When companies have the power to disrupt societies, one manager thinking and taking bullshit can do a lot of damage.
That's true only within the scope of the company.
Take that same manager and put them in a very powerful government. Now that manager thinking and taking bullshit has the power to drive an entire society, backed by force of arms.
Say you want to make it super easy to accuse black men of rape. How is a manager at GM going to make that happen? They cannot.
A plant closure affects some 6000 lives, they can find another job. Government interference in handling rape at colleges affects far more people, and the (mostly black) people it does effect have lives changed irrevocably based little on no evidence at all, and no due process.
Meanwhile the wealthier parts of my city look like they've been terraformed there's so much green.
Hint: There is no actual problem as long as this remains true.
You may think there will be a problem in 20 years but when all the money is saying no problem is imminent, you can be more relaxed.
Think of it this way - if in 20 years there is a problem you have a HUGE amount of water reduction the city can engage in (by limiting water to those areas outside you note are so green) to provide water for important uses.
I very nearly bought Affinity Photo until I discovered that it's spyware which phones home every time you run it
Well what a shame for you as its great software.
The claim it's "phoning" home is quite a big stretch - it's merely trying to fetch some content for the initial welcome screen, passing up things like platform info so it can present the right content.
It also tries to do some updating of internal resources...
Simply block go.seriflabs.com (resources) and welcome.serifservices.com (welcome past stuff) if it bothers you.
If it were "spyware" it would be constantly sending traffic back to Serif, which it does not do - even as you open new images, no new traffic.
while doing battle with raging winds, unseasonal snowfall, whiteout visibility and polar temperatures
The major hurdle in such a long crossing is not really those things, it is Sastrugi - a combination of wind and snow carves the flat surface of the Antarctic plateau into an endless series of hardened snow ridges, varying from inches to feet high...
That doesn't sound so bad, but imagine having to pull a supply sled 1000 miles over one of these ridges every few feet, for months on end. The very definition of torture.
I was following a guy last year attempting the crossing - Ben Saunders - who had to stop in the middle, he had an excellent blog as he went detailing the day to day travails of the journey - and Sastrugi topped the list (read the entries backwards to see how they wore him down).
"Thesis" for point 1, supporting fact, supporting fact, supporting fact, conclusion
I agree with teaching the basic concept of breaking down ideas into multiple points.
That structure though, regardless of number of points, leads to a really unpleasant read I think.
Maybe just teaching the concept as intro; idea.*; conclusion you were supposed to have led them to and you better re-read what you wrote to make sure you did...
Also that structure encourages you to write the thesis first, when sometimes you are better off writing the conclusion and supporting facts and then you can actually write about what you wrote instead of what you planned to write.:-)
libraries donâ(TM)t have a large budget, so need to be smart about the spending.
Right, but that includes ways to grow that budget. Why should government institutions be limited to what government gives them?
If libraries did do this, then people would likely complain this is not their role.
Probably the number of people helped would be greater than the number that complained.
librarians arenâ(TM)t technologists
On this I disagree, they have to be by the nature of what they manage (which includes computers in libraries). That knowledge can be expanded upon.
Research of this kind is probably more for the library of Congress to do, in the US, than smaller state or municipal libraries.
Library of congress could lead for sure, but then help bring it to any local libraries that had interest. It could be a way to make libraries exciting again...
What seems like would be cool to me, is if libraries were at the forefront of driving research into digital storage and longevity. Like helping understand how people could preserve digital memories, what would last... maybe even a program to help residents around a library store and maintain all digital files they owned.
That would be a nice evolution of what Libraries have been doing, managing large volumes of information, and give local branches more of a reason to exist in a world where even books are more and more purely digital.
Reading through the summary it seems like maybe having Japan hunt whales near Asher they live, may be better than having them hunt whales around Antartica (which is what they were doing).
Antartica still has a long way to go to recover from the whaling days, and if they are hunting locally maybe it will be more sustainable.
Too bad they can't just give up whaling altogether though,
Hey guess what? If it were not for Trump the government would still be fully up (only.a tiny part is really shut down) - at the same time it is ALSO true that if even ten Democrats agreed to fund the wall, the government would be fully up as well.
This is what I despise about modern politics. We place this blame squarely on Trump or Schumer, but in reality can those fuckers in Congress not really all vote for themselves? It would seem not, Schumer or Trump is large and in charge!
I say shut it all down for a year and see what we really need. In the meantime I am SO SORRY you canâ(TM)t get technical specs on exactly what killed hundreds of real humans.
Are taxes still being taken from your paycheck? Then the unstoppable juggernaut of government is far from being shut down.
The five-paragraph essay is the English language equivalent of "Hello World" and other elementary programs in a programming language. Once a student has proven (to himself and/or his instructor) that he can write basic functional essays/programs,...one should write so that the reader can interpret what one has written correctly
How does telling someone they MUST write five paragraphs of five to seven sentences help any of that?
Although I have not heard of that particular rule, I have seen the effect of mandates on length and structure - a lot of filler prose, a lot tortured text to fit into an artificial constraint - all of it working against expressed clarity of thought.
I agree it's good to help understand fundamental rules before you start breaking them meaningfully. Rules of grammar and syntax are important fundamentals.
A particular paragraph length is in no way a fundamental rule, instead it is a kind of canvas onto which someone skilled may paint a picture with words when they understand how to work them - forcing kids to write onto this space is like giving them a large canvas and oil paints when they have never even held a brush.
If we forced all kids to write nothing but limericks for several years it would be rightfully considered absurd. Yet the five paragraph essay would seem not to fall far from that tree.
Glad I was never so constrained in my writing, it seems that words like photographic subjects should be free to fill only the space needed, no more and no less.
What is really disturbing to me is not his anti-science response, it's that he would turn over research funds to only the most popular, instead of the best, ideas...
I took a ferry to the Fram, pretty sure that was free - if you are getting rid of parking that probably does mean free shuttles around the city and to parking on the outskirts. Even if not though, it would still be cheaper than parking in most cities...
As for the disabled person, maybe they will still be able to park with a valid handicapped tag - or maybe they will just have to rely on special accommodations.
But It's not like the city center of Oslo has much besides tourist shops anyway. If they are going to see a doctor it's very probably not in the zone under consideration - and the city will be easier to drive through to reach an appointment as a result.
As much as it might kind of stink day to day for the people that live there, I can see a number of very popular tourist cities forgoing parking.
That way you can handle a lot more tourists walking around a larger area - better for shops, and even better for tourists until the sheer mass of extra tourist this allows for starts to clog up things like all the good restaurants... but then more will open up if there are people enough to support them.
I think it will be pretty interesting to see how this goes, Oslo was a very nice place and I had wanted to return there someday anyway as my visit there was all too brief. If you do go the Viking museum is nice, but I honestly liked the Fram museum even more for the more technological angle and spirit of exploration. Awesome ship.
Which raises the question of why ChromeOS would be vulnerable to such an attack while the machine is locked.
That's exactly what I was getting at - on OSX you can type all you like once the system is locked, unless you know the system password (as I said) you aren't doing anything.
So what the hell is going on with ChromeOS that typing actually matters when the system is locked??
Just recently I tried a few rounds of the new Battle Royale mode of the ancient CS:GO FPS shooter.
After you die, as you spectate you can enable "X-Ray" mode that lets you see markers for where other players are, even if out of sight - and it made me wonder if someone could log into with two systems, have the first character die off quickly, then use spectra-view to see if he was looking towards other players.
It didn't seem like other players were doing that (no obvious reaction to x-ray information I could see when spectating) but it sure seemed like a flaw to me to broadcast all player information to anyone.
Slashdot Mirror
Good news then, thanks. I had not heard that.
All those Craftsman tools I own with a lifetime warranty, appear to have just run out of life in the warranty...
When companies have the power to disrupt societies, one manager thinking and taking bullshit can do a lot of damage.
That's true only within the scope of the company.
Take that same manager and put them in a very powerful government. Now that manager thinking and taking bullshit has the power to drive an entire society, backed by force of arms.
Say you want to make it super easy to accuse black men of rape. How is a manager at GM going to make that happen? They cannot.
A plant closure affects some 6000 lives, they can find another job. Government interference in handling rape at colleges affects far more people, and the (mostly black) people it does effect have lives changed irrevocably based little on no evidence at all, and no due process.
Meanwhile the wealthier parts of my city look like they've been terraformed there's so much green.
Hint: There is no actual problem as long as this remains true.
You may think there will be a problem in 20 years but when all the money is saying no problem is imminent, you can be more relaxed.
Think of it this way - if in 20 years there is a problem you have a HUGE amount of water reduction the city can engage in (by limiting water to those areas outside you note are so green) to provide water for important uses.
How do you simply "clean and reuse" glass bottles that have been left outside, mostly broken... heck even the ones that go into recycling often break.
I very nearly bought Affinity Photo until I discovered that it's spyware which phones home every time you run it
Well what a shame for you as its great software.
The claim it's "phoning" home is quite a big stretch - it's merely trying to fetch some content for the initial welcome screen, passing up things like platform info so it can present the right content.
It also tries to do some updating of internal resources...
Simply block go.seriflabs.com (resources) and welcome.serifservices.com (welcome past stuff) if it bothers you.
If it were "spyware" it would be constantly sending traffic back to Serif, which it does not do - even as you open new images, no new traffic.
while doing battle with raging winds, unseasonal snowfall, whiteout visibility and polar temperatures
The major hurdle in such a long crossing is not really those things, it is Sastrugi - a combination of wind and snow carves the flat surface of the Antarctic plateau into an endless series of hardened snow ridges, varying from inches to feet high...
That doesn't sound so bad, but imagine having to pull a supply sled 1000 miles over one of these ridges every few feet, for months on end. The very definition of torture.
I was following a guy last year attempting the crossing - Ben Saunders - who had to stop in the middle, he had an excellent blog as he went detailing the day to day travails of the journey - and Sastrugi topped the list (read the entries backwards to see how they wore him down).
$5000 doesn't help as much when you have to navigate the maze of US rules against doing things in Cuba.
There are no "U.S. rules" that apply in Cuba. You could take any cruise ship there, get off, and start recording.
Please do let us know how you like the inside of a Cuban jail...
"Thesis" for point 1, supporting fact, supporting fact, supporting fact, conclusion
I agree with teaching the basic concept of breaking down ideas into multiple points.
That structure though, regardless of number of points, leads to a really unpleasant read I think.
Maybe just teaching the concept as intro; idea.*; conclusion you were supposed to have led them to and you better re-read what you wrote to make sure you did...
Also that structure encourages you to write the thesis first, when sometimes you are better off writing the conclusion and supporting facts and then you can actually write about what you wrote instead of what you planned to write. :-)
All I can say is, very clever and glad you agree. :-)
libraries donâ(TM)t have a large budget, so need to be smart about the spending.
Right, but that includes ways to grow that budget. Why should government institutions be limited to what government gives them?
If libraries did do this, then people would likely complain this is not their role.
Probably the number of people helped would be greater than the number that complained.
librarians arenâ(TM)t technologists
On this I disagree, they have to be by the nature of what they manage (which includes computers in libraries). That knowledge can be expanded upon.
Research of this kind is probably more for the library of Congress to do, in the US, than smaller state or municipal libraries.
Library of congress could lead for sure, but then help bring it to any local libraries that had interest. It could be a way to make libraries exciting again...
What seems like would be cool to me, is if libraries were at the forefront of driving research into digital storage and longevity. Like helping understand how people could preserve digital memories, what would last... maybe even a program to help residents around a library store and maintain all digital files they owned.
That would be a nice evolution of what Libraries have been doing, managing large volumes of information, and give local branches more of a reason to exist in a world where even books are more and more purely digital.
Reading through the summary it seems like maybe having Japan hunt whales near Asher they live, may be better than having them hunt whales around Antartica (which is what they were doing).
Antartica still has a long way to go to recover from the whaling days, and if they are hunting locally maybe it will be more sustainable.
Too bad they can't just give up whaling altogether though,
Hey guess what? If it were not for Trump the government would still be fully up (only.a tiny part is really shut down) - at the same time it is ALSO true that if even ten Democrats agreed to fund the wall, the government would be fully up as well.
This is what I despise about modern politics. We place this blame squarely on Trump or Schumer, but in reality can those fuckers in Congress not really all vote for themselves? It would seem not, Schumer or Trump is large and in charge!
I say shut it all down for a year and see what we really need. In the meantime I am SO SORRY you canâ(TM)t get technical specs on exactly what killed hundreds of real humans.
Are taxes still being taken from your paycheck? Then the unstoppable juggernaut of government is far from being shut down.
Still waiting for the moment the realization hits everyone on Slashdot that maybe giant interfering overreaching government is a bad idea.
No? Guess you all really love Trump then, though I would have thought otherwise from most comments here. I'll check back in a year.
The five-paragraph essay is the English language equivalent of "Hello World" and other elementary programs in a programming language. Once a student has proven (to himself and/or his instructor) that he can write basic functional essays/programs,...one should write so that the reader can interpret what one has written correctly
How does telling someone they MUST write five paragraphs of five to seven sentences help any of that?
Although I have not heard of that particular rule, I have seen the effect of mandates on length and structure - a lot of filler prose, a lot tortured text to fit into an artificial constraint - all of it working against expressed clarity of thought.
I agree it's good to help understand fundamental rules before you start breaking them meaningfully. Rules of grammar and syntax are important fundamentals.
A particular paragraph length is in no way a fundamental rule, instead it is a kind of canvas onto which someone skilled may paint a picture with words when they understand how to work them - forcing kids to write onto this space is like giving them a large canvas and oil paints when they have never even held a brush.
If we forced all kids to write nothing but limericks for several years it would be rightfully considered absurd. Yet the five paragraph essay would seem not to fall far from that tree.
Glad I was never so constrained in my writing, it seems that words like photographic subjects should be free to fill only the space needed, no more and no less.
What is really disturbing to me is not his anti-science response, it's that he would turn over research funds to only the most popular, instead of the best, ideas...
I took a ferry to the Fram, pretty sure that was free - if you are getting rid of parking that probably does mean free shuttles around the city and to parking on the outskirts. Even if not though, it would still be cheaper than parking in most cities...
As for the disabled person, maybe they will still be able to park with a valid handicapped tag - or maybe they will just have to rely on special accommodations.
But It's not like the city center of Oslo has much besides tourist shops anyway. If they are going to see a doctor it's very probably not in the zone under consideration - and the city will be easier to drive through to reach an appointment as a result.
It's always a rope held by someone, whether honestly or not, whether accountable or not.
Incorrect. It can be a rope of that is the life you choose.
But if you are careful, rung my rung you build a ladder, that only you yourself is in control of.
You're welcome to your choice, just don't get in the way of mine.
You are welcome to your choice as long as you are not stealing from those working to build in order to simply sustain.
As much as it might kind of stink day to day for the people that live there, I can see a number of very popular tourist cities forgoing parking.
That way you can handle a lot more tourists walking around a larger area - better for shops, and even better for tourists until the sheer mass of extra tourist this allows for starts to clog up things like all the good restaurants... but then more will open up if there are people enough to support them.
I think it will be pretty interesting to see how this goes, Oslo was a very nice place and I had wanted to return there someday anyway as my visit there was all too brief. If you do go the Viking museum is nice, but I honestly liked the Fram museum even more for the more technological angle and spirit of exploration. Awesome ship.
Which raises the question of why ChromeOS would be vulnerable to such an attack while the machine is locked.
That's exactly what I was getting at - on OSX you can type all you like once the system is locked, unless you know the system password (as I said) you aren't doing anything.
So what the hell is going on with ChromeOS that typing actually matters when the system is locked??
And yet, there are ways to trick the USB firmware into misclassifying a device trivially.
Yes, and?
I mean, I suppose you COULD misidentify a keyboard as a mass storage device and it would not work.
Or you COULD misidentify your external USB drive as an input device and it would do exactly nothing, unless it had the password to unlock your system.
Interesting, maybe all spectating modes should be given a one minute delayed feed to prevent that kind of info.
Just recently I tried a few rounds of the new Battle Royale mode of the ancient CS:GO FPS shooter.
After you die, as you spectate you can enable "X-Ray" mode that lets you see markers for where other players are, even if out of sight - and it made me wonder if someone could log into with two systems, have the first character die off quickly, then use spectra-view to see if he was looking towards other players.
It didn't seem like other players were doing that (no obvious reaction to x-ray information I could see when spectating) but it sure seemed like a flaw to me to broadcast all player information to anyone.