But when you're starving, do you really want the government telling McDonalds that they can't give you free food because that wouldn't be fair to Burger King?
No, but I do want the government telling McDonalds that they can't give me free food because of the effect it will have on my health, and the livelihoods of local food sellers.
Most of the Japanese expats I know are watching live TV via streaming sites in China, usually via a set-top-box they bought either in China themselves for $100 or from a local expat that acts as a distributor for around $300. I don't see this hurting them at all, given that it only blocks legal copying.
You mistakenly believe that signed software is promoted by the large software companies for reasons of security. It is not, it is so they can act as gatekeepers and extract a tithe from the peasantry.
To clarify, Facebook is posting the videos (visible initially only to the account holder). The behaviour I was suggesting they are promoting is "mourning our collective privacy" etc, vs Facebook's stated intention of "celebration". I was not suggesting that Facebook is promoting relationship breakups etc, though I do believe they may be culpable in some case.
By posting videos reminding people of their ex-girl/boyfriends, the backstabbing friends that later became worst enemies, their dead friends and relatives etc, this is effectively what they are promoting isn't it?
1) It's a BMP file. No genuine photos use BMP as a primary format.
2) Its huge. Bigger than is reasonable with any available consumer or professional camera.
In this case, it is trivially easy to write software to distinguish this "hack" from genuine photos.
They are talking about taking a container which is commonly used for implementing the 'cloud' buzzword and using it to implement the 'IoT' buzzword. Someone pointed out that 'things' generally are a lot more resource constrained than servers, so they've slimmed down their 644MB container to 29MB. Good luck fitting that into the 128kB of flash in the typical microcontroller running your consumer electronics.
You might be right, it might be my perception of time that has changed. Or 16 years ago when I first got moderation points, it was always 5 points, which I would immediately go and use. With 15 points, I tend to keep some of them around longer, so often the time expires before I've used them, and that might be what has made the time seem shorter. And probably I spend less time moderating, as I don't have time for sorting through all the -1 and 0 comments these days.
Yeah, an option in preferences is a good idea, maybe a sliding scale for how much firehose content to include. For some of us, the fact that stories get filtered through human editors is a feature, and the quantity of stories is not a problem. I wouldn't mind seeing one or two of the top rated firehose stories on the front page, but others, who have more time to digest more stories (or perhaps the same amount of time, but don't bother with the comments so much) might want to see more.
It could also work if it was limited to a single story posted in a standard place on the page, so if it gets too spammy (anything that relies entirely on upvoting can be manipulated) it is easy to ignore. That way, real breaking news doesn't have to wait for an editor to make the front page, but the whole front page does not become full of spam. Human editors are really one of the things that distinguishes slashdot from a lot of other similar sites.
This works if the real intention is to fix the fact that slashdot is often old news, not so much if the intention is to automate away the editors to reduce cost.
I also find that when I get mod points, I often get more (15 usually, sometimes still 5) and they expire faster (1 or 2 days instead of a week) than in the old days. I usually don't use them before they expire, and I don't see any real problem on slashdot that looks like it is caused by not enough moderators, so I'm not sure that more mod points is a solution to anything other than making some users feel self-important because they got lots of mod points to (ab)use.
There's normally a peak in the middle somewhere. Exceptionally high users get to make their own deals, which usually involves agreements to spread their load in a certain way in return for low rates. For the rest of us, the standard tiered rates start low with low usage, and go up as the usage increases.
No need for double headed coins: Heads for a Clinton win, Tails for a Sanders loss. Presumably the people doing the coin tossing are part of the Democratic establishment, so they get to do the call.
The narrow depth of field has gotten much worse of late, combined with excessively close up shots to make 3D scenes pop out of the screen. I find it quite distracting to have every dialog scene in a movie shot from about 2 feet away, with everything 3 feet or more back from the camera appearing completely out of focus.
If a computer repair technician "finds" pictures of someone's children in the bathtub (presumably with filenames as suspicious DSCN0345.JPG), then the problem is more with the technician's snooping than the person who sent their computer in for repair. Presumably genuine child porn might be more easily distinguishable from the filename without opening the file, but I'd still be a bit concerned about why the technician was snooping about the filesystem.
The OP probably sees Twitter integration as ridiculous, because like 99% of the population he sees Twitter as a "social" web site / mobile app for killing a few minutes of boredom with every now and then. But some people do things with Twitter that are useful to integrate into a workflow of some sort, where having the messages right there there while doing something else, and possibly automatically parsed and/or generated is actually usefui.
These figures remind me of software metrics. Management loves them and thinks it lets them put a dollar (and lives) figure on some random event, but in all reality they are meaningless, constructed from a formula pulled out of some overpaid consultant's arsehole.
If they know it's happening then they need to cut ties with the supplier even if it's not ideal.
So you're basically saying that all companies everywhere should just stop making stuff. Because companies like Apple, Samsung and Sony are already using the most reputable suppliers there are in the business. And apparently that is not enough.
When your criticism hinges on the fact that the company bought a part from a supplier who bought their materials through a middleman who sourced the material from a Chinese company who have a stake in a mining operation in Congo where reportedly some percentage of the workers are underage, yes it is hypocritical to be buying and using their products.
There are very clear requirements in the international agreements on conflict minerals and child labour. They require Sony, Samsung, Apple etc to obtain documentation from their supplier that the parts they are supplying are free from issues. I am sure those companys are complying with that requirement. The problem is lower in the chain where documentation is being fraudulently provided by someone who knows they are making a false declaration.
Amnesty has a rosy eyed view of the world where manufacturers of end products have infinite resources at their disposal to go and audit their suppliers' suppliers' suppliers... to n degrees of separation with n being as large as necessary to get back to the source. But the general public is not willing to pay the price that would cost, Amnesty members included.
I don't think I've ever encountered a "charity" that didn't skim a fair amount of the money off of the top for someones personal enrichment.
Things like the former director of the charity selling 7 pages that were handed to him while he was director back to the charity for $300k, for example.
Google Glass is AR. Working on Word documents with a pair of glasses for a screen... I'm not sure what R you call that, but it doesn't sound like anything I will be buying ever.
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No, but I do want the government telling McDonalds that they can't give me free food because of the effect it will have on my health, and the livelihoods of local food sellers.
Most of the Japanese expats I know are watching live TV via streaming sites in China, usually via a set-top-box they bought either in China themselves for $100 or from a local expat that acts as a distributor for around $300. I don't see this hurting them at all, given that it only blocks legal copying.
You mistakenly believe that signed software is promoted by the large software companies for reasons of security. It is not, it is so they can act as gatekeepers and extract a tithe from the peasantry.
To clarify, Facebook is posting the videos (visible initially only to the account holder). The behaviour I was suggesting they are promoting is "mourning our collective privacy" etc, vs Facebook's stated intention of "celebration". I was not suggesting that Facebook is promoting relationship breakups etc, though I do believe they may be culpable in some case.
By posting videos reminding people of their ex-girl/boyfriends, the backstabbing friends that later became worst enemies, their dead friends and relatives etc, this is effectively what they are promoting isn't it?
2) Its huge. Bigger than is reasonable with any available consumer or professional camera.
In this case, it is trivially easy to write software to distinguish this "hack" from genuine photos.
They are talking about taking a container which is commonly used for implementing the 'cloud' buzzword and using it to implement the 'IoT' buzzword. Someone pointed out that 'things' generally are a lot more resource constrained than servers, so they've slimmed down their 644MB container to 29MB. Good luck fitting that into the 128kB of flash in the typical microcontroller running your consumer electronics.
You might be right, it might be my perception of time that has changed. Or 16 years ago when I first got moderation points, it was always 5 points, which I would immediately go and use. With 15 points, I tend to keep some of them around longer, so often the time expires before I've used them, and that might be what has made the time seem shorter. And probably I spend less time moderating, as I don't have time for sorting through all the -1 and 0 comments these days.
If we're being pedantic, shouldn't it be UKOGBANI?
Yeah, an option in preferences is a good idea, maybe a sliding scale for how much firehose content to include. For some of us, the fact that stories get filtered through human editors is a feature, and the quantity of stories is not a problem. I wouldn't mind seeing one or two of the top rated firehose stories on the front page, but others, who have more time to digest more stories (or perhaps the same amount of time, but don't bother with the comments so much) might want to see more.
This works if the real intention is to fix the fact that slashdot is often old news, not so much if the intention is to automate away the editors to reduce cost.
I also find that when I get mod points, I often get more (15 usually, sometimes still 5) and they expire faster (1 or 2 days instead of a week) than in the old days. I usually don't use them before they expire, and I don't see any real problem on slashdot that looks like it is caused by not enough moderators, so I'm not sure that more mod points is a solution to anything other than making some users feel self-important because they got lots of mod points to (ab)use.
There's normally a peak in the middle somewhere. Exceptionally high users get to make their own deals, which usually involves agreements to spread their load in a certain way in return for low rates. For the rest of us, the standard tiered rates start low with low usage, and go up as the usage increases.
No need for double headed coins: Heads for a Clinton win, Tails for a Sanders loss. Presumably the people doing the coin tossing are part of the Democratic establishment, so they get to do the call.
The narrow depth of field has gotten much worse of late, combined with excessively close up shots to make 3D scenes pop out of the screen. I find it quite distracting to have every dialog scene in a movie shot from about 2 feet away, with everything 3 feet or more back from the camera appearing completely out of focus.
If a computer repair technician "finds" pictures of someone's children in the bathtub (presumably with filenames as suspicious DSCN0345.JPG), then the problem is more with the technician's snooping than the person who sent their computer in for repair. Presumably genuine child porn might be more easily distinguishable from the filename without opening the file, but I'd still be a bit concerned about why the technician was snooping about the filesystem.
The OP probably sees Twitter integration as ridiculous, because like 99% of the population he sees Twitter as a "social" web site / mobile app for killing a few minutes of boredom with every now and then. But some people do things with Twitter that are useful to integrate into a workflow of some sort, where having the messages right there there while doing something else, and possibly automatically parsed and/or generated is actually usefui.
If there's a security fix for iOS you don't even hear about it until Apple is ready to ship on all devices they are still supporting.
These figures remind me of software metrics. Management loves them and thinks it lets them put a dollar (and lives) figure on some random event, but in all reality they are meaningless, constructed from a formula pulled out of some overpaid consultant's arsehole.
Buy manufactured industrial diamonds. Not only are they free from DeBeers tainting, they are higher purity and cheaper to boot.
So you're basically saying that all companies everywhere should just stop making stuff. Because companies like Apple, Samsung and Sony are already using the most reputable suppliers there are in the business. And apparently that is not enough.
There are very clear requirements in the international agreements on conflict minerals and child labour. They require Sony, Samsung, Apple etc to obtain documentation from their supplier that the parts they are supplying are free from issues. I am sure those companys are complying with that requirement. The problem is lower in the chain where documentation is being fraudulently provided by someone who knows they are making a false declaration.
Amnesty has a rosy eyed view of the world where manufacturers of end products have infinite resources at their disposal to go and audit their suppliers' suppliers' suppliers... to n degrees of separation with n being as large as necessary to get back to the source. But the general public is not willing to pay the price that would cost, Amnesty members included.
Things like the former director of the charity selling 7 pages that were handed to him while he was director back to the charity for $300k, for example.
Google Glass is AR. Working on Word documents with a pair of glasses for a screen... I'm not sure what R you call that, but it doesn't sound like anything I will be buying ever.
Which would be why the summary mentions North America.