After the last sale of/., this site became an even bigger mess. Before the sale, Timothy used to post bullshit stories all the time but now they have Beau and David constantly shitposting the biggest crap they can come across. It's BS leftist ideology 24/7.
I rarely even visit the site anymore. It's become really bad.
I can't stand hamburger UI, giant title bars and that annoying menu/title bar at the top so I never "upgraded" to GNOME. It seems to me that GNOME team took a bunch of macOS features and stitched together a DE. However, while macOS is quite logical and there's a reason why things are on that OS, much of how GNOME works makes little sense from usability point of view.
This is why I stuck with Xfce, Unity and Cinnamon. I run all three of these DEs on my various computers and laptops.
But now that Ubuntu is moving to GNOME, what's the point of using Ubuntu over Fedora? RedHat has all the GNOME devs and they have the best GNOME + Wayland implementation. And that implementation actually works without Xorg. Other distros that run GNOME still can't get Wayland working right. Can Canonical/Ubuntu team make a better version of GNOME than RedHat? Given the history, I'm willing to bet money against that.
I'm also quite sick of apt-get and inflexible PPAs and managing them has been an absolute hell. Things just break, packages end up conflicting and untangling the mess can take you hours. I find Fedora's DNF and Copr a lot more sane (almost as sane as pacman and AUR on Arch but probably not as good).
So in conclusion, I really don't see a point in using Ubuntu anymore. If you want APT, just use Debian instead. If you care about GNOME, use Fedora. I'll be replacing Ubuntu with Fedora on one of my laptops later this year... and not with next version of Ubuntu+GNOME.
After all these years of visiting this site, I'm pretty much ready to go away and get my news from other sites. Slashdot has become a garbage propaganda site. It's really sad what happened to it. First, Timothy started his SJW crusade and propaganda push and now others have picked the same tack. There's really no point to come on here.
If you've been a honest customer and actually purchased music from the Zune Marketplace store, it most definitely has DRM. And after the service is shut down, your music collection will be rendered useless and you won't be able to play it again.
From TFA:
Note Content that was purchased with DRM may not play if the license canâ(TM)t be renewed.
The iOS device needs to be jailbroken in order to be infected. Then with Cydia installed, the repository would be need to be added and then the package could be installed. All thatâ(TM)s known is that both the iOS and Android attacks share a CnC server.
Good points on pricing! But like I mentioned, advertising is bringing in a lot of funds as well. Bandwidth is cheaper than ever these days and a lot of it is "subsidized" by Cloudflare which don't charge for bandwidth. 4chan also doesn't run on AWS/VMs (you can find pics of 4chan servers on 4chan blog). And we can tell how much Cloudflare costs: http://www.cloudflare.com/plan...
So I still don't see why, after all this revenue, the site would be unprofitable. It's not like moot has a large dev team behind it.
Recent hack, the one that has prompted this change in policy and security issues reward process, revealed that 4chan sold about 12740 passes this year. At the price of $20 per pass, that's about $254,800 so far. And there's also a lot of revenue coming in from advertising.
If 4chan was truly unprofitable, it would have closed years ago. Seems to me that this is just an image that the owner is trying to project.
iWatch is not really a timepiece. It's a collection of highly sophisticated sensors that "watch" your vitals. All these other companies (Samsung etc) assumed that iWatch was just another smart watch: a watch with few apps on it. But from all the leaks and reports weâ(TM)ve seen so far (if they were to believed), iWatch is none of those things.
Yes, it will probably tell time as well but iWatch will be much more than that.
Here's what Michael Arrington, former editor of TechCrunch, says:
I have first hand knowledge of this. A few years ago, Iâ(TM)m nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
A couple of weeks after the story broke my source, a Google employee, approached me at a party in person in a very inebriated state and said that they (Iâ(TM)m being gender neutral here) had been asked by Google if they were the source. The source denied it, but was then shown an email that proved that they were the source.
The source had corresponded with me from a non Google email account, so the only way Google saw it was by accessing my Gmail account.
A little while after that my source was no longer employed by Google.
Actually, his teeth were not made of wood. His dentures were made of gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, and human and animal teeth (including horse and donkey teeth).
That's not news, but for the life of me I don't know why Cisco, Microsoft and other big players just don't pay up to get at least some insight into how these guys are finding exposures in their systems.
Well, that's pretty obvious isn't it? They won't sell it to them because they'd quickly patch up exploits and make them useless. I'm pretty sure that all of their customers (government agencies, police etc) also have a clause in their contract that they can't even give a hint to ISVs about vulnerabilities they receive from VUPEN and others.
Musk really blew it with his Hyperloop proposal (severely flawed design and unworkable engineering) and now this nonsense. He's starting to believe the hype and BS about himself and you should never do that.
It won't be long before press starts mocking him as a result of all this.
Physicists are notorious for infecting other disciplines. Sometimes this can be extremely rewarding, but most of the time it is silly. I've already featured an example where one of the founders of algorithmic information theory completely missed the point of Darwinism; researchers working in statistical mechanics and information theory seem particularly susceptible to interdisciplinitis. The disease is not new, it formed an abscess shortly after Shannon (1948) founded information theory. The clarity of Shannon's work allowed a metaphorical connections between entropy and pretty much anything. Researchers were quick to swell around the idea, publishing countless papers on âoeInformation theory of Xâ where X is your favorite field deemed in need of a more thorough mathematical grounding.
and after he explains what the paper's about and how utterly empty it is, he offers some advice to authors:
By publishing in a journal specific to the field you are trying to make an impact on, you get feedback on if you are addressing the right questions for your target field instead of simply if others' in your field (i.e. other physicists) think you are addressing the right questions. If your results get accepted then you also have more impact since they appear in a journal that your target audience reads, instead of one your field focuses on. Lastly, it is a show of respect for the existing work done in your target field. Since the goal is to set up a fruitful collaboration between disciplines, it is important to avoid E.O. Wilson's mistake of treating researchers in other fields as expendable or irrelevant.
Have you tried ProxMate for Firefox? I use to to unblock when I want to watch some UK shows. I'm sure it works the other way around (i.e. for foreigners who want to watch American-only programming).
Proxmate just loads the page through a proxy and the video is streamed through your connection so there's no slowdown due to a use of a slow proxy.
I recommend you read this article: Correlation is not causation : The Internet Blowhardâ(TM)s Favorite Phrase
The correlation phrase has become so common and so irritating that a minor backlash has now ensued against the rhetoric if not the concept. No, correlation does not imply causation, but it sure as hell provides a hint.
My two kids (ages 3 and 5) have access to 6 computers in our household which are running various operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X) and yet they use iPads the most. I actually had to buy the second iPad for them because they were fighting over the first one all the time.
Why do they love iPads? Apps. iPad has more apps for kids than any other platform I know of. And it's easy to use too.
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After the last sale of /., this site became an even bigger mess. Before the sale, Timothy used to post bullshit stories all the time but now they have Beau and David constantly shitposting the biggest crap they can come across. It's BS leftist ideology 24/7.
I rarely even visit the site anymore. It's become really bad.
I can't stand hamburger UI, giant title bars and that annoying menu/title bar at the top so I never "upgraded" to GNOME. It seems to me that GNOME team took a bunch of macOS features and stitched together a DE. However, while macOS is quite logical and there's a reason why things are on that OS, much of how GNOME works makes little sense from usability point of view.
This is why I stuck with Xfce, Unity and Cinnamon. I run all three of these DEs on my various computers and laptops.
But now that Ubuntu is moving to GNOME, what's the point of using Ubuntu over Fedora? RedHat has all the GNOME devs and they have the best GNOME + Wayland implementation. And that implementation actually works without Xorg. Other distros that run GNOME still can't get Wayland working right. Can Canonical/Ubuntu team make a better version of GNOME than RedHat? Given the history, I'm willing to bet money against that.
I'm also quite sick of apt-get and inflexible PPAs and managing them has been an absolute hell. Things just break, packages end up conflicting and untangling the mess can take you hours. I find Fedora's DNF and Copr a lot more sane (almost as sane as pacman and AUR on Arch but probably not as good).
So in conclusion, I really don't see a point in using Ubuntu anymore. If you want APT, just use Debian instead. If you care about GNOME, use Fedora. I'll be replacing Ubuntu with Fedora on one of my laptops later this year... and not with next version of Ubuntu+GNOME.
After all these years of visiting this site, I'm pretty much ready to go away and get my news from other sites. Slashdot has become a garbage propaganda site. It's really sad what happened to it. First, Timothy started his SJW crusade and propaganda push and now others have picked the same tack. There's really no point to come on here.
by 2045. I find that even scarier than robotization of military. That island is "royally fucked".
That's all it really is. You're basically entrusting your data with companies that have to somehow make money off you or off your data.
So don't be surprised when they pull crap like this on you.
If you've been a honest customer and actually purchased music from the Zune Marketplace store, it most definitely has DRM. And after the service is shut down, your music collection will be rendered useless and you won't be able to play it again.
From TFA:
Code for Pangu jailbreak was stolen from a well-known iOS hacker and security researcher i0n1c/Stefan Esser:
https://twitter.com/i0n1c/stat...
Here's the actual analysis of malware:
https://www.lacoon.com/lacoon-...
Good points on pricing! But like I mentioned, advertising is bringing in a lot of funds as well. Bandwidth is cheaper than ever these days and a lot of it is "subsidized" by Cloudflare which don't charge for bandwidth. 4chan also doesn't run on AWS/VMs (you can find pics of 4chan servers on 4chan blog). And we can tell how much Cloudflare costs: http://www.cloudflare.com/plan...
So I still don't see why, after all this revenue, the site would be unprofitable. It's not like moot has a large dev team behind it.
Recent hack, the one that has prompted this change in policy and security issues reward process, revealed that 4chan sold about 12740 passes this year. At the price of $20 per pass, that's about $254,800 so far. And there's also a lot of revenue coming in from advertising.
If 4chan was truly unprofitable, it would have closed years ago. Seems to me that this is just an image that the owner is trying to project.
iWatch is not really a timepiece. It's a collection of highly sophisticated sensors that "watch" your vitals. All these other companies (Samsung etc) assumed that iWatch was just another smart watch: a watch with few apps on it. But from all the leaks and reports weâ(TM)ve seen so far (if they were to believed), iWatch is none of those things.
Yes, it will probably tell time as well but iWatch will be much more than that.
Here's what Michael Arrington, former editor of TechCrunch, says:
ABOUT THAT TIME GOOGLE SPIED ON MY GMAIL
Absolutely true. Here's an AK that was buried for 18 years and was dug up:
You can't kill an AK-47: Works after 18 years of being buried in ground
Actually, his teeth were not made of wood. His dentures were made of gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, and human and animal teeth (including horse and donkey teeth).
Check out this link for more info including a pic of them: George Washington's teeth not wooden - Technology & science - Science | NBC News
Black hole firewalls don't really exist.
Here's a summary:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6334
and the long paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6335
Resolving the issue.
In short, the black hole paradox doesn't exist and can be explained.
Motl has a really nice summary as well:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/10/raju-papadodimas-isolate-reasons-why.html
Well, that's pretty obvious isn't it? They won't sell it to them because they'd quickly patch up exploits and make them useless. I'm pretty sure that all of their customers (government agencies, police etc) also have a clause in their contract that they can't even give a hint to ISVs about vulnerabilities they receive from VUPEN and others.
Musk really blew it with his Hyperloop proposal (severely flawed design and unworkable engineering) and now this nonsense. He's starting to believe the hype and BS about himself and you should never do that.
It won't be long before press starts mocking him as a result of all this.
Presumably from Laura Poitras (she taped Snowden in Hong Kong and received materials from him) since she's worked with Der Spiegel in the past.
For example, she wrote this story from Snowden's files for Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nsa-spied-on-european-union-offices-a-908590.html
And here's a relevant SMBC:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556
Here's a review of this paper by a researcher who actually works in the field of AI and cognitive psychology:
Interdisciplinitis: Do entropic forces cause adaptive behavior?
Few choice quotes:
and after he explains what the paper's about and how utterly empty it is, he offers some advice to authors:
This "no-promotion" and "no buying of rankings" is no different from Google's "no links for money" policy.
Have you tried ProxMate for Firefox? I use to to unblock when I want to watch some UK shows. I'm sure it works the other way around (i.e. for foreigners who want to watch American-only programming).
Proxmate just loads the page through a proxy and the video is streamed through your connection so there's no slowdown due to a use of a slow proxy.
I recommend you read this article: Correlation is not causation : The Internet Blowhardâ(TM)s Favorite Phrase
The correlation phrase has become so common and so irritating that a minor backlash has now ensued against the rhetoric if not the concept. No, correlation does not imply causation, but it sure as hell provides a hint.
That Wikipedia page reads like a resume. Doesn't Wikipedia have a policy against pages like that and especially for non-notable people?
My two kids (ages 3 and 5) have access to 6 computers in our household which are running various operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X) and yet they use iPads the most. I actually had to buy the second iPad for them because they were fighting over the first one all the time.
Why do they love iPads? Apps. iPad has more apps for kids than any other platform I know of. And it's easy to use too.