All politicians exaggerate and lie, but Boris was exceptionally untruthful. And Gove, with his "people have had enough of experts"...
A year after the disaster and there was a women on TV saying she was going to vote remain, but at the last minute saw the old "straight bananas" lie on social media and changed her mind. When people still fall for lies that started in the 90s and have been debunked over and over and over again, what hope is there?
The Brexit campaign was awful. Endless lies, no plan even offered so it wasn't clear what people were actually voting for, and outside influences from social media.
It's also quite telling that Brexit supporters have stopped trying to claim it will be great and fallen back to "it's the will of the people", while also opposing any further democratic consultation.
The only tweak it needs is to make down votes have half the weight of up votes. If there is disagreement it should err on the side of giving people a voice.
Real trolls will still get hammered down to -1, but controversial comments won't be censored.
Russian Government using Facebook to polarize the American People to destabilize the nation
For me the biggest change over the years has been realizing that Slashdot really is Stuff that Matters. I thought it was just nerds, but then...
- GCHQ leaked documents showed the targeted Slashdot for influence and malware distribution - Reddit and 4chan started having a measurable effect on politics, eventually giving birth to the alt-right - Russia managed to destabilize the UK and then the US via social media, and the EU only narrowly avoided it - It's actually possible that World War 3 will be started with a tweet now
Honestly my biggest regret in life is that I didn't register a Slashdot account earlier. I thought it was cool to post as AC... What a fool I was.
When I realized I went out in the rain, to the local graveyard, found a suitable headstone and knelt before it. Then I let out a desperate cry of "I COULD HAVE BEEN TRIPLE DIGITS!"
It's interesting how people's concept of what a troll is has changed over the years. Back then it was people being racist, offensive for the sake of it and spreading what evolved into fake news.
These days it's more "I disagree with your politics".
The stories didn't change much, at least at first, and in the long run I'm not sure how much was just the changing nature of tech and the internet and how much was Slashdot.
The one thing I did miss when Taco left was his occasional but usually great comments.
Anyone else remember Slashdot Radio? I actually quite enjoyed that. Still hoping to get that surgery for HSV controls on my eyeballs one day.
Chinese/Japanese/Korean support in Unicode is fundamentally broken and will never be fixed.
Windows 2000 didn't ship with fonts that had even close to complete character sets for any of them. Most Japanese software still uses Shift-JIS even today, simply because Unicode support for Japanese is so broken. Customers tend not to be very understanding when you tell them that the ticket can't have their name printed on it because of flaws in the underlying encoding scheme.
XP era specific problems included a fairly poor IME (back then third party IMEs were pretty much mandatory) and poor quality fonts for East Asian languages. Remember the old Ming family? Meiryo wasn't introduced until Windows 7 and I think Chinese fonts didn't get much love until 8, or at least without installing Office...
The big issue though was that the OS provided services for converting between encodings was rubbish, and based on a very old version of Unicode without the later hacks that made CJK sort of usable.
I guess you could train the AI to recognize important events rather than just photogenic ones. Maybe put some kind of sensor in it so that it knows when you pass through doorways.
Alternatively you could buy an internet connected smart lock. Not because it will let you check the state of the lock remotely, they are too unreliable for that, but at least you can stop worrying because it doesn't really matter if you locked it or not any more.
Most people get new phones on contract, which means every two years. So the manufacturers design for two year lifespans, and an average user will get through their 500 cycles in a bit over 2 years, so there really isn't much incentive to provide a better battery. Or even a user replaceable battery.
There are medical uses for devices like this too. Some people with memory problems (particularly the elderly) find it helpful to wear a camera that takes a photo every few minutes. Then if they can't remember if they did X, they can review the photos.
Of course most people just want to spam Facebook. One of the examples they give is baby photos... If anything, we should be discouraging parents from putting their children's entire childhoods online.
If you were one of those competitors it's not clear who you might sue... The government of Luxembourg negotiated the deal, but they could argue that they reasonably believed to be to legal and point to similar deals in Ireland as evidence. Amazon would probably argue that it's not their job to understand the finer points of tax law when offered a deal by a government, which is of course bullshit because you can bet their accountants were the ones who suggested it.
I imagine they will try to make this available offline eventually, because they do with other services that are related to travel. Google Translate (text/OCR via the camera) works offline, and Google Maps lets you download areas for offline viewing, and their new Travel app thingy has offline caching as well.
The new always-on music identification system uses a local database too.
It makes sense to do speech processing on the phone where possible, because it decreases latency. To give the best user experience the response needs to be fast.
Maybe ads should have a country of origin label, like goods do. At the very least, every ad should be accompanied by the name of the organization paying for it. Not sure how to deal with shell companies and the inevitable ad anonymization services though, except perhaps that sites could elect to ban them as a show of good faith to readers.
Including having the UK Parliament publicly make statements about Trump's mental health and or fitness for office before the election?
It was important for our MPs to discuss those issues, given that there was a very real possibility of someone with possible mental health issues and a volatile temperament and finger hovering over the tweet button might win.
It's actually worked out really badly for us. The EU is on the rise again as people look to it for strength and leadership as America declines, and our hope of getting a good trade deal post-Brexit from Mr. America First fucked-over-everyone-he-ever-did-business-with is looking pretty remote.
Try enabling the "This Day on Slashdot" sidebar, if you have not already. It shows you five most commented stories from previous years, and it's fascinating to see what we were concerned about back then.
Today we have "A Car With A Mind Of Its Own" from 2004. Thirteen years later and self-driving cars are still not ready.
Slashdot Mirror
All politicians exaggerate and lie, but Boris was exceptionally untruthful. And Gove, with his "people have had enough of experts"...
A year after the disaster and there was a women on TV saying she was going to vote remain, but at the last minute saw the old "straight bananas" lie on social media and changed her mind. When people still fall for lies that started in the 90s and have been debunked over and over and over again, what hope is there?
The Brexit campaign was awful. Endless lies, no plan even offered so it wasn't clear what people were actually voting for, and outside influences from social media.
It's also quite telling that Brexit supporters have stopped trying to claim it will be great and fallen back to "it's the will of the people", while also opposing any further democratic consultation.
I experience the same thing. I get the moderation report emails, 50% troll and 50% insightful.
I'm guessing the OP it's a native American demanding that Europeans go back to Europe.
Slashdot is like BSD, perpetually dying. Netcraft confirmed it.
I'd never have guessed if be reading it 20 years later, but how I'm reading it 20 years hence now.
The only tweak it needs is to make down votes have half the weight of up votes. If there is disagreement it should err on the side of giving people a voice.
Real trolls will still get hammered down to -1, but controversial comments won't be censored.
Any idea how long it has been that way?
Last year with Brexit. We have been in turmoil ever since, severely weakened government and an unclear future.
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I was all excited for a moment. Happy birthday Slashdot.
I think this just about covers everything: https://youtu.be/xLTAKb8IyqA
I'd love a karaoke version of that.
And of course https://youtu.be/RUbp_d2DkYU
Russian Government using Facebook to polarize the American People to destabilize the nation
For me the biggest change over the years has been realizing that Slashdot really is Stuff that Matters. I thought it was just nerds, but then...
- GCHQ leaked documents showed the targeted Slashdot for influence and malware distribution
- Reddit and 4chan started having a measurable effect on politics, eventually giving birth to the alt-right
- Russia managed to destabilize the UK and then the US via social media, and the EU only narrowly avoided it
- It's actually possible that World War 3 will be started with a tweet now
Slashdot is more important now than ever I think.
No matter how depressed I get, I know I can always count on AC to care enough to call me a faggot. It's the one universal constant of the internet.
Honestly my biggest regret in life is that I didn't register a Slashdot account earlier. I thought it was cool to post as AC... What a fool I was.
When I realized I went out in the rain, to the local graveyard, found a suitable headstone and knelt before it. Then I let out a desperate cry of "I COULD HAVE BEEN TRIPLE DIGITS!"
It's interesting how people's concept of what a troll is has changed over the years. Back then it was people being racist, offensive for the sake of it and spreading what evolved into fake news.
These days it's more "I disagree with your politics".
The stories didn't change much, at least at first, and in the long run I'm not sure how much was just the changing nature of tech and the internet and how much was Slashdot.
The one thing I did miss when Taco left was his occasional but usually great comments.
Anyone else remember Slashdot Radio? I actually quite enjoyed that. Still hoping to get that surgery for HSV controls on my eyeballs one day.
Chinese/Japanese/Korean support in Unicode is fundamentally broken and will never be fixed.
Windows 2000 didn't ship with fonts that had even close to complete character sets for any of them. Most Japanese software still uses Shift-JIS even today, simply because Unicode support for Japanese is so broken. Customers tend not to be very understanding when you tell them that the ticket can't have their name printed on it because of flaws in the underlying encoding scheme.
XP era specific problems included a fairly poor IME (back then third party IMEs were pretty much mandatory) and poor quality fonts for East Asian languages. Remember the old Ming family? Meiryo wasn't introduced until Windows 7 and I think Chinese fonts didn't get much love until 8, or at least without installing Office...
The big issue though was that the OS provided services for converting between encodings was rubbish, and based on a very old version of Unicode without the later hacks that made CJK sort of usable.
I guess you could train the AI to recognize important events rather than just photogenic ones. Maybe put some kind of sensor in it so that it knows when you pass through doorways.
Alternatively you could buy an internet connected smart lock. Not because it will let you check the state of the lock remotely, they are too unreliable for that, but at least you can stop worrying because it doesn't really matter if you locked it or not any more.
Most people get new phones on contract, which means every two years. So the manufacturers design for two year lifespans, and an average user will get through their 500 cycles in a bit over 2 years, so there really isn't much incentive to provide a better battery. Or even a user replaceable battery.
There are medical uses for devices like this too. Some people with memory problems (particularly the elderly) find it helpful to wear a camera that takes a photo every few minutes. Then if they can't remember if they did X, they can review the photos.
Of course most people just want to spam Facebook. One of the examples they give is baby photos... If anything, we should be discouraging parents from putting their children's entire childhoods online.
If you were one of those competitors it's not clear who you might sue... The government of Luxembourg negotiated the deal, but they could argue that they reasonably believed to be to legal and point to similar deals in Ireland as evidence. Amazon would probably argue that it's not their job to understand the finer points of tax law when offered a deal by a government, which is of course bullshit because you can bet their accountants were the ones who suggested it.
I imagine they will try to make this available offline eventually, because they do with other services that are related to travel. Google Translate (text/OCR via the camera) works offline, and Google Maps lets you download areas for offline viewing, and their new Travel app thingy has offline caching as well.
The new always-on music identification system uses a local database too.
It makes sense to do speech processing on the phone where possible, because it decreases latency. To give the best user experience the response needs to be fast.
Maybe ads should have a country of origin label, like goods do. At the very least, every ad should be accompanied by the name of the organization paying for it. Not sure how to deal with shell companies and the inevitable ad anonymization services though, except perhaps that sites could elect to ban them as a show of good faith to readers.
Including having the UK Parliament publicly make statements about Trump's mental health and or fitness for office before the election?
It was important for our MPs to discuss those issues, given that there was a very real possibility of someone with possible mental health issues and a volatile temperament and finger hovering over the tweet button might win.
It's actually worked out really badly for us. The EU is on the rise again as people look to it for strength and leadership as America declines, and our hope of getting a good trade deal post-Brexit from Mr. America First fucked-over-everyone-he-ever-did-business-with is looking pretty remote.
Try enabling the "This Day on Slashdot" sidebar, if you have not already. It shows you five most commented stories from previous years, and it's fascinating to see what we were concerned about back then.
Today we have "A Car With A Mind Of Its Own" from 2004. Thirteen years later and self-driving cars are still not ready.
Phone batteries are typically good for about 500 cycles. That's why heavy users who get down to a few percent every day find they only last 18 months.
Phone manufacturers motivated to improve battery longevity because it just means extra sales for them and the new model will be out in a year anyway.