Well I think the arguement isn't that women do or don't enjoy it in the games. The only way this would connect to #metoo, is the modern revival of "acting murder in games makes kids want to murder real people, and the games tell them it's ok". IE so the #metoo effecting adult content would be, "When men can see tits in games when they want to, they will demand real women to show tits using whatever means they have". Which IMO is so obviously stupid, and easy to disprove. I don't think anyone can deny that sexual harassment was significantly more common in the 50s than it is today, IE back in the days when married couples on TV had to be depicted as having 2 small beds, because even implying 2 people sleeping together even married was considered too taboo for TV.
While personally I hate the general process of law enforcement in the current era. To my knowledge stings etc... are legal, considering how often I see unmarked cars pulling people over, hearing about undercover cops buying drugs etc...
Also kind of weird that EFF is actually working more towards Facebook cracking down on anonymous accounts. IMO they should however be more fighting towards CONSISTENT rules. IE treat law enforcement sockpuppets discovered the same as if an ordinary joe is caught using a fake name. IMO facebook shouldn't be treating cops differently, IMO if they catch John Doe using a fake account, I don't think they should be telling all his friends that he's actually John Smith. Nor do I like the idea of telling the Mafia that the person they were negotiating with was actually Officer Jim Johnson and can be found at 123 Fake St.
In china there's the crazy social credit system. IE there's things that help and hurt your social credit score, which is kinda bad, but the real crazy part of it, when you hang around people with bad social credit, your score also drops, even if you don't do anything negative in the system, you are considered toxic by association.
I would say though "content creators disabling comments" isn't necessarally the creators stupidity. Youtube's recent response to the Pedo's scandal, was more or less to hold uploaders responsible for comments on their videos. Which means unless you actively keep up with all comments on all of your videos, disabling comments may be the smarter thing to do.
I think the real problem is the design of channels etc... to begin with. It costs more money to set up the recording studios, make the connections with actors, have access to the right effects artists etc... to make a show or series, and with the way economics work... everything folds into a tiny handful of companies (basically pretty much everything folds down into 1 of 6 companies). As these 6 companies buy out everything... they basically gouge the hell out of access to the content. Thus making companies that host it also gouge the hell out of the content, and hit it all in all or nothing packages.
The point isn't 4x the batteries/motors. the idea is 4 smaller batteries instead of 1 big one. Then it can have partial failures instead of all or nothing.
Not really... ISP's are mostly cable companies. If they wanted to go to war with fox, they'd already be in position to do whatever they feel like there.
it isn't the algorythms or source code we need. Nobody at google even understands that crap. In short a program writes a million somewhat random bots. Then they give a tester bot 1000 videos they marked as good, 1000 they marked as bad. they have the million bots sort them, and all but the best 10 bots are deleted. Then a program uses those 10 bots as a baseline, makes a million more variants, test and delete again etc... when google finds out the algorythm is failing, they add some of what they determine as missed bad videos to the test and continue the process
In short, the algorythm that survives, is unreadable to humans, nobody has a darned clue how it works, other than it does better at the test than millions/billions of other random algorythms they've come out with. In short, if you want to search for bias etc... there is a way to do it. Best of all it doesn't require google to give up it's trade secretes etc... we need the testing materials. The manually flagged and added videos that their testing bot judges the random algorythms.
mine right now is a VPS. the VPS isn't holding that much secure (keepass database is there, but the keepass database needs a password and a keyfile. The keyfile itself is only local on my phone and PC in case there's a reason not to trust the VPS provider etc... (a google drive or dropbox would pretty much do the job just as well) To the best of my knowledge keepass itself is pretty secure. Agreed on the rules changing etc.. though I'd personally never go under 15 chars mixed case for anything that holds payment details etc...
Well I guess I've never worked in a place that disallowed carrying of personal phones (though I could certainly see why it would be the case in some places. For me my password manager has always been a keepass database synced over my own personal nextcloud. I can and do use it anywhere my phone has power, having data is a luxury, but it can syncronize whenever I get to a local internet connection, so even if I'm in a faraday cage I still have access to all the passwords that were on it the last time it synchronized. It also lets you set the rules when you generate a password, so if I know it's a password I'll have to enter in a touch screen, or over a playstation controller etc... then I turn off special characters etc...
I suppose we have a different view of "available". For me I still consider my password manager "available", if I'm able to open my personal phone, search for the login I need and type it on the device I need to log in to.
What cases is a password manager not available (or why aren't you using one that is available). Least in my case, I've got a local copy of my password database synced to my phone. So unless I've been away from power outlets for 3 days, or am operating under water or something I've got my password manager on hand.
Don't necesserally blame the specific parents. Ever hear what happens when parents buck the current trend? If someone see's a child 30' away from their parents Child Services is getting called.
I fully agree, it's more of a time management thing for everyone, IMO the real issue is culture, not the video game culture, but the OMG call Child Protective Services Culture.
There's things that are the same, and things that have changed since I was a child. What hasn't changed, is parents have a lot of crap to do, and can't really spend more than an hour or 2 actively talking with or hanging out with their children. Work, cleaning up the house etc.. Bottom line somethings going to go to crap, so we can note that most of the day the child is going to be doing somewhat unsupervised activities.
Now when I was a kid, I used to walk around my neighborhood, knock on my friends doors, if they were home we'd gather up, go walk down to the park, or head out to the nearby woods, go explore, build dams in the creek, play hide and seek in the middle of nowhere, Long as we got back to one of our houses by dinner time, and made the appropriate phone calls to let the other parents know who's house everyone was at, everything was fine
Now... if a kid's playing in his own front yard, and the parent is only watching from the window... there's a high fear that someone is going to call child protective services. I'm afraid to let my kid go play outside or explore like I could when I was a kid, not because I think there's any silly boogiemen or kidnappers (or at least the risk of those things isn't as high as the risk of him getting diabetes or other health risks from staying inside all day long), but the risk of actual problems due to the fear our culture has of what would happen if a kid is out in the world unsupervised, is a great fear. I'm not afraid of strangers, I'm petrified of well meaning neighbors and social service workers.
Well why not have an automated system then. When the late fine surpasses the cost of a new copy... automatically order another copy. Cap the customers late fines at the price of the new movie. Store gets it's new copy to give out while hoping the customer comes back. Customer is considerably less likely to refuse the late fee or hang on to the movie forever. Store now has 2 copies of the movie, and can either keep renting both out, or throw one onto the used movies table for even more money. It seems far more win win of a situation than "pray the customer returns, and if he does punish him hard enough to make him feel stupid for returning".
In my opinion, the electoral college is just broken beyond belief anyway. The main arguement of it is that without it, candidates would be able to win just by representing the densest population areas, but in reality reaching out to more or less the top 20 large cities, still wouldn't even reach the double digit percentage of voters. Now in the general election more or less, 10 states or so matter. The other 40, you can pretty much already mark down for the republican or democrat before we even know who the nominees are.
I think the real fear right now, is the main thing that's different now versus 20 years ago... is that computers are starting to delve in the intellectual. Deep blue beat humans by painstaking work of putting years worth of professional chess games into the computer and letting them learn from the masters.
With alpha go, they did that at first, but then basically they made alphago zero, where they effectively threw out all the human data. just left the learning algorythm, and had it learn by playing against itself... and that form of it was significantly stronger than the one that learned from humans. That general concept is IMO why we are at a verge of a major change to the game. AI tech is no longer where, with some work it can figure out how we do things and imitate it. It is getting to the point where you tell it the result you want, and it will find a way to accomplish it.
Well no, you are trusting them with a lot in the case of a gaming service, Imagine tommorow if something happened and valve announced steam wasn't really printing money, and they need to ditch it. People have bought hundreds or thousands of dollars of games there over the years. Were valve to cut and run the way google did with reader, or docs etc... would mean they'd give everyone a few weeks warning that they've got 3 months to download every game they want to keep (and of course, many people have many terrabytes worth of games there).
we're looking at a gaming service... I highly doubt google is talking about 100% free gaming, ads get in the way of serious games, they are most likely talking "buy a license to play assasains creed for as long as we chose to host it", only other system that would make sense is a random netflix/hulu where it's just subscribe and get whatever games happen to be hosted.
I believe the point is it's cloud gaming. Meaning in short... it is technically running on googles servers when they feel like. If you have connection issues, you can't play. As the game is not on your computer... things like modding outside of what is intended by the dev's of the game is impossible, and should you find a way to succeed at it, you may forfeit your account, and thus any games you may have purchased.
On the plus side of the idea... assuming you've got a solid connection, you can be playing your games on an android phone, or console, or PC just the same. you yourself would never need to worry if your hardware can handle the next game or not as for all practical purposes, you aren't running the game.
I don't think this is a reason to justify purchasing an xbox on it's own... you could accomplish the same with steamplay and a $30 raspberry pi I think.
But if someone bought an xbox because it had some exclusive games that they cared to play, it seems like something that could be useful if you already have one.
Well the question is, which is worse... if someone's got 48 hours to live... want to spend 12 of them tracking down the right guy?
Maybe a better option would have been to fill in some other nurse, psychologist, or anyone else on staff to deliver the news.
You can say all you want that 'the guys primary physician never should have left when he had someone in that level of condition'. Fact is he's a doctor, fact is it's a hospital. If I've heard any advice from people that have worked in hospitals it is... you leave when your shift is up, if you try and hold on there until nobody's dying... you are never going to leave, and the exhaustion is going to make you less helpful to your patients.
I'd say there's a pretty big difference though. Someone that breaks up over text or e-mails is an asshole because, that's something they in theory only deal with once every year or so. This doctor is a specialist, in what seems to be a disease that can kill rather quickly. While yes for the most part patients only have to hear "you are dying" once or twice in their life. Doctors have to deliver the speach 20 times a day.
Reminds me of one of the few dead serious moments of scrubs,
"Turn around. Turn around. You see Dr. Wen in there? He's explaining to that family that something went wrong and that the patient died. He's gonna tell them what happened, he's gonna say he's sorry and then he's going back to work. Do you think anybody else in that room is going back to work today? That is why we distance ourselves"
Well the site itself doesn't check usernames, so the passwords on their own aren't practical even if the page were to be malicious or hijacked by a malicious source. I do agree on the whole it's a bit useless as it only covers the known hacks and breaches. I go by the rule of thumb to always use unique passwords, and if in doubt change them.
You know I always found the camera method of casheer-less checkout the harder way to do it. Little ceasers does their self checkout as, you order your pizza online, you drive up to the store, it's waiting for you in a big box, you punch in a code or scan a qr code from your phone, and go.
That seems to me a plausible future... set up the store like a warehouse. Have robots deliver the groceries to some form of pickup. Shop online, grab your groceries and go. just eliminate the whole front area of the store
Well depends on the store, but around here there's stand around for 20 minutes, finally be one place away in line when the person in front of you wants to pay with a check, call half the store for price checks etc adding another 10-15 minutes. Or I can bag it myself and be out in under 2 minutes. Bottom line my time is worth more to me than my muscles of lifting 2 3 ounce bags.
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Well I think the arguement isn't that women do or don't enjoy it in the games. The only way this would connect to #metoo, is the modern revival of "acting murder in games makes kids want to murder real people, and the games tell them it's ok". IE so the #metoo effecting adult content would be, "When men can see tits in games when they want to, they will demand real women to show tits using whatever means they have". Which IMO is so obviously stupid, and easy to disprove. I don't think anyone can deny that sexual harassment was significantly more common in the 50s than it is today, IE back in the days when married couples on TV had to be depicted as having 2 small beds, because even implying 2 people sleeping together even married was considered too taboo for TV.
While personally I hate the general process of law enforcement in the current era. To my knowledge stings etc... are legal, considering how often I see unmarked cars pulling people over, hearing about undercover cops buying drugs etc... Also kind of weird that EFF is actually working more towards Facebook cracking down on anonymous accounts. IMO they should however be more fighting towards CONSISTENT rules. IE treat law enforcement sockpuppets discovered the same as if an ordinary joe is caught using a fake name. IMO facebook shouldn't be treating cops differently, IMO if they catch John Doe using a fake account, I don't think they should be telling all his friends that he's actually John Smith. Nor do I like the idea of telling the Mafia that the person they were negotiating with was actually Officer Jim Johnson and can be found at 123 Fake St.
In china there's the crazy social credit system. IE there's things that help and hurt your social credit score, which is kinda bad, but the real crazy part of it, when you hang around people with bad social credit, your score also drops, even if you don't do anything negative in the system, you are considered toxic by association.
I would say though "content creators disabling comments" isn't necessarally the creators stupidity. Youtube's recent response to the Pedo's scandal, was more or less to hold uploaders responsible for comments on their videos. Which means unless you actively keep up with all comments on all of your videos, disabling comments may be the smarter thing to do.
I think the real problem is the design of channels etc... to begin with. It costs more money to set up the recording studios, make the connections with actors, have access to the right effects artists etc... to make a show or series, and with the way economics work... everything folds into a tiny handful of companies (basically pretty much everything folds down into 1 of 6 companies). As these 6 companies buy out everything... they basically gouge the hell out of access to the content. Thus making companies that host it also gouge the hell out of the content, and hit it all in all or nothing packages.
The point isn't 4x the batteries/motors. the idea is 4 smaller batteries instead of 1 big one. Then it can have partial failures instead of all or nothing.
Not really... ISP's are mostly cable companies. If they wanted to go to war with fox, they'd already be in position to do whatever they feel like there.
it isn't the algorythms or source code we need. Nobody at google even understands that crap. In short a program writes a million somewhat random bots. Then they give a tester bot 1000 videos they marked as good, 1000 they marked as bad. they have the million bots sort them, and all but the best 10 bots are deleted. Then a program uses those 10 bots as a baseline, makes a million more variants, test and delete again etc... when google finds out the algorythm is failing, they add some of what they determine as missed bad videos to the test and continue the process
In short, the algorythm that survives, is unreadable to humans, nobody has a darned clue how it works, other than it does better at the test than millions/billions of other random algorythms they've come out with. In short, if you want to search for bias etc... there is a way to do it. Best of all it doesn't require google to give up it's trade secretes etc... we need the testing materials. The manually flagged and added videos that their testing bot judges the random algorythms.
mine right now is a VPS. the VPS isn't holding that much secure (keepass database is there, but the keepass database needs a password and a keyfile. The keyfile itself is only local on my phone and PC in case there's a reason not to trust the VPS provider etc... (a google drive or dropbox would pretty much do the job just as well) To the best of my knowledge keepass itself is pretty secure. Agreed on the rules changing etc.. though I'd personally never go under 15 chars mixed case for anything that holds payment details etc...
Well I guess I've never worked in a place that disallowed carrying of personal phones (though I could certainly see why it would be the case in some places. For me my password manager has always been a keepass database synced over my own personal nextcloud. I can and do use it anywhere my phone has power, having data is a luxury, but it can syncronize whenever I get to a local internet connection, so even if I'm in a faraday cage I still have access to all the passwords that were on it the last time it synchronized. It also lets you set the rules when you generate a password, so if I know it's a password I'll have to enter in a touch screen, or over a playstation controller etc... then I turn off special characters etc...
I suppose we have a different view of "available". For me I still consider my password manager "available", if I'm able to open my personal phone, search for the login I need and type it on the device I need to log in to.
What cases is a password manager not available (or why aren't you using one that is available). Least in my case, I've got a local copy of my password database synced to my phone. So unless I've been away from power outlets for 3 days, or am operating under water or something I've got my password manager on hand.
Don't necesserally blame the specific parents. Ever hear what happens when parents buck the current trend? If someone see's a child 30' away from their parents Child Services is getting called.
I fully agree, it's more of a time management thing for everyone, IMO the real issue is culture, not the video game culture, but the OMG call Child Protective Services Culture.
There's things that are the same, and things that have changed since I was a child. What hasn't changed, is parents have a lot of crap to do, and can't really spend more than an hour or 2 actively talking with or hanging out with their children. Work, cleaning up the house etc.. Bottom line somethings going to go to crap, so we can note that most of the day the child is going to be doing somewhat unsupervised activities.
Now when I was a kid, I used to walk around my neighborhood, knock on my friends doors, if they were home we'd gather up, go walk down to the park, or head out to the nearby woods, go explore, build dams in the creek, play hide and seek in the middle of nowhere, Long as we got back to one of our houses by dinner time, and made the appropriate phone calls to let the other parents know who's house everyone was at, everything was fine
Now... if a kid's playing in his own front yard, and the parent is only watching from the window... there's a high fear that someone is going to call child protective services. I'm afraid to let my kid go play outside or explore like I could when I was a kid, not because I think there's any silly boogiemen or kidnappers (or at least the risk of those things isn't as high as the risk of him getting diabetes or other health risks from staying inside all day long), but the risk of actual problems due to the fear our culture has of what would happen if a kid is out in the world unsupervised, is a great fear. I'm not afraid of strangers, I'm petrified of well meaning neighbors and social service workers.
Well why not have an automated system then. When the late fine surpasses the cost of a new copy... automatically order another copy. Cap the customers late fines at the price of the new movie. Store gets it's new copy to give out while hoping the customer comes back. Customer is considerably less likely to refuse the late fee or hang on to the movie forever. Store now has 2 copies of the movie, and can either keep renting both out, or throw one onto the used movies table for even more money. It seems far more win win of a situation than "pray the customer returns, and if he does punish him hard enough to make him feel stupid for returning".
In my opinion, the electoral college is just broken beyond belief anyway. The main arguement of it is that without it, candidates would be able to win just by representing the densest population areas, but in reality reaching out to more or less the top 20 large cities, still wouldn't even reach the double digit percentage of voters. Now in the general election more or less, 10 states or so matter. The other 40, you can pretty much already mark down for the republican or democrat before we even know who the nominees are.
I think the real fear right now, is the main thing that's different now versus 20 years ago... is that computers are starting to delve in the intellectual. Deep blue beat humans by painstaking work of putting years worth of professional chess games into the computer and letting them learn from the masters.
With alpha go, they did that at first, but then basically they made alphago zero, where they effectively threw out all the human data. just left the learning algorythm, and had it learn by playing against itself... and that form of it was significantly stronger than the one that learned from humans. That general concept is IMO why we are at a verge of a major change to the game. AI tech is no longer where, with some work it can figure out how we do things and imitate it. It is getting to the point where you tell it the result you want, and it will find a way to accomplish it.
Well no, you are trusting them with a lot in the case of a gaming service, Imagine tommorow if something happened and valve announced steam wasn't really printing money, and they need to ditch it. People have bought hundreds or thousands of dollars of games there over the years. Were valve to cut and run the way google did with reader, or docs etc... would mean they'd give everyone a few weeks warning that they've got 3 months to download every game they want to keep (and of course, many people have many terrabytes worth of games there).
we're looking at a gaming service... I highly doubt google is talking about 100% free gaming, ads get in the way of serious games, they are most likely talking "buy a license to play assasains creed for as long as we chose to host it", only other system that would make sense is a random netflix/hulu where it's just subscribe and get whatever games happen to be hosted.
I believe the point is it's cloud gaming. Meaning in short... it is technically running on googles servers when they feel like. If you have connection issues, you can't play. As the game is not on your computer... things like modding outside of what is intended by the dev's of the game is impossible, and should you find a way to succeed at it, you may forfeit your account, and thus any games you may have purchased.
On the plus side of the idea... assuming you've got a solid connection, you can be playing your games on an android phone, or console, or PC just the same. you yourself would never need to worry if your hardware can handle the next game or not as for all practical purposes, you aren't running the game.
I don't think this is a reason to justify purchasing an xbox on it's own... you could accomplish the same with steamplay and a $30 raspberry pi I think. But if someone bought an xbox because it had some exclusive games that they cared to play, it seems like something that could be useful if you already have one.
Well the question is, which is worse... if someone's got 48 hours to live... want to spend 12 of them tracking down the right guy?
Maybe a better option would have been to fill in some other nurse, psychologist, or anyone else on staff to deliver the news.
You can say all you want that 'the guys primary physician never should have left when he had someone in that level of condition'. Fact is he's a doctor, fact is it's a hospital. If I've heard any advice from people that have worked in hospitals it is... you leave when your shift is up, if you try and hold on there until nobody's dying... you are never going to leave, and the exhaustion is going to make you less helpful to your patients.
Reminds me of one of the few dead serious moments of scrubs,
"Turn around. Turn around. You see Dr. Wen in there? He's explaining to that family that something went wrong and that the patient died. He's gonna tell them what happened, he's gonna say he's sorry and then he's going back to work. Do you think anybody else in that room is going back to work today? That is why we distance ourselves"
Well the site itself doesn't check usernames, so the passwords on their own aren't practical even if the page were to be malicious or hijacked by a malicious source. I do agree on the whole it's a bit useless as it only covers the known hacks and breaches. I go by the rule of thumb to always use unique passwords, and if in doubt change them.
You know I always found the camera method of casheer-less checkout the harder way to do it. Little ceasers does their self checkout as, you order your pizza online, you drive up to the store, it's waiting for you in a big box, you punch in a code or scan a qr code from your phone, and go. That seems to me a plausible future... set up the store like a warehouse. Have robots deliver the groceries to some form of pickup. Shop online, grab your groceries and go. just eliminate the whole front area of the store
Well depends on the store, but around here there's stand around for 20 minutes, finally be one place away in line when the person in front of you wants to pay with a check, call half the store for price checks etc adding another 10-15 minutes. Or I can bag it myself and be out in under 2 minutes. Bottom line my time is worth more to me than my muscles of lifting 2 3 ounce bags.