Bah. The argument was that there are security flaws that will be used as attacks if the code is on view of the public. It's the classic (meaningless) anti-open source argument. If the code was good then it wouldn't matter if it is viewed or not.
You're a little screwed up there. Hollywood accounting is used to "prove" a movie DIDN'T make money, not that it did. It means they don't pay out the percentages of gross that big money actors are paid.
Let's see, we have Mike Brown, who MIGHT have "attacked," though the witnesses are starting to be questionable.
We have a guy that said "I am not going to jail" and did nothing physically and was choked to death.
We have a kid who had a toy gun who was killed withing 5 seconds and was never given a chance to comply.
We have a guy in a wal-mart who had a toy gun and was given less than a SECOND to comply.
The guy in St. Louis who pointed a gun at the gas station... that's a justified one. We don't care about actual attacks.
Again, what you just called for was authoritarianism. A black guy should apparently hit the dirt whenever a cop drives by.
This is coming from a white guy, FUCK YOU, you are part of the problem.. Stop listening to assholes with an agenda like Bill O'Reilly. Learn to do some critical thinking. It's deliciously ironic you accused me of "parroting" when you're the only who can only spout stereotype and hate.
Again, I don't understand why the arguments assume there has to be ONE winner, or that one way wipes out the other way. If we cut BACK on dead animal fuel it will be an improvement. There is room for more than one way to fuel a house.
This stinks of another all-or-nothing argument. I would guess that EVERY house will still use mains power. If you can make your own electricity at a decent enough cost it's a net gain, even if you are still connected to the grid. It doesn't solve ALL power problems, but no single system solves all problems.
I'm sorry, but the way things are going in the US, dark ages is probably not all that hyperbolic. The US could become something like the wasteland that fundamentalism has cause in the Middle-East.
I read an article on this some time back and I unfortunately can't cite where. It stated that the more expensive hotels actually have lower margins of profit than the cheaper hotels and they can't afford to make those amenities for free. Everything is more expensive for them and the profit is lower, so they tend to nickle-and-dime the fees quite a bit more.
I did not RTFA of course, but another possibility is to give the ability to dump kiddie porn on a target's computer to create more suspicion and give them leverage and a PR boost. I used to think the Police were above such things and that the "plant a gun" meme was rare, but as we have seen in St. Louis and making public records available that show the victim might not be a great guy... maybe this happens more than we think.
Yeah, replying to a troll isn't good, but in a time when most sane people that the power of the police, the SOPs of the police, and the hiring practices of the police need a makeover it is yet another black eye. I support GOOD police officers, but it appears that the bad has penetrated every level of police procedure.
In the new Feudalism, the corporations are going to own anything. It's the same thing. If they control how government is run then they ARE the government.
Yeah.. great, but Word renders documents differently computer to computer.
The use of.doc or.docx for that purpose shows a lack of understanding of how the file file formats work or what purpose. The proper file format for that purpose is usually PDF.
I was too busy to make comments when this story came up, but I've worked providing IT for offices for a good part of my life. You can get secretaries to bitch about anything. Moving to Windows so they can use the corporate-blessed Microsoft Office doesn't help that. You will still get bitching and moaning.
You are always going to have problems with any type of "office" app because of the people using it.
It's a decent point, but you didn't follow through. The whole point is that cars depend on computers MORE than having a computerized dashboard. What you are mentioning in your second paragraph is quite trivial.
Computers are used to regulate just about every system in your car. If a "hacker" gets into your car and shuts down the brake system then it's a whole lot worse than if he's just putting a picture of Goat.se on the dashboard.
Soooo... by the end of next decade they are building a Linux distro.
The trick is that it will only run a version of Microsoft Office and almost nothing else. it will have a packing system that reboots the machine every 15 minutes, and have it's very own version of gcc that has tons of undocumented function calls.
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Bah. The argument was that there are security flaws that will be used as attacks if the code is on view of the public. It's the classic (meaningless) anti-open source argument. If the code was good then it wouldn't matter if it is viewed or not.
So the argument here is that security by obscurity is the only thing that is making it usable?
If that is a case then the whole thing should be killed. It's even worse than I thought it was.
And damn the shoddy business aps that rely on it. Maybe the can actually take responsibility for their mess for once.
You're a little screwed up there. Hollywood accounting is used to "prove" a movie DIDN'T make money, not that it did. It means they don't pay out the percentages of gross that big money actors are paid.
Let's see, we have Mike Brown, who MIGHT have "attacked," though the witnesses are starting to be questionable.
We have a guy that said "I am not going to jail" and did nothing physically and was choked to death.
We have a kid who had a toy gun who was killed withing 5 seconds and was never given a chance to comply.
We have a guy in a wal-mart who had a toy gun and was given less than a SECOND to comply.
The guy in St. Louis who pointed a gun at the gas station... that's a justified one. We don't care about actual attacks.
Again, what you just called for was authoritarianism. A black guy should apparently hit the dirt whenever a cop drives by.
This is coming from a white guy, FUCK YOU, you are part of the problem.. Stop listening to assholes with an agenda like Bill O'Reilly. Learn to do some critical thinking. It's deliciously ironic you accused me of "parroting" when you're the only who can only spout stereotype and hate.
The mass protests are about people being killed and are happening because authorities aren't listening.
You have a really stupid false equivalency there...
Again, I don't understand why the arguments assume there has to be ONE winner, or that one way wipes out the other way. If we cut BACK on dead animal fuel it will be an improvement. There is room for more than one way to fuel a house.
This stinks of another all-or-nothing argument. I would guess that EVERY house will still use mains power. If you can make your own electricity at a decent enough cost it's a net gain, even if you are still connected to the grid. It doesn't solve ALL power problems, but no single system solves all problems.
How fast until his business model is made illegal?
Seriously... that's the way it works in the USA right now. Everyone is pro free market until their business model gets twacked by new technology.
I'm sorry, but the way things are going in the US, dark ages is probably not all that hyperbolic. The US could become something like the wasteland that fundamentalism has cause in the Middle-East.
I see no counterargument to his statement. Just personal attack.
That's because the world is fucked and nothing maters. At all.
Seriously. If the Camel wasn't hurt shut the fuck up.
I read an article on this some time back and I unfortunately can't cite where. It stated that the more expensive hotels actually have lower margins of profit than the cheaper hotels and they can't afford to make those amenities for free. Everything is more expensive for them and the profit is lower, so they tend to nickle-and-dime the fees quite a bit more.
I did not RTFA of course, but another possibility is to give the ability to dump kiddie porn on a target's computer to create more suspicion and give them leverage and a PR boost. I used to think the Police were above such things and that the "plant a gun" meme was rare, but as we have seen in St. Louis and making public records available that show the victim might not be a great guy... maybe this happens more than we think.
Yeah, replying to a troll isn't good, but in a time when most sane people that the power of the police, the SOPs of the police, and the hiring practices of the police need a makeover it is yet another black eye. I support GOOD police officers, but it appears that the bad has penetrated every level of police procedure.
Yeah. They can do two factor auth. The key fob they sell will only cost $595 and work only with Safari.
In the new Feudalism, the corporations are going to own anything. It's the same thing. If they control how government is run then they ARE the government.
Yeah.. great, but Word renders documents differently computer to computer.
The use of .doc or .docx for that purpose shows a lack of understanding of how the file file formats work or what purpose. The proper file format for that purpose is usually PDF.
I was too busy to make comments when this story came up, but I've worked providing IT for offices for a good part of my life. You can get secretaries to bitch about anything. Moving to Windows so they can use the corporate-blessed Microsoft Office doesn't help that. You will still get bitching and moaning.
You are always going to have problems with any type of "office" app because of the people using it.
It's a decent point, but you didn't follow through. The whole point is that cars depend on computers MORE than having a computerized dashboard. What you are mentioning in your second paragraph is quite trivial.
Computers are used to regulate just about every system in your car. If a "hacker" gets into your car and shuts down the brake system then it's a whole lot worse than if he's just putting a picture of Goat.se on the dashboard.
And THIS, pals, is why the screaming about regulations is so damn stupid.
Someone didn't get his bribe!
The only irreplaceable people have "president" or "vice-president" in their title.
Soooo... by the end of next decade they are building a Linux distro.
The trick is that it will only run a version of Microsoft Office and almost nothing else. it will have a packing system that reboots the machine every 15 minutes, and have it's very own version of gcc that has tons of undocumented function calls.
Suddenly you forget that any filesystem other than NTFS exists.
You can't write code that works on any other OS.
You bow down to the great shrine of Gates.
You're screwed. Totally screwed.