Consumers will soon need to decide exactly how much faith they want to place in these companies to build out the internet of tomorrow.
As if people have faith in Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon.
Like the removal of Net Neutrality, privatizing internet infrastructure has only reduced prices for consumers.
Reduced what in the what now?
This is an "article" written by an astroturfing lobbyist. His ideology sells the belief that deregulation solves all problems, yet because he is beholden to his telecom masters, he must also sell the belief that having more competition is also bad.
It's built on the assumption that changing society is done by changing its technologies.
Every major change in society is predicated on technological advancement. Those who believe in religions and ideologies don't like this truth, because they would prefer that the belief virus that they serve receive all the credit, but human nature only changes on evolutionary time.
The charlatan above is no different. He's imparting an ideology onto (presumably failed) technology so he can sell his ideology as the alternative.
shared ideas that slosh around its cultural playground
This is precisely what the adherents of the so-called "Californian ideology" believe the internet would enable. He's actually no different than they are, he just thinks we are all sloshing around the wrong ideas.
Technology doesn't know the motives of those who invented it, but it can be used by anyone, including the people you don't like. That's what really grinds the gears of these ideological crusaders, and what the early internet utopians should have understood before they started writing declarations of independence of cyberspace.
I went looking for the video to satisfy my morbid curiosity, but it was being aggressively removed from my usual haunts, so I went to voat knowing that would be one of the few places not censoring links to it.
I discovered that most of their links were already dead, and that the comments were almost unanimously celebrating the murders. I lost my interest in seeing the video, having even that little in common with those cretins was too much.
And I thought, these are the people who traffic in the conspiracy theory that thousands of American Muslims were celebrating 9/11. But here they are, literally cheering a terrorist, doing the thing that they imagine others doing to rationalize their racism. Not only are they no different than an Islamic terrorist sympathizer, they're no different than the Islamic terrorist sympathizer that their imaginations have constructed. It's like they want to be recruited into terrorism. They don't necessarily hate radical Islam, they envy it.
The alt-right isn't a political movement, it is a sickness that needs to be eradicated. We should treat them the same way we treat members of Al Qaeda and ISIS. When they whine about free speech, we remind them that enemy combatants don't have rights. This will infuriate them, and every time they lash out with more terrorism, the government has another excuse to hit them even harder. Eventually there won't be any fight left in them, or there won't be any left.
It's actually a Bachelor of Arts, in something called "Computer Studies", which I'm guessing is now called Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Information Technology. Or he may have gotten a vanilla IT degree, but either way, he does not have a CS degree nor an engineering degree.
The guy sounds like a charlatan. He's undoubtedly intelligent, but his list of accomplishments does not include actually inventing or creating anything, and all his "research" is fluff.
He obviously sees himself as some kind of guru, which may seem a little racistly on the nose, but he has no problem going there.
The only demand I'm seeing is for H1Bs and diversity hires... there are very few actual jobs available for U.S. citizens, especially if you're a white male
The people who say things like that are either lying to promote their political ideology, or are lying to themselves and everyone else to rationalize their inability to impress an employer (which is also promoting their political ideology).
Hollywood is pathologically incapable of making a movie that conveys a conservative message.
Are you stupid? Just what do you think we're talking about? In Starship Troopers, the blond white descendants of the Argentine junta triumph over a collectivist society of diverse insects. It has one message: fascism works!
democracy: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
democracy: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
democracy: A democracy is a country in which power is held by elected representatives.
democracy: government in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives; rule by the ruled
The word "republic" is a bland word that means nothing more than the government is a public thing subject to laws. There many totalitarian governments that can accurately be described as republics that cannot be called democracies, yet all democracies are necessarily republics. You could make an exception with constitutional monarchies with elected representatives, though without supreme power being in the hands of the people, it runs afoul of most definitions of democracies.
A lot of dumb people have built a weird religion around Federalist #10, which is ironic, considering that these poorly educated conspiracy theorists whipped into a frenzy by populist demagogues are precisely the sort of people Madison was worried about. And for all of that whining about mob rule, it was the electoral college that gave us the stupidest person to ever hold the office of President.
It's amazing how people will pay for the privilege of running on a meaningless treadmill, and also pay for the privilege of not running on the meaningless treadmill, seemingly unaware that they don't have to run on the meaningless treadmill in the first place.
This isn't counting the clusterfuck that is the ugly iPhone Ecks knob and corresponding "safe area" hack.
Thousands of app authors have had to modify their code (and worse - other people's code) to work correctly with that nonsense, and the cumulative cost of all those wasted person-hours is probably in the millions.
Stupid racist, the south's secession was illegitimate because they didn't let male slaves vote for or against it. The Civil War was the United States rescuing American citizens from traitors.
And even if they did, the US would have still been morally justified to invade and free the salves, and execute all the slavers. The only difference is it wouldn't have been a civil war.
These companies are the most powerful information gatekeepers that the world has ever known
Google is not a gatekeeper, you fucking retard.
The power they have, which you so obviously covet, is an unfortunate side-effect of their popularity. It is not a feature, it is the failure of their competition.
I suspect that there is something like a "law of conservation of bugs" or something in software
I know, with the same degree of certainty that there is an objective universe that exists independently from my perception, that what you just said is bullshit.
There is correct code, and there is flawed code. It is possible to write software that doesn't crash, that can't be exploited, and does precisely what it is supposed to do for all possible inputs. The only thing standing in the way of that is incompetence and the tolerance of failure.
But there is the old adage in statically typed compiled languages "Hey, my code compiles! Now I get to find out where all my bugs really are."
People who were excited by their code compiling were morons in their first year classes. No professional programmer talks like that. And every kind of bug that is not prevented by static type checking still exist in loosely typed languages.
You don't get very far as a dullard in Silicon Valley, so obviously people with the dumber political persuasions will be weeded out.
All the Trump voters who made Slashdot a safe space to group hug should take a good hard look at what successful people actually believe. If they were really out to derk your jobs to enrich themselves, they wouldn't support higher taxes, universal healthcare, and the social safety net, now would they?
When you admit that you simply aren't as competitive in the free market as you thought you deserved to be, and that your hatred of immigrants and non-whites is born of insecurity and envy, then you can begin growing as a person, and maybe even improve yourself and improve your station.
"Based on our research, one of the reasons girls and underrepresented minorities are not pursuing computer science is because of the negative perception of computer scientists and the relevance of the field beyond coding."
This line seems to be taken from a document about the movie Hidden Figures.
That "Made with Code" project seems particularly absurd. They're trying to trick girls into learning how to program by making it about clothes and fashion. Feminism seems more intent on reinforcing stereotypes than those they accuse of misogyny.
They're not suing APO. Why would they? What part of counterfeit don't you understand?
I would call you stupid for not reading the article, but it seems confused as well. Amazon sourced glasses from third parties that claimed to be glasses made by APO, they were sold by Amazon in the listing as APO-made glasses, but they were actually counterfeits made in China with fraudulent branding. That's why APO had to make a page on their website telling people how to identify the counterfeits. And Amazon did not contact every customer who bought them to warn them.
The counterfeit glasses were claiming to be made by American Paper Optics, but were actually made in China. Despite sourcing from a third party, Amazon held them in their warehouses, processed payment for them, shipped them, and did not warn that they were counterfeit despite recognizing that they had been selling counterfeit glasses. The plaintiffs have a reasonably strong case.
I smell you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
As if people have faith in Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon.
Reduced what in the what now?
This is an "article" written by an astroturfing lobbyist. His ideology sells the belief that deregulation solves all problems, yet because he is beholden to his telecom masters, he must also sell the belief that having more competition is also bad.
Every major change in society is predicated on technological advancement. Those who believe in religions and ideologies don't like this truth, because they would prefer that the belief virus that they serve receive all the credit, but human nature only changes on evolutionary time.
The charlatan above is no different. He's imparting an ideology onto (presumably failed) technology so he can sell his ideology as the alternative.
This is precisely what the adherents of the so-called "Californian ideology" believe the internet would enable. He's actually no different than they are, he just thinks we are all sloshing around the wrong ideas.
Technology doesn't know the motives of those who invented it, but it can be used by anyone, including the people you don't like. That's what really grinds the gears of these ideological crusaders, and what the early internet utopians should have understood before they started writing declarations of independence of cyberspace.
I went looking for the video to satisfy my morbid curiosity, but it was being aggressively removed from my usual haunts, so I went to voat knowing that would be one of the few places not censoring links to it.
I discovered that most of their links were already dead, and that the comments were almost unanimously celebrating the murders. I lost my interest in seeing the video, having even that little in common with those cretins was too much.
And I thought, these are the people who traffic in the conspiracy theory that thousands of American Muslims were celebrating 9/11. But here they are, literally cheering a terrorist, doing the thing that they imagine others doing to rationalize their racism. Not only are they no different than an Islamic terrorist sympathizer, they're no different than the Islamic terrorist sympathizer that their imaginations have constructed. It's like they want to be recruited into terrorism. They don't necessarily hate radical Islam, they envy it.
The alt-right isn't a political movement, it is a sickness that needs to be eradicated. We should treat them the same way we treat members of Al Qaeda and ISIS. When they whine about free speech, we remind them that enemy combatants don't have rights. This will infuriate them, and every time they lash out with more terrorism, the government has another excuse to hit them even harder. Eventually there won't be any fight left in them, or there won't be any left.
In other words, no different than the current president was two years ago.
At least their conspiracy theory is real, and its evidence is sending people to jail.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who checked.
http://wadhwa.com/bio/
It's actually a Bachelor of Arts, in something called "Computer Studies", which I'm guessing is now called Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Information Technology. Or he may have gotten a vanilla IT degree, but either way, he does not have a CS degree nor an engineering degree.
The guy sounds like a charlatan. He's undoubtedly intelligent, but his list of accomplishments does not include actually inventing or creating anything, and all his "research" is fluff.
He obviously sees himself as some kind of guru, which may seem a little racistly on the nose, but he has no problem going there.
The people who say things like that are either lying to promote their political ideology, or are lying to themselves and everyone else to rationalize their inability to impress an employer (which is also promoting their political ideology).
You are the incel red-pillers of the job market.
Well, if your startup makes money, he makes money.
Why would you want your own success inextricably enabling the success of a cunt?
Are you stupid? Just what do you think we're talking about? In Starship Troopers, the blond white descendants of the Argentine junta triumph over a collectivist society of diverse insects. It has one message: fascism works!
Uh, oh, you did it now. You summoned the retards.
Let's just knock them all out in one post:
The word "republic" is a bland word that means nothing more than the government is a public thing subject to laws. There many totalitarian governments that can accurately be described as republics that cannot be called democracies, yet all democracies are necessarily republics. You could make an exception with constitutional monarchies with elected representatives, though without supreme power being in the hands of the people, it runs afoul of most definitions of democracies.
A lot of dumb people have built a weird religion around Federalist #10, which is ironic, considering that these poorly educated conspiracy theorists whipped into a frenzy by populist demagogues are precisely the sort of people Madison was worried about. And for all of that whining about mob rule, it was the electoral college that gave us the stupidest person to ever hold the office of President.
It's amazing how people will pay for the privilege of running on a meaningless treadmill, and also pay for the privilege of not running on the meaningless treadmill, seemingly unaware that they don't have to run on the meaningless treadmill in the first place.
This isn't counting the clusterfuck that is the ugly iPhone Ecks knob and corresponding "safe area" hack.
Thousands of app authors have had to modify their code (and worse - other people's code) to work correctly with that nonsense, and the cumulative cost of all those wasted person-hours is probably in the millions.
Stupid racist, the south's secession was illegitimate because they didn't let male slaves vote for or against it. The Civil War was the United States rescuing American citizens from traitors.
And even if they did, the US would have still been morally justified to invade and free the salves, and execute all the slavers. The only difference is it wouldn't have been a civil war.
Security clearances mean fuck all. It only proves you passed a background check. Bragging about it is a negative signal.
What bullshit is this article trying to sell? Who benefits from this? Contracting companies?
Google is not a gatekeeper, you fucking retard.
The power they have, which you so obviously covet, is an unfortunate side-effect of their popularity. It is not a feature, it is the failure of their competition.
Gun stores.
I know, with the same degree of certainty that there is an objective universe that exists independently from my perception, that what you just said is bullshit.
There is correct code, and there is flawed code. It is possible to write software that doesn't crash, that can't be exploited, and does precisely what it is supposed to do for all possible inputs. The only thing standing in the way of that is incompetence and the tolerance of failure.
People who were excited by their code compiling were morons in their first year classes. No professional programmer talks like that. And every kind of bug that is not prevented by static type checking still exist in loosely typed languages.
Why? You listed them in increasing order of incompetence. The only people who write shittier code than EEs are mathematicians.
This is how a fanboy admits that Apple really fucked up the aesthetics.
"It's not bad ergonomics if I can train myself to stop doing it."
You don't get very far as a dullard in Silicon Valley, so obviously people with the dumber political persuasions will be weeded out.
All the Trump voters who made Slashdot a safe space to group hug should take a good hard look at what successful people actually believe. If they were really out to derk your jobs to enrich themselves, they wouldn't support higher taxes, universal healthcare, and the social safety net, now would they?
When you admit that you simply aren't as competitive in the free market as you thought you deserved to be, and that your hatred of immigrants and non-whites is born of insecurity and envy, then you can begin growing as a person, and maybe even improve yourself and improve your station.
It's funny how there are still climate change deniers.
It's refreshing to see Tumblr-esque histrionics on Slashdot. I thought it had gone completely over to bitter unemployed alt-righters.
This line seems to be taken from a document about the movie Hidden Figures.
That "Made with Code" project seems particularly absurd. They're trying to trick girls into learning how to program by making it about clothes and fashion. Feminism seems more intent on reinforcing stereotypes than those they accuse of misogyny.
They're not suing APO. Why would they? What part of counterfeit don't you understand?
I would call you stupid for not reading the article, but it seems confused as well. Amazon sourced glasses from third parties that claimed to be glasses made by APO, they were sold by Amazon in the listing as APO-made glasses, but they were actually counterfeits made in China with fraudulent branding. That's why APO had to make a page on their website telling people how to identify the counterfeits. And Amazon did not contact every customer who bought them to warn them.
The counterfeit glasses were claiming to be made by American Paper Optics, but were actually made in China. Despite sourcing from a third party, Amazon held them in their warehouses, processed payment for them, shipped them, and did not warn that they were counterfeit despite recognizing that they had been selling counterfeit glasses. The plaintiffs have a reasonably strong case.
I smell you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I love how we've gotten to the point that a "gotcha" is that the president nominated someone for a post, and that the nominee isn't incompetent.
Trump managed to not fuck something up. Take that, libtards!