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A mother is devastated after the city council removed her deceased son’s headstone following a complaint from another family who said it wasn’t “in keeping” with their family member’s plot.
Tried to point that out in the comments section and got downvoted to oblivion. I have noticed though that the site's forums has descended into Social Justice Warrior drama, in two years things went from sensible argument to idiots pushing ad hominems and hyperbolic counterarguments.
Anyone knows a tech site alternative with less BS?
Sixclaws
at April 5, 2016 10:26 AM
Sixclaws, I wish I knew... Slashdot has gotten to be every bit as bad. Techdirt is not as bad, but it's a bit monotonous to read after a while because there's a small set of topics that they are obsessed with and that account for most of their content. Even though I generally agree with their stance on things like the DMCA, it's tiresome to see it come up in two out of every three articles. I think the problem is that we have too many "tech journalists" and not enough actual techies participating in the tech Web sites.
And regarding Paypal, their fees are really starting to put sellers off. I recently negotiated with a seller for a rather expensive musical instrument, and the seller explicitly state that they would not accept payment through Paypal because the fees would have been over $100. Although it's not quite as convenient, I can do a bank domestic wire transfer for $16 and the seller was willing to take that out of the sale price. (I ended up not buying, but the fees were not the reason -- I just decided that the instrument in question wasn't what I wanted right now.)
I wish there was something like Bitcoin, but not as shady.
Cousin Dave,
Forget the cats, let's hope this idiot doesn't breed!
Jay
at April 5, 2016 2:37 PM
> Anyone knows a tech site
> alternative with less BS?
While the Breitbart website is as odious as the man himself was fabulous, consider this.
Crid
at April 5, 2016 8:46 PM
Re the Clinton e-mails, now they are claiming “there is no evidence there was ever a breach.”
That's just peachy. The Germans had no evidence there was ever a breach in their Enigma codes, but they were cracked by Poland before WWII, and by (at least) France, Great Britain, and the US during the war. Good (nearly obsessive-compulsive) communications discipline limited the damage from that breach, but it was sometimes useful to intercept a submarine, or for the British to time an offensive in North Africa to when Rommel was on a trip to Germany. The Japanese had no evidence there was ever a breach in their Purple code before and throughout WWII, but our military cryptanalysts were breaking it regularly, and used this information to ambush the Japanese carriers at Midway, shoot down Admiral Yamamoto, etc. The USSR was utterly confident in their Venona one-time-pad cipher; we cracked it and exposed many Soviet agents in our government, although to keep the secret we had to leave those agents in place until some other way of exposing them was found.
For a target as valuable as the US Secretary of State's office, you don't maintain security by looking for breaches. You maintain it by doing your utmost to make breaches impossible in the first place. Clinton's setup was quite insecure. Nor was the data exposed there low-level and unimportant; the FBI found a case where information from a secret agent was revealed in Clinton's e-mail only 24 hours after the agent reported it. This endangered the agent.
The bibble on track to become Tennessee's Official State Book.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 4, 2016 11:22 PM
Dumbass. Someone will get a lesson in what Congress shall make no law really means:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/california-mayor-bans-trump-from-campaigning-in-her-city/article/2587446
I R A Darth Aggie at April 5, 2016 5:31 AM
I don't even see why that is objectionable Gog. A bit weird but hardly offensive. So soon the Bible will rank up there with limestone and the ladybug.
Though the fight does highlight the ACLU's hatred of all things Christian.
Ben at April 5, 2016 5:35 AM
Faster, please:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3504636/HIV-discovery-save-thousands-lives-New-antibody-therapy-eradicated-virus-2-weeks.html
I R A Darth Aggie at April 5, 2016 5:36 AM
Does a white doctor understand a black patient's pain?
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-race-pain-perception-treatment-20160403-story.html
Sixclaws at April 5, 2016 5:37 AM
The Simpsons nailed it again?
http://redbloodedamerica.tumblr.com/post/114683379594/how-feminism-is-taught-in-academia
Sixclaws at April 5, 2016 5:42 AM
Science of Sex Appeal- A Sexy Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdlq95Tnqc
Sixclaws at April 5, 2016 5:53 AM
Scroll to the bottom, Popehat opines that Brandeis would need a due process upgrade to get to the Kafkaesque level of due process:
https://storify.com/kcjohnson9/brandeis-decision
Damages should be assessed on the school's endowment. That will put a stop to this in a big hurry.
I R A Darth Aggie at April 5, 2016 6:34 AM
The snark is strong with him:
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2016/04/try-east-berlin-vs-west-berlin-east-germany-vs-west-germany-north-korea-vs-south-korea-china-vs-hong-kong-etc/
I R A Darth Aggie at April 5, 2016 6:40 AM
It appears that the #TheChalkening is an actual thing:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/the-frat-site-that-helped-ignite-thechalkening-speaks-out/
I R A Darth Aggie at April 5, 2016 7:53 AM
Gov't inspection reveals flaws in blood diagnostic startup Theranos.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601182/theranos-promised-a-revolution-but-delivered-dangerous-errors/
Beautiful Hare at April 5, 2016 7:57 AM
A mother is devastated after the city council removed her deceased son’s headstone following a complaint from another family who said it wasn’t “in keeping” with their family member’s plot.
http://tribunist.com/news/4-year-olds-headstone-removed-because-one-person-was-offended-by-it/
Sixclaws at April 5, 2016 8:49 AM
So the city ordered the head stone of dead toddler from family A, because family B said the headstone want in keeping with family B's plot?
lujlp at April 5, 2016 10:18 AM
Lujlp, never underestimate the pettiness of an envious neighbor.
Sixclaws at April 5, 2016 10:22 AM
Nothing like a company deciding for the people
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/paypal-withdraws-from-north-carolina-because-of-new-lgbt-discrimination-law/
Tried to point that out in the comments section and got downvoted to oblivion. I have noticed though that the site's forums has descended into Social Justice Warrior drama, in two years things went from sensible argument to idiots pushing ad hominems and hyperbolic counterarguments.
Anyone knows a tech site alternative with less BS?
Sixclaws at April 5, 2016 10:26 AM
Sixclaws, I wish I knew... Slashdot has gotten to be every bit as bad. Techdirt is not as bad, but it's a bit monotonous to read after a while because there's a small set of topics that they are obsessed with and that account for most of their content. Even though I generally agree with their stance on things like the DMCA, it's tiresome to see it come up in two out of every three articles. I think the problem is that we have too many "tech journalists" and not enough actual techies participating in the tech Web sites.
And regarding Paypal, their fees are really starting to put sellers off. I recently negotiated with a seller for a rather expensive musical instrument, and the seller explicitly state that they would not accept payment through Paypal because the fees would have been over $100. Although it's not quite as convenient, I can do a bank domestic wire transfer for $16 and the seller was willing to take that out of the sale price. (I ended up not buying, but the fees were not the reason -- I just decided that the instrument in question wasn't what I wanted right now.)
I wish there was something like Bitcoin, but not as shady.
Cousin Dave at April 5, 2016 1:25 PM
How can you tell when someone is a fundamentally unserious person? When they're trying to raise cats to be gender neutral.
Cousin Dave at April 5, 2016 1:40 PM
Clinton campaign in full-on freakout mode.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 5, 2016 1:47 PM
Speaking of Hillary:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-email-scandal-took-root/2016/03/27/ee301168-e162-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html
I R A Darth Aggie at April 5, 2016 2:14 PM
Cousin Dave,
Forget the cats, let's hope this idiot doesn't breed!
Jay at April 5, 2016 2:37 PM
> Anyone knows a tech site
> alternative with less BS?
While the Breitbart website is as odious as the man himself was fabulous, consider this.
Crid at April 5, 2016 8:46 PM
Re the Clinton e-mails, now they are claiming “there is no evidence there was ever a breach.”
That's just peachy. The Germans had no evidence there was ever a breach in their Enigma codes, but they were cracked by Poland before WWII, and by (at least) France, Great Britain, and the US during the war. Good (nearly obsessive-compulsive) communications discipline limited the damage from that breach, but it was sometimes useful to intercept a submarine, or for the British to time an offensive in North Africa to when Rommel was on a trip to Germany. The Japanese had no evidence there was ever a breach in their Purple code before and throughout WWII, but our military cryptanalysts were breaking it regularly, and used this information to ambush the Japanese carriers at Midway, shoot down Admiral Yamamoto, etc. The USSR was utterly confident in their Venona one-time-pad cipher; we cracked it and exposed many Soviet agents in our government, although to keep the secret we had to leave those agents in place until some other way of exposing them was found.
For a target as valuable as the US Secretary of State's office, you don't maintain security by looking for breaches. You maintain it by doing your utmost to make breaches impossible in the first place. Clinton's setup was quite insecure. Nor was the data exposed there low-level and unimportant; the FBI found a case where information from a secret agent was revealed in Clinton's e-mail only 24 hours after the agent reported it. This endangered the agent.
markm at April 7, 2016 7:34 AM
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