7. Support anonymity where prudent, and accountability where necessary.
Who determines necessity? If left up to any current government, the necessity would be determined by who wants to be anonymous. Senators - sure, they need privacy for their solicitations of pages; Joe Shmoe Public - nah, its better to keep tabs on him, he could be a terrorist...
The truth is, if your not doing something illegal, you aren't very interesting to the police or the government. There are just too many people in the world for anyone to monitor them all.
You fail to take into account data mining software. You may not think that what you are talking about/browsing/etc. is all that interesting, but if some algorithm puts together enough conversations there is no telling if you will set of a false positive.
Yum and Apt both handle this very well. Its just a matter of design. All your computer needs to know is which packages (downloads) it has, and then request current version numbers for these packages from the update server. If the update server has a new version - download it. It does put a bit more load on your local system, and it requires a log of current versions saved, but the difference is negligible.
What would be the difference? If you are downloading updates for a driver, one could reasonable infer that you have the hardware for that driver. Its just whether they are being told you have a piece of hardware or whether you can make a reasonable, educated guess, they are going to get the same results either way.
I don't know for sure, but I would expect that yum, at the very least, sends what base architecture and OS you are running, along with IP, etc. or that you can get that information based on what is requested. Not enough info to pick out one computer from a large install base, but enough to pick out most home users. Microsoft does collect a lot more, much of it they don't have any visible need to collect, but if you are getting your updates over the internet, you are already identified.
The over estimation is only due to time since I last ordered from Dell. Last summer, the minimum shipping cost per their website was $100, this was when I was purchasing a laptop from them. If they have lowered the cost since then, thats good.
Total - $363.78 (including shipping on parts)
Dell system - $375 (not including shipping, which usually runs about $100).
Savings - about $125. This is using all new parts, no OEM. savings would be a lot more depending on how new you want the parts to be.
The major labels do perform the filtering service for you, but you'd be amazed at how much excellent stuff gets filtered out.
That is because the filters the labels use aren't the same filters you or I would use. The filters the labels use are "Is this good enough that most people won't automatically turn off their radios?" and "Can I control/mislead/etc. these artists well enough to keep making money off of them as long as possible?" This leads to all these new pop artists sounding enough alike to be relatively interchangeable, and stupid enough to appear in the tabloids once or twice a month.
Cameras are only good if you are in range of the cameras. Anyone with an antenna with a decent gain can break at least a front door (I don't know if they give off any sort of confirmation other than an LED) reader without much personal risk.
You didn't read very far in the article. It says, very plainly, that while the Vanguard submarines aren't regularly connected over anything useful. The type 45 destroyers, that require enormous amounts of precision in their instruments, and have large payloads, are very connected, not only to other destroyers but to satellite networks and even (over a couple networks) to the net.
When you use the command line you have to make sure you spell the package name exactly right, for example "sudo apt-get install flash" won't work, but "sudo apt-get install flash-nonfree" does.
Which is a major impediment to install a software package unless you know exactly what it is called. But if you just go to Google, or SourceForge or something, you can do a close search and find exactly what you need, but good luck getting it installed if you can't then find it in your package manager's repositories...
I personally like the package management system. I like having one place to look for software for my system, software that I know has been tested with the programs I likely have on my system...
And there is no reason to take it away, but the difficulty in installing anything else, and the incompatibility of all the different package management systems is a major hang-up for Linux.
It makes no sense to make software difficult to install so that users can't install malware, but still expect them to use Linux. There is a trade off and at some point you have to trust your users. Also, malware isn't so prevalent now just because users will download and install anything they find on the internet, Windows, and many programs running on Windows, have very large security holes that allow for this.
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I believe you ignored part of my comment "except... by the elite upper class" which I believe would include most scientific professionals. Latin has not been in common usage pretty much since the sack of Rome, although it was understood by common people for several centuries afterwards. IANAL but if a language is spoken by less than 1% of the native population (in this case Europeans) it is effectively dead. Dead doesn't, as someone else mentioned, mean unused. I can still learn Latin or ancient Greek and find people who would understand me, this doesn't mean that they are still living languages.
Why do Linux fundamentalists believe that all users are idiots and they should go somewhere else? Until the majority of Linux users and developers get past this mentality we will never see Linux accepted into the main stream desktop market. Yes, most general users can find all the software they need in a single distro, but most users don't know Ubuntu from Fedora from SUSE. If they pick a distro that doesn't include a software package that they want it shouldn't require uninstalling the OS and installing a new one. Distros shouldn't have to include every single piece of software that a user might want also. If they stopped doing this distros wouldn't require 5+ CDs or a DVD or two. Now, don't get me wrong, I appreciate having most of the programs I will need available on a set of five CDs, but this shouldn't be a requirement of distros. MS took that mentality with lots of things (specifically IE and the media player) and got slammed with anti-trust lawsuits. The non-system required software should be independent of the operating system, making the other software easily available is a feature of the different distros, but you shouldn't have to pick a distro based on the software that will come prepackaged.
packaging is the most major part of a distribution's job.
This is one of the places Linux gets it wrong. My operating system should not be responsible for all the software I might at some point want to install. Windows messes this up too at times (IE), but MS is much less of an offender than Linux is. It should be responsible for making it easy to install new software, among many other things, but it should not be responsible for every software program out on the web.
An operating system should be responsible for the kernel, file system, and the nuts and bolts of keeping the system running in general. The program creators should be responsible for packaging so that it can be installed (with the help of the operating system) and should also be responsible for dependencies. It should not be my job to spend three hours searching the web for some obscure package that the program creators just couldn't do without. If they see it as necessary, and they know its not readily available, they should package it with their own program (GPL and BSD licenses both support this and is one of the strengths of these licenses).
and do not confront the newbie with stuff like vi/emacs, kernels, shells and window managers unless he _deliberately_ looks after them.
Unless, of course, the newbie does want to install a software package that doesn't come pre-installed with the distro chosen. Once that happens it is a crap shoot at best whether it is even possible to install the new software, which is what this article is all about. What needs to happen is for the core Linux user base to get over their egos (I know I am going to get an "Are you new here?" for that) and realize that ease of use for the general public is more important than doing things they way they have always been done. Windows has gone far past the opposite extreme and made everything so easy to do that one can't do anything, but there is a middle ground. Doing things in an inter-operable manner wouldn't preclude custom, build it yourself, distros, it would simply make it easier for a newcomer to start and get the software they want to use.
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Actually, that is a misconception. Even 500 years ago Latin was all but a dead language. It was only used in Catholic religious ceremonies and by the elite upper class (and then as a snobbish affectation). Most people spoke older versions of the languages we know now.
If that was set up they wouldn't even need the postcards. Any free wireless hot spot at hotels or your local Starbucks has it set up to route any request to a sign on/EULA/etc. page before you can do anything. All it would take is setting this same thing up on the router and you are good to go. The trick there would be phishing tricks that might copy that page layout to get a username/password for the router, but there isn't a whole lot that can be done to stop that (as evidenced by the incessant barrage of phishing spam I get).
The point, IMHO, of RPGs and any game in which you are supposed to progress and grow your character will require starting at some point and progressively going through more difficult tasks and quests. If you don't like that premise then you are playing the wrong type of game and should play something else. What I hear when people complain like this are just munchkins. If you have top of the line powers from the beginning of the game, what is the point of playing the game? Now, some games handle this progression better than others (MMORPGS are notoriously bad at this), but complaining about the objective of the game as being too difficult, or taking too long, is no more than a childish complaint.
In-car passengers shut up when they notice that the driver is trying to merge onto the interstate, or make a turn across the oncoming lane. It's automatic.... Cell phones, however, don't lend themselves to being ignored or put down while a driver is doing something important.
I don't know about your experience, but in my experience with a two and a half year old, compared to most cell phone conversations, most people I am on the phone with are more amiable to me setting the phone down for a minute than my son is to ignoring him for a moment. Now, that said, this still requires personal responsibility on the driver's part to tell his/her conversant to hold for a moment, but it isn't impossible, nor even difficult to do.
The thing is, and I haven't read the bill in question so I am not 100%, but as described, if it only requires a common rating system on all (insert media here) then it isn't actually censorship as it doesn't prevent the media from being created, published, or sold.
The method of the rating system (such as making all games be fully played by the rating board) may, depending on the judge hearing the court case, constitute an undue burden on free speech, but that depends on a judge agreeing with that view. Its hard to say exactly how many of the current federal judges would decide on such a case as most of them have been appointed under Republican leadership which on one hand favors nanny state (or as they call it "values" issues), but on the other hand they favor big business...
Agreed, but when purchasing CDs you are often paying @$1.25-$1.50 per song, bad ones that you won't ever listen to again included; which winds up costing you about $7-$10 on average per good song. When you buy from an online music store you are paying @$0.99 per song you want; not every one of them will be a gem that you want to listen to repeatedly, but it will average out to far less than $7 per song.
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You fail to take into account data mining software. You may not think that what you are talking about/browsing/etc. is all that interesting, but if some algorithm puts together enough conversations there is no telling if you will set of a false positive.
From the WGA Blog
- Source ID (which product is requesting an update) - necessary to get the right patches
- Event Code - Not sure what sort of events this is tracking, curious, but not necessarily evil
- Version - I assume this means version of the updater, but could mean version of the base software, either way see #1
- Hash of the event - good security check
- Custom Data - completely unexplained, this is what worries me the most in the list
- Return Code - ok from a usability standpoint (most websites track when users leave, so I put this in the same class as that)
- Part of a domain? - no reason for this to be sent, as far as I can see
- Partial binary product key - piracy reasons? Can't think of any other good reason for this
- WPA hash - also unexplained, but probably related to the above
- OS version - see #1
- User locale ID (langauge) - reasonable if they are presenting nationalized dialogs, removes a prompt from the user
- System locale ID (computer default language) - don't see much of a reason for this except as a backup for the first, odd
- Diagnostic code - reasonable for debugging
- Client Id - i.e. GUID - why do they get this if they aren't using it for user tracking
- HD volume serial - no reason for this, except user identification
- Computer security hash - see above
Other than those last identifiers, most of the information I see requested make sense.Yum and Apt both handle this very well. Its just a matter of design. All your computer needs to know is which packages (downloads) it has, and then request current version numbers for these packages from the update server. If the update server has a new version - download it. It does put a bit more load on your local system, and it requires a log of current versions saved, but the difference is negligible.
What would be the difference? If you are downloading updates for a driver, one could reasonable infer that you have the hardware for that driver. Its just whether they are being told you have a piece of hardware or whether you can make a reasonable, educated guess, they are going to get the same results either way.
I don't know for sure, but I would expect that yum, at the very least, sends what base architecture and OS you are running, along with IP, etc. or that you can get that information based on what is requested. Not enough info to pick out one computer from a large install base, but enough to pick out most home users. Microsoft does collect a lot more, much of it they don't have any visible need to collect, but if you are getting your updates over the internet, you are already identified.
The over estimation is only due to time since I last ordered from Dell. Last summer, the minimum shipping cost per their website was $100, this was when I was purchasing a laptop from them. If they have lowered the cost since then, thats good.
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processor - $53
- RAM - $38.99
- Hard Drive - $55
- DVD-ROM - $24.99 (new)
- Chasis (with power supply) - $42.80
- Motherboard - $124 (new)
- USB mouse and keyboard - about $25
Total - $363.78 (including shipping on parts) Dell system - $375 (not including shipping, which usually runs about $100). Savings - about $125. This is using all new parts, no OEM. savings would be a lot more depending on how new you want the parts to be.That is because the filters the labels use aren't the same filters you or I would use. The filters the labels use are "Is this good enough that most people won't automatically turn off their radios?" and "Can I control/mislead/etc. these artists well enough to keep making money off of them as long as possible?" This leads to all these new pop artists sounding enough alike to be relatively interchangeable, and stupid enough to appear in the tabloids once or twice a month.
Cameras are only good if you are in range of the cameras. Anyone with an antenna with a decent gain can break at least a front door (I don't know if they give off any sort of confirmation other than an LED) reader without much personal risk.
You didn't read very far in the article. It says, very plainly, that while the Vanguard submarines aren't regularly connected over anything useful. The type 45 destroyers, that require enormous amounts of precision in their instruments, and have large payloads, are very connected, not only to other destroyers but to satellite networks and even (over a couple networks) to the net.
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ISR, malware serves you to Microsoft.
Which is a major impediment to install a software package unless you know exactly what it is called. But if you just go to Google, or SourceForge or something, you can do a close search and find exactly what you need, but good luck getting it installed if you can't then find it in your package manager's repositories...
And there is no reason to take it away, but the difficulty in installing anything else, and the incompatibility of all the different package management systems is a major hang-up for Linux.
It makes no sense to make software difficult to install so that users can't install malware, but still expect them to use Linux. There is a trade off and at some point you have to trust your users. Also, malware isn't so prevalent now just because users will download and install anything they find on the internet, Windows, and many programs running on Windows, have very large security holes that allow for this.
I believe you ignored part of my comment "except ... by the elite upper class" which I believe would include most scientific professionals. Latin has not been in common usage pretty much since the sack of Rome, although it was understood by common people for several centuries afterwards. IANAL but if a language is spoken by less than 1% of the native population (in this case Europeans) it is effectively dead. Dead doesn't, as someone else mentioned, mean unused. I can still learn Latin or ancient Greek and find people who would understand me, this doesn't mean that they are still living languages.
Why do Linux fundamentalists believe that all users are idiots and they should go somewhere else? Until the majority of Linux users and developers get past this mentality we will never see Linux accepted into the main stream desktop market. Yes, most general users can find all the software they need in a single distro, but most users don't know Ubuntu from Fedora from SUSE. If they pick a distro that doesn't include a software package that they want it shouldn't require uninstalling the OS and installing a new one. Distros shouldn't have to include every single piece of software that a user might want also. If they stopped doing this distros wouldn't require 5+ CDs or a DVD or two. Now, don't get me wrong, I appreciate having most of the programs I will need available on a set of five CDs, but this shouldn't be a requirement of distros. MS took that mentality with lots of things (specifically IE and the media player) and got slammed with anti-trust lawsuits. The non-system required software should be independent of the operating system, making the other software easily available is a feature of the different distros, but you shouldn't have to pick a distro based on the software that will come prepackaged.
This is one of the places Linux gets it wrong. My operating system should not be responsible for all the software I might at some point want to install. Windows messes this up too at times (IE), but MS is much less of an offender than Linux is. It should be responsible for making it easy to install new software, among many other things, but it should not be responsible for every software program out on the web.
An operating system should be responsible for the kernel, file system, and the nuts and bolts of keeping the system running in general. The program creators should be responsible for packaging so that it can be installed (with the help of the operating system) and should also be responsible for dependencies. It should not be my job to spend three hours searching the web for some obscure package that the program creators just couldn't do without. If they see it as necessary, and they know its not readily available, they should package it with their own program (GPL and BSD licenses both support this and is one of the strengths of these licenses).
Unless, of course, the newbie does want to install a software package that doesn't come pre-installed with the distro chosen. Once that happens it is a crap shoot at best whether it is even possible to install the new software, which is what this article is all about. What needs to happen is for the core Linux user base to get over their egos (I know I am going to get an "Are you new here?" for that) and realize that ease of use for the general public is more important than doing things they way they have always been done. Windows has gone far past the opposite extreme and made everything so easy to do that one can't do anything, but there is a middle ground. Doing things in an inter-operable manner wouldn't preclude custom, build it yourself, distros, it would simply make it easier for a newcomer to start and get the software they want to use.
Actually, that is a misconception. Even 500 years ago Latin was all but a dead language. It was only used in Catholic religious ceremonies and by the elite upper class (and then as a snobbish affectation). Most people spoke older versions of the languages we know now.
If that was set up they wouldn't even need the postcards. Any free wireless hot spot at hotels or your local Starbucks has it set up to route any request to a sign on/EULA/etc. page before you can do anything. All it would take is setting this same thing up on the router and you are good to go. The trick there would be phishing tricks that might copy that page layout to get a username/password for the router, but there isn't a whole lot that can be done to stop that (as evidenced by the incessant barrage of phishing spam I get).
The point, IMHO, of RPGs and any game in which you are supposed to progress and grow your character will require starting at some point and progressively going through more difficult tasks and quests. If you don't like that premise then you are playing the wrong type of game and should play something else. What I hear when people complain like this are just munchkins. If you have top of the line powers from the beginning of the game, what is the point of playing the game? Now, some games handle this progression better than others (MMORPGS are notoriously bad at this), but complaining about the objective of the game as being too difficult, or taking too long, is no more than a childish complaint.
I don't know about your experience, but in my experience with a two and a half year old, compared to most cell phone conversations, most people I am on the phone with are more amiable to me setting the phone down for a minute than my son is to ignoring him for a moment. Now, that said, this still requires personal responsibility on the driver's part to tell his/her conversant to hold for a moment, but it isn't impossible, nor even difficult to do.
The thing is, and I haven't read the bill in question so I am not 100%, but as described, if it only requires a common rating system on all (insert media here) then it isn't actually censorship as it doesn't prevent the media from being created, published, or sold.
The method of the rating system (such as making all games be fully played by the rating board) may, depending on the judge hearing the court case, constitute an undue burden on free speech, but that depends on a judge agreeing with that view. Its hard to say exactly how many of the current federal judges would decide on such a case as most of them have been appointed under Republican leadership which on one hand favors nanny state (or as they call it "values" issues), but on the other hand they favor big business...
Agreed, but when purchasing CDs you are often paying @$1.25-$1.50 per song, bad ones that you won't ever listen to again included; which winds up costing you about $7-$10 on average per good song. When you buy from an online music store you are paying @$0.99 per song you want; not every one of them will be a gem that you want to listen to repeatedly, but it will average out to far less than $7 per song.
Or, using this new technology, you can be thrown in prison for thinking about denying the Holocaust...