Comment Anonymous posting (Score -1, Offtopic) 9
Is there not going to be an official venue for discussing the suspension of anonymous posting?
Management can't stomach it?
I think it's plain to see who the real cowards are.
Comment Slashdot disables anonymous posting? (Score 1) 43
Or is it just me?
Comment Re: How is it harmful? (Score 1) 84
What blows my mind is that YouTube provides absolutely no affordance for telling it that you don't want to see ANY videos from a particular channel. Unless I'm missing something, the best you can do (apart from user scripts) is to tell YouTube to remove any PARTICULAR videos from the channel that appear in the recommended list, then click "Tell us why" and say that you didn't like it.
Blocking on social media is a pretty important function, and YouTube is social media.
Comment What was the adverse event? (Score 1) 85
I don't recall any news source mentioning in any blurbs exactly what the adverse event was. As long as they don't identify the patient surely it's not confidential...
Comment Re:Cockpits? (Score 1) 187
I remember when Slashdot editors were technical people. Those were the good old days.
Comment Re:Why the delay? (Score 2) 39
The security researcher should have exploited the bug to send embarrassing company-wide messages posing as the CEO.
That might have spurred them into action without the need to make the details public.
Comment Precautionary principle (Score 1) 170
If the precautionary principle doesn't apply to newly discovered diseases, when exactly does it apply? Or do you believe the precautionary principle is an idea with no merit?
If 2 years from now a new respiratory illness was detected in China, do you think governments would keep their borders open (including to travellers coming from the affected area) UNTIL IT HAD BEEN PROVEN that the disease was highly contagious, was transmitted by asymptomatic carriers, and had substantially greater lethality than the seasonal flu? Or do you think they might close their borders right away, UNTIL IT HAD BEEN PROVEN that the disease could be contained?
A Year After an HR Crisis, Microsoft Backs Away From Releasing a Transparency Report (medium.com) 42
An anonymous reader shares a report: On March 20, 2019, a Microsoft employee who had been at the company for three years sent an email to a collection of listservs for women at the company, asking how to move up in the organization. She had worked for years without a promotion, and said that her career had been limited because she was a woman. It was a spark to a tinderbox. In the next few days, dozens and dozens of other women replied to the message, each sharing frustration and stories of discrimination and harassment at the company. Some said they had been subject to overt abuse, like being called a "bitch" during business functions, and others said they had been sexually harassed with no ramifications to the harassers. Microsoft's top executives, including CEO Satya Nadella and top Human Resources (HR) exec Kathleen Hogan, were quickly CC'd on the chain. "This thread has pulled the scab off a festering wound. The collective anger and frustration is palpable. A wide audience is now listening. And you know what? I'm good with that," a Microsoft employee wrote in the email chain at the time.
On April 15, 2019, Nadella responded with an email to the entire company, promising reforms to HR that would better serve employees, as well as an annual transparency report that would tell employees how many cases were investigated and how they were resolved. More than a year later, Microsoft has not released this transparency report, and a company spokesperson would not commit to Microsoft doing so when directly asked by OneZero. It's also unclear how much better life is for employees who have faced discrimination and harassment. Five former and current employees who have interacted with Microsoft's human resources department in the last year say there hasn't been a noticeable difference in the way cases have been handled since last March. Two of the former employees left the company during the last year, and told OneZero that a lack of HR action was a primary reason for leaving.
On April 15, 2019, Nadella responded with an email to the entire company, promising reforms to HR that would better serve employees, as well as an annual transparency report that would tell employees how many cases were investigated and how they were resolved. More than a year later, Microsoft has not released this transparency report, and a company spokesperson would not commit to Microsoft doing so when directly asked by OneZero. It's also unclear how much better life is for employees who have faced discrimination and harassment. Five former and current employees who have interacted with Microsoft's human resources department in the last year say there hasn't been a noticeable difference in the way cases have been handled since last March. Two of the former employees left the company during the last year, and told OneZero that a lack of HR action was a primary reason for leaving.
Comment Re: The same experts? (Score 1) 55
Haha, quite the zinger! Well done!
Comment The same experts? (Score -1) 55
There is no evidence of a novel virus outbreak in Wuhan.
There is no evidence of human to human transmission.
There is no evidence of asymptomatic transmission.
There is no evidence that you should wear a mask.
There is no evidence of aerosol transmission.
There is no evidence of reinfection. <-- YOU ARE HERE
Microsoft Brings Procmon To Linux (betanews.com) 86
ProcMon for Linux is Microsoft's newest open-source Linux software. ProcMon is a rewritten and re-imagined version of its Processor Monitor found on Windows within their Sysinternals suite. From a report: Microsoft explains, "The Procmon is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system."
Comment Laughing Out Loud (Score 1) 252
Let's review the recent proclamations of your precious WHO, which totally isn't playing this down to help the Chinese Communist Party save face:
"There's no evidence of a novel infectious disease in Wuhan, no need to worry."
"There's no evidence of human to human transmission, no need to worry."
"There's no evidence of asymptomatic transmission, no need to worry."
"There's no evidence that wearing a face covering helps prevent infection, no need to bother with one."
"There's no evidence of aerosol transmission, no need to worry." --- you are here (not for long)
Comment Re:It is done, put a fork in it (Score 2) 62
Why not ask actual Hong Kongers whether THEY think the current developments are a good thing or a bad thing? (You might want to refer to their most recent election results.)
Are you just pretending to be autistic, or is this a real struggle for you every day?
Comment KDE is point and click only? (Score 1) 117
As someone who's only used Window Maker, GNOME 2, and now xfce extensively, is it really the case that KDE doesn't have an affordance for minimize / maximize / close functionality via keyboard shortcuts?
Comment No digital freedom of speech? (Score 3, Insightful) 100
Suppose that you have an opinion that the owners of media platforms don't want to distribute.
Suppose that every media platform bans you from using their privately owned service.
Suppose that even if you set out to build your own media platform, no hosting provider agrees to host it using their privately owned facilities.
Suppose that if you host your own media platform, no ISP agrees to connect your platform to the internet using their privately owned infrastructure.
Come to the realization that the internet is privately owned.
Your freedom of speech has now been reduced to how far your voice carries from the top of a soap box in the town square. Are you ok with this?
