You know, it's proper etiquette to provide a torrent link for stories like these. j/k
I'm almost becoming inured to these data leak stories. I use Facebook, but I would never post photos that I would care about being made public... that's why I put them up there. If anyone is interested in looking at some big, doughy white guy, and the food he cooks, more power to them. I figured out 25+ years ago that I simply wouldn't post anything online that I wouldn't want to see on the front page of something like Reddit, or that I wouldn't want my Mom to see.
I'm more concerned about organizations like Equifax, who seem to have suffered no significant effects from leaking important information about practically every adult in the country that could seriously affect people's lives.
I frequently pause to hear something someone has to say. If I had this feature, I would then have to pause _and_ mute. No thanks. Just another innovation in making advertising more and more odious.
The problem is that that's how it was supposed to be: sovereign states that run themselves how they want and a Federal government that only does the absolute minimum required to maintain a country with respect to the rest of the world, stuff like defense, protect the border, enact treaties... stuff like that, and ensuring basic rights. In the past 150 years, though, that's been flipped on its head, where the Federal government runs almost everything by default and the states run whatever's left. If the U.S. had remained how it was initially meant to be, your "broken up" scenario wouldn't be necessary because the states could maintain much more diversity.
as well as refusing students whose high school performance doesn't speak well of their potential
Well, there goes affirmative action. I don't see that happening.
But seriously, it sounds like a good idea. Getting an education for the sake of having an education is a great idea, but in today's climate that's not going to get you a job, nor is it going to get you an education since Universities are largely just indoctrination machines these days. I think we all agree the system is seriously broken, and it's getting worse, not better, because everything is incentivized except what's in the interests of the students.
I was served well by my BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in the 1980s. If I were 35 years younger, I don't know path what I'd choose.
Nothing Microsoft has ever done is a good way to organize apps. KDE 3.5 had the best way to organize computer applications, and I had independently come up with a similar system for organizing my apps around the days of NT 4 or Windows 2000.
The Start Menu is one of the worst anti-features ever written.
Fortunately, the young Earth creationists are a tiny fraction of believers. The rest of us are in wonder at the vast and amazing universe that God created.
Yeah, I'm always one question away from telling any employer to go to hell. This is far from the smallest thing that would cause me to quit a job.
But yes, I could find a new job pretty easily. If I couldn't, it would be a harder decision, but if it rose to the level of implanting something, I'd still take it.
Fortunately, I haven't had an employer that would so egregiously disrespect me.
Right now I pay for Amazon Prime Video (through Amazon Prime), Hulu and Netflix. I could add a couple more services and still not be near the average cable or satellite monthly price. The fragmentation is starting to be a pain. If Star Trek: Discovery weren't a giant turd of a show, I may have been tempted to get CBS All Access, and resented the fact that I was paying for a single show (unless CBS has a huge backlog of old shows available... I can't remember the last time I watched a current show from CBS).
People are complaining, but as of right now, even with Disney+ coming down the pike, it's still better than it used to be, paying for 200 channels to get the 8 or so you actually want, _and_ having to watch things when they are on rather than watching what you want when you want it... and let's not even mention commercials. Even Hulu's commercials aren't a third as bad as what you get on cable.
It's still good. The market is evolving. It may get worse before it gets better, but really I have few complaints.
I think you are so wrong. I think Disney+ will be a huge success. They have way too many properties that people want. Star Wars may be moribund, but Marvel isn't, and Fox is huge. And let's not even mention the millions and millions of kids who watch their endless array of cookie-cutter TV shows. (They had a lot of great stuff in the old days, but having seen some of their current kids' fare, I weep for this generation.) Frankly, if it means more seasons of shows like Daredevil. I'll probably subscribe. If anyone shutters its doors in 2024, I'm betting it won't be Disney. There will be a reckoning and the ever-growing wave of subscription services for TV shows and movies will be winnowed down from the excessive amount its becoming, but if I had to bet on one service thriving, it would be Disney, especially if they dip into their "vault" and make their catalog of old movies and TV shows generally available.
I only ever watched the first episode, and during the most dramatic scene with the main character, um, Steve? Ralph? No, Michael... arguing with Captain Michelle Yeoh I was literally laughing out loud at the ridiculous, amateur-looking, lighting effects, the lens flares were so exaggerated they made JJ Abrams' work look subtle in comparison. And let's not even mention the story, or the fact that the cold opening broke canon before there was even opening credits. There was more incompetence in that episode than in any dozen of the bad episodes Star Trek put out over the last few decades. I'd rather watch the episode where Captain Janeway gets turned into a salamander, because at least that episode had a promising premise.
Yeah, having been exposed to cable TV a couple times in the past year, after not having it myself since about 2004, it occurred to me that I wouldn't want it if it were free. The amount of commercials is insane... and I'm not so averse to commercials, because the commercials on the lowest tier of Hulu usually don't bug me. They are much shorter than the 3-minute break every 6 minutes you get on "regular TV". I tried watching a movie on broadcast a few years when travelling and turned it off after about 20 minutes... there was literally more ad-time than there was content... or it seemed that way. I grew up with regular ol' broadcast TV, and later cable, but now I can't stand it.
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You know, it's proper etiquette to provide a torrent link for stories like these. j/k
I'm almost becoming inured to these data leak stories. I use Facebook, but I would never post photos that I would care about being made public... that's why I put them up there. If anyone is interested in looking at some big, doughy white guy, and the food he cooks, more power to them. I figured out 25+ years ago that I simply wouldn't post anything online that I wouldn't want to see on the front page of something like Reddit, or that I wouldn't want my Mom to see.
I'm more concerned about organizations like Equifax, who seem to have suffered no significant effects from leaking important information about practically every adult in the country that could seriously affect people's lives.
Well, they don't know how to make them better, but they have to change something...
I frequently pause to hear something someone has to say. If I had this feature, I would then have to pause _and_ mute. No thanks. Just another innovation in making advertising more and more odious.
The problem is that that's how it was supposed to be: sovereign states that run themselves how they want and a Federal government that only does the absolute minimum required to maintain a country with respect to the rest of the world, stuff like defense, protect the border, enact treaties... stuff like that, and ensuring basic rights. In the past 150 years, though, that's been flipped on its head, where the Federal government runs almost everything by default and the states run whatever's left. If the U.S. had remained how it was initially meant to be, your "broken up" scenario wouldn't be necessary because the states could maintain much more diversity.
as well as refusing students whose high school performance doesn't speak well of their potential
Well, there goes affirmative action. I don't see that happening.
But seriously, it sounds like a good idea. Getting an education for the sake of having an education is a great idea, but in today's climate that's not going to get you a job, nor is it going to get you an education since Universities are largely just indoctrination machines these days. I think we all agree the system is seriously broken, and it's getting worse, not better, because everything is incentivized except what's in the interests of the students.
I was served well by my BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in the 1980s. If I were 35 years younger, I don't know path what I'd choose.
Nothing Microsoft has ever done is a good way to organize apps. KDE 3.5 had the best way to organize computer applications, and I had independently come up with a similar system for organizing my apps around the days of NT 4 or Windows 2000.
The Start Menu is one of the worst anti-features ever written.
Their Earth is exactly like ours except they gave Belgium a loss obscene name.
Randomly hating on Christianity is very popular, but I don't think it's been edgy since people were nailing theses to cathedral doors.
Fortunately, the young Earth creationists are a tiny fraction of believers. The rest of us are in wonder at the vast and amazing universe that God created.
I don't disagree with you, but I don't see ads on Windows 10. Of course, I run Classic Start Menu, because the Start Menu hasn't been good since XP.
If we prevent stupid people from getting rich, we've just killed the American dream. There are other ways to deal with the problem.
You could definitely disable the chip by microwaving your hand...
You do know Slashdot has polls, right?
I would definitely let my employer chip CowboyNeal, in order to let me keep my job.
Yeah, I'm always one question away from telling any employer to go to hell. This is far from the smallest thing that would cause me to quit a job.
But yes, I could find a new job pretty easily. If I couldn't, it would be a harder decision, but if it rose to the level of implanting something, I'd still take it.
Fortunately, I haven't had an employer that would so egregiously disrespect me.
There is no way in the shady side of hell would I ever let my employer implant anything in my body.
Except pizza and beer, and only through my mouth.
To me outside of the US, it looks like you have to be mentally deficient to vote republican right now.
If all I had to inform me was the main-stream media, I'd think the same thing, too.
never mind people who simply want to get max points for 1st post!
You mean the editors?
Right now I pay for Amazon Prime Video (through Amazon Prime), Hulu and Netflix. I could add a couple more services and still not be near the average cable or satellite monthly price. The fragmentation is starting to be a pain. If Star Trek: Discovery weren't a giant turd of a show, I may have been tempted to get CBS All Access, and resented the fact that I was paying for a single show (unless CBS has a huge backlog of old shows available... I can't remember the last time I watched a current show from CBS).
People are complaining, but as of right now, even with Disney+ coming down the pike, it's still better than it used to be, paying for 200 channels to get the 8 or so you actually want, _and_ having to watch things when they are on rather than watching what you want when you want it... and let's not even mention commercials. Even Hulu's commercials aren't a third as bad as what you get on cable.
It's still good. The market is evolving. It may get worse before it gets better, but really I have few complaints.
I think you are so wrong. I think Disney+ will be a huge success. They have way too many properties that people want. Star Wars may be moribund, but Marvel isn't, and Fox is huge. And let's not even mention the millions and millions of kids who watch their endless array of cookie-cutter TV shows. (They had a lot of great stuff in the old days, but having seen some of their current kids' fare, I weep for this generation.) Frankly, if it means more seasons of shows like Daredevil. I'll probably subscribe. If anyone shutters its doors in 2024, I'm betting it won't be Disney. There will be a reckoning and the ever-growing wave of subscription services for TV shows and movies will be winnowed down from the excessive amount its becoming, but if I had to bet on one service thriving, it would be Disney, especially if they dip into their "vault" and make their catalog of old movies and TV shows generally available.
I only ever watched the first episode, and during the most dramatic scene with the main character, um, Steve? Ralph? No, Michael... arguing with Captain Michelle Yeoh I was literally laughing out loud at the ridiculous, amateur-looking, lighting effects, the lens flares were so exaggerated they made JJ Abrams' work look subtle in comparison. And let's not even mention the story, or the fact that the cold opening broke canon before there was even opening credits. There was more incompetence in that episode than in any dozen of the bad episodes Star Trek put out over the last few decades. I'd rather watch the episode where Captain Janeway gets turned into a salamander, because at least that episode had a promising premise.
Stupidity does not adequately explain Microsoft, and hasn't for decades.
Yeah, having been exposed to cable TV a couple times in the past year, after not having it myself since about 2004, it occurred to me that I wouldn't want it if it were free. The amount of commercials is insane... and I'm not so averse to commercials, because the commercials on the lowest tier of Hulu usually don't bug me. They are much shorter than the 3-minute break every 6 minutes you get on "regular TV". I tried watching a movie on broadcast a few years when travelling and turned it off after about 20 minutes... there was literally more ad-time than there was content... or it seemed that way. I grew up with regular ol' broadcast TV, and later cable, but now I can't stand it.
Crystal City is in Virginia, across the river from D.C. and near the Pentagon. It's already very gentrified.
Does the manatee ticket come with a garbage bag full of popcorn and a 128-ounce drink? If so, I'm there.
And those of us, a vanishing number it seems, who were taught phonics know that the word you're looking for is "soothe".