By censoring anyone, for any reason, without a court-order on a case-by-case basis, they are eliminating any cover they could have found behind "we aren't responsible for what is viewed on our site," because by picking and choosing what can be shown, they unavoidably become responsible, (read: legally liable) for what they ALLOW to be seen on their site. Hence, this is likely the beginning of the end for YouTube.
I think YouTube will end up feeling like they've been hit by a tornado that just before reaching them, first hit a landfill full of medical waste, rusty razorblades, and burning tires.
That is to say, I toyed with the notion of waking up in the middle of the night to go watch a SHADOW... but I decided the insides of my eyelids were FAR more interesting, and so I watched them instead. I can watch a shadow nearly any time I want... between all the crap going on in the world, and all the crap going on in the world besides the previously mentioned crap going on in the world, I have enough trouble sleeping as is, and I’m not, therefore, going to lose out on precious sleep to look at a stupid bloody shadow. I don’t care how bloody or how blue the moon is. The moon is not interesting to me that way. Visiting it, yes, that’d be awesome. Staring at it... no. Boring.
reichwinger? You do know the Nazi party was a socialist left-wing party, don't you? Some of their demands that won them votes and power:
"Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits. "
"We demand the nationalization of all trusts. "
"We demand profit-sharing in large industries. "
"We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions. "
"We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities. "
"We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. "
"We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race. "
"In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. "
"The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young. "
" We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press."
Of course, along with all these socialist left-wing proclamations were a bunch of anti-semitic demands as well, which the left-wingers in Germany had no problem supporting at the time.
A group of people who know absolutely nothing more about the future than any of the rest of us have just issued a message whose only possible impact is to cause people increased worry and stress, since in the event of the assholes in charge deciding to commit mass suicide on behalf of the entire planet, you personally cannot do a single, solitary goddamned fucking thing about it. If you crawl into a shelter in time, assuming you survive, living through the aftermath will make the worst of times today look like a picnic with wine and roses. Also, not to belabor the point, but it either will happen, (in which case we are all 100% fucked,) or it won’t, in which case fretting over it is completely goddamned pointless.
These so-called scientists don’t know if it WILL HAPPEN, OR IF IT WON’T ANY MORE THAN THE REST OF US. There is no precedent to be extrapolated from. No one has ever been in a so-called “Mexican Standoff,” (a term from old Westerns, referring to a group of people pointing guns at other people inside the group,) with everyone in the world’s lives depending on every member of that effectively circular firing squad behaving in a fashion consistent with NOT killing anyone.
It makes precisely the same amount of sense worrying about this on a day to day basis as it does worrying about some nearby star emitting a Gamma Ray Burst, and sterilizing the Planet Earth with a bath of absolutely deadly radiation that will kill each and every living organism on the planet, wherever it is, instantly, no matter how hardy and/or protected it may happen to be. It either won’t happen or it will, and nothing you do can have any impact on that either, so don’t worry, be happy. It’s not like if it happens, you’ll even notice it. As for things you might be able to do about any of this stuff long-term, like Global Climate Change... consider starting with not voting for anyone who takes corporate or large & anonymous campaign bribes. That’d be the biggest single step in remedying our problems and extending our species’ life-expectancy. Worrying about some bullshit hypothetical Scare You Clock is, by contrast, counterproductive.
One: while the iPad contains a computer, it is itself NOT a computer, if by computer you mean a general-purpose programmable computing device. It cannot replace a computer because, for example, it lacks the ability to connect peripherals, like a mouse, for example. While it CAN take a few specific ones, Apple seems to have decided to arbitrarily limit it. Even though Apple makes a mouse AND A TRACKPAD, and they totally COULD make it so the iPad could replace a computer, they have decided not to do so, because frankly, they are dicks.
Two: the adorable girl in the ad maybe asks the question because she is keenly aware the iPad is SO not a computer, that the question confuses her, not because she does not know what one is... big difference. So...
Three: if Apple wants us to think of the iPad as a real, actual computer, maybe they should get off their asses and give iOS the peripheral support and ability to install 3rd party apps that it is currently ALSO glaringly lacking in, perhaps even maybe come up with a dock that uses the side keyboard connector on the Pro model, or a lightning connector dongle to make a set of USB ports, etc., and support the same in software.
Until then, I do not care how many bullshit ads Apple runs pretending an iPad is a computer. It just is not one. They may as well make an Apple iBicycle and make ads pretending it is a CAR. It is NOT, and never will be. Period.
Insurance companies already discriminate based on GENDER AND AGE, and probably on race as well. Suddenly you guys get all bent out of shape over THIS?!?
Thatâ(TM)s like being mad about female genital mutilation NOT because of the FGM itself, but because you just found out that when they do it, theyâ(TM)re singing a particular song to themselves, and not a different one.
I have gotten to this point regarding the Trump "presidency": Just tell me when it's over.
This is also how I feel about this guy. Slashdot, would you PLEASE stop posting stories about this schmuck until he either successfully launches himself high enough to be able to say, upon landing, "oops, looks like I was wrong, it is round after all," or he launches himself into the side of something really big, hard, and generally resistant to rockets, in which case, I will very much like to hear about it. Once. One more time. Then no more about him.
So to be clear, Slashposters and Slasheditors, please let me know when this moron/attention-whore either somehow manages to get some homemade POS to fly, learns what the saner among us already know, or inters himself using a homemade rapid-burial system, and until then, can you PLEASE stop posting each and every bullshit promise he makes about what he's ALLEGEDLY going to do until he has actually DONE it?
LOL... yes, replace the little arrows with tiny Apple, Inc. logos, with rainbow pattern, and have the colors undulate as the blinkers are on. Sure, Steve Jobs would probably call this over-branding, but it would be worth it if it could get BMW (and other expensive car owners) to use their turn-signals like they're LEGALLY REQUIRED to. Ah, what a wonderful world...
WINE is "WINdows Emulator". This backronym bullshit is just that: childish, lame bullshit. This is how I feel about ALL recursive acronyms. They're all stupid. If... if, IF WINE actually stood for WINE Is Not and Emulator, there's NO reason why the first letter couldn't be any other. It could (using only the English alphabet,) just as easily be "AINE" (AINE Is Not an Emulator) or "BINE" (BINE Is Not an Emulator) or "CINE" (CINE Is Not an Emulator), and so on to ZINE...
These things make the entire community look like stupid children. PINE was/is the Program for Internet News & E-mail (or whatever,) and NOT PINE Is Not Elm. (Though it happens to be true both in software and botany that pine and elm are different.) Linux is an amalgam of Linus (as in Torvalds) and UNIX; it is NOT a bloody acronym for the phrase "Linux Is Not Unix..." or again, it could just as easily be Dinux (Dinux Is Not Unix) or Einux (Einux Is Not Unix) et CETERA.
No, no, NO. Similarly, WINE does NOT (no matter how much even the maintainers and users of the software may insist,) stand for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Maybe it does to them, but I categorically refuse to play the recursive acronym game.
Is there some way in which I can boycott, in protest, misbehavior of a corporation when I was not planning to buy their products ANYWAY? I suppose I could buy a shirt emblazoned with "Fuck BMW" but somehow, I don't think it would really have any effect besides making people wonder, "why is that guy wearing a 'Fuck BMW' shirt?" and "What did they ever do to him"? To this I would be obliged to reply, "well, they're planning to start CHARGING their customers for using Apple CarPlay!" to which they'd likely reply, "so what, they're rich assholes in the first place, so fuck 'em" and I'd be virtually forced to respond, "you know what, I think you may have a point there." Then I might perhaps have to turn my shirt inside-out.
...says the guy whose entire fortune and claim to fame are built upon the overuse of technology by very large numbers of people. Now that's what I'd call an iHypocrite.
They do. Of course they do. Obviously they do. I'm surprised they didn't insist they never do/would, all the while still doing it, doing it with relish, and indeed profiting mightily by it, then insists they had no choice if they're ever caught doing it, because, (they'll insist,) the law required them to do it, and forbade them to do other than insist that they don't. Duh.
"The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it," writes open source hacker Andre Staltz. He warns that Facebook, Google, and Amazon plan to "grow beyond browsers, creating new virtual contexts where data is created and shared," and predicts the next wave of walled gardens will be a "social internet" bypassing the web altogether. "The Web may die like most other technologies do, simply by becoming less attractive than newer technologies."
"The U.S. Postal Service is dying, but mesh postal delivery could save it," writes someone with a fantastic view of his own colon...
"Social postal delivery will bypass the USPS altogether. People will just deliver mail FOR each other, and even though letters may not get to anyone truly rural, or be able to go from one city to another if no one HAPPENS to be going that way, at that time, until someone does, that's a perfectly fine and acceptable replacement for the USPS. Sure, sometimes instead of delivering your mail, the neighbor you're forced to entrust it with might instead open and read it, then laugh about the contents with all his (and your) friends, or maybe just use it for kindling, but hey... we can ALL feel good about STICKING it to the postal service by using these new, amazing social postal delivery systems.
The idea of replacing the internet with "mesh networks" is as laughable as replacing the USPS with a hodgepodge of people carrying each other's mail. Note, not some company offering services IN-PLACE-OF the USPS's, but private individuals. It's a joke, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't really thought about it.
It is the responsibility of government to prevent radicalization, by assuring kids a quality education so they will grow up able to know when someone is using bullshit to trick them into destructive behavior, and by assuring adults justice so the messages of extremist wackos wonâ(TM)t find fertile ground in the minds of people who think their society has gone to shit.
For example: in America, an extremist wacko conspiracy theorist NUT convinced huge swaths of the country that America was no longer âoegreatâ and to vote against their own political and economic interests, ironically exacerbating the very problems those people were concerned about.
Schools should have taught these people better as kids. They should have been immune to this and responded âoehow does keeping immigrants out of a country OF IMMIGRANTS that was made great in the first place BY immigrants somehow make it great rather than less great?â Or perhaps âoeAmerica is already great, and if we were to make the idiotic mistake of voting for your incompetent ass, it could only make whatever is bad, worse.â
Then again, when one is dying, one is far more easily persuaded to try anything, and under useless, corrupt, garbage government by the owners of the âoetwoâ (hahaha) âoepartiesâ, Americans were willing to vote for literally ANYONE promising to upend the applecart.
Too bad one half of the oligarchy kept someone who wanted to really actually upend the applecart OUT and FAILED to stop the other, and so the applecart ends up upended... right into HIS applecart.
Insisting the media, (or internet companies who are replacing them,) should wipe government asses for them rather than insisting they CLEAN UP THEIR OWN SHIT is another symptom of failing government. In the UK, this is exemplified in the election of Theresa May and the Brexit vote. There, like here, massive failures of âoeher majestys governmentâ to educate children and provide justice for adults, (and society in general) made them susceptible to the kind of âoethinkingâ that made âoebrexitâ possible.
And I dont know what slashdots deal is with apostrophes so Ive simply stopped using them here.
Does it account for all the nice cars being in a garage and invisible to street view? Does it account for people who donâ(TM)t own cars? Account for results in areas with gated communities, where âoestreet viewâ might not have been allowed? What of families with teenaged kids who park their beaten jalopies at the curb while dadâ(TM)s Mercedes and momâ(TM)s Volvo or Land Rover sits invisibly in the garage?
Iâ(TM)m not saying thereâ(TM)s NO oysters in the stew, just that no one should go about assuming a high oyster content to this stew.
That has me worried too. Apple seem to be dropping the ball a lot lately, not on bugs but on what they used to be really good at: taking new-ish technology and presenting it in an easy to use, attractive and reliable package. [...] I'm afraid Apple are on their way to become irrelevant.
This is one of those moments when they need a new CEO; the current one is clearly exhausted, and I don't just mean in terms of lacking in energy, needing a break, time off, etc. He's out of ideas; I suspect it's not fun anymore. Apple needs to hire someone else, someone who gives a damn about quality, and something other than taking customers for all they're worth.
Which Apple products are white? Only the accessories.
The old ones. Before it all went aluminum. Also, the tiny colored parts on the face of "silver" colored iOS products, etc. (My iPhone for example is "white" in this way.)
They're also planning to start using Gold Alerts, which allow local bankers and business people to push out alerts to cell phone users when they identify a rich person in danger of not having ALL the money he can, due to some grubby peasant somehow managing to come-by some, so that nearby citizens can respond appropriately by taking whatever money anyone nearby might somehow have come into possession of, and handing it directly to the financially endangered rich person, helping him avoid the possibility of his being reduced to being merely well-off. (The HORROR!)
It's just going to be a page with a poorly-rendered ASCII art of an extended middle finger, under which will be text encouraging you to scream your complaints directly at the finger. A future version will feature an upgrade, adding a "record" button, allowing you to record your petition in your own words. After doing so, when you let go of the button, (or stop holding your cursor on it,) a javascript popup will proclaim that your petition has been received.
But it won't be. The button won't actually DO anything but convince people something's being done.
Actually, this is very similar to how the old petition functionality worked, but with greater transparency regarding the office's feelings about public opinion. The new website will be "www.gofuckyourself.gov"
Mining any cryptocurrency, or doing anything of the like, trades electricity for something of alleged value. Unless the ME part is magically more efficient, in terms of FLOPS/WATT, or whatever unit of processing power is appropriate, per unit electrical power input, there's little point to trying to do that... unless of course, you just want to maximize the mining capability of your existing equipment, BUT... my understanding is that due to the nature of the calculations, that would be like trying to make your car faster by reorienting the tailpipe AFT, instead of aft and DOWN. (The force of the exhaust gas at your cars tailpipe would add virtually no detectable, meaningful forward power to your car; there just isn't enough gas coming out to matter. The whole point of the engine is to harness the energy in the gasoline more efficiently; the trade-off is that maximum thrust is reduced, but there are so many other benefits that that tradeoff makes so much sense that there are millions of gasoline powered, (not jet-propelled) cars on the road. It's likely a similar case with the ME in modern Intel chips.)
This. I mean, there are good reasons to get a regular eye exam, like determining what your prescription should be, watching for signs of cataracts and glaucoma, etc., but it's absolutely baffling that if I have been more than a year since getting an eye exam and accidentally drop my glasses and break them, I can't get replacements for those glasses that were obviously still working fine up to that point (or else I would have gone for an eye exam to get a new prescription).
There's absolutely no sane reason why a current, valid prescription should be required when getting glasses or contacts manufactured. None. The worst-case scenario is you waste a lot of money and buy something that doesn't work or causes eyestrain, and you stop using them.
Worse, the prescription-required policy isn't even consistently applied. I can walk into Wal-Mart and pick up a set of pre-made glasses that have various levels of farsightedness correction (positive values) for reading, but correction for nearsightedness requires a prescription, as does correction for astigmatism. I understand the reluctance to have arbitrary formulations available off the shelf, because there are a near-infinite possible number of them, but when it comes to refusing to fabricate them on demand, that distinction seems completely arbitrary, and expecting a lens manufacturer to investigate every optometrist to make sure they're legitimate... well, that's just absurd.
My understanding is, (and IANAO/O) that the eye adapts itself over time, and using an outdated or incorrect or fraudulent script to buy glasses or contacts, and then wearing them, could cause ocular injury, exacerbating existing eye problems or creating new ones, which may be more difficult to correct or lead to uncorrectable problems, up to and including blindness.
OR, it could be that if optometrists and/or ophthalmologists (whichever it is,) DIDN'T have this repeat business, they'd have to charge MUCH more money for the INITIAL diagnosis and prescription, putting corrective lenses beyond the reach of most people who need them, OR, it wouldn't pay for them to go into that specialty, meaning you would spend MONTHS or YEARS waiting even to get in to SEE one...
Of course, I could easily be wrong, I'm just a guy with a computer and a keyboard, and, (like virtually every human being,) an opinion.
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By censoring anyone, for any reason, without a court-order on a case-by-case basis, they are eliminating any cover they could have found behind "we aren't responsible for what is viewed on our site," because by picking and choosing what can be shown, they unavoidably become responsible, (read: legally liable) for what they ALLOW to be seen on their site. Hence, this is likely the beginning of the end for YouTube.
I think YouTube will end up feeling like they've been hit by a tornado that just before reaching them, first hit a landfill full of medical waste, rusty razorblades, and burning tires.
That is to say, I toyed with the notion of waking up in the middle of the night to go watch a SHADOW... but I decided the insides of my eyelids were FAR more interesting, and so I watched them instead. I can watch a shadow nearly any time I want... between all the crap going on in the world, and all the crap going on in the world besides the previously mentioned crap going on in the world, I have enough trouble sleeping as is, and I’m not, therefore, going to lose out on precious sleep to look at a stupid bloody shadow. I don’t care how bloody or how blue the moon is. The moon is not interesting to me that way. Visiting it, yes, that’d be awesome. Staring at it... no. Boring.
reichwinger? You do know the Nazi party was a socialist left-wing party, don't you? Some of their demands that won them votes and power: "Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits. " "We demand the nationalization of all trusts. " "We demand profit-sharing in large industries. " "We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions. " "We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities. " "We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. " "We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race. " "In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. " "The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young. " " We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press." Of course, along with all these socialist left-wing proclamations were a bunch of anti-semitic demands as well, which the left-wingers in Germany had no problem supporting at the time.
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Let me translate this for y’all:
A group of people who know absolutely nothing more about the future than any of the rest of us have just issued a message whose only possible impact is to cause people increased worry and stress, since in the event of the assholes in charge deciding to commit mass suicide on behalf of the entire planet, you personally cannot do a single, solitary goddamned fucking thing about it. If you crawl into a shelter in time, assuming you survive, living through the aftermath will make the worst of times today look like a picnic with wine and roses. Also, not to belabor the point, but it either will happen, (in which case we are all 100% fucked,) or it won’t, in which case fretting over it is completely goddamned pointless.
These so-called scientists don’t know if it WILL HAPPEN, OR IF IT WON’T ANY MORE THAN THE REST OF US. There is no precedent to be extrapolated from. No one has ever been in a so-called “Mexican Standoff,” (a term from old Westerns, referring to a group of people pointing guns at other people inside the group,) with everyone in the world’s lives depending on every member of that effectively circular firing squad behaving in a fashion consistent with NOT killing anyone.
It makes precisely the same amount of sense worrying about this on a day to day basis as it does worrying about some nearby star emitting a Gamma Ray Burst, and sterilizing the Planet Earth with a bath of absolutely deadly radiation that will kill each and every living organism on the planet, wherever it is, instantly, no matter how hardy and/or protected it may happen to be. It either won’t happen or it will, and nothing you do can have any impact on that either, so don’t worry, be happy. It’s not like if it happens, you’ll even notice it. As for things you might be able to do about any of this stuff long-term, like Global Climate Change... consider starting with not voting for anyone who takes corporate or large & anonymous campaign bribes. That’d be the biggest single step in remedying our problems and extending our species’ life-expectancy. Worrying about some bullshit hypothetical Scare You Clock is, by contrast, counterproductive.
...to handle apostrophes in posts written on an iPhone is likewise very annoying.
One: while the iPad contains a computer, it is itself NOT a computer, if by computer you mean a general-purpose programmable computing device. It cannot replace a computer because, for example, it lacks the ability to connect peripherals, like a mouse, for example. While it CAN take a few specific ones, Apple seems to have decided to arbitrarily limit it. Even though Apple makes a mouse AND A TRACKPAD, and they totally COULD make it so the iPad could replace a computer, they have decided not to do so, because frankly, they are dicks.
Two: the adorable girl in the ad maybe asks the question because she is keenly aware the iPad is SO not a computer, that the question confuses her, not because she does not know what one is... big difference. So...
Three: if Apple wants us to think of the iPad as a real, actual computer, maybe they should get off their asses and give iOS the peripheral support and ability to install 3rd party apps that it is currently ALSO glaringly lacking in, perhaps even maybe come up with a dock that uses the side keyboard connector on the Pro model, or a lightning connector dongle to make a set of USB ports, etc., and support the same in software.
Until then, I do not care how many bullshit ads Apple runs pretending an iPad is a computer. It just is not one. They may as well make an Apple iBicycle and make ads pretending it is a CAR. It is NOT, and never will be. Period.
Insurance companies already discriminate based on GENDER AND AGE, and probably on race as well. Suddenly you guys get all bent out of shape over THIS?!? Thatâ(TM)s like being mad about female genital mutilation NOT because of the FGM itself, but because you just found out that when they do it, theyâ(TM)re singing a particular song to themselves, and not a different one.
I have gotten to this point regarding the Trump "presidency": Just tell me when it's over.
This is also how I feel about this guy. Slashdot, would you PLEASE stop posting stories about this schmuck until he either successfully launches himself high enough to be able to say, upon landing, "oops, looks like I was wrong, it is round after all," or he launches himself into the side of something really big, hard, and generally resistant to rockets, in which case, I will very much like to hear about it. Once. One more time. Then no more about him.
So to be clear, Slashposters and Slasheditors, please let me know when this moron/attention-whore either somehow manages to get some homemade POS to fly, learns what the saner among us already know, or inters himself using a homemade rapid-burial system, and until then, can you PLEASE stop posting each and every bullshit promise he makes about what he's ALLEGEDLY going to do until he has actually DONE it?
LOL... yes, replace the little arrows with tiny Apple, Inc. logos, with rainbow pattern, and have the colors undulate as the blinkers are on. Sure, Steve Jobs would probably call this over-branding, but it would be worth it if it could get BMW (and other expensive car owners) to use their turn-signals like they're LEGALLY REQUIRED to. Ah, what a wonderful world...
Fallacy type: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc. Look it up here if you don't already know what this is.
WINE is "WINdows Emulator". This backronym bullshit is just that: childish, lame bullshit. This is how I feel about ALL recursive acronyms. They're all stupid. If... if, IF WINE actually stood for WINE Is Not and Emulator, there's NO reason why the first letter couldn't be any other. It could (using only the English alphabet,) just as easily be "AINE" (AINE Is Not an Emulator) or "BINE" (BINE Is Not an Emulator) or "CINE" (CINE Is Not an Emulator), and so on to ZINE...
These things make the entire community look like stupid children. PINE was/is the Program for Internet News & E-mail (or whatever,) and NOT PINE Is Not Elm. (Though it happens to be true both in software and botany that pine and elm are different.) Linux is an amalgam of Linus (as in Torvalds) and UNIX; it is NOT a bloody acronym for the phrase "Linux Is Not Unix..." or again, it could just as easily be Dinux (Dinux Is Not Unix) or Einux (Einux Is Not Unix) et CETERA.
No, no, NO. Similarly, WINE does NOT (no matter how much even the maintainers and users of the software may insist,) stand for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Maybe it does to them, but I categorically refuse to play the recursive acronym game.
Is there some way in which I can boycott, in protest, misbehavior of a corporation when I was not planning to buy their products ANYWAY? I suppose I could buy a shirt emblazoned with "Fuck BMW" but somehow, I don't think it would really have any effect besides making people wonder, "why is that guy wearing a 'Fuck BMW' shirt?" and "What did they ever do to him"? To this I would be obliged to reply, "well, they're planning to start CHARGING their customers for using Apple CarPlay!" to which they'd likely reply, "so what, they're rich assholes in the first place, so fuck 'em" and I'd be virtually forced to respond, "you know what, I think you may have a point there." Then I might perhaps have to turn my shirt inside-out.
"I don't believe in overuse [of technology]..."
...says the guy whose entire fortune and claim to fame are built upon the overuse of technology by very large numbers of people. Now that's what I'd call an iHypocrite.
They do. Of course they do. Obviously they do. I'm surprised they didn't insist they never do/would, all the while still doing it, doing it with relish, and indeed profiting mightily by it, then insists they had no choice if they're ever caught doing it, because, (they'll insist,) the law required them to do it, and forbade them to do other than insist that they don't. Duh.
"The web is dying, but mesh networks could save it," writes open source hacker Andre Staltz. He warns that Facebook, Google, and Amazon plan to "grow beyond browsers, creating new virtual contexts where data is created and shared," and predicts the next wave of walled gardens will be a "social internet" bypassing the web altogether. "The Web may die like most other technologies do, simply by becoming less attractive than newer technologies."
"The U.S. Postal Service is dying, but mesh postal delivery could save it," writes someone with a fantastic view of his own colon...
"Social postal delivery will bypass the USPS altogether. People will just deliver mail FOR each other, and even though letters may not get to anyone truly rural, or be able to go from one city to another if no one HAPPENS to be going that way, at that time, until someone does, that's a perfectly fine and acceptable replacement for the USPS. Sure, sometimes instead of delivering your mail, the neighbor you're forced to entrust it with might instead open and read it, then laugh about the contents with all his (and your) friends, or maybe just use it for kindling, but hey... we can ALL feel good about STICKING it to the postal service by using these new, amazing social postal delivery systems.
The idea of replacing the internet with "mesh networks" is as laughable as replacing the USPS with a hodgepodge of people carrying each other's mail. Note, not some company offering services IN-PLACE-OF the USPS's, but private individuals. It's a joke, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't really thought about it.
Oh and apparently quotation marks dont work either. Wtf.
It is the responsibility of government to prevent radicalization, by assuring kids a quality education so they will grow up able to know when someone is using bullshit to trick them into destructive behavior, and by assuring adults justice so the messages of extremist wackos wonâ(TM)t find fertile ground in the minds of people who think their society has gone to shit.
For example: in America, an extremist wacko conspiracy theorist NUT convinced huge swaths of the country that America was no longer âoegreatâ and to vote against their own political and economic interests, ironically exacerbating the very problems those people were concerned about.
Schools should have taught these people better as kids. They should have been immune to this and responded âoehow does keeping immigrants out of a country OF IMMIGRANTS that was made great in the first place BY immigrants somehow make it great rather than less great?â Or perhaps âoeAmerica is already great, and if we were to make the idiotic mistake of voting for your incompetent ass, it could only make whatever is bad, worse.â
Then again, when one is dying, one is far more easily persuaded to try anything, and under useless, corrupt, garbage government by the owners of the âoetwoâ (hahaha) âoepartiesâ, Americans were willing to vote for literally ANYONE promising to upend the applecart.
Too bad one half of the oligarchy kept someone who wanted to really actually upend the applecart OUT and FAILED to stop the other, and so the applecart ends up upended... right into HIS applecart.
Insisting the media, (or internet companies who are replacing them,) should wipe government asses for them rather than insisting they CLEAN UP THEIR OWN SHIT is another symptom of failing government. In the UK, this is exemplified in the election of Theresa May and the Brexit vote. There, like here, massive failures of âoeher majestys governmentâ to educate children and provide justice for adults, (and society in general) made them susceptible to the kind of âoethinkingâ that made âoebrexitâ possible.
And I dont know what slashdots deal is with apostrophes so Ive simply stopped using them here.
Does it account for all the nice cars being in a garage and invisible to street view? Does it account for people who donâ(TM)t own cars? Account for results in areas with gated communities, where âoestreet viewâ might not have been allowed? What of families with teenaged kids who park their beaten jalopies at the curb while dadâ(TM)s Mercedes and momâ(TM)s Volvo or Land Rover sits invisibly in the garage? Iâ(TM)m not saying thereâ(TM)s NO oysters in the stew, just that no one should go about assuming a high oyster content to this stew.
That has me worried too. Apple seem to be dropping the ball a lot lately, not on bugs but on what they used to be really good at: taking new-ish technology and presenting it in an easy to use, attractive and reliable package. [...] I'm afraid Apple are on their way to become irrelevant.
This is one of those moments when they need a new CEO; the current one is clearly exhausted, and I don't just mean in terms of lacking in energy, needing a break, time off, etc. He's out of ideas; I suspect it's not fun anymore. Apple needs to hire someone else, someone who gives a damn about quality, and something other than taking customers for all they're worth.
Woz, perhaps.
"It's thinner, whiter,
Which Apple products are white? Only the accessories.
The old ones. Before it all went aluminum. Also, the tiny colored parts on the face of "silver" colored iOS products, etc. (My iPhone for example is "white" in this way.)
They're also planning to start using Gold Alerts, which allow local bankers and business people to push out alerts to cell phone users when they identify a rich person in danger of not having ALL the money he can, due to some grubby peasant somehow managing to come-by some, so that nearby citizens can respond appropriately by taking whatever money anyone nearby might somehow have come into possession of, and handing it directly to the financially endangered rich person, helping him avoid the possibility of his being reduced to being merely well-off. (The HORROR!)
It's just going to be a page with a poorly-rendered ASCII art of an extended middle finger, under which will be text encouraging you to scream your complaints directly at the finger. A future version will feature an upgrade, adding a "record" button, allowing you to record your petition in your own words. After doing so, when you let go of the button, (or stop holding your cursor on it,) a javascript popup will proclaim that your petition has been received.
But it won't be. The button won't actually DO anything but convince people something's being done.
Actually, this is very similar to how the old petition functionality worked, but with greater transparency regarding the office's feelings about public opinion. The new website will be "www.gofuckyourself.gov"
And heck, even without ME, most network cards have a wake-on-LAN feature anyway.
It's all about YOU, isn't it? (LOL)
Repurposed... to mine bitcoins!
Mining any cryptocurrency, or doing anything of the like, trades electricity for something of alleged value. Unless the ME part is magically more efficient, in terms of FLOPS/WATT, or whatever unit of processing power is appropriate, per unit electrical power input, there's little point to trying to do that... unless of course, you just want to maximize the mining capability of your existing equipment, BUT... my understanding is that due to the nature of the calculations, that would be like trying to make your car faster by reorienting the tailpipe AFT, instead of aft and DOWN. (The force of the exhaust gas at your cars tailpipe would add virtually no detectable, meaningful forward power to your car; there just isn't enough gas coming out to matter. The whole point of the engine is to harness the energy in the gasoline more efficiently; the trade-off is that maximum thrust is reduced, but there are so many other benefits that that tradeoff makes so much sense that there are millions of gasoline powered, (not jet-propelled) cars on the road. It's likely a similar case with the ME in modern Intel chips.)
This. I mean, there are good reasons to get a regular eye exam, like determining what your prescription should be, watching for signs of cataracts and glaucoma, etc., but it's absolutely baffling that if I have been more than a year since getting an eye exam and accidentally drop my glasses and break them, I can't get replacements for those glasses that were obviously still working fine up to that point (or else I would have gone for an eye exam to get a new prescription).
There's absolutely no sane reason why a current, valid prescription should be required when getting glasses or contacts manufactured. None. The worst-case scenario is you waste a lot of money and buy something that doesn't work or causes eyestrain, and you stop using them.
Worse, the prescription-required policy isn't even consistently applied. I can walk into Wal-Mart and pick up a set of pre-made glasses that have various levels of farsightedness correction (positive values) for reading, but correction for nearsightedness requires a prescription, as does correction for astigmatism. I understand the reluctance to have arbitrary formulations available off the shelf, because there are a near-infinite possible number of them, but when it comes to refusing to fabricate them on demand, that distinction seems completely arbitrary, and expecting a lens manufacturer to investigate every optometrist to make sure they're legitimate... well, that's just absurd.
My understanding is, (and IANAO/O) that the eye adapts itself over time, and using an outdated or incorrect or fraudulent script to buy glasses or contacts, and then wearing them, could cause ocular injury, exacerbating existing eye problems or creating new ones, which may be more difficult to correct or lead to uncorrectable problems, up to and including blindness.
OR, it could be that if optometrists and/or ophthalmologists (whichever it is,) DIDN'T have this repeat business, they'd have to charge MUCH more money for the INITIAL diagnosis and prescription, putting corrective lenses beyond the reach of most people who need them, OR, it wouldn't pay for them to go into that specialty, meaning you would spend MONTHS or YEARS waiting even to get in to SEE one...
Of course, I could easily be wrong, I'm just a guy with a computer and a keyboard, and, (like virtually every human being,) an opinion.