I'd agree things have changed, but I'm not going to pretend that the way things were anything but an echo chamber. There's always been a strong libertarian vein in IT. It's just evolved.
IT is not openly conservative, because IT is hostile to that. An abrasive "change in the weather" seems likely. I've been seeing in IT in the real world for a while. (And it'll swing back in time, I sure.)
Trolls aren't new here. If your only problem is their politics, then you have probably been contributing to the ruin of slashdot since the early days.
I'd be amazed if people are paid to shill for politics *here*. And for 10 years? Hopefully it just distracted them for more important places of discourse.
Or is "sorting" the word you give some C-level exec when trying to explain classification problems that don't depend on per-defined equivalence relationships? You can bet IBM is addressing the executives and not the technical people.
Be reasonable. There is always a period between having something runnable and getting test results back. It sounds like this is just now going into test.
To their credit, the London cabbies can deliver more than a quick ride from here to there. My brother and I had a largely unplanned vacation in Europe. (We knew where & when we were flying in & out and very little else.) One of our first days in London we asked a cabbie to show us a few high lights. He was as good as any tour guide and it was a lot more intimate. We also got some good suggestions of place to visit for a bit. Yes, we tipped generously.
Can't say the same for the cabbie in Paris. Can say not all French waiters are rude to American men. (A stereo type we'd heard.)
I hate gnome for this. I really hate it. I run XFCE because gnome's become a mess lately anyway. But every once in a while now something will open an evince window or I want to play Iagno. It's bad enough that those windows don't follow the system theme at all (which was once a solved problem). But they misbehave in all sorts of ways. First, they are missing certain buttons like the one to pin a window to the current desktop.
I set up the mouse wheel and left-double click to shade the window. Gnome apps ignore this which is incredibly annoying. Even worse, left-double click causes them to maximize. I almost never maximize windows. I shade them all the time. It almost feels hostile.
Equally annoying, I often use windows when they are not completely exposed. (Another window partially covers it.) I disable raise on click and use follow focus for this. (I raise windows by clicking title bars or boarders.) Gnome apps are impossible to use in this kind of work flow. They still raise on click. (Steam does the too. Actually steam does all of these this too.)
To make all of this worse, I know that gnome can support these sort of things. I've configured it on a work machine that only has gnome3. But I can't find a way to make Gnome apps behave when run under XFCE. I've changed the settings using dconf-editor, but the Gnome apps just ignore it. This is hostile. Gnome apps are beginning to scratch the surface of how user hostile and unfriend the desktop is going to become once client side decoration become the norm on Linux. (And unless some one sets them straight, Wayland is going to make it the norm.)
It's just another bad attempt to seem creative or modern by ignoring both the lessons of the past and the users who are impacted. Maybe in 5 to 10 years some creative genius will bless us with by implementing a revolutionary subsystem that provides and enforces basic, common UI elements that can be set to the user's liking without developers having to re-implement in several libraries?
Funny enough, I just noted a post-it app I have up is using client side decorationsbut still manages to handle shading correct. Still raises on click and can't be pinned. But there's hope these wheel will eventually be rediscovered or reinvented.
They may be scientists, but I think it's safe to assume they are not operating in a scientific capacity when they are playing with their Doomsday Clock.
You don't have to look far to find someone to say something bad about him. I don't know GKH well enough to criticize his skills. He does seem to get things done. I do think he's far too polite to take Linus' place. That's not saying a person needs to be a jerk to do the job. But you need to bluntly tell people no, regardless to how they may respond. I don't see GKH that way.
There's no doubt, what this guy has done is very wrong. But say I have a system that will launch a missile whenever anyone on IRC sends a message that says "launch a missile". If someone sends a message to IRC saying "launch a missile, lol", is the only problem here that the person sent the message? I think it's a serious problem to have such a system in the first place.
Was this with or without the meltdown patch? I would be interesting to try both and get a real measure of the impact of the patch on a system that doesn't need it.
I think captain planet was pretty popular with kids too.
Really? That's an honest question. In the States or elsewhere in the world? I remember that show as being everyone's punch line. I can't remember anyone who didn't roll their eyes at that one.
The only reason I suspect you might be serious is you seem to remember a character's name and can relate it to a power. I really know no one who ever spoke of that show as anything but a blatant "tree hugger" sermon. Even among friend we were environmentally conscious/active.
You know, I don't get the impression that's true. Certainly, some folks only want to see things that reinforces their existing beliefs, but some of the most interesting works are those that introduce something different. But they have to do so in a compelling way with characters that behave in believable ways (given the nature of their fictional environment, such as a world where super powers exist).
The focus has to be the story & the characters and how to convey that to the audience. I haven't seen any of the recent comics and I've hear little of them. But I get the impression that the focus isn't the characters or the plot. It's merely the author's 'cause' and a chance to stand at the pulpit. Kind of like how M.A.S.H. would get annoying during the Alan Alda anti-war sermons.
That said, I suspect a well crafted story and interesting characters could sell propaganda.
Laughter is the first thing to go when you learn to travel faster than the speed of light. Removing causality makes every punchline predictable and gauche.
Oh please. The laughter died once it was possible to arrive with the punch line before the sound of the setup could make it.... Yeager's been spoiling the joke ever since.
Actually, with the latest update, I finally use Hulu on Roku. I have a family of 5 and the prior UI was unusable. We had to share a single profile/watchlist and anyone in my living room could change account settings that automatically changed what got billed to my credit card.
The current Hulu UI on Roku is unconventional at best, but we can at least use it now. Beats the hell out of Prime. It still has a single watch list for the family to share and you can't search for what is available on Prime without it mixing in rentals and purchases in the list. I want to see what I'm already paying for. All I get is constant up-sell attempts. At least Prime lets us block purchases with a code.
Before Hulu updated their UI Hulu & Prime were on similar footing for "first to cut" when considering dropping a streaming service. Hulu's now moved to a safer place on that list. The UI is awkward but all the show stoppers are pretty much gone. (I still dis-like that the "no-ads" option still has ads for certain shows, but I don't watch them. Well I watched one, but I watched it on Netflix before Hulu became usable. When that series picks back up I'll continue to watch in Netflix.)
The idea that the best stuff on the internet will be hidden behind walls in apps rather than accessible through any browser is the mortal fear for open web lovers
Did I miss the part that guarantees this will allow DRM content to be viewed in any browser on any OS running on any processor? As I understand, this is worse than flash because a custom binary blob has to be built for every browser/OS/CPU combination. (The flash plugin at least worked with multiple browsers on the supported OS/CPU.)
And Netflix is still going to be an app on any phone, tablet, tv box, etc. It may not be an app on laptops or desktops, but it'll be it's own proprietary blob in the browser (if your system is supported at all). W3C accomplished nothing for the users. And like Mozilla, it surrendered it's principals and abdicated it's role in defending the open web.
I'm about a week behind on my reading and I only get to see this now. It's sad that it appears no one got the joke. Maybe someone will learn the hard way.
- fire up TAILS
- create a free tier node in AWS
- attack one of your own systems
- being 'legal active defensive' probing of Amazon's network
- ???
- profit
Never fear. After the election you can be assured the press will relearn how to do investigative journalism. Had the election gone the other way, that might have never happened.
Their stated mission is to fight to keep the web open, if nobody uses their browser they'll have no money and no influence and hence they can't fulfill their mission.
They surrendered that mission when they aggreed to implement EME/DRM. They've failed. They have no mission anymore.
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I'd agree things have changed, but I'm not going to pretend that the way things were anything but an echo chamber. There's always been a strong libertarian vein in IT. It's just evolved.
IT is not openly conservative, because IT is hostile to that. An abrasive "change in the weather" seems likely. I've been seeing in IT in the real world for a while. (And it'll swing back in time, I sure.)
Trolls aren't new here. If your only problem is their politics, then you have probably been contributing to the ruin of slashdot since the early days.
I'd be amazed if people are paid to shill for politics *here*. And for 10 years? Hopefully it just distracted them for more important places of discourse.
So it'll be about as open source as iOS?
DRM was a term a video interface in the Linux kernel before it became a euphemism for consumer abuse in the publishing industry.
Or is "sorting" the word you give some C-level exec when trying to explain classification problems that don't depend on per-defined equivalence relationships? You can bet IBM is addressing the executives and not the technical people.
Be reasonable. There is always a period between having something runnable and getting test results back. It sounds like this is just now going into test.
To their credit, the London cabbies can deliver more than a quick ride from here to there. My brother and I had a largely unplanned vacation in Europe. (We knew where & when we were flying in & out and very little else.) One of our first days in London we asked a cabbie to show us a few high lights. He was as good as any tour guide and it was a lot more intimate. We also got some good suggestions of place to visit for a bit. Yes, we tipped generously.
Can't say the same for the cabbie in Paris. Can say not all French waiters are rude to American men. (A stereo type we'd heard.)
If I understand correctly, there's nothing wrong. It's IOT devices that send everything to a remote that isn't under the user's control.
I hate gnome for this. I really hate it. I run XFCE because gnome's become a mess lately anyway. But every once in a while now something will open an evince window or I want to play Iagno. It's bad enough that those windows don't follow the system theme at all (which was once a solved problem). But they misbehave in all sorts of ways. First, they are missing certain buttons like the one to pin a window to the current desktop.
I set up the mouse wheel and left-double click to shade the window. Gnome apps ignore this which is incredibly annoying. Even worse, left-double click causes them to maximize. I almost never maximize windows. I shade them all the time. It almost feels hostile.
Equally annoying, I often use windows when they are not completely exposed. (Another window partially covers it.) I disable raise on click and use follow focus for this. (I raise windows by clicking title bars or boarders.) Gnome apps are impossible to use in this kind of work flow. They still raise on click. (Steam does the too. Actually steam does all of these this too.)
To make all of this worse, I know that gnome can support these sort of things. I've configured it on a work machine that only has gnome3. But I can't find a way to make Gnome apps behave when run under XFCE. I've changed the settings using dconf-editor, but the Gnome apps just ignore it. This is hostile. Gnome apps are beginning to scratch the surface of how user hostile and unfriend the desktop is going to become once client side decoration become the norm on Linux. (And unless some one sets them straight, Wayland is going to make it the norm.)
It's just another bad attempt to seem creative or modern by ignoring both the lessons of the past and the users who are impacted. Maybe in 5 to 10 years some creative genius will bless us with by implementing a revolutionary subsystem that provides and enforces basic, common UI elements that can be set to the user's liking without developers having to re-implement in several libraries?
Funny enough, I just noted a post-it app I have up is using client side decorationsbut still manages to handle shading correct. Still raises on click and can't be pinned. But there's hope these wheel will eventually be rediscovered or reinvented.
They may be scientists, but I think it's safe to assume they are not operating in a scientific capacity when they are playing with their Doomsday Clock.
You don't have to look far to find someone to say something bad about him. I don't know GKH well enough to criticize his skills. He does seem to get things done. I do think he's far too polite to take Linus' place. That's not saying a person needs to be a jerk to do the job. But you need to bluntly tell people no, regardless to how they may respond. I don't see GKH that way.
But how far up the chain should Apple's responsibility go?
Absolutely no higher than the bonuses that rewarded these choices.
I asked my computer. It said "No".
There's no doubt, what this guy has done is very wrong. But say I have a system that will launch a missile whenever anyone on IRC sends a message that says "launch a missile". If someone sends a message to IRC saying "launch a missile, lol", is the only problem here that the person sent the message? I think it's a serious problem to have such a system in the first place.
Was this with or without the meltdown patch? I would be interesting to try both and get a real measure of the impact of the patch on a system that doesn't need it.
This guy's just a middle man who launders the money. Face it, the Prince behind it all is untouchable. He obviously has diplomatic immunity.
I think captain planet was pretty popular with kids too.
Really? That's an honest question. In the States or elsewhere in the world? I remember that show as being everyone's punch line. I can't remember anyone who didn't roll their eyes at that one.
The only reason I suspect you might be serious is you seem to remember a character's name and can relate it to a power. I really know no one who ever spoke of that show as anything but a blatant "tree hugger" sermon. Even among friend we were environmentally conscious/active.
You know, I don't get the impression that's true. Certainly, some folks only want to see things that reinforces their existing beliefs, but some of the most interesting works are those that introduce something different. But they have to do so in a compelling way with characters that behave in believable ways (given the nature of their fictional environment, such as a world where super powers exist).
The focus has to be the story & the characters and how to convey that to the audience. I haven't seen any of the recent comics and I've hear little of them. But I get the impression that the focus isn't the characters or the plot. It's merely the author's 'cause' and a chance to stand at the pulpit. Kind of like how M.A.S.H. would get annoying during the Alan Alda anti-war sermons.
That said, I suspect a well crafted story and interesting characters could sell propaganda.
Laughter is the first thing to go when you learn to travel faster than the speed of light. Removing causality makes every punchline predictable and gauche.
Oh please. The laughter died once it was possible to arrive with the punch line before the sound of the setup could make it. ... Yeager's been spoiling the joke ever since.
Actually, with the latest update, I finally use Hulu on Roku. I have a family of 5 and the prior UI was unusable. We had to share a single profile/watchlist and anyone in my living room could change account settings that automatically changed what got billed to my credit card.
The current Hulu UI on Roku is unconventional at best, but we can at least use it now. Beats the hell out of Prime. It still has a single watch list for the family to share and you can't search for what is available on Prime without it mixing in rentals and purchases in the list. I want to see what I'm already paying for. All I get is constant up-sell attempts. At least Prime lets us block purchases with a code.
Before Hulu updated their UI Hulu & Prime were on similar footing for "first to cut" when considering dropping a streaming service. Hulu's now moved to a safer place on that list. The UI is awkward but all the show stoppers are pretty much gone. (I still dis-like that the "no-ads" option still has ads for certain shows, but I don't watch them. Well I watched one, but I watched it on Netflix before Hulu became usable. When that series picks back up I'll continue to watch in Netflix.)
You missed the lie due to the technicalities.
The idea that the best stuff on the internet will be hidden behind walls in apps rather than accessible through any browser is the mortal fear for open web lovers
Did I miss the part that guarantees this will allow DRM content to be viewed in any browser on any OS running on any processor? As I understand, this is worse than flash because a custom binary blob has to be built for every browser/OS/CPU combination. (The flash plugin at least worked with multiple browsers on the supported OS/CPU.)
And Netflix is still going to be an app on any phone, tablet, tv box, etc. It may not be an app on laptops or desktops, but it'll be it's own proprietary blob in the browser (if your system is supported at all). W3C accomplished nothing for the users. And like Mozilla, it surrendered it's principals and abdicated it's role in defending the open web.
I'm about a week behind on my reading and I only get to see this now. It's sad that it appears no one got the joke. Maybe someone will learn the hard way.
- fire up TAILS
- create a free tier node in AWS
- attack one of your own systems
- being 'legal active defensive' probing of Amazon's network
- ???
- profit
Sounds to me like he wants a TSA for the internet.
Never fear. After the election you can be assured the press will relearn how to do investigative journalism. Had the election gone the other way, that might have never happened.
They surrendered that mission when they aggreed to implement EME/DRM. They've failed. They have no mission anymore.