Trump (really Bannon, Trump's just the mouth piece) managed to make racism OK again. I'll Let that one sink in...
Actually, it started long before those two hit the stage with any power.
See, there is an old story about a boy, and a possibly fictitious wolf...
The way to understand why this happened, is to go take your mirror off the wall, put it on the floor in a well lit room, take off your pants, and slowly sit on it while closely looking at the mirror. Nobody cares anymore about what you think is "racism" because you said it about everybody and everything. Which is probably the case with your opinion here too. But, even if you WERE right, still, nobody cares, because you already used up your ability to actually accurately call someone out.
You should try something else to bleat your horn about. (Hey, how about actual valid criticism on actual actions?!? nah, you can't find none of that)
I have been smiling my way through this entire bitch fest of a thread wondering about all the wonderful ads I have missed and had know idea they existed.
There's a file set maintained by some hobbyist (not our famous slashdot spammer) that provides a HOSTS file for you to drop into your operating system. Another option is running your own DNS and getting one of the "block by domain" tools. I see a few ads on facebook that are fed directly from their servers, but all google tracking, all ads (including inline on youtube) and everything else is blocked and the requests for them never leave my computer.
Some day, they'll figure out how to stop what I am doing. Until then, no ads for me!
Also note, I get almost zero drive by browser attacks even on risky sites with this. It's much more secure browsing too.
The students sued because the lectures were not available in a suitable format to meet the requirements of the ADA. The university had two choices - spend all kinds of money to make them available meeting the requirements of the ADA, or take them down. The law of unintended consequences at work. The ADA is a good thing, until you go ape shit with it.
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One minor correction. The students DIDNT sue. Some fucking ambulance chaser bottom feeder lawyer sued.
The students were just used as the "injured party."
There's all kinds of that shit going on now all over, the financial industry is getting hit too. Threat letters and demands for settlement because some site is not compliant with the ADA in context of NO requirement to be ADA compliant. (Usually ADA compliance means WCAG 2.0 but of course, since there's no governing body then it might not be good enough.)
Having the content in a web site be accessible is good. Using it not be so to pad the pockets of some scum-sucking lawyer is not.
A bit more? It's like comparing a rowboat to an ocean linear.
How do those tables work in a responsive layout? How much mark up do you need to create a table layout vs the same thing with a CSS grid layout? Is the table layout completely independent from it's content?
It's not that structuring things in a way that was similar to a table was a problem, it's that tables were woefully inadequate. That lead people to using floats, which were really meant for having text float around images. Now we have flexbox for general content and grids for overall page construction. With these tools, the web might be mature enough that we don't need a whole new system every 5 years.
I used to be a table layout expert. Learned all the tricks. That was OK when we had 1024x768 monitors all over and nobody had a wide aspect ratio screen.
Then switched to CSS, and I see the GP's point, the relativism makes some aspects a bit harder. CSS and DIVs are harder and about the same layout-wise.
Then I went and tried to make a table layout site ADA compliant (just Section 508, not the newer standards) and realized the table layout methods need to die permanently.
Netflix and Amazon Prime have fuck all content. Both libraries are shrinking as they throw money into their own shows instead of renting it from content owners. What they offer is good enough to be superior to live TV and incessant fucking adverts, but it's way too small a selection unless you've not seen anything for over a decade.
Meh.
I watch random stuff. Amazon Prime Video keeps me occupied enough with what is there to suit my purposes.
Just recently I went back and watched all three seasons of the original Star Trek, Generation Kill, and Band of Brothers.
None of those would even get a second glance if I had to pay for them directly.
Yes, if you want the latest X-men dreck then you might be disappointed. But as an alternative to channel surfing or Youtube it works great.
Google will fail to finish it or pull it out of beta and will drop the project with 2 months warning at some random time between 1 and 4 years in the future.
Stop relying on your ISP for DNS. Use open DNS' servers or even Google's at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and the DNS searching thing is no more.
In this case, you are replacing Google tracking your DNS lookups (and possibly your ISP if they care to look at the traffic passing) with what your ISP was doing with your mistaken typos to non-existent domains.
One may be better than the other, but don't be thinking you are avoiding tracking doing it.
"Correlating and evaluating intelligence related to the national security.."
Bobs hacked Samsung TV is not a national security issue. Its not the CIA's job to worry about the fact that someone could possibly compromise your smart phone revealing all your most sensitive dick picks. The CIA holds on to vulnerabilities like these to do little insignificant things like hacking the NK nuclear missile programs stalling a potential international conflict, hacking Iranian nuke programs, thwarting terrorist bombings by interception of communications, destabilizing foreign nations that are apposed to your existence, etc.. But I'm sure your dick pics should be their top priority.
Seems like the timing of this might be related to the information released by WikiLeaks about what the CIA has been doing. Being able to get into just about any mobile or IoT device for example.
It's more likely that the widespread changes to data access that were made shortly before the inauguration allowed this leak. Raw data was shared for reasons that are speculated to be "cause more leaks," for political reasons obviously.
It's unfortunate that now we are going to see a bunch of not politically relevant leaks no matter what "side" you are on too, some will be damaging to foreign policy and safety of the Western World.
Some leaks will still be about the two political parties. Some will be ordinary "get paid to sell secrets" type. Probably the majority of them in fact.
The US is going to continue to bleed secret data of all types. Maybe we'll get a photo of the new stealth bomber and find out what kind of aliens are at area 51... but the Chinese are also going to make leaps and bounds that will quickly become a worldwide military problem.
The world is getting more right-wing. Soon you'll be hearing about people who are kind of like Yuppies, but not exactly, and hear things like, "Greed is Good." And basic income will be lost in the noise. As soon as people realize Trump is not Hitler (a low bar, to be sure) they're going to flock to his side. It's like a game of football: the winners of the superbowl become super popular.
Watch it happen.
Trump doesn't even have to be appealing in any way for this to happen.
Take a look at the two top DNC folks now, who are "the leaders" of what the democrats will be doing. Tom Perez Chairman, Keith Ellison vice-Chair. Google these guys and what they have been doing their entire lives, and compare that to what the "centrist" base of the democratic party might want.
The dems are DOOMED if they can't get control of their radical communist/progressive ideas.
Yeah, right. Most of the money is in government contracts, which the NRA doesn't give a damn about. Sales to civilians amounts to less than Bloomberg's bedside change drawer.
Uhmmmm... no.
A few gun manufacturers do sell more to military and police contracts (Berretta, Glock, Sig) most others don't And those that do sell like that, still have huge private sales.
Look up the numbers some time, some states field the largest standing army on the planet during the deer hunting season. Since the 90's when the last bs number was created, the 350 million or so "firearms in the US" number has gone up by half, or a million per month. The US has somewhere between 500 million and 750 million legally owned firearms in civilian hands.
Only a very small fraction of those firearms are being used in crime.... the stats that all the other nations like to be horrified about.
The only way that makes you safer is because statistically you will be shot with your own weapon and either end up nice and safe in hospital, or a hole in the ground permanently safe from harm.
What do those stats look like when the suicides are removed?
Never mind, I'll tell you, if you ARENT suicidal and you have firearm, it goes back to being much more dangerous to bad guys.
Happens quite a lot, even thou you don't want to believe it does:
And then there's the fact that brandishing is illegal, so all the times when someone shows someone that they have a gun and stop a crime without even having to point it at the aggressor go unreported. As well, of course, as the times when they do aim, but don't shoot.
"Brandishing" is illegal. This is what brandishing is: "display, indication or threat of use of a weapon for unlawful intimidation purposes"
Pulling a firearm out because two thugs flanked your car while you try to pump gas is not brandishing, and it's not illegal. Removing a pistol from a concealment holster and holding it pointed at the ground is legit self defense in the face of that kind of threat.
There are unreported defensive uses of firearms, quite a few actually if you believe the NRA, generally it's because well there wasn't much of an incident and what is there to say? The thugs will almost never report it, as the police are likely to know what they are and what they were up to or they have warrants already.
I know this stuff is outside your idiom, but would it really be such a burden to actually learn a few of the utmost basics on the topic before shooting your mouth off? It seems like that's the only thing you do here, shoot your mouth off.
Sorry, but if someone walks up and shoots you Chicago style, it doesn't matter if you're armed.
Handguns, especially in the calibers illegally carried by Chicago's typical ruffian are notoriously bad at actually killing the target. Likewise, a handgun isn't by any means a guaranteed hit to center of mass if it's more than a couple of yards away.
"The victim has no chance to use their own gun" displays a massive amount of ignorance on handguns and their typical effectiveness.
Why did he take NASA issued equipment out the US? What if another country did the same search?
And then went to a foreign country to hang out with a bunch of other people from all over the world (some of whom, may come from countries that would like to steal that data).
I am not sure I blame the border security folks for thinking they should look at the phone. His situation is RIPE for being espionage or a victim of same.
Getting pissy about the "secret data" when he's on the way back IN the country but taking it out without a care in the world about it? No sympathy here.
Right - just like how secretaries don't have a sexual harassment claim unless the boss locked the exit door before pressuring them into sex. They can always quit!
Was sexual harassment in the job description? Chances are, the folks at MS had at least some clue what they were getting into, even if during the training.
If you are going to have a panty-clutching pearl-waste response to something, at least do it right. That shit above, was a pathetic effort.
The only people dumber than the ones who built this reactor are the ones who want to build thousands of untested reactors all around the world. Tell me, do you have a ready-made list of excuses when design and construction flaws are exposed, and will you have a fall-back position?
Dumb people can't build reactors.
There will never be "thousands" of reactors.
"untested" is a completely false supposition and makes your scare-mongering look even stupider.
You don't know the first thing about this stuff do you? Does your mommy know you are at the computer?
I refuse to accept the we will be as ignorant in 100 years as we are today. We've already learnt that nuclear power plants are a stupid idea. Why would we build more?
That KIND of nuclear plants are not a good idea.
There are significantly safer and more efficient designs now. A trend that's likely to continue.
Also, if you don't drink a quart of vodka before your shift and then go play with the pretty dials and lights, all reactors new generation and old generation are much safer.
We could easily have fission and fusion reactors safe enough for every street corner in the future.
The emails that prove this are available for public view on Wikileaks. There are a number of blogs that will direct you to links of the interesting ones.
Indeed. If slashdot is going to venture out of tech space, at least they could do is stick to science. This is just a dumbed down scaremonger piece. It has no place in scientific discussion. (other than maybe to point out what is NOT science)
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Trump (really Bannon, Trump's just the mouth piece) managed to make racism OK again. I'll Let that one sink in...
Actually, it started long before those two hit the stage with any power.
See, there is an old story about a boy, and a possibly fictitious wolf...
The way to understand why this happened, is to go take your mirror off the wall, put it on the floor in a well lit room, take off your pants, and slowly sit on it while closely looking at the mirror. Nobody cares anymore about what you think is "racism" because you said it about everybody and everything. Which is probably the case with your opinion here too. But, even if you WERE right, still, nobody cares, because you already used up your ability to actually accurately call someone out.
You should try something else to bleat your horn about. (Hey, how about actual valid criticism on actual actions?!? nah, you can't find none of that)
Or use a HOSTS file ad blocker.
I have been smiling my way through this entire bitch fest of a thread wondering about all the wonderful ads I have missed and had know idea they existed.
There's a file set maintained by some hobbyist (not our famous slashdot spammer) that provides a HOSTS file for you to drop into your operating system. Another option is running your own DNS and getting one of the "block by domain" tools. I see a few ads on facebook that are fed directly from their servers, but all google tracking, all ads (including inline on youtube) and everything else is blocked and the requests for them never leave my computer.
Some day, they'll figure out how to stop what I am doing. Until then, no ads for me!
Also note, I get almost zero drive by browser attacks even on risky sites with this. It's much more secure browsing too.
The students sued because the lectures were not available in a suitable format to meet the requirements of the ADA. The university had two choices - spend all kinds of money to make them available meeting the requirements of the ADA, or take them down. The law of unintended consequences at work. The ADA is a good thing, until you go ape shit with it.
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One minor correction. The students DIDNT sue. Some fucking ambulance chaser bottom feeder lawyer sued.
The students were just used as the "injured party."
There's all kinds of that shit going on now all over, the financial industry is getting hit too. Threat letters and demands for settlement because some site is not compliant with the ADA in context of NO requirement to be ADA compliant. (Usually ADA compliance means WCAG 2.0 but of course, since there's no governing body then it might not be good enough.)
Having the content in a web site be accessible is good. Using it not be so to pad the pockets of some scum-sucking lawyer is not.
A bit more? It's like comparing a rowboat to an ocean linear.
How do those tables work in a responsive layout? How much mark up do you need to create a table layout vs the same thing with a CSS grid layout? Is the table layout completely independent from it's content?
It's not that structuring things in a way that was similar to a table was a problem, it's that tables were woefully inadequate. That lead people to using floats, which were really meant for having text float around images. Now we have flexbox for general content and grids for overall page construction. With these tools, the web might be mature enough that we don't need a whole new system every 5 years.
I used to be a table layout expert. Learned all the tricks. That was OK when we had 1024x768 monitors all over and nobody had a wide aspect ratio screen.
Then switched to CSS, and I see the GP's point, the relativism makes some aspects a bit harder. CSS and DIVs are harder and about the same layout-wise.
Then I went and tried to make a table layout site ADA compliant (just Section 508, not the newer standards) and realized the table layout methods need to die permanently.
Netflix and Amazon Prime have fuck all content. Both libraries are shrinking as they throw money into their own shows instead of renting it from content owners. What they offer is good enough to be superior to live TV and incessant fucking adverts, but it's way too small a selection unless you've not seen anything for over a decade.
Meh.
I watch random stuff. Amazon Prime Video keeps me occupied enough with what is there to suit my purposes.
Just recently I went back and watched all three seasons of the original Star Trek, Generation Kill, and Band of Brothers.
None of those would even get a second glance if I had to pay for them directly.
Yes, if you want the latest X-men dreck then you might be disappointed. But as an alternative to channel surfing or Youtube it works great.
Don't worry.
Google will fail to finish it or pull it out of beta and will drop the project with 2 months warning at some random time between 1 and 4 years in the future.
All is well.
Stop relying on your ISP for DNS. Use open DNS' servers or even Google's at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and the DNS searching thing is no more.
In this case, you are replacing Google tracking your DNS lookups (and possibly your ISP if they care to look at the traffic passing) with what your ISP was doing with your mistaken typos to non-existent domains.
One may be better than the other, but don't be thinking you are avoiding tracking doing it.
"Correlating and evaluating intelligence related to the national security.."
Bobs hacked Samsung TV is not a national security issue. Its not the CIA's job to worry about the fact that someone could possibly compromise your smart phone revealing all your most sensitive dick picks. The CIA holds on to vulnerabilities like these to do little insignificant things like hacking the NK nuclear missile programs stalling a potential international conflict, hacking Iranian nuke programs, thwarting terrorist bombings by interception of communications, destabilizing foreign nations that are apposed to your existence, etc.. But I'm sure your dick pics should be their top priority.
You forgot "Spy on opposition candidates"
Seems like the timing of this might be related to the information released by WikiLeaks about what the CIA has been doing. Being able to get into just about any mobile or IoT device for example.
It's more likely that the widespread changes to data access that were made shortly before the inauguration allowed this leak. Raw data was shared for reasons that are speculated to be "cause more leaks," for political reasons obviously.
It's unfortunate that now we are going to see a bunch of not politically relevant leaks no matter what "side" you are on too, some will be damaging to foreign policy and safety of the Western World.
Some leaks will still be about the two political parties. Some will be ordinary "get paid to sell secrets" type. Probably the majority of them in fact.
The US is going to continue to bleed secret data of all types. Maybe we'll get a photo of the new stealth bomber and find out what kind of aliens are at area 51... but the Chinese are also going to make leaps and bounds that will quickly become a worldwide military problem.
The world is getting more right-wing. Soon you'll be hearing about people who are kind of like Yuppies, but not exactly, and hear things like, "Greed is Good." And basic income will be lost in the noise. As soon as people realize Trump is not Hitler (a low bar, to be sure) they're going to flock to his side. It's like a game of football: the winners of the superbowl become super popular. Watch it happen.
Trump doesn't even have to be appealing in any way for this to happen.
Take a look at the two top DNC folks now, who are "the leaders" of what the democrats will be doing. Tom Perez Chairman, Keith Ellison vice-Chair. Google these guys and what they have been doing their entire lives, and compare that to what the "centrist" base of the democratic party might want.
The dems are DOOMED if they can't get control of their radical communist/progressive ideas.
Yeah, right. Most of the money is in government contracts, which the NRA doesn't give a damn about. Sales to civilians amounts to less than Bloomberg's bedside change drawer.
Uhmmmm... no.
A few gun manufacturers do sell more to military and police contracts (Berretta, Glock, Sig) most others don't And those that do sell like that, still have huge private sales.
Look up the numbers some time, some states field the largest standing army on the planet during the deer hunting season. Since the 90's when the last bs number was created, the 350 million or so "firearms in the US" number has gone up by half, or a million per month. The US has somewhere between 500 million and 750 million legally owned firearms in civilian hands.
Only a very small fraction of those firearms are being used in crime.... the stats that all the other nations like to be horrified about.
The only way that makes you safer is because statistically you will be shot with your own weapon and either end up nice and safe in hospital, or a hole in the ground permanently safe from harm.
What do those stats look like when the suicides are removed?
Never mind, I'll tell you, if you ARENT suicidal and you have firearm, it goes back to being much more dangerous to bad guys.
Happens quite a lot, even thou you don't want to believe it does:
And then there's the fact that brandishing is illegal, so all the times when someone shows someone that they have a gun and stop a crime without even having to point it at the aggressor go unreported. As well, of course, as the times when they do aim, but don't shoot.
"Brandishing" is illegal. This is what brandishing is: "display, indication or threat of use of a weapon for unlawful intimidation purposes"
Pulling a firearm out because two thugs flanked your car while you try to pump gas is not brandishing, and it's not illegal. Removing a pistol from a concealment holster and holding it pointed at the ground is legit self defense in the face of that kind of threat.
There are unreported defensive uses of firearms, quite a few actually if you believe the NRA, generally it's because well there wasn't much of an incident and what is there to say? The thugs will almost never report it, as the police are likely to know what they are and what they were up to or they have warrants already.
I know this stuff is outside your idiom, but would it really be such a burden to actually learn a few of the utmost basics on the topic before shooting your mouth off? It seems like that's the only thing you do here, shoot your mouth off.
Sorry, but if someone walks up and shoots you Chicago style, it doesn't matter if you're armed.
Handguns, especially in the calibers illegally carried by Chicago's typical ruffian are notoriously bad at actually killing the target. Likewise, a handgun isn't by any means a guaranteed hit to center of mass if it's more than a couple of yards away.
"The victim has no chance to use their own gun" displays a massive amount of ignorance on handguns and their typical effectiveness.
Yup.
There are even seminars on how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
These interviewing techniques seem to be geared toward the eidetic memory or brute-force memorization crowd common in the H1-B type worker.
Deliberately designed to make "qualified applicants" rare in the less-apt to take a low salary section of applicants.
The folks that memorized programming technique books will sail right through these questions.
Why did he take NASA issued equipment out the US? What if another country did the same search?
And then went to a foreign country to hang out with a bunch of other people from all over the world (some of whom, may come from countries that would like to steal that data).
I am not sure I blame the border security folks for thinking they should look at the phone. His situation is RIPE for being espionage or a victim of same.
Getting pissy about the "secret data" when he's on the way back IN the country but taking it out without a care in the world about it? No sympathy here.
You forgot the pending hydro dam disaster in Oroville, CA happening.... right about now. I hope nobody likes Oroville, Yuba, or Sacramento much.
Right - just like how secretaries don't have a sexual harassment claim unless the boss locked the exit door before pressuring them into sex. They can always quit!
Was sexual harassment in the job description? Chances are, the folks at MS had at least some clue what they were getting into, even if during the training.
If you are going to have a panty-clutching pearl-waste response to something, at least do it right. That shit above, was a pathetic effort.
The only people dumber than the ones who built this reactor are the ones who want to build thousands of untested reactors all around the world. Tell me, do you have a ready-made list of excuses when design and construction flaws are exposed, and will you have a fall-back position?
Dumb people can't build reactors.
There will never be "thousands" of reactors.
"untested" is a completely false supposition and makes your scare-mongering look even stupider.
You don't know the first thing about this stuff do you? Does your mommy know you are at the computer?
I refuse to accept the we will be as ignorant in 100 years as we are today. We've already learnt that nuclear power plants are a stupid idea. Why would we build more?
That KIND of nuclear plants are not a good idea.
There are significantly safer and more efficient designs now. A trend that's likely to continue.
Also, if you don't drink a quart of vodka before your shift and then go play with the pretty dials and lights, all reactors new generation and old generation are much safer.
We could easily have fission and fusion reactors safe enough for every street corner in the future.
Not to mention that Hillary Clinton used the CIA to influence the 2011 Russian elections against Putin's party. This is just payback in kind.
Your statement appears to assume that Russian elections are fair and honest.
Two corrupt wannabe dictators fuck with one another.
The rest of us should go to war over it?
How about we put em both in the Thunderdome and let nature take it's course.
The emails that prove this are available for public view on Wikileaks. There are a number of blogs that will direct you to links of the interesting ones.
If you care to educate yourself, that is.
Indeed. If slashdot is going to venture out of tech space, at least they could do is stick to science. This is just a dumbed down scaremonger piece. It has no place in scientific discussion. (other than maybe to point out what is NOT science)
Yes. But now you know ice isn't just useful for drinks at parties!!