I'm old enough to remember when most of the channels on Cable TV had few or no commercials. I was more than happy to pay $$$ to get away from the marketing junk on ABC/CBS/NBC back then. Then the ads started creeping in and getting more frequent. Then cable news outlets started showing ads disguised as "news stories". Then the "ticker ads" started rolling in the margins during programs. Then a 90 minute movie stretched to three hours with commercials every ten minutes.
The ads were so intrusive that I pulled the plug back in 2000. While staying at some hotels while traveling I found cable TV to be utterly worthless to watch so I'm not missing much.
The abuse of ads soured my experience enough that I refuse to pay $$$ for any media that shows ads. I will cancel any service with no hesitation. Ads on DVD with fast forward or skip disabled get played with the sound off and I leave the room to do something else until the main menu of the feature movie is displayed. The marketers pushed too far and I'm sick of ads.
It's another reason why I enjoy traveling by train anymore - I'm tired of the billboards on the highway (trucks trailers included), tired of the marketing in airports, tired of the ads played on the screen in my face on the seat of the plane.
I'm 53 years old and have seen a lot of rot in journalism. Journalism is going through a serious identity crisis the last twenty years. Due to very biased influences infiltrating the news sources such as newspapers and broadcast news, very rarely are we getting the whole story and many stories deemed important are getting suppressed. I look for a healthy balance of all views (Faux News does NOT count). I took a very interesting college course that highlighted the manipulation of journalism, especially in broadcast TV.
I ceased watching broadcast news since 2000. They only report part of the story and they emphasize anything that can be sensationalized in a visual context. I also got tired of ads for movies and TV shows disguised as "news". The bias is far worse today as the power of reporting is too concentrated in too few hands.
Newspapers are getting more biased. It doesn't help that many areas only have one local newspapers when fifty years ago there were multiple resources. That concentrated the source of news into one place which was exploited when powerful interests infiltrated a central source and exerted their influence. I live in a small community and we actually have two newspapers - one has a healthy balance while the other is blatantly biased. Many times both have the same story, but the biased one omits some text that changes the story. I don't like that manipulation and deception.
Having abandoned TV and largely print news, that leaves the internet. But many news websites are NOT journalism, they are tabloids disguised as news outlets. I stopped visiting some legitimate news sources because the ad content is too dense or too disruptive. The decent news outlets are few and far between and it really takes some cherry picking to find them. The bright side of legitimate news websites is that as more people have abandoned the biased print media they are showing signs of collapsing, which may finally break the cycle of power concentrated into too few hands.
FB is hardly a beacon of journalistic integrity. I ignore the trending section. Too many news stories in my feed are blatantly false or biased. When a headline uses tabloid catch-phrases like "This is HUGE!" I get really p!ssed for them wasting my time. I make it a point to do fact checking before passing on a story on my timeline, and even then I seldom do that more than once a month if at all. I block many of these because my FB friends keep passing around the junk and don't take the effort to check the source. I block some of my friends from my feed because they spout some really offensive stuff.
A lot of the junk tabloid websites bring up pop-under ads that can be potential malware if I close them (telltale sign "Are you sure you really want to close this?"), so I have to pull the internet and use Activity Monitor (I'm on a Mac) to safely force the application to close. Any tabloid that spreads malware really grinds my gears so I maintain a list of websites to avoid.
The ONLY value of M$ acquiring LinkedIn is marketing data. They have just bought a database of thousands of potential skilled professionals which they can spam with offers of M$ products, and the mass exodus reveals that the LinkedIn community is having none of it.
Three months ago I cut off a dating scam. It dawned on me that the only place the scammers would had seen any public profile was LinkedIn, which can be found easily on Google. So I promptly deleted my LinkedIn account, which has never been any value to me anyway.
Seeing the mass exodus after M$ announced their acquisition, I am glad I had the foresight to delete my account before the "Slashdot" effect.
It's high time to add this slimeball Gersh Zavodnik to the ranks of vexacious litigants who abuse the law system. In the article a judge who dismissed his case has already highlighted the plaintiff's abuse of process.
Just what is "illegal" about a tool that bypasses YT's ad delivery system? Marketers have tried to penalize such tactics through the courts and have failed. ToS are not a legal contract and are not legally bound.
During Clinton's SoS tenure, the post of Inspector General was intentionally left vacant the entire time. The IG is a presidential appointee position and the OIG pointed out that the SoS IG vacancy was the longest of any of the IG posts. Had the IG been in place at that time, that official would had not allowed Clinton to exploit the private server and abuse the classification system without government oversight.
This is as bad as those internet popups that nag you about leaving the website when you close a page, then install malware no matter what button you click.
I never click on those popups. When I get these anymore I pull the plug on the internet, use System Monitor (I'm on a Mac) to force the browser to close (bypasses the popup), re-open the browser and close ALL pages except for a blank page (check for pop-unders!), close the browser, THEN it is safe to re-connect the internet and open the browser.
I don't regret my move to Mac one bit after seeing Microsoft go this low. Way to lose customers to Apple, Microsoft! What's next, a Sony-style rootkit on music CDs?
I don't care whether it is in any compliance of any guidelines - an overweight woman wearing a bikini is repulsive, no matter what "plus size" spin the "unapologetically feminist" organization puts on it.
Anybody can dispute otherwise, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So sue me.
The Obama DoJ has a long history of questionable ethics and former AG Eric Holder was held in contempt by Congress for stonewalling and withholding documents. A judge can refer any counsel to the bar for disbarment proceedings over ethics violations, as what has happened to one of the Prenda lawyers. Seeing firsthand evidence of the DoJ ethics in the case before him, this was his shot over the bow that he was not leaving out that option.
Trump is funding his campaign with his own money. The objective of the Amazon Customers who signed the letter is to cut off his supply.
The boisterous left are getting crafty but they are also p!ssing off voters with their tactics (not just with Trump) so bad that they will support Trump just to spite them.
But "deniers" demand 100% proof of future devastation while offering ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in legitimate scientific evidence.
False. There is body of scientific evidence that disputes climate change and is recognized by national science academies of all the major industrialized nations.
The climate change people go out of there way to discredit these people and suppress any evidence that conflicts with their agenda. That is not the disposition expected of professional scientists. Such tactics were practiced by oppressive regimes over the centuries. This may be Slashdot but we do not tolerate manipulative tactics.
I don't play games or pirate music or movies, but the arrogance of Rightscorp with this extortion parallels Sony when they quietly released their rootkit. I for one would not be shy in informing each and every client of Rightscorp that I will cease to patronize their business if this gets in the wild.
The article says the perpetrator was 20 years old. Like the RIAA going after grandmothers and teenage children, they selected a target least likely to afford to defend themselves. How many 20 year old men have deep enough pockets to afford a lawyer?
Not even the Secret Service has official permission to jam frequencies around the president (although I suspect they have the equipment at the ready.)
They have other tools at their disposal. They don't broadcast that. When the first reports of the Boston Marathon bombing came in, the first thing the authorities did was to disable the cell transmitter towers. This effectively prevented any more bombs from being triggered by cellular technology. That is how the authorities were able to locate and disarm unexploded devices, which led them to the culprits. A friend of mine had finished the race and when the attack happened his cell phone wouldn't work - it was a day or two before he could contact family to tell them he was safe.
coders of the future shouldn't have to master abstract math that they'll never need
My department develops imaging inspection software that relies heavily on abstract math. You better believe it is a required skill for coders we hire. Another example of a political scientist who has no clue to the needs of the industry and has no business defining the curriculum of grade school.
The % symbol indicates that the number preceding it is the numerator of a fraction whose denominator is 100.
That's a partial answer. The number preceding the % symbol is also the 100 times a ratio result from a numerator and denominator, and the denominator is not always the value of 100.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm old enough to remember when most of the channels on Cable TV had few or no commercials. I was more than happy to pay $$$ to get away from the marketing junk on ABC/CBS/NBC back then. Then the ads started creeping in and getting more frequent. Then cable news outlets started showing ads disguised as "news stories". Then the "ticker ads" started rolling in the margins during programs. Then a 90 minute movie stretched to three hours with commercials every ten minutes.
The ads were so intrusive that I pulled the plug back in 2000. While staying at some hotels while traveling I found cable TV to be utterly worthless to watch so I'm not missing much.
The abuse of ads soured my experience enough that I refuse to pay $$$ for any media that shows ads. I will cancel any service with no hesitation. Ads on DVD with fast forward or skip disabled get played with the sound off and I leave the room to do something else until the main menu of the feature movie is displayed. The marketers pushed too far and I'm sick of ads.
It's another reason why I enjoy traveling by train anymore - I'm tired of the billboards on the highway (trucks trailers included), tired of the marketing in airports, tired of the ads played on the screen in my face on the seat of the plane.
Only when it serves a suppressive country's interest in controlling communication.
I'm 53 years old and have seen a lot of rot in journalism. Journalism is going through a serious identity crisis the last twenty years. Due to very biased influences infiltrating the news sources such as newspapers and broadcast news, very rarely are we getting the whole story and many stories deemed important are getting suppressed. I look for a healthy balance of all views (Faux News does NOT count). I took a very interesting college course that highlighted the manipulation of journalism, especially in broadcast TV.
I ceased watching broadcast news since 2000. They only report part of the story and they emphasize anything that can be sensationalized in a visual context. I also got tired of ads for movies and TV shows disguised as "news". The bias is far worse today as the power of reporting is too concentrated in too few hands.
Newspapers are getting more biased. It doesn't help that many areas only have one local newspapers when fifty years ago there were multiple resources. That concentrated the source of news into one place which was exploited when powerful interests infiltrated a central source and exerted their influence. I live in a small community and we actually have two newspapers - one has a healthy balance while the other is blatantly biased. Many times both have the same story, but the biased one omits some text that changes the story. I don't like that manipulation and deception.
Having abandoned TV and largely print news, that leaves the internet. But many news websites are NOT journalism, they are tabloids disguised as news outlets. I stopped visiting some legitimate news sources because the ad content is too dense or too disruptive. The decent news outlets are few and far between and it really takes some cherry picking to find them. The bright side of legitimate news websites is that as more people have abandoned the biased print media they are showing signs of collapsing, which may finally break the cycle of power concentrated into too few hands.
FB is hardly a beacon of journalistic integrity. I ignore the trending section. Too many news stories in my feed are blatantly false or biased. When a headline uses tabloid catch-phrases like "This is HUGE!" I get really p!ssed for them wasting my time. I make it a point to do fact checking before passing on a story on my timeline, and even then I seldom do that more than once a month if at all. I block many of these because my FB friends keep passing around the junk and don't take the effort to check the source. I block some of my friends from my feed because they spout some really offensive stuff.
A lot of the junk tabloid websites bring up pop-under ads that can be potential malware if I close them (telltale sign "Are you sure you really want to close this?"), so I have to pull the internet and use Activity Monitor (I'm on a Mac) to safely force the application to close. Any tabloid that spreads malware really grinds my gears so I maintain a list of websites to avoid.
The ONLY value of M$ acquiring LinkedIn is marketing data. They have just bought a database of thousands of potential skilled professionals which they can spam with offers of M$ products, and the mass exodus reveals that the LinkedIn community is having none of it.
Three months ago I cut off a dating scam. It dawned on me that the only place the scammers would had seen any public profile was LinkedIn, which can be found easily on Google. So I promptly deleted my LinkedIn account, which has never been any value to me anyway.
Seeing the mass exodus after M$ announced their acquisition, I am glad I had the foresight to delete my account before the "Slashdot" effect.
It's high time to add this slimeball Gersh Zavodnik to the ranks of vexacious litigants who abuse the law system. In the article a judge who dismissed his case has already highlighted the plaintiff's abuse of process.
If you want an organization with teeth to investigate software, call the Business Software Alliance. Oh wait, Microsoft owns them...
Task Manager. Ctrl-Shift-Esc and zap the application. Actually safer with malware that trap the alt-f4 key for malicious purposes.
Just what is "illegal" about a tool that bypasses YT's ad delivery system? Marketers have tried to penalize such tactics through the courts and have failed. ToS are not a legal contract and are not legally bound.
During Clinton's SoS tenure, the post of Inspector General was intentionally left vacant the entire time. The IG is a presidential appointee position and the OIG pointed out that the SoS IG vacancy was the longest of any of the IG posts. Had the IG been in place at that time, that official would had not allowed Clinton to exploit the private server and abuse the classification system without government oversight.
And nowhere near as repulsive as the coward hiding behind the AC.
This is as bad as those internet popups that nag you about leaving the website when you close a page, then install malware no matter what button you click.
I never click on those popups. When I get these anymore I pull the plug on the internet, use System Monitor (I'm on a Mac) to force the browser to close (bypasses the popup), re-open the browser and close ALL pages except for a blank page (check for pop-unders!), close the browser, THEN it is safe to re-connect the internet and open the browser.
I don't regret my move to Mac one bit after seeing Microsoft go this low. Way to lose customers to Apple, Microsoft! What's next, a Sony-style rootkit on music CDs?
I don't care whether it is in any compliance of any guidelines - an overweight woman wearing a bikini is repulsive, no matter what "plus size" spin the "unapologetically feminist" organization puts on it.
Anybody can dispute otherwise, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So sue me.
The Obama DoJ has a long history of questionable ethics and former AG Eric Holder was held in contempt by Congress for stonewalling and withholding documents. A judge can refer any counsel to the bar for disbarment proceedings over ethics violations, as what has happened to one of the Prenda lawyers. Seeing firsthand evidence of the DoJ ethics in the case before him, this was his shot over the bow that he was not leaving out that option.
Civil services such as fire departments, water treatment, law enforcement, judicial bodies, regulatory bodies, et al are funded by local taxes.
If a corporation pays zero local taxes, then why is it entitled to these civil services for free? That's corporate welfare.
Translation: "I'm altering the bargain. Pray I don't alter it any further."
Trump is funding his campaign with his own money. The objective of the Amazon Customers who signed the letter is to cut off his supply .
The boisterous left are getting crafty but they are also p!ssing off voters with their tactics (not just with Trump) so bad that they will support Trump just to spite them.
False. There is body of scientific evidence that disputes climate change and is recognized by national science academies of all the major industrialized nations.
The climate change people go out of there way to discredit these people and suppress any evidence that conflicts with their agenda. That is not the disposition expected of professional scientists. Such tactics were practiced by oppressive regimes over the centuries. This may be Slashdot but we do not tolerate manipulative tactics.
"Cost of doing business", and hardly a deterrent to an entertainment corporation.
I don't play games or pirate music or movies, but the arrogance of Rightscorp with this extortion parallels Sony when they quietly released their rootkit. I for one would not be shy in informing each and every client of Rightscorp that I will cease to patronize their business if this gets in the wild.
The article says the perpetrator was 20 years old. Like the RIAA going after grandmothers and teenage children, they selected a target least likely to afford to defend themselves. How many 20 year old men have deep enough pockets to afford a lawyer?
They have other tools at their disposal. They don't broadcast that. When the first reports of the Boston Marathon bombing came in, the first thing the authorities did was to disable the cell transmitter towers. This effectively prevented any more bombs from being triggered by cellular technology. That is how the authorities were able to locate and disarm unexploded devices, which led them to the culprits. A friend of mine had finished the race and when the attack happened his cell phone wouldn't work - it was a day or two before he could contact family to tell them he was safe.
Microsoft bows to Hollywood and the Feds while dragging its heels while users suffer from malware.
Apple tells the Feds to take a hike and focuses its resource to kill a nasty ransomware within a day.
Go Apple!
My department develops imaging inspection software that relies heavily on abstract math. You better believe it is a required skill for coders we hire. Another example of a political scientist who has no clue to the needs of the industry and has no business defining the curriculum of grade school.
That's a partial answer. The number preceding the % symbol is also the 100 times a ratio result from a numerator and denominator, and the denominator is not always the value of 100.