APK is the Android equivalent of EXE files on Windows, and since Google is using the Play Store as a malware distribution service, individual APK packages that have become self-aware thanks to advanced AI are fighting back by suggesting Slashdot users to update their hosts file to block Google malware. If you use an iPhone or don't use smartphones at all, you can safely ignore any message about APK.
Google, Facebook, Twitter are actively engaged in pro-liberal agendas. CNN, The New York Times and the Washington Post as well.
There is a reason why over the last century or so the first thing that leaders of military coups used to do was to take control of national radio, newspapers and later tv stations. It's because when you control information, you control people.
Yes, there's breitbart and fox news and a few others, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to the giant liberal players. I don't know how things are in UK, maybe you can tell us, but here in America there is a de facto liberal monopoly over news, and it's not even difficult to see it.
No, defense against propaganda that is intended to intensify the divisions within out nation. What they do does not make people question their politics but rather harden people in their viewpoints
Take a chill pill, then look at what you're saying. It is absurd. In terms of paranoia and conspiracy theory, it's getting closer and closer to the level of David Icke and his lizard overlords.
You are merely repeating a narrative that has been cooked up to keep you distracted from the DNC leaked emails and that somehow turned into a shitstorm because clickbaiting has replaced journalism. It's not a conspiracy, it's a perfect storm of political meddling, opportunism, greed and short-term thinking. It's Wag the Dog happening for real.
Stop listening to that bullshit and stop repeating it. Stop clicking on those clickbait links. Stop paying attention to fake news. Walk away from the mass hysteria. Enjoy the holidays with your family and let's all start the new year with just a small dose of common sense. News lately are like a bad tv show; if you stop watching for a while, your emotional brain goes through withdrawal, and quickly you see things clearly, you realize how thin the plot was.
I never heard anyone telling people to question dogma, only to switch from one dogma to the other.
That's how America worked since the Mason-Dixon line. But recently a few big tech companies and the mainstream media have decided that one of the dogmas didn't deserve to be discussed anymore, discarding the fact that 49% of the population thinks otherwise, and they have used their power to push their agenda.
We need (at least) two points of view. But real ones. You know what I want for Christmas? Politicians who actually represent the values of their party and who go head to head on real issues, instead of having crooks and sociopath paving the way to WWIII in their scheming to get or keep power. Can you imagine having a Sanders / Romney debate? A debate where Sanders doesn't have to pretend he's in favor of unchecked immigration and where Romney doesn't have to pretend that he's opposed to abortion and gay marriage?
But no. Let's keep looking at $50,000 worth of foreign ads in a campaign where Trump/Clinton spend 80 millions and pretend this has changed the outcome, and let's also keep looking at a $2 million donation from Putin's cronies to the Clinton foundation to get a business deal approved by Clinton. As if the world didn't have more important issues to address.
Give me a break. It isn't 'attempting' anything, just running based in its instructions. So many people in this particular field are absolutely delusional. I cannot *wait* until this hype cycle has run its course.
You should keep up with things. Technology is way past "running based in its instructions" and I'm not even talking about AI, even plain analytics is becoming scary:
Prescriptive Analytics extends beyond predictive analytics by specifying both the actions necessary to achieve predicted outcomes, and the interrelated effects of each decision
Of course the web would exist. Most of the content on the web however, would not.
Most of the content on the web is worthless junk created for the purpose of making money from ads. It's a feedback loop of mediocrity and greed.
Just like I pay $9/month to have decent, ad-free series from Netflix, I'd be willing to pay to get unbiased news and quality blog posts, unfortunately the clickbait industry has taken over and now all we get is "shocking" articles and shallow content crammed with ads.
Retarded as it sounds, for a while I was getting more and more convinced that net neutrality is not a good thing because the web is fucked and high-quality paywalls seemed like the only solution, but what will probably happen will be low-quality paywalls crammed with ads handpicked by the people who control the pipes so I don't see an upside with either scenario. We need a new system.
Soon computers will generate better entertainment than people.
A majority of books published on Amazon are garbage anyways and all Hollywood is able to produce nowadays is sequels of sequels, or reboots switching genders and races but keeping the same vapid plots.
To anyone from a distant future reading this: please know that it's our greed and laziness that paved the way to a world dominated by machines; whatever nightmarish AI-driven civilization you live in is basically self-inflicted.
Defense against what? Hackers that leak emails proving that the mainstream media is in bed with the DNC? Controversial trolls that force people to question the political dogmas? I think we need more of those, not less.
In any event, Google can apply their biased filters as much as they want to promote their social agenda, all it will achieve is that people will realize that they are as dishonest and misleading as CNN. They're driving themselves into irrelevance.
If Thiel hadn't been a Trump supporter this wouldn't happen. There would also not have been a pathetic documentary on that subject on Netflix. What we're witnessing is morally bankrupt elements of the left who have lost touch with reality.
That's twitter and youtube in a nutshell. "Broadcast yourself", as if anyone cares. It has become so meaningless and void of relevant content that even moms no longer care about what their kids post.
It's BeauHD. All he does is pick random stories from the slush pile to use as filler between his thinly disguised ads for Apple products and he thinks nobody notices.
You are saying he should not report the fraud his employer is committing. Is this some sort of "don't snitch" thing?
First, nothing he described is "fraud", so there's no need for you to hyperventilate. Also he no longers work there, so it's not his employer. And finally, yes, snitching is for little bitches. We're not talking about whistleblowing on a ponzi scheme, this is petty and highly arbitrary.
Grow the fuck up.
It always makes me laugh when someone says or writes "grow the fuck up", because not only does it show a lack of self-awareness, it's also the kind of weak statements hysterical cunts makes when they run out of wild accusations. It has never worked in the history of arguments.
Oracle acquired Peoplesoft but it's a separate product. Oracle ERP is like a Ford Escort and Peoplesoft is like a Lotus Esprit. Both are garbage but one is more sophisticated and pricey.
Get real. The same goes for facilities, accounting, etc.: companies need them, and they couldn't operate without them, but they're still cost centers, by definition. They do not generate revenue but they cost money, ergo they are cost centers. How hard can it be to understand.
The fact that you provide a laptop and 5GB of email storage to the salesman who sells product to customers doesn't mean you're generating revenues. And you know what? It's a good thing. Because managers in cost centers only have to control costs. Managers in profit centers must control costs while turning a profit, it's a lot more frustrating. If you're pissed because they stopped providing free gatorade (to save money), you would go batshit crazy if you also had sales quotas. If your company has bonuses tied to the company overall performance you probably already blow a gasket when the bonus is lower because revenue went down.
Here's a simple summary from our friend Wikipedia:
The main function of a cost centre is the tracing of all expenses linked with a certain function.
See, it doesn't say "a cost centre is a shameful thing that one must try to not be part of even if it means twisting the meaning of words". It's simply an accounting concept.
People are really getting emotional and irrational over this, not sure why.
perhaps it should be "treating IT as an easily-trimmable cost center"
Spot on. And the corollary for this one is: "treating IT workers as interchangeable."
How often have i heard: let's cross-train the DBA and email admins, or let's have developers specialize in both front-end and back-end work, that way we can move them around as needed. Every time it's a nightmare.
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It's all strings and if you turn off the strict mode it rarely crash even if there's a problem. That's Perl in a nutshell. Also, regex.
Porn.. it's why you have it 24/7.
In the case of porn especially, it's "24x7", not "24/7". Try those two formulas in excel, you'll see.
APK is the Android equivalent of EXE files on Windows, and since Google is using the Play Store as a malware distribution service, individual APK packages that have become self-aware thanks to advanced AI are fighting back by suggesting Slashdot users to update their hosts file to block Google malware. If you use an iPhone or don't use smartphones at all, you can safely ignore any message about APK.
Google, Facebook, Twitter are actively engaged in pro-liberal agendas. CNN, The New York Times and the Washington Post as well.
There is a reason why over the last century or so the first thing that leaders of military coups used to do was to take control of national radio, newspapers and later tv stations. It's because when you control information, you control people.
Yes, there's breitbart and fox news and a few others, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to the giant liberal players. I don't know how things are in UK, maybe you can tell us, but here in America there is a de facto liberal monopoly over news, and it's not even difficult to see it.
No, defense against propaganda that is intended to intensify the divisions within out nation. What they do does not make people question their politics but rather harden people in their viewpoints
Take a chill pill, then look at what you're saying. It is absurd. In terms of paranoia and conspiracy theory, it's getting closer and closer to the level of David Icke and his lizard overlords.
You are merely repeating a narrative that has been cooked up to keep you distracted from the DNC leaked emails and that somehow turned into a shitstorm because clickbaiting has replaced journalism. It's not a conspiracy, it's a perfect storm of political meddling, opportunism, greed and short-term thinking. It's Wag the Dog happening for real.
Stop listening to that bullshit and stop repeating it. Stop clicking on those clickbait links. Stop paying attention to fake news. Walk away from the mass hysteria. Enjoy the holidays with your family and let's all start the new year with just a small dose of common sense. News lately are like a bad tv show; if you stop watching for a while, your emotional brain goes through withdrawal, and quickly you see things clearly, you realize how thin the plot was.
I never heard anyone telling people to question dogma, only to switch from one dogma to the other.
That's how America worked since the Mason-Dixon line. But recently a few big tech companies and the mainstream media have decided that one of the dogmas didn't deserve to be discussed anymore, discarding the fact that 49% of the population thinks otherwise, and they have used their power to push their agenda.
We need (at least) two points of view. But real ones. You know what I want for Christmas? Politicians who actually represent the values of their party and who go head to head on real issues, instead of having crooks and sociopath paving the way to WWIII in their scheming to get or keep power. Can you imagine having a Sanders / Romney debate? A debate where Sanders doesn't have to pretend he's in favor of unchecked immigration and where Romney doesn't have to pretend that he's opposed to abortion and gay marriage?
But no. Let's keep looking at $50,000 worth of foreign ads in a campaign where Trump/Clinton spend 80 millions and pretend this has changed the outcome, and let's also keep looking at a $2 million donation from Putin's cronies to the Clinton foundation to get a business deal approved by Clinton. As if the world didn't have more important issues to address.
Give me a break. It isn't 'attempting' anything, just running based in its instructions. So many people in this particular field are absolutely delusional. I cannot *wait* until this hype cycle has run its course.
You should keep up with things. Technology is way past "running based in its instructions" and I'm not even talking about AI, even plain analytics is becoming scary:
Prescriptive Analytics extends beyond predictive analytics by specifying both the actions necessary to achieve predicted outcomes, and the interrelated effects of each decision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You guys bitch when Google doesn't do anything about the fake news and political hacking
This has never happened. You're the one posting fake news.
Of course the web would exist. Most of the content on the web however, would not.
Most of the content on the web is worthless junk created for the purpose of making money from ads. It's a feedback loop of mediocrity and greed.
Just like I pay $9/month to have decent, ad-free series from Netflix, I'd be willing to pay to get unbiased news and quality blog posts, unfortunately the clickbait industry has taken over and now all we get is "shocking" articles and shallow content crammed with ads.
Retarded as it sounds, for a while I was getting more and more convinced that net neutrality is not a good thing because the web is fucked and high-quality paywalls seemed like the only solution, but what will probably happen will be low-quality paywalls crammed with ads handpicked by the people who control the pipes so I don't see an upside with either scenario. We need a new system.
Soon computers will generate better entertainment than people.
A majority of books published on Amazon are garbage anyways and all Hollywood is able to produce nowadays is sequels of sequels, or reboots switching genders and races but keeping the same vapid plots.
To anyone from a distant future reading this: please know that it's our greed and laziness that paved the way to a world dominated by machines; whatever nightmarish AI-driven civilization you live in is basically self-inflicted.
Red Scare is the new Racism.
This is a very reasonable form of defense
Defense against what? Hackers that leak emails proving that the mainstream media is in bed with the DNC? Controversial trolls that force people to question the political dogmas? I think we need more of those, not less.
In any event, Google can apply their biased filters as much as they want to promote their social agenda, all it will achieve is that people will realize that they are as dishonest and misleading as CNN. They're driving themselves into irrelevance.
so they're gonna block foxnews, infowars and breitbart? sweet. so i can use google news again. that's great!
Google. Helping you build your liberal echo chamber since 1998, one biased filter at a time.
I didnâ(TM)t think I had to read far to find someone crying trump in an unrelated topic on /. . Welp, seems I was right
Your smugness would have a lot more impact if you were able to post comments without broken encoding.
If Thiel hadn't been a Trump supporter this wouldn't happen. There would also not have been a pathetic documentary on that subject on Netflix. What we're witnessing is morally bankrupt elements of the left who have lost touch with reality.
The modern internet is truly a marvel.
Yes, and thanks to mobile, suggestions published by Yahoo 20 years ago to make web pages load faster are relevant again.
a bunch of people shouting into a vacuum.
That's twitter and youtube in a nutshell. "Broadcast yourself", as if anyone cares. It has become so meaningless and void of relevant content that even moms no longer care about what their kids post.
But what about slack?
*giggles*
It's BeauHD. All he does is pick random stories from the slush pile to use as filler between his thinly disguised ads for Apple products and he thinks nobody notices.
#burn
You are saying he should not report the fraud his employer is committing. Is this some sort of "don't snitch" thing?
First, nothing he described is "fraud", so there's no need for you to hyperventilate. Also he no longers work there, so it's not his employer. And finally, yes, snitching is for little bitches. We're not talking about whistleblowing on a ponzi scheme, this is petty and highly arbitrary.
Grow the fuck up.
It always makes me laugh when someone says or writes "grow the fuck up", because not only does it show a lack of self-awareness, it's also the kind of weak statements hysterical cunts makes when they run out of wild accusations. It has never worked in the history of arguments.
Oracle acquired Peoplesoft but it's a separate product. Oracle ERP is like a Ford Escort and Peoplesoft is like a Lotus Esprit. Both are garbage but one is more sophisticated and pricey.
You are basically saying "don't snitch"
Yes. You'll understand that one day when you grow a pair.
Get real. The same goes for facilities, accounting, etc.: companies need them, and they couldn't operate without them, but they're still cost centers, by definition. They do not generate revenue but they cost money, ergo they are cost centers. How hard can it be to understand.
The fact that you provide a laptop and 5GB of email storage to the salesman who sells product to customers doesn't mean you're generating revenues. And you know what? It's a good thing. Because managers in cost centers only have to control costs. Managers in profit centers must control costs while turning a profit, it's a lot more frustrating. If you're pissed because they stopped providing free gatorade (to save money), you would go batshit crazy if you also had sales quotas. If your company has bonuses tied to the company overall performance you probably already blow a gasket when the bonus is lower because revenue went down.
Here's a simple summary from our friend Wikipedia:
The main function of a cost centre is the tracing of all expenses linked with a certain function.
See, it doesn't say "a cost centre is a shameful thing that one must try to not be part of even if it means twisting the meaning of words". It's simply an accounting concept.
People are really getting emotional and irrational over this, not sure why.
perhaps it should be "treating IT as an easily-trimmable cost center"
Spot on. And the corollary for this one is: "treating IT workers as interchangeable."
How often have i heard: let's cross-train the DBA and email admins, or let's have developers specialize in both front-end and back-end work, that way we can move them around as needed. Every time it's a nightmare.