No, we don't. We have pilots with training who can take over in an emergency. Landing in the Hudson is probably the most famous case, but plenty of similar less dramatic events have occurred.
You should know better than to make false assertions when we have plenty of evidence countering your assertion that technology will ever be this good. Since the 1960s we have been automating space travel and airlines, and still need pilots and astronauts because when the shit hits the proverbial fan humans are required to intervene. Sometimes to correct problems with the technology, and sometimes to bypass it and fly by hand.
Drones require people to pilot them too, so don't try to go down a bad path.
I don't see this as a problem of litigation, I see it as the only sensible approach to having technology. Nothing, and that is an absolutely nothing, has ever been made by man which has been perfect. We try for "the best we can" but stuff breaks and the unexpected does occur. With an estimated 250,000,000 cars on the road chances are high that something will go wrong pretty damn fast. With motor vehicles already being the number one killer in the US annually, we want human intervention early and often. That means trained drivers behind the wheel.
As stated above, a half a century has not perfected "self driving" anything else. It's much better today than 50plus years ago but not even close to the point where you can fly without a human.
Draws a crowd? Part of the message only. Stories like these generally cover much more than a singular issue like popularity. I see also the article demonizing certain cartels as part of the message. I'm not claiming the drug cartels are good guys by that statement. I'm claiming that the cartel pushing for prohibition of certain narcotics creates the black markets. Meanwhile the guys making some drugs illegal approves and sells their own drugs, which more often than not get used for the same purpose as what they prohibit.
I didn't read the full article because the headline describes itself as "one possible theory". I'm sure I could find other hidden gems in the full article, but today I lack the time to dissect and absorb a new conspiracy theory (not intended as derogatory).
Here is a Youtube link to a demo (long). A short intro here, and a longer speech here. No such thing as "safe" content, but safer content and includes volume control.
For posterity, nowhere does the article claim that the 1.2 Petabytes is all child pornography. The company claims that most of the data is not, but I guess that is a secondary issue. Holding the company responsible is idiotic unless they were complicit in the crime. Did they refuse to take action that the courts claimed they needed to with the data? Try to hide the data when cops came looking? I don't see any of those things, so IMHO this is a scare tactic attempting to get people to do what GP stated: "have companies snoop through all user data" which is asinine.
I'm of the personal opinion that people involved in child porn should be jailed for life without parole if they are found guilty. The rule of law can not be tossed out the window because of my emotion on the topic. That is called chaos or anarchy, and we are supposed to be civilized.
I have heard and seen numerous bands that don't get contracts or played on the radio because they don't fit the image and message that record companies "want", or don't play the games to get the contracts. That radio play time is what causes popularity, people know what they hear and can't know anything they don't hear. Take their title example "pop". The top female pop stars would not have become popular without a massive budget to advertise them and get their names out (telling everyone how it's a big star in the intro message). Until the VMA/MTV/(other award show) put up Miley Cyris and told everyone what a great artist she was who heard of her in the Music industry? Ariana Grande? Most of these people are only performers (actresses/actors) and purchase songs written for them that the producers tell them to play.
Read up on what most bands have had to do to gain popularity and the advertising required to make it big. Most bands, regardless of genre, have to give up control of just about everything. Producers change lyrics, change music, change production and the artists have no say. Smart musicians may build some elements of control into their contracts, but if they do the wrong things they receive no air time or advertising.
The study is wrong, because it negates the biggest reason for popularity. Advertising. The game is rigged, and most musicians know and admit as much.
I was rather surprised with the new layout, and last night was buggy as all get out. Now that the bugs are worked out I like the new design. It's not beta, or if it is they built in everything we said was missing and fixed the text layout we complained about.
If there was some sort of announcement system I'd have been understanding last night. That is something Slashdot has never been good about though...
Noob Rocksmith questions. As a drummer for a lot of decades I have always considered picking up the guitar or bass. Much more portable and crowd friendly. First question: Is there a bass version? For either, how hard is it for someone who never picked up a guitar to start on Rocksmith?
Screw auto-play, I'm trying to figure out who "ooyala"and "taboola" are, and why their content is being linked (by default on every Slashdot page). Whois data seems to link them to tucows, who I have not seen since they were found to be spreading malware through their download wrappers.
Yeah, you have to follow the whois chain down the road to get to tucows but it's obvious 2 steps away.
FWIW, taboola and ooyala seem to be both tracking companies (for marketing purposes *wink* *wink*). No thanks, I won't let their video play.
Oh, so you go to the ad hominem method of reason as a response, followed by your own isolated opinion as a follow up. Thanks for proving my point, twice. I'll ignore further irrational methods of proof, so would encourage you to actually learn the material you are attempting to criticize prior to making irrational claims. As a hunch, you will do nothing and maintain an irrational opinion and argue with invalid logic.
I saw a message from Soulskill that they will work on the bugs tomorrow. Until then, an idea would be to pad your top and bottom lines with a line-break. It may help people to read your whole comment.. then again I don't know if they strip breaks on either end under certain conditions.
I submitted a story and it was yanked, so I'll post in stories instead. Slashdot is once again broken. The top sentence of text in the majority of comments is clipped off so only about half the text is visible. The bottom sentence is spliced with the bottom links so you can't read those either. Buttons are almost all broken. Some buttons are not buttons at all, just text. Other buttons have the same text coloring as the button with maybe white shading?
How this could have ever gotten past QA is astounding. Fix the f^&$ing text so we can read it. Fix the buttons so I know what and where they are located. Dark green data fields on dark green backgrounds is not readable, fix that too. I see people posting pictures from IE so it's not just my browser. Last I checked, Firefox was the number one browser for *nix crowds which is a good portion of Slashdot's contributors.
It's not as bad as Beta in some ways, but being dumped on the community makes it close.
I guess that Dice learned nothing from the last Beta roll out. Submissions are gone from the main menu, text is all over the place with clipped characters on the top line and links covering the bottom line, and the buttons are completely broken. Some don't look like buttons at all, just text, others are a solid color with same color text and white borders.
Just as bad, default content is now coming from two known shady operators taboola and oolaya. If you are not running AdBlock and NoScript don't visit Slashdot until that crap is gone.
Just like the last Beta no concern or care for users that have been making Slashdot Slashdot for well over a decade. No notice, no feedback, and obviously the only testing that occurred was some Dev located somewhere in the world "claimed" it worked for them.
Is the goal to chase away the consumers who contribute to make this site what it is?
_YOU_ may not have had a professor that could teach, but that is not a problem with Liberal Arts. It is a problem with education in general, which has been completely screwed since the US Government took over in the 1930s. Many people have professors that do teach, and many students can learn on their own just by exposure.
I gave the reason for it's value, and your answer equates to "nuh uh" with no backing rational. Your generalization that people can slack off and pass a class happens in all majors, there is no restriction to Liberal Arts. In other words, it's invalid logic. (I am really not surprised that a person who claims Liberal Arts has zero value fails at simple logic, and I'd suggest that you contemplate that for a while.)
There is more to learn from the study of a single short story called "The Allegory of the Cave" than a semester of Calculus, if you care to actually study.
My claim regarding weight of Calculus vs. a single short story is from that of a Math major with 17 semesters of Mathematics. My minor was Liberal arts, which I took everything possible and ran out at 8 semesters.
They said nothing will happen with the program. You can toss funds in a pot, but without knowing why it was shut down you are foolish to do so. People giving to the pot are going to want their money back at some point. We all know that stuff like this gets lost in the bureaucracy and may take decades to come up for air.
I'm not being a downer, but a realist. Your answer could be to start your own site doing something similar and have a visible hand off policy in case you stop for some reason like NEWTON. Hell, make that a selling point.
The place that I vehemently disagree is in the perception you give that tax payers have control over funding individual projects NEWTON. We don't, we only pay taxes. Critters holding office that don't a rats ass about the people they represent handle the individual funding (or the people _they_ appoint to lead agencies). If given a chance I'd be willing to bet that a lot of people would support funding NEWTON and get rid of programs like the latest greatest science for killing people. That is exactly why people have no choice, but that's a much longer discussion.
Hang on a sec, I'll get to my point of disagreement.
I forget the exact quote or even who the alleged author was, but it goes something like this. "Subject like Math can surely help in a career and portions of life, but understanding Politics is vastly more important. Politics effects every moment of your life, without exception. There is no subject more important, because nothing else impacts you the same way." An example is: Being a good cook takes some education, and you will surely have better tasting meals on the table. A politician taxing labor and goods, regulating food and what producers can put in the grocery store impacts not just the flavor but what you can afford to put on the table.
This lesson took me a long time to fully understand, but the world I look at today is not my own small corner. The world I am leaving to my kid is immense and goes far beyond what I directly control. I can influence the world, but I can't change it. (Reading how that sounds "NO", I am not the author of TFA).
Philosophy, Ethics, and Logic are all tied tightly together. Morality is an essential piece of those three things. Empathy is understanding the morality you dish out, as you would receive it.
The lessons of Liberal Arts last for a lifetime, compared to technology which is largely short lived knowledge. I'm sure you were proud of your Commodore64 knowledge like I was at the time, but that stuff all vanished. As did DOS, SunOS 2, HP-UX 9, and all of these other technologies that people said were "essential" to know. The latest application is not important when a large portion of the population can't afford it.
Encourage the geekiness, but make sure they understand the fundamentals that carry them through life. That means living your life knowing that you leave a legacy behind, and ensuring you know how you wish to be remembered in history. Even if that history is small family stuff it matters.
Seriously, this has been tackled and answered. People just don't want to believe it, and of course the same powers pulling the strings own all of the media "average" people consume. Carol Quigley's "Tragedy and Hope" is a comprehensive book covering the whole thing. Nobody wants to read the 1300 pages, because it's hard and quite frankly scary to contemplate. Gary Allen's book was a severely limited rehash of details found in "Tragedy and Hope" attempting to wake people up to what is really happening. He used more recent examples than Carol's stint within the group could use. Mark Dice also have a couple books detailing the same people doing the same things, he also references "Tragedy and Hope" frequently.
The circus show has thus far paid off. Brain washing people to believe "Conspiracy" is an impossible thing that only idiots believe has been well done. Even though people watched a conspiracy unfold on the top rated reality TV show called Survivor on a weekly basis, they can't fathom that a few people that own the majority of the worlds wealth could actually conspire to get more and fuck over.. well, just about everyone except themselves.
There are a couple of distinct issues to overcome. First is to convince people "It can happen here and now", just like tyrannical horrors have occurred throughout history. Nobody wants to believe it, and the bought and paid for media simply keeps pushing this narrative. Second, is to challenge people to stop being scared and take action. The latter is going to be much easier than the former, but it's dependent.
Other people have also tried to warn the public, even two former Presidents who were not members of the "club".
The failure is in attrition and a lack of competent employees. The culture that remains in these environments are a bunch of back stabbing adolescents that run the company further into the ground. I have left places that turned into this, and know plenty of other people that did the same thing. You can read the horror stories as easily as I can find them, no need to extrapolate further.
One of the biggest issues I hinted at, which is a culture of back stabbing. Management wanting to shit-can someone can easily do so by extracting proxy logs. How many sites do you visit every time you go to CNN at Lunch? Worse, how about a site like Reddit where banned is sure to exist. Even if the site is banned, you obviously tried to go there right? Logs say so, and can not differentiate what a user types from what a site links.
The answer to TFA's question is "ABSOLUTELY NOT!". What makes a work place better is management that allows people to actually work. Sometimes, that means they are not typing on a computer for a few hours or checking texts and emails constantly. I draft up tons of stuff on paper and whiteboard before writing anything on a computer. My production is something my management can measure, but not in the same way as parts/hour like an assembly line. The latter is easy, and frankly the managers that want this type of measurement are idiots that have no business working in IT.
If you can't trust the employees you hire to perform well, then it's time to start canning managers and hire competent executives who can.
I'm not sure you thought that belief through very well. Refugees and/or evacuees don't deserve to be slaughtered because they took a path someone decided was a great place for autonomous killing machines. By the same logic you claim you approve of, it should be fine to plant massive mine fields in any place you don't have active troops. What could go wrong, right?
Not perfect, nothing is... but NoScript blocks tons of these. Also double check your cookie settings, and remove anything you don't know. In fact I'm looking currently at Slashdot having 7 other sites want to give me content. I have allowed 3/8 because that is the minimum to post, and I can guarantee that every remaining connection would attempt to dump a tracking cookie in my browser.
If you want to be really bothered, try looking at CNN or Fox News with no script on. nearly 30 other sites are trying to track your activities on those.
He argues about climate denial, and resorts to insults attempting to make the point. Antagonizing people is probably the worst method of teaching them. Sure, he was answering questions but they were _his_answers. I never thought of him as a smart guy, but a decent entertainer. Entertainers need to make noise every now and then to stay relevant in that business. I know this as Sophistry, not Science.
Researchers warn that a glut of code is coming that will depress wages and turn coders into Uber drivers,
So what we have discussed hundreds of times here, and what I have seen labelled racism, is finally admitted flat out. I am personally rather impressed by the honesty.
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No, we don't. We have pilots with training who can take over in an emergency. Landing in the Hudson is probably the most famous case, but plenty of similar less dramatic events have occurred.
You should know better than to make false assertions when we have plenty of evidence countering your assertion that technology will ever be this good. Since the 1960s we have been automating space travel and airlines, and still need pilots and astronauts because when the shit hits the proverbial fan humans are required to intervene. Sometimes to correct problems with the technology, and sometimes to bypass it and fly by hand.
Drones require people to pilot them too, so don't try to go down a bad path.
I don't see this as a problem of litigation, I see it as the only sensible approach to having technology. Nothing, and that is an absolutely nothing, has ever been made by man which has been perfect. We try for "the best we can" but stuff breaks and the unexpected does occur. With an estimated 250,000,000 cars on the road chances are high that something will go wrong pretty damn fast. With motor vehicles already being the number one killer in the US annually, we want human intervention early and often. That means trained drivers behind the wheel.
As stated above, a half a century has not perfected "self driving" anything else. It's much better today than 50plus years ago but not even close to the point where you can fly without a human.
Draws a crowd? Part of the message only. Stories like these generally cover much more than a singular issue like popularity. I see also the article demonizing certain cartels as part of the message. I'm not claiming the drug cartels are good guys by that statement. I'm claiming that the cartel pushing for prohibition of certain narcotics creates the black markets. Meanwhile the guys making some drugs illegal approves and sells their own drugs, which more often than not get used for the same purpose as what they prohibit.
I didn't read the full article because the headline describes itself as "one possible theory". I'm sure I could find other hidden gems in the full article, but today I lack the time to dissect and absorb a new conspiracy theory (not intended as derogatory).
Here is a Youtube link to a demo (long). A short intro here, and a longer speech here. No such thing as "safe" content, but safer content and includes volume control.
For posterity, nowhere does the article claim that the 1.2 Petabytes is all child pornography. The company claims that most of the data is not, but I guess that is a secondary issue. Holding the company responsible is idiotic unless they were complicit in the crime. Did they refuse to take action that the courts claimed they needed to with the data? Try to hide the data when cops came looking? I don't see any of those things, so IMHO this is a scare tactic attempting to get people to do what GP stated: "have companies snoop through all user data" which is asinine.
I'm of the personal opinion that people involved in child porn should be jailed for life without parole if they are found guilty. The rule of law can not be tossed out the window because of my emotion on the topic. That is called chaos or anarchy, and we are supposed to be civilized.
I have heard and seen numerous bands that don't get contracts or played on the radio because they don't fit the image and message that record companies "want", or don't play the games to get the contracts. That radio play time is what causes popularity, people know what they hear and can't know anything they don't hear. Take their title example "pop". The top female pop stars would not have become popular without a massive budget to advertise them and get their names out (telling everyone how it's a big star in the intro message). Until the VMA/MTV/(other award show) put up Miley Cyris and told everyone what a great artist she was who heard of her in the Music industry? Ariana Grande? Most of these people are only performers (actresses/actors) and purchase songs written for them that the producers tell them to play.
Read up on what most bands have had to do to gain popularity and the advertising required to make it big. Most bands, regardless of genre, have to give up control of just about everything. Producers change lyrics, change music, change production and the artists have no say. Smart musicians may build some elements of control into their contracts, but if they do the wrong things they receive no air time or advertising.
The study is wrong, because it negates the biggest reason for popularity. Advertising. The game is rigged, and most musicians know and admit as much.
Awesome, thanks for the NFO!
I was rather surprised with the new layout, and last night was buggy as all get out. Now that the bugs are worked out I like the new design. It's not beta, or if it is they built in everything we said was missing and fixed the text layout we complained about.
If there was some sort of announcement system I'd have been understanding last night. That is something Slashdot has never been good about though...
Noob Rocksmith questions. As a drummer for a lot of decades I have always considered picking up the guitar or bass. Much more portable and crowd friendly. First question: Is there a bass version? For either, how hard is it for someone who never picked up a guitar to start on Rocksmith?
I actually did go to their web site, you may have missed my last paragraph. "Unlock the Revenue Potential of Digital TV" is their leading add.
Screw auto-play, I'm trying to figure out who "ooyala"and "taboola" are, and why their content is being linked (by default on every Slashdot page). Whois data seems to link them to tucows, who I have not seen since they were found to be spreading malware through their download wrappers.
Yeah, you have to follow the whois chain down the road to get to tucows but it's obvious 2 steps away.
FWIW, taboola and ooyala seem to be both tracking companies (for marketing purposes *wink* *wink*). No thanks, I won't let their video play.
Oh, so you go to the ad hominem method of reason as a response, followed by your own isolated opinion as a follow up. Thanks for proving my point, twice. I'll ignore further irrational methods of proof, so would encourage you to actually learn the material you are attempting to criticize prior to making irrational claims. As a hunch, you will do nothing and maintain an irrational opinion and argue with invalid logic.
I saw a message from Soulskill that they will work on the bugs tomorrow. Until then, an idea would be to pad your top and bottom lines with a line-break. It may help people to read your whole comment.. then again I don't know if they strip breaks on either end under certain conditions.
I submitted a story and it was yanked, so I'll post in stories instead. Slashdot is once again broken. The top sentence of text in the majority of comments is clipped off so only about half the text is visible. The bottom sentence is spliced with the bottom links so you can't read those either. Buttons are almost all broken. Some buttons are not buttons at all, just text. Other buttons have the same text coloring as the button with maybe white shading?
How this could have ever gotten past QA is astounding. Fix the f^&$ing text so we can read it. Fix the buttons so I know what and where they are located. Dark green data fields on dark green backgrounds is not readable, fix that too. I see people posting pictures from IE so it's not just my browser. Last I checked, Firefox was the number one browser for *nix crowds which is a good portion of Slashdot's contributors.
It's not as bad as Beta in some ways, but being dumped on the community makes it close.
I guess that Dice learned nothing from the last Beta roll out. Submissions are gone from the main menu, text is all over the place with clipped characters on the top line and links covering the bottom line, and the buttons are completely broken. Some don't look like buttons at all, just text, others are a solid color with same color text and white borders.
Just as bad, default content is now coming from two known shady operators taboola and oolaya. If you are not running AdBlock and NoScript don't visit Slashdot until that crap is gone.
Just like the last Beta no concern or care for users that have been making Slashdot Slashdot for well over a decade. No notice, no feedback, and obviously the only testing that occurred was some Dev located somewhere in the world "claimed" it worked for them.
Is the goal to chase away the consumers who contribute to make this site what it is?
_YOU_ may not have had a professor that could teach, but that is not a problem with Liberal Arts. It is a problem with education in general, which has been completely screwed since the US Government took over in the 1930s. Many people have professors that do teach, and many students can learn on their own just by exposure.
I gave the reason for it's value, and your answer equates to "nuh uh" with no backing rational. Your generalization that people can slack off and pass a class happens in all majors, there is no restriction to Liberal Arts. In other words, it's invalid logic. (I am really not surprised that a person who claims Liberal Arts has zero value fails at simple logic, and I'd suggest that you contemplate that for a while.)
There is more to learn from the study of a single short story called "The Allegory of the Cave" than a semester of Calculus, if you care to actually study.
My claim regarding weight of Calculus vs. a single short story is from that of a Math major with 17 semesters of Mathematics. My minor was Liberal arts, which I took everything possible and ran out at 8 semesters.
They said nothing will happen with the program. You can toss funds in a pot, but without knowing why it was shut down you are foolish to do so. People giving to the pot are going to want their money back at some point. We all know that stuff like this gets lost in the bureaucracy and may take decades to come up for air.
I'm not being a downer, but a realist. Your answer could be to start your own site doing something similar and have a visible hand off policy in case you stop for some reason like NEWTON. Hell, make that a selling point.
The place that I vehemently disagree is in the perception you give that tax payers have control over funding individual projects NEWTON. We don't, we only pay taxes. Critters holding office that don't a rats ass about the people they represent handle the individual funding (or the people _they_ appoint to lead agencies). If given a chance I'd be willing to bet that a lot of people would support funding NEWTON and get rid of programs like the latest greatest science for killing people. That is exactly why people have no choice, but that's a much longer discussion.
And Pay walled to boot!
Hang on a sec, I'll get to my point of disagreement.
I forget the exact quote or even who the alleged author was, but it goes something like this. "Subject like Math can surely help in a career and portions of life, but understanding Politics is vastly more important. Politics effects every moment of your life, without exception. There is no subject more important, because nothing else impacts you the same way." An example is: Being a good cook takes some education, and you will surely have better tasting meals on the table. A politician taxing labor and goods, regulating food and what producers can put in the grocery store impacts not just the flavor but what you can afford to put on the table.
This lesson took me a long time to fully understand, but the world I look at today is not my own small corner. The world I am leaving to my kid is immense and goes far beyond what I directly control. I can influence the world, but I can't change it. (Reading how that sounds "NO", I am not the author of TFA).
Philosophy, Ethics, and Logic are all tied tightly together. Morality is an essential piece of those three things. Empathy is understanding the morality you dish out, as you would receive it.
The lessons of Liberal Arts last for a lifetime, compared to technology which is largely short lived knowledge. I'm sure you were proud of your Commodore64 knowledge like I was at the time, but that stuff all vanished. As did DOS, SunOS 2, HP-UX 9, and all of these other technologies that people said were "essential" to know. The latest application is not important when a large portion of the population can't afford it.
Encourage the geekiness, but make sure they understand the fundamentals that carry them through life. That means living your life knowing that you leave a legacy behind, and ensuring you know how you wish to be remembered in history. Even if that history is small family stuff it matters.
Seriously, this has been tackled and answered. People just don't want to believe it, and of course the same powers pulling the strings own all of the media "average" people consume. Carol Quigley's "Tragedy and Hope" is a comprehensive book covering the whole thing. Nobody wants to read the 1300 pages, because it's hard and quite frankly scary to contemplate. Gary Allen's book was a severely limited rehash of details found in "Tragedy and Hope" attempting to wake people up to what is really happening. He used more recent examples than Carol's stint within the group could use. Mark Dice also have a couple books detailing the same people doing the same things, he also references "Tragedy and Hope" frequently.
The circus show has thus far paid off. Brain washing people to believe "Conspiracy" is an impossible thing that only idiots believe has been well done. Even though people watched a conspiracy unfold on the top rated reality TV show called Survivor on a weekly basis, they can't fathom that a few people that own the majority of the worlds wealth could actually conspire to get more and fuck over.. well, just about everyone except themselves.
There are a couple of distinct issues to overcome. First is to convince people "It can happen here and now", just like tyrannical horrors have occurred throughout history. Nobody wants to believe it, and the bought and paid for media simply keeps pushing this narrative. Second, is to challenge people to stop being scared and take action. The latter is going to be much easier than the former, but it's dependent.
Other people have also tried to warn the public, even two former Presidents who were not members of the "club".
The failure is in attrition and a lack of competent employees. The culture that remains in these environments are a bunch of back stabbing adolescents that run the company further into the ground. I have left places that turned into this, and know plenty of other people that did the same thing. You can read the horror stories as easily as I can find them, no need to extrapolate further.
One of the biggest issues I hinted at, which is a culture of back stabbing. Management wanting to shit-can someone can easily do so by extracting proxy logs. How many sites do you visit every time you go to CNN at Lunch? Worse, how about a site like Reddit where banned is sure to exist. Even if the site is banned, you obviously tried to go there right? Logs say so, and can not differentiate what a user types from what a site links.
The answer to TFA's question is "ABSOLUTELY NOT!". What makes a work place better is management that allows people to actually work. Sometimes, that means they are not typing on a computer for a few hours or checking texts and emails constantly. I draft up tons of stuff on paper and whiteboard before writing anything on a computer. My production is something my management can measure, but not in the same way as parts/hour like an assembly line. The latter is easy, and frankly the managers that want this type of measurement are idiots that have no business working in IT.
If you can't trust the employees you hire to perform well, then it's time to start canning managers and hire competent executives who can.
I'm not sure you thought that belief through very well. Refugees and/or evacuees don't deserve to be slaughtered because they took a path someone decided was a great place for autonomous killing machines. By the same logic you claim you approve of, it should be fine to plant massive mine fields in any place you don't have active troops. What could go wrong, right?
Not perfect, nothing is... but NoScript blocks tons of these. Also double check your cookie settings, and remove anything you don't know. In fact I'm looking currently at Slashdot having 7 other sites want to give me content. I have allowed 3/8 because that is the minimum to post, and I can guarantee that every remaining connection would attempt to dump a tracking cookie in my browser.
If you want to be really bothered, try looking at CNN or Fox News with no script on. nearly 30 other sites are trying to track your activities on those.
He argues about climate denial, and resorts to insults attempting to make the point. Antagonizing people is probably the worst method of teaching them. Sure, he was answering questions but they were _his_answers. I never thought of him as a smart guy, but a decent entertainer. Entertainers need to make noise every now and then to stay relevant in that business. I know this as Sophistry, not Science.
Researchers warn that a glut of code is coming that will depress wages and turn coders into Uber drivers,
So what we have discussed hundreds of times here, and what I have seen labelled racism, is finally admitted flat out. I am personally rather impressed by the honesty.