1. They are not prosecuting weev for his actual crimes of harassment and stalking
2. They are trying to criminalize "trolling"
Today, "trolling" in the court of law is conflated with stalking, harassing, and in cases like trying to trigger an epileptic seizure, actually committing assault and battery over the Internet. Tomorrow, "trolling" will mean "expressing an opinion someone important disagrees with."
They're turning the weev case into yet another attack on free expression and counting on us to look the other way because he's an asshole.
You're right, but that has nothing to do with it. The point is that instead of justice, this country has legal services for sale. So, if you have enough riches to buy legal services then you can fashion your own justice. If you don't, there is none. Sony is just an example of an entity who can afford to buy justice if they need it.
There's a difference between seeking justice as a victim and having justice imposed upon you as a transgressor. You're conflating the two.
That's how easy it is to catch ebola. Yes, you're being a stupid asshole. Stupid because you don't know what the hell you're talking about when it comes to anything you've said whatsoever, from public health to politics, and asshole because you insist on spewing your bullshit despite being warned about the immense harm it could do. You're not saving your neighbors there, hero. You're trying to kill them.
Let me make this simple for your lizard brain. Can you diagnose ebola on sight? If so, then get off StackExchange and go teach doctors how to do it. I'll just assume that you can't do what doctors can't. As in, you're not some magical unicorn or alien superhero.
So, you can't tell if your neighbor is infected, and you can't tell if they're contagious. But you're urging people to "help" by going door to door. Maybe they should make sure to french kiss their neighbors too since if even one of them is infected and they've taken a piss without washing their hands, they can pass it on. There's a reason the belongings and environment of people infected with ebola are burned and sanitized with pure chlorine, respectively.
You're not advocating for people "not hiding in a hole", there is no third option, my home isn't a hole, and what you suggest would make things worse. I've written this reply due to the possibility that you're just a simple moron and not a menacing threat to public health. And I won't be replying to you again.
The least you can do is get your language right. You say having common fucking sense is equivalent to having a Hollywood hero complex and then recommend that everybody has a virus orgy to save their neighbors. Please, for the love of God, say you're a troll so you can look like a threat to society instead of a total retard.
Don't be so quick to make assumptions. Researchers know their field, and managers seldom know that. People are rushed to productivity, and mistakes like that are certainly possible. "Why are you writing your own procedure for that? Why reinvent the wheel?" So, it is possible that researchers have been impacted.
I doubt it's a huge issue anyway. You talk about serious researchers, but anybody serious know there's such a thing as significant digits. Physical calculations have limited precision, and scientists tend to work in units appropriate to scale. So, researchers aren't a worry but for a totally different reason than you cite.
I'd worry more about lazy professor's assistants grading papers with flawed tools than actual research or designs being impacted by this because there's no telling what whacky precision weirdness people might be asked to do while learning this stuff.
Case in point, I've seen Physics courses where precision didn't even get discussed in the classroom. It was left for the lab. If an undergrad work study assistant doesn't understand computer science well enough to consider the impact of instruction sets, then it can impact grades, ergo careers. That and the potential for politicians or understandably uninformed CEOs, accountants, and other office staff to make mistakes thanks to this are probably the biggest things we need to worry about.
And being the stupid asshole to contribute to an epidemic by spreading deadly disease to prove how good a person you are isn't productive either. It just kills people.
You are putting harmful information out there and showing that you don't understand what you're talking about. I don't know in what world calling somebody an isolationist prick isn't an attack, but that's not what the word "isolationist" means either. Borderline illiterate people like you are the reason an epidemic here would be a disaster and not a short lived tragedy.
Go troll somebody else. I don't want to be bothered to give anybody the kind of attention you want.
Why is every person arguing with me putting words in my mouth.
Look, this is simple. I said get supplies and lock down your home. Is your home a fallout shelter? Most aren't, ergo I'm not talking about that.
Epidemic. Don't interact with people who may be infected. It doesn't take a genius to understand that. After it passes, don't do things like use a public bathroom and then rub your eyes.
You're not describing conservatism. You don't even seem to know what the term "conservative" means aside from just a general term for whatever you personally agree with. No, avoiding stupid acts that endanger all the people around you is not kooky. If your home is a hole, that's you. Don't project.
No, being "community minded" is not the core of conservatism. Not even a little bit. Not at all. I suggest that you learn a bit more about political theory before you go around lecturing people about what you think terms mean. Furthermore, maybe not spreading deadly diseases around your neighbors is kind of community-minded. Ya think?... At all?
But you're right. In a worst case circumstance, our goal is to protect our civilization and save as many people as possible. That's why people would need to be prepared and not be vectors to spread the disease.
There's a lot in this thread about taking care of your neighbors. That's noble, but misguided. As a society, we need the means to do that through the services of trained personnel who can protect themselves with the proper equipment.
After the outbreak clears, we would need to work together.
I'm not dreaming of apocalypse disaster movies. I'm telling you what you're actually supposed to do in that situation, just like people in areas prone to be hit by hurricanes are instructed ahead of time, as are people in earthquake prone areas, tornado prone areas, etc etc. An epidemic of a deadly, highly communicable disease is just another kind of natural disaster. If you think preparation or knowing how to survive is kooky, then you're spoiled by modern life.
Who said anything about others bringing supplies? Can you not read or are you trolling? You must be moderating yourself because you clearly haven't comprehended anything I've written.
Do you know how the epidemic got so bad in Africa? People don't listen and keep interacting with neighbors.
You may think that survivalists are stupid, and maybe some are. You know what else they are? ALIVE!
I'm sorry; I'm not used to Slashdot yet. I should explain this better.
Heroes get headstones, and caring for household does not make you a Hollywoodesque lone hero. It makes you a plain person. Get supplies and care for your family. We're talking a contagious disease, not a power outage. Helping your neighbors will kill you, and their assistance can be left to the people with the equipment to do it safely. That stops a virus from being spread further.
If you try to be some high and mighty example of an altruistic person who cares deeply for all neighbors in the middle of an epidemic, then you're actually a villain. But if there are people outside your household whom you actually do care about and wouldn't only be helping so that you can brag about how conservative or good or heroic you are, bring them in before you lock down and make sure you have enough supplies for them ahead of time.
Dblll, what you're describing is a selfish Hollywood fantasy. You're not the A-Team. You're not Iron man. Even if you are a medical doctor, you aren't going to stumble upon the cure in your basement and save the day. You're a soft, squishy, vulnerable virus incubator and contagion vector made of meat that spoils quickly. If reality seems to be at odds with your values, and you choose your values, they're not really values anymore. They're a delusion.
I'm not sure what you're replying to because nothing you've said makes no sense whatsoever in context of the post that reply is just beneath. It might surprise you to know that most people want to protect their children and don't want to see society devastated by a deadly epidemic, and that doesn't make them heroes. It makes them normal fucking people.
If you really think otherwise, you need a psychiatrist.
You're right, and that puts bordering nations at the greatest risk next to those already experiencing an epidemic. The next borders have slightly less risk. And so on. But to cross oceans or canals requires accessing transportation that can be controlled. Geography has choke points. The most unimaginably horrific worst case scenario should not involve any more than one continent.
If we had no deadly pandemics in our history, then we'd have an excuse for not getting this right. We have multiple in our history.
Let's just hope that all this serious talk becomes moot soon. This has gotten bad enough as it is.
Since editing isn't allowed, and I can't add this bluntness above, let me add it here.
I don't want to tell my nearly two year old daughter, "I know it hurts, cutie pie, but it will stop soon," because some jackasses want to have a contest about who looks more liberal, humane, or smart. That's only unnecessary fear mongering if we actually do what is necessary. If we can't even do that much, then stock up on supplies and get ready to lock down your home because hell is coming and all will go.
The TSA actually has a chance to be useful and humane at the same time, and instead we come up with crap to argue about. Behold the uselessness of Washington D.C. and nearly every "solution" it comes up with.
Step 1: Track all travel paths. This already happens. Did somebody's travel originate in a high-risk place for ebola?
Step 2: Take them from the airport to quarantine if they manage to make it to the states. Hopefully that won't happen because...
Step 1.5: They will have been denied boarding without medical clearance or quarantined at a layover.
Some will argue that the region should be locked down. It should. Others will argue that free enough travel is necessary to provide aide and let people escape before they're infected. It should. These are not mutually contradictory options. Nobody goes into those regions except medical personnel and nobody comes out without being cleared. This isn't rocket science, and it shouldn't take an event of black plague proportions to make obvious decisions.
If people could cut the crap and use their heads instead of seizing on opportunities to argue for their ego's sake in just one instance for our entire lives, then this needs to be it. And if people have complaints about being told rudely that they're thinking like morons then maybe they should stop thinking like morons. Politeness exists so that undeserving insult or correction doesn't happen, not so that people can't be told when they have body odor (so-to-speak).
If I'm being a moron, please let me know so I can correct that. When it comes to mass life or death, it's more important to actually BE correct than to enjoy warm fuzzies and self-congratulation for looking correct. This isn't a damn game of "Let's see who looks smart on the Internet." This is a matter of, "Let's see if we can stop being morons long enough to stay alive."
It would defeat the purpose of decoupling the species' survival from one planet's condition, and the best environments for practice would be spoiled at that scale. Antarctica is an ideal environment to colonize as a step prior to Mars, but the colonists would destroy everything we can learn from it now. The current relatively few Antarctic workers undergo rigorous training and precautions to avoid contaminating the environment and still do.
Underground settlements could be worth pursuing for their potential to survive asteroid impacts and nuclear wars. I haven't yet seen any arguments toward why that can't serve as an interim step before colonizing Mars.
That's duplicitous. People use Facebook to keep in touch with family and play little web video games. We both know that grandma isn't going to fetch her spectacles to read pages of legalese in tiny grain print.
Your point might technically cover Facebook legally, but Zuckerberg has a history of proving that not all legal acts are ethical. It's the philosophy that his career is founded upon.
The ethical way to do research is to get explicit, informed consent. If you tried at a university to pass off that consent in a TOS buried in a site related to totally different subject matter then you'd probably be expelled.
Would it be considered a contribution to say that I'm not comfortable with this? Would it be considered to detract if I said that I don't have a Facebook account for a reason? I don't like them, I don't agree with their ethics, I don't want them to be a part of my life, and they're damn bound and determined to force their way in anyway.
I can't buy it. Instead of taking steps to ensure their continued profitability and existence, these companies bribe legislators and constantly increase rates to continue business as usual. They're entitled, complacent, and borderline incompetent. Out with the old, in with the new. We need a generation of energy company CEOs who don't have their heads stuck up the past.
And meanwhile, they could think like actual capitalists and...
1. Invest in solar equipment themselves
2. Lease it to customers so that some dollar amount of their light bill is permapaid month by month
3. Make that dollar amount less than the value of the energy generated per equipment set
4. Set the lease terms so that an initial investment brings revenue while ensuring a ROI for the customer
5. Profit while profiting on profits
Growth, growth, growth. Energy company CEOs have become so set in their ways that they now caricature themselves as too corrupt and incompetent for their fiduciary duties. They would rather maximize their consumer-screwing potential than profits, and this is an absolute plague on more than one market today. These people need to be taught to make money on new formulas that involve more thought and insight than just being lazy and milking the unwashed masses.
Solar does not have to hurt utility companies. It could make them more profitable than ever before. Common sense says this can go two ways, in fact.
If they don't learn to think like they're businesses and they continue to try and prove how they're simply royalty who doesn't have to be a part of anything, then solar use will continue to climb, and their efforts to combat it will only forestall the inevitable: They will continue to hike rates until consumers either fall into the category of being off the grid or don't have service. Where will their profits be then?
These companies are so blinded by sheer entitlement and complacency that it's almost going to be humorous watching half of them fail for it. Or at least it would be if it didn't mean that many will inevitably end up without service.
This tech is great for maps. If Google Maps implemented it, that would be awesome. Instead of seeing through a lens mounted on their car, you could walk around the environment and see everything recorded from their car. It could be useful for film and television, as buildings and backgrounds are often CG that gets touched up anyway. This would just streamline the process.
But this will never be used in games until animation and full shader support is available on a per-object or per-face basis. That won't happen any time soon because the entire scene is one big object.
Euclidean has not made a rendering engine; they've invented the 3D photograph.
It's also that trollhood is viral. The better the calm one finds, the more polite and reasonable one aspires to be, the more upsetting it is when somebody is just an asshat for no conceivable reason. Websites like Reddit where trolls get together to upvote each other while reasonable people are downvoted (especially in the default subs) pour salt in the wound. You're trying to be a good person, to be calm, you don't want the blood pressure spike of getting upset, and then it looks like a community kisses some troll's arse while punishing you for being nice.
We're human, so when we're in an environment that seems to reward animosity and punish kindness, eventually the only way to avoid being infected is to take a break. Then, if you don't for whatever reason and you slip up a few times and show them the way they make you feel and what you really think, it's only a matter of time until one of them collects together references to those times to make you look terrible so they can continue trollololing along. This is why moderation ends up being ineffective. Moderators only see the instance where one person, likely harassed by the same troll using using multiple accounts for ages, finally loses their cool. They don't see the months of harassment and stalking, and by that point the troll has made sure that it's impossible to prove.
The absolute only thing that will change this is if nobody is anonymous. But then nobody will be honest either because they'll be more concerned with protecting their good name.
Slashdot Mirror
You're touching on what's really happening here.
1. They are not prosecuting weev for his actual crimes of harassment and stalking
2. They are trying to criminalize "trolling"
Today, "trolling" in the court of law is conflated with stalking, harassing, and in cases like trying to trigger an epileptic seizure, actually committing assault and battery over the Internet. Tomorrow, "trolling" will mean "expressing an opinion someone important disagrees with."
They're turning the weev case into yet another attack on free expression and counting on us to look the other way because he's an asshole.
You're right, but that has nothing to do with it. The point is that instead of justice, this country has legal services for sale. So, if you have enough riches to buy legal services then you can fashion your own justice. If you don't, there is none. Sony is just an example of an entity who can afford to buy justice if they need it.
There's a difference between seeking justice as a victim and having justice imposed upon you as a transgressor. You're conflating the two.
No, one more reply, just because you actually might be totally fucking ignorant and loud about it.
http://www.thelocal.es/2014100...
That's how easy it is to catch ebola. Yes, you're being a stupid asshole. Stupid because you don't know what the hell you're talking about when it comes to anything you've said whatsoever, from public health to politics, and asshole because you insist on spewing your bullshit despite being warned about the immense harm it could do. You're not saving your neighbors there, hero. You're trying to kill them.
God damn it.
Let me make this simple for your lizard brain. Can you diagnose ebola on sight? If so, then get off StackExchange and go teach doctors how to do it. I'll just assume that you can't do what doctors can't. As in, you're not some magical unicorn or alien superhero.
So, you can't tell if your neighbor is infected, and you can't tell if they're contagious. But you're urging people to "help" by going door to door. Maybe they should make sure to french kiss their neighbors too since if even one of them is infected and they've taken a piss without washing their hands, they can pass it on. There's a reason the belongings and environment of people infected with ebola are burned and sanitized with pure chlorine, respectively.
You're not advocating for people "not hiding in a hole", there is no third option, my home isn't a hole, and what you suggest would make things worse. I've written this reply due to the possibility that you're just a simple moron and not a menacing threat to public health. And I won't be replying to you again.
The least you can do is get your language right. You say having common fucking sense is equivalent to having a Hollywood hero complex and then recommend that everybody has a virus orgy to save their neighbors. Please, for the love of God, say you're a troll so you can look like a threat to society instead of a total retard.
Don't be so quick to make assumptions. Researchers know their field, and managers seldom know that. People are rushed to productivity, and mistakes like that are certainly possible. "Why are you writing your own procedure for that? Why reinvent the wheel?" So, it is possible that researchers have been impacted.
I doubt it's a huge issue anyway. You talk about serious researchers, but anybody serious know there's such a thing as significant digits. Physical calculations have limited precision, and scientists tend to work in units appropriate to scale. So, researchers aren't a worry but for a totally different reason than you cite.
I'd worry more about lazy professor's assistants grading papers with flawed tools than actual research or designs being impacted by this because there's no telling what whacky precision weirdness people might be asked to do while learning this stuff.
Case in point, I've seen Physics courses where precision didn't even get discussed in the classroom. It was left for the lab. If an undergrad work study assistant doesn't understand computer science well enough to consider the impact of instruction sets, then it can impact grades, ergo careers. That and the potential for politicians or understandably uninformed CEOs, accountants, and other office staff to make mistakes thanks to this are probably the biggest things we need to worry about.
And being the stupid asshole to contribute to an epidemic by spreading deadly disease to prove how good a person you are isn't productive either. It just kills people.
You are putting harmful information out there and showing that you don't understand what you're talking about. I don't know in what world calling somebody an isolationist prick isn't an attack, but that's not what the word "isolationist" means either. Borderline illiterate people like you are the reason an epidemic here would be a disaster and not a short lived tragedy.
Go troll somebody else. I don't want to be bothered to give anybody the kind of attention you want.
Why is every person arguing with me putting words in my mouth.
... At all?
Look, this is simple. I said get supplies and lock down your home. Is your home a fallout shelter? Most aren't, ergo I'm not talking about that.
Epidemic. Don't interact with people who may be infected. It doesn't take a genius to understand that. After it passes, don't do things like use a public bathroom and then rub your eyes.
You're not describing conservatism. You don't even seem to know what the term "conservative" means aside from just a general term for whatever you personally agree with. No, avoiding stupid acts that endanger all the people around you is not kooky. If your home is a hole, that's you. Don't project.
No, being "community minded" is not the core of conservatism. Not even a little bit. Not at all. I suggest that you learn a bit more about political theory before you go around lecturing people about what you think terms mean. Furthermore, maybe not spreading deadly diseases around your neighbors is kind of community-minded. Ya think?
First. Aid. Kit.
But you're right. In a worst case circumstance, our goal is to protect our civilization and save as many people as possible. That's why people would need to be prepared and not be vectors to spread the disease.
There's a lot in this thread about taking care of your neighbors. That's noble, but misguided. As a society, we need the means to do that through the services of trained personnel who can protect themselves with the proper equipment.
After the outbreak clears, we would need to work together.
I'm not dreaming of apocalypse disaster movies. I'm telling you what you're actually supposed to do in that situation, just like people in areas prone to be hit by hurricanes are instructed ahead of time, as are people in earthquake prone areas, tornado prone areas, etc etc. An epidemic of a deadly, highly communicable disease is just another kind of natural disaster. If you think preparation or knowing how to survive is kooky, then you're spoiled by modern life.
Who said anything about others bringing supplies? Can you not read or are you trolling? You must be moderating yourself because you clearly haven't comprehended anything I've written.
Do you know how the epidemic got so bad in Africa? People don't listen and keep interacting with neighbors.
You may think that survivalists are stupid, and maybe some are. You know what else they are? ALIVE!
@dblll
I'm sorry; I'm not used to Slashdot yet. I should explain this better.
Heroes get headstones, and caring for household does not make you a Hollywoodesque lone hero. It makes you a plain person. Get supplies and care for your family. We're talking a contagious disease, not a power outage. Helping your neighbors will kill you, and their assistance can be left to the people with the equipment to do it safely. That stops a virus from being spread further.
If you try to be some high and mighty example of an altruistic person who cares deeply for all neighbors in the middle of an epidemic, then you're actually a villain. But if there are people outside your household whom you actually do care about and wouldn't only be helping so that you can brag about how conservative or good or heroic you are, bring them in before you lock down and make sure you have enough supplies for them ahead of time.
Dblll, what you're describing is a selfish Hollywood fantasy. You're not the A-Team. You're not Iron man. Even if you are a medical doctor, you aren't going to stumble upon the cure in your basement and save the day. You're a soft, squishy, vulnerable virus incubator and contagion vector made of meat that spoils quickly. If reality seems to be at odds with your values, and you choose your values, they're not really values anymore. They're a delusion.
I'm not sure what you're replying to because nothing you've said makes no sense whatsoever in context of the post that reply is just beneath. It might surprise you to know that most people want to protect their children and don't want to see society devastated by a deadly epidemic, and that doesn't make them heroes. It makes them normal fucking people. If you really think otherwise, you need a psychiatrist.
You're right, and that puts bordering nations at the greatest risk next to those already experiencing an epidemic. The next borders have slightly less risk. And so on. But to cross oceans or canals requires accessing transportation that can be controlled. Geography has choke points. The most unimaginably horrific worst case scenario should not involve any more than one continent. If we had no deadly pandemics in our history, then we'd have an excuse for not getting this right. We have multiple in our history. Let's just hope that all this serious talk becomes moot soon. This has gotten bad enough as it is.
Since editing isn't allowed, and I can't add this bluntness above, let me add it here.
I don't want to tell my nearly two year old daughter, "I know it hurts, cutie pie, but it will stop soon," because some jackasses want to have a contest about who looks more liberal, humane, or smart. That's only unnecessary fear mongering if we actually do what is necessary. If we can't even do that much, then stock up on supplies and get ready to lock down your home because hell is coming and all will go.
The TSA actually has a chance to be useful and humane at the same time, and instead we come up with crap to argue about. Behold the uselessness of Washington D.C. and nearly every "solution" it comes up with.
Step 1: Track all travel paths. This already happens. Did somebody's travel originate in a high-risk place for ebola?
Step 2: Take them from the airport to quarantine if they manage to make it to the states. Hopefully that won't happen because...
Step 1.5: They will have been denied boarding without medical clearance or quarantined at a layover.
Some will argue that the region should be locked down. It should. Others will argue that free enough travel is necessary to provide aide and let people escape before they're infected. It should. These are not mutually contradictory options. Nobody goes into those regions except medical personnel and nobody comes out without being cleared. This isn't rocket science, and it shouldn't take an event of black plague proportions to make obvious decisions.
If people could cut the crap and use their heads instead of seizing on opportunities to argue for their ego's sake in just one instance for our entire lives, then this needs to be it. And if people have complaints about being told rudely that they're thinking like morons then maybe they should stop thinking like morons. Politeness exists so that undeserving insult or correction doesn't happen, not so that people can't be told when they have body odor (so-to-speak).
If I'm being a moron, please let me know so I can correct that. When it comes to mass life or death, it's more important to actually BE correct than to enjoy warm fuzzies and self-congratulation for looking correct. This isn't a damn game of "Let's see who looks smart on the Internet." This is a matter of, "Let's see if we can stop being morons long enough to stay alive."
Ads aren't always random. For example, Youtube advertises alcohol to me. And only alcohol. Ever.
I don't drink.
It would defeat the purpose of decoupling the species' survival from one planet's condition, and the best environments for practice would be spoiled at that scale. Antarctica is an ideal environment to colonize as a step prior to Mars, but the colonists would destroy everything we can learn from it now. The current relatively few Antarctic workers undergo rigorous training and precautions to avoid contaminating the environment and still do.
Underground settlements could be worth pursuing for their potential to survive asteroid impacts and nuclear wars. I haven't yet seen any arguments toward why that can't serve as an interim step before colonizing Mars.
That's duplicitous. People use Facebook to keep in touch with family and play little web video games. We both know that grandma isn't going to fetch her spectacles to read pages of legalese in tiny grain print.
Your point might technically cover Facebook legally, but Zuckerberg has a history of proving that not all legal acts are ethical. It's the philosophy that his career is founded upon.
The ethical way to do research is to get explicit, informed consent. If you tried at a university to pass off that consent in a TOS buried in a site related to totally different subject matter then you'd probably be expelled.
Would it be considered a contribution to say that I'm not comfortable with this? Would it be considered to detract if I said that I don't have a Facebook account for a reason? I don't like them, I don't agree with their ethics, I don't want them to be a part of my life, and they're damn bound and determined to force their way in anyway.
So, deleting my Facebook account isn't enough to get away from them. How long until we have plugins to block their newest tracking and spam network?
I can't buy it. Instead of taking steps to ensure their continued profitability and existence, these companies bribe legislators and constantly increase rates to continue business as usual. They're entitled, complacent, and borderline incompetent. Out with the old, in with the new. We need a generation of energy company CEOs who don't have their heads stuck up the past.
And meanwhile, they could think like actual capitalists and...
1. Invest in solar equipment themselves
2. Lease it to customers so that some dollar amount of their light bill is permapaid month by month
3. Make that dollar amount less than the value of the energy generated per equipment set
4. Set the lease terms so that an initial investment brings revenue while ensuring a ROI for the customer
5. Profit while profiting on profits
Growth, growth, growth. Energy company CEOs have become so set in their ways that they now caricature themselves as too corrupt and incompetent for their fiduciary duties. They would rather maximize their consumer-screwing potential than profits, and this is an absolute plague on more than one market today. These people need to be taught to make money on new formulas that involve more thought and insight than just being lazy and milking the unwashed masses.
Solar does not have to hurt utility companies. It could make them more profitable than ever before. Common sense says this can go two ways, in fact.
If they don't learn to think like they're businesses and they continue to try and prove how they're simply royalty who doesn't have to be a part of anything, then solar use will continue to climb, and their efforts to combat it will only forestall the inevitable: They will continue to hike rates until consumers either fall into the category of being off the grid or don't have service. Where will their profits be then?
These companies are so blinded by sheer entitlement and complacency that it's almost going to be humorous watching half of them fail for it. Or at least it would be if it didn't mean that many will inevitably end up without service.
This tech is great for maps. If Google Maps implemented it, that would be awesome. Instead of seeing through a lens mounted on their car, you could walk around the environment and see everything recorded from their car. It could be useful for film and television, as buildings and backgrounds are often CG that gets touched up anyway. This would just streamline the process.
But this will never be used in games until animation and full shader support is available on a per-object or per-face basis. That won't happen any time soon because the entire scene is one big object.
Euclidean has not made a rendering engine; they've invented the 3D photograph.
A thousand chans and nothing to watch. We've come full circle.
Spaceships are boats, and mined resources are therefore maritime salvage. Problem solved.
It's also that trollhood is viral. The better the calm one finds, the more polite and reasonable one aspires to be, the more upsetting it is when somebody is just an asshat for no conceivable reason. Websites like Reddit where trolls get together to upvote each other while reasonable people are downvoted (especially in the default subs) pour salt in the wound. You're trying to be a good person, to be calm, you don't want the blood pressure spike of getting upset, and then it looks like a community kisses some troll's arse while punishing you for being nice. We're human, so when we're in an environment that seems to reward animosity and punish kindness, eventually the only way to avoid being infected is to take a break. Then, if you don't for whatever reason and you slip up a few times and show them the way they make you feel and what you really think, it's only a matter of time until one of them collects together references to those times to make you look terrible so they can continue trollololing along. This is why moderation ends up being ineffective. Moderators only see the instance where one person, likely harassed by the same troll using using multiple accounts for ages, finally loses their cool. They don't see the months of harassment and stalking, and by that point the troll has made sure that it's impossible to prove. The absolute only thing that will change this is if nobody is anonymous. But then nobody will be honest either because they'll be more concerned with protecting their good name.