>> surveys done of French Moslems (by the Pew Research Institute if memory serves well), that tend to prove they are the least radicalized and best integrated of all European Moslem communities
I believe you're referencing this 2006 Pew Research, which showed that a higher percentage of French Muslims wanted to adopt the customs of their host country than in other European countries. http://www.pewresearch.org/200...
However, that's ten years old, and the high unemployment and changing immigration trends could have changed attitudes. I've love to see an updated report.
>> in many cases politics can be more important than designing and building the hardware, which is why it's worth learning about
No, it's why we're all pretty much pinning our hopes on private enterprise to figure out the next generation of space. NASA's manned flight program was defanged long ago, as evidenced by the need to drag out guys like Tom Moser, the hunt for prototype moon rovers, and other nostalgic efforts dredging up a period that happened decades before I was born.
Having worked on a number of commercial projects, I'm proud of having pulled "custom themes" and other cruft out of about a half dozen shipping pieces of software. I've seen these features go in because 1) a lead developer wanted to play with a customization library 2) a key customer wanted the whole application in their corporate color or 3) product management thought people spent all day with their application maximized on the screen and needed to twiddle every button.
For once, I agree with Mozilla. Yanking customization like this is just what you need to do when a product grows up.
Keep up the "less features in Firefox" and I might even make it my primary browser again. Let's hope "video autoplay" is next!
>> Google's various products and services (Gmail, Hangouts, Google Maps, Inbox, Google Play, YouTube, Google+, and so on) sometimes ask you to share certain personal information.
Google starts collecting everything it can about who you are and what you do in all its products and services unless you explicitly go down into the basement and yank seventeen different files from a bathroom with a sign that says "Beware of the Leopard."
FTFY
This whole "you need to spend an hour on our site hoping you've tweaked your privacy settings correctly, at least until we change everything again in three months" is BS. As the family tech guru, I've gone from teaching people how to use non-IE browsers to how to install the best possible Ad/Flash/tracking-blocking software I can find on all their personal computers and devices.
Oops, that's one 7 megaton blast. I think we can live with that, considering an event like that naturally occurs somewhere on earth once every 1000 years and it would probably land in an unpopulated area.
This. At least once in my career I've taken a job with a potentially shaky company and negotiated that they would pay me extra to cover my existing benefit premiums rather than go on a company plan that could potentially go down the tubes (with the company) at any moment.
>> danger of altering an asteroids orbit and having it eventually hit Earth
How did this get mod'ed to 3? Asteroids are #1 big (making them hard to alter), #2 far away (making it unlikely that they will accidentally get close to us), #3 already in an orbit (making it easy to predict what our efforts will change them) and #4 easy to track once we know they are there (e.g., slap a solar-powered transmitter on 'em). Of all the problems with asteroid mining (see the "pot of gold" and "but the UN" comments nearby) this is one for the bottom of the list.
The assumption seems to be that the US will get there first and claim whatever it finds for the US. (Seems reasonable.)
>> Surely this is something that should be hashed out at the UN
Surely you understand that the US only uses the UN when it needs to have a resolution bottled up in committees until the news cycle moves on. When we're talking about money, life or property the UN has and will be ignored.
>> which a whole bunch of them need to start doing PDQ because all the baby boomers everybody loves to hate are either retired already or will be retired before long
Prices did go down. Way down. (http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/united_states.png)
>> nobody could buy a house at any price under a few bucks, since nobody had hundreds of thousands of dollars
You still didn't need "hundreds of thousands" but you now need 20% down (e.g., $20K of $100K) and I think that's a good thing. It's not fun to get that first $20K together, but it's possible with a few years of work (e.g., $500/mo for 3.5 years), and the discipline of being able to save is a good sign to creditors that you'll be able to pay a regular mortgage (e.g., $500/mo for the next 30 years).
>> Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
Yes, as long as the first words of your review are something like, "you might like [product] in a few years, but don't plan on buying it now...[reasons for hope]...[reasons why it's currently broken]."
>> Which would be great if you didn't kill the job market, crash the economy
If you're a millennial on SlashDot and you can't find a job in this "let's hire that girl/guy - they know node.js and have great hair" economy, I'd have to chalk that up to poor life choices and/or a liberal arts degree.
>> saddle us with so much debt our grandchildren will still be trying to pay it off
So quit whining when we try to elect libertarians and Tea Party members then. Or do you mean personal debt which...well...required YOU to sign up for it?
Are there any non-English languages or anyone using the language for whom English is a challenge? If there are, the use of symbols would seem to be preferred over remembering what the first letters of "plus que" are in English. (FTW.)
I'm not sure I'm following you. In many places, prices of "starter" housing dropped by around 50% from the mid-2000's to now. Right now, you can buy your choice of 2-bedroom homes for about $70K where I live - $90K if you want to live on the water. And the financing required to get these homes is cheaper than ever. A $100K mortgage at current rates is less than $500/month. And jobs are plentiful as long as you don't have some kind of useless liberal arts degree. Right now, you could find multiple companies within a half hour drive that would started a guy like me out of college between $50-60K.
It's actually middle-aged folks who took it in the shorts with the housing crisis because we had already locked in mortgages at a higher value and experienced a loss of home value, effectively locking many of us in our current location (where before we could easily flip and move) and putting a lot of people "under water" (Google that) so they couldn't refinance with the lower rates.
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>> surveys done of French Moslems (by the Pew Research Institute if memory serves well), that tend to prove they are the least radicalized and best integrated of all European Moslem communities
I believe you're referencing this 2006 Pew Research, which showed that a higher percentage of French Muslims wanted to adopt the customs of their host country than in other European countries.
http://www.pewresearch.org/200...
However, that's ten years old, and the high unemployment and changing immigration trends could have changed attitudes. I've love to see an updated report.
>> Do you really think france will just abandon their tradition of a very liberal atheist society because of a few terror attacks?
It's already happening.
March 2015 - "France swings to the right as Europe retrenches"
http://news.yahoo.com/french-p...
>> in many cases politics can be more important than designing and building the hardware, which is why it's worth learning about
No, it's why we're all pretty much pinning our hopes on private enterprise to figure out the next generation of space. NASA's manned flight program was defanged long ago, as evidenced by the need to drag out guys like Tom Moser, the hunt for prototype moon rovers, and other nostalgic efforts dredging up a period that happened decades before I was born.
>> are people doing this out of a really bad intention or are just not intelligent enough to understand the risks and the sentences they are facing
Both. These are the same people who like tossing bricks onto cars from the overpass.
It's the only way to be sure.
>> What's with sociology and weasel words?
It passes the time until the next person in line orders their coffee.
Having worked on a number of commercial projects, I'm proud of having pulled "custom themes" and other cruft out of about a half dozen shipping pieces of software. I've seen these features go in because 1) a lead developer wanted to play with a customization library 2) a key customer wanted the whole application in their corporate color or 3) product management thought people spent all day with their application maximized on the screen and needed to twiddle every button.
For once, I agree with Mozilla. Yanking customization like this is just what you need to do when a product grows up.
Keep up the "less features in Firefox" and I might even make it my primary browser again. Let's hope "video autoplay" is next!
>> Google's various products and services (Gmail, Hangouts, Google Maps, Inbox, Google Play, YouTube, Google+, and so on) sometimes ask you to share certain personal information.
Google starts collecting everything it can about who you are and what you do in all its products and services unless you explicitly go down into the basement and yank seventeen different files from a bathroom with a sign that says "Beware of the Leopard."
FTFY
This whole "you need to spend an hour on our site hoping you've tweaked your privacy settings correctly, at least until we change everything again in three months" is BS. As the family tech guru, I've gone from teaching people how to use non-IE browsers to how to install the best possible Ad/Flash/tracking-blocking software I can find on all their personal computers and devices.
>> For about $500 a month, (Uber) drivers get access to a mid-sized sedan (that they can use to drive people around for Uber)
In Soviet Russia*, you pay taxi company to drive for it!
(*=for values of Soviet Russia equal to "South Africa")
>> management consultants McKinsey and Company said that many of the tasks that a CEO performs could be taken over by machines
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. "I think we should hire some management consultants," said no one other than top executives ever.
>> 165 feet wide
Oops, that's one 7 megaton blast. I think we can live with that, considering an event like that naturally occurs somewhere on earth once every 1000 years and it would probably land in an unpopulated area.
For your own "oops I nudged an asteroid" math, may I suggest:
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi...
>> Shouldn't /. know that you shouldn't feed trolls?
If there were no trolls there would be no /. It's why this place is considered an "entertainment site" not a "news site."
>> last hundred pages of this book could be an endorsement of dog raping and only ten people would notice
Our current president endorsed dog eating and I'll bet fewer than ten people cared.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
"I was introduced to dog meat (tough)..." - Barack Obama
SyFy's still a thing? I don't anyone who's watched that since BSG wrapped up and the network renamed itself.
This. At least once in my career I've taken a job with a potentially shaky company and negotiated that they would pay me extra to cover my existing benefit premiums rather than go on a company plan that could potentially go down the tubes (with the company) at any moment.
Cash and some arms-length-ness can be nice.
>> danger of altering an asteroids orbit and having it eventually hit Earth
How did this get mod'ed to 3? Asteroids are #1 big (making them hard to alter), #2 far away (making it unlikely that they will accidentally get close to us), #3 already in an orbit (making it easy to predict what our efforts will change them) and #4 easy to track once we know they are there (e.g., slap a solar-powered transmitter on 'em). Of all the problems with asteroid mining (see the "pot of gold" and "but the UN" comments nearby) this is one for the bottom of the list.
>> How can this be at the national level?
The assumption seems to be that the US will get there first and claim whatever it finds for the US. (Seems reasonable.)
>> Surely this is something that should be hashed out at the UN
Surely you understand that the US only uses the UN when it needs to have a resolution bottled up in committees until the news cycle moves on. When we're talking about money, life or property the UN has and will be ignored.
>> which a whole bunch of them need to start doing PDQ because all the baby boomers everybody loves to hate are either retired already or will be retired before long
Or...you could hire Gen X (in their 30's-50's)
>> " I was tired of my browser crashing everyday, so I tried Firefox. " (quote from the advertisement in TFA)
Oh, I miss those days.
>> Firefox users can look forward to solid Web VR support in the browser, multiprocess browsing (e10s), a revamped add-ons platform
Do not want, meh, it'll break every plug-in that I still use with Firefox? Happy birthday! (uninstalls)
>> not that prices went down
Prices did go down. Way down. (http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/united_states.png)
>> nobody could buy a house at any price under a few bucks, since nobody had hundreds of thousands of dollars
You still didn't need "hundreds of thousands" but you now need 20% down (e.g., $20K of $100K) and I think that's a good thing. It's not fun to get that first $20K together, but it's possible with a few years of work (e.g., $500/mo for 3.5 years), and the discipline of being able to save is a good sign to creditors that you'll be able to pay a regular mortgage (e.g., $500/mo for the next 30 years).
>> Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
Yes, as long as the first words of your review are something like, "you might like [product] in a few years, but don't plan on buying it now...[reasons for hope]...[reasons why it's currently broken]."
I believe we've had two "dark net" stories on SlashDot today (one about UK, one about Ukraine). Did an editor get busted or something?
>> Which would be great if you didn't kill the job market, crash the economy
If you're a millennial on SlashDot and you can't find a job in this "let's hire that girl/guy - they know node.js and have great hair" economy, I'd have to chalk that up to poor life choices and/or a liberal arts degree.
>> saddle us with so much debt our grandchildren will still be trying to pay it off
So quit whining when we try to elect libertarians and Tea Party members then. Or do you mean personal debt which...well...required YOU to sign up for it?
Are there any non-English languages or anyone using the language for whom English is a challenge? If there are, the use of symbols would seem to be preferred over remembering what the first letters of "plus que" are in English. (FTW.)
>> It doesn't help the millenials who don't.
I'm not sure I'm following you. In many places, prices of "starter" housing dropped by around 50% from the mid-2000's to now. Right now, you can buy your choice of 2-bedroom homes for about $70K where I live - $90K if you want to live on the water. And the financing required to get these homes is cheaper than ever. A $100K mortgage at current rates is less than $500/month. And jobs are plentiful as long as you don't have some kind of useless liberal arts degree. Right now, you could find multiple companies within a half hour drive that would started a guy like me out of college between $50-60K.
It's actually middle-aged folks who took it in the shorts with the housing crisis because we had already locked in mortgages at a higher value and experienced a loss of home value, effectively locking many of us in our current location (where before we could easily flip and move) and putting a lot of people "under water" (Google that) so they couldn't refinance with the lower rates.