...yes, gun control laws "so tough" that they couldn't even manage to get rid of magazine fed rifles. That's quite sad really. You would think that it would be trivial and easy to functionally define the weapons you actually want to ban.
California even has gun grabber squads. So they could even have gotten rid of the legacy weapons too.
You can blame the NRA for this sort of thing in Colorado or Texas but not the Peoples Republic of California.
Liberals need to get their act together before they try this stuff on a national scale. It's a total joke and no one should be taking them seriously.
Then please feel free to cite a few good counter-examples to demonstrate your point. Gang beatings and rapes probably correlate quite nicely to murders with or without a firearm.
This is not news and it's not terribly geeky stuff. I really don't see why this article was even posted here. It's off topic and anyone that cares has already started to change their buying habits.
This kind of information TOTALLY USELESS unless the fear mongers in question actually tell us how this thing gets on a system. That's very important because it tells us how to AVOID this stuff. That's the whole point of ANY sort of problem report even if you're just talking about an unsupported printer.
Vague accusations are of no use to anyone except trolls.
How do you defend against this? How do you fix whatever security hole it's using?
The nature of the infection vector is really the only bit of relevant information and it seems to be missing.
Outsourcing is seen as a way to save money so corporations treat it that way. It doesn't matter if it's software or a wrench. The entire rationale for shipping work to China is going to make the end result suspect from the start.
Like the article bluntly stated... this isn't about Chinese factories being bad but American management being bad.
Pretty much any newer Mac is designed to be cute and small. This leads to products that are less reliable, less maintainable, and more prone to becoming quickly obsolete. Some variants burn themselves out quickly. Others end up with faults that can't be addressed with a simple internal end user fix that one might apply to a normal PC.
I stopped using Apple kit as soon as my first one burned itself out on me. Similar PCs have been much more durable because even the low profile ones aren't constrained by Apples design sensibilities.
I found Apple to be the WORST name brand for PCs by far.
A PC that's only supported for a year? In your dreams.
I already use 3 video providers now that are not Apple.
There are several more I could use if I wanted to.
Most of the content overlaps. Most of the stuff that are exclusives end up being released in formats like DVD or to the other streaming video vendors.
Most of the actual content is owned by someone other than the company providing the streaming service. There's less vertical integration than with cable.
The funny thing about software is that it doesn't wear out.
That means that we just keep on accumulating more of it. Now most of it would be in the public domain already if not for corporations corrupting the law and government. Even with that corruption, works become cheap and plentiful.
With a high lack of originality in current works, it often makes much more sense just to go back to the source material. Sometimes it's even CHEAPER even if you're paying for it.
Cheaper and better even without piracy...
How sustainable do you think that is?
Trade your cable bill for a monthly media budget and you can in relatively short order have more stuff than you can handle.
> No, you went to a rich people school and had no clue how bad schools were in the other side of town.
You're a moron. You've probably never stepped out the suburban bubble yourself. Admittedly, the serious "ghetto" schools are a problem but it's not what you think.
In those places, you have black administrators and black teachers keeping the young brothers down. They're not even competent enough to teach basic math and they will sabotage the work of any foolish do-gooder to change things.
They're already busy selling the "black urban poor" short.
Are you kidding? You're lucky if a bare install of Windows has a working NIC afterwards. Compared to that, even a one of these alleged troublesome Ubuntu installs are not so bad.
> If this is the reason why you want to move to Linux, then good luck. There are plenty of reasons to choose to use Linux, but support of new architectures without being forced to upgrade the OS isn't one.
The implications of running the latest version of your pet Linux distribution is much less dire than running the latest version of Windows. I can KEEP the interface I like in Linux. This is despite attempts by the relevant developers to make it otherwise. The system is open and modular and if enough users want something, that something will happen. It will also be nicely packaged so I don't have to futz too much to get things the way I like.
Being forced to run Windows 10 is a different sort of experience than being forced onto the latest version of Ubuntu.
And that's not getting into the fact that the whole "hardware support layer" that you would get with Win10 is "just another module" in Linux (namely the kernel).
Except the other software "vendors" can just support that hardware themselves. So "good luck with that".
There's only so much that Intel can do to exclude everyone else. This is much more about Microsoft's attempts to punish it's own users than anything else.
> how does one magically learn all the special cryptic commands to recompile their kernels and make their audio and or video work correctly? hmmm seems like you might like jumping to conclusions
They do exactly what they would do if they were running Windows. They get their local Linux user to bail them out.
You would not believe what a pain an old printer is with Win10. Un-f*cking-believable. It's like I can never set my expectations low enough with Microsoft.
As far as your trolling nonsense goes...
I haven't compiled a kernel since the 2.0 days.
I haven't had issues with video or audio in a scratch Linux install since before Ubuntu 6.
Not that either of these would be a problem in a preloaded system. It "just works" for the same reason a pre-loaded Windows box does. Someone else did the work for you.
Journalism jumped the shark long before they could blame the Internet for their problems. The ability to do your own fact checking and route around your local news outlet just makes it easier to recognize bullshit and the editor's pet political agenda for what it is.
In most of human history, you simply didn't have a choice. Either you were a monk or you procreated freely. Technology really didn't give you much of a chance. Nobody had an opportunity to avoid having a big family in order to gain an economic advantage.
Everyone is making the mistake of taking him seriously. It might all be a giant con. He showed open contempt for Republican voters many years ago when he was asked about running for President.
The crusades were a direct response to a particular part of that conflict, namely the conquest of lands that European Xians might care about for religious religions.
Imagine the rest of the Muslim world getting pissed off that America decided to invade Saudi Arabia and have the Marines occupy Mecca.
They already have non-consumer 10TB SSD's available in the 2.5 inch form factor. I don't even want to know what the price tag is on those things, but they're supposed to be out there.
Actually the "precision" of bombers in WWII was utterly atrocious. It's quite illuminating to actually read what has been written about the targeting tech of the times.
No one trained in any STEM discipline should be surprised by it.
Yup. This is the same kind of insane hysterical liberal that mistakes a jack on the hood of a jeep for an "assault rifle" and threatens to call the police. It's the same sort of punitive, vindictive use of 911, the police, or child protective services.
These people love to brag about how they will call CPS over someone in a store scolding an unruly child.
Take SWATing and add some sanctimonious political posturing.
The kinds of "kids" that cops have to worry about are hardened criminals before they reach their teens. You simply have an excessively sheltered idea of what a "child" is.
and that's not even getting into the really rough neighborhoods.
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...yes, gun control laws "so tough" that they couldn't even manage to get rid of magazine fed rifles. That's quite sad really. You would think that it would be trivial and easy to functionally define the weapons you actually want to ban.
California even has gun grabber squads. So they could even have gotten rid of the legacy weapons too.
You can blame the NRA for this sort of thing in Colorado or Texas but not the Peoples Republic of California.
Liberals need to get their act together before they try this stuff on a national scale. It's a total joke and no one should be taking them seriously.
Then please feel free to cite a few good counter-examples to demonstrate your point. Gang beatings and rapes probably correlate quite nicely to murders with or without a firearm.
Why would Republicans like the GPL? They're Robber Baron wannabes. They want to be free to use your stuff and lock you out of the results.
The BSDL is the license for Republicans and other types of selfish jackass.
This is not news and it's not terribly geeky stuff. I really don't see why this article was even posted here. It's off topic and anyone that cares has already started to change their buying habits.
Wah! Wah! Wah!
I wiped out my Windows partition and it was too hard to install again. Linux must be to blame!
Mebbe you shouldn't have told the Linux installer to wipe everything.
This kind of information TOTALLY USELESS unless the fear mongers in question actually tell us how this thing gets on a system. That's very important because it tells us how to AVOID this stuff. That's the whole point of ANY sort of problem report even if you're just talking about an unsupported printer.
Vague accusations are of no use to anyone except trolls.
How do you defend against this? How do you fix whatever security hole it's using?
The nature of the infection vector is really the only bit of relevant information and it seems to be missing.
Outsourcing is seen as a way to save money so corporations treat it that way. It doesn't matter if it's software or a wrench. The entire rationale for shipping work to China is going to make the end result suspect from the start.
Like the article bluntly stated... this isn't about Chinese factories being bad but American management being bad.
Pretty much any newer Mac is designed to be cute and small. This leads to products that are less reliable, less maintainable, and more prone to becoming quickly obsolete. Some variants burn themselves out quickly. Others end up with faults that can't be addressed with a simple internal end user fix that one might apply to a normal PC.
I stopped using Apple kit as soon as my first one burned itself out on me. Similar PCs have been much more durable because even the low profile ones aren't constrained by Apples design sensibilities.
I found Apple to be the WORST name brand for PCs by far.
A PC that's only supported for a year? In your dreams.
If I'm at all interested in what the dinosaur networks are offering, I can just put up an antenna and feed that signal into a PVR.
I didn't even need cable for them before. Forget about now.
I already use 3 video providers now that are not Apple.
There are several more I could use if I wanted to.
Most of the content overlaps. Most of the stuff that are exclusives end up being released in formats like DVD or to the other streaming video vendors.
Most of the actual content is owned by someone other than the company providing the streaming service. There's less vertical integration than with cable.
The funny thing about software is that it doesn't wear out.
That means that we just keep on accumulating more of it. Now most of it would be in the public domain already if not for corporations corrupting the law and government. Even with that corruption, works become cheap and plentiful.
With a high lack of originality in current works, it often makes much more sense just to go back to the source material. Sometimes it's even CHEAPER even if you're paying for it.
Cheaper and better even without piracy...
How sustainable do you think that is?
Trade your cable bill for a monthly media budget and you can in relatively short order have more stuff than you can handle.
Netflix is just the cheap and easy option...
> No, you went to a rich people school and had no clue how bad schools were in the other side of town.
You're a moron. You've probably never stepped out the suburban bubble yourself. Admittedly, the serious "ghetto" schools are a problem but it's not what you think.
In those places, you have black administrators and black teachers keeping the young brothers down. They're not even competent enough to teach basic math and they will sabotage the work of any foolish do-gooder to change things.
They're already busy selling the "black urban poor" short.
"The man" doesn't even have to get involved.
Are you kidding? You're lucky if a bare install of Windows has a working NIC afterwards. Compared to that, even a one of these alleged troublesome Ubuntu installs are not so bad.
> If this is the reason why you want to move to Linux, then good luck. There are plenty of reasons to choose to use Linux, but support of new architectures without being forced to upgrade the OS isn't one.
The implications of running the latest version of your pet Linux distribution is much less dire than running the latest version of Windows. I can KEEP the interface I like in Linux. This is despite attempts by the relevant developers to make it otherwise. The system is open and modular and if enough users want something, that something will happen. It will also be nicely packaged so I don't have to futz too much to get things the way I like.
Being forced to run Windows 10 is a different sort of experience than being forced onto the latest version of Ubuntu.
And that's not getting into the fact that the whole "hardware support layer" that you would get with Win10 is "just another module" in Linux (namely the kernel).
Again... modularity and "chaos" win the day.
Except the other software "vendors" can just support that hardware themselves. So "good luck with that".
There's only so much that Intel can do to exclude everyone else. This is much more about Microsoft's attempts to punish it's own users than anything else.
> how does one magically learn all the special cryptic commands to recompile their kernels and make their audio and or video work correctly? hmmm seems like you might like jumping to conclusions
They do exactly what they would do if they were running Windows. They get their local Linux user to bail them out.
You would not believe what a pain an old printer is with Win10. Un-f*cking-believable. It's like I can never set my expectations low enough with Microsoft.
As far as your trolling nonsense goes...
I haven't compiled a kernel since the 2.0 days.
I haven't had issues with video or audio in a scratch Linux install since before Ubuntu 6.
Not that either of these would be a problem in a preloaded system. It "just works" for the same reason a pre-loaded Windows box does. Someone else did the work for you.
Journalism jumped the shark long before they could blame the Internet for their problems. The ability to do your own fact checking and route around your local news outlet just makes it easier to recognize bullshit and the editor's pet political agenda for what it is.
In most of human history, you simply didn't have a choice. Either you were a monk or you procreated freely. Technology really didn't give you much of a chance. Nobody had an opportunity to avoid having a big family in order to gain an economic advantage.
Everyone is making the mistake of taking him seriously. It might all be a giant con. He showed open contempt for Republican voters many years ago when he was asked about running for President.
The crusades were a direct response to a particular part of that conflict, namely the conquest of lands that European Xians might care about for religious religions.
Imagine the rest of the Muslim world getting pissed off that America decided to invade Saudi Arabia and have the Marines occupy Mecca.
They already have non-consumer 10TB SSD's available in the 2.5 inch form factor. I don't even want to know what the price tag is on those things, but they're supposed to be out there.
> Stay out of it, stop meddling in other countries politics.
Since the Caliphate by definition wants to take over the rest of the world, this option really doesn't help for ISIS.
Your touchy feely cum-by-ah approach sounds nice and all but it pretty much ignores nearly ALL of the relevant history.
Someone else said it... "sometimes it's not about you".
Actually the "precision" of bombers in WWII was utterly atrocious. It's quite illuminating to actually read what has been written about the targeting tech of the times.
No one trained in any STEM discipline should be surprised by it.
Yup. This is the same kind of insane hysterical liberal that mistakes a jack on the hood of a jeep for an "assault rifle" and threatens to call the police. It's the same sort of punitive, vindictive use of 911, the police, or child protective services.
These people love to brag about how they will call CPS over someone in a store scolding an unruly child.
Take SWATing and add some sanctimonious political posturing.
The kinds of "kids" that cops have to worry about are hardened criminals before they reach their teens. You simply have an excessively sheltered idea of what a "child" is.
and that's not even getting into the really rough neighborhoods.