4chan is training their AI. People on the/pol board have been running a mass false-flagging campaign lately, getting videos and channels they don't like taken down. When the victims appeal or complain they just get a robot "reviewing" the strike and ultimately have to resort to tweeting at YouTube staff to have any chance of getting things resolved.
YouTube's content filtering is out of control, anti-free speech, kafkaesque and devoid of any human oversight to catch errors.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not turning off my ad blocker either. But like it or not, a lot of internet services are ad funded, including Slashdot.
At least with Google they are regulated by the EU and other governments. The situation isn't great, but maybe it can get better, and it's worth at least trying to come to some kind of truce.
The worst part is how when immigrants or the children of immigrants want to integrate, want to be British, and these idiots tell them that they can't be. Incompatible culture, wrong accent, funny name, as if those things make people British.
Actually, the rules on bananas were the UK rules. The EU decided to standardize to make trade easier, and the UK rules were already pretty much the same as most of the other members and international norms, so they adopted them. We literally wrote those rules.
What makes the Pixel camera so great is that it gets really good results with just point-and-shoot. You don't have to think about lighting or trying to hold it super steady for maximum HDR or whatever. And sure, the iPhone might give slightly better results in portrait mode with good illumination and no touch-up afterwards, but if light is poor or you are willing to press the one-touch fix button in the gallery app then the chances are that the Pixel will give better results for you.
My ultimate test is my black cat. It's rare for a phone to be able to get good pictures of him where you can even see where his limbs are. Normally he's just a big ball of black fur on phones.
Of course, even if you accept what you say as being at all likely to happen, it only matters if you think it's a problem for there to be a Muslim majority in some places.
Hypothetically, say the ill-defined area known as "Birmingham" became majority Muslim, why is that of concern?
Hard to say on this one. The tide was already turning against off-shoring due to low quality and other problems. Maybe Trump accelerated it, maybe it's just being reported differently because it's something he promised to do.
The iPhone camera is decidedly middle of the pack for high end phones. It's competitive but far from the best overall. If there is any overall champion it's the Google Pixel camera, which really is light years ahead with their computational photography system that has moved beyond just faster electronics and marginally better lenses. It's also by far the fastest.
The iPhone camera is good, don't get me wrong. It tends to end up looking artificial, especially in low light conditions, due to the heavy processing that Apple does. But as a point-and-shoot it's fine and gives generally good results most of the time. It just can't match the HDR ability of a Pixel or Samsung camera.
In fact, the Leave campaign and prominent Leave proponents all said we could stay in the single market, which means retaining freedom of movement. This isn't what was voted for at all.
Apparently he angrily voted leave because the EU banned something they never actually banned.
That pretty much sums up Brexit. There was a woman on the TV the other day saying she made a last minute decision to vote leave because of EU rules on straight bananas, one of the oldest and most widely debunked Euro myths.
Most people know less than nothing about the EU. By that I mean that they aren't just ignorant, everything they think they know is a lie.
Aren't you worried about your pension though? Aside from being decimated by the crashing economy, if you are outside the UK your state pension won't get yearly increases. Inside the EU it currently does, but not necessarily after Brexit.
The EU has given us more power, more control and more sovereignty. Look at how strong consumer rights and employment rights are under it. Look at how the EU is able to tell the US to go fuck itself when it suits us.
Outside the EU, we have countries lining up to screw us. How is being forced to accept US farming standards, far inferior to our own, "taking back control" or increasing our sovereignty?
The EU is getting stronger. The far right and the populists have been exposed and rejected. Support for the EU is up, it's reforming itself and pushing ahead with the project now that the UK can't hold it back.
The Trump "Administration" has turned your government into a reality TV show, but instead of going to the green room to bad-mouth the other contestants in private they just go on CNN or Fox or Twitter.
The only real upside is that the whole this is so ineffective it can't do as much damage as people feared. The wall can't get funded, Obamacare is still there... The closest they have come to actually doing something is the half-assed travel ban, despite Trump's best efforts to screw his future self.
It seems unlikely that freedom of movement will really end. Maybe in the sense that EU nationals will no longer have the right to work in the UK or use UK services as anything other than tourists, and of course the same for UK citizens living in Europe. But politically they won't be able to close that border, and people will move freely across it.
In practice that means that people will be able to bring family members in via the border, for example. It will create a new underclass of immigrants from the EU who don't have visas, can't work, don't have proper access to government services and the NHS, and which are impossible for the government to track and manage.
Around 4.4% of the population said they were Muslim at the last census (2011). Keep in mind that the census tends to inflate the numbers because the people filling it in put their kids down as being religious when they aren't really and stop participating when they grow up.
Anyway, that's up 1.7% since 2001, so in a decade. At that rate, by 2050 a massive 10% of the population will be Muslim. I don't think we have too much to worry about.
The wars were not the only reason for tight integration. If you want to have really free and fair trade between nations then they all need to be playing by the same rules. The same standards, the same rules everywhere so that products and services can flow freely and no-one gains an unfair advantage.
There is also the collective bargaining power that comes from being the second largest economy in the world. Outside of the EU, countries are already lining up to bully the UK into accepting their terms. Trump wants a quick deal because he knows we are weak and desperate, open to accepting US chlorinated chicken and hormone infused beef to lessen the pain of Brexit.
Brexit is making the EU stronger. Merkel and Macron are reforming it, renewing it. Cameron could have been with them, getting the changes he wanted, if he had participated and built support instead of presenting a list of demands backed up by a threat.
I'm in the UK too. BT is shit. Where they don't have competition they are very slow to upgrade, and are well over a decade behind other developed nations. They got vast amounts of money to provide universal broadband, but you still find many areas where 2Mb is all they can offer.
There were some "luxury" houses built near where I work. Starting prices around a million. Only one sold, and when you use the BT speed checker it estimates that they can only get 0.5Mb.
My house is actually served by Virgin as well, but I left them years ago because of a fault that they failed to fix for over two years. They said it was high utilization in that area, but were still signing up new customers. The BBC investigated them for that recently and found their staff still guaranteeing 150Mb in areas with known faults where people were actually getting around 5Mb during the evenings.
Fibre is just a dream, we don't even have a date for when it might be available. I mean real fibre to the premises, not to the cabinet.
Where are the long-haul links that connect cities going to come from, though? Let alone the intercontinental links.
The current ones are fine. What we need to do is encrypt and anonymize the traffic flowing over them. In the short term the new protocols would probably piggy back on the old ones, at least until the routers get updated to handle them natively.
Or local distribution when you want aggregate bandwidth greater than WiFi provides?
That's the hardest part. Some new tech will be required. Some ISPs are already looking at municipal scale wireless. I don't think it's all that bad though, we just need to get to a point where the alternative is good enough that it forces ISPs to compete with it by being less shitty.
...and when you try to control the flood of criminal sploit traffic making those wires useless, you become the spy....and when you cannot afford to keep that wire working, you become the rent seeker....and when you decide you don't want your pipe used for something you find morally unconscionable, you become the thought police.
All those issues can be overcome. Encryption and anonymization makes it impossible to be the thought police, for example. Imagine operating a node on an onion routed network - you can't determine packet content, or source, or destination, or infer anything about the identity of anyone involved with it. You have a binary choice: route everything, or route nothing.
If properly designed DDOS attacks should become ineffective anyway.
As for paying for it, the backbones are not the problem with the current model, ISPs are. However, with a mesh wireless option we might finally be able to break the stranglehold that ISPs have on last mile infrastructure. That's probably the hardest part to do. Effective and proven technology exists for all the other stuff.
The BBC hasn't been at the forefront of tech for many years. They developed a lot of cool stuff back in the day, but their streaming video tech is abysmal. Flash required for BBC News embedded videos, and iPlayer's video quality is terrible ("HD" is only 720p, very low bit rate and poor encoder).
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4chan is training their AI. People on the /pol board have been running a mass false-flagging campaign lately, getting videos and channels they don't like taken down. When the victims appeal or complain they just get a robot "reviewing" the strike and ultimately have to resort to tweeting at YouTube staff to have any chance of getting things resolved.
YouTube's content filtering is out of control, anti-free speech, kafkaesque and devoid of any human oversight to catch errors.
What would you suggest for a site like Slashdot?
I wish they would fix subscriptions, but I don't think they would be enough to run the site.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not turning off my ad blocker either. But like it or not, a lot of internet services are ad funded, including Slashdot.
At least with Google they are regulated by the EU and other governments. The situation isn't great, but maybe it can get better, and it's worth at least trying to come to some kind of truce.
Some way we can continue to enjoy Slashdot.
It's easy to be cynical, but if they can stop the worst abuse then advertising might remain a viable way to pay for web content.
The worst part is how when immigrants or the children of immigrants want to integrate, want to be British, and these idiots tell them that they can't be. Incompatible culture, wrong accent, funny name, as if those things make people British.
Actually, the rules on bananas were the UK rules. The EU decided to standardize to make trade easier, and the UK rules were already pretty much the same as most of the other members and international norms, so they adopted them. We literally wrote those rules.
What makes the Pixel camera so great is that it gets really good results with just point-and-shoot. You don't have to think about lighting or trying to hold it super steady for maximum HDR or whatever. And sure, the iPhone might give slightly better results in portrait mode with good illumination and no touch-up afterwards, but if light is poor or you are willing to press the one-touch fix button in the gallery app then the chances are that the Pixel will give better results for you.
My ultimate test is my black cat. It's rare for a phone to be able to get good pictures of him where you can even see where his limbs are. Normally he's just a big ball of black fur on phones.
Of course, even if you accept what you say as being at all likely to happen, it only matters if you think it's a problem for there to be a Muslim majority in some places.
Hypothetically, say the ill-defined area known as "Birmingham" became majority Muslim, why is that of concern?
Hard to say on this one. The tide was already turning against off-shoring due to low quality and other problems. Maybe Trump accelerated it, maybe it's just being reported differently because it's something he promised to do.
The iPhone camera is decidedly middle of the pack for high end phones. It's competitive but far from the best overall. If there is any overall champion it's the Google Pixel camera, which really is light years ahead with their computational photography system that has moved beyond just faster electronics and marginally better lenses. It's also by far the fastest.
The iPhone camera is good, don't get me wrong. It tends to end up looking artificial, especially in low light conditions, due to the heavy processing that Apple does. But as a point-and-shoot it's fine and gives generally good results most of the time. It just can't match the HDR ability of a Pixel or Samsung camera.
In fact, the Leave campaign and prominent Leave proponents all said we could stay in the single market, which means retaining freedom of movement. This isn't what was voted for at all.
https://youtu.be/0xGt3QmRSZY
Apparently he angrily voted leave because the EU banned something they never actually banned.
That pretty much sums up Brexit. There was a woman on the TV the other day saying she made a last minute decision to vote leave because of EU rules on straight bananas, one of the oldest and most widely debunked Euro myths.
Most people know less than nothing about the EU. By that I mean that they aren't just ignorant, everything they think they know is a lie.
Aren't you worried about your pension though? Aside from being decimated by the crashing economy, if you are outside the UK your state pension won't get yearly increases. Inside the EU it currently does, but not necessarily after Brexit.
Not sure whether to laugh out cry at this.
The EU has given us more power, more control and more sovereignty. Look at how strong consumer rights and employment rights are under it. Look at how the EU is able to tell the US to go fuck itself when it suits us.
Outside the EU, we have countries lining up to screw us. How is being forced to accept US farming standards, far inferior to our own, "taking back control" or increasing our sovereignty?
The EU is getting stronger. The far right and the populists have been exposed and rejected. Support for the EU is up, it's reforming itself and pushing ahead with the project now that the UK can't hold it back.
Budget cuts. The current government hates the BBC and is trying to destroy it by curing its funding.
As long as he has to eat Trump Steaks with them...
Also, thanks to TFA for providing instructions on how to disable SMB1.
Also why the hell does Windows have Super Mario Brothers 1 and 2 built in?!?
The Trump "Administration" has turned your government into a reality TV show, but instead of going to the green room to bad-mouth the other contestants in private they just go on CNN or Fox or Twitter.
The only real upside is that the whole this is so ineffective it can't do as much damage as people feared. The wall can't get funded, Obamacare is still there... The closest they have come to actually doing something is the half-assed travel ban, despite Trump's best efforts to screw his future self.
SAD.
It seems unlikely that freedom of movement will really end. Maybe in the sense that EU nationals will no longer have the right to work in the UK or use UK services as anything other than tourists, and of course the same for UK citizens living in Europe. But politically they won't be able to close that border, and people will move freely across it.
In practice that means that people will be able to bring family members in via the border, for example. It will create a new underclass of immigrants from the EU who don't have visas, can't work, don't have proper access to government services and the NHS, and which are impossible for the government to track and manage.
Around 4.4% of the population said they were Muslim at the last census (2011). Keep in mind that the census tends to inflate the numbers because the people filling it in put their kids down as being religious when they aren't really and stop participating when they grow up.
Anyway, that's up 1.7% since 2001, so in a decade. At that rate, by 2050 a massive 10% of the population will be Muslim. I don't think we have too much to worry about.
The wars were not the only reason for tight integration. If you want to have really free and fair trade between nations then they all need to be playing by the same rules. The same standards, the same rules everywhere so that products and services can flow freely and no-one gains an unfair advantage.
There is also the collective bargaining power that comes from being the second largest economy in the world. Outside of the EU, countries are already lining up to bully the UK into accepting their terms. Trump wants a quick deal because he knows we are weak and desperate, open to accepting US chlorinated chicken and hormone infused beef to lessen the pain of Brexit.
Brexit is making the EU stronger. Merkel and Macron are reforming it, renewing it. Cameron could have been with them, getting the changes he wanted, if he had participated and built support instead of presenting a list of demands backed up by a threat.
I'm in the UK too. BT is shit. Where they don't have competition they are very slow to upgrade, and are well over a decade behind other developed nations. They got vast amounts of money to provide universal broadband, but you still find many areas where 2Mb is all they can offer.
There were some "luxury" houses built near where I work. Starting prices around a million. Only one sold, and when you use the BT speed checker it estimates that they can only get 0.5Mb.
My house is actually served by Virgin as well, but I left them years ago because of a fault that they failed to fix for over two years. They said it was high utilization in that area, but were still signing up new customers. The BBC investigated them for that recently and found their staff still guaranteeing 150Mb in areas with known faults where people were actually getting around 5Mb during the evenings.
Fibre is just a dream, we don't even have a date for when it might be available. I mean real fibre to the premises, not to the cabinet.
Where are the long-haul links that connect cities going to come from, though? Let alone the intercontinental links.
The current ones are fine. What we need to do is encrypt and anonymize the traffic flowing over them. In the short term the new protocols would probably piggy back on the old ones, at least until the routers get updated to handle them natively.
Or local distribution when you want aggregate bandwidth greater than WiFi provides?
That's the hardest part. Some new tech will be required. Some ISPs are already looking at municipal scale wireless. I don't think it's all that bad though, we just need to get to a point where the alternative is good enough that it forces ISPs to compete with it by being less shitty.
...and when you try to control the flood of criminal sploit traffic making those wires useless, you become the spy. ...and when you cannot afford to keep that wire working, you become the rent seeker. ...and when you decide you don't want your pipe used for something you find morally unconscionable, you become the thought police.
All those issues can be overcome. Encryption and anonymization makes it impossible to be the thought police, for example. Imagine operating a node on an onion routed network - you can't determine packet content, or source, or destination, or infer anything about the identity of anyone involved with it. You have a binary choice: route everything, or route nothing.
If properly designed DDOS attacks should become ineffective anyway.
As for paying for it, the backbones are not the problem with the current model, ISPs are. However, with a mesh wireless option we might finally be able to break the stranglehold that ISPs have on last mile infrastructure. That's probably the hardest part to do. Effective and proven technology exists for all the other stuff.
The BBC hasn't been at the forefront of tech for many years. They developed a lot of cool stuff back in the day, but their streaming video tech is abysmal. Flash required for BBC News embedded videos, and iPlayer's video quality is terrible ("HD" is only 720p, very low bit rate and poor encoder).