This is a good reminder that you shouldn't put much faith in the claims made by service providers.
From PureVPN provider's privacy policy (linked in TFS):
"Our servers automatically record the time at which you connect to any of our servers. From here on forward, we do not keep any records of anything that could associate any specific activity to a specific user. The time when a successful connection is made with our servers is counted as a “connection” and the total bandwidth used during this connection is called “bandwidth”. Connection and bandwidth are kept in record to maintain the quality of our service."
These connection logs are what law enforcement used, in conjunction with information pulled from the creep's work computer and from logs obtained from Google (Gmail) and others.
When you choose to remove backward compatibility, those of us who've been using perl for a while basically will (or at least should) evaluate our need for a new language from scratch. And, compared to other languages (e.g. python, php) perl 6 has several strikes against it - two big ones being the lack of an installed base and the relatively small number of fellow coders.
People who haven't already used perl in the past will likely not be inclined to try perl 6; and not everyone who's written perl to this point will choose to pick perl 6 as their "new" language going forward. Speaking only for myself, I've got a fair bit of existing perl 5 code, which will be maintained or upgraded as perl 5... and going forward I'll probably pick something other than perl 6 for new work.
Who cares if crowdfunding projects meet some academic definition of "innovation"?
Since it's voluntary, I certainly don't care. But it is still interesting academically, and perhaps useful when examining the phenomenon for other reasons (such as trying to detect and/or prevent abuses of the system).
To my non-expert eye, it seems apparent the average person is as bad at picking crowdfunding winners as he is at managing his own finances. And I'm sometimes amazed at the (in my mind) garbage some people are willing to throw money at. I think if there's a problem, it's at least in part because people may not really understand what crowdfunding is - you're not an investor, for example.
I have been doing that for years for the oldsters in our family on 50$ tablets, so they can text and phone for free all around the house.
You've (probably unintentionally) pointed out something which works against the premise of the submission itself.
Cheap Android tablets have been around for years - this is not new, and they haven't "bridged the digital divide" up to this point.
The people who buy these sorts of devices seem to be middle class and up. $50-$100 is the "I can give a cheap tablet to each of the kids without going nuts if they break them" price range.
People outside academia really need to stop upvoting these kind of ignorant comments.
I am in academia, although no longer involved with research. And you’re missing the point.
Many people here are talking about these publishers as if they add no value to the system. However, fair or not, they currently are responsible for at least some of the points a faculty member earns towards tenure. As such, it is logical they protect their brand - so preeminent journals like Nature have rules regarding what you can and cannot do with your paper if it’s been accepted for publication.
If you don’t like it, work to change the system. But don’t expect there won’t be some pain involved.
And don’t pretend that peer review isn’t important.
I can't wait until the first time some guy goes to show his friend something he found on Amazon and is greeted with a section "people with erectile disfunction also often buy...".
Technology is not a category in the same sense physics, chemistry, and physiology are.
Yeah, one could just as easily ask
- Why is there no Nobel Prize in Business? - Why is there no Nobel Prize in Conservation? - Why is there no Nobel Prize in Fisheries Management? - Why is there no Nobel Prize in Cuisine?
Is this what Netflix wants, or what the content owners demand?
This would've been a legitimate question five years ago, but not so much any more. Netflix keeps shedding its third-party content in favor of its own, self-produced crap - so "Netflix" and "content owners" are now largely one and the same.
I stopped watching when bones went crazy about how she's so smart so she should be president or that she's so smart that she can be a great leader, all while doing the dumbest, cliche, narcissistic crap possible.
So... you stopped watching after episode 1, I take it?
Here in the Puget Sound area, this Amazon Delivery Service has been a thing for at least a year or two.
Also, I am pretty sure I've seen this same story here on Slashdot at least two previous times over that same period. And, with each story, I've felt compelled to share my experience regarding the suckitude of said service.
No matter how depressed I get, I know I can always count on AC to care enough to call me a faggot. It's the one universal constant of the internet.
It's not like you're special in that regard - just ask creimer.;-)
On another note... I find it ironic and funny there are so many posts under the subject heading "Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left". Whatever we all may think of the ways Slashdot has changed over the past 20 years, it's obvious it's still an important part of many people's online lives.
I'm curious in what way you consider it to be way beyond what Apple offers...
Here's one.
For traffic density, Google uses the same color-coding (green, yellow, red, black) that virtually every other traffic display system uses (and no, Google didn't invent it - the scheme has been around for as long as the web has existed). It's easy to see, at a glance, how busy traffic is ahead.
Apple, for some reason, uses a bizarre assortment of red dots, dashes, and lines for this purpose. And, when the traffic gets really bad, the red gets slightly darker. It's worthless at a glance, and still close to worthless even when you have the luxury of staring at it for a few minutes.
I have to admit, with the direction that Microsoft and Google are going, that Apple is getting more and more attractive every day.
Funny thing is (and I say this as a Mac user since 2003) - as Apple takes a privacy stance which appeals to the technologically literate, they simultaneously seem to be designing their laptops to be less useful to that same group.
10-15 years ago, there seemed to be a big movement to Apple laptops by Unix sysadmin / programmer types. I believe that was part of the reason interest in Apple laptops started to take off among the young college crowd.
Maybe they think laptops are dying as a business... but they sure seem to be squandering the technical fan base they once held.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that I like quite a bit. I've always liked Mac keyboards (well... until post 2015), I like having a variety of ports, it runs Unix, it's nice and light and has superb battery life (> 10 hours for me).
But that laptop is in the shop right now, and I'm using a late 2016 MacBook Pro... which I really don't like at all. The low-travel keyboard is sub-optimal, the touch bar is just stupid (having a virtual ESC key is asinine!), the lack of an SD card slot is an annoyance, etc.
AND that new MBP seems slower than mine, much of the time! (That could be High Sierra)
So I'm curious - who makes nice Linux/BSD-friendly laptops which are at least marginally like my 2015 MacBook Pro? And by that I mean reasonably light, good keyboard, 13"-ish form factor with lots of ports, a nice screen, good battery life, and functional wifi? My current Mac should be good for several more years; but when it dies, it sure seems like I won't want to get whatever crippled Mac has sprung from the Mind of Ive.
You're right that it's different, but there's also an issue with the main character that bugs me which is that she's got a way too broad range of skills based on the first episodes.
This was the problem I had with Voyager as well. I thought Kate Mulgrew did a good acting job with the role was given; but the writers seemed a little too hell-bent on making her the master genius of every discipline known to human-kind.
To be fair, as the show progressed they seemed to move away from that a little bit.
I thought that the majority of Slashdot users decided that they weren't going to watch this show when they made it exclusive to CBS's new streaming service?
I've been reading the posts here, and to this point the majority of them aren't related to the new show at all... so I see no conflict.
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This is a good reminder that you shouldn't put much faith in the claims made by service providers.
From PureVPN provider's privacy policy (linked in TFS):
"Our servers automatically record the time at which you connect to any of our servers. From here on forward, we do not keep any records of anything that could associate any specific activity to a specific user. The time when a successful connection is made with our servers is counted as a “connection” and the total bandwidth used during this connection is called “bandwidth”. Connection and bandwidth are kept in record to maintain the quality of our service."
These connection logs are what law enforcement used, in conjunction with information pulled from the creep's work computer and from logs obtained from Google (Gmail) and others.
I'm not feeling the outrage.
... is to leave such privacy-invading devices unpurchased at the store.
When you choose to remove backward compatibility, those of us who've been using perl for a while basically will (or at least should) evaluate our need for a new language from scratch. And, compared to other languages (e.g. python, php) perl 6 has several strikes against it - two big ones being the lack of an installed base and the relatively small number of fellow coders.
People who haven't already used perl in the past will likely not be inclined to try perl 6; and not everyone who's written perl to this point will choose to pick perl 6 as their "new" language going forward. Speaking only for myself, I've got a fair bit of existing perl 5 code, which will be maintained or upgraded as perl 5... and going forward I'll probably pick something other than perl 6 for new work.
Who cares if crowdfunding projects meet some academic definition of "innovation"?
Since it's voluntary, I certainly don't care. But it is still interesting academically, and perhaps useful when examining the phenomenon for other reasons (such as trying to detect and/or prevent abuses of the system).
To my non-expert eye, it seems apparent the average person is as bad at picking crowdfunding winners as he is at managing his own finances. And I'm sometimes amazed at the (in my mind) garbage some people are willing to throw money at. I think if there's a problem, it's at least in part because people may not really understand what crowdfunding is - you're not an investor, for example.
I have been doing that for years for the oldsters in our family on 50$ tablets, so they can text and phone for free all around the house.
You've (probably unintentionally) pointed out something which works against the premise of the submission itself.
Cheap Android tablets have been around for years - this is not new, and they haven't "bridged the digital divide" up to this point.
The people who buy these sorts of devices seem to be middle class and up. $50-$100 is the "I can give a cheap tablet to each of the kids without going nuts if they break them" price range.
People outside academia really need to stop upvoting these kind of ignorant comments.
I am in academia, although no longer involved with research. And you’re missing the point.
Many people here are talking about these publishers as if they add no value to the system. However, fair or not, they currently are responsible for at least some of the points a faculty member earns towards tenure. As such, it is logical they protect their brand - so preeminent journals like Nature have rules regarding what you can and cannot do with your paper if it’s been accepted for publication.
If you don’t like it, work to change the system. But don’t expect there won’t be some pain involved.
And don’t pretend that peer review isn’t important.
The plural of "anonymous anecdote" is... more than one anonymous anecdote.
So stop publishing your papers in journals owned or controlled by Elsevier, Wiley, ACS, Brill, and Wolters Kluwer - problem solved.
Military dude has two phones: personal and official.
If this happened in December, he did not have an official phone at that time.
I can't wait until the first time some guy goes to show his friend something he found on Amazon and is greeted with a section "people with erectile disfunction also often buy...".
And, technically speaking, it is not a Nobel Prize.
Technology is not a category in the same sense physics, chemistry, and physiology are.
Yeah, one could just as easily ask
- Why is there no Nobel Prize in Business?
- Why is there no Nobel Prize in Conservation?
- Why is there no Nobel Prize in Fisheries Management?
- Why is there no Nobel Prize in Cuisine?
Is this what Netflix wants, or what the content owners demand?
This would've been a legitimate question five years ago, but not so much any more. Netflix keeps shedding its third-party content in favor of its own, self-produced crap - so "Netflix" and "content owners" are now largely one and the same.
I stopped watching when bones went crazy about how she's so smart so she should be president or that she's so smart that she can be a great leader, all while doing the dumbest, cliche, narcissistic crap possible.
So... you stopped watching after episode 1, I take it?
Here in the Puget Sound area, this Amazon Delivery Service has been a thing for at least a year or two.
Also, I am pretty sure I've seen this same story here on Slashdot at least two previous times over that same period. And, with each story, I've felt compelled to share my experience regarding the suckitude of said service.
No matter how depressed I get, I know I can always count on AC to care enough to call me a faggot. It's the one universal constant of the internet.
It's not like you're special in that regard - just ask creimer. ;-)
On another note... I find it ironic and funny there are so many posts under the subject heading "Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left". Whatever we all may think of the ways Slashdot has changed over the past 20 years, it's obvious it's still an important part of many people's online lives.
Makes it easier to clear your calendar.
I'm curious in what way you consider it to be way beyond what Apple offers...
Here's one.
For traffic density, Google uses the same color-coding (green, yellow, red, black) that virtually every other traffic display system uses (and no, Google didn't invent it - the scheme has been around for as long as the web has existed). It's easy to see, at a glance, how busy traffic is ahead.
Apple, for some reason, uses a bizarre assortment of red dots, dashes, and lines for this purpose. And, when the traffic gets really bad, the red gets slightly darker. It's worthless at a glance, and still close to worthless even when you have the luxury of staring at it for a few minutes.
I have to admit, with the direction that Microsoft and Google are going, that Apple is getting more and more attractive every day.
Funny thing is (and I say this as a Mac user since 2003) - as Apple takes a privacy stance which appeals to the technologically literate, they simultaneously seem to be designing their laptops to be less useful to that same group.
10-15 years ago, there seemed to be a big movement to Apple laptops by Unix sysadmin / programmer types. I believe that was part of the reason interest in Apple laptops started to take off among the young college crowd.
Maybe they think laptops are dying as a business... but they sure seem to be squandering the technical fan base they once held.
That's a pretty clever work-around.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that I like quite a bit. I've always liked Mac keyboards (well... until post 2015), I like having a variety of ports, it runs Unix, it's nice and light and has superb battery life (> 10 hours for me).
But that laptop is in the shop right now, and I'm using a late 2016 MacBook Pro... which I really don't like at all. The low-travel keyboard is sub-optimal, the touch bar is just stupid (having a virtual ESC key is asinine!), the lack of an SD card slot is an annoyance, etc.
AND that new MBP seems slower than mine, much of the time! (That could be High Sierra)
So I'm curious - who makes nice Linux/BSD-friendly laptops which are at least marginally like my 2015 MacBook Pro? And by that I mean reasonably light, good keyboard, 13"-ish form factor with lots of ports, a nice screen, good battery life, and functional wifi? My current Mac should be good for several more years; but when it dies, it sure seems like I won't want to get whatever crippled Mac has sprung from the Mind of Ive.
You're right that it's different, but there's also an issue with the main character that bugs me which is that she's got a way too broad range of skills based on the first episodes.
This was the problem I had with Voyager as well. I thought Kate Mulgrew did a good acting job with the role was given; but the writers seemed a little too hell-bent on making her the master genius of every discipline known to human-kind.
To be fair, as the show progressed they seemed to move away from that a little bit.
I thought that the majority of Slashdot users decided that they weren't going to watch this show when they made it exclusive to CBS's new streaming service?
I've been reading the posts here, and to this point the majority of them aren't related to the new show at all... so I see no conflict.
The Bajorans run GNU/HURD.
Good to hear it'll finally be ready in the 2300's.
Oh, and they even introduced their own overpriced Bluetooth earbuds for $159!