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  1. Speaking of social justice did you see MGTOW? on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 2

    Want to see what scojus thought control looks like on wikipedia?
    MGTOW page has been deleted all the time, because the scojus feminists believe it shouldn't be included, and since they only need a few editors to vote "delete" it gets removed.

    This is AFTER it had tons of negative updates added, just view the talk page, its a damn warzone.

    Here is it before http://i.imgur.com/Nni5Z13.jpg
    And after http://i.imgur.com/MQ89wYO.jpg

    This is why I will never donate a cent, and actively remind people of their censorship.

     

  2. Targeted users on Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Adam Baldwin had his a twitter account banned for a post that said "#gamergate'ers are more attractive and joyous for than anti-gg'ers"

    The whole "troll" excuse, seems to be an excuse to target users who buck the trend of political correctness, gamergate seems to be the largest target of users.

    Even Richard Dawkin had to mention that twitter "thought" police going after people.

  3. Re:Islam isn’t the problem; assholes are on Facebook, Google and Twitter Agree To Delete Hate Speech In Germany (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you really just go "1000 years ago" in a current events discussion? Christians and Jews had reformations that excluded the radical practices that include acts of law. (aka killing/stoning/etc). Islam has been going the other way, pushing oppressive additions. Some of the more extreme arab states rewrite the quran to include radical beliefs and practices.

    So yes, while some islamic countries practice the basic islamic religion they all still share the basic moral and legal actions. Its still being taught in the principles of islam. They need a reformation, just as when the Pope says its ok for birth control.

    And as for Jordan being safe, they just had another mass shooting on the 10th anniversary of the hotel bombing. The thing that helps Jordan the most is capitalism and its multiple economic markets. But, they are already talking about a market collapse in their country due to the mass influx of syrian refugees. While the Saudi countries are avoiding taking in any refugees.

    And I'm pretty sure both our posts would be classified as hate speech.

  4. Chrome was severely broken from the Dec 2nd to the 8th due to the 48.x upgrade, NTLM didnt work with squid based proxy servers. It broke offices around the world for a week, since chrome auto updates. And if you're a google office user, it impacted your entire company.

    Google knew about this issue in regression, fixed it, yet it still made it into production code due to the "devops" mentality..
    https://code.google.com/p/chro...

    A major problem with firefox, it doesnt support installed certificates in windows. Chrome does. We use certificates tied to the users PC/VM with google office, so users cant log into google email except from their 1 verified instance. (and tied to their mobile iron on the apple/android phone)....

    I WANT to use Firefox, but I'm tied to Chrome if I want to read my mail. (we have pop/imap/apps turned off too, since we don't have password access, sigh, i miss thunderbird...)

    And this monday, keepass stopped working with my chrome and firefox on my linux box, and firefox uses keefox, chrome uses chromelpass..

    JAVA! I still use it for dell idracs, but I cant use chrome to access idracs now. And Firefox with its dell signed ssl cert issues, sigh, always deleteing them after adding them so they dont conflict.

    I'm not happy with browsers in general, continuously breaking, non compatible apps..

  5. NTLM is broken, use Chromium 49 or keep Chrome 46 on Chrome 47 Released (blogspot.ca) · · Score: 1

    So the NTLM bug was fixed, but somehow made it into the release. It is fixed in the chromium releases. I'm using 49 at the moment perfectly.
    Users could not authenticate to the squid proxies, and couldnt get out, and our entire shipping department couldnt reach fedex.

    Bug @ https://code.google.com/p/chro...

    We had to push out a group policy for google chrome to turn off updates, but a few users already got smacked with it. We use google gmail/office enterprise, so this hit us pretty hard. Having employees use IE11 for now. Bug says a update might be pushed out tomorrow.

  6. Re:It will be an improvement on Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The list of wikipedia astroturfing and politics turfing is beyond annoying. One of my favorite wiki feebles is when they told Philip Roth he’s not “credible source” on book he wrote

    I wish I would of bookmarked the editors page, but there was this historian who specialized in mis understood beliefs in wikpedia, but he would have his updates removed because the standard "group think" belief was he was incorrect. He even posted the references required but was still reverted. He finally just edited his personal page, so it would be searchable, no idea if it is. His popular one was that no Canadian military was in vietnam, but Canada did have military medical there with hospitals and mash type units. He even linked to the CA GOV MIL page that had the medals given out during the vietnam war.

    Don't get me started on the whole left slanted views given. Even the gamergate page is dripping in political correctness and not very subtle slanted views. Read the comments section on there, you can see how Jimbo had to ban anti-gg editors for awhile due to the bias.

    I remember when MGTOW was coming about, some editors on wikipedia wouldn't allow a mens right page or mgtow to be referenced or mentioned. Finally they they came up with a plan, create a MGTOW page and redirect it to MTOW (Maximum Take Off Weight) to make sure MGTOW couldn't get a page.

    Also the page for "Cultural Marxism" was deleted, and then a redirect to the "Frankfort School". The irony is dripping. Now according to wikipedia is a "Conspiracy Theory"...

    Check out the differences on some differences in definitions for Cultural Marxism.

    Urban Dictionary
    The gradual process of destroying all traditions, languages, religions, individuality, government, family, law and order in order to re-assemble society in the future as a communist utopia. This utopia will have no notion of gender, traditions, morality, god or even family or the state. The Philosophy was proven not to Work already by Vladimir Lenin as he tried in vein to control and subjugate the people. He admitted before he died that capitalism was the only true system in which people understand how to live with each other.... Lenin knew that there were a few western Idiots who kept spreading the communist ideas long after Lenin gave up.... he called these people useful idiots as they had more emotion than brains and could be used to subvert the western states for a military takeover in the future as the citizens would already be perverted and sick and weak from poisonous ideas, decadent lusts and mindless entertainment.

    Metapedia
    Cultural Marxism is an ideology which emphasizes culture as a main cause of inequalities. Critics have seen cultural Marxism and its influence as an important cause of political correctness and as an important cause of a perceived decline of humanities, social sciences, culture, and civilization in the Western world.

    Rational Wiki
    The term "cultural Marxism" is most commonly encountered as a snarl word decrying everything right-wingers don't like, alluding to a conspiracy theory involving sinister left-wingers in the cultural and artistic spheres, including the media and academia, supposedly being engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine Western culture. With bonus anti-Semitism.

    Wikipedia
    DELETED.

  7. Dailymotion/Vimeo on YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've already seen people backing up and dual broadcasting due to DMCA takedowns on youtube. Most are podcasts or game reviewers that are getting DMCA take downs, and after 3 your account is removed. Scary. I have no loyalty to youtube or twitter, or any other service that decides to swing the ban hammer on content producers for political reasons hiding behind a DMCA takedown.

  8. Do what we did in Seattle, we took our passing lane and turned it into a 3+ hov/toll lane. No passing lane, no problem!

  9. Can I make the list of whats Offensive? on National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Thats the true power, those who get to make the list of "Offensive" things to ban/censor. Might be the crazy reason we have a first amendment, and a 2nd to make sure we keep it.

  10. Re:OK lets be real on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Thanks Hillary.

  11. Old co-worker only needed 4 hours on Maybe You Don't Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I had an old co-worker who slept 4 hours a day, he was even tested by multiple colleges in sleep studies. He won the genetic lotto for only needing 4 hours.
    Really helped his chosen career as a DBA/Engineer, he would always do the maintenance windows for the dba work and still be in before everyone.
    Crazy, guy was in his late 50's when I worked with him.

    Myself, Body likes around 7-8, but 9 or so when I'm really exhausted. When I was in my prime, 6 hours good to go, but I tended to sleep 12 on weekends to catch up on the sleep debt.

    I've always thought about trying segmented sleep so you could get the "Waking hour" aka creative hours. When you would wake up early and work on something, then catch a couple hours sleep after. I use to wake up work on a project for couple hours, super creative and fast. Miss those days when I had time to do that. Maybe when I retire.

    I dont think there is a complete science to sleep, too many factors.

  12. 18 million for someone that was NEVER Charged?! on British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    18 million for someone that was NEVER Charged?!

    Yup, no political motivation, move along citizen.

  13. 5 Eps on the website on Star Trek: New Voyages, The Fan-Based Star Trek Series (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just watched the 5 eps on the website over the last week, very enjoyable, even if fan made. They even had them in HD.

    I really wish we had a star trek series on tv, over the last year I re-watched DS9, last year I re-watched Voyager. I finished the Stargate Series last month.

    The state of sci-fi on tv really sucks right now.

  14. The old Lie by Omission on Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most counties do this, lie by omission. "We don’t spy on our citizens!" Correct, we allow other countries, then we swap data.
    Police, "We don’t track license plates!", We let the DOT do it for us.

    So many lies in government agencies.

  15. Telecoms, ISPs and the hash list on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    Worked at AT&T and T-Mobile and they ran the hash list along with a virus scan on emails, mms messages and photo albums. I'm sure other image hosting services run the same checks. If any photo popped, you had to notify this third party company who acted with the cops. If a cop had a warrant, you would call the telcom to have an engineer to drop a dvd in the admin server, run a collect script that zips everything up, and then have the police department show up and pick up the dvd outta the dvd-rom drive. Nobody is allowed to touch the DVD. Maintains the chain of custody.

  16. Behavioral Retargeting on Facebook Allows Turkish Government To Set the Censorship Rules · · Score: 1

    Anyone who uses facebook will notice how it picks and chooses what to show you. Even if you jump through their overly complicated grouping methods, it will only limit what to show you. The only way to get a good stream is to view each person/group independently, which is over kill. You cant add secret groups to lists, so you have to view each secret group directly. RSS feeds no longer work, and stories are limited to 20 at a time.

    They even scan for posts that relate to what you post, including categories and tag them. You post lots of political, food, cats, notice how the the feeds show you "likewise" posts from people. Think about that, your posts are tagged by its content.

    This is a scary trend, they choose what you can see on the largest "social site". Its not social when facebook picks and chooses for you.

    Facebook has already been banning content they seem offensive for political reasons. Lets not kid ourselves, the hate for anything non-progressive, left leaning gets a hammer on facebook. If enough people brigade vote on someone as offensive, it gets removed quicker than left leaning views. The stories of right wing groups getting their pages removed, or anti-feminist groups being removed is happening way to often. I've seen 2 people i follow had their page removed due to an inflammatory comment made against some popular social movements. While the censorship is really all over a sliding scale on what is acceptable, the side of safety is only for leftist views.

    So, we have automated processes on what you content is shown, broken content reader, administrators removing content due to personal values, governments adding blacklists, facebook remove functionality and apis, and you being used as a lab animal in their testing.

    Facebook is indeed a deal with the devil for its thought controlled social networking experience.

  17. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Modded down,think my point is made.

  18. Re:Lets see on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Hey look, Modded Troll because I pointed out the problem. I think the point is made.

  19. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 0

    The editors ignored the pro-gamergate news, pro male news, but kept the healthy does of anti-gamergate news like the Wu around. Lets have more articles on harassment of women, how women have it tough in Amazon, how women are being ostracized in tech!

    With a readership of mostly males interested in tech, they really did push a feminist liberal agenda over tech news. And look what it got them, most of the users left, the quality of news went down, and click bait appeared.

  20. Lets see on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: -1, Troll

    Killed off freshmeat, turned sourceforge into bigger pile of crap, slashdot is become a SJW haven for articles against men and hides articles for its corporate masters.

    Did we hire gawker staff to run this place into the ground? I'd say get back to roots, and support your audience, but alas, appears to be a tad too late.

    Shame, I remember when /. was at the heart of tech news, remember CPU magazine? So sad.

  21. Re:wrong answer on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That was expected, "if you are not for us, you are against us" would be her answer.

    She was unknown to me before gamergate, and now the only thing I ever see from her is hate speech against men. Her toxic views of male gamers appear on video game sites as fact. Her views of video game design as being misogynistic is being promoted as fact.

    Her video games reviews are only about sexism, leaving off what games are really about, gameplay, interaction, puzzles, design, ingenuity.

    Shes a one sided hate parrot, and I really cant condone her viewpoints or actions. The professional victim act gets old.

  22. Does indeed happen. on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Getting into my late 40's, I find my friends are experiencing this all over. EMC keeps contacting a buddy who is a storage architect, he designed storage hardware at sun, they never make an offer after multiple interviews, he says its because hes almost 60. Facebook keeps calling a few of my buddies, but they too never get hired and are in their 50's. I was turned down by 2 companies when they learned my age and I had a family. But I dont want to work in a sweat shop anymore, so its good to know exactly how bad some places can be. Amazon so far seems to be hiring everyone, because they burn them out quicker than they can hire.

    Yeah, people are working until retirement age now, so this is a problem. (You know, that reset button that wipes out your entire life savings called divorce)

  23. Voicemail trasnscription on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    I'm loving voicemail now, I get the voicemail automatically transcribed and texted to me. I never have to call voicemail, and reading a text is super quick compared to listening to voicemail. Even google voicemail does this.

  24. 4k downsampled to 1080p is AWESOME on Ghost Towns Is the First 8K Video Posted To YouTube -- But Can You Watch It? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was always wondering why a 4k video playing on a 1080p looks so awesome compared to same 1080P video. Well, the 4K and 1080P uses 4 pixels in a square with the same chroma. When you downsample the 4k on a 1080p, it goes to a 1/1 pixel matching, so no more 4 square pixels. You get a more detailed video with more vibrant colors and detail. Its crazy how better it looks. So the true visual quality is lost in the encoding on 1080p!

    We are being robbed of visual quality, so more pixels is a selling point. (mostly)

  25. Is this an article on wealth redistribution? on A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ok, so lets recap the article, Amazon needs to lead on diversity, assist low income in the area, change tax codes to be more "fair" in Seattle and Washington state.

    And the article says how horrible interviews are at amazon, but only for a woman. As if people around here don’t realize its a sweatshop, and everyone has to be oncall 24/x and work insane hours. They are burning people to make products, they pay great, sign on bonuses, moving costs, but life sucks there. There is a reason people are leaving after a year in droves.

    Crazy article, ignores many facets of working at amazon and concentrates on social reform outside the company. Agenda much?