making completely symbolic bans that will not provide alternative energy, nor curtail use of fossil fuels in any way....is there a name for government by marketing shitheads?
They're not banning use, they're banning production... Considering that France produces very little in the way of oil or gas this is like northern Canada banning sunscreen production or Dubai prohibiting the construction of Igloo's.
Stop linking to any news from the group(s) that don't want them "making billions" by linking news articles.
Wonder how long those news agencies will take to change their minds?
They'll just go to the government cap in hand asking for money. The spineless conservatives will simply give it to them and they'll never see what they did wrong.
If they were to put these companies under the same rules as the publicly funded BBC, I wouldn't have an issue, but if the likes of the Daily Mail, Express or Sun had to conform to the standards the BBC has to, the papers would go out of business in a week as all they'd be able to print is retractions for the incorrect stories printed yesterday.
Until there is an actual, specific, and funded plan, all Trump is doing is shooting his mouth off again.
This.
Just Trump passing wind again. Its been a year and its evident that he's going to be nothing but a seat warmer waiting to be replaced in 2020. The Republicans control the senate and the house and he's not able to pass any of his crazy ideas, his own party is ignoring him (because they care about their re-election in 2020).
Liberal whites wanted to be rid of the culturally conservative, economically liberal, working-class white voters whom Democrats had courted in the previous decade. Upper-middle-class whites were embarrassed by these people. After all these centuries of white privilege, they never managed to get into a good schoolâ"or even a state collegeâ"and now they were making demands about trade and immigration.
One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didnâ(TM)t want to make a strong play for working-class white voters in swing states. The Clintonites thought these voters were disposable. That's you.
Hate to break it to you chief, but the Republicans also think you're disposable, in fact more so than the Democrats who at least need to make token gestures that they care about the working classes. The Republicans will sell you a lie about the future... then sell you down the river for fun and profit.
I'd like to see the phrase "sexual assault" go away and be replaced with a description of what *actually happened*. It's too easy to fit a multitude of different behaviours into a neat little box like "sexual assault" and defame somebody with it.
This,
The sad part and reason why it would never change is because the media panders to the lowest common denominator but also have to maintain a veneer of journalistic integrity (Read: dont print too many overt lies that will get them sued). So they use scary sounding catch all terms rather than telling people what actually went on. They do this because papers need to make you angry and frustrated so you become more susceptible to advertising and keep buying the paper.
Another I'd wish to see die is "hate crime". There is no such thing as a "hate crime" in the UK, when the Daily Fail prints "Hate Crime OMG!!1!!1!ONE!!!" what really happened was someone was charged and convicted with a crime, such as assault or vandalism where bigotry (I.E. race, religion, political affiliation) was determined to be an aggravating factor. Aggravating factors increase the harshness of a penalty, but the penalty is for the crime (I.E. Assault) not the bigotry (sadly, it's not illegal to be an arsehole). Conversely mitigating factors are used to decrease penalties, a man who punches someone who is spouting racist nonsense in a very public way may see their sentence for assault reduced or in some cases, even suspended, if the provocation was considered relevant or harsh enough.
Sadly, as long as people keep buying this bollocks, it's not going to stop.
...the five members of the team are not all of equal value, because the one woman brings something that none of her colleagues have, a woman's perspective.
You're saying there are innate differences due to gender. One gender could do something the other couldn't. Then wouldn't those differences mean women and men are not necessarily equally effective? And if that's the case, then wouldn't different pay could be justified by different productivity?
Or to put it simply, if you accept there are innate differences between the genders, then you must necessarily accept different pay, hiring ratio and other such metrics can be a natural outcome due to those differences.
The issue with gender discrimination is not pay, but opportunities. There are many professions that rely on networking over talent and through that manage to keep an "old boys club". Equality is about ensuring that all have the same opportunities, not the exact same pay.
The judge in this case found no basis for discrimination.
I'm no social justice warrior at all, but this is incredibly generalizing. It just completely depends on the people involved. It sounds like you had a bad experience once, and then assumed it's the same everywhere.
It's not. I've worked with women in teams that resulted in an unpleasant work environment. And I've worked with women in teams that resulted in a great project.
The snowflake problem exists but it's not centred around women. Being a snowflake and making everyone around you walk on eggshells is a problem that is non-discriminatory.
I dislike snowflakes intensely, if you have a legitimate grievance, I'm fine. Problems should be solved but a snowflake is someone who looks for non-existent problems and in my experience the biggest snowflakes are white, male and very conservative, however this may just be because I've only lived and worked in western countries. These are the kinds of people who have no impediment in society but constantly want to be a victim because they think being a victim gives them more power (it doesn't, anyone who is truly a victim has very little power to change it).
The biggest snowflakes I know are constantly deriding immigrants, but are still happy to pay them wages a Briton would never accept to clean their houses and wash their cars... Yet the shrill cries of "They're turking our jerbs and destroying our culture" continue unabated. It's also annoying as these kinds of people have no perspective on history, they maintain (the British equivalent) of a white picket fence fantasy of days gone by that never really existed. They use the imaginary victim syndrome to justify bad behavior.
Anyway, I digress, there are few things worse than having to deal with a snowflake at work and its not a trait that is exclusive... or even predominant in women.
A backup makes it sound like it is a plan in case of failure. This sounds a bit like they are looking for an alternate DNS if they disapprove of something the US (or other countries) has done. From the article "In addition, the backup DNS system also allows these states to isolate websites and services that other countries could not access."
Any country that doesn't have a similar backup plan is setting themselves up for a failure, this includes the US.
If the US is ever daft enough to use DNS as a weapon, it will immediately Balkanise the internet as the DNS root becomes inherently untrustworthy. Not just by your enemies, but also your allies. Europe and China will be the first to migrate away, setting themselves up as alternative root DNS sources. Then we'll have to decide which DNS is trustworthy, which wont be a simple feat.
Whilst I hope the US never thinks of doing something like this, you'd be daft not to plan for it and its why a lot of people worry about the US having so much power and want control of the internet decentralised.
BTW, wasn't someone using the root DNS to destroy the internet the plot of Tom Clancy's Net Force?
First of all "Individuals can create personal wi-fi networks on devices such as mobile phones and name them what they want." Well, no shit.
Second, they need to start prosecuting these morons that cause flights to be diverted. Idiots starting fights & generally being morons need to start paying for these infractions else it's a badge of honor. "Remember that flight a few years ago that had to land in Colorado? Yeah, that was me. Woooo-hoooooo."
In many countries its already a crime to do something that you know you shouldn't do that causes a flight to be diverted or return to an airport. The penalty is trifling... but it means you have no defence when the airline takes you to court for their losses. The airlines plan is to ruin you, they do so that you say "remember that flight they diverted to Colorado? That was me, I now cant get a loan, have no car and am renting in a roach motel because I still own half a million dollars to the airline."
No, this company did what most companies due... fire an employee who is egregiously breaking the rules for cause.
Right. Calling Cheetos "Twisties"... What's next? Kleenex is just folded shit tickets in a pretty cardboard dispenser?
Having had both Cheetos and Twisties (Cheetos are also available in Australia) they are completely different types of snacks. Different density, texture, flavour the lot.
Secondly, "Kleenex" is a name of a brand of tissues, not toilet paper. People outisde of the US rarely use generic brand names, a "Kleenex" is a tissue, when you need to blow your nose, you use a tissue because there are many different brands and we speak English out here.
James Fields, the cretin that drove his car into a bunch of protesters opposing a white supremacists rally was antifa? How about the people who beat up the black person in Charlottesville, were they Antifa?
How hard do you need to work to keep reality at bay to keep spouting absolute bollocks like that.
People like you make me happy that the far right is failing in Europe.
Yea, but then people started getting political protestors fired for going to rallies in their social lives. Taking away people's incomes has been the new weapon of the left, even when it isn't work related.
Its been going on since the 30's and you misspelled the "right".
In the 50's, the mere accusation of being a communist was enough not just to get you fired, but to have your entire life turned upside down in a witch hunt.
Now days we're enlightened enough that only the extremists are fired, if these are all on the "right", then you need to ask yourself why are all the extremists on the far right?
Dude, I'm not a huge fan of women but none of what you say is remotely true.
This is true.
People who make the "male victimisation" posts are almost always angry men (boys is a better description, regardless of age) who cant form a proper relationship with a woman. They have no idea how to handle them or secretly harbour misogynist desires (much as we aren't surprised when some of the most ardent anti-gays are gay themselves). Given that it's become popular to be a victim, they create elaborate fantasies where someone else is to blame for their problems and how they're the innocent victim in all of this when nothing could be further from the truth.
The sad part is that they also have mod points, so you risk a downmod for calling them out on their bollocks.
I am a person who finds relationships difficult (not just with women, even just friendship in general) but I've learned from my mistakes (and currently have a steady girlfriend) which is why I recognise that these male victims and MGTOW's are making all the classic mistakes of someone who cant (or doesn't want to learn) how to have a proper relationship. First step of fixing a problem, is admitting you have one, as long as they live in their victimisation fantasies they'll never be able to do that
Women get harassed regularly.
This isn't true.
The media love a good beat up story. There are a few high profile cases like Harvey Weinstein which has merit and a few in the UK parliament that some of which have merit (I.E. the MP who asked his assistant to buy a sex toy for him) and some are just political assassinations. Hollywood and politics are far from normal careers, the power imbalance makes doing the wrong thing tempting and difficult for a victim to reveal, in that regards these industries need to be held and monitored to a higher standard.
However in a normal workplace, there isn't a great deal of harassment unless there is a culture of harassment. In which case its completely indiscriminate about who gets harassed (not equal in the slightest, but there's no pattern to the targets). Most businesses do not permit a culture of harassment. Women are harassed more than men, but its not as common as we've been lead to believe (note, I am in no way justifying any kind of harassment, against women or anything else).
Microsoft's dominance in the PC market was never really dislodged. Its also still quite a profitable business. Its just not something "cool" that people are talking about anymore.
What happened, was that new markets opened up where "Windows compatibility" was no longer relevant. As such, Apple and Google went in and took up the positions of "the Microsoft" and "the Apple" respectively. (with the only difference being that, this time, Apple grabbed just enough high-margin marketshare to get taken more seriously.)
And the server market? Microsoft never *really* dominated there. Linux just took over from the proprietary UNIXes of old.
M$'s dominance comes from the business applications market. Office+Exchange (or O365 now) was what was used to lock people in. They got fined for it a few times but most people just put up with it now because you can use O365 on anything (to be fair, in the last 10 years Exchange has gotten a lot better). If not for this and it's tight integration with Active Directory, Microsoft would have two fifths of fuck all of the server market.
As for breaking up companies... Out of the big players, only one is acting like convicted monopolist these days and that is Apple. if anyone needs to be broken up, its them. Moving from Google to Apple is easy, Google will give you the tools to leave, same with MS (although they'll only do just enough to avoid being fined again). However moving away from Apple is extremely difficult because they make themselves incompatible with everything else and lock up your personal data.
The old saying "once you go Mac, you never go back" is true, but not because Mac's are any good but because once you go over there Apple holds all your personal data as a hostage should you ever try to leave.
A Google break up would be Apple's wet dream. They're Apple's only competition in many markets.
'course, this post may not have been reported directly to security folks. it was something that they should have found while monitoring the beta forums, though.
This is something that should have been found before even going to beta.
I mean we don't even expect this kind of dimwittery from Microsoft any more.
Mac... its more secure than PC (unless you try to test it).
Think about the amount of power dissipated... a 2 MW motor - even if 99% efficient - is going to dissipate 20 kW of heat. Think about the heatsink for your ~100W CPU and scale it up by 200x. Not an impossible task but definitely an engineering challenge.
I have.
First I thought about why I would use such an inefficient cooling solution as a heatsink and fan. Then I thought why is an electric motor putting out as much heat per watt as CPU?
The Toyota Prius has a 60KW electric engine as well as a traditional ICE. I've never even heard of one overheating (I'm sure they can, but it's a rarity). I dare say that any overheating issues have been solved. HSF assemblies are terrible for heat dissipation, but they're cheap and reliable with few moving parts or liquids. Given we don't need to cool CPU's that much they're fine for that purpose. For a motor, we'd use active cooling, in fact given the temperatures at the height these aircraft are going to be at for most of their service, we may need to think about how to the engine warm.
For cooling electric motors, I'm sure you could give your mate Elon a call (he's everyone's mate) as I'm sure he'd have a few ideas on the subject.
It's been a long time since I've touched iOS, but I wonder if part of it is the old JB scene moving over to Android? A lot of features I used to have to Jailbreak my phone for were readily available OOTB or in the Play Store with no need to root the device.
Not quite.
The hardcore phone hacking scene has always been on Android. Jailbreaking was just to give Iphone users the same basic functionality as Android enjoyed. However as more features became standard with Android and more software can be run in userland these days it's only a small scene these days.
Jailbreaking on IOS always had two problems, 1. you were fighting the phone's true masters, Apple, every step of the way. 2. Users just got fed up waiting for the next exploit and moved over to Android so they didn't have to Jailbreak/Root their phones.
Rooting has faded on Android for the same reason as iOS -- damn near impossible, or completely impossible on most carrier branded phones.
Actually its because it's rarely needed these days.
Apart from that it's quite easy. In fact on the S8 its far easier and safer than how I used to do it back with my old unlocked HTC's (Dream and DesireZ). But the usage cases for root are reducing rapidly as Android has matured and most features do not require root access (and userland access has increased dramatically since Android 3.x).
Now you've got a point with IOS, to have control over your device, sorry, your "Apple" device, you are going to have to fight the devices true master, Apple, every step of the way. With Android, you get it out of the box unless youre daft enough to buy from a carrier (or stuck in a country where you dont have much of a choice).
Meanwhile, people are slowly switching to Android as the realise that you don't get the Apple restrictions and its no more difficult to use (the old FUD is slowly dying).
Quality comes from pressure, without pressure you just get a loose hot mess.
Quality does not come from pressure, mistakes come from pressure. Quality comes from process and procedure, if you dont have a good quality processes and procedures then you'll never produce good quality, likewise if you've got the best processes and procedures but they're never followed.
Toyota do not have their reputation for supreme reliability because they whip their workers into making parts faster (that is more the GM model), Toyota is a byword for reliability because it stringently tests every component to meet a standard and discards/reworks those components that do not. Quality is checked every step of the way, religiously.
The love fest needs to end and rigorous feedback about sillyness like removing headphone jacks, software bugs, privacy violation etc etc must enter the forefront and be backed up by people NOT purchasing a sub par product based on brand name alone.
This is more Apple's problem. They're in love with themselves and think their farts don't stink. They think that everyone in the world has the same usage case as them and should be happy to have their superior way foisted upon them. Its classic So-Cal hipster syndrome, the stubborn refusal to acknowledge than an outside world with different people exists because it doesn't exist in their echo chamber.
Apple received the feedback about headphone jacks, bugs, privacy... They just don't care and no do they have to as long as fanboys keep buying products. Apple are like a 90's pop star who's just jumped the shark, the decline is obvious from the outside but from centre stage it still looks like people are attending their concerts even though the crowd thins a little with every performance. That doesn't matter as they'll keep convincing themselves of their awesomeness and maintain this delusion until the day they wake up from a 3 day bender with the stark realisation that no-one remembers who they were and will now has to give head to support their crack habit.
Basically you're arguing that two (or three) wrongs make a right. They don't.
This.
Banning phones just makes it easier to prevent unwanted information from leaking out. Nothing critical to national security or anything sensitive, but embarrassing things that point out how incompetent the government is.
I think that is because people dont understand what an opiate actually is.
Opiates (and opioids, to include synthetic drugs) are quite safe and effective pain killers at low dosages.
So what you are saying is that the same safe effective "small dose" is going to be just as effective forever?
So what you're saying is that you've diddled a horse.
Remember that if you put words in my mouth, I can do the same to you. In order to come up with that bollocks, you had to ignore most of my post.
Now here you're making the classic mistake making assumptions that just aren't true. In order to build a resistance to anything requires habitual use. As I said, codeine sales are tracked so habitual use is something that is easy to detect. Now I use the drug for effective pain control in irregular intervals, I might use 10 doses in 3 months... if that. However what I don't want are people taking an effective and safe product off the shelves because they're hand-wringing over a non-issue whilst ignoring the much larger issue of a more dangerous and addictive substance.
And I'm not a person who hears "opiate" and instantly thinks heroin.
No, you're a person who heard "drugs" and says "are bad MMMM-kay". Its reactionaries like you who are doing more damage with knee-jerk reactions without understanding the subject.
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making completely symbolic bans that will not provide alternative energy, nor curtail use of fossil fuels in any way....is there a name for government by marketing shitheads?
They're not banning use, they're banning production... Considering that France produces very little in the way of oil or gas this is like northern Canada banning sunscreen production or Dubai prohibiting the construction of Igloo's.
Stop linking to any news from the group(s) that don't want them "making billions" by linking news articles.
Wonder how long those news agencies will take to change their minds?
They'll just go to the government cap in hand asking for money. The spineless conservatives will simply give it to them and they'll never see what they did wrong.
If they were to put these companies under the same rules as the publicly funded BBC, I wouldn't have an issue, but if the likes of the Daily Mail, Express or Sun had to conform to the standards the BBC has to, the papers would go out of business in a week as all they'd be able to print is retractions for the incorrect stories printed yesterday.
Until there is an actual, specific, and funded plan, all Trump is doing is shooting his mouth off again.
This.
Just Trump passing wind again. Its been a year and its evident that he's going to be nothing but a seat warmer waiting to be replaced in 2020. The Republicans control the senate and the house and he's not able to pass any of his crazy ideas, his own party is ignoring him (because they care about their re-election in 2020).
Liberal whites wanted to be rid of the culturally conservative, economically liberal, working-class white voters whom Democrats had courted in the previous decade. Upper-middle-class whites were embarrassed by these people. After all these centuries of white privilege, they never managed to get into a good schoolâ"or even a state collegeâ"and now they were making demands about trade and immigration.
One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didnâ(TM)t want to make a strong play for working-class white voters in swing states. The Clintonites thought these voters were disposable. That's you.
Hate to break it to you chief, but the Republicans also think you're disposable, in fact more so than the Democrats who at least need to make token gestures that they care about the working classes. The Republicans will sell you a lie about the future... then sell you down the river for fun and profit.
Drifting is not racing. It is "Look at Me!!!!!" Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
Drifting is a skill, and not one that should be confused with power sliding. Also, its not racing, it's a competition.
I'd like to see the phrase "sexual assault" go away and be replaced with a description of what *actually happened*. It's too easy to fit a multitude of different behaviours into a neat little box like "sexual assault" and defame somebody with it.
This,
The sad part and reason why it would never change is because the media panders to the lowest common denominator but also have to maintain a veneer of journalistic integrity (Read: dont print too many overt lies that will get them sued). So they use scary sounding catch all terms rather than telling people what actually went on. They do this because papers need to make you angry and frustrated so you become more susceptible to advertising and keep buying the paper.
Another I'd wish to see die is "hate crime". There is no such thing as a "hate crime" in the UK, when the Daily Fail prints "Hate Crime OMG!!1!!1!ONE!!!" what really happened was someone was charged and convicted with a crime, such as assault or vandalism where bigotry (I.E. race, religion, political affiliation) was determined to be an aggravating factor. Aggravating factors increase the harshness of a penalty, but the penalty is for the crime (I.E. Assault) not the bigotry (sadly, it's not illegal to be an arsehole). Conversely mitigating factors are used to decrease penalties, a man who punches someone who is spouting racist nonsense in a very public way may see their sentence for assault reduced or in some cases, even suspended, if the provocation was considered relevant or harsh enough.
Sadly, as long as people keep buying this bollocks, it's not going to stop.
...the five members of the team are not all of equal value, because the one woman brings something that none of her colleagues have, a woman's perspective.
You're saying there are innate differences due to gender. One gender could do something the other couldn't. Then wouldn't those differences mean women and men are not necessarily equally effective? And if that's the case, then wouldn't different pay could be justified by different productivity?
Or to put it simply, if you accept there are innate differences between the genders, then you must necessarily accept different pay, hiring ratio and other such metrics can be a natural outcome due to those differences.
The issue with gender discrimination is not pay, but opportunities. There are many professions that rely on networking over talent and through that manage to keep an "old boys club". Equality is about ensuring that all have the same opportunities, not the exact same pay.
The judge in this case found no basis for discrimination.
I'm no social justice warrior at all, but this is incredibly generalizing. It just completely depends on the people involved. It sounds like you had a bad experience once, and then assumed it's the same everywhere.
It's not. I've worked with women in teams that resulted in an unpleasant work environment. And I've worked with women in teams that resulted in a great project.
The snowflake problem exists but it's not centred around women. Being a snowflake and making everyone around you walk on eggshells is a problem that is non-discriminatory.
I dislike snowflakes intensely, if you have a legitimate grievance, I'm fine. Problems should be solved but a snowflake is someone who looks for non-existent problems and in my experience the biggest snowflakes are white, male and very conservative, however this may just be because I've only lived and worked in western countries. These are the kinds of people who have no impediment in society but constantly want to be a victim because they think being a victim gives them more power (it doesn't, anyone who is truly a victim has very little power to change it).
The biggest snowflakes I know are constantly deriding immigrants, but are still happy to pay them wages a Briton would never accept to clean their houses and wash their cars... Yet the shrill cries of "They're turking our jerbs and destroying our culture" continue unabated. It's also annoying as these kinds of people have no perspective on history, they maintain (the British equivalent) of a white picket fence fantasy of days gone by that never really existed. They use the imaginary victim syndrome to justify bad behavior.
Anyway, I digress, there are few things worse than having to deal with a snowflake at work and its not a trait that is exclusive... or even predominant in women.
A backup makes it sound like it is a plan in case of failure. This sounds a bit like they are looking for an alternate DNS if they disapprove of something the US (or other countries) has done. From the article "In addition, the backup DNS system also allows these states to isolate websites and services that other countries could not access."
Any country that doesn't have a similar backup plan is setting themselves up for a failure, this includes the US.
If the US is ever daft enough to use DNS as a weapon, it will immediately Balkanise the internet as the DNS root becomes inherently untrustworthy. Not just by your enemies, but also your allies. Europe and China will be the first to migrate away, setting themselves up as alternative root DNS sources. Then we'll have to decide which DNS is trustworthy, which wont be a simple feat.
Whilst I hope the US never thinks of doing something like this, you'd be daft not to plan for it and its why a lot of people worry about the US having so much power and want control of the internet decentralised.
BTW, wasn't someone using the root DNS to destroy the internet the plot of Tom Clancy's Net Force?
First of all "Individuals can create personal wi-fi networks on devices such as mobile phones and name them what they want." Well, no shit.
Second, they need to start prosecuting these morons that cause flights to be diverted. Idiots starting fights & generally being morons need to start paying for these infractions else it's a badge of honor. "Remember that flight a few years ago that had to land in Colorado? Yeah, that was me. Woooo-hoooooo."
In many countries its already a crime to do something that you know you shouldn't do that causes a flight to be diverted or return to an airport. The penalty is trifling... but it means you have no defence when the airline takes you to court for their losses. The airlines plan is to ruin you, they do so that you say "remember that flight they diverted to Colorado? That was me, I now cant get a loan, have no car and am renting in a roach motel because I still own half a million dollars to the airline."
No, this company did what most companies due... fire an employee who is egregiously breaking the rules for cause.
Right. Calling Cheetos "Twisties"... What's next? Kleenex is just folded shit tickets in a pretty cardboard dispenser?
Having had both Cheetos and Twisties (Cheetos are also available in Australia) they are completely different types of snacks. Different density, texture, flavour the lot.
Secondly, "Kleenex" is a name of a brand of tissues, not toilet paper. People outisde of the US rarely use generic brand names, a "Kleenex" is a tissue, when you need to blow your nose, you use a tissue because there are many different brands and we speak English out here.
Antifa are the new KKK.
James Fields, the cretin that drove his car into a bunch of protesters opposing a white supremacists rally was antifa? How about the people who beat up the black person in Charlottesville, were they Antifa?
How hard do you need to work to keep reality at bay to keep spouting absolute bollocks like that.
People like you make me happy that the far right is failing in Europe.
Yea, but then people started getting political protestors fired for going to rallies in their social lives. Taking away people's incomes has been the new weapon of the left, even when it isn't work related.
Its been going on since the 30's and you misspelled the "right".
In the 50's, the mere accusation of being a communist was enough not just to get you fired, but to have your entire life turned upside down in a witch hunt.
Now days we're enlightened enough that only the extremists are fired, if these are all on the "right", then you need to ask yourself why are all the extremists on the far right?
Dude, I'm not a huge fan of women but none of what you say is remotely true.
This is true.
People who make the "male victimisation" posts are almost always angry men (boys is a better description, regardless of age) who cant form a proper relationship with a woman. They have no idea how to handle them or secretly harbour misogynist desires (much as we aren't surprised when some of the most ardent anti-gays are gay themselves). Given that it's become popular to be a victim, they create elaborate fantasies where someone else is to blame for their problems and how they're the innocent victim in all of this when nothing could be further from the truth.
The sad part is that they also have mod points, so you risk a downmod for calling them out on their bollocks.
I am a person who finds relationships difficult (not just with women, even just friendship in general) but I've learned from my mistakes (and currently have a steady girlfriend) which is why I recognise that these male victims and MGTOW's are making all the classic mistakes of someone who cant (or doesn't want to learn) how to have a proper relationship. First step of fixing a problem, is admitting you have one, as long as they live in their victimisation fantasies they'll never be able to do that
Women get harassed regularly.
This isn't true.
The media love a good beat up story. There are a few high profile cases like Harvey Weinstein which has merit and a few in the UK parliament that some of which have merit (I.E. the MP who asked his assistant to buy a sex toy for him) and some are just political assassinations. Hollywood and politics are far from normal careers, the power imbalance makes doing the wrong thing tempting and difficult for a victim to reveal, in that regards these industries need to be held and monitored to a higher standard.
However in a normal workplace, there isn't a great deal of harassment unless there is a culture of harassment. In which case its completely indiscriminate about who gets harassed (not equal in the slightest, but there's no pattern to the targets). Most businesses do not permit a culture of harassment. Women are harassed more than men, but its not as common as we've been lead to believe (note, I am in no way justifying any kind of harassment, against women or anything else).
Microsoft's dominance in the PC market was never really dislodged. Its also still quite a profitable business. Its just not something "cool" that people are talking about anymore.
What happened, was that new markets opened up where "Windows compatibility" was no longer relevant. As such, Apple and Google went in and took up the positions of "the Microsoft" and "the Apple" respectively. (with the only difference being that, this time, Apple grabbed just enough high-margin marketshare to get taken more seriously.)
And the server market? Microsoft never *really* dominated there. Linux just took over from the proprietary UNIXes of old.
M$'s dominance comes from the business applications market. Office+Exchange (or O365 now) was what was used to lock people in. They got fined for it a few times but most people just put up with it now because you can use O365 on anything (to be fair, in the last 10 years Exchange has gotten a lot better). If not for this and it's tight integration with Active Directory, Microsoft would have two fifths of fuck all of the server market.
As for breaking up companies... Out of the big players, only one is acting like convicted monopolist these days and that is Apple. if anyone needs to be broken up, its them. Moving from Google to Apple is easy, Google will give you the tools to leave, same with MS (although they'll only do just enough to avoid being fined again). However moving away from Apple is extremely difficult because they make themselves incompatible with everything else and lock up your personal data.
The old saying "once you go Mac, you never go back" is true, but not because Mac's are any good but because once you go over there Apple holds all your personal data as a hostage should you ever try to leave.
A Google break up would be Apple's wet dream. They're Apple's only competition in many markets.
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235
'course, this post may not have been reported directly to security folks. it was something that they should have found while monitoring the beta forums, though.
This is something that should have been found before even going to beta.
I mean we don't even expect this kind of dimwittery from Microsoft any more.
Mac... its more secure than PC (unless you try to test it).
UX "expert" Mating cry?
No, We have to kill their queen before it spawns.
so it seems odd they need cooling equipment.
Think about the amount of power dissipated... a 2 MW motor - even if 99% efficient - is going to dissipate 20 kW of heat. Think about the heatsink for your ~100W CPU and scale it up by 200x. Not an impossible task but definitely an engineering challenge.
I have.
First I thought about why I would use such an inefficient cooling solution as a heatsink and fan. Then I thought why is an electric motor putting out as much heat per watt as CPU?
The Toyota Prius has a 60KW electric engine as well as a traditional ICE. I've never even heard of one overheating (I'm sure they can, but it's a rarity). I dare say that any overheating issues have been solved. HSF assemblies are terrible for heat dissipation, but they're cheap and reliable with few moving parts or liquids. Given we don't need to cool CPU's that much they're fine for that purpose. For a motor, we'd use active cooling, in fact given the temperatures at the height these aircraft are going to be at for most of their service, we may need to think about how to the engine warm.
For cooling electric motors, I'm sure you could give your mate Elon a call (he's everyone's mate) as I'm sure he'd have a few ideas on the subject.
It's been a long time since I've touched iOS, but I wonder if part of it is the old JB scene moving over to Android? A lot of features I used to have to Jailbreak my phone for were readily available OOTB or in the Play Store with no need to root the device.
Not quite. The hardcore phone hacking scene has always been on Android. Jailbreaking was just to give Iphone users the same basic functionality as Android enjoyed. However as more features became standard with Android and more software can be run in userland these days it's only a small scene these days.
Jailbreaking on IOS always had two problems, 1. you were fighting the phone's true masters, Apple, every step of the way. 2. Users just got fed up waiting for the next exploit and moved over to Android so they didn't have to Jailbreak/Root their phones.
Rooting has faded on Android for the same reason as iOS -- damn near impossible, or completely impossible on most carrier branded phones.
Actually its because it's rarely needed these days.
Apart from that it's quite easy. In fact on the S8 its far easier and safer than how I used to do it back with my old unlocked HTC's (Dream and DesireZ). But the usage cases for root are reducing rapidly as Android has matured and most features do not require root access (and userland access has increased dramatically since Android 3.x).
Now you've got a point with IOS, to have control over your device, sorry, your "Apple" device, you are going to have to fight the devices true master, Apple, every step of the way. With Android, you get it out of the box unless youre daft enough to buy from a carrier (or stuck in a country where you dont have much of a choice).
Meanwhile, people are slowly switching to Android as the realise that you don't get the Apple restrictions and its no more difficult to use (the old FUD is slowly dying).
There isn't webservice that Yahoo can't destroy it.
Can we get Yahoo to buy Facebook?
Facebook is doing a pretty good job of destroying itself.
Quality comes from pressure, without pressure you just get a loose hot mess.
Quality does not come from pressure, mistakes come from pressure. Quality comes from process and procedure, if you dont have a good quality processes and procedures then you'll never produce good quality, likewise if you've got the best processes and procedures but they're never followed.
Toyota do not have their reputation for supreme reliability because they whip their workers into making parts faster (that is more the GM model), Toyota is a byword for reliability because it stringently tests every component to meet a standard and discards/reworks those components that do not. Quality is checked every step of the way, religiously.
The love fest needs to end and rigorous feedback about sillyness like removing headphone jacks, software bugs, privacy violation etc etc must enter the forefront and be backed up by people NOT purchasing a sub par product based on brand name alone.
This is more Apple's problem. They're in love with themselves and think their farts don't stink. They think that everyone in the world has the same usage case as them and should be happy to have their superior way foisted upon them. Its classic So-Cal hipster syndrome, the stubborn refusal to acknowledge than an outside world with different people exists because it doesn't exist in their echo chamber.
Apple received the feedback about headphone jacks, bugs, privacy... They just don't care and no do they have to as long as fanboys keep buying products. Apple are like a 90's pop star who's just jumped the shark, the decline is obvious from the outside but from centre stage it still looks like people are attending their concerts even though the crowd thins a little with every performance. That doesn't matter as they'll keep convincing themselves of their awesomeness and maintain this delusion until the day they wake up from a 3 day bender with the stark realisation that no-one remembers who they were and will now has to give head to support their crack habit.
Capitalization is screwed in iOS 11, too.
You're holding I.T. wrong.
Basically you're arguing that two (or three) wrongs make a right. They don't.
This.
Banning phones just makes it easier to prevent unwanted information from leaking out. Nothing critical to national security or anything sensitive, but embarrassing things that point out how incompetent the government is.
I think that is because people dont understand what an opiate actually is. Opiates (and opioids, to include synthetic drugs) are quite safe and effective pain killers at low dosages.
So what you are saying is that the same safe effective "small dose" is going to be just as effective forever?
So what you're saying is that you've diddled a horse.
Remember that if you put words in my mouth, I can do the same to you. In order to come up with that bollocks, you had to ignore most of my post.
Now here you're making the classic mistake making assumptions that just aren't true. In order to build a resistance to anything requires habitual use. As I said, codeine sales are tracked so habitual use is something that is easy to detect. Now I use the drug for effective pain control in irregular intervals, I might use 10 doses in 3 months... if that. However what I don't want are people taking an effective and safe product off the shelves because they're hand-wringing over a non-issue whilst ignoring the much larger issue of a more dangerous and addictive substance.
No, you're a person who heard "drugs" and says "are bad MMMM-kay". Its reactionaries like you who are doing more damage with knee-jerk reactions without understanding the subject.