More importantly, why is there no mention in the summary that this is all a British thing? I was sitting here wondering how I could have never heard of the ICO before (a new Trump office?) before I realized it was just bad aggregation and editing skills on the part of slashdot.
"Satire," as the old showbiz saw goes, "is what closes on Saturday night." And that's been the problem of late with so many of these late-night comedians. As they strive so desperately hard to advance a political POV, they have become less funny. Not sure how long they can maintain their required levels of audience as they provide less laughter and simultaneously turn off the section of their audience which was more right-leaning (may not have been a huge percentage, but there had to be some, and they won't be hanging out much longer). Colbert's audience may have skewed upward after the homosexuality bit, but so does a freakshow's -- briefly -- when it gets a new attraction. Because how many times can you watch the bat-faced boy before the novelty wears off?
These outfits pretend they are some kind of common carrier until they realize there is more money being content creators (and competing with their customers) until they realize there is more money in selling and analyzing users' data until they realize such intimate knowledge of their users' data makes them liable for distribution of terrorist materials and then they pretend to be some kind of common carrier again...
Saying that Hillary won the election because she had the most popular votes is like saying a team won a football game because it gained the most offensive yards (without scoring the most points). Contests have rules, and you can't change these when the contest is over because you lost. You say "Hillary really won!" I say "Trump would have won the Popular Vote by campaigning differently, if he knew that is what was needed to win." Nobody, Left or Right, disagrees that Hillary ran a terrible campaign and that her managers should never work again. Democrats need to focus on fixing their organization if they plan on bouncing back.
It is not the "only" important language, no, of course not. French is important, as is German and Russian. You can make cases or Arabic and Spanish, as well. English is, however, the *most* important language.
Because there just aren't enough Microsoft stories anymore, and if slashdot commenters go 24 hours without squee'ing "M$" or "Faux News" somewhere, they feel they have written nothing clever all day. The slashdot editors are concerned about their readers' self-esteem and are happy to oblige them.
...this means the headlines and summaries of many of the Slashdot articles will be understandable after just one reading again. Sounds great, I can't wait...
There is no rhyme nor reason to the headline, presumably just cut and pasted from the original article (likely on a site where the "we" made sense). The first sense after the headline is incomprehensible. Forget the fact the whole thing has nothing to do with the theme of the site. Everyday, it's a drip-drip-drip into complete irrelevance, like a slow-motion train wreck...
Netflix and Amazon series writers are all the same union as the broadcast nets. So it's more likely the new kids would look to license (more) archive material from the older networks, as the oldsters have a much deeper inventory. If recent Netflix and Amazon original shows make their way to the broadcasters more rapidly, the value of Netflix and Amazon original content to the consumer diminishes greatly.
...which would almost make sense if the shows they were going to write next week were scheduled to air this summer, but that is not the timeframe. The writers are smart: they are timing their strike to have the most impact on what the industry knows as the "up fronts," in which networks show off and promote their pending line-up of shows to advertisers. "Now, here's a show we think is going to be HUGE, about a vampire cowboy and his lesbian hacker sister, based on the indie graphic novel... we think it makes sense to charge top-dollar for the ad time..." They can't do that if the writers strike, as they will have nothing to show and/or there will be uncertainty amidst the ad-dollar-spending community over whether a TV ad buy makes as much sense as a placement in some other medium.
Sorry, Bud, nobody uses "cracker" to mean anything other than White Southern Racist or salty wafer anymore. The media and pop culture decided they liked the word "hacker" to mean bad guy who breaks into computer systems, and ran with it, and that's all she wrote. I'm truly sorry for your loss, but that's the way language lives, breathes and evolves.
>>Before you were born
Before I was born the only hacking or cracking that was done was on punch cards, but bless you, that made my day...!
>>before you say he believes "hacker" means simply "programmer", I suggest you consult his own writing on the subject
No. That's the whole point. The meaning of "hacker" has changed (meanings of words *do* that). When Raymond revised Steele's Hacker's Dictionary in 1991, "hacker" meant "computer programming enthusiast." Now it means "someone who gains unauthorized entry into a computer system." We can, like Raymond, wish we still lived in the fresh and exciting Mondo 2000 world of the mid-90s, but that -- and any amount of articles he writes mis-using words in their titles -- won't make it so.
>>He does indeed regard himself as a hacker
And I regard myself as one sexy man-beast. Rrrrrrooowwwwwrrr You see how that works...?
Eric Ass Raymond believes that "hacker" means "programmer," that the plural of "virus" is "virii" and that "Information Wants To Be Free." He has become the cringe-worthy grand-uncle at the Thanksgiving table who insists upon telling stories about when he attended Woodstock and why today's musicians all suck compared to Hendrix, whom he met once outside the Fillmore...
Patrick's club looks like a pretty slick operation.. Guess with the beasts no longer on the Endangered Species List he'll prolly sell a lot less Manatee Merch. Sounds like this may be a devastating blow to his income as well... Wait, you don't suppose that's why he's so upset, do you...? Nah, couldn't be...
[1] Is it to punish Bad Guys, said punishment being a deterrent to keep all those not-quite Bad Guys from taking the plunge?
[2] Is it to protect the populace, keeping Bad Guys off the streets?
[3] Or is it to rehabilitate Bad Guys, transform them into Good Guys?
If it's [1] or [2], ditch the iPads and stack 'em up like cordwood. If it's [3], give 'em all iPads and teach 'em web design (the modern equivalent of making license plates), but don't call it 'prison,' because words mean something. It seems to me the justice system blurs all these distinctions into a muddy and costly mess.
The meaning of "virtue signalling" has never been unclear, except perhaps to those who engage in it and realized too late how accurately it described them.
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At this stage, you, me, and Editor David are about the only people who HAVEN'T given a TED talk, and mine's booked for late October...
She is Neil Gaiman's wife, and when you realize that it puts the whole rest of it in a new, proper context.
You say that like it's a Bad Thing...
More importantly, why is there no mention in the summary that this is all a British thing? I was sitting here wondering how I could have never heard of the ICO before (a new Trump office?) before I realized it was just bad aggregation and editing skills on the part of slashdot.
You can only take it.
How embarrassing must it be to use some tired, worn, trite internet computer forum $cliche and then spell it wrong on top of everything else?
"Satire," as the old showbiz saw goes, "is what closes on Saturday night." And that's been the problem of late with so many of these late-night comedians. As they strive so desperately hard to advance a political POV, they have become less funny. Not sure how long they can maintain their required levels of audience as they provide less laughter and simultaneously turn off the section of their audience which was more right-leaning (may not have been a huge percentage, but there had to be some, and they won't be hanging out much longer). Colbert's audience may have skewed upward after the homosexuality bit, but so does a freakshow's -- briefly -- when it gets a new attraction. Because how many times can you watch the bat-faced boy before the novelty wears off?
These outfits pretend they are some kind of common carrier until they realize there is more money being content creators (and competing with their customers) until they realize there is more money in selling and analyzing users' data until they realize such intimate knowledge of their users' data makes them liable for distribution of terrorist materials and then they pretend to be some kind of common carrier again...
Saying that Hillary won the election because she had the most popular votes is like saying a team won a football game because it gained the most offensive yards (without scoring the most points). Contests have rules, and you can't change these when the contest is over because you lost. You say "Hillary really won!" I say "Trump would have won the Popular Vote by campaigning differently, if he knew that is what was needed to win." Nobody, Left or Right, disagrees that Hillary ran a terrible campaign and that her managers should never work again. Democrats need to focus on fixing their organization if they plan on bouncing back.
This is demonstrable. Juncker's opinion is only an opinion, and a petulant one at that.
It is not the "only" important language, no, of course not. French is important, as is German and Russian. You can make cases or Arabic and Spanish, as well. English is, however, the *most* important language.
My respect for Bezos continues to grow.
Because there just aren't enough Microsoft stories anymore, and if slashdot commenters go 24 hours without squee'ing "M$" or "Faux News" somewhere, they feel they have written nothing clever all day. The slashdot editors are concerned about their readers' self-esteem and are happy to oblige them.
...this means the headlines and summaries of many of the Slashdot articles will be understandable after just one reading again. Sounds great, I can't wait...
There is no rhyme nor reason to the headline, presumably just cut and pasted from the original article (likely on a site where the "we" made sense). The first sense after the headline is incomprehensible. Forget the fact the whole thing has nothing to do with the theme of the site. Everyday, it's a drip-drip-drip into complete irrelevance, like a slow-motion train wreck...
Define "Common Carrier" as (you seem to believe) it applies to Twitter.
Netflix and Amazon series writers are all the same union as the broadcast nets. So it's more likely the new kids would look to license (more) archive material from the older networks, as the oldsters have a much deeper inventory. If recent Netflix and Amazon original shows make their way to the broadcasters more rapidly, the value of Netflix and Amazon original content to the consumer diminishes greatly.
...which would almost make sense if the shows they were going to write next week were scheduled to air this summer, but that is not the timeframe. The writers are smart: they are timing their strike to have the most impact on what the industry knows as the "up fronts," in which networks show off and promote their pending line-up of shows to advertisers. "Now, here's a show we think is going to be HUGE, about a vampire cowboy and his lesbian hacker sister, based on the indie graphic novel... we think it makes sense to charge top-dollar for the ad time..." They can't do that if the writers strike, as they will have nothing to show and/or there will be uncertainty amidst the ad-dollar-spending community over whether a TV ad buy makes as much sense as a placement in some other medium.
Sorry, Bud, nobody uses "cracker" to mean anything other than White Southern Racist or salty wafer anymore. The media and pop culture decided they liked the word "hacker" to mean bad guy who breaks into computer systems, and ran with it, and that's all she wrote. I'm truly sorry for your loss, but that's the way language lives, breathes and evolves.
>>Before you were born
Before I was born the only hacking or cracking that was done was on punch cards, but bless you, that made my day...!
>>before you say he believes "hacker" means simply "programmer", I suggest you consult his own writing on the subject
No. That's the whole point. The meaning of "hacker" has changed (meanings of words *do* that). When Raymond revised Steele's Hacker's Dictionary in 1991, "hacker" meant "computer programming enthusiast." Now it means "someone who gains unauthorized entry into a computer system." We can, like Raymond, wish we still lived in the fresh and exciting Mondo 2000 world of the mid-90s, but that -- and any amount of articles he writes mis-using words in their titles -- won't make it so.
>>He does indeed regard himself as a hacker
And I regard myself as one sexy man-beast. Rrrrrrooowwwwwrrr You see how that works...?
Eric Ass Raymond believes that "hacker" means "programmer," that the plural of "virus" is "virii" and that "Information Wants To Be Free." He has become the cringe-worthy grand-uncle at the Thanksgiving table who insists upon telling stories about when he attended Woodstock and why today's musicians all suck compared to Hendrix, whom he met once outside the Fillmore...
Patrick's club looks like a pretty slick operation.. Guess with the beasts no longer on the Endangered Species List he'll prolly sell a lot less Manatee Merch. Sounds like this may be a devastating blow to his income as well... Wait, you don't suppose that's why he's so upset, do you...? Nah, couldn't be...
[1] Is it to punish Bad Guys, said punishment being a deterrent to keep all those not-quite Bad Guys from taking the plunge?
[2] Is it to protect the populace, keeping Bad Guys off the streets?
[3] Or is it to rehabilitate Bad Guys, transform them into Good Guys?
If it's [1] or [2], ditch the iPads and stack 'em up like cordwood. If it's [3], give 'em all iPads and teach 'em web design (the modern equivalent of making license plates), but don't call it 'prison,' because words mean something. It seems to me the justice system blurs all these distinctions into a muddy and costly mess.
The meaning of "virtue signalling" has never been unclear, except perhaps to those who engage in it and realized too late how accurately it described them.
I never mod AC's up, and I have no mod points today, but if I did and if I had some, I would mod this up. +5 Insightful.