I know we're kinda interested in high tech vehicles. I know Musk was a co-creator of Paypal and thus is a geek because he did something on the Internet. But that doesn't mean we own the things and can give our personal opinion. They're expensive - even the supposed forthcoming "cheap Tesla" will cost as much for its cramped, uncomfortable, self as a top-of-the-line Honda Odyssey.
What next? "Hey, Slashdotters, do you think the new software upgrade for the International Space Station has helped with the air conditioning problems?"
Americans already make cars. Even "Japanese" (Honda, Toyota) cars sold in the US are usually made in the US.
iPhones and other smartphones being made here will probably up the prices slightly, but most of the estimates I've heard are absurd. I'd also suspect that the increased wages (higher demand for employees = fewer minimum wage jobs) would more than offset the price increases you'd see.
(This is not to suggest that I welcome a fascist in the White House, or a trade war with China, obviously. I just wish we hadn't lost most of our electronics manufacturing capacity with the end of Commodore in the early nineties.)
It's also hard to believe that's true. screen has been around for decades, and is one of the most useful command line management tools out there. Is Debian seriously only getting it now, or did someone interpret a decision to adopt a more recent version as "Debian is going to get screen for the first time!"?
I have to admit that people on my side did tend to do that, and that was wrong.
Why?
Trump is, objectively (OK, I'd substitute "fascist" for "nazi/hitler") all of those things. Have we reached such a point of resignation to the apparently inevitable that we're now normalizing Trump, treating him as just another Republican president rather than the existential threat to Democracy he poses?
Normalizing fascism doesn't make it go away. It might make you, in the short term, seem like a "reasonable person" but does nothing for you three hours later. And in the meantime such normalization strengthens it.
I really do want the situation to improve, and I really am willing to give Trump the chance to prove himself
Trump has made it abundantly clear what he is and what he plans to do. To give him the "chance to prove himself" is a surrender to some pretty horrific policies and principles. You would have laughed at anyone who said that of Mussolini. Maybe you think he's only kidding, but there's no reason for you to do so other than, perhaps, a quaint sense of projection and wish everyone was as nice as you are, and that attitude in the past is why terrible people have gone on to get away with terrible things.
Uhm. OK. You know why we called him a racist and a misogynist? Because he is a racist and a misogynist. Unless you were asleep during the campaign, you couldn't possibly have missed that.
The Nazi and Hitler references? Well, I could point out that he's a populist demagogue, running on a platform of racial scapegoating (and that's not a small part of this campaign, that's been the core of the campaign he ran since he stepped on that elevator and made his first speech announcing his candidacy), who's advocated violence against peaceful opponents, and who's made it clear he plans to abuse the law to punish opposition.
But... there's a quicker way to demonstrate he's a fascist. which is to ask the Neo-Nazis what they think. And they're pretty much unanimous in supporting him. . They're doing victory laps.
What would you call him?
Don't fucking mainstream him because he won. He's still the fascist we warned you about. And he's an existential threat to this country.
Because the other cellphone companies that provide similar features do provide a discount. T-Mobile's "Binge-On" is free, for example, as long as it's streaming from content providers who've agreed to stream the way T-Mobile wants them to.
Are there similar investigations int Google's competitors? Because they seem to have platforms that are far more closed and far more under the control of those competitors than Android ever has been.
THIS! When you're great at driving, guiding a metal line between painted lines on some tarmac for 60 minutes a day, stopping, starting, stopping, starting, becomes TRULY AWESOME! What could be more fun?! See some red ahead, SLOW DOWN, no STOP!!! Wooo! Wait, nothing in front of you and no red? PUSH DOWN THAT OTHER PEDAL. YEESSSSSS1!!!1!
How can anyone not enjoy that?! The best part is that we all HAVE TO DO IT, and there's nothing more fun than something you're FORCED TO DO by nice, accomodating, city planners who've made it illegal to build WALKABLE (boo!) neighborhoods!
With respect to both you and the GP, there's a world of difference between saying you want to leave because a peaceful, respectful of democracy, political opponent is elected, and because someone who promotes violence against his opponents is elected. If Trump is telling the truth about who he is, and if Congress and the Courts are unable to keep him under control, then we're in for four years of the most horrific government the US has ever seen, and might be about to see the end of this nation.
I'm not advocating a Californian withdrawal, I think that'll make things worse, but this isn't a "both sides" thing: people who said they'd leave if Bush or Obama got into office were hyperbolic idiots. People saying much the same thing about Trump are fearing something that should be feared.
I would imagine it's because most Canadians speak English, thus reducing the need to learn another language, and because the standard of living is considerably higher than in Mexico.
I'm not sure how "racism" comes into it, but it sounds like the kind of thing a right winger would say who doesn't know what racism is, but throws the word at the wall hoping it'll show some kind of "hypocrisy" because left wingers are anti-racism.
The two cases against him were civil, and one - a dubious charge of underage rape - has been dropped albeit under equally dubious circumstances.
The Trump U case (of the infamous "Mexican" judge controversy) is ongoing, but again, it's not a criminal case.
Trump has racked up a lot of fraudulent, dishonest, behavior in his life, but he's been careful to avoid anything that would result in him being arrested. There's a legal distinction between signing a contract to buy $100,000 worth of furniture, and then refusing to pay or just paying 2/3 of the bill, and stepping into a warehouse and taking $100,000 worth of furniture without paying. He and his lawyers know the difference, even if it leaves the victim in exactly the same spot.
People don't tell Democratic Presidents they have to act like a Republican because they generally do anyway. Remember Obamacare? That was originally Romney's healthcare system. Remember Gitmo? Of course you do, hard to forget it because it never disappeared, the left (and even the law) wanted it gone, so Obama kept it.
I'd love to blame this on the DNC establishment, but Clinton always had the popular vote amongst Democrats. Sanders was simply never going to win the primary, and to be honest, it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim.
Neither should have been the party's nominee, not an unpopular neo-con who had been the target of smear campaigns for 25 years, and not a populist with left wing views similar to an ideology that has been the target of a smear campaign in the US for over a century.
Biden would have wiped the floor with Trump. I'd like to think Warren would have done too. Sanders? Hell no. Once the sheen had faded and Sanders had started to see what a real negative campaign looks like, Trump wouldn't have looked back.
File this in the same folder as "Darned Millennials are lazy good for nuffins" and "Why do I have 100 TV channels and nothing on?"
Here's what I use Twitter for. I suspect most people use it exactly the same way, despite personal experience of being the kind of person who has obscure use cases:
1. I use it to catch up on the news. I follow a bunch of news accounts related to things that interest me. I don't mean "CNN", because the kind of news that appears on CNN generally trends anyway. I mean things about tech, and other stuff about transportation, for example.
2. I use it to catch up with, and talk to, long time online friends. Much as we used to use blogging networks like LiveJournal before they were subsumed into social networking (Twitter is kinda a social network, and kinda not.)
3. I use it to follow interesting people. Some people in tech, some comedians, an economist, etc. They intersperse the above with observations that are interesting, or links to interesting articles.
Looking at other people's "Follows" lists, and you'll find a similar make-up to my own, which makes me think that this is the normal case, not some obscure thing that only a Slashdot veteran would do. Sure, others have different tastes, and are more interested in what Kim Kardashian has to say than Rob Malda (in fairness, we may joke about her, but she would probably have made a better prediction about the likely success of the iPod than the latter...)
Is it useful? Yeah. Twitter keeps me in the loop. I could keep flipping between a dozen news sites on my browser, and another bunch of blogs, perhaps, or perhaps strip it down with an RSS reader (remember those?) and Reddit, but somehow Twitter works well as a single point of a contact, that can be easily brought up whereever I am.
From what I can figure out, the only way an email would have been relevant is if it originated or passed through Clinton's server, because the entire investigation was to check whether Clinton's use of a private server had in some way broken the law. So no other criteria would have been relevant. That's piddlingly easy to look for. A PDP-11 running a 1970s Unix variant could tell the FBI which emails fit that criteria in less than a day.
Once that set of emails is identified, it would be extremely easy to match up what did with what's already been investigated, by looking at message IDs.
I would say I was surprised the conspiracy theory was taken seriously, but it's Trump supporters and people with Clinton Derangement Syndrome we're talking about here, so...
Because they don't have money to deal with huge numbers of frivilous lawsuits.
Essentially Peter Thiel found a way to do an end-run around the barratry laws: instead of flooding a target with frivilous lawsuits where you're the plaintiff, find as many other potential plaintiffs instead and fund their lawsuits. You can even look the hero by pretending you're just trying to get justice for people who can't afford it, even when that's not even remotely true.
He'll be able to get enough done that it'll cause problems. You really think even the establishment Republicans would turn down a chance to flood the Supreme Court with authoritarian crazies if they're anti-abortion, for example? That's the same supreme court that would supposedly reject restrictions on the media.
I'd also like to remind you that history has a habit of populaces underestimating the ability of a demagogue to inflict massive damage on a country when they gain power, by writing them off as "just a clown" or believing "He doesn't really mean that, he's just saying it to get support."
No, he's right, if we're trying to determine household incomes then in a weird way working out how much income each current worker will get gives a more intuitive picture than a simple "X per person calculation".
If you go back to the GGP's comment about the income being roughly $40,000 per person, that tells you nothing, because you have nothing to compare it to. It initially looks like a paycut for me, apparently. Except... it isn't, because in a universal income environment, my wife gets $40,000, and my daughter gets $40,000, neither of whom earn any wages right now. So actually the true figure is that my salary gets replaced by $120,000, not $40,000.
Which, unsurprisingly, is close to the figure the GP mentioned. And also is a lot higher than most software developers like me earn here in Florida, for what it's worth.
I thought the 10NES issue was Nintendo trying to (ab)use copyright to prevent unauthorized third parties from releasing their own games for the NES, not copyright being used to prevent people from copying games?
On said DNS server make sure you use DNSSEC and only use servers that don't log and are DNSSEC enabled.
This might help (in terms of reducing MITM attacks) if DNSSEC was widely implemented. It's not. Most DNS registrars I've dealt with don't even support it. And it's sufficiently obscure that very few customers of the registrars that do have it implemented. If you limit yourself to DNSSEC domains, you're going to cut out most of the Internet.
In terms of finding servers that "don't log", I think that's easier to say than done. Unless you're personally familiar with the server, you don't have a chance. And with DNS not being encrypted, it's relatively easy for several groups not entirely under your control to intercept DNS queries anyway.
Who the f--- asked for FOIA documents on whether Trump's dad was a "philanthropist"? I'm sorry, but this explanation makes virtually no sense - and presumably doesn't to do the FBI either otherwise they wouldn't be investigating it.
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Also: how many Slashdotters have Teslas?
I know we're kinda interested in high tech vehicles. I know Musk was a co-creator of Paypal and thus is a geek because he did something on the Internet. But that doesn't mean we own the things and can give our personal opinion. They're expensive - even the supposed forthcoming "cheap Tesla" will cost as much for its cramped, uncomfortable, self as a top-of-the-line Honda Odyssey.
What next? "Hey, Slashdotters, do you think the new software upgrade for the International Space Station has helped with the air conditioning problems?"
Americans already make cars. Even "Japanese" (Honda, Toyota) cars sold in the US are usually made in the US.
iPhones and other smartphones being made here will probably up the prices slightly, but most of the estimates I've heard are absurd. I'd also suspect that the increased wages (higher demand for employees = fewer minimum wage jobs) would more than offset the price increases you'd see.
(This is not to suggest that I welcome a fascist in the White House, or a trade war with China, obviously. I just wish we hadn't lost most of our electronics manufacturing capacity with the end of Commodore in the early nineties.)
It's also hard to believe that's true. screen has been around for decades, and is one of the most useful command line management tools out there. Is Debian seriously only getting it now, or did someone interpret a decision to adopt a more recent version as "Debian is going to get screen for the first time!"?
Why?
Trump is, objectively (OK, I'd substitute "fascist" for "nazi/hitler") all of those things. Have we reached such a point of resignation to the apparently inevitable that we're now normalizing Trump, treating him as just another Republican president rather than the existential threat to Democracy he poses?
Normalizing fascism doesn't make it go away. It might make you, in the short term, seem like a "reasonable person" but does nothing for you three hours later. And in the meantime such normalization strengthens it.
Trump has made it abundantly clear what he is and what he plans to do. To give him the "chance to prove himself" is a surrender to some pretty horrific policies and principles. You would have laughed at anyone who said that of Mussolini. Maybe you think he's only kidding, but there's no reason for you to do so other than, perhaps, a quaint sense of projection and wish everyone was as nice as you are, and that attitude in the past is why terrible people have gone on to get away with terrible things.
Uhm. OK. You know why we called him a racist and a misogynist? Because he is a racist and a misogynist. Unless you were asleep during the campaign, you couldn't possibly have missed that.
The Nazi and Hitler references? Well, I could point out that he's a populist demagogue, running on a platform of racial scapegoating (and that's not a small part of this campaign, that's been the core of the campaign he ran since he stepped on that elevator and made his first speech announcing his candidacy), who's advocated violence against peaceful opponents, and who's made it clear he plans to abuse the law to punish opposition.
But... there's a quicker way to demonstrate he's a fascist. which is to ask the Neo-Nazis what they think. And they're pretty much unanimous in supporting him. . They're doing victory laps.
What would you call him?
Don't fucking mainstream him because he won. He's still the fascist we warned you about. And he's an existential threat to this country.
Because the other cellphone companies that provide similar features do provide a discount. T-Mobile's "Binge-On" is free, for example, as long as it's streaming from content providers who've agreed to stream the way T-Mobile wants them to.
Are there similar investigations int Google's competitors? Because they seem to have platforms that are far more closed and far more under the control of those competitors than Android ever has been.
THIS! When you're great at driving, guiding a metal line between painted lines on some tarmac for 60 minutes a day, stopping, starting, stopping, starting, becomes TRULY AWESOME! What could be more fun?! See some red ahead, SLOW DOWN, no STOP!!! Wooo! Wait, nothing in front of you and no red? PUSH DOWN THAT OTHER PEDAL. YEESSSSSS1!!!1!
How can anyone not enjoy that?! The best part is that we all HAVE TO DO IT, and there's nothing more fun than something you're FORCED TO DO by nice, accomodating, city planners who've made it illegal to build WALKABLE (boo!) neighborhoods!
With respect to both you and the GP, there's a world of difference between saying you want to leave because a peaceful, respectful of democracy, political opponent is elected, and because someone who promotes violence against his opponents is elected. If Trump is telling the truth about who he is, and if Congress and the Courts are unable to keep him under control, then we're in for four years of the most horrific government the US has ever seen, and might be about to see the end of this nation.
I'm not advocating a Californian withdrawal, I think that'll make things worse, but this isn't a "both sides" thing: people who said they'd leave if Bush or Obama got into office were hyperbolic idiots. People saying much the same thing about Trump are fearing something that should be feared.
I would imagine it's because most Canadians speak English, thus reducing the need to learn another language, and because the standard of living is considerably higher than in Mexico.
I'm not sure how "racism" comes into it, but it sounds like the kind of thing a right winger would say who doesn't know what racism is, but throws the word at the wall hoping it'll show some kind of "hypocrisy" because left wingers are anti-racism.
It would be completely awesome if the promise was legally binding, and as a result, the Secret Service had to let DeNiro punch Trump in the face.
Alas, while he mentioned punching Trump in the face, I don't think he said anything that could be interpreted as a commitment to do so.
The two cases against him were civil, and one - a dubious charge of underage rape - has been dropped albeit under equally dubious circumstances.
The Trump U case (of the infamous "Mexican" judge controversy) is ongoing, but again, it's not a criminal case.
Trump has racked up a lot of fraudulent, dishonest, behavior in his life, but he's been careful to avoid anything that would result in him being arrested. There's a legal distinction between signing a contract to buy $100,000 worth of furniture, and then refusing to pay or just paying 2/3 of the bill, and stepping into a warehouse and taking $100,000 worth of furniture without paying. He and his lawyers know the difference, even if it leaves the victim in exactly the same spot.
Only if they're actually committed.
I don't think white baby boomers are going to be the ones that are hurt most, somehow.
People don't tell Democratic Presidents they have to act like a Republican because they generally do anyway. Remember Obamacare? That was originally Romney's healthcare system. Remember Gitmo? Of course you do, hard to forget it because it never disappeared, the left (and even the law) wanted it gone, so Obama kept it.
Because it means we all get to say "This is good news for Bitcoin!" and for once not be even slightly ironic.
I'd love to blame this on the DNC establishment, but Clinton always had the popular vote amongst Democrats. Sanders was simply never going to win the primary, and to be honest, it's highly questionable he'd have won against Trump despite the opinion polls supposedly making that claim.
Neither should have been the party's nominee, not an unpopular neo-con who had been the target of smear campaigns for 25 years, and not a populist with left wing views similar to an ideology that has been the target of a smear campaign in the US for over a century.
Biden would have wiped the floor with Trump. I'd like to think Warren would have done too. Sanders? Hell no. Once the sheen had faded and Sanders had started to see what a real negative campaign looks like, Trump wouldn't have looked back.
File this in the same folder as "Darned Millennials are lazy good for nuffins" and "Why do I have 100 TV channels and nothing on?"
Here's what I use Twitter for. I suspect most people use it exactly the same way, despite personal experience of being the kind of person who has obscure use cases:
1. I use it to catch up on the news. I follow a bunch of news accounts related to things that interest me. I don't mean "CNN", because the kind of news that appears on CNN generally trends anyway. I mean things about tech, and other stuff about transportation, for example.
2. I use it to catch up with, and talk to, long time online friends. Much as we used to use blogging networks like LiveJournal before they were subsumed into social networking (Twitter is kinda a social network, and kinda not.)
3. I use it to follow interesting people. Some people in tech, some comedians, an economist, etc. They intersperse the above with observations that are interesting, or links to interesting articles.
Looking at other people's "Follows" lists, and you'll find a similar make-up to my own, which makes me think that this is the normal case, not some obscure thing that only a Slashdot veteran would do. Sure, others have different tastes, and are more interested in what Kim Kardashian has to say than Rob Malda (in fairness, we may joke about her, but she would probably have made a better prediction about the likely success of the iPod than the latter...)
Is it useful? Yeah. Twitter keeps me in the loop. I could keep flipping between a dozen news sites on my browser, and another bunch of blogs, perhaps, or perhaps strip it down with an RSS reader (remember those?) and Reddit, but somehow Twitter works well as a single point of a contact, that can be easily brought up whereever I am.
From what I can figure out, the only way an email would have been relevant is if it originated or passed through Clinton's server, because the entire investigation was to check whether Clinton's use of a private server had in some way broken the law. So no other criteria would have been relevant. That's piddlingly easy to look for. A PDP-11 running a 1970s Unix variant could tell the FBI which emails fit that criteria in less than a day.
Once that set of emails is identified, it would be extremely easy to match up what did with what's already been investigated, by looking at message IDs.
I would say I was surprised the conspiracy theory was taken seriously, but it's Trump supporters and people with Clinton Derangement Syndrome we're talking about here, so...
Because they don't have money to deal with huge numbers of frivilous lawsuits.
Essentially Peter Thiel found a way to do an end-run around the barratry laws: instead of flooding a target with frivilous lawsuits where you're the plaintiff, find as many other potential plaintiffs instead and fund their lawsuits. You can even look the hero by pretending you're just trying to get justice for people who can't afford it, even when that's not even remotely true.
He'll be able to get enough done that it'll cause problems. You really think even the establishment Republicans would turn down a chance to flood the Supreme Court with authoritarian crazies if they're anti-abortion, for example? That's the same supreme court that would supposedly reject restrictions on the media.
I'd also like to remind you that history has a habit of populaces underestimating the ability of a demagogue to inflict massive damage on a country when they gain power, by writing them off as "just a clown" or believing "He doesn't really mean that, he's just saying it to get support."
No, he's right, if we're trying to determine household incomes then in a weird way working out how much income each current worker will get gives a more intuitive picture than a simple "X per person calculation".
If you go back to the GGP's comment about the income being roughly $40,000 per person, that tells you nothing, because you have nothing to compare it to. It initially looks like a paycut for me, apparently. Except... it isn't, because in a universal income environment, my wife gets $40,000, and my daughter gets $40,000, neither of whom earn any wages right now. So actually the true figure is that my salary gets replaced by $120,000, not $40,000.
Which, unsurprisingly, is close to the figure the GP mentioned. And also is a lot higher than most software developers like me earn here in Florida, for what it's worth.
I thought the 10NES issue was Nintendo trying to (ab)use copyright to prevent unauthorized third parties from releasing their own games for the NES, not copyright being used to prevent people from copying games?
This might help (in terms of reducing MITM attacks) if DNSSEC was widely implemented. It's not. Most DNS registrars I've dealt with don't even support it. And it's sufficiently obscure that very few customers of the registrars that do have it implemented. If you limit yourself to DNSSEC domains, you're going to cut out most of the Internet.
In terms of finding servers that "don't log", I think that's easier to say than done. Unless you're personally familiar with the server, you don't have a chance. And with DNS not being encrypted, it's relatively easy for several groups not entirely under your control to intercept DNS queries anyway.
Who the f--- asked for FOIA documents on whether Trump's dad was a "philanthropist"? I'm sorry, but this explanation makes virtually no sense - and presumably doesn't to do the FBI either otherwise they wouldn't be investigating it.