It has been done before, it can be done again. As it turns out most people are not die-hard fanatics when it comes to any religion, otherwise we would all still be polytheistic pagans instead of christians or muslims or atheists.
I propose somthing along those lines:
- Set up a permeating information campaign highlighting the evils of the muslim clergy, the suffering this teaching has brought upon the people. - Emphasize the similarity between Islam and (englightened) christianity (yes some will want to convert them directly to atheism but that step might be way too drastic so soon. One culture shock per generation, not more). Paint it as "Islam = christianity as understood by a well meaning but illiterate merchant that was warped and twisted by the evil men that came after him" (might be not that far from the truth according to some interesting books) - Rigorusly punish any preachers/mullahs that go against that teaching. Jail time minimum. (yeah that goes against freedom of speech. So what? Better that than having to kill every single muslim) - Hunt down and kill all that either commit violence against converts or argue in favor of it. - Impose harsh taxation and restriction for the building of mosques and the foundation of any islam-related societies - Reward desirable behaviour monetarily or with other things that are valued. Places at good universities for their children migh work. - Wait 10-30 years to see a massive reduction in all muslim activities. (Consider this a v0.1 pre-alpha version of this guide. I am sure that there is still room for lots of improvements)
I based this completely politically incorrect guide on the experiences of the captured turks after the battle of vienna that were brought to germany and converted to christianity. Turns out that even though it was barely past the middle ages and they were soldiers of a defeated nation, no violence was used against them, just slow, steady, continous pressure and patiences. The first converted a few month after the battle, the last ones 20 years later. They were accepted into the population and allowed to marry as if they had been germans (or rather bavarians, prussians...) from the start.
Just now, when Facebook has started losing users for the first time in its history, and more and more people are turning (finally) to adblockers for self-defense against malware and data charges (also thanks to the ongoing lawsuits in different country against AdBlock), Facebook finally announces that it will inject more ads.
Yeah, I guess with this shovel digging their own grave will become much easier.
I liked that search engine too, but that was quite some time ago. Several months or even years ago, they stopped serving decent search results, claiming that those torrents had been subject to DMCA notices. This is what you get when you try to appease the MAFIAA I guess: First you screw your fans, and in the end the Music corps turn against you anyway.
I now mostly use www.filesloop.com which can also search on 1click hosters. Unfortunately it omits some big torrent sites.
>You could easily create a remote-controlled bomb-delivery vehicle half a century ag Funny, this is exactly what the Germans did in WWII, it was called the Goliath tracked mine. They strapped explosives to tracks and tried to drive that device under soviet tanks. Apparently it did not works so well for a variety of reasons.
>Ironically MS is open-sourcing their stack bit by bit anyway. No other company can support software so well, in critical moments, or produce software as functional.
Hahaha, let me tell you a little story about the support and functionality of MS software:
A couple of years ago I attended a week long training course at Siemens in Germany, where they taught us how to use their CNC systems, Sinumerik mostly. Now in the decades past CNC was very primitive, one could implement it with punchcards. Today's CNC is a completely different beast: Its a full computer stuffed with ASICs and other high tech stuff to be able to come close to the hard realtime requirements that you need when you control a multi-kW mill mounted on a 12 axis robot going as fast as the drive allows because every second shaved of the manufacturing process is worth money.
(Just to set the scene)
This is something the trainer there told us when I asked him how it came to be that Linux was running on those devices, which for an ultra-conservative corporation like Siemens, seemed a bit odd to me:
Siemens apparently used Windows XP on those boxes, modified of course. In fact to ease the communication with Microsoft, Siemens even has/had some of its employees working directly on site at Microsoft. Apparently however even that level of cooperation was not ideal when it came to implementing new features and working around the weaknesses of Windows. What really caused them to drop Windows was that one day the Engineers wanted to know if a certain feature could be implemented on Windows and how (The trainer did not say what feature it was). For six weeks Microsoft said nothing, only to eventually tell them that it was not possible at all. On a whim and mostly for fun, one engineer asked the same question about this feature on a Linux discussion board.
Result: 30 minutes later he had the answer that this feature was possible on Linux, along with detailed step-by-step instructions how to do it.
Ever since then the Sinumerik boxes use Linux and the engineers at Siemens could not be happier about it.
You seem to have a strange image of the spanish inquisition. The spanish Inquisition in fact created many of those assumptions we still have today, chiefly the "innocent until proven guilty". Also, safe for a few very unfortunate years, the doctrin was that witchcraft did not exist: The one accusing someone else would be in trouble, not the "witch" herself. True, they conducted IIRC 45000 trials, out of whch 35 people were found guilty of witchcraft and killed. Assuming that these were all innocents that would still be a much better false-positive score than today's American justice system which has a suspected false positive score of around 20%.
In truth the inquisition was mostly looking for heresy and heretics, as long as you went to church every sunday and agreed with the teachings they tended to not care or look at whatever you did at night in the woods.
What you are thinking of when you mention those kinds of crooked tactics are probably the secular courts of that time. Yes those were bad and rife with corruption.
The only upside of Javascript is that it is available everywhere. (and kinda functionaly-sh) Everything else about that language is horrible. I barely tolerate it inside the browser, most of the time thanks to NoScript, not even that. So why the hell should I start putting this nonsense on servers? On servers I typically use C++ if I can, Java is the clients demands it, Haskell if I feel playful (Yesod is really great), Common Lisp if I feel like experimenting (Hunchentoot is interesting), Python if I feel lazy and just want to get the job done fast.
I was aware that the state of Javascript development is pitiful, but the recent incident where the pulling of a simple String-padding library crashed hundreds of other projects outdid even my worst fears.
The term SJW or Social Justice Warrior can be perfectly appropriate if you want to express that someone is campaigning for non-issues instead of being a true fighter for social justice like the people who try to get girls into school in countries infested by islamism. Those are the true heroes who risk their lifes.
SJWs in contrast complain about being triggered by the color teal, not getting money to fund their surgery procedure to transform them into a pansexual wolfkin apache attack helicopter, and of course about wickedly evil sexist scientists who dare to wear shirts with women on them while landing a probe on a freaking comet.
The evidence is in the credits of that "game" called depression quest. There Zoe Quinn explicitly thanks that journalist/lover.
The problem was that he never even published his connection to her when he wrote his article.
Of course that is all besides the point because when that came out, Gamergate did not exist yet. It was only some times later that this hashtag appeared for the first time, around the time where the secret Games Journo Mailing list was exposed by Breitbart, shortly after - on the same day- 14 articles on different gaming news sites were published who all "coincidentally" called gamer culture dead and dying. Only a conspiracy nut would suspect anything but pure honesty at work here, I guess.
...must be even more racist then. Coincidentally they make most of their billions of profits in south and southeast asian countries, as well as in Africa. White (or rather lighter) skin being considered beautiful has less to do with eurocentrism and more with looking like a member of the rich and beautiful who can afford to spend all day inside instead of toiling on the fields and getting tanned because of that.
Now he argues that it is done to generate profit, I agree in some cases. In the vast majority however it is a "follow the leader down the cliff" problem. They all see chrome doing it and want to do it too.
So the failure of the WiFi manufacturer to provide standard compliant drivers for his hardware is now the fault of Linux somehow? Also please dont start with printers and windows, this is a glasshouse. I had that very same experience with an Epson (?) printer and Windows 7 (upgraded from Windows XP): Manufacturer does not provide drivers that work with Win7 and up, and has no intention to do so in the future. At least this is what I was told when I contacted them. The printer was less than 2 years old at that time, it had come out one or two month before WIn7 had.
Mod parent up please. Gawker, even before the Hulk lawsuit, was always the skidmark on the underwear of internet journalism. I mentioned a few reasons some time ago here:
If you absolutely have to link to Gawker or other questionable sites like fortune, use archive.is or a similar site which A.) prevents Gawker from modifying the content and pretending the previous version never existed, and B.) prevents them from getting ad revenue for the nonsense they spew.
>Donald Trump, as of a March 29th poll, has a 62 percent UN-favorability rating.
What the hell does his favorability rating with the United Nations have to do with how likely he is to become president of the US? Its not the UN that will elect them, its us, the red-blooded, god-fearing, gun-toting Americans.
My opinion to this was and still is that Engineers make the better terrorists because they are the only ones with the necessary skills to excel at it. Art, Literature, Law and even Sharia students simply do not have the know-how nor the analytical mindset to take apart a problem (building standing, people living) and formulate an efficient solution (bomb) to archive the desired end result (panic, destruction and mayhem).
and what good did that do to her and women or minorities in general? Was the discrimination of that time suddenly removed?
Dont get me wrong, it is not that I mind women or blacks in STEM, but it seems that many believe that if only there were more of those in STEM, suddenly all their problems would go away. I think this story is proof that employment in science or technologies and equal rights do not automatically go hand in hand.
And if that is true, then the opposite must also be true: just because most engineers and scientists today are white males does not mean that it is because women are oppressed in these fields.
Miscreations like the Unity and Gnome 3 desktop aside, the Linux desktop has been comparable if not better in user friendliness than Windows since the late 90s. What it lacks is a team of rabid marketing people ready to cram it down the throats of unsuspecting users who do not yet know that they need it. Now of course there is the temptation of pandering to the masses by trying to be more like OS X or Metro, but this leads to power users leaving and average users still not using it because they do not even know that it exists.
Not to mention that even where it tried to deliver a competitive solution it often failed.
Let me tell you something that might be more interesting to mechanical engineers than computer scientists, but shows the problem with Microsoft nonetheless:
A couple of years ago I attended a week long training course at Siemens in Germany, where they taught us how to use their CNC systems, Sinumerik mostly. Now in the decades past CNC was very primitive, one could implement it with punchcards. Today's CNC is a completely different beast: Its a full computer stuffed with ASICs and other high tech stuff to be able to come close to the hard realtime requirements that you need when you control a multi-kW mill mounted on a 12 axis robot going as fast as the drive allows because every second shaved of the manufacturing process is worth money.
(Just to set the scene)
This is a little story the trainer there told us when I asked him how it came to be that Linux was running on those devices, which for an ultra-conservative corporation like Siemens, seemed a bit odd to me:
Siemens apparently used Windows XP on those boxes, modified of course. In fact to ease the communication with Microsoft, Siemens even has/had some of its employees working on site at Microsoft. Apparently however even that level of cooperation was not ideal when it came to implementing new features and working around the weaknesses of Windows. What really caused them to drop Windows was that one day the Engineers wanted to know if a certain feature could be implemented on Windows and how (The trainer did not say what feature it was). For six weeks Microsoft said nothing, only to eventually tell them that it was not possible at all. On a whim and mostly for fun, one engineer asked the same question about this feature on a Linux discussion board.
Result: 30 minutes later he had the answer that this feature was possible on Linux along with detailed step-by-step instructions how to do it.
Ever since then the Sinumerik boxes use Linux and the engineers at Siemens could not be happier about it.
Processing Encrypted data is possible, it is called Fully Homomorphic Encryption. It was not until 2009 however that Craig Gentry proved that such a scheme exists at all in his PhD thesis. In terms of Cryptography it is still brand new. It is worth a read, not just for crypto experts, as it is well written and quite interesting.
FHE is based on lattices instead of factorization, elliptic curves or discrete logarithms. The "fully" is because before that we had ways to process certain kinds of encrypted data, now it is possible to process any sort of data.
Teeny, tiny drawback as of now: It slows down computation speed compared to computing on unencrypted data by about 2.3 billion times.
> I was able to successfully use a moderately complex docx template without a hitch Im sorry what? How is that a new feature? LibreOffice has been more compatible to MS Office than MS Office to MS Office, for years! The only way nowadays to open old doc and docx files that were created with ancient versions of MS Office is to use LibreOffice since MS likes to drop support for its own file formats.
This is exactly the reason I ditched ABP as soon as I learned about their acceptable ads and moved to Adblock Edge. And when development on that stopped, I ditched that and moved to uBlock origin.
After 14 years on the web and 14 years of suffering from ads that only get worse as time goes by, there is exactly one number of ads that are acceptable to me: 0.
Slashdot Mirror
It has been done before, it can be done again.
As it turns out most people are not die-hard fanatics when it comes to any religion, otherwise we would all still be polytheistic pagans instead of christians or muslims or atheists.
I propose somthing along those lines:
- Set up a permeating information campaign highlighting the evils of the muslim clergy, the suffering this teaching has brought upon the people.
- Emphasize the similarity between Islam and (englightened) christianity (yes some will want to convert them directly to atheism but that step might be way too drastic so soon. One culture shock per generation, not more). Paint it as "Islam = christianity as understood by a well meaning but illiterate merchant that was warped and twisted by the evil men that came after him" (might be not that far from the truth according to some interesting books)
- Rigorusly punish any preachers/mullahs that go against that teaching. Jail time minimum. (yeah that goes against freedom of speech. So what? Better that than having to kill every single muslim)
- Hunt down and kill all that either commit violence against converts or argue in favor of it.
- Impose harsh taxation and restriction for the building of mosques and the foundation of any islam-related societies
- Reward desirable behaviour monetarily or with other things that are valued. Places at good universities for their children migh work.
- Wait 10-30 years to see a massive reduction in all muslim activities.
(Consider this a v0.1 pre-alpha version of this guide. I am sure that there is still room for lots of improvements)
I based this completely politically incorrect guide on the experiences of the captured turks after the battle of vienna that were brought to germany and converted to christianity. Turns out that even though it was barely past the middle ages and they were soldiers of a defeated nation, no violence was used against them, just slow, steady, continous pressure and patiences. The first converted a few month after the battle, the last ones 20 years later. They were accepted into the population and allowed to marry as if they had been germans (or rather bavarians, prussians...) from the start.
Just now, when Facebook has started losing users for the first time in its history, and more and more people are turning (finally) to adblockers for self-defense against malware and data charges (also thanks to the ongoing lawsuits in different country against AdBlock), Facebook finally announces that it will inject more ads.
Yeah, I guess with this shovel digging their own grave will become much easier.
I liked that search engine too, but that was quite some time ago.
Several months or even years ago, they stopped serving decent search results, claiming that those torrents had been subject to DMCA notices.
This is what you get when you try to appease the MAFIAA I guess: First you screw your fans, and in the end the Music corps turn against you anyway.
I now mostly use www.filesloop.com which can also search on 1click hosters. Unfortunately it omits some big torrent sites.
>You could easily create a remote-controlled bomb-delivery vehicle half a century ag
Funny, this is exactly what the Germans did in WWII, it was called the Goliath tracked mine.
They strapped explosives to tracks and tried to drive that device under soviet tanks.
Apparently it did not works so well for a variety of reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>Ironically MS is open-sourcing their stack bit by bit anyway. No other company can support software so well, in critical moments, or produce software as functional.
Hahaha, let me tell you a little story about the support and functionality of MS software:
A couple of years ago I attended a week long training course at Siemens in Germany, where they taught us how to use their CNC systems, Sinumerik mostly.
Now in the decades past CNC was very primitive, one could implement it with punchcards. Today's CNC is a completely different beast: Its a full computer stuffed with ASICs and other high tech stuff to be able to come close to the hard realtime requirements that you need when you control a multi-kW mill mounted on a 12 axis robot going as fast as the drive allows because every second shaved of the manufacturing process is worth money.
(Just to set the scene)
This is something the trainer there told us when I asked him how it came to be that Linux was running on those devices, which for an ultra-conservative corporation like Siemens, seemed a bit odd to me:
Siemens apparently used Windows XP on those boxes, modified of course. In fact to ease the communication with Microsoft, Siemens even has/had some of its employees working directly on site at Microsoft.
Apparently however even that level of cooperation was not ideal when it came to implementing new features and working around the weaknesses of Windows.
What really caused them to drop Windows was that one day the Engineers wanted to know if a certain feature could be implemented on Windows and how (The trainer did not say what feature it was).
For six weeks Microsoft said nothing, only to eventually tell them that it was not possible at all.
On a whim and mostly for fun, one engineer asked the same question about this feature on a Linux discussion board.
Result:
30 minutes later he had the answer that this feature was possible on Linux, along with detailed step-by-step instructions how to do it.
Ever since then the Sinumerik boxes use Linux and the engineers at Siemens could not be happier about it.
As long as they dont fund audits for proper UX designs I can live with that.
You seem to have a strange image of the spanish inquisition.
The spanish Inquisition in fact created many of those assumptions we still have today, chiefly the "innocent until proven guilty".
Also, safe for a few very unfortunate years, the doctrin was that witchcraft did not exist: The one accusing someone else would be in trouble, not the "witch" herself.
True, they conducted IIRC 45000 trials, out of whch 35 people were found guilty of witchcraft and killed. Assuming that these were all innocents that would still be a much better false-positive score than today's American justice system which has a suspected false positive score of around 20%.
In truth the inquisition was mostly looking for heresy and heretics, as long as you went to church every sunday and agreed with the teachings they tended to not care or look at whatever you did at night in the woods.
What you are thinking of when you mention those kinds of crooked tactics are probably the secular courts of that time. Yes those were bad and rife with corruption.
The only upside of Javascript is that it is available everywhere. (and kinda functionaly-sh)
Everything else about that language is horrible.
I barely tolerate it inside the browser, most of the time thanks to NoScript, not even that.
So why the hell should I start putting this nonsense on servers?
On servers I typically use C++ if I can, Java is the clients demands it, Haskell if I feel playful (Yesod is really great), Common Lisp if I feel like experimenting (Hunchentoot is interesting), Python if I feel lazy and just want to get the job done fast.
I was aware that the state of Javascript development is pitiful, but the recent incident where the pulling of a simple String-padding library crashed hundreds of other projects outdid even my worst fears.
The term SJW or Social Justice Warrior can be perfectly appropriate if you want to express that someone is campaigning for non-issues instead of being a true fighter for social justice like the people who try to get girls into school in countries infested by islamism.
Those are the true heroes who risk their lifes.
SJWs in contrast complain about being triggered by the color teal, not getting money to fund their surgery procedure to transform them into a pansexual wolfkin apache attack helicopter, and of course about wickedly evil sexist scientists who dare to wear shirts with women on them while landing a probe on a freaking comet.
The evidence is in the credits of that "game" called depression quest.
There Zoe Quinn explicitly thanks that journalist/lover.
The problem was that he never even published his connection to her when he wrote his article.
Of course that is all besides the point because when that came out, Gamergate did not exist yet. It was only some times later that this hashtag appeared for the first time, around the time where the secret Games Journo Mailing list was exposed by Breitbart, shortly after - on the same day- 14 articles on different gaming news sites were published who all "coincidentally" called gamer culture dead and dying. Only a conspiracy nut would suspect anything but pure honesty at work here, I guess.
...must be even more racist then.
Coincidentally they make most of their billions of profits in south and southeast asian countries, as well as in Africa.
White (or rather lighter) skin being considered beautiful has less to do with eurocentrism and more with looking like a member of the rich and beautiful who can afford to spend all day inside instead of toiling on the fields and getting tanned because of that.
I found a great article that complains about just that, entitled: The rise of the UX torturer:
https://medium.com/@eshan/the-...
Now he argues that it is done to generate profit, I agree in some cases. In the vast majority however it is a "follow the leader down the cliff" problem.
They all see chrome doing it and want to do it too.
So the failure of the WiFi manufacturer to provide standard compliant drivers for his hardware is now the fault of Linux somehow?
Also please dont start with printers and windows, this is a glasshouse.
I had that very same experience with an Epson (?) printer and Windows 7 (upgraded from Windows XP): Manufacturer does not provide drivers that work with Win7 and up, and has no intention to do so in the future.
At least this is what I was told when I contacted them.
The printer was less than 2 years old at that time, it had come out one or two month before WIn7 had.
Mod parent up please.
Gawker, even before the Hulk lawsuit, was always the skidmark on the underwear of internet journalism.
I mentioned a few reasons some time ago here:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
But this list is by no means complete.
If you absolutely have to link to Gawker or other questionable sites like fortune, use archive.is or a similar site which
A.) prevents Gawker from modifying the content and pretending the previous version never existed,
and B.) prevents them from getting ad revenue for the nonsense they spew.
>Donald Trump, as of a March 29th poll, has a 62 percent UN-favorability rating.
What the hell does his favorability rating with the United Nations have to do with how likely he is to become president of the US?
Its not the UN that will elect them, its us, the red-blooded, god-fearing, gun-toting Americans.
than the summary.
For a second I thought that drones had been programmed to have a firefight. As with guns and stuff.
That would have been bitchin.
This will be the sixth time we have submitted the same story over the years and by now we have become very good at it:
https://slashdot.org/index2.pl...
My opinion to this was and still is that Engineers make the better terrorists because they are the only ones with the necessary skills to excel at it.
Art, Literature, Law and even Sharia students simply do not have the know-how nor the analytical mindset to take apart a problem (building standing, people living) and formulate an efficient solution (bomb) to archive the desired end result (panic, destruction and mayhem).
and what good did that do to her and women or minorities in general?
Was the discrimination of that time suddenly removed?
Dont get me wrong, it is not that I mind women or blacks in STEM, but it seems that many believe that if only there were more of those in STEM, suddenly all their problems would go away.
I think this story is proof that employment in science or technologies and equal rights do not automatically go hand in hand.
And if that is true, then the opposite must also be true: just because most engineers and scientists today are white males does not mean that it is because women are oppressed in these fields.
Miscreations like the Unity and Gnome 3 desktop aside, the Linux desktop has been comparable if not better in user friendliness than Windows since the late 90s.
What it lacks is a team of rabid marketing people ready to cram it down the throats of unsuspecting users who do not yet know that they need it.
Now of course there is the temptation of pandering to the masses by trying to be more like OS X or Metro, but this leads to power users leaving and average users still not using it because they do not even know that it exists.
Not to mention that even where it tried to deliver a competitive solution it often failed.
Let me tell you something that might be more interesting to mechanical engineers than computer scientists, but shows the problem with Microsoft nonetheless:
A couple of years ago I attended a week long training course at Siemens in Germany, where they taught us how to use their CNC systems, Sinumerik mostly.
Now in the decades past CNC was very primitive, one could implement it with punchcards. Today's CNC is a completely different beast: Its a full computer stuffed with ASICs and other high tech stuff to be able to come close to the hard realtime requirements that you need when you control a multi-kW mill mounted on a 12 axis robot going as fast as the drive allows because every second shaved of the manufacturing process is worth money.
(Just to set the scene)
This is a little story the trainer there told us when I asked him how it came to be that Linux was running on those devices, which for an ultra-conservative corporation like Siemens, seemed a bit odd to me:
Siemens apparently used Windows XP on those boxes, modified of course. In fact to ease the communication with Microsoft, Siemens even has/had some of its employees working on site at Microsoft.
Apparently however even that level of cooperation was not ideal when it came to implementing new features and working around the weaknesses of Windows.
What really caused them to drop Windows was that one day the Engineers wanted to know if a certain feature could be implemented on Windows and how (The trainer did not say what feature it was).
For six weeks Microsoft said nothing, only to eventually tell them that it was not possible at all.
On a whim and mostly for fun, one engineer asked the same question about this feature on a Linux discussion board.
Result:
30 minutes later he had the answer that this feature was possible on Linux along with detailed step-by-step instructions how to do it.
Ever since then the Sinumerik boxes use Linux and the engineers at Siemens could not be happier about it.
Processing Encrypted data is possible, it is called Fully Homomorphic Encryption.
It was not until 2009 however that Craig Gentry proved that such a scheme exists at all in his PhD thesis. In terms of Cryptography it is still brand new.
It is worth a read, not just for crypto experts, as it is well written and quite interesting.
FHE is based on lattices instead of factorization, elliptic curves or discrete logarithms.
The "fully" is because before that we had ways to process certain kinds of encrypted data, now it is possible to process any sort of data.
Teeny, tiny drawback as of now: It slows down computation speed compared to computing on unencrypted data by about 2.3 billion times.
If it were not for his regular antics I doubt me or many others would know who Kayne "The Dunning Kruger Effect that walks" West is.
You comment is modded 2 Troll.
I honestly did not think that the SJW had already invaded Slashdot.
I fear for the worst...
> I was able to successfully use a moderately complex docx template without a hitch
Im sorry what?
How is that a new feature?
LibreOffice has been more compatible to MS Office than MS Office to MS Office, for years!
The only way nowadays to open old doc and docx files that were created with ancient versions of MS Office is to use LibreOffice since MS likes to drop support for its own file formats.
This is exactly the reason I ditched ABP as soon as I learned about their acceptable ads and moved to Adblock Edge.
And when development on that stopped, I ditched that and moved to uBlock origin.
After 14 years on the web and 14 years of suffering from ads that only get worse as time goes by, there is exactly one number of ads that are acceptable to me: 0.