remember when the climate skeptics said, "Make the raw data public so we can analyze it!" and actual government agencies, supposedly working for the public were like, "nooooooooooo. You wouldn't understand it the right way, so we can't do that! We only show it to certain people that we've pre-vetted to ensure that they think like us. We'll release these summarized graphs that prove our point!"
This time never really existed. Some scientists might have said that laymen cannot understand the raw data, because most of them can't, but the data is and has been publicly available on many places for a long time.
Upgrading from 18 to 18.1 shouldn't be a problem, right? Just wonder what the general advice is because I've switched to Mint 18 for the first time recently.
I totally disagree. I've experienced the Russian influence firsthand, not the least on Slashdot itself. It started relatively late, in late August or early September and was a clearly noticeable shift in posting behavior. I have zero doubt about that and have seen similar phenomenas elsewhere, e.g. the commentary forum of the German news Tagesschau by the channel ARD is without the shroud of a doubt been undermined by Russian sockpuppets for at least a year already. You can easily see that by even just looking at the numbers - e.g. on that particular forum, whenever a report of the Ukraine conflict shows up, the forum is swamped in at least a ten times more posts than usual, with a gigantic number of unambiguously pro-Russian posts and even content as stupid as "I like Putin, because he is a strong man and a strong leader" (i.e., stuff that absolutely nobody in Germany would say).
You guys are crazy and extremely unpatriotic to dismiss the reports of all of your intelligence agencies just because the Russian influence fits your personal preferences this time. This is not a partisan issue, there is a secret propaganda war going on, and as it looks right now, Russia is in a massive lead.
Also, people need to understand that if they Tweet or publish anything else on the Internet or mobile phones, their data will be mined by many third parties. If they don't like that, they need to resort to more private p2p means of communication.
Nice trolling. China doesn't do fact checking, they censor. Checking news stories for facts is not censoring but responsible journalism. Whether FB should act as such an editorial filter is another question, but the two things have nothing in common.
VPNs will probably be blocked for non-corporate customers soon, too. Don't use technical solutions for social problems. Vote your politicians out of their offices instead.
So? If that's our main problem, you should be happy.
Just as a little reminder, last century saw two world wars with 60 million and 38 million deaths, both of which were instigated and led primarily by white nationalist leaders. And then white nationalist communists took over half of Europe. I'll take any contemporary allegedly "feminized society" anytime over that. Check your priorities.
How exactly is asking the intelligence community to compile a report after the election about claims they publicly made before the election undermining democracy?
The main problem in this artificially constructed pseudo-"debate" are people like you, who apparently believe that "being for climate change" or "being against climate change" are political positions. They aren't. Whether or not there is man-made climate change is an entirely factual matter which is decided by reality, not by the pope and certainly not by politicians or radio talkshow moderators. The question has absolutely nothing to do with human nature, world views, or political stances. Most of what you call "believers" do not even believe any firm position about climate change, they just rightly revolt against the US-only phenomenon of ideologizing a debate that should have nothing to do with ideology. So should you, the alleged "debate" is an unbearable display of stupidity. It's the 21st Century, the times when factual questions were answered by vague 'intuitions' or 'beliefs' are long gone, so grow up and quit whining about "progressives".
I don't understand AMD. Their drivers and software are bloatware and at the same time they don't allow you to tweak many settings by hand. Isn't it obvious that the vast majority of people who are willing to spend a lot of money on a high-end graphics card want the exact opposite? At least that seems obvious to me, and I've been gaming for more then twenty years.
Sure. I want to run any server I wish with full speed on my home PC without it being throttled down by my ISP or intermediate ISPs. If it's being throttled down, I want to be able to complain about this to an authority who will then force the provider to fix the issue.
It is completely irrelevant whether conspiracies exist or not, what matters is whether you base your beliefs on solid evidence or not. If you don't base you're beliefs on actual, solid, reliable corroborating evidence, then the chances that your beliefs converge to the truth and that you will ever uncover even just a single real conspiracy will go against zero. That's the difference between an investigative journalist and some conspiracy nut, the journalist will look for actual proof and evidence rather than reading bullshit on blogs from clueless idiots. Sure, there are real conspiracies, but not a single conspiracy theorist has ever uncovered one.
You've got to wonder where all of those morons suddenly come from, though. It's as if the web had exploded with idiocy during the past few months. 2016 is the year of the morons.
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remember when the climate skeptics said, "Make the raw data public so we can analyze it!" and actual government agencies, supposedly working for the public were like, "nooooooooooo. You wouldn't understand it the right way, so we can't do that! We only show it to certain people that we've pre-vetted to ensure that they think like us. We'll release these summarized graphs that prove our point!"
This time never really existed. Some scientists might have said that laymen cannot understand the raw data, because most of them can't, but the data is and has been publicly available on many places for a long time.
Was bist du denn fürn Fake-Deutscher?
Upgrading from 18 to 18.1 shouldn't be a problem, right? Just wonder what the general advice is because I've switched to Mint 18 for the first time recently.
I totally disagree. I've experienced the Russian influence firsthand, not the least on Slashdot itself. It started relatively late, in late August or early September and was a clearly noticeable shift in posting behavior. I have zero doubt about that and have seen similar phenomenas elsewhere, e.g. the commentary forum of the German news Tagesschau by the channel ARD is without the shroud of a doubt been undermined by Russian sockpuppets for at least a year already. You can easily see that by even just looking at the numbers - e.g. on that particular forum, whenever a report of the Ukraine conflict shows up, the forum is swamped in at least a ten times more posts than usual, with a gigantic number of unambiguously pro-Russian posts and even content as stupid as "I like Putin, because he is a strong man and a strong leader" (i.e., stuff that absolutely nobody in Germany would say).
You guys are crazy and extremely unpatriotic to dismiss the reports of all of your intelligence agencies just because the Russian influence fits your personal preferences this time. This is not a partisan issue, there is a secret propaganda war going on, and as it looks right now, Russia is in a massive lead.
Also, people need to understand that if they Tweet or publish anything else on the Internet or mobile phones, their data will be mined by many third parties. If they don't like that, they need to resort to more private p2p means of communication.
Nice trolling. China doesn't do fact checking, they censor. Checking news stories for facts is not censoring but responsible journalism. Whether FB should act as such an editorial filter is another question, but the two things have nothing in common.
There is no evidence Russia had anything to do with the hacking of the e-mails
All US intelligence agencies have claimed persistently during the past few months that there is such evidence.
Disneyland would be even better, but it's already funny enough as it is. I'm looking forward to a lot of bunga-bunga!
VPNs will probably be blocked for non-corporate customers soon, too. Don't use technical solutions for social problems. Vote your politicians out of their offices instead.
If I didn't already own a notebook and a pencil, I would probably use a single text file on a shared free Mega disk and access it with Emacs.
Windows 10 Home is a whopping $119.99 and even the people who got the free upgrade have paid a lot of money for the previous operating system.
I mean, what is the DoE afraid of?
That the Trump administration will attempt to shunt aside truth itself, I suppose. And this fear is unfortunately very justified.
common sense != naivity
An obvious troll post that contributes nothing of interest (let alone answer the question) gets modded "Interesting"? Interesting...
So? If that's our main problem, you should be happy.
Just as a little reminder, last century saw two world wars with 60 million and 38 million deaths, both of which were instigated and led primarily by white nationalist leaders. And then white nationalist communists took over half of Europe. I'll take any contemporary allegedly "feminized society" anytime over that. Check your priorities.
How exactly is asking the intelligence community to compile a report after the election about claims they publicly made before the election undermining democracy?
The main problem in this artificially constructed pseudo-"debate" are people like you, who apparently believe that "being for climate change" or "being against climate change" are political positions. They aren't. Whether or not there is man-made climate change is an entirely factual matter which is decided by reality, not by the pope and certainly not by politicians or radio talkshow moderators. The question has absolutely nothing to do with human nature, world views, or political stances. Most of what you call "believers" do not even believe any firm position about climate change, they just rightly revolt against the US-only phenomenon of ideologizing a debate that should have nothing to do with ideology. So should you, the alleged "debate" is an unbearable display of stupidity. It's the 21st Century, the times when factual questions were answered by vague 'intuitions' or 'beliefs' are long gone, so grow up and quit whining about "progressives".
I don't understand AMD. Their drivers and software are bloatware and at the same time they don't allow you to tweak many settings by hand. Isn't it obvious that the vast majority of people who are willing to spend a lot of money on a high-end graphics card want the exact opposite? At least that seems obvious to me, and I've been gaming for more then twenty years.
Forget about it, I misread to original post. Why would anything prevented by network neutrality regulations? The opposite is the case, of course.
Sure. I want to run any server I wish with full speed on my home PC without it being throttled down by my ISP or intermediate ISPs. If it's being throttled down, I want to be able to complain about this to an authority who will then force the provider to fix the issue.
Are you being paid for writing these nut posts? Just being curious.
It is completely irrelevant whether conspiracies exist or not, what matters is whether you base your beliefs on solid evidence or not. If you don't base you're beliefs on actual, solid, reliable corroborating evidence, then the chances that your beliefs converge to the truth and that you will ever uncover even just a single real conspiracy will go against zero. That's the difference between an investigative journalist and some conspiracy nut, the journalist will look for actual proof and evidence rather than reading bullshit on blogs from clueless idiots. Sure, there are real conspiracies, but not a single conspiracy theorist has ever uncovered one.
Selection bias.
You've got to wonder where all of those morons suddenly come from, though. It's as if the web had exploded with idiocy during the past few months. 2016 is the year of the morons.
I admire your honesty, klueless.