No, we won't. Politics is religion, just swapping "I'll make your life better in the afterlife" for "I'll make your life better after my 5 year plan", both in exchange for granting the promiser an almost all-encompassing control over everything, and lots of money
They are two giant memeplexes whose goal is the same: power, and specifically, the meme's holy grail: the legal power to force themselves on unwilling people.
We have swapped "For God" for "For The People", with little change to why what it overlays was a problem.
Microsoft is in the testing stage of a new feature in its Edge browser for Windows 10 that is malware-proof as it partitions the browser window from the rest of the computer.
Whew! So nobody can see my info except Microsoft, Microsoft's computers back at the ranch, their official keystroke reporter, screen snapshotter reporter, and anybody who pays for Microsoft advertising, including government agencies.
"And yet somehow, Slashdot readers will find a way to bash Microsoft for giving their customers this choice"
Considering what they're doing right now reeks exactly of what got them into trouble with the law in the first place (the web browser) I see no reason why Microsoft shouldn't get slammed.
They have learned to play the anti-trust game better and all relevant politicians have been politically donated to. Government power working as intended.
Don't forget the EU pols in Brussels in addition to the national politicians! That was Google's goof a few yearz back.
Before downmodding me as : Too Cynical For My Tastes, go learn history.
Well, his heart was in the right place. Whether that means he is the top cop dedicated to saving lives, or participates in the building of a government panopticon the likes of which we were warned about in "1984", I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
Back in the day, PCs outsold Macs 10 to 1. So people wrote games for the PC and only ported the huge successes to Macs. The rule was it was better to try for 10% of PC sales than 50% of Mac sales.
With literally a magnitude more people and then some (even if most are lower per-person dollars) the cash is there and there's a land rush to take a grab at it.
You are decreasing the value of a country-specific license to your country, and thus making it even less likely to get one in the future.
As the goal is to make it financially worthwhile to produce shows, this is detrimental to you (and everyone else, not just in your country) in the long run.
Having shows be worldwide, especially in China and India now, brings in extra cash that helps shows survive that otherwise wouldn't, if they just relied on US, or pure western sales.
In a sense, that worldwide sales is what's funding an explosion in new content from many non-traditional producers (i.e. not major TV networks) where it would struggle just relying on US sales.
Who the fuck cares what Rest of World things? Most of them live in speech-controlled dictatorships where the only allowed viewpoint is hating the US, just like their dictators wish.
They sure as shit love Americans when it comes to the latest cell phones or medical devices or drugs. God forbid the world rely on your broken-down, barely-functional kleptocracies.
Indeed, every time some politician in the West decries encryption for some teeny-tiny, transitory problem like terrorism, billions around the world's hearts sink a little more into despair as their governments break encryption using the same techniques precisely to catch political opposition.
Says the oppressed in China, Russia, Turkey, "Well, our nightmare continues but damn, we are glad you wern't hampered too much gleaning a useless iota of information on that guy who is one trillionth the plague on your society our governments are on ours."
It's ironic that, if this kind of encryption existed during the US revolutionary war, the King of England would have outlawed it, and therefore the Founding Fathers would have included it as a right in the First Amendment. Government is the problem in the long run, the bigger picture, regardless of any short-term benefits.
Not only that, our political philosophy, and arguably the only correct one, is to presume the rights exist inherent in your being a human being, preceding any government and independent of it (indeed, often opposed to it), and the government is created by those people, who grant it limited, listed powers over those rights, and no others.
For a high US official to not understand this and claim non-US citizens don't have these rights, these rights we presume pre-exist government in our core political philosophy, is utterly shameful.
If I worked there, I'd, as their computer guy, would be like, let's build an incorruptible and un-bypassable logging system of all access to all data, and exactly what was accessed, along with a physical process whereby the elected officials in Congress on the security committees would review it all. In this way, there could be no G. Gordon Liddy type "special" agents who misuse the data to advantage this or that political faction...
Science is advancing so rapidly, none of this matters. You should not ameliorate the global warming because if you overdo it, you will induce an ice age, which can start in as little as a year or two (all you need is a summer where the snow doesn't quite melt) and then you will kill billions in less than a year.
We can less predict the tech in 100 years than the people in 1900 could predict today's. We are the people in 1900 trying to fix the problem using their info and their tech. Decimating their own industry would just have slowed getting to today's tech level, benefiting nobody and killing probably a few hundred million due to delayed innovation.
So, even amelioration can be bad, and the downside is magnitudes worse than warming.
The Supreme Court has overturned pretty much everything except, maybe, temporarily holding someone quiet to prevent revealing an imminent D-Day style invasion, and even theoretical at that.
If he paid or aided, then he becomes a spy. If he just received and published, he is safe. The statement he has no First Amendment right because he is not a US citizen is an embarrassing statement by a US official. A law is a law and Congress shall make no law. The idea of making something illegal outside the jurisdiction of the US which cannot even be made illegal inside the US is contradictory seven ways from Sunday.
In Michigan they calcuated it would be cheaper to hire Uber to carry bus passengers door to door rather than create an enormous multi-county bus service.
concludes that "machine-learning significantly improves accuracy of cardiovascular risk prediction
Computer: Subject has 728% increase in cardiovascular heart disease risk due to obesity, sedentary lifestyle, nuggets, and left-handed masturbation to furry Dragon Ball drawings.
Based on previous recent games, Half Life 3 will probably be a stripped down, console-style FPS with fewer weapons, quick time events or equivalent, and save points. The PC version will just be a port of the console one because build for the console because a near-flop on that will earn more than a hit on the PC.
Slashdot Mirror
awwwwwww.
You're both right.
No, we won't. Politics is religion, just swapping "I'll make your life better in the afterlife" for "I'll make your life better after my 5 year plan", both in exchange for granting the promiser an almost all-encompassing control over everything, and lots of money
They are two giant memeplexes whose goal is the same: power, and specifically, the meme's holy grail: the legal power to force themselves on unwilling people.
We have swapped "For God" for "For The People", with little change to why what it overlays was a problem.
This was the first mission for Salvage One after they returned from the moon!
We don't need no stinking First Amendment in a parliamentary democracy! >:-(
Microsoft is in the testing stage of a new feature in its Edge browser for Windows 10 that is malware-proof as it partitions the browser window from the rest of the computer.
Whew! So nobody can see my info except Microsoft, Microsoft's computers back at the ranch, their official keystroke reporter, screen snapshotter reporter, and anybody who pays for Microsoft advertising, including government agencies.
Finally some security.
"And yet somehow, Slashdot readers will find a way to bash Microsoft for giving their customers this choice"
Considering what they're doing right now reeks exactly of what got them into trouble with the law in the first place (the web browser) I see no reason why Microsoft shouldn't get slammed.
They have learned to play the anti-trust game better and all relevant politicians have been politically donated to. Government power working as intended.
Don't forget the EU pols in Brussels in addition to the national politicians! That was Google's goof a few yearz back.
Before downmodding me as : Too Cynical For My Tastes, go learn history.
Well, his heart was in the right place. Whether that means he is the top cop dedicated to saving lives, or participates in the building of a government panopticon the likes of which we were warned about in "1984", I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
Back in the day, PCs outsold Macs 10 to 1. So people wrote games for the PC and only ported the huge successes to Macs. The rule was it was better to try for 10% of PC sales than 50% of Mac sales.
With literally a magnitude more people and then some (even if most are lower per-person dollars) the cash is there and there's a land rush to take a grab at it.
You are decreasing the value of a country-specific license to your country, and thus making it even less likely to get one in the future.
As the goal is to make it financially worthwhile to produce shows, this is detrimental to you (and everyone else, not just in your country) in the long run.
Having shows be worldwide, especially in China and India now, brings in extra cash that helps shows survive that otherwise wouldn't, if they just relied on US, or pure western sales.
In a sense, that worldwide sales is what's funding an explosion in new content from many non-traditional producers (i.e. not major TV networks) where it would struggle just relying on US sales.
"where he delivered the message the Government expected them to do more to shut dodgy sites and scams,"
(A month goes by)
"I didn't mean shut off access to government sites! >:-( "
Who the fuck cares what Rest of World things? Most of them live in speech-controlled dictatorships where the only allowed viewpoint is hating the US, just like their dictators wish.
They sure as shit love Americans when it comes to the latest cell phones or medical devices or drugs. God forbid the world rely on your broken-down, barely-functional kleptocracies.
This assumes the brain's cells aren't all dead, burst from the freezing.
Yes, I'd be pissed at awakening to a largely numb body because you were an experiment decades ahead of schedule.
Indeed, every time some politician in the West decries encryption for some teeny-tiny, transitory problem like terrorism, billions around the world's hearts sink a little more into despair as their governments break encryption using the same techniques precisely to catch political opposition.
Says the oppressed in China, Russia, Turkey, "Well, our nightmare continues but damn, we are glad you wern't hampered too much gleaning a useless iota of information on that guy who is one trillionth the plague on your society our governments are on ours."
It's ironic that, if this kind of encryption existed during the US revolutionary war, the King of England would have outlawed it, and therefore the Founding Fathers would have included it as a right in the First Amendment. Government is the problem in the long run, the bigger picture, regardless of any short-term benefits.
Ahhh, the return of the LPB -- the Low Ping Bastard from Quake days.
There's a solution to this, 1-and-1 home and away contests, which people regularly did for intercontinental matches.
I'll bet he felt "heartbroken", too, the first time he caught himself masturbating on Christmas day.
Not only that, our political philosophy, and arguably the only correct one, is to presume the rights exist inherent in your being a human being, preceding any government and independent of it (indeed, often opposed to it), and the government is created by those people, who grant it limited, listed powers over those rights, and no others.
For a high US official to not understand this and claim non-US citizens don't have these rights, these rights we presume pre-exist government in our core political philosophy, is utterly shameful.
If I worked there, I'd, as their computer guy, would be like, let's build an incorruptible and un-bypassable logging system of all access to all data, and exactly what was accessed, along with a physical process whereby the elected officials in Congress on the security committees would review it all. In this way, there could be no G. Gordon Liddy type "special" agents who misuse the data to advantage this or that political faction...
And I'd be quickly shown the door.
Science is advancing so rapidly, none of this matters. You should not ameliorate the global warming because if you overdo it, you will induce an ice age, which can start in as little as a year or two (all you need is a summer where the snow doesn't quite melt) and then you will kill billions in less than a year.
We can less predict the tech in 100 years than the people in 1900 could predict today's. We are the people in 1900 trying to fix the problem using their info and their tech. Decimating their own industry would just have slowed getting to today's tech level, benefiting nobody and killing probably a few hundred million due to delayed innovation.
So, even amelioration can be bad, and the downside is magnitudes worse than warming.
The Supreme Court has overturned pretty much everything except, maybe, temporarily holding someone quiet to prevent revealing an imminent D-Day style invasion, and even theoretical at that.
If he paid or aided, then he becomes a spy. If he just received and published, he is safe. The statement he has no First Amendment right because he is not a US citizen is an embarrassing statement by a US official. A law is a law and Congress shall make no law. The idea of making something illegal outside the jurisdiction of the US which cannot even be made illegal inside the US is contradictory seven ways from Sunday.
Rivers sway back and forth naturally. They are a dynamic, if slowly-changing, feature.
Increased glacial flow would just accelerate this process.
In Michigan they calcuated it would be cheaper to hire Uber to carry bus passengers door to door rather than create an enormous multi-county bus service.
Religion Meets Virtual Reality: Christianity-Themed VR Demo Scheduled For Easter
So...virtual reality meets virtual reality.
My work here is done. yoink!
concludes that "machine-learning significantly improves accuracy of cardiovascular risk prediction
Computer: Subject has 728% increase in cardiovascular heart disease risk due to obesity, sedentary lifestyle, nuggets, and left-handed masturbation to furry Dragon Ball drawings.
Impressed Doctor: God damn.
Based on previous recent games, Half Life 3 will probably be a stripped down, console-style FPS with fewer weapons, quick time events or equivalent, and save points. The PC version will just be a port of the console one because build for the console because a near-flop on that will earn more than a hit on the PC.