You must live in an alternative reality because many consumer groups were in favor of net neutrality. Or are you just lying?
Did you actually look at that list of "consumer groups" before linking it? Or did you just chase a good headline and leave it to that, hoping that your clever accusation of living in an alternative reality would be a good smokescreen?
Here's the list of those organizations, some even signed twice and the poster made sure to mix them up. Can you please indicate which of those are "consumer groups"? I see one, maybe two, unless you consider United Church of Christ as a consumer group.
Alliance for Community Media (cable TV lobby) Future of Music Coalition (indie music labels lobby) American Civil Liberties Union American Library Association Benton Foundation Consumer Federation of America Center for Democracy and Technology Electronic Privacy Information Center Internet Archive Common Cause Free press Knowledge Ecology International (that's Ralph Nader) Media Access Project New America Foundation Tribal Digital Village Media and Democracy Coalition United Church of Christ National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture Public Knowledge USPIRG (that's Ralph Nader too) National Federation of Community Broadcasters Special Libraries Association Writers Guild of America, West
Dude, you are a fucking moron. Do you always side with stupidity? I am just asking since you are batting 1000 so far.
The day we need a lynch mob we'll make sure to call you. Until then, why don't you try to contribute something to the discussion instead of hiding behind the people who do like a fucking coward hiding behind a school bully?
Capitulating to extortion is not the same thing as a resolution.
So first you say the OP is wrong because the Netflix vs Comcast thing was resolved after the new rules came out, but when the OP shows that it was before, suddenly he's wrong because now you don't consider the thing to be resolved. You're like that guy who peddles bullets that can penetrate any bulletproof vests, then comes back the following week peddling bulletproof vests that stop any bullet.
I had no opinion about net neutrality but the more I read posts like yours, the more I realize that there's very little substance and a lot of bullshit on your side of that fence.
not that's is relevant to the story, but maybe you should look into how Sweden reinvented their education system and gave kids access to calculators as young as possible. Result? they're a leading country in many disciplines, including math.
Subtracting without using a computer is not a value-added skill.
Odds are that a long time ago the friends you had were Walmart sales associates, and today your friends are Amazon techies. Just for fun compare the same kind of job levels and you'll be surprised how Walmart employees at the bottom of the pyramid have more opportunities than those at Amazon.
Almost all top managers at Walmart HQ started in Walmart stores. How many top managers at Amazon started in the fulfillment centers?
Well, just tether a small Linux laptop (maybe running Tails?), and use it exclusively for any non-phone communication apps with a web browser and/or Linux apps?
I used to carry a Chromebook but coming out of sleep they're slow to pick up on the wifi even if it's always the same, so they're not really convenient for mobile usage. There's no point in having instant boot if it takes a minute or two for internet to become available.
Best distro I've found so far for a cheap laptop is Void, it boots up almost instantly (ssd). Probably because it's not using SystemD.
There's always a "I use a feature phone who needs a smartphone" grouch or two whenever a smartphone-related story comes out and I'm starting to believe that they are unaware that many people see their smartphone as a small computer more than as a phone, so I figured I'd make it clear for them.
So instead of congratulating? me why don't you chime in.
I make at most 2-3 phone calls per month on my phone. I could actually not have a phone number and it would work just fine for me. I only use it for internet access, including tethering for other devices.
ssh or mosh and a proper text editor (vim, emacs, joe, etc)
That was also my preference in my sysadmin days. But when you code with more verbose languages and a large codebase, the autocomplete features and various shortcuts (such as "Go to definition" or auto-document) of an IDE are a must.
Subjects generate large amplitude oscillations with stable phase and gain relationships among the variables. [...] Analysis shows the subjects fall victim to several 'misperceptions of feedback' identified in prior experimental studies of dynamic decisionmaking. Specifically, they fail to account for control actions which have been initiated but not yet had their effect. More subtle, subjects are insensitive to the presence of feedback from their decisions to the environment and attribute the dynamics to exogenous variables, leading their normative efforts away from the source of difficulty.
For instance, here's what one can find in the Wikipedia article for the book "Physics for Future Presidents":
It criticizes those who distort the facts, especially with regards to climate change. “Global warming is real," Muller writes. "It is very likely caused by humans.”
And yet, anyone who has actually read the book (which I did) will tell you that while the author does explain the evidence behind global warming, the ones he criticizes the most for distorting the facts are Al Gore and the hockey stick guy. He explains in details all the lies and dishonest representations made by those people and insists that using what is basically FUD is not a winning strategy to raise awareness about global warming because once people find out that they've been duped, this will cause a huge backlash. But of cours that's not what the Wikipedia entry make it look like.
Years ago there was a fascinating study/experiment. They would put the subject in charge of maintaining the temperature of a room within a specific range, and the only action the person could do would be to press a button to cause an increase or decrease of the temperature; they could press as often as they wanted, but the change would only occur 5 minutes later. What happened? Basically everyone failed, consistently overcompensating one way or the other when they would see the temperature go up or down based on decisions made 5 minutes earlier. The more it went, the more people used the button, and they only made things worse.
Same thing would happen with this kind of solution. Decisions take time to be implemented, and by the time the side effects are known, more decisions are already in the pipeline.
For instance when you start sending traffic in local streets, local people react; they leave earlier or later, causing changes in the rush hour patterns. Or they fight back, getting the local authorities to convert one-ways to two-ways, or to reverse traffic flow. Thru traffic is slowed down, this causes new bottlenecks, sending more cars on other streets. Rinse and repeat. And while this happens does the computer model take the big picture into account? No, it keeps rerouting people in a progressively more frantic way until the whole area is a gridlock.
Spot on. Using the "hockey stick" guy as a reference for anything climate-related is like hiring Bill Cosby as a spokeperson for International Women's day.
Maybe instead of hiding behind insults you can explain how a simulation qualifies as "beating the world's worst traffic"?
See, history keeps showing over and over and over and over (etc) that men are unable to make accurate simulations of complex systems. Case in point: LTCM, which had two Nobel prize winners and the former head of the biggest bond trading desk on its board. They went bust. That was in 1998, and obviously people don't learn because the same kind of shit happened 10 years later. And seeing how the idiots at the Fed are driving the economy into the ground, soon we'll probably have another documented example.
The point here is that those traffic guys didn't beat nothing. All they did was a thought experiment that, if implemented (which will never happen) will at best cause more traffic problems. Ergo: useless.
I have a high-end Dell laptop [...] quad core i7, SSD [...] separate dedicated graphics card for CUDA work [...] full admin rights [...] Corsair mechanical keyboard [...] I have my own office [...] two large widescreen displays [...] I also have a desktop machine in my office to use as I please [...] Some of my coworkers have standing desk configurations [...] I am free to download and install whatever software I want [...]
Hope this helps.
My current laptop at work has a carboard cpu and needs the pagefile to run two instances of notepad. So no, your description doesn't help at all.
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You must live in an alternative reality because many consumer groups were in favor of net neutrality. Or are you just lying?
Did you actually look at that list of "consumer groups" before linking it? Or did you just chase a good headline and leave it to that, hoping that your clever accusation of living in an alternative reality would be a good smokescreen?
Here's the list of those organizations, some even signed twice and the poster made sure to mix them up. Can you please indicate which of those are "consumer groups"? I see one, maybe two, unless you consider United Church of Christ as a consumer group.
Alliance for Community Media (cable TV lobby)
Future of Music Coalition (indie music labels lobby)
American Civil Liberties Union
American Library Association
Benton Foundation
Consumer Federation of America
Center for Democracy and Technology
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Internet Archive
Common Cause
Free press
Knowledge Ecology International (that's Ralph Nader)
Media Access Project
New America Foundation
Tribal Digital Village
Media and Democracy Coalition
United Church of Christ
National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture
Public Knowledge
USPIRG (that's Ralph Nader too)
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Special Libraries Association
Writers Guild of America, West
Dude, you are a fucking moron. Do you always side with stupidity? I am just asking since you are batting 1000 so far.
The day we need a lynch mob we'll make sure to call you. Until then, why don't you try to contribute something to the discussion instead of hiding behind the people who do like a fucking coward hiding behind a school bully?
That is unless you believe in alternative facts
After "Reductio ad Hitlerum", we now have "Reductio ad Trumperium". Bravo.
Capitulating to extortion is not the same thing as a resolution.
So first you say the OP is wrong because the Netflix vs Comcast thing was resolved after the new rules came out, but when the OP shows that it was before, suddenly he's wrong because now you don't consider the thing to be resolved. You're like that guy who peddles bullets that can penetrate any bulletproof vests, then comes back the following week peddling bulletproof vests that stop any bullet.
I had no opinion about net neutrality but the more I read posts like yours, the more I realize that there's very little substance and a lot of bullshit on your side of that fence.
True. They even leapfrogged download.com in terms of spyware.
As Mark Twain allegedly said: put all your eggs in the same basket and watch that basket.
not that's is relevant to the story, but maybe you should look into how Sweden reinvented their education system and gave kids access to calculators as young as possible. Result? they're a leading country in many disciplines, including math.
Subtracting without using a computer is not a value-added skill.
Odds are that a long time ago the friends you had were Walmart sales associates, and today your friends are Amazon techies. Just for fun compare the same kind of job levels and you'll be surprised how Walmart employees at the bottom of the pyramid have more opportunities than those at Amazon.
Almost all top managers at Walmart HQ started in Walmart stores. How many top managers at Amazon started in the fulfillment centers?
Well, just tether a small Linux laptop (maybe running Tails?), and use it exclusively for any non-phone communication apps with a web browser and/or Linux apps?
I used to carry a Chromebook but coming out of sleep they're slow to pick up on the wifi even if it's always the same, so they're not really convenient for mobile usage. There's no point in having instant boot if it takes a minute or two for internet to become available.
Best distro I've found so far for a cheap laptop is Void, it boots up almost instantly (ssd). Probably because it's not using SystemD.
There's always a "I use a feature phone who needs a smartphone" grouch or two whenever a smartphone-related story comes out and I'm starting to believe that they are unaware that many people see their smartphone as a small computer more than as a phone, so I figured I'd make it clear for them.
So instead of congratulating? me why don't you chime in.
I make at most 2-3 phone calls per month on my phone. I could actually not have a phone number and it would work just fine for me. I only use it for internet access, including tethering for other devices.
"Briefing" from Samsung is also pretty awful.
Crapple
No need for that, "Apple" is offensive enough.
How do you organize your pron? Dewey or LCC style?
only when every article on slashdot is about samsung S8
Same thing happened when the iPhone took the crown from the bloody hands of Blackberry. It's the circle of life. iPhone is dead, long live Samsung.
I wonder what's coming after Samsung. Probably not Windows Phone.
ssh or mosh and a proper text editor (vim, emacs, joe, etc)
That was also my preference in my sysadmin days. But when you code with more verbose languages and a large codebase, the autocomplete features and various shortcuts (such as "Go to definition" or auto-document) of an IDE are a must.
I can't find an exact link but the experiment was in relation with the "Dynamic decision making" topic.
There is a famous experiment/game called "The beer distribution game":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here's what an expert in this field concluded:
Subjects generate large amplitude oscillations with stable phase and gain relationships among the variables. [...] Analysis shows the subjects fall victim to several 'misperceptions of feedback' identified in prior experimental studies of dynamic decisionmaking. Specifically, they fail to account for control actions which have been initiated but not yet had their effect. More subtle, subjects are insensitive to the presence of feedback from their decisions to the environment
and attribute the dynamics to exogenous variables, leading their normative efforts away from the source of difficulty.
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstre...
You can't win with the Church of Global Warming.
For instance, here's what one can find in the Wikipedia article for the book "Physics for Future Presidents":
It criticizes those who distort the facts, especially with regards to climate change. “Global warming is real," Muller writes. "It is very likely caused by humans.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And yet, anyone who has actually read the book (which I did) will tell you that while the author does explain the evidence behind global warming, the ones he criticizes the most for distorting the facts are Al Gore and the hockey stick guy. He explains in details all the lies and dishonest representations made by those people and insists that using what is basically FUD is not a winning strategy to raise awareness about global warming because once people find out that they've been duped, this will cause a huge backlash. But of cours that's not what the Wikipedia entry make it look like.
Years ago there was a fascinating study/experiment. They would put the subject in charge of maintaining the temperature of a room within a specific range, and the only action the person could do would be to press a button to cause an increase or decrease of the temperature; they could press as often as they wanted, but the change would only occur 5 minutes later. What happened? Basically everyone failed, consistently overcompensating one way or the other when they would see the temperature go up or down based on decisions made 5 minutes earlier. The more it went, the more people used the button, and they only made things worse.
Same thing would happen with this kind of solution. Decisions take time to be implemented, and by the time the side effects are known, more decisions are already in the pipeline.
For instance when you start sending traffic in local streets, local people react; they leave earlier or later, causing changes in the rush hour patterns. Or they fight back, getting the local authorities to convert one-ways to two-ways, or to reverse traffic flow. Thru traffic is slowed down, this causes new bottlenecks, sending more cars on other streets. Rinse and repeat. And while this happens does the computer model take the big picture into account? No, it keeps rerouting people in a progressively more frantic way until the whole area is a gridlock.
Spot on. Using the "hockey stick" guy as a reference for anything climate-related is like hiring Bill Cosby as a spokeperson for International Women's day.
Give him a break. I looked at his posting history and he's clearly going through a rough phase.
Just kidding, the guy's a tool.
You are also oblivious to irony.
Ah, another member of the Alanis Morrissette Ironic club.
Maybe instead of hiding behind insults you can explain how a simulation qualifies as "beating the world's worst traffic"?
See, history keeps showing over and over and over and over (etc) that men are unable to make accurate simulations of complex systems. Case in point: LTCM, which had two Nobel prize winners and the former head of the biggest bond trading desk on its board. They went bust. That was in 1998, and obviously people don't learn because the same kind of shit happened 10 years later. And seeing how the idiots at the Fed are driving the economy into the ground, soon we'll probably have another documented example.
The point here is that those traffic guys didn't beat nothing. All they did was a thought experiment that, if implemented (which will never happen) will at best cause more traffic problems. Ergo: useless.
Dang.
https://www.ibm.com/developerw...
Of course as with many IBM products, the miraculous setups are always in IBM labs.
I have a high-end Dell laptop [...] quad core i7, SSD [...] separate dedicated graphics card for CUDA work [...] full admin rights [...] Corsair mechanical keyboard [...] I have my own office [...] two large widescreen displays [...] I also have a desktop machine in my office to use as I please [...] Some of my coworkers have standing desk configurations [...] I am free to download and install whatever software I want [...]
Hope this helps.
My current laptop at work has a carboard cpu and needs the pagefile to run two instances of notepad. So no, your description doesn't help at all.