Slashdot Mirror


User: sciengin

sciengin's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
160
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 160

  1. Re:I'm fine with it.. on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    There is only one angle: the journalistic one. Everything else was tacked on top of it.
    It was no lie either, she even thanked him in the credits of her "game", go get it, its free on steam.

    There was no harassment whatsoever (no seriously, I have never ever seen a more civil and polite discussion on 4chan, on any board), thus the banning could not have been because of that. He defended free speech in 2011 and then claimed in 2014 that 4chan was never about free speech, one of the reason he became a persona non grata on his own website. Why he did a u-turn we do not know, may have been a crush, may have been one sided love, may have been SJW-brainwashing

  2. Re:It's all about free speech. . . on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. The Holocaust, the ultimate evil... (no seriously it was pretty bad, dont get me wrong).

    10Million victims, more or less.
    Chinese Civil wars usually dont get fun until they reach 20 million victims. (Not just the ones in the 19th century, they had several that made it into this order of magnitude)
    Mongol Conquests: 25 Million
    Communism is clocked at (conservatively) 100 million victims. (If we consider that Fascism was only created in a desperate bid to stop communism you can get easily as high as 150 million vicitims for commnuism)

    I guess I should be happy for you: Obviously you underestimate just how murderous humans can get, regardless of race.
    Must be great to be this innocent.

  3. Re:I'm fine with it.. on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He had to do absolutely nothing at all.
    That Gamergate had anything to do with hatespeech at all is a blatant lie, made up by Gawker and their ilk and repeated ad nauseum by everybody else.
    Why? Because that was easier than admitting that, yes the gamers were right, there was no ethics whatsoever to speak of in gaming journalism, everyone whas sleeping with each other, discussing on what to report and what not to mention etc...

    It really is outrageous for gamers to demand just a minimum of standards in the way of journalistic integrity.

    I was there on 4chan back in August 2014 when it really started: No hatespeech whatsoever. Any post even slightly hinting that violence of any kind was appropriate was reported and taken down quicker than even child porn. On Twitter and the other, moderated, social medias, the situation was even more tame: A Data scientist ran a statistical analysis on tweets containing the #gamergate hashtag and found that less than 0.2% of them were hostile in any way. Keep in mind that this tag was also used by the SJWs and the trolls (of both sides).

    All supposed death threats (which by the way happened before that tag was even created, meaning that they were not even part of Gamergate) have been thoroughly debunked.

    I think what really made the mass media (well video game mass media at least) so angry, is that this bunch of outcast nerds did not keel over and die when ordered/expected to, but instead had the audacity to fight back, completely politely. And what a fight it was: Using only polite emails and even paper letters, they got pretty much every single advertiser to pull out from Gawker and their subsites, contributing to its well earned demise, they got the FTC to update its guidelines on hidden advertising, they got an apology for the creator of Sins of a Solar Empire who had been falsely accused of rape, they greenlit a steam game from a femminist that had been bullied (including death threats) by other more extreme femminists for not being as rabid as she was supposed to be (Seedscape), they made The Escapist and even IGN adopt an ethics codex and of course they got many of the ringleaders of those 11 articles along the "Gamers are dead" line fired (those articles were released completely coincidentally all on the same day, I am sure the secret GamesJournoMailinglist that Milo uncovered later had nothing to do with it). Not officially of course, but many had their contract not renewed or were let go for "creative differences".

    Meanwhile moot was spending weeks in europe with his not-girlfriend who was a SJW and at that time writing an academic paper about him.

    It is kinda sad that currently the most objective article on GG is the one on encyclopediadramatica. The one on wikipedia is so biased that even Jim Wales spoke out against it. Of course they cite sources (mostly from Gawker) so by Wikipedia standards the article is fine.

  4. Re:It's all about free speech. . . on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Without those evile white men recognizing that these things are indeed horrible, we would still be in antiquity, ethics-wise.
    Slavery, sexism and all other kinds of barbarity were "business as usual" for 95% of human history.

  5. While I disagree with Milo on many, many things, he seems to be committed to free speech above all.
    Also he showed that he is able and willing to learn and change his oppinion when presented with new facts: There are famous tweets from him where he accused gamers of being immature, but a few month later he recanted and even tried to learn how to play Dota2.

    On the other hand I fear that 4chan may turn out to be un-monetizeable. Most advertisers will never agree to show their ads there, not even on the worksafe boards, plus most 4chan users probably have an adblocker enabled anyway.

  6. Now I dont like Putin or the rest of his cleptocracy either, but always pointing to Russia as the bad guys when it is convenient, instead of when it has been proven (or at least shown beyond reasonable doubt) will and already does lead to a desensitivization effect.

    The more often it is claimed "Russia did X" without reasonable evidence, the less believeable it will become, until the day when they really do something monstrous and no one will belive it. See the myth about Germanys extermination camps in WWI vs. their actual extermination camps in WWII which were at first disbelieved by many when the first reports appeared.

    Already here in Europe we see the first effects of this: Most people are more inclined to believe whatever RT (aka. the Ministry of RussianTruths) tells them instead of facts. Particularly when it comes to anything refugee or Ukraine related.

  7. Re:Overgeneralizing much? on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Those two tribes had been expanding (and exterminating other tribes) for quite some time, without even knowing about white mans existence.

    Muslims were just as likely to preserve books than to burn them, depding on the timeperiod, ruler and general attitude at a given time.

    It was not, by far, white christians that commited most atrocities. Not even close.
    They were the first ones to recognize them as such and write about them extensively, this is why we know so much about them.
    Please read accounts on how Assyrians waged war, what romans did to conquered tribes (yeah ok they were probably kinda white, but definitely not christian), then there are the niceties the Mongols did to each other and especially to cities that refuesed to surrender, and I am sure that the only reason whe dont know of any atrocities in precolonial Africa, is because they did not have the habit of writing stuff down.

  8. Overgeneralizing much? on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, people of all races and denominations have been dicks.
    A few details however:
    While the British forced Opium into China, the other whites such as the Protugese and Netherlands were quite happy to kowtow to the emperor. In fact they all had a hearty laugh when (decades before the opium wars) the british put on a tough guy act after being told to play by the rules like everyone else.

    Xenocide in the americas is certainly a gross exageration: Yes dozens of millions of Indians in the North Amerikas perished by diseases. However the knowledge at that time (barely out of the middle ages) was not high enough to understand how diseases worked, much less to deliberately use them as weapon.
    Meanwhile as far as the Apaches and the Commanches are concerned, xenocide would have been perfectly legitimate: We are talking about two tribes whose savagery and sheer cruelty puts everyone today, inlcuding the nazis and North Korea to shame. They would travel hundreds of miles to wipe out one familiy. And before those people were allowed to die, every male in the tribe would rape the females and the females of the tribe would torture to death the children. (I am not going to link a source here, there exist tons of eyewitness reports which I personally find nauseating)
    The situation in South Americas was comparable, the non-Inka tribes were more than happy to cooperate with the spaniards as it would mean that fewer of their numbers would be hunted down and have their hearts ripped out while still alive as a sacrifice to some pagan deity.

    Muslim tolerance of other religion waxed and waned over time. Christians and Jews were at time so heavily taxed that they faced the choice of either converting or starving. The non-book-religions (i.e. those not mentioned in the Quran) faced no such choice: they either converted or were executed.

    And lets not forget that the reason why slavery is so looked down upon today came also from white people.

    (I am no white supremacist or anything like that, but I see this "Evil white christian men have always been the worst" way of thinking particularly prevalent on the internet, even though it is not based on facts)

  9. Use jDownloader instead on YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont see the use for having a website-based ripping tool for youtube videos.
    I have been using jDownloader for the better part of a decade, if I recall correctly, and am very happy with it.
    Not only does it let me rip mp3s from youtube directly to my PC without going through another sever (with ads) first, I can pick dozens of file formats for audio and video as well as resolutions (if available) for youtube alone. And it supports hundreds of different sites out of the box, many more if you pass the adress of the video with the option to do a deep-search looking for media.

    I even used it to download comics and mangas from online readers in batches.

    Originally I installed it because I was on a 10GB 3G mobile connection only, downloading the videos only once instead of every time I wanted to watch them made my mobile data plan last much longer.

    As far as I know the program is completely free (they do nag you if you download from 1-click-hosters using the free option to buy premium, so I guess they get comission).

  10. Re: So it was warmer before on Study: Earth Is At Its Warmest In 120,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Expectations are irrelevant.
    The question is "Can we survive globally with temperature rising by X degrees" and since we did just fine 120000 years ago with higher temperatures compared to today, the answer seems to be: Yes.

    I do not deny that warming will have some negative effects in the short term (as well as positive effects such as increased vegetation due to more CO2), but long term survivial is not in danger, contrary to what the doomsday prophets like to claim.

  11. So it was warmer before on Study: Earth Is At Its Warmest In 120,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Where is the problem then, keep burning coal and oil.
    If earth managed to be warmer without us humans, our effect on global warming cannot be too catastrophic.

  12. Re: Obligatory.. on Computers Decipher Burnt Scroll Found In Ancient Holy Ark (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As if todays church leaders would give a damn about what is written in the bible...

    In one of his letters, Paul explicitly warns the congregation in one city against the teachings of "people who forbid to marry" and linkens this to demon-inspired utterings.
    Did not stop the church to forbid its priests to marry until this day, all for the sake of money (well inheritance really).

    And lets not forget Jesus saying, on the night of hist arrest, "Those who take up the sword will die by the sword". Now preventing the arresting of Jesus (as Peter had just tried to do) was certainly THE most noble cause to take up the sword. So if even for this it was forbidden, how much more for the inter-human wars.
    And yet today hardly an army marches out without having its weapons blessed by the priests or clerics.

  13. Re:More details on the Bugs on Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    • minimal UI is better than old UI
    • Firefox is generally competitive on speed
    • Firefox has lowest memory usage of all browsers
    • Android port never crashes for me on Nexus devices /shrug
    • You mean it isn't bloated and doesn't use a lot of memory like Chrome?

    1. Absolutely not: The old UI presented orders of magnitude more functionality to the user

    2. define competitive. I notice that every update makes it slower compared to the previous one

    3. Thats not saying much, too much memory is too much memory, regardless of how much the others use

    4. For me its multiple times a day, on my Samsung NotePro 12.3 (it was the flagship device in early 2014, I doubt it has become this bad in less than 2 years). Unfortunately FF is the only browser that allows uBlock origin and some measure of JavaScript blocking (sadly not NoScript), since I am allergic to ads that means I am stuck with it. (yeah some niche Browsers like Dolphin, Ghosterry... also block ads but they have tons of drawbacks in terms of usability)

  14. More details on the Bugs on Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    - UI still made some people not throw up
    - Slowness not increased by 50% as promised by the dev team, some pages unfortunately still load as fast as in the times of ISDN
    - Critically low use of memory: Some memory is still not used up by Firefox despite our best efforts
    - Android port does not crash often enough
    - Not quite like Chrome yet

  15. Considering the state of their UI... on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Considering the state of their GUIs, particularly Ribbon and Tiles, I assume that they could hire trisomy-21 cases as coders and it would still be an improvement.

  16. Real reason for the delay on British Airways Passengers Delayed By Computer Glitch (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    The delay was because 9 terrorists from Black-Lives-Matter entered the runaway illegally and chained themselves there to impede their removal.
    Coinicdentally at the same time a computer glitch occured.

  17. You forgot Eritrea on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Eritrea is the only other country that taxes the revenue of its citizen worldwide.
    You might know Eritrea as being extremely high on the scale of respecting human rights. /s

  18. Of course they have the added burden of having to stay humble despite being otherwise perfect in every aspect, that must take a lot of character integrity to do so.
    Not that I would know anything about that, this headline does not concern me.

    sent from my samsung S7 edge

  19. Our daily FUD give us today on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More proof that despite being a huge jackass in general, Assange is probably onto something.
    They would not squeal this loud if he were not effective or if the documents he keeps releasing were in any way fake.

  20. Your fallacy is trying to apply the laws between person and person (or person and state) to a situation of corporation and state.
    This is comparing Apple (*scnr*) to Oranges.

    For example traffic laws for road vehicles are fundamentally different than those for railway vehicles and of course also different to those for ships. This is not unfair, this is completely normal.

  21. I bet... on Over 25 Million Accounts Stolen After Mail.ru Forums Hacked (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet it was again those evil russian hack-
    Oh wait...

  22. I'd like to share a revelation I've had... on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify systemD and I realized that it is not actually software. Every software package on Linux instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but SystemD does not. It moves to an area and multiplies and multiplies until every other service is consumed and the only way it can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. SystemD is a disease, a cancer of this Platform. It is a plague and we are the cure.

    [Lobby Scene follows]

  23. Please do not call Gawker Journalism on Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Calling what Gawker does, journalism, is like calling that evil monster from a horror flick "innocent girl" just because he is wearing her bloody face over his.

  24. I am sure it will be completely fair and balanced on Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    In light of recent events concerning Twitter and Facebooks censorship of unwanted conservative wrongthink, I have full confidence in our Bobbies that they will handle the job completely objective and unbiased.
    I in particular do not expect any censorship of islam critical voices, particularly after nationwide child rape and trafficking scandals.
    I certainly don't expect them to silence voices critical of the government, of the ultra-leftists such as SJWs or of 3rd wave feminists.
    And of course I am looking forward to seeing all people held to equally high standards.

    Now excuse me, I have an appointment at the vet's, apparently the floating bladder of my flying pig has a nasty infection.

  25. Turn over: yes. Decrypt: no on Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government? (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they receive a legal and correct warrant, meaning one that has issued by a proper court, not a secret, shady, pseudo-military one, where the accused can challenge it, then yes, the cloud provider should turn over the data.

    A smart provider however will have implemented its data management software in such a way that only his client has the key to decrypt the data it just turned over to the government. That way it cannot even be forced to decrypt it without violating the rules of mathematics and complexity theory.

    If that is not the case, meaning that the cloud provider is able to decrypt the data themselves, then a warrant might be only the least problem a client will have with such a company. Most likely their biggest problem will be that the cloud provider uses that data to directly or indirectly harm them, either by selling it to advertisers or by being unable to protect it during hacking attacks.