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Meh. I don't want either big-name console because DRM (well mostly a lack of funds, but increasingly DRM), and I'm not a fan of Yet Another Game With Guns And Deathmatches: Modern Warfare 5, but a good video game can open your mind, challenge your reflexes, and even teach you how to play itself through its own design (yes, I'm referring to that egoraptor vid). Making one, of course, is a challenge and artistic and scientific opportunity all its own as well.
Personally, I'd love to see (or found?) a group that makes games one day and investigative journalism the next, one that trains the brain and puts it to use. (Though I'll admit "The alleged charity embezzler did not return our calls. In other news, the HeadShotQuest sniper rifle staff glitch is fixed!" might raise eyebrows.)
The ads for the test, to be aired at primetime and targeted at people who won't even have a choice in the matter (let alone the knowledge to judge whether this is "right for you"), will push the costs up further.
Yeah, it's not wise to stop holding our government to account. I'd rather the US set an example for the worse countries by reining in its bribe-happy CIA, bringing the troops home from profit wars, closing GTMO, and stopping espionage that is not required to stop a known and imminent threat to lives.
Or I guess we can adopt the motto "Still more tolerant and less bloody than Genghis Khan!" but it doesn't quite radiate that exceptional aura.
The even bigger shame is that this is what scientists end up doing...just imagine less science-friendly oil drillers and poachers who don't give a shit about clams that are in the way of, well, *tosses coin* clams.
I'd like to see examples of such security risks. Gitorious is one website that uses AGPL3 code, and hosts projects such as Qt and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Given its profile I'm sure Gitorious and the hosted projects would love to know too.
They'll find a way to close that to public access (except "on a need-to-know basis" and to Royal family members, staff, and "security" officials) too, as soon as they see how embarrassing (or criminal) parts of the archive may be. Clearly, they always find a way, however brutish.
Lol indeed. When Google aren't being ordered by the NSA (and by extension GCHQ and their political friends) to work for them, they volunteer outright. Enjoy the cache while it lasts and while they allow it, because they'll consider either an oversight.
Not one connection to the NSA, or Snowden's ex-girlfriend, or the World Bank, or two employees at Infowars who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss their true jobs with the Bilderberg Group? FAIL.
I wonder if the Slashdot admins will be doing either when they pull a YouTube and inevitably (it's always inevitably, for some reason) turn the main site into beta.slashdot.org.
Here's an easy one: "Archieved[sic] Stories" at the bottom. Listen to us, watch us, whatever, but please don't fuck it up, and fix what isn't right.
You might be on to something. If a loud female causes males to..."yield" more, then a tattooed spank amplifier may well add to that and leave her utterly drenched.
It's Eric "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt and Larry "shouting match [with Brin over more datamining]" Page we're talking about...they couldn't properly feign outrage about the NSA if the NSA found their personal sex tapes and demanded them at gunpoint.
On the contrary, it's the ultimate confidence booster. "If this goddamn flea from a big African island can get some ass-equivalent under some fool's crusty feet..."
Wikimedia and its member sites do a lot of testing and public hearing-ing of features both on and off the main servers; this appears to be more a matter of consolidation under the Wikimedia banner, and more Google Labs-ish in general.
If you're talking about forcing YouTube commenters to use Google+, then lol. YouTube comments sucked, but at least they were generally well-threaded suck (when YouTube itself was displaying them properly and not shuffling the comments in its own...special ways).
When I peek at the newly Plus-ified comment sections...oh god. Hashtags. Mere retweets. No cohesive threading at all. No change in the level of anecdotal GIFT proofs (because [a] anonymity is not the true problem and [b] Real Name harassment only keeps good and honest people away). Build a functioning community? Really?
Just run away from Google if you're not already saddled by using your Gmail as an "id" for several dozen services. Even then, look around for other mail providers, get on the starting line, raise your ass, and be ready to sprint.
Yeah. Google is breaking the internet, selling off its users, and generally being a Facebook parody, and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim had something (however brief) to say about it. It's a case study in why selling off your internet startup that happens to fulfill your life dreams and customer needs should be a worst-case scenario, not a bloody business model.
Bad as the NSA are, I don't want to blame them for everything bad in this world; but Snowden-based news stories have clearly shown that they use their broad power not just to spy for the military but to maintain US economic advantage, and I would not be shocked at all if the EU was given a warm and courteous* NSL or similar nastygram to scare them into both being soft on US-based Google and giving them a de facto speedy but non-public trial.
The proposed changes to search results seem reasonable to me, but the process that may lead to them really should be open.
Indeed the only advertising (if that) I've seen for those batteries (I've also bought 'em) have been comments on...well...Amazon.
But yeah, adders* don't need to track. They were doing just fine with fun jingles in TV show breaks, SHOOT THE MONKEY internet banners, and not taking up so much time that said TV shows had to trim their openers and end-credits to absurdly short lengths...while still having to product-place anyway.
*Just for brevity, but given how their venom has brought even Mozilla to their knees, probably appropriate in other ways.
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Meh. I don't want either big-name console because DRM (well mostly a lack of funds, but increasingly DRM), and I'm not a fan of Yet Another Game With Guns And Deathmatches: Modern Warfare 5, but a good video game can open your mind, challenge your reflexes, and even teach you how to play itself through its own design (yes, I'm referring to that egoraptor vid). Making one, of course, is a challenge and artistic and scientific opportunity all its own as well.
Personally, I'd love to see (or found?) a group that makes games one day and investigative journalism the next, one that trains the brain and puts it to use. (Though I'll admit "The alleged charity embezzler did not return our calls. In other news, the HeadShotQuest sniper rifle staff glitch is fixed!" might raise eyebrows.)
The ads for the test, to be aired at primetime and targeted at people who won't even have a choice in the matter (let alone the knowledge to judge whether this is "right for you"), will push the costs up further.
Yeah, it's not wise to stop holding our government to account. I'd rather the US set an example for the worse countries by reining in its bribe-happy CIA, bringing the troops home from profit wars, closing GTMO, and stopping espionage that is not required to stop a known and imminent threat to lives.
Or I guess we can adopt the motto "Still more tolerant and less bloody than Genghis Khan!" but it doesn't quite radiate that exceptional aura.
Supported or not, <regex> may yield surprising results when used with UTF-8 or other Unicode text, so those may require a non-<regex> library or the proposed <unicode> header for C++14 anyway.
Yup. from the unless-double-secret-probation-prohibits-canaries dept., pretty much.
Your post advocates a
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(*) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting NSLs. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
No need to worry about how free it is. Autodesk did it.
The even bigger shame is that this is what scientists end up doing...just imagine less science-friendly oil drillers and poachers who don't give a shit about clams that are in the way of, well, *tosses coin* clams.
I'd like to see examples of such security risks. Gitorious is one website that uses AGPL3 code, and hosts projects such as Qt and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Given its profile I'm sure Gitorious and the hosted projects would love to know too.
I think they've already learned that, and use their knowledge of that to their advantage.
I like your optimism.
They'll find a way to close that to public access (except "on a need-to-know basis" and to Royal family members, staff, and "security" officials) too, as soon as they see how embarrassing (or criminal) parts of the archive may be. Clearly, they always find a way, however brutish.
Lol indeed. When Google aren't being ordered by the NSA (and by extension GCHQ and their political friends) to work for them, they volunteer outright. Enjoy the cache while it lasts and while they allow it, because they'll consider either an oversight.
Not one connection to the NSA, or Snowden's ex-girlfriend, or the World Bank, or two employees at Infowars who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss their true jobs with the Bilderberg Group? FAIL.
I wonder if the Slashdot admins will be doing either when they pull a YouTube and inevitably (it's always inevitably, for some reason) turn the main site into beta.slashdot.org.
Here's an easy one: "Archieved[sic] Stories" at the bottom. Listen to us, watch us, whatever, but please don't fuck it up, and fix what isn't right.
A moderator a day keeps the Real Name policies away.
You might be on to something. If a loud female causes males to..."yield" more, then a tattooed spank amplifier may well add to that and leave her utterly drenched.
It's Eric "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt and Larry "shouting match [with Brin over more datamining]" Page we're talking about...they couldn't properly feign outrage about the NSA if the NSA found their personal sex tapes and demanded them at gunpoint.
On the contrary, it's the ultimate confidence booster. "If this goddamn flea from a big African island can get some ass-equivalent under some fool's crusty feet..."
Wikimedia and its member sites do a lot of testing and public hearing-ing of features both on and off the main servers; this appears to be more a matter of consolidation under the Wikimedia banner, and more Google Labs-ish in general.
If you're talking about forcing YouTube commenters to use Google+, then lol. YouTube comments sucked, but at least they were generally well-threaded suck (when YouTube itself was displaying them properly and not shuffling the comments in its own...special ways).
When I peek at the newly Plus-ified comment sections...oh god. Hashtags. Mere retweets. No cohesive threading at all. No change in the level of anecdotal GIFT proofs (because [a] anonymity is not the true problem and [b] Real Name harassment only keeps good and honest people away). Build a functioning community? Really?
Just run away from Google if you're not already saddled by using your Gmail as an "id" for several dozen services. Even then, look around for other mail providers, get on the starting line, raise your ass, and be ready to sprint.
Yeah. Google is breaking the internet, selling off its users, and generally being a Facebook parody, and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim had something (however brief) to say about it. It's a case study in why selling off your internet startup that happens to fulfill your life dreams and customer needs should be a worst-case scenario, not a bloody business model.
Any prospective user of them should assume the Slashdot poll disclaimer: "If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
Bad as the NSA are, I don't want to blame them for everything bad in this world; but Snowden-based news stories have clearly shown that they use their broad power not just to spy for the military but to maintain US economic advantage, and I would not be shocked at all if the EU was given a warm and courteous* NSL or similar nastygram to scare them into both being soft on US-based Google and giving them a de facto speedy but non-public trial.
The proposed changes to search results seem reasonable to me, but the process that may lead to them really should be open.
*lol
Leeches never really left the drugstore. They evolved into the strange lifeforms we now call "Health Maintenance Organizations".
Indeed the only advertising (if that) I've seen for those batteries (I've also bought 'em) have been comments on...well...Amazon.
But yeah, adders* don't need to track. They were doing just fine with fun jingles in TV show breaks, SHOOT THE MONKEY internet banners, and not taking up so much time that said TV shows had to trim their openers and end-credits to absurdly short lengths...while still having to product-place anyway.
*Just for brevity, but given how their venom has brought even Mozilla to their knees, probably appropriate in other ways.
I give it one year at extreme most, but I really expect four months before they announce its scheduled closure on the fifth month.