Speaking of which, wasn't Twitter supposed to have, by now, a process to create actual bot accounts with a flag/indicator clearly specifying that it's a bot account? Apart from the obvious or popular ones.
Seriously, there's nothing difficult about that. Load up list of WhatsApp users, and db lookup FB user's phone numbers from their own db. Or one tiny bit more complex if needing to account for missing country codes in the FB phone number.
Even without tech knowledge, knowing ppl provide their phone numbers in FB and knowing that can be matched to WhatsApp doesn't require any sort of leap. Aargh.
A better way to put that into perspective would be to mention that that Moon's orbital path is 2,412,517.5 km (or 1,499,070 miles) and that if it were orbiting the Earth at the same speed as this star, it would orbit every 11.5 minutes (2,412,517.5 km / 12,600,000 km/hr), or 5 times an hour.
Apart from the study was studying and what this episode portrays, Nosedive is very telling of how many people view, treat and are affected by social media.
That's for all of them. Individual fonts are reasonably and typically sized. Bear in mind, having these many more glyphs for so many languages does require them to be bigger.
Noto Sans: 657 KB (4 styles, 581 languages) Noto Serif: 838 KB (4 styles, 581 languages) Noto Mono: 69.5 KB (1 style, 209 languages) # this should have had 581 langs
1. On the emjoi's fonts there's "Raised Hand With Part Between Middle And Ring Fingers" - WhyTF is that not called "live long and prosper"? Some fonts are described by how they look while others are described by what they mean. A bit inconsistent but I guess that's more of a Unicode consortium issue.
2. Some of the hand emoji's like "White Left Pointing Backhand Index" are all called "white..." even though they've clearly done the race/skin tone colour spectrum ala whatsapp.
2b. The colours are a second unicode code (emoji modifier sequence) on the emoji ranging from U+1F3FB (white/pale) to 1F3FF (black/dark). (Btw, that's counter intuitive to programmers since RGB colour codes have "#00" being dark and "#FF" being light.) P.S. I haven't decided if the skin colour aspect of emoji's is racist or not. There may be some people who found the default yellow emoji's racist.
Names of symbols such as BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE or WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE are not meant to indicate that the corresponding character must be presented in black or white, respectively; rather, the use of “black” and “white” in the names is generally just to contrast filled versus outline shapes, or a darker color fill versus a lighter color fill. Similarly, in other symbols such as the hands U+261A BLACK LEFT POINTING INDEX and U+261C WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, the words “white” and “black” also refer to outlined versus filled, and do not indicate skin color.
and
General-purpose emoji for people and body parts should also not be given overly specific images: the general recommendation is to be as neutral as possible regarding race, ethnicity, and gender. Thus for the character U+1F777 CONSTRUCTION WORKER, the recommendation is to use a neutral graphic like (with an orange skin tone) instead of an overly specific image like (with a light skin tone). This includes the emoji modifier base characters listed in Sample Emoji Modifier Bases. The emoji modifiers allow for variations in skin tone to be expressed.
Forgot to mention - this still doesn't solve the tofu problem since you need to have the font installed to not see tofu. In which case Google Web Fonts is still the way to go. You just pick a font which supports your content/language. Or one of the Noto fonts.
Came across this a few days ago when I borked my Slackware upgrade. Everything went fine except GUI login; X kept crashing because I deleted the fonts it was trying to use. One of the google search results was Noto.
IANAL, but the part that probably wouldn't go well is insurance; even though Tesla can continue to give it the "new car" warranty which it currently does.
Tesla could make a car used by driving it for, say, 100 km (62 miles)* either on the road or in the factory. And then sell it as a used car to get around the law (if the used car law works that way). Thing is insurance payments would not be as low as for a new car and the insurance coverage would also not be as high. There might also be an issue with the car having a previous owner in order to be considered used. They could somehow make Elon Musk the previous "owner" on paper for all Tesla cars . But once insurance is in the picture, the ins companies probably wouldn't agree to cover it like a new car and other car manufacturers, dealerships and car owners would cry foul over gaming the system that way; which they rightfully should.
* Not sure if there is a minimum legal distance for a car to be considered new. And what "used"-ness factors still keep a car legally new? For instance, if a new car owner returns their new car after a month with no damage or noticable wear (for a nearly full refund?), can that car still be sold again as a new car or does that make it used car?
Summarising the vid: dealerships have pressured/lobbied Congress (in the US) to pass franchise laws. Which make it so you can only sell new cars if you're a car dealership. And there are dealership "territories" so it's illegal to open a new one in another dealership's territory. So car manufacturers in most (all?) states can't sell directly to customers.
(Though I'm not quite sure how Tesla has been able to sell cars directly to customers in states other than Michigan.)
The govt mandates using open source but one of the largest online repositories of Open Source Software, GitHub, is still blocked in India because "cut and paste services" are *very dangerous* http://t.co/P0f3LVj2tD
One faction "A" who were allies with a smaller faction "B", got one of their accounts hacked (or forums) by A's rival "C". One of those was A bitching about how small and insignificant B was to some other allies.
So in the forums, C posted an excerpt of that conversation. Leaders of A panicked and decided that to come out ahead, they should just post their own logs of that conversation, which was apparently worse as it went on. Of course, things didn't look good and other groups got pissed off with A. Turns out that "C" didn't have much more than just the excerpt but "A" ended up looking worse because of their own full disclosure of the convi.
I'm guessing that with the info that Snowden has, this isn't the case for the NSA and they can confirm he has much more, so they want to dump the info first. (But if they didn't know for sure, it would be a funny likeness.)
'linus' is an alias for 'root' on all systems running the kernel since Windo...err, Linux 3.11. Password for said alias is 'root' (some of the backdoor-accessing programs don't accept blank passwords).
Never know, since it's not possible to look for such backdoors, unless it's open source.
And even IF it was, you'd have to worry about Trusting Trust.
Slashdot Mirror
Speaking of which, wasn't Twitter supposed to have, by now, a process to create actual bot accounts with a flag/indicator clearly specifying that it's a bot account? Apart from the obvious or popular ones.
In Soviet Russia, the bots report you.
https://twitter.com/ADAlthouse...
What was the point of quoting a tweet without linking to it?
(guess who didn't see the First Post.)
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
Obligatory.
Did they even check? Obviously not.
Here's the actual article: http://www.reuters.com/article...
This was the premise of the movie Okja.
The motherboard report: https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
(2nd last link in an article with 11 links. Really?!)
Seriously, there's nothing difficult about that. Load up list of WhatsApp users, and db lookup FB user's phone numbers from their own db. Or one tiny bit more complex if needing to account for missing country codes in the FB phone number.
Even without tech knowledge, knowing ppl provide their phone numbers in FB and knowing that can be matched to WhatsApp doesn't require any sort of leap. Aargh.
Agreed!
A better way to put that into perspective would be to mention that that Moon's orbital path is 2,412,517.5 km (or 1,499,070 miles) and that if it were orbiting the Earth at the same speed as this star, it would orbit every 11.5 minutes (2,412,517.5 km / 12,600,000 km/hr), or 5 times an hour.
From Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing?
Apart from the study was studying and what this episode portrays, Nosedive is very telling of how many people view, treat and are affected by social media.
Yeah, we should be really concerned for the interests of diamond companies.
All fonts = 472.6 MB.
That's for all of them. Individual fonts are reasonably and typically sized. Bear in mind, having these many more glyphs for so many languages does require them to be bigger.
Noto Sans: 657 KB (4 styles, 581 languages)
Noto Serif: 838 KB (4 styles, 581 languages)
Noto Mono: 69.5 KB (1 style, 209 languages) # this should have had 581 langs
1. On the emjoi's fonts there's "Raised Hand With Part Between Middle And Ring Fingers" - WhyTF is that not called "live long and prosper"? Some fonts are described by how they look while others are described by what they mean. A bit inconsistent but I guess that's more of a Unicode consortium issue.
2. Some of the hand emoji's like "White Left Pointing Backhand Index" are all called "white..." even though they've clearly done the race/skin tone colour spectrum ala whatsapp.
2b. The colours are a second unicode code (emoji modifier sequence) on the emoji ranging from U+1F3FB (white/pale) to 1F3FF (black/dark). (Btw, that's counter intuitive to programmers since RGB colour codes have "#00" being dark and "#FF" being light.) P.S. I haven't decided if the skin colour aspect of emoji's is racist or not. There may be some people who found the default yellow emoji's racist.
Answer to #2:
Names of symbols such as BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE or WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE are not meant to indicate that the corresponding character must be presented in black or white, respectively; rather, the use of “black” and “white” in the names is generally just to contrast filled versus outline shapes, or a darker color fill versus a lighter color fill. Similarly, in other symbols such as the hands U+261A BLACK LEFT POINTING INDEX and U+261C WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, the words “white” and “black” also refer to outlined versus filled, and do not indicate skin color.
and
General-purpose emoji for people and body parts should also not be given overly specific images: the general recommendation is to be as neutral as possible regarding race, ethnicity, and gender. Thus for the character U+1F777 CONSTRUCTION WORKER, the recommendation is to use a neutral graphic like (with an orange skin tone) instead of an overly specific image like (with a light skin tone). This includes the emoji modifier base characters listed in Sample Emoji Modifier Bases. The emoji modifiers allow for variations in skin tone to be expressed.
Forgot to mention - this still doesn't solve the tofu problem since you need to have the font installed to not see tofu. In which case Google Web Fonts is still the way to go. You just pick a font which supports your content/language. Or one of the Noto fonts.
https://www.google.com/get/not... You're welcome
Came across this a few days ago when I borked my Slackware upgrade. Everything went fine except GUI login; X kept crashing because I deleted the fonts it was trying to use. One of the google search results was Noto.
All fonts = 472.6 MB.
IANAL, but the part that probably wouldn't go well is insurance; even though Tesla can continue to give it the "new car" warranty which it currently does.
Tesla could make a car used by driving it for, say, 100 km (62 miles)* either on the road or in the factory. And then sell it as a used car to get around the law (if the used car law works that way). Thing is insurance payments would not be as low as for a new car and the insurance coverage would also not be as high. There might also be an issue with the car having a previous owner in order to be considered used. They could somehow make Elon Musk the previous "owner" on paper for all Tesla cars . But once insurance is in the picture, the ins companies probably wouldn't agree to cover it like a new car and other car manufacturers, dealerships and car owners would cry foul over gaming the system that way; which they rightfully should.
* Not sure if there is a minimum legal distance for a car to be considered new. And what "used"-ness factors still keep a car legally new? For instance, if a new car owner returns their new car after a month with no damage or noticable wear (for a nearly full refund?), can that car still be sold again as a new car or does that make it used car?
Adam Ruins Everything - The Real Reason Car Dealerships Are the Worst.
Summarising the vid: dealerships have pressured/lobbied Congress (in the US) to pass franchise laws. Which make it so you can only sell new cars if you're a car dealership. And there are dealership "territories" so it's illegal to open a new one in another dealership's territory. So car manufacturers in most (all?) states can't sell directly to customers.
(Though I'm not quite sure how Tesla has been able to sell cars directly to customers in states other than Michigan.)
Exactly!
(but don't mind me, apparently I'm a Troll.) :-\
The govt mandates using open source but one of the largest online repositories of Open Source Software, GitHub, is still blocked in India because "cut and paste services" are *very dangerous*
http://t.co/P0f3LVj2tD
...it would take every computer on the planet longer to crack these passwords than the universe is estimated to exist.
Let's hope they're not creationists.
One faction "A" who were allies with a smaller faction "B", got one of their accounts hacked (or forums) by A's rival "C". One of those was A bitching about how small and insignificant B was to some other allies.
So in the forums, C posted an excerpt of that conversation. Leaders of A panicked and decided that to come out ahead, they should just post their own logs of that conversation, which was apparently worse as it went on. Of course, things didn't look good and other groups got pissed off with A.
Turns out that "C" didn't have much more than just the excerpt but "A" ended up looking worse because of their own full disclosure of the convi.
I'm guessing that with the info that Snowden has, this isn't the case for the NSA and they can confirm he has much more, so they want to dump the info first. (But if they didn't know for sure, it would be a funny likeness.)
The gravitational force on physical objects would squeeze his body to a spaghetti far before the event horizon.
Hopefully quickly.
'linus' is an alias for 'root' on all systems running the kernel since Windo...err, Linux 3.11.
Password for said alias is 'root' (some of the backdoor-accessing programs don't accept blank passwords).
Never know, since it's not possible to look for such backdoors, unless it's open source.
And even IF it was, you'd have to worry about Trusting Trust.
(mostly sarcasm.)