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Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Informative) 71

Only someone who listens to Fox News all the time would believe that nonsense. The idea of "woke" is to be aware of what is happening, instead of being asleep and blind to the reality out there. Racism in many places where those with darker skin are deprived of their rights or abused, violating their constitutional rights as citizens for example. Only someone delusional would think that racism isn't still a problem in many places. That's what "woke" is about, not ignoring that there are injustices that are happening.

If you are upset about LGBT+, well, do you feel that men should be able to have their own preference in women who are blondes, brunettes, redheads, shorter, taller, different body types? How about women having the right to prefer men with a different build, skin tone, etc, are you against THAT? So, people should also have their own preference when it comes to sexuality, like it or not, it's the same exact thing, personal preference in who they are attracted to. Or, do you feel that everyone should have the exact same preferences?

Comment Cookie storage is a file system (Score 1) 110

My browser should have zero knowledge of what a filesystem is.

If your web browser didn't store a session identifier in a small file called a cookie, how would Slashdot's server know that you're logged in as ArchieBunker (132337)? Otherwise, I'm not sure where you've mentally drawn a line between cookie storage and "a filesystem" proper.

Comment How about they go after friends of Trump? (Score 5, Insightful) 43

How much money was "won" by friends of Donald Trump who bet on when Trump would do this or that? How about those who conveniently timed stock trades perfectly with announcements by Trump that would cause the overall stock market to go up or down?

Now, bets on who would be the most searched for...when was the bet placed, just before the information came out, or a year ago where it would require search/advertisement manipulation to have working at Google provide any sort of extra tip information where it would be against the rules?

Comment Re:Vizio is throwing away a great opportunity (Score 1) 66

Imagine if Vizio were to become the first pro-consumer TV.

The MPA member movie studios would probably withdraw their respective streaming services from Vizio's platform on grounds that a user-modifiable free operating system fails to satisfy the "compliance and robustness" rules of whatever digital restrictions management protocol they use.

Comment I doubt most home users have heard of HTPC (Score 2) 66

Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it.

First, the user needs to know that "a cheap little computer" exists and can be connected to a TV. Walmart and Best Buy haven't been doing a good job of marketing these to the public. Second, the user needs the spare time to learn to administer yet another computer. Third, the user needs to be satisfied with some services limiting streams to 480p because a desktop computer running Linux and Firefox has a low "integrity level" in Widevine.

Comment A key factor in this.... (Score 1) 132

Many kids in school don't like being forced to just memorize things, so giving them APPLICATIONS of what they are learning is key. I was always the one who would ask "why?", which annoyed my parents and teachers, but in the end, illustrates how to break through. Applications of the things the children are expected to learn.

For English, when a student used poor language skills, challenge them, "what do you mean? Do you really expect anyone besides you and your close friends to understand what you are talking about?" There are many uses for mathematics that goes beyond just, "solve this direct problem", make the students really apply the things from math class to solving things, and give them the sense that figuring out the solution is actually rewarding(it wasn't an obvious thing, it required thinking through the problem to come up with the right formula to use to solve it).

The old era of "memorize, memorize, memorize" as a way to get through tests is dead. You don't want to make it easy to use computers/AI to do well on tests, so the way around that is to make it so students need to really understand the questions/problems in order to use computers/AI to come up with the solutions.

Comment Re:Captains of industry (Score 1) 26

There are fundamental issues with the way AI is being promoted and used by companies that cause significant concerns. Using AI as a tool makes sense, but because AI does not have a fundamental ability to test itself and the results it generates, you should not automatically trust what comes from AI. Things like "AI hallucinations", where AI gives things like legal cases that do not exist as an argument for a legal brief are documented. The structure of software written by AI may also defy the ability to fix problems in the code generated. If the code generated by AI can't have bugs fixed because the code isn't well designed/structured, that's a BIG problem.

And then, there is the "over-promise" of AI...yea, AI can be used to eliminate human jobs, before the actual quality of what AI is doing has been verified. This would be like taking a group of high school graduates, giving them jobs, but then, not having experienced people monitoring what those recent high school graduates were doing, or correcting "bad behaviors".

Again, AI has potential, but is too new to be trusted at this point to be a full replacement for human employees. As a tool for employees, hey, it's all good, but those employees should also do a verification that what the AI came up with is accurate.

Comment Re:Wow. People who don't have to work live longer. (Score 1) 81

No, they are not "kept from art", but physical and mental exhaustion caused by a difficult life can cause people to lose their desire to just look at art. When life beats you down, some people who are naturally artistic will go to art as a refuge. For the rest of us, we look to activities we find entertaining, and that often involves either DOING things, or watching others do things.

Now, I'm not suggesting you are MAGA, you actually have a good argument. Culturally though, we are at a point where those going through difficult times will have the majority looking to activities. There's a reason the masses would go to watch people being thrown to the lions or in gladiator combat, or sports. Some are just "wired" to more physical activities. Now, make them climb a rock wall to see the art, and that might work to serve both sides.

Comment Re:Wow. People who don't have to work live longer. (Score 1) 81

Be that as it may, it really does come down to the wealthy having advantages in the USA that would cause a longer lifespan, and that includes not having access to decent healthcare options(short of emergency services) for those who are at the lower end of the economic spectrum. For many, it ends up being an issue of the culture where many have been raised not to go to a doctor when they are not feeling well due to the economic situation their family was in, or even their parents who were raised not to seek medical care.

Those who "come from money" will often be raised to seek medical care sooner than those who come from the lower end of the economic sectrum due to how they were raised. Call it class warfare, but that's life in the USA.

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