Ooooohhh.... I've never had anyone use that argument on me...That would be a fun one.
I'd fire right back at them and say that "yes, chaotic systems do exist, and the atmosphere is one of them, which means there/is/ a tipping point where things will go completely utterly haywire and bad for all of us. It's how populations crash. It's how the gypsy moth population in the Northeast US crashed. They reproduced like crazy and ate all their food, which wasn't enough, and they died of starvation before being able to reproduce (they died as caterpillars). This happens with deer, frogs, any population you can name. It happens when the environment can no longer sustain the population Every Single Time For As Long As There Has Been Life. The human species is a population. You were saying something about chaotic systems, Faggot?" [derisive sneer]
That insult at the end is entirely offensive and optional, use at own risk. I am not responsible for any bar fights.
You wrote two replies. One to me and one to fropenn. I will combine my reply into one long post, so please excuse the length.
>>subscriptions
>Most people are unwilling to buy a year's subscription just to read one article So how do you "Do subscriptions" without turning away users who arrive through citations in search, social media, or other aggregators?
Lots of places have a number of free articles per month that users can read, most of the time 10 or 20. Then you are encouraged to buy a subscription. This is set by cookies, which can be removed, or JS can be turned off, or a combination of the two, to browse freely and leech. But those methods are for only the technically adept, us, who are less than 1% of the people out there and thus are not a risk to profit, because if your business fails because of that 1%, you're doing something very wrong.
>link to block-adblock
Oh dear fucking lawd.
>>whitelist
>Good luck with that when these sites insist on allowing cross-site interest-based advertising and proprietary JavaScript.
I block JS by default and whitelist. Chrome makes this really easy. I also have a very large/etc/hosts that sends ad networks to 0.0.0.0. So when I whitelist JS, I can have the site's JS, and the third party insanity/security-risk never even gets past the lookup.
And there are plenty of places that keep track of ad networks, so keeping up with new ones is not hard.
>Then let me draw an analogy: Paying for a year of Amazon Prime to watch one episode is likely not "at a decent price".
Your analogy fails when Netflix and Hulu are month-to-month for the price of a couple of Starbucks Chai-Latte-GMOFree-Organic-Vanilla-Salted-Caramel-instant-weight-gain-heart-attack-diabetes-in-a-cup.
Your analogy also fails that there/are/ ways to buy individual articles as e-books. As a matter of fact, paying by the article was pioneered by the scientific journals/three decades ago/. Not that I actually go there, but Pornhub makes money hand-over-fist (har har) with subscriptions even though there is a lot of "free" content on their site. But that's because the fine people at Pornhub actually work at making their site worthwhile, for various values of worthwhile and that paying is easy. And they are one of many that get people to pay. The porn industry has grown up, business-wise.
People/will/ pay if there is content to pay for and paying isn't a UI nightmare.
Why hasn't the "omg our users aren't seeing our ads" community ever talked to people who sell individual articles and how that business model still works to this day? I don't know. The only thing I can think of is that clickbait-site-owners are just lazy and can get away with simple ad syndication and they're just complaining of the people who also just fucking back out of their sites after seeing the abortion of site design (omgfuckingGAWKER.com, etc., ) painted across the users' screens.
The cable industry has been selling pay-per-view content for decades. This is also a valid business model, as it is wildly profitable.
You said to fropenn:
>It's not that a single site has only one article, but that one article is the only article that a particular user desires to view. Consider using a search engine to find ten different articles, but they're all on different sites, each of which requires the user to pay for a year's subscription.
What is syndication? What is a payment system? I can buy individual dead-tree newspapers, books, and magazines with cash, debit, or credit. I can also do this at various reputable newspaper websites, too, and they will even get archived stuff from 80 years ago for me if I can't be bothered to go to the library. Why hasn't the brain-trust of avaricious webpage owners figured out a way for me to buy their stuff with a payment system? Where is the micropayment system that was talked about
Design it for close knit groups only...Family, a few friends. All content hidden by default, invitations only to grant access (not even solicitations to be granted access), etc.
Fine. Do subscriptions, or "ad fewer" like Wonkette does or convince your users to whitelist you, like FARK does (they also do subscriptions, so Drew can pay for his Maker's Mark).
>The race towards paying for nothing and getting everything for free seems somewhat out of sync with me.
It's not about paying nothing anymore. Users are quite happy to fork over money for subscriptions (hulu, netflix, amazon prime, etc) for content if it's at a decent price and not a fucking "MINE ALL THE USERS" for demographics. And when a subscription is paid for, if you promise no ads, don't do ads like the cable channels have done with bait-and-switch over the decades.
If you want to rely on ads instead of subscriptions, that's your own decision and not the users'. The users get the final say in what they display on their own terminals. Not you. If this isn't what you want, then change your damn business model.
I block ads because they are a security risk. When the ad industry finally decides to come up with some fucking standards that treat the users with respect, I'll stop blocking. But that is highly unlikely, because the ad industry and the dweebs that hire them are rapacious assholes.
They've thrown dead goats down this well for well on 20 years. Sorry, you guys fucked up, and you are no longer tolerated. Go. Away.
inb4 "but the ads pay for the free content"
if you can't convince your users to subscribe or whitelist you, then your content isn't really all that worth it, is it?
If you actually read the TFA but this being Slashdot, you didn't and I almost didn't, thinking "oh god not this shit again."
This isn't about actually banning anything but battling against the meme that the "dark web" is all illegal sites.
âoeWe believe it is important for the public to gain a better understanding of the contents of the dark web in order for there to be a proper debate about its nature, dangers â" and potential benefits,â the companies say. âoeMisunderstanding about the dark net is rife, and has been fueled by often misleading media coverage. This, in turn, has influenced policy debates based on incorrect assumptions and hyperbole.â
Sometimes what Linux (or even FreeBSD) desktops lack is the actual ability to fully control the machine from the GUI,
Your problem is that you think you can "fully control" a machine from the GUI when it's Windows or OSX.
Or really, any computer for that matter.
You can't. And if you think that Windows registry editor is a good example of a "GUI" control, you're nuts. Settings buried in the registry is just as opaque or even more than text files in/etc/.
Weed out the prudes or at least create an alternate account without prudes. Facebook 'requires' real-names, but that doesn't mean you have to supply one. Just contact the friends you want to include in the new account that it's you. Just pick a name that won't trip Farcebook's "bogus name" filters.
I find that the sexually stuck-up people are usually stuck-up about a vast majority of things. They're boring people, in all likelihood.
It's like when you're dissatisfied with the current group of people you hang out in real life - you stop going to the conventional places and start going to things like AS220.
> Photoshop of some flavor installed (no effing way I'm coughing up money to Adobe for just a hobby)
It's called CS2.
Create Adobe account Lie and say you already bought CS2 Be brought to the download page Download. Input free key supplied from Adobe.
???
Slight Profit. It's good enough for hobbyist work - it doesn't have all the latest bells and whistles (no video card acceleration, etc). But hey, it's free-beer free.
but these days I think assuming it's not backdoored by the NSA would be naive.
The problem the NSA is up against is that they have to compromise every copy of the source code that's out there, or even a large number of binaries to make a backdoor work reliably.
There are literally hundreds of mirrors of Ubuntu alone, each with hashes that need to match. That's only one distribution of one OS. Then there's the BSDs, which are dying, according to Netcraft.
The director has repeatedly claimed that it's not an anti-war film.
The artist isn't allowed to decide what the viewer learns/experiences from the artwork.
It my opinion GOTF is one of the best anti-war films ever because the director didn't intend to make an anti-war film. The film isn't preachy, as a result, as too many anti-war films are.
Because that's where I fucking want it to be, okay? Is that clear enough for you?
This is why I use KDE.
It allows me to bit-twiddle it until I have it the way I like it, not someone else's idea about how my workspace should look/work.
The KDE team tried removing features once because of the stupid idea that if a user has to adjust the interface, the designer has failed. No designer is omniscient and can predict the needs of a particular user to the finest detail (religious nuts may have a problem with this) so that UX meme fails when put up against reality.
So while people may bitch and moan about KDE being "bloated" (compared to what?), at least you get something for it.
It seems that the best way to be promoted to management is to be bad at managing people and to be (drinking) buddies with the other people in management who are also bad at managing people.
That doesn't mean that racism wasn't a justification for the ban. Explicitly making a law so that Dow Chemical can replace one fiber with a synthetic isn't sexy and doesn't get traction with the American public. Appealing to the American public's baser instincts does give, whatever you want to do, traction.
Look at Trump.
>compete with the medical industry
Pot isn't a panacea. It's an anti-emetic and anti-psychotic (the same mechanism governs both, just different locations in the brain) and an analgesic. And it's not for everyone who suffers from such symptoms. While those classes of drugs are common, they are not the entire industry. Legalizing weed will probably be a rounding-error on a Novartis or Merck 10-K.
No, prohibition has only lasted so long because "undesirables" who fit the ne'er-do-well stereotype were the ones affected. Because the American public as a whole is fucking stupid.
That's because marijuana prohibition was and is explicitly racist by implementation.
Go read the reasons why it was instituted.
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
âoeReefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
--Harry Anslinger, chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Compare and contrast that the complaint against alcohol prohibition was that "it was done while the boys were off at war" (lobbied for in 1917 as a wartime grain-saving act, and ratified later on "morality" reasons) and that its popularity was so low among whites that there were many loopholes for "medicinal" alcohol (the AMA lobbied to remove all limits on the prescription of whiskey) and home-made wine (you could buy grapes explicitly for the purpose and ferment them yourself).
As long as marijuana prohibition affected "the darkies" more than other people, it was just fine with the American public. Today, the vast majority of people smoking it are white.
Slashdot Mirror
Ooooohhh.... I've never had anyone use that argument on me...That would be a fun one.
I'd fire right back at them and say that "yes, chaotic systems do exist, and the atmosphere is one of them, which means there /is/ a tipping point where things will go completely utterly haywire and bad for all of us. It's how populations crash. It's how the gypsy moth population in the Northeast US crashed. They reproduced like crazy and ate all their food, which wasn't enough, and they died of starvation before being able to reproduce (they died as caterpillars). This happens with deer, frogs, any population you can name. It happens when the environment can no longer sustain the population Every Single Time For As Long As There Has Been Life. The human species is a population. You were saying something about chaotic systems, Faggot?" [derisive sneer]
That insult at the end is entirely offensive and optional, use at own risk. I am not responsible for any bar fights.
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They've been clinging to the lack of cloud data, but new research is now taking that away from them, so I'm not sure what's left.
It's the god of the gaps.
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>you nerds
I think you are on the wrong web page.
Facebook is ----->that way.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Bye, Felicia.
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You wrote two replies. One to me and one to fropenn. I will combine my reply into one long post, so please excuse the length.
>>subscriptions
>Most people are unwilling to buy a year's subscription just to read one article So how do you "Do subscriptions" without turning away users who arrive through citations in search, social media, or other aggregators?
Lots of places have a number of free articles per month that users can read, most of the time 10 or 20. Then you are encouraged to buy a subscription. This is set by cookies, which can be removed, or JS can be turned off, or a combination of the two, to browse freely and leech. But those methods are for only the technically adept, us, who are less than 1% of the people out there and thus are not a risk to profit, because if your business fails because of that 1%, you're doing something very wrong.
>link to block-adblock
Oh dear fucking lawd.
>>whitelist
>Good luck with that when these sites insist on allowing cross-site interest-based advertising and proprietary JavaScript.
I block JS by default and whitelist. Chrome makes this really easy. I also have a very large /etc/hosts that sends ad networks to 0.0.0.0. So when I whitelist JS, I can have the site's JS, and the third party insanity/security-risk never even gets past the lookup.
And there are plenty of places that keep track of ad networks, so keeping up with new ones is not hard.
>Then let me draw an analogy: Paying for a year of Amazon Prime to watch one episode is likely not "at a decent price".
Your analogy fails when Netflix and Hulu are month-to-month for the price of a couple of Starbucks Chai-Latte-GMOFree-Organic-Vanilla-Salted-Caramel-instant-weight-gain-heart-attack-diabetes-in-a-cup.
Your analogy also fails that there /are/ ways to buy individual articles as e-books. As a matter of fact, paying by the article was pioneered by the scientific journals /three decades ago/. Not that I actually go there, but Pornhub makes money hand-over-fist (har har) with subscriptions even though there is a lot of "free" content on their site. But that's because the fine people at Pornhub actually work at making their site worthwhile, for various values of worthwhile and that paying is easy. And they are one of many that get people to pay. The porn industry has grown up, business-wise.
People /will/ pay if there is content to pay for and paying isn't a UI nightmare.
Why hasn't the "omg our users aren't seeing our ads" community ever talked to people who sell individual articles and how that business model still works to this day? I don't know. The only thing I can think of is that clickbait-site-owners are just lazy and can get away with simple ad syndication and they're just complaining of the people who also just fucking back out of their sites after seeing the abortion of site design (omgfuckingGAWKER.com, etc., ) painted across the users' screens.
The cable industry has been selling pay-per-view content for decades. This is also a valid business model, as it is wildly profitable.
You said to fropenn:
>It's not that a single site has only one article, but that one article is the only article that a particular user desires to view. Consider using a search engine to find ten different articles, but they're all on different sites, each of which requires the user to pay for a year's subscription.
What is syndication? What is a payment system? I can buy individual dead-tree newspapers, books, and magazines with cash, debit, or credit. I can also do this at various reputable newspaper websites, too, and they will even get archived stuff from 80 years ago for me if I can't be bothered to go to the library. Why hasn't the brain-trust of avaricious webpage owners figured out a way for me to buy their stuff with a payment system? Where is the micropayment system that was talked about
Design it for close knit groups only...Family, a few friends. All content hidden by default, invitations only to grant access (not even solicitations to be granted access), etc.
I miss dialup BBSes too.
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>original content needs some sort of revenue.
Fine. Do subscriptions, or "ad fewer" like Wonkette does or convince your users to whitelist you, like FARK does (they also do subscriptions, so Drew can pay for his Maker's Mark).
>The race towards paying for nothing and getting everything for free seems somewhat out of sync with me.
It's not about paying nothing anymore. Users are quite happy to fork over money for subscriptions (hulu, netflix, amazon prime, etc) for content if it's at a decent price and not a fucking "MINE ALL THE USERS" for demographics. And when a subscription is paid for, if you promise no ads, don't do ads like the cable channels have done with bait-and-switch over the decades.
If you want to rely on ads instead of subscriptions, that's your own decision and not the users'. The users get the final say in what they display on their own terminals. Not you. If this isn't what you want, then change your damn business model.
I block ads because they are a security risk. When the ad industry finally decides to come up with some fucking standards that treat the users with respect, I'll stop blocking. But that is highly unlikely, because the ad industry and the dweebs that hire them are rapacious assholes.
They've thrown dead goats down this well for well on 20 years. Sorry, you guys fucked up, and you are no longer tolerated. Go. Away.
inb4 "but the ads pay for the free content"
if you can't convince your users to subscribe or whitelist you, then your content isn't really all that worth it, is it?
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If you actually read the TFA but this being Slashdot, you didn't and I almost didn't, thinking "oh god not this shit again."
This isn't about actually banning anything but battling against the meme that the "dark web" is all illegal sites.
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BMO
Sometimes what Linux (or even FreeBSD) desktops lack is the actual ability to fully control the machine from the GUI,
Your problem is that you think you can "fully control" a machine from the GUI when it's Windows or OSX.
Or really, any computer for that matter.
You can't. And if you think that Windows registry editor is a good example of a "GUI" control, you're nuts. Settings buried in the registry is just as opaque or even more than text files in /etc/.
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The problem is that the OS will automatically run a program that can install malware from a USB stick.
Mine doesn't. I know of no Linux or BSD machine that automagically runs any kind of +x'ed code on any kind of removable media.
At least not out of the box. Gee, I wonder what OS is designed for "convenience" rather than protecting the user, and their computer.
Does it start with a W?
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is to play the extinct Atari and non-Atari games that will never make it to the "Atari 100" list.
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You can have a quiet simple happy life and not be boring/prudish.
I think the point is that there are people who insist that /you/ be boring too, or that there's something wrong with what you like.
These kinds of people are called busybodies, and they are a scourge on humanity.
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Seems to misunderstand that more "burner phones" are bought by battered women than by terrorists.
Why do you want to see battered women die, Jackie?
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You're picking the wrong "friends"
Weed out the prudes or at least create an alternate account without prudes. Facebook 'requires' real-names, but that doesn't mean you have to supply one. Just contact the friends you want to include in the new account that it's you. Just pick a name that won't trip Farcebook's "bogus name" filters.
I find that the sexually stuck-up people are usually stuck-up about a vast majority of things. They're boring people, in all likelihood.
It's like when you're dissatisfied with the current group of people you hang out in real life - you stop going to the conventional places and start going to things like AS220.
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Or you can simply not install Unity and go with a different desktop.
>mint XFCE
If you're hopping distros because of the default desktop, you're doing it wrong.
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> Photoshop of some flavor installed (no effing way I'm coughing up money to Adobe for just a hobby)
It's called CS2.
Create Adobe account
Lie and say you already bought CS2
Be brought to the download page
Download. Input free key supplied from Adobe.
???
Slight Profit. It's good enough for hobbyist work - it doesn't have all the latest bells and whistles (no video card acceleration, etc). But hey, it's free-beer free.
>no love for Gimp
Install PSPI in Gimp.
http://the-tml.net/gimp/pspi.h...
I love Gimp and am kinda proficient at it, but then also, CS2 runs great in Wine.
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but these days I think assuming it's not backdoored by the NSA would be naive.
The problem the NSA is up against is that they have to compromise every copy of the source code that's out there, or even a large number of binaries to make a backdoor work reliably.
There are literally hundreds of mirrors of Ubuntu alone, each with hashes that need to match. That's only one distribution of one OS. Then there's the BSDs, which are dying, according to Netcraft.
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The director has repeatedly claimed that it's not an anti-war film.
The artist isn't allowed to decide what the viewer learns/experiences from the artwork.
It my opinion GOTF is one of the best anti-war films ever because the director didn't intend to make an anti-war film. The film isn't preachy, as a result, as too many anti-war films are.
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Because that's where I fucking want it to be, okay? Is that clear enough for you?
This is why I use KDE.
It allows me to bit-twiddle it until I have it the way I like it, not someone else's idea about how my workspace should look/work.
The KDE team tried removing features once because of the stupid idea that if a user has to adjust the interface, the designer has failed. No designer is omniscient and can predict the needs of a particular user to the finest detail (religious nuts may have a problem with this) so that UX meme fails when put up against reality.
So while people may bitch and moan about KDE being "bloated" (compared to what?), at least you get something for it.
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And then watch "Grave of the Fireflies"
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I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...
Stolfa says there is "unexplored potential in blending conversational interfaces with rich graphical UI elements."
Kill. Me. Now.
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This sounds exactly what 4chan users on /b/ have been using for identifying if OP is really delivering.
"Shoe on head."
"Sharpie in pooper."
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It seems that the best way to be promoted to management is to be bad at managing people and to be (drinking) buddies with the other people in management who are also bad at managing people.
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BMO
That doesn't mean that racism wasn't a justification for the ban. Explicitly making a law so that Dow Chemical can replace one fiber with a synthetic isn't sexy and doesn't get traction with the American public. Appealing to the American public's baser instincts does give, whatever you want to do, traction.
Look at Trump.
>compete with the medical industry
Pot isn't a panacea. It's an anti-emetic and anti-psychotic (the same mechanism governs both, just different locations in the brain) and an analgesic. And it's not for everyone who suffers from such symptoms. While those classes of drugs are common, they are not the entire industry. Legalizing weed will probably be a rounding-error on a Novartis or Merck 10-K.
No, prohibition has only lasted so long because "undesirables" who fit the ne'er-do-well stereotype were the ones affected. Because the American public as a whole is fucking stupid.
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The Prohibition of alcohol only lasted 13 years.
That's because marijuana prohibition was and is explicitly racist by implementation.
Go read the reasons why it was instituted.
--Harry Anslinger, chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Compare and contrast that the complaint against alcohol prohibition was that "it was done while the boys were off at war" (lobbied for in 1917 as a wartime grain-saving act, and ratified later on "morality" reasons) and that its popularity was so low among whites that there were many loopholes for "medicinal" alcohol (the AMA lobbied to remove all limits on the prescription of whiskey) and home-made wine (you could buy grapes explicitly for the purpose and ferment them yourself).
As long as marijuana prohibition affected "the darkies" more than other people, it was just fine with the American public. Today, the vast majority of people smoking it are white.
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If superdelegates were as powerful as the mainstream media is claiming (as the establishment is pro-hillary) then we would have never had Obama.
Because they said the same thing in 2008, and we got Obama anyway.
It's a very transparent effort to discourage people from bothering to vote and it's as offensive as it is obvious.
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