Guccifer isn't a hacker, he's a dumbass who guessed password reset questions then dumped the contents for lulz.
That still qualifies as hacking. As much as nerds try to create some super mastermind association to the word 'hacker', hacking simply means attempting/gaining unauthorised access.
People who are secure in their position, who have a job and don't see themselves being laid off or expect to find a new job quickly if they are laid off, should vote for Hillary. There are a lot of these people in the country, and "stay the course" is the least risky choice for them to make.
People who are unemployed, struggling, or in fear of losing their situation should vote for Trump, because he's proposing to make changes.
This is politics 101, and is logical, but the gaping hole which the "changers" fail to appreciate is that change isn't always good for them. Sometimes, changes that look good for them on paper, are poorly thought-out and simply make everyone worse off. This was the flaw in Bush's invade Iraq campaign (ie nothing could possibly be worse than leaving Saddam in power, so change is the answer), and is a similar proposition for the Trump vote today.
Perhaps the two most important features of text which aren't mentioned in TFS -- (1) we generally read faster than we speak, so we can usually gather information faster from text, and (2) text is much more skimmable.
This. I read tonnes of pages of text every day, usually skimming to find the relevant info I'm looking for, and can usually find it reasonably easily. You simply can't do this with video.
Take this comments section for example, it would take thousand of hours worth of video to cover all the comments here, which I skimmed in about 30 seconds, found some relevant info like this comment and replied.
So, a move toward video isn't just decreasing efficiency of content delivery -- it's potentially making the population stupider, more malleable, and less capable of critical thought.
TV did the same thing and eventually people just got sick of stupid TV an looked elsewhere for stimulation. I suspect the same will happen here. Stupid Internet will have a phase of popularity, then it will die as even the stupid people realise how stupid it is, then the future Facebook Execs facing bankruptcy will blame someone else for their predicament they find themselves in, and beg for govt bailouts.
This FB idiot is basing his strategy on a completely false premise "Video conveys so much more information than Text in a much quicker period".
This is so wrong is laughable. Watch any Youtube video, it takes several minutes just to extract even the most basic info. Watch any news story on video then compare it to text. You can easily absorb a dozen different text based stories in the time it takes to watch the intro of a video.
There's a reason why people still read. Even in a world of UHDTV, text still gives a much more comprehensive communication method.
Doesn't a warmer climate equal more women in bikinis? Doesn't more CO2 equal more plants? I always thought that planting groves of giant sequoias would be a good way to sequestering CO2. I think I remember reading that each sequoia is capable of sequestering like 2,000 tons of CO2 for 3,000 years.
I came to ask the same question. One side affect of more CO2 is that some plants will grow a lot more easily, and hence absorb some of the CO2.
I also hear more energy more more moisture in the air, so more rain and yet again more plants.
So yeah, some humans might cop a raw deal, but it sounds like AGW could be a net win for a lot of other species. The hippies should be all for this.
Statistically, what are the odds of you having any of the same contacts as me on LinkedIn? Virtually zero
Because we probably live in different countries. In my city of 5 million, with my specific job, the chances of me knowing someone else in the same field are probably closer to 1:20
I'm a contractor and move around a fair bit, and so do a lot of the people I work with so you make a decent dent in the fog with such a network.
I have about 3-400 connections of people who I've worked with over the years who I know are good at their jobs. I also have a list of recruiters who I've dealt with that aren't complete fuckwits, so I'm now at a point where there is some value in this network.
eg I got a call about role at a bank from one of my recruiter contacts (he called me, I didn't call him). I look up Linkedin and see I know 1 person who works at this bank, and another who used to. Sending them both a quick email I get a consistent view of the working environment, and it's not something that suits me, so I can terminate the application process right there. Value.
I'm also a hiring manager and my last hire was a guy that worked with one of my contacts. A quick call to a reliable source and I found out the guy is really good, so I interviewed him and hired him. Value
This value will only increase over time as the network.
Look, you stated, without evidence, your beliefs that "Human development has a inverse correlation with violence.
You even agreed with this "We have had a massive decline in gun violence, both in the US and abroad".
So you agree that violence is down overall, so the thing you could possibly dispute is that prosperity is up over similar time frames?
And you need evidence for this? Really?
I thought this was so obvious even a fool wouldn't question this, but here you go, just for the special people... https://ourworldindata.org/Eco...
It matters to me, because I live now, and not hundreds of years ago.
It matters, but don't pretend the others are somehow any better.
In fact the only reason we tolerate Islam is because we have to be consistent with our tolerance of Christianity. If you accept that they are both as ridiculous as each other, it would be trivial to remove Islam (and Christianity) from our society.
So in some ways, our sympathetic approach to the kid-fuckers is responsible for the spreading of the terrorists.
But the 50s were probably when the quality of public education peaked in terms of it actually being useful and teaching you things.
Such as? I'd really love to know why you think this.
Obviously, indoctrination has always been there, mostly in civics and history. The difference is that you also used to get at least part of a classical education, which is important if you want to make sense of the world.
This is nostalgia goggles.
What the hell does "make sense of the world even mean"? How do you measure such a thing?
By any real metric, the education system is better and more accessible now than it ever was.
8cm = 3.15 inches. You would literally have to be standing nose to nose with someone to be that close.
You mean just like any bus, train, bar or elevator in any large city?
Mostly you aren't nose to nose, you're generally all facing the same way, so a scanner in your front pocket brushed up against a wallet in someone's back pocket would be trivial.
The only way that 8 cm range would work is if the device is hand held and you are in a crowded environment, preferably a bar
The problem is that neither their claimed experience nor their professional social network are authoritative...
You're ignoring the power of the network.
Linkedin is not just contacts, it is reputation. 200 contacts means nothing, but if some of those contacts are people I know and trust, I have a lot more faith in getting you in for an interview.
In a world of connected strangers, online reputation is about the most valuable asset there is, and Linkedin is the top dog in this space.
Good luck getting a job then. Where I am, 90% of recruiting is now done through Linkedin, and being a contractor it's key for me to keep working.
This may be the one thing that saves MS from oblivion.
nobody really knows what the cause of the decline is.
Speak for yourself. Human development has a inverse correlation with violence. Most parts of the world are developing, hence prosperity is up, violence is down.
Gun violence is merely a multiplier of violence so most intelligent places limit the power this has on society.
The US is the weird exception because 'freedom' seems to be more important than quality of life.
If we focused on eliminating the actual criminal gang element, we'd have European-level murder rates.
Apart from the regular mass shootings you mean?
None of those are done by 'criminal gangs', but are a LOT more frequent in the US than pretty much anywhere else.
A school isn't a prison, All of my kids schools have access control on all the doors. To enter the building during the day, you have to be buzzed in.
That sounds like a prison to me.
In my country, anyone can walk into any school at anytime, you know, exactly unlike a prison. No-one has shot any kids ever, why do you think that is?
The federal government has been waging war on education and common sense since the fifties.
You're implying that education and common sense peaked in the 50's? When people with vaginas or higher melanin levels were routinely discriminated against or persecuted?
Nostalgia goggles have amazing power...
And yet it remains that Islam is way the most prominent ideology behind this kind of thing.
Only if you're not including time as a metric for your data.
Every religion has their kill 'em all phase, it just so happens we are living in the Islamic one right now. It doesn't mean that the others aren't as equally ridiculous.
8cm is enough if that's all you require to get free money.
Bus, train, bar, concert, elevator, I'm in plenty of situations where I get closer than 8cms to others. If everyone of those people I could scam $99 from, I'll be a millionaire by the end of the month.
Voting third party actually gives you more influence in federal politics than voting R or D.
Or, voting for the other side to turn you electorate into a swing seat has a similar effect.
Too many people treat politics like team sport, blindly voting for their team. If you want real change, you need to create a close contest, ie voting to get the less popular party/candidate up to level pegging, or for the third party to gain a sufficient influence on the other two.
Never ever vote for a party/candidate with strong majority regardless of your political beliefs.
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Thats the rub.. he gets to complain. Those that are a drain on the system don't.
I'm going to assume anyone on slashdot is probably paying taxes, so I'm not sure you are arguing with here.
Revealed: The secret that other startups hate!
Fuck you Slashdot, where has my intelligent news feed gone?
Guccifer isn't a hacker, he's a dumbass who guessed password reset questions then dumped the contents for lulz.
That still qualifies as hacking. As much as nerds try to create some super mastermind association to the word 'hacker', hacking simply means attempting/gaining unauthorised access.
People who are secure in their position, who have a job and don't see themselves being laid off or expect to find a new job quickly if they are laid off, should vote for Hillary. There are a lot of these people in the country, and "stay the course" is the least risky choice for them to make.
People who are unemployed, struggling, or in fear of losing their situation should vote for Trump, because he's proposing to make changes.
This is politics 101, and is logical, but the gaping hole which the "changers" fail to appreciate is that change isn't always good for them. Sometimes, changes that look good for them on paper, are poorly thought-out and simply make everyone worse off. This was the flaw in Bush's invade Iraq campaign (ie nothing could possibly be worse than leaving Saddam in power, so change is the answer), and is a similar proposition for the Trump vote today.
Perhaps the two most important features of text which aren't mentioned in TFS -- (1) we generally read faster than we speak, so we can usually gather information faster from text, and (2) text is much more skimmable.
This. I read tonnes of pages of text every day, usually skimming to find the relevant info I'm looking for, and can usually find it reasonably easily. You simply can't do this with video.
Take this comments section for example, it would take thousand of hours worth of video to cover all the comments here, which I skimmed in about 30 seconds, found some relevant info like this comment and replied.
So, a move toward video isn't just decreasing efficiency of content delivery -- it's potentially making the population stupider, more malleable, and less capable of critical thought.
TV did the same thing and eventually people just got sick of stupid TV an looked elsewhere for stimulation. I suspect the same will happen here. Stupid Internet will have a phase of popularity, then it will die as even the stupid people realise how stupid it is, then the future Facebook Execs facing bankruptcy will blame someone else for their predicament they find themselves in, and beg for govt bailouts.
This FB idiot is basing his strategy on a completely false premise "Video conveys so much more information than Text in a much quicker period".
This is so wrong is laughable. Watch any Youtube video, it takes several minutes just to extract even the most basic info. Watch any news story on video then compare it to text. You can easily absorb a dozen different text based stories in the time it takes to watch the intro of a video.
There's a reason why people still read. Even in a world of UHDTV, text still gives a much more comprehensive communication method.
Doesn't a warmer climate equal more women in bikinis? Doesn't more CO2 equal more plants? I always thought that planting groves of giant sequoias would be a good way to sequestering CO2. I think I remember reading that each sequoia is capable of sequestering like 2,000 tons of CO2 for 3,000 years.
I came to ask the same question. One side affect of more CO2 is that some plants will grow a lot more easily, and hence absorb some of the CO2.
I also hear more energy more more moisture in the air, so more rain and yet again more plants.
So yeah, some humans might cop a raw deal, but it sounds like AGW could be a net win for a lot of other species. The hippies should be all for this.
Statistically, what are the odds of you having any of the same contacts as me on LinkedIn? Virtually zero
Because we probably live in different countries. In my city of 5 million, with my specific job, the chances of me knowing someone else in the same field are probably closer to 1:20
I'm a contractor and move around a fair bit, and so do a lot of the people I work with so you make a decent dent in the fog with such a network.
I have about 3-400 connections of people who I've worked with over the years who I know are good at their jobs. I also have a list of recruiters who I've dealt with that aren't complete fuckwits, so I'm now at a point where there is some value in this network.
eg I got a call about role at a bank from one of my recruiter contacts (he called me, I didn't call him). I look up Linkedin and see I know 1 person who works at this bank, and another who used to. Sending them both a quick email I get a consistent view of the working environment, and it's not something that suits me, so I can terminate the application process right there. Value.
I'm also a hiring manager and my last hire was a guy that worked with one of my contacts. A quick call to a reliable source and I found out the guy is really good, so I interviewed him and hired him. Value
This value will only increase over time as the network.
Look, you stated, without evidence, your beliefs that "Human development has a inverse correlation with violence.
You even agreed with this "We have had a massive decline in gun violence, both in the US and abroad".
So you agree that violence is down overall, so the thing you could possibly dispute is that prosperity is up over similar time frames?
And you need evidence for this? Really?
I thought this was so obvious even a fool wouldn't question this, but here you go, just for the special people... https://ourworldindata.org/Eco...
It matters to me, because I live now, and not hundreds of years ago.
It matters, but don't pretend the others are somehow any better.
In fact the only reason we tolerate Islam is because we have to be consistent with our tolerance of Christianity. If you accept that they are both as ridiculous as each other, it would be trivial to remove Islam (and Christianity) from our society.
So in some ways, our sympathetic approach to the kid-fuckers is responsible for the spreading of the terrorists.
But the 50s were probably when the quality of public education peaked in terms of it actually being useful and teaching you things.
Such as? I'd really love to know why you think this.
Obviously, indoctrination has always been there, mostly in civics and history. The difference is that you also used to get at least part of a classical education, which is important if you want to make sense of the world.
This is nostalgia goggles.
What the hell does "make sense of the world even mean"? How do you measure such a thing?
By any real metric, the education system is better and more accessible now than it ever was.
That would predict an upturn of violence during recessions,
A recession is simply two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. It is not the same as poverty.
There is also no significant relationship between gun control and homicide rates
Strawman.
Yes, US quality of life is so low that absolutely nobody from those "intelligent places" ever wants to emigrate here. Never ever. Oh no.
Strawman.
8cm = 3.15 inches. You would literally have to be standing nose to nose with someone to be that close.
You mean just like any bus, train, bar or elevator in any large city?
Mostly you aren't nose to nose, you're generally all facing the same way, so a scanner in your front pocket brushed up against a wallet in someone's back pocket would be trivial.
The only way that 8 cm range would work is if the device is hand held and you are in a crowded environment, preferably a bar
or bus, train or elevator.
The problem is that neither their claimed experience nor their professional social network are authoritative...
You're ignoring the power of the network.
Linkedin is not just contacts, it is reputation. 200 contacts means nothing, but if some of those contacts are people I know and trust, I have a lot more faith in getting you in for an interview.
In a world of connected strangers, online reputation is about the most valuable asset there is, and Linkedin is the top dog in this space.
Good luck getting a job then. Where I am, 90% of recruiting is now done through Linkedin, and being a contractor it's key for me to keep working.
This may be the one thing that saves MS from oblivion.
nobody really knows what the cause of the decline is.
Speak for yourself. Human development has a inverse correlation with violence. Most parts of the world are developing, hence prosperity is up, violence is down.
Gun violence is merely a multiplier of violence so most intelligent places limit the power this has on society.
The US is the weird exception because 'freedom' seems to be more important than quality of life.
The reason some people revert to terrorism-type attacks is that it is basically impossible to prevent them.
I wouldn't go that far. Some countries have next to no terrorist activity, so there must be a formula to success in there somewhere.
If we focused on eliminating the actual criminal gang element, we'd have European-level murder rates.
Apart from the regular mass shootings you mean?
None of those are done by 'criminal gangs', but are a LOT more frequent in the US than pretty much anywhere else.
A school isn't a prison, All of my kids schools have access control on all the doors. To enter the building during the day, you have to be buzzed in.
That sounds like a prison to me.
In my country, anyone can walk into any school at anytime, you know, exactly unlike a prison. No-one has shot any kids ever, why do you think that is?
"It's woefully ignorant to blame all religion for a few nutjobs and murderous assholes."
Just as valid: It's woefully ignorant to blame all gun-owners for a few nutjobs and murderous assholes.
Or all drivers for a few nutjobs who crash into others. But we do anyway, because sometimes that is the best way to achieve some sort of order.
Except ... when a good guy kills that bad guy who has just started shooting up a night club, the shooting stops. That's the whole point.
That's why wars always cease as soon as the other side gets their guns out.
Awesome logic...
The federal government has been waging war on education and common sense since the fifties.
You're implying that education and common sense peaked in the 50's? When people with vaginas or higher melanin levels were routinely discriminated against or persecuted?
Nostalgia goggles have amazing power...
And yet it remains that Islam is way the most prominent ideology behind this kind of thing.
Only if you're not including time as a metric for your data.
Every religion has their kill 'em all phase, it just so happens we are living in the Islamic one right now. It doesn't mean that the others aren't as equally ridiculous.
8cm is enough if that's all you require to get free money.
Bus, train, bar, concert, elevator, I'm in plenty of situations where I get closer than 8cms to others. If everyone of those people I could scam $99 from, I'll be a millionaire by the end of the month.
Voting third party actually gives you more influence in federal politics than voting R or D.
Or, voting for the other side to turn you electorate into a swing seat has a similar effect.
Too many people treat politics like team sport, blindly voting for their team. If you want real change, you need to create a close contest, ie voting to get the less popular party/candidate up to level pegging, or for the third party to gain a sufficient influence on the other two.
Never ever vote for a party/candidate with strong majority regardless of your political beliefs.