Imagine a world where MS made enough money on selling licenses for their software so they didn't need to resort to data mining and advertising in order to make a profit. That would be grand.
I don't blame you for not updating though, when you have such a system in place that just works. I updated to Windows 10 but I do nothing productive on it so why worry. Windows 10 is rather nice, but it might not be worth it to a lot of people, general population not withstanding.
Sir, I will have you know that this is offensive to Tonya Harding and Tonya Harding fans. Your ice cold humor won't spin you out of this, you can't skate around the issue at hand. The momentum of your angle while making snide comments like this will follow you, until you are judged harshly and out of breath. Also you wear tights and glitter.
In other news, it's unfortunate that you'd have to keep such a laundry list of "things to intentionally break in order to feel secure" on the operating system you depend on. On Linux it's normally the other way around, having to fix things to hold stuff together. But at least privacy isn't usually a big concern.
Maybe my sense of humor is lame, but I don't think i'm THAT dumb. Then again, having autism doesn't automatically mean a person is a drooling numbskull. Spectrums leave a lot of room for gray areas.
Yeah, I knew about the whole fraud thing, I never really believed a Vaccine could give autism in the first place (how would it? I'm no neurologist but I imagine inducing autism would be pretty difficult without just rendering someone mentally impaired in other ways). I was just bringing some sarcasm and low brow humor to the comment section. Some people think I'm kidding but luckily having Internet people upset with me isn't something I'd worry about.
But seriously, even if autism could be somehow connected, I think keeping my hypothetical young child from having a serious flu would be worth the risk. I know people tend to default to "I'd rather cause harm by inaction than by action" and generally aren't good at perceiving small but serious risks, especially when dying from a flu seems so uncommon these days. But even the reduction in sick time that could be made possible by this kind of thing would be great. If the flu is ever rendered inert by society, that would be a huge milestone. I doubt I'll see it happen in my lifetime though.
True. There are a lot of things I like about Windows 10 (most of them are things that have been present in Ubuntu for a while now, though I think the new start menu is better than the current Unity Dash). But the privacy concerns.... I only use Windows as a gaming platform but it still sorta creeps me out to think about what they are gathering from me that I may not even be aware of.
I only use Adblock Plus and NoScript, because I feel like I'd get diminishing returns from using 4 different addons for privacy and blocking bad traffic due to stacked redundancy.
There are also plenty of larger people (of both sexes) working in offices too. I would think that turning the temperature up would be even more uncomfortable for these people. So this article is a little sexist toward men who cannot help their size difference to women, and is also unfair to large folks who need to thermostat to be as low as possible to keep them from being too warm. Maybe in a world full of skinny people it would be okay, but we certainly aren't heading in that direction.
I understand that Gamergate is more complicated than most people realize, while not being all that far reaching (at least not Gamergate specifically, the larger picture spans far beyond it and can't be tackled in the same arena made to concentrate on gaming journalism/culture). But it does seem like/. was trying to turn it into a binary "with us or against us" situation, geared toward one said catapulting harassment at the other.
It would have been nice to see a more representative view of both ends, to maybe get an idea of what someone in the middle might be seeing, as opposed to the "men are doing all the bad things and women are the helpless victims" idea we are presented with all the time here. It is a battle of extremes as well as moderates, but the extremes get the most attention (surprise surprise) and the extreme a lot of tech communities want to go with are the more social justice commando viewpoints, I guess since it's new and seems like since bad things do happen, they must be completely true, right? The kernel of truth covered in lackluster or biased commentary. Sure does make for some juicy clickbait, if nothing else.
That last paragraph is not very well thought through. Not all ideas of social justice seem so bad. On a basic level it's fine to give people a chance when they otherwise had less ability to. It doesn't have to hurt anyone to be accomplished. But Justice really does not have a static representation. Every side of a war has a different view of justice. Otherwise there would likely be way fewer wars. Justice is something that changes based on who is determining what is just. It's subjective, as well as objective. The justice system is constantly under scrutiny, constantly being amended. And I'm sure plenty of the worst atrocities and social terrors ever committed were considered somebodies version of justice. And putting the word "Free" on an advertisement doesn't mean the buyer is actually gaining something at no cost.
Social justice is just as corruptible by radical viewpoints as any other cultural ideal.
Seriously, right when I read that sentence, I knew that absolutely nothing had changed about her. She still sticks herself in a situation where "if you aren't with me, you're against me" seems like a reasonable attitude. So unproductive, in any meaningful sense.
I still cannot decide whether this was incompetence or malice on the part of Dice and Wu, but one thing is certain; They will be milking this for as many clicks and attention as they can. I was really hoping that the whole explosive controversy could just settle down so more level heads can triumph (along with market forces, which hopefully won't keep rewarding ideology/click baiting over game design/honest journalism forever). But this sort of nonsense will keep dredging up the bottom feeders. Kicking a hornets nest isn't how you avoid a swarm.
I'm pretty sure Wu would PROBABLY say you have Internalized misogyny, and your brain was warped by the patriarchy to believe these lies. And in doing so, she would be stereotyping you as a helpless, dimwitted woman who cannot think for herself even with all your experience and education. They don't want you to be able to handle yourself, they want you to submit. They want you to be oppressed, like most of them think/pretend they are.
And most of all, they want you to please donate to their Patreon:)
They've been trying to switch it up, keeping everyone on their toes. But I'm sort of OK with these silly hyperbole-ridden articles; As annoying and unnecessary as they are, it does give me an opportunity to see rebuttals and perhaps learn more from the conversations herein. I walk away not only shaking my head, but also knowing better how to think about this issue.
It does get sort of old after a while though, I agree. I've only been reading/. for a few years now, and these conversations never really evolve much because the facts of the matter stay pretty much the same as time goes on.
I wonder if it would be feasible to have a merged slashdot/reddit kind of moderation. Everyone gets a certain number of unbiased votes every day, sort of like how Voat is doing it, to help avoid voting spam. 100 or so votes per day (maybe more depending on how much a user reads on the site over time), but they don't have any bias to them. They just basically add weight. Is a comment or post interesting, well thought out, something you agree with a lot, or even something you disagree with or think is trolling? Add weight to it. The weight makes these posts easier to find if people wish to sort a thread by most weight, which comes in handy for the lucky few who gain mod points. And these mod points are actual biased either positive or negative, with a range of -2 to -5, like on/. Also much like on/. the mod points are handed out mostly at random, but also depending on how much positive mod points are attributed to your posts and submissions, as well as how much of the site you read. Hopefully enough to reward good posting, but not encourage too much of a hivemind. And the limited number of mod points also causes people to not squander them (again, this is the plan). And of course, those who use mod points cannot post in the same discussion.
News at 11. I guess the reason why this is newsworthy is because of how un-newsworthy it SHOULD be but still isn't. When you distrust a branch of scientist as a general rule, anything is possible I suppose.
That every man has the keys to heaven, and those same keys open hell. Paraphrasing, hope I didn't butcher it. It applies very easily to science as well. The Nuclear age, and the science that sprung from it, is very controversial because of it's great destructive power. But on the flipside, an incredible potential for building and powering the human species. Same goes for all kinds of science, but I'm glad we keep pushing it forward.
I don't think AniMojo is a dumb person, but they certainly love a good moral panic and catering to the equally destructive polar opposite end of the overly offensive asshole spectrum; the ultra fragile crybaby.
I understand that allowing these people who make bigoted or disgusting posts a free speech zone turns a few platters of the server rack into a vile pit of shit, but getting a balance between what is acceptable or what is not is REALLY hard, and certainly shouldn't be left to the people who's lives get crushed by mean words on a computer screen. Not only that, but just because a person might unwind by saying shitty things on the Internet doesn't mean they aren't generally OK people, or just have a crude sense of humor that doesn't cause them to hate the people they joke about. I fit into that category, laughing at some people but not showing any real hatred.
People like that undoubtedly rag on Voat and 8chan (even though generally hateful sections of the sites aren't even the most prevalent, last I checked) for being too lenient on hate speech, but when it comes to open platforms for free thought, you're GOING to end up dredging up some fucked up opinions, even if the site has generally normal people posting on it. Even gold nuggets end up sitting next to rotting fish corpses at some point before someone pans them out of the riverbed. Being too "nice" to a certain subsection of the population will keep some communities from becoming interesting and diverse, if not crude.
I disagree, therefore your opinions are, in fact, of no importance in relation to my own. Quickly now, extinguish your own life so as to satisfy my feelings of complete triumph over you; my hapless adversary.
Oh, I'm fine with Wu showing herself for the, dare I say "questionable" kind of person she really is. It's happened before and it'll probably happen again as long as it benefits her. But that's the thing, it's like a drug. Causes a high, she gets off on it, along with her donations. And right now for all I know, she could be trying to snort a figurative line of coke off our collective tempers. Or at the very least trying to legitimize her more notable behavior by coming off as suddenly considerate and professional to the people she loves to detest.
I would say that the only winning move is not to play, in my opinion. Not that it's worth losing sleep over.
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Imagine a world where MS made enough money on selling licenses for their software so they didn't need to resort to data mining and advertising in order to make a profit. That would be grand.
I don't blame you for not updating though, when you have such a system in place that just works. I updated to Windows 10 but I do nothing productive on it so why worry. Windows 10 is rather nice, but it might not be worth it to a lot of people, general population not withstanding.
This would be the PERFECT time to become a robot. Plenty of job openings in that market :)
just Tonya Harding the shit out of them. :D
Sir, I will have you know that this is offensive to Tonya Harding and Tonya Harding fans.
Your ice cold humor won't spin you out of this, you can't skate around the issue at hand. The momentum of your angle while making snide comments like this will follow you, until you are judged harshly and out of breath. Also you wear tights and glitter.
In other news, it's unfortunate that you'd have to keep such a laundry list of "things to intentionally break in order to feel secure" on the operating system you depend on. On Linux it's normally the other way around, having to fix things to hold stuff together. But at least privacy isn't usually a big concern.
Maybe my sense of humor is lame, but I don't think i'm THAT dumb.
Then again, having autism doesn't automatically mean a person is a drooling numbskull. Spectrums leave a lot of room for gray areas.
Yeah, I knew about the whole fraud thing, I never really believed a Vaccine could give autism in the first place (how would it? I'm no neurologist but I imagine inducing autism would be pretty difficult without just rendering someone mentally impaired in other ways). I was just bringing some sarcasm and low brow humor to the comment section. Some people think I'm kidding but luckily having Internet people upset with me isn't something I'd worry about.
But seriously, even if autism could be somehow connected, I think keeping my hypothetical young child from having a serious flu would be worth the risk. I know people tend to default to "I'd rather cause harm by inaction than by action" and generally aren't good at perceiving small but serious risks, especially when dying from a flu seems so uncommon these days. But even the reduction in sick time that could be made possible by this kind of thing would be great. If the flu is ever rendered inert by society, that would be a huge milestone. I doubt I'll see it happen in my lifetime though.
True. There are a lot of things I like about Windows 10 (most of them are things that have been present in Ubuntu for a while now, though I think the new start menu is better than the current Unity Dash). But the privacy concerns.... I only use Windows as a gaming platform but it still sorta creeps me out to think about what they are gathering from me that I may not even be aware of.
Sure, having universal flu protection would be nice. But I don't know how I would feel about having THAT many autisms injected into me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I only use Adblock Plus and NoScript, because I feel like I'd get diminishing returns from using 4 different addons for privacy and blocking bad traffic due to stacked redundancy.
How much will this help me out?
There are also plenty of larger people (of both sexes) working in offices too. I would think that turning the temperature up would be even more uncomfortable for these people.
So this article is a little sexist toward men who cannot help their size difference to women, and is also unfair to large folks who need to thermostat to be as low as possible to keep them from being too warm. Maybe in a world full of skinny people it would be okay, but we certainly aren't heading in that direction.
It does explain a lot.
Normal bees couldn't possibly create such perfectly hexagonal honey combs.
Moo.
I understand that Gamergate is more complicated than most people realize, while not being all that far reaching (at least not Gamergate specifically, the larger picture spans far beyond it and can't be tackled in the same arena made to concentrate on gaming journalism/culture). But it does seem like /. was trying to turn it into a binary "with us or against us" situation, geared toward one said catapulting harassment at the other.
It would have been nice to see a more representative view of both ends, to maybe get an idea of what someone in the middle might be seeing, as opposed to the "men are doing all the bad things and women are the helpless victims" idea we are presented with all the time here. It is a battle of extremes as well as moderates, but the extremes get the most attention (surprise surprise) and the extreme a lot of tech communities want to go with are the more social justice commando viewpoints, I guess since it's new and seems like since bad things do happen, they must be completely true, right? The kernel of truth covered in lackluster or biased commentary. Sure does make for some juicy clickbait, if nothing else.
That last paragraph is not very well thought through.
Not all ideas of social justice seem so bad. On a basic level it's fine to give people a chance when they otherwise had less ability to. It doesn't have to hurt anyone to be accomplished.
But Justice really does not have a static representation. Every side of a war has a different view of justice. Otherwise there would likely be way fewer wars. Justice is something that changes based on who is determining what is just. It's subjective, as well as objective. The justice system is constantly under scrutiny, constantly being amended. And I'm sure plenty of the worst atrocities and social terrors ever committed were considered somebodies version of justice. And putting the word "Free" on an advertisement doesn't mean the buyer is actually gaining something at no cost.
Social justice is just as corruptible by radical viewpoints as any other cultural ideal.
Remaining true to your sig.
Seriously, right when I read that sentence, I knew that absolutely nothing had changed about her. She still sticks herself in a situation where "if you aren't with me, you're against me" seems like a reasonable attitude. So unproductive, in any meaningful sense.
I still cannot decide whether this was incompetence or malice on the part of Dice and Wu, but one thing is certain; They will be milking this for as many clicks and attention as they can.
I was really hoping that the whole explosive controversy could just settle down so more level heads can triumph (along with market forces, which hopefully won't keep rewarding ideology/click baiting over game design/honest journalism forever). But this sort of nonsense will keep dredging up the bottom feeders. Kicking a hornets nest isn't how you avoid a swarm.
I'm pretty sure Wu would PROBABLY say you have Internalized misogyny, and your brain was warped by the patriarchy to believe these lies.
And in doing so, she would be stereotyping you as a helpless, dimwitted woman who cannot think for herself even with all your experience and education.
They don't want you to be able to handle yourself, they want you to submit. They want you to be oppressed, like most of them think/pretend they are.
And most of all, they want you to please donate to their Patreon :)
They've been trying to switch it up, keeping everyone on their toes.
But I'm sort of OK with these silly hyperbole-ridden articles; As annoying and unnecessary as they are, it does give me an opportunity to see rebuttals and perhaps learn more from the conversations herein. I walk away not only shaking my head, but also knowing better how to think about this issue.
It does get sort of old after a while though, I agree. I've only been reading /. for a few years now, and these conversations never really evolve much because the facts of the matter stay pretty much the same as time goes on.
I hate that I saw this bullshit and actually loved it.
I wonder if it would be feasible to have a merged slashdot/reddit kind of moderation. /. /. the mod points are handed out mostly at random, but also depending on how much positive mod points are attributed to your posts and submissions, as well as how much of the site you read. Hopefully enough to reward good posting, but not encourage too much of a hivemind. And the limited number of mod points also causes people to not squander them (again, this is the plan).
Everyone gets a certain number of unbiased votes every day, sort of like how Voat is doing it, to help avoid voting spam. 100 or so votes per day (maybe more depending on how much a user reads on the site over time), but they don't have any bias to them. They just basically add weight.
Is a comment or post interesting, well thought out, something you agree with a lot, or even something you disagree with or think is trolling? Add weight to it.
The weight makes these posts easier to find if people wish to sort a thread by most weight, which comes in handy for the lucky few who gain mod points. And these mod points are actual biased either positive or negative, with a range of -2 to -5, like on
Also much like on
And of course, those who use mod points cannot post in the same discussion.
News at 11.
I guess the reason why this is newsworthy is because of how un-newsworthy it SHOULD be but still isn't. When you distrust a branch of scientist as a general rule, anything is possible I suppose.
That every man has the keys to heaven, and those same keys open hell. Paraphrasing, hope I didn't butcher it.
It applies very easily to science as well. The Nuclear age, and the science that sprung from it, is very controversial because of it's great destructive power. But on the flipside, an incredible potential for building and powering the human species. Same goes for all kinds of science, but I'm glad we keep pushing it forward.
I don't think AniMojo is a dumb person, but they certainly love a good moral panic and catering to the equally destructive polar opposite end of the overly offensive asshole spectrum; the ultra fragile crybaby.
I understand that allowing these people who make bigoted or disgusting posts a free speech zone turns a few platters of the server rack into a vile pit of shit, but getting a balance between what is acceptable or what is not is REALLY hard, and certainly shouldn't be left to the people who's lives get crushed by mean words on a computer screen. Not only that, but just because a person might unwind by saying shitty things on the Internet doesn't mean they aren't generally OK people, or just have a crude sense of humor that doesn't cause them to hate the people they joke about. I fit into that category, laughing at some people but not showing any real hatred.
People like that undoubtedly rag on Voat and 8chan (even though generally hateful sections of the sites aren't even the most prevalent, last I checked) for being too lenient on hate speech, but when it comes to open platforms for free thought, you're GOING to end up dredging up some fucked up opinions, even if the site has generally normal people posting on it. Even gold nuggets end up sitting next to rotting fish corpses at some point before someone pans them out of the riverbed. Being too "nice" to a certain subsection of the population will keep some communities from becoming interesting and diverse, if not crude.
I disagree, therefore your opinions are, in fact, of no importance in relation to my own.
Quickly now, extinguish your own life so as to satisfy my feelings of complete triumph over you; my hapless adversary.
Oh, I'm fine with Wu showing herself for the, dare I say "questionable" kind of person she really is. It's happened before and it'll probably happen again as long as it benefits her.
But that's the thing, it's like a drug. Causes a high, she gets off on it, along with her donations. And right now for all I know, she could be trying to snort a figurative line of coke off our collective tempers. Or at the very least trying to legitimize her more notable behavior by coming off as suddenly considerate and professional to the people she loves to detest.
I would say that the only winning move is not to play, in my opinion. Not that it's worth losing sleep over.