everything is controversial to idiots because they lack the faculties to determine fact from fiction.

Hes low UID as well so he could be going senile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet

Malls, airports, tourist destinations. Everyone is tracking people with their cell phones these days.

Not really news at this point. If people carry a beacon that broadcasts a unique ID everywhere they go, companies would be stupid not to take advantage of that.

I have seen the analytics and they can analyze what you are looking at on their wifi in the store (Obviously), people who just walk by and dont connect to the wifi even, and make guesses as to why they didnt come in the store. There are databases out there that cell phone users are in and its trivial to connect a mac address to an actual person. The databases are live now, and people are selling access to them.

There is a huge money and huge push to do this, i regularly get sales calls trying to sell me these kinds of services. Its not some far away fantasy but has been live in production for years.

Thats funny, because the opposite problem happens here. the windows photo (metro) application is one of the only ones to support exif rotation, so people view the file on their win10 machine, it looks correct and then get all upset when some other software is always "rotating" it.

I just had to explain exif data to someone this week and they really did not understand it at all.

I have always thought it a stupid mac problem, but with more and more pictures being taken on phones, and i assume all phones now have these tags, everything should support them. People are simply too dumb to rotate photos themselves.

"Well, millions and millions of young idealists even here in the US are clamoring for an authoritarian socialist nanny state."

Every country has "socialist" policies. You know how you pay taxes? SOCIALISM!

As for authoritarian, america and china both are ruled currently by people that think they can do or say anything they like, and who think that they are immune to the rule of law.

You sold your soul to your republican autocrats so you can "go to the range" with your penis extender to make yourself feel manly, comforted and safe. Most americans are fearful of their fellow citizens and welcome totalitarianism, as long as they don't take your guns away. And so long as the authoritarian policies are directed at people who don't look or act like you do.

If you do this, what the fuck is the point of installing windows 10? You are disabling updates and windows services, guaranteeing that the user will have all sorts of broken shit. If you know what you are doing, you would know how interdependent all the parts of windows are. Even those stupid appx packages, most people know better than to remove them as future updates will fail with mysterious error codes. Now you have disabled updates with another command so perhaps you wont notice.

Plus installing a bunch of third party tools to replace basic windows functions, man i really hope you dont service computers for a living and have done this to anyone elses PC. I would pity the poor tech who next works on it, because they would have to blow it all away and start from scratch to fix this mess you are creating.

Basically, if you are going to this extent to "fix" windows, why not just run windows 7 forever or install linux? In either case you are no worse off, and you didn't end up with a horribly broken OS that's bound to fail down the line from all this crazy shit you did.

Disclaimer is that i hate windows 10, but have been supporting it for 5 years so I know how stupid your advice is. Just stay on windows 7 FFS or upgrade to linux. either solution is much less error prone than the mess you have caused.

You probably don't remember seeing your high UID, but in 2001 i first learned about the plane hitting the twin towers in new york from the radio on the way to work, and assumed it was a small commuter plane. Then when i got to work, the slashdot article dropped and thats where i learned the true extent of it.

So this isn't like a new thing. Look back in slashdot history. The iraq war being announced, plenty of bush articles after he got elected, etc.

slashdot has always had a political component with the news. Its the second half of the tagline "stuff that matters". I have read about every american election since the late 90s on slashdot... get over it.

So back a few years ago there was an amazing product which was an SD card with a wifi chip. So your camera could upload files directly somewhere, a fileshare, a cloud service, whatever.

Worked great for a few years. Then suddenly they decided that they would no longer support the cloud platform that you used to register the card. The card worked fine, the software to manage it was local, but for some reason to register the card you needed a web service that they discontinued.

People freaked the fuck out. Some people had only just purchased the card months before they made the announcement. They dialed it back, and maybe allowed people who were currently registered to continue using it, but the damage was done. No one would trust any new product from the company after that. This killed the company. And while their website is still active, i dont think they have updated it since 2016.

I assume a similar thing will happen here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

" so it's best to keep an assortment to recover old but important data."

This is a ludicrous position. Any floppys still around should have been digitized at the beginning of the century, like 15 years ago. I refuse to believe that in 2019 anyone has anything on a floppy of any value. even back in the late 90s, anything important would never have been written to a floppy. They were written to kodak gold cds.

Floppies were garbage. Constantly got corrupted or squished. Didnt read well at the best of times. NO one should be nostalgic for the floppy disk! As soon as you could boot off of USB reliably, most people dropped floppies completely.

I think you missed the point. The prime directive isn't just some rule. The purpose is that by helping, sometimes it ends up a worse outcome down the line.

Its a rule of non interference to promote the development of other cultures. The philosophy is that we don't necessarily "know whats best" for others. That just because starfleet as a culture, believe in a philosophy, doesnt mean its universal. There is no such thing as a universal belief that applies to everyone, and they have smartly realized this in the 24th century.

What if you go and save that race that is being killed by the volcano and then 2000 years later they become an evil empire that murders all their close stelar neighbours. Its the same exact logic as not fucking with the timeline in time travel fiction. You can't possibly understand all the variables so its better to not fuck with it and just leave people to develop on their own.

What if some aliens diverted the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? I think we would be pretty pissed at not existing.

Anyway just watch the show. This comes up at least once a season in most of the series. With nice concrete example scenarios. Its a pretty big plot device.

" We have to process a lot of vegetables to be able to extract any nutrition because our guts aren't up to the task."

Are you denying the existence of healthy vegetarians? there are plenty of ways to get protein from plant based sources (chickpeas, beans, lentils, tofu, etc).

No one has to eat meat. It is not *required* to live as you seem to be implying.

Infact, going forward a hundred years, there will most likely not be any sort of meat farming period. Its simply too expensive and unsustainable.There will be lab meat and probably expensive artisan beef, but no more factory farms.

There is a great documentary about how much damage a meat based diet does to people. its called forks over knives

"even our own one tries to kill us every day."

That's kind of a backwards way to look at the only place in the universe where life arose, and the ecosystem that provides literally everything to keep every human (and every other creature) alive.

Thats a really 19th century european attitude, that humanity is against nature. If you look at first nations philosophies, we are meant to be at one with nature, as our one and only mother and source of all known life in the universe.

If providing all the building blocks for life, and then symbiotically nurturing all the different forms of life in harmony is not "life friendly" i dont know what is.

Humans on the other hand, are definitely not "life friendly" the way we have been running society as a for profit enterprise, at the expense of everything else.

If you read the article, you will see thats its mostly internet trolls he was not prepared to deal with. Probably he had a lot of personal info online so that people could contact him, which invites abuse. He was also a rich guy, who probably never had to interact with the worst parts of public, like working retail, so had no skills to deal with that abuse.

The malasian government also just wants the whole thing to go away, so there are some state actors that want him to give up as well.

But its probably mostly internet trolls which lets face it, will do anything for any stupid reason you can think of (boredom for instance) or to be part of a larger story in some small way. I doubt its a grand conspiracy.

MH-370 TLDR, the pilot likely suicided the plane in a weird way due to his family problems. They could have found the plane if the Malaysian government wasn't horribly corrupt and incompetent. He was an expert pilot, who practiced a no fuel scenario, in a flight simulator, headed for antarctica, sometime before the event happened.

Was a good article that should bring closure to the mystery, but probably wont as there is no plane to find.

I was just reading this article about a company called psy-group that has this exact service for hire. They create fake profiles to infiltrate organizations of all types. Mostly ran by former mossad agents.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire

I always find it funny that every conspiracy theory has the isralies pulling the worlds strings, and then you read an article like this and think, you are not doing your country any favours guys! reinforcing stereotypes and whatnot.

"Initially, Psy-Group hoped to make money by investigating jihadi networks, much as Terrogence did. In an early test of concept, a Psy-Group operative created a Facebook account for an avatar named Madison. Burstienâ(TM)s idea was to use Madison as a virtual honey trap. The avatarâ(TM)s Facebook page depicted Madison as an average American teen-ager from a Christian family in Chicago. She was a fan of Justin Bieber, and after graduating from high school she took a job at a souvenir shop. She posted Facebook messages about religion and expressed interest in learning more about Islam. Eventually, a Facebook member from Casablanca introduced Madison online to two imams at Moroccan mosques, one of whom offered to guide her through the process of becoming a Muslim.

Madisonâ(TM)s conversion was conducted through Skype. The call required a female Psy-Group employee to bring Madison to life briefly and chant the Shahada, a profession of faith, from a desk in the companyâ(TM)s offices. âoeFinally! Iâ(TM)m a Muslim,â Madison wrote on Facebook. âoeI feel at home.â She added a smiley-face emoticon.

After her conversion, Madison began to come into contact with Facebook members who espoused more radical beliefs. One of her new friends was an ISIS fighter in Raqqa, Syria, who encouraged her to become an ISIS bride. At that point, Burstien decided to end the operation, which, he felt, had demonstrated the companyâ(TM)s ability to create convincing âoedeepâ avatars. Not long afterward, he sent representatives to pitch State Department officials on an influence campaign, âoemodeled on the successful âMadisonâ(TM) engagement,â that would âoeinterrupt the radicalization and recruitment chain.â The State Department never acted on the proposal."

Yeah well i went and found my account credentials and logged in hoping to pick up a cheap blade runner umbrella, or some WTF mugs to replace my old faded one, or even an NPC shirt...

None of those items are available. So i can see that things have obviously changed. I went through pages of items and what wasn't sold out, there was nothing i would want for even half off the price listed. Its all just tchotchkes and not functional items. Sure they have shirts still but the designs weren't as great as they were before. Sad. I think the last time i made a purchase was around 2007 though, so i guess its not surprising. They were always a bit on the expensive side, but they had unique stuff. I had the bladerunner umbrella for years before it snapped in half due to internal corrosion. Always got lots of compliments.

the japanese had already surrendered. There was no need to drop the bombs on japan. It was simply to scare the soviets. This is FACT in every country but the USA. Saying lives were saved by dropping nuclear bombs is the height of american arrogance. It was a horrible war crime perpetrated on civilians that the usa has never really owned up to in full.