With various points systems, we've gamified social status, and people are biologically wired to like to win games. Even on Slashdot, many years ago, we had visible numeric karma scores, and people got into stupid e-penis contests to see who could get a higher number. It wasn't so much fun when karma turned into classified ranges, and people stopped. We're not at the point depicted in that episode of Black Mirror yet, but we can see the seeds of it.
This made me immediately think of the episode of Community episode "App Development and Condiments" where an app called MeowMeowBeenz that allows users to give other users a rating of one to five MeowMeowBeenz is beta tested on the campus. The campus soon deteriorates into a dystopia, with the Fives and Fours controlling the school, the Threes and Twos serving them, and the Ones being exiled.
Creation or whatever branding they've given it. It must be the most Frankenstein style, cobbled together engine ever used to power AAA games.
I would put good money on there being more TODO and HACK comments in that source than actual lines of code.
...and thank God that the UK Government underwrote the bribes to foreign governments - using taxpayers' money - to secure the manufacturing contracts that keep RR going.
Just torrent from behind a decent VPN. Many VPNs support torrenting and provide settings guides for major torrent clients. It's usually significantly slower than connecting to the swarm directly, but that's the price of privacy.
Sometimes you run into places where the moron designer thought that only alphanumeric characters make valid password characters.
...and its cousin, the "I don't know what characters are actually valid in email addresses, so let's just restrict that to alphanumeric too."
Several websites don't allow special characters in the local part of email addresses, despite them being perfectly valid, which prevents me from using the myname+yourshittywebsite@gmail.com method of filtering.
You don't mention when this happened, but I'd have thought that after the terror attacks there would be vastly increased security on the Paris Metro. Perhaps not, I guess Transport Police don't work for free.
I wonder if buying and "reading" a French newspaper on the Metro would possibly confuse potential muggers as to your foreigner status?
Although from TFA it appears he would lose access to his actual emails - I assume they're stored online - from the summary I'd say his bigger concern is that he has used this email address to communicate with just about everyone for 20 years. It's like being told you're being evicted and you have 30 days to find a new home and tell everyone you know and every company you deal with where you'll be living from now on.
It would take days for me to change the registered email address for every site and service I use, and that's just for ones where I can actually log in and update my records. Then there's the personal/business contacts where you would have to actually contact them personally. It's a huge inconvenience.
The main injustice here is that the whole situation is entirely unnecessary. Clearly Eastlink have never bothered with this before, but suddenly they want this address. You could argue noreply@ has some functional use as a descriptor, but since it's intended as a black hole you could just as easily use donotreply@ or unmonitored@ or bananamilkshake@ and the result would be the same.
You're right. We should never bring up anything from the past that calls into question the integrity of the people we're quoting. After all, if you say something that a lot of people agree with, and then spend the rest of your life saying awful things, people should just forget about the awful things and focus on the one good thing you did say.
Your Trump-bashing is laudable, but could you at least get the quote correct?
"All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
~H.L. Mencken
You should probably also admit that Mencken was deeply predjudiced, even for his time.
"I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however carefully it might be nurtured, could ever even remotely approach it. The educated negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a negro. He is, in brief, a low-caste man, to the manner born, and he will remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him."
I download plenty of shady things from shady sources and I have never gotten a virus.
Gee, I can't imagine why your IT department resorts to such heavy-handed AV protection...
As a sysadmin, I hate having to run AV software on our clients. It's a resource hog, so we receive complaints about responsiveness - and that's just the on-access scanning, the full scans are even worse. Even when we schedule scans out-of-hours, there's always someone who has let their laptop battery drain or switched their workstation off at the socket, so they get smacked with a full scan the next morning. Then there's the inevitable AV update failures, having to repair installs, etc. The work just adds up.
However, not running AV is simply out of the question. Almost daily we get email notifications about some stupid shit a user has tried to run. The inconvenience caused by running AV is dwarfed by the utter chaos that would ensue if, for example, some ransomware worm was allowed to run rampant across the network. AV is a necessary response to an imperfect world.
Hi, We are a software publisher known mostly for a single product. Sure, occasionally we produce other products, but there's one cash-cow we always return to. We tell people it's better every time we release a new version, but we know that nobody really believes that. We certainly don't.
We allow modifications and additions to our software, up to a point, but when we can no longer monetize them, or they threaten our longer-term strategies, well... sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions. This is OUR product, after all, and although we encourage people to use and even EXTEND our platforms, when your products threatens our revenue streams... well, we just have to put a stop to that.
We hold no ill will towards developers who wish to use our platform in the way in which we intended. We're just trying to spread software diversity, without decreasing competition in the marketplace. I mean, heaven forbid there would be only one company supplying what you need.
Both iPad models start with 64GB of memory and maxes out to 500GB at the high-end.
No they do not. They start with 64GB of STORAGE, going up to 512GB at the high-end. Not exactly surprising that an Apple user doesn't understand the difference.
None of the released specs state how much MEMORY they have, but the previous iPad Pro had 2GB so maybe they'll be couragous and go all the way to 4GB now.
Slashdot Mirror
With various points systems, we've gamified social status, and people are biologically wired to like to win games. Even on Slashdot, many years ago, we had visible numeric karma scores, and people got into stupid e-penis contests to see who could get a higher number. It wasn't so much fun when karma turned into classified ranges, and people stopped. We're not at the point depicted in that episode of Black Mirror yet, but we can see the seeds of it.
This made me immediately think of the episode of Community episode "App Development and Condiments" where an app called MeowMeowBeenz that allows users to give other users a rating of one to five MeowMeowBeenz is beta tested on the campus. The campus soon deteriorates into a dystopia, with the Fives and Fours controlling the school, the Threes and Twos serving them, and the Ones being exiled.
Creation or whatever branding they've given it. It must be the most Frankenstein style, cobbled together engine ever used to power AAA games. I would put good money on there being more TODO and HACK comments in that source than actual lines of code.
...and thank God that the UK Government underwrote the bribes to foreign governments - using taxpayers' money - to secure the manufacturing contracts that keep RR going.
Just torrent from behind a decent VPN. Many VPNs support torrenting and provide settings guides for major torrent clients. It's usually significantly slower than connecting to the swarm directly, but that's the price of privacy.
Sometimes you run into places where the moron designer thought that only alphanumeric characters make valid password characters.
...and its cousin, the "I don't know what characters are actually valid in email addresses, so let's just restrict that to alphanumeric too."
Several websites don't allow special characters in the local part of email addresses, despite them being perfectly valid, which prevents me from using the myname+yourshittywebsite@gmail.com method of filtering.
You don't mention when this happened, but I'd have thought that after the terror attacks there would be vastly increased security on the Paris Metro. Perhaps not, I guess Transport Police don't work for free.
I wonder if buying and "reading" a French newspaper on the Metro would possibly confuse potential muggers as to your foreigner status?
Did she say "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"?
Although from TFA it appears he would lose access to his actual emails - I assume they're stored online - from the summary I'd say his bigger concern is that he has used this email address to communicate with just about everyone for 20 years. It's like being told you're being evicted and you have 30 days to find a new home and tell everyone you know and every company you deal with where you'll be living from now on.
It would take days for me to change the registered email address for every site and service I use, and that's just for ones where I can actually log in and update my records. Then there's the personal/business contacts where you would have to actually contact them personally. It's a huge inconvenience.
The main injustice here is that the whole situation is entirely unnecessary. Clearly Eastlink have never bothered with this before, but suddenly they want this address. You could argue noreply@ has some functional use as a descriptor, but since it's intended as a black hole you could just as easily use donotreply@ or unmonitored@ or bananamilkshake@ and the result would be the same.
Yep. When I played Counter-Strike (1.6) the deagle was commonly referred to as the "hand cannon".
MY brilliant POS/ERP system
Citation needed. Also, "resumes" is a plural, so it doesn't have an apostrophe.
You're right. We should never bring up anything from the past that calls into question the integrity of the people we're quoting. After all, if you say something that a lot of people agree with, and then spend the rest of your life saying awful things, people should just forget about the awful things and focus on the one good thing you did say.
~Donald Trump
*sigh*
Your Trump-bashing is laudable, but could you at least get the quote correct?
"All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
~H.L. Mencken
You should probably also admit that Mencken was deeply predjudiced, even for his time.
"I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however carefully it might be nurtured, could ever even remotely approach it. The educated negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a negro. He is, in brief, a low-caste man, to the manner born, and he will remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him."
~H.L. Mencken
Disabling software, or even removing it, without asking is the morally wrong approach.
Ironic, since that's exactly what AV software does.
I download plenty of shady things from shady sources and I have never gotten a virus.
Gee, I can't imagine why your IT department resorts to such heavy-handed AV protection...
As a sysadmin, I hate having to run AV software on our clients. It's a resource hog, so we receive complaints about responsiveness - and that's just the on-access scanning, the full scans are even worse. Even when we schedule scans out-of-hours, there's always someone who has let their laptop battery drain or switched their workstation off at the socket, so they get smacked with a full scan the next morning. Then there's the inevitable AV update failures, having to repair installs, etc. The work just adds up.
However, not running AV is simply out of the question. Almost daily we get email notifications about some stupid shit a user has tried to run. The inconvenience caused by running AV is dwarfed by the utter chaos that would ensue if, for example, some ransomware worm was allowed to run rampant across the network. AV is a necessary response to an imperfect world.
Hi, We are a software publisher known mostly for a single product. Sure, occasionally we produce other products, but there's one cash-cow we always return to. We tell people it's better every time we release a new version, but we know that nobody really believes that. We certainly don't.
We allow modifications and additions to our software, up to a point, but when we can no longer monetize them, or they threaten our longer-term strategies, well... sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions. This is OUR product, after all, and although we encourage people to use and even EXTEND our platforms, when your products threatens our revenue streams... well, we just have to put a stop to that.
We hold no ill will towards developers who wish to use our platform in the way in which we intended. We're just trying to spread software diversity, without decreasing competition in the marketplace. I mean, heaven forbid there would be only one company supplying what you need.
Steve, if you buy a Take-Two game in future, please let this comment be a reminder that you're a liar.
*warp to 2018*
Hi Steve, you liar!
Fair enough. Please point me to a case where Take-Two gave a shit about their loyal playerbase (i.e. modders) vs. their stock price. I'll wait.
No, seriously... I'll wait...
*heat death of the universe*
I'm waiting...
Except that GTA6 will still sell infinity+ units and the modding community makes up a tiny percentage of their player base.
Take-Two won't give a fuck.
and putting up disgusting nude statues of him in cities across the nation is considered OK.
To be fair, they may have tried to make attractive nude statues of him, but discovered that it was an impossible task.
though through non-thorough
That sequence of words made my head explode more than what you're actually describing.
I read that headline as "Theresa May recommend stowing laptops..." until my brain processed the rest of the sentence. I blame the election.
TSA May might not be a bad nickname, actually.
Which is why I didn't say "original" and instead said "the previous iPad Pro".
Oh wait, perhaps you're just reminding me that I am correct. Never mind, carry on.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
It's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference time, hence the flurry of announcements.
Conference ends on Friday so the stream of Apple articles should slow down after that.
Both iPad models start with 64GB of memory and maxes out to 500GB at the high-end.
No they do not. They start with 64GB of STORAGE, going up to 512GB at the high-end. Not exactly surprising that an Apple user doesn't understand the difference.
None of the released specs state how much MEMORY they have, but the previous iPad Pro had 2GB so maybe they'll be couragous and go all the way to 4GB now.