The OS space has really dwindled to just Unix based OS's and Windows of late. You have QNX still in the embedded space and Contiki and FreeRTOS [...]
I don't know what the current breakdown is, but 10 years ago, most houses contained more devices that run ITRON than run any other OS. If you had a digital camera, a smart electricity meter, an aircon, a TV, a DVD player, a microwave oven... chances are it ran ITRON.
$4.00 for a nutritionally complete meal and you're bitching about the price?
It seems highly implausible that there is a single blend of ingredients that is "nutritionally complete" for all humans. Different people have different genes, different gut flora, different lifestyles, and live in different environments.
I would argue that the one cause of the correlation is that different socio-economic groups commit different types of crime. So-called "white collar" criminals aren't arrested or convicted at anywhere near the rate that "blue collar" criminals are. Similarly, possessing powder cocaine doesn't attract anywhere near the same sentence as possessing crack cocaine does (weighted appropriately).
I remember when "NWO Agent" (or words to that effect) was an accusation made by the anti-globalisation movement. If there was ever any doubt that left-wing crazy and right-wing crazy are two sides of the same coin, here's your evidence.
None of the "new right" as you put it censors the left but Milo himself has been kicked off of Twitter (even though Leslie Jones incited her followers to attack someone in the same thread: https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/s...), had his event shut down at DePaul where he was threatened by Black Lives Matter, and nearly had other events shut down at other colleges, including UCLA.
Oh, you bet it happens. But according to the loonier parts of the "new right", whenever someone on the left has an event shut down it's a "false flag" operation or some such bullshit. For some reason it's easier to believe a grand unprovable conspiracy theory than admit that each side has its fair share of crazy people.
Regressive practices like censorship and threats may appear to impose a solution but they really just bully other points of view into silence, which breeds contempt and leads to the rise of the more radical elements, like Trump and Milo.
Trump and Milo more than take up the slack with threatening and dog-whistle threat incitement (respectively) on their side of the debate. (Also, kudos for recognising that Trump and Milo have a hell of a lot in common.)
Having said that, I agree with the general thrust here. A pox on both their houses.
Oh, there are plenty of Gen-Y/milennials who are intelligent and can think for themselves. They just don't hang around places like Breitbart, HuffPo, or (increasingly) Slashdot.
Basically, any troll posts should be allowed, but should be very hard for people to find. Twitter is failing to do something which Slashdot has succeeded in doing for years.
Not really, most of the Slashdot old guard has abandoned moderation and the trolls have taken over duties.
The best way to view Slashdot today would be to make invisible anything which has an equal number of +1 and -1 votes. If one troll faction hates it and the other troll faction loves it, it's probably not worth reading.
Bah, I rather suspect you hate him because he's an outspoken conservative.
I am not the person you responded to, but I hate him because he is emblematic of what conservatism has become, to many people. Before you ask: No, it's not just conservatism. Jill Stein has been pissing me off all month in a completely different way.
I remember when every Slashdot commenter knew that "liberal" and "libertarian" were both kinds of "progressive". We were all united in the cause of human progress, and we all agreed on what the underlying problems were, even if we had ideas about how to fix them.
Post-Cold War, post-9/11, the polarised political machine has convinced us all that the enemy is the people living right next to us. Whether it's the new misogynist on the right or the anti-science hippie on the left, an intense hatred of progress has gripped large parts of the English-speaking world, and Milo represents this self-loathing in its most insanely stupid form. He's far from alone in this, but he is the one we're discussing in this thread.
That's a balkanizing tribalistic, self segregating point of view, [...]
You're new around here, aren't you? When it's Nerds vs The World, Slashdot is all for tribalism and self-segregation.
Of course, nowadays it's Rednecks vs Everyone Else or SJWs vs Everyone Else depending on your particular brand of crazy. But I fondly remember the old days.
This has been coming for a long time. After the end of the Cold War, without a common enemy, we decided to turn on ourselves instead. The new civil rights movement is anti-GMO, anti-vaccine, anti-technology. The new McCarthyism is "SJWs under the bed".
If you read the post carefully, it states that "a local Fox news affiliate [...] later broadcast a commentary saying his family was obsessed with fame and plotted the arrest". If unsubstantiated commentary from a local Fox News affiliate now counts as evidence, Deity help us all.
It's a mix of facts and narrative. The "He took a [clock] out of its casing and took it to school" part is a fact. The "at the suggestion of his father, hoping to start a racial incident" is a narrative.
Or just ponder how easy it is to get everyone elses attention if your skin has a bit of melanin in it, hmmmm?
Indeed. I don't know why people with more melanin tend to attract the attention of the police and other unthinking authority figures more than people with less melanin. Perhaps we should all ponder on this.
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By "deal with it", I assume you mean "try to work out what it does and then rewrite it because it performs terribly on the next generation platform".
Getting around math is not like getting around a law. That's the short answer to that point.
When security is breached, it's almost never the mathematics that was broken.
Maybe more than actual users.
Obligatory.
Yeah, what's with all the Silicon Valley stories? Slashdot has a bias. A bias, I tell you.
The OS space has really dwindled to just Unix based OS's and Windows of late. You have QNX still in the embedded space and Contiki and FreeRTOS [...]
I don't know what the current breakdown is, but 10 years ago, most houses contained more devices that run ITRON than run any other OS. If you had a digital camera, a smart electricity meter, an aircon, a TV, a DVD player, a microwave oven... chances are it ran ITRON.
He's focused on shit that can actually have an impact like sanitation
I see what you did there.
$4.00 for a nutritionally complete meal and you're bitching about the price?
It seems highly implausible that there is a single blend of ingredients that is "nutritionally complete" for all humans. Different people have different genes, different gut flora, different lifestyles, and live in different environments.
Does it filter DHMO? I hear there are dangerously high levels of that in the water supply.
I would argue that the one cause of the correlation is that different socio-economic groups commit different types of crime. So-called "white collar" criminals aren't arrested or convicted at anywhere near the rate that "blue collar" criminals are. Similarly, possessing powder cocaine doesn't attract anywhere near the same sentence as possessing crack cocaine does (weighted appropriately).
I remember when "NWO Agent" (or words to that effect) was an accusation made by the anti-globalisation movement. If there was ever any doubt that left-wing crazy and right-wing crazy are two sides of the same coin, here's your evidence.
*whoosh*
None of the "new right" as you put it censors the left but Milo himself has been kicked off of Twitter (even though Leslie Jones incited her followers to attack someone in the same thread: https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/s...), had his event shut down at DePaul where he was threatened by Black Lives Matter, and nearly had other events shut down at other colleges, including UCLA.
Oh, you bet it happens. But according to the loonier parts of the "new right", whenever someone on the left has an event shut down it's a "false flag" operation or some such bullshit. For some reason it's easier to believe a grand unprovable conspiracy theory than admit that each side has its fair share of crazy people.
Regressive practices like censorship and threats may appear to impose a solution but they really just bully other points of view into silence, which breeds contempt and leads to the rise of the more radical elements, like Trump and Milo.
Trump and Milo more than take up the slack with threatening and dog-whistle threat incitement (respectively) on their side of the debate. (Also, kudos for recognising that Trump and Milo have a hell of a lot in common.)
Having said that, I agree with the general thrust here. A pox on both their houses.
If you believe Adam Curtis, it goes back at least to Leo Strauss.
So...yer just pissed at everyone.
Oh, there are plenty of Gen-Y/milennials who are intelligent and can think for themselves. They just don't hang around places like Breitbart, HuffPo, or (increasingly) Slashdot.
If I could +1 Insightful, I would. But I can't, so I'll just "Like".
Basically, any troll posts should be allowed, but should be very hard for people to find. Twitter is failing to do something which Slashdot has succeeded in doing for years.
Not really, most of the Slashdot old guard has abandoned moderation and the trolls have taken over duties.
The best way to view Slashdot today would be to make invisible anything which has an equal number of +1 and -1 votes. If one troll faction hates it and the other troll faction loves it, it's probably not worth reading.
Bah, I rather suspect you hate him because he's an outspoken conservative.
I am not the person you responded to, but I hate him because he is emblematic of what conservatism has become, to many people. Before you ask: No, it's not just conservatism. Jill Stein has been pissing me off all month in a completely different way.
I remember when every Slashdot commenter knew that "liberal" and "libertarian" were both kinds of "progressive". We were all united in the cause of human progress, and we all agreed on what the underlying problems were, even if we had ideas about how to fix them.
Post-Cold War, post-9/11, the polarised political machine has convinced us all that the enemy is the people living right next to us. Whether it's the new misogynist on the right or the anti-science hippie on the left, an intense hatred of progress has gripped large parts of the English-speaking world, and Milo represents this self-loathing in its most insanely stupid form. He's far from alone in this, but he is the one we're discussing in this thread.
Say what you want, he's good at this game. He knows how to play people.
He is damn good at it, but I wonder how long he can keep it up before the schtick gets old.
Still, every time he uses the term "professional victim" to refer to someone else, I chuckle to myself. They're all amateurs compared to him.
That's a balkanizing tribalistic, self segregating point of view, [...]
You're new around here, aren't you? When it's Nerds vs The World, Slashdot is all for tribalism and self-segregation.
Of course, nowadays it's Rednecks vs Everyone Else or SJWs vs Everyone Else depending on your particular brand of crazy. But I fondly remember the old days.
This has been coming for a long time. After the end of the Cold War, without a common enemy, we decided to turn on ourselves instead. The new civil rights movement is anti-GMO, anti-vaccine, anti-technology. The new McCarthyism is "SJWs under the bed".
If it's any consolation, it can't last.
His sister was suspended earlier because another student accused her of making a bomb threat. Do you have a reliable source for that being a "stunt"?
I'm pretty sure this is the leaked plot of the next Tomb Raider game.
If you read the post carefully, it states that "a local Fox news affiliate [...] later broadcast a commentary saying his family was obsessed with fame and plotted the arrest". If unsubstantiated commentary from a local Fox News affiliate now counts as evidence, Deity help us all.
It's a mix of facts and narrative. The "He took a [clock] out of its casing and took it to school" part is a fact. The "at the suggestion of his father, hoping to start a racial incident" is a narrative.
Or just ponder how easy it is to get everyone elses attention if your skin has a bit of melanin in it, hmmmm?
Indeed. I don't know why people with more melanin tend to attract the attention of the police and other unthinking authority figures more than people with less melanin. Perhaps we should all ponder on this.