Google wants NN because (1) they know ultimately it will result in a lowest common denominator, which is helpful to some of their properties. (2) It make rules, that startups who have to buy internet access form tier 3 providers much the same way you and I do, have to follow. Google on the other hand is big enough that they can and do peer directly with the transport guys. So they will always have the FAST LANE, and you, me, and your small business won't even have the ability to purchase access at any price. So Google can lock out their competition forever!
Um... That's exactly what NN will prevent from happening. If Google wanted that then they would oppose NN.
I'm not sure Twitter is the problem exactly. In some ways it's a great tool to use against him, because there is always a prior tweet contradicting whatever he says today. Some have even been used in court (e.g. the travel ban). The real problem is that even when it is pointed out that he is lying or contradicting himself, people don't care.
We have to convince people that not everything is a lie. We have to convince them that it's okay to admit they made a bad choice.
It would be really helpful if Slashdot could handle different apostrophes and quote marks because often people want to paste text from elsewhere. Sometimes the summary even has managed characters where text was copied from TFA.
It is also Slashdot's fault that I can't type a damn Pound symbol (£) without it getting mangled. I'm not asking for Chinese here, I just want a normal key on my normal keyboard typed into any browser you care to mention to result in the character printed on said key to appear on screen.
I've seen this happen to products. It's generally down to not having a UX designer. Yes, those guys that everyone hates do actually have a useful function.
Device I did some firmware for was a hand-held programming unit. Point it at another device and it programs the time and various other parameters into it, kinda like a smart remote control.
The LCD on this thing is awful. The hardware guy chose it because it's guaranteed to be available for at least 5 years. It has 5 buttons, chosen by the sales team because more than 5 was "confusing" and it should be seen as "simple to use".
Of course, it's functionality grew and grew and it quickly ended up with a home screen menu, sub-screens, up/down buttons to enter numbers and text, long press functions, double click functions... Even turning it off requires a long press.
By industry standards it's a great product that everyone loves, which tells you how bad the competition is...
Can anyone confirm that in the US the response to a potentially suicidal person is a SWAT team?!
In most places it's considered a medical emergency. If any law enforcement is involved it will only be to help medical personnel gain access to the patient. In this case the first response would probably be calling the phone number that the user supplied to Facebook.
Do you really think Facebook doesn't already scan private messages to build up your advertising profile and to look for banned content like child pornography?
I doubt lawsuits will get very far - an entirely computer generated notice along the lines of "if you feel suicidal, you can call XXX-XXX-XXX to talk to someone" is going to fail tests for invasion of privacy and not exactly play well with a jury that can see Facebook is trying to do the right thing.
If you want that level of privacy there are plenty of end-to-end encrypted channels.
All the OP was saying is that there is a comparison to be made between two organizations who deliberately pursued policies of deliberately injuring and even killing people in pursuit of their goals. It seems odd that one group is notorious and the other are just capitalists and capitalism is some kind of abstract thing that just happens and has no moral context.
No need to overthink it or read more into it than that.
It makes me wonder if Apple engineers don't actually use iPhones very much. Maybe they prefer Android, because if they used iPhones daily they would soon notice and be annoyed by this and fix it.
Again, the OP isn't actually say they were Nazis or did the same things that Nazis did. He just compared their deliberate planning and the outcome of it to the deliberate planning and outcome of Nazism.
I won't try to defend any more than that, because that's all they said.
I thought his basic point that their actions had resulted in many millions of premature deaths was not an exaggeration. Of course how premature those deaths were is up for debate.
As for "feminazi", the different is that feminists didn't do anything to cause large numbers of deaths.
much easier to read and quickly interpret than "if a is not equal 1 then set b equal complement of b else set b equal 0". The former has much clearer delineations between the test and the true/false actions, for example. It can also be automatically formatted for readability by a code beautifier.
Most places have banned tobacco advertising completely. That's why Formula 1 cars are not covered in Marlboro logos any more. In addition they often have to print warnings on the labels, stuff like "smoking causes impotence" or photos of diseased lungs.
Tobacco is a somewhat unique product. Highly addictive and if it were invented today would surely never be allowed to go on sale, because most people recognize that allowing businesses to get people addicted to their products is not a good idea. But because people are addicted now it's impossible to just ban it.
Your proof of that by turning "Big Tobacco" and "Big Sugar" into Nazi's confirms this.
Maybe I'm out of touch with modern parlance, but I thought that in English simply comparing two things does not imply that they are the same thing. For example, if I say "coffee contains more caffeine than orange juice", I'm trying to imply that coffee/is/ orange juice.
I'm starting to wonder if this has changed in some English speaking parts of the world. Saw the same thing with recent discussion about the 1930s animation style in the video game Cuphead - some people seemed to think that merely talking about how it was influenced by racist cartoons from that era actually implied that Cuphead itself was racist, but I don't understand the mechanism by which the property is transferred.
Because gas lobbies to maintain it's effective monopoly. To make use of that waste heat would require new infrastructure, which the gas supplier would do everything in their power to resist it.
Interference in this process is considered socialism, or even communism by many Americans. The free market has decided that burning gas is the correct solution.
I don't think Musk could keep quiet about it either. In fact knowing him he would have promised it would overtake Visa by the end of the year and released a solar powered mining rig that also charges your car.
Rail is just much more efficient than rubber tyres on tarmac for moving heavy loads. What we really need is a system that efficiently moves stuff between hubs via rail and then transfers contains onto trucks for local delivery. The problem in the past has always been the speed and cost of loading/unloading, but it seems like these days a robot could do it pretty efficiently.
Of course we destroyed a lot of the rail infrastructure that could have been used for this so it would need to be rebuilt now.
I've been testing Firefox Quantum out and it's not quite as fast as Chrome for me. Very competitive and often indistinguishable, but for example it's attempts to save memory slow it down. I've got loads of RAM, so I'd prefer if it didn't purge tabs or delay decoding images.
The main attraction is the privacy features. At the moment Chrome has parity with a few light weight extensions, but Firefox seems to move much faster to block new abuses as they are discovered.
I'll probably wait for the next pwn2own to see how well Firefox does. Hopefully they delivered better security along side the performance, because at last count Chrome is the undisputed king.
In most places there can only be discrimination during the hiring process. Having a legacy of being male dominated, for example, isn't actionable. Who would bring the complaint? How could they justify the company firing people just to fix the numerical issue?
Around here the degree requirement is usually just to filter candidates. Companies can't be bothered to train or even evaluate candidates properly, so put that lazy filter on.
Things weren't any better in the 80s and 90s. When you think about it, many of the "classics" from those eras are only remembered for being kinda bad in an enjoyable way. A lot of the good movies were commercial failures at the time.
Haven't seen this film but the trailers were really off-putting. It looked more like a video game, with low quality CGI sets. Lots of fighting but no sign of a plot beyond "get the band together".
I've had a few different robot vacuums over the years. They don't replace vacuuming entirely, but they do reduce the workload a lot.
If you run them regularly then the small bin size isn't a problem, as there isn't that much to pick up. They can't get in every corner but remove the majority of new dust and debris coming into the house. You can then touch up after it every now and then with a powerful hand held manual vacuum every now and then.
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Google wants NN because (1) they know ultimately it will result in a lowest common denominator, which is helpful to some of their properties. (2) It make rules, that startups who have to buy internet access form tier 3 providers much the same way you and I do, have to follow. Google on the other hand is big enough that they can and do peer directly with the transport guys. So they will always have the FAST LANE, and you, me, and your small business won't even have the ability to purchase access at any price. So Google can lock out their competition forever!
Um... That's exactly what NN will prevent from happening. If Google wanted that then they would oppose NN.
I'm not sure Twitter is the problem exactly. In some ways it's a great tool to use against him, because there is always a prior tweet contradicting whatever he says today. Some have even been used in court (e.g. the travel ban). The real problem is that even when it is pointed out that he is lying or contradicting himself, people don't care.
We have to convince people that not everything is a lie. We have to convince them that it's okay to admit they made a bad choice.
It would be really helpful if Slashdot could handle different apostrophes and quote marks because often people want to paste text from elsewhere. Sometimes the summary even has managed characters where text was copied from TFA.
It is also Slashdot's fault that I can't type a damn Pound symbol (£) without it getting mangled. I'm not asking for Chinese here, I just want a normal key on my normal keyboard typed into any browser you care to mention to result in the character printed on said key to appear on screen.
I've seen this happen to products. It's generally down to not having a UX designer. Yes, those guys that everyone hates do actually have a useful function.
Device I did some firmware for was a hand-held programming unit. Point it at another device and it programs the time and various other parameters into it, kinda like a smart remote control.
The LCD on this thing is awful. The hardware guy chose it because it's guaranteed to be available for at least 5 years. It has 5 buttons, chosen by the sales team because more than 5 was "confusing" and it should be seen as "simple to use".
Of course, it's functionality grew and grew and it quickly ended up with a home screen menu, sub-screens, up/down buttons to enter numbers and text, long press functions, double click functions... Even turning it off requires a long press.
By industry standards it's a great product that everyone loves, which tells you how bad the competition is...
At least two people modded it insightful...
Can anyone confirm that in the US the response to a potentially suicidal person is a SWAT team?!
In most places it's considered a medical emergency. If any law enforcement is involved it will only be to help medical personnel gain access to the patient. In this case the first response would probably be calling the phone number that the user supplied to Facebook.
Do you really think Facebook doesn't already scan private messages to build up your advertising profile and to look for banned content like child pornography?
I doubt lawsuits will get very far - an entirely computer generated notice along the lines of "if you feel suicidal, you can call XXX-XXX-XXX to talk to someone" is going to fail tests for invasion of privacy and not exactly play well with a jury that can see Facebook is trying to do the right thing.
If you want that level of privacy there are plenty of end-to-end encrypted channels.
All the OP was saying is that there is a comparison to be made between two organizations who deliberately pursued policies of deliberately injuring and even killing people in pursuit of their goals. It seems odd that one group is notorious and the other are just capitalists and capitalism is some kind of abstract thing that just happens and has no moral context.
No need to overthink it or read more into it than that.
It makes me wonder if Apple engineers don't actually use iPhones very much. Maybe they prefer Android, because if they used iPhones daily they would soon notice and be annoyed by this and fix it.
Again, the OP isn't actually say they were Nazis or did the same things that Nazis did. He just compared their deliberate planning and the outcome of it to the deliberate planning and outcome of Nazism.
I won't try to defend any more than that, because that's all they said.
I thought his basic point that their actions had resulted in many millions of premature deaths was not an exaggeration. Of course how premature those deaths were is up for debate.
As for "feminazi", the different is that feminists didn't do anything to cause large numbers of deaths.
I find
(a != 1) ? b=!b : b=0;
much easier to read and quickly interpret than "if a is not equal 1 then set b equal complement of b else set b equal 0". The former has much clearer delineations between the test and the true/false actions, for example. It can also be automatically formatted for readability by a code beautifier.
Most places have banned tobacco advertising completely. That's why Formula 1 cars are not covered in Marlboro logos any more. In addition they often have to print warnings on the labels, stuff like "smoking causes impotence" or photos of diseased lungs.
Tobacco is a somewhat unique product. Highly addictive and if it were invented today would surely never be allowed to go on sale, because most people recognize that allowing businesses to get people addicted to their products is not a good idea. But because people are addicted now it's impossible to just ban it.
Your proof of that by turning "Big Tobacco" and "Big Sugar" into Nazi's confirms this.
Maybe I'm out of touch with modern parlance, but I thought that in English simply comparing two things does not imply that they are the same thing. For example, if I say "coffee contains more caffeine than orange juice", I'm trying to imply that coffee /is/ orange juice.
I'm starting to wonder if this has changed in some English speaking parts of the world. Saw the same thing with recent discussion about the 1930s animation style in the video game Cuphead - some people seemed to think that merely talking about how it was influenced by racist cartoons from that era actually implied that Cuphead itself was racist, but I don't understand the mechanism by which the property is transferred.
Because gas lobbies to maintain it's effective monopoly. To make use of that waste heat would require new infrastructure, which the gas supplier would do everything in their power to resist it.
Interference in this process is considered socialism, or even communism by many Americans. The free market has decided that burning gas is the correct solution.
I don't think Musk could keep quiet about it either. In fact knowing him he would have promised it would overtake Visa by the end of the year and released a solar powered mining rig that also charges your car.
I can't even ...
Apparently neither can he.
Rail is just much more efficient than rubber tyres on tarmac for moving heavy loads. What we really need is a system that efficiently moves stuff between hubs via rail and then transfers contains onto trucks for local delivery. The problem in the past has always been the speed and cost of loading/unloading, but it seems like these days a robot could do it pretty efficiently.
Of course we destroyed a lot of the rail infrastructure that could have been used for this so it would need to be rebuilt now.
I've been testing Firefox Quantum out and it's not quite as fast as Chrome for me. Very competitive and often indistinguishable, but for example it's attempts to save memory slow it down. I've got loads of RAM, so I'd prefer if it didn't purge tabs or delay decoding images.
The main attraction is the privacy features. At the moment Chrome has parity with a few light weight extensions, but Firefox seems to move much faster to block new abuses as they are discovered.
I'll probably wait for the next pwn2own to see how well Firefox does. Hopefully they delivered better security along side the performance, because at last count Chrome is the undisputed king.
Often they list a degree and a bunch of irrelevant stuff just so that they can pay you less because "you are underqualified".
What jurisdiction is this?
In most places there can only be discrimination during the hiring process. Having a legacy of being male dominated, for example, isn't actionable. Who would bring the complaint? How could they justify the company firing people just to fix the numerical issue?
Around here the degree requirement is usually just to filter candidates. Companies can't be bothered to train or even evaluate candidates properly, so put that lazy filter on.
Even the cheap 100 euro ones are actually not bad these days, especially if you restrict them to one or two rooms.
Things weren't any better in the 80s and 90s. When you think about it, many of the "classics" from those eras are only remembered for being kinda bad in an enjoyable way. A lot of the good movies were commercial failures at the time.
Haven't seen this film but the trailers were really off-putting. It looked more like a video game, with low quality CGI sets. Lots of fighting but no sign of a plot beyond "get the band together".
I've had a few different robot vacuums over the years. They don't replace vacuuming entirely, but they do reduce the workload a lot.
If you run them regularly then the small bin size isn't a problem, as there isn't that much to pick up. They can't get in every corner but remove the majority of new dust and debris coming into the house. You can then touch up after it every now and then with a powerful hand held manual vacuum every now and then.