I would say intentionally funding ads that argue homosexuals are a danger to children is the act of a bigot.
I have issues with the reasons why Eich was pressured to leave (though ultimately I think through other, related, actions he prove himself to not be CEO material), but there's no disputing the fact his acts were rather more than simply thinking ending the ban on gay marriage was a bad idea. Donating $1,000 to help show TV ads that portray gays as dangerous to children is not the act of a tolerant individual.
Maybe it's to force people to turn off their ad-blockers, so that when they come back to Slashdot they'll see ads... if so, well played DICE, well played...
That said, even when I turn off my ad blocker, I can't read Forbes, so I never bother trying any more anyway.
Trying to figure out who would have been on the list in 1996: Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, Compaq, and Nokia? (Genuine attempt to think back then - today, Microsoft and Dell are still independent and strong, Yahoo is in danger but is still around, and Compaq and Nokia no longer exist in the same form as they once did.)
Apple wouldn't have been on anyone's list, not even a die-hand Apple enthusiast's. At that point it really was "beleaguered"...
Ten years ago: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Blackberry, and Dell?
ABP does things like block sponsored tweets in Twitter and other ads that don't fit the normal "Use 3rd party server" model.
I'd be wary of hosts files in general, they're easily bypassed by advertisers and malware companies, either by using dynamic hostnames (xyzrandomstuff123.domainicontrol.com) or IP addresses.
Plus, he's kinda wrong anyway in his analogy. Licence plates identify cars, not drivers. And IP addresses identify endpoints (be it a home or a specific computer), so there already is a "License plate for the Internet".
You didn't read TFA. The study is of teenage twins who previously had/hadn't smoked marijuana (ie they were given questionaires, and twins were then selected for IQ testing if one had smoked and the other hadn't) not of twins who signed up to take part in a controlled experiment.
Parents either had nothing to do with it, or simply failed to prevent one of their twins taking the drug.
The study is probably, to a certain extent, flawed because of that methodology, but without commiting ethics violations of the type you describe, there's probably no way to get a more accurate result.
In what part of the country was the registered Democrats highest? I ask because there's a lot of locations where people register Democrat but vote Republican anyway, especially within the deep south. Kennedy Jr's conspiracy theory about Florida's vote being rigged in 2004 relied heavily upon the fact that so much of Florida is supposedly Democratic (based upon registrations) yet were voting Republican - with him ignoring the fact that these counties were overwhelmingly rural, Southern-Democratic areas.
Is there any evidence that the Trump supporters are really not part of the every day rank and file? Yes, I know the GOP establishment hates him, so much so they're grudgingly starting to support Cruz, but the rank and file are a more complex, less organized bunch.
Every so often (in fact, it's been described as "SJW Friday" because it's regular) Slashdot will post an article along the lines of "Why women are having a hard time in IT", or "Google starts a program to recruit more women into IT". The comments sections for these stories are then shitposted, every time, by angry self-professed opponents of "SJWs" complaining that the stories are indicative of an SJW mindset.
On the face of it, identifying problems with women in IT, or Google/whatever running programs to promote women in IT, doesn't appear to be cases either of bigotry or hatred, even if one believes, somehow, that women have an awesome time in IT and the only reason we don't have more women is because they want to ride ponies and dress up their Barbie dolls.
How does this fit in to your model that the opposition to so-called SJWs is due to "SJWs" "bigotry" and "hatred of anyone who doesn't share the exact same opinions", and that opponents to "SJWs" believe the principles "SJWs" support are "all well worth supporting"?
(And to counter the obvious - before you say "Well, those people shitposting to those threads and modding down all constructive posts aren't representative of the anti-SJW groups", how are they not representative? They certainly are a large enough group to be capable of destroying, effectively censoring, all discussion of women's issues on Slashdot, and I hear no condemnation at all from those who generally use the term SJW unironically against those destroying those threads.)
So this justifies the actions of a small number of Muslims trying to impose their views and lifestyles on the masses?
I don't see anything whatsoever in the GP's comment that can be interpreted that way. He's trying to make you understand a situation by comparing it to (your's) as a likely Christian or descendant of Western Christian lineage.
You're not to blame, and nobody has the right to hate you, because of the crusades. You're not to blame, and nobody has the right to hate you, for the killing of innocents due to the conflict in Northern Ireland (as a relatively recent example.) You're not to blame, and nobody has the right to hate you, for the excesses of groups like the KKK, no matter how much they wrap their violence and hate filled rhetoric in the cloak of Christianity.
Few Muslims even consider Al Qaeda or IS* (or whatever we call the latter these days) true Muslims. Yet many insist on holding ordinary Muslims accountable in some way - be it guilt by association, or actual punishment through the withdrawal of basic human rights and equal treatment - for the behavior of those groups.
There are plenty of things to criticize Islam, the religion, for, and for the behavior of many individual Muslims. But the guilt by association thing has to end. We're already seeing politicians in the US so extreme they're willing to aid ISIL if it means "sticking it" to Muslims - witness the attempts to force Syrian refugees to go back to the ISIL controlled territories they're fleeing, for example. Terrorists and extremists should have the control over discourse and our humanity that they do.
They're not looking for evidence to convict, they're looking for evidence to investigate. Possession of a limited circulation file would be a reason for {Anti-Terrorist Agency} to suspect a person and investigate them, and possibly evidence enough for warrants and court orders to obtain more evidence.
Maybe they figured that security in cryptocurrency environment was unnecessary, because in the superior world of cryptocurrencies, unlike those communistic "fiat" currencies, the free market will solve everything...
OTOH it's installed in far fewer places than people think. A hell of a lot of installations are of libav, where the CLI interface avconv has been softlinked with ffmpeg as an alias.
Given the shared heritage between the two, I'd be curious to know whether the vulnerabilities are in both avconv and "original" ffmpeg.
The Web version of Office already works fine under GNU/Linux...
With the move to the subscription model, and with Microsoft clearly working on a new line of Office (look at Office Mobile which is cross platform) I wouldn't put it past them. They don't seem to be looking at Windows as their primary revenue stream in the future.
We have about 6,382* text editors, last I looked, 17 C compilers, 243 "desktop environments", 49 video encoders, 482 standalone email clients, 2,183 web browsers, 49 ports of "Breakout", and three whole office suites, and you're of the opinion TWO would be too many standalone Javascript implementations?
* OK, figures are made up, except for the office suites. But they're probably underestimates anyway.
It's fine to download or perhaps install extensions from a website, though a built-in client would alleviate the need to depend upon Firefox with a specific Firefox extension (and that built-in client could also use a local repository rather than require the Internet be used.)
What's inanely silly is the idea you'd configure your widgets from there. Why not right click and bring up a preferences pane like everyone else? Why do I need to connect to the Internet to modify them in what's essentially a completely different environment with no intuitive connection to the widgets in the first place?
It looks rather good. As far as being somehow connected to Windows 10, operating systems have had the "list of categories on the left, control panel on the right" format for a very long time. Android's Tablet UI predates Windows 10 by a very long time for example.
What I wish is that GNOME would focus on the usability of their GNOME Classic system (you need to visit an external website to customize the panels. I'm not kidding about this, I don't mean "You need to go to a website to download add-ons", I mean GNOME's site for providing extensions is also where you change their settings, etc.) I appreciate though that one person working on improving a control panel doesn't mean they'd be working on improving the rest of the desktop if they weren't.
I've not had these kinds of problems for over ten years now, at least with Ubuntu (and apparently Mint, though I've tried that once, but Mint seems to be using Ubuntu for the core install anyway.)
Yes, there are distros out there that do have these problems, and still have them (Fedora booting into a blank screen the other day because it didn't like my Nvidia card was a disappointment) but we're never going to be in a situation where every version of every installs fine by default. Try a generic, non-manufacturer-supplied, Windows DVD at some point on a random laptop that doesn't have Windows already installed - there's a reason most Wifi cards come with a little CD containing drivers.
At least as far as Ubuntu and Mint goes right now, I think they exceed Windows right now in terms of "OS that installs with everything working". People only perceive Windows as being better because they rarely actually install it, and even if they do, they usually do so with their PC manufacturer's installer, not with a disk shipped from Redmond.
Edge isn't available for anything but Windows 10, and I doubt Microsoft wants significant numbers of its users having to rely on third parties for a browser.
IE11 wasn't actually all that bad in Windows 8.1 - it made for a very nice mobile browser on tablets. Edge, by comparison (in that one use case, I'm not talking about in general) sucks dreadfully and for some reason they removed IE11's touch friendly UI in Windows 10.
Abolish the penny and we can no longer accurately pay for anything except with a credit card.
I think we're addressing this the wrong way. What is it about coins that's a problem? Could it be addressed by changing the shape or composition? Or even how they're used - imagine pennies that lock together and unlock, as a basic example.
The E stands for Explosives, not "Environment" or something similar that would pertain to disposal of non-explosive waste like unprocessed grease.
(In any case, it looks like there's nothing to suggest the ATF is actually doing an investigation into grease disposal, just that their cameras might be being used by a third party for that purpose.)
Yes I am aware I contradicted myself, that's what comes of researching while writing a comment rather than doing the research first;-)
Anyway, no, TFA does not say that the ATF is trying to catch illegal grease dumpers, only that someone is using the ATF's (and FBI's) cameras for that purpose.
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I would say intentionally funding ads that argue homosexuals are a danger to children is the act of a bigot.
I have issues with the reasons why Eich was pressured to leave (though ultimately I think through other, related, actions he prove himself to not be CEO material), but there's no disputing the fact his acts were rather more than simply thinking ending the ban on gay marriage was a bad idea. Donating $1,000 to help show TV ads that portray gays as dangerous to children is not the act of a tolerant individual.
Maybe it's to force people to turn off their ad-blockers, so that when they come back to Slashdot they'll see ads... if so, well played DICE, well played...
That said, even when I turn off my ad blocker, I can't read Forbes, so I never bother trying any more anyway.
Trying to figure out who would have been on the list in 1996: Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, Compaq, and Nokia? (Genuine attempt to think back then - today, Microsoft and Dell are still independent and strong, Yahoo is in danger but is still around, and Compaq and Nokia no longer exist in the same form as they once did.)
Apple wouldn't have been on anyone's list, not even a die-hand Apple enthusiast's. At that point it really was "beleaguered"...
Ten years ago: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Blackberry, and Dell?
ABP does things like block sponsored tweets in Twitter and other ads that don't fit the normal "Use 3rd party server" model.
I'd be wary of hosts files in general, they're easily bypassed by advertisers and malware companies, either by using dynamic hostnames (xyzrandomstuff123.domainicontrol.com) or IP addresses.
I, too, have visited Cracked.com.
Plus, he's kinda wrong anyway in his analogy. Licence plates identify cars, not drivers. And IP addresses identify endpoints (be it a home or a specific computer), so there already is a "License plate for the Internet".
You didn't read TFA. The study is of teenage twins who previously had/hadn't smoked marijuana (ie they were given questionaires, and twins were then selected for IQ testing if one had smoked and the other hadn't) not of twins who signed up to take part in a controlled experiment.
Parents either had nothing to do with it, or simply failed to prevent one of their twins taking the drug.
The study is probably, to a certain extent, flawed because of that methodology, but without commiting ethics violations of the type you describe, there's probably no way to get a more accurate result.
In what part of the country was the registered Democrats highest? I ask because there's a lot of locations where people register Democrat but vote Republican anyway, especially within the deep south. Kennedy Jr's conspiracy theory about Florida's vote being rigged in 2004 relied heavily upon the fact that so much of Florida is supposedly Democratic (based upon registrations) yet were voting Republican - with him ignoring the fact that these counties were overwhelmingly rural, Southern-Democratic areas.
Is there any evidence that the Trump supporters are really not part of the every day rank and file? Yes, I know the GOP establishment hates him, so much so they're grudgingly starting to support Cruz, but the rank and file are a more complex, less organized bunch.
Every so often (in fact, it's been described as "SJW Friday" because it's regular) Slashdot will post an article along the lines of "Why women are having a hard time in IT", or "Google starts a program to recruit more women into IT". The comments sections for these stories are then shitposted, every time, by angry self-professed opponents of "SJWs" complaining that the stories are indicative of an SJW mindset.
On the face of it, identifying problems with women in IT, or Google/whatever running programs to promote women in IT, doesn't appear to be cases either of bigotry or hatred, even if one believes, somehow, that women have an awesome time in IT and the only reason we don't have more women is because they want to ride ponies and dress up their Barbie dolls.
How does this fit in to your model that the opposition to so-called SJWs is due to "SJWs" "bigotry" and "hatred of anyone who doesn't share the exact same opinions", and that opponents to "SJWs" believe the principles "SJWs" support are "all well worth supporting"?
(And to counter the obvious - before you say "Well, those people shitposting to those threads and modding down all constructive posts aren't representative of the anti-SJW groups", how are they not representative? They certainly are a large enough group to be capable of destroying, effectively censoring, all discussion of women's issues on Slashdot, and I hear no condemnation at all from those who generally use the term SJW unironically against those destroying those threads.)
I don't see anything whatsoever in the GP's comment that can be interpreted that way. He's trying to make you understand a situation by comparing it to (your's) as a likely Christian or descendant of Western Christian lineage.
You're not to blame, and nobody has the right to hate you, because of the crusades. You're not to blame, and nobody has the right to hate you, for the killing of innocents due to the conflict in Northern Ireland (as a relatively recent example.) You're not to blame, and nobody has the right to hate you, for the excesses of groups like the KKK, no matter how much they wrap their violence and hate filled rhetoric in the cloak of Christianity.
Few Muslims even consider Al Qaeda or IS* (or whatever we call the latter these days) true Muslims. Yet many insist on holding ordinary Muslims accountable in some way - be it guilt by association, or actual punishment through the withdrawal of basic human rights and equal treatment - for the behavior of those groups.
There are plenty of things to criticize Islam, the religion, for, and for the behavior of many individual Muslims. But the guilt by association thing has to end. We're already seeing politicians in the US so extreme they're willing to aid ISIL if it means "sticking it" to Muslims - witness the attempts to force Syrian refugees to go back to the ISIL controlled territories they're fleeing, for example. Terrorists and extremists should have the control over discourse and our humanity that they do.
They're not looking for evidence to convict, they're looking for evidence to investigate. Possession of a limited circulation file would be a reason for {Anti-Terrorist Agency} to suspect a person and investigate them, and possibly evidence enough for warrants and court orders to obtain more evidence.
Maybe they figured that security in cryptocurrency environment was unnecessary, because in the superior world of cryptocurrencies, unlike those communistic "fiat" currencies, the free market will solve everything...
OTOH it's installed in far fewer places than people think. A hell of a lot of installations are of libav, where the CLI interface avconv has been softlinked with ffmpeg as an alias.
Given the shared heritage between the two, I'd be curious to know whether the vulnerabilities are in both avconv and "original" ffmpeg.
The Web version of Office already works fine under GNU/Linux...
With the move to the subscription model, and with Microsoft clearly working on a new line of Office (look at Office Mobile which is cross platform) I wouldn't put it past them. They don't seem to be looking at Windows as their primary revenue stream in the future.
We have about 6,382* text editors, last I looked, 17 C compilers, 243 "desktop environments", 49 video encoders, 482 standalone email clients, 2,183 web browsers, 49 ports of "Breakout", and three whole office suites, and you're of the opinion TWO would be too many standalone Javascript implementations?
* OK, figures are made up, except for the office suites. But they're probably underestimates anyway.
It's fine to download or perhaps install extensions from a website, though a built-in client would alleviate the need to depend upon Firefox with a specific Firefox extension (and that built-in client could also use a local repository rather than require the Internet be used.)
What's inanely silly is the idea you'd configure your widgets from there. Why not right click and bring up a preferences pane like everyone else? Why do I need to connect to the Internet to modify them in what's essentially a completely different environment with no intuitive connection to the widgets in the first place?
It looks rather good. As far as being somehow connected to Windows 10, operating systems have had the "list of categories on the left, control panel on the right" format for a very long time. Android's Tablet UI predates Windows 10 by a very long time for example.
What I wish is that GNOME would focus on the usability of their GNOME Classic system (you need to visit an external website to customize the panels. I'm not kidding about this, I don't mean "You need to go to a website to download add-ons", I mean GNOME's site for providing extensions is also where you change their settings, etc.) I appreciate though that one person working on improving a control panel doesn't mean they'd be working on improving the rest of the desktop if they weren't.
For now, there's Cinnamon.
If my car is doing the driving, I'd like to be able to watch movies or read articles on websites, so there's that.
I've not had these kinds of problems for over ten years now, at least with Ubuntu (and apparently Mint, though I've tried that once, but Mint seems to be using Ubuntu for the core install anyway.)
Yes, there are distros out there that do have these problems, and still have them (Fedora booting into a blank screen the other day because it didn't like my Nvidia card was a disappointment) but we're never going to be in a situation where every version of every installs fine by default. Try a generic, non-manufacturer-supplied, Windows DVD at some point on a random laptop that doesn't have Windows already installed - there's a reason most Wifi cards come with a little CD containing drivers.
At least as far as Ubuntu and Mint goes right now, I think they exceed Windows right now in terms of "OS that installs with everything working". People only perceive Windows as being better because they rarely actually install it, and even if they do, they usually do so with their PC manufacturer's installer, not with a disk shipped from Redmond.
Edge isn't available for anything but Windows 10, and I doubt Microsoft wants significant numbers of its users having to rely on third parties for a browser.
IE11 wasn't actually all that bad in Windows 8.1 - it made for a very nice mobile browser on tablets. Edge, by comparison (in that one use case, I'm not talking about in general) sucks dreadfully and for some reason they removed IE11's touch friendly UI in Windows 10.
Abolish the penny and we can no longer accurately pay for anything except with a credit card.
I think we're addressing this the wrong way. What is it about coins that's a problem? Could it be addressed by changing the shape or composition? Or even how they're used - imagine pennies that lock together and unlock, as a basic example.
The E stands for Explosives, not "Environment" or something similar that would pertain to disposal of non-explosive waste like unprocessed grease.
(In any case, it looks like there's nothing to suggest the ATF is actually doing an investigation into grease disposal, just that their cameras might be being used by a third party for that purpose.)
Yes I am aware I contradicted myself, that's what comes of researching while writing a comment rather than doing the research first ;-)
Anyway, no, TFA does not say that the ATF is trying to catch illegal grease dumpers, only that someone is using the ATF's (and FBI's) cameras for that purpose.