As far as the hole goes, you would think that a conventional bunker buster with a nuke chaser would be the way to go.
It would capture all of the basic elements of the plan from Armageddon without the need to land a bunch of roughnecks in space suits on an a rock flying through space.
> - Heck, how can the user even load the coporate ergonomic software
That's not a bug. That's a feature. That kind of crap is why end users want to control their own devices to begin with. The employer provided devices are all crap. It's because of nonsense like "corporate ergonomic software".
The PCs they give you in "enterprise" environments are one of the biggest reasons to avoid "enterprise" environments in general.
Guns don't harm me. Idiot neighbors harm me. It doesn't matter if it's guns, slavish devotion to the idea of an HOA, or the fact that they don't train their dogs.
While mildly annoying, my current neighbors are nothing nearly as bad as the kind of idiots that inhabit the crime ridden neighborhoods where you're actually likely to get shot.
Except it's no fallacy. In Common Law, we have another name for the slippery slope. It's called precident. Slippery slopes are how our entire legal system works.
> A major difference is that thanks to Facebook the whole world can learn about the alleged misbehaviour of people.
ANY server will allow for that. Facebook just presents a shiny happy interface usable by your grandma.
The far more relevant bit of tech here is probably the ubiquitous cameras that are in everyone's phones now. 30 years ago, you could still spread an embarrassing video around the Internet. It's just that you likely would not have any material to spread around as recording devices were large, bulky, and conspicuous.
Now any bartender can record you acting like Montgomery Burns.
I think the "alleged criminals" you're referring to are "alleged prisoners of war".
That's an important distinction. Those things matter in law. The relevant makes it legal for non-POWs to be summarily executed. Forget about the incarceration.
> If this was your kid and she got bullied so bad she killed herself what would you do?
If I were try to place blame with ANYONE outside of the immediate family, then it would be with the actual "bullies". These are the people engaging in any actual "harassment". Facebook is just a tool. It is a dumb machine that does whatever it's users tell it to do.
You can't really micromanage it without destroying it or much of the rest of the Internet with it.
This isn't just about Facebook but about ANY user created content or ANY website that empowers end users. This kind of witch hunt threatens ANY website that's more than a sad attempt to recreate broadcast from television from the 50s.
> Network transparency, if relevant will be provded by an additional daemon,
Which will SUCK.
Just use a Mac for awhile and you will experience this kind of stupid design firsthand.
Ironically, Microsoft has spent the last 20 years trying to recreate the network transparency of X. It turns out network transparency is a pretty useful feature despite what the X haters want everyone to think.
> inability to change screen resolution on the fly for about the first decade,
No. That was always possible. The problem was changing the color depth. If you are going to spread FUD about this sort of thing you should at least get the basic details right.
> hacks to get things like multi-monitor or 3d support to wor
When I bought my first 3D card for Linux it "just worked". That was back when people might think that BeOS might be a contender.
As nifty as it was, the fact that Linux had working 3D acceleration was more useful.
Probably the same reason that Android doesn't have the sort of built-in printing support you would expect from a real OS. You have kids so eager to run from the past that they ignore anything they might learn from it.
I've had PCs less powerful than my phone that ran X quite happily. The same goes for CUPS too.
That's probably just to deal with the fact that it's Windows. I've tried to treat various versions of NT as I would Unix and generally tend to fail every time.
It would not surprise me if there is something stupid and trivial that Steam wants to do that requires "root" when it doesn't really need to.
Except this article is not describing self defense. It's describing digital vigilantism. That's not self defense. That's creating a private army and using it to intimidate and lynch people like KKK.
I wish Lemming trolls would be more honest about Windows flaws and how Linux really stacks up against it once you stop trying to pretend that Windows is something that it really isn't.
Quiet low profile PCs are rediculously easy to get. PCs have been shrinking in size for years and they were some of the earliest machines to come in a low profile form factor. Ironically enough, this category includes a lot of machines intended for office use.
If you can't find a quiet powerful PC you just aren't looking very hard.
There have always been cheap x86. It's only the extreme high end that's been rediculous. There has always been a sweet spot with x86 in terms of price and performance.
Although Alpha does provide a nice example of how performance per core trumps anything else. There were some problems you simply could not solve by throwing lesser CPUs at it no matter how much you might have wanted.
You can quickly and directly observe this problem just by watching some lardass trying to walk down the street. Mind you, we're not talking about RUNNING down the street, just walking.
It's very trivial do demonstrate fitness.
Trying to claim that every lardass is really some buff slav is just delusional. You're desperately trying to clutch at any straw yo can to avoid holding people responsible for themselves.
Although slavs with pre-agricultural metabolisms still have to eat right and get some exercise.
A doctor with an anti-fat bias is not a bad thing. There are objective tests that can be run to easily separate the lazy lardasses from the ones that are really "big boned".
The "compelling games" problem seems to be impacting all the new consoles equally. The release of the Xbox One seemed to be conspicous in how little attention was given to it as a gaming platform. Whatever console manages to capture the attention of various types of gamer will do well. I am not convinced that ANY of the new consoles have managed to do that yet.
> How much do you think your participation in the used game market increases the initial retail value of a game? Five dollars? Ten at the outside?
The entire initial retail value of the game.
Without a market, you have no place to sell your stuff. Used games increase the overall market for games in general. So do games that are just cheap. They all contribute to an overall experience that entices the console buyer.
It's all interconnected.
Not everything has to be a blockbuster. Not everything has to be a bargain. Both feed into the potential market of the other.
Except idiots like you decided to take it to the next level in the UK. There are now people agitating for the banning of useful kitchen knives. Much like a rifle, a useful knife seems strange and scary to the ignorant. Such people are likely to form most of their opinions from movies like Psycho and Halloween.
Part of "residential" use is arguably taking advantage of cloud based services. Those can involve a lot of data. It doesn't matter if the "server" is hosted at a place of business or a residence.
No. This is just a blatant attempt to soak a certain class of customer based on some arbitrary label. Many of "the little people" are fine with this as they believe that it doesn't impact them therefore it's all good.
"Cloud backup" would be the first thing I would do with a high bandwidth connection.
You are incorrectly and naively assuming that the only relevant factor here is the availability of guns. Your own personal safety is dependent on that not being the case.
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More people use something other than a PC.
That's kind of the whole point of this little bit of hair splitting.
As far as the hole goes, you would think that a conventional bunker buster with a nuke chaser would be the way to go.
It would capture all of the basic elements of the plan from Armageddon without the need to land a bunch of roughnecks in space suits on an a rock flying through space.
> - Heck, how can the user even load the coporate ergonomic software
That's not a bug. That's a feature. That kind of crap is why end users want to control their own devices to begin with. The employer provided devices are all crap. It's because of nonsense like "corporate ergonomic software".
The PCs they give you in "enterprise" environments are one of the biggest reasons to avoid "enterprise" environments in general.
Your point being what exactly?
Guns don't harm me. Idiot neighbors harm me. It doesn't matter if it's guns, slavish devotion to the idea of an HOA, or the fact that they don't train their dogs.
While mildly annoying, my current neighbors are nothing nearly as bad as the kind of idiots that inhabit the crime ridden neighborhoods where you're actually likely to get shot.
Poverty breeds much more dangerous idiots.
Except it's no fallacy. In Common Law, we have another name for the slippery slope. It's called precident. Slippery slopes are how our entire legal system works.
> A major difference is that thanks to Facebook the whole world can learn about the alleged misbehaviour of people.
ANY server will allow for that. Facebook just presents a shiny happy interface usable by your grandma.
The far more relevant bit of tech here is probably the ubiquitous cameras that are in everyone's phones now. 30 years ago, you could still spread an embarrassing video around the Internet. It's just that you likely would not have any material to spread around as recording devices were large, bulky, and conspicuous.
Now any bartender can record you acting like Montgomery Burns.
I think the "alleged criminals" you're referring to are "alleged prisoners of war".
That's an important distinction. Those things matter in law. The relevant makes it legal for non-POWs to be summarily executed. Forget about the incarceration.
> If this was your kid and she got bullied so bad she killed herself what would you do?
If I were try to place blame with ANYONE outside of the immediate family, then it would be with the actual "bullies". These are the people engaging in any actual "harassment". Facebook is just a tool. It is a dumb machine that does whatever it's users tell it to do.
You can't really micromanage it without destroying it or much of the rest of the Internet with it.
This isn't just about Facebook but about ANY user created content or ANY website that empowers end users. This kind of witch hunt threatens ANY website that's more than a sad attempt to recreate broadcast from television from the 50s.
> Network transparency, if relevant will be provded by an additional daemon,
Which will SUCK.
Just use a Mac for awhile and you will experience this kind of stupid design firsthand.
Ironically, Microsoft has spent the last 20 years trying to recreate the network transparency of X. It turns out network transparency is a pretty useful feature despite what the X haters want everyone to think.
> inability to change screen resolution on the fly for about the first decade,
No. That was always possible. The problem was changing the color depth. If you are going to spread FUD about this sort of thing you should at least get the basic details right.
> hacks to get things like multi-monitor or 3d support to wor
When I bought my first 3D card for Linux it "just worked". That was back when people might think that BeOS might be a contender.
As nifty as it was, the fact that Linux had working 3D acceleration was more useful.
> If X11 is so good, why isn't Android using it?
Probably the same reason that Android doesn't have the sort of built-in printing support you would expect from a real OS. You have kids so eager to run from the past that they ignore anything they might learn from it.
I've had PCs less powerful than my phone that ran X quite happily. The same goes for CUPS too.
So? GNOME3 is ample demonstration that the developers are not a magically valid appeal to authority.
That's probably just to deal with the fact that it's Windows. I've tried to treat various versions of NT as I would Unix and generally tend to fail every time.
It would not surprise me if there is something stupid and trivial that Steam wants to do that requires "root" when it doesn't really need to.
A daemon in Unix does not need "full root privs". It's not necessarily anything special. It can be just another user process.
Except this article is not describing self defense. It's describing digital vigilantism. That's not self defense. That's creating a private army and using it to intimidate and lynch people like KKK.
You don't get to redefine words to suit you. This is double plus true for legal definitions.
I wish Lemming trolls would be more honest about Windows flaws and how Linux really stacks up against it once you stop trying to pretend that Windows is something that it really isn't.
Quiet low profile PCs are rediculously easy to get. PCs have been shrinking in size for years and they were some of the earliest machines to come in a low profile form factor. Ironically enough, this category includes a lot of machines intended for office use.
If you can't find a quiet powerful PC you just aren't looking very hard.
No. Alpha anything was priced insanely.
There have always been cheap x86. It's only the extreme high end that's been rediculous. There has always been a sweet spot with x86 in terms of price and performance.
Although Alpha does provide a nice example of how performance per core trumps anything else. There were some problems you simply could not solve by throwing lesser CPUs at it no matter how much you might have wanted.
You can quickly and directly observe this problem just by watching some lardass trying to walk down the street. Mind you, we're not talking about RUNNING down the street, just walking.
It's very trivial do demonstrate fitness.
Trying to claim that every lardass is really some buff slav is just delusional. You're desperately trying to clutch at any straw yo can to avoid holding people responsible for themselves.
Although slavs with pre-agricultural metabolisms still have to eat right and get some exercise.
A doctor with an anti-fat bias is not a bad thing. There are objective tests that can be run to easily separate the lazy lardasses from the ones that are really "big boned".
The "compelling games" problem seems to be impacting all the new consoles equally. The release of the Xbox One seemed to be conspicous in how little attention was given to it as a gaming platform. Whatever console manages to capture the attention of various types of gamer will do well. I am not convinced that ANY of the new consoles have managed to do that yet.
They're all MEH, the whole lot of them.
> How much do you think your participation in the used game market increases the initial retail value of a game? Five dollars? Ten at the outside?
The entire initial retail value of the game.
Without a market, you have no place to sell your stuff. Used games increase the overall market for games in general. So do games that are just cheap. They all contribute to an overall experience that entices the console buyer.
It's all interconnected.
Not everything has to be a blockbuster. Not everything has to be a bargain. Both feed into the potential market of the other.
Except idiots like you decided to take it to the next level in the UK. There are now people agitating for the banning of useful kitchen knives. Much like a rifle, a useful knife seems strange and scary to the ignorant. Such people are likely to form most of their opinions from movies like Psycho and Halloween.
Part of "residential" use is arguably taking advantage of cloud based services. Those can involve a lot of data. It doesn't matter if the "server" is hosted at a place of business or a residence.
No. This is just a blatant attempt to soak a certain class of customer based on some arbitrary label. Many of "the little people" are fine with this as they believe that it doesn't impact them therefore it's all good.
"Cloud backup" would be the first thing I would do with a high bandwidth connection.
You are incorrectly and naively assuming that the only relevant factor here is the availability of guns. Your own personal safety is dependent on that not being the case.