I'll once again point out that no one has never been able to conclude that Facebook advertising even works at all, thanks to recent internal findings from Procter & Gambles. So if basic advertising on Facebook doesn't work, then how exactly do you expect a major election to be swayed by that same mechanism? Since we can't at all prove that anyone has been hacked, then how exactly is 'The Russians' going to do anything?
Now please, tell me exactly how 'The Russians' are going to influence a US presidential election and more importantly: can that influence be explained without bringing up the extreme levels of corruption that took place within the Clinton campaign. Corruption that has been verified already by several third party as well as proven by the fact that the DNC had to fire just about everyone for said corruption.
And that's before we have to have a discussion about recent leaked information about what the CIA can do with spoofing the originals of hacking attempts.
Although for the same of full disclosure we don't have a meme or anything like that directly spells this out in plan terms that this was happening. But what we do have is dozens of news stories from about May last year there it was discovered that unnamed Facebook employers were artificially manipulating the 'Trending' feed for their own political bias. While Facebook did try to denying this happened they still completely and publicly announced that they would change the way trending is down to get tide of that bias.
So far I've only seen the first of the two released episodes . But I have to say, this show is just a mess. It's logically inconsistent constantly, the overall pacing is crap, the lead is so much of a Mary Sue that it's embarrassing (no character should have more than 2 Deus Ex Machina to explain her), the physical affects look like badly lit FarScape, it throws out pretty much all preexisting canon, and it has several points at where they get basic science wrong. Two words: Lightspeed Lag
Now not to be a complete downer... what they got right: Well sadly not a lot. One quite positive thing is that for once ship orientation is a concern. And the actual ship designs do actually look pretty decent. But honestly, that's about all I can give it.
To me: Star Trek really kind of died when Abrams got a hold of it. Discovery was the one real last chance I thought we could give it. But if this is what we should expect then it's time to let the franchise face into memory. Because this show is just crap. And if it gets more season than Enterprise did it'll be a miracle.
If we are getting food in highly secured containers shipped straight to your home can we get a locking refrigerator like in the movie Conspiracy Theory? Because I'd probably into that.
The claim that this hunk of shit get's 1000 miles to a charger stank from the get go. By just looking the pages for Proterra website it reports that the FC-Series of bus has an 'nominal range' of only 49 miles to a charger. The larger E2 max series will max out at 350 miles. It's right there on the website, at this link.
https://www.proterra.com/products/catalyst-40ft/
So basically you just took a really basic EV only bus, stacked it with about 3 to 5 times as many batteries, and paid Forbes to produce this propaganda.
Honestly, if this product was worth a damn, you wouldn't have to get a business news paper to lie to the public about what this 100% fake product can do as a stepping stone to try to get people to buy more of these $700K dollar hunks of shit with a 50 mile range.
Yeah good luck with that. Especially given that the original 'sad frog' meme has metamorphosed so man times over the years as to be completely unrecognizable. Are you going to try to claim that all carton frogs are the same now? How far does this thud-fuck think he's going to be able to take this?
The US has a TON of emission requirements on diesels. That includes commercial heavy trucks. In fact all new diesel engines have been modified in such a what they just won't run AT ALL on older style lower surfer diesel. It actually caused a real headache for about a year back in about '09 when they refineries in Memphis couldn't keep up production of the new fuel, and people couldn't get enough ultra low diesel that was safe to run in their new model of cars. Which would actually die if you tried to run dirty diesel in it. Messed up the emission sensors. I remember that 'fondly'. I was a truck driver at the time. And while I had an older truck that would run all grades of diesel just fine we had a lot of trouble out of keeping our newest trucks running until we could get a better supply of Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Which became mandatory starting about then.
At the end of the day the only thing that this latest study proves is that you can still literally make anything say anything with the right kind of half baked study. Especially when you take into account that a lot of EU nations use way more diesel powered personal vehicle than the US and other nation states or blocks do.
Glancing through the cesspit that is the commentary segments I can't help but point out how many leftist are parroting the 'Gab.AI is full of hate speech' line when in reality Gab's TOS has very clear regulations on what levels of content and speech is allowed. And we have documented examples of them being applied when someone violates them.
Now if you want to argue that Gab WASN'T following any sort of law or regulation that's documented, then so be it. But always citations will be required. But so far I have seen little to no concrete evidence that they have ever been used for the dissemination of illegal content outside of random assholes in the commend sections of cesspits like/. itself.
The very fact that the first line of this article reads like the beginning of a manifesto for far left causes was the first warning sign. The fact that this tripe goes out of it's way to mention Marxist economics pretty much closes the case. Given the fact that Marxism is probably the worst way to run an economy and society that the human species has yet come up with.
Perhaps most damning is the very fact they spend more time in this article talking about how they're going to influence people than the pros and cons of this new teaching methodology. Good ideas don't need PR nearly as much as starting with your best ideas first than prove that they work with imperial evidence.
You've just officially declared that Tesla controls how you use your own car, when you can charger it, and for how long. But people are trying say that this is someone a GOOD THING, that Tesla was 'kind enough' to allow the 'peasants' to charger their car to their specs. Not that I'm ignore that the ONLY people that buy Tesla are morons with too much money anyway. But the very fact that people are just happy about this revelation shows how stupid a lot of them are.
Also: you think gasoline shortages are bad... wait until morons start BLOWING THE GRID trying to fast charger their electric cars every time there's a hurricane. So yeah, go post that capacity Tesla. Do your best to show people the real problems with your technology.
Not to say that there isn't more than just the sun causing this, but literally all weather is because of the sun's energy output. To go along with that the sun's output is not as consistent as people think it is. And more to the point we've had nest to no sun spot activity since about 2011. But this changed again starting last year, but has already more than doubled this year already.
This is not to say that this is the only cause of this. After all we still had up to category 3 storms during that time, just none that ever were able to accumulate enough energy to be that bad.
We already have an entire black market industry just in making copycat firearms in parts of South America, not to mention the repurposing of commercial electronics for use in explosive armed ISIS drones. The idea of that kind of top down regulation of this technology is just flat out impossible at this point. You would have to try to register every single screw, nut, wire, and electronic component being produce on Earth to even remotely try and do this. Because we already have plenty of examples of completely home made quadrocopters being used to drop contraband into US prison. And those are some of the most secure places on the planet.
I'm just a cynical bastard as my comment history will say. But damn it... I'd just as soon not be confirmed in my own biases every damn time Google rolls out a really shitty feature.
But at the end of the day Google; why is it that you are so damn obsessed with central control of the environment when you can't even get half of your new features to work right to begin with? You're supposed to be in the business of providing consumer devices to people that they want to buy the best things you can make, not frustrate them with broken products and services.
Heh, not that I, now should ANYONE, have any illusions that Google isn't in the business of selling your constantly leaking stream of marketable data to the highest bidder and any security service that want's it. But you're at last supposed to try to make the basic hardware work first.
No, actually I say they really should look back at rolling back to the Windows 7 OS, at least in terms of over all function. Pretty much every single major change to the OS has been met with heavy resistance and little adoption. Few people like the new metro interface to the point entire new 3rd party shells are a bigger seller than most of the apps on the Windows store itself.
Yeah, I had noticed that myself after the fact. I wasn't involved nor really following #GamerGate when it was happening, but reading about it after the fact was rather opened my eyes as to how bad these left wing social artists are getting.
Personally thought what really comes to my mind is just how cult like Google is. I really started to noticing that early when they started releasing manifestos about social activism even while the entirety of the media is running coverage for everything they do. It feels very very early wave Pre WW2 fascism, with power blocks starting to line up on either side. And the fact that Google is now trying to graduate into full soft fascism by using it's power base to marginalize dissenting opinions is not making them look any better.
You know when I hear people like Paul Joseph Watson and Infowars as a whole rail about cultural Marxism I mostly just chuckle at it for the comedy that it mostly is. But every so often assholes in the tech industry prove the other crazies correct by their very actions. People at Google are so damn obsessed with diversity of skin ton and genital shape that it's starting to ignore the very concept of Google as a money making company in favor of being a vehicle for social change.
Jesus, Google couldn't get the right mix or woman and the 'correct' kind of racial minority in positions of power by hiring them... so they got people in the media to PRETEND that it's that way?? Actually I aint even mad. I'm just flat out amused at how pathetic both Hollywood and Google is in in this. They want to make sure people doing FAKE HACKING and IT work while say shit like 'I'm rerouting through the firewall with encryption!' Oh man, that's just comedy gold.
As I've said more than a few times around here I just don't give a shit about the latest shininess consumer hardware. I can't find any use AT ALL for most of the latest features they try to push. I just use my debit card or cash for all purchases, I don't use the cloud, I don't use any 'fitness apps', I hate all mobile games (PC gamer), and both audio and video quality are so bad on most phones to just be annoying.
Maybe they're just fine for all of you people, but I've got too much serious work to do that I can't really be bothered trying to order my life so I can be bothered to live by a phone. And that's before we even get into the real serious security problems that all smartphones have.
Seems to me more and more the entire 'app store' concept is a failure from the stand point of just about everything but making money. At best you have a little simple program that can't do a whole lot of anything, but it's also always one TOS change away from completely destroying your data security. Not to mention that they seem to be just as susceptible to a lot of the common security problems that show up.
Which is actually the site of one of the bigger Eclipse festivals in the north west coast. We didn't actually choose that location specially. We just happen to live about an hour and a half away anyway, and we just went driving to find a place to watch. Turns out a few tens of thousands of people did too, and it caused a Hurricane Katrina level traffic problems on those two lane little US highways up there. And I was actually IN Katrina as a truck drive stuck running relief supplies.
At the end of the day it was still worth it IMHO. Nasty traffic, but why not spend the time on something that's functionally a once in a life time event?
Right now there's not really anything on the market for a 'middle of the road gaming PC'. Most people are either focusing on a high end gaming machine or they just go for consoles.
Listen, MORONS. ALL VEHICLES BREAK DOWN. There is NO vehicle brand that will NOT need replacement parts. Yeah, sure. You might not have to replace whole engines anymore, but news flash... they don't have to replace engines very often as is. But that doesn't mean you don't have to keep replacement parts on hand. Like AIR COMPRESSORS. Yeah, you see all commercial vehicles use pneumatic braking systems. And guess what, all CURRENT MODELS OF COMPRESS run entirely off of engine power. And LITERALLY EVERYTHING is run off that central air compressor compressor. Everything to the climate control systems to the braking systems, to the SUSPENSION system.
Again, once more you MORONS. Just because you can build a single model of truck in no way prepares Muck for the gargantuan task of changing the entirety of the US transpiration industry. Electric semi trucks... will NEVER be a worth a DAMN. And that's before we get to the fact that a crashed semi truck full of lithium ion batteries is basically a giant BOMB in crash. Unlike just a really big fire in a diesel burning truck cash.
Actually no, no that STILL will not work because even those 'small local routs' STILL use full sized semi trucks. They just use what is a called a 'day cab'. Or a basically full sized semi truck, but without the sleeper compartment.
Another problem that I didn't think think to mention was the supply chain of replacement truck parts here in the US. There are so many trucks in operation that they HAVE to keep parts pretty standardized just to keep them all running. One thing Musk is complete ignoring about the industry is that part of the trucking industry. That any one trucking company HAS to be able to get access to spare parts continuous or the fleet breaks down. In fact I have a solid example of this in the problem that a lot of companies have ti the new 'super single' double wide tires. Basically it's just one bit tire instead of two, as you see on most rigs. In a lot of ways the new try is better, but they just can't them in stock for most of the industry. So to this day there's not a lot of shops that carry a lot of the latest style.
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I'll once again point out that no one has never been able to conclude that Facebook advertising even works at all, thanks to recent internal findings from Procter & Gambles. So if basic advertising on Facebook doesn't work, then how exactly do you expect a major election to be swayed by that same mechanism? Since we can't at all prove that anyone has been hacked, then how exactly is 'The Russians' going to do anything?
Now please, tell me exactly how 'The Russians' are going to influence a US presidential election and more importantly: can that influence be explained without bringing up the extreme levels of corruption that took place within the Clinton campaign. Corruption that has been verified already by several third party as well as proven by the fact that the DNC had to fire just about everyone for said corruption.
And that's before we have to have a discussion about recent leaked information about what the CIA can do with spoofing the originals of hacking attempts.
Although for the same of full disclosure we don't have a meme or anything like that directly spells this out in plan terms that this was happening. But what we do have is dozens of news stories from about May last year there it was discovered that unnamed Facebook employers were artificially manipulating the 'Trending' feed for their own political bias. While Facebook did try to denying this happened they still completely and publicly announced that they would change the way trending is down to get tide of that bias.
For reference see:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/facebook-changes-trending-topics-anti-conservative-bias
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37205029
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-trending-section-accusations-political-bias/story?id=41717303
https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006
So far I've only seen the first of the two released episodes . But I have to say, this show is just a mess. It's logically inconsistent constantly, the overall pacing is crap, the lead is so much of a Mary Sue that it's embarrassing (no character should have more than 2 Deus Ex Machina to explain her), the physical affects look like badly lit FarScape, it throws out pretty much all preexisting canon, and it has several points at where they get basic science wrong. Two words: Lightspeed Lag
Now not to be a complete downer... what they got right: Well sadly not a lot. One quite positive thing is that for once ship orientation is a concern. And the actual ship designs do actually look pretty decent. But honestly, that's about all I can give it.
To me: Star Trek really kind of died when Abrams got a hold of it. Discovery was the one real last chance I thought we could give it. But if this is what we should expect then it's time to let the franchise face into memory. Because this show is just crap. And if it gets more season than Enterprise did it'll be a miracle.
If we are getting food in highly secured containers shipped straight to your home can we get a locking refrigerator like in the movie Conspiracy Theory? Because I'd probably into that.
The claim that this hunk of shit get's 1000 miles to a charger stank from the get go. By just looking the pages for Proterra website it reports that the FC-Series of bus has an 'nominal range' of only 49 miles to a charger. The larger E2 max series will max out at 350 miles. It's right there on the website, at this link.
https://www.proterra.com/products/catalyst-40ft/
So basically you just took a really basic EV only bus, stacked it with about 3 to 5 times as many batteries, and paid Forbes to produce this propaganda.
Honestly, if this product was worth a damn, you wouldn't have to get a business news paper to lie to the public about what this 100% fake product can do as a stepping stone to try to get people to buy more of these $700K dollar hunks of shit with a 50 mile range.
Yeah good luck with that. Especially given that the original 'sad frog' meme has metamorphosed so man times over the years as to be completely unrecognizable. Are you going to try to claim that all carton frogs are the same now? How far does this thud-fuck think he's going to be able to take this?
You're completely full of shit about that claim.
The US has a TON of emission requirements on diesels. That includes commercial heavy trucks. In fact all new diesel engines have been modified in such a what they just won't run AT ALL on older style lower surfer diesel. It actually caused a real headache for about a year back in about '09 when they refineries in Memphis couldn't keep up production of the new fuel, and people couldn't get enough ultra low diesel that was safe to run in their new model of cars. Which would actually die if you tried to run dirty diesel in it. Messed up the emission sensors. I remember that 'fondly'. I was a truck driver at the time. And while I had an older truck that would run all grades of diesel just fine we had a lot of trouble out of keeping our newest trucks running until we could get a better supply of Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Which became mandatory starting about then.
An older story from 500K, back when the US was in peak Climate Alarmisim.
http://fortune.com/2015/11/30/diesel-emissions-deaths-europe-ee/
At the end of the day the only thing that this latest study proves is that you can still literally make anything say anything with the right kind of half baked study. Especially when you take into account that a lot of EU nations use way more diesel powered personal vehicle than the US and other nation states or blocks do.
And to think there was just a headline here on /. that asked 'Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft?'
Well here's hoping not.
Glancing through the cesspit that is the commentary segments I can't help but point out how many leftist are parroting the 'Gab.AI is full of hate speech' line when in reality Gab's TOS has very clear regulations on what levels of content and speech is allowed. And we have documented examples of them being applied when someone violates them.
Now if you want to argue that Gab WASN'T following any sort of law or regulation that's documented, then so be it. But always citations will be required. But so far I have seen little to no concrete evidence that they have ever been used for the dissemination of illegal content outside of random assholes in the commend sections of cesspits like /. itself.
The very fact that the first line of this article reads like the beginning of a manifesto for far left causes was the first warning sign. The fact that this tripe goes out of it's way to mention Marxist economics pretty much closes the case. Given the fact that Marxism is probably the worst way to run an economy and society that the human species has yet come up with.
Perhaps most damning is the very fact they spend more time in this article talking about how they're going to influence people than the pros and cons of this new teaching methodology. Good ideas don't need PR nearly as much as starting with your best ideas first than prove that they work with imperial evidence.
You've just officially declared that Tesla controls how you use your own car, when you can charger it, and for how long. But people are trying say that this is someone a GOOD THING, that Tesla was 'kind enough' to allow the 'peasants' to charger their car to their specs. Not that I'm ignore that the ONLY people that buy Tesla are morons with too much money anyway. But the very fact that people are just happy about this revelation shows how stupid a lot of them are.
Also: you think gasoline shortages are bad... wait until morons start BLOWING THE GRID trying to fast charger their electric cars every time there's a hurricane. So yeah, go post that capacity Tesla. Do your best to show people the real problems with your technology.
Not to say that there isn't more than just the sun causing this, but literally all weather is because of the sun's energy output. To go along with that the sun's output is not as consistent as people think it is. And more to the point we've had nest to no sun spot activity since about 2011. But this changed again starting last year, but has already more than doubled this year already.
This is not to say that this is the only cause of this. After all we still had up to category 3 storms during that time, just none that ever were able to accumulate enough energy to be that bad.
We already have an entire black market industry just in making copycat firearms in parts of South America, not to mention the repurposing of commercial electronics for use in explosive armed ISIS drones. The idea of that kind of top down regulation of this technology is just flat out impossible at this point. You would have to try to register every single screw, nut, wire, and electronic component being produce on Earth to even remotely try and do this. Because we already have plenty of examples of completely home made quadrocopters being used to drop contraband into US prison. And those are some of the most secure places on the planet.
I'm just a cynical bastard as my comment history will say. But damn it... I'd just as soon not be confirmed in my own biases every damn time Google rolls out a really shitty feature.
But at the end of the day Google; why is it that you are so damn obsessed with central control of the environment when you can't even get half of your new features to work right to begin with? You're supposed to be in the business of providing consumer devices to people that they want to buy the best things you can make, not frustrate them with broken products and services.
Heh, not that I, now should ANYONE, have any illusions that Google isn't in the business of selling your constantly leaking stream of marketable data to the highest bidder and any security service that want's it. But you're at last supposed to try to make the basic hardware work first.
No, actually I say they really should look back at rolling back to the Windows 7 OS, at least in terms of over all function. Pretty much every single major change to the OS has been met with heavy resistance and little adoption. Few people like the new metro interface to the point entire new 3rd party shells are a bigger seller than most of the apps on the Windows store itself.
Yeah, I had noticed that myself after the fact. I wasn't involved nor really following #GamerGate when it was happening, but reading about it after the fact was rather opened my eyes as to how bad these left wing social artists are getting.
Personally thought what really comes to my mind is just how cult like Google is. I really started to noticing that early when they started releasing manifestos about social activism even while the entirety of the media is running coverage for everything they do. It feels very very early wave Pre WW2 fascism, with power blocks starting to line up on either side. And the fact that Google is now trying to graduate into full soft fascism by using it's power base to marginalize dissenting opinions is not making them look any better.
You know when I hear people like Paul Joseph Watson and Infowars as a whole rail about cultural Marxism I mostly just chuckle at it for the comedy that it mostly is. But every so often assholes in the tech industry prove the other crazies correct by their very actions. People at Google are so damn obsessed with diversity of skin ton and genital shape that it's starting to ignore the very concept of Google as a money making company in favor of being a vehicle for social change.
Jesus, Google couldn't get the right mix or woman and the 'correct' kind of racial minority in positions of power by hiring them... so they got people in the media to PRETEND that it's that way?? Actually I aint even mad. I'm just flat out amused at how pathetic both Hollywood and Google is in in this. They want to make sure people doing FAKE HACKING and IT work while say shit like 'I'm rerouting through the firewall with encryption!' Oh man, that's just comedy gold.
As I've said more than a few times around here I just don't give a shit about the latest shininess consumer hardware. I can't find any use AT ALL for most of the latest features they try to push. I just use my debit card or cash for all purchases, I don't use the cloud, I don't use any 'fitness apps', I hate all mobile games (PC gamer), and both audio and video quality are so bad on most phones to just be annoying.
Maybe they're just fine for all of you people, but I've got too much serious work to do that I can't really be bothered trying to order my life so I can be bothered to live by a phone. And that's before we even get into the real serious security problems that all smartphones have.
Seems to me more and more the entire 'app store' concept is a failure from the stand point of just about everything but making money. At best you have a little simple program that can't do a whole lot of anything, but it's also always one TOS change away from completely destroying your data security. Not to mention that they seem to be just as susceptible to a lot of the common security problems that show up.
Which is actually the site of one of the bigger Eclipse festivals in the north west coast. We didn't actually choose that location specially. We just happen to live about an hour and a half away anyway, and we just went driving to find a place to watch. Turns out a few tens of thousands of people did too, and it caused a Hurricane Katrina level traffic problems on those two lane little US highways up there. And I was actually IN Katrina as a truck drive stuck running relief supplies.
At the end of the day it was still worth it IMHO. Nasty traffic, but why not spend the time on something that's functionally a once in a life time event?
Ahh crap, I miss tread the question... NM.
Right now there's not really anything on the market for a 'middle of the road gaming PC'. Most people are either focusing on a high end gaming machine or they just go for consoles.
Listen, MORONS. ALL VEHICLES BREAK DOWN. There is NO vehicle brand that will NOT need replacement parts. Yeah, sure. You might not have to replace whole engines anymore, but news flash... they don't have to replace engines very often as is. But that doesn't mean you don't have to keep replacement parts on hand. Like AIR COMPRESSORS. Yeah, you see all commercial vehicles use pneumatic braking systems. And guess what, all CURRENT MODELS OF COMPRESS run entirely off of engine power. And LITERALLY EVERYTHING is run off that central air compressor compressor. Everything to the climate control systems to the braking systems, to the SUSPENSION system.
Again, once more you MORONS. Just because you can build a single model of truck in no way prepares Muck for the gargantuan task of changing the entirety of the US transpiration industry. Electric semi trucks... will NEVER be a worth a DAMN. And that's before we get to the fact that a crashed semi truck full of lithium ion batteries is basically a giant BOMB in crash. Unlike just a really big fire in a diesel burning truck cash.
Actually no, no that STILL will not work because even those 'small local routs' STILL use full sized semi trucks. They just use what is a called a 'day cab'. Or a basically full sized semi truck, but without the sleeper compartment.
Another problem that I didn't think think to mention was the supply chain of replacement truck parts here in the US. There are so many trucks in operation that they HAVE to keep parts pretty standardized just to keep them all running. One thing Musk is complete ignoring about the industry is that part of the trucking industry. That any one trucking company HAS to be able to get access to spare parts continuous or the fleet breaks down. In fact I have a solid example of this in the problem that a lot of companies have ti the new 'super single' double wide tires. Basically it's just one bit tire instead of two, as you see on most rigs. In a lot of ways the new try is better, but they just can't them in stock for most of the industry. So to this day there's not a lot of shops that carry a lot of the latest style.