I am as stunned as you are. How many other localized
Sadly I don't read any Japanese at all.
Nor do I, but Chrome obliged, and soon enough I verified that it is Slashdot and definitely Japanese.
article headline: You can determine the "taste", "smell" computer years, 5 IBM?
subject: I M chairman of Japan
comment: It is not to be arrested for sample the smell of women's underwear in the train.
I know.
I can't really see the benefit of Windows 8 over 7 at the moment though so I'm considering going back.
Then conversely I assume you can't see the benefit of Windows 7 over 8. So why bother reinstalling Windows 7?
The fact that 8 moves stuff around means you have to learn where things are.
MS seems to alternate between good and bad releases: 3.1 was, for its technology, quite solid, 95 was buggy as all hell, 98 was quite good, then ME was a mess. Similarly, NT 4 kinda sucked, then 2000 was very good, XP just added ugly window dressing, Vista was a nightmare, then 7 was quite good, and it seems like 8 is a mess.
Thanks for pointing out a minor bug in my project design. The answer, of course, is it doesn't matter. If a "tech" site is getting flooded with unemployed journalism grads posting stereotypical political talking points who cares if they're being paid or not, block the fools.
AstroturfBlock would be exactly like how I don't care if an ad account is in collections with the middlemen, or its a donation, or whatever, I just want adblock to block ads.
Okay, fair enough. The major bug, then, is that astroturf works because people buy it. Like all the fake shit *constantly* going around Facebook.
You're trying to solve the troll problem: blocking the troll is easy peasy, it's blocking all the assholes who feed the troll that's the problem.
Okay, granted, "deny: *.facebook.com", but there are a lot of false positives there.
I just had a sudden thought. A brainwave!
I am going to start writing articles with headlines like "What is the average height of giraffes?" Answer: No. "How much do you plan to eat of the holidays?" Answer: No
I shall be rich!
Can't wait for the German edition. "Should I vear lederhosen or bundhosen? NEIN! Vill ve invade Russia or Poland? NEIN! Do you prefer Strauss or Wagner? NEIN!"
This would have been a lot more fun about two months ago to detect paid political astroturfers.
The ultimate AI-ish application would be an astroturfer plugin for chrome probably called "AstroturfBlock". So the site is a "tech" site, the contents are pure politics, and the text analysis system indicates an unemployed liberal arts degree holder... Go ahead and block it.
How is it going to detect whether people were paid to write something?
"Isn't the Senate Democratic now?"
The Republicans effectively control the Senate and will continue to do so until either of the following happens: 1. The Democrats have 60 Senators (excluding Blue Dog Democrats) or 2. The filibuster is reformed to require actual filibustering instead of the mere threat of filibustering.
You can't filibuster a budget resolution, only a simple majority is required. That's the big lie the Dems keep pushing to avoid taking responsibility for not passing a budget. They don't want to pass one because if they do, they either have to take responsibility for the ballooning deficit *or* for cutting handouts to their constituencies.
FTFA:
Stokols believes this service will disrupt others such as FON, another free Wi-Fi startup. That’s because FON cuts deals with large telecommunications providers such as BT, while FreedomPop doesn’t need to. FON users do not share the majority of their access, because they are home users where others in residential areas do not need access as much, he says.
First, the military, the police and the courts literally provide no value. (And don't tell me, "I bet you wouldn't say that to a soldier" because I am a veteran.) What they do is prevent destructive behavior through greater destruction. It's necessary for a free society to exist, but you and I aren't better off because someone else is wasting away in jail, we'd be better off if they had never committed the crime. Wars do *not* generate wealth, that's the Broken Window Fallacy.
So, which 98% of the government would you scrap?
Ah, the faux-Libertarian argument.
66% of the spending (Table 11.1) is not roads military and police, it is transferring wealth, literally writing checks to individuals. People think that politicians are bought, but really, politicians have been buying voters over the years.
Now while that has grown (as a % of GDP) from 2% to 66% over the years, and look at table 15.1 from the same. Government receipts have stayed steady as a % of GDP; even when the nation was united in WWII we were not able to significantly increase receipts to cover our spending.
The reality is that we have a crisis of spending too much. Our interest payments are continuing to increase, and if we fully lose our AAA rating, our government will stop providing all the services you value so much. We will spend all our money on interest payments, instead.
So if you believe in an active government that will continue to provide services, you should support efforts to balance the budget by cutting these programs.
So true. High-frequency trading should be made illegal, like most things which just extract money from others without providing value in return.
I doubt the government is going to make 98% of itself illegal.
Always good to be reassured that the market reflects the intrinsic value of the companies instead of behaving as a high-tech casino.
There is a reason why people who need numbers that are provably random, compute a hash value of stock indexes. Wall Street has build the world's most sophisticated (P)RNG.
Cite please. And if the cite says "we use the least significant digit of stock prices", I'm calling you full of shit.
By the way, I spoke to a trader who writes these algorithms.
She (yeah, she) told me that she thought it was evil, but she is paid too well to say anything. She seriously makes a half million USD per year AND has a private account in the trading system that returns 3% PER DAY.
Yikes.
You're making that up.
all other years being private schooled.
Attending a private school does not mean you're wealthy. There are plenty of private schools full of children from low and middle class families.
Oh yeah, from all walks of life. For instance, in Chicago, almost 40% of public school teachers send their kids to private schools. What it comes down to is they're just trying to get a decent education for their children.
Hotair.com aka mouthpiece of the most delusional of fringe republicans.
They're simply quoting the Fordham institute's study, of course. But when you have no facts to fall back on, I guess accusing everyone else of being "delusional" is the best you can do.
all other years being private schooled.
Attending a private school does not mean you're wealthy. There are plenty of private schools full of children from low and middle class families.
Oh yeah, from all walks of life. For instance, in Chicago, almost 40% of public school teachers send their kids to private schools. What it comes down to is they're just trying to get a decent education for their children.
Due credit that XKCD touched on the topic, but I actually have a cogent explanation of why it makes sense. And I'd go on about how you should think for yourself, but I had the satisfaction of modding someone else redundant when they posted a link and a blurb.
What an incredibly good idea. Here's hoping one of them does. An enormous illegal expansion of the number of TOR exit nodes would be fascinating. And possibly fantastic. Even if it is stolen resources. It would probably last a very long time, too, given that typical botnet infestations can go for years without being removed.
I would imagine they'd use a protocol that allowed them to charge for transmission. If that's not feasible, it's probably why we haven't seen it yet.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
