Nope, can't be. If it was merely incorrect the the correct thing to do is post a reply, as you did. What actually happened is people stared bombing with -1 Troll mods.
-1 Troll is not a substitute for -1 Disagree or -1 Wrong. Neither is -1 Overrated or -1 Flamebait.
I'd argue that +1 Interesting is more than justified, even if you think I am wrong, as it provides a counter argument and moves the debate forward. All -1 Troll does is re-enforce the Slashdot echo chamber. It is in itself a form of trolling.
I miss hacking older systems like that. When I'm designing modern ones for work I try to include some unused early-boot vectors and the like in case I need to patch them like that later. I hadn't thought of putting a state recovery system in there though, only a debug dump.
Ah yes, that's right. I remember it wasn't until the Archimedes that it became a soft break, but even then you only had to press two keys to reboot the machine.
Can confirm, I've flown on both multiple times and the difference from the old aircraft is dramatic. Your ears don't get painful and pop, the atmosphere is much nicer and you can sleep a lot easier. At the end of a 12 hour flight you feel much better than you did coming off the old aircraft.
You wouldn't WANT a computer to reboot when you pressed one key
Remember those Macs with the power button on the keyboard? I seem to recall that many 8 bit computers had software and games written in BASIC, and one key press would interrupt and dump you to a BASIC prompt, losing all your work/progress.
Yes, one key reboot/power/interrupt is generally a terrible idea.
The issue with low wages is that the UK in general is a low wage, high cost, low productivity economy.
In the UK a lot of jobs do list a degree as a requirement. It's actually something that people without degrees complain about a lot because it locks them out, and that people with degrees complain about because it cheapens their expensive qualification when the assistant manager in a shop needs 3 years of full time study just to apply.
Degrees are also insanely expensive in the UK. That's only going to get worse as the immigration situation deteriorates and the supply of full fee paying foreigner students dries up.
Trump won because of the standard populist tactic of telling people that they are being attacked, and offering simplistic solutions. Mexicans are stealing your jobs, so I'll build a wall to keep Mexicans out. Liberals and the political elite are corrupt and make you feel uncomfortable, so I'll throw her in jail and repeal everything Obama ever did.
On top of that, Trump went full post-truth. He didn't even try to really hide the fact that he was lying, he just went with the idea that all politicians lie so you might as well stop worrying about it and vote for the one whose promises you like the sound of.
Interesting that the people who complained are both reading the Kindle edition. Maybe Amazon just looked at the logs from their Kindles and noticed that they hadn't actually read it...
That's the other part of the gaslighting. They go on 4chan's/pol and Reddit and post far-right, literal Nazi stuff, and then when called out on it claim that it's all a joke and you can't take a joke and why are you such a sensitive snowflake kek
What is your deal Mashiki? Are you part of it, are you trying to gaslight me, or are you just an idiot? You fell for Pizzagate... So it's hard to know if you are just gullible or deliberately putting this stuff out.
It does seem odd to put cellular and wifi on a watch... Cellular in particular uses a lot of energy, relative to Bluetooth. That battery isn't going to last very long, or will have to be extremely large. LTE is improving things a little, but it's still nowhere near as good as Bluetooth or even just wifi.
What benefit does LTE bring over just pairing to your phone? The only sane reason to even have a smart watch is as a secondary phone screen, unless they have invented some truly marvellous use for it.
Amazon has been deleting negative reviews from people it can't verify have bought the book from it. That's entirely reasonable - the book is being review bombed heavily, and the goal is to provide reliable reviews (it's not your political free speech soapbox).
There are plenty of people who have bought the book from Amazon, had time to actually read it and decided to leave a review. Not all of them are positive, but the barrier to entry (the cost of the book + time) does mean that people who review it are at least interested in the content.
They are doing the same thing with Zoe Quinn's new book. Steam is doing something similar with game reviews, because people review bomb them in response to some random thing the developer posted on Twitter.
Considering that the Nazis at Charlottesville were firing their guns at and even murdering counter-protesters, their reaction to being openly mocked by Kekistan flags only metres away from their swastikas seems rather understated.
I must be the only person on Slashdot who likes the ribbon and finds it to be faster than hunting through menus. Maybe my ability to memorize the location and function of a large number of text items in apps I don't use often is below average, but I find visually searching for the thing I want much faster.
In Firefox you can disable it via about:config or via the normal preferences by unchecking "Play DRM content" and disabling Google Widevine extension if installed.
In Chrome you can't disable it any more, all you can do is go to "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\[Chrome Version]\WidevineCdm\" or wherever it is on your system and delete the files. You can create a dummy file with the name "WidevineCdm" and protect it from removal to stop future Chrome updates recreating it, but that might break the update installation.
1 TB/day to store data from 1 billion. What's the marginal cost of storing that data per year? 100,000 dollars?
Google charges me much less than $100k to store 1TB of data for a year, so I can assure you it costs them much less. Let's see, 1TB of HDD space is a few tens of dollars, multiplied by 3 for redundancy, electricity cost for a year, maintenance costs are going to be pretty low along side the million other HDDs they have spinning... Maybe $100, max? I bet it's actually closer to $20 for someone like Google.
"Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent."
So basically, thought crimes.
Wait, Twitter can read my thoughts now?!? How else could they cut people off before they tweeted?
Or maybe they just noticed some asshat using the same IP address to create accounts in bulk and then starting to post terrorist propaganda, and banned the whole lot of them. Or maybe they deleted one account that posted something, and all the brand new accounts with zero tweets that were following them and only them in an attempt to astroturf.
Whenever Twitter uses even a tiny amount of intelligence to deal with abuse, people come up with all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories.
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It can't be a simple hash, because the measurements are not precise enough to give the exact same results every time. But yes, it's not a photo.
Samsung doesn't take photos either. And their latest models don't use facial recognition, they use iris scanning which also doesn't take a photo.
No, it's because GP is correct.
Nope, can't be. If it was merely incorrect the the correct thing to do is post a reply, as you did. What actually happened is people stared bombing with -1 Troll mods.
-1 Troll is not a substitute for -1 Disagree or -1 Wrong. Neither is -1 Overrated or -1 Flamebait.
I'd argue that +1 Interesting is more than justified, even if you think I am wrong, as it provides a counter argument and moves the debate forward. All -1 Troll does is re-enforce the Slashdot echo chamber. It is in itself a form of trolling.
I miss hacking older systems like that. When I'm designing modern ones for work I try to include some unused early-boot vectors and the like in case I need to patch them like that later. I hadn't thought of putting a state recovery system in there though, only a debug dump.
Thanks for the idea.
Mod-bombed to oblivion. The trolls are out in force today.
Trumpists? Russians? Both?
Ah yes, that's right. I remember it wasn't until the Archimedes that it became a soft break, but even then you only had to press two keys to reboot the machine.
Man, I wish I got paid for this shit.
Can confirm, I've flown on both multiple times and the difference from the old aircraft is dramatic. Your ears don't get painful and pop, the atmosphere is much nicer and you can sleep a lot easier. At the end of a 12 hour flight you feel much better than you did coming off the old aircraft.
You wouldn't WANT a computer to reboot when you pressed one key
Remember those Macs with the power button on the keyboard? I seem to recall that many 8 bit computers had software and games written in BASIC, and one key press would interrupt and dump you to a BASIC prompt, losing all your work/progress.
Yes, one key reboot/power/interrupt is generally a terrible idea.
The issue with low wages is that the UK in general is a low wage, high cost, low productivity economy.
In the UK a lot of jobs do list a degree as a requirement. It's actually something that people without degrees complain about a lot because it locks them out, and that people with degrees complain about because it cheapens their expensive qualification when the assistant manager in a shop needs 3 years of full time study just to apply.
Degrees are also insanely expensive in the UK. That's only going to get worse as the immigration situation deteriorates and the supply of full fee paying foreigner students dries up.
Trump won because of the standard populist tactic of telling people that they are being attacked, and offering simplistic solutions. Mexicans are stealing your jobs, so I'll build a wall to keep Mexicans out. Liberals and the political elite are corrupt and make you feel uncomfortable, so I'll throw her in jail and repeal everything Obama ever did.
On top of that, Trump went full post-truth. He didn't even try to really hide the fact that he was lying, he just went with the idea that all politicians lie so you might as well stop worrying about it and vote for the one whose promises you like the sound of.
No, I mean these actual Kekistan flags: https://www.google.com/search?...
Interesting that the people who complained are both reading the Kindle edition. Maybe Amazon just looked at the logs from their Kindles and noticed that they hadn't actually read it...
That's the other part of the gaslighting. They go on 4chan's /pol and Reddit and post far-right, literal Nazi stuff, and then when called out on it claim that it's all a joke and you can't take a joke and why are you such a sensitive snowflake kek
What is your deal Mashiki? Are you part of it, are you trying to gaslight me, or are you just an idiot? You fell for Pizzagate... So it's hard to know if you are just gullible or deliberately putting this stuff out.
I just tell them to ask Clippy for help.
Presumably for people with shoe pockets.
It does seem odd to put cellular and wifi on a watch... Cellular in particular uses a lot of energy, relative to Bluetooth. That battery isn't going to last very long, or will have to be extremely large. LTE is improving things a little, but it's still nowhere near as good as Bluetooth or even just wifi.
What benefit does LTE bring over just pairing to your phone? The only sane reason to even have a smart watch is as a secondary phone screen, unless they have invented some truly marvellous use for it.
Amazon has been deleting negative reviews from people it can't verify have bought the book from it. That's entirely reasonable - the book is being review bombed heavily, and the goal is to provide reliable reviews (it's not your political free speech soapbox).
There are plenty of people who have bought the book from Amazon, had time to actually read it and decided to leave a review. Not all of them are positive, but the barrier to entry (the cost of the book + time) does mean that people who review it are at least interested in the content.
They are doing the same thing with Zoe Quinn's new book. Steam is doing something similar with game reviews, because people review bomb them in response to some random thing the developer posted on Twitter.
Considering that the Nazis at Charlottesville were firing their guns at and even murdering counter-protesters, their reaction to being openly mocked by Kekistan flags only metres away from their swastikas seems rather understated.
The actual Nazis at the Charlottesville rally didn't seem too bothered by the Kekistan flags that you think were mocking them.
Don't fall for it.
These days "user friendly" means "doesn't artificially limit what you can do with DRM".
I must be the only person on Slashdot who likes the ribbon and finds it to be faster than hunting through menus. Maybe my ability to memorize the location and function of a large number of text items in apps I don't use often is below average, but I find visually searching for the thing I want much faster.
11. Let me export those settings, so that when I install the app on another machine/VM I don't have to spend half and hour reconfiguring it.
In Firefox you can disable it via about:config or via the normal preferences by unchecking "Play DRM content" and disabling Google Widevine extension if installed.
In Chrome you can't disable it any more, all you can do is go to "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\[Chrome Version]\WidevineCdm\" or wherever it is on your system and delete the files. You can create a dummy file with the name "WidevineCdm" and protect it from removal to stop future Chrome updates recreating it, but that might break the update installation.
1 TB/day to store data from 1 billion. What's the marginal cost of storing that data per year? 100,000 dollars?
Google charges me much less than $100k to store 1TB of data for a year, so I can assure you it costs them much less. Let's see, 1TB of HDD space is a few tens of dollars, multiplied by 3 for redundancy, electricity cost for a year, maintenance costs are going to be pretty low along side the million other HDDs they have spinning... Maybe $100, max? I bet it's actually closer to $20 for someone like Google.
"Twitter said about 75 percent of the blocked accounts this year were spotted before a single tweet was sent."
So basically, thought crimes.
Wait, Twitter can read my thoughts now?!? How else could they cut people off before they tweeted?
Or maybe they just noticed some asshat using the same IP address to create accounts in bulk and then starting to post terrorist propaganda, and banned the whole lot of them. Or maybe they deleted one account that posted something, and all the brand new accounts with zero tweets that were following them and only them in an attempt to astroturf.
Whenever Twitter uses even a tiny amount of intelligence to deal with abuse, people come up with all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories.