I am impressed it sprouted at all, it should have been too cold or too hot, depending on whether it was moon day or night, for any kind of germination.
Forward all addresses to one master address. Stuff that needs attention gets marked as unread. Search "is:unread" to see what needs attention. Delete nothing, ever. Drives my manager crazy to see my 85k inbox but works for me.
If you are going to attempt to publish fake papers to prove a point, you really need to discuss it with your department head or dean first!
There are a lot of crappy pay-to-play journals out there that will publish any PoS they get. A study exposing them would be great, but first think about the consequences of intentionally falsifying data and discuss what you are doing with the people most likely to fire you.
I really wish I still had my old BBEdit "It doesn't suck!" t-shirt. I still use the program and it's still very useful. Multi-file grep search & replace saved my bacon many times in the early days of web dev.
Also a shout-out to Stick Software! Mojave fractured Fracture and Satori, my all-time favorite screensavers. I contacted the publisher and he said he would eventually fix them. [This is software I licensed over 10 years ago, mind you].
When you have no savings, massive debt, are living with your family or renting a flophouse with friends, and are cobbling together three part-time jobs to survive, how are you going to be able to afford to move? Buying a house is totally out of reach for many people. First & last months' rent + deposit is out of reach for many people. As long as the youngest generation of workers is kept in poverty, there are just going to be more hits on an economy that is predicated on people being able to afford to do things like buy a house or move across the country.
Google isn't the government. They're a private business. "Freedom of speech" means that the GOVERNMENT can't arrest you for having unpopular thoughts. It does not mean that private business can't ban you, or that private citizens have to listen to you.
"Panicked calls were placed to IMDb, but there was nothing the site could do."
I think that it would be more accurate to say there was "nothing the site WOULD do." There are all kinds of things they COULD do, it's their site.
I keep an old laptop for this kind of thing. It doesn't have any useful data on it or a live network connection and it won't run Windows malware, so it's pretty low risk. My users know to bring drives they find to me, not plug them into their own hardware. I have not found any hostile programs but have made a couple people happy by returning their lost drives.
Last month Mother Jones ran this fluff article about a Facebook meme. Nobody seemed to think it was unusual that "Facebook's data scientists" are watching everything that is posted and collating the results.
Recently, a status update ran around Facebook asking people to "List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes, and don't think too hard. They do not have to be the 'right' books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way." Facebook's data scientists went though 130,000 responses and came up with a list of the 100 most common entries.
http://www.motherjones.com/mix...
Were these only 'public' Facebook accounts, or private accounts or both? Did anyone think it was creepy that they are scraping Facebook posts for research without informing the subjects that they are being researched on?
Does anyone remember the old D-n-D-based MUDs that, once you had maxed your level, gave you the option to begin an apprenticeship to learn to program and extend the game? I have wished many times that Blizzard would adopt that model everywhere, to allow players to generate new content. It would be a great learning tool and introduction to game design, character modeling, etc.
Some pictures were taken surreptitiously. Some were not real photos at all, but were composites of a porn performer with a revenge victim's head photoshopped on. And it's not still very fair to blame the victim for having their pics stolen if the photos were real and consensually created. Maybe guys should stop asking for nude pics and women should be refuse to make them. You never want to think your lover would betray you but obviously it does happen.
The USDA has a competitive grant process for funding research in agriculture. That funding is critical to innovations and improvements in US agriculture. You could search the CRIS database to see all the currently funded projects...but it's down since the government is closed.
Some organized monkey-wrenching would be fun. "Flash fuckery"
"Your assignment this week - every time you are in the grocery stop in aisle 6 and stare at the capers for 45 seconds, then move on. Extra points if you don't actually buy anything at all"
"Your assignment today is to move one can of tomato paste to the beer section"
"Tomorrow please run quickly through aisles 2 and 7, then stop to pace back and forth in front of the adult diapers for 10 seconds"
"This week, wear heat-shielding on just the top half of your body."
"Stand very still in front of the instant coffee area and move your eyes quickly from top shelf to bottom shelf 5 times, then sprint away."
For those using this as an excuse to bash feminists, please note that Richards says over and over in the comments section of the linked article (http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/) that she is not a feminist. Why she doesn't believe in equal rights for women, I am not sure, but this isn't the action of a feminist, ultra-liberal feminazi, modern feminist or any other kind of feminist.
I remember reading about research on predictors for marriage failure. The biggest predictor is how a spouse reacts when the other has good fortune and success.
A quick illustrative test:
If your significant other gets a promotion do you
a) feel inadequate or jealous
b) sulk, blow off, belittle or otherwise diminish the accomplishment
c)/cheer,/hug,/dance and tell your love how awesome they are and how much they deserve it
If you select a or b, your relationship is likely doomed. C is where it's at.
Slashdot Mirror
Every 12 months you have to re-buy your chips or your hardware stops working : (
Mad Max Fury Road was the best movie of its year. I'll definitely be re-watching it every year or so.
Maybe Draw is being replaced with Jamboard? https://jamboard.google.com/
I am impressed it sprouted at all, it should have been too cold or too hot, depending on whether it was moon day or night, for any kind of germination.
Forward all addresses to one master address. Stuff that needs attention gets marked as unread. Search "is:unread" to see what needs attention. Delete nothing, ever. Drives my manager crazy to see my 85k inbox but works for me.
There are a lot of crappy pay-to-play journals out there that will publish any PoS they get. A study exposing them would be great, but first think about the consequences of intentionally falsifying data and discuss what you are doing with the people most likely to fire you.
Also a shout-out to Stick Software! Mojave fractured Fracture and Satori, my all-time favorite screensavers. I contacted the publisher and he said he would eventually fix them. [This is software I licensed over 10 years ago, mind you].
When you have no savings, massive debt, are living with your family or renting a flophouse with friends, and are cobbling together three part-time jobs to survive, how are you going to be able to afford to move? Buying a house is totally out of reach for many people. First & last months' rent + deposit is out of reach for many people. As long as the youngest generation of workers is kept in poverty, there are just going to be more hits on an economy that is predicated on people being able to afford to do things like buy a house or move across the country.
but, it's free speech, right?
Google isn't the government. They're a private business. "Freedom of speech" means that the GOVERNMENT can't arrest you for having unpopular thoughts. It does not mean that private business can't ban you, or that private citizens have to listen to you.
"Panicked calls were placed to IMDb, but there was nothing the site could do." I think that it would be more accurate to say there was "nothing the site WOULD do." There are all kinds of things they COULD do, it's their site.
But, when will I be able to watch Hamilton on Netflix?
I keep an old laptop for this kind of thing. It doesn't have any useful data on it or a live network connection and it won't run Windows malware, so it's pretty low risk. My users know to bring drives they find to me, not plug them into their own hardware. I have not found any hostile programs but have made a couple people happy by returning their lost drives.
http://www.motherjones.com/mix... Were these only 'public' Facebook accounts, or private accounts or both? Did anyone think it was creepy that they are scraping Facebook posts for research without informing the subjects that they are being researched on?
Does anyone remember the old D-n-D-based MUDs that, once you had maxed your level, gave you the option to begin an apprenticeship to learn to program and extend the game? I have wished many times that Blizzard would adopt that model everywhere, to allow players to generate new content. It would be a great learning tool and introduction to game design, character modeling, etc.
Some pictures were taken surreptitiously. Some were not real photos at all, but were composites of a porn performer with a revenge victim's head photoshopped on. And it's not still very fair to blame the victim for having their pics stolen if the photos were real and consensually created. Maybe guys should stop asking for nude pics and women should be refuse to make them. You never want to think your lover would betray you but obviously it does happen.
cris.nifa.usda.gov/search.html
Could they tax you for owning virtual currency that is against the game's ToS to sell for real money in the first place?
"Your assignment this week - every time you are in the grocery stop in aisle 6 and stare at the capers for 45 seconds, then move on. Extra points if you don't actually buy anything at all"
"Your assignment today is to move one can of tomato paste to the beer section"
"Tomorrow please run quickly through aisles 2 and 7, then stop to pace back and forth in front of the adult diapers for 10 seconds"
"This week, wear heat-shielding on just the top half of your body."
"Stand very still in front of the instant coffee area and move your eyes quickly from top shelf to bottom shelf 5 times, then sprint away."
For those using this as an excuse to bash feminists, please note that Richards says over and over in the comments section of the linked article (http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/) that she is not a feminist. Why she doesn't believe in equal rights for women, I am not sure, but this isn't the action of a feminist, ultra-liberal feminazi, modern feminist or any other kind of feminist.
A quick illustrative test:
If your significant other gets a promotion do you /cheer, /hug, /dance and tell your love how awesome they are and how much they deserve it
a) feel inadequate or jealous
b) sulk, blow off, belittle or otherwise diminish the accomplishment
c)
If you select a or b, your relationship is likely doomed. C is where it's at.
No, and neither has he!
Scorched Earth
He was 18 years old. Legally an adult.
1 in 4 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. People (mostly women) are a lot more likely to be raped than murdered. Just sayin.