This argument is dead, burned, and getting in the way.
You can pick a browser without a history of stupid abuses, you can limit plugins allowed, you can use adblockers, you can use privacy screening tools, you can use sandboxing, you can use zero-state virtual machines, etc etc et-fucking-cetera.
"Storage space maxed out? No problem. macOS Sierra can help make more room by automatically storing rarely used files in the cloud and keeping them available on demand. It can also help you find and remove old files you no longer use. So there’s always room on your Mac for new files and the ones you’ve used most recently."
Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
YMMV by distro, but you can get Chrome's widevine plugin repackaged to work with Chromium. Netflix works just fine that way with recent-ish versions.
Also worth noting that Pepperflash can also be repackaged that way.
Both plugins are available on at least Slack (via Alien's slackbuilds) and 'buntu.
The only relevant questions I can think of in regards to handwriting input are "Who the hell owns the corpse of Palm?" and "Why the hell hasn't Graffiti been brought back yet?"
You know, we really need to get rid of this first-past-the-post system for selecting representatives. At this point about all it's doing is insuring that we only ever see two viable candidates for far too many positions and people wind up holding their noses while voting for the least objectionable candidate... just voting 'someone else' tends to not be very effective. Consider the banking collapse in Iceland and how a bunch of jokers wound up winning elections there... and then wound up coming up with some viable (at least in the short term) solutions for the problems. Now consider how the holy fuck things would have to go sideways in the US for anything even remotely resembling that to happen above the city or county level. Seriously, NOBODY seems to want to take the risk that the Other Party Who Is At Least Marginally More Objectionable will win, so they refuse to vote for a candidate that might actually properly represent them and instead just vote for the slightly less objectionable candidate who seems to stand a chance. Yeah... not viable to keep this up in the long term.
Eh, that's part of the problem when you feel you have to keep the lunatics out at all costs. Aside from the guarantee of more erosion on some social issues, I'm now having a hard time seeing how the opposition could have been worse. No, no, seriously, we really do need at least a viable third party.
While the scope was somewhat more limited (and more narrowly targeted) than current programs (targets being things like interception of spillover from point-to-point microwave relays, etc etc) similar questions were raised. Handling of info derived from phone call relays involving US citizens only vs mix of citizens and foreign nationals vs foreign nationals only. Scope of activity vs. charter of organization(s) doing the data handling.
Anyone have some discussion of the downward slide starting earlier?
Have you verified that WoW is properly detecting the number of CPU cores you have? I've seen it be stupid and keep setting itself back to using only one core.
Want to play a mod for a bnet game online? Install something like Zy-El or Hordes of Chaos, then see how far you get trying to play it on battle.net. Bnetd fills a real gap that Blizzard shouldn't be expected to cover. Pity that someone at Blizard/Vivendi would prefer to swat it rather than finding a way to coexist. If, for example, thier primary concern was fighting piracy, there are well-established metods to do cd-key validation of clients running on servers they don't control, without the non-bnet servers ever seeing the original keys.
If you want to go that route, there were variants of the 6502 CPU (the one used for 8-bit nintendo, yes) that are clockable at least to 20MHz. Part of what makes this interesting (at least to a twisted soul such as myself) is that he didn't replace the CPU.
Installation is currently somewhat painful if you don't want to use a provided system image, but progress is definately being made.
Colinux + Xming (or your favorite X server for win32) = Windows and Linux applications running seamlessly side by side, with very little performance loss compared to running Linux natively.
(Don't let the last update of May on the front page fool you, check the snapshots for more recent updates, documentation also updated on the wiki site more often than anywhere else.)
coLinux can be installed as a system service that starts at boot. Put Xming in startup also, and on the Linux side add whatever you want to startup to contact the Xming session and go.
There's no fundamental reason why someone couldn't make a nice package that sets everything up automatically, it's just that so far as I'm aware, nobody has yet done any targetted application setup this way that I am aware of.
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This argument is dead, burned, and getting in the way.
You can pick a browser without a history of stupid abuses, you can limit plugins allowed, you can use adblockers, you can use privacy screening tools, you can use sandboxing, you can use zero-state virtual machines, etc etc et-fucking-cetera.
Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
How about when Windows Update helpfully started the upgrade process on domain-joined systems, despite MS claiming it wouldn't?
(take your pick on links) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wind...
MS keeps demonstrating that they can't be trusted, and I for one am tired of having an adversarial relationship with them.
I'm done, they can go fuck themselves.
YMMV by distro, but you can get Chrome's widevine plugin repackaged to work with Chromium. Netflix works just fine that way with recent-ish versions. Also worth noting that Pepperflash can also be repackaged that way. Both plugins are available on at least Slack (via Alien's slackbuilds) and 'buntu.
The only relevant questions I can think of in regards to handwriting input are "Who the hell owns the corpse of Palm?" and "Why the hell hasn't Graffiti been brought back yet?"
The more that things change, the more they stay the same.
http://www.phillipdampier.com/...
You know, we really need to get rid of this first-past-the-post system for selecting representatives. At this point about all it's doing is insuring that we only ever see two viable candidates for far too many positions and people wind up holding their noses while voting for the least objectionable candidate... just voting 'someone else' tends to not be very effective. Consider the banking collapse in Iceland and how a bunch of jokers wound up winning elections there... and then wound up coming up with some viable (at least in the short term) solutions for the problems. Now consider how the holy fuck things would have to go sideways in the US for anything even remotely resembling that to happen above the city or county level. Seriously, NOBODY seems to want to take the risk that the Other Party Who Is At Least Marginally More Objectionable will win, so they refuse to vote for a candidate that might actually properly represent them and instead just vote for the slightly less objectionable candidate who seems to stand a chance. Yeah ... not viable to keep this up in the long term.
Feed it crapchas until it catches on!
... tradition of ticket numbers?!
Good luck on that constitutional convention getting called.
While the judges have weighed in on your effort at 3 of 10, I personally award you no points. May the FSM have mercy upon your soul. Ramen.
Eh, that's part of the problem when you feel you have to keep the lunatics out at all costs. Aside from the guarantee of more erosion on some social issues, I'm now having a hard time seeing how the opposition could have been worse. No, no, seriously, we really do need at least a viable third party.
... but also go fuck yourself, Barry. Can't believe I voted for you. Ah well, let me look over the protest options next cycle.
Furthest back I can personally say anything about for the ramp up of ubiquitous surveillance was seeing the 1999-ish Echelon report the the EU:
http://www.duncancampbell.org/content/echelon
While the scope was somewhat more limited (and more narrowly targeted) than current programs (targets being things like interception of spillover from point-to-point microwave relays, etc etc) similar questions were raised. Handling of info derived from phone call relays involving US citizens only vs mix of citizens and foreign nationals vs foreign nationals only. Scope of activity vs. charter of organization(s) doing the data handling.
Anyone have some discussion of the downward slide starting earlier?
Yeah, see how much ice that cuts as soon as one of those who was injured tries to *keep* any of this footage online.
That scare is old news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
[...] states sponsor terrorism but states do not sponsor crime.
Highly variable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
Stopping serving targetted ads is more of a response than I'd expected.
Cost.
3d printers can cost a LOT less than a CNC, both for purchase and continued operation.
You really are underinformed.
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/54538-slackware-is-alive-and-kicking-volkerding
Last I checked, KDE 3.5 was no longer being maintained. This may have factored into the decision to jump to 4.x.
Have you verified that WoW is properly detecting the number of CPU cores you have? I've seen it be stupid and keep setting itself back to using only one core.
You can try setting the number of cores manually:
http://www.wowwiki.com/CVar_processAffinityMask
Want to play a mod for a bnet game online? Install something like Zy-El or Hordes of Chaos, then see how far you get trying to play it on battle.net. Bnetd fills a real gap that Blizzard shouldn't be expected to cover. Pity that someone at Blizard/Vivendi would prefer to swat it rather than finding a way to coexist. If, for example, thier primary concern was fighting piracy, there are well-established metods to do cd-key validation of clients running on servers they don't control, without the non-bnet servers ever seeing the original keys.
If you want to go that route, there were variants of the 6502 CPU (the one used for 8-bit nintendo, yes) that are clockable at least to 20MHz. Part of what makes this interesting (at least to a twisted soul such as myself) is that he didn't replace the CPU.
Check out coLinux.
Installation is currently somewhat painful if you don't want to use a provided system image, but progress is definately being made.
Colinux + Xming (or your favorite X server for win32) = Windows and Linux applications running seamlessly side by side, with very little performance loss compared to running Linux natively.
(Don't let the last update of May on the front page fool you, check the snapshots for more recent updates, documentation also updated on the wiki site more often than anywhere else.)
coLinux can be installed as a system service that starts at boot. Put Xming in startup also, and on the Linux side add whatever you want to startup to contact the Xming session and go.
There's no fundamental reason why someone couldn't make a nice package that sets everything up automatically, it's just that so far as I'm aware, nobody has yet done any targetted application setup this way that I am aware of.
Cheers,