When I was in college, I backed/bought a 3rd party board. It was faster than Arduino but pin compatible. It was before there were so many options but the experience is still applicable.
I bought it, and ran into problems. The hardware was fine but the SOFTWARE chain had problems crashing the IDE, and flashing/detecting the serial port. It was a pain in the ass. "Go online and search for a fix" doesn't actually work when: There's like 10 people at the company and
Another slap to the face? I realized I had bought a "Beta" board. They said it could have problems but it was tested and sound. The problem? They then produced the "official" board which wasn't pin or software compatible with the Beta board.
So I spent $60-80... on a paperweight that can't be programmed.
Additionally, there are zero 3rd party tutorials, almost zero forums with knowledge of the device. It's almost impossible to crowdsource a problem with it.
Another problem? Just like Intel here, what happens if the product is discontinued or no longer supported by the company?
I've learned the hard way that you're not buying a product, you're buying a PLATFORM. And the platform (documentation, official and third-party support, hardware, and more?) needs to be heavily entwined in your cost/benefit calculations. It can't just be "speed vs cost."
As I've looked for better Arduino and Raspberry Pi's, I've consistently applied that logic and found zero viable alternatives. Even if they could compete on cost, they can't compete on TIME investment. There are thousands of arduino/pi tutorials. Good official documentation. Thousands of active programmers to assist you and over a decade of toolchain support.
I've been learning the D language over the last year or two. I love it (except the garbage collector which adds an additional entire dimension to crash solving). Otherwise, it's pretty amazing (so much so the C++ committee adds features that D had for over a decade). They have one great forum and StackOverflow probably can solve it. But that's kind of it. There aren't dozens of _maintained_ D XML parsing libraries. Dozens of JSON libraries. Dozens of game programming libraries. Dozens of X/Y/Z libraries. In C and C++ you have your pick of the litter. Any possible question, no matter how niche, has a C/C++ library. Library for the reverse engineered Kinect2 sensor? Yep. But while D can interface cleanly with C, it doesn't support C++. And that's a huge flaw because it cuts you off from basically "Almost every library ever written" in the last three decades. Programming in D is a delight, but you HAVE to re-invent the wheel for things that come for free in C/C++. So I've been very hesitant to switch over completely to D. What happens if the community dies out? Do I really want to write a hobby game in a dead language? (There is a fork of LLVM based LDC, Calypso, which integrates Clang with LDC for C++ support. And it's a highly watched project. But it's even more niche. Do I hedge my game on an almost-niche language, with a niche fork of a compiler that is 300 commits behind the official LDC branch? What if I run into a bug that is solved in the new branch but not the fork? I'm relying on a lot of guys charity work in my build chain.)
So if I can distill all my points down to one: "For production, buy what's popular--not what's clever."
This is insanely wrong. Censorship is not only censorship if a government does it. Otherwise, the Chilling Effect and self-censorship can't possibly exist.
- The ESRB isn't a government entity. It's a trade group.
- When Nintendo refused to allow any games with blood or religious symbols, which government were they working for?
- When someone refuses to criticize Islam because of fear of professional backlash, as well as death threats, what "government" censored that person?
Your first and second paragraphs are polar opposites. The REASON people are fighting for Right To Repair is because YOU CAN'T REPAIR a phone or laptop for 1/3rd of the price because of policies practiced by companies like Apple.
You CAN'T legally get the diagnostics software. You CAN'T legally get the schematics to determine circuit paths (one capacitor blows and takes out a chain of parts... how do you know what parts are affected?). And Apple does stuff like the infamous "Error 53" where the home button is PAIRED to the motherboard and if you attempt to repair it, iOS intentionally bricks the phone and--amazingly!--it's a simple procedure for the Apple staff to fix... for a fee.
I look forward to the day when my Ford Focus can only be serviced by Ford technicians, and I can only use Ford Certified (TM) tires on my wheels to ensure "optimum user experience."
in response to the lessons of WW2....Japan is one that hasn't changed enough.
They keep moving toward (real) nationalism. Not this "'Merica!" kind, but "change the history books" kind. They would rather forget and hide all the atrocities than accept and learn from them.
(There are tons of great people in Japan, but the ones who have influence and power are NOT the same people.)
For all the shit we give Germany over WW2. Nobody ever bothers to read up on the near equal horror of Japan. Human experimentation on live subjects? Yes. Belief in superior race? Yes. Death marches? Yes. An nationalistic ideology so strong they had volunteer suicide bombers? Yep. Systematic rape (and murder) of millions of women and children? Yep. Experimentation of biological and chemical weapons on prisoners? Yep. (Google Unit-731)
So basically, they're unable to hire anyone who knows how to use Google?
Because that's how I've learned:
- C#
- Windows Administration
- Javascript/jQuery
- Linux
- Linux Administration
- Linux specific APIs
All in the last three years too. Why? Because my boss said "Go fix this problem." And my answer couldn't be "I don't know." It had to be "I'll figure it out."
Seriously. What kind of world does everyone else live in where a lack of knowledge is an excuse for failure?
It wasn't talked about because of the insane amount of existing bias in the media. Just like the media curiously didn't cover the 1996 Telecommunications Act--Thanks, Bill Clinton!--that allowed the media to go from over 200 owning companies to 5. 5 companies control 90% of all information the typical US citizen sees. That should scare anyone. It's easy as hell to buy off 5 companies.
Imagine if Facebook was the only company that anyone got their news from. Would you magically start trusting Facebook to give people fair news? We're already heading that direction.
Likewise, why has Bill Clinton not had wall-to-wall news coverage? Bill COSBY probably raped women and he got wall-to-wall coverage. But Bill CLINTON also raped tons of women in the same way, in the same numbers (or higher), and nobody talks about it. There's no wall-to-wall coverage. There's no investigative journalism prying deeper and deeper. Nope.
Which means we're left with two options: The media is allied with/owned by the Clintons and Cosby (who criticizes Black America) is a threat. Or, the media is racist as fuck and defends a powerful white man, and goes balls-to-the-wall to throw a successful black man in jail the same way they hunted Michael Jackson without proof. (Fun fact: If you actually read up on MJ, you'll find a complete lack of plausible case against him.)
I was going to write a thought out, in depth reply to you countering your points. But then I came to my senses and realized you're not here to listen or discuss or debate. You're here standing on the same kind of soap box that the people you decry in your post are standing on.
You assume everyone will assume discrimination doesn't exist. You're the same kind of idiot, just pointing the other direction.
This is hilarious. First off, let's throw away the logical fallacy that assumes all Muslim governments are 3rd world, or, that non-3rd-World Muslim governments have great human rights records. (::cough::Saudi Arabia::cough::)
You're the same people who scream about separation of church and state, and then fail to notice when Muslim controlled governments are extremely oppressive.
Oh look at that, only 1.1 billion (that's "billion" with a 'b') Muslims believe that Sharia Law should take precedence over government law. Only 600 million believe leaving Islam should equal death.
What's the difference? Christianity has had multiple _reformations_. Islam hasn't. And every time you defend Islam, you're hurting the chances Ex-Muslims and Progressive Muslims will ever get a chance to reform their religion into something resembling modern society's values.
Why are there no Buddhist terrorists? Why are there no Amish terrorists? Why are 99% of all terror attacks committed by Muslims? Because religions are a set of ideas, and all ideas ARE NOT EQUAL.
You might as well be saying all football teams are equally good because they're all teams, and they all play football. If you apply abstraction after abstraction a thousand times, throwing away all of the facts that get in the way of your argument, it's amazing how easily things become equal. Google Vicious Abstractionism.
I think China is a hundred times more of a threat than Russia. Russia grandstands. They want attention. China doesn't want attention.... Because they're an actual threat. They manipulate information, they manipulate currencies, they have tons of spies and the largest group of hackers on the planet. 27% OF ALL ATTACKS come from China, and as much as 47% can be tracked back to China. This is not a fucking joke. This is the calm before the storm. China has the largest standing military (over a MILLION MORE than the USA). For all the "military-industrial-complex" people harp on the USA (and it's warranted) 99% of the public has no idea how big a threat China is becoming.
And manipulating the election? China does that too in both the US and the UN. Google it.
We've also had tons of ACTUAL state secrets "leaked" and straight up SOLD to China. Not this "war in iraq"/"poor civilians got shot" shit that's just a PR blunder. ACTUAL secrets that represent tens of BILLIONS of dollars and decades of US research that ends up overseas. Like ultra-high resolution modern radar systems. We're paying for it, and they're benefiting from it.
Here's a report from 2017 that China is reaching "near parity with the West's military." That should horrify you. China does not give two shits about your civil liberties or peace among nations. They've been the sole reason North Korea hasn't been bombed into dust. Why? Because it's in their best interests.
I can't tell if most Slashdotters are teenagers, or live in a single office room and never venture outside. Because there are TONS OF BUSINESSES that still use legacy software A DECADE out of "support." The people that wrote the software have left the company. There's no documentation. And the software _still_ _works_.
Whenever you replace software, you have to understand it (a huge task), you have to re-implement it (a huge task), you have to transition it from old-to-new without corrupting data or interrupting business. (sometimes a huge task.)
I'm currently updating a.NET 1.1 / VS2003 application. It's a pain in the ass and even throwing C++ EXCEPTIONS even though its a C# program. A google of the error message returns... no results. Yay!
Meanwhile, in the last three years I've met not one, but TWO, different companies that still run their internet-connected AS/400 (Google it.) in a live, critical environment. And last year I found the reason a lab was running so slow... it funneled everything (including 150MBit wireless) through a 10 MBit ethernet... hub. (Not a switch.)
Legacy exists everywhere. It's a real problem. Hell, look at the B-52's that were designed in 1955, and we're STILL FLYING THEM as part of our essential air force. (I'm guessing because they cost a 100x less to fly than the billion dollar B-2's.) When was the last time you went to Radioshack (ha!) and bought a bunch of VACUUM TUBES to fix your multi-million dollar airplane. Well, the military has that exact problem.
I'm in the private sector and I still see the software equivalent every month.
Fun fact: All the cities that the highest crime in the nation have also been run by Democrats for decades.
(p.s. I'm NOT saying vote Republican.)
Chicago had a 100% gun ban till recently. They still had record levels... of gun crime. So much for the gun control argument. (Kind of funny how liberals hate prohibition of drugs... but forget the same rules apply to guns. Ban guns and people bring them in... from places where guns aren't banned. Stunning.)
would be the public's tiredness of traditional media channels. Because less tweets could mean many things. The public could be less engaged in media OVERALL due to the constant barrage of negativity and fear-mongering.
Why do his tweets even exist? Have you ever asked that question? Because there's a need. People want to know what he's saying and thinking directly... without the insane amount of misquoting and mischaractorization the media keeps doing.
There was a time when a President could just make a damn conference. But the media both chops up his words, AND, runs 24/7 negative coverage of him. So the only way for people to hear him at a PACE that keeps up with the 24/7 press, is simple tweets.
It's not rocket science people. The guy won the election. That means there are over a hundred million people in the USA who want him there and want to hear what he has to say. It's too bad too. Because we all know the progressive thing is to hope our country completely collapses so we can "prove him those racists wrong."
Imagine if we had this kind of wall-to-wall negative coverage of Obama (You know, the first president to use a drones to kill an American citizen? So progressive!) you could be certain people would be defending him under "They just hate him because he's black!" mantra. But because he's a "FUCKING WHITE MALE" he's literally the devil, and there are no wrongs when the intent is righteous. Even insinuating his son if AUTISTIC, which even if you hate the man, is super fucked up to "armchair diagnose" someones CHILD and use a serious disability like a convenient political tactic. One guy somewhere said Obama's daughter was said to dress "slutty" and the WORLD STOPPED. How dare they slut shame her! But an 11-year old boy is being called AUTISTIC ON NATIONAL NEWS and you don't think that's going to fuck him over when he shows up to school the next day?
That's why people read his tweets. Because "the media" is a den of scum with no morals, no level they won't stoop to. (Even outing a gay manager in Google is "news"?!) People are sick of slants and angles. They want to hear what the president thinks, and they're going to the direct source instead of letting a bunch of armchair warriors slice it up to push an agenda.
Now, you can HATE trump all you want. Have at it. I hate plenty of stuff about him. (FCC? Global Warming? Net Neutrality? COAAAL?!?!?!) So understand that me EXPLAINING something does not mean I'm ENDORSING it. It's sad-as-hell that I even have to throw that disclaimer in, but here we are.
So wait, from you, and other commenters, we're supposed to not value his opinion (without actually debating what he said) because you attack his authority.... except... by the same logic, why should we be listening to you, over that of a billionaire, ex-CEO?
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To add onto your post,
When I was in college, I backed/bought a 3rd party board. It was faster than Arduino but pin compatible. It was before there were so many options but the experience is still applicable.
I bought it, and ran into problems. The hardware was fine but the SOFTWARE chain had problems crashing the IDE, and flashing/detecting the serial port. It was a pain in the ass. "Go online and search for a fix" doesn't actually work when: There's like 10 people at the company and
Another slap to the face? I realized I had bought a "Beta" board. They said it could have problems but it was tested and sound. The problem? They then produced the "official" board which wasn't pin or software compatible with the Beta board.
So I spent $60-80... on a paperweight that can't be programmed.
Additionally, there are zero 3rd party tutorials, almost zero forums with knowledge of the device. It's almost impossible to crowdsource a problem with it.
Another problem? Just like Intel here, what happens if the product is discontinued or no longer supported by the company?
I've learned the hard way that you're not buying a product, you're buying a PLATFORM. And the platform (documentation, official and third-party support, hardware, and more?) needs to be heavily entwined in your cost/benefit calculations. It can't just be "speed vs cost."
As I've looked for better Arduino and Raspberry Pi's, I've consistently applied that logic and found zero viable alternatives. Even if they could compete on cost, they can't compete on TIME investment. There are thousands of arduino/pi tutorials. Good official documentation. Thousands of active programmers to assist you and over a decade of toolchain support.
I've been learning the D language over the last year or two. I love it (except the garbage collector which adds an additional entire dimension to crash solving). Otherwise, it's pretty amazing (so much so the C++ committee adds features that D had for over a decade). They have one great forum and StackOverflow probably can solve it. But that's kind of it. There aren't dozens of _maintained_ D XML parsing libraries. Dozens of JSON libraries. Dozens of game programming libraries. Dozens of X/Y/Z libraries. In C and C++ you have your pick of the litter. Any possible question, no matter how niche, has a C/C++ library. Library for the reverse engineered Kinect2 sensor? Yep. But while D can interface cleanly with C, it doesn't support C++. And that's a huge flaw because it cuts you off from basically "Almost every library ever written" in the last three decades. Programming in D is a delight, but you HAVE to re-invent the wheel for things that come for free in C/C++. So I've been very hesitant to switch over completely to D. What happens if the community dies out? Do I really want to write a hobby game in a dead language? (There is a fork of LLVM based LDC, Calypso, which integrates Clang with LDC for C++ support. And it's a highly watched project. But it's even more niche. Do I hedge my game on an almost-niche language, with a niche fork of a compiler that is 300 commits behind the official LDC branch? What if I run into a bug that is solved in the new branch but not the fork? I'm relying on a lot of guys charity work in my build chain.)
So if I can distill all my points down to one: "For production, buy what's popular--not what's clever."
This is insanely wrong. Censorship is not only censorship if a government does it. Otherwise, the Chilling Effect and self-censorship can't possibly exist.
- The ESRB isn't a government entity. It's a trade group.
- When Nintendo refused to allow any games with blood or religious symbols, which government were they working for?
- When someone refuses to criticize Islam because of fear of professional backlash, as well as death threats, what "government" censored that person?
Except the wikipedia entry clearly states they obtained a license to the content.
I keep my harddrives in an encrypted safe
Do... do you try to be this stupid?
Your first and second paragraphs are polar opposites. The REASON people are fighting for Right To Repair is because YOU CAN'T REPAIR a phone or laptop for 1/3rd of the price because of policies practiced by companies like Apple.
You CAN'T legally get the diagnostics software. You CAN'T legally get the schematics to determine circuit paths (one capacitor blows and takes out a chain of parts... how do you know what parts are affected?). And Apple does stuff like the infamous "Error 53" where the home button is PAIRED to the motherboard and if you attempt to repair it, iOS intentionally bricks the phone and--amazingly!--it's a simple procedure for the Apple staff to fix... for a fee.
I look forward to the day when my Ford Focus can only be serviced by Ford technicians, and I can only use Ford Certified (TM) tires on my wheels to ensure "optimum user experience."
I can't wait for 30 years to pass and a vulnerability in v1.0 of systemd comes out to see how measured and reasonable Slashdotters are.
Does anyone you know actually think that's clever?
Oh, and one more thing. The argument people ALWAYS use against the USA. "We firebombed their cities."
Fun fact: Japan firebombed the shit out of Chinese civilians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
in response to the lessons of WW2. ...Japan is one that hasn't changed enough.
They keep moving toward (real) nationalism. Not this "'Merica!" kind, but "change the history books" kind. They would rather forget and hide all the atrocities than accept and learn from them.
(There are tons of great people in Japan, but the ones who have influence and power are NOT the same people.)
For all the shit we give Germany over WW2. Nobody ever bothers to read up on the near equal horror of Japan. Human experimentation on live subjects? Yes. Belief in superior race? Yes. Death marches? Yes. An nationalistic ideology so strong they had volunteer suicide bombers? Yep. Systematic rape (and murder) of millions of women and children? Yep. Experimentation of biological and chemical weapons on prisoners? Yep. (Google Unit-731)
So basically, they're unable to hire anyone who knows how to use Google?
Because that's how I've learned:
- C#
- Windows Administration
- Javascript/jQuery
- Linux
- Linux Administration
- Linux specific APIs
All in the last three years too. Why? Because my boss said "Go fix this problem." And my answer couldn't be "I don't know." It had to be "I'll figure it out."
Seriously. What kind of world does everyone else live in where a lack of knowledge is an excuse for failure?
loading a ton of seeds into a "bomb" sounds like a great way to spread them across large distances.
It wasn't talked about because of the insane amount of existing bias in the media. Just like the media curiously didn't cover the 1996 Telecommunications Act--Thanks, Bill Clinton!--that allowed the media to go from over 200 owning companies to 5. 5 companies control 90% of all information the typical US citizen sees. That should scare anyone. It's easy as hell to buy off 5 companies.
Imagine if Facebook was the only company that anyone got their news from. Would you magically start trusting Facebook to give people fair news? We're already heading that direction.
Likewise, why has Bill Clinton not had wall-to-wall news coverage? Bill COSBY probably raped women and he got wall-to-wall coverage. But Bill CLINTON also raped tons of women in the same way, in the same numbers (or higher), and nobody talks about it. There's no wall-to-wall coverage. There's no investigative journalism prying deeper and deeper. Nope.
Which means we're left with two options: The media is allied with/owned by the Clintons and Cosby (who criticizes Black America) is a threat. Or, the media is racist as fuck and defends a powerful white man, and goes balls-to-the-wall to throw a successful black man in jail the same way they hunted Michael Jackson without proof. (Fun fact: If you actually read up on MJ, you'll find a complete lack of plausible case against him.)
Actually, muscles rarely get cancer (see no such thing as "Heart" cancer) because they have a much lower rate of cell recycling than other cells.
I was going to write a thought out, in depth reply to you countering your points. But then I came to my senses and realized you're not here to listen or discuss or debate. You're here standing on the same kind of soap box that the people you decry in your post are standing on.
You assume everyone will assume discrimination doesn't exist. You're the same kind of idiot, just pointing the other direction.
This is hilarious. First off, let's throw away the logical fallacy that assumes all Muslim governments are 3rd world, or, that non-3rd-World Muslim governments have great human rights records. (::cough::Saudi Arabia::cough::)
You're the same people who scream about separation of church and state, and then fail to notice when Muslim controlled governments are extremely oppressive.
http://www.unzcloud.com/wp-con...
Oh look at that, only 1.1 billion (that's "billion" with a 'b') Muslims believe that Sharia Law should take precedence over government law. Only 600 million believe leaving Islam should equal death.
What's the difference? Christianity has had multiple _reformations_. Islam hasn't. And every time you defend Islam, you're hurting the chances Ex-Muslims and Progressive Muslims will ever get a chance to reform their religion into something resembling modern society's values.
Why are there no Buddhist terrorists? Why are there no Amish terrorists? Why are 99% of all terror attacks committed by Muslims? Because religions are a set of ideas, and all ideas ARE NOT EQUAL.
You might as well be saying all football teams are equally good because they're all teams, and they all play football. If you apply abstraction after abstraction a thousand times, throwing away all of the facts that get in the way of your argument, it's amazing how easily things become equal. Google Vicious Abstractionism.
I find it disturbing that people would want Python to beat Perl.
Women have enough problems with domestic violence. We shouldn't be supporting hitting a woman with a snake.
I think China is a hundred times more of a threat than Russia. Russia grandstands. They want attention. China doesn't want attention. ... Because they're an actual threat. They manipulate information, they manipulate currencies, they have tons of spies and the largest group of hackers on the planet. 27% OF ALL ATTACKS come from China, and as much as 47% can be tracked back to China. This is not a fucking joke. This is the calm before the storm. China has the largest standing military (over a MILLION MORE than the USA). For all the "military-industrial-complex" people harp on the USA (and it's warranted) 99% of the public has no idea how big a threat China is becoming.
And manipulating the election? China does that too in both the US and the UN. Google it.
We've also had tons of ACTUAL state secrets "leaked" and straight up SOLD to China. Not this "war in iraq"/"poor civilians got shot" shit that's just a PR blunder. ACTUAL secrets that represent tens of BILLIONS of dollars and decades of US research that ends up overseas. Like ultra-high resolution modern radar systems. We're paying for it, and they're benefiting from it.
Here's a report from 2017 that China is reaching "near parity with the West's military." That should horrify you. China does not give two shits about your civil liberties or peace among nations. They've been the sole reason North Korea hasn't been bombed into dust. Why? Because it's in their best interests.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Russia is a freaking distraction. An underdog. China is a resting giant quietly growing a military capable of conquering new territory.
I can't tell if most Slashdotters are teenagers, or live in a single office room and never venture outside. Because there are TONS OF BUSINESSES that still use legacy software A DECADE out of "support." The people that wrote the software have left the company. There's no documentation. And the software _still_ _works_.
Whenever you replace software, you have to understand it (a huge task), you have to re-implement it (a huge task), you have to transition it from old-to-new without corrupting data or interrupting business. (sometimes a huge task.)
I'm currently updating a .NET 1.1 / VS2003 application. It's a pain in the ass and even throwing C++ EXCEPTIONS even though its a C# program. A google of the error message returns... no results. Yay!
Meanwhile, in the last three years I've met not one, but TWO, different companies that still run their internet-connected AS/400 (Google it.) in a live, critical environment. And last year I found the reason a lab was running so slow... it funneled everything (including 150MBit wireless) through a 10 MBit ethernet... hub. (Not a switch.)
Legacy exists everywhere. It's a real problem. Hell, look at the B-52's that were designed in 1955, and we're STILL FLYING THEM as part of our essential air force. (I'm guessing because they cost a 100x less to fly than the billion dollar B-2's.) When was the last time you went to Radioshack (ha!) and bought a bunch of VACUUM TUBES to fix your multi-million dollar airplane. Well, the military has that exact problem.
I'm in the private sector and I still see the software equivalent every month.
Fun fact: All the cities that the highest crime in the nation have also been run by Democrats for decades.
(p.s. I'm NOT saying vote Republican.)
Chicago had a 100% gun ban till recently. They still had record levels... of gun crime. So much for the gun control argument. (Kind of funny how liberals hate prohibition of drugs... but forget the same rules apply to guns. Ban guns and people bring them in... from places where guns aren't banned. Stunning.)
would be the public's tiredness of traditional media channels. Because less tweets could mean many things. The public could be less engaged in media OVERALL due to the constant barrage of negativity and fear-mongering.
Why do his tweets even exist? Have you ever asked that question? Because there's a need. People want to know what he's saying and thinking directly... without the insane amount of misquoting and mischaractorization the media keeps doing.
There was a time when a President could just make a damn conference. But the media both chops up his words, AND, runs 24/7 negative coverage of him. So the only way for people to hear him at a PACE that keeps up with the 24/7 press, is simple tweets.
It's not rocket science people. The guy won the election. That means there are over a hundred million people in the USA who want him there and want to hear what he has to say. It's too bad too. Because we all know the progressive thing is to hope our country completely collapses so we can "prove him those racists wrong."
Imagine if we had this kind of wall-to-wall negative coverage of Obama (You know, the first president to use a drones to kill an American citizen? So progressive!) you could be certain people would be defending him under "They just hate him because he's black!" mantra. But because he's a "FUCKING WHITE MALE" he's literally the devil, and there are no wrongs when the intent is righteous. Even insinuating his son if AUTISTIC, which even if you hate the man, is super fucked up to "armchair diagnose" someones CHILD and use a serious disability like a convenient political tactic. One guy somewhere said Obama's daughter was said to dress "slutty" and the WORLD STOPPED. How dare they slut shame her! But an 11-year old boy is being called AUTISTIC ON NATIONAL NEWS and you don't think that's going to fuck him over when he shows up to school the next day?
That's why people read his tweets. Because "the media" is a den of scum with no morals, no level they won't stoop to. (Even outing a gay manager in Google is "news"?!) People are sick of slants and angles. They want to hear what the president thinks, and they're going to the direct source instead of letting a bunch of armchair warriors slice it up to push an agenda.
Now, you can HATE trump all you want. Have at it. I hate plenty of stuff about him. (FCC? Global Warming? Net Neutrality? COAAAL?!?!?!) So understand that me EXPLAINING something does not mean I'm ENDORSING it. It's sad-as-hell that I even have to throw that disclaimer in, but here we are.
So wait, from you, and other commenters, we're supposed to not value his opinion (without actually debating what he said) because you attack his authority. ... except... by the same logic, why should we be listening to you, over that of a billionaire, ex-CEO?
Wasn't there a zero day for Linux... THIS MONTH? Granted, only works on older versions but many people still run those.
It was cool as shit too. The NES music format support in the gstreamer library runs a full 6502 CPU to play the music, so they hacked it.
While that's not a terrible idea (many sites I see get 99% of their spam from Brazil, countries near India, and China.)
That really wouldn't stop a simple VPN at all...
I, for one, support Microsoft.
Chrome and Firefox shouldn't run at all on Windows 10. After all, Windows 10 already comes with Edge.
Except the job of CEO is to be a focal point and linkage between PR (the outside perceptions of the company) and the internal company culture.