Basically the fracking companies, who to be fair are asshats, have been trying to get injunctions to stop protests. As part of this effort they have been mining the protesters' social media accounts. Their claim is that most of the people on the protest are useful idiots who were duped into attending on Facebook or something equally incoherent and ridiculous.
To establish this claim they have been submitting random memes about bad bosses and photos of people bringing their children to the (non-violent, family friendly) protests.
I think the point that Vice is trying to make is that it's both a technique favoured by trolls (quote mining, forcing the defendant to provide context and justification for posts that are edited and presented in isolation) and an attempt to confuse the famously non-tech-savvy courts. But Vice's journalism is so poor it's hard to tell, especially the ones at Motherboard.
I do wonder if this is what happened in the 1930s. You have Nazis marching in the streets and murdering people. You have a populist who cages children leading your country. And your answer is, "oh it's just some trolls, I'll ignore them".
Even if you lack all humanity and don't care about anyone else, aren't you at least worried that eventually they will come after you? I'm just trying to figure out how bad things would have to get before you do care.
I search for error messages and it works fine. Can you give us an example of an error message that gives you shopping site results, and then a different search engine that gives better results?
The government really needs to get on top of installing public charging infrastructure for residences where they can't have their own personal one, e.g. houses without a driveway or flats without dedicated parking spots. Otherwise in a short time those properties will be worth a lot less because you can't charge your car at home, costing out potentially thousands of Pounds a year and limiting your choice of vehicle.
The AC mains voltage has nothing to do with the DC fast charge voltage. There is an AC to DC converter that can take 240V and produce 400 or 500V DC. In fact it has to be flexible enough to produce a variety of DC voltages as each car requires, based on its battery pack configuration and state of charge.
But all that is irrelevant anyway because for home use we use 240V/32A AC connections similar to the ones used for electric cookers. The cable is quite easy to handle. Max charge rate is about 7.7kW, around 35 MPH.
Fortunately we adopted EU rules that required a fitted plug on all consumer electronics decades ago. Maybe after Brexit we can repeal those rules.
My home charger recently had an issue. It's a Rolec model and the RCBO (circuit breaker) is known to be flawed. Sure enough mine had burn marks around the neutral wire, the same fault they all develop. It was a ten minute job to replace it. Car chargers, at least the basic ones without all the stupid IoT stuff, are very easy to maintain yourself.
- Illegal activity and law enforcement's inability to do anything about it
- an attack on your democracy
- Nazis
- industrial scale fake news
- that a relatively small number of people with little more than an internet connection have all this power and at the time we didn't know how to deal with that
Also, don't blame the victims. Most of them were literally doing their jobs. Note if them deserved it.
x86 turned out to be good even though it's crap, at least for high performance applications.
People thought that RISC was the way forward for performance, because you could make simpler hardware that would allow higher clock frequencies and more parallelism. But it turned out that you could use CISC instruction sets like x86 as an intermediate language that you recompiled on the fly, optimizing for each specific CPU and even the other threads executing in parallel in a way that no compiler ever could.
So for performance x86 is great, even if it's not really what x86 CPUs actually execute internally. For power consumption RISC is much better, as we have seen with ARM.
Of course all this is talking generally, for specific applications the answer might differ.
People like the free services that are paid for by ads, that's the benefit they provide.
I think people mostly accept this, what they don't accept is Facebook leaking their personal data to other companies or being a source of fake news.
What's sad is that Google is actually one of the best. They have a massive amount of personal data to protect, and they haven't had a major breech. They don't sell that data to anyone else, they don't allow anyone else to access it without the explicit permission of the user. And yet rumours still fly, about them listening all the time via your phone or just straight up selling your emails to advertisers.
I'm not a huge fan of Google or anything, what bothers me is that this level of misinformation makes it impossible to have a proper conversation about online privacy and what we are willing to accept in exchange for free services.
Can you provide an example of a Google search that produces "utter garbage", and ideally another site that gives better results or at least some idea of what you wanted.
GamerGate is unfortunately very important. Something of a watershed moment really.
A female game developer was accused of having a relationship with a journalist in exchange for a good review of her game, as well as a lot of other very nasty stuff her ex put out on a blog post. That was shown to be untrue, but 4chan users started a harassment campaign anyway. Threats, doxing, malicious rumours, fake negative reviews of her game, the whole works.
Later the harassment spread to other women involved in video games. The most high profile victim was Anita Sarkeesian, but there are many others. IRC logs show that this wasn't just a few random idiots, it was a prolonged, focused harassment campaign that lasted for years.
It's important because it was the first time we really saw how powerful these harassment campaigns could be online. A lot of people were sucked into it, the level of disinformation created through techniques that were later used by state actors (such as fake accounts) was unprecedented.
GamerGate is even associated with the rise of the alt-right. People like Milo Yianoppolis became involved and used it as a gateway into nationalism and white supremacy. They also make extensive use of fake news, with fake news sites and by deriding the mainstream media while treating their blogs as more reliable sources of factual, true information.
But the biggest thing was it showed that a relatively small number of people could do an immense amount of harm, and that law enforcement was largely ineffective. The FBI, for example, gathered a lot of evidence and some confessions, but didn't take any action. The whole thing got as far as the UN, but most of the positive change that resulted was a grassroots effort.
So now when you see hundreds of near identical 1 star reviews on a movie like Black Panther, or you hear people claiming that the other side is just as bad as the Nazis, when populists organize on the internet and get elected, you know where these ideas came from and how they work.
Most Android devices don't ship with Chrome as the default browser, precisely because Microsoft was punished for trying to make it a requirement of shipping Windows with PCs. It's up to the manufacturer, and lots of them do include different browsers.
In fact if you look at the search results that don't include the word you wanted, right below them is a little link that says "must include " that you can click on to get only results that include that specific text.
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It's the usual horseshit from Vice.
Basically the fracking companies, who to be fair are asshats, have been trying to get injunctions to stop protests. As part of this effort they have been mining the protesters' social media accounts. Their claim is that most of the people on the protest are useful idiots who were duped into attending on Facebook or something equally incoherent and ridiculous.
To establish this claim they have been submitting random memes about bad bosses and photos of people bringing their children to the (non-violent, family friendly) protests.
I think the point that Vice is trying to make is that it's both a technique favoured by trolls (quote mining, forcing the defendant to provide context and justification for posts that are edited and presented in isolation) and an attempt to confuse the famously non-tech-savvy courts. But Vice's journalism is so poor it's hard to tell, especially the ones at Motherboard.
I do wonder if this is what happened in the 1930s. You have Nazis marching in the streets and murdering people. You have a populist who cages children leading your country. And your answer is, "oh it's just some trolls, I'll ignore them".
Even if you lack all humanity and don't care about anyone else, aren't you at least worried that eventually they will come after you? I'm just trying to figure out how bad things would have to get before you do care.
I search for error messages and it works fine. Can you give us an example of an error message that gives you shopping site results, and then a different search engine that gives better results?
The government really needs to get on top of installing public charging infrastructure for residences where they can't have their own personal one, e.g. houses without a driveway or flats without dedicated parking spots. Otherwise in a short time those properties will be worth a lot less because you can't charge your car at home, costing out potentially thousands of Pounds a year and limiting your choice of vehicle.
The AC mains voltage has nothing to do with the DC fast charge voltage. There is an AC to DC converter that can take 240V and produce 400 or 500V DC. In fact it has to be flexible enough to produce a variety of DC voltages as each car requires, based on its battery pack configuration and state of charge.
But all that is irrelevant anyway because for home use we use 240V/32A AC connections similar to the ones used for electric cookers. The cable is quite easy to handle. Max charge rate is about 7.7kW, around 35 MPH.
For home and public AC charging in Europe Type 2 is the standard. All cars come with a cable to charge from type 2.
You don't need DC fast charging at home.
It won't be in the flat, it will be by the mandatory parking space that is almost always required for new developments.
Fortunately we adopted EU rules that required a fitted plug on all consumer electronics decades ago. Maybe after Brexit we can repeal those rules.
My home charger recently had an issue. It's a Rolec model and the RCBO (circuit breaker) is known to be flawed. Sure enough mine had burn marks around the neutral wire, the same fault they all develop. It was a ten minute job to replace it. Car chargers, at least the basic ones without all the stupid IoT stuff, are very easy to maintain yourself.
So let's review. You don't seem to care about:
- Illegal activity and law enforcement's inability to do anything about it
- an attack on your democracy
- Nazis
- industrial scale fake news
- that a relatively small number of people with little more than an internet connection have all this power and at the time we didn't know how to deal with that
Also, don't blame the victims. Most of them were literally doing their jobs. Note if them deserved it.
Link to these 0 day and gmail leaks?
Show us where you can buy from Google some random person's info showing when they last entered or exited a vehicle.
Well x86 assembly is defined by the UNCHR as a form of torture, so...
You don't consider democracy to be important?
Why would they sell their most valuable asset that only has value because no one else has it?
They sell ads, not personal data.
x86 turned out to be good even though it's crap, at least for high performance applications.
People thought that RISC was the way forward for performance, because you could make simpler hardware that would allow higher clock frequencies and more parallelism. But it turned out that you could use CISC instruction sets like x86 as an intermediate language that you recompiled on the fly, optimizing for each specific CPU and even the other threads executing in parallel in a way that no compiler ever could.
So for performance x86 is great, even if it's not really what x86 CPUs actually execute internally. For power consumption RISC is much better, as we have seen with ARM.
Of course all this is talking generally, for specific applications the answer might differ.
Kubrick never explains anything in his movies. He just shows you stuff and you have to figure it out yourself.
Most people come away from them not understanding parts. That's normal for a Kubrick film.
they don't provide any benefit at all.
People like the free services that are paid for by ads, that's the benefit they provide.
I think people mostly accept this, what they don't accept is Facebook leaking their personal data to other companies or being a source of fake news.
What's sad is that Google is actually one of the best. They have a massive amount of personal data to protect, and they haven't had a major breech. They don't sell that data to anyone else, they don't allow anyone else to access it without the explicit permission of the user. And yet rumours still fly, about them listening all the time via your phone or just straight up selling your emails to advertisers.
I'm not a huge fan of Google or anything, what bothers me is that this level of misinformation makes it impossible to have a proper conversation about online privacy and what we are willing to accept in exchange for free services.
Top quartile cutoff is $78k. If your household income is above that you are "rich" according to TFA.
Depends where you live I guess.
Can you provide an example of a Google search that produces "utter garbage", and ideally another site that gives better results or at least some idea of what you wanted.
GamerGate is unfortunately very important. Something of a watershed moment really.
A female game developer was accused of having a relationship with a journalist in exchange for a good review of her game, as well as a lot of other very nasty stuff her ex put out on a blog post. That was shown to be untrue, but 4chan users started a harassment campaign anyway. Threats, doxing, malicious rumours, fake negative reviews of her game, the whole works.
Later the harassment spread to other women involved in video games. The most high profile victim was Anita Sarkeesian, but there are many others. IRC logs show that this wasn't just a few random idiots, it was a prolonged, focused harassment campaign that lasted for years.
It's important because it was the first time we really saw how powerful these harassment campaigns could be online. A lot of people were sucked into it, the level of disinformation created through techniques that were later used by state actors (such as fake accounts) was unprecedented.
GamerGate is even associated with the rise of the alt-right. People like Milo Yianoppolis became involved and used it as a gateway into nationalism and white supremacy. They also make extensive use of fake news, with fake news sites and by deriding the mainstream media while treating their blogs as more reliable sources of factual, true information.
But the biggest thing was it showed that a relatively small number of people could do an immense amount of harm, and that law enforcement was largely ineffective. The FBI, for example, gathered a lot of evidence and some confessions, but didn't take any action. The whole thing got as far as the UN, but most of the positive change that resulted was a grassroots effort.
So now when you see hundreds of near identical 1 star reviews on a movie like Black Panther, or you hear people claiming that the other side is just as bad as the Nazis, when populists organize on the internet and get elected, you know where these ideas came from and how they work.
Perhaps but they are different from the consumer rights authorities who care about the airline booking process.
Herr is spelt with two 'r's and coffee just makes me worse
Is that really the best defence of GamerGate now? "It wasn't genocide"
Most Android devices don't ship with Chrome as the default browser, precisely because Microsoft was punished for trying to make it a requirement of shipping Windows with PCs. It's up to the manufacturer, and lots of them do include different browsers.
In fact if you look at the search results that don't include the word you wanted, right below them is a little link that says "must include " that you can click on to get only results that include that specific text.