I think your comment is a great example of the kinds of posts that have diminished Slashdot.
Reddit banned it but I'm so butthurt over it we need find someway to stop it before it even happens.
Yes, the old; they want to censor me because they are Social Justice Warriors gambit. The "mean things is free speech". The things that get censored are; off topic, race baiting, personal insults, threats to violence, and things of that nature. Few are getting banned or silenced, not that a blog has to have any rationale in kicking someone off.
Reddit has a problem with echo chambers. All the blogs have a problem with civil conversation where we don't diminish what others say. Slashdot has become a place in the past year where someone making a comment that annoys me more than makes me thing gets a +4 in karma. I'm challenged not to fall into this pattern because I think what you said was "of low quality thought."
I don't know if you are trying to be funny or not.
I think that people can't be constantly outraged and can't follow the thousand and one companies being evil. I'm sure Monsanto is still evil. Goldman Sachs still ripping off the world through clever finance.
Walmart is still mostly evil, they just have a better competitor with Amazon eating away at their profits.
We can't allow people's hopes and dreams to be eaten away with this race to the bottom.
I found out my own kid had been giving away his food at lunch because other kids there didn't eat breakfast.
Maybe you have an OK job, but there are a lot of people who struggle and it means their kids don't play sports, their kids don't get piano lessons, there kids probably won't go to college, their kids won't get braces.
So it isn't Social Justice Warriors that are playing outrage of the week-- it's real people who want hope for the future.
So maybe you have to split your annoyance at SJW with the Politically correct and Amnesty International -- people whining about torture. There's so many annoying people; where to start?
What you call a "fad" used to be a social movement. Don't you think it's a little sad that things are a media frenzy for a while and then nothing really gets done?
The hubbub over economic fairness called "Occupy Wallstreet" -- well, that's yesterday's news.
Maybe this global warming fad and environmentalism will just go away and we can go back to business killing the ocean.
I think the fundamental problem is that people have a capacity for outrage, and that with numerous things to be outraged about, we fret over the latest thing and then have no impulse to go on -- as we chase the next outrage.
The trend I notice is that there is less determination and staying power for most people on causes -- and that's scary as hell. As scary as how much data is being compiled on everyone, and a mechanism like Facebook is a perfect laboratory to study cause and effect on people. I really hope the outrage on Facebook isn't a fad, because what better way to study and control the memes that drive people and their social connections that used to be a support system but are now a marketing opportunity.
OMG, he found 10 videos that got kicked off of a service that happened to be pro Trump. We just don't have enough "Kick Hillary" games for our self expression!
There's what, 2 million new videos a day on Youtube. You don't think a lot of stuff gets a hit?
The problem with Google and Facebook is not what they censor, but the amazing detail they get to profile you. They might discover that you are 20% more likely to buy a car after seeing a picture of a steak. So companies that buy their services to socially engineer your opinion can coerce you.
The problem in this world isn't censorship - we have a deluge of crap we wan watch.
Nobody asked them to. This is to please copyright holders.
You can still search for weapons, racist comments, slurs, atrocities, porn and the like. But they draw the line at, well, some companies not making a profit.
Is this for starving kids or something? I'll google; "how to eat starving kids" -- goes right through.
I was away from slashdot for couple months and now a top comment is basically complaining that NAZI videos aren't an issue because there are commie videos, and the commies killed more people back in the day.
I'm not going to debate the difference. I'm just going to stand in awe at the lack of self awareness and eloquence is packed into one statement. I stand in awe that there were 4 other slashdot people with votes who agreed.
"Hitler wasn't that bad people - because Stalin!" What the fuck, we got invaded by Russians and stupid?
This is the West Ice sheet. All these studies based on melting seem to miss the obvious fact that the Western Ice sheet is unstable and could just slide into the ocean. I think 'not melting' but displaced into the ocean is a super obvious wrinkle, but I don't think it gets enough attention.
I think the reasons for NOT having the touch ID sensor on the back are; 1) would make it harder to make waterproof 2) adds more moving parts -- right now there are NONE. 3) complicates manufacture.
While there are nice things we'd all LIKE to have on an iPhone. Apple's philosophy "is; just what is needed." I personally, don't like their removal of the headphone jack. But overall, the design restraint of Apple keeps me coming back, because they don't fall down the path of chasing hype features so they can show a longer laundry list than the competitor. They want the experience. Each item added to the phone is a point of failure and something else to learn and get buggy. The iPhones are twice as reliable as the top Android phones.
The iPhones are arguable more responsive to the user and more durable. Apple does this by being tyrants on design. Like it or leave it.
I think that "smack down" was a bit harsh. He's suggesting an idea -- and while I thought it had little merit, we are talking about one eV in magnitude difference between nonsense and plausible.
Normally, it's true to assume the random person with 5 minutes of bright ideas has not thought of something that scientists who've devoted their careers to the topic. Most notably, people pointing out the sun as a heat source that climatologists may have not considered, come to mind.
It's considered traditional to refrain from Slashdot atomic smackdowns unless someone is incorrect to greater than 10^10 in magnitude.
I can use my Android phone to buy Send my humanoid assistant to pick up the merch. Have my humanoid assistant (not to be confused with an Android, because I already shoved a SIM card up there and she said it was incompatible with her sensibilities).
I saved a lot of money, and the pictures the humanoid assistant shows me of that bikini I bought on the beach are sensational. I've gotten hundreds of Likes.
As soon as I take time to go to a party, me and my Amazon shopping assistant will be super popular. Of course, everyone else might send their humanoid -- I don't want to look like an oddball. Hey, It can post those pictures to Facebook too!
Excusing behavior based on "they did it too!" but are these actual concerns you are bringing up?
Same as muslims calling for the execution of atheists and gays I've heard this happens in some countries -- but from Muslims in the US who are using businesses in the US? Are 1.5 Billion people responsible for what maybe a few thousand people do? I'm all for shutting them down -- but is ISIS on our servers?
How about BLM saying there are "too many white people"? There was a photo once of some guy pooping into a cop car. It was labelled "Occupy Wall Street shows you what they think." Was it OWS? Do you have an in context quote from BLM or is it something a guy said once, or was it this guy I know told me?
A bakery must sell to all customers and WordPress must sell to all customers. I don't think that's correct.
You get one instance of Volcanic activity and you conclude "must be more volcanos!" Aren't we guilty here of having a conclusion and fitting facts just like Global Climate Change proponents re accused of?
It's possible that these volcanoes have been going on for centuries and the loss of ice is uncovering them.
It's also possible that the loss of the WEIGHT of glaciers is acting like an unstopped plug, and allowing more vulcanism due to a release in pressure.
In fact, studies of prior warming periods show a 5-fold increase of vulcanism.
And then we'd have to explain the increase in CO and temperature at a rate faster than ever before to blame this issue on volcanoes.
I can't even tell if there's a mention of SWM Harrison Ford risking his life and dying in that comment.
There's a lot of coded acronyms I don't know, and I probably should because I'm a SWM that didn't notice only SWM were dying. There was an entire planet that died and I'm sure not everyone in plastic was a SWM.
I was thinking either; the cow hasn't dated, or they don't grind more than one cow into that burger.
So if you die from the burger, you'll know which cow did it. Or, if it was a cow that was fooling around, that cow went to Hell which, along with killing you, is the proper punishment.
A lot of people make a big deal about these divisions. In Western history we've had plenty of squabbles. Heck the Irish finally cooled down the Protestant / Catholic war.
We've seen in every country where there are plentiful natural resource in demand; massive poverty, wealth inequality and war. As soon as the resources are gone, so will most of the conflicts.
I guarantee you without Saudi Arabia, Exxon and other nations stop poking a stick in the ant hill so they can get factions to fight each other, the impetus will fade.
History in war is only really 20 years if one generation forgets to teach the next one to hate.
Actually there has been a study conducted concerning the picking of boogers and eating them in children and astonishingly, they found the children were slightly healthier because of it.
Another way to boos the immune system.
Pure research can lead to rewards we can't imagine.
I've predicted for some time that when we have "sex bots" that are a relatively good stand-in for a person, prostitution and the sex slave trade will finally, in the history of the world, go on the down-turn. It won't be due to law enforcement, it won't be due to people pushing out pamphlets on their thoughts on morality, it won't be due to outraged people marching, it won't be due to the harshest punishments we can find.
People have innate cravings for stimulation, escapism and approval. So the first solution kids realize as they grow up and become ashamed is; pretend to do what people want you to do where they can see it. The stronger the shame/urge, the stronger the deceit.
Reducing the number of things that are crimes will reduce the number of crimes, and as a side effect, might also cut off the training of so many deceitful closeted people.
Who knows, maybe we won't have all these people who feel a compunction to create morality laws. But their fear of not being able to punish, is going to lead a ferocious campaign to make sure these sex robots don't become legal.
Moralists were lead by for profit industries to make sure people were jailed over marijuana use for decades.
I don't think these stand-in robots will lead to more abuse of kids. Just like video games didn't lead to violence but did lead to couch potato kids and maybe a few mall ninjas.
The only downside will be people who never leave their homes and ill advised themes for Cosplay.
Freedom of Speech in Kentucky but not Georgia, you can murder in Boston but only on Tuesdays. Make sure not to each chicken or you must divulge your browser history during May in Ohio.
They can just throw the Constitution on a Twister matt and will just start spinning to make up the rest.
Well the real annoying things about these "over 8 years, over 10 years" kind of things is that most of the savings take place AFTER the politician is out of office. The austerity and problems they cause are someone else's and the other party can sit back and be surprised at how this problem happened.
You never get "saves $200 billion in one year". It also doesn't let them freeze the budget and pretend predicted inflation is new savings.
*where is the nVidia GPU option to run CUDA code?
>> They have Metal 2. Maybe get a LINUX box and save money.
* Where is the Mac Pro?
>> The iMac Pro IS the Mac Pro.
* Or the ability to use Android / PS4 gamepads?
>> emulating other platforms just gives a new platform for the other platforms crap -- it's not going to make money.
* HomePod - 12" sub
>> Get the excelsior dominator 5000 with 50" subs to blast your inferior 4" neighbors into jello!
>> On the other hand, Apple iPhones are the #1 platform for snapping photos today. Maybe because they figured out how to do less with more and were "good enough."
* I love my MacBook Pro -- but Apple really is becoming more clueless. >> Yeah, in some cases I agree. But they have to play in the Alexa department, and they have to play catch-up in the VR department, and they've got a hard time reaching economies in scale with desktops so it makes sense to design a pro architecture and then hobble the cheaper amateur models. I'm mixed about the included monitor for the pro computer (hi quality and hi cost) and their new GPS on a cable trick -- but it's kind of necessary.
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I think your comment is a great example of the kinds of posts that have diminished Slashdot.
Reddit banned it but I'm so butthurt over it we need find someway to stop it before it even happens.
Yes, the old; they want to censor me because they are Social Justice Warriors gambit. The "mean things is free speech". The things that get censored are; off topic, race baiting, personal insults, threats to violence, and things of that nature. Few are getting banned or silenced, not that a blog has to have any rationale in kicking someone off.
Reddit has a problem with echo chambers. All the blogs have a problem with civil conversation where we don't diminish what others say. Slashdot has become a place in the past year where someone making a comment that annoys me more than makes me thing gets a +4 in karma. I'm challenged not to fall into this pattern because I think what you said was "of low quality thought."
I don't know if you are trying to be funny or not.
I think that people can't be constantly outraged and can't follow the thousand and one companies being evil. I'm sure Monsanto is still evil. Goldman Sachs still ripping off the world through clever finance.
Walmart is still mostly evil, they just have a better competitor with Amazon eating away at their profits.
We can't allow people's hopes and dreams to be eaten away with this race to the bottom.
I found out my own kid had been giving away his food at lunch because other kids there didn't eat breakfast.
Maybe you have an OK job, but there are a lot of people who struggle and it means their kids don't play sports, their kids don't get piano lessons, there kids probably won't go to college, their kids won't get braces.
So it isn't Social Justice Warriors that are playing outrage of the week-- it's real people who want hope for the future.
So maybe you have to split your annoyance at SJW with the Politically correct and Amnesty International -- people whining about torture. There's so many annoying people; where to start?
What you call a "fad" used to be a social movement. Don't you think it's a little sad that things are a media frenzy for a while and then nothing really gets done?
The hubbub over economic fairness called "Occupy Wallstreet" -- well, that's yesterday's news.
Maybe this global warming fad and environmentalism will just go away and we can go back to business killing the ocean.
I think the fundamental problem is that people have a capacity for outrage, and that with numerous things to be outraged about, we fret over the latest thing and then have no impulse to go on -- as we chase the next outrage.
The trend I notice is that there is less determination and staying power for most people on causes -- and that's scary as hell. As scary as how much data is being compiled on everyone, and a mechanism like Facebook is a perfect laboratory to study cause and effect on people. I really hope the outrage on Facebook isn't a fad, because what better way to study and control the memes that drive people and their social connections that used to be a support system but are now a marketing opportunity.
OMG, he found 10 videos that got kicked off of a service that happened to be pro Trump. We just don't have enough "Kick Hillary" games for our self expression!
There's what, 2 million new videos a day on Youtube. You don't think a lot of stuff gets a hit?
The problem with Google and Facebook is not what they censor, but the amazing detail they get to profile you. They might discover that you are 20% more likely to buy a car after seeing a picture of a steak. So companies that buy their services to socially engineer your opinion can coerce you.
The problem in this world isn't censorship - we have a deluge of crap we wan watch.
Nobody asked them to. This is to please copyright holders.
You can still search for weapons, racist comments, slurs, atrocities, porn and the like. But they draw the line at, well, some companies not making a profit.
Is this for starving kids or something? I'll google; "how to eat starving kids" -- goes right through.
I was away from slashdot for couple months and now a top comment is basically complaining that NAZI videos aren't an issue because there are commie videos, and the commies killed more people back in the day.
I'm not going to debate the difference. I'm just going to stand in awe at the lack of self awareness and eloquence is packed into one statement. I stand in awe that there were 4 other slashdot people with votes who agreed.
"Hitler wasn't that bad people - because Stalin!" What the fuck, we got invaded by Russians and stupid?
This is the West Ice sheet. All these studies based on melting seem to miss the obvious fact that the Western Ice sheet is unstable and could just slide into the ocean. I think 'not melting' but displaced into the ocean is a super obvious wrinkle, but I don't think it gets enough attention.
I think the reasons for NOT having the touch ID sensor on the back are;
1) would make it harder to make waterproof
2) adds more moving parts -- right now there are NONE.
3) complicates manufacture.
While there are nice things we'd all LIKE to have on an iPhone. Apple's philosophy "is; just what is needed." I personally, don't like their removal of the headphone jack. But overall, the design restraint of Apple keeps me coming back, because they don't fall down the path of chasing hype features so they can show a longer laundry list than the competitor. They want the experience. Each item added to the phone is a point of failure and something else to learn and get buggy. The iPhones are twice as reliable as the top Android phones.
The iPhones are arguable more responsive to the user and more durable. Apple does this by being tyrants on design. Like it or leave it.
I think that "smack down" was a bit harsh. He's suggesting an idea -- and while I thought it had little merit, we are talking about one eV in magnitude difference between nonsense and plausible.
Normally, it's true to assume the random person with 5 minutes of bright ideas has not thought of something that scientists who've devoted their careers to the topic. Most notably, people pointing out the sun as a heat source that climatologists may have not considered, come to mind.
It's considered traditional to refrain from Slashdot atomic smackdowns unless someone is incorrect to greater than 10^10 in magnitude.
Stop making pertinent comparisons! /s
ow is this comment modded up as insightful? This is an apple's and oranges comparison.
We are talking about phone/pad OSs. You are lucky to get 2 years of updates for a phone. And the PC tablets are lucky to still be running in 2 years.
I can use my Android phone to buy
Send my humanoid assistant to pick up the merch.
Have my humanoid assistant (not to be confused with an Android, because I already shoved a SIM card up there and she said it was incompatible with her sensibilities).
I saved a lot of money, and the pictures the humanoid assistant shows me of that bikini I bought on the beach are sensational. I've gotten hundreds of Likes.
As soon as I take time to go to a party, me and my Amazon shopping assistant will be super popular. Of course, everyone else might send their humanoid -- I don't want to look like an oddball. Hey, It can post those pictures to Facebook too!
Excusing behavior based on "they did it too!" but are these actual concerns you are bringing up?
Same as muslims calling for the execution of atheists and gays
I've heard this happens in some countries -- but from Muslims in the US who are using businesses in the US? Are 1.5 Billion people responsible for what maybe a few thousand people do? I'm all for shutting them down -- but is ISIS on our servers?
How about BLM saying there are "too many white people"?
There was a photo once of some guy pooping into a cop car. It was labelled "Occupy Wall Street shows you what they think." Was it OWS? Do you have an in context quote from BLM or is it something a guy said once, or was it this guy I know told me?
A bakery must sell to all customers and WordPress must sell to all customers.
I don't think that's correct.
You get one instance of Volcanic activity and you conclude "must be more volcanos!" Aren't we guilty here of having a conclusion and fitting facts just like Global Climate Change proponents re accused of?
It's possible that these volcanoes have been going on for centuries and the loss of ice is uncovering them.
It's also possible that the loss of the WEIGHT of glaciers is acting like an unstopped plug, and allowing more vulcanism due to a release in pressure.
In fact, studies of prior warming periods show a 5-fold increase of vulcanism.
And then we'd have to explain the increase in CO and temperature at a rate faster than ever before to blame this issue on volcanoes.
I can't even tell if there's a mention of SWM Harrison Ford risking his life and dying in that comment.
There's a lot of coded acronyms I don't know, and I probably should because I'm a SWM that didn't notice only SWM were dying. There was an entire planet that died and I'm sure not everyone in plastic was a SWM.
This is confusing.
I was thinking either; the cow hasn't dated, or they don't grind more than one cow into that burger.
So if you die from the burger, you'll know which cow did it. Or, if it was a cow that was fooling around, that cow went to Hell which, along with killing you, is the proper punishment.
Half of all grains rot in silos around the world due to manipulations in price to gain more profits.
So it's commodities markets that kill people -- not alternative uses for crops.
And corn is manipulated up the wazoo -- using it as fuel uses more energy to produce than it's worth.
A lot of people make a big deal about these divisions. In Western history we've had plenty of squabbles. Heck the Irish finally cooled down the Protestant / Catholic war.
We've seen in every country where there are plentiful natural resource in demand; massive poverty, wealth inequality and war. As soon as the resources are gone, so will most of the conflicts.
I guarantee you without Saudi Arabia, Exxon and other nations stop poking a stick in the ant hill so they can get factions to fight each other, the impetus will fade.
History in war is only really 20 years if one generation forgets to teach the next one to hate.
Apple can at least outbid KGB, ISIS and etc.,
People at the Kremlin are embezzling and hiding too much of their government's money to have more than petty cash left for buying hacking tools.
You can add China to the list of groups that Apple can't outbid because they've got a lot more money than Russia.
Actually there has been a study conducted concerning the picking of boogers and eating them in children and astonishingly, they found the children were slightly healthier because of it.
Another way to boos the immune system.
Pure research can lead to rewards we can't imagine.
I've predicted for some time that when we have "sex bots" that are a relatively good stand-in for a person, prostitution and the sex slave trade will finally, in the history of the world, go on the down-turn. It won't be due to law enforcement, it won't be due to people pushing out pamphlets on their thoughts on morality, it won't be due to outraged people marching, it won't be due to the harshest punishments we can find.
People have innate cravings for stimulation, escapism and approval. So the first solution kids realize as they grow up and become ashamed is; pretend to do what people want you to do where they can see it. The stronger the shame/urge, the stronger the deceit.
Reducing the number of things that are crimes will reduce the number of crimes, and as a side effect, might also cut off the training of so many deceitful closeted people.
Who knows, maybe we won't have all these people who feel a compunction to create morality laws. But their fear of not being able to punish, is going to lead a ferocious campaign to make sure these sex robots don't become legal.
Moralists were lead by for profit industries to make sure people were jailed over marijuana use for decades.
I don't think these stand-in robots will lead to more abuse of kids. Just like video games didn't lead to violence but did lead to couch potato kids and maybe a few mall ninjas.
The only downside will be people who never leave their homes and ill advised themes for Cosplay.
Freedom of Speech in Kentucky but not Georgia, you can murder in Boston but only on Tuesdays. Make sure not to each chicken or you must divulge your browser history during May in Ohio.
They can just throw the Constitution on a Twister matt and will just start spinning to make up the rest.
Well the real annoying things about these "over 8 years, over 10 years" kind of things is that most of the savings take place AFTER the politician is out of office. The austerity and problems they cause are someone else's and the other party can sit back and be surprised at how this problem happened.
You never get "saves $200 billion in one year". It also doesn't let them freeze the budget and pretend predicted inflation is new savings.
*where is the nVidia GPU option to run CUDA code?
>> They have Metal 2. Maybe get a LINUX box and save money.
* Where is the Mac Pro?
>> The iMac Pro IS the Mac Pro.
* Or the ability to use Android / PS4 gamepads?
>> emulating other platforms just gives a new platform for the other platforms crap -- it's not going to make money.
* HomePod - 12" sub
>> Get the excelsior dominator 5000 with 50" subs to blast your inferior 4" neighbors into jello!
>> On the other hand, Apple iPhones are the #1 platform for snapping photos today. Maybe because they figured out how to do less with more and were "good enough."
* I love my MacBook Pro -- but Apple really is becoming more clueless.
>> Yeah, in some cases I agree. But they have to play in the Alexa department, and they have to play catch-up in the VR department, and they've got a hard time reaching economies in scale with desktops so it makes sense to design a pro architecture and then hobble the cheaper amateur models. I'm mixed about the included monitor for the pro computer (hi quality and hi cost) and their new GPS on a cable trick -- but it's kind of necessary.
I knew as soon as I heard Trump talk about commercial aircraft not even having GPS capabilities he was full of shit.
It's heart-warming to read intelligent comments like the one above to appreciate how fully full of shit one man can be.