Replying to my own comment because I hit submit at the wrong time:(
What is "officially" making this site unreadable is its interface from last decade and the screaming dinosaurs who can't conceive of it being any other way.
For god sake, slashdot is still stuck in technology that logs you out every time you open a post assigned to a different sub-domain than your previous log in, including the root domain. That was something that broke years ago because it was a security hole. But we still have it. What developer think that is acceptable behaviour for a website?
So suggesting that America murders the families of terrorists doesn't even make your top six?
Think about the full horror of that one a minute. One of the front runners for the Presidency of the United States wants to kill people on the basis of who they are related to.
The comparisons with Hitler aren't exaggerations any more.
Ah. I see. You're an American. Try not to use statistics from other countries when you don't understand the terminology used. You end up sounding thick.
He didn't remove people's mobile phone. He blocked the frequencies used by the mobile phone networks, which may be used by any number of devices carried by people, in everyday use or in emergencies, and may even feature in the safe functioning of the train itself.
Most of these people in turn are part of the middle class, regardless of whether they're using Windows at home or on the job.
Well, if we are to accept this conclusion (and it is basically without any supporting evidence), the same could be said of all computer users and therefore all bitcoin users.
So what point is being made by calling Windows Store "middle class" is a mystery. The fact it is mass-market is a million times more relevant. It got discontinued because a tiny percentage of its targeted customers are interested in using bitcoins, not because bitcoins are your working classes money.
You could say the same about defibrillators. If I'm personally annoyed by these, do I get to decide that no-one within my earshot is allowed to use them because "How do you think people manage before?"
Fact is that once the technology is common place, people do come to rely on it and having someone decide to take it away suddenly can put them in danger.
And that's even before you consider what his jammer may have done to systems on his train, every other train it passed and every station.
And what does figures about black British criminals have to do with immigrant Hindus, Sikhs, Polish, Chinese and Muslims?
Nothing unless you're thick enough to divide people into two categories; "White, therefore not immigrant" and "Not White, therefore immigrant".
You're not that thick, are you?
If you actually look at the figures they even disprove your stupid argument. Only 11% of suspects were Asian. That's a category with a large number of Hindus, Sikhs, Chinese and Muslims.
I said exactly what I meant to say, but unfortunately I can't make you read it.
Provision of 4G is a limited resource, just like anything else. Maybe one day 4G will have no problem handling 15GB+ a month for everyone, but currently it can't. If there's any fault to be allocated about that, I don't know. But if you want to live in reality, rather than planet what-should-be, 4G is a poor choice for that volume of data.
The obvious lesson here would be that 4G is really not the technology you want to be using for downloading +15GB/month of data. Currently it is simply incapable of supporting that, so demand has to be throttled one way or another. Cost is as good as any.
If you have need for that kind of bandwidth on the go, look elsewhere or expect to pay for it.
"smartest of the bunch" "a smart single mom" "a soft-spoken newlywed "
The first suggests he identified, and ranked the intelligence of, these people as a separate group, based on their gender rather than their occupation. Bea may have been the "smartest of the bunch", but she still gets lumped into together with the lowliest female clerk.
The other two he identifies by the fact they have children and their marital status. Would he do the same if he was describing male colleagues? I think not.
So he isn't completely free of the prejudices of the period.
There may be an element of this. But it's also the case that the older comedian is either at the end of career, or has made enough money, and does not care about upsetting the delicate students.
A younger comedian is less likely to wish to annoy what is a large part of their target audience, and still cares about their future career.
But a younger comedian is also more attuned to the "triggers" that will cause problems and effortlessly avoids them. An older comedian has to pay more attention to what they are saying to avoid blundering into a taboo topic that, in their day, would have passed unremarked.
Microsoft is forcing people to update, which makes these numbers meaningless.
This statement just shows you are thinking about the situation from completely the wrong angle. The numbers are not a way to win a popularity contest (and MS are cheating and should be disqualified!!1!111!1), they are a reflection of reality. Regardless of what causes people to migrate to Windows 10, the number show that they are migrating. If you are writing software or websites then these numbers means something very important.
The amount of internet whining regarding this trivial issue is ridiculous. They have Trademarked "Reacts". That has nothing at all to do with copyright laws. Yet all the self-declared internet lawyers are out bitching about the imagined copyright issues this raises.
Now whether you think they should have been allowed this trademark is another matter. But it doesn't mean they claim copyright over other people's videos.
There are too big differences between wealth of western and eastern countries.
This is already a fact currently, so what difference would adding a base income make to it?
The basic income in each country means getting the bare minimum to survive in that country. So it would make no difference whether you are living in a rich or poor country; your living standard would still be basic level. People generally don't go through the upheaval of moving country just so they can live in the same basic poverty level some place new. It usually takes something like avoiding a war to force them into that.
The main attraction of a universal basic income is that it removes, at a stroke, the need for a complex benefits system, with all its costs, overheads, impenetrable rules, loopholes and exploits.
Somehow the fact that people I despise hate him makes me like him more. I'm so disappointed with US Presidential politics.
Well that kind of thinking won't help improve it. It's possible to share the same opinion with people you don't like. You don't have to disagree with everything they say. It's even possible to co-operate with people you hate, if it helps achieve a shared goal. These are the marks of sensible and mature politics.
And it isn't just Chrome either. In fact it has nothing to do with Chrome. It applies to any application you may have that might display content/information that you don't want to be randomly visible at a later time.
You are working under a mistaken belief of the purpose of the legislation. Terrorism prevention is just the flag of convenience it's currently sailing under.
It seems like that creates pressure in the direction of thought-free trivialities rather than meaningful depth of communication.
The thought-free trivialities come from the people who don't have much to say that merits more than 140 characters. The solution is not to subscribe to them and their output need not concern you. Everyone else uses twitter to convey single points of information; concisely. If you want to write/read something longer with meaningful depth then twitter isn't the medium for that, any more than a radio traffic update is the place to discuss sustainable transport policy. Go write an email, read a blog or join a forum.
Those "headline" tweets are what I hate most on twitter and I actively avoid accounts that consist of nothing but click-bait to pull you to a website. If I wanted to read a 2 page article I would be browsing the web in a dozen better ways than reading a twitter feed. If I'm reading twitter, I want something short and to the point. I certainly do not want 10k characters, and I do not want to be forever deciding "do I open up this to read further, is it worth it, or is the meat of the comment in the first sentence?"
By forcing people to be concise twitter had something unique. This new upper limit just makes them yet another networking platform.
Slashdot Mirror
Replying to my own comment because I hit submit at the wrong time :(
What is "officially" making this site unreadable is its interface from last decade and the screaming dinosaurs who can't conceive of it being any other way.
For god sake, slashdot is still stuck in technology that logs you out every time you open a post assigned to a different sub-domain than your previous log in, including the root domain. That was something that broke years ago because it was a security hole. But we still have it. What developer think that is acceptable behaviour for a website?
I suppose Dice and Beta officially made the site unreadable
officially = "in my opinion".
So suggesting that America murders the families of terrorists doesn't even make your top six?
Think about the full horror of that one a minute. One of the front runners for the Presidency of the United States wants to kill people on the basis of who they are related to.
The comparisons with Hitler aren't exaggerations any more.
Nobody mentions "Asian" and means Indians.
Yes, they do.
Ah. I see. You're an American. Try not to use statistics from other countries when you don't understand the terminology used. You end up sounding thick.
He didn't remove people's mobile phone. He blocked the frequencies used by the mobile phone networks, which may be used by any number of devices carried by people, in everyday use or in emergencies, and may even feature in the safe functioning of the train itself.
Most of these people in turn are part of the middle class, regardless of whether they're using Windows at home or on the job.
Well, if we are to accept this conclusion (and it is basically without any supporting evidence), the same could be said of all computer users and therefore all bitcoin users.
So what point is being made by calling Windows Store "middle class" is a mystery. The fact it is mass-market is a million times more relevant. It got discontinued because a tiny percentage of its targeted customers are interested in using bitcoins, not because bitcoins are your working classes money.
You could say the same about defibrillators. If I'm personally annoyed by these, do I get to decide that no-one within my earshot is allowed to use them because "How do you think people manage before?"
Fact is that once the technology is common place, people do come to rely on it and having someone decide to take it away suddenly can put them in danger.
And that's even before you consider what his jammer may have done to systems on his train, every other train it passed and every station.
And what does figures about black British criminals have to do with immigrant Hindus, Sikhs, Polish, Chinese and Muslims?
Nothing unless you're thick enough to divide people into two categories; "White, therefore not immigrant" and "Not White, therefore immigrant".
You're not that thick, are you?
If you actually look at the figures they even disprove your stupid argument. Only 11% of suspects were Asian. That's a category with a large number of Hindus, Sikhs, Chinese and Muslims.
I take it back, you are that thick.
No more walking off cliffs because you're posting to Facebook. (this of course excludes general texting)
FTFY. But it seems that it's already too late for you.
I said exactly what I meant to say, but unfortunately I can't make you read it.
Provision of 4G is a limited resource, just like anything else. Maybe one day 4G will have no problem handling 15GB+ a month for everyone, but currently it can't. If there's any fault to be allocated about that, I don't know. But if you want to live in reality, rather than planet what-should-be, 4G is a poor choice for that volume of data.
The obvious lesson here would be that 4G is really not the technology you want to be using for downloading +15GB/month of data. Currently it is simply incapable of supporting that, so demand has to be throttled one way or another. Cost is as good as any.
If you have need for that kind of bandwidth on the go, look elsewhere or expect to pay for it.
Well note how he describes some of these women;
"smartest of the bunch"
"a smart single mom"
"a soft-spoken newlywed "
The first suggests he identified, and ranked the intelligence of, these people as a separate group, based on their gender rather than their occupation. Bea may have been the "smartest of the bunch", but she still gets lumped into together with the lowliest female clerk.
The other two he identifies by the fact they have children and their marital status. Would he do the same if he was describing male colleagues? I think not.
So he isn't completely free of the prejudices of the period.
There may be an element of this. But it's also the case that the older comedian is either at the end of career, or has made enough money, and does not care about upsetting the delicate students.
A younger comedian is less likely to wish to annoy what is a large part of their target audience, and still cares about their future career.
But a younger comedian is also more attuned to the "triggers" that will cause problems and effortlessly avoids them. An older comedian has to pay more attention to what they are saying to avoid blundering into a taboo topic that, in their day, would have passed unremarked.
Microsoft is forcing people to update, which makes these numbers meaningless.
This statement just shows you are thinking about the situation from completely the wrong angle. The numbers are not a way to win a popularity contest (and MS are cheating and should be disqualified!!1!111!1), they are a reflection of reality. Regardless of what causes people to migrate to Windows 10, the number show that they are migrating. If you are writing software or websites then these numbers means something very important.
In which case they are doing it wrong, the DMCA notices are invalid and should be ignored/revoked.
For god sake someone upvote this parent post.
The amount of internet whining regarding this trivial issue is ridiculous. They have Trademarked "Reacts". That has nothing at all to do with copyright laws. Yet all the self-declared internet lawyers are out bitching about the imagined copyright issues this raises.
Now whether you think they should have been allowed this trademark is another matter. But it doesn't mean they claim copyright over other people's videos.
There are too big differences between wealth of western and eastern countries.
This is already a fact currently, so what difference would adding a base income make to it?
The basic income in each country means getting the bare minimum to survive in that country. So it would make no difference whether you are living in a rich or poor country; your living standard would still be basic level. People generally don't go through the upheaval of moving country just so they can live in the same basic poverty level some place new. It usually takes something like avoiding a war to force them into that.
The main attraction of a universal basic income is that it removes, at a stroke, the need for a complex benefits system, with all its costs, overheads, impenetrable rules, loopholes and exploits.
Somehow the fact that people I despise hate him makes me like him more. I'm so disappointed with US Presidential politics.
Well that kind of thinking won't help improve it. It's possible to share the same opinion with people you don't like. You don't have to disagree with everything they say. It's even possible to co-operate with people you hate, if it helps achieve a shared goal. These are the marks of sensible and mature politics.
And it isn't just Chrome either. In fact it has nothing to do with Chrome. It applies to any application you may have that might display content/information that you don't want to be randomly visible at a later time.
You are working under a mistaken belief of the purpose of the legislation. Terrorism prevention is just the flag of convenience it's currently sailing under.
What is it you "represent"? Other than anonymity and cowardry?
Wow. Talk about false dichotomies.
It seems like that creates pressure in the direction of thought-free trivialities rather than meaningful depth of communication.
The thought-free trivialities come from the people who don't have much to say that merits more than 140 characters. The solution is not to subscribe to them and their output need not concern you. Everyone else uses twitter to convey single points of information; concisely. If you want to write/read something longer with meaningful depth then twitter isn't the medium for that, any more than a radio traffic update is the place to discuss sustainable transport policy. Go write an email, read a blog or join a forum.
Those "headline" tweets are what I hate most on twitter and I actively avoid accounts that consist of nothing but click-bait to pull you to a website. If I wanted to read a 2 page article I would be browsing the web in a dozen better ways than reading a twitter feed. If I'm reading twitter, I want something short and to the point. I certainly do not want 10k characters, and I do not want to be forever deciding "do I open up this to read further, is it worth it, or is the meat of the comment in the first sentence?"
By forcing people to be concise twitter had something unique. This new upper limit just makes them yet another networking platform.
The back catalogue is a competitor to the current catalogue
So? As long as it sells, why do they care?