Normal people: "It turns out that with Bitcoin you can lose millions if you lose a password, someone just did!"
Bitcoin advocates: "This is good news for Bitcoin!"
Political correctness is absolutely destroying UK society and things are becoming visibly worse on the streets. The police have become largely irrelevant in many communities, and I don't even waste my time reporting crime to them since I know from past attempts to report serious crime that they will do absolutely nothing. The other day I saw some boys with an air rifle leaned against the wall of a school, shooting it into the school. I ignored it any carried on with my day because I'm well aware that the police are more interested in political correctness and "non-crime hate incidents" than tackling crime. The crime figures here are a fraction of the actual crime rate, but most crime simply goes unreported because the police have become so ineffective it's simply not worth bothering. Sure, if there was a "non-crime hate incident" that's worth reporting as they'll have a van full of officers there in minutes, but if an actual crime is taking place then you're wasting your time.
This is the most batshit insane stuff I've read today. It's so completely obviously based upon bullshit logic ("The police are concerned about hate crimes therefore they won't be concerned about {real crime}, and I'm not going to report it without apparently realizing I'm actually why nothing will be done about it.")
I love the idea of the police being "politically correct", yeah, that's what the kinds of people who sign up for the police are. They're notorious for being anti-racist vegan sandal wearing hippies, right?
Do you ever stop for a moment and listen to the bullcrap you spew and ask yourself, "Does this make sense? Should I really be repeating whatever I read in the Daily Mail if I want people to take me seriously? Am I making myself look like a complete moron?"
. We could build floating cities, and use all land for crops. We could turn the Sahara and other deserts into farmland. We could build floating farms to grow even more food.
This is why, of course, we have Elon Musk. Musk is pretty much the only person on the planet to understand the solution to the problem of how to keep an ever growing population distracted by fake solutions to things while the end of civilization as we know it draws closer.
Oh, you thought I was going to say something else? No, I'm not Rei!
Also they're getting worse. Fewer and fewer phones are coming with headphone jacks, dedicated off-screen home/back/switch task buttons, and even SD card slots. Most are getting thinner, making them easier to break without a bulky case.
I would probably be buying a new smartphone every year to keep up with technology changes if they still had slide out wide keyboards (no, that Blackberry with the thin keyboard doesn't count, believe it or not it's not just the size of the keys, it's also that the early sliders also provided a more effective UI to rotating the display than the gravity based versions), but right now I'm scared to buy one for fear of losing the features I already have. And yes, I'm paying the price in terms of reduced battery life as a result.
Florida. But pretty much everywhere except the interior of a dwindling number of cities is the same.
huge gaps between buildings (filled with largely unused parking spaces
I'm curious to know what part of the country you live in where this isn't the case. Normal US planning policies since the 1950s has been that every business has to be built on a lot with "free parking", which in practice means either strip malls or essentially a large parking lot with a small building in the middle. I've driven from Key West to Connecticut (not in one journey!), and other than the interiors of the largest cities on the way every single area was zoned like this.
Quite possibly the only reason I can think of why you're questioning it is that you're so used to it it's never even occurred to you that it's ridiculous.
Businesses are banned due to zoning laws not to "force people to drive", but because most folks don't want to live next door to a machine shop
Yes, because "machine shops" are the only types of businesses and are completely typical of businesses, not like stores and restaurants and offices. Right? And the negatives associated with "machine shops" can't be dealt with using noise ordinances or other environmental laws, right?
Seriously, this is FUD. It's like you're reading talking points from a NIMBY playbook here. I'm surprised you're not cut and pasting a twenty page essay on why HOAs are the best and protect home values at the same time.
Most people want to live near the businesses that serve them. That's commonsense. Arguing the opposite by using a contrived example of a business that wouldn't sit next to a residential house anyway because it'd violate noise and pollution ordinances shows either a complete lack of thought about the issues or dishonesty on your part.
As for NIMBY, I moved to a quiet suburban community two decades ago because that's the environment I prefer to live in. YMMV, but if you don't like it that way, there are plenty of places to live that are different.
I can't tell if you're being deliberately dishonest or not, but if not I'm guessing that you think there are because you were able to find properties you liked, therefore everyone else should be able to find what they want. If you're using the fact you like your suburban community as an excuse to demand bans on rail transportation, like my neighbors in Martin County Florida, who are opposing the use of an existing rail line to supply passenger transportation for people from South Florida wanting to get to Orlando and Tampa, then you're demonstrating the problem: it doesn't affect you, it doesn't in any way reduce your choices, but you've confused "Should not force people to drive" with "Should force people not to drive". Or maybe you're an asshole. I can't tell.
Java is unpopular with programmers, we don't like it, it forces us to do things correctly but its methods for doing so are tedious and make programming in it a chore. But it seems like this dislike leads many to *want* it to be dead, and to jump on every opportunity to proclaim its death.
Java dominates the enterprise back-end. It will do so for decades to come, just as COBOL did before. It's not going anywhere. Anyone who doubts this for a second should look for programming jobs at their local utilities and any nearby offices for large, non-tech, corporations.
In the UK, sane zoning and city planning means it's easy to live without a car. In most of the US, the cities have been run down or built over completely since the 1950s, with huge gaps between buildings (filled with largely unused parking spaces) and giant roads with four or more lanes default for everything except residential streets. Businesses are banned from residential areas in order to force people to drive, so even getting a bottle of milk means traveling a mile or more to get to a gas station. In this environment buses are uneconomic to run, and usually only skeleton services subsidized by massive amounts of money run in each area. (The "bus service" that runs near my home runs every one hour and ten minutes - yeah, not even hourly, and hard to predict...)
It's insane. Whenever someone suggests changing it they get yelled down by people convinced that not forcing people to drive is the same thing as forcing people not to drive. NIMBYs generally shout down attempts to introduce better rail services, because NIMBYs are assholes.
So, in this environment, preventing someone from driving might as well be killing them. I'm actually in favor of changing the law so everyone is "licensed to drive" outside of areas with mid or high density mixed use zoning, regardless of their health, their previous driving record, what laws they've broken, or anything else. If nothing else the debate about such a law would make people think twice about how insane forcing everyone to drive is, and might encourage local governments to build up the centers of their cities, creating residential and business hubs, like every where else in the world.
They don't have to plan it. It's going to be obsolete in 2-4 years with no planning whatsoever. That's just how fast the market moves.
I think if you look at the vast majority of people who play video games, nobody is throwing out games because they're four years old. "Obsolete" doesn't mean "Can't run the latest stuff", it means "Is no longer useful".
My Wii and XBox 360 both see occasional use and work just fine. What the GP is complaining about is the notion that you'll have to throw out existing hardware in 2 years because it'll stop working properly. The fact it might not be able to run some of the latest games does not excuse that. It doesn't justify it. It's horrible, it's wrong, and it's not standard practice in the computer industry as a whole. The only reason people threw away their 360s after two years was because of the RRoD. Not because it was obsolete by 2010.
1. You're not a "far left liberal", that's like describing someone describing themselves as an Anarcho-Trotskyite.
2. One of my pet peeves on Slashdot is how people intentionally misread something and pretend it said something else. The GP didn't say "CNN and MSNBC are objective and honest", he or she said "(They are) more honest and trustworthy than the actual frauds and liars(...)".
They are. Objectively they most certainly are more objective and honest than the bizarre mix of outlets your grandparents keeps forwarding links to on Facebook. They try to tell the truth most of the time. Sometimes they sensationalize, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Sometimes they make mistakes. But that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Sometimes they employ someone who sells them a bogus story. But that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Yes, sometimes their biases steer them to report on some stories and ignore others, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth.
Not even Rachel Maddow is likely sitting there thinking "What can I make up about President Trump and the Republicans today?" I know you're pretending to be a liberal, but those of us who are actually on the left actually get offended when we're given a fake scandal and we find it's fake, so those trying to get our respect don't do it. Sure, they'll hype up something you don't consider important, like stealing kids from legal asylum seekers and putting them in cages before sending them to be tortured, and ignore something you do consider important, like a random immigrant doing a crime, but there's a world of difference between that... and lying.
And it's the lying or lacking of lying, and the willingness to open up to mistakes, that makes CNN and MSNBC, imperfect than they are, more trustworthy than Breitbart.ru.
Same reasons Microsoft employees often have Macintoshes, or even run GNU/Linux systems. People have different opinions about what makes a system good, and if you're going to fire people for not using your own systems all the time, you're probably not going to produce great stuff.
If I were a corporation looking to deploy an internal app, I'd be looking at non-apple options. Having your internal platform disabled could cripple smaller business to the point of threatening their viability.
I wouldn't. I'd be calling my app writers into my office and asking them why crude interfaces to a remote database such as a bus time scheduling app that the entire company relies upon couldn't have been done in HTML5 instead.
OK, OK, I know, it also crippled the ability of developers working on native apps for general distribution to test what they wee writing, kinda, sorta (I assume the iOS development tools come with an iPhone emulator), so that would have just lead to issues with people testing the apps. But in that instance... that'd have been Apple's loss as much as Google's.
If I were in either Google or Facebook's shoes, I'd be doing two things. (1) I'd be reviewing how they got into a situation where they were clearly misusing an Enterprise certificate in a way that clearly violated their agreement with Apple, and (2) why they're so reliant upon "native apps" when HTML5 can do virtually everything they need anyway with no significant performance issues. They're not writing 3D games, and frankly, I'd be surprised if they have problems porting Google Earth to Safari if they really need that kind of functionality anyway.
UV also linked Google Play, Amazon, and VUDU. I'm not sure about iTunes or the Microsoft service that nobody uses.
To be honest, I'm seeing no difference whatsoever between MA and UV other than that Disney's also signed up to MA. I'm fine with MA surviving UV, it's not like they needed multiple join-your-accounts services, we needed the studios to do this from the start.
The type of companies and jobs you mention do not appeal to many of us.
Me neither. So what? What does that have to do with Java's dominance?
"Everything of importance." - to you.
To you too. Or do you not have a bank account, electricity to your home, telephone/Internet service, or shop at any major stores?
The only way it's not important "to you" is if you're using a computer you fabbed yourself and you're somehow not connected to the Internet but someone happened to overhear you and typed the comment into Slashdot as a reply to mine. You're part of Western Civilization? Congratulations! Everything of importance runs Java.
The latest entry in the Book of Mozilla appears to note Edge's switch to Chrome:
The Beast adopted new raiment and studied the ways of Time and Space and Light and the Flow of energy through the Universe. From its studies, the Beast fashioned new structures from oxidised metal and proclaimed their glories. And the Beastâ(TM)s followers rejoiced, finding renewed purpose in these teachings.
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:14
That is an opinion. Damore wrote an essay that misused various studies to make an argument in apparent bad faith. If Google had said "Yeah, well, marketplace of ideas right?" a huge proportion of the workforce would have, rightly, seen the lack of disassociation with Damore as acceptance of behavior that devalued the work they did.
In that context, Google was put in a very difficult position, and given the context - where Google was already under fire for a culture hostile to women - they gave Damore the boot. Which is something that usually happens to people who say "I want to start a union", or who flick off Trump motorcades, or who just say they support Obama's election to their bosses, but in this case happened to someone who said something on the other side and is thus somehow a massive war crime or something.
serverscope_minor, like me (I'm not idiot enough to think I won't be modded down for this too), is expressing "wrongthink" on Slashdot. For the most part, if you say things like "Women are people too", or "maybe saying 'blacks do all the crime' is racist", you get modded down here. This seemed to start around Gamergate, when for some reason Slashdot got infested with people obsessed with a female game developer's sex life, which they got wrong, naturally. The same people likewise think that Brandon Eich was fired as a developer for his private political views, rather than that he resigned as CEO because he recognized his very public homophobic views were divisive and meant 5-10% of his company couldn't reasonably trust him to treat them fairly.
But the fact that you're modding these obvious facts down doesn't make it justified, and it doesn't stop them from being "wrongthink", legitimate and perfectly normal and reasonable opinions, opinions that people with good characters and a sense of decency have, that for some reason you can't express on Slashdot because alt-rightist shitheads are a bunch of snowflakes.
it seems like in recent years stuff like node.js has really started to take over server development,
From Java? No. Doesn't tick any of the boxes that made Java the major Enterprise language and Java has never been particularly popular outside of enterprise work for back-ends. The other major use of Java would be in Android development, and node.js isn't really a thing there (and wouldn't need to be given you can easily embed the web browser engine in your app and pass it objects it needs anyway.)
From PHP? I wish... I hope! Has anyone rewritten Wordpress and Drupal in node.js yet? That'd be fantastic.
WebKit was started at Apple as a fork of KHTML. It's called WebKit because Apple's current OS is based upon NEXTSTEP. There was no WebKit prior to Apple and NeXT's merger.
Because it's dumb. There are three ratings RT uses.
Certified Fresh/Rotten - more movie critics liked the movie than disliked it or vice versa.
Average rating - the average rating the critics gave it
Audience score - the average rating readers of the site gave it
If you're trying to find the top ten movies of all time, then sure, all these metrics have problems and you would be being stupid for trying to use them for that application.
However, for the study "Does this platform show better movies than that platform", the first of the metrics (the binary "critics like/dislike this") is good enough for the purpose. It's unbiased, it's easy to understand, and it's fairly unlikely a "good" movie will end up in the wrong category. Not impossible, but rare enough that it won't impact the study's results.
Sources of data are rarely perfect, but doesn't mean all data is useless. You think the data scientists use to calculate the width of the event horizon of Sagittarius A* is accurate enough that you could send a space ship there and guarantee it wouldn't get sucked in? No. But it's good enough that you have a strong idea of the magnitude of its size and you can compare it to other massive black holes.
This is the same principle. We're not trying to find out if Black Panther is better than Reservoir Dogs. We're trying to find out if Amazon hosts better movies than Netflix, and have thousands of samples to choose from.
Yes, she was call all Trump supporters, roughly half the country, the Nazi sympathising fringe of the Alt-right.
This is one lie after another.
1. She didn't call all Trump supporters deplorables. She said about half of them were.
2. She was specifically talking about Trump supporters, not Republicans in general.
3. Even then Republicans make up a small percentage of the electorate.
The full quote was:
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trumpâ(TM)s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?
The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people - now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks â" they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America. But the other basket - and I know this because I see friends from all over America here - I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas - as well as, you know, New York and California - but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and theyâ(TM)re just desperate for change. It doesnâ(TM)t really even matter where it comes from. They donâ(TM)t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They wonâ(TM)t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like theyâ(TM)re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
There is literally no way to read it as making any generalizations about ALL REPUBLICANS, or even ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS. You have to be functionally a moron to take away that interpretation.
Are you a moron, or are you lying because it's easier to lie than admit the person you've been taught to hate since 1992 might have been right about something?
If you want to work in a Fortune 500 company making modifications to the giant collection of back end tools and servers which do everything from push out bills to send reports to management, then you almost certainly will need to know Java just as back in the days of the Commodore 64 and Sinclair Spectrum the dominant language wasn't BASIC - even though all your nerd friends knew it - but COBOL.
Java runs almost everything of importance in 2019. The only reason Javascript has caught up is because the web, a mostly unrelated system, has grown up to be larger than all the enterprise software suites put together. (And of course the web is used to access the back-ends, so as it becomes more and more Javascript heavy, it'll increase use in the same places that are heavily Java based too.)
I must admit to being surprised to have to explain this every time the subject comes up. Half of Slashdot thinks that Java is a web plug-in that had poor security and was superseded by Flash. Has nobody here looked for a job yet? You cannot possibly miss the constant streams of job offers from electrical utilities, medical corporations, the large chain stores, telephone companies, and so on, requiring grunt programmers who do Java.
And I haven't even mentioned Android yet.
Small and midsized companies are using PHP, node.js, and whatever the scripting language of the week is, for a huge amount of their work, mixed with.NET on the back-end, but once you get bigger than that nothing else is in the room. Except perhaps some legacy COBOL systems.
Firefox can trace only its corporate origins to "people who were associated with Mosaic", Netscape was a complete ground-up rewrite and was rewritten a second time after Netscape 4. Edge is the one "modern browser" that actually has links to Mosaic (the original IE was a fork of a fork of Mosaic, has never been rewritten, and Edge is the latest fork of this long chain of forks), and that'll obviously no longer be the case when it switches to Blink.
The performance of Firefox 3.x was excellent. It was version 4 when the browser suddenly started eating gigabytes of memory and slowing to a crawl (along with the rest of the system), and frankly, while it went up and down after that, it was never really fixed.
Firefox 4 is when the UI was rewritten to be the shitty thing we know today. Was it still XUL? Possibly, I don't remember, but I do know it was a spectacularly shitty use of XUL.
There's nothing about XUL that was the problem. XUL has been part of Firefox since the beginning. Technology has gotten faster and there's nothing about XUL that meant it wouldn't scale or anything like that. Firefox has been lightning fast in the past, on slower hardware, running websites that had to do more work.
Nothing people are complaining about are things that, if we were placated, would cause performance problems.
It's not independent any more, but it still exists as a division of Bayer. Theoretically if Monsanto is a conspiracy to take over the world so that every farmer has to pay them $1 per ear of corn in patent fees, they're still likely to be doing it.
I agree though that the general hatred of Monsanto is ridiculous. They're a company providing a useful product that's worth something to farmers. If it wasn't useful and worth it, farmers wouldn't be buying it. The fact Monsanto's detractors frequently have to lie about them, making claims about lawsuits that have never happened or misrepresenting lawsuits that did is another issue.
That's not to say they're saints either. Round-up causes cancer, albeit only slightly increasing the risk and then only to those directly handling it, according to the available evidence, but Monsanto has used sophistry ("The active ingredient doesn't cause cancer!") to convince people otherwise.
GMO? It's a good thing. Our population is growing, but the resources available are not. Anything that helps us produce more safe food is a good thing.
No, the software is more likely to mistake an innocent black woman as being someone guilty of something. White men would be unlikely to suffer undue harassment due to this technology, as it would at least almost always flag them correctly and wouldn't mistake, uh, Mr Rogers, for, I dunno, Ted Bundy.
Depending on how good LEOs are at not harassing black people due to mistaken identification (I'm stifling a laugh here) it could theoretically increase harassment of black women if deployed as an aid to law enforcement.
Slashdot Mirror
Normal people: "It turns out that with Bitcoin you can lose millions if you lose a password, someone just did!"
Bitcoin advocates: "This is good news for Bitcoin!"
This is the most batshit insane stuff I've read today. It's so completely obviously based upon bullshit logic ("The police are concerned about hate crimes therefore they won't be concerned about {real crime}, and I'm not going to report it without apparently realizing I'm actually why nothing will be done about it.")
I love the idea of the police being "politically correct", yeah, that's what the kinds of people who sign up for the police are. They're notorious for being anti-racist vegan sandal wearing hippies, right?
Do you ever stop for a moment and listen to the bullcrap you spew and ask yourself, "Does this make sense? Should I really be repeating whatever I read in the Daily Mail if I want people to take me seriously? Am I making myself look like a complete moron?"
This is why, of course, we have Elon Musk. Musk is pretty much the only person on the planet to understand the solution to the problem of how to keep an ever growing population distracted by fake solutions to things while the end of civilization as we know it draws closer.
Oh, you thought I was going to say something else? No, I'm not Rei!
Also they're getting worse. Fewer and fewer phones are coming with headphone jacks, dedicated off-screen home/back/switch task buttons, and even SD card slots. Most are getting thinner, making them easier to break without a bulky case.
I would probably be buying a new smartphone every year to keep up with technology changes if they still had slide out wide keyboards (no, that Blackberry with the thin keyboard doesn't count, believe it or not it's not just the size of the keys, it's also that the early sliders also provided a more effective UI to rotating the display than the gravity based versions), but right now I'm scared to buy one for fear of losing the features I already have. And yes, I'm paying the price in terms of reduced battery life as a result.
Florida. But pretty much everywhere except the interior of a dwindling number of cities is the same.
I'm curious to know what part of the country you live in where this isn't the case. Normal US planning policies since the 1950s has been that every business has to be built on a lot with "free parking", which in practice means either strip malls or essentially a large parking lot with a small building in the middle. I've driven from Key West to Connecticut (not in one journey!), and other than the interiors of the largest cities on the way every single area was zoned like this.
Quite possibly the only reason I can think of why you're questioning it is that you're so used to it it's never even occurred to you that it's ridiculous.
Yes, because "machine shops" are the only types of businesses and are completely typical of businesses, not like stores and restaurants and offices. Right? And the negatives associated with "machine shops" can't be dealt with using noise ordinances or other environmental laws, right?
Seriously, this is FUD. It's like you're reading talking points from a NIMBY playbook here. I'm surprised you're not cut and pasting a twenty page essay on why HOAs are the best and protect home values at the same time.
Most people want to live near the businesses that serve them. That's commonsense. Arguing the opposite by using a contrived example of a business that wouldn't sit next to a residential house anyway because it'd violate noise and pollution ordinances shows either a complete lack of thought about the issues or dishonesty on your part.
I can't tell if you're being deliberately dishonest or not, but if not I'm guessing that you think there are because you were able to find properties you liked, therefore everyone else should be able to find what they want. If you're using the fact you like your suburban community as an excuse to demand bans on rail transportation, like my neighbors in Martin County Florida, who are opposing the use of an existing rail line to supply passenger transportation for people from South Florida wanting to get to Orlando and Tampa, then you're demonstrating the problem: it doesn't affect you, it doesn't in any way reduce your choices, but you've confused "Should not force people to drive" with "Should force people not to drive". Or maybe you're an asshole. I can't tell.
Came here to say the same thing.
Java is unpopular with programmers, we don't like it, it forces us to do things correctly but its methods for doing so are tedious and make programming in it a chore. But it seems like this dislike leads many to *want* it to be dead, and to jump on every opportunity to proclaim its death.
Java dominates the enterprise back-end. It will do so for decades to come, just as COBOL did before. It's not going anywhere. Anyone who doubts this for a second should look for programming jobs at their local utilities and any nearby offices for large, non-tech, corporations.
In the UK, sane zoning and city planning means it's easy to live without a car. In most of the US, the cities have been run down or built over completely since the 1950s, with huge gaps between buildings (filled with largely unused parking spaces) and giant roads with four or more lanes default for everything except residential streets. Businesses are banned from residential areas in order to force people to drive, so even getting a bottle of milk means traveling a mile or more to get to a gas station. In this environment buses are uneconomic to run, and usually only skeleton services subsidized by massive amounts of money run in each area. (The "bus service" that runs near my home runs every one hour and ten minutes - yeah, not even hourly, and hard to predict...)
It's insane. Whenever someone suggests changing it they get yelled down by people convinced that not forcing people to drive is the same thing as forcing people not to drive. NIMBYs generally shout down attempts to introduce better rail services, because NIMBYs are assholes.
So, in this environment, preventing someone from driving might as well be killing them. I'm actually in favor of changing the law so everyone is "licensed to drive" outside of areas with mid or high density mixed use zoning, regardless of their health, their previous driving record, what laws they've broken, or anything else. If nothing else the debate about such a law would make people think twice about how insane forcing everyone to drive is, and might encourage local governments to build up the centers of their cities, creating residential and business hubs, like every where else in the world.
I think if you look at the vast majority of people who play video games, nobody is throwing out games because they're four years old. "Obsolete" doesn't mean "Can't run the latest stuff", it means "Is no longer useful".
My Wii and XBox 360 both see occasional use and work just fine. What the GP is complaining about is the notion that you'll have to throw out existing hardware in 2 years because it'll stop working properly. The fact it might not be able to run some of the latest games does not excuse that. It doesn't justify it. It's horrible, it's wrong, and it's not standard practice in the computer industry as a whole. The only reason people threw away their 360s after two years was because of the RRoD. Not because it was obsolete by 2010.
1. You're not a "far left liberal", that's like describing someone describing themselves as an Anarcho-Trotskyite.
2. One of my pet peeves on Slashdot is how people intentionally misread something and pretend it said something else. The GP didn't say "CNN and MSNBC are objective and honest", he or she said "(They are) more honest and trustworthy than the actual frauds and liars(...)".
They are. Objectively they most certainly are more objective and honest than the bizarre mix of outlets your grandparents keeps forwarding links to on Facebook. They try to tell the truth most of the time. Sometimes they sensationalize, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Sometimes they make mistakes. But that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Sometimes they employ someone who sells them a bogus story. But that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Yes, sometimes their biases steer them to report on some stories and ignore others, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth.
Not even Rachel Maddow is likely sitting there thinking "What can I make up about President Trump and the Republicans today?" I know you're pretending to be a liberal, but those of us who are actually on the left actually get offended when we're given a fake scandal and we find it's fake, so those trying to get our respect don't do it. Sure, they'll hype up something you don't consider important, like stealing kids from legal asylum seekers and putting them in cages before sending them to be tortured, and ignore something you do consider important, like a random immigrant doing a crime, but there's a world of difference between that... and lying.
And it's the lying or lacking of lying, and the willingness to open up to mistakes, that makes CNN and MSNBC, imperfect than they are, more trustworthy than Breitbart.ru.
Same reasons Microsoft employees often have Macintoshes, or even run GNU/Linux systems. People have different opinions about what makes a system good, and if you're going to fire people for not using your own systems all the time, you're probably not going to produce great stuff.
I wouldn't. I'd be calling my app writers into my office and asking them why crude interfaces to a remote database such as a bus time scheduling app that the entire company relies upon couldn't have been done in HTML5 instead.
OK, OK, I know, it also crippled the ability of developers working on native apps for general distribution to test what they wee writing, kinda, sorta (I assume the iOS development tools come with an iPhone emulator), so that would have just lead to issues with people testing the apps. But in that instance... that'd have been Apple's loss as much as Google's.
If I were in either Google or Facebook's shoes, I'd be doing two things. (1) I'd be reviewing how they got into a situation where they were clearly misusing an Enterprise certificate in a way that clearly violated their agreement with Apple, and (2) why they're so reliant upon "native apps" when HTML5 can do virtually everything they need anyway with no significant performance issues. They're not writing 3D games, and frankly, I'd be surprised if they have problems porting Google Earth to Safari if they really need that kind of functionality anyway.
UV also linked Google Play, Amazon, and VUDU. I'm not sure about iTunes or the Microsoft service that nobody uses.
To be honest, I'm seeing no difference whatsoever between MA and UV other than that Disney's also signed up to MA. I'm fine with MA surviving UV, it's not like they needed multiple join-your-accounts services, we needed the studios to do this from the start.
Me neither. So what? What does that have to do with Java's dominance?
To you too. Or do you not have a bank account, electricity to your home, telephone/Internet service, or shop at any major stores?
The only way it's not important "to you" is if you're using a computer you fabbed yourself and you're somehow not connected to the Internet but someone happened to overhear you and typed the comment into Slashdot as a reply to mine. You're part of Western Civilization? Congratulations! Everything of importance runs Java.
You're right. Oops. I also thought the oxidized metal thing was a reference to Chrome but it suddenly dawned on me that it's Rust, the language. D'oh!
That is an opinion. Damore wrote an essay that misused various studies to make an argument in apparent bad faith. If Google had said "Yeah, well, marketplace of ideas right?" a huge proportion of the workforce would have, rightly, seen the lack of disassociation with Damore as acceptance of behavior that devalued the work they did.
In that context, Google was put in a very difficult position, and given the context - where Google was already under fire for a culture hostile to women - they gave Damore the boot. Which is something that usually happens to people who say "I want to start a union", or who flick off Trump motorcades, or who just say they support Obama's election to their bosses, but in this case happened to someone who said something on the other side and is thus somehow a massive war crime or something.
serverscope_minor, like me (I'm not idiot enough to think I won't be modded down for this too), is expressing "wrongthink" on Slashdot. For the most part, if you say things like "Women are people too", or "maybe saying 'blacks do all the crime' is racist", you get modded down here. This seemed to start around Gamergate, when for some reason Slashdot got infested with people obsessed with a female game developer's sex life, which they got wrong, naturally. The same people likewise think that Brandon Eich was fired as a developer for his private political views, rather than that he resigned as CEO because he recognized his very public homophobic views were divisive and meant 5-10% of his company couldn't reasonably trust him to treat them fairly.
But the fact that you're modding these obvious facts down doesn't make it justified, and it doesn't stop them from being "wrongthink", legitimate and perfectly normal and reasonable opinions, opinions that people with good characters and a sense of decency have, that for some reason you can't express on Slashdot because alt-rightist shitheads are a bunch of snowflakes.
From Java? No. Doesn't tick any of the boxes that made Java the major Enterprise language and Java has never been particularly popular outside of enterprise work for back-ends. The other major use of Java would be in Android development, and node.js isn't really a thing there (and wouldn't need to be given you can easily embed the web browser engine in your app and pass it objects it needs anyway.)
From PHP? I wish... I hope! Has anyone rewritten Wordpress and Drupal in node.js yet? That'd be fantastic.
WebKit was started at Apple as a fork of KHTML. It's called WebKit because Apple's current OS is based upon NEXTSTEP. There was no WebKit prior to Apple and NeXT's merger.
Certified Fresh/Rotten - more movie critics liked the movie than disliked it or vice versa.
Average rating - the average rating the critics gave it
Audience score - the average rating readers of the site gave it
If you're trying to find the top ten movies of all time, then sure, all these metrics have problems and you would be being stupid for trying to use them for that application.
However, for the study "Does this platform show better movies than that platform", the first of the metrics (the binary "critics like/dislike this") is good enough for the purpose. It's unbiased, it's easy to understand, and it's fairly unlikely a "good" movie will end up in the wrong category. Not impossible, but rare enough that it won't impact the study's results.
Sources of data are rarely perfect, but doesn't mean all data is useless. You think the data scientists use to calculate the width of the event horizon of Sagittarius A* is accurate enough that you could send a space ship there and guarantee it wouldn't get sucked in? No. But it's good enough that you have a strong idea of the magnitude of its size and you can compare it to other massive black holes.
This is the same principle. We're not trying to find out if Black Panther is better than Reservoir Dogs. We're trying to find out if Amazon hosts better movies than Netflix, and have thousands of samples to choose from.
This is one lie after another.
1. She didn't call all Trump supporters deplorables. She said about half of them were.
2. She was specifically talking about Trump supporters, not Republicans in general.
3. Even then Republicans make up a small percentage of the electorate.
The full quote was:
There is literally no way to read it as making any generalizations about ALL REPUBLICANS, or even ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS. You have to be functionally a moron to take away that interpretation.
Are you a moron, or are you lying because it's easier to lie than admit the person you've been taught to hate since 1992 might have been right about something?
If you want to work in a Fortune 500 company making modifications to the giant collection of back end tools and servers which do everything from push out bills to send reports to management, then you almost certainly will need to know Java just as back in the days of the Commodore 64 and Sinclair Spectrum the dominant language wasn't BASIC - even though all your nerd friends knew it - but COBOL.
Java runs almost everything of importance in 2019. The only reason Javascript has caught up is because the web, a mostly unrelated system, has grown up to be larger than all the enterprise software suites put together. (And of course the web is used to access the back-ends, so as it becomes more and more Javascript heavy, it'll increase use in the same places that are heavily Java based too.)
I must admit to being surprised to have to explain this every time the subject comes up. Half of Slashdot thinks that Java is a web plug-in that had poor security and was superseded by Flash. Has nobody here looked for a job yet? You cannot possibly miss the constant streams of job offers from electrical utilities, medical corporations, the large chain stores, telephone companies, and so on, requiring grunt programmers who do Java.
And I haven't even mentioned Android yet.
Small and midsized companies are using PHP, node.js, and whatever the scripting language of the week is, for a huge amount of their work, mixed with .NET on the back-end, but once you get bigger than that nothing else is in the room. Except perhaps some legacy COBOL systems.
Firefox can trace only its corporate origins to "people who were associated with Mosaic", Netscape was a complete ground-up rewrite and was rewritten a second time after Netscape 4. Edge is the one "modern browser" that actually has links to Mosaic (the original IE was a fork of a fork of Mosaic, has never been rewritten, and Edge is the latest fork of this long chain of forks), and that'll obviously no longer be the case when it switches to Blink.
The performance of Firefox 3.x was excellent. It was version 4 when the browser suddenly started eating gigabytes of memory and slowing to a crawl (along with the rest of the system), and frankly, while it went up and down after that, it was never really fixed.
Firefox 4 is when the UI was rewritten to be the shitty thing we know today. Was it still XUL? Possibly, I don't remember, but I do know it was a spectacularly shitty use of XUL.
There's nothing about XUL that was the problem. XUL has been part of Firefox since the beginning. Technology has gotten faster and there's nothing about XUL that meant it wouldn't scale or anything like that. Firefox has been lightning fast in the past, on slower hardware, running websites that had to do more work.
Nothing people are complaining about are things that, if we were placated, would cause performance problems.
It's not independent any more, but it still exists as a division of Bayer. Theoretically if Monsanto is a conspiracy to take over the world so that every farmer has to pay them $1 per ear of corn in patent fees, they're still likely to be doing it.
I agree though that the general hatred of Monsanto is ridiculous. They're a company providing a useful product that's worth something to farmers. If it wasn't useful and worth it, farmers wouldn't be buying it. The fact Monsanto's detractors frequently have to lie about them, making claims about lawsuits that have never happened or misrepresenting lawsuits that did is another issue.
That's not to say they're saints either. Round-up causes cancer, albeit only slightly increasing the risk and then only to those directly handling it, according to the available evidence, but Monsanto has used sophistry ("The active ingredient doesn't cause cancer!") to convince people otherwise.
GMO? It's a good thing. Our population is growing, but the resources available are not. Anything that helps us produce more safe food is a good thing.
No, the software is more likely to mistake an innocent black woman as being someone guilty of something. White men would be unlikely to suffer undue harassment due to this technology, as it would at least almost always flag them correctly and wouldn't mistake, uh, Mr Rogers, for, I dunno, Ted Bundy.
Depending on how good LEOs are at not harassing black people due to mistaken identification (I'm stifling a laugh here) it could theoretically increase harassment of black women if deployed as an aid to law enforcement.