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These well-paid agent provocateurs are dedicated to destroying the value of the Internet as an organizing and political tool.
Cool! Where do I sign up?
These well-paid agent provocateurs are dedicated to destroying the value of the Internet as an organizing and political tool.
Cool! Where do I sign up?
The fossil fuel industry, its trade associations and the conservative policy institutes that often do the industry's dirty work met at the Washington office of the American Petroleum Institute. A memo from that meeting that was leaked to the New York Times documented their plans for a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign to undermine climate science and to raise "questions among those (e.g. Congress) who chart the future U.S. course on global climate change."
Gee, industry skeptics of global warming wish to use their first amendment rights to debate the issue! How dare they! Worse, they might use money to finance their effort!
As noted at the first link, the idea that any disagreement with global warming advocacy should be criminalized is not a new thing, and has increasingly been advocated by that leftwing community. The Whitehouse is now tying this to the criminalization of the use of money to express that disagreement. This is nothing more than a fascist attempt at squelching freedom.
June of 1997? Ain't that about the time bill gates started giving away free coffee cup holders? That's probably why lost it. You were excited about the gifts.
why the F*ck do u need 10g @ home??
VNC/remote desktop running at 4k resolution and 60 Hz refresh rate?
I didn't think to mention it in my previous post, but a dual-socket AMD Opteron 63xx system might be a reasonable alternative. Opterons appear to be significantly cheaper than Xeons (and in some cases, cheaper than I7s), to the point that you could get a 16-24 core AMD system for close to the same price as a high-end i7 (let alone a Xeon). I have no idea which would win on the benchmarks, though.
By the way, what sort of open-source GIS tools do you use? I occasionally find myself wanting to do GIS-related stuff, but I don't know where to start.
Frankly put, I'm unaware of "American organized political trolling" that rivals this.
Americans are quick to believe the Official Narrative, no matter how absurd. Mass media is the professional 'troll' that gets people to fight each here.
Again, you're conflating two things that are significant enough that I don't see a simple one-to-one comparison here.
The clear difference here is that the trolls in the article are a nebulous entity whereas the media trolls are not. I know to laugh at Glenn Beck and Katie Couric. I know who they are. I recognize their blubbering stupid talking heads. They're a trainwreck of lies and half truths. On the other hand, you can't stop google from returning search results that confirm what you're looking for. When it's a "trending hastag" on Twitter, you can't figure out if it's legit or not. How do I know that podonski432 on Twitter is the same individual on Youtube named ashirefort posting videos of an explosion is the same person retweeting podonski432 and adding ashirefort's video to their tweet?
Mass media doesn't employ subterfuge and I sure as hell can stop reading the New York Post & Washington Times & CNSNews & Huffington Post and all that other drivel. I can't, however, identify easily that this account on Twitter is just the new troll account that tricked me last time.
You do know that it's news if the New York Times is caught lying or spreading known falsities, right? I watched Jon Stewart hold a "reporters" feet to the WMD fire on one of his recent episodes. There's no self-policing mechanism like that among trolls.
I dread having to constantly explain to non computer savvy people that, yes that connector is a USB connector and your computer has USB ports, but that is a thunderbolt device and your computer doesn't support thunderbolt.
And I look forward to getting a bunch of stuff at yard sales and flea markets that "doesn't work" for basically free.
It's just about time to drag the American organized political trolling on sites like reddit, twitter, and tumblr into the open too, right?
Well, astroturfing is no new tactic but
You have one entity orchestrating the 12 hours a day work of 400 individuals on topics that are pro-Russian and tangentially pro-Russian. They are sophisticated enough to "hit play" at a certain time to unfold a natural disaster or assassination or anything to destabilize/confuse a region and they do so over many accounts on multiple social media platforms. They create video, screenshots, websites, etc. And they use proxies and sufficiently sophisticated means to appear to be disjoint at first glance.
They appear to have run an exercise on a rubber plant explosion in Louisiana for no other discernible purpose than to test out their new super powers or demonstrate their abilities to their customers/leaders.
Frankly put, I'm unaware of "American organized political trolling" that rivals this. This is paid. This is tightly controlled. This is prepared. This is unified. American organized political trolling is just a run-of-the-mill monkey shitfight with the occasional Koch Bros/Soros website (usually easily sourceable) thrown in.
Now if you can point me to a faked ISIS attack on American soil right before an election that was done by some political group stateside, I'd be interested to hear about it.
America really needs to stop thinking of itself as a free society with a legal system which isn't about political persecution instead of actual facts.
Well yes, yes it does. That's the only way people will get mad enough to demand change... so we can "have nice things". Like a functioning justice system. Or at least, functioning in a way that benefits the citizenry.
Putting it at the top of the page forces me to look at the same (effectively a) story over and over until it changes.
It forces you? Man, if you don't learn to ignore things you don't want to look at on the internet, you're gonna have a bad time. How many times do you look at the Slashdot front page in a day, anyway? I mean, I have the same illness, but if it offended my eyeballs I just wouldn't do that.
Do you? Because he wasn't convicted of that, and the charges were dropped.
Do you debate that it happened?
Are you suggesting you should sentence people based on the things you didn't charge them with and didn't prove?
One felony at a time. It's not just a good idea, it's common fucking sense.
A poll is not a news story and shouldn't be in the news feed. Please put it back in the sidebar where it belongs.
Slashdot is no longer either "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters", as evinced by the front page. What the front page tells us about Slashdot by making declarative, self-referential statements is the following:
So just to be clear, the front page is not a "news feed", because Slashdot is not a news site. Slashdot is a blog with integrated forum, with stories on the front page. They could call it "news", because Fox News went to court for the very important journalistic right (</snark>) to call anything they want by that name, but they don't. I find that, at least, refreshingly honest.
Feel free to rant on about how polls don't belong in the feed, but don't get it twisted — Slashdot is not a news outlet. Don't expect them to behave by "old media" rules.
They're already making money doing what they do now. If they let other people work out the bugs, then they can implement whatever technology turns out to mature most rapidly or most fully or most cheaply, whatever makes the spreadsheets come out at the time
Moto G is most definitely not water resistant
LG's hardware is pretty good
Which? I've a bit of it, all crap so far. Dumbphones, smartphones, optical drives... I think there's been a display in there even.
So I am unsure what version exactly are you using, the old one or the one from gnome 3 or yet another fork that I am unaware?
Probably the old one, let me check. Hmm, no, looks like the gnome 3 one. Why is nemo better? I have barely used that box since the build.
"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." -- The Godfather
