True that. But it sure can probably present the opportunity for someone who's a potential cheater, without which they might have just been married happ... well, ever after, at least.
Not being in contact with other people through facebook or whatever could be likened to security through obscurity, which is *not* the way to go with computers or with relationships.
Yup yup. For some time now, we've grown accustomed to sloppily calling the whole OS "Linux", and maybe we should let language evolve how it evolves and accept that the common usage is what defines it.
It has led to the funny situation that we hear that Android is not *really* Linux (as in GNU/X11/Linux), while it technically does have the kernel underneath.
And people actually sign this shit, that is the problem. It works against you because if you don't sign it, they throw you out. If EVERYONE refuses to sign it, the company is the one who is fucked.
It's like the prisoners dilemma with millions of participants.
It's simple. Vote with your wallet and don't buy Sony.
That surely is the way to go. Unfortunately it isn't enough. Yet. The other thing to do is to do what you just did, to implore others to do the same.
As it stands, consumers are, by and large, not the rational entities who will vote with all their wallets for a better future for themselves and their fellow consumers. The ones with the money have the power to pervert consumerism.
The reason is that marketing works.
The fight against the powerful propaganda machine of marketing is a tough one.
Of course, it's actually the proprietary systems, programs and formats that are at fault for poor interoperability, but the reality is it doesn't matter if the evil lock-inners that have cornered the market are to blame, the foreign office has to get it's job done.
Free software has a better chance in many other places, while working towards the goal of good interoperability, when everyone can finally shed their shackles.
You're right, Kojack would solve this in a heartbeat. Columbo would also, although he might first pretend for a while he didn't understand this emailing thing.
Seeing Kojack and Columbo working together would be super cool.
Sure. Talking to your kids in an honest open manner about all things is no guarantee, but it is still an important factor for having a good relationship with them and keeping them out of trouble.
Make sure there's an open environment at home where the parents take an interest in the kids and talk about what they've been up to and what they're going to do.
This will (statistically) make the kids want to share what happens in their life, which in turn will make them not do stupid things they'd have to hide.
The US or the international community won't force China. We only force weak countries that don't pose any real threat, like Saddams Iraq after more than a decade of UN sanctions and with no WMD:s.
The panda is a big expensive compared to the "plugs". I don't know how much the HDMI and whatever other unwanted things for a headless server cost. Haven't seen a panda-like "server board". That would be sweet. Not as the $29-for-everyone-plug, but for geeks who want a bit beefier "plug"...
I developed a slight aversion against being at the dentist since one time, when a dentist asked if I wanted anesthesia I thought if he asks, it can't be that bad...
When I'm in the chair, undergoing something unpleasant, I tap the back of my hand with my finger and try to focus my thoughts on my tapping. I think it might be helping a little.
I think there are techniques resembling this in cognitive behavioral therapy, but I haven't looked into it any deeper. I don't fear the dentist that much.
And I'd mod you sideways if there was that option and if I could see any plusses and/or minuses on the metamod page, so that I could metamod and maybe get some modpoints.
I'm pretty convinced that Brin & Page have some specific political-philosophical motivations for what they do (partly based on Brin's upbringing in the Soviet Union), and not exclusively a profit motive.
Likewise, I'm sure the dude that started Bahnhof, the ISP of choice of the informed geek in Sweden, along with their current decision-makers, personally like integrity and whatever else "good" services they provide.
They are, however, a publicly traded company, which means that they must believe that being the "good" ISP makes good business sense.
If the market would "feel" that lower quality service, fucking over their customers and selling them out to the man is better for the bottom line of Bahnhof or Google or any other publicly traded company, then players in the market would probably make that happen, sooner or later, whatever delusions of goodness the current leadership may have.
Yes. The answer seems obvious, but let's say we'd want some redundundancy at different points, smooth procedures and as much automation as possible, then maybe a team of nerds wouldn't be as much overkill...
As soon as I can lick this pathological procrastination I'd like to get two more 16G sd cards and another fast card reader. When I want to transfer pics, I'll put the card from the camera into reader 1, put card from reader one into reader 2 and put card from reader 2 into camera and format.
Inserting cards should trigger the transfer that could go to different computers or the same. Transferring twice to lessen likelihood of corruption. Computer (the one with cardreader(s) or another that has synced copies over the LAN should develop the RAWs with some generic settings (auto white balance, a bit of added contrast and saturation) to jpg-copies in two sizes for mailing to grandparents and for viewing on the phones.
All phones and netbooks should via bluetooth or LAN automatically get copies of appropriate sizes of favourited pictures and of the latest imported ones.
There should be a database to know which copies (in any size) belong to which original RAW file and to hold associated tags.
I and other members of the household should be able to tag pictures sitting on the bus with the phone, and the tags should be synced into the database when back at home or maybe also over the internet.
There should be some kind of knapsack-like algorithm to decide how many of favourited photos, how many new radioshows, how much new personal and downloaded video to fill different phones with.
There should also be encrypted remote backup server in closet at for example parents houses.
If I wanted a toy I could program as I wish I'd buy one of those. But please let there be some severly locked down phones before we all get telphonically transmitted diseases.
Well, I for one, would still want the prerogative to install whatever from wherever.
Sure, a "locked down", malware-free repository is a good thing, but there is no need to restrict my freedom to fuck up with 3:rd party software if I want to.
If I want to be safe, I'll just not use any unaudited third party apps.
That would depend on your definition of US culture. I don't think the hamburgers, music, tv and movies would be sufficient. In Sweden the majority of this kind of culture is from the US, but we're not nearly as violent (yet).
Now, if you'd count locking up one percent of your population and having the death penalty and maybe throw in some religious fanatics into the definition of US culture, then yes, you're probably right.
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>>Facebook don't force people to commit adultery.
True that. But it sure can probably present the opportunity for someone who's a potential cheater, without which they might have just been married happ... well, ever after, at least.
Not being in contact with other people through facebook or whatever could be likened to security through obscurity, which is *not* the way to go with computers or with relationships.
Yup yup. For some time now, we've grown accustomed to sloppily calling the whole OS "Linux", and maybe we should let language evolve how it evolves and accept that the common usage is what defines it.
It has led to the funny situation that we hear that Android is not *really* Linux (as in GNU/X11/Linux), while it technically does have the kernel underneath.
It's like the prisoners dilemma with millions of participants.
That surely is the way to go. Unfortunately it isn't enough. Yet. The other thing to do is to do what you just did, to implore others to do the same.
As it stands, consumers are, by and large, not the rational entities who will vote with all their wallets for a better future for themselves and their fellow consumers. The ones with the money have the power to pervert consumerism.
The reason is that marketing works.
The fight against the powerful propaganda machine of marketing is a tough one.
Of course, it's actually the proprietary systems, programs and formats that are at fault for poor interoperability, but the reality is it doesn't matter if the evil lock-inners that have cornered the market are to blame, the foreign office has to get it's job done.
Free software has a better chance in many other places, while working towards the goal of good interoperability, when everyone can finally shed their shackles.
You're right, Kojack would solve this in a heartbeat. Columbo would also, although he might first pretend for a while he didn't understand this emailing thing.
Seeing Kojack and Columbo working together would be super cool.
Sure. Talking to your kids in an honest open manner about all things is no guarantee, but it is still an important factor for having a good relationship with them and keeping them out of trouble.
Talk to your kids.
Make sure there's an open environment at home where the parents take an interest in the kids and talk about what they've been up to and what they're going to do.
This will (statistically) make the kids want to share what happens in their life, which in turn will make them not do stupid things they'd have to hide.
The US or the international community won't force China. We only force weak countries that don't pose any real threat, like Saddams Iraq after more than a decade of UN sanctions and with no WMD:s.
The panda is a big expensive compared to the "plugs". I don't know how much the HDMI and whatever other unwanted things for a headless server cost. Haven't seen a panda-like "server board". That would be sweet. Not as the $29-for-everyone-plug, but for geeks who want a bit beefier "plug"...
People should run servers any way unless they have only the one ISP available and don't want to risk their internet for freedom.
If these freedom boxes become popular, the ISPs will change their policies.
I'm sure that, technically, Eddie the Eagle was a competitor too.
Did you watch the video. You could fit a battery the size of a cat on that phone.
Aha, you're talking about the mathematically undemocratic "vote with your wallet" thing, where the more money you have, the more votes you get?
I developed a slight aversion against being at the dentist since one time, when a dentist asked if I wanted anesthesia I thought if he asks, it can't be that bad...
When I'm in the chair, undergoing something unpleasant, I tap the back of my hand with my finger and try to focus my thoughts on my tapping. I think it might be helping a little.
I think there are techniques resembling this in cognitive behavioral therapy, but I haven't looked into it any deeper. I don't fear the dentist that much.
And I'd mod you sideways if there was that option and if I could see any plusses and/or minuses on the metamod page, so that I could metamod and maybe get some modpoints.
Likewise, I'm sure the dude that started Bahnhof, the ISP of choice of the informed geek in Sweden, along with their current decision-makers, personally like integrity and whatever else "good" services they provide.
They are, however, a publicly traded company, which means that they must believe that being the "good" ISP makes good business sense.
If the market would "feel" that lower quality service, fucking over their customers and selling them out to the man is better for the bottom line of Bahnhof or Google or any other publicly traded company, then players in the market would probably make that happen, sooner or later, whatever delusions of goodness the current leadership may have.
What slippery sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope!?
If I knew my who's-who of popular culture or could be bothered to google, I think I would see what you did there.
Yes. The answer seems obvious, but let's say we'd want some redundundancy at different points, smooth procedures and as much automation as possible, then maybe a team of nerds wouldn't be as much overkill...
As soon as I can lick this pathological procrastination I'd like to get two more 16G sd cards and another fast card reader. When I want to transfer pics, I'll put the card from the camera into reader 1, put card from reader one into reader 2 and put card from reader 2 into camera and format.
Inserting cards should trigger the transfer that could go to different computers or the same. Transferring twice to lessen likelihood of corruption. Computer (the one with cardreader(s) or another that has synced copies over the LAN should develop the RAWs with some generic settings (auto white balance, a bit of added contrast and saturation) to jpg-copies in two sizes for mailing to grandparents and for viewing on the phones.
All phones and netbooks should via bluetooth or LAN automatically get copies of appropriate sizes of favourited pictures and of the latest imported ones.
There should be a database to know which copies (in any size) belong to which original RAW file and to hold associated tags.
I and other members of the household should be able to tag pictures sitting on the bus with the phone, and the tags should be synced into the database when back at home or maybe also over the internet.
There should be some kind of knapsack-like algorithm to decide how many of favourited photos, how many new radioshows, how much new personal and downloaded video to fill different phones with.
There should also be encrypted remote backup server in closet at for example parents houses.
If 1/3 is 0,33333... then 0,99999... is 1.
Well, I for one, would still want the prerogative to install whatever from wherever.
Sure, a "locked down", malware-free repository is a good thing, but there is no need to restrict my freedom to fuck up with 3:rd party software if I want to.
If I want to be safe, I'll just not use any unaudited third party apps.
Yep, definitely scorched earth. It was, after all, the mother of all games. It said so itself.
Except, in golf it's swine hitting birdies.
That would depend on your definition of US culture. I don't think the hamburgers, music, tv and movies would be sufficient. In Sweden the majority of this kind of culture is from the US, but we're not nearly as violent (yet).
Now, if you'd count locking up one percent of your population and having the death penalty and maybe throw in some religious fanatics into the definition of US culture, then yes, you're probably right.