Why the fuck do people on a tech website have absolutely no sense of humor?
Oh yeah, that's right.
They do. But you're too lazy to tell us that it was meant to be humorous. Next time, try a wink, an emoticon, or a damn old-school (grin). Since you're new to the Internet, let me help you with a simple concept: communication via text cannot display tone or body language, so it is difficult to recognize sarcasm or humor without some kind of help, which is what smilies and emoticons were designed for.
And why the fuck do people on a tech website refuse to log in? I'm talking to you, AC. And no, that wasn't meant to be funny.
Better to just dump that $10 billion dollars in to a non profit electric car research institute.
How much better batteries can you design on a $10 billion dollar budget?
The Tesla gigafactory cost $5 billion, for an idea of how much $10.5 billion dollars in research would buy you.
IIRC, when this deceit was first exposed, there was an article that said VW's "fine" would entail building electric-car charging stations throughout the U.S. Some government moron probably decided that made too much sense.
Great post, except for the fact that the story is missing "(competing product)", "(bad attribute)", "(link to store)", and the part about "buying now, etc".
Seriously, I can't understand why you people can't just move on when you see a post that contains $PRODUCT. Yeah, maybe it slightly resembles an advertisement, and yeah, maybe it is something that might be targeted at "nerds", but do you seriously think that the/. editors are actively trying to convince you to buy this thing? Maybe it is just a cool new device that fills an interesting niche. Maybe the submitter or editor thinks it would strike up some interesting dialogue in the comments about the pros and cons of such a technology. Maybe they really are getting paid (as Whipslash so wonderfully put it) a truckload to post said story.
WHO. CARES.
These things are hardly posted regularly, and if you don't like their content, you can easily hide said stories from view (or just ignore them). Why always bring this up? Why always complain about "slashvertisements"? Why can't you guys contribute to a topic like this without throwing it out as some sinister plot to undermine our wonderful commune with the heinous threat of capitalism?
I agree completely. Since I had never heard of Plex before, it was an informative article to me.
Being the American infrastructure is based on automobiles. Locomotion at speeds averaging 15 miles per hour (roughly 25 kilometers per hour) is rather dangerous with other vehicles going 2 to 4 times faster with a lot more mass behind them. Bike trails in the US. are often just signs telling drivers to be more careful.
With so many drivers being distracted by their cell phones, just being out in public is dangerous. But that shouldn't stop you from living.
Average cycling speed varies greatly by where you ride. Speeds on sidewalks or through parks congested with pedestrians will be much slower than on paved roads. I commute 10 miles to work over paved roads on a mountain bike, complete with 30-pound panniers on the back. I ride in the road, not on the shoulder (there are no sidewalks or bike trails). With the panniers, my average speed is 18-20 mph. Without, it's 20-22 mph. Downhill, I can easily go 27 mph. Friends who ride much lighter road bikes ride faster than that.
When I ride, my bike is lit up like a friggin' Christmas tree. I have red lights on my seat post, on my pannier, and on the back of my helmet. I have white lights on my handle bar and my helmet. Even my pedals light up - they have a built-in generator, and have a red light on the back, a white light on the front, and an amber light on the side.
There aren't many statistics about cycling accidents. Meaning, more than just "were they wearing a helmet?" For example, were they experienced riders? Were they under the influence of alcohol or drugs? Were they riding in conditions (or speeds) beyond their skill level? Were they wearing light-colored, reflective clothing and/or have lights on the bike?
Most bike accidents happen to inexperienced riders and/or idiots. The rest were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neither of those points will ever stop me from riding.
Ever ask yourselves why it is we allegedly can't afford things that earlier versions of our society with less wealth and less knowledge were able to? The answer is because back then we had less wealth concentration, we kept the rich on a leash and didn't let them do whatever they wanted and yes, that meant regulations, it meant unions, and it meant jobs with actual benefits. It's why you will never have even a fraction of what your parents and grandparents had because you willingly give it all away to the people who already have too much.
You might want to remove your rose-colored glasses.
Most job benefits are recent enough that my parents never had them, and my grandparents sure as hell never had them.
Unions were great 50+ years ago, but now they're just another big business. My employer is a privately owned company that does not need unions because they treat their people fairly, and provide both good pay and good benefits. That didn't stop a union from trying to force their way into one of our manufacturing plants. They convinced enough workers that "the union would be great" that they had to conduct a vote. IIRC, about 40% of the workers were convinced, and the vote was scheduled for six weeks later.
For the next six weeks, management couldn't talk to the workers about the union. But the union could sure as hell talk about the management. For the next six weeks, the union made lie after lie about my employer and their management. Eventually, the employees recognized the deceit. On voting day, only one employee voted for the union.
The entire problem comes down to greed. Business owners want more money, so they do whatever they can to save (or make) a dollar. Unions need money to survive, so they threaten, coerce, and lie. Business owners want more money, so they make billions from an IPO. But then they have to satisfy the greed of their shareholders, so they save a few dollars by outsourcing, offshoring, and replacing humans with robots.
You know what friend? It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.
I disagree. Windows 8 and 10 warrant even more hate for MS, not less.
Shoving Windows 10 down our throats when we already have legitimate, paid-for, still-supported licenses of Windows 7 warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Sneakily upgrading existing clients to Windows 10, which then bricks older hardware, warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Hiding Windows 10 upgrades within Windows Updates, which then causes users to disable Windows Updates to avoid Win10, warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Arstechnica says "Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches." Again, this warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Or do we collectively fail to turn our skeptical demand-for-rigor brain when we see a survey or article that we support? (
Most of humanity does that.
That's why surveys are so influential. Anyone with common sense knows they're biased, but since common sense is so rare, surveys continue to influence the masses.
My challenge is finding new music. I'm not young anymore, approaching 40. My time is spent primarily with my wife and son and some co-workers. Music never comes up with us so discovering new music these days is harder for me. Spotify has opened me up to new stuff I wouldn't otherwise have known about. That's why I maintain a Spotify account.
I have a lot of music that I've collected over the years but frankly, I'm bored of it. It's also cheaper to just stream off Spotify than buy multiple CD's a month.
I have a similar issue, and I'm 50. I like Pandora for similar reasons. I like the multiple "stations" feature that Pandora has. It makes it easy to find both older music that I had forgotten about, and newer music that I've never heard of. For example, listening to the Bon Jovi station also played Aerosmith. And listening to Elle King (I really like her hit single "Ex's & Oh's") also played Gin Wigmore.
Generalizing, if you haven't done anything wrong then you have no need to fear constant surveillance.
Just being accused of doing something wrong can be enough to fuck up your life forever. You could be stuck in jail until your court date, and then go bankrupt because of the attorney's fees.
Conventional currencies certainly could. If you were able to steal 10% of all the US dollars in circulation, it would cause the value of the currency to drop sharply.
Only if you try to cash in the stolen currency in another country, which considers the value of the US Dollar against the value of the local currency.
Businesses don't raise their prices just because the international value of the local currency changes.
Since you're using the card, they're tracking you via your purchases and building a profile based on that. If you paid by debit or credit card, they might have that info associated with your profile and acquired your personal info through a third-party vendor. Like it or not, they're tracking you.
I don't care because they save me money. A large store in the U.S. Midwest offers sales only to loyalty card holders. Sure, they have "regular" sale prices that apply to every customer. But they also have sales and specials that only apply to loyalty card holders. For example, save $10 if you spend $75 in the shoe department over a 4-week period. Or save $9 if you spend $400 over a 4-week period. And of course, regular sales of $.50 off this or $1 off that.
I don't care that they know how often I buy Brand X. Or that I prefer the store brand over Brand Y. Or that I have a cat, but not a dog. All I care about is saving 12-15% off my shopping bill for an entire year. That's 12-15% off groceries, clothing, health and beauty aids, automotive, gardening, etc.
Anyone who shops at this particular chain without using their loyalty/reward card is essentially throwing away money.
Oh, and I wouldn't dream of installing the FB app on my phone. Since I block the FB widget in my web browser, why would I allow FB on my phone?
For sites like Slashdot, fark, ars, etc al I not only use the same login, I use the same password. Why would I care?
I don't care about the stolen accounts, but for a different reason. I don't care because I use LastPass to generate (and store, and automatically fill in) random, unique passwords for every web login. If they hack into my VW or Ford accounts, who cares? They would only get access to that single account.
I'm sorry but I'm done with Microsoft patches. If hackers want to watch me play CS:GO or post on slashdot they're welcome to do it, but I won't risk Microsoft's definite installation of spyware.
On my own laptops, I agree completely. Unfortunately, my day job requires Microcrap Windoze.
Even though my wife is not computer savvy and is a little resistant to change, her next laptop will get Windoze wiped from it and replaced with some version of Linux.
I am currently configuring a second-hand laptop for a young family friend who is starting college this fall. It will have Linux on it, not Windoze. I warned him that he has to give Linux a try for two weeks. I will only install Windoze on it if he gives Linux a fair shot first. Of course, he would have to pay for the Windoze licence, which should encourage him to give the free option (meaning Linux) an honest effort. Hopefully, I can create another Linux convert.
Have you seen the staggering amount of YouTube DIY Videos, that lasts for more than 10 minutes, but could be summarised in a paragraph of text?
So many times when I am looking for solutions to a problem, I find hordes of videos explaining it, where a simple paragraph of text could have done the same thing.
Why? I don't get it.
It's much easier, and faster, to read some text than watching through a video of some guy explaining it with 4 different analogies.
Which is why YT is a last resort for me. I will only follow YT links from a search engine when the text links have failed to resolve my issue. Which rarely happens.
Because the way the US electoral system is set up, the third or fourth evil ends up just taking votes from the second evil leaving the greater evil to win. Or the House picks the evil they want.
That has nothing to do with the way the US system is setup. A third party can win an election, it just requires enough votes to overtake the R and D choices. Although it is a mathematical longshot, it is still a possibility. The fact that the #1 and #2 choices are so extremely bad makes that mathematical longshot more likely to happen because people are more willing to listen to alternatives.
The awful R and D choices, combined with enough education and advertisement to convince people that their non-standard vote can make a difference, is the best opportunity that any third party has ever had to win a US Presidency.
Our system is designed to deal with bad presidents, we have the legislative and judicial branches to stop them if they try to do anything truly terrible.
Then how do you explain ObamaCare?
Our system is broken, and headed for a complete meltdown.
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Why the fuck do people on a tech website have absolutely no sense of humor?
Oh yeah, that's right.
They do. But you're too lazy to tell us that it was meant to be humorous. Next time, try a wink, an emoticon, or a damn old-school (grin). Since you're new to the Internet, let me help you with a simple concept: communication via text cannot display tone or body language, so it is difficult to recognize sarcasm or humor without some kind of help, which is what smilies and emoticons were designed for.
And why the fuck do people on a tech website refuse to log in? I'm talking to you, AC. And no, that wasn't meant to be funny.
Better to just dump that $10 billion dollars in to a non profit electric car research institute.
How much better batteries can you design on a $10 billion dollar budget?
The Tesla gigafactory cost $5 billion, for an idea of how much $10.5 billion dollars in research would buy you.
IIRC, when this deceit was first exposed, there was an article that said VW's "fine" would entail building electric-car charging stations throughout the U.S. Some government moron probably decided that made too much sense.
Great post, except for the fact that the story is missing "(competing product)", "(bad attribute)", "(link to store)", and the part about "buying now, etc". Seriously, I can't understand why you people can't just move on when you see a post that contains $PRODUCT. Yeah, maybe it slightly resembles an advertisement, and yeah, maybe it is something that might be targeted at "nerds", but do you seriously think that the /. editors are actively trying to convince you to buy this thing? Maybe it is just a cool new device that fills an interesting niche. Maybe the submitter or editor thinks it would strike up some interesting dialogue in the comments about the pros and cons of such a technology. Maybe they really are getting paid (as Whipslash so wonderfully put it) a truckload to post said story.
WHO. CARES.
These things are hardly posted regularly, and if you don't like their content, you can easily hide said stories from view (or just ignore them). Why always bring this up? Why always complain about "slashvertisements"? Why can't you guys contribute to a topic like this without throwing it out as some sinister plot to undermine our wonderful commune with the heinous threat of capitalism?
I agree completely. Since I had never heard of Plex before, it was an informative article to me.
If you don't like the article, just move on.
Being the American infrastructure is based on automobiles. Locomotion at speeds averaging 15 miles per hour (roughly 25 kilometers per hour) is rather dangerous with other vehicles going 2 to 4 times faster with a lot more mass behind them. Bike trails in the US. are often just signs telling drivers to be more careful.
With so many drivers being distracted by their cell phones, just being out in public is dangerous. But that shouldn't stop you from living.
Average cycling speed varies greatly by where you ride. Speeds on sidewalks or through parks congested with pedestrians will be much slower than on paved roads. I commute 10 miles to work over paved roads on a mountain bike, complete with 30-pound panniers on the back. I ride in the road, not on the shoulder (there are no sidewalks or bike trails). With the panniers, my average speed is 18-20 mph. Without, it's 20-22 mph. Downhill, I can easily go 27 mph. Friends who ride much lighter road bikes ride faster than that.
When I ride, my bike is lit up like a friggin' Christmas tree. I have red lights on my seat post, on my pannier, and on the back of my helmet. I have white lights on my handle bar and my helmet. Even my pedals light up - they have a built-in generator, and have a red light on the back, a white light on the front, and an amber light on the side.
There aren't many statistics about cycling accidents. Meaning, more than just "were they wearing a helmet?" For example, were they experienced riders? Were they under the influence of alcohol or drugs? Were they riding in conditions (or speeds) beyond their skill level? Were they wearing light-colored, reflective clothing and/or have lights on the bike?
Most bike accidents happen to inexperienced riders and/or idiots. The rest were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neither of those points will ever stop me from riding.
Ever ask yourselves why it is we allegedly can't afford things that earlier versions of our society with less wealth and less knowledge were able to? The answer is because back then we had less wealth concentration, we kept the rich on a leash and didn't let them do whatever they wanted and yes, that meant regulations, it meant unions, and it meant jobs with actual benefits. It's why you will never have even a fraction of what your parents and grandparents had because you willingly give it all away to the people who already have too much.
You might want to remove your rose-colored glasses.
Most job benefits are recent enough that my parents never had them, and my grandparents sure as hell never had them.
Unions were great 50+ years ago, but now they're just another big business. My employer is a privately owned company that does not need unions because they treat their people fairly, and provide both good pay and good benefits. That didn't stop a union from trying to force their way into one of our manufacturing plants. They convinced enough workers that "the union would be great" that they had to conduct a vote. IIRC, about 40% of the workers were convinced, and the vote was scheduled for six weeks later.
For the next six weeks, management couldn't talk to the workers about the union. But the union could sure as hell talk about the management. For the next six weeks, the union made lie after lie about my employer and their management. Eventually, the employees recognized the deceit. On voting day, only one employee voted for the union.
The entire problem comes down to greed. Business owners want more money, so they do whatever they can to save (or make) a dollar. Unions need money to survive, so they threaten, coerce, and lie. Business owners want more money, so they make billions from an IPO. But then they have to satisfy the greed of their shareholders, so they save a few dollars by outsourcing, offshoring, and replacing humans with robots.
And how exactly does it work if I do not have a cellphone?
You're funny. Someone on /. that doesn't have a cellphone. Yeah, right!
...which is why there is no incentive to find a cure.
Dozens of companies make money because of cancer. Even "cancer research" companies make money because of cancer.
Finding a cure would be like killing their own cash cow. Who in their right mind would do that?
You know what friend? It's not 1994, you can stop hating MS now.
I disagree. Windows 8 and 10 warrant even more hate for MS, not less.
Shoving Windows 10 down our throats when we already have legitimate, paid-for, still-supported licenses of Windows 7 warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Sneakily upgrading existing clients to Windows 10, which then bricks older hardware, warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Hiding Windows 10 upgrades within Windows Updates, which then causes users to disable Windows Updates to avoid Win10, warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
Arstechnica says "Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches." Again, this warrants even more hate for MS, not less.
I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
Or do we collectively fail to turn our skeptical demand-for-rigor brain when we see a survey or article that we support? (
Most of humanity does that.
That's why surveys are so influential. Anyone with common sense knows they're biased, but since common sense is so rare, surveys continue to influence the masses.
My challenge is finding new music. I'm not young anymore, approaching 40. My time is spent primarily with my wife and son and some co-workers. Music never comes up with us so discovering new music these days is harder for me. Spotify has opened me up to new stuff I wouldn't otherwise have known about. That's why I maintain a Spotify account.
I have a lot of music that I've collected over the years but frankly, I'm bored of it. It's also cheaper to just stream off Spotify than buy multiple CD's a month.
I have a similar issue, and I'm 50. I like Pandora for similar reasons. I like the multiple "stations" feature that Pandora has. It makes it easy to find both older music that I had forgotten about, and newer music that I've never heard of. For example, listening to the Bon Jovi station also played Aerosmith. And listening to Elle King (I really like her hit single "Ex's & Oh's") also played Gin Wigmore.
Unfortunately, most users buy into the Microsoft propaganda machine, hook, line and sinker.
Wow, I didn't know that Oliver North was still around. He's one strong dude if he can carry 12 people!
...it would need to upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 7.
Generalizing, if you haven't done anything wrong then you have no need to fear constant surveillance.
Just being accused of doing something wrong can be enough to fuck up your life forever. You could be stuck in jail until your court date, and then go bankrupt because of the attorney's fees.
Conventional currencies certainly could. If you were able to steal 10% of all the US dollars in circulation, it would cause the value of the currency to drop sharply.
Only if you try to cash in the stolen currency in another country, which considers the value of the US Dollar against the value of the local currency.
Businesses don't raise their prices just because the international value of the local currency changes.
Since you're using the card, they're tracking you via your purchases and building a profile based on that. If you paid by debit or credit card, they might have that info associated with your profile and acquired your personal info through a third-party vendor. Like it or not, they're tracking you.
I don't care because they save me money. A large store in the U.S. Midwest offers sales only to loyalty card holders. Sure, they have "regular" sale prices that apply to every customer. But they also have sales and specials that only apply to loyalty card holders. For example, save $10 if you spend $75 in the shoe department over a 4-week period. Or save $9 if you spend $400 over a 4-week period. And of course, regular sales of $.50 off this or $1 off that.
I don't care that they know how often I buy Brand X. Or that I prefer the store brand over Brand Y. Or that I have a cat, but not a dog. All I care about is saving 12-15% off my shopping bill for an entire year. That's 12-15% off groceries, clothing, health and beauty aids, automotive, gardening, etc.
Anyone who shops at this particular chain without using their loyalty/reward card is essentially throwing away money.
Oh, and I wouldn't dream of installing the FB app on my phone. Since I block the FB widget in my web browser, why would I allow FB on my phone?
For sites like Slashdot, fark, ars, etc al I not only use the same login, I use the same password. Why would I care?
I don't care about the stolen accounts, but for a different reason. I don't care because I use LastPass to generate (and store, and automatically fill in) random, unique passwords for every web login. If they hack into my VW or Ford accounts, who cares? They would only get access to that single account.
You are on the wrong site. Only a total idiot would ignore the polls and think that Trump has a chance.
Only a total idiot would believe the polls.
The only thing that poll results prove is the opinions of those who were polled. They say absolutely zero about the rest of the population.
I'm sorry but I'm done with Microsoft patches. If hackers want to watch me play CS:GO or post on slashdot they're welcome to do it, but I won't risk Microsoft's definite installation of spyware.
On my own laptops, I agree completely. Unfortunately, my day job requires Microcrap Windoze.
Even though my wife is not computer savvy and is a little resistant to change, her next laptop will get Windoze wiped from it and replaced with some version of Linux.
I am currently configuring a second-hand laptop for a young family friend who is starting college this fall. It will have Linux on it, not Windoze. I warned him that he has to give Linux a try for two weeks. I will only install Windoze on it if he gives Linux a fair shot first. Of course, he would have to pay for the Windoze licence, which should encourage him to give the free option (meaning Linux) an honest effort. Hopefully, I can create another Linux convert.
Since our screwed-up education system can't teach kids how to read and write, they'll need some other way to communicate with each other.
Have you seen the staggering amount of YouTube DIY Videos, that lasts for more than 10 minutes, but could be summarised in a paragraph of text?
So many times when I am looking for solutions to a problem, I find hordes of videos explaining it, where a simple paragraph of text could have done the same thing. Why? I don't get it.
It's much easier, and faster, to read some text than watching through a video of some guy explaining it with 4 different analogies.
Which is why YT is a last resort for me. I will only follow YT links from a search engine when the text links have failed to resolve my issue. Which rarely happens.
Because the way the US electoral system is set up, the third or fourth evil ends up just taking votes from the second evil leaving the greater evil to win. Or the House picks the evil they want.
That has nothing to do with the way the US system is setup. A third party can win an election, it just requires enough votes to overtake the R and D choices. Although it is a mathematical longshot, it is still a possibility. The fact that the #1 and #2 choices are so extremely bad makes that mathematical longshot more likely to happen because people are more willing to listen to alternatives.
The awful R and D choices, combined with enough education and advertisement to convince people that their non-standard vote can make a difference, is the best opportunity that any third party has ever had to win a US Presidency.
Our system is designed to deal with bad presidents, we have the legislative and judicial branches to stop them if they try to do anything truly terrible.
Then how do you explain ObamaCare?
Our system is broken, and headed for a complete meltdown.
...stuff gets wet when it rains.
...over a flip phone?