This is excellent. Tapping all the world's communications is cheap and easy (especially when any person or company can be strong-armed), bugging individuals is expensive and difficult. They'll have to restrict this activity to those who they strongly suspect, rather than spying on the communications of all known sentient beings in the universe and then seeing what sticks. Less widespread privacy invasion, more effective surveillance instead of growing the haystack. Sounds like a win/win to me.
Futurists tend to be right about technology but far too optimistic about the economy, causing their technically accurate predictions to fall flat on their faces.
Likewise, IoT is simply too expensive to take off any time soon. These devices need to be in the single-digit prices to make sense to the average joe, and they're currently in the triple-digits.
It doesn't match the spec, it has less processing power and an older video adapter, and the screen resolution is lower and the hard drive is smaller. But the size is the same, the RAM capacity is the same, the wifi adapter is the same, the optical drive is the same, and for everyday computing the greater processing power, better video card, larger storage and higher screen resolution wouldn't help much - that's why I don't value these advantages too much in a laptop. A computer from 2009 will still perform most non-gaming duties very nearly as well as one from 2015.
If it was a gaming PC these things would help, but the Librem would have many drawbacks as a gaming PC (not even counting the fact that it's a laptop).
So when do you think pedophiles came into being and made modern society too dangerous for children? It seems to have been some time in the '80s from what I've gathered, I'm trying to narrow down their origin.
This is the only realistic hope we have, at least maybe until Gen. X'ers die off. Conventional fixes to global warming are utterly incompatible with most Americans, and if the US can't get on board, nothing's going to happen.
Global warming could be solved by accident with very cheap solar power, but now cheaper fossil fuels are killing that solution too.
Nope, nobody's going anywhere without massively FTL travel.
And don't give me any crap about generation ships, we don't even have the long-term-thinking capability to fix global warming through CO2 emissions reduction, and even the thought of any sacrifice that might be involved totally disables us.
Me: "They should have had that building way better secured, especially after being firebombed."
Boss: "What would you do to secure it?"
Me: "Armored building like a US embassy, armed guards at the door, and a heavy armored door between the lobby and work area."
Boss: "What if they hit it with a rocket launcher? It'll go through even an armored door."
Me: "Maybe build it in a basement?"
Boss: "Or you could just not print Mohammed cartoons."
And that's what any business is going to do, the much cheaper and easier solution. The terrorists won. No business could print such things after yesterday.
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This is excellent. Tapping all the world's communications is cheap and easy (especially when any person or company can be strong-armed), bugging individuals is expensive and difficult. They'll have to restrict this activity to those who they strongly suspect, rather than spying on the communications of all known sentient beings in the universe and then seeing what sticks. Less widespread privacy invasion, more effective surveillance instead of growing the haystack. Sounds like a win/win to me.
Futurists tend to be right about technology but far too optimistic about the economy, causing their technically accurate predictions to fall flat on their faces.
Likewise, IoT is simply too expensive to take off any time soon. These devices need to be in the single-digit prices to make sense to the average joe, and they're currently in the triple-digits.
But you have to pretend it is, or you'll expose the fact that capitalism is just a nasty framework for rationalized victim-blaming.
Reminds me of how NAMBLA used to try to slip into gay pride parades.
For me though the main thing is the weight. 6 lbs puts it in the luggable category for me, personally.
Hahaha, we're really living in the future now! I guess you have a Macbook Air?
It doesn't match the spec, it has less processing power and an older video adapter, and the screen resolution is lower and the hard drive is smaller. But the size is the same, the RAM capacity is the same, the wifi adapter is the same, the optical drive is the same, and for everyday computing the greater processing power, better video card, larger storage and higher screen resolution wouldn't help much - that's why I don't value these advantages too much in a laptop. A computer from 2009 will still perform most non-gaming duties very nearly as well as one from 2015.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
If it was a gaming PC these things would help, but the Librem would have many drawbacks as a gaming PC (not even counting the fact that it's a laptop).
No there's a hefty fuckin' fee,
And if you don't throw in your two grand stack who will?
Oooh, two grand stack,
Freedom costs a two grand stack.
Yeah I'd buy one if I was rich, but the basic spec is $1900, and it's just slightly better than my current laptop which I bought for $500 in 2009.
If Purism can produce a modern N900-like phone later for 3 digits (vs. ~$2k for a Neo900), I'd be all over that.
So when do you think pedophiles came into being and made modern society too dangerous for children? It seems to have been some time in the '80s from what I've gathered, I'm trying to narrow down their origin.
That's what I always say. I guess the difference is that the rich also have something to fear if they become slaves to a machine.
Do you also support contract killings? Because he ordered hits on a few people.
Water injection I can understand, but oil dilution just seems like a bad idea!
No it has them, you can see the jet throttles on the left of the cockpit roof (you have to look behind you).
And 4x for each jet engine!
There's a bank of switches on the right for each engine, the label is worn down but I'm pretty sure it says "ENGINE OIL DILUTE" 8-(
For drugs, and not child porn. I call that progress!
On a per-game basis, NWC 1990 is the rarest, but by cartridge spec, the *NTSC version* of Stadium Events is the rarest.
This relies on the same bullshit theory of inflation that makes conservatives think that increasing minimum wage will lead to inflation.
Biological warfare was far from new at that point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However, it's not clear whether the bio attacks on native Americans were intentional:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The part about the whole DPRK essentially being on a single giant LAN that you can't reach from the outside. That's not news to me.
Whats wrong with solving it in the plain, simple, ordered and pretty studied solution of diminishing our influence in the change?
Americans won't get on board.
This is the only realistic hope we have, at least maybe until Gen. X'ers die off. Conventional fixes to global warming are utterly incompatible with most Americans, and if the US can't get on board, nothing's going to happen.
Global warming could be solved by accident with very cheap solar power, but now cheaper fossil fuels are killing that solution too.
There's no staging environment, only some similar VMs, and if the production environment performance degrades too much our civilization will collapse.
Nope, nobody's going anywhere without massively FTL travel.
And don't give me any crap about generation ships, we don't even have the long-term-thinking capability to fix global warming through CO2 emissions reduction, and even the thought of any sacrifice that might be involved totally disables us.
Me and my boss at lunch today:
Me: "They should have had that building way better secured, especially after being firebombed."
Boss: "What would you do to secure it?"
Me: "Armored building like a US embassy, armed guards at the door, and a heavy armored door between the lobby and work area."
Boss: "What if they hit it with a rocket launcher? It'll go through even an armored door."
Me: "Maybe build it in a basement?"
Boss: "Or you could just not print Mohammed cartoons."
And that's what any business is going to do, the much cheaper and easier solution. The terrorists won. No business could print such things after yesterday.