...y'all might bear in mind, here, that the government deliberately changed the definition of what "overweight" is, specifically in order to describe more people as overweight. Now, I'm not saying that people haven't gotten heavier. You look at an old black'n'white movie and everyone looks practically gaunt. But, the statistics have been meddled with by changing the definitions.
Is that the same as Windows 10 LTSB (long term servicing branch), which has fewer gewgaws, and is intended for the enterprise, because it has fewer things that can break or be compromised?
Someone is really not getting the hang of what the governments want. Hint: it is not fewer things that can break or be compromised.
How can you support Sanders when he doesn't care whether you (and in the future, your children) have jobs?
I gather that you believe America will have more jobs if it just stops trading with other nations. And your state will have more jobs if you just stop trading with the rest of America. And your town will have more jobs if you just stop trading with the rest of the state. In fact, perhaps we should entirely do without commerce. That might work.
Can we leave the random tidbits to a site like Reddit, that actually posts this stuff in a timely manner? Volcanoes aren't really Slashies material to begin with. Maybe we could run with an Atari 400 article instead. It's no less grossly outdated but, it might actually be fun.
The voters make the choices between the small selection of dimwits and psychopaths that they're offered. I understand that is not what your high school civics class taught you. Of course, the government probably funded that school.
I hope Cole's law applies here. It involves this cabbage, see...
Your misplaced anger amuses me. "Come to the Dark Side, Luke!"...thing is, it's not possible to avoid ubiquitous surveillance, that's part of what you should pick up out of the "ubiquitous" part. That's already done and is not going away. It's getting stronger by the minute. We would like to perhaps have some customs that say what is right. Those won't last, either, they'll be obsolete by the time you've tweeted them on your tw_t account, which the kids aren't even looking at, because they've fallen for some ridiculous Snapchat-flavored scam.
Keep up, man. Although that's ridiculous advice, no one has time enough to keep up. That's why AI is such a hot topic right now.
If you care about privacy then why are you putting personal information on there to begin with?
If you care about privacy, why do you use the Internet or have a computer or phone? If you care about privacy, why don't you stay locked up at home? If you care about privacy, it is your right to live in a small closet.
We had this right of not being on video 24/7. That can't stand, as much as we'd like. We'd still like to draw up a few guidelines.
You paid for it, it's yours forever, unless you sell it, which you can. This is ownership. This is also slightly improbable for a software resource, which is not exactly a concrete thing that can only exist in a concrete form. Hence the weird attempts to monetize it differently, which tends to make people extremely angry, although the money has to come from somewhere. Or we wind up with things like Linux, which is nice enough but not exactly world-class... but still might be a best bet. The crap Microsoft's been up to lately doesn't bear examining.
Here's the thing: my smartphones and tablets always look brand new after I've dropped them. They don't dent. They don't chip. They look perfect! They just stop working properly.
Tell me you've fixed that problem and you've got my money. In the meantime, my piece of crud $40 refurbished smartphone has the really significant advantage that I don't really care if I drop it.
You are implying that ones political stance is an indicator of their intelligence?
There is a huge group of people who's opinion.
.
You had me until "who is opinion". The word you're looking for, I believe, is "whose", and please report back to your grade-school teacher for remedial work and a spanking.
Straight-out weasel wording, your sign that there is no information here, let alone "news for nerds". Or did placenta-eating become a nerd thing while I wasn't looking?/hands in nerd card
Seriously people are super paranoid that Microsoft is being evil by releasing a new version of their OS that is substantially better than any previous version for a free upgrade. There is no trick here. Microsoft is sick of supporting old versions and wants people to get on the evergreen windows model.
Perhaps Microsoft should create a version of Windows that people actually want to upgrade to, then? Personally, I loathe the "modern"/cough Windows 3 flat icons, and they keep dropping features that I actually use, and always, always re-arranging the furniture just so something Looks Different. Flat icons are just another ridiculous "change for the sake of change": flat, 3D this way, 3D that way, oh WTH, let's go back to flat again, we can use 3D icons in Windows 10... I mean, Windows 11, because Windows 9 is Windows 10, because, seriously... Microsoft.
I'm fine with Windows 7, thanks. I'm on a Mac/Windows machine, and I dropped using OSX because of those damned flat icons and some intrusive "you have mail!"-type notices that can't be permanently shut off. Of course, if something goes wrong on a Mac, you're not going to find useful tech support, either. If something goes wrong on Windows, in the odd event I can't fix it offhand, I'll just have to pick from the first 500,000 googled solutions.
If Slashdot is going to be relevant, it might start by posting news that is, you know, actually new. This story hit everywhere else days ago.
I still play WoW when I'm particularly bored. It's a dead-easy game these days, and I see no reason anyone would actually use bots. Blizz has been very slow at policing but, you can go into cities now without getting trolled by half a dozen "buy gold here" sites, any more, which is progress. To be sure, the cities tend to be empty of everyone, not just the gold-sellers.
If you wonder why there seems to be a big gap of 12-15 years where not a lot of new good SF authors came out in book form, except from Baen, it's because the literary elite decided SF should be about identity politics instead of about science and speculation
Or, it could be because that's what people want this decade. I'm guessing a lot of the serious SF market is spending more time on MMORPGs these days than quietly reading books in the corner, myself. At any rate, there is no gatekeeper any more, it's trivial to self-publish. Some of the big establishment names started out that way and just found it easier to let someone else handle the marketing and organization.
Look at how our government listens in (oops... "collects meta data") on all of our communication based on the current threat of a terror attack.
That's alleged threat of an alleged terror attack. It's not like this has ever been a serious issue. The government's burned billions of our dollars on, essentially, protecting us from hippopotamus roaming the street. There was one major terrorist attack, one, once, and the whole government has been running in terror and squeaking and squawking, and beating the hell out of all of us, out of utter fear and horror. The U.S. Government is totally cowardly, it's pathetic, and we might want to work on that. The NSA needs to go, immediately, it's a sick and deranged tool for the rich and privileged.
If women don't want to work in tech fields, that's their business. Why this is even an issue is beyond me. How is it considered a good idea to encourage more people to work in fields they're not interested in? Why is tech singled out as the one and only important field?
Most of the security enhancements envisioned for systems that will provide features and assurance in addition to that already provided by class (Al) systems are beyond current technology.
Ah, lovely. Government language at its most... statuesque. That's an incredibly awkward way to say, "Dude! We can't do it!"
Second, being opposed to hostile takeover is a bad thing. I will put it simply, if you owned some stock of eBay, why would you want to discourage somebody offering you a price that is higher than it is trading for today?
It is possible you are not familiar with turn-and-burn operations. A company I worked for once was acquired in a hostile takeover. Everyone was fired, most of the products were scrapped, the buildings and equipment went... all that was left was a quick profit for the takeover company and a few bits of software that could never be updated to remarket.
You are horribly ignorant or deluded if you are arguing that hostile takeovers are a good thing.
And if your local water supply really is limited, and is being exhausted through over-use?
Then the prices would be higher, instead of being effectively fixed-rate. Also, the supplies would be reduced to the primary consumers of water, such as agriculture and golf courses, not the public households that are barely using raindrops by comparison.
Worrying about how much a toilet flushes is utterly ludicrous. That's not at all significant. It's not where the water is going. It's irrelevant.
...slashdot is having a real hard time posting either "news for nerds" or "news that is news". Go ahead and bring the beta online, guys, I'm ready to quit this dusty old place, it's become irrelevant.
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...y'all might bear in mind, here, that the government deliberately changed the definition of what "overweight" is, specifically in order to describe more people as overweight. Now, I'm not saying that people haven't gotten heavier. You look at an old black'n'white movie and everyone looks practically gaunt. But, the statistics have been meddled with by changing the definitions.
The federal government plans to change its definition of what is a healthy weight, a controversial move that would classify millions more Americans as being overweight. ...old article, just first one up. This change was, in fact, made. So, instant "fat epidemic", courtesy of the government's fat fingers on the scales.
Is that the same as Windows 10 LTSB (long term servicing branch), which has fewer gewgaws, and is intended for the enterprise, because it has fewer things that can break or be compromised?
Someone is really not getting the hang of what the governments want. Hint: it is not fewer things that can break or be compromised.
Sanders voted to increase H1B visas at the last round of voting.
How can you support Sanders when he doesn't care whether you (and in the future, your children) have jobs?
I gather that you believe America will have more jobs if it just stops trading with other nations. And your state will have more jobs if you just stop trading with the rest of America. And your town will have more jobs if you just stop trading with the rest of the state. In fact, perhaps we should entirely do without commerce. That might work.
"Yesterday's news... today!"
Can we leave the random tidbits to a site like Reddit, that actually posts this stuff in a timely manner? Volcanoes aren't really Slashies material to begin with. Maybe we could run with an Atari 400 article instead. It's no less grossly outdated but, it might actually be fun.
The voters make the choices between the small selection of dimwits and psychopaths that they're offered. I understand that is not what your high school civics class taught you. Of course, the government probably funded that school.
>unless $2000 worth of bitcoin is not paid
The Han-Shot-First neckbeards? Just how young are you, sport? Them's hipster terms, and we do shoot you for that.
I hope Cole's law applies here. It involves this cabbage, see...
Your misplaced anger amuses me. "Come to the Dark Side, Luke!" ...thing is, it's not possible to avoid ubiquitous surveillance, that's part of what you should pick up out of the "ubiquitous" part. That's already done and is not going away. It's getting stronger by the minute. We would like to perhaps have some customs that say what is right. Those won't last, either, they'll be obsolete by the time you've tweeted them on your tw_t account, which the kids aren't even looking at, because they've fallen for some ridiculous Snapchat-flavored scam.
Keep up, man. Although that's ridiculous advice, no one has time enough to keep up. That's why AI is such a hot topic right now.
If you care about privacy then why are you putting personal information on there to begin with?
If you care about privacy, why do you use the Internet or have a computer or phone? If you care about privacy, why don't you stay locked up at home? If you care about privacy, it is your right to live in a small closet.
We had this right of not being on video 24/7. That can't stand, as much as we'd like. We'd still like to draw up a few guidelines.
What?
You paid for it, it's yours forever, unless you sell it, which you can. This is ownership. This is also slightly improbable for a software resource, which is not exactly a concrete thing that can only exist in a concrete form. Hence the weird attempts to monetize it differently, which tends to make people extremely angry, although the money has to come from somewhere. Or we wind up with things like Linux, which is nice enough but not exactly world-class... but still might be a best bet. The crap Microsoft's been up to lately doesn't bear examining.
Here's the thing: my smartphones and tablets always look brand new after I've dropped them. They don't dent. They don't chip. They look perfect! They just stop working properly.
Tell me you've fixed that problem and you've got my money. In the meantime, my piece of crud $40 refurbished smartphone has the really significant advantage that I don't really care if I drop it.
You are implying that ones political stance is an indicator of their intelligence?
There is a huge group of people who's opinion.
.
You had me until "who is opinion". The word you're looking for, I believe, is "whose", and please report back to your grade-school teacher for remedial work and a spanking.
Straight-out weasel wording, your sign that there is no information here, let alone "news for nerds". Or did placenta-eating become a nerd thing while I wasn't looking? /hands in nerd card
Seriously people are super paranoid that Microsoft is being evil by releasing a new version of their OS that is substantially better than any previous version for a free upgrade. There is no trick here. Microsoft is sick of supporting old versions and wants people to get on the evergreen windows model.
Perhaps Microsoft should create a version of Windows that people actually want to upgrade to, then? Personally, I loathe the "modern" /cough Windows 3 flat icons, and they keep dropping features that I actually use, and always, always re-arranging the furniture just so something Looks Different. Flat icons are just another ridiculous "change for the sake of change": flat, 3D this way, 3D that way, oh WTH, let's go back to flat again, we can use 3D icons in Windows 10... I mean, Windows 11, because Windows 9 is Windows 10, because, seriously... Microsoft.
I'm fine with Windows 7, thanks. I'm on a Mac/Windows machine, and I dropped using OSX because of those damned flat icons and some intrusive "you have mail!"-type notices that can't be permanently shut off. Of course, if something goes wrong on a Mac, you're not going to find useful tech support, either. If something goes wrong on Windows, in the odd event I can't fix it offhand, I'll just have to pick from the first 500,000 googled solutions.
If Slashdot is going to be relevant, it might start by posting news that is, you know, actually new. This story hit everywhere else days ago.
I still play WoW when I'm particularly bored. It's a dead-easy game these days, and I see no reason anyone would actually use bots. Blizz has been very slow at policing but, you can go into cities now without getting trolled by half a dozen "buy gold here" sites, any more, which is progress. To be sure, the cities tend to be empty of everyone, not just the gold-sellers.
If you wonder why there seems to be a big gap of 12-15 years where not a lot of new good SF authors came out in book form, except from Baen, it's because the literary elite decided SF should be about identity politics instead of about science and speculation
Or, it could be because that's what people want this decade. I'm guessing a lot of the serious SF market is spending more time on MMORPGs these days than quietly reading books in the corner, myself. At any rate, there is no gatekeeper any more, it's trivial to self-publish. Some of the big establishment names started out that way and just found it easier to let someone else handle the marketing and organization.
Look at how our government listens in (oops... "collects meta data") on all of our communication based on the current threat of a terror attack.
That's alleged threat of an alleged terror attack. It's not like this has ever been a serious issue. The government's burned billions of our dollars on, essentially, protecting us from hippopotamus roaming the street. There was one major terrorist attack, one, once, and the whole government has been running in terror and squeaking and squawking, and beating the hell out of all of us, out of utter fear and horror. The U.S. Government is totally cowardly, it's pathetic, and we might want to work on that. The NSA needs to go, immediately, it's a sick and deranged tool for the rich and privileged.
If women don't want to work in tech fields, that's their business. Why this is even an issue is beyond me. How is it considered a good idea to encourage more people to work in fields they're not interested in? Why is tech singled out as the one and only important field?
In response to one anecdote, you post a few more? That's not data. If you want to get smart about it, get smart about it. Show me the evidence.
4.2 BEYOND CLASS (A1)
Most of the security enhancements envisioned for systems that will provide features and assurance in addition to that already provided by class (Al) systems are beyond current technology.
Ah, lovely. Government language at its most... statuesque. That's an incredibly awkward way to say, "Dude! We can't do it!"
If only I had a mod point, I'd be modding that as "funny". That's the most completely hilariously wrong code.
Second, being opposed to hostile takeover is a bad thing. I will put it simply, if you owned some stock of eBay, why would you want to discourage somebody offering you a price that is higher than it is trading for today?
It is possible you are not familiar with turn-and-burn operations. A company I worked for once was acquired in a hostile takeover. Everyone was fired, most of the products were scrapped, the buildings and equipment went... all that was left was a quick profit for the takeover company and a few bits of software that could never be updated to remarket.
You are horribly ignorant or deluded if you are arguing that hostile takeovers are a good thing.
And if your local water supply really is limited, and is being exhausted through over-use?
Then the prices would be higher, instead of being effectively fixed-rate. Also, the supplies would be reduced to the primary consumers of water, such as agriculture and golf courses, not the public households that are barely using raindrops by comparison.
Worrying about how much a toilet flushes is utterly ludicrous. That's not at all significant. It's not where the water is going. It's irrelevant.
Do you need more synonyms to process this?
...slashdot is having a real hard time posting either "news for nerds" or "news that is news". Go ahead and bring the beta online, guys, I'm ready to quit this dusty old place, it's become irrelevant.