I mainly use Reddit for discussions about games I'm playing, getting help in the comments etc. It's a bit like Slashdot that way - it's not the article that's interesting, it's the comments.
I like the ability to browse the net while sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office which I unfortunately tend to do a lot.
The AR emojis, from what I could gather, appear to be some kind of motion-capture that mimics your facial expression on a smiley. Or something like that.
The best hack the aliens could possibly do is give us plans that LOOK like they'll create something we really want, like an interstellar warp drive, infinite clean energy or the like, but once turned on it actually blows up the planet.
I can imagine the equivalent of drunk frat boys doing that for the lulz.
Maybe because when people get a new phone, most of their standard apps (like Facebook, Snapchat etc.) come pre-loaded, and they already know which ones they need to go and get, so that gets done on day one.
And then... well, how many programs do you download for your computer in a month once you have everything you need installed? Phones are no different in that regard.
You know that scene in I, Robot where Sonny is being asked if a robot can paint a masterpiece or compose a symphony. Do you remember what his reply was to the interrogator?
I am reminded of this short story I read in school. Many of the details escape me now, but we follow an extremely angry young man around town one night, during which he vandalizes stores and homes by throwing rocks through their windows. Always with good reason; the grocer cheats on the weight, that guy is banging his wife's best friend and so on and so forth.
Then as dawn comes he heads home to wait, and sure enough, it's not long before the phone rings.
And as it gets more and more difficult to obtain a movie through legal means, people will pirate more and more as the pirates ONCE AGAIN deliver a superior product.
A century ago it was par for the course that kids on farms helped out wherever and whenever possible. They didn't sit in their rooms listening to music and reading comic books, they were out in the fields or barns doing heavy lifting.
Our part of the world has changed since then. It has grown economically by leaps and bounds. Other countries, other parts of the world however, do not have those same luxuries. They are still trying to play catch-up, and if we keep denying them the very paths we took ourselves to our prosperity, then we are doing things wrong.
THAT SAID, mining is not a profession for a child. Safeties for all involved should, of course, be demanded as much as possible. But if the options for getting dinner for a child is stitching t-shirts in a textile mill or selling their body to sex tourists, and those two are the ONLY two options the child has, which would you prefer? Which is the lesser evil?
Marvel Cinematic Universe like the title says. I'm not even a fan of the movies (they're good movies to watch once with some popcorn, that's about it for me) and yet I figured it out before getting to the second instance of MCU in the summary.
And we all know that every user of Salon.com has the technical know-how to understand what Monero is, what it does to the computer while mining, and why Salon wants to spend YOUR resources while you read celebrity gossip.
Full disclosure, I haven't gone to look, but I imagine the dialog window to look something like, "We can see that you're blocking our ads. That hurts our feelings a whole lot, but if you click the OK button we will run a teeny-tiny program in the background while you read our site that will make everything better."
Okay, there's been a misunderstanding, then. I was replying to a discussion about how pointless the View Image button was because you could just right-click the image in Google's results, then that it wasn't a problem to just open the page it's on and get it from there.
And my point is that the 'refugee' descriptor has been muddied a lot in the last few years, with migrants, immigrants, refugees, anyone-not-natively-from-this-country being a 'refugee' (and 17 years old always, WTF happened 18 years ago to cause this baby boom?!) because of the legal protections that status grants.
The very first step to solving this problem is to clean up the definitions between refugees, migrants, immigrants, opportunists, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
So your argument is that you worked for a much bigger company with a much bigger staff, and therefore Slashdot should be able to do even better?
What?
But surely THIS is the last time a storm will blow down the powerlines and leave millions in the dark!
I mainly use Reddit for discussions about games I'm playing, getting help in the comments etc. It's a bit like Slashdot that way - it's not the article that's interesting, it's the comments.
It's useful for that, at least.
Do kids seriously not draw pictures for their parents to put up under a fridge magnet anymore?
News for NERDS.
"A very popular book about the dangers we face in the future is now being made into a movie."
I like the ability to browse the net while sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office which I unfortunately tend to do a lot.
The AR emojis, from what I could gather, appear to be some kind of motion-capture that mimics your facial expression on a smiley. Or something like that.
The best hack the aliens could possibly do is give us plans that LOOK like they'll create something we really want, like an interstellar warp drive, infinite clean energy or the like, but once turned on it actually blows up the planet.
I can imagine the equivalent of drunk frat boys doing that for the lulz.
Zero apps per month?
Maybe because when people get a new phone, most of their standard apps (like Facebook, Snapchat etc.) come pre-loaded, and they already know which ones they need to go and get, so that gets done on day one.
And then ... well, how many programs do you download for your computer in a month once you have everything you need installed? Phones are no different in that regard.
Indentation and comments.
Stopping for a moment to ask yourself if you NEED to load a 50 MB library for two lines of code.
Trump is going down sooner or later no matter what. Most likely time is in 2020 when he most likely loses his re-election.
Should the NRA then fuel an armed insurrection because DEMOCRACY got rid of Trump?
Same way it installs it, I wager.
You know that scene in I, Robot where Sonny is being asked if a robot can paint a masterpiece or compose a symphony. Do you remember what his reply was to the interrogator?
"Can YOU?"
Your suggestion would lead to the equivalent of blurry Big Foot pictures of maybe-it-was astronomical phenomenon.
Wow you REALLY didn't get the joke.
Odd. It looked at first like there was supposed to be a post here, but now it looks like nothing to me.
Self-driving truck, self-driving backhoe, perfect lines for the ditches, can dig 24/7 ...
I am reminded of this short story I read in school. Many of the details escape me now, but we follow an extremely angry young man around town one night, during which he vandalizes stores and homes by throwing rocks through their windows. Always with good reason; the grocer cheats on the weight, that guy is banging his wife's best friend and so on and so forth.
Then as dawn comes he heads home to wait, and sure enough, it's not long before the phone rings.
"Windows and Blinds, John speaking."
When I was a kid, a garbage truck had two people in it. One guy drove, the other loaded the garbage cans into the truck.
Where I live now, the garbage truck has a driver and an automatic arm that can grab the garbage can to empty it into the truck.
In ten years I imagine the garbage trucks probably drive themselves.
And as it gets more and more difficult to obtain a movie through legal means, people will pirate more and more as the pirates ONCE AGAIN deliver a superior product.
Or, you know. A product.
But why do you have an issue?
A century ago it was par for the course that kids on farms helped out wherever and whenever possible. They didn't sit in their rooms listening to music and reading comic books, they were out in the fields or barns doing heavy lifting.
Our part of the world has changed since then. It has grown economically by leaps and bounds. Other countries, other parts of the world however, do not have those same luxuries. They are still trying to play catch-up, and if we keep denying them the very paths we took ourselves to our prosperity, then we are doing things wrong.
THAT SAID, mining is not a profession for a child. Safeties for all involved should, of course, be demanded as much as possible. But if the options for getting dinner for a child is stitching t-shirts in a textile mill or selling their body to sex tourists, and those two are the ONLY two options the child has, which would you prefer? Which is the lesser evil?
Marvel Cinematic Universe like the title says. I'm not even a fan of the movies (they're good movies to watch once with some popcorn, that's about it for me) and yet I figured it out before getting to the second instance of MCU in the summary.
And we all know that every user of Salon.com has the technical know-how to understand what Monero is, what it does to the computer while mining, and why Salon wants to spend YOUR resources while you read celebrity gossip.
Full disclosure, I haven't gone to look, but I imagine the dialog window to look something like, "We can see that you're blocking our ads. That hurts our feelings a whole lot, but if you click the OK button we will run a teeny-tiny program in the background while you read our site that will make everything better."
I have to wonder how they intend to use illegally obtained information in a court case without getting the case thrown out.
I mean, they installed hacking tools on someone's computer, and then the judge has to trust they didn't plant the evidence?
Okay, there's been a misunderstanding, then. I was replying to a discussion about how pointless the View Image button was because you could just right-click the image in Google's results, then that it wasn't a problem to just open the page it's on and get it from there.
And my point is that the 'refugee' descriptor has been muddied a lot in the last few years, with migrants, immigrants, refugees, anyone-not-natively-from-this-country being a 'refugee' (and 17 years old always, WTF happened 18 years ago to cause this baby boom?!) because of the legal protections that status grants.
The very first step to solving this problem is to clean up the definitions between refugees, migrants, immigrants, opportunists, etc.