But seriously, what the hell ? China, like the US never wanted to do any effort about climate, they never cared that much about pollution and global warming. You could say it was invented by Europe, or Japan, but... China ???
Anyway, it was not invented, it is a reported fact. There is no intent to find here.
Just because you think it is irrelevant doesn't mean there is not a niche market for it, especially for slashdot readers, who sometime log on servers with their phones using SSH.
Don't read the BS article from popularmechanics. They didn't even report the age of the kid right (he was 5, not 4).
The original article (http://www.sudouest.fr/2016/11/06/pau-un-portable-samsung-brule-et-explose-2559368-4344.php, in french) indicates that they just let the phone extinguish itself on the floor and called the firemen, and they intend to sue Samsung since the product was dangerous and could have burnt their kid.
The original article just reports an isolated incident. Then the US shiftnews system took it to another level of BS.
Asking you to vote for someone is illegal. So if someone can ask you to vote for someone, they can as well ask you to take a picture (which is illegal too). Oh, wait, in that case you are in trouble too so you can't even sue your boss later !
Ok, so taking a pictures of a vote is forbidden just because that would allow selling votes ? Am I the only one thinking something is wrong ? Sure, I don't see the point in doing a ballot selfie (as I don't see the point in selfies) but what the heck is this law ?
You should sue the ones who are buying votes. Period. If there are picture of people with their ballot, great, that would make it easier for the police to gather proofs.
Besides, is there any study that shows that making it illegal to take pictures lead to a lower rate of vote selling ??? I'm pretty sure if you want to sell your vote you're already doing something illegal, so taking a picture of it (and not posting it online) will not really change anything.
I had hope when I saw the app store at first. Finally, it would be possible to install apps from a controlled source and avoid the crazyness of installing things you download manually on the internet. But... MS did it wrong again.
Linux updates usually take less than a minute, sometimes slightly more. And they don't even use diffs. How come MS never managed to update any file without reindexing your whole hard drive ? (or at least that's the impression I have when I see windows updates)
While I totally agree that this article is jumping from a not-surprising correlation to a totally dubious causation, your proposition to ban such studies is I think a bad idea.
In France, statistics based on ethnicity are banned. The reason is : we don't want statistics to say that e.g. "the majority of men in prisons are of a certain ethnicity", because some idiots may think "Then all people of this ethnicity are robbers/rapers/murderers/...".
The issue with that approach is that you're basically making it illegal to state facts (that happen to be true). So, someone who would do a study to show such facts, and likely conclude that it is hard for immigrants (even from the 60's) to climb the social ladder and have access to good education,... could be fined for "ethnics statistics".
What's even worse is that everyone knows this fact, yet, no politician will ever state it, except the extreme right... and those will be the one jumping to the conclusion that we should kick all the immigrants out. The extreme right supporters will feel that the government is trying to censor/oppress them, making them even more convinced that they are (extremely) right.
Absolutely. And that's especially true if you look at Samsung tablets. The Tab S2 are more expensive and have a far worse screen than the Tab S. What the hell ?
Anyway, that's just a stable market. Tablets are fine, they are useful but they are not replacing laptops as some had predicted and of course, growing is only temporary.
I'm always amazed by some announcing things like "smartphone growth is slowing down !!" like it is the end of smartphones, or like markets could grow exponentially, forever. Some had this impression thanks to emerging markets (china, india) but smartphones, like tablets, are pretty old now, so it's only normal they reach their maximum.
To some effect in fact. Even if the check-in is useless, this story brought more media attention, which can result in more protest, and more chances on the project being abandoned.
While I don't agree with everything, I like that video since it states a fact : human productivity increases and AI is a real game changer, so human needs will likely not follow.
What I also like is that he doesn't try to draw conclusions. The conclusion "hence we need UBI" is missing a lot of details (how do we transition, how do we still keep human productive, will we be able to live without a goal or work ?...).
But yes, we need to invent a new system. Not for tomorrow, but that will arrive quickly enough.
Weak people should be beaten because they're too weak to fight back, those with bad vision should die if they don't see a car coming,... what utter bullshit.
The reason why there are laws is because unlike you, the society recognizes that everybody has strength and weaknesses and that weaknesses should not be a reason for being abused.
You seem to be smart enough to not fall into this trap, but you're an utter idiot when it comes to living with others. No one is perfect.
You seem like the kind of person that advocates for remembering 12 characters random passwords and think anyone who is not capable of that should deserve to be hacked. That gives you a feeling of superiority and must surely feel good, because it tends to rank human on a scale that favors you, and hides all of your weaknesses that others may not have.
I think the society should promote nice, helpful, friendly (though maybe naive) persons against those who take advantage of others weaknesses for their personal gain and ego (just like you).
The problem is that using it only as a thin cover does not improve scratch protection (or very little). Apple is advertising sapphire to make people think it will be really better than glass, but it turns out to be just as good as glass so there is no point in calling that sapphire-grade resistant... which means it is 98% marketing and 2% science.
Not to mention current GPU-based systems. Add 2 characters. Now, how is able to remember a 14 digits random passwords ? No-one. So let's giveup on brute force and just implement attack detection on web interface. The rest is futile.
Absolutely. And since we're not machines, remembering multiple random passwords is just impossible.
Seems like we all understand the situation. Yet, even big companies still enforce password rules of the 90's. What's wrong with them ?
A role or a position is not something you can own. The internet is an international organization thing that doesn't belong to any country. The way it works is decided between the countries, and changing the way it works can be subject to voting or negotiations, but talking about property in this context is either retarded or plainly dishonest.
It can be US based and still not US-centric. It's just that a lot of readers are in the US and tend to forget that there are other countries. And I agree with OP, that's very annoying, even when you live in the US (but happen to have lived in other countries). The fact that proposed articles are written that way is normal, but editors should modify them to be more generic if they want Slashdot to be a general tech web-site.
Since there is only one Slashdot (except slashdot japan), it should not be US-centric. My opinion.
Why ? It brought millions of people to read their propaganda and see how "great" their country is for tourism. Free advertising. Tourism will see a boost in the coming months thanks to that guy.
As for the servers, they're probably OK, since most likely what has been saturated is the link between Korea and the rest of the world, which is not used by NK people anyway.
Indeed, stupid clickbait article... comparing state of the art research to home equipment, comparing technology providers to ISP,... that's ridiculous.
The original article (http://www.zdnet.com/article/here-comes-the-terabit-per-second-network/) was about the next generation of fiber going running at 1TB/s instead of 100GB/s currently. This is used by datacenter, high performance computing... very expensive stuff. The fiber is usually not the problem here, the optic transmitter being the key.
If we're talking about home equipment, this should be about having the current high-end technology (line 10Gb/s or 100Gb/s) becoming cheaper so that it can be deployed to homes or even local hubs.
Indeed, and I guess the comparison was with 512k DSL, which is indeed 1000x faster. Honestly, 56k ? Does that still exist in any country also featuring Fiber ?
"open market" has always been inside a group, and means it is much easier to do business since the rules are the same, hence extending across europe is easy.
If you're outside of that market, then it doesn't mean you cannot enter it, just that you'll have to go through the usual painful process of inter-country rules. And frankly the EU market has historically been easier to enter than the US market. Protectionism is much lower in the EU than in the US.
So EU-to-EU is an open market. EU-to-Others is a controlled market as anything else in this world.
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But seriously, what the hell ? China, like the US never wanted to do any effort about climate, they never cared that much about pollution and global warming. You could say it was invented by Europe, or Japan, but ... China ???
Anyway, it was not invented, it is a reported fact. There is no intent to find here.
Just because you think it is irrelevant doesn't mean there is not a niche market for it, especially for slashdot readers, who sometime log on servers with their phones using SSH.
That fact that you use less data is some kind of discount : you don't have to pay for extra data usage for the rest of your needs.
Don't read the BS article from popularmechanics. They didn't even report the age of the kid right (he was 5, not 4).
The original article (http://www.sudouest.fr/2016/11/06/pau-un-portable-samsung-brule-et-explose-2559368-4344.php, in french) indicates that they just let the phone extinguish itself on the floor and called the firemen, and they intend to sue Samsung since the product was dangerous and could have burnt their kid.
The original article just reports an isolated incident. Then the US shiftnews system took it to another level of BS.
Asking you to vote for someone is illegal. So if someone can ask you to vote for someone, they can as well ask you to take a picture (which is illegal too). Oh, wait, in that case you are in trouble too so you can't even sue your boss later !
That law makes really no sense to me.
Ok, so taking a pictures of a vote is forbidden just because that would allow selling votes ? Am I the only one thinking something is wrong ? Sure, I don't see the point in doing a ballot selfie (as I don't see the point in selfies) but what the heck is this law ?
You should sue the ones who are buying votes. Period. If there are picture of people with their ballot, great, that would make it easier for the police to gather proofs.
Besides, is there any study that shows that making it illegal to take pictures lead to a lower rate of vote selling ??? I'm pretty sure if you want to sell your vote you're already doing something illegal, so taking a picture of it (and not posting it online) will not really change anything.
I had hope when I saw the app store at first. Finally, it would be possible to install apps from a controlled source and avoid the crazyness of installing things you download manually on the internet. But ... MS did it wrong again.
Linux updates usually take less than a minute, sometimes slightly more. And they don't even use diffs. How come MS never managed to update any file without reindexing your whole hard drive ? (or at least that's the impression I have when I see windows updates)
While I totally agree that this article is jumping from a not-surprising correlation to a totally dubious causation, your proposition to ban such studies is I think a bad idea.
In France, statistics based on ethnicity are banned. The reason is : we don't want statistics to say that e.g. "the majority of men in prisons are of a certain ethnicity", because some idiots may think "Then all people of this ethnicity are robbers/rapers/murderers/...".
The issue with that approach is that you're basically making it illegal to state facts (that happen to be true). So, someone who would do a study to show such facts, and likely conclude that it is hard for immigrants (even from the 60's) to climb the social ladder and have access to good education, ... could be fined for "ethnics statistics".
What's even worse is that everyone knows this fact, yet, no politician will ever state it, except the extreme right ... and those will be the one jumping to the conclusion that we should kick all the immigrants out. The extreme right supporters will feel that the government is trying to censor/oppress them, making them even more convinced that they are (extremely) right.
Absolutely. And that's especially true if you look at Samsung tablets. The Tab S2 are more expensive and have a far worse screen than the Tab S. What the hell ?
Anyway, that's just a stable market. Tablets are fine, they are useful but they are not replacing laptops as some had predicted and of course, growing is only temporary.
I'm always amazed by some announcing things like "smartphone growth is slowing down !!" like it is the end of smartphones, or like markets could grow exponentially, forever. Some had this impression thanks to emerging markets (china, india) but smartphones, like tablets, are pretty old now, so it's only normal they reach their maximum.
To some effect in fact. Even if the check-in is useless, this story brought more media attention, which can result in more protest, and more chances on the project being abandoned.
Indeed, I understood the headline as "we're going to empty our bank accounts" (buying another company / taking terrible decisions / ...)
Very important to watch : Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
While I don't agree with everything, I like that video since it states a fact : human productivity increases and AI is a real game changer, so human needs will likely not follow.
What I also like is that he doesn't try to draw conclusions. The conclusion "hence we need UBI" is missing a lot of details (how do we transition, how do we still keep human productive, will we be able to live without a goal or work ? ...).
But yes, we need to invent a new system. Not for tomorrow, but that will arrive quickly enough.
Compose+'+e = é. I don't have a french keyboard yet I can write french. Or german, danish, spanish ....
That seems much more reasonable.
Weak people should be beaten because they're too weak to fight back, those with bad vision should die if they don't see a car coming, ... what utter bullshit.
The reason why there are laws is because unlike you, the society recognizes that everybody has strength and weaknesses and that weaknesses should not be a reason for being abused.
You seem to be smart enough to not fall into this trap, but you're an utter idiot when it comes to living with others. No one is perfect.
You seem like the kind of person that advocates for remembering 12 characters random passwords and think anyone who is not capable of that should deserve to be hacked. That gives you a feeling of superiority and must surely feel good, because it tends to rank human on a scale that favors you, and hides all of your weaknesses that others may not have.
I think the society should promote nice, helpful, friendly (though maybe naive) persons against those who take advantage of others weaknesses for their personal gain and ego (just like you).
The problem is that using it only as a thin cover does not improve scratch protection (or very little). Apple is advertising sapphire to make people think it will be really better than glass, but it turns out to be just as good as glass so there is no point in calling that sapphire-grade resistant ... which means it is 98% marketing and 2% science.
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Not to mention current GPU-based systems. Add 2 characters. Now, how is able to remember a 14 digits random passwords ? No-one. So let's giveup on brute force and just implement attack detection on web interface. The rest is futile.
Absolutely. And since we're not machines, remembering multiple random passwords is just impossible. Seems like we all understand the situation. Yet, even big companies still enforce password rules of the 90's. What's wrong with them ?
A role or a position is not something you can own. The internet is an international organization thing that doesn't belong to any country. The way it works is decided between the countries, and changing the way it works can be subject to voting or negotiations, but talking about property in this context is either retarded or plainly dishonest.
It can be US based and still not US-centric. It's just that a lot of readers are in the US and tend to forget that there are other countries. And I agree with OP, that's very annoying, even when you live in the US (but happen to have lived in other countries). The fact that proposed articles are written that way is normal, but editors should modify them to be more generic if they want Slashdot to be a general tech web-site.
Since there is only one Slashdot (except slashdot japan), it should not be US-centric. My opinion.
Why ? It brought millions of people to read their propaganda and see how "great" their country is for tourism. Free advertising. Tourism will see a boost in the coming months thanks to that guy.
As for the servers, they're probably OK, since most likely what has been saturated is the link between Korea and the rest of the world, which is not used by NK people anyway.
Indeed, stupid clickbait article ... comparing state of the art research to home equipment, comparing technology providers to ISP, ... that's ridiculous.
The original article (http://www.zdnet.com/article/here-comes-the-terabit-per-second-network/) was about the next generation of fiber going running at 1TB/s instead of 100GB/s currently. This is used by datacenter, high performance computing ... very expensive stuff. The fiber is usually not the problem here, the optic transmitter being the key.
If we're talking about home equipment, this should be about having the current high-end technology (line 10Gb/s or 100Gb/s) becoming cheaper so that it can be deployed to homes or even local hubs.
Indeed, and I guess the comparison was with 512k DSL, which is indeed 1000x faster. Honestly, 56k ? Does that still exist in any country also featuring Fiber ?
"open market" has always been inside a group, and means it is much easier to do business since the rules are the same, hence extending across europe is easy.
If you're outside of that market, then it doesn't mean you cannot enter it, just that you'll have to go through the usual painful process of inter-country rules. And frankly the EU market has historically been easier to enter than the US market. Protectionism is much lower in the EU than in the US.
So EU-to-EU is an open market. EU-to-Others is a controlled market as anything else in this world.