For any regulators reading/.: All those things, and Chuck E Cheese, and McDonalds Monopoly, and games with loot drops and a real money auction house (or login credentials not tied immutably to a single human person) are "gambling", but none of them are Gambling.
If you want to ban companies from marketing rainbow strobelight Skinner boxes to kids because they're harmful to the kids (and their parents' bank accounts), go for it. With my blessing! But calling in-game orbs and in-game dragon sweaters—neither of which can be converted into currency—things of value sufficient to constitute gambling is quite a stretch.
No they forced the (former) World Wrestling Federation, also "WWF" up to that point, to change their name to World Wrestling Entertainment with "WWE" acronym. As an IP attorney, their international, decade-spanning battle over a 3-latter acronym—used as a mark on vastly different goods & services—has always fascinated me.
But given how strident Wildlife was, I'm a little surprised Words With Friends, the Working Women's Forum, or Windows Workflow Foundation are allowed to exist in peace...
We don’t have to listen to you and your program of Complete acronym totalitarianism (everywhere, everywhen, everywhich, everywhat, everywhether), better known as “Cat5e”.
Truth: Companies may have, or be perceived as having, biases on various social and political issues. This is true for everyone from Facebook to Fox Entertainment Group to Chick-fil-A.
Truth: This has fuckall to do with rolling back net neutrality.
Or perhaps "parents these days" are like "millennial snowflakes", "litigious Americans", "$party voters", and any number of groups that are easily characterized by a non-representative smattering of outrageous anecdotes, while the truth is that people are still largely as they have been for the past 150,000 years?
Your post also reminds me, I seem to recall a story from around the dawn of rail transportation. IIRC it was "mathematically proven" that humans could not physically withstand travel at speeds above ~50mph—causing you to melt or your face to fall off or organs to be forcefully ejected from your body. Anyone have a cite and more accurate retelling of this bit of apocrypha?
"So, Randolph Q. Chairman — can I call you Randy? — Randy, every time a customer's data is stolen from your company's database, Boris here is going to cut you in half with his machete. Is that what you want, Randy? Hm?"
I think the summary was pretty clear. The Marea cable is a highly advanced undersea cable that connects West Virginia Beach to Billings, Montana, crossing the Indian Ocean at a depth of 16,000mi (7km). It weighs a ton (1.09 nautical tons) and has the capacity to transmit 180 tibibytes of data across the Arctic Ocean—roughly equivalent to 1 billion "likes", 64 million unrequested Windows 10 updates, 14,000 librarians of congress, or infinity SMS messages. Geez RTFS.
Trying to settle a bet with a friend. Can anyone come up with a reasonable estimate of how many nukes it would take to destroy N. Korea's warhead collection and neutralize their military forces? Would the number and placement have massive long-term health effects in Seoul and the region? Or is it possible the S. Korea and neighbors come away mostly unscathed?
Don't even need to read the ZD article to know it's wrong, and also dumb. No one is saying "Let's open source the code and include it in every browser!" Like, what, are people going to be giddy at the prospect of open source Flash and start rolling it into lynx or systemd**?
Come 2020, regardless of whether Flash is open sourced or not, no one is going to be developing new jank for a dead platform that's not available in any modern browser. Because only a vanishingly small percentage of people will even be able to see the jank.
I hate Flash as much as the next sane internet-using human, but burning it, salting it, and then pissing on the salt as some misguided paean to security simultaneously hamstrings archivists while managing to do fuck all about actual security.
**I'm really, really sorry for suggesting this and please no one do this.
This is exactly the sort of negativity which shows how the open source community is abusive and unable to cope when a great new idea comes along that throws away all those bad concepts in Unix, just because we're right and you're wrong.
You must be one of those deranged people the internet is full of!
FWIW, I'm personally agnostic about most of the religious wars in the software (and wider nerd) communities.
For instance: the emacs/vim/nano wars. My take is, whatever makes you feel good, brother! You're going straight to hell anyway for using anything fancier than a series of redirected echo statements! #goodenoughforyhwh
Dev: "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I've been keeping terrible developer secrets. All our 'in-game footage' that supposedly shows off the new engine? Entirely pre-rendered."
Rev: "Go on."
Dev: "And I've been secretly coding everything in Rust, even though I promised the CTO I'd use a 'real man's language, like C.'"
Rev: "I see."
Dev: "And most of the day I'm not even coding. I'm posting on Slashdot and playing that mobile game from the Schwarzenegger commercials."
Rev: "Hmm."
Dev: "I lied on my resume; I said I worked for Google as a senior developer, but it was really a call center job with a company called 'Googe' that produces fake semen for German fetish parties."
Rev: "What sort of fucked up calls you must've... **AHEM** My child, these are grave sins to be sure, but anything can be forgiven by the generous mercy of --"
Hard realization: If there was a brief blip on humanity's timeline where science and rationality held the tiniest advantage in our collective esteem over base tribalism, fearmongering, and ignorance-as-a-worldview, it came and went while we were busy mistaking it for a new era of reason.
Whoa there, Morpheus. I don't think humanity is ready to take the red pill on Facebook just yet. Plus, reality turns out to be too real for those of us who grew up on Care Bears and Scruff McGruff.
This. It's just a mix and match game until you can outrage the right audience.
Elderly White Priests (age + race + occupation) get no protection while Black Transgender Atheists (race + gender identity + religious affiliation) get special treatment?! Gawd help us, Facebook is the new Gomorrah!
Poor South American Prostitutes (social class + contental origin + occupation) can go drink a hate speech cocktail while the White Protestant Sex Addicts (race +
religious affiliation + disease) who frequent and exploit them get a gold star and another handjob?! FFS, Facebook! Shame! SHAME!!
Slashdot Mirror
Name checks out.
Agreed. This solution is nice if there's a few websites that you visit regularly that are so afflicted
And this story pops up right next to one about CNN...
Fuck autoplay video at the top of every page, and double fuck turning it into a tiny sidebar video and restarting it after you scroll past it.
For any regulators reading /.: All those things, and Chuck E Cheese, and McDonalds Monopoly, and games with loot drops and a real money auction house (or login credentials not tied immutably to a single human person) are "gambling", but none of them are Gambling.
If you want to ban companies from marketing rainbow strobelight Skinner boxes to kids because they're harmful to the kids (and their parents' bank accounts), go for it. With my blessing! But calling in-game orbs and in-game dragon sweaters—neither of which can be converted into currency—things of value sufficient to constitute gambling is quite a stretch.
No they forced the (former) World Wrestling Federation, also "WWF" up to that point, to change their name to World Wrestling Entertainment with "WWE" acronym. As an IP attorney, their international, decade-spanning battle over a 3-latter acronym—used as a mark on vastly different goods & services—has always fascinated me.
But given how strident Wildlife was, I'm a little surprised Words With Friends, the Working Women's Forum, or Windows Workflow Foundation are allowed to exist in peace...
That was precisely, succinctly, the answer. +3 Mobile Internets to you, sir!
Aside: When did links stop working?
Please STOP using existing acronym.
Nice try, World Wildlife Fund sockpuppet!
We don’t have to listen to you and your program of Complete acronym totalitarianism (everywhere, everywhen, everywhich, everywhat, everywhether), better known as “Cat5e”.
Intel with Crippling Silicon-level Security Vulnerabilities
FTFTFS. In the spirit of fairness, though, I’d at least give them a little back in the subhead:
Latest chip may be overclocked to make up for 5-30% performance hit users will suffer as a result of shoddy design
“Failure to Tolerate My Intolerance is Intolerant!” “Oppressors, Feeling Oppressed, Call Opposition to Their Extremism ‘Extremist’”
Truth: Companies may have, or be perceived as having, biases on various social and political issues. This is true for everyone from Facebook to Fox Entertainment Group to Chick-fil-A.
Truth: This has fuckall to do with rolling back net neutrality.
Or perhaps "parents these days" are like "millennial snowflakes", "litigious Americans", "$party voters", and any number of groups that are easily characterized by a non-representative smattering of outrageous anecdotes, while the truth is that people are still largely as they have been for the past 150,000 years?
Your post also reminds me, I seem to recall a story from around the dawn of rail transportation. IIRC it was "mathematically proven" that humans could not physically withstand travel at speeds above ~50mph—causing you to melt or your face to fall off or organs to be forcefully ejected from your body. Anyone have a cite and more accurate retelling of this bit of apocrypha?
"So, Randolph Q. Chairman — can I call you Randy? — Randy, every time a customer's data is stolen from your company's database, Boris here is going to cut you in half with his machete. Is that what you want, Randy? Hm?"
I'm torn between "Whoosh!" and slow clapping the driest delivery since giving birth during Exodus.
I think the summary was pretty clear. The Marea cable is a highly advanced undersea cable that connects West Virginia Beach to Billings, Montana, crossing the Indian Ocean at a depth of 16,000mi (7km). It weighs a ton (1.09 nautical tons) and has the capacity to transmit 180 tibibytes of data across the Arctic Ocean—roughly equivalent to 1 billion "likes", 64 million unrequested Windows 10 updates, 14,000 librarians of congress, or infinity SMS messages. Geez RTFS.
Trying to settle a bet with a friend. Can anyone come up with a reasonable estimate of how many nukes it would take to destroy N. Korea's warhead collection and neutralize their military forces? Would the number and placement have massive long-term health effects in Seoul and the region? Or is it possible the S. Korea and neighbors come away mostly unscathed?
Don't even need to read the ZD article to know it's wrong, and also dumb. No one is saying "Let's open source the code and include it in every browser!" Like, what, are people going to be giddy at the prospect of open source Flash and start rolling it into lynx or systemd**?
Come 2020, regardless of whether Flash is open sourced or not, no one is going to be developing new jank for a dead platform that's not available in any modern browser. Because only a vanishingly small percentage of people will even be able to see the jank.
I hate Flash as much as the next sane internet-using human, but burning it, salting it, and then pissing on the salt as some misguided paean to security simultaneously hamstrings archivists while managing to do fuck all about actual security.
**I'm really, really sorry for suggesting this and please no one do this.
> Dev: "I work on systemd in my spare time."
This is exactly the sort of negativity which shows how the open source community is abusive and unable to cope when a great new idea comes along that throws away all those bad concepts in Unix, just because we're right and you're wrong.
You must be one of those deranged people the internet is full of!
FWIW, I'm personally agnostic about most of the religious wars in the software (and wider nerd) communities.
For instance: the emacs/vim/nano wars. My take is, whatever makes you feel good, brother! You're going straight to hell anyway for using anything fancier than a series of redirected echo statements! #goodenoughforyhwh
Dev: "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I've been keeping terrible developer secrets. All our 'in-game footage' that supposedly shows off the new engine? Entirely pre-rendered."
Rev: "Go on."
Dev: "And I've been secretly coding everything in Rust, even though I promised the CTO I'd use a 'real man's language, like C.'"
Rev: "I see."
Dev: "And most of the day I'm not even coding. I'm posting on Slashdot and playing that mobile game from the Schwarzenegger commercials."
Rev: "Hmm."
Dev: "I lied on my resume; I said I worked for Google as a senior developer, but it was really a call center job with a company called 'Googe' that produces fake semen for German fetish parties."
Rev: "What sort of fucked up calls you must've... **AHEM** My child, these are grave sins to be sure, but anything can be forgiven by the generous mercy of --"
Dev: "I work on systemd in my spare time."
Rev: "I COMMAND THEE LEAVE, SATAN!"
Can't take this anymore...
Hard realization: If there was a brief blip on humanity's timeline where science and rationality held the tiniest advantage in our collective esteem over base tribalism, fearmongering, and ignorance-as-a-worldview, it came and went while we were busy mistaking it for a new era of reason.
How about this: rewrite systemd in Rust first and I might consider it.
Sees systemd rewritten in Rust.
"I'm here to challenge this district's use of Brave New World in the curriculum."
"Ok, here's the 'Ban Brave New World' form, goes in that stack over there. What's your objection? Promiscuity? Irreligion? Drugs? Socialism?"
"No, it's inaccurate. Huxley says Alphas belong in charge, but we seem to be doing pretty great with Epsilons running the state of Florida."
"... You can write that, but you know the Board's not going to get it, right?"
Someone sticky this post to the top of the thread.
Whoa there, Morpheus. I don't think humanity is ready to take the red pill on Facebook just yet. Plus, reality turns out to be too real for those of us who grew up on Care Bears and Scruff McGruff.
This. It's just a mix and match game until you can outrage the right audience.
Elderly White Priests (age + race + occupation) get no protection while Black Transgender Atheists (race + gender identity + religious affiliation) get special treatment?! Gawd help us, Facebook is the new Gomorrah!
Poor South American Prostitutes (social class + contental origin + occupation) can go drink a hate speech cocktail while the White Protestant Sex Addicts (race + religious affiliation + disease) who frequent and exploit them get a gold star and another handjob?! FFS, Facebook! Shame! SHAME!!