Everytime you upgrade (or auto-patch, which you have no control of in Win10, at least for laptops and mobile) they will reset your privacy to "sell out to Microsoft all my deepest darkest info so they can monetize my life".
Even if this is illegal in the EU and Canada, because if you can throw legions of lawyers at it, you can't stop it.
The no awards didn't receive a majority, but rather a narrow plurality.
So if you're going to complain about slanted news it behooves you not to engage in the practice.
Nope.
In every single one of the categories in which NO AWARD won, it won on the first ballot with a majority.
The closest was in editor, long form, where the results were:
No Award 2496 Toni Weisskopf 1216 Sheila Gilbert 754 Anne Sowards 217 Vox Day 166 Jim Minz 58 Total votes 4907
But 50.9% is a majority. (The other categories were not nearly as close.)
I'm rather sorry for Toni, who I rather like, and who might well have won in the absence of the puppy-only ballot. If she had won, I would have said "well deserved."
Don't confuse fuzzy nipples morons with facts. It's hurts their tiny heads.
A lot of my friends are writers, and are quite diverse, but we all were glad that No Award was made in the categories where the "slate" got all five positions.
You proved a lot. You proved that there wasn't slate voting before, and also that fuzzy nipples or whatever GG name you're going by this week are a bunch of jerks.
And as someone who's held shiny Hugos and had the hassle of going thru security with them, I'm glad of the result.
If all their ads were static, I would be happy to uncheck Disable Ads...
Agreed. Same here. Back in the days of flat banner ads - which could be "click to follow link that will play video" - I let the ads display. But sound and giant honking autoplay downloads mean I disable advertising on Slashdot.
If advertising behaved, I'd turn it on again.
Browsers should have EnableVideo code
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· Score: 5, Interesting
All HTML5 browsers should have an EnableVideo code setting.
So that I can turn it off.
I don't need your video. I don't want your video. I don't want it to autoplay.
If you have an ad, you can show it in text, and stop sucking up bandwidth.
Now, if you want to give me a box that I can right click on to "play video", great.
But as Leelu would say "Not without my permission!"
One of the major impacts on climate change is inefficient jet planes.
Why not double the fee for non-787 fuel sipping jet planes (or turboprops), so that the impact cost has a real cost?
There's your money.
And take any extra and put it into high speed passenger and freight rail lines along the dense West urban I-5 corridor that produces 50 percent of all US GDP.
Basically, it's a frame shift method of writing code. If any of you had ever had to use old style 4 bit encoding schema to store data, you'd know that.
It allows one set of instructions to adapt for different environmental conditions. We don't just bootstrap our DNA, we use it to fold and generate proteins when we need them, and then we discard it when we don't need it. But the instructions are still there.
Now, that said, some of it is inserted viral code from infections, or instructions on how to grow gills, but at the rate we're going with overuse of fossil fuels, you might need that soon.
All of the measures deployed are pretty useless from a CT ops viewpoint, IMHO.
Want to stop this kind of thing?
Tell everyone on the plane to subdue anyone with a blanket or coat, and realize your primary vulnerability is your cargo, which is still unsafe.
Everyone I know with CT ops experience can easily defeat all of these counter-measures. And the major risk comes from the countries you call our allies.
Brings up a good point. The major hack route involves the location services and the infotainment services. If you can get a model without those, there's no in route. That and make sure you don't have OnStar or any GPS system or Bluetooth.
Seem to be a lot of comments from people wanting Steve to go into long form, but in the years I worked with him, he was always more of a short form kind of person.
If a question can be answered in a short way, that's what he does.
We used to fight to take complex game systems where combat would take 10 minutes to resolve for each action, and boil it down to "how can we simulate this so it takes less time than in real life, but is fairly accurate".
Short version: If you wanted long answers, you're asking the wrong guy.
Look, it's like laptops or commercial fission reactors.
They were first built for military uses (I had a laptop in 1982 in the Army, and a better one in 1985), and fission reactors were built for submarines and other uses we're not supposed to talk about way before they were commercially available.
So, if your question is "Will there be nuclear fusion reactors on military planes and ships and other things by 2025?" then the answer is Yes.
Will you see one in your city before 2040? Probably not.
Question 1: When my perfect robot wife picks me up in our flying sedan will I be able to get gigabit speeds on my sunglasses? --- or is that still further out
Not unless you used the 100 gigabit tether for your sunglasses.
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Everytime you upgrade (or auto-patch, which you have no control of in Win10, at least for laptops and mobile) they will reset your privacy to "sell out to Microsoft all my deepest darkest info so they can monetize my life".
Even if this is illegal in the EU and Canada, because if you can throw legions of lawyers at it, you can't stop it.
5950 isn't bad for a WorldCon. As someone who has been to quite a few (NoLaCon, AussieCon, and more) it's a respectable vote.
Face it, fuzzy nipples or whatever GG name you're using this week was trounced. Or slapped down like the rabid beasties they were.
Now try "writing good fiction".
That might work.
I'd vote for good fiction, even if I didn't agree with it's premise.
The no awards didn't receive a majority, but rather a narrow plurality.
So if you're going to complain about slanted news it behooves you not to engage in the practice.
Nope.
In every single one of the categories in which NO AWARD won, it won on the first ballot with a majority.
The closest was in editor, long form, where the results were:
No Award 2496
Toni Weisskopf 1216
Sheila Gilbert 754
Anne Sowards 217
Vox Day 166
Jim Minz 58
Total votes 4907
But 50.9% is a majority. (The other categories were not nearly as close.)
I'm rather sorry for Toni, who I rather like, and who might well have won in the absence of the puppy-only ballot. If she had won, I would have said "well deserved."
Don't confuse fuzzy nipples morons with facts. It's hurts their tiny heads.
A lot of my friends are writers, and are quite diverse, but we all were glad that No Award was made in the categories where the "slate" got all five positions.
You proved a lot. You proved that there wasn't slate voting before, and also that fuzzy nipples or whatever GG name you're going by this week are a bunch of jerks.
And as someone who's held shiny Hugos and had the hassle of going thru security with them, I'm glad of the result.
Here endeth the lesson. Cheaters never prosper.
Here's why I disable ads on Slashdot: VIDEO!
If all their ads were static, I would be happy to uncheck Disable Ads...
Agreed. Same here. Back in the days of flat banner ads - which could be "click to follow link that will play video" - I let the ads display. But sound and giant honking autoplay downloads mean I disable advertising on Slashdot.
If advertising behaved, I'd turn it on again.
All HTML5 browsers should have an EnableVideo code setting.
So that I can turn it off.
I don't need your video. I don't want your video. I don't want it to autoplay.
If you have an ad, you can show it in text, and stop sucking up bandwidth.
Now, if you want to give me a box that I can right click on to "play video", great.
But as Leelu would say "Not without my permission!"
Same type of idiocy, same basic hatred of our freedoms.
Their goal is to keep the public totally defenseless.
Oh hey, it looks like your tinfoil hat fell off.
that's a Faraday Cage, you insensitive clod!
you just have to lob the nuclear weapons back at them.
It messes with their controls, yes, precious.
instead of trying to do it on the cheap.
Yes, that's exactly what I said.
You save the money on the license fees, not the support cost.
One of the major impacts on climate change is inefficient jet planes.
Why not double the fee for non-787 fuel sipping jet planes (or turboprops), so that the impact cost has a real cost?
There's your money.
And take any extra and put it into high speed passenger and freight rail lines along the dense West urban I-5 corridor that produces 50 percent of all US GDP.
I think you mean there are many subfields, including Proteomics.
Basically, it's a frame shift method of writing code. If any of you had ever had to use old style 4 bit encoding schema to store data, you'd know that.
It allows one set of instructions to adapt for different environmental conditions. We don't just bootstrap our DNA, we use it to fold and generate proteins when we need them, and then we discard it when we don't need it. But the instructions are still there.
Now, that said, some of it is inserted viral code from infections, or instructions on how to grow gills, but at the rate we're going with overuse of fossil fuels, you might need that soon.
The problem is that you're doing it wrong.
All of the measures deployed are pretty useless from a CT ops viewpoint, IMHO.
Want to stop this kind of thing?
Tell everyone on the plane to subdue anyone with a blanket or coat, and realize your primary vulnerability is your cargo, which is still unsafe.
Everyone I know with CT ops experience can easily defeat all of these counter-measures. And the major risk comes from the countries you call our allies.
Brings up a good point. The major hack route involves the location services and the infotainment services. If you can get a model without those, there's no in route. That and make sure you don't have OnStar or any GPS system or Bluetooth.
Ain't no hacking there
You have to buy him sushi if you want stories, IMHO.
Seem to be a lot of comments from people wanting Steve to go into long form, but in the years I worked with him, he was always more of a short form kind of person.
If a question can be answered in a short way, that's what he does.
We used to fight to take complex game systems where combat would take 10 minutes to resolve for each action, and boil it down to "how can we simulate this so it takes less time than in real life, but is fairly accurate".
Short version: If you wanted long answers, you're asking the wrong guy.
That's what shielding and oceanic rifts are for.
And our space faring civilization was founded from the remnants of that fifth planet.
Um, not exactly.
Look, it's like laptops or commercial fission reactors.
They were first built for military uses (I had a laptop in 1982 in the Army, and a better one in 1985), and fission reactors were built for submarines and other uses we're not supposed to talk about way before they were commercially available.
So, if your question is "Will there be nuclear fusion reactors on military planes and ships and other things by 2025?" then the answer is Yes.
Will you see one in your city before 2040? Probably not.
Question 1: When my perfect robot wife picks me up in our flying sedan will I be able to get gigabit speeds on my sunglasses? --- or is that still further out
Not unless you used the 100 gigabit tether for your sunglasses.
Smaller faster and cheaper, plus we already have it working.
And this kind of thing is why today they're holding secret hearings on spying on Canadian citizens illegally in Canada, at the court in Vancouver BC.
Secrecy is only a threat when you spy on people.