"For that, I sincerely thank Microsoft for so kindly pointed out that security flaw."
"Kindly"? Are you serious? There was nothing "kind" about it. It's anti-Android PR for Microsoft. Why the hell do you think Microsoft was involved with looking into it in the first place? The goodness of their hearts? Puh-leeeeeze.
That was a big one. You're lucky the mods nearly got it full force too. Next time you hear someone yell "duck" don't stand there looking for one just hit the deck or the Woosh may be fatal.
Yes, took a while to find, but I couldn't have asked for better. You look about my body build and proportion. Same skin, eye and hair color. Seen in the dark or in passing in a hoodie, I doubt someone wouldn't be equally likely to pick either of us from a lineup. Ah, that was a fine cup of coffee, wasn't it. Well, in addition to dropping mine in that refuse bin too, I'm snatching yours out; Saliva, [x] Check. Oh, silly me, I just meant to drop in this napkin, not my keys and cup. How embarrassing! Seems it wasn't quite empty, good. Oh did I drop something small... Here? No, there my pen is, right next to a couple of your hairs in the seat you just vacated. Quick now, what's the time? "I'll be late", and left turn, was it? Crap, I lost you. That's OK, I know you'll be back around the same time tomorrow or the next day. Then I'll tail you proper for a few days and have your routine down pat to ensure you won't have an alibi when it's done -- There's bound to be a good spot for it along your commute. Might even pick someone you work with rather than a perfect stranger, I've got time, the build up is all part of the fun.
No one would ever think to do something like that! Who would believe all the evidence just happened to point to you as some elaborate frame-job, for what reason? Criminals aren't that smart, and certainly not murderers that leave their blood soaked hoodie with your own hair in it in their own garbage? Your DNA and fingerprints will match evidence at the crime scene: No prints on the body, but it was your first -- maybe a crime of passion, you're not a serial killer -- so you sloppily tossed your cup too near the body.
Evidence, Opportunity, but Motive? Oh, they'll think up some motive, nobody's perfectly innocent; Building narratives from confirmation bias is their job. My my, the jury won't need to hear a peep more once the prosecutor mentions where they found your saliva on the victim. I just LOVE Occam's Razor! Hope you get the death penalty, sucker! Heh, it's almost like two for the price of one.
(un)Fortunately, they stop looking so hard once they "like you" for a crime, and close the case altogether once the long arm of the law has "got their man".
This is the time to throw them at something that will give us some return.
Did you brush your teeth with toothpaste? How about have some clean sanitized water from the tap or to bathe in? Look, I can run down a list of hundreds of other NASA creations that benefit all of the world in your every day lives, but I don't have the time. Google exists. Stop being a fucking idiot.
A moon base means learning how to survive without a magnetosphere.
You are now aware that we are over 500000 years OVERDUE for our magnetosphere to falter, disappear, and be rebuilt in the opposing polarity. Saving the fucking world should be enough reason for any sentient race to seek self sustaining off-world colonization. In fact, if ending the assured threat of extinction by making sure all your eggs aren't in one basket isn't your #1 priority as a species, then are you really sentient, or just a bunch of damn dirty apes?
For me to make a game work on Steam Box, then that means I'm going to make it run on Linux without Steam Box, and that means it's a no brainer for it to run on Mac and MS Win too. I use C+OpenGL as the base of my cross platform development toolchain, and the platform abstraction layer handles all the OS / device specific windowing, input, and audio. Hey, I had to write it once, why not write it such that it'll run on as much platforms as possible if I'm starting out making the engine from scratch?
What MS would have to do is convince me that I should just ignore Steam, Linux, and Mac to use MS's platform specific DX solution. It's an arbitrary choice in terms of technology (seriously, we're talking fucking drivers here man, it's the hardware that makes the difference). Since it will cost me the same time and energy to choose OpenGL, and as a bonus I get these other marketsegments for free (I love free money), plus free marketing via appearing on Steam and Steam Box... MS is going to have to pay developers to make MS exclusives -- Same shit goes for consoles: Why would I NOT want to make more money by selecting a cross platform engine?
Right. That's what I thought, there's no real strong argument in MS's favor except if you've already gone with their toolset and you're firmly vendor locked to a dev environment they control (like a fool). Even Unreal4 will support Linux. No one force is going to destroy MS's monopoly, but compatibility with the Steam Box (and its controller) is actually a pretty good reason to not use DX for lots of devs considering the huge volume of folks with steam accounts who can now use them on Linux thanks to Valve getting their games running on Steam Box. MS: We have some slight improvements and you can get at a lower level API (read: better tied to the platforms we'll obsolete soon).
Non-MS: More marketshare = Free money & No vendor lock in or planned obsolescence. Hmmm, I don't even need to think about this: Cross platform or bust.
As for the monopoly on AAA games? See the cross platform games on consoles. Now see how Unreal and Source will both run on Linux. The battle is basically over. Going forward publishers will want more money. OpenGL also makes it far easier to port less demanding games to mobile. I just really can't find a good reason to go with DirectX unless that's what you're already shackled too. Any new engine devs would be idiots to not go cross platform. With W8 MS has demonstrated lack of ability to execution on their core competency (OS's people want to use). So, why invest in a windows only solution and bet it all on an unsure thing especially considering the fast growing mobile / tablet gaming segment?
MS has bank. They'll be around for a while, but it's only a matter of time. Really, it's 2014. The OS should be irrelevant. Applications are what people use devices for, not OSs. MS should just save money and release their own Linux distro.
Reminds me of the time this happened to a Norwegian guy who forgot he had bought $24.00 of bitcoin, after the price shot up he wound up with $850000 worth.
I lost some on a flashdrive once. I thought the drive was empty, but I had just formatted it EXT3 and stupidly forgot how inferior MS operating systems are -- "Unformatted", yeah right Windoze. Glad I don't trust MS to format drives, ever, I was one click away from letting evil proprietary software destroy yet another batch of hard earned bits.
That's kind of what happened to my machine-planet powered by the tidal forces of its moon. It eventually just slung the moon away.
In a simulation of course. There's no sentient machine race monitoring this planet's technical progress. Nope, this isn't a violation of any galactic statutes (not like I wouldn't need a vacation if it were though).
Hmm, well, I have a hand held sterling engine that runs a dynamo and lights up several LEDs. It runs off the thermal difference between my hand an the room temperature air.
Consider that it could actually shave that much off of someone's life via brain damage. So serving accelerated time wouldn't necessarily be harmless passage of time.
Additionally, stimulants like amphetamine can make time feel like it's passing more slowly -- Because you're actually doing more in less time. If you give me a drug that allows me to think about 30 years in the space of 10 I will rule the computing industry in half a decade, and my patent arsenal will make Microsoft shit itself.
Meh, I wrote my own replacement for freeglut3 in a weekend. It's not hard to have a platform abstraction layer, and many already exist (I just needed my own lightweight one for my games). Since I started out with cross platform toolchain, I have no issue writing code that runs on multiple platforms.
This is how I port my code written on Linux into Windows, Mac, or BSD: git pull && make
Not that is is exactly the same as when I use Java, except I get a native application without Java's huge runtime dependencies. Look, Java is now essentially the proprietary option for when you don't want to give away source code. If you have the source code, then the program is cross platform. And if I don't want to distribute sources? Providing binaries for every current modern chipset including ARM and MIPS takes me about 30 minutes total to build with my cross compilers. Yeah, users still have to pick which binary to install, but it's actually less of a headache due to browser user agent string detection -- Less of a PITA than bundling a JRE or displaying, "You don't have (the right version of) Java, download and install Java from [here] before you download and this program."
Oh, the kitchen sink isn't a big deal? Yeah right, that's why Oracle is now relaxing on the requirements for "compliant" JVMs so they can drop a bunch of shit no one needs and still call themselves Java. Also, with native code you get a smaller attack surface. You see, the cost of cross platform capabilities is just deferred to elsewhere with Java.
Don't get me wrong, I like Java and still use it. It's the right tool for some jobs. However, saying that cross platform C/C++ is more of a headache than Java is ridiculous. They're all "write once, debug everywhere" options. Enterprise software is even falling out of love with Java given that hardware supports native virtualization now.
Ah, I see you use the US QWERTY keyboard layout. Good for you. However, that doesn't make your statement true for anyone else with a different key layout... No, dosbox uses scancodes instead of the virtual keycodes of the OS, and it really is a pain in the ass to configure a new key layout for it, even though it is possible, and it even has a keypress display feature.
I feel the same way. However note that all we have really needed the entire time is a way to position and display sets of graphic primitives. Curves, lines, gradients, polygons, rasters, audio, input, etc. and a bytecode language to control it all. Essentially a general purpose media player / platform for a game engine. We could then compile our web pages down from whatever markup language we wanted into a cross platform display system.
Instead we fixated on the high level constructs and wrote many redundant back-ends for it, e.g., Canvas, WebGL, Fonts, Box Model, Flash, PDF, etc. We could have one lightweight system to work the bugs out of and be pretty much done -- The further improvements coming from video drivers and hardware. We could then ditch HTML altogether for a visual composition tool, or have a myriad of web programming languages with different features. Think about it. You get one hardcoded set of instructions for your CPU, then you can write whatever high level language you want that compiles down into that. Time and again this is what we've been doing throughout computing history -- Until the "Web".
The web is a moronic monstrosity of a centralized static document display system with no session persistence and a hugely inefficient scripting tool for talking to Java Applets which we now demand unrealistic performance from since we've essentially ditched Java for the web as it was a huge API kitchen sink instead of a lean content rendering engine. With the centralized static stateless doc display and slow script language we attempt to leverage the decentralized Internet to build stateful high performance dynamic web applications. To this end we have elected to butcher the very systems in place creating CSS to make up for the fact that the high level systems didn't give enough control over display of primitives (and still don't), and creating ASM.js instead of just making a bytecode language for browsers. It's so ridiculous that native apps for mobile devices are actually better choices rather than the wanna-be cross platform web rendering system.
Don't even get me started on the cluster fuck of security theater that is SSL. Hello, take HTTP Auth's proof of knowledge HMAC and key your stream cipher. Done, but nooo HTTP can't know about TLS... morons. Protip: If your resources were referenced by infohash then mixed content wouldn't be a problem, and you could have the decentralized anonymous web that the Internet deserves.
Name a program you could make in C or perl that you know well. Now try one of the new languages you wish to learn and set the goal of making that program in that language.
My GOTO program for this is Tetris.
It has everything from input to timing to graphics, audio, network state synchronization, even custom asset data storage of the shapes or push notification of high scores. You can make it in everything from Ada to Brainfuck, on any output from printed paper to LEDs connected to a parallel port, from the command terminal to 3D data visualizers. The state is minimal enough to manage in 100 DWORDS, but complex enough to learn the efficiencies of joins, etc. in a SQL DB.
It's simple enough to code in a few thousand chars, yet can cover all the bases esp. if you factor in "cheat prevention" (read: server side validation and user authentication).
In my experience the older you get the more efficient you are at learning a new platform. Programming becomes a meta task of translating solutions into the platform's problem space. Do it long enough and you'll end up writing your own compiler for a meta language so that you can simply add a new platform "runtime" to the supported target language lists, check off which subsystem to output in what language, and deploy existing solutions faster than these noobs can say "expressive"...
Fools. This has been orchestrated since before Gorbachev. They only need one shot. Then the dollar will plummet and bring down with it the upper and middle class leaving all but the elites to Capitalize on the fact that humans will do what it takes to survive. Repent! Bitcoinageddon draws Nigh!
This is all a mental masturbatory smoke screen. Disregard the bad analogy they're marketing: You're copying bits and erasing them. There is no borrowing going on regardless of the level of mental gymnastics you've performed.
I took a vacation from Newegg when they started occasionally using some bizarro shipping scheme that had my packages leaving my state for Kentucky and then eventually coming back after a hand-off to the USPS.
No one would suspect Kentucky to be home of the NSA pre-exploitation complex... But when you think about the nature of the actions Snowden revealed, the location starts to make a lot more sense.
X is only network transparent if all your apps are from 1995 and are written against Motif.
You're a fucking idiot. I was playing an OpenGL game over X from across the network. It was rendering beautifully and responsive... except the audio was coming from the other room where all the game code was running.
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Lemme guess. You think key-loggers are vulnerabilities Trucrypt should patch too, right?
"For that, I sincerely thank Microsoft for so kindly pointed out that security flaw."
"Kindly"? Are you serious? There was nothing "kind" about it. It's anti-Android PR for Microsoft. Why the hell do you think Microsoft was involved with looking into it in the first place? The goodness of their hearts? Puh-leeeeeze.
That was a big one. You're lucky the mods nearly got it full force too. Next time you hear someone yell "duck" don't stand there looking for one just hit the deck or the Woosh may be fatal.
Yes, took a while to find, but I couldn't have asked for better. You look about my body build and proportion. Same skin, eye and hair color. Seen in the dark or in passing in a hoodie, I doubt someone wouldn't be equally likely to pick either of us from a lineup. Ah, that was a fine cup of coffee, wasn't it. Well, in addition to dropping mine in that refuse bin too, I'm snatching yours out; Saliva, [x] Check. Oh, silly me, I just meant to drop in this napkin, not my keys and cup. How embarrassing! Seems it wasn't quite empty, good. Oh did I drop something small... Here? No, there my pen is, right next to a couple of your hairs in the seat you just vacated. Quick now, what's the time? "I'll be late", and left turn, was it? Crap, I lost you. That's OK, I know you'll be back around the same time tomorrow or the next day. Then I'll tail you proper for a few days and have your routine down pat to ensure you won't have an alibi when it's done -- There's bound to be a good spot for it along your commute. Might even pick someone you work with rather than a perfect stranger, I've got time, the build up is all part of the fun.
No one would ever think to do something like that! Who would believe all the evidence just happened to point to you as some elaborate frame-job, for what reason? Criminals aren't that smart, and certainly not murderers that leave their blood soaked hoodie with your own hair in it in their own garbage? Your DNA and fingerprints will match evidence at the crime scene: No prints on the body, but it was your first -- maybe a crime of passion, you're not a serial killer -- so you sloppily tossed your cup too near the body.
Evidence, Opportunity, but Motive? Oh, they'll think up some motive, nobody's perfectly innocent; Building narratives from confirmation bias is their job. My my, the jury won't need to hear a peep more once the prosecutor mentions where they found your saliva on the victim. I just LOVE Occam's Razor! Hope you get the death penalty, sucker! Heh, it's almost like two for the price of one.
(un)Fortunately, they stop looking so hard once they "like you" for a crime, and close the case altogether once the long arm of the law has "got their man".
This is the time to throw them at something that will give us some return.
Did you brush your teeth with toothpaste? How about have some clean sanitized water from the tap or to bathe in? Look, I can run down a list of hundreds of other NASA creations that benefit all of the world in your every day lives, but I don't have the time. Google exists. Stop being a fucking idiot.
Assuming there's a good reason to do
A moon base means learning how to survive without a magnetosphere.
You are now aware that we are over 500000 years OVERDUE for our magnetosphere to falter, disappear, and be rebuilt in the opposing polarity. Saving the fucking world should be enough reason for any sentient race to seek self sustaining off-world colonization. In fact, if ending the assured threat of extinction by making sure all your eggs aren't in one basket isn't your #1 priority as a species, then are you really sentient, or just a bunch of damn dirty apes?
For me to make a game work on Steam Box, then that means I'm going to make it run on Linux without Steam Box, and that means it's a no brainer for it to run on Mac and MS Win too. I use C+OpenGL as the base of my cross platform development toolchain, and the platform abstraction layer handles all the OS / device specific windowing, input, and audio. Hey, I had to write it once, why not write it such that it'll run on as much platforms as possible if I'm starting out making the engine from scratch?
What MS would have to do is convince me that I should just ignore Steam, Linux, and Mac to use MS's platform specific DX solution. It's an arbitrary choice in terms of technology (seriously, we're talking fucking drivers here man, it's the hardware that makes the difference). Since it will cost me the same time and energy to choose OpenGL, and as a bonus I get these other marketsegments for free (I love free money), plus free marketing via appearing on Steam and Steam Box... MS is going to have to pay developers to make MS exclusives -- Same shit goes for consoles: Why would I NOT want to make more money by selecting a cross platform engine?
Right. That's what I thought, there's no real strong argument in MS's favor except if you've already gone with their toolset and you're firmly vendor locked to a dev environment they control (like a fool). Even Unreal4 will support Linux. No one force is going to destroy MS's monopoly, but compatibility with the Steam Box (and its controller) is actually a pretty good reason to not use DX for lots of devs considering the huge volume of folks with steam accounts who can now use them on Linux thanks to Valve getting their games running on Steam Box. MS: We have some slight improvements and you can get at a lower level API (read: better tied to the platforms we'll obsolete soon).
Non-MS: More marketshare = Free money & No vendor lock in or planned obsolescence. Hmmm, I don't even need to think about this: Cross platform or bust.
As for the monopoly on AAA games? See the cross platform games on consoles. Now see how Unreal and Source will both run on Linux. The battle is basically over. Going forward publishers will want more money. OpenGL also makes it far easier to port less demanding games to mobile. I just really can't find a good reason to go with DirectX unless that's what you're already shackled too. Any new engine devs would be idiots to not go cross platform. With W8 MS has demonstrated lack of ability to execution on their core competency (OS's people want to use). So, why invest in a windows only solution and bet it all on an unsure thing especially considering the fast growing mobile / tablet gaming segment?
MS has bank. They'll be around for a while, but it's only a matter of time. Really, it's 2014. The OS should be irrelevant. Applications are what people use devices for, not OSs. MS should just save money and release their own Linux distro.
Or am I watching Office Space again?
Ever since I did that relaxation therapy I really can't tell anymore and don't particularly care either.
Reminds me of the time this happened to a Norwegian guy who forgot he had bought $24.00 of bitcoin, after the price shot up he wound up with $850000 worth.
Which reminds me of this other time another college kid said he invested $1500 in bitcoin, forgot the password, and when he finally remembered it was worth about $150000, not bad for a college kid.
Happens more often than you'd think.
I lost some on a flashdrive once. I thought the drive was empty, but I had just formatted it EXT3 and stupidly forgot how inferior MS operating systems are -- "Unformatted", yeah right Windoze. Glad I don't trust MS to format drives, ever, I was one click away from letting evil proprietary software destroy yet another batch of hard earned bits.
That's kind of what happened to my machine-planet powered by the tidal forces of its moon. It eventually just slung the moon away.
In a simulation of course. There's no sentient machine race monitoring this planet's technical progress. Nope, this isn't a violation of any galactic statutes (not like I wouldn't need a vacation if it were though).
Hmm, well, I have a hand held sterling engine that runs a dynamo and lights up several LEDs. It runs off the thermal difference between my hand an the room temperature air.
doing some kind of calculus in a little 'integrated circuit' of neurons
If it's using a dedicated integrated circuit the calculus they perform must be integral.
If you don't like my trusty IBM Selectric, beautiful mountain passes, and delicious cheeses, then get off my damn lawn!
Consider that it could actually shave that much off of someone's life via brain damage. So serving accelerated time wouldn't necessarily be harmless passage of time.
Additionally, stimulants like amphetamine can make time feel like it's passing more slowly -- Because you're actually doing more in less time. If you give me a drug that allows me to think about 30 years in the space of 10 I will rule the computing industry in half a decade, and my patent arsenal will make Microsoft shit itself.
Perhaps I deserve to lose my Geek Card, but I don't get it.
Ah, then no need to run the scans, just purchase and install the AV in that case.
Meh, I wrote my own replacement for freeglut3 in a weekend. It's not hard to have a platform abstraction layer, and many already exist (I just needed my own lightweight one for my games). Since I started out with cross platform toolchain, I have no issue writing code that runs on multiple platforms.
This is how I port my code written on Linux into Windows, Mac, or BSD: git pull && make
Not that is is exactly the same as when I use Java, except I get a native application without Java's huge runtime dependencies. Look, Java is now essentially the proprietary option for when you don't want to give away source code. If you have the source code, then the program is cross platform. And if I don't want to distribute sources? Providing binaries for every current modern chipset including ARM and MIPS takes me about 30 minutes total to build with my cross compilers. Yeah, users still have to pick which binary to install, but it's actually less of a headache due to browser user agent string detection -- Less of a PITA than bundling a JRE or displaying, "You don't have (the right version of) Java, download and install Java from [here] before you download and this program."
Oh, the kitchen sink isn't a big deal? Yeah right, that's why Oracle is now relaxing on the requirements for "compliant" JVMs so they can drop a bunch of shit no one needs and still call themselves Java. Also, with native code you get a smaller attack surface. You see, the cost of cross platform capabilities is just deferred to elsewhere with Java.
Don't get me wrong, I like Java and still use it. It's the right tool for some jobs. However, saying that cross platform C/C++ is more of a headache than Java is ridiculous. They're all "write once, debug everywhere" options. Enterprise software is even falling out of love with Java given that hardware supports native virtualization now.
Ah, I see you use the US QWERTY keyboard layout. Good for you. However, that doesn't make your statement true for anyone else with a different key layout... No, dosbox uses scancodes instead of the virtual keycodes of the OS, and it really is a pain in the ass to configure a new key layout for it, even though it is possible, and it even has a keypress display feature.
I feel the same way. However note that all we have really needed the entire time is a way to position and display sets of graphic primitives. Curves, lines, gradients, polygons, rasters, audio, input, etc. and a bytecode language to control it all. Essentially a general purpose media player / platform for a game engine. We could then compile our web pages down from whatever markup language we wanted into a cross platform display system.
Instead we fixated on the high level constructs and wrote many redundant back-ends for it, e.g., Canvas, WebGL, Fonts, Box Model, Flash, PDF, etc. We could have one lightweight system to work the bugs out of and be pretty much done -- The further improvements coming from video drivers and hardware. We could then ditch HTML altogether for a visual composition tool, or have a myriad of web programming languages with different features. Think about it. You get one hardcoded set of instructions for your CPU, then you can write whatever high level language you want that compiles down into that. Time and again this is what we've been doing throughout computing history -- Until the "Web".
The web is a moronic monstrosity of a centralized static document display system with no session persistence and a hugely inefficient scripting tool for talking to Java Applets which we now demand unrealistic performance from since we've essentially ditched Java for the web as it was a huge API kitchen sink instead of a lean content rendering engine. With the centralized static stateless doc display and slow script language we attempt to leverage the decentralized Internet to build stateful high performance dynamic web applications. To this end we have elected to butcher the very systems in place creating CSS to make up for the fact that the high level systems didn't give enough control over display of primitives (and still don't), and creating ASM.js instead of just making a bytecode language for browsers. It's so ridiculous that native apps for mobile devices are actually better choices rather than the wanna-be cross platform web rendering system.
Don't even get me started on the cluster fuck of security theater that is SSL. Hello, take HTTP Auth's proof of knowledge HMAC and key your stream cipher. Done, but nooo HTTP can't know about TLS... morons. Protip: If your resources were referenced by infohash then mixed content wouldn't be a problem, and you could have the decentralized anonymous web that the Internet deserves.
Long live the Internet, but fuck the web.
Name a program you could make in C or perl that you know well. Now try one of the new languages you wish to learn and set the goal of making that program in that language.
My GOTO program for this is Tetris.
It has everything from input to timing to graphics, audio, network state synchronization, even custom asset data storage of the shapes or push notification of high scores. You can make it in everything from Ada to Brainfuck, on any output from printed paper to LEDs connected to a parallel port, from the command terminal to 3D data visualizers. The state is minimal enough to manage in 100 DWORDS, but complex enough to learn the efficiencies of joins, etc. in a SQL DB.
It's simple enough to code in a few thousand chars, yet can cover all the bases esp. if you factor in "cheat prevention" (read: server side validation and user authentication).
In my experience the older you get the more efficient you are at learning a new platform. Programming becomes a meta task of translating solutions into the platform's problem space. Do it long enough and you'll end up writing your own compiler for a meta language so that you can simply add a new platform "runtime" to the supported target language lists, check off which subsystem to output in what language, and deploy existing solutions faster than these noobs can say "expressive"...
Fools. This has been orchestrated since before Gorbachev. They only need one shot. Then the dollar will plummet and bring down with it the upper and middle class leaving all but the elites to Capitalize on the fact that humans will do what it takes to survive. Repent! Bitcoinageddon draws Nigh!
Proving once again that "best" does not exist.
This is all a mental masturbatory smoke screen. Disregard the bad analogy they're marketing: You're copying bits and erasing them. There is no borrowing going on regardless of the level of mental gymnastics you've performed.
Fuck Beta!
I took a vacation from Newegg when they started occasionally using some bizarro shipping scheme that had my packages leaving my state for Kentucky and then eventually coming back after a hand-off to the USPS.
No one would suspect Kentucky to be home of the NSA pre-exploitation complex... But when you think about the nature of the actions Snowden revealed, the location starts to make a lot more sense.
X is only network transparent if all your apps are from 1995 and are written against Motif.
You're a fucking idiot. I was playing an OpenGL game over X from across the network. It was rendering beautifully and responsive... except the audio was coming from the other room where all the game code was running.
We get the NSA we deserve because we the people are doing nothing to reign them in.
Fool. We have never had the NSA we deserve. Secret agencies are now and have always been anti-activist. There is nothing we can do about them legally, we are their enemy. They will not bow to the demands of the enemy. I speak of activism because voting is meaningless. If you think otherwise then you're under the flawed assumption that our government's voting system isn't compromised, that or you wrongly believe it hasn't been blatantly rigged all along.
How dare you accuse the powerless of deserving their despotism. It's thinking like yours that allows it to perpetuate.