The nicest thing about SlashDot is that you can have ten even-boring-to-nerds stories like this and zero Valentine's Day pieces. (Amiright? At least I hope I stay right.)
>> People who invested in the startup are now tracking funds move from account to account in a BitcoinTalk forum thread, and banding together in the hopes of filing a class action lawsuit
Would it be possible to get a list of the rubes who invested into this "initial coin offering"? (Because I have a few more things I'd like to sell them, starting with the Brooklyn Bridge.)
To be fair, Facebook's other strong suit is crazy political screeds coupled with wild accusations.
In any case, if Facebook wants to do video, as long as their service hits their core Boomer and mom demographic they should do fine (large buttons, "cat ear" filters, heart overlays, etc.). The rest of us are fine with non-Facebook services.
At this point there's no one left on Facebook but moms posting kid pics and boomers writing the kind of batty political screeds that only the elderly and college kids can get away with.
Well, first note that XP went EOL in 2014, and that the large number of XP computers still out in our networks continue to plague a number of IT professionals on SlashDot who have to support them. And note that many IT professionals who have to support desktops consider Windows 7 to be the best of the desktop OS's.
Now combine that with a biting comment from a Windows XP footdragger who doesn't like Windows 7 (with "upgraded" literally in quotes) and you have some grade-A SlashDot trollbait.
^^ This. "Hey, something STILL works three years after it was created" = double-plus good. >> I had hoped that Free and Open Source Software would mean less software being abandoned or radically overhauled And now you know one of the reasons why we still have Microsoft. And Oracle. And IBM.
It's really only when you get comfortable with regular radical overhauls that you get truly comfortable with free open source projects supporting your operations.
>> Cars and rockets have basically nothing to do with each other.
Now you're getting somewhere. Let's get "Tesla Motors" spun off or sold to someone who knows something about making cars and get those Model 3's out into the world. Then little Elon can play with his rockets and subterranean choo-choos while the rest of society actually gets something that reduces our carbon footprint.
So...a guy goes around and collects money to deliver X (say, a mid-priced electric car, or an underground railway), but instead shovels it into high-publicity project Y (e.g., rockets, flamethrowers) to keep the heat off himself from that group of investors, regulators and the general public.
Isn't that pretty much the nature of a pyramid scheme?
>> you're making a lot of inferences and assumptions that aren't actually in the article
Well, the article itself should be marked "untrustworthy" because it's based on hearsay, specifically "several Davos attendees involved in and briefed on these conversations told Quartz". And yeah, it wouldn't be SlashDot if your accusation wasn't true.
But think through how this system would actually work in practice. Let's say you did assign an army of Turks to vet linked stories. What's the default setting for stories you haven't vetted first? "Untrustworthy", right? OK, now which stories do you vet first: the ones likely to be read by a wide audience or those read later? "Wide audience", right? Now, given a pile of stories from "cnn.com" and a second pile from "congressionalwatch.com" (dunno if that's real), which ones are you going to vet first? Right, the major media stories. See where I'm going?
Or, think through it from another POV. When Google went out to build the world's best search engine, did they use A) an algorithm tweaked to death or B) an army of people vetting and ranking individual links. Google's an "A" company, so again, see where I'm going?
Is there a filter to screen out useless PR-driven articles about the Olympics?
This kind of stuff is is only a step above the Olympics commercials Coke and McDonalds crap out every two years (as if any athlete would get near those brands except to collect the check).
>> Nobody is saying that NBC, CNN, or the like are shining bastions of journalistic integrity.
Unfortunately, people ARE saying that. That's the basis of the "credible source" bit in TFA: if story link X is from "Big News" it will be flagged credible but if it's from independent muckraker Y it will be flagged as questionable.
Part of the reason no one trusts NBC, CNN, etc. anymore is that half the stories they run with have no cited sources, just BS like "said one source with inside knowledge who was not allowed to speak on the record". And sometimes those leaks are just that - BS fed to reporters too lazy to check out the stories they were handed.
So before "Big News" gets to complain about "Alt News" running with poor sourcing, "Big News" needs get their own house in order first.
>> Hard to believe the Navy can't just steer around it when in the neighborhood.
The Navy has traditionally test-fired missles from a point nearby, and continues to operate a naval air base there too. Not all naval operations are "steering ships around the neighborhood." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Missile_Test_Center
>> a bug that leaves them unable to answer incoming calls
Can I get this ported to my Android phone please? 85% of my inbound calls are from spammers looking for truck drivers. (Thanks, someone who once used my number in a form somewhere.)
FWIW, I did also play Civ5 in hex mode on my Windows tablet. (I bought a Windows table so I could VPN into my company when on premises but not at my desk, because lugging around a consultant-grade laptop to check and respond to emails while in meetings was overkill.)
>> what is the use case which is driving you to update it?
I just picked up Civ6 for $12 (via a one-day subscription to Humble) so I might get a new tablet for that. Because I do go to lots of meetings, you know.
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The nicest thing about SlashDot is that you can have ten even-boring-to-nerds stories like this and zero Valentine's Day pieces. (Amiright? At least I hope I stay right.)
Here's the link to the BitcoinTalk forum our useless editors failed to provide:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2521307.0
I have to admit: it IS pretty funny!
>> People who invested in the startup are now tracking funds move from account to account in a BitcoinTalk forum thread, and banding together in the hopes of filing a class action lawsuit
Would it be possible to get a list of the rubes who invested into this "initial coin offering"? (Because I have a few more things I'd like to sell them, starting with the Brooklyn Bridge.)
Since TFA brought it up I can't wait for an evidence-based, rational discussion on the best text editor for Linux.
>> Facebook Should 'Get Back To Baby Pictures'
To be fair, Facebook's other strong suit is crazy political screeds coupled with wild accusations.
In any case, if Facebook wants to do video, as long as their service hits their core Boomer and mom demographic they should do fine (large buttons, "cat ear" filters, heart overlays, etc.). The rest of us are fine with non-Facebook services.
>> random chip company releases numbers to buttress its marketing claims
Nice, er, incremental improvement. Now, if you don't mind, I have a nap to take...ZZZzzz
At this point there's no one left on Facebook but moms posting kid pics and boomers writing the kind of batty political screeds that only the elderly and college kids can get away with.
Well, first note that XP went EOL in 2014, and that the large number of XP computers still out in our networks continue to plague a number of IT professionals on SlashDot who have to support them. And note that many IT professionals who have to support desktops consider Windows 7 to be the best of the desktop OS's.
Now combine that with a biting comment from a Windows XP footdragger who doesn't like Windows 7 (with "upgraded" literally in quotes) and you have some grade-A SlashDot trollbait.
^^ This.
"Hey, something STILL works three years after it was created" = double-plus good.
>> I had hoped that Free and Open Source Software would mean less software being abandoned or radically overhauled
And now you know one of the reasons why we still have Microsoft. And Oracle. And IBM.
It's really only when you get comfortable with regular radical overhauls that you get truly comfortable with free open source projects supporting your operations.
>> a year or so ago I "upgraded" this very computer to Win7 from XP
Really, no takers? I thought this was one of the best pieces of troll bait to be spun through Slashdot this month.
>> Cars and rockets have basically nothing to do with each other.
Now you're getting somewhere. Let's get "Tesla Motors" spun off or sold to someone who knows something about making cars and get those Model 3's out into the world. Then little Elon can play with his rockets and subterranean choo-choos while the rest of society actually gets something that reduces our carbon footprint.
So...a guy goes around and collects money to deliver X (say, a mid-priced electric car, or an underground railway), but instead shovels it into high-publicity project Y (e.g., rockets, flamethrowers) to keep the heat off himself from that group of investors, regulators and the general public.
Isn't that pretty much the nature of a pyramid scheme?
>> you're making a lot of inferences and assumptions that aren't actually in the article
Well, the article itself should be marked "untrustworthy" because it's based on hearsay, specifically "several Davos attendees involved in and briefed on these conversations told Quartz". And yeah, it wouldn't be SlashDot if your accusation wasn't true.
But think through how this system would actually work in practice. Let's say you did assign an army of Turks to vet linked stories. What's the default setting for stories you haven't vetted first? "Untrustworthy", right? OK, now which stories do you vet first: the ones likely to be read by a wide audience or those read later? "Wide audience", right? Now, given a pile of stories from "cnn.com" and a second pile from "congressionalwatch.com" (dunno if that's real), which ones are you going to vet first? Right, the major media stories. See where I'm going?
Or, think through it from another POV. When Google went out to build the world's best search engine, did they use A) an algorithm tweaked to death or B) an army of people vetting and ranking individual links. Google's an "A" company, so again, see where I'm going?
>> Bitcoin Won't Be the Dark Web's Top Cryptocurrency For Long
Clearly, the author is a shill for Dogecoin.
>> Yada yada Olympics yada yada
Is there a filter to screen out useless PR-driven articles about the Olympics?
This kind of stuff is is only a step above the Olympics commercials Coke and McDonalds crap out every two years (as if any athlete would get near those brands except to collect the check).
>> Nobody is saying that NBC, CNN, or the like are shining bastions of journalistic integrity.
Unfortunately, people ARE saying that. That's the basis of the "credible source" bit in TFA: if story link X is from "Big News" it will be flagged credible but if it's from independent muckraker Y it will be flagged as questionable.
Part of the reason no one trusts NBC, CNN, etc. anymore is that half the stories they run with have no cited sources, just BS like "said one source with inside knowledge who was not allowed to speak on the record". And sometimes those leaks are just that - BS fed to reporters too lazy to check out the stories they were handed.
So before "Big News" gets to complain about "Alt News" running with poor sourcing, "Big News" needs get their own house in order first.
I will buy from an online tailor named Garek. That is all.
>> There are 32 million gallons worth of mercury, or the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools, trapped
Wait - how many Library of Congresses does that convert into? Or is there a car analogy you could use?
>> Hard to believe the Navy can't just steer around it when in the neighborhood.
The Navy has traditionally test-fired missles from a point nearby, and continues to operate a naval air base there too. Not all naval operations are "steering ships around the neighborhood." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Missile_Test_Center
>> X Regulators To Back More Oversight of Y
C'mon editors, this is "dog bites man". "Man bites dog" would be a regulator who wants a smaller kingdom.
Preinstalled app used more than 3rd party. Quick, someone tell Microsoft so they can try this with IE, I mean Edge.
>> a bug that leaves them unable to answer incoming calls
Can I get this ported to my Android phone please? 85% of my inbound calls are from spammers looking for truck drivers. (Thanks, someone who once used my number in a form somewhere.)
FWIW, I did also play Civ5 in hex mode on my Windows tablet. (I bought a Windows table so I could VPN into my company when on premises but not at my desk, because lugging around a consultant-grade laptop to check and respond to emails while in meetings was overkill.)
>> what is the use case which is driving you to update it?
I just picked up Civ6 for $12 (via a one-day subscription to Humble) so I might get a new tablet for that. Because I do go to lots of meetings, you know.
>> forcing workers to lose time because "the computers are down"
1990 wants its article back. Half the "work" I do these days seems to be on company IM chat while I'm sitting in the company crapper.