You just have to look at the outpouring of rage from whiny-ass MRA manbabies regarding the re-boot of Ghostbusters with an all-female cast to see how this mechanism plays out.
Funny, most of the MRA groups I know of are more concerned with social issues like disparate child custody decisions, prison sentencing and other inequalities in the justice system biased against men. The only group I have heard make statements on the Ghostbusters movie was the Red Pillers at Return of kings. Was that what you were referring to?
Remember the outrage over the latest Star Wars? How the MRAs were going to boycott? They degrade all of masculinity with their incessant whining.
Again not familiar with MRA's weighing in on popular movies, Return of kings did though and you should rightfully ignore them, they embarrass everyone including MRA's so please do not conflate the two.
MEMO TO IT GUYS: Stop treating medical instruments like they're desktop computers! Find another solution, or AT LEAST be smart about how you're installing your junk on it, IT IS A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT, DAMNIT!
To you it is a medical instrument, to would be attackers it is yet another unpatched windows box. How IT views something is not the same as how you do and if the organization's perimeter is breached your medical instrument might be a low hanging fruit for exploitation. Granted after exploiting it they may not find anything particularly useful on the device itself but they might find credentials to use elsewhere in the network. You have to remember cases like Stuxnet where the worm targeted Windows boxes used for running centrifuges, everyone else saw centrifuges but the attackers saw windows.
Now I am not defending the IT guys, if the system cannot have antivirus on it then it cannot have antivirus on it. The proper solution would be to keep the device off the network or isolate it inside it's own network away from everything else. They should be able to work with systems that cannot run AV and design security around that, not slap AV on everything and call it secure.
UAS pilots are not idiots, if I hear a low flying manned aircraft I immediately dive to the ground. It is not like a stupid bird.
You may very well not be an idiot, you might operate your drone with intelligence and common sense and are aware of how to fly your UAS safely. If so good for you, way to set the example!
But the problem is not you, it is those idiots that do not think about the consequences of their actions that is making your hobby look like shit. Like the moron that flew his drone into a fire zone causing the fire fighters to ground their flights. Or another idiot that dropped his drone onto a kid at a movie theater. Or that one genius that crashed his drone on the white house lawn. These guys are the problem and who are getting everyone so riled up about drones.
So I want you to do yourself and every other responsible drone operator a favor: If you are out flying with your buddies and you see or hear about them about to do something stupid, go over there, grab them by the shirt, and slap the fucking taste out of their mouth. Because they are doing more harm to your hobby than a thousand regulatory busybodies ever could.
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Also of note: "Go fuck yourself Feinstein!" and "Big Brother is watching you" are two strings of equal length, funny how that works out.
I think you misunderstand the definition of "wage gap." The wage gap is that an equally qualified woman performing an equal job to a man in the same position is earning significantly less (I think the current estimate is around 80%.)
Holy shit, if that is the case why am I not hearing about lawsuits flying around about this? Especially since it would be prima facie against the Equal Pay Act. Hell if I was a lawyer I would be salivating at those cases as a slam dunk win, if what you said was true.
Or you could be pulling shit out of your ass since the wage gap you described has been debunked multiple times. There is no evidence I could find of a pay gap as you described it, There is a gap when looking at all men vs all women but this is because of career choice and hours worked. If you are aware of any woman who is being underpaid as you described I would recommend they contact their nearest competent attorney because they are due a hell of a settlement.
It is perhaps even stranger considering the gender disparity in tech, where engineering teams tend to be mostly male. It seems like yet another example of female-voiced AI servitude, except this time she's turned into a sex slave thanks to the people using her on Twitter.
Really, that is what the writer is going with, that the male researchers just wanted to develop another female sex slave program? Instead of the real reason which is that the internet is full of assholes and the developers should anticipate them and not allow random people to have her repeat what they said. These articles from Ars Technica and the Guardian gives a much better explanation of the issues, namely many people used Tay's "repeat after me" programming to have it spout racist rhetoric. The other organic responses were the result of people attempting to game the AI learning, something Microsoft should have anticipated but was again not an intended result. Honestly the telegraph should be ashamed of their article, they attempted to use projection and bias instead of honest reporting in order to generate more readers.
I suggest you remove the disable ads checkbox because it's useless crap. I wonder when you'll start serving malware to make a little extra money.
The disable ads check box did work a long time ago, but then after Dice took over it began to block less and less ads until it was completely useless. Whipslash did post previously that they intend to remove the crap Dice left behind, it is just taking time.
I think it has to be a troll, surely... The anti-feminists have been doing this kind of thing with github projects, comments on news stories and the like for years now.
Graduate from college with a Bachelors while concealing anti-feminism leanings ~4 years
Pursue/obtain doctorate while concealing anti-feminism leanings 3-4 years
Obtain NSF grant 1 year while concealing anti-feminism leanings
Publish paper as a false flag attack against feminism after 3 years *Victory*
Man those anti-feminists sure do play the long game don't they? Hell that should be in the record book for one of the longest cons in history, and by four people no less!
This criticism is on par with other criticisms of climate science.
There have been many criticisms of Climate science, including my favorite of Big Climate. But this was the first time I heard climate science "privileges, quite explicitly, manly endeavors and adventures in the field". Like the scientists are not supposed to go out in the field for research?
You know what? It doesn't take that much time (tax dollars) to write the paper.
The grant was for a little less than half a million dollars.Not sure where you are coming from but for me that is quite a lot to spend on a paper especially one with no original studies. There was quite a lot of references to other publications but no surveys, no sampling, nothing pointing to some hard data the team gathered on their own.
Now, if you bothered to read the paper, you'd find cool stuff like, "Patersonâ(TM)s artwork builds on an earlier project where she submerged a phone line connected to VatnajÃkull, Iceland and Europeâ(TM)s largest glacier. People could call the glacier (+44(0)7757001122) and listen to the distinctive pops, trills, and gurgles of the ice. More than ten thousand people called during the installation"
I'm sorry, were they supposed to be writing a research paper or a Buzzfeed article about the top 20 weirdest things people have done with ice? And people wonder why the social sciences get reputations as not being real science.
Placing the burden on content providers will just push smaller content providers out. I can see no benefit to this.
There should be some burden on the content providers, they need to remember that the whole page is what users draw their impression of the site from. A good site owner would do their best to make sure any ads they do run do not detract from the user experience and are maybe useful to the user. Unfortunately there is many websites that instead slap some content down and then plaster it with ads, not considering the users impression of the site when it is like that. If those types of sites fail because they cannot be bothered to vet their advertisements they deserve everything coming to them.
Furthermore, centralized ad content distributors can do a lot more to combat malware than can smaller content providers.
One of the main pushes behind people installing ad blockers is because the ad content managers failed to combat malware and in fact became a vector for malware infections. A decent antivirus solution running on the sites webservers would have caught that.
"diminishing my experience of advertising" is not something the average user concerns themselves with. The users are not going to sites to view their ads, they are going to view the site's actual content. Ads are at best mildly interesting but are increasingly considered an annoyance or even dangerous. So the users have responded by saying their best "experience of advertising" is to block it and not experience it at all. The advertisers should be taking this as a lesson but apparently they are still deluding themselves thinking people want to see their ads. They will listen sooner or later or their industry will come crashing down around them.
APK has some pretty good posts, every once in a while.
Wait you mean he's human? I thought it was just the world's worst spam bot. Now I am picturing him as some Ted Kaczynski guy up in the woods tying up his manifesto into his hosts file, just waiting for the world to recognize his genius.
TMZ is a crap site but it is interesting how in an argument between someone named Martin Shkreli and someone named Ghostface Killah, that Mr. Killah came out as the mature one.
I actually held off on disabling ads on Slashdot for several years, they originally didn't bother me and sometimes had things I wanted to know more about (hmm new model of firewall, could be worth a look). Then Dice took over and I started seeing ads that belonged on Yahoo or AOL (doctors hate him, yes that one), and I disabled advertising because it started to be distracting and took away from the site.
That is a problem with a lot of these mass advertisement campaigns, they do not take into account the website audience and shotgun junk all over the place and all over the page. If they had kept their readers in mind and tried to focus on products they might be interested in they would have a higher click through rate and the readers would be happier too. But instead right now it is bottom of the barrel ad campaigns and I am suspecting a below average success rate compared to other sites even. #1 in marketing: know your audience.
Well that explains the distorted view that advertisers have of the web, fortunately they are wrong.
People go to websites to view real content, meaning the article, blog, video or whatever drew them to the site. They do not go to view ads, they did not come to learn yet another weird trick or to hear about some jagoffs bookshelf full of Lamborghinis, they are there for the actual content whether it be a cooking recipe or a article about the mating habits of the western washed up celebrity (hominis nonerectus) it is the real content that drives people to visit.
I have often heard people compare their websites to their living room, which I suppose is as apt an analogy as any. They are producing the content and paying the costs so it is their choice what they will do with their website. People will come to visit if the content is good, but even then there is only so much the visitor will tolerate before deciding to remedy the situation via either ad block or just not visiting. So I would suggest any actual content producers out there take a good look at their advertising partners. Because if you allow them to come in your living room and shit all over the place, don't be surprised if your guests leave.
The straw man argument was from TFA: Julia Wolfson. "This has been one of the biggest arguments against smart guns, that people just don't want them. This research shows otherwise." No, the biggest argument was concerning the trigger laws that New Jersey and other areas set up mandating the smart gun technology on all firearms after it became available anywhere. Lawrence Keane, of the National Sport Shooting Foundation, said "If people think there's a market for these products, then the market should work," in other words absent these laws the gun industry would endorse the further development of smart gun technology.
Incidentally during the whole fight back in 2014 about smart gun technology one was reviewed. They found it prone to misfire and slow to start up among other things. Obviously not a proven technology as of yet.
Trying to vaguely synthesize a "problem" may work in other circles, but hard science doesn't want to hear that there's "some kind of thing going on, maybe", it wants facts, places, numbers, reproducible events, documentation, data, something real, something tangible.
Hell I would settle for some correlation at least:
Is the rate of sexual harassment higher for $field than it is for the general population?
If it is then maybe there is more research to be done to discover why and try to correct it. If not then there is not a problem in $field, there is an asshole problem. And you deal with the asshole problem by getting rid of the assholes and not blaming the field the assholes happen to work in. (disclaimer: I am not calling anyone from TFA an asshole, just stating in general)
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How about a punch in the mouth? I found that most bullies are unwilling to pay the price for their opinions and flee from imminent harm.
Watch out, we got a badass over here!
You just have to look at the outpouring of rage from whiny-ass MRA manbabies regarding the re-boot of Ghostbusters with an all-female cast to see how this mechanism plays out.
Funny, most of the MRA groups I know of are more concerned with social issues like disparate child custody decisions, prison sentencing and other inequalities in the justice system biased against men. The only group I have heard make statements on the Ghostbusters movie was the Red Pillers at Return of kings. Was that what you were referring to?
Remember the outrage over the latest Star Wars? How the MRAs were going to boycott? They degrade all of masculinity with their incessant whining.
Again not familiar with MRA's weighing in on popular movies, Return of kings did though and you should rightfully ignore them, they embarrass everyone including MRA's so please do not conflate the two.
MEMO TO IT GUYS: Stop treating medical instruments like they're desktop computers! Find another solution, or AT LEAST be smart about how you're installing your junk on it, IT IS A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT, DAMNIT!
To you it is a medical instrument, to would be attackers it is yet another unpatched windows box. How IT views something is not the same as how you do and if the organization's perimeter is breached your medical instrument might be a low hanging fruit for exploitation. Granted after exploiting it they may not find anything particularly useful on the device itself but they might find credentials to use elsewhere in the network. You have to remember cases like Stuxnet where the worm targeted Windows boxes used for running centrifuges, everyone else saw centrifuges but the attackers saw windows.
Now I am not defending the IT guys, if the system cannot have antivirus on it then it cannot have antivirus on it. The proper solution would be to keep the device off the network or isolate it inside it's own network away from everything else. They should be able to work with systems that cannot run AV and design security around that, not slap AV on everything and call it secure.
UAS pilots are not idiots, if I hear a low flying manned aircraft I immediately dive to the ground. It is not like a stupid bird.
You may very well not be an idiot, you might operate your drone with intelligence and common sense and are aware of how to fly your UAS safely. If so good for you, way to set the example!
But the problem is not you, it is those idiots that do not think about the consequences of their actions that is making your hobby look like shit. Like the moron that flew his drone into a fire zone causing the fire fighters to ground their flights. Or another idiot that dropped his drone onto a kid at a movie theater. Or that one genius that crashed his drone on the white house lawn. These guys are the problem and who are getting everyone so riled up about drones.
So I want you to do yourself and every other responsible drone operator a favor: If you are out flying with your buddies and you see or hear about them about to do something stupid, go over there, grab them by the shirt, and slap the fucking taste out of their mouth. Because they are doing more harm to your hobby than a thousand regulatory busybodies ever could.
If you saw Fascism rising in your country, would you obligated to try to stop it?
Considering Feinstein still has a Facebook page, I am guessing they do not feel that obligation.
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Also of note: "Go fuck yourself Feinstein!" and "Big Brother is watching you" are two strings of equal length, funny how that works out.
I think you misunderstand the definition of "wage gap." The wage gap is that an equally qualified woman performing an equal job to a man in the same position is earning significantly less (I think the current estimate is around 80%.)
Holy shit, if that is the case why am I not hearing about lawsuits flying around about this? Especially since it would be prima facie against the Equal Pay Act. Hell if I was a lawyer I would be salivating at those cases as a slam dunk win, if what you said was true.
Or you could be pulling shit out of your ass since the wage gap you described has been debunked multiple times. There is no evidence I could find of a pay gap as you described it, There is a gap when looking at all men vs all women but this is because of career choice and hours worked. If you are aware of any woman who is being underpaid as you described I would recommend they contact their nearest competent attorney because they are due a hell of a settlement.
The FBI and city of San Bernadino both have a legal right to access the data, so why is it Apple's choice about if they will help them?
You locked yourself out of your car, why am I obligated to help you get into it?
It is not Apples prerogative however to deny a city, state, fed, or even company's access to their data.
By refusing to assist you in unlocking your car I am not denying you access, I am simply not assisting you.
It is perhaps even stranger considering the gender disparity in tech, where engineering teams tend to be mostly male. It seems like yet another example of female-voiced AI servitude, except this time she's turned into a sex slave thanks to the people using her on Twitter.
Really, that is what the writer is going with, that the male researchers just wanted to develop another female sex slave program? Instead of the real reason which is that the internet is full of assholes and the developers should anticipate them and not allow random people to have her repeat what they said. These articles from Ars Technica and the Guardian gives a much better explanation of the issues, namely many people used Tay's "repeat after me" programming to have it spout racist rhetoric. The other organic responses were the result of people attempting to game the AI learning, something Microsoft should have anticipated but was again not an intended result. Honestly the telegraph should be ashamed of their article, they attempted to use projection and bias instead of honest reporting in order to generate more readers.
I suggest you remove the disable ads checkbox because it's useless crap. I wonder when you'll start serving malware to make a little extra money.
The disable ads check box did work a long time ago, but then after Dice took over it began to block less and less ads until it was completely useless. Whipslash did post previously that they intend to remove the crap Dice left behind, it is just taking time.
It's a trick. Get an ax.
I think it has to be a troll, surely... The anti-feminists have been doing this kind of thing with github projects, comments on news stories and the like for years now.
Man those anti-feminists sure do play the long game don't they? Hell that should be in the record book for one of the longest cons in history, and by four people no less!
This criticism is on par with other criticisms of climate science.
There have been many criticisms of Climate science, including my favorite of Big Climate. But this was the first time I heard climate science "privileges, quite explicitly, manly endeavors and adventures in the field". Like the scientists are not supposed to go out in the field for research?
You know what? It doesn't take that much time (tax dollars) to write the paper.
The grant was for a little less than half a million dollars.Not sure where you are coming from but for me that is quite a lot to spend on a paper especially one with no original studies. There was quite a lot of references to other publications but no surveys, no sampling, nothing pointing to some hard data the team gathered on their own.
Now, if you bothered to read the paper, you'd find cool stuff like, "Patersonâ(TM)s artwork builds on an earlier project where she submerged a phone line connected to VatnajÃkull, Iceland and Europeâ(TM)s largest glacier. People could call the glacier (+44(0)7757001122) and listen to the distinctive pops, trills, and gurgles of the ice. More than ten thousand people called during the installation"
I'm sorry, were they supposed to be writing a research paper or a Buzzfeed article about the top 20 weirdest things people have done with ice? And people wonder why the social sciences get reputations as not being real science.
Good to hear, I don't think the Slashdot user base is the "One weird trick" kind of crowd.
Placing the burden on content providers will just push smaller content providers out. I can see no benefit to this.
There should be some burden on the content providers, they need to remember that the whole page is what users draw their impression of the site from. A good site owner would do their best to make sure any ads they do run do not detract from the user experience and are maybe useful to the user. Unfortunately there is many websites that instead slap some content down and then plaster it with ads, not considering the users impression of the site when it is like that. If those types of sites fail because they cannot be bothered to vet their advertisements they deserve everything coming to them.
Furthermore, centralized ad content distributors can do a lot more to combat malware than can smaller content providers.
One of the main pushes behind people installing ad blockers is because the ad content managers failed to combat malware and in fact became a vector for malware infections. A decent antivirus solution running on the sites webservers would have caught that.
"diminishing my experience of advertising" is not something the average user concerns themselves with. The users are not going to sites to view their ads, they are going to view the site's actual content. Ads are at best mildly interesting but are increasingly considered an annoyance or even dangerous. So the users have responded by saying their best "experience of advertising" is to block it and not experience it at all. The advertisers should be taking this as a lesson but apparently they are still deluding themselves thinking people want to see their ads. They will listen sooner or later or their industry will come crashing down around them.
Well it is the only way to be sure.
APK has some pretty good posts, every once in a while.
Wait you mean he's human? I thought it was just the world's worst spam bot. Now I am picturing him as some Ted Kaczynski guy up in the woods tying up his manifesto into his hosts file, just waiting for the world to recognize his genius.
TMZ is a crap site but it is interesting how in an argument between someone named Martin Shkreli and someone named Ghostface Killah, that Mr. Killah came out as the mature one.
I actually held off on disabling ads on Slashdot for several years, they originally didn't bother me and sometimes had things I wanted to know more about (hmm new model of firewall, could be worth a look). Then Dice took over and I started seeing ads that belonged on Yahoo or AOL (doctors hate him, yes that one), and I disabled advertising because it started to be distracting and took away from the site.
That is a problem with a lot of these mass advertisement campaigns, they do not take into account the website audience and shotgun junk all over the place and all over the page. If they had kept their readers in mind and tried to focus on products they might be interested in they would have a higher click through rate and the readers would be happier too. But instead right now it is bottom of the barrel ad campaigns and I am suspecting a below average success rate compared to other sites even. #1 in marketing: know your audience.
Well that explains the distorted view that advertisers have of the web, fortunately they are wrong.
People go to websites to view real content, meaning the article, blog, video or whatever drew them to the site. They do not go to view ads, they did not come to learn yet another weird trick or to hear about some jagoffs bookshelf full of Lamborghinis, they are there for the actual content whether it be a cooking recipe or a article about the mating habits of the western washed up celebrity (hominis nonerectus) it is the real content that drives people to visit.
I have often heard people compare their websites to their living room, which I suppose is as apt an analogy as any. They are producing the content and paying the costs so it is their choice what they will do with their website. People will come to visit if the content is good, but even then there is only so much the visitor will tolerate before deciding to remedy the situation via either ad block or just not visiting. So I would suggest any actual content producers out there take a good look at their advertising partners. Because if you allow them to come in your living room and shit all over the place, don't be surprised if your guests leave.
Nice straw man fallacy!
The straw man argument was from TFA: Julia Wolfson. "This has been one of the biggest arguments against smart guns, that people just don't want them. This research shows otherwise." No, the biggest argument was concerning the trigger laws that New Jersey and other areas set up mandating the smart gun technology on all firearms after it became available anywhere. Lawrence Keane, of the National Sport Shooting Foundation, said "If people think there's a market for these products, then the market should work," in other words absent these laws the gun industry would endorse the further development of smart gun technology.
Incidentally during the whole fight back in 2014 about smart gun technology one was reviewed. They found it prone to misfire and slow to start up among other things. Obviously not a proven technology as of yet.
Trying to vaguely synthesize a "problem" may work in other circles, but hard science doesn't want to hear that there's "some kind of thing going on, maybe", it wants facts, places, numbers, reproducible events, documentation, data, something real, something tangible.
Hell I would settle for some correlation at least:
Is the rate of sexual harassment higher for $field than it is for the general population?
If it is then maybe there is more research to be done to discover why and try to correct it.
If not then there is not a problem in $field, there is an asshole problem. And you deal with the asshole problem by getting rid of the assholes and not blaming the field the assholes happen to work in.
(disclaimer: I am not calling anyone from TFA an asshole, just stating in general)
I don't really see us getting back to the moon within my lifetime (much less mars) without a very substantial budget increase.
Then the problem is easy to solve. with Nasa's recent announcement: