Yes, I'm pretty sure you could engineer the climate for Sudan without negatively affecting Ethiopia. Of course, the means of doing that is probably via land reclamation techniques, but that's really true for pretty much any major climate improvement at this point in our planet's life.
Well, at least it'd be realistic. Although the comment about "boys can like pink" was a bit over the top -- things like that go over better when they're not pointed out. I read it and thought: "Is there something wrong with liking pink?"
Now what we need is a "Neckbeard Barbie" -- but I don't think Mattel would ever go there.
There's another purpose too: it lets the major distribution networks see what *kind* of show people are watching. This way, when they review the pilots for the next season, they have that extra data point to take into consideration. It also means that these content producers can decide if it's worth entering a specific market segment in the streaming realm. As this is a transition period, this could be very useful information (producers can tune their contracts up front, and only rent properties that will boost their viewing base significantly while rent shopping their most popular items as exclusive deals with a single content delivery channel).
Funny; FF has been my default browser for almost a decade now. Why? The plugins and the ability to control it all myself. Chrome/Chromium are too tied to the mothership for me -- and I say that as someone who uses 8.8.8.8 for DNS.
That said, if NoScript starts working on Chrome, I'd likely switch eventually -- and no, NoScripts isn't a real replacement.
Replace Cisco, and Akamai and then maybe I'll be convinced it's better than the current situation. But it's still oxymoronic service: A central authority that *REQUIRES* trust for people who don't trust anybody.
And what do you do for countries with draconian Cert laws like England? (They want a copy of your root cert)
The resulting entity would have to be incorporated in Iceland or something. FAR away from 5-eye's dragnets.
Good question regarding root certs.
As for Iceland being far away from 5-eyes: http://www.submarinecablemap.c... Look at where the Iceland trunks go to -- hint: Canada and England are part of 5-Eyes That, and the country closest to Iceland is....
However,, a more reputable company like SquareSpace might be convinced to do something like that. From what I've seen, GoDaddy seems to have stopped trying to do things for the public good almost a decade ago.
As a counterpoint, my first news sources were local community newspapers and nationally syndicated TV news -- both of which I avoid like the plague now.
Why do you think all the TV networks have embraced putting TV shows online? Because they realize they can put ads on the stream and the user has to sit through them (or go to the bathroom). Either way, they can't fast forward through them like they can on a DVR.
...except that in my case, I block the paths to the ad-content streams. You know what happens? Video stream loads, html5/flash then goes to the "insert ad" code, gets no response, and moves on to the next queued stream, until the next in the queue is the non-ad video. This means that where others get ads, I get about 3 seconds of spinners. I could probably write a greasemonkey script that would flat-out scrub references to those streams from the code so that playback is seamless -- AdBlockPlus, Ghostery and NoScript plugins already do that for me in some situations. I didn't even realize YouTube had ads until I was shoulder surfing someone's iPad....
On the flip side, what you can do with JavaScript Apps today is far beyond most of what could be done with native apps in the late nineties. There are even a numberofsystememulators written in JavaScript that fully emulate systems from the late nineties....
I've generally found that about the time "enough" is no longer enough, the I/O speeds of the removable storage seem slow and small enough that I get testy. Yes Palm devices and SDHC support, I'm looking at you, among others.
Other things to check out: MinutePhysics MinuteEarth Veritasium VSauce Devin Supertramp (for a dose of anti-nerd) Sorted (for the food fix)
All of those tend to have links to yet more YT channels with decent programming, but they've got huge archives of interesting and entertaining material themselves.
Actually, I like the "No original research" policy -- it forces people to post their original research elsewhere, which keeps Wikipedia out of THAT realm of corrupt politics at least. Let domain experts host original research -- not a survey site.
Whoever modded me troll would have done better to cite an example of how they're currently mismanaging things and not being held accountable for it.
Considering how huge Wikipedia is, I think they're doing an amazing job -- better than most career politicians who have to deal with the same large volumes of contrary views. They're basically at a place where they would be hard pressed to do better, and also hard pressed to do worse without doing a LOT worse.
And here comes the actual troll... They tend to do better at moderating Wikipedia issues than Slashdot moderators are at handling issues on here -- and they've got a larger and more diverse audience and contributing group.
And because nobody pays attention to the stewards, they're not held accountable.
To play devil's advocate: the fact that they're doing their jobs commendably well is possibly the reason nobody pays attention to them. So by that, they ARE held accountable. They just measure up pretty well under that accounting, so nobody complains about them (with the obvious notable exceptions).
It's kind of like saying "and because nobody pays attention to the janitors at my workplace, they're not held accountable." You'd better bet that if things started going missing or the mess started to build up, people would pay attention pretty quickly.
that was my first thought -- these things, if they could be manufactured to be affordable, would be great for relative positioning -- although I was thinking seismometers, not GPS. If you had a network of them, you could instantly (well,at the speed of light) map out any changes in their positioning.
Which reminds me; as my head is moving faster than my feet relative to the centre of the earth, they age at different rates. Same principle at work here. But it means I should spend more time standing on my head:)
I agree. I just yearn for a world where the majority of the police hold the opinion that "there doesn't need to be a strong super-majority of flawless citizens to appreciate that most are just people doing their best."
Most police I know are great citizens, but do their job through the lens of viewing everyone as a potential perp. I suppose it helps them recognize the actual perps, but it does hinder their relationship with everyone else while on-duty.
Ok... clearly sarcasm, and you clearly realizes Macs aren't impervious to this and making fun of people who beleive macs are immune... but I can't decide whether or not the you realize this particular vulnerability actually does affect OS X.
Oh, he knows it affects Macs; he just said you don't read about things like this on a Mac -- the reality distortion field and all that, living on in the actual products:)
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Yes, I'm pretty sure you could engineer the climate for Sudan without negatively affecting Ethiopia. Of course, the means of doing that is probably via land reclamation techniques, but that's really true for pretty much any major climate improvement at this point in our planet's life.
Maybe two planets. I propose testing it on Mars first. Costs more but no people to kill.
Maybe someone already did....
You could also spend hours of fun playing "Where's Higgs Boson?"
Well, at least it'd be realistic. Although the comment about "boys can like pink" was a bit over the top -- things like that go over better when they're not pointed out. I read it and thought: "Is there something wrong with liking pink?"
Now what we need is a "Neckbeard Barbie" -- but I don't think Mattel would ever go there.
There's another purpose too: it lets the major distribution networks see what *kind* of show people are watching. This way, when they review the pilots for the next season, they have that extra data point to take into consideration. It also means that these content producers can decide if it's worth entering a specific market segment in the streaming realm. As this is a transition period, this could be very useful information (producers can tune their contracts up front, and only rent properties that will boost their viewing base significantly while rent shopping their most popular items as exclusive deals with a single content delivery channel).
Funny; FF has been my default browser for almost a decade now. Why? The plugins and the ability to control it all myself. Chrome/Chromium are too tied to the mothership for me -- and I say that as someone who uses 8.8.8.8 for DNS.
That said, if NoScript starts working on Chrome, I'd likely switch eventually -- and no, NoScripts isn't a real replacement.
Replace Cisco, and Akamai and then maybe I'll be convinced it's better than the current situation. But it's still oxymoronic service: A central authority that *REQUIRES* trust for people who don't trust anybody.
And what do you do for countries with draconian Cert laws like England? (They want a copy of your root cert)
The resulting entity would have to be incorporated in Iceland or something. FAR away from 5-eye's dragnets.
Good question regarding root certs.
As for Iceland being far away from 5-eyes:
http://www.submarinecablemap.c...
Look at where the Iceland trunks go to -- hint: Canada and England are part of 5-Eyes
That, and the country closest to Iceland is....
However,, a more reputable company like SquareSpace might be convinced to do something like that. From what I've seen, GoDaddy seems to have stopped trying to do things for the public good almost a decade ago.
As a counterpoint, my first news sources were local community newspapers and nationally syndicated TV news -- both of which I avoid like the plague now.
Where's the video of Zuckerberg saying that Facebook will be mostly video?
https://www.facebook.com/video...
Where's that guy with his HOSTS file diatribe? It actually fits here perfectly :D
Why do you think all the TV networks have embraced putting TV shows online? Because they realize they can put ads on the stream and the user has to sit through them (or go to the bathroom). Either way, they can't fast forward through them like they can on a DVR.
...except that in my case, I block the paths to the ad-content streams. You know what happens? Video stream loads, html5/flash then goes to the "insert ad" code, gets no response, and moves on to the next queued stream, until the next in the queue is the non-ad video. This means that where others get ads, I get about 3 seconds of spinners. I could probably write a greasemonkey script that would flat-out scrub references to those streams from the code so that playback is seamless -- AdBlockPlus, Ghostery and NoScript plugins already do that for me in some situations. I didn't even realize YouTube had ads until I was shoulder surfing someone's iPad....
Who the fuck has the time to look through 100 FB stories a day???
Nobody; they look at the headlines and then add 100 comments, just like here on slashdot.
On the flip side, what you can do with JavaScript Apps today is far beyond most of what could be done with native apps in the late nineties. There are even a number of system emulators written in JavaScript that fully emulate systems from the late nineties....
I've generally found that about the time "enough" is no longer enough, the I/O speeds of the removable storage seem slow and small enough that I get testy. Yes Palm devices and SDHC support, I'm looking at you, among others.
Other things to check out:
MinutePhysics
MinuteEarth
Veritasium
VSauce
Devin Supertramp (for a dose of anti-nerd)
Sorted (for the food fix)
All of those tend to have links to yet more YT channels with decent programming, but they've got huge archives of interesting and entertaining material themselves.
Actually, I like the "No original research" policy -- it forces people to post their original research elsewhere, which keeps Wikipedia out of THAT realm of corrupt politics at least. Let domain experts host original research -- not a survey site.
Ah... but Slashdot is!
Whoever modded me troll would have done better to cite an example of how they're currently mismanaging things and not being held accountable for it.
Considering how huge Wikipedia is, I think they're doing an amazing job -- better than most career politicians who have to deal with the same large volumes of contrary views. They're basically at a place where they would be hard pressed to do better, and also hard pressed to do worse without doing a LOT worse.
And here comes the actual troll...
They tend to do better at moderating Wikipedia issues than Slashdot moderators are at handling issues on here -- and they've got a larger and more diverse audience and contributing group.
By all the evidence, it doesn't.
Utter pile of shitcuntitude & buttsnottery.
Such things also tend to work -- it's what our society is built upon.
And because nobody pays attention to the stewards, they're not held accountable.
To play devil's advocate: the fact that they're doing their jobs commendably well is possibly the reason nobody pays attention to them. So by that, they ARE held accountable. They just measure up pretty well under that accounting, so nobody complains about them (with the obvious notable exceptions).
It's kind of like saying "and because nobody pays attention to the janitors at my workplace, they're not held accountable." You'd better bet that if things started going missing or the mess started to build up, people would pay attention pretty quickly.
Good idea; that would solve the size and energy issues too!
that was my first thought -- these things, if they could be manufactured to be affordable, would be great for relative positioning -- although I was thinking seismometers, not GPS. If you had a network of them, you could instantly (well,at the speed of light) map out any changes in their positioning.
Which reminds me; as my head is moving faster than my feet relative to the centre of the earth, they age at different rates. Same principle at work here. But it means I should spend more time standing on my head :)
...queue the contrary bit ;)
I agree. I just yearn for a world where the majority of the police hold the opinion that "there doesn't need to be a strong super-majority of flawless citizens to appreciate that most are just people doing their best."
Most police I know are great citizens, but do their job through the lens of viewing everyone as a potential perp. I suppose it helps them recognize the actual perps, but it does hinder their relationship with everyone else while on-duty.
Ok... clearly sarcasm, and you clearly realizes Macs aren't impervious to this and making fun of people who beleive macs are immune... but I can't decide whether or not the you realize this particular vulnerability actually does affect OS X.
Oh, he knows it affects Macs; he just said you don't read about things like this on a Mac -- the reality distortion field and all that, living on in the actual products :)