For this kind of smear, in this kind of context? No, no "more speech" isn't the solution, it actually makes it worse to issue denials as it makes the original allegation more prominent, and makes a large percentage of the population think it might be true because "there's no smoke without fire."
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There is, but unfortunately you can't set it up as a default, and you have to select it after you've done your search.
Go to Search Tools, you'll see a drop down currently marked "All Results", change it to "Verbatim", and you'll get a classic Google search (for the most part.)
I'm finding about 90% of my Google searches end up with my selecting that option. Google, seriously, when are you going to fix this?
The Intercept is the one accused of breaking US law, and is very much under US jurisdiction. Yes, foreigners, even those damned limeys, have the right to sue US entities in US court for breaching US laws where they deem themselves to be the harmed party.
I doubt that's the issue. As you say, Kodi is just software, therefore by definition it doesn't "compete" with the Amazon FireTV. FireTV's sole purpose is to be an easy method to hook up Amazon content to a TV. Kodi doesn't overlap with that in any way.
Additionally, Amazon has no problems selling actual competitors to the FireTV, such as the various Roku models, AppleTV, and both of Google's current "Show content on a TV" devices.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but if a train stops in the Channel Tunnel, you can, actually, get out. There is air. There is a substantial gap between the trains and the walls. There's even a third tunnel to use in emergency situations with regular links between the three so you don't have to spend too much time on a tunnel intended for trains.
I think the GP may be overstating things, but no, getting "stuck" in the chunnel due to a power failure, or fire, is not remotely like getting stuck in a 4' tube containing (is that the right word?) a vacuum.
I suspect the aim is to replicate the "News in brief" segments that used to be parts of paper newspapers (they may still be, I dunno, been a while since I read one...) and TV news shows. The idea is that you can get a rough idea of what's happening in the world in just a minute or two.
Actually I think in the Internet age it's a pretty good idea. If you need more information, you can always google it with Bing, Yahoo, or another search engine that searches news sites. The alternative right now, which the write-up above alludes to, is just seeing a bunch of headlines, but headlines are designed to make you click through to the big article, not provide you with a summary, so they usually purposely miss out information that gives context.
Headline version: "You won't believe which building in New York is on fire right now!"
Summary version: "Jets crash into WTC in NY. Thousands likely trapped in what officials are saying is likely a terrorist act. Collapse seems imminent."
Headline version: "What happened after THIS famous athlete checked into a clinic!"
Summary version: "Olympic Gold winner Bruce Jenner has undergone sex reassignment surgery and wishes to be known as Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn recently revealed that she had been dealing with gender dysphoria since her youth. Her family has issued statements of support for Caitlyn's transition."
Headline version: "You better hope THIS escaped con isn't hiding in your basement!"
Summary version: "Police are warning residents near a North Country state prison to be on the lookout for two escaped prisoners (pictured.) The prisoners, Richard Matt and David Sweat, are considered highly dangerous. If you see them, do not approach, and call 911 immediately."
I don't know about you, but I get more information from the summaries, and for the most part I'm unlikely to need more information unless I'm really genuinely interested in the subject of the story.
That's what Google claims it's doing for RTBF, and what France says it's not good enough
No, it's not what Google claims it's doing. Google has never claimed that a French user accessing google.com will see results filtered by RTBF. France is upset because Google is only applying RTBF for the domains that have European postfixes (eg google.fr, google.co.uk, etc), not for users of Google coming in from European IP addresses.
So your service will randomly fail to start, depending upon whether the local system's "init" just happened to start the services yours depends upon before your's?
That... doesn't seem like a good idea to me. While I'd certainly ensure my scripts handle the non-startup of dependencies gracefully, I'd definitely want a sane init system to actually know what to start up, and in what order.
So your view is that there should be no way for IM users using a tablet to respond to an IM? Despite the fact IM is pretty much about real time two way conversations?
And FWIW, while "texts" are largely irrelevant to tablets, emails are actually something you can respond to with a tablet. The app to do so is "full screen" (which in this context means a Metro app that's snappable, not literally something that forces itself to cover the entire screen and refuses to let you do anything else.)
Indeed. That's what's meant here by "full screen" (unless you interpret the person I was replying to as meaning "Refuses to be snapped, occupies full screen permanently, while emitting evil cackles via the loudspeaker." which would be odd because then they'd have been criticizing the Skype app for something that it doesn't do.
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I assume though you haven't used it on a Windows 8.1 tablet, which is what this discussion is about.
In context, both I and the person I was replying to used the term "full screen" to refer to apps that use the Metro interface. They're not really "full screen", they appear that way by default, but they can be snapped to the side of the screen.
The opposite is not some background app that can float over other apps, it's an app that runs on the Windows 8.1 Desktop. The desktop is awkward to use with the touchscreen. I seriously do not need to "ask all of them (tablet users)" to know that almost no tablet user wants their IM clients to run in a window on the desktop.
nobody wants a fullscreen IM app. that's the problem.
Well, except tablet users...
Hopefully if Windows 10 actually takes off, we'll see more interest by groups like Google in producing decent tablet versions of their applications for Windows.
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Win32 is essentially the same as Win16, with 32 bit pointers in a single address space. Win64/Win32/Win16 are all the Windows API with different memory models.
Disclaimer: I was programming these things in the 1980s and 1990s, which is why I'm getting hammered in another thread for pointing out that "PC" has always been used to refer to computers based upon the IBM PC architecture and its descendants, and no, Amigas were never PCs, even though they were personal computers. Youngsters these days. Tsk.
TFA says Windows RT will continue to get the Skype Metro app. So actually... I'm kinda struggling to see the logic here. Skype will still be maintained on both platforms, it's just people with Windows 8 tablets with an ix86 architecture will now have to navigate to the (touch-awkward) desktop to use Skype.
Uh, what?
And yet I can't get myself too upset about this because the Metro app had that horrible "Cannot use anything other than the logged in Microsoft account unless you want to force all your apps to have different accounts" "feature". For those saying "So?", if you've tried to use 8.1 in the latter mode, Windows acts like you're committing a crime each time you install a new app that requires a Microsoft account. And to give you some idea of what requires a Microsoft account, Microsoft FUCKING SOLITAIRE will bug you constantly until you associate it with one. There's no "Leave me alone, no, I don't need my current Spider status stored in the cloud you idiot, why would you even think that's something I want let alone insist on demanding login credentials every time I start this game" checkbox.
The alternative to using the term "PC" to describe IBM PCs and their descendants is to use some horribly convoluted terminology, along the lines of "Oh no, this isn't a Mac, this is a computer that implements standards comprising a descendant of the IBM PC architecture."
PC comes from "IBM PC". While the PC in those five letters were the initials of "Personal Computer", the name referred to a specific family of computers. You wouldn't use "PC/AT" to describe the latest Mac on the grounds that "But... it is a Personal Computer with Advanced Technology!" Likewise, if someone gave you a 3.5" disc in the 1980s and said "This has a PC emulator on it!" you wouldn't say "Ahem, my Amiga already is a personal computer, I don't need to emulate one on it." PC was understood to mean IBM PC based.
The Commodore Amiga was a personal computer. It was not a PC - well, not unless you added the Sidecar thingie, one of the Zorro 2/3 emulator cards, or ran one of the PC emulators, anyway..
...is that if Blackberry pulls it off, Apple should also do the same thing and release an Android phone. Then Google should make their next Nexus phone have Windows 10. And the Microsoft version of Nokia should release a webOS phone too.
Then you've failed Reading 101 because I didn't mention any legal context. I said it's not censorship because it isn't, Someone refusing to allow THEIR voice to be used to amplify yours is NEVER censorship under any definition of the term.
There is no set of circumstances in which someone has some moral responsibility to repeat the words of those they find objectionable and reprehensible. You don't get to do that. If Reddit had some kind of monopoly on speech, you might be able to suggest they have some kind of quasi-legal responsibility to do so, purely because free speech would be impossible if someone has somehow managed to be the gatekeeper of all thought. But they don't. You have alternatives. You don't get to call them banning the use of their infrastructure to discharge your point of view "censorship".
As for your displacement complaint, this is about blocking forums, not blocking individuals. There's little difference between someone saying "Well, let's go to KIA to find out what Gamergaters think!" and saying "Let's go to 8chan to find out what Gamergaters think!". They're equally easy. Reddit doesn't make one harder than the other. Indeed, in many ways, it's the opposite, with direct links between opposing Reddit forums frequently discouraged by moderators of both sending and receiving subs.
A classic case of trying to swap other people into an argument and finding that that doesn't actually prove your own point, it proves mine and suggests you haven't even thought for a second why Reddit is taking these actions.
If Reddit banned homosexuals for being homosexual I would say they're being jackasses, both because homosexuals aren't actually hurting anyone, and are a minority commonly subject to horrific abuses that a "ban" would legitimize, whereas trolls that doxx and otherwise harass minority groups hurting people, and are not in any way a group that suffers unjustified persecution themselves.
Note though that the complaint would be that they're being jackasses, not that they're "censoring" anyone. I appreciate that on a forum where the word "rape" is commonly used to mean "charged a whole $10 for a music CD" that the idea words matter might seem quaint and absurd, but believe me, they do.
On top of the numerous alternatives to Reddit, you can get a VPS for $1 a month if you look hard enough. I'm struggling to see how Reddit's actions to control what's said on their website constitutes censorship in any meaningful definition of that term.
Which is fine, it's a start. For all the whining by GGers that this is aimed at them and all the results of an evil SJW cabal censoring their free speech to criticize ethics in journalism (which, oddly enough, is something GGers very good at censoring themselves about, but I digress...), the first major hate group being blocked is a forum aimed at attacking victims of a condition that's usually medical (Yes, it is. Talk to overweight women for a change about how being overweight makes them feel, and then ask yourself the serious question why, given the huge disadvantages to being a victim of that condition, social and physical, anyone in their right mind would get into it, or stay in it, if it were so fucking easy to get out of it.)
So congrats, your narrative is broken. This isn't about protecting Zoe Quinn from an abusive ex-boyfriend and his legion of idiotic and gullible and/or women-hating supporters, though hopefully that day will come, it's about a wider issue of hate groups on the Internet, and Reddit wanting no part of them.
As a follow up, what are your thoughts on the death of Travon Martin, what are your feelings about Islam (both radical and non-radical), and which is the one true text editor, vi or EMACS?
1. There's no story there. There's a summary of a principle involved that implies at least three incidents (at least one "behind a car from the 1980s or earlier", at least one "behind a diesel vehicle from the 1990s or earlier", and at least one of those must have happened at least twice, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen the language I have. For the record, I've lost count of the number of times it's happened.)
2. There's no "good feelings" described, simply the experience of hacking up pollution-soaked air and comparing it with the modern world.
Finally, of course, I'm under no obligation to post a fucking peer reviewed scientific study as part of every Slashdot post. My comment merely told you the principle behind my being glad the EPA exists. You can ignore it, but to be honest, you'd have to either have lived in a sterile box (or some other environment far from the mainstream US) for the last 10 years, or else be functionally moronic to not have had the same experiences as I have, because pretty much everyone in this country has had the same experience. Perhaps they've been walking on a sidewalk besides a bunch of vehicles waiting for a red light to change, and an aforementioned older, less regulated, vehicle has been sitting there. Or perhaps, like me, they've experienced it from within a motor vehicle.
In the meantime, I hope after reading this and posting your inevitable whiny "You didn't prove anything" response, you get stuck behind a 1990s Diesel for the next few hours in some ungodly traffic jam, choking on the fumes as you rage in your head about the fact Slashdot posters are unwilling to conduct scientific experiments before going ahead and posting their experiences to Slashdot.
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For this kind of smear, in this kind of context? No, no "more speech" isn't the solution, it actually makes it worse to issue denials as it makes the original allegation more prominent, and makes a large percentage of the population think it might be true because "there's no smoke without fire."
Another option, for Firefox users, is this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Apparently it sets up the search box in Firefox to use Verbatim by default.
So in other words, when they realize that being as bad by default as Bing means people will happily switch to Bing?
There is, but unfortunately you can't set it up as a default, and you have to select it after you've done your search.
Go to Search Tools, you'll see a drop down currently marked "All Results", change it to "Verbatim", and you'll get a classic Google search (for the most part.)
I'm finding about 90% of my Google searches end up with my selecting that option. Google, seriously, when are you going to fix this?
The Intercept is the one accused of breaking US law, and is very much under US jurisdiction. Yes, foreigners, even those damned limeys, have the right to sue US entities in US court for breaching US laws where they deem themselves to be the harmed party.
I doubt that's the issue. As you say, Kodi is just software, therefore by definition it doesn't "compete" with the Amazon FireTV. FireTV's sole purpose is to be an easy method to hook up Amazon content to a TV. Kodi doesn't overlap with that in any way.
Additionally, Amazon has no problems selling actual competitors to the FireTV, such as the various Roku models, AppleTV, and both of Google's current "Show content on a TV" devices.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but if a train stops in the Channel Tunnel, you can, actually, get out. There is air. There is a substantial gap between the trains and the walls. There's even a third tunnel to use in emergency situations with regular links between the three so you don't have to spend too much time on a tunnel intended for trains.
I think the GP may be overstating things, but no, getting "stuck" in the chunnel due to a power failure, or fire, is not remotely like getting stuck in a 4' tube containing (is that the right word?) a vacuum.
I suspect the aim is to replicate the "News in brief" segments that used to be parts of paper newspapers (they may still be, I dunno, been a while since I read one...) and TV news shows. The idea is that you can get a rough idea of what's happening in the world in just a minute or two.
Actually I think in the Internet age it's a pretty good idea. If you need more information, you can always google it with Bing, Yahoo, or another search engine that searches news sites. The alternative right now, which the write-up above alludes to, is just seeing a bunch of headlines, but headlines are designed to make you click through to the big article, not provide you with a summary, so they usually purposely miss out information that gives context.
Headline version: "You won't believe which building in New York is on fire right now!"
Summary version: "Jets crash into WTC in NY. Thousands likely trapped in what officials are saying is likely a terrorist act. Collapse seems imminent."
Headline version: "What happened after THIS famous athlete checked into a clinic!"
Summary version: "Olympic Gold winner Bruce Jenner has undergone sex reassignment surgery and wishes to be known as Caitlyn Jenner. Caitlyn recently revealed that she had been dealing with gender dysphoria since her youth. Her family has issued statements of support for Caitlyn's transition."
Headline version: "You better hope THIS escaped con isn't hiding in your basement!"
Summary version: "Police are warning residents near a North Country state prison to be on the lookout for two escaped prisoners (pictured.) The prisoners, Richard Matt and David Sweat, are considered highly dangerous. If you see them, do not approach, and call 911 immediately."
I don't know about you, but I get more information from the summaries, and for the most part I'm unlikely to need more information unless I'm really genuinely interested in the subject of the story.
No, it's not what Google claims it's doing. Google has never claimed that a French user accessing google.com will see results filtered by RTBF. France is upset because Google is only applying RTBF for the domains that have European postfixes (eg google.fr, google.co.uk, etc), not for users of Google coming in from European IP addresses.
So your service will randomly fail to start, depending upon whether the local system's "init" just happened to start the services yours depends upon before your's?
That... doesn't seem like a good idea to me. While I'd certainly ensure my scripts handle the non-startup of dependencies gracefully, I'd definitely want a sane init system to actually know what to start up, and in what order.
So your view is that there should be no way for IM users using a tablet to respond to an IM? Despite the fact IM is pretty much about real time two way conversations?
And FWIW, while "texts" are largely irrelevant to tablets, emails are actually something you can respond to with a tablet. The app to do so is "full screen" (which in this context means a Metro app that's snappable, not literally something that forces itself to cover the entire screen and refuses to let you do anything else.)
Indeed. That's what's meant here by "full screen" (unless you interpret the person I was replying to as meaning "Refuses to be snapped, occupies full screen permanently, while emitting evil cackles via the loudspeaker." which would be odd because then they'd have been criticizing the Skype app for something that it doesn't do.
I assume though you haven't used it on a Windows 8.1 tablet, which is what this discussion is about.
In context, both I and the person I was replying to used the term "full screen" to refer to apps that use the Metro interface. They're not really "full screen", they appear that way by default, but they can be snapped to the side of the screen.
The opposite is not some background app that can float over other apps, it's an app that runs on the Windows 8.1 Desktop. The desktop is awkward to use with the touchscreen. I seriously do not need to "ask all of them (tablet users)" to know that almost no tablet user wants their IM clients to run in a window on the desktop.
Well, except tablet users...
Hopefully if Windows 10 actually takes off, we'll see more interest by groups like Google in producing decent tablet versions of their applications for Windows.
Well, Microsoft refers to it as Win64.
Win32 is essentially the same as Win16, with 32 bit pointers in a single address space. Win64/Win32/Win16 are all the Windows API with different memory models.
Disclaimer: I was programming these things in the 1980s and 1990s, which is why I'm getting hammered in another thread for pointing out that "PC" has always been used to refer to computers based upon the IBM PC architecture and its descendants, and no, Amigas were never PCs, even though they were personal computers. Youngsters these days. Tsk.
TFA says Windows RT will continue to get the Skype Metro app. So actually... I'm kinda struggling to see the logic here. Skype will still be maintained on both platforms, it's just people with Windows 8 tablets with an ix86 architecture will now have to navigate to the (touch-awkward) desktop to use Skype.
Uh, what?
And yet I can't get myself too upset about this because the Metro app had that horrible "Cannot use anything other than the logged in Microsoft account unless you want to force all your apps to have different accounts" "feature". For those saying "So?", if you've tried to use 8.1 in the latter mode, Windows acts like you're committing a crime each time you install a new app that requires a Microsoft account. And to give you some idea of what requires a Microsoft account, Microsoft FUCKING SOLITAIRE will bug you constantly until you associate it with one. There's no "Leave me alone, no, I don't need my current Spider status stored in the cloud you idiot, why would you even think that's something I want let alone insist on demanding login credentials every time I start this game" checkbox.
The alternative to using the term "PC" to describe IBM PCs and their descendants is to use some horribly convoluted terminology, along the lines of "Oh no, this isn't a Mac, this is a computer that implements standards comprising a descendant of the IBM PC architecture."
PC comes from "IBM PC". While the PC in those five letters were the initials of "Personal Computer", the name referred to a specific family of computers. You wouldn't use "PC/AT" to describe the latest Mac on the grounds that "But... it is a Personal Computer with Advanced Technology!" Likewise, if someone gave you a 3.5" disc in the 1980s and said "This has a PC emulator on it!" you wouldn't say "Ahem, my Amiga already is a personal computer, I don't need to emulate one on it." PC was understood to mean IBM PC based.
The Commodore Amiga was a personal computer. It was not a PC - well, not unless you added the Sidecar thingie, one of the Zorro 2/3 emulator cards, or ran one of the PC emulators, anyway..
...is that if Blackberry pulls it off, Apple should also do the same thing and release an Android phone. Then Google should make their next Nexus phone have Windows 10. And the Microsoft version of Nokia should release a webOS phone too.
Watch out, it may be 20==19, you never can tell, it is PHP after all!
Then you've failed Reading 101 because I didn't mention any legal context. I said it's not censorship because it isn't, Someone refusing to allow THEIR voice to be used to amplify yours is NEVER censorship under any definition of the term.
There is no set of circumstances in which someone has some moral responsibility to repeat the words of those they find objectionable and reprehensible. You don't get to do that. If Reddit had some kind of monopoly on speech, you might be able to suggest they have some kind of quasi-legal responsibility to do so, purely because free speech would be impossible if someone has somehow managed to be the gatekeeper of all thought. But they don't. You have alternatives. You don't get to call them banning the use of their infrastructure to discharge your point of view "censorship".
As for your displacement complaint, this is about blocking forums, not blocking individuals. There's little difference between someone saying "Well, let's go to KIA to find out what Gamergaters think!" and saying "Let's go to 8chan to find out what Gamergaters think!". They're equally easy. Reddit doesn't make one harder than the other. Indeed, in many ways, it's the opposite, with direct links between opposing Reddit forums frequently discouraged by moderators of both sending and receiving subs.
A classic case of trying to swap other people into an argument and finding that that doesn't actually prove your own point, it proves mine and suggests you haven't even thought for a second why Reddit is taking these actions.
If Reddit banned homosexuals for being homosexual I would say they're being jackasses, both because homosexuals aren't actually hurting anyone, and are a minority commonly subject to horrific abuses that a "ban" would legitimize, whereas trolls that doxx and otherwise harass minority groups hurting people, and are not in any way a group that suffers unjustified persecution themselves.
Note though that the complaint would be that they're being jackasses, not that they're "censoring" anyone. I appreciate that on a forum where the word "rape" is commonly used to mean "charged a whole $10 for a music CD" that the idea words matter might seem quaint and absurd, but believe me, they do.
On top of the numerous alternatives to Reddit, you can get a VPS for $1 a month if you look hard enough. I'm struggling to see how Reddit's actions to control what's said on their website constitutes censorship in any meaningful definition of that term.
Which is fine, it's a start. For all the whining by GGers that this is aimed at them and all the results of an evil SJW cabal censoring their free speech to criticize ethics in journalism (which, oddly enough, is something GGers very good at censoring themselves about, but I digress...), the first major hate group being blocked is a forum aimed at attacking victims of a condition that's usually medical (Yes, it is. Talk to overweight women for a change about how being overweight makes them feel, and then ask yourself the serious question why, given the huge disadvantages to being a victim of that condition, social and physical, anyone in their right mind would get into it, or stay in it, if it were so fucking easy to get out of it.)
So congrats, your narrative is broken. This isn't about protecting Zoe Quinn from an abusive ex-boyfriend and his legion of idiotic and gullible and/or women-hating supporters, though hopefully that day will come, it's about a wider issue of hate groups on the Internet, and Reddit wanting no part of them.
As a follow up, what are your thoughts on the death of Travon Martin, what are your feelings about Islam (both radical and non-radical), and which is the one true text editor, vi or EMACS?
No, for several reasons.
1. There's no story there. There's a summary of a principle involved that implies at least three incidents (at least one "behind a car from the 1980s or earlier", at least one "behind a diesel vehicle from the 1990s or earlier", and at least one of those must have happened at least twice, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen the language I have. For the record, I've lost count of the number of times it's happened.)
2. There's no "good feelings" described, simply the experience of hacking up pollution-soaked air and comparing it with the modern world.
Finally, of course, I'm under no obligation to post a fucking peer reviewed scientific study as part of every Slashdot post. My comment merely told you the principle behind my being glad the EPA exists. You can ignore it, but to be honest, you'd have to either have lived in a sterile box (or some other environment far from the mainstream US) for the last 10 years, or else be functionally moronic to not have had the same experiences as I have, because pretty much everyone in this country has had the same experience. Perhaps they've been walking on a sidewalk besides a bunch of vehicles waiting for a red light to change, and an aforementioned older, less regulated, vehicle has been sitting there. Or perhaps, like me, they've experienced it from within a motor vehicle.
In the meantime, I hope after reading this and posting your inevitable whiny "You didn't prove anything" response, you get stuck behind a 1990s Diesel for the next few hours in some ungodly traffic jam, choking on the fumes as you rage in your head about the fact Slashdot posters are unwilling to conduct scientific experiments before going ahead and posting their experiences to Slashdot.