Are you completely unfamiliar with liberal's modern tactic of trying to get anyone they disagree with fired? By calling anyone they disagree with a bigot?
How can there be freedom of speech when your means to provide for yourself might be attacked? Fear is their tactic for forcing self-censorship. Instead of debating your ideals on equal grounds, they try to get you thrown onto the street. Why? Because they can't defend their values on equal grounds because they're fucking domestic terrorists.
Remember the ESA scientist with the "oppressive" shirt? The shy, introverted guy who contributed to space history who they made cry on national television because they convinced him he was sexist? Is that the kind of freedom of speech you want to live in? You may agree with everything they've done. But I ask you this: How long before they come for you?
>What you call self-censorship I would call being civil.
And what you call being civil, I call "having respect for each other."
We live in a world that has zero respect for each other and instead of treating that toxicity, we're regulating what can and cannot be said in order to provide a feel good, politically correct, layer of bullshit on the top. It's a soccer mom society with all of the behind-the-scenes backstabbing, jealousy, and hatred still going on. The home is full of hatred, but at least the lawn looks nice!
Look at Hollywood. They still hire black people. They still fill them into specific, black roles. They just can't call it that anymore. So they use whitewash acceptable words to find them. The underlying problem of "use black people to do stereotypical black people things" has not changed. It has only made them more sneaky in how they go about it.
By treating the symptom and not the issues causing those symptoms, we're all getting more and more bitter with each other. And as a consequence of us not treating the problems, eventually some people snap. And what do we do? We shame them or toss them in jail as if they're some form of anomaly and not the clear result of culture that spends all its effort looking like it cares instead of actually caring.
This is another branch of the same tree that gave us homeless elimination programs where we kicked all those nasty homeless people out of our cities. Tossed them in jails. Pushed them into other cities. As long as we didn't have to look at the mentally-disabled people, we won't feel bad anymore, and we won't have to deal with the fact our system, our culture, and our individual actions all contributed to those people becoming destitute.
I was discussing with a co-worker that many companies are now allowing people to bring their dogs in. Dogs give a clear, scientifically backed reduction in stress. Dogs also help many handicapped people deal with anxiety problems and panic attacks. (I personally know people who they help significantly.) Meanwhile, this guy has dog allergies and he said it would be intolerant for someone to bring a dog around him.
So, how about instead of a system of "I'm more handicapped then you, and I get my way", we actually just respect for each other? I don't bring my dog around you, and you don't ban me from having a dog that helps me. We work together to come to a compromise that benefits both of us based on our mutual respect for each other.
No amount of HR laws are going to be able to accomplish what I just described. Because without respect, there would be power grabs, and back stabbing using the HR system (we've all seen it happen.). Laws of conduct cannot regulate respect. You don't use a band-aid to fix someone's kidney. You don't use laws to make people respect each other.
While I am not qualified to discuss the merits of systemd, I do absolutely know this:
Unix Philosophy is wonderful.. but systemd isn't the first, or biggest violator. Everything in Linux violates that philosophy to a degree. I mean, have you ever checked the man page for ls? (5 pages) mail? (10 pages) Or my god, ssh? (16 pages
Let's all stop using "unix philosophy" as a method to decide a piece of software is bad, because 99% of the software we DO like is already violating it. Let's not make it look like we're using it as a "tool to make a decision," when in reality we're using it as a "source to reinforce our already-made-up decisions."
This article feels pretty light on the details. I'd find more details in my "making of Jurassic Park" book I got as a child. All it says is different people work on different stuff and they used physical models to figure out how to model some physics in the digitally version.
I mean using a stand-in, instead of a tennis ball for actors to interact with? Did Lord of The Rings never happen?
Yeah, and then people would be calling Slashdot racist/sexist for not having the right ethnicity/transgender emojis. I mean holy shit, that actually happened. You give a wolf a bone and he rips your nuts off.
Yeah, people forget the 'u' really stood for "micro" torrent. It was tiny, it did what it was supposed to, and that's it. It's slowly become more and more of a monster, but you could at least disable the ad bars in the advanced settings. I refused to upgrade to the newer versions, and it looks like that was a good thing.
The government never follows the law when it involves protecting people's civil liberties. Why the fuck should it follow the law when it audits itself or its contractors? Are contractors unable to pass secrets to foreign governments?
This is hilarious. Every day slashdotters either complain that it's *obvious* we need less regulation. And in a separate thread, it's *obvious* we need more regulation.
Let's assume the inner ear thing is a real problem, and it's the only problem.
There's two sides to that:
1) Sure, if you can desensitize yourself, that's certainly easier than changing people's ears, or finding hardware to do it.
2) Most people won't try new technology that also makes them sick. People don't like to work for entertainment. Astronauts are heroes going into space. Grandma would already rather read a book. So until they solve that issue, they'll need a hugely disproportionate amount of PR/cultural draw to get people involved. They'll have to target kids who don't mind puking to learn something new. Even then, they won't get everyone on-board because puking is a line most people won't cross for anything. Think of how many people never ride roller-coasters. That's untappable money. So solving that issue is extremely important for the future of their business.
>In personal testimonies about their work made available to McClatchy, veterans of the unit described pervasive and unfettered intrusion into the private lives of ordinary Palestinians, including use of information about sexual preferences and medical conditions to coerce people into becoming informers.
Do enjoy being put in your place? Or are you going to backpedal and say, "Oh, that's just Israel. They only work with the NSA. The NSA wouldn't stoop to that level."
You are not using logic. You only think you are. In actuality, you are cherry-picking to discredit him to fulfill your own bias. If you actually gave a shit about him, you'd read through his other posts, not just a simple click of his signature.
In short, using someone's religion or other personal choices to detract from their words is the act of a petty, scared individual, incapable of debating in professional terms. You might as well be deriding a programmer for being gay, or a woman. Rewrite your post using one of them, and you clearly come off as a bigot.
It's using information to garner a public lynching response. Just because the information exists somewhere public doesn't mean it's not doxxing. My drivers license is public information. But if you put it next to a "guy flips old lady the bird" video on YouTube, you are inciting a public response. You are conveniently linking data to the emotional information that would incite someone to act.
But that's just like, uh, my opinion man. So feel free to disagree.
While I pragmatically agree, it is not Seagate's fault nor burden to take care of companies that don't treat their data as important. In the same way, it's not a clothes-washer company's fault if you never change the lint trap and it catches on fire. (causing 15K fires a year in the US)
There are clear, defined, industry standard ways to use a product and if you refuse to do so because you are a cheap and lazy, the ramifications are solely your own.
Can't afford to replace large hard drives? Get smaller ones, or play the game of data roulette.
They don't realize that even if they drew some people in, they did PR damage to the rest of the populace. And THOSE future buyers are MORE inclined to never U2 album. They have destroyed part of their possible market place.
This is like in politics where you do something insane to get more die-hard conservatives on your side, but you alienate both the democrats and more importantly, the moderates! You've damaged your ability to attract more sales in the future, by playing dirty to get sales in the present.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm behind 7 proxies, but I'm in Florida and all it says is:
"California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To [Redacted]"
What's it say? Is it Obama? I knew he caused it. I saw my state representative on Fox last night and he said it was Obama.
Except you have very tiny eyes.
Are you completely unfamiliar with liberal's modern tactic of trying to get anyone they disagree with fired? By calling anyone they disagree with a bigot?
How can there be freedom of speech when your means to provide for yourself might be attacked? Fear is their tactic for forcing self-censorship. Instead of debating your ideals on equal grounds, they try to get you thrown onto the street. Why? Because they can't defend their values on equal grounds because they're fucking domestic terrorists.
Remember the ESA scientist with the "oppressive" shirt? The shy, introverted guy who contributed to space history who they made cry on national television because they convinced him he was sexist? Is that the kind of freedom of speech you want to live in? You may agree with everything they've done. But I ask you this: How long before they come for you?
>What you call self-censorship I would call being civil.
And what you call being civil, I call "having respect for each other."
We live in a world that has zero respect for each other and instead of treating that toxicity, we're regulating what can and cannot be said in order to provide a feel good, politically correct, layer of bullshit on the top. It's a soccer mom society with all of the behind-the-scenes backstabbing, jealousy, and hatred still going on. The home is full of hatred, but at least the lawn looks nice!
Look at Hollywood. They still hire black people. They still fill them into specific, black roles. They just can't call it that anymore. So they use whitewash acceptable words to find them. The underlying problem of "use black people to do stereotypical black people things" has not changed. It has only made them more sneaky in how they go about it.
By treating the symptom and not the issues causing those symptoms, we're all getting more and more bitter with each other. And as a consequence of us not treating the problems, eventually some people snap. And what do we do? We shame them or toss them in jail as if they're some form of anomaly and not the clear result of culture that spends all its effort looking like it cares instead of actually caring.
This is another branch of the same tree that gave us homeless elimination programs where we kicked all those nasty homeless people out of our cities. Tossed them in jails. Pushed them into other cities. As long as we didn't have to look at the mentally-disabled people, we won't feel bad anymore, and we won't have to deal with the fact our system, our culture, and our individual actions all contributed to those people becoming destitute.
I was discussing with a co-worker that many companies are now allowing people to bring their dogs in. Dogs give a clear, scientifically backed reduction in stress. Dogs also help many handicapped people deal with anxiety problems and panic attacks. (I personally know people who they help significantly.) Meanwhile, this guy has dog allergies and he said it would be intolerant for someone to bring a dog around him.
So, how about instead of a system of "I'm more handicapped then you, and I get my way", we actually just respect for each other? I don't bring my dog around you, and you don't ban me from having a dog that helps me. We work together to come to a compromise that benefits both of us based on our mutual respect for each other.
No amount of HR laws are going to be able to accomplish what I just described. Because without respect, there would be power grabs, and back stabbing using the HR system (we've all seen it happen.). Laws of conduct cannot regulate respect. You don't use a band-aid to fix someone's kidney. You don't use laws to make people respect each other.
Plenty of old people act like petty children.
There's a term for XP: It's called "Fisher Price windows" and I'm happy those days are dead.
While I am not qualified to discuss the merits of systemd, I do absolutely know this:
Unix Philosophy is wonderful.. but systemd isn't the first, or biggest violator. Everything in Linux violates that philosophy to a degree. I mean, have you ever checked the man page for ls? (5 pages) mail? (10 pages) Or my god, ssh? (16 pages
Let's all stop using "unix philosophy" as a method to decide a piece of software is bad, because 99% of the software we DO like is already violating it. Let's not make it look like we're using it as a "tool to make a decision," when in reality we're using it as a "source to reinforce our already-made-up decisions."
This article feels pretty light on the details. I'd find more details in my "making of Jurassic Park" book I got as a child. All it says is different people work on different stuff and they used physical models to figure out how to model some physics in the digitally version.
I mean using a stand-in, instead of a tennis ball for actors to interact with? Did Lord of The Rings never happen?
When you're not the one paying the power bill, anything above 0% is worth it.
Yeah, and then people would be calling Slashdot racist/sexist for not having the right ethnicity/transgender emojis. I mean holy shit, that actually happened. You give a wolf a bone and he rips your nuts off.
Yeah, people forget the 'u' really stood for "micro" torrent. It was tiny, it did what it was supposed to, and that's it. It's slowly become more and more of a monster, but you could at least disable the ad bars in the advanced settings. I refused to upgrade to the newer versions, and it looks like that was a good thing.
The government never follows the law when it involves protecting people's civil liberties. Why the fuck should it follow the law when it audits itself or its contractors? Are contractors unable to pass secrets to foreign governments?
>We need regulation....
This is hilarious. Every day slashdotters either complain that it's *obvious* we need less regulation. And in a separate thread, it's *obvious* we need more regulation.
Let's assume the inner ear thing is a real problem, and it's the only problem.
There's two sides to that:
1) Sure, if you can desensitize yourself, that's certainly easier than changing people's ears, or finding hardware to do it.
2) Most people won't try new technology that also makes them sick. People don't like to work for entertainment. Astronauts are heroes going into space. Grandma would already rather read a book. So until they solve that issue, they'll need a hugely disproportionate amount of PR/cultural draw to get people involved. They'll have to target kids who don't mind puking to learn something new. Even then, they won't get everyone on-board because puking is a line most people won't cross for anything. Think of how many people never ride roller-coasters. That's untappable money. So solving that issue is extremely important for the future of their business.
What do they do when they're training for those trips? Does the vomit comet last 30 days in a single dive?
>Would you like me to start up Starfox 3d pre-alpha?"
Don't you dare joke about that!
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201...
>In personal testimonies about their work made available to McClatchy, veterans of the unit described pervasive and unfettered intrusion into the private lives of ordinary Palestinians, including use of information about sexual preferences and medical conditions to coerce people into becoming informers.
Do enjoy being put in your place? Or are you going to backpedal and say, "Oh, that's just Israel. They only work with the NSA. The NSA wouldn't stoop to that level."
Imagine a beowolf cluster of those things!
/relatively_low_effort_joke
I can't believe you!
Any time a headline ends with a question mark, the answer is a resounding "No."
You are not using logic. You only think you are. In actuality, you are cherry-picking to discredit him to fulfill your own bias. If you actually gave a shit about him, you'd read through his other posts, not just a simple click of his signature.
In short, using someone's religion or other personal choices to detract from their words is the act of a petty, scared individual, incapable of debating in professional terms. You might as well be deriding a programmer for being gay, or a woman. Rewrite your post using one of them, and you clearly come off as a bigot.
It's using information to garner a public lynching response. Just because the information exists somewhere public doesn't mean it's not doxxing. My drivers license is public information. But if you put it next to a "guy flips old lady the bird" video on YouTube, you are inciting a public response. You are conveniently linking data to the emotional information that would incite someone to act.
But that's just like, uh, my opinion man. So feel free to disagree.
>Google [...] Ads injected into phone calls and/or even more blatant spying on our conversations?
I think you mispronounced "Samsung."
While I pragmatically agree, it is not Seagate's fault nor burden to take care of companies that don't treat their data as important. In the same way, it's not a clothes-washer company's fault if you never change the lint trap and it catches on fire. (causing 15K fires a year in the US)
There are clear, defined, industry standard ways to use a product and if you refuse to do so because you are a cheap and lazy, the ramifications are solely your own.
Can't afford to replace large hard drives? Get smaller ones, or play the game of data roulette.
Hows that write your representatives, organize, and protest working out? How'd running for congress work out?
Oh wait, you didn't do any of those things. I wonder why they don't care.
They don't realize that even if they drew some people in, they did PR damage to the rest of the populace. And THOSE future buyers are MORE inclined to never U2 album. They have destroyed part of their possible market place.
This is like in politics where you do something insane to get more die-hard conservatives on your side, but you alienate both the democrats and more importantly, the moderates! You've damaged your ability to attract more sales in the future, by playing dirty to get sales in the present.