RSS support started dropping from browsers before it started dropping from sites. In the end, now that I don't have a handy list of RSS feeds I just don't visit most of the webcomics that I used to read. I can't see how that's a real win for them.
It's always entertaining to watch citizens of those countries gasp in shock when they hear their country does the same things, and is often in fact in cooperation with the NSA.
Go back and reread the responses, as there are plenty on this site alone. They don't gasp in shock; they rationalize, excuse, and find a way to blame it on the US.
Because...
The point of the anti-US sentiment is to make people in Europe believe that this is solely an American phenomena, and so it couldn't happen there.
It's working. It's popular to point to Americans as small-minded, but it's really a universally human attribute.
This argument is based on the faulty equation of "willingness to commit a specific, non-violent crime" with "willingness to murder all of the occupants of a house".
I'm sure that there are some burglars who would be ok with committing several counts of cold blooded murder for your TV and jewelry, but don't pretend that most people are ok with that. Most burglars leave a house once they discover that anyone is home.
ARM is officially a Tier 2 architecture, as the FreeBSD project does not provide official releases or pre-built packages for this platform due to it primarily targeting the embedded arena.
And once you get it installed, you get the joy of cross-compiling ports or waiting days/weeks/months for them to compile on the system itself (if you have the space or set up an NFS host to use). And you still get the treat of using uboot.
The advantage of an x86 based SBC is the ability to take advantage of the maturity and relative uniformity of the x86 platform. The arcane uboot process and the need for specific support for not only different ARM SoCs, but the specific machines built on them, leaves dozens of abandoned ARM based systems stuck on ancient custom-tweaked kernels (and Linux only). Almost all of the problems you list are inherent in any ARM-based system until the equivalent of a uniform and predictable BIOS-type system is implemented for ARM.
I can't say I'd care too much about that, but my point was more that there's not even much interest in attempting to compromise most internet accounts. In over 15 years, no person or bot attempted to log into this account with the most common password on the internet. Expecting users to come up with and remember strong passwords for inconsequential sites is a waste of everybody's time.
Until I just recently changed it, "password" has been my password for this account on Slashdot for over fifteen years. Not only is it a fine password for accounts of little consequence, but it actually works well for accounts where nobody ever even bothers to try to break in.
From the linked abstract: two longitudinal studies of adolescent twins (n = 789 and n = 2,277). They claim that these sample sizes are large enough to be significant in the article.
It's also a classic strategy for the ruling class to keep attention away from their own misdeeds and weaken the population's ability to effectively criticize or hold them accountable: Divide and rule. In more recent history, the British Empire were masters at it (with some of their instigated divisions still raging), but it's been consistently throughout history.
It was oddly quiet - even though it was simply screen.
It may have also been actually quieter or simply different in ambient sound. Screen will disrupt the propagation of sound to an extent that varies depending on the frequency of the sound. You could test this by changing the overall shielding effectiveness of the cage or bringing some RF sources into the cage with you.
Your theory might be more compelling if extreme wealth, income, or any other proxy for appreciation by society had much of a correlation with intelligence. "Captains of industry" have never really been known for their vast intelligence (except possibly in financial areas), but are instead characterized by their charisma, tenacity, or ruthlessness. The scientists, engineers, and thinkers are typically middle class and would be lumped into your rank-and-file category.
The intelligent are having to subsidize the unintelligent that dominate both the upper and lower classes (and the middle, too). The people who change our world through massive advances in our understanding of the universe are already living on a pittance while our society rewards (and idolizes) the ones who are most talented as swindling others.
Keeping up future development while keeping the ignorant hordes fed is pretty cheap compared to doing so while trying to sate the greed of the ignorant aristocracy.
Achieving a pretty damn good command of English grammar is something that most reasonably intelligent children accomplish in grade school. If you're needing to "allocate time" to it at this point in your life, you're already making a bad impression on others. If you're living in a country and can't be bothered to learn the local language well, poor attitude is going to be what people think when they interact with you. Why would anyone assume that you're going to bother to do a good job at the work you're hired to do when you barely give a shit about communicating effectively with the people around you?
Frankly, your initial post didn't bother me but this attitude always strikes me as bizarre. You're the only one who sees your intellectual laziness and your incompetence outside of your tiny field of expertise as a positive trait.
At least they didn't just immediately kill it like they did with Gizmo5. Killing them was part of Google's big push away from using open standards for their services.
Having depression that is being treated won't interfere with getting a security clearance. Having obvious symptoms of depression and refusing treatment or having a history of erratic behavior linked to untreated depression would interfere, though. Seeking counseling or medication for psychiatric conditions hasn't been a cause to refuse clearance sine ~1995, per Executive Order 12968. Officially, anyway, it can't be the reason for being denied clearance.
You're correct, but for the last ten years or so camera indicators have been wired the more complicated/expensive/nefarious way. It's almost enough to make you a little paranoid.
I don't know what situation would really require a switchblade, either, but I think that's a poor reason to make them illegal. Needing to have a compelling reason for things to be legal is a shitty way to run a society. Things should only be made illegal if there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason to do so.
If I was going to advocate for a firearm for home defense I would argue for a "shot pistol" -- you want a short enough barrel to not constrain the pellets to maximize spread. This helps to offset the accuracy issue. The rapid energy loss associated with pellets helps to reduce threat to the environment. Of course, you still have the issues of lethality and safety.
That's a terrible idea for so many reasons!
Firstly, the spread of a load of shot has almost no relation to the length of the barrel. It's almost entirely dependent on the choke of the barrel, and even when it starts to affect the spread it's not that bug of an effect at short range. Even if a short barrel gave you enough spread that aiming didn't matter, to effectively create your cone of death you'd either have to use shot so fine that it would have a hard time penetrating skin or such a huge number of large pellets that the cartridge would be huge and the recoil would be brutal (shooting a Lupara hurts, and it has more weight and two hands to distribute the recoil to).
Secondly, even with a shotgun, you still have to actually point the gun at the target. It doesn't really create a wide angle "cone of death". A long gun is easier to aim, especially in stressful situations.
People like pistols because they're small, cheap(er) to buy, and cheap to practice with. A shorter barrel shotgun is probably the ideal home defense weapon, mostly because of the over-penetration issues of rifles.
Of course there should be some relevance, but I feel it should be a little more dynamic. I'm glad we didn't get a written constitution cast in stone 800 years ago because the world then was very different to now.
There's an established amendment process, so it isn't cast in stone. The process for amending it isn't even that onerous if there's some consensus among the population. If we wanted to repeal the 2nd Amendment, like we repealed the 18th Amendment, there is a legal method for doing so that still preserves the integrity of the constitution and the government that is built on it. The fact that there isn't enough consensus to repeal it means that much of the population disagrees with your opinion on the matter.
I want it to keep my food cold and ice frozen and be dependable doing so.
In which case, you may want to reconsider a Samsung anyway.
Mine turns off the compressor and throws an error code that needs to be acknowledged when it restarts after a power failure. That's always a treat to come home to.
Also, there are two buttons, right next to each other and easily bumped into, that turn off the fridge when touched. Of course they aren't labeled as such, so it's back to the manual when you hear the cheerful tone and see 'OFF' on the display (why would anyone ever want to turn off the compressor but leave the fridge plugged in?).
It's shiny and supposedly has an unmaintained smartphone app, but they put little thought into the refrigeration aspect of it.
If a comic book inspires him to actually create AI, (almost) nobody will be slinging poo. Instead, a comic book has inspired him to publicly claim that he'll create AI, which is really pretty lame.
He didn't claim that such a thing didn't exist. He claimed that it is "a bit weird and intrusive". That, historically, others have been able to treat this as a standard and not find it intrusive only attests to the power of lifelong acclimatization and the dehumanization inherent in caste systems.
His use of "contrast" instead of "context" might not have been an accident, which highlights one of the reasons that I have a hard time reading much of what is written today. You get a huge serving of it here on Slashdot, but even people who are paid to write in English often regularly try to use words that they don't actually know: from the famous "intensive purposes" to the use of "idealistic" instead of "idyllic" (which made me cringe while reading an article this morning).
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RSS support started dropping from browsers before it started dropping from sites. In the end, now that I don't have a handy list of RSS feeds I just don't visit most of the webcomics that I used to read. I can't see how that's a real win for them.
It's always entertaining to watch citizens of those countries gasp in shock when they hear their country does the same things, and is often in fact in cooperation with the NSA.
Go back and reread the responses, as there are plenty on this site alone. They don't gasp in shock; they rationalize, excuse, and find a way to blame it on the US.
Because...
The point of the anti-US sentiment is to make people in Europe believe that this is solely an American phenomena, and so it couldn't happen there.
It's working. It's popular to point to Americans as small-minded, but it's really a universally human attribute.
This argument is based on the faulty equation of "willingness to commit a specific, non-violent crime" with "willingness to murder all of the occupants of a house".
I'm sure that there are some burglars who would be ok with committing several counts of cold blooded murder for your TV and jewelry, but don't pretend that most people are ok with that. Most burglars leave a house once they discover that anyone is home.
From FreeBSD's site:
ARM is officially a Tier 2 architecture, as the FreeBSD project does not provide official releases or pre-built packages for this platform due to it primarily targeting the embedded arena.
And once you get it installed, you get the joy of cross-compiling ports or waiting days/weeks/months for them to compile on the system itself (if you have the space or set up an NFS host to use). And you still get the treat of using uboot.
The advantage of an x86 based SBC is the ability to take advantage of the maturity and relative uniformity of the x86 platform. The arcane uboot process and the need for specific support for not only different ARM SoCs, but the specific machines built on them, leaves dozens of abandoned ARM based systems stuck on ancient custom-tweaked kernels (and Linux only). Almost all of the problems you list are inherent in any ARM-based system until the equivalent of a uniform and predictable BIOS-type system is implemented for ARM.
I can't say I'd care too much about that, but my point was more that there's not even much interest in attempting to compromise most internet accounts. In over 15 years, no person or bot attempted to log into this account with the most common password on the internet. Expecting users to come up with and remember strong passwords for inconsequential sites is a waste of everybody's time.
Until I just recently changed it, "password" has been my password for this account on Slashdot for over fifteen years. Not only is it a fine password for accounts of little consequence, but it actually works well for accounts where nobody ever even bothers to try to break in.
Incidentally, the Slashdot subscriber subsystem is broken: if you subscribe, it doesn't work).
I don't think it's worked for years. The last time I tried to subscribe, it refused to take my money.
From the linked abstract: two longitudinal studies of adolescent twins (n = 789 and n = 2,277). They claim that these sample sizes are large enough to be significant in the article.
It's also a classic strategy for the ruling class to keep attention away from their own misdeeds and weaken the population's ability to effectively criticize or hold them accountable: Divide and rule. In more recent history, the British Empire were masters at it (with some of their instigated divisions still raging), but it's been consistently throughout history.
It was oddly quiet - even though it was simply screen.
It may have also been actually quieter or simply different in ambient sound. Screen will disrupt the propagation of sound to an extent that varies depending on the frequency of the sound. You could test this by changing the overall shielding effectiveness of the cage or bringing some RF sources into the cage with you.
One of the largest mass extinction events of all killed off only bacteria (obligate anaerobic bacteria). Of course, it was caused by other bacteria.
Your theory might be more compelling if extreme wealth, income, or any other proxy for appreciation by society had much of a correlation with intelligence. "Captains of industry" have never really been known for their vast intelligence (except possibly in financial areas), but are instead characterized by their charisma, tenacity, or ruthlessness. The scientists, engineers, and thinkers are typically middle class and would be lumped into your rank-and-file category.
The intelligent are having to subsidize the unintelligent that dominate both the upper and lower classes (and the middle, too). The people who change our world through massive advances in our understanding of the universe are already living on a pittance while our society rewards (and idolizes) the ones who are most talented as swindling others.
Keeping up future development while keeping the ignorant hordes fed is pretty cheap compared to doing so while trying to sate the greed of the ignorant aristocracy.
Achieving a pretty damn good command of English grammar is something that most reasonably intelligent children accomplish in grade school. If you're needing to "allocate time" to it at this point in your life, you're already making a bad impression on others. If you're living in a country and can't be bothered to learn the local language well, poor attitude is going to be what people think when they interact with you. Why would anyone assume that you're going to bother to do a good job at the work you're hired to do when you barely give a shit about communicating effectively with the people around you?
Frankly, your initial post didn't bother me but this attitude always strikes me as bizarre. You're the only one who sees your intellectual laziness and your incompetence outside of your tiny field of expertise as a positive trait.
At least they didn't just immediately kill it like they did with Gizmo5. Killing them was part of Google's big push away from using open standards for their services.
Having depression that is being treated won't interfere with getting a security clearance. Having obvious symptoms of depression and refusing treatment or having a history of erratic behavior linked to untreated depression would interfere, though. Seeking counseling or medication for psychiatric conditions hasn't been a cause to refuse clearance sine ~1995, per Executive Order 12968. Officially, anyway, it can't be the reason for being denied clearance.
You're correct, but for the last ten years or so camera indicators have been wired the more complicated/expensive/nefarious way. It's almost enough to make you a little paranoid.
I don't know what situation would really require a switchblade, either, but I think that's a poor reason to make them illegal. Needing to have a compelling reason for things to be legal is a shitty way to run a society. Things should only be made illegal if there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason to do so.
If I was going to advocate for a firearm for home defense I would argue for a "shot pistol" -- you want a short enough barrel to not constrain the pellets to maximize spread. This helps to offset the accuracy issue. The rapid energy loss associated with pellets helps to reduce threat to the environment. Of course, you still have the issues of lethality and safety.
That's a terrible idea for so many reasons!
Firstly, the spread of a load of shot has almost no relation to the length of the barrel. It's almost entirely dependent on the choke of the barrel, and even when it starts to affect the spread it's not that bug of an effect at short range. Even if a short barrel gave you enough spread that aiming didn't matter, to effectively create your cone of death you'd either have to use shot so fine that it would have a hard time penetrating skin or such a huge number of large pellets that the cartridge would be huge and the recoil would be brutal (shooting a Lupara hurts, and it has more weight and two hands to distribute the recoil to).
Secondly, even with a shotgun, you still have to actually point the gun at the target. It doesn't really create a wide angle "cone of death". A long gun is easier to aim, especially in stressful situations.
People like pistols because they're small, cheap(er) to buy, and cheap to practice with. A shorter barrel shotgun is probably the ideal home defense weapon, mostly because of the over-penetration issues of rifles.
Of course there should be some relevance, but I feel it should be a little more dynamic. I'm glad we didn't get a written constitution cast in stone 800 years ago because the world then was very different to now.
There's an established amendment process, so it isn't cast in stone. The process for amending it isn't even that onerous if there's some consensus among the population. If we wanted to repeal the 2nd Amendment, like we repealed the 18th Amendment, there is a legal method for doing so that still preserves the integrity of the constitution and the government that is built on it. The fact that there isn't enough consensus to repeal it means that much of the population disagrees with your opinion on the matter.
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Oh, and the jet will make you jittery.
I want it to keep my food cold and ice frozen and be dependable doing so.
In which case, you may want to reconsider a Samsung anyway.
Mine turns off the compressor and throws an error code that needs to be acknowledged when it restarts after a power failure. That's always a treat to come home to.
Also, there are two buttons, right next to each other and easily bumped into, that turn off the fridge when touched. Of course they aren't labeled as such, so it's back to the manual when you hear the cheerful tone and see 'OFF' on the display (why would anyone ever want to turn off the compressor but leave the fridge plugged in?).
It's shiny and supposedly has an unmaintained smartphone app, but they put little thought into the refrigeration aspect of it.
If a comic book inspires him to actually create AI, (almost) nobody will be slinging poo.
Instead, a comic book has inspired him to publicly claim that he'll create AI, which is really pretty lame.
He didn't claim that such a thing didn't exist. He claimed that it is "a bit weird and intrusive". That, historically, others have been able to treat this as a standard and not find it intrusive only attests to the power of lifelong acclimatization and the dehumanization inherent in caste systems.
His use of "contrast" instead of "context" might not have been an accident, which highlights one of the reasons that I have a hard time reading much of what is written today. You get a huge serving of it here on Slashdot, but even people who are paid to write in English often regularly try to use words that they don't actually know: from the famous "intensive purposes" to the use of "idealistic" instead of "idyllic" (which made me cringe while reading an article this morning).