Many people are brought up to blindly accept authority and facts without evidence or actually thinking it over for themselves
That is a problem for sure.
Facts are taught as subjective, with an emphasis that reality itself is subjective
I don't see much of a problem with that - in the typical child-parent conversation scenario. For there to be an objective answer, question has to be really well posed - most children are incapable of that. E.g. "will moon be smaller tomorrow, mommy?" Now the Moon will not really be much smaller, but it might appear to be so in about one half of the lunar cycle. The Mommy has to answer according to the understanding level of the child - and later when the understanding improves, more details can be supplied. At times, this will prove that the Mommy lied earlier - and this is/will be debatable.
Even among well-informed grown-ups, in certain discussions it can make for a good shorthand to just say the Moon will be smaller tomorrow. Is it true? Yes and no.
Law and science both try to make the question more precise before answering it - the resulting language is not fit for typical human conversation due to being verbose , repetitive and boring.
You're speaking in your head and then translating the sounds into the language's script (or matching the sound with a written word that sounds like the word you want). How native speakers make those mistakes so often is a little more troubling."
Homophones are another story entirely, and convey a fundamental lack of understanding
Not at all. Short term memory is (for many people) more the sound of a word and less anything else.
With full understanding and deliberation one can "plan" in short-term to type "their". Now their short term memory just stored the sound - so when time comes to type the word brain just knows enough to send fingers the instruction - it can easily send an instruction for typing "there".
In fact, it is conceivable that GMO techniques could be used to make a peanut that didn't cause allergies.
Exactly. So the specific GMO strain identifier should always be specified on the food labels so that peanut allergics can eat those without worrying. Peanuts can easily have millions of GMO strains while remaining "peanuts" in everyday language - without strain information it is impossible to make various judgements about its safety.
Similarly for every other GMO product (non-GMO too should have the exact strain).
If I was running my own web server I'd be using Linux. I'd be using it as a system administrator and a web administrator and thus systemd would be an issue for me
But you aren't (running your own web server) by your own admission, so it isn't (systemd isn't an issue for you).
So you proved that Zero_Kelvin has better idea of what you do on your computers than yourself.
've done both jobs in the past. I only outsource my sites now because I don't want to do it, not because I can't do it.
Yes, we are talking about security. The only post in the ancestry of your post that gave any context said "how you're less secure on".
So not only information or computer security - but inclusive of the security of the person operating / having his data stored on the said computing device.
Loss of privacy is a security vulnerability from that point of view - there are others but insecurity through low privacy is definitely one.
I think our expectations are that it will improve and continue to be amazed
That is one aspect of expectation - temporal. Good in comparison to "earlier". A given computer(/car) once bought is typically not expected to improve much. Here, the Oculus guy is even saying that once they make good computers there will be a Rift for it - so its improvement over successive models is taken as a reasonable expectation. In this particular corner of this/. thread too, people have pointed out how GPU, CPU seats, sometimes RAM expandability and I/O capabilities of today's computers from Apple are seriously limited - and not in comparison with "earlier", but in comparison with others in the same price range.
That is the context here - not temporal. Otherwise the parent post of yours would have said " It has been awhile since I have been impressed with the performance of computer hardware".
They make fine computers. We're just not impressed because there haven't been any great leaps forward in
You're just lowering the definition of good/fine/great. It is like saying most mentally retarded people are extremely intelligent - we're just not impressed because there are even more intelligent people around.
It would be equally true, equally dishonest and equally meaningless statement as yours. Good/fine/great etc. are typically defined by the competition / surroundings / expectations set somehow.
Your way of implicitly changing accepted definition of words is a great way to have a lot to say, but not terribly useful.
For example, my Galaxy Note 3 just put a big warning up when I went to update the firmware, but allowed me to do it.
But my experience is that encrypted data from earlier operating systems is gone if such things are done to the phone. That is the point here - not only to change the operating system but do it in such a way as to preserve encrypted data.
I guess when it comes to pros and cons, the pro of being able to root your device is more important than the con of the FBI being able to root your device.
That is correct. The multitude of devices and configurations also means that FBI has to work hard at every device rather than around 4 or 5 iPhone models.
Though the multitude also gives a false sense of security to Android phone users - when a security vulnerability is found and publicised in one Android device, owners of other Android devices don't explicitly think theirs is vulnerable too. They should, but they typically don't.
Yeah OK, current situation is that people afflicted with the need to play certain games on their computer need to get speed spied on. Luckier people without the affliction can move to Linux.
True. Google have also stooped low enough to masquerade advertisements as search results - with only a slight background color change. For most non-geeks that don't spend every waking hour browsing the internet, that is indistinguishable from a search result.
Yeah, it is a problem similar to that of airlines - if one airline's management tries to cut costs so much as to endanger passengers' life more than necessary - people start trusting ALL airlines much less than earlier.
Governments taking a very active role in enforcing safety mechanisms of airlines is what has worked for them. Advertisers need to lobby governments hard to regulate the advertising industry. Though I know it is not going to happen in the US - regulation is a four-letter word here.
This is presently not happening, or being given over to our 'machine minds' to manage for us
And due to (variants of) halting problem, it is not possible for machines to tell for sure whether a script is malware or not. Machines can try to match the script against known malware patterns - but it is a losing battle.
In general doing this cheaply and scalably is a problem - analyzing scripts en-masse and determining if they are malware.
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Many people are brought up to blindly accept authority and facts without evidence or actually thinking it over for themselves
That is a problem for sure.
Facts are taught as subjective, with an emphasis that reality itself is subjective
I don't see much of a problem with that - in the typical child-parent conversation scenario. For there to be an objective answer, question has to be really well posed - most children are incapable of that. E.g. "will moon be smaller tomorrow, mommy?" Now the Moon will not really be much smaller, but it might appear to be so in about one half of the lunar cycle. The Mommy has to answer according to the understanding level of the child - and later when the understanding improves, more details can be supplied. At times, this will prove that the Mommy lied earlier - and this is/will be debatable.
Even among well-informed grown-ups, in certain discussions it can make for a good shorthand to just say the Moon will be smaller tomorrow. Is it true? Yes and no.
Law and science both try to make the question more precise before answering it - the resulting language is not fit for typical human conversation due to being verbose , repetitive and boring.
Your signature can use past tense now.
You're speaking in your head and then translating the sounds into the language's script (or matching the sound with a written word that sounds like the word you want). How native speakers make those mistakes so often is a little more troubling."
There is nothing troubling about it.
Even after knowing the language perfectly such homonym swaps can come out during typing text out in the language. Get over it.
Homophones are another story entirely, and convey a fundamental lack of understanding
Not at all. Short term memory is (for many people) more the sound of a word and less anything else.
With full understanding and deliberation one can "plan" in short-term to type "their". Now their short term memory just stored the sound - so when time comes to type the word brain just knows enough to send fingers the instruction - it can easily send an instruction for typing "there".
Of Ulm?
In fact, it is conceivable that GMO techniques could be used to make a peanut that didn't cause allergies.
Exactly. So the specific GMO strain identifier should always be specified on the food labels so that peanut allergics can eat those without worrying. Peanuts can easily have millions of GMO strains while remaining "peanuts" in everyday language - without strain information it is impossible to make various judgements about its safety.
Similarly for every other GMO product (non-GMO too should have the exact strain).
If I was running my own web server I'd be using Linux. I'd be using it as a system administrator and a web administrator and thus systemd would be an issue for me
But you aren't (running your own web server) by your own admission, so it isn't (systemd isn't an issue for you).
So you proved that Zero_Kelvin has better idea of what you do on your computers than yourself.
've done both jobs in the past. I only outsource my sites now because I don't want to do it, not because I can't do it.
Irrelevant.
With Linux, do you envisage using systemd for outsourcing your web server?
They're certainly collecting more now but they do have a history of keeping that data to themselves
So did A&P and Radioshack. Data once out of your control cannot be brought back into it.
Yes, we are talking about security. The only post in the ancestry of your post that gave any context said "how you're less secure on".
So not only information or computer security - but inclusive of the security of the person operating / having his data stored on the said computing device.
Loss of privacy is a security vulnerability from that point of view - there are others but insecurity through low privacy is definitely one.
I think our expectations are that it will improve and continue to be amazed
That is one aspect of expectation - temporal. Good in comparison to "earlier". A given computer(/car) once bought is typically not expected to improve much. Here, the Oculus guy is even saying that once they make good computers there will be a Rift for it - so its improvement over successive models is taken as a reasonable expectation. /. thread too, people have pointed out how GPU, CPU seats, sometimes RAM expandability and I/O capabilities of today's computers from Apple are seriously limited - and not in comparison with "earlier", but in comparison with others in the same price range.
In this particular corner of this
That is the context here - not temporal. Otherwise the parent post of yours would have said " It has been awhile since I have been impressed with the performance of computer hardware".
Top-end AMD? Look, winning special Olympics is impressive and all but is not generally considered the benchmark. Unfair, but life is unfair.
They make fine computers. We're just not impressed because there haven't been any great leaps forward in
You're just lowering the definition of good/fine/great. It is like saying most mentally retarded people are extremely intelligent - we're just not impressed because there are even more intelligent people around.
It would be equally true, equally dishonest and equally meaningless statement as yours. Good/fine/great etc. are typically defined by the competition / surroundings / expectations set somehow.
Your way of implicitly changing accepted definition of words is a great way to have a lot to say, but not terribly useful.
That is crazy talk.
Don't recall anywhere in the installs that says they can freely use up bandwidth either (of import for those that tether).
Honest question - did you read the EULA and consulted a lawyer for its implications?
Why don't you use the Mint Debian edition then? It shouldn't have these issues, right? Maybe it has different issues.
For example, my Galaxy Note 3 just put a big warning up when I went to update the firmware, but allowed me to do it.
But my experience is that encrypted data from earlier operating systems is gone if such things are done to the phone. That is the point here - not only to change the operating system but do it in such a way as to preserve encrypted data.
I guess when it comes to pros and cons, the pro of being able to root your device is more important than the con of the FBI being able to root your device.
That is correct. The multitude of devices and configurations also means that FBI has to work hard at every device rather than around 4 or 5 iPhone models.
Though the multitude also gives a false sense of security to Android phone users - when a security vulnerability is found and publicised in one Android device, owners of other Android devices don't explicitly think theirs is vulnerable too. They should, but they typically don't.
Should you be required to log into your PC in order to install an OS?
If the previous OS's encrypted data is supposed to be preserved? Hell yes.
Yeah OK, current situation is that people afflicted with the need to play certain games on their computer need to get speed spied on. Luckier people without the affliction can move to Linux.
True. Google have also stooped low enough to masquerade advertisements as search results - with only a slight background color change. For most non-geeks that don't spend every waking hour browsing the internet, that is indistinguishable from a search result.
Yeah, it is a problem similar to that of airlines - if one airline's management tries to cut costs so much as to endanger passengers' life more than necessary - people start trusting ALL airlines much less than earlier.
Governments taking a very active role in enforcing safety mechanisms of airlines is what has worked for them. Advertisers need to lobby governments hard to regulate the advertising industry. Though I know it is not going to happen in the US - regulation is a four-letter word here.
This is presently not happening, or being given over to our 'machine minds' to manage for us
And due to (variants of) halting problem, it is not possible for machines to tell for sure whether a script is malware or not. Machines can try to match the script against known malware patterns - but it is a losing battle.
In general doing this cheaply and scalably is a problem - analyzing scripts en-masse and determining if they are malware.
It's only common sense that more energy into a system means more life. That's what life does best.
For this, fire will have to be included in the definition of "life". Also, the nuclear fusion reaction fields like the body of the Sun.
Generally accepted definitions of life do not include those, but general acceptance can change over time.
You cannot vote at 18 in all jurisdictions.
Voting is not a very important decision in itself either - many others typically need to confirm the voter's decision for the vote to have any effect.