Slashdot likes to rag on technology companies that do and make shitty things. I don't see a problem with that considering this is a site mostly about technology.
Slashdot has only gone after Apple since Jobs kicked it. Have you considered the possibility that Apple has lost the critical component that kept them from making shitty things?
Pray tell, who is the enemy then and how can they be described?
The mistake is thinking it's any one group that has done this to the US. If it were so clean cut like that then it would be obvious to everyone but it's not. The present state of our nation is a confluence of human efforts to do what they think is best. Read what I listed as the "why" and you may understand that there is plenty of blame to go around.
We implemented a rule where whenever a bug is found in code, the coder has to go lick the bug zapper. It only took three hours... before we killed all the developers. It didn't fix our existing bugs but we haven't had any new bugs (or code) since!;)
Our government has absolutely no transparency and our interests are not represented.
Agreed. However, what you lack is the why. The reason why this has happened is because...
* the reductionist election scheme of first-past-the-post has ensured one two parties can survive. After many iterations of tactical voting we have ended up with only truly horrible candidates.
* hyperpartisanship has proliferated partly as a result of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
* the extreme influx of money in politics and the extremely poor state of campaign financing.
* data driven gerrymandering has resulted in a least representative set of officials in a democracy.
Our country is essentially occupied by globalists.
Seems like "globalists" is the replacement boogeyman for "communists".
The real war is 'rational vs. irrational'.
I agree. It's irrational to allow politicians to choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians. It's irrational to think one particular ideology is to blame. It's irrational to believe the situation will improve without reforming the system to ensure the fairness of elections.
We're all being made to pay for the ignorance of philosophy in education.
It's not a lack of philosophy that is the problem, it's a lack of basic economics that are based on reality rather than an ideology.
The globalist occupation (and every evil thing that goes with it)might seem like too hard of a problem to take on, but it's the condition under which you live. Deal with it or deal with natural selection.
Replace "globalist" with "communist" and you're a dead ringer for a mccarthyist.
why is the article making it sound like a Hadoop issue when it's clearly the dumbass millennials that configured these so poorly?
Baby Boomers - Destroying the ecosystem. Gen X - Destroying the global economic system. Millennials - Not giving any fucks because they are the worst paid generation.
I'm glad you're focused on the the right things here.;)
I'm looking forward to the next hit browser that won't support javascript for just any ol' page and when it does, it uses an interpreter engine for increased security. It may require a new standard which means the W3C may have to fall (since they are backed by people pushing increasingly intrusive tech).
The new company named Ifbattery is still in it's infancy because they are seeking funding to begin making prototypes. So battery of the future is right because it's at least 10 years off at best.
In the fall of 2015, the Liberal-led government of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen announced the progressive phasing out of tax breaks on electric cars, citing budget constraints and the desire to level the playing field. [...] The new tax regime "completely killed the market," Laerke Flader, head of the Danish Electric Car Alliance, said in a recent interview. "Price really matters."
Regardless of the claims legitimacy, she was becoming increasingly hostile toward the company and thus a liability. That said, I really hope there was no discrimination here.
It's true that nobody has claimed the prize but it's also true that you can make significantly more money by making and licensing an exploit to governments. The FBI paid out $1M just to unlock an old ass iPhone so how much do you think they would pay to remotely exploit the latest versions of Android?
Google's payouts are not proportional to their market value and that's why people aren't claiming them.
However, if I am using Windows 10 - something I paid $150 for - then it is certainly not reasonable for me to think that the OS will collect my data and use it for advertising. "It's my own fault" does not apply - perhaps I need to use Windows 10 for work and have no choice in the matter.
If you have to use it at work then only use it at work. Other than that, you don't have to use it.
Corporations are more likely to abuse the data for their own gain and then sell it.
I can't see how anyone can say "the government isn't tracking you" post-Snowden.
They certainly are recording what you do online and your financial transactions, there is no question about that. However, their interest in individuals is rather limited.
They might not be tracking everyone actively, but they have the means to access information about you more or less instantly, even when Google or Facebook are doing the actual tracking.
Which is why we need better laws to protect us from corporations, so that people (including the government) cannot simply buy the data from them. Also, if you are giving your information away, that's your own fault. There is no need to use sites like facebook.
Skype is a useful tool for business, if they fuck it up with a bunch of social media integration I won't trust it anymore.
You shouldn't have trusted it since Microsoft bought and replaced it with a centralized clone of Skype. It's useful to business but you shouldn't be trusting it for anything including the privacy of your calls.
Don't like the government tracking everything you do?
It's not the government that is tracking everything you do, it's corporations.
Well, you can live in isolation on a mountain top disconnected from the rest of the world, with no electronic devices whatsoever, and no contact with any other human being. It's totally up to you.
You can have electronic devices and have privacy, just not networked ones. The ones that are networked will be tracked. There is little reason to not talk to people unless you fear they are going to post it on facebook. Also if you care about people knowing what you buy then you should always use cash.
For everyone who is flailing after reading this, you should know that this is an opt-in only program. "It's opt-in... for now" is a valid argument but if you don't like it, you can avoid airplanes. I've taken one in the last 10 years and frankly I didn't care for the experience and thus have not done so again. You can do the same, it's totally up to you.
When every negative news story can be discounted as a partisan attack,
You can discount anything and everything as a partisan attack but the reality is that some issues like net neutrality are totally non-partisan. What this means is that someone is deceiving their audience.
the Party faithful
Anyone that puts their faith in any group or organization with financial incentives will be proven a fool in time.
The lesson to be learned here is that tools empower people be they good or evil. The more you understand the tools the more powerful and dangerous you are to established systems of power.
For years I've been searching for a way to blow through my monthly 5GB data cap in under a minute and this can do it with 20 seconds to spare! Dreams do come true!;)
If you want to punish him for hiring a hitman, you need to convict him first. This is the exact bullshit the fifth amendment is meant to protect against.
I agree that they are being lazy. I seemed to have inadvertently removed "by their logic" in editing my comment. #>_<
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Slashdot likes to rag on Apple
Slashdot likes to rag on technology companies that do and make shitty things. I don't see a problem with that considering this is a site mostly about technology.
Slashdot has only gone after Apple since Jobs kicked it. Have you considered the possibility that Apple has lost the critical component that kept them from making shitty things?
Pray tell, who is the enemy then and how can they be described?
The mistake is thinking it's any one group that has done this to the US. If it were so clean cut like that then it would be obvious to everyone but it's not. The present state of our nation is a confluence of human efforts to do what they think is best. Read what I listed as the "why" and you may understand that there is plenty of blame to go around.
We implemented a rule where whenever a bug is found in code, the coder has to go lick the bug zapper. It only took three hours... before we killed all the developers. It didn't fix our existing bugs but we haven't had any new bugs (or code) since! ;)
Our government has absolutely no transparency and our interests are not represented.
Agreed. However, what you lack is the why. The reason why this has happened is because...
Our country is essentially occupied by globalists.
Seems like "globalists" is the replacement boogeyman for "communists".
The real war is 'rational vs. irrational'.
I agree. It's irrational to allow politicians to choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians. It's irrational to think one particular ideology is to blame. It's irrational to believe the situation will improve without reforming the system to ensure the fairness of elections.
We're all being made to pay for the ignorance of philosophy in education.
It's not a lack of philosophy that is the problem, it's a lack of basic economics that are based on reality rather than an ideology.
The globalist occupation (and every evil thing that goes with it)might seem like too hard of a problem to take on, but it's the condition under which you live. Deal with it or deal with natural selection.
Replace "globalist" with "communist" and you're a dead ringer for a mccarthyist.
why is the article making it sound like a Hadoop issue when it's clearly the dumbass millennials that configured these so poorly?
Baby Boomers - Destroying the ecosystem.
Gen X - Destroying the global economic system.
Millennials - Not giving any fucks because they are the worst paid generation.
I'm glad you're focused on the the right things here. ;)
I'm looking forward to the next hit browser that won't support javascript for just any ol' page and when it does, it uses an interpreter engine for increased security. It may require a new standard which means the W3C may have to fall (since they are backed by people pushing increasingly intrusive tech).
he'll take any suggestion that he isn't being told to ignore. ;)
It is a flow battery and the idea has been around for a long time.
if only you were capable of reading the summary. :/
"Other flow batteries exist, but we are the first to remove membranes which reduces costs and extends battery life,"
The new company named Ifbattery is still in it's infancy because they are seeking funding to begin making prototypes. So battery of the future is right because it's at least 10 years off at best.
The graph explains what happened.
and for the blind:
In the fall of 2015, the Liberal-led government of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen announced the progressive phasing out of tax breaks on electric cars, citing budget constraints and the desire to level the playing field.
[...]
The new tax regime "completely killed the market," Laerke Flader, head of the Danish Electric Car Alliance, said in a recent interview. "Price really matters."
Regardless of the claims legitimacy, she was becoming increasingly hostile toward the company and thus a liability. That said, I really hope there was no discrimination here.
It's true that nobody has claimed the prize but it's also true that you can make significantly more money by making and licensing an exploit to governments. The FBI paid out $1M just to unlock an old ass iPhone so how much do you think they would pay to remotely exploit the latest versions of Android?
Google's payouts are not proportional to their market value and that's why people aren't claiming them.
IBM needs to up their game because WebMD has been diagnosing me with cancer for years. ;)
However, if I am using Windows 10 - something I paid $150 for - then it is certainly not reasonable for me to think that the OS will collect my data and use it for advertising. "It's my own fault" does not apply - perhaps I need to use Windows 10 for work and have no choice in the matter.
If you have to use it at work then only use it at work. Other than that, you don't have to use it.
How is that, in practice, any different?
Corporations are more likely to abuse the data for their own gain and then sell it.
I can't see how anyone can say "the government isn't tracking you" post-Snowden.
They certainly are recording what you do online and your financial transactions, there is no question about that. However, their interest in individuals is rather limited.
They might not be tracking everyone actively, but they have the means to access information about you more or less instantly, even when Google or Facebook are doing the actual tracking.
Which is why we need better laws to protect us from corporations, so that people (including the government) cannot simply buy the data from them. Also, if you are giving your information away, that's your own fault. There is no need to use sites like facebook.
Skype is a useful tool for business, if they fuck it up with a bunch of social media integration I won't trust it anymore.
You shouldn't have trusted it since Microsoft bought and replaced it with a centralized clone of Skype. It's useful to business but you shouldn't be trusting it for anything including the privacy of your calls.
can build their bunkers with drugs and hookers
what, no blackjack? ;)
Don't like the government tracking everything you do?
It's not the government that is tracking everything you do, it's corporations.
Well, you can live in isolation on a mountain top disconnected from the rest of the world, with no electronic devices whatsoever, and no contact with any other human being. It's totally up to you.
You can have electronic devices and have privacy, just not networked ones. The ones that are networked will be tracked. There is little reason to not talk to people unless you fear they are going to post it on facebook. Also if you care about people knowing what you buy then you should always use cash.
For everyone who is flailing after reading this, you should know that this is an opt-in only program. "It's opt-in... for now" is a valid argument but if you don't like it, you can avoid airplanes. I've taken one in the last 10 years and frankly I didn't care for the experience and thus have not done so again. You can do the same, it's totally up to you.
This is why you have treaties instead of "agreements", so some halfwit doesn't bail because it doesn't fit his agenda.
When every negative news story can be discounted as a partisan attack,
You can discount anything and everything as a partisan attack but the reality is that some issues like net neutrality are totally non-partisan. What this means is that someone is deceiving their audience.
the Party faithful
Anyone that puts their faith in any group or organization with financial incentives will be proven a fool in time.
The lesson to be learned here is that tools empower people be they good or evil. The more you understand the tools the more powerful and dangerous you are to established systems of power.
It's time that you should be able to program your car with your own codes because obviously dealerships cannot be trusted to secure them.
For years I've been searching for a way to blow through my monthly 5GB data cap in under a minute and this can do it with 20 seconds to spare! Dreams do come true! ;)
If you want to punish him for hiring a hitman, you need to convict him first. This is the exact bullshit the fifth amendment is meant to protect against.
I agree that they are being lazy. I seemed to have inadvertently removed "by their logic" in editing my comment. #>_<