In other news today...
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
That's the emotional support I understand: attacking people
I don't like.Removed redundancy.
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Samsung was doing so well with resisting the crappy modern smartphone trends, but I guess it couldn't last. With the S10 series they introduced screen cutouts for the camera, but at least they still kept the headphone jack and microSD slot. Now if this rumour is true, they're going to get rid of the jack, and leapfrog the competition in stupid ridiculous changes by replacing the power and volume buttons with touch-sensitive areas. Did they suddenly hire some Silicon Valley retard as CEO or something?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
they're going to get rid of the jack
Don't worry, Google brought it back
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Warning: Some bloody photos in that article.
Delta, the suit alleges, “took no action to verify or document the behavioral training of the large animal,” such as requiring signed documentation showing the animal is trained and can behave in the airplane setting. “Such measures were feasible at the time but were not in effect until after this attack,” according to the complaint.
Eh? ESAs generally don't get training; that's the difference between them and service dogs.
The police report listed the dog’s owner, Ronald Kevin Mundy Jr. of Mills River, N.C., as a military service member with the U.S. Marine Corps who “advised that the dog was issued to him for support.” The dog is listed in the police report as a “chocolate lab pointer mix.”
Eh twice? Dogs that are "issued" to service members are usually service dogs, not ESAs. (IAW DoDI 1300.27) I think Mr. Mundy's full of it.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
replacing the power and volume buttons with touch-sensitive areas
: Support here, how can we help?
: Well, you see, this app has hung my phone. How do I reboot?
: Just touch the screen.
: I can't. I said the phone was hung. It's not responding.
: Ah. I see. You need to throw it at the ground so the back pops off and you can pull the battery out.
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Megvii is also a technology supplier for a China-wide surveillance program called the Skynet Project
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Dell is leading the Year Of Linux On The Desktop:
So surely we'll all be safe from malware soon!
Even better with the adjacency on /.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
The police report listed the dog’s owner, Ronald Kevin Mundy Jr. of Mills River, N.C., as a military service member with the U.S. Marine Corps who “advised that the dog was issued to him for support.” The dog is listed in the police report as a “chocolate lab pointer mix.”
Eh twice? Dogs that are "issued" to service members are usually service dogs, not ESAs. (IAW DoDI 1300.27) I think Mr. Mundy's full of it.
Maybe Private Pyle has issues.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Megvii is also a technology supplier for a China-wide surveillance program called the Skynet Project
You should have been eeking for a decade.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
replacing the power and volume buttons with touch-sensitive areas
: Support here, how can we help?
: Well, you see, this app has hung my phone. How do I reboot?
: Just touch the screen.
: I can't. I said the phone was hung. It's not responding.
: Ah. I see. You need to throw it at the ground so the back pops off and you can pull the battery out.: Ok, I threw it on the ground, the screen is cracked but the back did pop-up. How do I remove the battery? There is nothing removable back there ...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Well, you see, this app has hung my phone. How do I reboot?
<serious> There'll probably be a pinhole reset for that case. </serious>
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Hey UK, put 1984 down
This is fucking retarded. This is going to do fuckall to stop anything. Anyone with basic developer knowledge and an aws account could set up a secure messaging application in less than a month. Any organisation that needs this will probably be able to fund it and host it themselves easily. All the UK is doing is inconveniencing the rest of us.
I should probably start my own service for kicks and giggles. Might be a fun weekend project.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Well, you see, this app has hung my phone. How do I reboot?
<serious> There'll probably be a pinhole reset for that case. </serious>
And in all fairness, the physical button can become just as unresponsive as a capacitive one.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Hey UK, put 1984 down
This is fucking retarded. This is going to do fuckall to stop anything. Anyone with basic developer knowledge and an aws account could set up a secure messaging application in less than a month. Any organisation that needs this will probably be able to fund it and host it themselves easily. All the UK is doing is inconveniencing the rest of us.
I should probably start my own service for kicks and giggles. Might be a fun weekend project.
Yeah, some of our politicians who have already demonstrated that they have no fucking clue about how this works are also making waves about demanding backdoors. Because terrorists.
I really hope that someone clues them in with a baseball bat before they do real damage.
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@Rhywden Maybe we can trick the politicians into funding research for quantum computaters.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
quantum computaters
The embed loses the caption: "Computater, a giant 3D abacus (5 abaci in parallel) by Pamela Lee Brenner for Art in the Park- the Humble Spud 4 May 2008 International Year of the Potato"
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@TimeBandit Don't they know electricity could cause cancer or birth defects?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Don't they know electricity could cause cancer or birth defects?
Yes, but no electricity can cause cancer too so
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they asked regulators to allow them to pull the plug when fire risk is extremely high. That's mainly during periods of excessive winds and low humidity when vegetation is dried out and can easily ignite.
Which is basically all summer and autumn, every year.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
they asked regulators to allow them to pull the plug when fire risk is extremely high. That's mainly during periods of excessive winds and low humidity when vegetation is dried out and can easily ignite.
Which is basically all summer and autumn, every year.
I'm wondering if those blackouts will cause issues in our area too... What'll probably happen:
- Pulls plug on high transmission line
- Silly Valley overloads the other incoming lines
- State goes completely black.
- Overloads ripple. US goes black.
PGE: Oops.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
"AIDS epidemic is a lie because straight people can't get infected!" when that obviously is not true is not a problem.
It's not absolutely true, because intravenous illegal drug use can also lead to it. And in rare occurrences, people have gotten it from heterosexual sexual activity.
Yeah, so, I think that I'm perfectly justified in wanting a ban of people who spread shit like that.
Since he probably didn't say exactly what you quoted him as saying (or at least there was context), and what he probably did say was likely true, based on what I've seen of him, I'm not surprised that you would want him banned.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
I hope they ban him.
Why?
So you think that spreading shit like "AIDS epidemic is a lie because straight people can't get infected!" when that obviously is not true is not a problem. He has a track record of doing that.
Yeah, so, I think that I'm perfectly justified in wanting a ban of people who spread shit like that.
His track record is no worse than mass media. So unless you are calling for a ban of all media, you are not justified.
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Not exactly "today", but then again the described ideas date back much more than half a year anyway.
Also see this older article:
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And in all fairness, the physical button can become just as unresponsive as a capacitive one.
The physical button has two circuits attached to it. One is a simple switch that could be replaced with a capacitive one and that does a suitable high-level interrupt that the OS can figure out what it wants to do about (ignore, pop up a dialog, etc.), and the other independent circuit (and entirely in hardware) has a timer on it so that if you hold it down for long enough, it forces the system to change state (i.e., it's a real power button, but with a delay). The OS simply doesn't see that part, just the presence of power (and sees nothing at all if the power is gone).
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inb4 "touching knob"
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Yes, ban people for insults. In other news today, YouTube is considering banning half of the political channels for constantly calling Steven Crowder alt-right, which has been happening for years.
Considering I discovered that this asshat also pulled this stunt:
https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-steven-crowder-the-aids-epidemic-was-a-hoax.t9410/
I hope they ban him.
Yes, ban people for spreading misinformation. In other news today, YouTube banned literally every news outlet.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Yes, ban people for spreading misinformation. In other news today, YouTube banned literally every news outlet.
Why is this a problem?
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
inb4 "touching knob"
Oddly enough, I didn't have any giggity reaction. Instead I had this flashback:
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
"AIDS epidemic is a lie because straight people can't get infected!" when that obviously is not true is not a problem.
It's not absolutely true, because intravenous illegal drug use can also lead to it. And in rare occurrences, people have gotten it from heterosexual sexual activity.
TIL that no matter what you basically slap an "it’s a Chinese hoax" on, someone here will defend it.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
Looking at that chart, it appears that the rate of AIDS is about 50 times higher among homosexuals than heterosexuals (omitting transmission by illegal IV drug use).
That chart is just for the US (where it definitely is more prevalent among the homosexual community as that was probably how it initially entered the US) and not the global figures, which have a very different balance (e.g., it's overwhelmingly a disease of the heterosexual in much of Africa, and is much more strongly associated with drug use in Russia IIRC). So it's just charting local peculiarities, and doesn't support the hypothesis of Crowder, but nor does it support the hypothesis of anyone who says it is nothing to do with the homosexual community (in the US); they have to worry about it a lot more than the general population.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
but nor does it support the hypothesis of anyone who says it is nothing to do with the homosexual community (in the US); they have to worry about it a lot more than the general population.
Nobody says such a thing.
But 27% diagnoses among heterosexuals is quite certainly not 0%. Even if it was just 1% it’d be absolutely ridiculous to claim heterosexuals don’t contract HIV.
And then there’s the thing: even in the hypothetical universe where "675,000 people in the U.S. have died as a result of HIV/AIDS" means every single one of them were homosexual, how does that in any way imply "the AIDS epidemic was a hoax"?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
but nor does it support the hypothesis of anyone who says it is nothing to do with the homosexual community (in the US); they have to worry about it a lot more than the general population.
Nobody says such a thing.
But 27% diagnoses among heterosexuals is quite certainly not 0%. Even if it was just 1% it’d be absolutely ridiculous to claim heterosexuals don’t contract HIV.
And then there’s the thing: even in the hypothetical universe where "675,000 people in the U.S. have died as a result of HIV/AIDS" means every single one of them were homosexual, how does that in any way imply "the AIDS epidemic was a hoax"?Yeah, I could see "AIDS isn't an epidemic, it's is God's punishment for having sex with more than one other person in your life" but that's a whole different pile of stupid.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Yeah, I could see "AIDS isn't an epidemic, it's is God's punishment for having sex with more than one other person in your life" but that's a whole different pile of stupid.
Yeah, combining those two assertions would indeed be stupid, because they have nothing to do with each other. But I've never seen or heard anyone do that, until now, and even then it was just a quotational paraphrase.
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We will continue to add to the more than 20 Xbox Game Studios titles on Steam, starting with Gears 5
Hurrah. Gears of War 4 was the only thing I've ever bought from the Windows Store.
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An elderly man waved a sale sign for sirloin steak at the protesters while another person shouted: “Want to see my meat balls?”
One market customer waved a placard at the camera saying: “Sorry we killed the cow . . . but it was eating your dinner.”
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The thieves also made off with his iPod and £,1000 worth of golf clubs.
The 68-year-old added: “I’ve been left completely frustrated because I can’t walk very far due to health reasons and I need a car.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
The thieves also made off with his iPod and £,1000 worth of golf clubs.
The 68-year-old added: “I’ve been left completely frustrated because I can’t walk very far due to health reasons and I need a car.
Why are people leaving shit in their cars? Literally the only thing in mine is a dead battery I need to recycle, some straps, and a paper that says I need to get blood tests. Oh, and a key to a building I seldom visit.
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@Tsaukpaetra I saw a sign like this one recently, don't recall where.
It translates roughly as "Car empty? Rather do it yourself!"
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
The thieves also made off with his iPod and £,1000 worth of golf clubs.
The 68-year-old added: “I’ve been left completely frustrated because I can’t walk very far due to health reasons and I need a car.
If you are concerned about the highlighted text: golf carts are a thing.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
The thieves also made off with his iPod and £,1000 worth of golf clubs.
The 68-year-old added: “I’ve been left completely frustrated because I can’t walk very far due to health reasons and I need a car.
If you are concerned about the highlighted text: golf carts are a thing.
status: I just realized I could be driving a golf cart...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Why are people leaving shit in their cars?
If they live somewhere cars regularly get broken into? They're morons, or some sort of insurance shenanigans.
I leave stuff in the (locked) car all the time, but then I live somewhere the crime rate is basically zero.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
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An elderly man waved a sale sign for sirloin steak at the protesters while another person shouted: “Want to see my meat balls?”
One market customer waved a placard at the camera saying: “Sorry we killed the cow . . . but it was eating your dinner.”
You really have it in for vegans, PJH. Compensation?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
But in all seriousness, there are Brazilian billionaires as well.
We have about 80, but they are more like robber barons than bill gates, mostly white.
I wasn't aware that museum existed before it burned, and I don't think anything interesting was lost.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
But in all seriousness, there are Brazilian billionaires as well.
We have about 80, but they are more like robber barons than bill gates, mostly white.
I can see how you might supplement your business by unethical practices (Gates has been accused of that occasionally) , but I don't see how you could become a billionaire unless you had an actual product. Who would be an example of a Brazilian robber baron billionaire?