I would suggest that Facebook employees, like their fearless and intrepid leader, are not morally bankrupt liars or anything of the sort. They are, at a median age of 28, simply young and unable to put their ideas into any context beyond utility and/or profit. Now they have all built a company with revenue streams dependent on questionable practices, and its not easy to choose any option that resembles "end our distasteful practices, and the revenue associated with them" and thereby keep all it's kids in their 7 figure Menlo Park, mountain View, or sick Palo Alto cribs.
For years, on this exact subject, I've been hearing, "Older people just don't get it!?"
Some, though perhaps not all of the 2.7 million are also actively choosing what they want to watch rather than selecting from a scroll-able menu, and many awesome movies from more than a year ago are just not available online. In these cases, there's the disk option. You can get it delivered to your office, or you can go to Bend, Oregon. Mil Gracias Netflix.
I don't agree with your wording here, Herr Deutschlander, but I do agree with a fundamental premise you make, based on 40 years of driving and living in both the UK and in USA:
American cars are big and heavy and built and bought with the logic, "no matter what, (even if its my old grandmother's fault,) everyone in the car will be safe.. whatever happens!" This is how we choose/buy cars for our young, for our aged, for those we want to protect from themselves. It is the American Alter of curb weight. I never did get the whole SUV craze. I prefer my [sporty coupe.]
European cars by contrast (and maybe because fuel is so much more expensive) have until recently been smaller, with an emphasis on handling, braking, and performance. In Europe, driving is not a right but a privilege, and it must be earned. The build and buy logic is to buy the car which is safest in the hands of a competent driver. Rather than focus on safety when a driver screws up, focus on the best ability to stay out of trouble in the first place.
Of course there are knobheads who drive their US rolling tank, or UK boy racer, like they don't care whether they or anyone else lives or dies. Moreover, 40 years has seen traffic rise to a level unthinkable when I got my license, making silly bugger speeds increasingly problematic. But I've never been in an accident, and it's not because I drive within the absolute limits of the lowest common denominator. And when I rent American fleet cars, I drive them like a baby, secure in the knowledge that I could drive into a tree and not notice, but fearing it will happen through no fault of my own.
I've always been bothered that all police in the US carry guns - where in general the police in the UK don't, at lest in the England of my youth. But make no mistake, there is a pernicious truth: despite unarmed Bobbies, England is a police state. Just look at the speed control on the roads. Variable Speed limits with long distance tracking, not a person in sight. I know there is a safety argument, but it is absolute control over people's movement. Literally. But that's not my point.
The real story is how a 20% Error Rate is even close to acceptable in any automated system, especially in an environment where addressing issues through bureaucracy is practically impossible?!?! On top of that every run will yield a new chance to be falsely accused so the threat always looms. Seeing this in my own USA is a much deeper fear for me than any terrorist activity, and 40% of the public will welcome it, including people who will be ruined by it. It's insane.
This is part of the thick edge of the wedge. Beware all.
The PR motive behind this announcement must be that Netflix will be announcing a price increase and multi-stream clampdown. I agree with the observation made already that Netflix allows and welcomes the current user behavior so in no sense could it be called piracy. Moreover, I also agree with the so-90s observation that equating piracy with actual money that would otherwise have been made is BS.
And here it is now.. See slashdot article: Netflix is Testing Even More Expensive Subscription Prices... Quelle Surprise!!
Why does the wealthiest nation in the entire world have one of the least effectual healthcare systems in the developed world? Because it can afford it!
As long as companies have a vested interest in treating a chronic condition without curing it, we in the US are doomed to live with them. The longer term they are as chrnic illnesses, the better.
I can't help wondering how much money and pain Jonas Salk saved the world. There were 20,000 to 57,000 cases of polio in the US each year until the vaccine was introduced. There were 22 cases of polio reported in 2017, in the WORLD.
As the world goes cashless, here's is the single biggest argument opposing that expansion. It means that every transaction has fees associated. And the knock-on implications are huge as well. So unless we all think there should be a state sponsored cash card with no fees, (as if,) we should think about this. I have trouble believing this has anything to do with anything but more profit: and certainly not operational necessity. The fees are already exorbitant.
This reeks of internal job. Complete and total devastation with no apparent purpose? Its too comprehensive to be an advanced script kiddie or random attack and therefor also too good to be anything without purpose. But there is no apparent purpose, so it must be an inside job. The offline tapes were probably deleted too, and that requires very skillful cracking indeed!
>> In rodents, animals seemingly lose their inhibitions, becoming more exploratory and losing their aversion to cat odours.
Huh.. One can see how adaptive evolution would favor cats who can put the parasite out there without being affected by it themselves. Cats benefit when rodents get daring in their presence. More significantly, it also makes humans crave their presence and care for them, if only in a very basic sense. Now that's an effective adaptation!
Am I the only person that finds it oddly predictable that, in response to a story about TLS, almost every single comment is a biased (one way or the other) comment about "the Wall" or the Donald or the Problem with America Today.
Cert expiration is a problem mostly because certificates cannot be renewed. They must be replaced, and as close to expiration as possible. If only there were a way to push the expiration out.. maybe by having a replacement cert, or a see-next-instance logic.
This way, certs could be renewed before they expire, just as Domain names are. And yes, I understand the technical limitations making this a necessary evil today. But it is a problem for government users now, and is a problem in many other like cases. For instance, when a cert expires over a weekend. Who hasn't got the call at 5 am when this happened?
As for the wall... I'll comment when its relevent.
Yesterday, we learned that China will be publicly shaming j-walkers using facial recognition. NPR asked if this was the beginning of an era where no transgression against the law would go unnoticed and unpunished. Now we see a country with a huge citizenry demanding access to (effectively) all personal information without protection of privacy. This is one of today's announcements in an unending chain of events ratcheting up tyranny around the globe.
What made, and to the extent we still have it, Makes America Great, is and always has been a promise of true liberty and freedom, however well fulfilled, to be your own person, to think your own private thoughts, to fulfill your own dreams, to seek happiness. This dream brings people to our nation who are beaten on suspicion of thinking thoughts deemed improper. When America champions this idea around the world, it gives ALL people (who can hear it) hope that one day they will live in a place that allows them to express themselves personally as they really are.
Every time I read about technology enabling oppression, suppression, tyranny, and conformity.. a forced way to think, with tools to root out all transgressions to the prescribed ways, as this policy in India does - I am fearful for the future of liberty, and even just democracy.
We should be looking at these actions as examples of what NOT to do.. and yet they are increasingly harbingers of what our leadership WILL do here in America. We watch what happens abroad with horror, and then watch while people embrace and defend these horrors at home. I am baffled.
What happens when labor has no value? Or, when all that matters is capital?
How will people earn respect.. to say nothing of provide for their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
Please reply with your ideas, ideally without trolling. I would especially like to hear anything beyond the extremes of Death Universal Basic Income. Neither of these allow for self-respect.
OMG.. that is very clever! I wonder if it would work at the polling booth? Better still, make it the homepage and block all navigation entirely! Oh wait.. Oh wait.. and then publish stats that say 100% of users choose the forced product on the page. Its brilliant. The opportunities are limitless. Call starkist!
>> that people should learn the answer too in 9th grade.
Grammar? Spelling? but, I agree with your (or is it youre, (sic) I can never remember) basic premise. It's your presentation I have a problem with. Yes, that is a preposition at the end of my sentance. (sic) Deal with it motherf*ckers.
... but, frankly, when they are gone, I doubt anyone will miss them. In fact, I doubt anyone will even realize they were there in the first place. Like glaciers, or the gulf stream, or fish,...
My favorite story: Spielberg and Robin Williams were playing deathmatch while Spielberg was filming Schindler's List. Apocrophal or true? Who knows.. Its a great story either way.. Nobody has better gallows humor than nurses working on a cancer ward. The whole conversation about the negative effect of violent games ignores the sometimes healthy part of acting out nightmares as a way of coping with them. But that's not part of my purpose. Or is it?
It is ironic that the Smith and the trade commission cannot prosecute companies because of his prior connection (most likely privileged) but Ajit Pai and the comm commission can determine what's fair for human people despite his prior connection (I don't know if in house counsel also has privilege but I assume he would.)
The number of people who own smartphones will increase, but if they don't replace them every 6 months when a vastly better one comes out, along with killer apps that need the new capabilities, then people will hang onto them for longer. This is better for the environment, and for consumers.
So we'd expect annual sales to drop once the market is saturated (by definition)... Unless they are built to last only 6 to 12 months. And they aren't repairable.
Restaurants can easily be designed to be quiet, and many are. But, to put all the baffling and special ceiling tiles and carpet and other aides in place costs well over 200k per restaurant to install, requires offsetting design considerations that can add more, and are harder to keep clean.
Plus noisy makes it more of a "scene," and a scene adds to the impression of popularity, so its a trade-off there as well.
Hey y'all. Check out the photos of the thing. It looks awesome, and has the realistic capacity of a private jet, and a small one at that! This plane may allow civilians to travel at 60% the speed of Concorde, but it will not be commercial at its current size. It will be a private jet. For reference, Concorde had room for 120 passengers and a flight crew of 6 or 7, including the navigator!
I have been a huge fan of space exploration and colonization. But then I grew up.. Now I can only see the craven cynicism of the very rich who claim the earth is lost, and the survival of our species depends on moving off a planet we have evolved to live on. Why not build a domed isolated colony in Arizona? That would have a far greater chance of success towards their ends. Think of what the money spent on space exploration could achieve with dedication to research in water purification or production alone!
The best planet available to us to consider making habitable is the planet EARTH.
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
Slashdot Mirror
I would suggest that Facebook employees, like their fearless and intrepid leader, are not morally bankrupt liars or anything of the sort. They are, at a median age of 28, simply young and unable to put their ideas into any context beyond utility and/or profit. Now they have all built a company with revenue streams dependent on questionable practices, and its not easy to choose any option that resembles "end our distasteful practices, and the revenue associated with them" and thereby keep all it's kids in their 7 figure Menlo Park, mountain View, or sick Palo Alto cribs.
For years, on this exact subject, I've been hearing, "Older people just don't get it!?"
They do, still, and they always did.
Some, though perhaps not all of the 2.7 million are also actively choosing what they want to watch rather than selecting from a scroll-able menu, and many awesome movies from more than a year ago are just not available online. In these cases, there's the disk option. You can get it delivered to your office, or you can go to Bend, Oregon. Mil Gracias Netflix.
I don't agree with your wording here, Herr Deutschlander, but I do agree with a fundamental premise you make, based on 40 years of driving and living in both the UK and in USA:
American cars are big and heavy and built and bought with the logic, "no matter what, (even if its my old grandmother's fault,) everyone in the car will be safe.. whatever happens!" This is how we choose/buy cars for our young, for our aged, for those we want to protect from themselves. It is the American Alter of curb weight. I never did get the whole SUV craze. I prefer my [sporty coupe.]
European cars by contrast (and maybe because fuel is so much more expensive) have until recently been smaller, with an emphasis on handling, braking, and performance. In Europe, driving is not a right but a privilege, and it must be earned. The build and buy logic is to buy the car which is safest in the hands of a competent driver. Rather than focus on safety when a driver screws up, focus on the best ability to stay out of trouble in the first place.
Of course there are knobheads who drive their US rolling tank, or UK boy racer, like they don't care whether they or anyone else lives or dies. Moreover, 40 years has seen traffic rise to a level unthinkable when I got my license, making silly bugger speeds increasingly problematic. But I've never been in an accident, and it's not because I drive within the absolute limits of the lowest common denominator. And when I rent American fleet cars, I drive them like a baby, secure in the knowledge that I could drive into a tree and not notice, but fearing it will happen through no fault of my own.
... not a single one of those people should be concerned, unless of course he or she has broken the law!
I've always been bothered that all police in the US carry guns - where in general the police in the UK don't, at lest in the England of my youth. But make no mistake, there is a pernicious truth: despite unarmed Bobbies, England is a police state. Just look at the speed control on the roads. Variable Speed limits with long distance tracking, not a person in sight. I know there is a safety argument, but it is absolute control over people's movement. Literally. But that's not my point.
The real story is how a 20% Error Rate is even close to acceptable in any automated system, especially in an environment where addressing issues through bureaucracy is practically impossible?!?! On top of that every run will yield a new chance to be falsely accused so the threat always looms. Seeing this in my own USA is a much deeper fear for me than any terrorist activity, and 40% of the public will welcome it, including people who will be ruined by it. It's insane.
This is part of the thick edge of the wedge. Beware all.
The PR motive behind this announcement must be that Netflix will be announcing a price increase and multi-stream clampdown. I agree with the observation made already that Netflix allows and welcomes the current user behavior so in no sense could it be called piracy. Moreover, I also agree with the so-90s observation that equating piracy with actual money that would otherwise have been made is BS.
.. Quelle Surprise!!
And here it is now.. See slashdot article: Netflix is Testing Even More Expensive Subscription Prices.
Why does the wealthiest nation in the entire world have one of the least effectual healthcare systems in the developed world? Because it can afford it!
As long as companies have a vested interest in treating a chronic condition without curing it, we in the US are doomed to live with them. The longer term they are as chrnic illnesses, the better.
I can't help wondering how much money and pain Jonas Salk saved the world. There were 20,000 to 57,000 cases of polio in the US each year until the vaccine was introduced. There were 22 cases of polio reported in 2017, in the WORLD.
As the world goes cashless, here's is the single biggest argument opposing that expansion. It means that every transaction has fees associated. And the knock-on implications are huge as well. So unless we all think there should be a state sponsored cash card with no fees, (as if,) we should think about this. I have trouble believing this has anything to do with anything but more profit: and certainly not operational necessity. The fees are already exorbitant.
This reeks of internal job. Complete and total devastation with no apparent purpose? Its too comprehensive to be an advanced script kiddie or random attack and therefor also too good to be anything without purpose. But there is no apparent purpose, so it must be an inside job. The offline tapes were probably deleted too, and that requires very skillful cracking indeed!
>> In rodents, animals seemingly lose their inhibitions, becoming more exploratory and losing their aversion to cat odours.
Huh.. One can see how adaptive evolution would favor cats who can put the parasite out there without being affected by it themselves. Cats benefit when rodents get daring in their presence. More significantly, it also makes humans crave their presence and care for them, if only in a very basic sense. Now that's an effective adaptation!
damn straight! (I know - score 0 but I gotta say it.)
Am I the only person that finds it oddly predictable that, in response to a story about TLS, almost every single comment is a biased (one way or the other) comment about "the Wall" or the Donald or the Problem with America Today.
Cert expiration is a problem mostly because certificates cannot be renewed. They must be replaced, and as close to expiration as possible. If only there were a way to push the expiration out.. maybe by having a replacement cert, or a see-next-instance logic.
This way, certs could be renewed before they expire, just as Domain names are. And yes, I understand the technical limitations making this a necessary evil today. But it is a problem for government users now, and is a problem in many other like cases. For instance, when a cert expires over a weekend. Who hasn't got the call at 5 am when this happened?
As for the wall... I'll comment when its relevent.
Yesterday, we learned that China will be publicly shaming j-walkers using facial recognition. NPR asked if this was the beginning of an era where no transgression against the law would go unnoticed and unpunished. Now we see a country with a huge citizenry demanding access to (effectively) all personal information without protection of privacy. This is one of today's announcements in an unending chain of events ratcheting up tyranny around the globe.
.. a forced way to think, with tools to root out all transgressions to the prescribed ways, as this policy in India does - I am fearful for the future of liberty, and even just democracy.
What made, and to the extent we still have it, Makes America Great, is and always has been a promise of true liberty and freedom, however well fulfilled, to be your own person, to think your own private thoughts, to fulfill your own dreams, to seek happiness. This dream brings people to our nation who are beaten on suspicion of thinking thoughts deemed improper. When America champions this idea around the world, it gives ALL people (who can hear it) hope that one day they will live in a place that allows them to express themselves personally as they really are.
Every time I read about technology enabling oppression, suppression, tyranny, and conformity
We should be looking at these actions as examples of what NOT to do.. and yet they are increasingly harbingers of what our leadership WILL do here in America. We watch what happens abroad with horror, and then watch while people embrace and defend these horrors at home. I am baffled.
Troll On! my people.
What happens when labor has no value? Or, when all that matters is capital? .. to say nothing of provide for their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
How will people earn respect
Please reply with your ideas, ideally without trolling. I would especially like to hear anything beyond the extremes of Death Universal Basic Income. Neither of these allow for self-respect.
OMG.. that is very clever! I wonder if it would work at the polling booth? Better still, make it the homepage and block all navigation entirely! Oh wait.. Oh wait.. and then publish stats that say 100% of users choose the forced product on the page. Its brilliant. The opportunities are limitless. Call starkist!
>> that people should learn the answer too in 9th grade.
Grammar? Spelling? but, I agree with your (or is it youre, (sic) I can never remember) basic premise. It's your presentation I have a problem with. Yes, that is a preposition at the end of my sentance. (sic) Deal with it motherf*ckers.
... but, frankly, when they are gone, I doubt anyone will miss them. In fact, I doubt anyone will even realize they were there in the first place. Like glaciers, or the gulf stream, or fish, ...
My favorite story: Spielberg and Robin Williams were playing deathmatch while Spielberg was filming Schindler's List. Apocrophal or true? Who knows.. Its a great story either way.. Nobody has better gallows humor than nurses working on a cancer ward. The whole conversation about the negative effect of violent games ignores the sometimes healthy part of acting out nightmares as a way of coping with them. But that's not part of my purpose. Or is it?
It is ironic that the Smith and the trade commission cannot prosecute companies because of his prior connection (most likely privileged) but Ajit Pai and the comm commission can determine what's fair for human people despite his prior connection (I don't know if in house counsel also has privilege but I assume he would.)
The game seems rigged, once again.
The number of people who own smartphones will increase, but if they don't replace them every 6 months when a vastly better one comes out, along with killer apps that need the new capabilities, then people will hang onto them for longer. This is better for the environment, and for consumers.
... Unless they are built to last only 6 to 12 months. And they aren't repairable.
So we'd expect annual sales to drop once the market is saturated (by definition)
Restaurants can easily be designed to be quiet, and many are. But, to put all the baffling and special ceiling tiles and carpet and other aides in place costs well over 200k per restaurant to install, requires offsetting design considerations that can add more, and are harder to keep clean.
Plus noisy makes it more of a "scene," and a scene adds to the impression of popularity, so its a trade-off there as well.
Hey y'all. Check out the photos of the thing. It looks awesome, and has the realistic capacity of a private jet, and a small one at that! This plane may allow civilians to travel at 60% the speed of Concorde, but it will not be commercial at its current size. It will be a private jet. For reference, Concorde had room for 120 passengers and a flight crew of 6 or 7, including the navigator!
I have been a huge fan of space exploration and colonization. But then I grew up.. Now I can only see the craven cynicism of the very rich who claim the earth is lost, and the survival of our species depends on moving off a planet we have evolved to live on. Why not build a domed isolated colony in Arizona? That would have a far greater chance of success towards their ends. Think of what the money spent on space exploration could achieve with dedication to research in water purification or production alone!
The best planet available to us to consider making habitable is the planet EARTH.
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."