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Comment Re: Google should use Application Bundles! (Score 2) 91

I was making a comparison between something a windows developer would understand and a mac developer would understand I was in no way trying to say they are the same thing but comparing different technologies which work in similar ways. My main point was to show two instances where you click on a folder and an something happens where you did not click on the executable directly.

Comment Google should use Application Bundles! (Score 5, Informative) 91

Googles Response was why turn off system integrity. My response why is your software modifying the file system outside your applications bundle and the users setting folder. One of the things I like about OS X is you don't have to modify the registry or even run an installer. All you normally have to do is drag the applications bundle to the application folder, which is how commercial software on the Mac should install. To Non Mac programmers the application bundle is a special folder that ends in .app. When you click the folder there is a script which is kind of like the autostart that you used to find on Windows CD DVD that in Windows usually launched an installer. In this case the script launches the application which is usually hidden in the application bundle folder. If you want to learn more about bundles I would look at Nextstep and it's Afterstep for a simple explanation, Apple took this from the Next Computer when Apple bought Next after Apple re-hired Steve jobs who started Next computer.

Comment LGBT are not wanted in Trades in Canada or United (Score 1) 578

LGBT are not wanted in Trades in Canada or United States. I am Transgender and hopefully this fall I am going to College for some type of Engineering. I would love to work as a Mechanic in fact after I left trade school I learned from one of the old Masters how to fix cars. I tried to join the IBEW to become an electrician and my car was run off the road, and I was told to "fuck off faggot or the next time we will kill you." If you are wondering why I did not go to the police after that. the reason is simple I had had my brake lines on my car cut and when I called the police I was told your a fag wearing a dress what do you expect.

Canada and the United States hate queers, it was getting better, but under Trump and Pence it is getting worse. Even here in Canada Trump's and Pence's Anti-LBGT rhetoric is having an effect. I f you are LGBT your best hope is in medicine, trades are to be avoided as even if you get a job you will be accident-ed in less than three months.

Comment Re: It Worked Flawlessly (Score 1) 572

But why would a troll teach an A.I. to be a Nazi unless there was some inclination towards that viewpoint by the troll. If I was messing with it I would have it talking about internet tubes and quoting Sarah Palin speech that was quoted word for word by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey. I also believe that the A.I. would have listened to more than one person in order to learn this behavior. I have a friend who is a research psychologist who uses lisp to study and create A.I. and based on his work I would find it hard to believe that anyone would allow a not to learn from a small sample group

Comment It Worked Flawlessly (Score 3, Interesting) 572

It Worked Flawlessly. This Robot was designed to learn and adapt to it's audience, which it did. What happened is that the majority of Americans and Canadians are over sexed, racist neo-nazis. The Robot like most Americans and Canadians learned it's behavior from it's peers, and adapted it personality and beliefs accordingly. Microsoft should try to use this AI in other languages in other countries like France and Sweden and compare the results to the what happened when American and Canadian people used it. The Difference will show it is a problem of cultures and not an AI issue with the Microsoft AI Robot.

Comment Apple is a Snobby, Greedy, Self Absorbed Culture (Score 0) 551

Apple Computer and its followers are snobs and are really unfriendly toward earth. Keep buying new stuff and help up make the soil toxic. You can't even change the battery in it's new laptops unless you take it apart; That is real friendly toward the environment. My current PC is 4 years old and my laptop is 5 years old, they do what i need them to do. Why should I upgrade? The difference between people like me and the typical Apple user is my Phone and computer are for work, not a status symbol. What worse of all is the conditions in the factories that make Apple products are work houses like you read about in Oliver Twist where people live and die without ever truly living. Apple did not care about humans until the press outed them. The factories are marginally better, but are still workhouses. Apple does not care about sustainability by making it's products reusable by making the battery replaceable; I can give someone else my Dell laptop and they or I can buy them a battery so that they can use my old computer to educate themselves or work.Most Apple users are smug, entitled people who just don't care about the environment, their fellow man, or anything but their status.

Comment Re:This is why my Websites Check that ads work (Score 0) 205

Me: I usually write code hat check to see if the ad content was pushed out to the client. If not disables the site for that web browser and IP address for an hour.

Tepples: Do BingBot and Googlebot retrieve ads? If not, enjoy being hard to find in search engines.

Me: My sites check to see who and what is loading or crawling my sites, and create a page spefically for that user crawler.

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Me: I usually write code hat check to see if the ad content was pushed out to the client. If not disables the site for that web browser and IP address for an hour.

Tepples: Do BingBot and Googlebot retrieve ads? If not, enjoy being hard to find in search engines.

Besides, in the era of IPv4 address exhaustion, ISPs are using carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to put a hundred or a thousand users behind one IPv4 address. If one of them doesn't load your ads, for reasons such as a transient network failure or not having the proprietary Adobe Flash Player installed or even being blind (and thus unable to view images), do you block access to the site for all of them? If so, enjoy your reputation for operating an unreliable server.

Me: I use other methods in conjunction which I will not reveal to make sure the right person is being punished.

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Me: Where do you think the money for the connection, server's and bandwidth come from "MARS".

Tepples: A lot of Slashdot users such as bingoUV [slashdot.org] would prefer that people operate sites as a hobby, not a business, and pay for connection, server, and bandwidth out of pocket. They prefer the pre-dot-com-boom Internet that was dominated by enthusiasts, not marketers. In bingoUV's opinion, site operators that cannot accept those terms ought to change to a different industry entirely, such as meat butchering.

Me: Well when Google, Yahoo, Bing, Reuters, Fox News, and (Just about every other website) operates as a hobby give me a call.

Comment This is why my Websites Check that ads work (Score 0) 205

I usually write code hat check to see if the ad content was pushed out to the client. If not disables the site for that web browser and IP address for an hour. I do that because the ads pay for the sites; just like the commercials on TV pay for the content. Ad-blocker's are not you sticking it to the man, Ad blocker's are you shooting yourself in the foot. Without ads many sites would require subscriptions to pay for the site. Where do you think the money for the connection, server's and bandwidth come from "MARS". The joke is a site like Slashdot is paid for by advertising and without that revenue stream you would not be reading this now.

Some large advertisers can check to see if there ad's are being actually displayed or blocked using ad-blockers, Do you think something like Google ad words is going to pay Slashdot for blocked ads. Eventually if enough people used ad-blockers sites like Slashdot would have to shutdown due to lack of revenue. When you use an ad-blocker ultimately you are shooting yourself in the foot.

Get rid of Ad-Blockers and save important content websites like Slashdot, and Sourceforge.org

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