Oh. Yep, I'd say we're in agreement then:p It's nice to see someone who is taking a rational and realistic stance on the issue for once.
I went to this voting app hoping that it would be about voting on default privacy settings. When I saw that it was voting on one of two Facebook-defined privacy policies, I left.
was specifically speaking to his complaint that Microsoft astroturfers were in any way responsible for a drop in readership. That is stupid
What? It's not stupid.. here's a comment I posted yesterday where I said I stopped visiting for a while because of this very issue. You are showing some kind of cognitive bias simply by saying that it's stupid/impossible.
I don't see what there is for me to backtrack about.
My "haters gonna hate" was referring to him hating on Microsoft, and you apparently hating that people that have autistic traits despite yourself seeming to have them too - hence the irony comment.
Clearly this last statement is patently absurd; but you would have to believe it in order to say that I cannot be correct about my lack of biases.
By the same token it's absurd to say that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean that I can't say that it's unlikely that she does. It's pretty delusional to think that your memory and reasoning processes are infallible. I've already pointed out that you made an incorrect assumption at the start of this comment.
You could start a "No True Scotsman" type argument here where you go on to say "well, I'm not susceptible to these other biases", but I don't want to get into that. I wouldn't find it hard to believe that you're more liberal and scientific in your thought processes than most people (I consider myself the same), but that doesn't meant that you are free of cognitive biases.
What the hell are you talking about? In that case, all privacy is an illusion.
There are privacy settings on Facebook which you can set to restrict other people, applications or websites from seeing the data that you have chosen to enter into Facebook. I just went to the privacy settings and saw the you can stop Facebook from interacting with other websites and applications entirely, but I'm leaving the capabilities enabled because I find it convenient to use the "login with Facebook" button on some sites. (Cue someone spouting a quote from a dead guy about liberty).
If you are really that paranoid, just don't use Facebook. You'd better also never go outside. You never know when someone might try to look at you or even listen to you. How awful would that be?
Weed got legalised because they held a vote on the actual issue. Of course it's worthwhile voting on individual issues. Jeez.
Voting for a person rather than on issues as a way to express your opinion is like asking your taxi driver to solve a set of riddles rather than telling him your actual destination. How does voting for a specific person say that you want weed legalised? Maybe you abhor weed, but you agree with the rest of the guy's policies, etc. I'd rather we had a system of being allowed to nominate issues and vote on them. Voting certain people into certain positions of authority is probably still a good idea, but it's a very poor way to make your wishes known, and it's dumb to act like things aren't going the way you want simply because you didn't vote for a certain individual.
You talk as if there is a way you could vote that would actually change anything. Even assuming that the system worked as intended, at most you'd get to choose one issue where you get to make a positive change. For the other issues things either stay the same, or you get ass-raped.
I don't consider it misapplied. You mentioned autism in your first "real comment". So you were also in fact bringing up a pet topic that honestly doesn't have much to do with [insert any tech company here] hate on Slashdot, or in fact anywhere on the internet.
Haters gonna hate, as they say. It's just a human trait, not an autistic one. People love to complain. In common websites like Facebook people complain about popular culture like Justin Bieber. Here we're a bit more geeky, so we complain about tech companies.
He wasn't talking about patents, he was talking about closed proprietary standards such as office documents (even OpenXML isn't that open) , or the HTML rendering behaviour of IE.
Similar discussion about iPhone/iPad in the business while excluding Android. The reason? Android is unix based and can't be trusted.
I hope you pointed out that iOS is UNIX based too..?
I've run into the attitude you talk about too, of free automatically being bad, but thankfully attitudes can change over time as long as you choose your battles carefully. Open source products aren't always top of their class, but sometimes they are top - or at the very least "good enough".
It was banned because it gave the a competitive advantage. It technically would make any car you added it to safer. The thing that makes the X2010 dangerous is the insane acceleration and top speed.
You can generate extra downforce at lower speeds with suction fans:)
The Red Bull X2010/http://gran-turismo.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Bull_X2011_Prototype_'11X2011 concept cars in Gran Turismo 5 use this concept, as well as very lightweight bodies and over 1500BHP. They are insane... if they actually created a race series with them, I expect quite a lot of the drivers would die:p
I'm not saying that cars in F1 or rallies are all the same, I know there are differences among the manufacturers. I'm just saying that the thing that makes races interesting is generally the driving, rather than the vehicles.
I agree that single vehicle races are less fun to watch than multi-manufacturer races. I remember watching TOCA races a few years ago where some vehicles were diesel and some petrol. The diesels had much better torque and so powered out of corners better, but as a consequence they'd also chew through tyres more quickly and by the end of the race they'd be sliding all over the place. Also depending on the track you can have vehicles with nimble handling and not much power competing against cars that rely more on brute horsepower. Variety is good, but there also needs to be balance, otherwise you already have a good idea in advance who is going to win, and that takes some of the excitement away.
Religion is another area where being charismatic makes you more likely to be a leader. Talks given by charismatic people are much more interesting and inspiring. The guy in charge of the guys with guns had better be likeable and commanding, otherwise one of the guys with guns will take over.
You don't have to be going at 200mph for a race to be interesting. As long as everyone has a similar specced vehicle, it's the way drivers handle braking, acceleration, lines through the corners and overtaking that makes a race interesting.
I really enjoy watching Touring Cars and rallies, but don't find F1 as entertaining. Touring cars tends to have packs of cars jostling for position and not so afraid to get up close and personal with each other. Rallying is of course just spectacular with all the drifting and varying terrain. I think it takes even more skill than being a good F1 driver. DTM is fun to watch too, it's like a mix between Touring Cars and F1.
Same here, but the end result is similar. It's kind of hard to tell the correlation from causation when social factors such as bullying are involved.
People on the "high functioning" end of the autistic scale can be affected in a huge variety of ways though. Apparently it's harder to notice in women too, as their social/emotional intelligence is generally higher than that of guys and therefore they do a better job of fitting in. Many people with Aspergers didn't realise they had it until their kids were diagnosed either. I find it all pretty interesting.
Well actually I noticed the shilling and stopped visiting for a while because it was depressing me that apparently nobody else was noticing it. I see a lot of other people complaining about it now though, and the number of shill posts has gone down somewhat. You can usually tell from the words that people use whether they're marketing drones.
I didn't realise it was related to Windows 7. Windows 7 is better than Vista from my experience supporting both of them in the workplace. I have no clue about Windows 8, and have no urge to even try it. I didn't even use 7 for a while. I prefer to let others be the public beta testers to find out if it's worth upgrading.
Intelligence doesn't really seem to be a factor for getting into power anywhere, so I'm not quite sure why you singled out any one area of the world in particular.
It seems to me that charisma is much more important for getting ahead in politics and business.
What makes you think it will be entirely floppy? I imagine these things will have a credit-card like flexibility. If they have more, then all it takes is a simple case with the flexibility of your choosing.
You can't have tried very hard to solve that issue in your head. It's also a bit weird to think that the designers of these devices wouldn't try to phone someone, or tap the screen.
Sorry, I didn't state things clearly: that policy currently covers at least 12 company mobiles.
When we had a lot of offshore workers, they'd lose/break phones on a regular basis, so it was worth it for us. I suppose they must have been making money selling refurbished models otherwise it wouldn't be worth it for the insurers..
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Yeah after reading his first sentence I'm not even going to read the rest of the post. He's either delusional or trolling.
Oh. Yep, I'd say we're in agreement then :p It's nice to see someone who is taking a rational and realistic stance on the issue for once.
I went to this voting app hoping that it would be about voting on default privacy settings. When I saw that it was voting on one of two Facebook-defined privacy policies, I left.
was specifically speaking to his complaint that Microsoft astroturfers were in any way responsible for a drop in readership. That is stupid
What? It's not stupid.. here's a comment I posted yesterday where I said I stopped visiting for a while because of this very issue. You are showing some kind of cognitive bias simply by saying that it's stupid/impossible.
I don't see what there is for me to backtrack about.
My "haters gonna hate" was referring to him hating on Microsoft, and you apparently hating that people that have autistic traits despite yourself seeming to have them too - hence the irony comment.
Clearly this last statement is patently absurd; but you would have to believe it in order to say that I cannot be correct about my lack of biases.
By the same token it's absurd to say that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean that I can't say that it's unlikely that she does. It's pretty delusional to think that your memory and reasoning processes are infallible. I've already pointed out that you made an incorrect assumption at the start of this comment.
You could start a "No True Scotsman" type argument here where you go on to say "well, I'm not susceptible to these other biases", but I don't want to get into that. I wouldn't find it hard to believe that you're more liberal and scientific in your thought processes than most people (I consider myself the same), but that doesn't meant that you are free of cognitive biases.
What the hell are you talking about? In that case, all privacy is an illusion.
There are privacy settings on Facebook which you can set to restrict other people, applications or websites from seeing the data that you have chosen to enter into Facebook. I just went to the privacy settings and saw the you can stop Facebook from interacting with other websites and applications entirely, but I'm leaving the capabilities enabled because I find it convenient to use the "login with Facebook" button on some sites. (Cue someone spouting a quote from a dead guy about liberty).
If you are really that paranoid, just don't use Facebook. You'd better also never go outside. You never know when someone might try to look at you or even listen to you. How awful would that be?
Weed got legalised because they held a vote on the actual issue. Of course it's worthwhile voting on individual issues. Jeez.
Voting for a person rather than on issues as a way to express your opinion is like asking your taxi driver to solve a set of riddles rather than telling him your actual destination. How does voting for a specific person say that you want weed legalised? Maybe you abhor weed, but you agree with the rest of the guy's policies, etc. I'd rather we had a system of being allowed to nominate issues and vote on them. Voting certain people into certain positions of authority is probably still a good idea, but it's a very poor way to make your wishes known, and it's dumb to act like things aren't going the way you want simply because you didn't vote for a certain individual.
Well, I looked it up and apparently that scene was based on a real 3D filing system for UNIX
You talk as if there is a way you could vote that would actually change anything. Even assuming that the system worked as intended, at most you'd get to choose one issue where you get to make a positive change. For the other issues things either stay the same, or you get ass-raped.
I don't consider it misapplied. You mentioned autism in your first "real comment". So you were also in fact bringing up a pet topic that honestly doesn't have much to do with [insert any tech company here] hate on Slashdot, or in fact anywhere on the internet.
Haters gonna hate, as they say. It's just a human trait, not an autistic one. People love to complain. In common websites like Facebook people complain about popular culture like Justin Bieber. Here we're a bit more geeky, so we complain about tech companies.
Ah.. sweet, sweet irony..
He wasn't talking about patents, he was talking about closed proprietary standards such as office documents (even OpenXML isn't that open) , or the HTML rendering behaviour of IE.
Similar discussion about iPhone/iPad in the business while excluding Android. The reason? Android is unix based and can't be trusted.
I hope you pointed out that iOS is UNIX based too..?
I've run into the attitude you talk about too, of free automatically being bad, but thankfully attitudes can change over time as long as you choose your battles carefully. Open source products aren't always top of their class, but sometimes they are top - or at the very least "good enough".
The government sells marijuana for "profits"? When they're already several trillion dollars in debt and don't seem to give a fuck? Okay.
It was banned because it gave the a competitive advantage. It technically would make any car you added it to safer. The thing that makes the X2010 dangerous is the insane acceleration and top speed.
Oops. X2011
You can generate extra downforce at lower speeds with suction fans :)
The Red Bull X2010/http://gran-turismo.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Bull_X2011_Prototype_'11X2011 concept cars in Gran Turismo 5 use this concept, as well as very lightweight bodies and over 1500BHP. They are insane... if they actually created a race series with them, I expect quite a lot of the drivers would die :p
I'm not saying that cars in F1 or rallies are all the same, I know there are differences among the manufacturers. I'm just saying that the thing that makes races interesting is generally the driving, rather than the vehicles.
I agree that single vehicle races are less fun to watch than multi-manufacturer races. I remember watching TOCA races a few years ago where some vehicles were diesel and some petrol. The diesels had much better torque and so powered out of corners better, but as a consequence they'd also chew through tyres more quickly and by the end of the race they'd be sliding all over the place. Also depending on the track you can have vehicles with nimble handling and not much power competing against cars that rely more on brute horsepower. Variety is good, but there also needs to be balance, otherwise you already have a good idea in advance who is going to win, and that takes some of the excitement away.
Religion is another area where being charismatic makes you more likely to be a leader. Talks given by charismatic people are much more interesting and inspiring. The guy in charge of the guys with guns had better be likeable and commanding, otherwise one of the guys with guns will take over.
You don't have to be going at 200mph for a race to be interesting. As long as everyone has a similar specced vehicle, it's the way drivers handle braking, acceleration, lines through the corners and overtaking that makes a race interesting.
I really enjoy watching Touring Cars and rallies, but don't find F1 as entertaining. Touring cars tends to have packs of cars jostling for position and not so afraid to get up close and personal with each other. Rallying is of course just spectacular with all the drifting and varying terrain. I think it takes even more skill than being a good F1 driver. DTM is fun to watch too, it's like a mix between Touring Cars and F1.
Same here, but the end result is similar. It's kind of hard to tell the correlation from causation when social factors such as bullying are involved.
People on the "high functioning" end of the autistic scale can be affected in a huge variety of ways though. Apparently it's harder to notice in women too, as their social/emotional intelligence is generally higher than that of guys and therefore they do a better job of fitting in. Many people with Aspergers didn't realise they had it until their kids were diagnosed either. I find it all pretty interesting.
Well actually I noticed the shilling and stopped visiting for a while because it was depressing me that apparently nobody else was noticing it. I see a lot of other people complaining about it now though, and the number of shill posts has gone down somewhat. You can usually tell from the words that people use whether they're marketing drones.
I didn't realise it was related to Windows 7. Windows 7 is better than Vista from my experience supporting both of them in the workplace. I have no clue about Windows 8, and have no urge to even try it. I didn't even use 7 for a while. I prefer to let others be the public beta testers to find out if it's worth upgrading.
Intelligence doesn't really seem to be a factor for getting into power anywhere, so I'm not quite sure why you singled out any one area of the world in particular.
It seems to me that charisma is much more important for getting ahead in politics and business.
I doubt it. I considered myself to have mild autistic traits before I knew about Aspergers. Self diagnosers will self diagnose.
What makes you think it will be entirely floppy? I imagine these things will have a credit-card like flexibility. If they have more, then all it takes is a simple case with the flexibility of your choosing.
You can't have tried very hard to solve that issue in your head. It's also a bit weird to think that the designers of these devices wouldn't try to phone someone, or tap the screen.
Sorry, I didn't state things clearly: that policy currently covers at least 12 company mobiles.
When we had a lot of offshore workers, they'd lose/break phones on a regular basis, so it was worth it for us. I suppose they must have been making money selling refurbished models otherwise it wouldn't be worth it for the insurers..
It's a company phone. The insurance premium is around 500GBP a year, and my phone cost about 350GBP, so it seems worth it to me.