But when Kosta asked a series of Trump supporters what “Space Force” is, all he got were answers like “something we’ve been missing for a long time,” “a little bit of everything” and, in the words of one older gentleman, a “cloud computer.” That same man was worried that “terrorists” might threaten our “freedom” from space. “I think Space Force could help us prevent the next 9/11,” he said.
While NASA is “only going to tell us what they want us to know,” these Trump fans believe that the president will “tell us the truth about what’s out there.”
And then there was the guy who thought the formation of “Space ISIS” was a real possibility. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense and would be wasting a lot of dollars,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s going to be cool.”
Your posts/tweets aren't missing from feeds, or placed lower on them, because of your political views, it's because the algorithms Facebook and Twitter use to generate the feeds don't think you -- and by extension, anything you have to say -- are important. Simple.
This sort of inflation is a natural linguistic phenomenon that regularly happens to words, like how awesome was once reserved for that which truly struck awe into a quavering heart and is now scarcely more than a verbal thumbs up.
... and hyperbole: *cough* Firefox "Awesome" Bar *cough* -- gag...
Alexa actually knows more about you than your doctor. She sees how you live, your sleep cycles, food you order, the vocabulary you use, and how much exercise you get....
Hmm...I think this is where things went wrong with Skynet, someone left out the comma!
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. 'Eats, shoots and leaves.'"
... the cost of the troubled Webb telescope would now be $9.66 billion.
Getting close to the $13 billion cost of the latest US aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and twice as much as the earlier Nimitz class aircraft carriers at $4.5 billion each. AND I imagine the flight-deck on the Webb will be*much* shorter.
I know they're apples and nuclear-powered oranges, but damn. The Hubble Space Telescope only cost $4.7 billion by the time it launched.
Just think of what would happen if the galaxy were not properly greased. It would be like trying to drive a truck with no axle grease for the axles. Things would quickly come to a grinding halt from all the friction of the rotation of the galaxy.
And what's worse, it's not under warranty!
Well, you do need to change it every 3000 parsecs...
Whenever Musk or one of his rivals sends up a spacecraft, the carriers which operate closer to the ground must avoid large swaths of territory and incur sizable expenses.
They're not launching things willy-nilly for funzies - ding-dongs; they're doing it because they're providing a service for paying customers (commercial and governmental) and preparing for future services. It's not the "billionaire space race" it's commerce and the free market. If it wasn't SpaceX or Blue Origin, etc... it would be the Air Force or NASA directly. Air carriers would have to delay and/or re-direct their traffic regardless. Jesus, get some critical thinking skills.
You can still review and write articles about Nvidia products without signing the NDA. What's going on is that Nvidia is trading privileged access for control over the articles....
Or everyone could just stop writing anything about Nvidia and let them see how that goes.
There’s also a small update to extensions built using the WebExtension API. WebExtensions can now hide tabs and manage the behavior of the browser when a tab is opened or closed.
And how do I disable it? Seriously, why would we want the browser to do stuff like this? Just what I need, more seemingly random things happening that I can't see and/or presumably control...
Firefox 61 for desktop brings an improved search experience by letting you more easily add custom search engines to the location bar. Mozilla offered a helpful example: “Imagine searching an actor’s name; now with Firefox you can automatically search through IMDB in the location bar.”
Sorry, the Location Bar (thank you for not perpetuating the "Awesome Bar" myth) is for URLs not searching. Stop trying to "improve" my "search experience" within the fucking browser. Browsers are for browsing, search engines are for searching.
the cuts primarily affecting workers from three acquired companies: Phytel, Explorys, and Truven. These companies... brought with them hefty troves of healthcare data, proprietary analytics systems to mine the data for insights, as well as their customers.
Notice that IBM didn't layoff the data, proprietary analytics systems or customers.
WebAssembly is a compressed and simplified version of JavaScript.
Anything you can do in WebAssembly, you can do in JavaScript.
I'm not familiar with the implementation details of WebAssembly, but the above doesn't mean the reverse is (or always will be) true. Just like one can embed assembly in C (using the "asm" keyword), I wouldn't be surprised to see something like that in WebAssembly at some point -- and macros, like "ifdef/define" to allow conditional compilation.
(Developers may be clever, but are often not the most clever among us.)
All in all, the WebAssembly standard is viewed as a success in the web dev community, and there've been praises for it all around.
And how about in the Web *user* community where the soon-to-be-compromised browsers will be running? As someone else said here, I want less Javascript not more - and certainly none with direct access to my hardware. So... anyway to disable WebAssembly in FF? (Asking for a friend)
Slashdot Mirror
As an American it saddens me to truthfully say that most Americans today are dumbasses. ...
You might enjoy this from a few nights ago. The Daily Show interviews Trump supporters about Space Force
(Note: The above snippet on Twitter is an excerpt from a longer segment about the recent Trump South Carolina rally.)
Some excerpts from an article on the segment:
But when Kosta asked a series of Trump supporters what “Space Force” is, all he got were answers like “something we’ve been missing for a long time,” “a little bit of everything” and, in the words of one older gentleman, a “cloud computer.” That same man was worried that “terrorists” might threaten our “freedom” from space. “I think Space Force could help us prevent the next 9/11,” he said.
While NASA is “only going to tell us what they want us to know,” these Trump fans believe that the president will “tell us the truth about what’s out there.”
And then there was the guy who thought the formation of “Space ISIS” was a real possibility. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense and would be wasting a lot of dollars,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s going to be cool.”
Your posts/tweets aren't missing from feeds, or placed lower on them, because of your political views, it's because the algorithms Facebook and Twitter use to generate the feeds don't think you -- and by extension, anything you have to say -- are important. Simple.
This sort of inflation is a natural linguistic phenomenon that regularly happens to words, like how awesome was once reserved for that which truly struck awe into a quavering heart and is now scarcely more than a verbal thumbs up.
Alexa actually knows more about you than your doctor. She sees how you live, your sleep cycles, food you order, the vocabulary you use, and how much exercise you get. ...
Alexa is Santa?
(I'm going to ask her for a pony.)
Let's eat, Grandma.
Let's eat Grandma.
Hmm...I think this is where things went wrong with Skynet, someone left out the comma!
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. 'Eats, shoots and leaves.'"
Considering the AT&T logo is basically the Death Star, I think their updated corporate motto hits the mark:
We are altering the deal. Pray we don't alter it any further.
My cellphone isn't allowed to watch television.
Google couldn't exist without Linux and open-source software.
I'm sure they could do just fine using BSD.
... the cost of the troubled Webb telescope would now be $9.66 billion.
Getting close to the $13 billion cost of the latest US aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and twice as much as the earlier Nimitz class aircraft carriers at $4.5 billion each. AND I imagine the flight-deck on the Webb will be*much* shorter.
I know they're apples and nuclear-powered oranges, but damn. The Hubble Space Telescope only cost $4.7 billion by the time it launched.
Of course space is full of grease.
Just think of what would happen if the galaxy were not properly greased. It would be like trying to drive a truck with no axle grease for the axles. Things would quickly come to a grinding halt from all the friction of the rotation of the galaxy.
And what's worse, it's not under warranty!
Well, you do need to change it every 3000 parsecs ...
Or every 250 Kessel Runs
If you can't do, teach.
If you can't teach, you teach gym. :-)
Whenever Musk or one of his rivals sends up a spacecraft, the carriers which operate closer to the ground must avoid large swaths of territory and incur sizable expenses.
They're not launching things willy-nilly for funzies - ding-dongs; they're doing it because they're providing a service for paying customers (commercial and governmental) and preparing for future services. It's not the "billionaire space race" it's commerce and the free market. If it wasn't SpaceX or Blue Origin, etc... it would be the Air Force or NASA directly. Air carriers would have to delay and/or re-direct their traffic regardless. Jesus, get some critical thinking skills.
You can still review and write articles about Nvidia products without signing the NDA. What's going on is that Nvidia is trading privileged access for control over the articles. ...
Or everyone could just stop writing anything about Nvidia and let them see how that goes.
... Facebook banned cryptocurrency ads because too many companies in this space were "not currently operating in good faith."
They abandoned that rational because it ended up blocking Facebook ads too. :-)
For extensions like, Tab Mix Plus, Tree Tabs, Tree Style Tab, etc. If you don't install extensions that manage tabs then don't worry about it.
Thanks for the info. Seems like a potentially dangerous idea though...
From TFA:
There’s also a small update to extensions built using the WebExtension API. WebExtensions can now hide tabs and manage the behavior of the browser when a tab is opened or closed.
And how do I disable it? Seriously, why would we want the browser to do stuff like this? Just what I need, more seemingly random things happening that I can't see and/or presumably control ...
From TFA:
Firefox 61 for desktop brings an improved search experience by letting you more easily add custom search engines to the location bar. Mozilla offered a helpful example: “Imagine searching an actor’s name; now with Firefox you can automatically search through IMDB in the location bar.”
Sorry, the Location Bar (thank you for not perpetuating the "Awesome Bar" myth) is for URLs not searching. Stop trying to "improve" my "search experience" within the fucking browser. Browsers are for browsing, search engines are for searching.
the cuts primarily affecting workers from three acquired companies: Phytel, Explorys, and Truven. These companies ... brought with them hefty troves of healthcare data, proprietary analytics systems to mine the data for insights, as well as their customers.
Notice that IBM didn't layoff the data, proprietary analytics systems or customers.
Spokespeople of AT&T ... and NSA could neither confirm or deny the report.
The fact that it is well thought out, and carefully designed to have a small attack surface means there is a smaller chance of finding exploits there.
I'm sure the systemd developers had those thoughts too when they started out. :-)
WebAssembly is a compressed and simplified version of JavaScript.
Anything you can do in WebAssembly, you can do in JavaScript.
I'm not familiar with the implementation details of WebAssembly, but the above doesn't mean the reverse is (or always will be) true. Just like one can embed assembly in C (using the "asm" keyword), I wouldn't be surprised to see something like that in WebAssembly at some point -- and macros, like "ifdef/define" to allow conditional compilation.
(Developers may be clever, but are often not the most clever among us.)
So... anyway to disable WebAssembly in FF? (Asking for a friend)
Answering my own question -- with, perhaps, some overkill ... (feel free to correct me)
user_pref("devtools.debugger.features.wasm", false);
user_pref("javascript.options.wasm", false);
user_pref("javascript.options.wasm_baselinejit", false);
user_pref("javascript.options.wasm_ionjit", false);
All in all, the WebAssembly standard is viewed as a success in the web dev community, and there've been praises for it all around.
And how about in the Web *user* community where the soon-to-be-compromised browsers will be running? As someone else said here, I want less Javascript not more - and certainly none with direct access to my hardware. So... anyway to disable WebAssembly in FF? (Asking for a friend)
OK based on the summary I think .. I THINK there may be a thing called Fortnite. I'm pretty much out of my depth after that.
It's a game people play for about two weeks, before getting bored of it.
B-b-b-but Rick, I can't get any stations where I live!
Move to where the food is. ...
Nice Sam Kinison reference.