Have you ever stopped to consider why they feel this way? What has driven the (ridiculously tiny) portion of the population to these extreme ideas?
Yes I have.
The foundation of it is the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which posits that "globalists" (code for Jews) are deliberately encouraging non-whites to immigrate and to breed with white women in order to make white people a minority in currently white majority countries.
That's why they were chanting "Jews will not replace us" at Charlottesville. They don't mean Jews themselves are going to replace them, they mean that Jews are encouraging immigration, interracial couples and multi-culturalism as a way to replace them with non-whites.
There is also some pseudo-scientific crap about other races being inferior, that sort of thing.
This can be done via QR codes or NFC to a phone without the need for them to have any of your information.
It's a good thing. I've been scanning receipts for years and sometimes retailers don't like copies, but you also can't realistically keep paper receipts for 10+ years either. Aside from anything the thermal printed ones degrade and become illegible.
Someone was moaning about it in the thread on LED lightbulbs with 10 year warranties yesterday. Digital copies are much easier to keep and organize.
Facebook doesn't support absolute freedom of speech, like most orgs and individuals they are selective. Always have been, e.g. porn was banned from day one.
It's only Facebook. If their service censors stuff you want to read just use a different one. Twitter, Gab and 4/8chan all allow this kind of content. Twitter does as long as you don't call for violence or harass people, the others don't even care about that.
What is it about Facebook that makes it so special?
Problem is if they fix it they will be admitting that it was a cock-up. By quietly adding a fraction of a millimetre every year and some little protective membranes they will eventually make it more or less reliable and still get to claim it was a minor issue.
Fortunately people like iFixIt cut through their bullshit, same as they did with the screen cable flaw.
If it was not two women this story would not have appeared on Slashdot or in most of the other places it was mentioned. Space walks happen all the time and are not reported this widely. Thus, nothing has been lost.
For something to be sexist it has to have some negative repercussion for one gender. Since the notability here comes from the fact that it is something which men have been doing for decades but women have still not had the opportunity to do, it doesn't create disadvantage or have any negative effects, and thus is not sexist.
You can control which applications can use the notification LED. Slide the notification a little way left or right so that it reveals the cog icon, tap that and you can disable LED flashing. That way you can reserve the LED for important stuff you actually want to know about at a glance.
Battery size is largely dictated by screen size. Every phone has to be thin so the screen dimensions determine the battery dimensions which determine the capacity, beyond some gradual increases in energy density.
For point-and-click casual images Huawei is actually one of the best. They have an "AI" assistant that does a good job and trades accuracy and DXO Mark scores for images that look good on Facebook, which seems to be what people want.
Sadly this device is missing a headphone socket. No sign of an SD slot either.
It's not a zoom lens, but the software seamlessly blends images from multiple cameras to allow the user to zoom in. Of course all phones have a digital zoom feature but here because they have the 5x telephoto camera they can go that far optically and then add digital zoom on top to produce pretty decent results all the way to 50x.
Neither seems sexist, they are just noting the first time a particular demographic is doing something that other demographics have been doing for decades.
It's notable because the ratio of men and women in the world is more or less 50:50, and the first spacewalk with two men was decades ago, so statistically if selection was completely random it would be surprising that there still has not been a case of two women outside at the same time.
That makes it interesting to note the historical reasons why and the fact that even today, after all the progress we have made, it was only just about to happen but was scuppered at the last minute. As you say, it should be about exceptional people, but there are other factors.
It will be interesting to see how it does on benchmarks like DXO Mark vs how people perceive it. Their high end phones tend to be tuned for benchmark performance, their mid range ones tend to be a little on the bright side because in side-by-side comparisons people usually pick the brighter image.
The zoom is incredible on this thing. Not just the fact that they managed to build it, but that it's reasonably stable in a hand-held device. Normally with 50x zoom you would need a tripod for stability, even if the camera/lens has optical image stabilisation.
My post was not serious, it was mocking people who wish to ban Huawei hardware on the flimsiest of evidence, or no evidence at all.
It's actually a trend now, e.g. people repeatedly claim that Google sells all your personal data, emails, photos, files etc. to the lowest bidder, despite there being no evidence, considerable evidence to the contrary, and it being illegal.
I was actually questioning if your claim is true. You keep saying that Google sells personal information and people's email, but never provide any evidence and strangely Google never advertises such a product or makes it discoverable via search.
Then again given that it would be illegal and land Google staff in jail, I can see why they would keep it on the down-low.
6% is noise? Sounds pretty significant, especially since the transition from incandescent to LED will reduce it by a factor of 10 at which point your claim it's noise becomes a little bit more reasonable.
Google didn't punish web rings, in fact they benefit your google ranking by associating with other related sites.
What killed web rings was the rise of alternatives to personal home pages. Rather than curate HTML people moved to blogs and social media where they could post material in a click or two. Those platforms all have their own linking systems that make building the community up easier. They are more effective at doing it too because they include comments and discovery tools that personal home pages usually don't.
Remember that most people know HTML and don't want to know it, they just want to put their hobby stuff online. Even in the hayday of web rings platforms like Geocities that made the process easier for non-technical people were popular.
The old link pages died when search engines got good and link rot started to become a real problem.
None of it was malicious, those things were just replaced by newer technology that was, for most people and most use cases, better.
In its current state it's unusable. Performance is completely unacceptable. Massive lag and unresponsiveness. They said they would fix it with a software update, but it hasn't come yet.
Once they fix the software they may start selling it again. But if they can't fix the software it may be dead, although people who already bought one are kind of screwed.
Hard to know what happened here, Google hardware is usually quite good.
Problem is who are we going to buy hardware from now?
All US hardware is banned because of the NSA. All Chinese hardware is banned because all Chinese companies are fronts for the government. All British hardware is banned because of GCHQ, and most European hardware is dubious because we know GCHQ is actively and sometimes successfully attacking it.
Japanese hardware maybe? But some of that had to be banned too, e.g. Sony with its rootkits.
So let's say we buy an NEC PC, with Hitachi hard drive... But the CPU is still a US design, doubtless backdoored and sending all your data directly to the NSA's servers. And what OS are you going to run on it? Linux? Linus lives in the US now, and has publicly admitted that he is working for the CIA.
What about alternative computing platforms? The the abacus was invented in China and doubtless they weakened the crypto functions. Could go back to counting on our fingers but we all know that biometric security is a joke.
Maybe it's time to buy a bag of sand and build our own computers from scratch.
Signed drivers are a good thing, they stop random malware installing drivers on your system. Defence in depth.
They actually improve the quality of some products too. For example if you want to make a new USB widget you have a choice: custom driver that has to be signed and requires a UAC prompt to install/update, or use one of the build in drivers like WinUSB or HID. That encourages manufacturers not to make their own crap drivers.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you ever stopped to consider why they feel this way? What has driven the (ridiculously tiny) portion of the population to these extreme ideas?
Yes I have.
The foundation of it is the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which posits that "globalists" (code for Jews) are deliberately encouraging non-whites to immigrate and to breed with white women in order to make white people a minority in currently white majority countries.
That's why they were chanting "Jews will not replace us" at Charlottesville. They don't mean Jews themselves are going to replace them, they mean that Jews are encouraging immigration, interracial couples and multi-culturalism as a way to replace them with non-whites.
There is also some pseudo-scientific crap about other races being inferior, that sort of thing.
Tracking non-users is illegal in the EU, under the GDPR. Anything like that has to be opt-in.
This can be done via QR codes or NFC to a phone without the need for them to have any of your information.
It's a good thing. I've been scanning receipts for years and sometimes retailers don't like copies, but you also can't realistically keep paper receipts for 10+ years either. Aside from anything the thermal printed ones degrade and become illegible.
Someone was moaning about it in the thread on LED lightbulbs with 10 year warranties yesterday. Digital copies are much easier to keep and organize.
Show me a true no censorship platform and I'll accept your premise.
There is always a line. What matters is we have a range of platforms with different lines and people can choose the one they want.
Facebook doesn't support absolute freedom of speech, like most orgs and individuals they are selective. Always have been, e.g. porn was banned from day one.
All the other ones except the ones I just mentioned.
I kinda agree about payment processors though, gonna have to go back to mailed in cash/cheque donations or bitcoin.
It's only Facebook. If their service censors stuff you want to read just use a different one. Twitter, Gab and 4/8chan all allow this kind of content. Twitter does as long as you don't call for violence or harass people, the others don't even care about that.
What is it about Facebook that makes it so special?
Problem is if they fix it they will be admitting that it was a cock-up. By quietly adding a fraction of a millimetre every year and some little protective membranes they will eventually make it more or less reliable and still get to claim it was a minor issue.
Fortunately people like iFixIt cut through their bullshit, same as they did with the screen cable flaw.
If it was not two women this story would not have appeared on Slashdot or in most of the other places it was mentioned. Space walks happen all the time and are not reported this widely. Thus, nothing has been lost.
For something to be sexist it has to have some negative repercussion for one gender. Since the notability here comes from the fact that it is something which men have been doing for decades but women have still not had the opportunity to do, it doesn't create disadvantage or have any negative effects, and thus is not sexist.
You can control which applications can use the notification LED. Slide the notification a little way left or right so that it reveals the cog icon, tap that and you can disable LED flashing. That way you can reserve the LED for important stuff you actually want to know about at a glance.
Battery size is largely dictated by screen size. Every phone has to be thin so the screen dimensions determine the battery dimensions which determine the capacity, beyond some gradual increases in energy density.
For point-and-click casual images Huawei is actually one of the best. They have an "AI" assistant that does a good job and trades accuracy and DXO Mark scores for images that look good on Facebook, which seems to be what people want.
Sadly this device is missing a headphone socket. No sign of an SD slot either.
It's not a zoom lens, but the software seamlessly blends images from multiple cameras to allow the user to zoom in. Of course all phones have a digital zoom feature but here because they have the 5x telephoto camera they can go that far optically and then add digital zoom on top to produce pretty decent results all the way to 50x.
Neither seems sexist, they are just noting the first time a particular demographic is doing something that other demographics have been doing for decades.
You are being over-sensitive.
What kind of twisted, self-flagellating logic is required to see this story as sexist?
It's notable because the ratio of men and women in the world is more or less 50:50, and the first spacewalk with two men was decades ago, so statistically if selection was completely random it would be surprising that there still has not been a case of two women outside at the same time.
That makes it interesting to note the historical reasons why and the fact that even today, after all the progress we have made, it was only just about to happen but was scuppered at the last minute. As you say, it should be about exceptional people, but there are other factors.
It will be interesting to see how it does on benchmarks like DXO Mark vs how people perceive it. Their high end phones tend to be tuned for benchmark performance, their mid range ones tend to be a little on the bright side because in side-by-side comparisons people usually pick the brighter image.
The zoom is incredible on this thing. Not just the fact that they managed to build it, but that it's reasonably stable in a hand-held device. Normally with 50x zoom you would need a tripod for stability, even if the camera/lens has optical image stabilisation.
Sadly they removed the headphone jack from the P30 Pro.
My post was not serious, it was mocking people who wish to ban Huawei hardware on the flimsiest of evidence, or no evidence at all.
It's actually a trend now, e.g. people repeatedly claim that Google sells all your personal data, emails, photos, files etc. to the lowest bidder, despite there being no evidence, considerable evidence to the contrary, and it being illegal.
I was actually questioning if your claim is true. You keep saying that Google sells personal information and people's email, but never provide any evidence and strangely Google never advertises such a product or makes it discoverable via search.
Then again given that it would be illegal and land Google staff in jail, I can see why they would keep it on the down-low.
6% is noise? Sounds pretty significant, especially since the transition from incandescent to LED will reduce it by a factor of 10 at which point your claim it's noise becomes a little bit more reasonable.
Google didn't punish web rings, in fact they benefit your google ranking by associating with other related sites.
What killed web rings was the rise of alternatives to personal home pages. Rather than curate HTML people moved to blogs and social media where they could post material in a click or two. Those platforms all have their own linking systems that make building the community up easier. They are more effective at doing it too because they include comments and discovery tools that personal home pages usually don't.
Remember that most people know HTML and don't want to know it, they just want to put their hobby stuff online. Even in the hayday of web rings platforms like Geocities that made the process easier for non-technical people were popular.
The old link pages died when search engines got good and link rot started to become a real problem.
None of it was malicious, those things were just replaced by newer technology that was, for most people and most use cases, better.
It may not be dead.
In its current state it's unusable. Performance is completely unacceptable. Massive lag and unresponsiveness. They said they would fix it with a software update, but it hasn't come yet.
Once they fix the software they may start selling it again. But if they can't fix the software it may be dead, although people who already bought one are kind of screwed.
Hard to know what happened here, Google hardware is usually quite good.
Problem is who are we going to buy hardware from now?
All US hardware is banned because of the NSA. All Chinese hardware is banned because all Chinese companies are fronts for the government. All British hardware is banned because of GCHQ, and most European hardware is dubious because we know GCHQ is actively and sometimes successfully attacking it.
Japanese hardware maybe? But some of that had to be banned too, e.g. Sony with its rootkits.
So let's say we buy an NEC PC, with Hitachi hard drive... But the CPU is still a US design, doubtless backdoored and sending all your data directly to the NSA's servers. And what OS are you going to run on it? Linux? Linus lives in the US now, and has publicly admitted that he is working for the CIA.
What about alternative computing platforms? The the abacus was invented in China and doubtless they weakened the crypto functions. Could go back to counting on our fingers but we all know that biometric security is a joke.
Maybe it's time to buy a bag of sand and build our own computers from scratch.
Did you report those vulnerabilities to anyone? VMware has an email address (security@vmware.com) you can use. Are there any CVEs we can look at?
Signed drivers are a good thing, they stop random malware installing drivers on your system. Defence in depth.
They actually improve the quality of some products too. For example if you want to make a new USB widget you have a choice: custom driver that has to be signed and requires a UAC prompt to install/update, or use one of the build in drivers like WinUSB or HID. That encourages manufacturers not to make their own crap drivers.