The problem is that the far right wants to become mainstream again, so won't settle for segregation. In fact participating in more mainstream forums is seen as a gateway into their ideology.
You can kinda block people on Slashdot. Just set foes to a -5 modifier and mark the people you don't want to see.
The problem with Slashdot recently is the trolls abusing the moderation system have gotten better at it. It's a constant battle on every platform, because people are always looking for new ways to troll.
At this point we have no idea how bad this is. Could be that AMD release a patch next week and it's all fixed, no fuss. Could be as bad as Meltdown, with a major performance hit. Or it could be complete bullshit. We just don't know.
Tesla parts are very expensive, and many places can't do service on them. Tesla won't sell parts to anyone but authorized repair centres as well.
There is some eye-opening stuff on the TMC forums too. When stuff breaks Tesla's solution is often to replace large parts of the vehicle. Seat doesn't move properly, replace the seat. Motor issue, replace the entire motor. Door doesn't close properly, replace the whole door.
And when stuff gets damaged, say in an accident, the cost can be astronomical. There are people on there who had relatively minor collisions and then waited a year to get them fixed. First the insurance company wants to query the $40,000 cost of repairing the bodywork, and then it takes months for Tesla to send the parts.
Some cars are fine, no issues at all, but some have a lot of problems. And when you look at the cost to fix all those problems out of warranty, the car would have been written of many times over. It's bad enough that it needs weeks and weeks in the shop. Lots of lemon law claims, which often result in buy-backs... Which presumably become CPO cars with whatever is left of the warranty on them.
It's probably fine... But could cost you a hell of a lot of money.
they are looking to prevent someone from creating an "iTunes cache device" that makes perfect digital copies of the all-you-can-eat iTunes subscription, so that you can turn off the subscription and still have all the music you aren't supposed to have
So it's the classic DRM-to-satisfy-paranoid-delusions that harms the customer. Because all that stuff is available for free on the Pirate Bay anyway, and I really can't imagine many people bothering to buy such a device and then cache the stream somewhere just to save a few bucks that their parents pay anyway.
It's the same with HDMI and BluRay and video "purchased" on iTunes. The only people the DRM screws are legitimate users, and it does basically nothing to stop piracy. Even if you could just copy a BluRay it wouldn't be worth buying the blank media to do it, just grab a rip to your flash drive and enjoy unskippable advert free viewing without an expensive BluRay player.
Android users have been enjoying USB digital audio since the very early days. Standard audiophile set-up is a USB DAC attached to the phone with a rubber band, and the "strapped to the back of a phone" form factor is fairly common these days.
A slightly easier option is IKEA "black-out" curtains and blinds. I also recommend a wake-up light for the mornings, that gently increases light levels before your alarm goes off.
For that reason self-driving cars are really going to hurt airlines. It's a shame trains are so crappy in the US or they would be another good option. In Japan it's barely worth flying anywhere on the main islands because by the time you have been to the airport and flown the train is usually faster and drops you off right in the city centre.
Which all sounds like a really terrible way of detecting people who might want to harm the US.
A lot of those people are radicalized in "safe" countries. People like ISIS realized that it is much easier to just radicalize people over the internet than to try to cross borders. Cheaper and more effective too. Weapons are everywhere, just hire a truck or buy some kitchen knives.
On the other hand, you probably want people like journalists and aid workers to be able to visit those countries, and ideally want to avoid placing worthless restrictions on innocent citizens.
The Model 3 is looking like the best of the current crop of EVs, I just wish I could actually buy one in the next couple of years.
The Leaf 40 seems to have some serious issues, and the instrument cluster is terrible. Kinda hoping that the 64kWh model due for the end of this year is better, but unless they change a lot of stuff (active battery cooling, new instrument cluster, new centre console screen, new more efficient body shape) it's not clear if it will be much better. Really disappointed.
The Ioniq is crap... Some people like it, but I did an extended test drive shortly after it came out and it was just badly designed. BMW i3 perhaps, but doesn't seem to be getting a lot of love from BMW. Took me three months just to get a test drive locally.
VW's stuff is half arsed at best. Mercedes' is a joke, some kind of compliance car. Zoe is cheap and good on paper but sucks to drive.
So that leaves Tesla or... Well, that new Honda actually looks great, I'd love to own that if it had a decent battery and performance, but I expect it will be a town car.
Maybe a CPO Tesla for a while, until a Model 3 becomes available. But Teslas, especially out of warranty, are rather expensive to own. I also really want an X, because the S and 3 are only about 1.5m tall which is rather low.
Plus if you can afford to drive a Tesla then the few hundred bucks you could save by using the Supercharger regularly is neither here nor there, especially if it wastes your presumably valuable time in the same way as going to a dedicated petrol station does.
My fiancee and all her friends and family have iPhones. All heavy users. Batteries typically last around 18 to 24 months, which is what you would expect. The batteries they use are good for about 500 cycles, and because they are relatively small average about one a day.
Being thicker and more damage resistant would be a great benefit to them. They all have chunky cases and screen protectors to protect their fragile phones anyway. The naked phones are very slippery and the front and back are literally glass.
I have a smartphone and it's always on me. I don't look at it a lot of the time, but if a relative needs to call me in an emergency (like they had an accident, which has happened a couple of times), or if I need a map and directions to get somewhere, or if I need to call 112, or if I see something I want to take a photo of, it's there.
Google already does adjust its algorithms on other platforms like search. For example, auto-complete is disabled for many search terms, including things related to porn and weapons. It also fights a constant battle against SEO asshats who are trying to game it, demoting their content-free adverts masquerading as web sites.
It's the only way to stay relevant and maintain the top spot. If your service gets overrun by spammers and conspiracy theorists... Well, look at gab.ai and Voat. Their refusal to moderate the content is also what is keeping them from going mainstream, because as Apple has demonstrated a lot of people actually like a walled garden.
YouTube uses some interesting metrics to measure engagement. It looks at how long each viewer watched the video, what proportion of it they watched (so as not to favour longer videos), if they clicked on any embedded links, if they re-watched any parts etc.
The problem is that it is really easy to game. Channels that have a lot of followers can get them all to play the video in the background over and over, and the ones that are politically motivated will treat it as their job.
They do seem to be over-thinking it a bit. Take this bit of the ideal image criteria:
"All of the humans would be clothed, because that's how human beings are most commonly encountered: unclothed depictions should be used at the top of the "biology" section, in order to clearly depict their anatomy, but it is potentially misleading to use such an image as the lead image in the article"
Yeah... People will be mislead by a naked photo and think that's how human beings are, despite a literal lifetime of counter-examples.
Having said that, some of the submissions are clearly unsuitable. The woman in a burka is atypical and her clothing hides many important features of humans such as legs and arms. Many of the others only have one person when really there should be at least two to represent both genders.
Kind of amazing how hard to is to find a photo of a clothed man and a woman in neutral poses that is reasonably interesting and attractive, which fits in the side bar area and is freely licenced. The Akha is actually by far the best that anyone has proposed, much better than the current Pioneer drawing.
Mashiki, I've decided to stop responding to posts like this because they are all the same. You tell me what I think, but it's always wrong. You claim I want a police state, no matter how often I post opposing a police state. Then you accuse me of being a creep, and go off on some random and easily disproven conspiracy theories... And no matter what I post as a response, you ignore it anyway.
I thought we might be able to have an interesting discussion, but I was wrong. You just rage against some imaginary person who isn't me, and then accuse me of lying when I don't conform to your alternative reality. You even give us links to where you get these delusions from, i.e. Reddit and Brietbart. It's like citing Bible verses as proof, it doesn't convince anyone except those who already believe.
I'm also kinda fed up with the sock puppet modding or whatever bullshit seems to surround your posts.
Don't expect any more replies until your posts improve.
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And wouldn't the EEOC / Department of Labor expect you to have tried HR first?
124,000 employees over various locations and departments. If all 238 complaints were from one campus or one department that would be terrible.
In any case, the volume of complaints makes it likely that there is an issue and should definitely be investigated.
PROTIP: if Reddit tells you there is a massive conspiracy, there isn't.
The problem is that the far right wants to become mainstream again, so won't settle for segregation. In fact participating in more mainstream forums is seen as a gateway into their ideology.
There are certain opinions that are effectively banned on Slashdot due to moderation abuse.
- James Damore's memo is flawed
- Gun control is a good idea
- Nazis are bad
- Gender isn't fixed or defined by biology or binary
- Greedo shot first
You can kinda block people on Slashdot. Just set foes to a -5 modifier and mark the people you don't want to see.
The problem with Slashdot recently is the trolls abusing the moderation system have gotten better at it. It's a constant battle on every platform, because people are always looking for new ways to troll.
People will always try to game the moderation system. The key is to make sure no one ever wins.
I don't think any of them are remotely exploitable, but these days you have to worry about Javascript running locally too.
For servers local exploits are a problem too, especially those running VMs.
At this point we have no idea how bad this is. Could be that AMD release a patch next week and it's all fixed, no fuss. Could be as bad as Meltdown, with a major performance hit. Or it could be complete bullshit. We just don't know.
Tesla parts are very expensive, and many places can't do service on them. Tesla won't sell parts to anyone but authorized repair centres as well.
There is some eye-opening stuff on the TMC forums too. When stuff breaks Tesla's solution is often to replace large parts of the vehicle. Seat doesn't move properly, replace the seat. Motor issue, replace the entire motor. Door doesn't close properly, replace the whole door.
And when stuff gets damaged, say in an accident, the cost can be astronomical. There are people on there who had relatively minor collisions and then waited a year to get them fixed. First the insurance company wants to query the $40,000 cost of repairing the bodywork, and then it takes months for Tesla to send the parts.
Some cars are fine, no issues at all, but some have a lot of problems. And when you look at the cost to fix all those problems out of warranty, the car would have been written of many times over. It's bad enough that it needs weeks and weeks in the shop. Lots of lemon law claims, which often result in buy-backs... Which presumably become CPO cars with whatever is left of the warranty on them.
It's probably fine... But could cost you a hell of a lot of money.
They could try piracy. Sail the seven seas drinking, murdering and looking for booty, then selling it on the black market.
Better than the most heinous crime of software piracy.
they are looking to prevent someone from creating an "iTunes cache device" that makes perfect digital copies of the all-you-can-eat iTunes subscription, so that you can turn off the subscription and still have all the music you aren't supposed to have
So it's the classic DRM-to-satisfy-paranoid-delusions that harms the customer. Because all that stuff is available for free on the Pirate Bay anyway, and I really can't imagine many people bothering to buy such a device and then cache the stream somewhere just to save a few bucks that their parents pay anyway.
It's the same with HDMI and BluRay and video "purchased" on iTunes. The only people the DRM screws are legitimate users, and it does basically nothing to stop piracy. Even if you could just copy a BluRay it wouldn't be worth buying the blank media to do it, just grab a rip to your flash drive and enjoy unskippable advert free viewing without an expensive BluRay player.
The USB audio spec was first published in 1995, around 23 years ago: http://www.usb.org/developers/...
Android users have been enjoying USB digital audio since the very early days. Standard audiophile set-up is a USB DAC attached to the phone with a rubber band, and the "strapped to the back of a phone" form factor is fairly common these days.
A slightly easier option is IKEA "black-out" curtains and blinds. I also recommend a wake-up light for the mornings, that gently increases light levels before your alarm goes off.
For that reason self-driving cars are really going to hurt airlines. It's a shame trains are so crappy in the US or they would be another good option. In Japan it's barely worth flying anywhere on the main islands because by the time you have been to the airport and flown the train is usually faster and drops you off right in the city centre.
Which all sounds like a really terrible way of detecting people who might want to harm the US.
A lot of those people are radicalized in "safe" countries. People like ISIS realized that it is much easier to just radicalize people over the internet than to try to cross borders. Cheaper and more effective too. Weapons are everywhere, just hire a truck or buy some kitchen knives.
On the other hand, you probably want people like journalists and aid workers to be able to visit those countries, and ideally want to avoid placing worthless restrictions on innocent citizens.
The Model 3 is looking like the best of the current crop of EVs, I just wish I could actually buy one in the next couple of years.
The Leaf 40 seems to have some serious issues, and the instrument cluster is terrible. Kinda hoping that the 64kWh model due for the end of this year is better, but unless they change a lot of stuff (active battery cooling, new instrument cluster, new centre console screen, new more efficient body shape) it's not clear if it will be much better. Really disappointed.
The Ioniq is crap... Some people like it, but I did an extended test drive shortly after it came out and it was just badly designed. BMW i3 perhaps, but doesn't seem to be getting a lot of love from BMW. Took me three months just to get a test drive locally.
VW's stuff is half arsed at best. Mercedes' is a joke, some kind of compliance car. Zoe is cheap and good on paper but sucks to drive.
So that leaves Tesla or... Well, that new Honda actually looks great, I'd love to own that if it had a decent battery and performance, but I expect it will be a town car.
Maybe a CPO Tesla for a while, until a Model 3 becomes available. But Teslas, especially out of warranty, are rather expensive to own. I also really want an X, because the S and 3 are only about 1.5m tall which is rather low.
Plus if you can afford to drive a Tesla then the few hundred bucks you could save by using the Supercharger regularly is neither here nor there, especially if it wastes your presumably valuable time in the same way as going to a dedicated petrol station does.
You are lucky, or a very light user.
My fiancee and all her friends and family have iPhones. All heavy users. Batteries typically last around 18 to 24 months, which is what you would expect. The batteries they use are good for about 500 cycles, and because they are relatively small average about one a day.
Being thicker and more damage resistant would be a great benefit to them. They all have chunky cases and screen protectors to protect their fragile phones anyway. The naked phones are very slippery and the front and back are literally glass.
That's true, their auto subtitles have got a lot better in the last few years.
I have a smartphone and it's always on me. I don't look at it a lot of the time, but if a relative needs to call me in an emergency (like they had an accident, which has happened a couple of times), or if I need a map and directions to get somewhere, or if I need to call 112, or if I see something I want to take a photo of, it's there.
Google already does adjust its algorithms on other platforms like search. For example, auto-complete is disabled for many search terms, including things related to porn and weapons. It also fights a constant battle against SEO asshats who are trying to game it, demoting their content-free adverts masquerading as web sites.
It's the only way to stay relevant and maintain the top spot. If your service gets overrun by spammers and conspiracy theorists... Well, look at gab.ai and Voat. Their refusal to moderate the content is also what is keeping them from going mainstream, because as Apple has demonstrated a lot of people actually like a walled garden.
YouTube uses some interesting metrics to measure engagement. It looks at how long each viewer watched the video, what proportion of it they watched (so as not to favour longer videos), if they clicked on any embedded links, if they re-watched any parts etc.
The problem is that it is really easy to game. Channels that have a lot of followers can get them all to play the video in the background over and over, and the ones that are politically motivated will treat it as their job.
They do seem to be over-thinking it a bit. Take this bit of the ideal image criteria:
"All of the humans would be clothed, because that's how human beings are most commonly encountered: unclothed depictions should be used at the top of the "biology" section, in order to clearly depict their anatomy, but it is potentially misleading to use such an image as the lead image in the article"
Yeah... People will be mislead by a naked photo and think that's how human beings are, despite a literal lifetime of counter-examples.
Having said that, some of the submissions are clearly unsuitable. The woman in a burka is atypical and her clothing hides many important features of humans such as legs and arms. Many of the others only have one person when really there should be at least two to represent both genders.
Kind of amazing how hard to is to find a photo of a clothed man and a woman in neutral poses that is reasonably interesting and attractive, which fits in the side bar area and is freely licenced. The Akha is actually by far the best that anyone has proposed, much better than the current Pioneer drawing.
Mashiki, I've decided to stop responding to posts like this because they are all the same. You tell me what I think, but it's always wrong. You claim I want a police state, no matter how often I post opposing a police state. Then you accuse me of being a creep, and go off on some random and easily disproven conspiracy theories... And no matter what I post as a response, you ignore it anyway.
I thought we might be able to have an interesting discussion, but I was wrong. You just rage against some imaginary person who isn't me, and then accuse me of lying when I don't conform to your alternative reality. You even give us links to where you get these delusions from, i.e. Reddit and Brietbart. It's like citing Bible verses as proof, it doesn't convince anyone except those who already believe.
I'm also kinda fed up with the sock puppet modding or whatever bullshit seems to surround your posts.
Don't expect any more replies until your posts improve.