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Bias is a different thing.
All journalists have to keep their readership in mind, when writing an article -- e.g. a pro-tory readership simply does not want to read about the failings of the tory party; they just want to hear about what wonderful things they've done and their great "victories".
There's nothing wrong with that -- there's no point at all in writing something that your readership doesn't want to read (beany-baby aficionados don't want to read about pokemon go, and sci-fi fans don't want romantic novels).
Fake news, OTOH, is outright lies, made-up stuff. That goes far, far, beyond bias.
No respectable journalist would lie in that way, and no respectable publisher would knowingly publish anything that hadn't been fact-checked.
The Interwebs are the problem; they have plenty of non-respectable and unprofessional "journalists" and "publishers", who think that "fact-checking" means "Do I want to say it?".
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Mark_Wallace wrote: All journalists have to keep their readership in mind, when writing an article
I believe that is wrong - the first duty of a news outlet is to tell the news as it is. There'll always be a slight bias depending on the viewpoint of the author, but journalist should strive to be as un-biased as possible. This isn't happening though.
An example: I'm no fan of David Miliband (I actually disagreed with a lot of what he said) but whenever an article was published about him, most of the time they included a photo taken at an inopportune moment (with the speed of modern cameras, this can happen to anyone). Forget any argument that he may have been making, it all came down to how he ate a bacon sandwich.. isn't this blatant manipulation of the electorate? Do you ever ask why it's done, or who's doing it?
I've seen the same thing with the EU referendum, with the US elections and with the French and Netherlands elections.. if you're not worried about this, you're not paying enough attention. We're at risk of losing both our freedom of speech and our democracy.
To me this goes further than bias. It's downright lying to control hoe people think and (ultimately) vote.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: I'm no fan of David Miliband ... a photo taken at an inopportune moment
All that tells me is that you looked at pictures of him in media that were produced for people who, like you,were not fans.
A writer writes for his readership, not for people who have no interest in what he writes -- and that's not to mention that it's the picture editor who has control of the images displayed.
Professional journalists are professional; they write professionally. They are well aware that if they write pokemon-go articles for a beany-baby readership, they are doing their job badly.
If you can't write for your readership, get a different job.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A writer writes for his readership, not for people who have no interest in what he writes -- and that's not to mention that it's the picture editor who has control of the images displayed.
That's not news, that's spin.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Professional journalists are professional; they write professionally. They are well aware that if they write pokemon-go articles for a beany-baby readership, they are doing their job badly.
Take a look at British news sites today - they're all Pokemon-Go articles.
When was the last time you heard about the migration crisis? Do you think it's gone away? (Hint: it hasn't, reporting of it is being suppressed because of the many EU member elections going on).
Of course "people like me" aren't intelligent enough I guess? Or maybe it's all just "fake news"? 
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Quote: That's not news, that's spin.
No it isn't, it's writing for your readership.
If you want fashion, you buy cosmo. If you want left-wing politics, you buy a left-wing newspaper. If you want typos, you buy the Gruniad.
I'm starting to get worried that the problem here is that not every publisher publishes what you want to read, and only what you want to read -- and they're not allowed to publish anything that anyone else wants to read.
Getting snippy at the fact that not everyone shares your opinions is kind of a blatant indicator of that.Quote: Of course "people like me" aren't intelligent enough I guess? Or maybe it's all just "fake news"?
QED.
Welcome to being a normal human.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: No it isn't, it's writing for your readership.
i.e. not news, fiction.
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Not at all.
Please bear in mind that:
0. The perspective you prefer on any issue is not necessarily the truth.
1. None of us, not even the journalists, know precisely what goes on behind closed doors.
2. It's the politicians/vested interests who lie, not the journalists.
Journalists can only work with the lies they're allowed to hear, and if one bunch of lies from one bunch of politicians/vested interests suits their readership better than the bunch of lies from a different bunch of politicians/vested interests, then that's the ones they'll write about.
Essentially, if the news is bullshit, it's because of the sources of the news, not those who report it.
Don't kill the messenger.
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I agree with your points on this, and if that was all that's happening I could accept it. But what's really happening looks a whole lot more suspicious that just "we're doing the best we can".
It's impossible these days to trust a single source, that's for sure.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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An example: I'm no fan of David Miliband (I actually disagreed with a lot of what he said) but whenever an article was published about him, most of the time they included a photo taken at an inopportune moment (with the speed of modern cameras, this can happen to anyone).
That's Ed Miliband.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: That's Ed Miliband.
Damn, I'm fake newsing myself now!
I'm sure David is no better at consuming sandwiches
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Every news article could be considered fake news to some degree; my feeling is that this "fake news" crusade is more about giving the establishment powers to remove news that they don't want you to see.
Pretty much.
Kevin
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A while ago I wrote about the ‘special relationship’ that exists between Strings and the CLR, well it turns out that Arrays and the CLR have an even deeper one, the type of closeness where you hold hands on your first meeting. "Arrays are basically voodoo."
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That post, and the other links, are most excellent!
Marc
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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago have just unveiled a new, state-of-the-art password meter that offers real-time feedback and advice to help people create better passwords. I'll take "Wishful thinking" for $200, Alex
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All I need is the one with the girl who removes her clothing...
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So expect spam from Carnegle Melon, offering to test your password strength for you.
And the actual thing is a neural network -- that means that everyone in the world will be giving their passwords to an AI!
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The algorithm is pretty simple isn't it?
1 - 3 character pwd = very, very, very weak
4 - 6 character pwd = very, very weak
7 - 9 character pwd = very weak
9 - 11 character pwd = weak
11 - 13 character pwd = now you're beginning to get there.
14 - 16 character pwd = ok, not bad
64 character password = you're probably going to be ok.
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raddevus wrote: 64 character password = you're probably going to be ok.
heh.
When I'd typed the letter 'p' 52 times, it started flickered between "strong" and "pretty good".
'f' needed over 70, so 'f'-ing is obviously less safe than 'p'-ing
(Try it yourself; the numbers are real)
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 'f' needed over 70, so 'f'-ing is obviously less safe than 'p'-ing
That's a bug in the algorithm, for sure.
Better report it.
My passwords, as you probably know, are all sha-256 hashes that are 64 chars long.
Here, I give you one for free:
9e4ed6c3d4e16778c005190fd1dab5c5ab5b0f104660580e78d0f6c1bb0af558
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Hey, that's no good to me, unless you tell me where you bank! 
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Hey, that's no good to me, unless you tell me where you bank!
You're not understanding.
I gave it to you for your use.
Now, which bank are you logging into?
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Oh what a great thing! At least, umlauts are accepted, but that thingy fails to recognize ßüöä as lowercase and ÄÖÜ as uppercase letters...
What will it do with a password written in a different alphabet which does not have the uppercase/lowercase differentiation? Anyway, with ต่ร๕ู๗คกแยอตัเสทลห๓ it suggests to change it to ต่Uร๕mู๗คกแยอKตWเสทลBห๓ - i.e. it added 1 ASCII lowercase and 3 ASCII uppercase letters. Great idea! Especially switching keyboard layout while typing a password can be fun.
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I'll Hunter2 your Hunter2ing Hunter2.
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