I had a lower UID and forgot it. It was from back when I had my company and would sometimes talk about it so I didn't use this nick. I mention that because what I have to say comes from years of watching this site.
So, let me begin.
1. Slashdot has always had its share of tin foil hat wearers. Otherwise those memes wouldn't exist - I'd say they're a pretty large percentage so not really subjected to scorn so much as they might be elsewhere.
2. Yes, mandatory labeling implies fear and there's no scientific reason to fear them.
3. Vaccinate or sterilize. If you're not going to vaccinate your children then get yourself sterilized.
4. Slashdot is, like any other community, subject to the echo chamber effect but I think you'll find that it's more diverse here than in other communities. See Reddit, Fark, Voat, etc. as examples where the hivemind rules the roost.
Heh... I knew that and I'm not sure why I typed it. For some reason I was thinking CentOS and then, well, I can only assume my brain farted. Fortunately, I gave them a link that has the correct information on it.
I'm actually getting to like GhostBSD and would like it even more if I could get Opera working on it. It's really stable seemingly and I've found it to be quite zippy. Right now I am still just using it in a VM but I really want to install it and start using it as my main OS on a regular basis, at least for a while. I just seem too attached to Opera to make the switch. I know... I know...
In addition, later research refuted the original studies that had pointed to DDT as a cause for eggshell thinning. After reassessing their findings using more modern methodology, Drs. Hickey and Anderson admitted that the egg extracts they had studied contained little or no DDT and said they were now pursuing PCBs, chemicals used as capacitor insulators, as the culprit.20
How about:
After many years of carefully controlled feeding experiments, Dr. M. L. Scott and associates of the Department of Poultry Science at Cornell University “found no tremors, no mortality, no thinning of eggshells and no interference with reproduction caused by levels of DDT which were as high as those reported to be present in most of the wild birds where ‘catastrophic’ decreases in shell quality and reproduction have been claimed.”23 In fact, thinning eggshells can have many causes, including season of the year, nutrition (in particular insufficient calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D, and manganese), temperature rise, type of soil, and breeding conditions (e.g., sunlight and crowding).25
There are many others. That's just but one. My understanding is that they really don't want it being used in agriculture because it's persistent. I'm a mathematician and not a chemist nor a biologist. I can't really opine on it. What I can opine on is that the original studies and the book were bullshit and need to be removed from the collective conversation if we want ethics in our science.
A little more effort will find more information, I've found piles of it in the past after hearing about it being used by the Gate's Foundation and wondering what the hell was going on. Bastards... Not the foundation but the people who pushed this shit to begin with.
I'm not really sure that you should be commenting about the editing practices unless your post was an attempt at humor? You seem to have some extra words in there.
I guess I am kind of okay with them making new laws - there's at least some semblance of checks and balances in that. It's when they willfully violate the laws that really irks me.
Actually, with triangulation, you probably did. Albeit not willfully or knowingly for most people.
Do not misconstrue this as my accepting or advocating these policies of data collection. I do not like them, not one bit. I'm simply responding to point out that you probably did, in fact, provide that information even if you didn't want to. GPS data may even be appended - I don't know. If it is then they should make that clear as I am sure there are situations where you're not actually able to be triangulated such as in my home area where there are only two towers and, further out, but a single tower within reach.
I've been pretty fond of LXDE and Lubuntu has been a favorite of mine to boot into for a while. I'm really a bit of an OS whore so I'm always just using, installing, tweaking, poking a new OS. A lot of times I don't even install the OS but just run it from a live disk and call it good. However, this laptop has Lubuntu at its base and is using VNC to connect to a desktop running Lubuntu at home. (I want my data to be encrypted and I want to use the hotel's wireless. I am still in Buffalo.)
Anyhow, Lubuntu is pretty damned sweet. I found a few bugs but nothing show stopping. I also like Mint, specifically the Cinnamon DE. I've found a few specific sets of hardware that it burps on so I have limited it to just one box for now - another laptop that I also have with me. Add to that a bunch of OSes on Live USB disks and I'm a portable geek.
In fact, it was because of this that I'm still in Buffalo.
I was down in the lobby area, out where they serve breakfast, and there was a young lady in there who was frustrated and ended up slamming her laptop closed and slamming it down beside her. I mentioned that that was no way to treat hardware that didn't do anything wrong on its own. We got to talking and she needs the laptop for school. It's an old laptop and runs Vista and appeared to be mangled by malware.
Being a geek, I just happened to have a USB disk in my laptop bag. We rebooted her poor computer, set it to boot to USB, she used it for a while and was really impressed with it. Everything she'd needed was able to be backed up and we installed Lubuntu on her laptop too and left the Windows partition to be cleaned up later... Then we went to dinner.
I must say, while I've led an interesting life and a fortunate life for which I am eternally grateful, but I'm pretty sure that this is the first time I've ever had Linux get me a date in and of itself, sort of. We've had numerous 'not dates' since and there's a lot more to type but nobody would read it so I'll skip it and save us both time. Suffice to say, she's significantly younger than I, in a bad space in life, and while Slashdot has given me loads of great advice, I'm not entirely sure that they'd offer good advice in this situation. It is also a novella much longer than I'd normally type and wouldn't be read by anyone.
Yet, strangely, the only people I hear complaining about it (usually - note that this is usually) are those who haven't actually had any problems with it. I can see why they would prefer the older system (avoiding monolithic things is probably a good idea) but I don't see too many people complaining in the real world. There's one person, here on Slashdot, who's tearing it apart piece by piece. I think they're on section 8 or 9 of their process. Phantom someone maybe? I'd have to look and will do so if it is important.
Anyhow, they're pretty picky and they've got some pretty good ideas from what I've read. They're about the only one that I see being constructive. However, keep in mind, that the "Linux way" jumped the shark years ago - from the start, as I understand it. Unix, try Minix for an accessible and free version, uses a microkernel. Linux is monolithic in design - drivers don't run independently and failing drivers can crash a whole system where it is, as I understand it, easier to reload a crashed driver in a microkernel. I also understand there are some serious improvements to security by doing so but the expense is speed.
I could be missing something but a lot of the complaints that I read are those who are saying that it is just not the "Linux way." Well, Linux has already gone for the monolithic approach. It doesn't, to my eyes, appear must different to have a centralized initialization service to go along with it. I'm not seeing any problems there.
As an end user, well, I also don't have any problems with it. I learned a couple of new commands and Google the rest as needed. I keep adequate backups and don't even generally save anything locally if it's even remotely important. I save everything to NAS and call it good. At this point, to be honest, I'd love a thin client setup where I simply load a base and then select the OS, and keep my files and configurations between them with everything being unloaded to the network with the local CPU/GPU chugging away as needed. I'm not that patient, however.
I wanted to hate sytemd. I wanted to be in the in-crowd, and old curmudgeon, and generally hate everything new. As an end-user, I really haven't even seen it which is the way I like it, I guess. I might have to poke a new set of buttons to get some output in the terminal. I didn't have that memorized anyhow. It hasn't broken anything. Nothing seems very different than the init system that was before except I've not had to touch that in years.
Anyhow, as for the LSB, I did not even know this. I flit about distros like a drunk chick at her prom. Half the time I don't even install the OS, I just run it from a live disk. I've got enough RAM for that and I've been a mostly passive consumer for a while now. Hopefully this doesn't fragment the system more than it is. However, I doubt I'll even notice unless stuff suddenly goes missing that I'm used to. If it does then I guess I'll just search and install it. I already do that for a dozen applications that don't seem to be the default in any distro.
Like Linux has supplanted Windows on the desktop? I think you're assuming rational people are in the majority. I don't think they are. I use Linux, it's clearly better, but I'm part of a very small minority.
Muslim is not a word? Kenya is not a word? Sheesh. They've obviously redefined those. That makes them right. You might as well use "alot" and say, "I have less dollars."
I was shocked by housing prices in SF and a kind/.er took it upon themselves to help me understand. One of the major restrictions is, according to them and the links they provided, there's an absurd height restriction. I don't recall how high that restriction is but it's not very tall for a major city. That adds to all the other things mentioned.
I suppose, if I were into robbing people (I'm not sure how this works, really), I'd be sitting there on the train looking at all those phones and thinking there's just so many! I'd get distracted and not steal any because I wasn't sure where to start.
No, the precedent is that it's not criminal. It's still illegal. You have civil and criminal offenses. Both are illegal. Criminal offenses get you put in jail (maybe). Civil offenses, also with a lower burden of proof, do not result in jail. Preponderance of evidence and all that. I'm not a lawyer but I've paid for my share of them and have a few as friends and spend quite a bit of time observing the courts. Civil violations are still illegal. They're just not criminal violations and don't have a potential punishment that includes jail time.
While I am at it... Civil offense need only prove that you more likely than not committed the offense. Criminal offenses mean that the burden is on the state to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that you've committed the offense. Reasonable doubt is key here. It's an actual legal concept that is summed up with, "What would a reasonable person believe?" Some people seem to think that it is beyond all doubt or beyond a shadow of a doubt or similar. They're wrong.
This applies to the United States only. I can't opine on the legal systems elsewhere.
I keep reading about stuff like this as of late. I'm not sure how these companies stay in business. I'd neither time nor interest in any such behavior, ever. Eventually, after getting large enough, I didn't even know the login details to the servers to even enact such changes. I'm sure the IT staff would give them to me if I'd asked (they kind of had to) but they probably would have been wise-asses about it and pretty snarky. Also, probably rushing for backup tapes.
Don't managers, bosses, and owners have more constructive things to do? I think I'd have fired someone who did stuff like that. I never hired anyone like that but I'm pretty sure I'd have fired them. If they had time to be doing stupid shit like that then I either didn't need their help as they weren't busy enough or I didn't need their help because they weren't doing what they were hired to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm... Not sure if serious...
I had a lower UID and forgot it. It was from back when I had my company and would sometimes talk about it so I didn't use this nick. I mention that because what I have to say comes from years of watching this site.
So, let me begin.
1. Slashdot has always had its share of tin foil hat wearers. Otherwise those memes wouldn't exist - I'd say they're a pretty large percentage so not really subjected to scorn so much as they might be elsewhere.
2. Yes, mandatory labeling implies fear and there's no scientific reason to fear them.
3. Vaccinate or sterilize. If you're not going to vaccinate your children then get yourself sterilized.
4. Slashdot is, like any other community, subject to the echo chamber effect but I think you'll find that it's more diverse here than in other communities. See Reddit, Fark, Voat, etc. as examples where the hivemind rules the roost.
Perhaps you mean:
- Elder FUD
Heh... I knew that and I'm not sure why I typed it. For some reason I was thinking CentOS and then, well, I can only assume my brain farted. Fortunately, I gave them a link that has the correct information on it.
I'm actually getting to like GhostBSD and would like it even more if I could get Opera working on it. It's really stable seemingly and I've found it to be quite zippy. Right now I am still just using it in a VM but I really want to install it and start using it as my main OS on a regular basis, at least for a while. I just seem too attached to Opera to make the switch. I know... I know...
Don't worry. The FCC is hard at work making sure that you'll never have the chance to fix this on your own.
See above post for one rebuttal by people more informed than I. I've quoted some of the useful information but there's a lot more to be had.
You made me get off my tablet. Damn it. ;)
Anyhow... http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF...
In addition, later research refuted the original studies that had pointed to DDT as a cause for eggshell thinning. After reassessing their findings using more modern methodology, Drs. Hickey and Anderson admitted that the egg extracts they had studied contained little or no DDT and said they were now pursuing PCBs, chemicals used as capacitor insulators, as the culprit.20
How about:
After many years of carefully controlled feeding experiments, Dr. M. L. Scott and associates of the Department of Poultry Science at Cornell University “found no tremors, no mortality, no thinning of eggshells and no interference with reproduction caused by levels of DDT which were as high as those reported to be present in most of the wild birds where ‘catastrophic’ decreases in shell quality and reproduction have been claimed.”23 In fact, thinning eggshells can have many causes, including season of the year, nutrition (in particular insufficient calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D, and manganese), temperature rise, type of soil, and breeding conditions (e.g., sunlight and crowding).25
There are many others. That's just but one. My understanding is that they really don't want it being used in agriculture because it's persistent. I'm a mathematician and not a chemist nor a biologist. I can't really opine on it. What I can opine on is that the original studies and the book were bullshit and need to be removed from the collective conversation if we want ethics in our science.
A little more effort will find more information, I've found piles of it in the past after hearing about it being used by the Gate's Foundation and wondering what the hell was going on. Bastards... Not the foundation but the people who pushed this shit to begin with.
Ack... Stupid tablet. Not back.
Pardon my ignorance but how would a cable be unidirectional? I get how but how could it do things like error correction without back packets?
I'm not really sure that you should be commenting about the editing practices unless your post was an attempt at humor? You seem to have some extra words in there.
If they separate them they'll not be as scary and not have the desired impact. We can't have that, can we?
I see you're trying to make a funny. Would you like some help with that?
I guess I am kind of okay with them making new laws - there's at least some semblance of checks and balances in that. It's when they willfully violate the laws that really irks me.
Actually, with triangulation, you probably did. Albeit not willfully or knowingly for most people.
Do not misconstrue this as my accepting or advocating these policies of data collection. I do not like them, not one bit. I'm simply responding to point out that you probably did, in fact, provide that information even if you didn't want to. GPS data may even be appended - I don't know. If it is then they should make that clear as I am sure there are situations where you're not actually able to be triangulated such as in my home area where there are only two towers and, further out, but a single tower within reach.
Redhat -> Debian -> Ubuntu
-> Mint
Ubuntu -> Lubuntu
-> Kubuntu
etc etc etc
Here's an awesome picture/diagram:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
I've been pretty fond of LXDE and Lubuntu has been a favorite of mine to boot into for a while. I'm really a bit of an OS whore so I'm always just using, installing, tweaking, poking a new OS. A lot of times I don't even install the OS but just run it from a live disk and call it good. However, this laptop has Lubuntu at its base and is using VNC to connect to a desktop running Lubuntu at home. (I want my data to be encrypted and I want to use the hotel's wireless. I am still in Buffalo.)
Anyhow, Lubuntu is pretty damned sweet. I found a few bugs but nothing show stopping. I also like Mint, specifically the Cinnamon DE. I've found a few specific sets of hardware that it burps on so I have limited it to just one box for now - another laptop that I also have with me. Add to that a bunch of OSes on Live USB disks and I'm a portable geek.
In fact, it was because of this that I'm still in Buffalo.
I was down in the lobby area, out where they serve breakfast, and there was a young lady in there who was frustrated and ended up slamming her laptop closed and slamming it down beside her. I mentioned that that was no way to treat hardware that didn't do anything wrong on its own. We got to talking and she needs the laptop for school. It's an old laptop and runs Vista and appeared to be mangled by malware.
Being a geek, I just happened to have a USB disk in my laptop bag. We rebooted her poor computer, set it to boot to USB, she used it for a while and was really impressed with it. Everything she'd needed was able to be backed up and we installed Lubuntu on her laptop too and left the Windows partition to be cleaned up later... Then we went to dinner.
I must say, while I've led an interesting life and a fortunate life for which I am eternally grateful, but I'm pretty sure that this is the first time I've ever had Linux get me a date in and of itself, sort of. We've had numerous 'not dates' since and there's a lot more to type but nobody would read it so I'll skip it and save us both time. Suffice to say, she's significantly younger than I, in a bad space in life, and while Slashdot has given me loads of great advice, I'm not entirely sure that they'd offer good advice in this situation. It is also a novella much longer than I'd normally type and wouldn't be read by anyone.
Yet, strangely, the only people I hear complaining about it (usually - note that this is usually) are those who haven't actually had any problems with it. I can see why they would prefer the older system (avoiding monolithic things is probably a good idea) but I don't see too many people complaining in the real world. There's one person, here on Slashdot, who's tearing it apart piece by piece. I think they're on section 8 or 9 of their process. Phantom someone maybe? I'd have to look and will do so if it is important.
Anyhow, they're pretty picky and they've got some pretty good ideas from what I've read. They're about the only one that I see being constructive. However, keep in mind, that the "Linux way" jumped the shark years ago - from the start, as I understand it. Unix, try Minix for an accessible and free version, uses a microkernel. Linux is monolithic in design - drivers don't run independently and failing drivers can crash a whole system where it is, as I understand it, easier to reload a crashed driver in a microkernel. I also understand there are some serious improvements to security by doing so but the expense is speed.
I could be missing something but a lot of the complaints that I read are those who are saying that it is just not the "Linux way." Well, Linux has already gone for the monolithic approach. It doesn't, to my eyes, appear must different to have a centralized initialization service to go along with it. I'm not seeing any problems there.
As an end user, well, I also don't have any problems with it. I learned a couple of new commands and Google the rest as needed. I keep adequate backups and don't even generally save anything locally if it's even remotely important. I save everything to NAS and call it good. At this point, to be honest, I'd love a thin client setup where I simply load a base and then select the OS, and keep my files and configurations between them with everything being unloaded to the network with the local CPU/GPU chugging away as needed. I'm not that patient, however.
Yes. Yes it was. Not really but, in hindsight, I suppose there might be some Freudian interpretations available.
I wanted to hate sytemd. I wanted to be in the in-crowd, and old curmudgeon, and generally hate everything new. As an end-user, I really haven't even seen it which is the way I like it, I guess. I might have to poke a new set of buttons to get some output in the terminal. I didn't have that memorized anyhow. It hasn't broken anything. Nothing seems very different than the init system that was before except I've not had to touch that in years.
Anyhow, as for the LSB, I did not even know this. I flit about distros like a drunk chick at her prom. Half the time I don't even install the OS, I just run it from a live disk. I've got enough RAM for that and I've been a mostly passive consumer for a while now. Hopefully this doesn't fragment the system more than it is. However, I doubt I'll even notice unless stuff suddenly goes missing that I'm used to. If it does then I guess I'll just search and install it. I already do that for a dozen applications that don't seem to be the default in any distro.
Like Linux has supplanted Windows on the desktop? I think you're assuming rational people are in the majority. I don't think they are. I use Linux, it's clearly better, but I'm part of a very small minority.
Muslim is not a word? Kenya is not a word? Sheesh. They've obviously redefined those. That makes them right. You might as well use "alot" and say, "I have less dollars."
I was shocked by housing prices in SF and a kind /.er took it upon themselves to help me understand. One of the major restrictions is, according to them and the links they provided, there's an absurd height restriction. I don't recall how high that restriction is but it's not very tall for a major city. That adds to all the other things mentioned.
I suppose, if I were into robbing people (I'm not sure how this works, really), I'd be sitting there on the train looking at all those phones and thinking there's just so many! I'd get distracted and not steal any because I wasn't sure where to start.
I'd probably not make a very good robber.
He wants you to subsidize him, he doesn't want to subsidize your lifestyle. Greed, ego, and all that.
No, the precedent is that it's not criminal. It's still illegal. You have civil and criminal offenses. Both are illegal. Criminal offenses get you put in jail (maybe). Civil offenses, also with a lower burden of proof, do not result in jail. Preponderance of evidence and all that. I'm not a lawyer but I've paid for my share of them and have a few as friends and spend quite a bit of time observing the courts. Civil violations are still illegal. They're just not criminal violations and don't have a potential punishment that includes jail time.
While I am at it... Civil offense need only prove that you more likely than not committed the offense. Criminal offenses mean that the burden is on the state to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that you've committed the offense. Reasonable doubt is key here. It's an actual legal concept that is summed up with, "What would a reasonable person believe?" Some people seem to think that it is beyond all doubt or beyond a shadow of a doubt or similar. They're wrong.
This applies to the United States only. I can't opine on the legal systems elsewhere.
I keep reading about stuff like this as of late. I'm not sure how these companies stay in business. I'd neither time nor interest in any such behavior, ever. Eventually, after getting large enough, I didn't even know the login details to the servers to even enact such changes. I'm sure the IT staff would give them to me if I'd asked (they kind of had to) but they probably would have been wise-asses about it and pretty snarky. Also, probably rushing for backup tapes.
Don't managers, bosses, and owners have more constructive things to do? I think I'd have fired someone who did stuff like that. I never hired anyone like that but I'm pretty sure I'd have fired them. If they had time to be doing stupid shit like that then I either didn't need their help as they weren't busy enough or I didn't need their help because they weren't doing what they were hired to do.