Of course there is zero need for Mac OS, but the parent claimed linux does not run on Macs or no one is runing Linux on Macs, so what is your point?
You have no Mac and run Linux on a no Mac?... Pretty pointless argument.
What I was replying to was:
Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk
Now there might be some parsing to be done over whether the Poster was separating the two - "locked down" only for Windows 10 or MacOS only as junk, referring to W10 only and MacOS separately , but that would be an unusual narrative since the typical fan calls MacOS as locked down.
Yes you did. Some were more of the Intel-ish type.
I personally think both sides are wrong to do this, but that's hardly relevant to the question you asked, and the tangent you seem to have gone off onto
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The question wasn't of the "educate me" type. More of the type of show that the world has countries doing what countries do.
As far as Russia goes, they are a country that is just using the internet to further their ends. More on that below.
You could educate your citizens, to be resistant to trolls and foreign propaganda. But then I guess they would be resistant to your own propaganda too, and maybe smart enough to ask too many of the wrong kinds of questions of those in charge.
There are many questions to be asked. But the answers are almost certainly not "educating people", at least not in the manner that superior people on Slashdot might think.
Countries engage in spying and intel work all the time, and have been since as long as we've had different countries. But there is a cold truth that when you are caught, you pay the price. Well, we're unraveling the web as we speak. It really doesn't matter that the US or Russia or Great Britain or France or Germany or Isreal or Antarctica is doing the spying or undermining work. When you are caught, you are caught. Howaboutism in this field is pointless - and there we get to the purpose of my questions.
There were laws broken in dark funding. There was weaponized data selling and news poisoning, There were foreign entities illegally working and spending money to influence the election. The overarching question is why? Why so much work and money to elect Trump? 30 million from the NRA, largely funded by an Oligarch. Why innocent people acting so guilty and lying more than they are truthful? But laws were broken, perps caught, and the legal process will work out the details.
We are doing the research now and finding out those details. Howaboutism is not going to stop enforcement of law. We must be on to something, as the trolls are getting loud. Not many are paying much attention to them any more though, so they are just a sort of meter, kind of like the old "getting hotter, getting colder" game.
Meanwhile - sit back, have some popcorn and root for whoever you want.
That our government start being a semi-honest democratic republic and not some war-loving empire out trying to conquer the world and making enemies that rightfully hate the United States. That'd be a start.
Then we can prosecute our torturers and war criminals and pay repartitions to the many countries we have attacked.
How about we just declare defeat, and allow these other contries, who are obviously not evil, and they can exact divine retribution and do as they wish with us. For after the evil that is America is no more, the world will enter true peace and prosperity.
You see, there is a life lesson to be learned. Who among these countries is without sin? Whoever is the dominant country in any time era will be considered a target. This is such an element of human nature, that it extends to anyone in a position of leadership. Anyhow - your best bet is to renounce your American citizenship, and become a citizen of the pure country as you define it. Because America will never be pure enough.
That every one of these stories be run every day?
That'd be nice. For our sycophantic mass media to stop unquestioningly reprinting the lies, propaganda and talking points of our evil government would be nice too.
Yeah - that'll work out great. sort of like self flagellation. Many of the things that America does are out in the open, and the external and internal haters fixate on teh news that suits their narrative. I've known for years what 'Murrica does, and hardly need the same story in my face every day. Some folks might need to hear the same thing a hundred times a day, eh? Sometimes that even causes new exhaustion, just like you are tired of hearing about Russia. But why don't you just get your news from RT? I think they post the stuff you like.
Russia and Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are - despite your not wanting to hear about them - and a distraction from your hatred narrative of America, newsworthy. Deal with it. If I'm tired of the howaboutism, of the detractors, and spout off well, convince your favorite country to declare war on us and come in and kill me. then make it illegal to have anything but approved news stories, a new century of stories about the evil that was, and how the righteous and justified rose up and cut off the head of the most evil country on earth. People always need to be careful of what they wish for, sometimes they get it.
At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said a number of curious things, but one comment in particular stood out. When asked about Russian influence in the U.S. election and the ability to combat a foreign actor’s misinformation campaign, the Director said, “We need to arm ourselves with good troll armies pushing back.”
The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than US$626 million annually on propaganda
Countries are allowed to defend themselves you know - Anyhow, it is perfectly fine for America to do this - that's the hidden issue with whataboutism. While presumably to show that your hated opponenet is hypocritical, it merely says that it is okay for you, the aggrieved innicent to do it, because your hated enemy does it. And two groups doing the same thing have to be the same.
Ain't it great tovarish?
Pentagon employees account for 40 percent of the federal public relations workforce and also have the highest combined salaries, the audit revealed.
Of course, our mass media tends not to emphasize such American skulduggery and propaganda. They'll do an initial report on the issue, but it's rarely, if ever, put into the news loop and repeated over and over and over again. Funny how that works, eh? It makes one think of Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who once bluntly said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."
If you want any more you'll have to search for it.
So I declare that the AMericans are just fine with this, because the Russians do it too. It isn't skullduggery and propaganda if it is only on one side. So it's all good!
So anyhow, What are you demanding? That every one of these stories be run every day? That America be nuked? That we commit mass suicide?
Seems like there is asolutely no secret, and if we have been deliberately interfereing in Russia's electoral process ( I guess that means we're pro Putin since our deliberate interference garnered him 70 percent of the vote. And don't forget how we elected a president for life in China.
Seeems like the Russians a a hella lot better than we are. But it's okay, because you just expressed that it's okay. Thank you.
Regardless, let us take what is likely true. These are the parts that are right there in the open literature, what the US tells people they are doing.
It is hardly a scandal that the evilz 'Murricans are looking for people that can speak, translate and read foreign languages of countries that are of interest. And that's been going on since Benjamin Franklin went to France in the wayback.
Apparently in Trump's America, Intelligence gathering is a really bad thing, that only other countries are allowed to perform.
Are they like the Russian Trolls?
Beats me, I've never met one. But considering the Pentagon's gargantuan budget, I'd bet our trolls are paid far better than than Russian trolls.
I'm still waiting to see the evidence of American Troll farms. So far, I haven't. What these links describe is simple reading of public postings.
Fox News is a source of numerous examples. Everytime they state the Assad gassed his own people and use that lie as a pretense for bombing, you're witnessing the trolling. We usually just call it propaganda though.
Or are we not supposed to acknowledge the fact that the US gov't pays people and wages propaganda wars on the Internet?
I think this is one of the things that qualifies as "not even wrong". Even if he's correct (I doubt it), I guess he feels that he'd rather be under the influence of Russian Trolls because someone is under the influence of American ones? I don't know really but it's an oddly common point of view here.
I'n reading whataboutism, one of the favorite tricks of modern Russia. Regardless of where he is located, he's exonerating The USA while damnit because its Okay for Russia to do it becaus of her emails....oops Benghazi! oh sorry, because if we can do it, Russia can do it, and it's oklay that Russia does it so it's okay that we did it.
That's usually a little difficult for the cognitive dissonance people to process however. They get stuck on PizzGate, the 50 plus people that Hillary killed, Benghazi, the Kenyan Birth certificate, Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and that MotherFucker FDR starting World War 2.
The left has kooks too, but they are not mainstream, as the Right wing version of kooks are running the country at present, are in alignment with the kooks starting with the Birther in Chief.
If you see my reply to that comment, you'll see I provided a half-dozen or so links to the fact that the US gov't wages propaganda wars on the Internet and uses trolls to propagandize both Americans and foreign people. There is simply no doubt in that: the US gov't wages propaganda wars against the American people.
What's the number of that post - I switched to reading at zero and don't see a thing?
It can be. macOS includes Apple's Hypervisor.framework, atop which tools (such as xhyve) can be used to run Linux inside macOS.
This is how Docker for Mac works; it runs the Linux kernel inside Apple's Hypervisor.framework, allowing you to run Linux containers. If you have XQuartz installed, with a bit of fiddling you can run Linux GUI apps inside Docker containers on the macOS desktop.
Yaz
I wonder if I can run Linux inside Windows using parallels?
The media, hollywood, most comedians, all of the big tech companies, and most social media is 24-7 hardcore anti-Trump for almost 2 straight years now. You see a couple of posts on slashdot that are right-leaning get modded up and all of a sudden it's "wildly conservative" now.
Might want to get your sensitivity meter adjusted just a touch.
It is pretty simple to see that posts not praising Trump get modded down pretty rapidly, and there is a truth to the "Quick, while the Russians are asleep!" meme. Posts made during the normal away time in Western Russia are quickly modded as troll, while the same post made later at night US time would seem to not be so bothersome, perhaps even insightful. I know that has been the case with many of my posts of similar content.
Basically, anything Trump flavored has had a pretty heavy tilt in its moderation, towards the pro-Trump. I've worked in a lot of rural areas, and the brand of angry conservatism/superlibertarianism is pretty rare among IT/Software guys. But for some reason, it's hyper-represented on Slashdot in the past few years.
Not that folks can't hold that view - it just seems disproportionate, compared to the population.
Ryan Fenton
I've always thought that a big part of allowing the trolls to continue was just a matter of tracking them down.
Same with hate speech and some of the more fringe groups. Allowing them on the platform is a great way to keep tabs on them.
And I predict a 4000% increase in Pentagon trolls.
Or are we not supposed to acknowledge the fact that the US gov't pays people and wages propaganda wars on the Internet?
So can you give me some links to the "Pentagon trolls? Are they like the Russian Trolls? Looking forward to your defense of your thesis and how you identified them as trolls from the Pentagon.
As long as they stick to trolling, they can't do much more damage than they already have. At this point, you're either aware of them, or your mind is already in an alternate universe where kids get molested in nonexistent pizzeria basements by a presidential candidate who fits the typical pedo demographic to a "T".
Pretty much this. The effectiveness of the trolling and fake news reached a saturation point, and now is more entertainment than effective. In fact Americans of differing opinion are being accused of being Russian Trolls. Or useful idiots at best.
The Russians would get more payoff at this point from cyberattacking the electrical grid on Election Day. But those who are in a position to prevent this don't seem to mind the trolling at all.
Yeah, but that would be an act of war, and a Casus belli. For all of our faults and rowdyness, That would have more of a uniting effect than the division that the Kremlin and their useful idiots are after. And no one wants Americans to be united or focused. We get sorta mean and nasty when that happens.
I never said it was. I said that I hope there will always be more (ideally free) bare metal choices on the desktop, not just OS products from Apple, MS, and Google.
You said it was locked down. When I run Linux on my Mac - it's not locked down at all. Then of course, if a person knows Unix, neither is MacOS.
Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk... there's always the option of importing unlocked hardware, I guess.
I'd disagree. The production values on the ULA program were laughable. Camera menus on screen? Please.
Both ULA and SpaceX can be faulted (when I'm in Aspie mode) for silliness and fluff, at least SpaceX gave us the technical broadcasts. Sometimes. But I'm glad ULA is moving into the Modern World. It was nice to see some of the details of the launch. And to be fair, it's hard to pace a rocket launch. Has about as much internal excitement as an NFL game.
But the bow tie? Now, that's just not playing fair.
Well, production values are one thing. But it is pretty obvious that SpaceX has decided that hearing people cheer is much more important than the roar of a rocket engine.
And those cheers and their fade-in and out could have been the same thing played over and over again. There were also surprisingly few views of the SpaceX Falcon9 Heavy. I'm perhaps not alone in preferring to hear the roar of the barely contained explosion of rocket engines.
I get it. Getting people interested in STEM. But only a few ever will be, and you'll never get a person who is interested in being cool, or likes say, Braxton Family Values or Here comes Honey Boo-Boo or Keeping up with the Kardashians to have a mental dilemma choosing STEM over something else.
But people who are actually interested or working in the field want the real noise, not a cheering studio audience that you might find on Let's make a Deal.
I would say though, that ULA has it all over SpaceX's coverage.
Disclaimer - I am a fan of SpaceX, not it's launch coverage.
ULA has a lot of information on how they do their launches. It was enjoyable t watch, and l'm a slut for rh sound and fury of the take-off.
Then there was the Falcon Heavy launch. Much hype. Many we are awesome. Very cheer.
More like a mutant science/reality/college football game show.
It was a little obvious that someone at a mixer was bringing up the crowd cheering. But the icing on the cake was when Spacex decided we wanted the crowd cheering to be the sound we heard when the Falcon 9 heavy candle was lit. Wrong.
Also one can stop sharing everything about your life.
Alternatively, start sharing things about your life which aren't exactly true. For example, I just landed a full-time job that pays $45,000 a year, and all I have to do is sit at this console and turn that key if we get the alert and the other guy turns his key at the same time.
This is actually not a bad idea. Making your data useless via screwing with it. Also much fun.
You went on vacation, so you weren't home, which is a great time to break in and steal stuff.
You posted pictures of your home,probably move in dates. The location is somewhere in your history.
Before social media so much knowledge was public, but hard to access. Now it is quick to access
Hard to access? Hardly. The paranoid crowd seems to think that scooting over to the local courthouse and accessing everything you were talking about is too too hard.
Even though that data is real, and unambiguous.
What is difficult is going through life incognito, even without a computer or social media.You might be able to minimize your footprint if you faked your death, moved to Idaho and lived in a compound, bartered for everything with only people you trusted, and avoided others completely.
Otherwise, if I wanted to do a little detective work, there aren't too many people I couldn't find out a lot about. Life is tough for people who want to be invisible. And it was tough long before computers and teh intertoobz.
Slashdot Mirror
We already had a WWIII. It was called the Cold War.
Boy, do you have a nasty surprise coming!
The Cold War was worrying.
WWIII will *melt* you and set you on fire.
I always figured that the cold war was just a continuation of WW2.
Of course there is zero need for Mac OS, but the parent claimed linux does not run on Macs or no one is runing Linux on Macs, so what is your point? You have no Mac and run Linux on a no Mac? ... Pretty pointless argument.
What I was replying to was:
Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk
Now there might be some parsing to be done over whether the Poster was separating the two - "locked down" only for Windows 10 or MacOS only as junk, referring to W10 only and MacOS separately , but that would be an unusual narrative since the typical fan calls MacOS as locked down.
Otherwise, have a good day.
"Studio audience"? Cheers "played over and over again"? Are you kidding?
The latest Slashdot conspiracy theory: SpaceX uses prerecorded cheering during launches.
Whooshies! But I'll give it a pass because it's kinda funny.
You asked for links to Pentagon trolls
So I gave you some...
Yes you did. Some were more of the Intel-ish type.
I personally think both sides are wrong to do this, but that's hardly relevant to the question you asked, and the tangent you seem to have gone off onto
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The question wasn't of the "educate me" type. More of the type of show that the world has countries doing what countries do.
As far as Russia goes, they are a country that is just using the internet to further their ends. More on that below.
You could educate your citizens, to be resistant to trolls and foreign propaganda. But then I guess they would be resistant to your own propaganda too, and maybe smart enough to ask too many of the wrong kinds of questions of those in charge.
There are many questions to be asked. But the answers are almost certainly not "educating people", at least not in the manner that superior people on Slashdot might think.
Countries engage in spying and intel work all the time, and have been since as long as we've had different countries. But there is a cold truth that when you are caught, you pay the price. Well, we're unraveling the web as we speak. It really doesn't matter that the US or Russia or Great Britain or France or Germany or Isreal or Antarctica is doing the spying or undermining work. When you are caught, you are caught. Howaboutism in this field is pointless - and there we get to the purpose of my questions.
There were laws broken in dark funding. There was weaponized data selling and news poisoning, There were foreign entities illegally working and spending money to influence the election. The overarching question is why? Why so much work and money to elect Trump? 30 million from the NRA, largely funded by an Oligarch. Why innocent people acting so guilty and lying more than they are truthful? But laws were broken, perps caught, and the legal process will work out the details.
We are doing the research now and finding out those details. Howaboutism is not going to stop enforcement of law. We must be on to something, as the trolls are getting loud. Not many are paying much attention to them any more though, so they are just a sort of meter, kind of like the old "getting hotter, getting colder" game.
Meanwhile - sit back, have some popcorn and root for whoever you want.
That our government start being a semi-honest democratic republic and not some war-loving empire out trying to conquer the world and making enemies that rightfully hate the United States. That'd be a start.
Then we can prosecute our torturers and war criminals and pay repartitions to the many countries we have attacked.
How about we just declare defeat, and allow these other contries, who are obviously not evil, and they can exact divine retribution and do as they wish with us. For after the evil that is America is no more, the world will enter true peace and prosperity.
You see, there is a life lesson to be learned. Who among these countries is without sin? Whoever is the dominant country in any time era will be considered a target. This is such an element of human nature, that it extends to anyone in a position of leadership. Anyhow - your best bet is to renounce your American citizenship, and become a citizen of the pure country as you define it. Because America will never be pure enough.
That every one of these stories be run every day?
That'd be nice. For our sycophantic mass media to stop unquestioningly reprinting the lies, propaganda and talking points of our evil government would be nice too.
Yeah - that'll work out great. sort of like self flagellation. Many of the things that America does are out in the open, and the external and internal haters fixate on teh news that suits their narrative. I've known for years what 'Murrica does, and hardly need the same story in my face every day. Some folks might need to hear the same thing a hundred times a day, eh? Sometimes that even causes new exhaustion, just like you are tired of hearing about Russia. But why don't you just get your news from RT? I think they post the stuff you like.
Russia and Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are - despite your not wanting to hear about them - and a distraction from your hatred narrative of America, newsworthy. Deal with it. If I'm tired of the howaboutism, of the detractors, and spout off well, convince your favorite country to declare war on us and come in and kill me. then make it illegal to have anything but approved news stories, a new century of stories about the evil that was, and how the righteous and justified rose up and cut off the head of the most evil country on earth. People always need to be careful of what they wish for, sometimes they get it.
At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said a number of curious things, but one comment in particular stood out. When asked about Russian influence in the U.S. election and the ability to combat a foreign actor’s misinformation campaign, the Director said, “We need to arm ourselves with good troll armies pushing back.”
https://ivn.us/2017/05/03/come...
The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than US$626 million annually on propaganda
Countries are allowed to defend themselves you know - Anyhow, it is perfectly fine for America to do this - that's the hidden issue with whataboutism. While presumably to show that your hated opponenet is hypocritical, it merely says that it is okay for you, the aggrieved innicent to do it, because your hated enemy does it. And two groups doing the same thing have to be the same.
Ain't it great tovarish?
Pentagon employees account for 40 percent of the federal public relations workforce and also have the highest combined salaries, the audit revealed.
These 2 are about America expanding it's propaganda to domestic audiences, that's a kind of trolling isn't it? http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/... https://www.globalresearch.ca/...
My Gawd! This is an outrage. Time for only other countries, preferably ones who know of 'Murrica's evil wayds to disseminate any news to Americans.
Of course, our mass media tends not to emphasize such American skulduggery and propaganda. They'll do an initial report on the issue, but it's rarely, if ever, put into the news loop and repeated over and over and over again. Funny how that works, eh? It makes one think of Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who once bluntly said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."
If you want any more you'll have to search for it.
So I declare that the AMericans are just fine with this, because the Russians do it too. It isn't skullduggery and propaganda if it is only on one side. So it's all good!
So anyhow, What are you demanding? That every one of these stories be run every day? That America be nuked? That we commit mass suicide?
Seems like there is asolutely no secret, and if we have been deliberately interfereing in Russia's electoral process ( I guess that means we're pro Putin since our deliberate interference garnered him 70 percent of the vote. And don't forget how we elected a president for life in China.
Seeems like the Russians a a hella lot better than we are. But it's okay, because you just expressed that it's okay. Thank you.
And since in today's America it's almost required, a couple of links for you from RT:
The West? Trolling foreign states for over a decade â" former MI5 agent Pentagon bots in your comments? US Army wants AI tool for social networks
Regardless, let us take what is likely true. These are the parts that are right there in the open literature, what the US tells people they are doing.
It is hardly a scandal that the evilz 'Murricans are looking for people that can speak, translate and read foreign languages of countries that are of interest. And that's been going on since Benjamin Franklin went to France in the wayback.
Apparently in Trump's America, Intelligence gathering is a really bad thing, that only other countries are allowed to perform.
Are they like the Russian Trolls?
Beats me, I've never met one. But considering the Pentagon's gargantuan budget, I'd bet our trolls are paid far better than than Russian trolls.
I'm still waiting to see the evidence of American Troll farms. So far, I haven't. What these links describe is simple reading of public postings.
Fox News is a source of numerous examples. Everytime they state the Assad gassed his own people and use that lie as a pretense for bombing, you're witnessing the trolling. We usually just call it propaganda though.
FTFY
My vmware and parallels VMs disagree.
My live distro installs and option boot disagrees with your disagreeing. Zero need for MacOS.
Or are we not supposed to acknowledge the fact that the US gov't pays people and wages propaganda wars on the Internet?
I think this is one of the things that qualifies as "not even wrong". Even if he's correct (I doubt it), I guess he feels that he'd rather be under the influence of Russian Trolls because someone is under the influence of American ones? I don't know really but it's an oddly common point of view here.
I'n reading whataboutism, one of the favorite tricks of modern Russia. Regardless of where he is located, he's exonerating The USA while damnit because its Okay for Russia to do it becaus of her emails....oops Benghazi! oh sorry, because if we can do it, Russia can do it, and it's oklay that Russia does it so it's okay that we did it.
That's usually a little difficult for the cognitive dissonance people to process however. They get stuck on PizzGate, the 50 plus people that Hillary killed, Benghazi, the Kenyan Birth certificate, Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and that MotherFucker FDR starting World War 2.
The left has kooks too, but they are not mainstream, as the Right wing version of kooks are running the country at present, are in alignment with the kooks starting with the Birther in Chief.
Even if he's correct (I doubt it)
If you see my reply to that comment, you'll see I provided a half-dozen or so links to the fact that the US gov't wages propaganda wars on the Internet and uses trolls to propagandize both Americans and foreign people. There is simply no doubt in that: the US gov't wages propaganda wars against the American people.
What's the number of that post - I switched to reading at zero and don't see a thing?
MacOS is not used to run Linux on a Mac.
It can be. macOS includes Apple's Hypervisor.framework, atop which tools (such as xhyve) can be used to run Linux inside macOS.
This is how Docker for Mac works; it runs the Linux kernel inside Apple's Hypervisor.framework, allowing you to run Linux containers. If you have XQuartz installed, with a bit of fiddling you can run Linux GUI apps inside Docker containers on the macOS desktop.
Yaz
I wonder if I can run Linux inside Windows using parallels?
Please mod parent down for not embracing the liberal agenda of fud and impeachment
Wait - was that post ironic?
The media, hollywood, most comedians, all of the big tech companies, and most social media is 24-7 hardcore anti-Trump for almost 2 straight years now. You see a couple of posts on slashdot that are right-leaning get modded up and all of a sudden it's "wildly conservative" now.
Might want to get your sensitivity meter adjusted just a touch.
It is pretty simple to see that posts not praising Trump get modded down pretty rapidly, and there is a truth to the "Quick, while the Russians are asleep!" meme. Posts made during the normal away time in Western Russia are quickly modded as troll, while the same post made later at night US time would seem to not be so bothersome, perhaps even insightful. I know that has been the case with many of my posts of similar content.
Basically, anything Trump flavored has had a pretty heavy tilt in its moderation, towards the pro-Trump. I've worked in a lot of rural areas, and the brand of angry conservatism/superlibertarianism is pretty rare among IT/Software guys. But for some reason, it's hyper-represented on Slashdot in the past few years.
Not that folks can't hold that view - it just seems disproportionate, compared to the population.
Ryan Fenton
I've always thought that a big part of allowing the trolls to continue was just a matter of tracking them down.
Same with hate speech and some of the more fringe groups. Allowing them on the platform is a great way to keep tabs on them.
I predict a 3000% increase in Rickrolling.
And I predict a 4000% increase in Pentagon trolls.
Or are we not supposed to acknowledge the fact that the US gov't pays people and wages propaganda wars on the Internet?
So can you give me some links to the "Pentagon trolls? Are they like the Russian Trolls? Looking forward to your defense of your thesis and how you identified them as trolls from the Pentagon.
As long as they stick to trolling, they can't do much more damage than they already have. At this point, you're either aware of them, or your mind is already in an alternate universe where kids get molested in nonexistent pizzeria basements by a presidential candidate who fits the typical pedo demographic to a "T".
Pretty much this. The effectiveness of the trolling and fake news reached a saturation point, and now is more entertainment than effective. In fact Americans of differing opinion are being accused of being Russian Trolls. Or useful idiots at best.
The Russians would get more payoff at this point from cyberattacking the electrical grid on Election Day. But those who are in a position to prevent this don't seem to mind the trolling at all.
Yeah, but that would be an act of war, and a Casus belli. For all of our faults and rowdyness, That would have more of a uniting effect than the division that the Kremlin and their useful idiots are after. And no one wants Americans to be united or focused. We get sorta mean and nasty when that happens.
I never said it was. I said that I hope there will always be more (ideally free) bare metal choices on the desktop, not just OS products from Apple, MS, and Google.
You said it was locked down. When I run Linux on my Mac - it's not locked down at all. Then of course, if a person knows Unix, neither is MacOS.
No they don't you stupid schmuck. How about shoving your paranoid crap up where it belong?
He tried to, but a Windows update screwed up his anus driver.
Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk... there's always the option of importing unlocked hardware, I guess.
MacOS is not used to run Linux on a Mac.
I'd disagree. The production values on the ULA program were laughable. Camera menus on screen? Please.
Both ULA and SpaceX can be faulted (when I'm in Aspie mode) for silliness and fluff, at least SpaceX gave us the technical broadcasts. Sometimes. But I'm glad ULA is moving into the Modern World. It was nice to see some of the details of the launch. And to be fair, it's hard to pace a rocket launch. Has about as much internal excitement as an NFL game.
But the bow tie? Now, that's just not playing fair.
Well, production values are one thing. But it is pretty obvious that SpaceX has decided that hearing people cheer is much more important than the roar of a rocket engine.
And those cheers and their fade-in and out could have been the same thing played over and over again. There were also surprisingly few views of the SpaceX Falcon9 Heavy. I'm perhaps not alone in preferring to hear the roar of the barely contained explosion of rocket engines.
I get it. Getting people interested in STEM. But only a few ever will be, and you'll never get a person who is interested in being cool, or likes say, Braxton Family Values or Here comes Honey Boo-Boo or Keeping up with the Kardashians to have a mental dilemma choosing STEM over something else.
But people who are actually interested or working in the field want the real noise, not a cheering studio audience that you might find on Let's make a Deal.
It's Ralphie doing the commentary!
Yeah there was some resemblance.
I would say though, that ULA has it all over SpaceX's coverage.
Disclaimer - I am a fan of SpaceX, not it's launch coverage.
ULA has a lot of information on how they do their launches. It was enjoyable t watch, and l'm a slut for rh sound and fury of the take-off.
Then there was the Falcon Heavy launch. Much hype. Many we are awesome. Very cheer.
More like a mutant science/reality/college football game show.
It was a little obvious that someone at a mixer was bringing up the crowd cheering. But the icing on the cake was when Spacex decided we wanted the crowd cheering to be the sound we heard when the Falcon 9 heavy candle was lit. Wrong.
Also one can stop sharing everything about your life.
Alternatively, start sharing things about your life which aren't exactly true. For example, I just landed a full-time job that pays $45,000 a year, and all I have to do is sit at this console and turn that key if we get the alert and the other guy turns his key at the same time.
This is actually not a bad idea. Making your data useless via screwing with it. Also much fun.
You went on vacation, so you weren't home, which is a great time to break in and steal stuff.
You posted pictures of your home,probably move in dates. The location is somewhere in your history.
Before social media so much knowledge was public, but hard to access. Now it is quick to access
Hard to access? Hardly. The paranoid crowd seems to think that scooting over to the local courthouse and accessing everything you were talking about is too too hard.
Even though that data is real, and unambiguous.
What is difficult is going through life incognito, even without a computer or social media.You might be able to minimize your footprint if you faked your death, moved to Idaho and lived in a compound, bartered for everything with only people you trusted, and avoided others completely.
Otherwise, if I wanted to do a little detective work, there aren't too many people I couldn't find out a lot about. Life is tough for people who want to be invisible. And it was tough long before computers and teh intertoobz.