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He's a known entity. On the very first page of his comments at the bottom (maybe 2nd now, who knows) you can see him making an objectively shitty joke attempt about CA... He's just one of the Fox News faggots.

The actual point is where his head was conically squeezed during his formative years by his mother's oppressively tight conservative vagina, which always cried out for big black cock as he grew into a bitter racist faggot of no value.

His entire "point" if you can call it that is to make a shitty one-line dig at CA as if that furthers the cause of treasonous faggot nazi conservatism. There's no 'there' there.

"Realtime raytracing will be huge for gaming" - meanwhile you recommend paying 2x as much money for an unsupported feature.

No. I don't recommend it. Nor is it an "unsupported feature", quite clearly it is supported and will become more supported over time. I'm not that interested in extreme visual fidelity so the small improvement it currently makes by augmenting rasterized games doesn't seem worth it to me.

You want to justify your mistake, that's fine. I'm ok with your mistakes.

What mistake? I don't think it was that complicated but here it is again anyway:
I have a 1080 with no plan to upgrade.

Given that was pretty unequivocal perhaps you're unaware that the 1080 is a card from the previous Geforce generation (which goes back 2 architecture revisions to "Pascal", where the current is "Turing" and before that there was "Volta" which really only had the Titan V as a consumer card) and it doesn't support hardware-based DXR because it lacks the new RT and Tensor cores.

See, he gets "combined" right. Not that hard.

See subject & https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (my program won't allow that error)

CHINA did copy what I did LONG BEFORE THEM https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & dates prove I did hardcodes vs. DNS fails I stopped 1st LONG before China.

I never threatened to sue Thor SCHMUCK - I only said I'd speak to an attorney & I did who advised I go thru their removal process & I did, then CA falling apart proved my point selling off the antivirus they had that did a FALSE POSITIVE they rescinded to NO THREAT on an old program of mine.

* You LOSE, deluded liar & on ALL grounds + every "example" you tried, lol!

APK

P.S.=> You're a HUMAN FAIL... apk

See subject & https://news.slashdot.org/comm... (my program won't allow that error)

CHINA did copy what I did LONG BEFORE THEM https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & dates prove I did hardcodes vs. DNS fails I stopped 1st LONG before China.

I never threatened to sue Thor SCHMUCK - I only said I'd speak to an attorney & I did who advised I go thru their removal process & I did, then CA falling apart proved my point selling off the antivirus they had that did a FALSE POSITIVE they rescinded to NO THREAT on an old program of mine.

* You LOSE, deluded liar & on ALL grounds + every "example" you tried, lol!

APK

P.S.=> You're a HUMAN FAIL... apk

I don't think he shits right anyways

Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski, you are just a loser who is too dumb to realize you got stomped long ago.
Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
Here is another one where your got beaten hard because you can't back up anything you say. This was about how you claim your shitware can block all hosts in a domain, which it can't.
Then there is your claim that the Chinese copied you but you admit that at best all you have is wild ass speculation and can't offer any real proof or even actual evidence to support yourself.
How about the list of experts you claim support your statements, none of which actually support your work and have been shown to actually be saying things different from what you stated they were.
Maybe instead you can tell us about your "success" where a project rejected your stupid simplistic idea or maybe threaten to sue someone again because you are a insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything.

Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski, you are just a loser who is too dumb to realize you got stomped long ago.
Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
Here is another one where your got beaten hard because you can't back up anything you say. This was about how you claim your shitware can block all hosts in a domain, which it can't.
Then there is your claim that the Chinese copied you but you admit that at best all you have is wild ass speculation and can't offer any real proof or even actual evidence to support yourself.
How about the list of experts you claim support your statements, none of which actually support your work and have been shown to actually be saying things different from what you stated they were.
Maybe instead you can tell us about your "success" where a project rejected your stupid simplistic idea or maybe threaten to sue someone again because you are a insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything.

Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski, you are just a loser who is too dumb to realize you got stomped long ago.
Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
Here is another one where your got beaten hard because you can't back up anything you say. This was about how you claim your shitware can block all hosts in a domain, which it can't.
Then there is your claim that the Chinese copied you but you admit that at best all you have is wild ass speculation and can't offer any real proof or even actual evidence to support yourself.
How about the list of experts you claim support your statements, none of which actually support your work and have been shown to actually be saying things different from what you stated they were.
Maybe instead you can tell us about your "success" where a project rejected your stupid simplistic idea or maybe threaten to sue someone again because you are a insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything.

Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski, you are just a loser who is too dumb to realize you got stomped long ago.
Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
Here is another one where your got beaten hard because you can't back up anything you say. This was about how you claim your shitware can block all hosts in a domain, which it can't.
Then there is your claim that the Chinese copied you but you admit that at best all you have is wild ass speculation and can't offer any real proof or even actual evidence to support yourself.
How about the list of experts you claim support your statements, none of which actually support your work and have been shown to actually be saying things different from what you stated they were.
Maybe instead you can tell us about your "success" where a project rejected your stupid simplistic idea or maybe threaten to sue someone again because you are a insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything.

Sorry retarded bitch Alexander Peter Kowalski, you are just a loser who is too dumb to realize you got stomped long ago.
Here is a chronicle of your bitch ass getting beaten on your port filtering statements.
Here is another one where your got beaten hard because you can't back up anything you say. This was about how you claim your shitware can block all hosts in a domain, which it can't.
Then there is your claim that the Chinese copied you but you admit that at best all you have is wild ass speculation and can't offer any real proof or even actual evidence to support yourself.
How about the list of experts you claim support your statements, none of which actually support your work and have been shown to actually be saying things different from what you stated they were.
Maybe instead you can tell us about your "success" where a project rejected your stupid simplistic idea or maybe threaten to sue someone again because you are a insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything.

> once they've warned you, you're liable, not them.

Are you sure about that?
  https://slashdot.org/story/344...

It's not full of pseudoscience and guesswork.

The media just loves to show you the pseudoscience and guesswork because of how outrageous it is.

Often they twist facts purposefully or because they don't know any better themselves or blow things out of proportion.

The resulting outrageous claims attracts a lot of views and clicks, which is money for them.

The sad fact that every dumbass who has read a bit about Simgund Freud, has taken a personality quiz on the back of their corn flakes box, or something like that can, and often likes to, pretend they're capable of psychoanalysing a human from something as mere as a singular action, it contributes to the bad image that is perpetuated by the media.

And since your average person is not scientifically literate they have no way to distinguish between bona fide and all the garbage.

Look at the resulting bullshit people believe because of this. A good example is https://science.slashdot.org/c...

I think this was meant for you to read Mr. depressed troll https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

You are a pedophile. It requires no proof because it is self-evident. Stop molesting children you faggoty pedophile! Turn yourself in to the police. Get help. You need to stop abusing and molesting children. It's bad! M'Kay?

— the pathetic living punchline that is impersonating gerald butler

If you'd stop eating your own shit, I wouldn't have to castigate you for it. Now fuck off. When you are ready to converse under your real name and have something useful to say, we'll talk. Until then, please stop eating your own shit and cowering in the corner like a whiny little bitch.

— the pathetic living punchline that is impersonating gerald butler

Betteridge's law definitely applies here.

No, it doesn't. This is an actual, legitimate question.

Betteridge's Law has been around for *years*. You'd think that by now people around here would understand why (and where) it applies instead of kneejerk-yelling "Betteridge" at every headline with a question mark. And yet, I can still reply to stuff like this with a comment I made six years ago:-

As I correctly predicted earlier this year, lots of Slashdotters have seized upon Betteridge as the latest fad kneejerk response, and are misapplying it without understanding what it means. In his own words, Betteridge's Law applies to cases where journalists "know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."

For example, without the evidence to back it up, a headline saying "Tomato ketchup caused AIDS that led to exitinction of dinosaurs" would be obvious crap and lead to criticism of the paper and/or journalist. OTOH, "Did Tomato ketchup cause AIDS that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?" gives them the weasellish get-out of "Well, we didn't actually *claim* that it did".

Even then, if a question headline was a genuine attempt to present a plausibly-supported but not universally-accepted idea (possibly because it was new and/or divisive), then Betteridge's wouldn't apply.

In short, Betteridge's original observation was insightful where he claimed it applied, but it was never a blanket dismissal of question headlines, so please stop the tedious, kneejerk misapplication.

Betteridge's law definitely applies here.

No, it doesn't. This is an actual, legitimate question.

Betteridge's Law has been around for *years*. You'd think that by now people around here would understand why (and where) it applies instead of kneejerk-yelling "Betteridge" at every headline with a question mark. And yet, I can still reply to stuff like this with a comment I made six years ago:-

As I correctly predicted earlier this year, lots of Slashdotters have seized upon Betteridge as the latest fad kneejerk response, and are misapplying it without understanding what it means. In his own words, Betteridge's Law applies to cases where journalists "know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."

For example, without the evidence to back it up, a headline saying "Tomato ketchup caused AIDS that led to exitinction of dinosaurs" would be obvious crap and lead to criticism of the paper and/or journalist. OTOH, "Did Tomato ketchup cause AIDS that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs?" gives them the weasellish get-out of "Well, we didn't actually *claim* that it did".

Even then, if a question headline was a genuine attempt to present a plausibly-supported but not universally-accepted idea (possibly because it was new and/or divisive), then Betteridge's wouldn't apply.

In short, Betteridge's original observation was insightful where he claimed it applied, but it was never a blanket dismissal of question headlines, so please stop the tedious, kneejerk misapplication.

Yeah. 15 years ago.

https://bsd.slashdot.org/story...

It's so weird that your'e such a faggoty, child-molesting, cowardly bitch who balls up in the fetal position and sucks his own dick while chanting, "make the bad man stop" instead of being a man and posting under your real name. Loser!

— the pathetic living punchline that is impersonating gerald butler

... that's what's behind the time-savers like food and grocery deliveries and, recently, robotic snack deliveries of snacks on campus.

Pepsi Is Testing a Snack Delivery Robot On Select College Campuses

Wait I thought automation was BAD for General Motors? Which is it, Slashdot?! Tell me what to think!

The "heaviness" of a Proof-of-Work alt-coin like Bitcoin or Etherium (before this change) has nothing to do with the complexity of the cryptography and everything to do with there being enormous competition between miners because of the perceived value of the currency mined.

In fact, one can characterize modern cryptography as the art of making a complex enough (to be secure) calculation as efficient as possible. And it is, typically, very, very efficient --- or it wouldn't be used.

Furthermore, AFAIK, there is no proof that only Proof-of-Work can be secure or that it is inherently more secure than Proof-of-Stake or some other, yet to be discovered, algorithm. (This comment proposes that there could be yet another "solution" to the PoW escalation problem but it doesn't actually describe enough details so that I can try to analyze if it is at all viable.)

Aren't they a bit late in this hack? Just a few months ago we had this story about how google is redesigning the recaptcha to not even require user interaction anymore:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

So it sounds like they are hacking an old version that is already in the process of being retired.

See subject: Here's who I was speaking to & I hope I got thru (as I'm almost done w/ what I was up to) https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & he knows it...

(He's the ONLY PERSON I've seen around here that has the MEANS to effect change...)

APK

P.S.=> GOOD change, not hotair blowhard BULLSHIT... apk

See subject: I get the "wannabe 'sly'" bs from you (I know the ghetto & NOT unfortunately: I consider it an asset). You're https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... unable to PROVE otherwise...

* Period!

APK

P.S.=> Scum like YOU? Make me wonder HOW you can LIVE w/ your sorry "ne'er-do-well" DO-NOTHING SELVES while the world around you burns... apk

See subject: My nephew (whom I inspired to enter this field for his livelyhood) is a 6 yr. man @ Apple & on "Tiger Teams" (not many here will KNOW what that means, but it means TONS) so, I will check what you said & run it by him probably this weekend...

* I haven't discovered SQUAT yet man - I've still yet to set up my new Mac-Mini in fact - too busy repairing broken electrical & toilets in properties I own (sometimes I want to hang that up too, lol - it's a PAIN but better than when I was a "wageslave", by far).

APK

P.S.=> THIS is meant to INSPIRE you you know (by 'analogy') so think about it https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & so was this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

I do respect what you've done & you're only STARTING imo (& you do DO more than MOST here ever will (probably more than me eventually imo))... apk

See subject: My nephew (whom I inspired to enter this field for his livelyhood) is a 6 yr. man @ Apple & on "Tiger Teams" (not many here will KNOW what that means, but it means TONS) so, I will check what you said & run it by him probably this weekend...

* I haven't discovered SQUAT yet man - I've still yet to set up my new Mac-Mini in fact - too busy repairing broken electrical & toilets in properties I own (sometimes I want to hang that up too, lol - it's a PAIN but better than when I was a "wageslave", by far).

APK

P.S.=> THIS is meant to INSPIRE you you know (by 'analogy') so think about it https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & so was this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

I do respect what you've done & you're only STARTING imo (& you do DO more than MOST here ever will (probably more than me eventually imo))... apk

See subject & https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... because he has ability & has demonstrated it provably to myself & OTHERS worldwide.

* I'm LOUSY @ "politically correct" & INTENTIONALLY SO in fact (I had to ENDURE THAT LIFE, a plastic worm FAKE, vs. it for decades when I had "silver chains" on me - no more though, thank God) - ray, isn't.

I'm the wrong guy for the job & I'm almost done anyhow (MacOS port is out soon, VERY soon in fact & I am DONE then w/ my part).

APK

P.S.=> "You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me - because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith, rewarded..." The Batman in "The Dark Knight" ("He didn't do anything wrong" Jamie Gordon)... apk

You're a likely candidate: "Gotham City's PROUD of an ordinary citizen standing up for what's right - It wasn't considered an honor. It was a public service: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Whoever the Batman is, he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life doing this - how could he? Batman is looking for someone to take up his mantle." Harvey Dent/Two-Face & Batman.

* To trolls, a quote from it "I know why you STALK APK BY UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS - he's shown /. your true colors" (yellow belly cowards & DO-NOTHING "ne'er-do-wells") - The JOKER.

APK

P.S.=> By the way - thanks for replying - you DIDN'T do a "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" & that I again respect (like I do your kernel patch) - & GOOD LUCK "MAKING A WHEEL" https://slashdot.org/comments.... (time is probably YOUR main 'constraint' working full-time & family (?) too, but I did things like my hosts engine while I worked (it's doable))... apk

This is a copy-paste that I wrote for somewhere else, do as you will with it.

I have observed something, and it has increased with time, having recently brought it up to my father-in-law, who is also a tech field worker, he agreed with me. The people - both voluntarily and at some prodding are giving up control and ownership of everything - slowly.

What brought it to my attention is streaming services. Despite being a quite technical individual I skipped out on the early part of the streaming fad, due in part to living in an area with unreliable web access and literally working in a faraday cage without WiFi access during that time period. I doubled down on the previous fad - ripping and compressing, instead and continue that to this day.

The result - people are lost without access to Spotify. No Netflix, no movies. You unplug the average person from the Internet these days and they no longer have the ability to use their entertainment systems.

I originally contemplated the pros and cons of going all online versus what I was doing - are we really missing anything by not owning our media? In time I began to realize it didn't stop at media.

Younger people don't want to own anything.

We are watching the formation of dependence culture.

Young people aren't driving anymore, which like everything else is a mix of good and bad. Even when I was privileged enough to be able to bike to work and back, and even for my grocery shopping and most everything else I still kept a license and a vehicle. Something I've noted at work - the younger a coworker is the less likely they are to have any damned tools to work with, and it doesn't appear to be tied to not having had enough time to accumulate them. While doing a little research about that tidbit I stumbled across an article about the non-ownership topic from the other perspective written in a way that meets my approval.

It's important after that last article I make myself clear. I am not condemning the passing of materialism culture. Far from it. I personally have reduced my materialism and even the footprint of what I personally own. I am however against submission and dependence culture - both of which are adopted when you give up your ability to do for yourself by depending on services - AKA being served - exclusively.

I want to go back to tools. Even though I've reduced the amount of junk I personally own, something I do own a healthy share of is tools. Tools are to me, a different kind of possession. They aren't possessions that say "Look at me!", they aren't something that I use as a status symbol, they aren't pointless possessions. No - tools are something that says "I've got this." I use my tools to make a living, to do for myself, to teach. My tools give me independence and if used properly can even be used to spread independence.

I think we're heading down a dangerous path. When most of the people rent someone still has to own what was rented. When people do nothing but stream someone still has control of the source material. When you don't have your own tools you have to depend on someone to provide them for you. When you can't control your own propulsion you can only go where others will take you. In situations where the many are dependent on the few, the few tend to get fewer in time as they are bought out or consolidated after deaths, etc... In turn the fewer the sources of provision are, the more power the providers have. Eventually we all become slaves existing at the leisure of those who control the resources.

I just realized after typing that last line that it sounds like some sort of socialist manifesto - at least when that line stands alone. Quit

Previously on Slashdot:

Urban Death Project Aims To Rebuild Our Soil By Composting Corpses - Slashdot

(The process described is somewhat different - the one proposed here could be an improvement)

Apk made me laugh at raymorris trapping him in his own words in 2 quotes so you are spot on https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

FUNNY YOU TRIED TO "DOWNMOD HIDE" THIS VERY POST TOO WHEN I POSTED IT BEFORE https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

FUNNY YOU TRIED TO "DOWNMOD HIDE" THIS VERY POST TOO WHEN I POSTED IT BEFORE https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

FUNNY YOU TRIED TO "DOWNMOD HIDE" THIS VERY POST TOO WHEN I POSTED IT BEFORE https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

FUNNY YOU TRIED TO "DOWNMOD HIDE" THIS VERY POST TOO WHEN I POSTED IT BEFORE https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

See subject & from raymorris to 2 posts w/ FAIR QUESTIONS in 'em here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & here https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> I also asked WHY raymorris would do this https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (which was "downmod hidden", "gosh, I wonder WHY?" (not))

Especially when raymorris HIMSELF says a post on hosts should be downmodded QUOTING him saying it (& that "nobody wants to read posts on hosts" etc.) yet he posted "host files" as his subject!

To that, I can show TONS to the contrary from registered /.ers in response to that easily)!

INSTEAD I got no answer, only "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" from raymorris (hung by his own words twice)... apk

This is a copy-paste that I wrote for somewhere else, do as you will with it.

I have observed something, and it has increased with time, having recently brought it up to my father-in-law, who is also a tech field worker, he agreed with me.
The people - both voluntarily and at some prodding are giving up control and ownership of everything - slowly.

What brought it to my attention is streaming services. Despite being a quite technical individual I skipped out on the early part of the streaming fad, due in part to living in an area with unreliable web access and literally working in a faraday cage without WiFi access during that time period. I doubled down on the previous fad - ripping and compressing, instead and continue that to this day.

The result - people are lost without access to Spotify. No Netflix, no movies. You unplug the average person from the Internet these days and they no longer have the ability to use their entertainment systems.

I originally contemplated the pros and cons of going all online versus what I was doing - are we really missing anything by not owning our media? In time I began to realize it didn't stop at media.

Younger people don't want to own anything.

We are watching the formation of dependence culture.

Young people aren't driving anymore, which like everything else is a mix of good and bad. Even when I was privileged enough to be able to bike to work and back, and even for my grocery shopping and most everything else I still kept a license and a vehicle. Something I've noted at work - the younger a coworker is the less likely they are to have any damned tools to work with, and it doesn't appear to be tied to not having had enough time to accumulate them. While doing a little research about that tidbit I stumbled across an article about the non-ownership topic from the other perspective written in a way that meets my approval.

It's important after that last article I make myself clear. I am not condemning the passing of materialism culture. Far from it. I personally have reduced my materialism and even the footprint of what I personally own. I am however against submission and dependence culture - both of which are adopted when you give up your ability to do for yourself by depending on services - AKA being served - exclusively.

I want to go back to tools. Even though I've reduced the amount of junk I personally own, something I do own a healthy share of is tools. Tools are to me, a different kind of possession. They aren't possessions that say "Look at me!", they aren't something that I use as a status symbol, they aren't pointless possessions. No - tools are something that says "I've got this." I use my tools to make a living, to do for myself, to teach. My tools give me independence and if used properly can even be used to spread independence.

I think we're heading down a dangerous path. When most of the people rent someone still has to own what was rented. When people do nothing but stream someone still has control of the source material. When you don't have your own tools you have to depend on someone to provide them for you. When you can't control your own propulsion you can only go where others will take you. In situations where the many are dependent on the few, the few tend to get fewer in time as they are bought out or consolidated after deaths, etc... In turn the fewer the sources of provision are, the more power the providers have.
Eventually we all become slaves existing at the leisure of those who control the resources.

I just realized after typing that last line that it sounds like some sort of socialist manifesto - at least when that line stands alone. Quite the opposite - w

Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018

* It's why I asked a question of you as to WHY You'd do that (attracting 'trolls' etc. whom everyone KNOWS constantly STALK me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts).

This isn't DEFENSIVE - this IS truly OFFENSE, & a good offense IS THE BEST DEFENSE!

(Yes, I KNOW you are raymorris too... don't TRY "bs" me it's not).

APK

P.S.=> If I down-modded comment has hosts file in the subject line, I know why it's down-modded and hidden - it's not something anyone wants to read, and I'm not going to read it. - by raymorris (2726007) on Thursday February 06, 2014 @07:24PM (#46180661)

Then why'd you post hosts file https://slashdot.org/comments.... in YOUR subject line raymorris? apk

raymorris make a wheel https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... vs. setting urself up 4 https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

* Only thing holding you back, is YOU... & I felt it was a GREAT "New Year's Resolution" for ANY "geek"/"nerd" (etc., whatever) & I've BEEN doing it porting my program to MULTIPLATFORM everywhere on OS's galore (soon to be MacOS too) doing what it said in "taking yourself out of your 'comfort zone'" in doing so (OS I didn't use regularly until this year & last year).

Do something others can USE that benefits them on MANY FRONTS (as hosts files do in more speed/security/reliability/anonymity online) & put their hands on that's ALL YOUR OWN CODE (not software-janitor maintenance work on OTHERS' already EXISTING code).

APK

P.S.=> I did what that article suggests LONG BEFORE IT CAME OUT & my wheel works well not only for me, part of the point of the SANS (excellent security site) article, but also for 100,000++ users worldwide w/ even DOZENS of /.ers liking/using my work (not yours) - try do the same vs. "staring up trouble" etc. (idle hands = the devil's workshop & you're exemplifying that saying in your actions now (or rather, LACK of ACTION))... apk

raymorris make a wheel https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... vs. setting urself up 4 https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

* Only thing holding you back, is YOU... & I felt it was a GREAT "New Year's Resolution" for ANY "geek"/"nerd" (etc., whatever) & I've BEEN doing it porting my program to MULTIPLATFORM everywhere on OS's galore (soon to be MacOS too) doing what it said in "taking yourself out of your 'comfort zone'" in doing so (OS I didn't use regularly until this year & last year).

(I did & my wheel works well not only for me, part of the point of the SANS (excellent security site) article, but also for 100,000++ users worldwide w/ even DOZENS of /.ers liking/using my work (not yours)).

APK

P.S.=> You speak of deliberataly provoking an argument raymorris (yes, I know it's you by the way who I am replying to now) - you lost this one due to you doing that VERY thing you bitch of now by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous reply ("standing behind your words", not) - why not answer my question in that link instead of doing a "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" not using your "registered 'luser'" account & instead doing your NOW obvious UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous "brave" post? apk

raymorris did you say that since apk trashed you before like he did here yesterday https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... ? Yes obviously. You seem jealous of apk. The timestamp on your post here is same time as your post before apk's reply there to it in that link above and it all gave you away raymorris.

First off, new ICE cars will probably stop selling in about 2 more years

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I pay $0.034/kWh off-peak.

pssst swillden...I suggest you give "Con Rocky" a call first thing in the morning.

Nazi homosexual recruiter RAY MORRIS pushing debunked Nazi propaganda even after corrected, #ROPE

Hmm. Looks like I made A mistake in that previous post

Well except you made the exact same mistake at least TWICE.
Let's say your fingers slipped typing $0.03 instead of your supposed intended $0.01 submitting your posting.
However, you also had to have made exactly the same mistake in the actual calculation (adding a "3" instead of your supposed intended "1") to arrive at your "28(25+"3") cents cost-per -mile".
Besides, $0.01 per mile would require electricity cost at ~$0.04/kWh. You're paying $0.10/kWh in Utah.
Looks like your "mistake" of $$0.03/mile is much closer to actual costs than your now brand new $0.01/mile.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. In 2014, Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, the company is now calling itself Xfinity.

In my experience, it is Comcast policy to be abusive to customers. One result is that Comcast employees abuse Comcast.

How Comcast is Shortchanging Customers In Vermont

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