Has anyone tried watching Brian de Palma's Scarface through VidAngel? Any other films you think would be fun to watch through their censorship service?
Headline should read, "Intel are looking for investors for self-driving vehicle technologies." By saying, "if you don't invest with us, the sky will fall in."
...where you're beholden to one corporation for your work, have no benefits or statutory rights, and have to take legal action to get what you're owed. Meanwhile, politicians sit back and do little to nothing to address a systemic problem that has only political and legal solutions.
Hey ShanghaiBill, let's revisit this conversation when you or a family member are in hospital with a life-threatening condition. Let's see, how much is your life worth to you sir?
Unfortunately, that's true. I still have dual boot (Win7/Linux) because there are some packages, especially for multimedia, that I still need for work. However, there's a huge number of PCs in the world in govt. departments, schools, colleges, and universities (the public sector) that never use anything as exotic as multimedia editing software or generic accounting software (GNU cash is more than adequate for most businesses). Technically and financially, it would make sense for those millions of PCs to be switched over to Linux. The difficulty is at the human end of things; workers who don't care about computers and operating systems and just want to get their work done. Switching OS, to any OS different to the one they use now, would not make them happy.
The best solution? Probably to start with PCs used in education rather than letting Google, Apple, and Microsoft attempt to indoctrinate school pupils into only using their OS'. If pupils grow up understanding that there are different OS' that superficially look different but do pretty much the same things, from most users' perspectives, then switching between OS' won't be such an issue later on in life at work and at home. How about ICT classes in schools that are platform neutral? How about making transitioning between OS' part of the curriculum? It'd also reinforce their learning, according to the learning sciences;)
There 'Murica, I fixed that for you. The "NIA" has turned bloated, slow, unaccountable, and has gone rogue. Only congress can reign them in but they have to expect very dirty fight-back from them, the CIA, and the Pentagon. Who's going to effectively take on the deep state?
Yes, we're very much at the start of the new tech hype cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for AI. Let's see just how revolutionary and useful it turns out to be.
I wonder if this move has anything to do with what the Guardian did a story on: "The Great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked" https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Apparently, there are some mercenary individuals who run companies who are capable of significantly influencing the outcomes of elections through manipulating social media and using people's personal social media data to target them during election campaigns. Although, thinking about it, isn't that what the "old media" have always done? I guess they object to Donald Trump and Nigel Farage more than previous campaigners... Oh, and the story is run by an "old media" outlet.
"it can be configured to do a variety of tasks with either short or long squeezes." -- Something tells me the designers of this phone haven't read Of Mice and Men. I wonder how good the accidental damage warranties will be?
OK, let's play with Rudd's statement for a little while. Since any weakening of internet security applies to everyone who uses the internet, not just the people Rudd would like it to affect, how substituting the keyword "terrorist" for something else and see how it sounds then?
"It's completely unacceptable. There should be no place for [PLACEHOLDER] to hide. We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don't provide a secret place for [PLACEHOLDER] to communicate with each other,"
Investment bankers? Grassroots political organisers? MI5 and MI6 agents? Any more ideas?
...were built around individual car ownership. If you want convenient, easy public transport, you have to build urban areas around that in an integrated, systemic way. Just sticking in trains, underground skate parks, or whatever hair-brained idea some oligarch comes up with ain't gonna solve any complex problems.
For examples of better designed urban transport systems, have a look at older cities that were built before cars were a thing.
I'm wondering how much CO2 it'll take to source, extract, and refine that much matter, get it up into the stratosphere, and spread it around enough? It's gonna cost quite a bit too. Could we try one or more of the easier, cheaper measures that are available first?
Yeah, because the market is so good at stopping pollution, right? We can't even clean up oil spills or prevent oil companies from not caring if they happen. That stuff spills all the time and just hangs around for decades and poisons the soil and water. Here's our record of oil spills to date, most of which haven't received the same kind of media attention that the Deepwater Horizon did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... What makes you think "the market" will have any effect on deterring or cleaning up space junk, which is orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult?
Don't Linux distros already have tabs in their file explorers? Ah, but of course, Windows users aren't likely to know that, so i guess it's something new to them.
The paper reports that there was a statistically significant difference. It doesn't tell us how big that difference is. It might be tiny and not worth anyone's time or effort. This research only means something when they do a study that reports effect sizes, i.e. How much more students learned when they started classes at 11:00.
Sharing passwords/login credentials? I thought that sharing online passwords is a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (1986): https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
Nice idea in principle, but isn't the problem with hate speech and fake news that it's so very very popular? In fact, anything that's sensational, extreme, and provocative, which in turn is caused by Google's business model of rewarding links that get the biggest reactions. Google are simply reaping what they've sown.
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Has anyone tried watching Brian de Palma's Scarface through VidAngel? Any other films you think would be fun to watch through their censorship service?
...but with much less free storage and no end-to-end encryption
Headline should read, "Intel are looking for investors for self-driving vehicle technologies." By saying, "if you don't invest with us, the sky will fall in."
TIFTFY
Now they're literally parasites. If they wanna feel good, how about paying some taxes to support the society that gave you everything you have?
...where you're beholden to one corporation for your work, have no benefits or statutory rights, and have to take legal action to get what you're owed. Meanwhile, politicians sit back and do little to nothing to address a systemic problem that has only political and legal solutions.
And there I was thinking they were pipes, not tubes. Damn you, Dubbya, you lovable ol' rascal you!
Hey ShanghaiBill, let's revisit this conversation when you or a family member are in hospital with a life-threatening condition. Let's see, how much is your life worth to you sir?
Unfortunately, that's true. I still have dual boot (Win7/Linux) because there are some packages, especially for multimedia, that I still need for work. However, there's a huge number of PCs in the world in govt. departments, schools, colleges, and universities (the public sector) that never use anything as exotic as multimedia editing software or generic accounting software (GNU cash is more than adequate for most businesses). Technically and financially, it would make sense for those millions of PCs to be switched over to Linux. The difficulty is at the human end of things; workers who don't care about computers and operating systems and just want to get their work done. Switching OS, to any OS different to the one they use now, would not make them happy.
The best solution? Probably to start with PCs used in education rather than letting Google, Apple, and Microsoft attempt to indoctrinate school pupils into only using their OS'. If pupils grow up understanding that there are different OS' that superficially look different but do pretty much the same things, from most users' perspectives, then switching between OS' won't be such an issue later on in life at work and at home. How about ICT classes in schools that are platform neutral? How about making transitioning between OS' part of the curriculum? It'd also reinforce their learning, according to the learning sciences ;)
A few minutes? Don't you remember how long Windows takes to boot up?
There 'Murica, I fixed that for you. The "NIA" has turned bloated, slow, unaccountable, and has gone rogue. Only congress can reign them in but they have to expect very dirty fight-back from them, the CIA, and the Pentagon. Who's going to effectively take on the deep state?
Yes, we're very much at the start of the new tech hype cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for AI. Let's see just how revolutionary and useful it turns out to be.
I wonder if this move has anything to do with what the Guardian did a story on: "The Great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked" https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Apparently, there are some mercenary individuals who run companies who are capable of significantly influencing the outcomes of elections through manipulating social media and using people's personal social media data to target them during election campaigns. Although, thinking about it, isn't that what the "old media" have always done? I guess they object to Donald Trump and Nigel Farage more than previous campaigners... Oh, and the story is run by an "old media" outlet.
"it can be configured to do a variety of tasks with either short or long squeezes." -- Something tells me the designers of this phone haven't read Of Mice and Men. I wonder how good the accidental damage warranties will be?
"Only nostalgics will cling to the old habit of car ownership." -- So no change in the USA & Canada for the foreseeable future then :P
OK, let's play with Rudd's statement for a little while. Since any weakening of internet security applies to everyone who uses the internet, not just the people Rudd would like it to affect, how substituting the keyword "terrorist" for something else and see how it sounds then?
"It's completely unacceptable. There should be no place for [PLACEHOLDER] to hide. We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don't provide a secret place for [PLACEHOLDER] to communicate with each other,"
Investment bankers? Grassroots political organisers? MI5 and MI6 agents? Any more ideas?
...were built around individual car ownership. If you want convenient, easy public transport, you have to build urban areas around that in an integrated, systemic way. Just sticking in trains, underground skate parks, or whatever hair-brained idea some oligarch comes up with ain't gonna solve any complex problems.
For examples of better designed urban transport systems, have a look at older cities that were built before cars were a thing.
I'm wondering how much CO2 it'll take to source, extract, and refine that much matter, get it up into the stratosphere, and spread it around enough? It's gonna cost quite a bit too. Could we try one or more of the easier, cheaper measures that are available first?
Yeah, because the market is so good at stopping pollution, right? We can't even clean up oil spills or prevent oil companies from not caring if they happen. That stuff spills all the time and just hangs around for decades and poisons the soil and water. Here's our record of oil spills to date, most of which haven't received the same kind of media attention that the Deepwater Horizon did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... What makes you think "the market" will have any effect on deterring or cleaning up space junk, which is orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult?
I've been saying to anyone who'd listen,
I bet you're popular at parties ;P
Is there any way we can attach those frickin' lasers to sharks? Or at least ill-tempered sea-bass?
Are the RIAA and MPAA planning DDoS attacks on websites that they can't take down by legal means?
Don't Linux distros already have tabs in their file explorers? Ah, but of course, Windows users aren't likely to know that, so i guess it's something new to them.
The paper reports that there was a statistically significant difference. It doesn't tell us how big that difference is. It might be tiny and not worth anyone's time or effort. This research only means something when they do a study that reports effect sizes, i.e. How much more students learned when they started classes at 11:00.
Sharing passwords/login credentials? I thought that sharing online passwords is a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (1986): https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
Nice idea in principle, but isn't the problem with hate speech and fake news that it's so very very popular? In fact, anything that's sensational, extreme, and provocative, which in turn is caused by Google's business model of rewarding links that get the biggest reactions. Google are simply reaping what they've sown.