor example of democracy in action. As for your natural outcome, you are right of course. That said, or rather as you said, the USA managed to get there in record time.
Pick the poison that works for you but understand that every system has its flaws.
I didn't say other systems were perfect. You're the one getting defensive, not me.
You talk about those legislative tactics as if they are something new.
Nope. I talk about them as if they are completely and utterly retarded and against the spirit of a functioning democracy. There's a reason why some countries ban the practice in their constitutions. Likewise in terms of corporate interference in governments that exists in every system, but none are quite as good as it as they are in the USA. You have piss poor protections against it.
Only to those who are predisposed to believe such circular reasoning.
Wait what? I thought you were the one who just said all systems have flaws? Are you now saying that democracy by definition is perfect? Or were you talking about your own circular reasoning?
Quite frankly 1/3rd of post seems to agree that the USA's system is inherently flawed, another 1/3rd says this is the case everywhere (not in dispute), and the last third isn't even relevant as you clearly didn't read my post. I never said the USA isn't a democracy, I called out your bullshit statement and then said there are undemocratic processes in the USA not present in other countries implying that while you are still a democracy, you are so by definition and definitely not by shining example.
That's the "before" part, when you do not let them out of sight near a pool or lake.
Yep because we all know that parents are in 100% complete control over their toddlers at all times and there isn't ever a possibility that someone has a pool at their house, or god forbid a parent decides to actually leave the house sometime over their first 3 years.
There's two kinds of people in the world:
Those who think they are in complete control, and people who have had kids.
1 and 3 yes, but you need to prove number 2. An end of life product that communicates over a network and has to interprate code to draw on the screen by its nature cannot be considered secure.
I typed in Thunderbird into the Windows store. I got 2 games and an older cartoon. Are you speaking in some kind of code? Are "thunderbirds" what the kids are doing these days?
You are talking about average joes under 35. The rest of the even more average joes are using their shitty email service provided by their ISP.
That Windows 10 Mail is so disappointing is more evidence Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner, while it chases the cloud.
Oh please, the default mail client has been going down hill since back in 1998 and the only clouds we had back then were ones in the sky and those coming out of the back of a poorly tuned diesel engine.
Every successive version of whatever mail app Microsoft ships has been worse than the previous one, and that includes its cloud efforts.
Oh good, another person who thinks that nothing should be implemented unless it's 100% foolproof.
I hope you don't do .... errr.... anything. God knows just looking at this message is likely to distract and kill someone so this whole Slashdot thing really is a non-starter as well.
A kid who isn't supposed to go into the pool isn't going to wear their special wristband
A kid who knows they aren't supposed to go in the pool and clever enough to not wear the wristband is also mature enough to have learnt how to swim and there is a different solution to that problem.
You should listen to a recording of sound underwater to understand why that doesn't make sense. You're looking for a change in noise in a noisy environment that is absolutely dominated by constantly changing noise. Birds in the pool, branches falling it, rain, thunder storms, people running near not even in the pool, all of these are picked up sonically underwater.
It is much easier finding a known pattern than characteristing a changing one.
Or teach them to swim before letting them out of sight near a pool or lake?
There will always be a gap between the age a baby can crawl and swim.
One thing is missing here - why it is closing? The answer is - because Google has
Nope, wrong. The answer is because the world has changed. Shopping habits have changed. Desire to repair equipment has changed. People's life expectancy has changed.
This has nothing to do with Google, and even less to do with Seattle. These places are closing all over the western world.
You cannot factor in possible future improvements as an argument for implementation now.
Sure you can and for three reasons:
1) If you train something in a lab it will be very good in a lab and will never be able to leave a lab. Therefore it makes far more sense to implement and train something in the field.
2) Recent fuckups are minor in comparison to the number of people who died on the road and also quite statistically insignificant due to a lack of data. But locking something in a lab means we never gather the data and round and round we go forever.
3) We already do just that. Not all vehicles on the road are created equal. There are some that are quite poor at stopping. There are some that don't protect drivers very well. Your argument against this basically also rules out any car that doesn't achieve a 5 start safety rating, because the technology used is imperfect and could cause a death.
Typical "meatbag" response from a techbro full of hubris and propaganda.
Nope, just a thought out response weighing a deterministic mistake free system against human nature.
The media should stop saying that this was a death caused by self-driving cars.
And yet it was. You see fundamentally the problem here is that the race to self-driving technology is one that involves keeping your trade secrets and technology close locked away for yourself. Uber may have owned the car that killed a person, but the fact that someone else's technology locked behind patents and IP could have prevented the death is THE problem with self driving cars.
At least Volvo had the decency to patent the seatbelt for the express purpose of opening it up to everyone and preventing any single company from owning life saving technology. That history of motorvehcile safety seems to be lost in this pissing contest.
Once you factor in manual interventions, "autopilot" systems become much less safe
Once you factor in experience and development they become continuously improving systems. ... Unlike say the squishy mass of mostly water held together with a bit of protien that kills people continuously because it fundamentally is a fallible non-deterministic distraction machine.
How can you do this after what just happened?
What? One person died? There's 325699999 others to contribute to the economy. America has gotten on just fine killing close to 5500 pedestrians every year, one more won't make a difference.
Which country are you from and is that a commercial license?
Hell no. This was a state in Australia, but there are plenty of cases that are similar. Austria, Germany and the NL also require quite a lot of lessons. Hell Austria especially is an annoying case where getting a drivers license will probably cost you more than buying your first car.
Mind you there's plenty of worse places as well. e.g. China where drivers licenses in some provinces can effectively simply be bought.
They most definitely do.
They most definitely do not.
...snip... a bunch of irrelevant stuff because ...snip... All of those places mentioned are defined as "semi-public" in law.
And there it is. Goal posts moved.
And even at that, private property can fall under the protections
Can. In a small subset of cases and a small subset of countries of the west.
And yet, I can find plenty of case law from other countries that state otherwise. Maybe you should try the same?
And you're doing a cracking job of it so far. You can start by finding a single example. But really I'm done with this pointless game. You'll find an example because I know of them. But you're still wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy away from ... and I quote: "Most of the west" which is just a load of garbage.