I forgot to mention that for a while it also looked as if every application would also be P2P enabled to exchange information on a decentralized network. It worked! And now we're now back to square one with centralized client/server architecture like in the 90s.
So include that into my rant. There are strong, dark forces against personal computing...
If design would only be the only problem. Why all this browser-based crap? I haven't encountered any "web app" yet that was better or even on a par with some corresponding desktop app. Most even fail to have basic keyboard shortcuts.
For a while everything was looking fine. We had powerful high-end desktop apps with unlimited undo, customizable shortcuts and menus, and local storage of your valuable information. Then this web madness started and everything reverted to pre 1990 standards. Why?
the ability to track viewership is important for ensuring that people can actually get the kinds of content that they like
I have never seen this mysterious feature to work in any way whatsoever for me on any site. Not even remotely. Amazon keeps pestering me with suggestions for things I've bought half a year ago, Youtube suggests videos I would never watch in my life and even if I click away all suggestions it will start with the same nonsense again after a while, and Netflix suggests the most awful and horrible movies on earth, because they have only like a few dozen movies in my country anyway and I've all the good ones ten years ago. Even their series suggestions are complete nonsense, merely based on what's new in their catalogue.
The problem is the world is exactly what you believe it to be, from an internal perspective.
Where on earth did you get this idea from? You can believe whatever you want from an internal perspective, those belief won't allow you to create a car, cell phone, or space rocket unless they are based on a sufficient grasp of the world (aka 'reality'). Heck, you couldn't even use a toaster without having a fairly solid understanding of the world in the first place.
Count me in. The company's business model is practically based on fraud, as evidenced by their attempts to explain their losses to third party repair shops and trying to stop them from repairing their faulty products, and by arguing in court that their phones last only one year anyway.
Not for long though, in many countries other than the US there will soon be laws against planned obsolescence.
If this is about improving the working conditions of adult actors, then you can totally count me in. I've been for improved and free health care and social security not just for actors but also for sex workers during all my adult life so far. I also think there should be better mental health care for such professions (and paid leave, if necessary), because this kind of work is stressful.
What I don't get is why consuming porn makes you "greedy" and what makes this "a problem". As I've said, this view is irrational and based on silly old taboos and religious superstitions. Adult actors are mostly in it for money, not for fun, these jobs pay way more than you could ever earn in any low wage job, but also come with a high level of distress and social stigmatization because of silly taboos. So your comparison to low wage jobs is puzzling. Now if your opinion is that it's better if adult actors would work at McDonald's and therefore the working conditions at McDonald's ought to be improved, I'd say, okay, that's an opinion one could have although I still don't see the point of it.
Everybody should get a high enough salary to make a decent living under decent working conditions in any profession, so I'd focus on improving both kind of jobs.
I don't see a any noteworthy difference between sexual exploitation and non-sexual exploitation. Some people get more upset about sexual issues than about other issues, because sex is still taboo in most societies and thinking about sex in the US is strongly influenced by Puritanism. The exaggerated concern about sexual issues is irrational and in some cases also very hypocritical. There is nothing wrong with sex, there is nothing wrong with masturbating and there is nothing wrong with pornography produced by consenting adult actors. And there is certainly nothing wrong with "female-presenting nipples". Moral outrage about these issues mostly indicates a certain lack of maturity.
Now exploitation, that's a bad thing, or at least it sounds bad to me. We can agree on that. But that's a separate discussion.
Sounds like a penetration test was conducted, including physical access testing. That's normal and good procedure, just a bit shocking that they do it only now and bugs from 1990 haven't been fixed yet...
It's ironic how people like you can at the same time believe that traditional media influence people strongly in sneaky ways and spin conspiracy theories about it, yet at the same time also strongly believe that they know the truth and are not influenced or biased at all by the shitty clickbait blogpost alt right youtube radical right or left wing 'news' bullshit they habitually consume.
The cognitive dissonance couldn't be greater. Among the various people I've met who criticized mainstream media, not a single one was able to point out any reasonable alternative news source that actually employs correspondents or at least a sizeable number of journalists. It's mysterious to me how anyone could think news could be produced without actually having someone on the ground who takes the photos, conducts the interviews, and writes the original reports. The best conception those self-proclaimed media critics come up with are hysterical youtube videos made by 'citizen reporters' (aka bloggers with a proven track record of extreme bias or clickbait money-making schemes).
How about waiting an hour instead of sending it immediately? You're an adult, aren't you?
Your feature reminds me of that startup company that wants to monetize a single function they deliver, that your mail is only checked and forwarded to you three times a day.
We're talking about command&control systems of chemical plants, nuclear power plants, hospitals, cars, trains, elevators, etc., not your average home computer. In this case, they've probably destroyed some costly centrifuges.
Apart from not very widespread radical Islamic and Christian terrorism, the only terrorism that currently takes place in the US is right-wing terrorism, such as ploughing through crowds by car, sending bombs to Trump adversaries, and shooting people in a synagogue. If you look at the actual statistics, domestic left-terrorism is virtually non-extent and has never played any role in the US (unlike Europe in the 70s). Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming that right-wing terrorism is a sizeable problem in the US, it's fairly insignificant, but it's way larger and prominent than any perceived left-wing terrorism.
On a side note, never, ever use Breitbart.com as a source for anything. It is not a news site, it is an extremist news aggregator site with extremely violent and extremist followers, as anybody is welcome to verify by checking the comment section of any "news" article published there. If you disagree, take a look again. (Or, somebody who has the spare time could just go there and copy&paste some comments from there below. The first time I ever checked out Breitbart in 2016, the top commenters were discussing how to best gas all US American jews, and every time I come back it's something similar.)
That wasn't really my opinion but that of Sir Karl Popper and a bunch of other thinkers but you and some highly naive Slashdot moderators are welcome to continue living in your little US-centred bubble universe.
We're talking about people who promote genocide, Stalinist gulags, or raping children. These people don't need a free open platform to advocate their ideas and recruit more people, especially not one on privately owned social networks. Generally speaking, you only need to be tolerant to people who accept the basic rules of society, one of which is "no violence". There is absolutely no need to be tolerant towards people who promote violence of any kind. You should have learned that in kindergarten.
If any of you would care to think about the issue for a moment, you'd quickly realize that your arguments for unlimited free speech are based on two obvious fallacies, a false dichotomy - either totally free speech or some totalitarian government - and a slippery slope - if we restrict speech a little bit, then invariably we have to totally restrict it.
But you're not thinking about anything, you're just parroting whatever your local 'peers' and some Hollywood movies have shat into your brains.
The ironic thing about it is that many of the most ardent US free speech advocates are in reality hypocrites. Try to paint "Kill all infidels! Alla hu akbar!" onto your house or car and see how far you get with your alleged freedom of speech in the US.
But you're worried that showing a nipple or not bleeping a swear word will cause the immediate destruction and damnation of someone's soul, right? LOL.
I switched from intel to some Amd box with 1800X CPU and it works very fine. I could have never gotten the bang for bucks with another Intel machine, and then there were also the serious security flaws of Intel chips. My machine handles everything including flight simulation and every game very well, so getting even more speed would be pointless at this time.
It's a pragmatic decision and it's stupid to get emotionally attached to companies. A PC is nothing but a tool (or a fun toy, when we speak about gaming). If Intel produces something better in 5 years from now, maybe I'll switch back to them.
Ahhhh! Spray paintings on street corners are "pseudointellectual and highly pretentious art". Good to know. I bet you're one of those people who say every two minutes in a modern arts museum "***insert stupid laughter*** I could do that myself".
There wouldn't be a need for any lawsuits if people took other persons' choices seriously and treated them with respect. It's amazing how offended some people get by other people's lifestyle and it's sad how this reveals how "freedom loving" many are in reality.
It's amazing how deeply offended and upset people get about changing some arbitrary technical terminology to some more value-neutral variants, as if there was some deep religious importance attached to keeping technical terms like master/slave.
Not that I care about either way, I'm fine with keeping master/slave and I'm fine with changing it to something else. It's just odd how politicized these debates have become nowadays, some posters almost sound as if they would burst out into tears if they cannot continue to use terms with possibly offensive connotation in official projects used by many companies and read by many people of many different cultures and backgrounds. I'm not a fan of PC either, but there is also the other extreme....
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I forgot to mention that for a while it also looked as if every application would also be P2P enabled to exchange information on a decentralized network. It worked! And now we're now back to square one with centralized client/server architecture like in the 90s.
So include that into my rant. There are strong, dark forces against personal computing...
If design would only be the only problem. Why all this browser-based crap? I haven't encountered any "web app" yet that was better or even on a par with some corresponding desktop app. Most even fail to have basic keyboard shortcuts.
For a while everything was looking fine. We had powerful high-end desktop apps with unlimited undo, customizable shortcuts and menus, and local storage of your valuable information. Then this web madness started and everything reverted to pre 1990 standards. Why?
Nope. You're really just an asshole.
the ability to track viewership is important for ensuring that people can actually get the kinds of content that they like
I have never seen this mysterious feature to work in any way whatsoever for me on any site. Not even remotely. Amazon keeps pestering me with suggestions for things I've bought half a year ago, Youtube suggests videos I would never watch in my life and even if I click away all suggestions it will start with the same nonsense again after a while, and Netflix suggests the most awful and horrible movies on earth, because they have only like a few dozen movies in my country anyway and I've all the good ones ten years ago. Even their series suggestions are complete nonsense, merely based on what's new in their catalogue.
The problem is the world is exactly what you believe it to be, from an internal perspective.
Where on earth did you get this idea from? You can believe whatever you want from an internal perspective, those belief won't allow you to create a car, cell phone, or space rocket unless they are based on a sufficient grasp of the world (aka 'reality'). Heck, you couldn't even use a toaster without having a fairly solid understanding of the world in the first place.
You need go make make tapering fulfilments with Google translate product items, much fried rice.
It was the result of meticulous collection from various sources, not of hacking one system.
I didn't even know that Google is in this shit business. Good to know, in order to avoid products that use this DRM crap.
Count me in. The company's business model is practically based on fraud, as evidenced by their attempts to explain their losses to third party repair shops and trying to stop them from repairing their faulty products, and by arguing in court that their phones last only one year anyway.
Not for long though, in many countries other than the US there will soon be laws against planned obsolescence.
If this is about improving the working conditions of adult actors, then you can totally count me in. I've been for improved and free health care and social security not just for actors but also for sex workers during all my adult life so far. I also think there should be better mental health care for such professions (and paid leave, if necessary), because this kind of work is stressful.
What I don't get is why consuming porn makes you "greedy" and what makes this "a problem". As I've said, this view is irrational and based on silly old taboos and religious superstitions. Adult actors are mostly in it for money, not for fun, these jobs pay way more than you could ever earn in any low wage job, but also come with a high level of distress and social stigmatization because of silly taboos. So your comparison to low wage jobs is puzzling. Now if your opinion is that it's better if adult actors would work at McDonald's and therefore the working conditions at McDonald's ought to be improved, I'd say, okay, that's an opinion one could have although I still don't see the point of it.
Everybody should get a high enough salary to make a decent living under decent working conditions in any profession, so I'd focus on improving both kind of jobs.
I don't see a any noteworthy difference between sexual exploitation and non-sexual exploitation. Some people get more upset about sexual issues than about other issues, because sex is still taboo in most societies and thinking about sex in the US is strongly influenced by Puritanism. The exaggerated concern about sexual issues is irrational and in some cases also very hypocritical. There is nothing wrong with sex, there is nothing wrong with masturbating and there is nothing wrong with pornography produced by consenting adult actors. And there is certainly nothing wrong with "female-presenting nipples". Moral outrage about these issues mostly indicates a certain lack of maturity.
Now exploitation, that's a bad thing, or at least it sounds bad to me. We can agree on that. But that's a separate discussion.
I'll go with the first one.
Sounds like a penetration test was conducted, including physical access testing. That's normal and good procedure, just a bit shocking that they do it only now and bugs from 1990 haven't been fixed yet...
It's ironic how people like you can at the same time believe that traditional media influence people strongly in sneaky ways and spin conspiracy theories about it, yet at the same time also strongly believe that they know the truth and are not influenced or biased at all by the shitty clickbait blogpost alt right youtube radical right or left wing 'news' bullshit they habitually consume.
The cognitive dissonance couldn't be greater. Among the various people I've met who criticized mainstream media, not a single one was able to point out any reasonable alternative news source that actually employs correspondents or at least a sizeable number of journalists. It's mysterious to me how anyone could think news could be produced without actually having someone on the ground who takes the photos, conducts the interviews, and writes the original reports. The best conception those self-proclaimed media critics come up with are hysterical youtube videos made by 'citizen reporters' (aka bloggers with a proven track record of extreme bias or clickbait money-making schemes).
Now if every other country uploads foreign APT malware, too, then maybe even the NSA tools will be detected.
How about waiting an hour instead of sending it immediately? You're an adult, aren't you?
Your feature reminds me of that startup company that wants to monetize a single function they deliver, that your mail is only checked and forwarded to you three times a day.
We're talking about command&control systems of chemical plants, nuclear power plants, hospitals, cars, trains, elevators, etc., not your average home computer. In this case, they've probably destroyed some costly centrifuges.
Apart from not very widespread radical Islamic and Christian terrorism, the only terrorism that currently takes place in the US is right-wing terrorism, such as ploughing through crowds by car, sending bombs to Trump adversaries, and shooting people in a synagogue. If you look at the actual statistics, domestic left-terrorism is virtually non-extent and has never played any role in the US (unlike Europe in the 70s). Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming that right-wing terrorism is a sizeable problem in the US, it's fairly insignificant, but it's way larger and prominent than any perceived left-wing terrorism.
On a side note, never, ever use Breitbart.com as a source for anything. It is not a news site, it is an extremist news aggregator site with extremely violent and extremist followers, as anybody is welcome to verify by checking the comment section of any "news" article published there. If you disagree, take a look again. (Or, somebody who has the spare time could just go there and copy&paste some comments from there below. The first time I ever checked out Breitbart in 2016, the top commenters were discussing how to best gas all US American jews, and every time I come back it's something similar.)
That wasn't really my opinion but that of Sir Karl Popper and a bunch of other thinkers but you and some highly naive Slashdot moderators are welcome to continue living in your little US-centred bubble universe.
We're talking about people who promote genocide, Stalinist gulags, or raping children. These people don't need a free open platform to advocate their ideas and recruit more people, especially not one on privately owned social networks. Generally speaking, you only need to be tolerant to people who accept the basic rules of society, one of which is "no violence". There is absolutely no need to be tolerant towards people who promote violence of any kind. You should have learned that in kindergarten.
If any of you would care to think about the issue for a moment, you'd quickly realize that your arguments for unlimited free speech are based on two obvious fallacies, a false dichotomy - either totally free speech or some totalitarian government - and a slippery slope - if we restrict speech a little bit, then invariably we have to totally restrict it.
But you're not thinking about anything, you're just parroting whatever your local 'peers' and some Hollywood movies have shat into your brains.
The ironic thing about it is that many of the most ardent US free speech advocates are in reality hypocrites. Try to paint "Kill all infidels! Alla hu akbar!" onto your house or car and see how far you get with your alleged freedom of speech in the US.
But you're worried that showing a nipple or not bleeping a swear word will cause the immediate destruction and damnation of someone's soul, right? LOL.
I was astonished to hear that, too. Looks like an immoral deficiency of the Australian system to me, one that could be abused in many ways.
I switched from intel to some Amd box with 1800X CPU and it works very fine. I could have never gotten the bang for bucks with another Intel machine, and then there were also the serious security flaws of Intel chips. My machine handles everything including flight simulation and every game very well, so getting even more speed would be pointless at this time.
It's a pragmatic decision and it's stupid to get emotionally attached to companies. A PC is nothing but a tool (or a fun toy, when we speak about gaming). If Intel produces something better in 5 years from now, maybe I'll switch back to them.
Ahhhh! Spray paintings on street corners are "pseudointellectual and highly pretentious art". Good to know. I bet you're one of those people who say every two minutes in a modern arts museum "***insert stupid laughter*** I could do that myself".
There wouldn't be a need for any lawsuits if people took other persons' choices seriously and treated them with respect. It's amazing how offended some people get by other people's lifestyle and it's sad how this reveals how "freedom loving" many are in reality.
It's amazing how deeply offended and upset people get about changing some arbitrary technical terminology to some more value-neutral variants, as if there was some deep religious importance attached to keeping technical terms like master/slave.
Not that I care about either way, I'm fine with keeping master/slave and I'm fine with changing it to something else. It's just odd how politicized these debates have become nowadays, some posters almost sound as if they would burst out into tears if they cannot continue to use terms with possibly offensive connotation in official projects used by many companies and read by many people of many different cultures and backgrounds. I'm not a fan of PC either, but there is also the other extreme....