Since entering the Presidential race in July 2015, Twitter or Tweets have been international front page news, all day, every day, 24/7/365. The Great Orange Shitgibbon has given them unlimited free press, and hundreds of millions of people are forced to use their damn service just to see what Mister Marmalade has declared war on next.
...was because the USB port finally gave out. I now have a Samsung Galaxy S8 Active. It's boring, it looks like a grey rectangle, but I can go swimming with it if I want to. Assuming the stupid built-in battery doesn't die out exactly when my two years are up, I'm gonna keep this around for a long time. All I use my phone for is some photography social media and web usage. I don't need a super duper phone.
3 or so years ago it was a running joke that Russian "infiltrators" were running around Slashdot, with obvious bias, trying to steer conversations around in the comments section. Suddenly, in 2018, that joke is seen is absurd, not happening, never ever, not on THIS website, and how dare you for suggesting!
One wonders if they actually won the Slashdot "battle" when no one was noticing.
Hail, Comrade. How is St. Petersburg this time of year?
Studies have shown that traffic simply fills up the wider roads over time. So expanding a highway from 2 lanes to 6 lanes eventually ends up with the same congestion problem, as people drive irrationally (moving over multiple lanes to get to an exit, slamming on brakes, etc), and they also see the expanded highway as the "faster" route to take even if it isn't.
We need automated cars widely adopted to solve most traffic problems.
it was a Packard Bell 486 DX2 with 4 MB ram. My parents bought it because they thought it would be "good" for me. My uncle came over with a baseball card cardboard box's worth of pirated 3.5 disks. One of them was Doom.
I remember installing doom and then having to have a "boot disk" to give me enough RAM to run the thing. Glorious, pixelated violence meant i was the coolest nerd on the block for years. So many imps died. So many friends looking over my shoulder and taking turns as we cleared Phobos of hell's minions.
Doom taught me a lot. Configuration. Boot disks. Zip files. Ms-DOS commands. Piracy. Modding. The internet (happypupy and bluesnews led me straight to some sort of Doom.wad depository, wherein I could download custom mods of Doom, including an MST3K sound replacement.wad I still insist on using whenever i boot the game up)
My uncle passed away around a dozen years ago, after a futilely stupid battle with type 2 diabetes (stupid as in, not following doctors orders and losing your legs, kidneys, and vision). But i will always remember him as the uncle who brought me Doom.
So let me get this straight. Facebook, a company designed from the ground up to know everything about you and your friends, is offering a small segment of its userbase (paranoid Android users) the ability to connect using Tor.
Discounting the fact that the phone is likely not rooted, and thus not 100% private in the first place.... Discounting the fact that cell data communications are easily traceable from the tower..... You're still using a Tor exit node to connect to a website who knows more about you than you do yourself, and spews out your personal data to the highest bidder 24/7/365?
...relay to be compromised to remove the entire point of using Tor, it's certainly besides the point how high the churn rate or how low the chances are, isn't it?
...Congress has passed legislation to protect buggy whip manufacturers from the likes of Ford and Chrysler.
There's also laws in France which prohibit deep discounts on books, so while you do get a million bookstores per square mile, they all essentially have the same inflated prices (no more than 5% discount). This is protectionism to the extreme. I don't really think this will work long term.
...in a mitten-shaped flyover state, I think part of the problem might be that these businesses don't realize that most of the US doesn't look like LA, San Fran, or New York City. Therefore their idea of useful or exciting really isn't to someone living in Herpaderp Iowa, population 4,354. Maybe if they tooled their services to be a little more useful to people who can't just hop on the subway to the latest gastropub, they'd be a bit more successful.
Even Walmart offers options such as that. This is basically one-hour photo wrapped to look like an Apple store. The overhead will be hilarious, and they will go under inside a year.
...but if I sign up for Alice's network, and ten of my friends are on Bob's network, and another 35 are on Charlie's network... what do we gain by belonging to 3 separate networks?
If the content is all federated (Alice's network pulls contact info from Bob's network, etc), it acts the exact same as Facebook does for the end user.
This to me sounds like an arbitrary barrier to social networking. My friends don't fit easily into social network "buckets", and nearly none of my friends have time to sort and connect to various federated sources of information. They have 15 seconds to check one spot - facebook - for notifications, messages, and status updates. The really hip ones use Twitter.
So really: Sell myself and my friends on this in one sentence. "It's not facebook" is not that sentence - if Google can't make that work, neither will geeks trying to precisely bucket social communication like we were robots instead of messy, finicky humans.
A d3 was essential for my Pathfinder character, an alcoholic gnome "drunken master" sorcerer; the DM tweaked a mechanic to allow all of my spells to be affected by my alcoholism; 1 was 50% less effective, 2 was normal, 3 was 50% more effective. Made for some tense moments (my fireball spell fizzling) or some utterly awesome moments (my fireball spell shattering the wooden bow of an Orc ship, saving the town and drowning about 50 enemies).
This is brilliant; allow people to preen over themselves by getting them to pay a fiver to let "more" people see their posts.
It's like printing money.
I doubt it will affect regular users of facebook much; I assume the kinds of people that would pay money to let their posts be seen more would be blocked already from most people's feeds....
>Sure, the iPad is really nice and has its advantages, but don't assume that it's more capable or a better value. Personally, I'd prefer to have two Chromebooks sitting around my house than a single iPad.
Sure, but i'm betting that more people are like my wife, who basically abandoned their shiny fancy Macbook, for first an iPod touch, and then a rooted Nook Color tablet, because it's couch friendly. Using a mouse on a sofa cushion sucks.
Slashdot Mirror
There's currently a measle outbreak in a dozen states because so many idiots think vaccines will kill their child.
Once again, the Russians are running circles around us.
(and hello to all the Brave Comrades reading Slashdot here! I hope you get an extra ration of vodka today.)
Is there evidence to this? As an edible consumer myself, I wonder if I'm hammering my liver by eating rather than smoking.
I wish there were more studies done on this.
Since entering the Presidential race in July 2015, Twitter or Tweets have been international front page news, all day, every day, 24/7/365. The Great Orange Shitgibbon has given them unlimited free press, and hundreds of millions of people are forced to use their damn service just to see what Mister Marmalade has declared war on next.
Not really a mystery.
...was because the USB port finally gave out. I now have a Samsung Galaxy S8 Active. It's boring, it looks like a grey rectangle, but I can go swimming with it if I want to. Assuming the stupid built-in battery doesn't die out exactly when my two years are up, I'm gonna keep this around for a long time. All I use my phone for is some photography social media and web usage. I don't need a super duper phone.
3 or so years ago it was a running joke that Russian "infiltrators" were running around Slashdot, with obvious bias, trying to steer conversations around in the comments section. Suddenly, in 2018, that joke is seen is absurd, not happening, never ever, not on THIS website, and how dare you for suggesting!
One wonders if they actually won the Slashdot "battle" when no one was noticing.
Hail, Comrade. How is St. Petersburg this time of year?
Studies have shown that traffic simply fills up the wider roads over time. So expanding a highway from 2 lanes to 6 lanes eventually ends up with the same congestion problem, as people drive irrationally (moving over multiple lanes to get to an exit, slamming on brakes, etc), and they also see the expanded highway as the "faster" route to take even if it isn't.
We need automated cars widely adopted to solve most traffic problems.
And your house will always go up in value, exponentially, forever. It will never lose value.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. History of Bell Labs from the founding to around the 80s.
"Hey, it works on my machine"
"This doesn't even really need testing."
"Users will never use it that way."
it was a Packard Bell 486 DX2 with 4 MB ram. My parents bought it because they thought it would be "good" for me. My uncle came over with a baseball card cardboard box's worth of pirated 3.5 disks. One of them was Doom.
I remember installing doom and then having to have a "boot disk" to give me enough RAM to run the thing. Glorious, pixelated violence meant i was the coolest nerd on the block for years. So many imps died. So many friends looking over my shoulder and taking turns as we cleared Phobos of hell's minions.
Doom taught me a lot. Configuration. Boot disks. Zip files. Ms-DOS commands. Piracy. Modding. The internet (happypupy and bluesnews led me straight to some sort of Doom .wad depository, wherein I could download custom mods of Doom, including an MST3K sound replacement .wad I still insist on using whenever i boot the game up)
My uncle passed away around a dozen years ago, after a futilely stupid battle with type 2 diabetes (stupid as in, not following doctors orders and losing your legs, kidneys, and vision). But i will always remember him as the uncle who brought me Doom.
So let me get this straight. Facebook, a company designed from the ground up to know everything about you and your friends, is offering a small segment of its userbase (paranoid Android users) the ability to connect using Tor.
Discounting the fact that the phone is likely not rooted, and thus not 100% private in the first place.... Discounting the fact that cell data communications are easily traceable from the tower..... You're still using a Tor exit node to connect to a website who knows more about you than you do yourself, and spews out your personal data to the highest bidder 24/7/365?
I just.... i mean...... what?!
..to snap a photo of the menu with their smart phone and upload it to a website every day? Most restaurants around here do that.
...relay to be compromised to remove the entire point of using Tor, it's certainly besides the point how high the churn rate or how low the chances are, isn't it?
...Congress has passed legislation to protect buggy whip manufacturers from the likes of Ford and Chrysler.
There's also laws in France which prohibit deep discounts on books, so while you do get a million bookstores per square mile, they all essentially have the same inflated prices (no more than 5% discount). This is protectionism to the extreme. I don't really think this will work long term.
But... I just brewed 5 gallons of hooch mead inside of a month. Drinking 3 glasses of the stuff is better than Nyquil, and way tastier.
Alcohol production is stupid easy. Sugars + yeast + sanitized brewing vessel + time = get 'er drunk.
My finger slipped. Instead of clicking on the "premium ad experience" I accidentally uninstalled Instagram from my phone.
Damn those fat fingers.
...in a mitten-shaped flyover state, I think part of the problem might be that these businesses don't realize that most of the US doesn't look like LA, San Fran, or New York City. Therefore their idea of useful or exciting really isn't to someone living in Herpaderp Iowa, population 4,354. Maybe if they tooled their services to be a little more useful to people who can't just hop on the subway to the latest gastropub, they'd be a bit more successful.
For once I should have read the article. Pricing tiers. Still 50GB is a lot to give away.
Just wondering. If it's advertising, I don't see it lasting long.
Even Walmart offers options such as that. This is basically one-hour photo wrapped to look like an Apple store. The overhead will be hilarious, and they will go under inside a year.
I need a car analogy about the Library of Congress before i can understand that number.
...but if I sign up for Alice's network, and ten of my friends are on Bob's network, and another 35 are on Charlie's network... what do we gain by belonging to 3 separate networks?
If the content is all federated (Alice's network pulls contact info from Bob's network, etc), it acts the exact same as Facebook does for the end user.
This to me sounds like an arbitrary barrier to social networking. My friends don't fit easily into social network "buckets", and nearly none of my friends have time to sort and connect to various federated sources of information. They have 15 seconds to check one spot - facebook - for notifications, messages, and status updates. The really hip ones use Twitter.
So really: Sell myself and my friends on this in one sentence. "It's not facebook" is not that sentence - if Google can't make that work, neither will geeks trying to precisely bucket social communication like we were robots instead of messy, finicky humans.
A d3 was essential for my Pathfinder character, an alcoholic gnome "drunken master" sorcerer; the DM tweaked a mechanic to allow all of my spells to be affected by my alcoholism; 1 was 50% less effective, 2 was normal, 3 was 50% more effective. Made for some tense moments (my fireball spell fizzling) or some utterly awesome moments (my fireball spell shattering the wooden bow of an Orc ship, saving the town and drowning about 50 enemies).
I miss Pathfinder.
This is brilliant; allow people to preen over themselves by getting them to pay a fiver to let "more" people see their posts.
It's like printing money.
I doubt it will affect regular users of facebook much; I assume the kinds of people that would pay money to let their posts be seen more would be blocked already from most people's feeds....
>Sure, the iPad is really nice and has its advantages, but don't assume that it's more capable or a better value. Personally, I'd prefer to have two Chromebooks sitting around my house than a single iPad.
Sure, but i'm betting that more people are like my wife, who basically abandoned their shiny fancy Macbook, for first an iPod touch, and then a rooted Nook Color tablet, because it's couch friendly. Using a mouse on a sofa cushion sucks.