As funny as it is - that's the whole point. Russian government created local storage law as a leverage to have a piece of that particular pie. They want data on their citizens in their data centers.
99.4% turnout isn't so bad. And we managed to make it even better. During last presidential elections (essentially Putin elections) certain regions had 140% turnout, according to official data. Imagine that.
They should just ban people from boarding planes. That shoud fix everything, at least to some extent. Those pesky pilots and stewardesses can be evil terrorists too.
Yes, products, not ideas. Mp3 players, PDAs and pad computers existed before Apple turned those into a cult. That said, if Apple actually created (as in pantented) ideas behind those devices, they would sue the hell out of anyone trying to do the same. Apple is really good at marketing and making people think they want their stuff. It's not really innovation though, just very efficient business strategy.
Your health and credit card data, emails and personal habits gets shared anyway every now and then, without your consent, and nobody seems complain about it too much. Claiming that something is illegal is moot unless you have a system in place that efficiently prevents that or - at least - reliably finds and punishes perpetrators. Internet don't work like that, though.
Problem is (assuming it's a problem) - internet was never built to be secure (in a sence of allowing someone to access information and denying someone else). Because of that we have "workarounds" like firewalls, 3rd party auth systems and the like. Basically if you want to keep information private - the only way to do it 100% securely is to keep it away from internet to begin with. Fixing all that will probably require redesigning entire OSI model from scratch - and that's something few can afford.
We do have stuff like DCMA that (supposedly) should prevent unauthorised distribution of data - but it only favors right-holders at the expence of everyone else - be it consumers, clients, or even authors. And since little people like me are going to get screwed over regardless of how secure (or more likely - controlled by government) environment is, I'd say I prefer a full-of-holes version of internet anyway. At least I have some control over what I share. If I share something - I assume anyone can see it. If i share something I don't want people to see - its entirely my fault.
I think the idea of big players is that a few generations down the line "ads on everything you pay for" will become new norm for everyone, as soon as people who remeber ad-free internet finally die off.
Thats right, I don't. And i actually agree with your point. I never said being empathic to someone means being brutal so someone else, either. In most cases, i think, its more about apathy than outright agression towards those who are outside one's scope of interest. On the other hand, empathy can only go so far, and one can only help a limited amount of people, regardless of how incredibly empathic that person can possibly be. So all I`m saying is that one does not exclude another.
And if that's really is main problem of the world, and whether or not we can fix it with tools we have - if I knew that, I'd probably start my own presitential campaign, or at least my own religion. But here I am, posting another useless comment...
The brain being hardwired to empathy or friendship does not exclude being utterly sadistic/brutal/merciless to those one does not consider a friend or object of empathy though. You do care about you family more than, say, your neighbors or that other dude on the other side of a planet in that 3rd world country getting acute lead poisoning, right. I'm fairly sure thats why people in power generally dont give a crap about all that small people. They do have people they really care about, and it just so happens that these people are (naturally) not their electorate, there are wives, husbands, lovers, concubines, kids, old pals and so on. So we all get crewed for a noble reason, because humans are empathic, have friends and all that...
In my experience, console gaming only gets convinient when I have an emulator for it. Then I can backup whatever the hell I want on my own terms and responsibility. Its only gets worse with modern walled-garden consoles, where developers go out of ther way to make everything incompatible with everything else.
Yeah i realize that chance that ps3 or ps4 going to get emulated (to a playable degree) are slim to none, but chances are that anything worth its weight in package plastic will get ported to pc a few years later anyway, despite being $console_name-exclusive upon release, like it happens to ps-exclusive FF series. Latest installments of FF kinda suck though, but that's another story...
I still have those Planescape: Torment saves (along with entire game) lying on that nas, waiting for when i finally find the time to continue playing. I`ve been putting it off for 4 years now:(
And that's exactly what most users want - to get things done. And if OS don't get in your way of doing things - even better. It perfect and just right if you can't see underlying OS at all. And yes, that the whole point of LTS. The problem is that win10 is nowhere near being that stable, and that is okay. And everyone would be happy if Microsoft just plain admitted it being too raw for production environment - that would also be okay. They do not, instead they claim that win10 - as ugly as it is now - is still better and more stable than win7, which is, basically, an epitome of what LTS is about as far as Windows products go anyway. And everyone is *rightfully* bitching about it.
Never reboot is a load of crap imo, kernel patches aside, you ought to reboot every now and then just to make sure whole thing is still booting properly after patching, or yet another systemd "improvement". So that you don't get stuck right after power outage when you really need the thing running. Linux *can* run for a long time without ever rebooting - true. But "can" is not "should".
I think that post was more about msft turning w10 into software version of Orwell's 1984, rather than it being simply full of bugs (as if linux isn't full of bugs). And the actual shithow part of w10 is that there are cases when you install a correct driver for any (particullary old) hardware, it get rolled over by yet another update, so you basically forced to unfuck the system wherever microsoft decides to "enchance your user expirience" (basically every 2-3 days or so). Not to mention all the obvious spyware bundle.
Yeah. The result of this is that there will be stickers on any communication-capable device stating, that "By using this device you agree to terms and conditions and revoke your ownership of any personally identifiable data created in the process of using said device, etcetera..."
And we're back to step one. That said, no matter how "unindentifiable" any metadata can be it's usually ends up being perefectly identifiable once you look at the bigger picture: combine your database with database of that ISP over here, and database of that mail provider over there and so on...
Besides, there are terrorists and evil ruskies/muslims/whatever all over the place and we have nothing to hide on top of that...
Not just birds. Technically there are no renewable sources of enegry. Wind may appear renewable, but its just that consequences of abusing wind energy is not as apparent as, say, coal or nuclear. But they still there. Wind does not pass turbine unchanged, affecting wind will in the end affect entire ecosystem. Build enough turbines in one place and given enough time you'll see.
Same goes for solar - there is only so much space on earth where you can install panels. You still need that space for other means - crops, housing, industry.
One may think that installing them in some desert is a way to go, but that too will have consequences of its own - plants and wildlife need sunlight. Not to mention that panels themselves are not too efficient. I'ts a good idea in some rural area, yes. But big city consumes much more energy, than solar panels on the same space can produce.
I'd say we're stuck with nuclear/coal for a good while. Properly maintained and operated nuclear plant produces crapton of energy, considering the amount of fuel and space it takes...
As commendable as Anonymous` actions may be what they do is, in the end, irrevelant. Not to mention the obvious fact that Trump capitalize on hatred, this wont help the global problem America seem to have at the moment - lack of adequate leaders. They might as well declare war on anyone running for president, just for the fun of it.
I`m not even going to start playing it.:\ BioWare really sucks in storyline departement... oh, Sooo predictable plots of nwn/nwn2/ME, I really felt like I`m wasting my time and money for hothin` when I played that, even though games looked Sooo beautiful.
Looks like they first come up with a collection of skills/spells and create a battle system suitable for all that, and only then they start thinking about the plot. Don`t just play mmog, folks@bioware.com, try reading some books... Its not like everyone writes about someone saving the whole world... again.
So here I am, russian in russia, posting on/.
From news@tv I`ve heard that russia *never* invaided georgia itself, only protected russian civilians in south osetia. And yes, reinforcemets were sent there since our peacekeeping forces were greatly outnumbered.
Then I took a look at what CNN says: "Russia targets & bombs civilians" and then bbc "100% unprovoked brutal invasion"
What a shock... Whom should I thust? wtf is goin on?
How funny. What the hell for they need to put Linux into *this*? And who gonna buy it? Like... "I`m such a fan of Linux, that it even runs my portable dvd player"... Crap.
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As funny as it is - that's the whole point. Russian government created local storage law as a leverage to have a piece of that particular pie. They want data on their citizens in their data centers.
In Edge leaking whatever user types is probably a feature, not bug.
99.4% turnout isn't so bad. And we managed to make it even better. During last presidential elections (essentially Putin elections) certain regions had 140% turnout, according to official data. Imagine that.
They should just ban people from boarding planes. That shoud fix everything, at least to some extent. Those pesky pilots and stewardesses can be evil terrorists too.
Yes, products, not ideas. Mp3 players, PDAs and pad computers existed before Apple turned those into a cult. That said, if Apple actually created (as in pantented) ideas behind those devices, they would sue the hell out of anyone trying to do the same. Apple is really good at marketing and making people think they want their stuff.
It's not really innovation though, just very efficient business strategy.
I'll just wait for a Honest trailer...
Your health and credit card data, emails and personal habits gets shared anyway every now and then, without your consent, and nobody seems complain about it too much. Claiming that something is illegal is moot unless you have a system in place that efficiently prevents that or - at least - reliably finds and punishes perpetrators. Internet don't work like that, though.
Problem is (assuming it's a problem) - internet was never built to be secure (in a sence of allowing someone to access information and denying someone else). Because of that we have "workarounds" like firewalls, 3rd party auth systems and the like. Basically if you want to keep information private - the only way to do it 100% securely is to keep it away from internet to begin with. Fixing all that will probably require redesigning entire OSI model from scratch - and that's something few can afford.
We do have stuff like DCMA that (supposedly) should prevent unauthorised distribution of data - but it only favors right-holders at the expence of everyone else - be it consumers, clients, or even authors. And since little people like me are going to get screwed over regardless of how secure (or more likely - controlled by government) environment is, I'd say I prefer a full-of-holes version of internet anyway. At least I have some control over what I share. If I share something - I assume anyone can see it. If i share something I don't want people to see - its entirely my fault.
Then you`ll have to pay every time you hear about this stuff.
It will be sooner them quartering us for not submitting to their business model, though.
I think the idea of big players is that a few generations down the line "ads on everything you pay for" will become new norm for everyone, as soon as people who remeber ad-free internet finally die off.
Thats right, I don't. And i actually agree with your point. I never said being empathic to someone means being brutal so someone else, either. In most cases, i think, its more about apathy than outright agression towards those who are outside one's scope of interest. On the other hand, empathy can only go so far, and one can only help a limited amount of people, regardless of how incredibly empathic that person can possibly be. So all I`m saying is that one does not exclude another.
And if that's really is main problem of the world, and whether or not we can fix it with tools we have - if I knew that, I'd probably start my own presitential campaign, or at least my own religion.
But here I am, posting another useless comment...
The brain being hardwired to empathy or friendship does not exclude being utterly sadistic/brutal/merciless to those one does not consider a friend or object of empathy though. You do care about you family more than, say, your neighbors or that other dude on the other side of a planet in that 3rd world country getting acute lead poisoning, right.
I'm fairly sure thats why people in power generally dont give a crap about all that small people. They do have people they really care about, and it just so happens that these people are (naturally) not their electorate, there are wives, husbands, lovers, concubines, kids, old pals and so on. So we all get crewed for a noble reason, because humans are empathic, have friends and all that...
In my experience, console gaming only gets convinient when I have an emulator for it. Then I can backup whatever the hell I want on my own terms and responsibility. Its only gets worse with modern walled-garden consoles, where developers go out of ther way to make everything incompatible with everything else.
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Yeah i realize that chance that ps3 or ps4 going to get emulated (to a playable degree) are slim to none, but chances are that anything worth its weight in package plastic will get ported to pc a few years later anyway, despite being $console_name-exclusive upon release, like it happens to ps-exclusive FF series. Latest installments of FF kinda suck though, but that's another story...
I still have those Planescape: Torment saves (along with entire game) lying on that nas, waiting for when i finally find the time to continue playing. I`ve been putting it off for 4 years now
And that's exactly what most users want - to get things done. And if OS don't get in your way of doing things - even better. It perfect and just right if you can't see underlying OS at all. And yes, that the whole point of LTS.
The problem is that win10 is nowhere near being that stable, and that is okay. And everyone would be happy if Microsoft just plain admitted it being too raw for production environment - that would also be okay. They do not, instead they claim that win10 - as ugly as it is now - is still better and more stable than win7, which is, basically, an epitome of what LTS is about as far as Windows products go anyway.
And everyone is *rightfully* bitching about it.
I misread lava as java at first and thought "okay, that might actually work..."
Never reboot is a load of crap imo, kernel patches aside, you ought to reboot every now and then just to make sure whole thing is still booting properly after patching, or yet another systemd "improvement". So that you don't get stuck right after power outage when you really need the thing running. Linux *can* run for a long time without ever rebooting - true. But "can" is not "should".
I think that post was more about msft turning w10 into software version of Orwell's 1984, rather than it being simply full of bugs (as if linux isn't full of bugs). And the actual shithow part of w10 is that there are cases when you install a correct driver for any (particullary old) hardware, it get rolled over by yet another update, so you basically forced to unfuck the system wherever microsoft decides to "enchance your user expirience" (basically every 2-3 days or so). Not to mention all the obvious spyware bundle.
Yeah. The result of this is that there will be stickers on any communication-capable device stating, that "By using this device you agree to terms and conditions and revoke your ownership of any personally identifiable data created in the process of using said device, etcetera..." And we're back to step one. That said, no matter how "unindentifiable" any metadata can be it's usually ends up being perefectly identifiable once you look at the bigger picture: combine your database with database of that ISP over here, and database of that mail provider over there and so on... Besides, there are terrorists and evil ruskies/muslims/whatever all over the place and we have nothing to hide on top of that...
Not just birds. Technically there are no renewable sources of enegry. Wind may appear renewable, but its just that consequences of abusing wind energy is not as apparent as, say, coal or nuclear. But they still there. Wind does not pass turbine unchanged, affecting wind will in the end affect entire ecosystem. Build enough turbines in one place and given enough time you'll see.
Same goes for solar - there is only so much space on earth where you can install panels. You still need that space for other means - crops, housing, industry. One may think that installing them in some desert is a way to go, but that too will have consequences of its own - plants and wildlife need sunlight. Not to mention that panels themselves are not too efficient. I'ts a good idea in some rural area, yes. But big city consumes much more energy, than solar panels on the same space can produce.
I'd say we're stuck with nuclear/coal for a good while. Properly maintained and operated nuclear plant produces crapton of energy, considering the amount of fuel and space it takes...
As commendable as Anonymous` actions may be what they do is, in the end, irrevelant. Not to mention the obvious fact that Trump capitalize on hatred, this wont help the global problem America seem to have at the moment - lack of adequate leaders. They might as well declare war on anyone running for president, just for the fun of it.
I`m not even going to start playing it. :\ BioWare really sucks in storyline departement... oh, Sooo predictable plots of nwn/nwn2/ME, I really felt like I`m wasting my time and money for hothin` when I played that, even though games looked Sooo beautiful.
Looks like they first come up with a collection of skills/spells and create a battle system suitable for all that, and only then they start thinking about the plot. Don`t just play mmog, folks@bioware.com, try reading some books... Its not like everyone writes about someone saving the whole world... again.
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Port forwarding is a great thing btw. I changed ssh port from 22 to something like 4254 or whatever, and that was really helpful in my case.
So here I am, russian in russia, posting on /.
From news@tv I`ve heard that russia *never* invaided georgia itself, only protected russian civilians in south osetia. And yes, reinforcemets were sent there since our peacekeeping forces were greatly outnumbered.
Then I took a look at what CNN says: "Russia targets & bombs civilians" and then bbc "100% unprovoked brutal invasion"
What a shock... Whom should I thust? wtf is goin on?
How funny. What the hell for they need to put Linux into *this*? And who gonna buy it? Like... "I`m such a fan of Linux, that it even runs my portable dvd player"... Crap.