First, why not Stalin instead of Hitler? He arguably murdered more people over the course of his life - and even engaged in his own brand of ethnic slaughter.
Second, I'm just thinking that constant hyperbole means I don't have a clue what someone means when they compare a person to Hitler these days. Trump is regularly called "Hitler" or a "Nazi" too. So is Putin a real Hitler, intent on purging million of people and taking over the world, or a George Bush / Donald Trump type Hitler where you disagree with his policies or behavior, or somewhere in-between? Calling someone Hitler these days means absolutely nothing, because it's now a term used to describe anyone the left disagrees with.
For the record, I didn't see any justification for Putin to invade Ukraine. It's hard to make a judgment on Crimea, which seemed to have populations vying both ways in a power play, while stabilizing Syria does seem to at least coincide with their actual economic interests (and they're a hell of a lot closer to that region than we are). He could very well be a very dangerous man to his enemies, though obviously we only have suspicions of killings. This makes it hard to differentiate from a conspiracy theory, especially from such a distance away. Remember, a lot of people believe there are a string of suspicious deaths tied to the Clintons as well. He's going to be very difficult for the next US administration to deal with, but it seems we could hardly do worse than what's happened over the past few years short of getting caught up into another a shooting war.
An example cited in the filing was around a sporting event. If there’s a big championship game down below, Amazon AFC’s above could be loaded with snacks and souvenirs sports fans crave.
Do you really think the stadium owners will allow someone else to cut in on the revenue of the food and souvenirs they sell? They'd be asking for such a big cut that Amazon would barely make any money.
Besides which, the first time a drone drops out of the sky, there's real trouble. Out in the wider world, if a drone malfunctions and falls, there's only a small chance it will actually hit someone. Inside a stadium, the odds go way up.
To be honest, I just couldn't resist the obvious tie-in joke. I'm actually fine without an edit button here on Slashdot. While I occasionally wish I could take back a dumb mistake I missed while proofreading, adding an edit feature also introduces a significant problem of replying to mutable content. Then to fix that, you have to add other hacks, like flags to show the post was edited, a history to show what was edited, notifying posters who replied in case the content changed, and so on. Ultimately, it's probably a lot more trouble than its worth.
Editing is even more problematic for a push service, as you mentioned, whether it's recalling e-mails or editing tweets.
So now Obama wants to give Trump a going-away present: A shiny new, Vietnam-style, ever-escalating war with Russia, and a public perception that, if he tries to end it, or even keep it from escalating, it's because he's a Russian puppet.
Meh. I don't think Trump is one to stick his finger in the air or worry about the "optics" like a typical politician. So, he'll probably just defuse the whole thing, the media will see this as evidence of him being in bed with Putin, lots of Democrats will believe it, most Republicans won't trust the media, Trump will tweet something angry in response, and life will go on.
We don't need to start a war with China, trade or otherwise. Just grow a damned backbone when dealing with them and the companies that export so many jobs because of their handy slave labor wages. As near as I can tell, when they ask us to bend over, our current response tends to be some variant of "how far?"
My dad's family lived in a SoCal chicken coop when he was very young. His father was employed digging potatoes. Poor people are not a new phenomenon. In the end, it doesn't matter all that much whether we call them homeless or poor, unless you're trying to make a better headline.
We're always going to have poor people, but I don't necessarily think this is a terrible thing, nor by any mean something that can be "fixed". What's most important is making sure that people have opportunities to pull themselves out of poverty. My grandparents had literally nothing when they first immigrated, and eventually both had small businesses of their own. My father and mother took over one of the businesses and grew it over a lifetime of hard work. I started out poor early in my career, just barely able to sustain myself, and am starting my own business as well now. The American dream isn't getting rich quick. It's simply moving ahead in the race, and we need to make sure that's still possible. Unfortunately, that seems to be getting harder to do.
We need to ensure that people can take chances, educate themselves, learn new trades, move to better areas where needed. Some of this probably requires some government help, and some of it needs the government to get out of people's way. Some of it is making sure our social safety net is firmly in place so that trying and failing isn't fatal, without making it so comfortable that people just give up and let others support them. I wish I had better or more specific answers than that, though, as talk is cheap. But I guess you have to start somewhere, and we need to figure out how to fix this situation.
You're correct, of course, that there was no mystical prognostication powers at work here. But in the same way we can predict a spacecraft's flight through our solar system based on a known starting state, so too can we say Telsa "predicted" the accident when it was apparent that the laws of physics were in control instead of the drivers.
Prediction doesn't necessarily imply the existence of magic. After all, meteorologists predict (although they prefer "forecast") future weather a week from the current date with rather uncanny accuracy. And climate scientists are also predicting that average global temperatures will rise over the next few decades, based on past data and predictive models.
Nonsense, there are plenty of step-by-step guides on YouTube showing you how to sideload any app on an Android TV. Any 15-year old can follow along.
If this was an app downloaded directly from an official source, it surely would have been mentioned, as this would have shifted some of the liability in LG's direction - or at least would generate a lot more sympathy. So sorry, no, I'm not buying that it was from the official store.
Asked to detail how he got infected with the ransomware, Cauthon said "They [the relatives] said they downloaded an app to watch a movie. Halfway thru movie, tv froze. Now boots to this."
10-to-1 odds his relatives downloaded some shady app promising "free movies" (aka pirated movies), and was downloaded from a shady source. This generally doesn't happen by itself, and it's pretty rare to get infected by stuff from the official store. Yes, it happens, but the *vast* majority of Android malware is on 3rd party sites.
The general public needs to learn that downloading stuff from unverified 3rd party sources is going to get you infected sooner or later. To be perfectly honest, this is why Apple's walled garden with locked-down devices may be better for your typical user. Most people certainly can't handle the responsibility of keeping a modern PC clean, and it appears they can't even keep a smart TV malware free. Remember the saying "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"? Well, time and time again we see that users seem to have just enough knowledge to thoroughly screw themselves and their devices.
I feel for them having to shell out a few hundred to learn this lesson, but its a lesson worth learning before they get infected with a banking trojan on their PC. Of course, we don't really know the whole story, so I'm sort of reading between the lines and could certainly be wrong about this. But I doubt it.
You and I must have very different definitions of "hysteria". I was simply trying to clarify the current status of dark matter, so far as a layperson can understand it, as the headline seemed rather misleading. This is still "news for nerds", right? I'd hope we still value scientific accuracy in our science-based articles.
I certainly wasn't trying to denigrate Vera Rubin's contribution to science, the most notable of which was a pretty amazing discovery. Nor will her contribution to science be lessened if the dark matter theory ends up wrong. It was a brilliant observation that no one else made, and it sparked a fascinating line of investigation, to which no one can really will predict exactly what the results will be. In any case, its bound to turn some previously held theories on their heads.
And since you put "joke" in quotes, I'm sorry you didn't find it humorous. You can't please everyone, I guess.
What are you, a dark matter denier? The science is settled - there's consensus! We should now be turning our attention to finding that dark matter.
Joking aside, Vera Rubin obviously did not confirm the existence of dark matter. That's a terrible headline. She discovered that current mass estimates of the universe could not account for the rotations of galaxies using current models.
Everything beyond that is just a hypotheses, as no hint of "dark matter" has been found. I have a hunch that nothing will continue to be found until scientists figure out that their mass estimates were way off, or that the models were horribly wrong. Scientific "truths" are always getting clobbered by "ridiculous" new ideas, so it could go either way on this, but I'm betting on our lack of understanding rather than an invisible particle making up most of the mass of the universe.
I have a feeling it depends on the nature of the articles, the types of edits, and whether you happen to run into any "big fish / little pond" personality types. I also haven't had any issues, but I've mostly done minor edits and corrections to technical articles, so that's not too surprising. People being what they are, some conflict and contention is probably inevitable. I'm certain there are some petty people so invested in their Wikipedia editor status that they feel the need to assert their "power" over others at every available opportunity. I don't necessarily see that as a Wikipedia-exclusive problem. You'll see those types of people in any organization, unfortunately. They're typically not quite as public, though.
I guess my own solution is to not care quite so much. I'll contribute as I can, and if I run into an asshat, I'll move on. Still, I'm grateful to everyone who cared enough to contribute to some of the wonderfully informative articles I've read over the years.
Is there some obscure point of pride for remaining in "beta" versioning for that long? What's the point of that? It's been quite functional and stable for many years now. Understating your version number is no better than Chrome and Firefox's ridiculous version number race, IMO. Not a huge deal, of course. I just wonder why this is a thing.
Love Handbrake, but don't use it as often these days as I'm no longer buying and ripping my own DVDs or BluRays to my media server. Streaming is just too convenient.
The same reason Jack Thompson was raged against. He was trying to fuck with a hobby that gamers loved. It's just that the gaming industry rightfully rebuked him.
Jack Thompson was actively pursuing legislation to oppose any industry he saw as "evil", which happened to include the videogame industry (also including music, Hollywood, and porn). Sarkeesian was espousing her feminist viewpoint, but advocating nothing beyond awareness of what she perceived as sexism and misogyny in videogames. That was a significant difference from my perspective. And again, what did she have to do with "integrity in the gaming press"? She never represented herself in that way.
I also think most of us in the videogame industry understood that distinction pretty well. Among my colleagues, we had interesting discussions about what we agreed and disagreed with in her videos. There was really nothing to discuss with Thompson, other than to laugh at his ridiculous rants and borderline-insane behavior.
I've never bought into the notion that they sent threats to themselves. There are too many willing idiots and haters on the internet for them to have to resort to that. I also concede that it's perfectly plausible that it was mostly random trolls and haters that sent them those threats rather than people who actually cared about the original GamerGate message. We can never really know, since the internet is largely anonymous.
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It's about ports. Crimea goes back to WWII and the naughty document signed by Churchill.
Ah, that makes sense. Doesn't make it necessarily right, but does make sense.
First, why not Stalin instead of Hitler? He arguably murdered more people over the course of his life - and even engaged in his own brand of ethnic slaughter.
Second, I'm just thinking that constant hyperbole means I don't have a clue what someone means when they compare a person to Hitler these days. Trump is regularly called "Hitler" or a "Nazi" too. So is Putin a real Hitler, intent on purging million of people and taking over the world, or a George Bush / Donald Trump type Hitler where you disagree with his policies or behavior, or somewhere in-between? Calling someone Hitler these days means absolutely nothing, because it's now a term used to describe anyone the left disagrees with.
For the record, I didn't see any justification for Putin to invade Ukraine. It's hard to make a judgment on Crimea, which seemed to have populations vying both ways in a power play, while stabilizing Syria does seem to at least coincide with their actual economic interests (and they're a hell of a lot closer to that region than we are). He could very well be a very dangerous man to his enemies, though obviously we only have suspicions of killings. This makes it hard to differentiate from a conspiracy theory, especially from such a distance away. Remember, a lot of people believe there are a string of suspicious deaths tied to the Clintons as well. He's going to be very difficult for the next US administration to deal with, but it seems we could hardly do worse than what's happened over the past few years short of getting caught up into another a shooting war.
Vladimir Putin is a clone of Hitler
Calling a Russian "Hitler" is probably a pretty good way to get your ass kicked.
Actually, this is the problematic part:
An example cited in the filing was around a sporting event. If there’s a big championship game down below, Amazon AFC’s above could be loaded with snacks and souvenirs sports fans crave.
Do you really think the stadium owners will allow someone else to cut in on the revenue of the food and souvenirs they sell? They'd be asking for such a big cut that Amazon would barely make any money.
Besides which, the first time a drone drops out of the sky, there's real trouble. Out in the wider world, if a drone malfunctions and falls, there's only a small chance it will actually hit someone. Inside a stadium, the odds go way up.
To be honest, I just couldn't resist the obvious tie-in joke. I'm actually fine without an edit button here on Slashdot. While I occasionally wish I could take back a dumb mistake I missed while proofreading, adding an edit feature also introduces a significant problem of replying to mutable content. Then to fix that, you have to add other hacks, like flags to show the post was edited, a history to show what was edited, notifying posters who replied in case the content changed, and so on. Ultimately, it's probably a lot more trouble than its worth.
Editing is even more problematic for a push service, as you mentioned, whether it's recalling e-mails or editing tweets.
What other platform do we know of that needs an odit feature? Let me think... let me think...
So now Obama wants to give Trump a going-away present: A shiny new, Vietnam-style, ever-escalating war with Russia, and a public perception that, if he tries to end it, or even keep it from escalating, it's because he's a Russian puppet.
Meh. I don't think Trump is one to stick his finger in the air or worry about the "optics" like a typical politician. So, he'll probably just defuse the whole thing, the media will see this as evidence of him being in bed with Putin, lots of Democrats will believe it, most Republicans won't trust the media, Trump will tweet something angry in response, and life will go on.
We don't need to start a war with China, trade or otherwise. Just grow a damned backbone when dealing with them and the companies that export so many jobs because of their handy slave labor wages. As near as I can tell, when they ask us to bend over, our current response tends to be some variant of "how far?"
Yes, an internet connection is required to stream movies over the internet.
My dad's family lived in a SoCal chicken coop when he was very young. His father was employed digging potatoes. Poor people are not a new phenomenon. In the end, it doesn't matter all that much whether we call them homeless or poor, unless you're trying to make a better headline.
We're always going to have poor people, but I don't necessarily think this is a terrible thing, nor by any mean something that can be "fixed". What's most important is making sure that people have opportunities to pull themselves out of poverty. My grandparents had literally nothing when they first immigrated, and eventually both had small businesses of their own. My father and mother took over one of the businesses and grew it over a lifetime of hard work. I started out poor early in my career, just barely able to sustain myself, and am starting my own business as well now. The American dream isn't getting rich quick. It's simply moving ahead in the race, and we need to make sure that's still possible. Unfortunately, that seems to be getting harder to do.
We need to ensure that people can take chances, educate themselves, learn new trades, move to better areas where needed. Some of this probably requires some government help, and some of it needs the government to get out of people's way. Some of it is making sure our social safety net is firmly in place so that trying and failing isn't fatal, without making it so comfortable that people just give up and let others support them. I wish I had better or more specific answers than that, though, as talk is cheap. But I guess you have to start somewhere, and we need to figure out how to fix this situation.
There's even an app for kids which teaches them how to type with a keyboard, and video games such as Angry Birds that have been lightly customized.
"Lightly customized?" I'm pretty sure that's colloquially known as "pirated".
You're correct, of course, that there was no mystical prognostication powers at work here. But in the same way we can predict a spacecraft's flight through our solar system based on a known starting state, so too can we say Telsa "predicted" the accident when it was apparent that the laws of physics were in control instead of the drivers.
Prediction doesn't necessarily imply the existence of magic. After all, meteorologists predict (although they prefer "forecast") future weather a week from the current date with rather uncanny accuracy. And climate scientists are also predicting that average global temperatures will rise over the next few decades, based on past data and predictive models.
Feminist apps.
Nonsense, there are plenty of step-by-step guides on YouTube showing you how to sideload any app on an Android TV. Any 15-year old can follow along.
If this was an app downloaded directly from an official source, it surely would have been mentioned, as this would have shifted some of the liability in LG's direction - or at least would generate a lot more sympathy. So sorry, no, I'm not buying that it was from the official store.
Asked to detail how he got infected with the ransomware, Cauthon said "They [the relatives] said they downloaded an app to watch a movie. Halfway thru movie, tv froze. Now boots to this."
10-to-1 odds his relatives downloaded some shady app promising "free movies" (aka pirated movies), and was downloaded from a shady source. This generally doesn't happen by itself, and it's pretty rare to get infected by stuff from the official store. Yes, it happens, but the *vast* majority of Android malware is on 3rd party sites.
The general public needs to learn that downloading stuff from unverified 3rd party sources is going to get you infected sooner or later. To be perfectly honest, this is why Apple's walled garden with locked-down devices may be better for your typical user. Most people certainly can't handle the responsibility of keeping a modern PC clean, and it appears they can't even keep a smart TV malware free. Remember the saying "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"? Well, time and time again we see that users seem to have just enough knowledge to thoroughly screw themselves and their devices.
I feel for them having to shell out a few hundred to learn this lesson, but its a lesson worth learning before they get infected with a banking trojan on their PC. Of course, we don't really know the whole story, so I'm sort of reading between the lines and could certainly be wrong about this. But I doubt it.
B-roll footage for the fake moon landing production?
You and I must have very different definitions of "hysteria". I was simply trying to clarify the current status of dark matter, so far as a layperson can understand it, as the headline seemed rather misleading. This is still "news for nerds", right? I'd hope we still value scientific accuracy in our science-based articles.
I certainly wasn't trying to denigrate Vera Rubin's contribution to science, the most notable of which was a pretty amazing discovery. Nor will her contribution to science be lessened if the dark matter theory ends up wrong. It was a brilliant observation that no one else made, and it sparked a fascinating line of investigation, to which no one can really will predict exactly what the results will be. In any case, its bound to turn some previously held theories on their heads.
And since you put "joke" in quotes, I'm sorry you didn't find it humorous. You can't please everyone, I guess.
What are you, a dark matter denier? The science is settled - there's consensus! We should now be turning our attention to finding that dark matter.
Joking aside, Vera Rubin obviously did not confirm the existence of dark matter. That's a terrible headline. She discovered that current mass estimates of the universe could not account for the rotations of galaxies using current models.
Everything beyond that is just a hypotheses, as no hint of "dark matter" has been found. I have a hunch that nothing will continue to be found until scientists figure out that their mass estimates were way off, or that the models were horribly wrong. Scientific "truths" are always getting clobbered by "ridiculous" new ideas, so it could go either way on this, but I'm betting on our lack of understanding rather than an invisible particle making up most of the mass of the universe.
TL; DR - Explain how labels are gouging customers when media prices have remained the same for decades, and YouTube exists.
I'd say the labels gouge their clients far more than the customers.
Streaming video services could be doing the same thing if Hollywood pulled its collective head out of their MPAAss.
You would be arrested and thrown in jail for endangering the livelihood of some mega corp.
Correct, this could never happen in the US. Definitely, never in a million years.
Or, you could JFDI.
I have a feeling it depends on the nature of the articles, the types of edits, and whether you happen to run into any "big fish / little pond" personality types. I also haven't had any issues, but I've mostly done minor edits and corrections to technical articles, so that's not too surprising. People being what they are, some conflict and contention is probably inevitable. I'm certain there are some petty people so invested in their Wikipedia editor status that they feel the need to assert their "power" over others at every available opportunity. I don't necessarily see that as a Wikipedia-exclusive problem. You'll see those types of people in any organization, unfortunately. They're typically not quite as public, though.
I guess my own solution is to not care quite so much. I'll contribute as I can, and if I run into an asshat, I'll move on. Still, I'm grateful to everyone who cared enough to contribute to some of the wonderfully informative articles I've read over the years.
Is there some obscure point of pride for remaining in "beta" versioning for that long? What's the point of that? It's been quite functional and stable for many years now. Understating your version number is no better than Chrome and Firefox's ridiculous version number race, IMO. Not a huge deal, of course. I just wonder why this is a thing.
Love Handbrake, but don't use it as often these days as I'm no longer buying and ripping my own DVDs or BluRays to my media server. Streaming is just too convenient.
The same reason Jack Thompson was raged against. He was trying to fuck with a hobby that gamers loved. It's just that the gaming industry rightfully rebuked him.
Jack Thompson was actively pursuing legislation to oppose any industry he saw as "evil", which happened to include the videogame industry (also including music, Hollywood, and porn). Sarkeesian was espousing her feminist viewpoint, but advocating nothing beyond awareness of what she perceived as sexism and misogyny in videogames. That was a significant difference from my perspective. And again, what did she have to do with "integrity in the gaming press"? She never represented herself in that way.
I also think most of us in the videogame industry understood that distinction pretty well. Among my colleagues, we had interesting discussions about what we agreed and disagreed with in her videos. There was really nothing to discuss with Thompson, other than to laugh at his ridiculous rants and borderline-insane behavior.
I've never bought into the notion that they sent threats to themselves. There are too many willing idiots and haters on the internet for them to have to resort to that. I also concede that it's perfectly plausible that it was mostly random trolls and haters that sent them those threats rather than people who actually cared about the original GamerGate message. We can never really know, since the internet is largely anonymous.