The bottom part of the article is actually quite positive about Ashley Madison. Quote: "Itâ(TM)s possible, as one person put it to me in email, that Ashley Madison was actually a pretty decent hookup site for gay peopleâ"but that was mostly because the system was designed to ignore them."
It's the straight dudes that get inundated by spam messages. So if you're he-man don't bother signing up for an Ashley Madison account.
Now for the fourth (unless I'm terribly bad at counting) thing to do, after fixing whatever legitimate financial problems your close friends may have. Don't go for poor-neighborhood philanthropy. A few billions might not even be enough for Bill Gates philanthropy. I think your best bet is really to Musk (v) it, pick a few technological projects that can benefit from a few hundred million of "concentrated" funding.
To take the Elon Musk example, do you think his wealth would have made a bigger difference if he spread out the billion or so he made from Paypal onto dozens of Kickstarter-sized projects as opposed to his initial "focus" on two or three flagship projects, namely cheaper access to space, electric cars and perhaps solar power (I think this came later)?
"It would be like bundling systemd with a sound service."
Lennart created or was a significant early contributor to the Pulse audio project, so I won't be surprised if the sound service was already bundled with systemd.
"Such restrictions weren't particularly burdensome either, since Germans never had enjoyed free speech rights before. The post-WWII restrictions by the allies were still liberal by historical German standards."
No, the reason the Nazis rose to power was precisely because the Germans after World War I had enough free speech to allow clowns like Hitler to convince the public they could save the republic from ruin. Hitler was a democratically elected leader.
Critics don't have to show proof they can do better. I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of those who said Star Wars 1 was bad can't produce a better movie.
This is an old prosecution as old as Al Capone getting thrown in jail because of tax evasion rather than murder. Throw everything at them and hope some of the shit sticks.
Two movies that deal with murder and a movie character that heads a spy organization. Now if you only add I to the initials of FaceBook, you have the makings of a transatlantic Hollywood thriller. Script please.
LOL. I do find Ruby's position surprise. It outranks Python and all three C-derived languages! Where do they teach this stuff? Certainly not in school, where C rules. (I can understand the lowly position of HTML, which while probably the most popular computer language ever is too basic to be worth a Github.)
Rooting is an ugly, ugly hack. What we need is a way to configure the install (or whatever you call the ROM update, etc) so that ONLY wanted apps are installed, kind of like the way the way some Linux distros allow you to do a minimal install then let you add the packages ("apps" in smartphone-speak) you want.
A custom ROM like Cyanogenmod allows that to some extent. I have a tablet without any of the closed-source Google apps installed (some Google "frameworks" software are present however).
There's really no such thing as continuity in a show where characters spend an eternity in grade school. If there was continuity in the Simpsons, then Bart would be as old as Homer by now, having brats of his own.
"But from all the media reports, it looks like Windows 10 is turning into a conspiracy theorists bukake dream."
Damn it. Now I had to look up the word in Wiki: "The word bukkake is often used in Japanese to describe pouring out water with sufficient momentum to cause splashing or spilling. Indeed, bukkake is used in Japan to describe a type of dish where hot broth is poured over noodles, as in bukkake udon and bukkake soba."
..."the Japanese are concentrating on but one thing at a time and will eventually surpass Musk and Space-X in all areas"...
The first rocket in the H2 series flew almost a year before the Falcon 9 v1.0's initial launch and had the benefit of a larger budget, decades more of development (factoring in the first-hand technological expertise gained from earlier rocket models like the H1), and, as a government-initiated project, a much bigger license to fail. Moreover the Falcon 9 also had to satisfy the demands of at least three different markets, NASA and the military besides the usual commercial launch customers.
(Geek speaking) Automatic updates are fine, so long as the bootloader or whatever its embedded equivalent can be unlocked to allow the flashing of unofficial ROMs. Here's hoping this is like most of the Google-branded hardware products (eg Chromebook, Nexus)
Is this the can or the contents? Wouldn't the raw potato be a better transmitter?
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The non-linear, if not exactly exponential, growth of information-related technologies from Moore's proverbial microchips to wide area network speeds appear to have the side effect of placing important aspects of global civilization under the control of a few companies when they have the equal potential to decentralize it. Why has Google search become for most people the starting point for research or Facebook the dominant means of text-based communication?
I know the arguments for economies of scale. But why can't we have mesh or peer-to-peer versions of these technologies where we don't have to rely on the good intentions or fault tolerance of a few dozen IT behemoths? We now have the equivalent of an '80s supercomputer in our pockets. Why can't I just beam my documents or videos directly to my friend on the other side of town, instead of routing them right across the world?
Critics scoffed at the ease with which a human "hacker" brought down the alien invasion force in Independence Day. I'm thinking the movie's a metaphor for where the Internet and all our information technologies are heading.
The solution is to target ads to a site's target audience. No end-user tracking cookies needed. Just what you can learn from data-mining the site itself, especially the user comments (if any). Obviously, visitors to geek sites like Slashdot would want at most ads with static graphics. Better would be Google-style text ads, prominently marked as "advertisement". (Best would be no ads, but that won't be an option unless you can cook up a really subtle slashvertisement.)
No, I call it putting bread on the table. Picture this. There's a call for "writers", a guarantee of relative anonymity (the column will be published in an internal network of a highly secretive organization), and a chance to either get paid extra or at least rise in the eyes of your bosses (and thus make yourself a wee bit less dispensable). If I were already in his or her position, I'd apply and do my damnedest to write something at least grammatically and stylistically competent while pleasing to the target market (the head spooks). And he appears to have met the criteria. It's no different from being the speech writer of an annoying political candidate.
I suspect most of the NSA rank and file belong to this category. They love their job because it puts bread on the table.
This is just a high-tech version of a universal ID system. That is what we need to oppose since you can easily extend the concept to allow for non-invasive natural ID technologies (aka biometrics) to become the "mark". That and universal surveillance.
In other news another top Fortune 500 company, based in the caffeine capital of the world, decides to rename itself after a nocturnal African animal that looks like a cross between an anteater and a pig.
Yes, this is "rote behaviour" but only indirectly by people.
A side issue (aside from the obvious one concerning online rights) is how we are increasingly putting our lives in the hands of algorithms. I'm pretty sure the "decision" to file the DMCA notice was made by software scanning for occurrences of the word "pixels" possibly in proximity with other terms like "movie" or "comedy". The damage is done before the "programmer" of this sorry algorithm finds out that there are other movies out there dealing with pixels and comedy.
Now imagine if the possibility of you getting a job, or worse staying out of jail, hinge on software that analyses your online presence for the use of dangerous terms like "kill" or "blow up" in close proximity to words like "president" or "building". Too much sci-fi?
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The bottom part of the article is actually quite positive about Ashley Madison. Quote: "Itâ(TM)s possible, as one person put it to me in email, that Ashley Madison was actually a pretty decent hookup site for gay peopleâ"but that was mostly because the system was designed to ignore them."
It's the straight dudes that get inundated by spam messages. So if you're he-man don't bother signing up for an Ashley Madison account.
Good advice (for someone who barely sees 100K).
Now for the fourth (unless I'm terribly bad at counting) thing to do, after fixing whatever legitimate financial problems your close friends may have. Don't go for poor-neighborhood philanthropy. A few billions might not even be enough for Bill Gates philanthropy. I think your best bet is really to Musk (v) it, pick a few technological projects that can benefit from a few hundred million of "concentrated" funding.
To take the Elon Musk example, do you think his wealth would have made a bigger difference if he spread out the billion or so he made from Paypal onto dozens of Kickstarter-sized projects as opposed to his initial "focus" on two or three flagship projects, namely cheaper access to space, electric cars and perhaps solar power (I think this came later)?
"It would be like bundling systemd with a sound service."
Lennart created or was a significant early contributor to the Pulse audio project, so I won't be surprised if the sound service was already bundled with systemd.
"Such restrictions weren't particularly burdensome either, since Germans never had enjoyed free speech rights before. The post-WWII restrictions by the allies were still liberal by historical German standards."
No, the reason the Nazis rose to power was precisely because the Germans after World War I had enough free speech to allow clowns like Hitler to convince the public they could save the republic from ruin. Hitler was a democratically elected leader.
Critics don't have to show proof they can do better. I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of those who said Star Wars 1 was bad can't produce a better movie.
Use Linux online. Use Windows offline. Only problem is if you love online games.
This is an old prosecution as old as Al Capone getting thrown in jail because of tax evasion rather than murder. Throw everything at them and hope some of the shit sticks.
But wasn't Jobs the one who gave Sculley the job? So the pre-iMac Jobs was just as guilty as Sculley of nearly running Apple to the ground?
Two movies that deal with murder and a movie character that heads a spy organization. Now if you only add I to the initials of FaceBook, you have the makings of a transatlantic Hollywood thriller. Script please.
You beat me to it. Actually it's dangling participle twice over, as "HBO's content" is also not "a cable channel". So maybe I'd rewrite it as:
"As HBO is a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction over its content."
Of course, if you have jurisdiction over a cable channel then you also have jurisdiction over its sensationalized content.
LOL. I do find Ruby's position surprise. It outranks Python and all three C-derived languages! Where do they teach this stuff? Certainly not in school, where C rules. (I can understand the lowly position of HTML, which while probably the most popular computer language ever is too basic to be worth a Github.)
Rooting is an ugly, ugly hack. What we need is a way to configure the install (or whatever you call the ROM update, etc) so that ONLY wanted apps are installed, kind of like the way the way some Linux distros allow you to do a minimal install then let you add the packages ("apps" in smartphone-speak) you want.
A custom ROM like Cyanogenmod allows that to some extent. I have a tablet without any of the closed-source Google apps installed (some Google "frameworks" software are present however).
There's really no such thing as continuity in a show where characters spend an eternity in grade school. If there was continuity in the Simpsons, then Bart would be as old as Homer by now, having brats of his own.
"But from all the media reports, it looks like Windows 10 is turning into a conspiracy theorists bukake dream."
Damn it. Now I had to look up the word in Wiki: "The word bukkake is often used in Japanese to describe pouring out water with sufficient momentum to cause splashing or spilling. Indeed, bukkake is used in Japan to describe a type of dish where hot broth is poured over noodles, as in bukkake udon and bukkake soba."
In the future Linux will be spelled Lennart.
..."the Japanese are concentrating on but one thing at a time and will eventually surpass Musk and Space-X in all areas"...
The first rocket in the H2 series flew almost a year before the Falcon 9 v1.0's initial launch and had the benefit of a larger budget, decades more of development (factoring in the first-hand technological expertise gained from earlier rocket models like the H1), and, as a government-initiated project, a much bigger license to fail. Moreover the Falcon 9 also had to satisfy the demands of at least three different markets, NASA and the military besides the usual commercial launch customers.
(Geek speaking) Automatic updates are fine, so long as the bootloader or whatever its embedded equivalent can be unlocked to allow the flashing of unofficial ROMs. Here's hoping this is like most of the Google-branded hardware products (eg Chromebook, Nexus)
Is this the can or the contents? Wouldn't the raw potato be a better transmitter?
The non-linear, if not exactly exponential, growth of information-related technologies from Moore's proverbial microchips to wide area network speeds appear to have the side effect of placing important aspects of global civilization under the control of a few companies when they have the equal potential to decentralize it. Why has Google search become for most people the starting point for research or Facebook the dominant means of text-based communication?
I know the arguments for economies of scale. But why can't we have mesh or peer-to-peer versions of these technologies where we don't have to rely on the good intentions or fault tolerance of a few dozen IT behemoths? We now have the equivalent of an '80s supercomputer in our pockets. Why can't I just beam my documents or videos directly to my friend on the other side of town, instead of routing them right across the world?
Critics scoffed at the ease with which a human "hacker" brought down the alien invasion force in Independence Day. I'm thinking the movie's a metaphor for where the Internet and all our information technologies are heading.
The solution is to target ads to a site's target audience. No end-user tracking cookies needed. Just what you can learn from data-mining the site itself, especially the user comments (if any). Obviously, visitors to geek sites like Slashdot would want at most ads with static graphics. Better would be Google-style text ads, prominently marked as "advertisement". (Best would be no ads, but that won't be an option unless you can cook up a really subtle slashvertisement.)
LibreOffice should have a beginner's interface as simple as GoogleDocs, with a button/icon for toggling "powah user" features.
No, I call it putting bread on the table. Picture this. There's a call for "writers", a guarantee of relative anonymity (the column will be published in an internal network of a highly secretive organization), and a chance to either get paid extra or at least rise in the eyes of your bosses (and thus make yourself a wee bit less dispensable). If I were already in his or her position, I'd apply and do my damnedest to write something at least grammatically and stylistically competent while pleasing to the target market (the head spooks). And he appears to have met the criteria. It's no different from being the speech writer of an annoying political candidate.
I suspect most of the NSA rank and file belong to this category. They love their job because it puts bread on the table.
This is just a high-tech version of a universal ID system. That is what we need to oppose since you can easily extend the concept to allow for non-invasive natural ID technologies (aka biometrics) to become the "mark". That and universal surveillance.
In other news another top Fortune 500 company, based in the caffeine capital of the world, decides to rename itself after a nocturnal African animal that looks like a cross between an anteater and a pig.
Yes, this is "rote behaviour" but only indirectly by people.
A side issue (aside from the obvious one concerning online rights) is how we are increasingly putting our lives in the hands of algorithms. I'm pretty sure the "decision" to file the DMCA notice was made by software scanning for occurrences of the word "pixels" possibly in proximity with other terms like "movie" or "comedy". The damage is done before the "programmer" of this sorry algorithm finds out that there are other movies out there dealing with pixels and comedy.
Now imagine if the possibility of you getting a job, or worse staying out of jail, hinge on software that analyses your online presence for the use of dangerous terms like "kill" or "blow up" in close proximity to words like "president" or "building". Too much sci-fi?