I can't find the TED talk, sorry, but someone a few years back was putting simple web access terminals into African villages.
Top queries included, "How do I treat cattle with "
Is a UK farming blog describing how best to fleece the EU subsidy system going to help? No. Is an agricultural college describing the latest western machine intensive techniques going to help? no. Are there other farming resources out there? Hell yes.
I agree that change must be wanted. Education and access to information are important to enabling that change where it is wanted. The internet is a massive opportunity for people to learn, and gain access to information, and it would be dismissive to pretend otherwise.
So it does look like someone was using a missile system capable of taking down an airliner to shoot down other Ukrainian aircraft, although it could be a Pantsir rather than a BUK.
I'd rather have a Pantsir myself, the missile is nice but those autocannon are multipurpose hotness. No pictures of a Pantsir being spirited back across the border into Russia just after shooting down the wrong aircraft though.
Well, you provide them with a computer, and access to the internet.
They can then search for advice on farming and healthcare, and use the information to feed the people that aren't dying as quickly any more.
Of course, the issue isn't providing the technology, training people how to use it, paying for it or getting value from it. The problem is the corrupt officials that demand kickbacks for letting any of that happen, the religious fuckwits demanding medieval education and the racist cunts outraged that someone in another village may be trying to better themselves.
Really? I'm not aware of a single Android device that gives you root access straight from the manufacturer.
Curious, my last three did. Sure, I had to unlock the bootloader and install some software, but that was manufacturer supported, didn't invalidate the warranty and was not enabled 'out of the box' for the protection of people that don't want/need that capability.
If a jailbreak of the phone is ever required to do something then that is pretty much de-facto evidence that a walled garden exists.
See, 'jailbreak' isn't a term Android people use - they don't start off in jail.
But feel free to disagree. I'll be ignoring you, I'm happy using my Android phone that required me to exploit zero bugs to attain root access.
Yeah. They need 'add random shite to fucked up online skills db' skills, followed by 'add plausible sounding random shite to fucked up online skills db' followed by 'invent new adjectives to describe the way in which I'm adding random shite to fucked up online skills db'.
The current classification system is so fucked already that it's doomed from the outset.
So how the fuck are you securing the data at rest?
How do you make sure that the OS admins can't see the data? How do you assure that people doing low-level data access (for performance or other reasons) can't see the data? How do you prevent a compromised app tier from seeing the data?
The database shouldn't be doing ALL the security, but it had fucking well better be doing SOME.
I hate Oracle's pricing structure as much as anybody else
I doubt this. You aren't displaying the bitter despondency, psychopathic tendencies and desperation I feel when I have to deal with Oracle's licensing, and I know I'm relatively balanced on the matter compared to certain colleagues.
Larry, your customers hate you only mildly less than your staff, and you should try a spot of smalltalk to find out how lucky you are that none of them have snapped and caused another 2nd amendment debate.
You have to be aware that stabbing people to death isn't easy. That it's intimate, requires physical struggle, requires proximity, strength, and swiftness, a good knowledge how to deliver deadly blows. People can run away, and then you can't hurt them, unless you chase.
Next you'll be telling us machetes weren't used to kill several hundred thousand people in Rwanda.
If bladed instruments are good enough for genocide you're clearly talking total shit calling someone a liar for suggesting they can kill individuals.
How the fuck am I meant to know you're trying to introduce the word nigger into a discussion on gender politics? Do you have the remotest idea of how to engage in discussion, debate or even argument? Your non-sequitors are not terribly constructive contributions.
Someone else has posted more than once in this discussion that many individual men have been attacked online, with at least one losing his job. I'm pissed off that many of the arguments being put forward by the feminist side are attacks on men in general; this is making me defensive against feminist propaganda and makes it hard to find empathy for their position.
The whole "This is an attack on women" mantra is one of the things making me disengage, and I don't really care whether it's male or female feminists making that claim.
Have there been attacks online against women as part of this sorry affair? Yes. Does that mean the whole thing is about attacking women? No. Have there been attacks online against men? Yes. Are those men all on one side or the other? No.
I don't need to pick a side to stand aside and apply basic logic, and I don't need to pick a side to point out that members of both camps have been naughty, antisocial, bad mannered and abusive in pursuing their agenda.
I don't support either side. I disagree that this is GamerGate vs women. Even if it was GamerGate vs women that doesn't excuse the actions taken in response.
Next you'll be denying that men are five times more likely to die at work than women.
Civilians die in warzones, and disproportionately civilian women.
Maybe that's because the men are disproportionately in the military. Tell you what, check out the genders in the average mass grave in Kosovo, Iraq or during World War 2.
I do find it intriguing that you posed a challenge you didn't think could be answered, and when it was answered you resort to insults and abuse. It does appear you feel that you're losing the argument, sorry.
Lets not explore the raft of professions in which men are extremely under represented, many of which are safe, comfortable jobs - unlike jobs with low female participation, like mining, refuse collection and dying in warzones.
We have two sides here. One side is claiming the other is being sexist and abusive, and the other side is responding with the same techniques used by crazed stalkers who get restraining orders put on them. Which side looks right to me?
Step back a moment. Which side is which?
That's the bit that makes me disengage from the direct GamerGate vs Feminist conversation and approach the side issues that arise from it.
I'd say only 1 in 50 actually troll and insult other players.
At least 1 in 15 when I'm playing World of Tanks with my friend. Usually much higher, because people respond to our abuse.
Still, some people play so insanely badly that abuse is the only reasonable response, and a necessary part of retaining sanity.
Fuck all to do with misogyny, racism, xenophobia or homophobia though. I may stray into dodgy territory around learning disabilities but that tends to be through comparing other people to my own. Fuck 'em, take a joke or learn to play.
I sincerely hope you're not studying a science degree because your interpretation and application of factual information is highly flawed.
I'm sure the only guys making threats online always fall in the 20% of male murderers who wouldn't dream of killing a stranger.
Your sarcasm fails miserably when you take into account that most people making threats online fall into the category of "not murderers", which means that even if all of the male murderers making threats online were from the 80%, it's still less than 1% of 1% of the population.
But that's fine, misquote numbers for hyperbolic sarcastic hysterical purposes, this seems to be the right discussion for that.
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I can't find the TED talk, sorry, but someone a few years back was putting simple web access terminals into African villages.
Top queries included, "How do I treat cattle with "
Is a UK farming blog describing how best to fleece the EU subsidy system going to help? No. Is an agricultural college describing the latest western machine intensive techniques going to help? no. Are there other farming resources out there? Hell yes.
I agree that change must be wanted. Education and access to information are important to enabling that change where it is wanted. The internet is a massive opportunity for people to learn, and gain access to information, and it would be dismissive to pretend otherwise.
Having access to the 4390 websites telling you how to diagnose appendicitis is a fuck of a lot more useful than having access to a witchdoctor.
See my reply to Richard re: farming.
Well, no mention of missile system here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
This one suggests a different platform: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/18/5... references other aircraft shot down at ranges requiring BUK or Pantsir missiles.
So it does look like someone was using a missile system capable of taking down an airliner to shoot down other Ukrainian aircraft, although it could be a Pantsir rather than a BUK.
I'd rather have a Pantsir myself, the missile is nice but those autocannon are multipurpose hotness. No pictures of a Pantsir being spirited back across the border into Russia just after shooting down the wrong aircraft though.
they've been saying for years that an "well trained and experienced" polygraph technician can always spot a lie
But do they say the technician needs a polygraph to do this?
The quack science argument kicks right back in the moment someone is accused of lying "because the polygraph says so".
Guarantee to me that's never happened. Go on. Dare you.
Well, you provide them with a computer, and access to the internet.
They can then search for advice on farming and healthcare, and use the information to feed the people that aren't dying as quickly any more.
Of course, the issue isn't providing the technology, training people how to use it, paying for it or getting value from it. The problem is the corrupt officials that demand kickbacks for letting any of that happen, the religious fuckwits demanding medieval education and the racist cunts outraged that someone in another village may be trying to better themselves.
But that's Africa for you.
But at least you were able to draw our attention to the issues some people are suffering.
Me, I'm pissed off that the Shield already has Lollipop and my Nexus 5 doesn't. But I guess I should be impressed by Nvidia's turnaround time.
Really? I'm not aware of a single Android device that gives you root access straight from the manufacturer.
Curious, my last three did. Sure, I had to unlock the bootloader and install some software, but that was manufacturer supported, didn't invalidate the warranty and was not enabled 'out of the box' for the protection of people that don't want/need that capability.
If a jailbreak of the phone is ever required to do something then that is pretty much de-facto evidence that a walled garden exists.
See, 'jailbreak' isn't a term Android people use - they don't start off in jail.
But feel free to disagree. I'll be ignoring you, I'm happy using my Android phone that required me to exploit zero bugs to attain root access.
Yeah. They need 'add random shite to fucked up online skills db' skills, followed by 'add plausible sounding random shite to fucked up online skills db' followed by 'invent new adjectives to describe the way in which I'm adding random shite to fucked up online skills db'.
The current classification system is so fucked already that it's doomed from the outset.
So how the fuck are you securing the data at rest?
How do you make sure that the OS admins can't see the data? How do you assure that people doing low-level data access (for performance or other reasons) can't see the data? How do you prevent a compromised app tier from seeing the data?
The database shouldn't be doing ALL the security, but it had fucking well better be doing SOME.
I hate Oracle's pricing structure as much as anybody else
I doubt this. You aren't displaying the bitter despondency, psychopathic tendencies and desperation I feel when I have to deal with Oracle's licensing, and I know I'm relatively balanced on the matter compared to certain colleagues.
Larry, your customers hate you only mildly less than your staff, and you should try a spot of smalltalk to find out how lucky you are that none of them have snapped and caused another 2nd amendment debate.
You have to know you're lying.
You have to be aware that stabbing people to death isn't easy. That it's intimate, requires physical struggle, requires proximity, strength, and swiftness, a good knowledge how to deliver deadly blows. People can run away, and then you can't hurt them, unless you chase.
Next you'll be telling us machetes weren't used to kill several hundred thousand people in Rwanda.
If bladed instruments are good enough for genocide you're clearly talking total shit calling someone a liar for suggesting they can kill individuals.
I hope you're not suggesting that the main job of soldiers is murdering unarmed, unprepared kids in schools?
Don't be bloody stupid. It's just a perk.
I know how to use a dictionary. It didn't help:
http://ask.reference.com/web?s...
How the fuck am I meant to know you're trying to introduce the word nigger into a discussion on gender politics? Do you have the remotest idea of how to engage in discussion, debate or even argument? Your non-sequitors are not terribly constructive contributions.
However, no men have been getting attacked
Someone else has posted more than once in this discussion that many individual men have been attacked online, with at least one losing his job. I'm pissed off that many of the arguments being put forward by the feminist side are attacks on men in general; this is making me defensive against feminist propaganda and makes it hard to find empathy for their position.
The whole "This is an attack on women" mantra is one of the things making me disengage, and I don't really care whether it's male or female feminists making that claim.
Have there been attacks online against women as part of this sorry affair? Yes. Does that mean the whole thing is about attacking women? No. Have there been attacks online against men? Yes. Are those men all on one side or the other? No.
I don't need to pick a side to stand aside and apply basic logic, and I don't need to pick a side to point out that members of both camps have been naughty, antisocial, bad mannered and abusive in pursuing their agenda.
I don't support either side. I disagree that this is GamerGate vs women. Even if it was GamerGate vs women that doesn't excuse the actions taken in response.
How often have you had to wrar ebola style PPE?
Next you'll be denying that men are five times more likely to die at work than women.
Civilians die in warzones, and disproportionately civilian women.
Maybe that's because the men are disproportionately in the military. Tell you what, check out the genders in the average mass grave in Kosovo, Iraq or during World War 2.
I do find it intriguing that you posed a challenge you didn't think could be answered, and when it was answered you resort to insults and abuse. It does appear you feel that you're losing the argument, sorry.
Minister for Women and Equality in the UK.
Don't forget other nice things like
http://reason.com/archives/200...
Lets not explore the raft of professions in which men are extremely under represented, many of which are safe, comfortable jobs - unlike jobs with low female participation, like mining, refuse collection and dying in warzones.
We have two sides here. One side is claiming the other is being sexist and abusive, and the other side is responding with the same techniques used by crazed stalkers who get restraining orders put on them. Which side looks right to me?
Step back a moment. Which side is which?
That's the bit that makes me disengage from the direct GamerGate vs Feminist conversation and approach the side issues that arise from it.
I'd say only 1 in 50 actually troll and insult other players.
At least 1 in 15 when I'm playing World of Tanks with my friend. Usually much higher, because people respond to our abuse.
Still, some people play so insanely badly that abuse is the only reasonable response, and a necessary part of retaining sanity.
Fuck all to do with misogyny, racism, xenophobia or homophobia though. I may stray into dodgy territory around learning disabilities but that tends to be through comparing other people to my own. Fuck 'em, take a joke or learn to play.
If you believe that rape is a fate worse than death, that rape survivors would be better off dead
See also:
1 - Outrage at rapes in
2 - Absence of equal outrage that the men weren't raped because they'd been fucking executed
I also agree that women are more likely to encounter threats of violence on the net
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
Yep, men are more likely to be threatened with violence online.
See also : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
But forget 'on the net', lets look at the real world:
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com...
Equality would be a wonderful thing.
I sincerely hope you're not studying a science degree because your interpretation and application of factual information is highly flawed.
I'm sure the only guys making threats online always fall in the 20% of male murderers who wouldn't dream of killing a stranger.
Your sarcasm fails miserably when you take into account that most people making threats online fall into the category of "not murderers", which means that even if all of the male murderers making threats online were from the 80%, it's still less than 1% of 1% of the population.
But that's fine, misquote numbers for hyperbolic sarcastic hysterical purposes, this seems to be the right discussion for that.
Why? We should ignore it as a decision they chose to make.
Or possibly look to benefit from it, if they're attractive.
What the fuck is it to you whether someone chooses to have zero, one or a thousand partners.
Mick's clearly a slut: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...
He doesn't sound terribly ashamed of it. Sounds reasonable to me.
You may be the first person I've spotted 'wooshing' themselves around here :)
Sorry, what is "house ni**"? I've never come across that before in any context, targeted at women or otherwise.
I appreciate it's pretty fucking irrelevant as you're clearly misinformed and/or mentally ill, but thought I'd ask anyway.