They sound fine, although the GP would dismiss them as "media" I guess, except for Breitbart. While the others at least attempt to be fair and publish corrections, Brietbart is just pure fake news. Not an alternative point of view or coverage of stuff that the others miss, just pure made up bullshit.
I managed to ween my friends off Facebook and on to WattsApp. Lesser of two evils perhaps, but I don't use Facebook any more.
If you don't want to vote just spoil the ballot paper. The requirement is only that go you attend, not that you make a valid choice because checking that you did is incompatible with the ballot being secret.
Wouldn't most of these people be caught when the real Darinbob turns up to vote? And if these cases are marked as disqualified ballots, wouldn't there be large numbers of them to support this hypothesis?
For them to get away with it they would need to be pretty smart, carefully selecting names they know belong to dead people who are still registered for some reason, stuff like that.
An ad campaign plus an army of fake accounts and meme generators.
It's not just Russia either. GCHQ's manual on doing the same thing was leaked some years back, coincidentally about the same time that 4chan users started adopting the same tactics.
You didn't post the model number, but most TVs support something called ARC (Audio Return Channel). My 2012 Panasonic does, for example. It's how you connect a soundbar or discreet decoder. It's quite nifty, as well as supplying audio it sends data on the amount of delay required to perfectly sync up with the image on screen and passes through some remote control commands like volume changes. It also allows for things like having the soundbar/receiver go into standby mode automatically when you turn the TV off.
It's got more bandwidth than optical, it supports negotiation so for example it will know not to send DTS if the receiver can't decode DTS, and because it uses HDMI it supports fairly long cables (20m is generally no problem).
Because HDMI also allows for ethernet and USB, many manufacturers have proprietary extensions too. So if you bought an LG soundbar it might allow you to, say, configure the graphic equalizer and fake-surround settings from the TV screen. Would be nice if they could standardize that, but it's not even possible with optical.
Prove that it had zero influence on anyone. You can't, any more than I can prove that a specific ad influenced a specific person.
But it wasn't just ads of course. There was an army of fake accounts amplifying those messages and shitposting from 8 AM to 6 PM Moscow time every weekday.
Frankly the claim that it all had zero influence lacks any credibility. I don't think any reasonable person would contest that propaganda and fake news has zero influence on anyone.
Not just ads. Social media can be very influential, and the Russians have thousands of fake accounts with millions of followers. Now just in the US either, they interfered in the Brexit referendum and in other European elections too.
Look back at the number of posts on Slashdot about Antifa. When you examine most of the claims they turn out to be fake news originating from Russian fake Antifa accounts and fake Russian "eyewitness" accounts.
Of course it's not all Russia. The alt-right came along at just the right time and Russia took full advantage.
By ignoring or pretending that this isn't a big deal, you are just helping to ensure that it happens again and again.
Domestic institutions are governed by US law. It's illegal for foreign institutions to interfere in US elections.
More importantly, the Russian interference is carefully planned trolling. It's created huge divisions that won't easily be healed. Your country has been split multiple ways, with extremists coming to the forefront. You have literal Nazis marching in the streets and murdering people in broad daylight, you have a POTUS under criminal investigation and tweeting every day about locking up his political opponents. Division is everywhere and is damaging your country...
And all you seem to care about is what you have been told to care about, two has-been politicians. Shouldn't you worry about the people actually in power right now? Or the prospect that the next election will be similarly fucked up by Russian political trolling? Nah, just label some more people, I'm sure that will fix it.
It's pretty much the opposite of GamerGate. For a start gamers are only a small part of that community, and it's not founded on the harassment of female members. It's inclusive and collaborative and accepting. It's not anonymous either, in fact you need an account just to watch videos on Nico Nico. Contrast the comments over there with YouTube.
If anything it was part of the movement of otaku culture away from anonymous boards like 2ch and towards more friendly places. Places were people worked together to build things, rather than just troll each other.
Drone operators demonstrate the problems with this approach quite well.
While it undoubtedly protects the lives of the operators, it seems like it makes things worse for innocent people on the ground. This is true of all remote killing technologies such as missiles and bombs, and even guns to an extent. The closer you are to the actual killing the less likely you are to accidentally kill innocent people it seems.
There is also the problem of operators going from a warzone to civilian life and back again every day. Turns out it's a stressful transition to make, when many assumed it would make life easier for them. Seems that it is actually harder to dehumanize the enemy when operating from a position of complete safety.
Innocent people are exploiting this by ramping up psychological pressure on the operators, for example by placing large photographs of children on the roofs of their homes so that they are visible from the air. The hope is that it will make them hesitate before dropping bombs.
In other words while being in an air conditioned office somewhere is physically much safer than being on a battlefield, it has simply changed the focus from inflicting bodily damage to inflicting mental damage and encouraged civilians to join in.
If nothing was disruptive there would be no progress. Part of the reason Windows was so buggy and crap was all the legacy compatibility stuff in there.
Vocaloid technology was originally designed for backing vocals and harmonies. It wasn't very good at doing real lyrics in most languages, including Latin-descended languages like English.
However, Japanese has some unusual properties that meant Vocaloid could sing in Japanese surprisingly well. The most important of these is that Japanese is basically a string of unconnected and discreet sounds. In English the sound the characters make depends on the other characters in the word, for example the different 'c' sounds in "cat" and "choose". That doesn't happen in Japanese (with a couple of minor exceptions for certain local accents/dialects).
So for an English voice synth when you type in "example", it has to run through a complex system that converts it into the vocal sounds for that word, before it even starts to consider adding expression. In Japanese it just takes each character of "tatoeba" (ta, to, e, ba, they are single characters in Japanese) and plays back one of about 50 samples at the selected pitch. People actually play Japanese vocal synths in real-time on a keyboard.
Remember that this was a decade ago. Nowadays English vocal synthesis is a lot better and probably could do lead vocals on a song.
Anyway, I don't think any music producer would have used Vocaloid for lead vocals. It took indie artists doing it to prove that people would actually listen to them. Part of the attraction is that indie artists could suddenly add lyrics to their work without any recording equipment or singing ability, and part of it was that she ended up singing about memes and the true, honest feelings of the nerds producing those songs. It was more real than real singers.
I think a lot of the technical arguments about systemd are really just because Pottering is an asshat and poisoned the well early on. Debian are mostly correct about it, it's basically a good idea and while there are implementation issues from time to time it's not like any other init system is perfect either.
The real problem is that the developers are dismissive and don't always take good advice on board. Maybe that's partly because of all the hostility and every minor issue being turned into a huge drama, but failure to recognize serious issues like the recent root escalation flaw is a serious problem.
That's the thing about Hatsune Miku - she is a genuine grass roots effort, one of the least manufactured pop stars in Japan right now.
As TFA says, she started as a voice pack for the Vocaloid software synthesiser package. Fans used it to create songs and upload them to Nico Nico Douga, a site similar to YouTube. These were pure fan creations, the Vocaloid software was just the firm time that someone working from a PC at home could use high quality vocals without having to record them themselves.
As is often the case in Japan, other people started to supplement the popular songs with fan art and videos. In Japan it's common to have a mascot for your product, and since this was a female vocal synth they had already created Hatsne Miku with the intention of releasing other characters (voice packs) later.
Eventually independent record labels started collecting these songs and releasing them. Since the software is a just a synth like any other, the creators no more own the copyright than the creators of a drum synth or a real instrument would. As her popularity grew they started doing concerts and bigger CD releases, but most of the songs are still created by independent artists and posted for free online.
Unlike typical Japanese media enterprises that exert their draconian copyright laws to squash usage of IP
Japanese media is very supportive of fan efforts. In fact there is a sizeable industry built around making unofficial versions of popular franchises, often pornographic but not always. They are extremely tolerant of fan works, seeing them as both flattering and a way to build up support for their franchises.
According to Wikipedia the "doujin" market, as it is called, is worth nearly $800m/year.
The BBC and Al Jazeera are far left activists? What. The. Fuck.
What does that make the Socialist Worker, the New European and the Morning Star? What about actual communists?
So do you consider Brietbart to be far right, or nearer the centre? If the latter, what about Storm Front and literal Nazis, where are they on this scale?
You think CNN, NBC, the Guardian and the WaPo are far left activists?
I think your political scale is miscalibrated. If the Guardian, widely regarded as a fairly centrist newspaper in the UK, is in your mind a far left activist then what are actual communists? Where does the Morning Star lie on your axis? Even the Mirror is much further left than the Guardian and way left of the WaPo.
You mean the 13 year old kid who had no connections to gamergate that you're trying to claim that was part of gamergate?
On what evidence do you make that claim? In fact, how do you identify who is part of GamerGate and who is not?
Seems like a movement with no acknowledged leaders or membership roster can simply claim that any activity that makes them look bad was someone unaffiliated.
At the very least, it's a pretty shit idea to start a "consumer movement" based on anonymous membership and no central leadership structure, especially when a significant number of people using the hashtag it is organized around are trolls under FBI investigation. Can you explain why 'Gaters didn't do something about that?
You don't think women need to be coddled? That seems to go fully against your own reasoning on multiple occasions.
I'd suggest that you don't understand my reasoning.
"Listen and believe." There's a point to it, and if you think on it you'll have figured it out. If on the other hand you haven't, I can explain it to you.
Please do explain it.
The "listen and believe" thing cropped up again recently, didn't it? Cosby was only held to account, even after years of people saying he was too touchy-feely, when a male comedian called him a rapist. Turns out some women did complain about Wienstein, but even after that shocking recording of him harassing a young actress was made he was not prosecuted and others were not believed.
If they marketed to ISIS they would quickly find that other customers started to avoid them. Like how Tiki torches are desperate not to become associated with Nazis because it would make their other customers buy fewer and the Nazi market isn't that big.
Slashdot Mirror
They sound fine, although the GP would dismiss them as "media" I guess, except for Breitbart. While the others at least attempt to be fair and publish corrections, Brietbart is just pure fake news. Not an alternative point of view or coverage of stuff that the others miss, just pure made up bullshit.
I managed to ween my friends off Facebook and on to WattsApp. Lesser of two evils perhaps, but I don't use Facebook any more.
Good point, how could I forget the home of the Rationals.
If you don't want to vote just spoil the ballot paper. The requirement is only that go you attend, not that you make a valid choice because checking that you did is incompatible with the ballot being secret.
Wouldn't most of these people be caught when the real Darinbob turns up to vote? And if these cases are marked as disqualified ballots, wouldn't there be large numbers of them to support this hypothesis?
For them to get away with it they would need to be pretty smart, carefully selecting names they know belong to dead people who are still registered for some reason, stuff like that.
An ad campaign plus an army of fake accounts and meme generators.
It's not just Russia either. GCHQ's manual on doing the same thing was leaked some years back, coincidentally about the same time that 4chan users started adopting the same tactics.
You didn't post the model number, but most TVs support something called ARC (Audio Return Channel). My 2012 Panasonic does, for example. It's how you connect a soundbar or discreet decoder. It's quite nifty, as well as supplying audio it sends data on the amount of delay required to perfectly sync up with the image on screen and passes through some remote control commands like volume changes. It also allows for things like having the soundbar/receiver go into standby mode automatically when you turn the TV off.
It's got more bandwidth than optical, it supports negotiation so for example it will know not to send DTS if the receiver can't decode DTS, and because it uses HDMI it supports fairly long cables (20m is generally no problem).
Because HDMI also allows for ethernet and USB, many manufacturers have proprietary extensions too. So if you bought an LG soundbar it might allow you to, say, configure the graphic equalizer and fake-surround settings from the TV screen. Would be nice if they could standardize that, but it's not even possible with optical.
Anyone who gets their information from the Bookface, or sucking at the media's (left or right) teat, deserves what they get.
What would you suggest as an alternative? If you rule out the media and social media, how do you get your news?
I can agree with you on social media, but what is a better source than professional journalists?
Prove that it had zero influence on anyone. You can't, any more than I can prove that a specific ad influenced a specific person.
But it wasn't just ads of course. There was an army of fake accounts amplifying those messages and shitposting from 8 AM to 6 PM Moscow time every weekday.
Frankly the claim that it all had zero influence lacks any credibility. I don't think any reasonable person would contest that propaganda and fake news has zero influence on anyone.
Not just ads. Social media can be very influential, and the Russians have thousands of fake accounts with millions of followers. Now just in the US either, they interfered in the Brexit referendum and in other European elections too.
Look back at the number of posts on Slashdot about Antifa. When you examine most of the claims they turn out to be fake news originating from Russian fake Antifa accounts and fake Russian "eyewitness" accounts.
Of course it's not all Russia. The alt-right came along at just the right time and Russia took full advantage.
By ignoring or pretending that this isn't a big deal, you are just helping to ensure that it happens again and again.
Domestic institutions are governed by US law. It's illegal for foreign institutions to interfere in US elections.
More importantly, the Russian interference is carefully planned trolling. It's created huge divisions that won't easily be healed. Your country has been split multiple ways, with extremists coming to the forefront. You have literal Nazis marching in the streets and murdering people in broad daylight, you have a POTUS under criminal investigation and tweeting every day about locking up his political opponents. Division is everywhere and is damaging your country...
And all you seem to care about is what you have been told to care about, two has-been politicians. Shouldn't you worry about the people actually in power right now? Or the prospect that the next election will be similarly fucked up by Russian political trolling? Nah, just label some more people, I'm sure that will fix it.
Roddenberry had planned for the holodeck to be in TOS, but due to budget issues it was never used. It did appear in the animated series though.
I can access it just fine in the UK, even without a VPN.
I think it's only a few of the big ISPs that were forced to block it by a court order, the smaller ones are unaffected.
so why not?
Because if it adds $5/year to a bill people will hate it, even if it saves then $500 in other ways.
Their electricity bill will say "$5 renewable energy fee", but their insurance premium won't say "$500 discount due to reduced coal power emissions".
It's pretty much the opposite of GamerGate. For a start gamers are only a small part of that community, and it's not founded on the harassment of female members. It's inclusive and collaborative and accepting. It's not anonymous either, in fact you need an account just to watch videos on Nico Nico. Contrast the comments over there with YouTube.
If anything it was part of the movement of otaku culture away from anonymous boards like 2ch and towards more friendly places. Places were people worked together to build things, rather than just troll each other.
Drone operators demonstrate the problems with this approach quite well.
While it undoubtedly protects the lives of the operators, it seems like it makes things worse for innocent people on the ground. This is true of all remote killing technologies such as missiles and bombs, and even guns to an extent. The closer you are to the actual killing the less likely you are to accidentally kill innocent people it seems.
There is also the problem of operators going from a warzone to civilian life and back again every day. Turns out it's a stressful transition to make, when many assumed it would make life easier for them. Seems that it is actually harder to dehumanize the enemy when operating from a position of complete safety.
Innocent people are exploiting this by ramping up psychological pressure on the operators, for example by placing large photographs of children on the roofs of their homes so that they are visible from the air. The hope is that it will make them hesitate before dropping bombs.
In other words while being in an air conditioned office somewhere is physically much safer than being on a battlefield, it has simply changed the focus from inflicting bodily damage to inflicting mental damage and encouraged civilians to join in.
If nothing was disruptive there would be no progress. Part of the reason Windows was so buggy and crap was all the legacy compatibility stuff in there.
Vocaloid technology was originally designed for backing vocals and harmonies. It wasn't very good at doing real lyrics in most languages, including Latin-descended languages like English.
However, Japanese has some unusual properties that meant Vocaloid could sing in Japanese surprisingly well. The most important of these is that Japanese is basically a string of unconnected and discreet sounds. In English the sound the characters make depends on the other characters in the word, for example the different 'c' sounds in "cat" and "choose". That doesn't happen in Japanese (with a couple of minor exceptions for certain local accents/dialects).
So for an English voice synth when you type in "example", it has to run through a complex system that converts it into the vocal sounds for that word, before it even starts to consider adding expression. In Japanese it just takes each character of "tatoeba" (ta, to, e, ba, they are single characters in Japanese) and plays back one of about 50 samples at the selected pitch. People actually play Japanese vocal synths in real-time on a keyboard.
Remember that this was a decade ago. Nowadays English vocal synthesis is a lot better and probably could do lead vocals on a song.
Anyway, I don't think any music producer would have used Vocaloid for lead vocals. It took indie artists doing it to prove that people would actually listen to them. Part of the attraction is that indie artists could suddenly add lyrics to their work without any recording equipment or singing ability, and part of it was that she ended up singing about memes and the true, honest feelings of the nerds producing those songs. It was more real than real singers.
I think a lot of the technical arguments about systemd are really just because Pottering is an asshat and poisoned the well early on. Debian are mostly correct about it, it's basically a good idea and while there are implementation issues from time to time it's not like any other init system is perfect either.
The real problem is that the developers are dismissive and don't always take good advice on board. Maybe that's partly because of all the hostility and every minor issue being turned into a huge drama, but failure to recognize serious issues like the recent root escalation flaw is a serious problem.
That's the thing about Hatsune Miku - she is a genuine grass roots effort, one of the least manufactured pop stars in Japan right now.
As TFA says, she started as a voice pack for the Vocaloid software synthesiser package. Fans used it to create songs and upload them to Nico Nico Douga, a site similar to YouTube. These were pure fan creations, the Vocaloid software was just the firm time that someone working from a PC at home could use high quality vocals without having to record them themselves.
As is often the case in Japan, other people started to supplement the popular songs with fan art and videos. In Japan it's common to have a mascot for your product, and since this was a female vocal synth they had already created Hatsne Miku with the intention of releasing other characters (voice packs) later.
Eventually independent record labels started collecting these songs and releasing them. Since the software is a just a synth like any other, the creators no more own the copyright than the creators of a drum synth or a real instrument would. As her popularity grew they started doing concerts and bigger CD releases, but most of the songs are still created by independent artists and posted for free online.
Unlike typical Japanese media enterprises that exert their draconian copyright laws to squash usage of IP
Japanese media is very supportive of fan efforts. In fact there is a sizeable industry built around making unofficial versions of popular franchises, often pornographic but not always. They are extremely tolerant of fan works, seeing them as both flattering and a way to build up support for their franchises.
According to Wikipedia the "doujin" market, as it is called, is worth nearly $800m/year.
The BBC and Al Jazeera are far left activists? What. The. Fuck.
What does that make the Socialist Worker, the New European and the Morning Star? What about actual communists?
So do you consider Brietbart to be far right, or nearer the centre? If the latter, what about Storm Front and literal Nazis, where are they on this scale?
You think CNN, NBC, the Guardian and the WaPo are far left activists?
I think your political scale is miscalibrated. If the Guardian, widely regarded as a fairly centrist newspaper in the UK, is in your mind a far left activist then what are actual communists? Where does the Morning Star lie on your axis? Even the Mirror is much further left than the Guardian and way left of the WaPo.
You mean the 13 year old kid who had no connections to gamergate that you're trying to claim that was part of gamergate?
On what evidence do you make that claim? In fact, how do you identify who is part of GamerGate and who is not?
Seems like a movement with no acknowledged leaders or membership roster can simply claim that any activity that makes them look bad was someone unaffiliated.
At the very least, it's a pretty shit idea to start a "consumer movement" based on anonymous membership and no central leadership structure, especially when a significant number of people using the hashtag it is organized around are trolls under FBI investigation. Can you explain why 'Gaters didn't do something about that?
You don't think women need to be coddled? That seems to go fully against your own reasoning on multiple occasions.
I'd suggest that you don't understand my reasoning.
"Listen and believe." There's a point to it, and if you think on it you'll have figured it out. If on the other hand you haven't, I can explain it to you.
Please do explain it.
The "listen and believe" thing cropped up again recently, didn't it? Cosby was only held to account, even after years of people saying he was too touchy-feely, when a male comedian called him a rapist. Turns out some women did complain about Wienstein, but even after that shocking recording of him harassing a young actress was made he was not prosecuted and others were not believed.
If they marketed to ISIS they would quickly find that other customers started to avoid them. Like how Tiki torches are desperate not to become associated with Nazis because it would make their other customers buy fewer and the Nazi market isn't that big.
Oh okay, my mistake. You are right, their bot has been going a bit nuts lately.