Mmmm well depends on the way my farts are harvested. Is it by forcing a tube in my a-hole? Or standing by and waiting for my farts to come out?
The way Google, Amazon et. al. are doing it is more like the tube in the ass method. They force a device on (or into) you and take whatever they want (or well, they take everything and filter out. Or not.)
I'm Canadian, and I can assure you that our "socialised" system is:
Damn expensive (50% of budget in Quebec)
Inefficient (people waiting 26 hours in an emergency room for a fractured arm)
Inefficient (people waiting 2 years for some basic surgeries)
Inefficient (people waiting 1 year for an MRI)
So please, don't say our system is better than in the US. People are not dying in the streets up here, but when you have a condition, you better be patient. A patient patient.
Usually, like 5 years ago and before, There was always that frickin' "Frost Piss" sucker, but then you could get something intelligent. Now, the first 4-5 threads are just rubbish.
If nothing is done to remove this fuckin shit, I may simply no longer come here. I already come fewer on/. since Trump's election cause everything in the world that happens triggers some excessively boring Trump references. Now, with all the "Frost Piss", "Ni99ers", "Because of Trump" and "Global warming" shit, intelligent stuff is getting more and more diluted.
So long Slashdot, the place is no longer "News for Nerds". It's now "News for Trolls".
Not only is this a good idea because you can investigate what your software does under he hood, but you also have the ability to remove those hardcoded limitations that Citrix forced down the throat of the free version users.
The timing of the Spectre / Meltdown bug and the release of the new Xen Server 7.3 is certainly not fortuitious, along with the fact that they said they would not release the patch for 7.2 and lower.
They were probably informed in advance of the bugs and had the time to plan this mischievous strategy. This is a strong backstab to the XenServer community, and this community seems to have strongly demonstrated their love for XenServer and their hate for Citrix's new licensing terms.
(when it's clearly fucking interesting new tech being used in interesting new ways)
The tech is interesting. The implementation is not.
Having to send all my questions, voiceprint included, to an advertising company that can then trace me everywhere I go and serve me ads according to the type of questions I ask and what places I go, is not something I find so "fucking interesting". Privacy anyone?
When someone creates a device that, with its own processing power, can interpret my questions into something useful, like "Hey Talky, how is the traffic to work this morning?", and get strictly what is needed from Google Maps or any other maps / traffic service, without sending the audio or text to an advertising company that would then serve me ads about businesses along the route, then I may see this as "fucking interesting"
For now, I am not "fucking interested" with this advertising device.
But then think about this. You really think that ALL of Facebook has the same opinion? That anything published on Facebook becomes unanimous thought? FB is a big collection of trolls, clickbaits and, sometimes, real influencers. But there is no way in hell a unique point of view on Facebook.
Each religious current can differ slightly, but they tend to agree on some general principles. And MOST religious currents tend to have some very well positionned influencers in governments, police and law enforcement agencies. Sometimes they even run the government (mostly in middleeast countries) This is what makes them extremely powerful, compared to the small FB folks who tend to disappear after short lived glory.
Power does not mean majority. Look at who's REALLY deciding about what's going on in your life. Banks, governments, big businesses. Yes FB can have a little influence, but "The most powerful platform in human history"? This gave me a good laugh.
I would say religions have been and still are far more powerful (yes religion is a "platform", just not a technological one). FB is just faster, but certainly not more powerful.
I think I am a very competent IT guy. I am a Linux / Cisco / Windows / Sun guy. I've been working with GUIs and CLIs forever (I am 37, so I've asked MSDOS to edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat as much asI have used pre-systemd Linux boxes.
Now that Windows 10 is here with its load of spycrapware, I've escaped from this espionage world by installing CentOS on my ASUS laptop. It's been working pretty fine for a long time (like 10 months), but now, trying to update the OS leads me to strange errors not even known by the CentOS guys themselves, and any software I'm trying to install give me some dependencies problems right when installimg.
So the reason why the LINUX DESKTOP is not happening is easy to understand: You need high paid folks for the simple task of updating the OS, and if you dare going the unsupported way, you're screwed since no one will support your crappy old OS. The update / dependency resolving system is as bad as it can be.....
I would also add that you never really know if the update took place in most apps. There should be some kind of notification that says "update successful" upon return code 200
Yes, that's what I also do when I want to get the latest content in an app. But how annoying is it! A refresh button in a menu and an indication that the refresh was successful should be the way to go.
I'd say no, and I'll tell you why. Google has gained a reputation of being open to all (but white american man) the LGBTQ / Indian / Black / Muslim / Leftist / Krishna / Asian / et al. communities, and TFA shows that this is all just a front. In the back, you can see that whatever Google can get some money from, they will do. Opening to other communities is probably just a way to underpay their personnel.
Those "Idle PCs" will no longer be idle mining cryptocurrency. They'll consume far more power doing CPU mining, which is very inefficient compared to GPUs or ASICs. The electric company bill will show them that electricity in the US is pretty expensive...
I am not saying they said the truth. And it probably is a bug that needs to be corrected in the code. There is so much pressure to release products on time that you need to bug-fix soon after release. In this case, who knows what really happened. Maybe they do not even know it yet. But they had to come up with some story for PR purpose. Then you will soon get an update that deals with "too sensitive lockout mechanism"...
I am pretty sure Bill Gates did a rehearsal before connecting a scanner to his W98 PC on the stage when he got a BSOD... Shit happens, and it sometimes happens with the worst timing possible.
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Mmmm well depends on the way my farts are harvested. Is it by forcing a tube in my a-hole? Or standing by and waiting for my farts to come out?
The way Google, Amazon et. al. are doing it is more like the tube in the ass method. They force a device on (or into) you and take whatever they want (or well, they take everything and filter out. Or not.)
Enjoy you freedom while it lasts.
What freedom are you talking about? The freedom to be monetized and spied on by our phones?
And, you know, more or less run the Internet.
Not only 96.5% of web servers and 85% of cloud services, but also > 85% of all phones.
But not desktop computers though. Which account for what, 45% of web browsing activity, wher Linux has approx 1.5% of the market.
Sounds like I'm gonna have to ditch Red Hat / CentOS. Love KDE Plasma.
So please, don't say our system is better than in the US. People are not dying in the streets up here, but when you have a condition, you better be patient. A patient patient.
Why, when I hear about a "personal flying machine", does this episode of South Park cums to my mind?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
...to get intelligent comments on /.
Usually, like 5 years ago and before, There was always that frickin' "Frost Piss" sucker, but then you could get something intelligent. Now, the first 4-5 threads are just rubbish.
If nothing is done to remove this fuckin shit, I may simply no longer come here. I already come fewer on /. since Trump's election cause everything in the world that happens triggers some excessively boring Trump references. Now, with all the "Frost Piss", "Ni99ers", "Because of Trump" and "Global warming" shit, intelligent stuff is getting more and more diluted.
So long Slashdot, the place is no longer "News for Nerds". It's now "News for Trolls".
Not only is this a good idea because you can investigate what your software does under he hood, but you also have the ability to remove those hardcoded limitations that Citrix forced down the throat of the free version users.
The timing of the Spectre / Meltdown bug and the release of the new Xen Server 7.3 is certainly not fortuitious, along with the fact that they said they would not release the patch for 7.2 and lower.
They were probably informed in advance of the bugs and had the time to plan this mischievous strategy. This is a strong backstab to the XenServer community, and this community seems to have strongly demonstrated their love for XenServer and their hate for Citrix's new licensing terms.
Not winner enough. I would simply rename the company International Bitcoin Mining corporation. +10,000% stock price. PROFIT!
(when it's clearly fucking interesting new tech being used in interesting new ways)
The tech is interesting. The implementation is not.
Having to send all my questions, voiceprint included, to an advertising company that can then trace me everywhere I go and serve me ads according to the type of questions I ask and what places I go, is not something I find so "fucking interesting". Privacy anyone?
When someone creates a device that, with its own processing power, can interpret my questions into something useful, like "Hey Talky, how is the traffic to work this morning?", and get strictly what is needed from Google Maps or any other maps / traffic service, without sending the audio or text to an advertising company that would then serve me ads about businesses along the route, then I may see this as "fucking interesting"
For now, I am not "fucking interested" with this advertising device.
And you forget that it doesn't fit an envelope as the MacBook Air does...
But then think about this. You really think that ALL of Facebook has the same opinion? That anything published on Facebook becomes unanimous thought? FB is a big collection of trolls, clickbaits and, sometimes, real influencers. But there is no way in hell a unique point of view on Facebook.
Each religious current can differ slightly, but they tend to agree on some general principles. And MOST religious currents tend to have some very well positionned influencers in governments, police and law enforcement agencies. Sometimes they even run the government (mostly in middleeast countries) This is what makes them extremely powerful, compared to the small FB folks who tend to disappear after short lived glory.
Power does not mean majority. Look at who's REALLY deciding about what's going on in your life. Banks, governments, big businesses. Yes FB can have a little influence, but "The most powerful platform in human history"? This gave me a good laugh.
the most powerful platform in human history
I would say religions have been and still are far more powerful (yes religion is a "platform", just not a technological one). FB is just faster, but certainly not more powerful.
I agree with none of these platforms.
I think I am a very competent IT guy. I am a Linux / Cisco / Windows / Sun guy. I've been working with GUIs and CLIs forever (I am 37, so I've asked MSDOS to edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat as much asI have used pre-systemd Linux boxes.
Now that Windows 10 is here with its load of spycrapware, I've escaped from this espionage world by installing CentOS on my ASUS laptop. It's been working pretty fine for a long time (like 10 months), but now, trying to update the OS leads me to strange errors not even known by the CentOS guys themselves, and any software I'm trying to install give me some dependencies problems right when installimg.
So the reason why the LINUX DESKTOP is not happening is easy to understand: You need high paid folks for the simple task of updating the OS, and if you dare going the unsupported way, you're screwed since no one will support your crappy old OS. The update / dependency resolving system is as bad as it can be.....
Essentially then, this is not a shift in trust. It is only greed. And what happens when these greedy people want to take their profits? BOOM.
Yes there is one... wget.
I would also add that you never really know if the update took place in most apps. There should be some kind of notification that says "update successful" upon return code 200
Yes, that's what I also do when I want to get the latest content in an app. But how annoying is it! A refresh button in a menu and an indication that the refresh was successful should be the way to go.
What serious sites still have a "mobile version" these days with responsive design?
Slashdot you'll tell me? I said "serious sites" fella...
I'd say no, and I'll tell you why. Google has gained a reputation of being open to all (but white american man) the LGBTQ / Indian / Black / Muslim / Leftist / Krishna / Asian / et al. communities, and TFA shows that this is all just a front. In the back, you can see that whatever Google can get some money from, they will do. Opening to other communities is probably just a way to underpay their personnel.
Those "Idle PCs" will no longer be idle mining cryptocurrency. They'll consume far more power doing CPU mining, which is very inefficient compared to GPUs or ASICs. The electric company bill will show them that electricity in the US is pretty expensive...
All this sounds like stock pumping and bashing. Best place to discuss it is on stockhouse.com.
Police and border agents. So no more need to force you to unlock, they just grab the phone, show it to you and search it without warrant. Nice.
I am not saying they said the truth. And it probably is a bug that needs to be corrected in the code. There is so much pressure to release products on time that you need to bug-fix soon after release. In this case, who knows what really happened. Maybe they do not even know it yet. But they had to come up with some story for PR purpose. Then you will soon get an update that deals with "too sensitive lockout mechanism"...
I am pretty sure Bill Gates did a rehearsal before connecting a scanner to his W98 PC on the stage when he got a BSOD... Shit happens, and it sometimes happens with the worst timing possible.