For those not familiar, I mean "bullies unscheduling things you've scheduled, misplacing files and other items that you are working on and co-workers micro-managing you and being particularly critical of what you do and keeping it under their surveillance.
The term Gaslighting does not mean, what the submitter believes it means:
The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation by the main character of a victim in the 1938 stage play Gas Light, known as Angel Street in the United States, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, a husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The original title stems from the dimming of the gas lights in the house that happened when the husband was using the gas lights in the attic while searching for hidden treasure. The wife accurately notices the dimming lights and discusses the phenomenon, but the husband insists she just imagined a change in the level of illumination.
The term "gaslighting" has been used colloquially since the 1960s[5] to describe efforts to manipulate someone's sense of reality. In a 1980 book on child sexual abuse, Florence Rush summarized George Cukor's 1944 film version of Gas Light, and writes, "even today the word gaslighting is used to describe an attempt to destroy another's perception of reality."
The question itself remains valid, but the misuse of the term is so annoying, I'm not going to give my (very valuable) advice on the subject.
Assad crossed the "red line" when Hillary was no longer SOS. So it was Obama/Kerry not Obama/Clinton. Hillary has said she would have been more aggressive in Syria.
Yeah. Hillary should be hung for what she did to Libia instead... I'm not going to cry for Qaddafi, but he did do everything the US demanded of him only a few years earlier. It will be a looong time before other foreign tyrants believe the US again...
We don't need to oppose him just because the Russians support him.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We are not conducting a criminal trial here and aren't bound by the "innocent until proven guilty" rule.
The fact is, California is ruled by the same Party, which for years objected — and continues to object — to any and all attempts to verify voters' status. It has a large — and growing — number of cities, which offer official sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
They have a motive — illegals tend to support Democrats. They have the opportunity — White House is controlled by a fellow Democrat. We have anecdotalevidence of illegals being registered to vote — and not being prosecuted. Democrats admit it too — when caught on hidden camera. In such a situation, absence of evidence becomes evidence of presence, so to speak. The burden of proof is on those like yourself denying anything is wrong. We do not know the exact scale, and that's a problem...
No one in the world has more influence in the Balkans and Ukraine than Bill Clinton.
Can't speak for the Balkans, but that is certainly not true about Ukraine. McCain has influence there — he knows Russians since his youth. Biden does — his son has sizeable investments there. Obama and Trump do — for their own obvious reasons.
But Clinton?..
he was an excellent president and he managed to settle a complex region that could have ended up like Iraq is now, if someone less competent had been in charge
The difference with Iraq may be more due to differences between Iraqis and Yugoslavs — and their respective neighborhoods — than that between Bush and Clinton.
The biggest impediment to reaching that goal would be Bill/Hillary in power again.
Really? You mean, the Hillary of the "Reset" fame? The Hillary, that was on his payroll for years? The Hillary, whose e-mails his staff has been accessing more reliably, than weather forecasts? That Hillary?..
If you can't verify the source of the evidence, how can you prove it's real?
Here is one example: police get an anonymous message (via Tor from "Russians", whatever) about John Doe having been killed. They go Mr. Doe's house and find his dead body there with a bullet in the head.
Are you going to claim, there is "no proof" of Mr. Doe's death because we don't know, who notified police of it?
Thank you. That's neat, but this is still a TV — with a tuner and built-in speakers. It is unclear, what OS it has, but it must be something capable of making use of the USB-port, that is listed in the specs. So, it may not be as "smart" as the LG in TFA, but it still has features well beyond, what I'd like. It is not purely a monitor...
It may be a good value for $800, but there are still features I don't want.
I didn't like "Martian" for the same reason — implausible. I get, what you are saying about "telling a story", and am prepared to suspend my disbelief, when it talks about travel at speeds above light's or multiple dimensions — stuff too far anyway to worry about. But Mars and Moon are right here and the technology used and the problems faced are (almost) upon us. So the complete bogosity of Martian "storm" was just too annoying to ignore...
And whereas Stephenson really had to destroy the Moon for his story's premise (Earth becoming suddenly uninhabitable and not because of a war), the Martian disaster could've been caused by something far more believable. Like a hidden crevice or tectonic move...
Only inasmuch as they are part of the government's way to inform the entire nation.
This phone, when used in a city would cause the entire city's cell network to be unusable on the frequency the phone was running on.
Seriously? Is it really that simple to knock a city's entire cellular phone system? Don't tell ISIS... Of course, it is not. Reminds one of the "phones on the planes" scare-mongering — for decades we were supposed to believe, a cell-phone could "interfere" with the plane's electronics...
This is important and useful regulation.
The quality of the devices is not regulated — that's the point. Competition is the best regulator imaginable. When done by government, it is either an ineffective folly or oppression. Or both...
I still find myself wondering why the spaceborn had to drop comet cores on Earth...I just don't understand where he thought the water that boiled would go.
That's my whole problem with the book — it is just too implausible (not just from physics perspective, but all around) and leaves too many questions. Sure, some of his other stuff — like Anathem, which I loved — is only less plausible, but it does not pretend, whereas the SevenEves is firmly in the uncanny valley of plausibility.
I've never seen any signs in a Wal-Mart pointing out that the Levi jeans are a special Walmart-only version without the quality of Levi jeans elsewhere.
That's new — the Anonymous OP I was replying to made no allegations of the Walmart-only TVs being lower quality. Reduced feature-set — yes. But he never mentioned quality issues — indeed, his parents are, reportedly, happy enough with the purchase for him to recommend the shop to/. colleagues.
Without adequate information, cheap crap drives expensive quality out of the market
Well, whatever the quality of Walmart's wares, there is obviously still plenty of places to get other kind of stuff on the US market.
if you don't mind how they treat their employees.
I'm unaware of anybody being forced to work there. If people do so voluntarily, I certainly am not going to pay attention to Communists and their rent-seeking running dogs at the variousUnions.
There are alternatives, but you have to look for them
Citation needed. Do give an example of a 4K-capable 65" monitor, that costs significantly less than $1200 without the "Smart" features (and, preferably, without built-in speakers as well).
One of the things I don't like about them is that their aggressive price-cutting monopsony forces manufacturers to cut corners, leading to unique SKU's that are only available at walmart
What's to dislike about that?
a nice large big screen TV (I think it was a Samsung?) that was the Wal-Mart-only model, that was mostly identical to the regular model except with fewer inputs and no smart features
What's to dislike about that?
It is almost like someone has told you to hate Walmart, but you just can't help yourself saying good things about them and recommending the store to others...
Performance is not just serial speed. And what I "brought in" is user experience anyway.
Your general claim that "computers are 1024 times more powerful today, than they were 15 years ago" is bullshit
That depends on how one defines "powerful", does not it? I didn't say serially faster, I deliberately said more powerful — because power is about more than serial speed.
it so happens for a very long time, many other things went along for the ride, resulting in exponential serial performance that lasted for decades
That's true. But the improvements, which we continue to get, can still be put to a good use improving usage. That they aren't, is, to no small extent, the fault of the programmers.
Today's computers are a pale joke if you compare them to how they used to improve.
No, they aren't. There is well-written code out there, which actually takes full advantage of the new hardware. For one example, try make -jN — Unix kernel and make really scales with the number of CPUs. A build will finish about N times faster — provided, you have N CPUs.
And unlike you, I'm not blaming anybody.
This may mean, you are a nicer person than my nasty self. But that does not mean, there is no one to blame...
And my point is that the hardware advances didn't keep up the way they used to.
And your point is wrong. Moore's Law never promised serial speed-ups. It promised greater number of elements (transistors) on the same-size chip — and that keeps working, according to TFA. We just don't feel it like we used to.
Where the increase could be translated into serial speed-ups, no effort is required from software folks — the same program would run faster automatically. But when the advances provide for larger caches, RAM, new processor-instructions, more and wider IO-pipes, and multiple threads of execution, a rewrite may be necessary. Other things being equal, Firefox should be able to render the same page about twice faster on a quad-core machine than it does on a dual-core one. It does not...
And that's, where the the software engineers are coming short — despite having these wonderful tools like IDEs and smarter compilers to do their jobs.
I disagree. It's really a people problem, such as people not understanding technology very well.
My point was not about scamware in general, but rather a subset of it, that purports to be FBI. You don't need to understand technology to trust a law-enforcement agency to not accuse you, if you've done nothing wrong. Frightening victims with such accusations should be a net-loss for scammers — some of us may, indeed, get scared, but most should, upon seeing a reference to FBI, relax: "FBI? They'd never make such a bogus accusation! This can only be a scam."
That we do not have such trust, that we fear FBI making our lives miserable, is a problem, which a properly self-governed country should not have.
Trump is fairly unique — though sometimes compared to Reagan, he is different from him in many ways too. So, it would seem, that it was other kinds of politicians, who got the country into its current state of social distrust. Whether Trump will help alleviate the problem or not, making such nasty predictions about him as you just did reveals nothing, but your own hateful partisanship.
Of all the agencies scammers could pick the FBI was absolutely the correct one for a television.
The ransomware described in TFA was not made for television. The picture shows the letter on its side — no one watches TV that way. The scammers targeted phones and tablets — the TV just happened to run the same OS.
They offer, what the manufacturer believes you want in one package.
I too would rather just buy a nice 65" monitor — because I have a capable set-top box running my IPTV apps and a nice surround-sound setup already — but there aren't any good ones for sale. Or, rather, there are, but they all have the "smart TV" built into them — and I am as annoyed about paying for the "smart" features and the extra hardware they require (USB-readers and WiFi), as people used to be about paying the "Microsoft Tax".
But there is no alternative at the moment. Which means, people like me (and you) are a tiny minority... I guess, it would cost the manufacturers more to make and ship the separate models without these add-ons, than to simply bundle it all in.
ransomware purporting to be a FBI message a notice that suspicious files were found and the user has been fined.
That people believe such "warnings" in large enough numbers to make it worthwhile for the crooks to make them, is a sign, that FBI has an image problem.
It is an organization we fear, rather than one we trust (such as to hunt the scammers down). And they had this image problem for so long now, one can begin suspecting, it is not just a perception...
It's not the same as the exponential general purpose sequential computing we had experienced up till then.
Few tasks require serial performance — most desktop stuff is, in fact, parallelizable. It just is not done — not done right anyway.
Consider Firefox for just one example — it has gone from event-driven (Netscape) to multi-threaded and now to multi-process. Because loading and rendering even one page offers ample opportunities for parallelizing — you can load multiple elements of the page (images, styles, JS) in parallel. Just not very well.
And, after it runs for a while, its memory usage becomes so high, you have to restart the process — because even with the shiny new malloc there remain problems...
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The term Gaslighting does not mean, what the submitter believes it means:
The question itself remains valid, but the misuse of the term is so annoying, I'm not going to give my (very valuable) advice on the subject.
The best "Linux distro" is FreeBSD.
This must be, how you win all your debates...
Yeah. Hillary should be hung for what she did to Libia instead... I'm not going to cry for Qaddafi, but he did do everything the US demanded of him only a few years earlier. It will be a looong time before other foreign tyrants believe the US again...
Khm, are you talking about Trump, perhaps?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We are not conducting a criminal trial here and aren't bound by the "innocent until proven guilty" rule.
The fact is, California is ruled by the same Party, which for years objected — and continues to object — to any and all attempts to verify voters' status. It has a large — and growing — number of cities, which offer official sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
They have a motive — illegals tend to support Democrats. They have the opportunity — White House is controlled by a fellow Democrat. We have anecdotal evidence of illegals being registered to vote — and not being prosecuted. Democrats admit it too — when caught on hidden camera. In such a situation, absence of evidence becomes evidence of presence, so to speak. The burden of proof is on those like yourself denying anything is wrong. We do not know the exact scale, and that's a problem...
Can't speak for the Balkans, but that is certainly not true about Ukraine. McCain has influence there — he knows Russians since his youth. Biden does — his son has sizeable investments there. Obama and Trump do — for their own obvious reasons.
But Clinton?..
The difference with Iraq may be more due to differences between Iraqis and Yugoslavs — and their respective neighborhoods — than that between Bush and Clinton.
Really? You mean, the Hillary of the "Reset" fame? The Hillary, that was on his payroll for years? The Hillary, whose e-mails his staff has been accessing more reliably, than weather forecasts? That Hillary?..
Yes, of course, he meant Electoral College. The US has been electing Presidents via the institutions from the very beginning.
How many of them voting illegally?..
Here is one example: police get an anonymous message (via Tor from "Russians", whatever) about John Doe having been killed. They go Mr. Doe's house and find his dead body there with a bullet in the head.
Are you going to claim, there is "no proof" of Mr. Doe's death because we don't know, who notified police of it?
Thank you. That's neat, but this is still a TV — with a tuner and built-in speakers. It is unclear, what OS it has, but it must be something capable of making use of the USB-port, that is listed in the specs. So, it may not be as "smart" as the LG in TFA, but it still has features well beyond, what I'd like. It is not purely a monitor...
It may be a good value for $800, but there are still features I don't want.
"Parallel construction" has never been used to frame an innocent party. Not yet, anyway.
But, yeah, I hear you, Joe McCarthy, who caused 50 people to lose their jobs is just as bad as Lavrenty Beria, who killed 5 million....
I didn't like "Martian" for the same reason — implausible. I get, what you are saying about "telling a story", and am prepared to suspend my disbelief, when it talks about travel at speeds above light's or multiple dimensions — stuff too far anyway to worry about. But Mars and Moon are right here and the technology used and the problems faced are (almost) upon us. So the complete bogosity of Martian "storm" was just too annoying to ignore...
And whereas Stephenson really had to destroy the Moon for his story's premise (Earth becoming suddenly uninhabitable and not because of a war), the Martian disaster could've been caused by something far more believable. Like a hidden crevice or tectonic move...
Only the radio emissions.
Only inasmuch as they are part of the government's way to inform the entire nation.
Seriously? Is it really that simple to knock a city's entire cellular phone system? Don't tell ISIS... Of course, it is not. Reminds one of the "phones on the planes" scare-mongering — for decades we were supposed to believe, a cell-phone could "interfere" with the plane's electronics...
The quality of the devices is not regulated — that's the point. Competition is the best regulator imaginable. When done by government, it is either an ineffective folly or oppression. Or both...
That's my whole problem with the book — it is just too implausible (not just from physics perspective, but all around) and leaves too many questions. Sure, some of his other stuff — like Anathem, which I loved — is only less plausible, but it does not pretend, whereas the SevenEves is firmly in the uncanny valley of plausibility.
That's new — the Anonymous OP I was replying to made no allegations of the Walmart-only TVs being lower quality. Reduced feature-set — yes. But he never mentioned quality issues — indeed, his parents are, reportedly, happy enough with the purchase for him to recommend the shop to /. colleagues.
Well, whatever the quality of Walmart's wares, there is obviously still plenty of places to get other kind of stuff on the US market.
I'm unaware of anybody being forced to work there. If people do so voluntarily, I certainly am not going to pay attention to Communists and their rent-seeking running dogs at the various Unions.
Citation needed. Do give an example of a 4K-capable 65" monitor, that costs significantly less than $1200 without the "Smart" features (and, preferably, without built-in speakers as well).
What's to dislike about that?
What's to dislike about that?
It is almost like someone has told you to hate Walmart, but you just can't help yourself saying good things about them and recommending the store to others...
Performance is not just serial speed. And what I "brought in" is user experience anyway.
That depends on how one defines "powerful", does not it? I didn't say serially faster, I deliberately said more powerful — because power is about more than serial speed.
That's true. But the improvements, which we continue to get, can still be put to a good use improving usage. That they aren't, is, to no small extent, the fault of the programmers.
No, they aren't. There is well-written code out there, which actually takes full advantage of the new hardware. For one example, try make -jN — Unix kernel and make really scales with the number of CPUs. A build will finish about N times faster — provided, you have N CPUs.
This may mean, you are a nicer person than my nasty self. But that does not mean, there is no one to blame...
And your point is wrong. Moore's Law never promised serial speed-ups. It promised greater number of elements (transistors) on the same-size chip — and that keeps working, according to TFA. We just don't feel it like we used to.
Where the increase could be translated into serial speed-ups, no effort is required from software folks — the same program would run faster automatically. But when the advances provide for larger caches, RAM, new processor-instructions, more and wider IO-pipes, and multiple threads of execution, a rewrite may be necessary. Other things being equal, Firefox should be able to render the same page about twice faster on a quad-core machine than it does on a dual-core one. It does not...
And that's, where the the software engineers are coming short — despite having these wonderful tools like IDEs and smarter compilers to do their jobs.
My point was not about scamware in general, but rather a subset of it, that purports to be FBI. You don't need to understand technology to trust a law-enforcement agency to not accuse you, if you've done nothing wrong. Frightening victims with such accusations should be a net-loss for scammers — some of us may, indeed, get scared, but most should, upon seeing a reference to FBI, relax: "FBI? They'd never make such a bogus accusation! This can only be a scam."
That we do not have such trust, that we fear FBI making our lives miserable, is a problem, which a properly self-governed country should not have.
Trump is fairly unique — though sometimes compared to Reagan, he is different from him in many ways too. So, it would seem, that it was other kinds of politicians, who got the country into its current state of social distrust. Whether Trump will help alleviate the problem or not, making such nasty predictions about him as you just did reveals nothing, but your own hateful partisanship.
Of course! And that's my point — software engineers aren't keeping up with the hardware advances.
The ransomware described in TFA was not made for television. The picture shows the letter on its side — no one watches TV that way. The scammers targeted phones and tablets — the TV just happened to run the same OS.
They offer, what the manufacturer believes you want in one package.
I too would rather just buy a nice 65" monitor — because I have a capable set-top box running my IPTV apps and a nice surround-sound setup already — but there aren't any good ones for sale. Or, rather, there are, but they all have the "smart TV" built into them — and I am as annoyed about paying for the "smart" features and the extra hardware they require (USB-readers and WiFi), as people used to be about paying the "Microsoft Tax".
But there is no alternative at the moment. Which means, people like me (and you) are a tiny minority... I guess, it would cost the manufacturers more to make and ship the separate models without these add-ons, than to simply bundle it all in.
That people believe such "warnings" in large enough numbers to make it worthwhile for the crooks to make them, is a sign, that FBI has an image problem.
It is an organization we fear, rather than one we trust (such as to hunt the scammers down). And they had this image problem for so long now, one can begin suspecting, it is not just a perception...
Few tasks require serial performance — most desktop stuff is, in fact, parallelizable. It just is not done — not done right anyway.
Consider Firefox for just one example — it has gone from event-driven (Netscape) to multi-threaded and now to multi-process. Because loading and rendering even one page offers ample opportunities for parallelizing — you can load multiple elements of the page (images, styles, JS) in parallel. Just not very well.
And, after it runs for a while, its memory usage becomes so high, you have to restart the process — because even with the shiny new malloc there remain problems...