The Troll Index (Troll/Relevant) fluctuated around a mean average for years.
Even after Trump was elected, the trend was steady-state.
Then, as the administration started pissing off its base, especially with the trade wars, anti-Trump spammers became more active.
Though the Troll Index on/. remained nominally flat during the Obama administration, those who voted him in were disappointed more than once, and that level of dissatisfaction floated up gently til the end of that administration, but not to the point that/. was affected very much.
Trolls are the cow patties of a pleasant meadow where great minds come to mingle.
Assange stated that he was protected by freedom of the press.
No one in any administration, be it Sweden, UK, or the United States has given any stated reason by way of freedom of the press for not pursuing Assange.
Your obscure correlation is irrelevant and off topic.
... will be that he's a publisher and protected by freedom of the press.
When his name first surfaced in association with Wikileaks, he made it clear that he was simply the "spokesman," and did not "hack," or supervise the release of material, and had no way to know what the internal workings were.
He was simply the front man.
That's how he circumvented culpability for a hell of a lot of years.
Wikileaks itself elevated interest in Assange when the organization turned political in a move to increase donations which had fallen off due to lack of interest by supporters.
Wikileak's decline also affected Assange's visibility and he resented the lack of attention.
Assange started to take some credit for the material Wikileaks was releasing.
That was incriminating and blew his credibility as a distant spokesperson.
For that reason, he asserted that he was a journalist and that Wikileaks was a publishing house.
I'm leaving out the the narrative regarding his relationship with two women because those details are irrelevant.
With the loss of Ecuador's support, Assange is in deep shit.
I got my first computer, a Radio Shack TRS-80 in February 1978.
Radio Shack had no clue as to what all it could do. The technology was so new, no one was aware of the versatility and possibilities and permutations a Z80 could deliver if manipulated.
I wrote articles for 80-Microcomputing and Kilobaud magazines.
That's how far back I go.
I helped Mobil Oil bring in the first network. That was some major shit because it was a paradigm shift all the way down. I enjoyed the shit out of learning something so radical. The users saw the potential but peed down both legs at the disruption.
That goddam network could stay up only about a day and a half. Reminded me of the scene in Ten Commandments when the crowd bitched, "We would be better off as slaves in Egypt!!!" or "Let's get rid of this fucking goddam network!!!."
Mobil got a fractional T1 and tied Beaumont to Dallas to Reston and back. The first servers were 3Com. The boxes had no monitors or keyboards. The only way in was an OS/2 desktop connected by Ethernet.
Riding above all that was a Unix box that could do everything that no other box could do.
Then BBS and Compuserve emerged. Like Google of today, it was a saving grace for all things technical. AOL showed up and so did the kids. People wanted to see their typing show up in a room where there were a bunch of people, so mostly, it was, "Me, too." Prodigy was an anemic competitor to AOL.
These were the dial-up days. Dial-up had a theoretical limit of 56kbs and a practical limit of 48kbs and we would brag if we got a solid 22kbs.
We didn't realize that we were at the embryonic stage of social media. All of the "portals" had primitive banner ads and ads inserted into the conversational stream but is wasn't all that annoying and there wasn't much money involved.
So, we had moved from stand alone computers to locally connected computers to wider area connected computers.
--
The Internet died on the day is was born, we just didn't know it yet. As we all rushed about chasing rabbit holes and clumps of people became regular visitors to the same sites, advertising agencies, working with Internet sites, informed businesses that, "we have your eyeballs right here."
We're fucked and that gum is not gonna come off our tennis shoe.
Advertising, as bad as it fucks us up, is negligible compared to the next revenue stream. This is a devastating one:
The Internet companies who collect information for the advertisers discovered that THAT information was worth 1,000 times more than targeted ads.
Now we have data prostitution. You and I are giving away a valuable commodity and asking nothing in return and the collectors are marking that shit way up.
It gets worse.
Government agencies that are prohibited from gathering data on its citizens can say, "OK. We didn't spy or tap or intercept. The citizen data we have, we got it off the shelf at a big box store that sells that shit to any one, be they foreign or domestic."
Capitalism killed the Internet the day the Internet was born.
Thanks for being a Chris mega fan.
At another time, I'll discuss the security problems that are embedded in the DNA of the Internet.
Facebook should be clearly labeled as a game environment populated by people who volunteer to be game pieces.
FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
By consenting to our Terms of Service, you agree to enter into a legal contract where you affirm that the content is provided by you (Member) and is subject to our guidelines and you further stipulate that all content that you post is your original material and that only then can the material be shared.
By voluntary participation in this platform, you do hereby indicate that you have a full and complete understanding that Facebook is intended for polls asking, by way of example, but not by way of limitation, if you are a sunflower or a marigold and you will post obligatory duckface photos with your friends eating nachos at Frank's Dill Pickle Tofu Bar.
Finally, you, the Member will attest and affirm that you are well aware that the content of your Facebook Timeline is just a mishmash of chaotic syrupy shit not to be taken seriously.
Slashdot Mirror
Well just shit! .
I could have thought of those.
I could have been a contender.
STELLA!
Well, to be clear, I was not referring to you.
... Trump does that with actual intelligence.
[sorry, low-hanging fruit]
... renamed it.
I feel much more secure now.
Oh, and I almost forgot: quantum bitcoin.
It's not the last week or so.
The Troll Index (Troll/Relevant) fluctuated around a mean average for years.
Even after Trump was elected, the trend was steady-state.
Then, as the administration started pissing off its base, especially with the trade wars, anti-Trump spammers became more active.
Though the Troll Index on /. remained nominally flat during the Obama administration, those who voted him in were disappointed more than once, and that level of dissatisfaction floated up gently til the end of that administration, but not to the point that /. was affected very much.
Trolls are the cow patties of a pleasant meadow where great minds come to mingle.
The patties, of late, are just taller.
No.
Assange stated that he was protected by freedom of the press.
No one in any administration, be it Sweden, UK, or the United States has given any stated reason by way of freedom of the press for not pursuing Assange.
Your obscure correlation is irrelevant and off topic.
I do swim in these waters and the "Americas" part of it is just as wrong.
... will be that he's a publisher and protected by freedom of the press.
When his name first surfaced in association with Wikileaks, he made it clear that he was simply the "spokesman," and did not "hack," or supervise the release of material, and had no way to know what the internal workings were.
He was simply the front man.
That's how he circumvented culpability for a hell of a lot of years.
Wikileaks itself elevated interest in Assange when the organization turned political in a move to increase donations which had fallen off due to lack of interest by supporters.
Wikileak's decline also affected Assange's visibility and he resented the lack of attention.
Assange started to take some credit for the material Wikileaks was releasing.
That was incriminating and blew his credibility as a distant spokesperson.
For that reason, he asserted that he was a journalist and that Wikileaks was a publishing house.
I'm leaving out the the narrative regarding his relationship with two women because those details are irrelevant.
With the loss of Ecuador's support, Assange is in deep shit.
... quantum bullshit detector.
They are mixing the science of quantum entanglement with fucking ballistic particles.
And "2015?" Goddam stealth anything bigger than mesoscopic size is Classical.
Why the simple hell didn't they mention blockchain?
OK.
I got my first computer, a Radio Shack TRS-80 in February 1978.
Radio Shack had no clue as to what all it could do. The technology was so new, no one was aware of the versatility and possibilities and permutations a Z80 could deliver if manipulated.
I wrote articles for 80-Microcomputing and Kilobaud magazines.
That's how far back I go.
I helped Mobil Oil bring in the first network. That was some major shit because it was a paradigm shift all the way down. I enjoyed the shit out of learning something so radical. The users saw the potential but peed down both legs at the disruption.
That goddam network could stay up only about a day and a half. Reminded me of the scene in Ten Commandments when the crowd bitched, "We would be better off as slaves in Egypt!!!" or "Let's get rid of this fucking goddam network!!!."
Mobil got a fractional T1 and tied Beaumont to Dallas to Reston and back. The first servers were 3Com. The boxes had no monitors or keyboards. The only way in was an OS/2 desktop connected by Ethernet.
Riding above all that was a Unix box that could do everything that no other box could do.
Then BBS and Compuserve emerged. Like Google of today, it was a saving grace for all things technical. AOL showed up and so did the kids. People wanted to see their typing show up in a room where there were a bunch of people, so mostly, it was, "Me, too." Prodigy was an anemic competitor to AOL.
These were the dial-up days. Dial-up had a theoretical limit of 56kbs and a practical limit of 48kbs and we would brag if we got a solid 22kbs.
We didn't realize that we were at the embryonic stage of social media. All of the "portals" had primitive banner ads and ads inserted into the conversational stream but is wasn't all that annoying and there wasn't much money involved.
So, we had moved from stand alone computers to locally connected computers to wider area connected computers.
--
The Internet died on the day is was born, we just didn't know it yet. As we all rushed about chasing rabbit holes and clumps of people became regular visitors to the same sites, advertising agencies, working with Internet sites, informed businesses that, "we have your eyeballs right here."
We're fucked and that gum is not gonna come off our tennis shoe.
Advertising, as bad as it fucks us up, is negligible compared to the next revenue stream. This is a devastating one:
The Internet companies who collect information for the advertisers discovered that THAT information was worth 1,000 times more than targeted ads.
Now we have data prostitution. You and I are giving away a valuable commodity and asking nothing in return and the collectors are marking that shit way up.
It gets worse.
Government agencies that are prohibited from gathering data on its citizens can say, "OK. We didn't spy or tap or intercept. The citizen data we have, we got it off the shelf at a big box store that sells that shit to any one, be they foreign or domestic."
Capitalism killed the Internet the day the Internet was born.
Thanks for being a Chris mega fan.
At another time, I'll discuss the security problems that are embedded in the DNA of the Internet.
... stable genius ...
Know what you don't see much anymore?
Horseshit in a garage.
Citation?
My hits start off with "PALEOINDIAN OCCUPATION of North America ..."
WTF.
North America is not India.
You're moms ...
We're dads.
... depressing.
Facebook should be clearly labeled as a game environment populated by people who volunteer to be game pieces.
FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
By consenting to our Terms of Service, you agree to enter into a legal contract where you affirm that the content is provided by you (Member) and is subject to our guidelines and you further stipulate that all content that you post is your original material and that only then can the material be shared.
By voluntary participation in this platform, you do hereby indicate that you have a full and complete understanding that Facebook is intended for polls asking, by way of example, but not by way of limitation, if you are a sunflower or a marigold and you will post obligatory duckface photos with your friends eating nachos at Frank's Dill Pickle Tofu Bar.
Finally, you, the Member will attest and affirm that you are well aware that the content of your Facebook Timeline is just a mishmash of chaotic syrupy shit not to be taken seriously.
I have a 6 year experience with BASICA in 1978.
+1 Courtesy
Thank you.
... still use it.
... is America itself.
I'm a 72 year old retired IT guy and it's all I can do to minimize my goddam footprint on this goddam Internet.
I'm not afraid of obvious threats. What scares me is the boiling frog.
Advertisers are the water and we are the frogs.
Yes, I do recall a sort of emptiness and longing as it swooshed by.
The mod score can hit rock bottom, but the disgust at lack of action regarding both goes much deeper than -1.
Very interesting read. Thank you.
... tin foil hat expansion.
... mass shootings in the US, and the response is the same: "Sorry about that."
It's true, transports don't move. They're layer 1.
Sorry. TL;DR because bullshit.