The real dirt is that the CIA did everything regarding "hacking the elections" that they then blamed on the Russians, to support their would-be sugar mama. That's an attempted coup d'eta. We're at the "means, motive, and opportunity" stage - next up are investigations, prosecutions, and probably, knowing Trump's impetuousness, hangings.
Yes the CIA is clearly part of the left wing conspiracy to destroy America.
Couldn't agree more. Notebooks are always a proprietary mess, and just because someone could install linux on one doesn't mean the experience would be a positive one. I actually have an XPS-13 running Windows 10 and still think it would be a nightmare trying to switch to Ubuntu as the main OS. I do, however, run Debian inside a VM. I have started to view Windows as the "cloud OS of uncertainty", while Linux/BSD derivatives are deterministic little walled gardens to be run only virtually.
Thereby achieving the perfect combination of the rock solid stability of Windows with the wide range of legacy software and games on Linux. Hang on...
"I've been a tech journalist on and off for 21 years and I can't remember any company having a worse month news cycle-wise than Uber is now."
Funny how the tech journalist forgot about Enron and later a few dozen companies that some very bad press around 2008. Exxon, Union Carbide and so on had their bad press a bit more than 21 years back, I suppose, and TEPCO (Fukishima) are in Japan.
I think that as he specified he was a tech journalist, he was referring to tech companies only.
A year or so ago Uber had lots of positive press on Slashdot. This sort of cycle is pretty common, and doesn't #require# a conspiracy theory.
A year ago, the actual stories about Uber were generally neutral (if rather too frequent) but the comments were generally something like 80-90% in favour of Uber. Slashdot Inc obviously realised this was a popular topic. It's just that Uber themselves are a shitty company, and slashdot can't legitimately hide all the stories about the shitty things they do any more.
Well great. Your anecdotal experience proves we should just shut down Uber and go back to that system.
It makes a change from the normal AC posts about how every taxi they've ever taken has resulted in them being raped at knifepoint and robbed of thousands of dollars in cash, plus the seats weren't very clean and the driver looked like a terrorist.
Not that I'm a fan of uber and friends, but I wasn't aware that they were under any obligation to provide service for everyone, despite it not being in their interest to do so. This sounds like a case of calling the Whaaaambulance.
If someone set up a shop and barred any law enforcement officers from entering, I imagine the effect would be approximately the same as putting up a big "we are are breaking the law" sign on the door.
It doesn't matter what claims a private entrepreneur makes or whether his claims are truthful or accurate. The government is enforcing its claim through the power of the state, making alternatives impossible, whereas a private entrepreneur cannot.
Part of the power of the state is to protect ordinary people against rich private entrepreneurs.
Private entrepreneurs could of course create monopolies if there were no government to prevent them (by enforcing laws against monopolies, extortion, murder and all the rest of the annoying anti-libertarian things that governments do).
the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission operates its own police force to prevent entrepreneurs from competing with medallion cabs. It has been
known to arrest people who drop off their spouses at JFK or LaGuardia, accusing them of operating a taxi service
. Without an aggressive company the monopoly of taxis in so many cities would never have been broken.
what monopoly? In most cities there are at least 4-5 taxi companies.
If Uber wins, however, then you will see what it is to have a monopoly.
The party line on slashdot is that ALL the taxis in the whole WORLD are put of some giant cartel/conspiracy, in cahoots with EVIL government of course and probs the usual lizard-people-ZOG-Illuminati.
It is not up to her to file a suit about anything. If Uber want to sue her for libel, then she gets the chance to defend herself in court on the basis that what she says is true.
It's Uber who have to prove she has libelled them, not she who has to prove anything.
(The article didn't say, "about a year". It said "a year".)
At what point does "X months" shift from "about a year" to "not about a year?
If you start with a pile of sand and take away one grain at a time, at what point does it shift from being a pile of sand to being a few loose grains of sand?
Also, grasshopper, what is the sound of one hand clapping?
Where are today's U2, Metallica, Pearl Jam and other great bands?
You appear to have forgotten to include examples of some great bands and accidentally copied "U2, Metallica, Pearl Jam" from an article about rubbish dinosaurs.
Slashdot Mirror
If, as the summary quoted, "Time crystals,... are structures that oscillate without any external energy supplied", how did they come to be?
If you read the linked news item in Nature, you'll see that the summary is incorrect - energy is being added to the system, repeatedly.
My faith in slashdot has been severely shaken by the news that the summary and editing of this story is not 100% accurate.
It kind of makes you wonder why there's a microphone in your TV at all, though.
Voice control presumably.
The real dirt is that the CIA did everything regarding "hacking the elections" that they then blamed on the Russians, to support their would-be sugar mama. That's an attempted coup d'eta. We're at the "means, motive, and opportunity" stage - next up are investigations, prosecutions, and probably, knowing Trump's impetuousness, hangings.
Yes the CIA is clearly part of the left wing conspiracy to destroy America.
Couldn't agree more. Notebooks are always a proprietary mess, and just because someone could install linux on one doesn't mean the experience would be a positive one. I actually have an XPS-13 running Windows 10 and still think it would be a nightmare trying to switch to Ubuntu as the main OS. I do, however, run Debian inside a VM. I have started to view Windows as the "cloud OS of uncertainty", while Linux/BSD derivatives are deterministic little walled gardens to be run only virtually.
Thereby achieving the perfect combination of the rock solid stability of Windows with the wide range of legacy software and games on Linux. Hang on...
As a storm was due, Uber's surge pricing would probably have meant he could have bought a new car for the same price.
After interviewing with them recently, now I'm kinda glad that Uber didn't extend an offer to me
No, no, that sounds like a job interview, and we all know that Uber isn't an employer. Shame on you for falling for the taxi-government cartel's lies.
Funny how the tech journalist forgot about Enron and later a few dozen companies that some very bad press around 2008. Exxon, Union Carbide and so on had their bad press a bit more than 21 years back, I suppose, and TEPCO (Fukishima) are in Japan.
I think that as he specified he was a tech journalist, he was referring to tech companies only.
Before anyone jumps in, I know they're not publicly traded.
Did you know they're not publicly traded?
A year or so ago Uber had lots of positive press on Slashdot. This sort of cycle is pretty common, and doesn't #require# a conspiracy theory.
A year ago, the actual stories about Uber were generally neutral (if rather too frequent) but the comments were generally something like 80-90% in favour of Uber. Slashdot Inc obviously realised this was a popular topic. It's just that Uber themselves are a shitty company, and slashdot can't legitimately hide all the stories about the shitty things they do any more.
It would benefit a potential suitor.
Yes, it might reduce the value of Uber down from $66 billion to something slightly more realistic like zero.
Well great. Your anecdotal experience proves we should just shut down Uber and go back to that system.
It makes a change from the normal AC posts about how every taxi they've ever taken has resulted in them being raped at knifepoint and robbed of thousands of dollars in cash, plus the seats weren't very clean and the driver looked like a terrorist.
Uber is cheaper than public transportation in many cases
Then you have a ridiculously expensive public transportation system.
I am quite certain that we're keeping tens of thousands of drunk drivers from driving on the roads each year
Think of all those innocent childrens' lives you're sparing by preventing them being run over by a drunk driver at 2am!
Uber should get the Nobel Peace Prize. Or something.
Not that I'm a fan of uber and friends, but I wasn't aware that they were under any obligation to provide service for everyone, despite it not being in their interest to do so. This sounds like a case of calling the Whaaaambulance.
If someone set up a shop and barred any law enforcement officers from entering, I imagine the effect would be approximately the same as putting up a big "we are are breaking the law" sign on the door.
Slashdot goes through these phases. I remember when it was Apple, then Tesla.
Maybe the mods at /. are running some sort of stock "pump and dump" or "bash and cash" scheme in the background?
That would suggest a hard, ruthless master intelligence behind the scenes at slashdot. This seems somewhat unlikely.
It doesn't matter what claims a private entrepreneur makes or whether his claims are truthful or accurate. The government is enforcing its claim through the power of the state, making alternatives impossible, whereas a private entrepreneur cannot.
Part of the power of the state is to protect ordinary people against rich private entrepreneurs.
Private entrepreneurs could of course create monopolies if there were no government to prevent them (by enforcing laws against monopolies, extortion, murder and all the rest of the annoying anti-libertarian things that governments do).
the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission operates its own police force to prevent entrepreneurs from competing with medallion cabs. It has been known to arrest people who drop off their spouses at JFK or LaGuardia, accusing them of operating a taxi service
Private police forces can't arrest people surely?
Or is the US really that odd?
. Without an aggressive company the monopoly of taxis in so many cities would never have been broken.
what monopoly? In most cities there are at least 4-5 taxi companies. If Uber wins, however, then you will see what it is to have a monopoly.
The party line on slashdot is that ALL the taxis in the whole WORLD are put of some giant cartel/conspiracy, in cahoots with EVIL government of course and probs the usual lizard-people-ZOG-Illuminati.
It's Uber who have to prove she has libelled them, not she who has to prove anything.
what if she's a lying sack of shit and none of the stories she tells were true?
Then anyone who publishes her claims will be sued for large amounts of money by Uber, I assume.
This has nothing to do with significant digits.
Anyway... 11 months is 0.91667 years, and that's a hell of a lot closer to 0.9315 years than it is to 1.0 years.
Tut tut, you've got four different significant digits in each of your four numbers. How can you live with yourself?
(The article didn't say, "about a year". It said "a year".)
At what point does "X months" shift from "about a year" to "not about a year?
If you start with a pile of sand and take away one grain at a time, at what point does it shift from being a pile of sand to being a few loose grains of sand?
Also, grasshopper, what is the sound of one hand clapping?
You can have a trillion dollars in revenue, but if you're still making a loss your company is worthless.
But different rules seem to apply to Tech stocks.
Over here in the UK, we had the mighty, the master, the supreme genius of John Peel.
Don't you still have Tim Westwood?
For those unaware of the glory that is Westwood, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
"In interviews, Sacha Baron Cohen has stated that Westwood, including his accent, was an inspiration for his fictional Ali G character."
Where are today's U2, Metallica, Pearl Jam and other great bands?
You appear to have forgotten to include examples of some great bands and accidentally copied "U2, Metallica, Pearl Jam" from an article about rubbish dinosaurs.
I dislike country a lot, so me saying that such a such a country artist is terrible is not likely to hold much weight with potential listeners.
Saying that a country artist is terrible is a bit like saying that a rap artist is black. Not universally true, but fairly close to a safe bet.