The problem with talking head videos from someone's bedroom is that the stillshot usually makes the speaker look like a pedo you'd see on the 11 o'clock news, especially if the selected image catches them with a goofy smile.
1) I kind of expected to be routed to/dev/null when I click on the "Linux Doc" link. 2) But, no, it's real site (http://www.tldp.org/)...whose unfriendly and unhelpful home page looks exactly like it was written and designed by a bunch of Linux coders.
>> algorithms, like so many parts of our physical universe, don't give a flying fuck
As per Kerckhoff, the algorithms are already known. Politicians (most recently Clinton, Trump and now Feinstein) are either after our keys (e.g., key escrow) or trying to get us to always also use a known government key in our encryption.
>> except jobs was still starting with a rabid fanbase still in place, very strong in academia
I was in academia at that time and we were ripping half the remaining Macs out to replace them with PCs, and the other half out to replace them with off-brand Macs (Umax, etc.) Meanwhile, we were experimenting with running Photoshop and Illustrator on PCs, and wondering how long the one remaining campus Mac store would be open (so we could reclaim the space). Long story short, I wouldn't have called us "rabid fans" in the mid-1990s.
>> Yahoo's positioning? Well, old farts that were too lazy to spend the time giving people a new email address
And that's different than academia? (Instructors anyway.):) But seriously, as other posters have pointed out, plenty of other advertising and media companies make bank off just a subset of those demographics, so it's almost mind-boggling that Yahoo couldn't figure out a way to make money off the eyeballs that hit it.
>> What exactly would another CEO have done differently? Attacking [Specific_CEO] doesn't really deal with the fact that [Company] has been in decline for [Period], and what [Pronoun] inherited was a listing ship with no obvious solution.
Replace all those variables with "Steve Jobs", "Apple", "Seven Years" and "He" and see if you are still convinced that what CEO's do doesn't matter.
>> she was Larry's girlfriend. That is the dirty secret that no one ever mentions.
Well..back to my question about being a plant. She was hired by Yahoo's board to f*** Google and steal market share. What if she's really still just f***ing Google's founder instead?
>> I'm sure she'll be getting a nice parachute as well
CNN calculated her current parachute could be $110M if Yahoo sells itself (which they are positioning themselves to do by shedding crap like Yahoo) or "just" $25.8 million if the board makes her redundant. http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/0...
>> is this just a way of moving Alibaba into American ownership?
I saw it as a defensive move by Yahoo bigwigs. Alibaba is the only thing in the Yahoo portfolio that's worth anything. If Yahoo's CEO/board sells Alibaba, the rest of Yahoo gets liquidated and they're quickly out of their cushy jobs. By hanging onto Alibaba, Yahoo's CEO/board forces Yahoo stockholders have to get even more creative (e.g., invest in bigger golden parachutes) to get them out of the way. And by hanging onto the assorted businesses, Yahoo's CEO/board look busy "managing" them or spin them off (like chaff) to distract any pesky press continuing to ask why Yahoo continues to fail.
I look at it the way that Microsoft threw Apple a $150M bone (http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-to-invest-150-million-in-apple/) to stave off antitrust action.
So, new CEO from Google comes in, sucks up a huge salary, drives Yahoo further into the ground, and is still there after almost four years. Does anyone else think that "Ms. Mayer" may have been planted at Yahoo to keep the old Internet giant from 1) threatening Google in any meaningful way 2) keep Yahoo out of the hands of Microsoft (remember that?) and 3) keep Yahoo large enough to keep Google out of antitrust trouble (here in the states anyway)? [/conspiracy]
Now there's a blast from the past. I kind of forgot about cable networks over the past few years, but I remember that Spike carried STTNG for a while and otherwise seemed to run the same 10-movie cycle (Godfather, something with Bruce Willis, etc.) over and over again.
1) The CIO is saying this because they just got bought by IBM, who pushes "open source" until you look around and your whole operations is being run by H1Bs fresh off the plane who say "open source" to distract you while they Google for how to open a command prompt. http://fortune.com/2015/10/30/...
>> up until Dear shot up the PP, he was just another responsible gun owner
Not true. According to NPR (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/29/457756325/what-we-know-about-the-alleged-planned-parenthood-shooter): "Dear had several run-ins with the law. The records show nine criminal filings under his name: Two "personal intrusion" — or peeping Tom or eavesdropping —...two animal cruelty charges."
I don't think this will really affect me since I comment on about three different Twitter handles but I don't really read anyone else's. (However I do tend to look when someone mentions or favorites a tweet or sends me a direct message.)
>> The demographics that kills (people) never, ever intersects with hunters, rural or suburban gun owners?
Pretty much.
Consider the deer hunting season just concluded in Wisconsin. This year, about 700,000 hunters went out with loaded guns, many of them drank heavily at night, many of them were annoyed with each other, and yet no one was shot. Meanwhile in Milwaukee (a city in Wisconsin), where there are 700,000 people (and not everyone has a gun), multiple people were shot and killed over the same period (http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/category/homicide/).
Go a little further south to Illinois/Chicago and you'll hear an even worse story: I think more than ten people a week are dying down in Obama's old stomping grounds from thug-initiated violence. If even one of those murders was caused by a hunter, rural or suburban gun owner, I'm sure it would be big news.
>> debut might seem remarkably ill-timed, given recent shootings at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and at a social services center in San Bernardino, California
The market for this channel (hunters, rural or suburban gun owners) isn't the demographic that kills for its political beliefs (Planned Parenthood), religious beliefs (San Bernardino), shoots up schools, or is involved in street gangs. Selling more guns and accessories to these folks won't increase violence one iota.
Slashdot Mirror
What's better than putting a bunch of GET-based URLs that control lights on the Internet? Putting them on SlashDot.
Crappy blog site takes a tour of a historic site? Is this an update on looking at the neighbor's vacation slides for 2015 or something?
>> Bill Gates is known as a big philanthropist
Well, then, he's really a BFP then, isn't he?
The problem with talking head videos from someone's bedroom is that the stillshot usually makes the speaker look like a pedo you'd see on the 11 o'clock news, especially if the selected image catches them with a goofy smile.
Example? Scroll up...^
>> I'm sure they'd accept improvements...if you submit them to their mailing list.
For once I can't tell if I'm being trolled. :)
1) I kind of expected to be routed to /dev/null when I click on the "Linux Doc" link.
2) But, no, it's real site (http://www.tldp.org/)...whose unfriendly and unhelpful home page looks exactly like it was written and designed by a bunch of Linux coders.
Why isn't the group named "WTFM"? ("Write the...")
>> algorithms, like so many parts of our physical universe, don't give a flying fuck
As per Kerckhoff, the algorithms are already known. Politicians (most recently Clinton, Trump and now Feinstein) are either after our keys (e.g., key escrow) or trying to get us to always also use a known government key in our encryption.
>> except jobs was still starting with a rabid fanbase still in place, very strong in academia
I was in academia at that time and we were ripping half the remaining Macs out to replace them with PCs, and the other half out to replace them with off-brand Macs (Umax, etc.) Meanwhile, we were experimenting with running Photoshop and Illustrator on PCs, and wondering how long the one remaining campus Mac store would be open (so we could reclaim the space). Long story short, I wouldn't have called us "rabid fans" in the mid-1990s.
>> Yahoo's positioning? Well, old farts that were too lazy to spend the time giving people a new email address
And that's different than academia? (Instructors anyway.) :) But seriously, as other posters have pointed out, plenty of other advertising and media companies make bank off just a subset of those demographics, so it's almost mind-boggling that Yahoo couldn't figure out a way to make money off the eyeballs that hit it.
>> What exactly would another CEO have done differently? Attacking [Specific_CEO] doesn't really deal with the fact that [Company] has been in decline for [Period], and what [Pronoun] inherited was a listing ship with no obvious solution.
Replace all those variables with "Steve Jobs", "Apple", "Seven Years" and "He" and see if you are still convinced that what CEO's do doesn't matter.
>> she was Larry's girlfriend. That is the dirty secret that no one ever mentions.
Well..back to my question about being a plant. She was hired by Yahoo's board to f*** Google and steal market share. What if she's really still just f***ing Google's founder instead?
>> I'm sure she'll be getting a nice parachute as well
CNN calculated her current parachute could be $110M if Yahoo sells itself (which they are positioning themselves to do by shedding crap like Yahoo) or "just" $25.8 million if the board makes her redundant.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/0...
>> is this just a way of moving Alibaba into American ownership?
I saw it as a defensive move by Yahoo bigwigs. Alibaba is the only thing in the Yahoo portfolio that's worth anything. If Yahoo's CEO/board sells Alibaba, the rest of Yahoo gets liquidated and they're quickly out of their cushy jobs. By hanging onto Alibaba, Yahoo's CEO/board forces Yahoo stockholders have to get even more creative (e.g., invest in bigger golden parachutes) to get them out of the way. And by hanging onto the assorted businesses, Yahoo's CEO/board look busy "managing" them or spin them off (like chaff) to distract any pesky press continuing to ask why Yahoo continues to fail.
I look at it the way that Microsoft threw Apple a $150M bone (http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-to-invest-150-million-in-apple/) to stave off antitrust action.
So, new CEO from Google comes in, sucks up a huge salary, drives Yahoo further into the ground, and is still there after almost four years. Does anyone else think that "Ms. Mayer" may have been planted at Yahoo to keep the old Internet giant from 1) threatening Google in any meaningful way 2) keep Yahoo out of the hands of Microsoft (remember that?) and 3) keep Yahoo large enough to keep Google out of antitrust trouble (here in the states anyway)? [/conspiracy]
>> Spike TV
Now there's a blast from the past. I kind of forgot about cable networks over the past few years, but I remember that Spike carried STTNG for a while and otherwise seemed to run the same 10-movie cycle (Godfather, something with Bruce Willis, etc.) over and over again.
>> to focus more on its strongest and core products
As long as "products" remains plural Mozilla will still have a problem.
1) The CIO is saying this because they just got bought by IBM, who pushes "open source" until you look around and your whole operations is being run by H1Bs fresh off the plane who say "open source" to distract you while they Google for how to open a command prompt. http://fortune.com/2015/10/30/...
2) I agree. That's why I use a free, open API for weather instead: http://openweathermap.org/pric...
>> up until Dear shot up the PP, he was just another responsible gun owner
Not true. According to NPR (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/29/457756325/what-we-know-about-the-alleged-planned-parenthood-shooter): ...two animal cruelty charges."
"Dear had several run-ins with the law. The records show nine criminal filings under his name: Two "personal intrusion" — or peeping Tom or eavesdropping —
I don't think this will really affect me since I comment on about three different Twitter handles but I don't really read anyone else's. (However I do tend to look when someone mentions or favorites a tweet or sends me a direct message.)
>> The demographics that kills (people) never, ever intersects with hunters, rural or suburban gun owners?
Pretty much.
Consider the deer hunting season just concluded in Wisconsin. This year, about 700,000 hunters went out with loaded guns, many of them drank heavily at night, many of them were annoyed with each other, and yet no one was shot. Meanwhile in Milwaukee (a city in Wisconsin), where there are 700,000 people (and not everyone has a gun), multiple people were shot and killed over the same period (http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/category/homicide/).
Go a little further south to Illinois/Chicago and you'll hear an even worse story: I think more than ten people a week are dying down in Obama's old stomping grounds from thug-initiated violence. If even one of those murders was caused by a hunter, rural or suburban gun owner, I'm sure it would be big news.
>> debut might seem remarkably ill-timed, given recent shootings at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and at a social services center in San Bernardino, California
The market for this channel (hunters, rural or suburban gun owners) isn't the demographic that kills for its political beliefs (Planned Parenthood), religious beliefs (San Bernardino), shoots up schools, or is involved in street gangs. Selling more guns and accessories to these folks won't increase violence one iota.
But "makers"
Great! With the Japanese orbiter in place and broadcasting, we'll finally get to see how Venusians feel about tentacle-based entertainment.
>> Can you write off ransom costs on your taxes?
I don't see why not. Best case, it's business services and fully deductible. Worst case, it's entertainment (and half deductible).