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Does anyone else thing it's interesting that the first 10 comments regarding a story about Russia come from anon or high number registered users that cast doubt on the story and putting it in a Republicans versus Democrats light? I'm just saying, it seems like the kind of thing Russian agents might be vying for.
Are we now seeing why "The Boy who Cried Wolf" and "Chicken Little" fables were important to learn when you were a child? ... You wanted to blame Russia! Russia! Russia! just to undermine Trump
I don't know if existing hardware that Roku uses can support MPEG-2, but if it does, then they could add support with just a software update. The same with all the other similar devices that may not have supported MPEG-2 in the past.
Why fix something they already paid for when they can just make you pay for it again with a software upgrade? That's capitalism.
USPTO keeps validating these bullshit patents because their system rewards passing patents but never punishes passing bad patents. The result is that just about anything can be patented and is expensive to fight in court. If you're lucky, you will win and by win I mean you will have spent millions of dollars fighting a bad patent and get nothing in return.
There is no reason to believe that the Democratic party has any intention of repealing the PATRIOT Act or FISA.
Unfortunately, our democracy has been crippled and has resulted in a non-representative government that doesn't work for the people because of the reductive first-past-the-post voting system that in effect in 99.9% of the country.
The problem is that the oversight provided turned illegitimate when the government decided to build a mass surveillance apparatus in violation of the fourth amendment of the US constitution. It is the government itself that is driving people to encryption. It's no surprised that trust has been lost in the government when even the local PD will hack your phone and make a complete copy without a warrant. Encryption is a way to ensure your rights because they abdicated themselves of that responsibility. The fact that they have been burned by their own bad behavior is unfortunate but there is nobody else to blame but themselves.
Finding out potential problems in a design can be daunting task, especially when something going wrong causes it to explode. What this means is they have found how to improve the design and will likely factor this into other designs. It's only a true failure if you don't learn anything in the process.
When I was growing up, kids were just as shitty as they are now. Bullies were just as prevalent. Of course, kids who got bullied only had to deal with it while at school. With social media, these asshole kids are able to stock their targets whenever they want. So nowadays the kids who get bullied don't get an escape from the mental bullying.... I could easily see how social media could drive a person to depression. Constant pressure, constant negative imagery and the kid feels there is not escape. Remember... Kids can be super assholes.
It seems to me that their bad behavior online could be used to improve society by making it easier to identify and isolate bullies. I'm not saying that they should just be banned because that just drives them to either bypass the ban or take it out on someone else via another service. Instead, I'm suggesting that their online behavior should have real consequences that would lead to correcting their antisocial behavior.
Naturally, identifying antisocial behavior can't be as simple as a single offensive post. In all cases, offensive or possibly offensive should alert the guardians of both children of their online behavior. Once enough information is gathered that the service can confirm a child is exhibiting antisocial behavior, their school should be notified to ensure antisocial behavior isn't part of their daily routine.
I'm not saying there should be draconian rules that get kids thrown into a dungeon but rather use it as a tool to alert the adults in their lives that they are a problem and allow them to deal with the problem. Humans are complex and I don't think machines are a silver bullet but I think they can help free society from the bad behavior of the most antisocial individuals.
* Standard form factor for making upgrade-able smartphones-esq devices. (oh capitalism) * Large MEMS based displays. (Apple bought the patents but who knows if they are developing it) * Consumer-grade ASIC lithography and chip packaging. (are custom 20um chips too much to ask for?) * Inexpensive microinverters for solar panels. (price fixing?) * Solid-state lithium-ion batteries. (in development)
The list goes on and on but those are some big ones.
Popularity is irrelevant? Yeah right. Popularity is what drives YouTube revenue.
That's true but you are focusing on the short term rather than the long term impact it could have. Logan pissed off a lot of people and if YouTube does nothing, it could turn those people bitter and drive them away completely. This could in turn result in another site gaining popularity. You are focused on Logan when you should be thinking about the audience. YouTube is trying to please the site users so that they will use YouTube more, not less. That's showbiz for you!
If google/YouTube and Facebook remove everything you ever post you pretty much do not exist because it is hard to exist outside of those platforms.
It's easy to exist outside those platforms but it's much more difficult to make money without those platforms. There is a monumental difference between the two things.
His popularity is irrelevant if YouTube doesn't want their network to be known for that kind of content or if the advertisers are seeking a specific demographic. Their business strategy is larger than any one star, so it's up to them to decide who and what they will allow and promote. Like I said, "that's showbiz for you."
So long as he hasn't broken the law it should be up to viewers and advertisers to decide.
Google literally owns the platform in it's entirety so they get to decide what is allowed on it. It's not the only platform, so if you do not like how they do business then you don't have to support them by viewing.
There could be a different platform that exclusively allows conservative ideals, it's a matter of creating it. You need to grasp that a website is private property.
Not a lot of people are interested in automating "ordinary human activities" but they are very interested in automating very specialized activities. These activities include assembling objects, inspecting objects, moving a vehicle loaded with goods to a destination and estimating risk in the stock market. These aren't ordinary human activities but they'll put half the country out of work.
I have the slightest fucking clue, having been there with family members while on private insurance, medicaid (for the poor, not the elderly, and no insurance.
Feel free to explain how a homeless person with a mental illness is supposed to afford that? It's estimated that 1/3 of the homeless have mental health issues, so this isn't a strawman argument, it's a real problem.
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I'd like to issue an apology for this mishap. Some accounts were incorrectly charged because browsers were using a cached version of the site. To fix this problem, flush your cache, then load the site and your bank account will be properly drained of it's funds. ;)
Does anyone else thing it's interesting that the first 10 comments regarding a story about Russia come from anon or high number registered users that cast doubt on the story and putting it in a Republicans versus Democrats light? I'm just saying, it seems like the kind of thing Russian agents might be vying for.
Are we now seeing why "The Boy who Cried Wolf" and "Chicken Little" fables were important to learn when you were a child?
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You wanted to blame Russia! Russia! Russia! just to undermine Trump
Thanks for the note, comrade. However, it would be more convincing if Trump himself wasn't constantly making false and pants-on-fire statements all the time.
So... how good is it at computing SHA256 hashes? ;)
I don't know if existing hardware that Roku uses can support MPEG-2, but if it does, then they could add support with just a software update. The same with all the other similar devices that may not have supported MPEG-2 in the past.
Why fix something they already paid for when they can just make you pay for it again with a software upgrade? That's capitalism.
USPTO keeps validating these bullshit patents because their system rewards passing patents but never punishes passing bad patents. The result is that just about anything can be patented and is expensive to fight in court. If you're lucky, you will win and by win I mean you will have spent millions of dollars fighting a bad patent and get nothing in return.
This is a serious problem.
There is no reason to believe that the Democratic party has any intention of repealing the PATRIOT Act or FISA.
Unfortunately, our democracy has been crippled and has resulted in a non-representative government that doesn't work for the people because of the reductive first-past-the-post voting system that in effect in 99.9% of the country.
The problem is that the oversight provided turned illegitimate when the government decided to build a mass surveillance apparatus in violation of the fourth amendment of the US constitution. It is the government itself that is driving people to encryption. It's no surprised that trust has been lost in the government when even the local PD will hack your phone and make a complete copy without a warrant. Encryption is a way to ensure your rights because they abdicated themselves of that responsibility. The fact that they have been burned by their own bad behavior is unfortunate but there is nobody else to blame but themselves.
So, we should all be worried because this senator is also worried - even without any evidence warranting the worry. Right?
What are you talking about "without any evidence"? There is a history of Chinese corporations acting exactly how they are describing.
Isn't that how we ended up bombing [chaos into] some country in the Mideast more than a decade ago?
Nice strawman but nobody is talking about dropping bombs in another nation.
Finding out potential problems in a design can be daunting task, especially when something going wrong causes it to explode. What this means is they have found how to improve the design and will likely factor this into other designs. It's only a true failure if you don't learn anything in the process.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried. ;)
It's a good thing there aren't other people in power positions like that in our government! ;) #ShowUsTheGirthCertificate
When I was growing up, kids were just as shitty as they are now. Bullies were just as prevalent. Of course, kids who got bullied only had to deal with it while at school. ...
With social media, these asshole kids are able to stock their targets whenever they want. So nowadays the kids who get bullied don't get an escape from the mental bullying.
I could easily see how social media could drive a person to depression. Constant pressure, constant negative imagery and the kid feels there is not escape. Remember... Kids can be super assholes.
It seems to me that their bad behavior online could be used to improve society by making it easier to identify and isolate bullies. I'm not saying that they should just be banned because that just drives them to either bypass the ban or take it out on someone else via another service. Instead, I'm suggesting that their online behavior should have real consequences that would lead to correcting their antisocial behavior.
Naturally, identifying antisocial behavior can't be as simple as a single offensive post. In all cases, offensive or possibly offensive should alert the guardians of both children of their online behavior. Once enough information is gathered that the service can confirm a child is exhibiting antisocial behavior, their school should be notified to ensure antisocial behavior isn't part of their daily routine.
I'm not saying there should be draconian rules that get kids thrown into a dungeon but rather use it as a tool to alert the adults in their lives that they are a problem and allow them to deal with the problem. Humans are complex and I don't think machines are a silver bullet but I think they can help free society from the bad behavior of the most antisocial individuals.
Privacy. Every asshole corp. is trying to bleed you for data they can sell.
* Standard form factor for making upgrade-able smartphones-esq devices. (oh capitalism)
* Large MEMS based displays. (Apple bought the patents but who knows if they are developing it)
* Consumer-grade ASIC lithography and chip packaging. (are custom 20um chips too much to ask for?)
* Inexpensive microinverters for solar panels. (price fixing?)
* Solid-state lithium-ion batteries. (in development)
The list goes on and on but those are some big ones.
Popularity is irrelevant? Yeah right. Popularity is what drives YouTube revenue.
That's true but you are focusing on the short term rather than the long term impact it could have. Logan pissed off a lot of people and if YouTube does nothing, it could turn those people bitter and drive them away completely. This could in turn result in another site gaining popularity. You are focused on Logan when you should be thinking about the audience. YouTube is trying to please the site users so that they will use YouTube more, not less. That's showbiz for you!
If google/YouTube and Facebook remove everything you ever post you pretty much do not exist because it is hard to exist outside of those platforms.
It's easy to exist outside those platforms but it's much more difficult to make money without those platforms. There is a monumental difference between the two things.
The antics of Logan Paul aren't much different.
His popularity is irrelevant if YouTube doesn't want their network to be known for that kind of content or if the advertisers are seeking a specific demographic. Their business strategy is larger than any one star, so it's up to them to decide who and what they will allow and promote. Like I said, "that's showbiz for you."
I'm looking forward to reading what someone finds after reverse engineering the app... and then what happens to that person.
just a little bit of negative press and they drop him like a brick.
The saying, "that's showbiz for you" comes to mind. They are funded by ads, so why wouldn't they drop him like a brick?
So long as he hasn't broken the law it should be up to viewers and advertisers to decide.
Google literally owns the platform in it's entirety so they get to decide what is allowed on it. It's not the only platform, so if you do not like how they do business then you don't have to support them by viewing.
There could be a different platform that exclusively allows conservative ideals, it's a matter of creating it. You need to grasp that a website is private property.
You're seriously positing that Robin Williams committed suicide because he was unable to afford healthcare?
No, don't be ridiculous.
Not a lot of people are interested in automating "ordinary human activities" but they are very interested in automating very specialized activities. These activities include assembling objects, inspecting objects, moving a vehicle loaded with goods to a destination and estimating risk in the stock market. These aren't ordinary human activities but they'll put half the country out of work.
I have the slightest fucking clue, having been there with family members while on private insurance, medicaid (for the poor, not the elderly, and no insurance.
Feel free to explain how a homeless person with a mental illness is supposed to afford that? It's estimated that 1/3 of the homeless have mental health issues, so this isn't a strawman argument, it's a real problem.
Spoken like a true asshole who doesn't have the slightest fucking clue.