Exactly. It's like pyramid schemes. Why join at the bottom when mathematically you're bound to be a loser when you could kick off a new pyramid scheme, populate the top 3 layers with phony / shill names and then cash out with enormous fortunes long before the thing collapses.
They're pump and dump because the early adopters amass a "fortune" in mined coins hype up the currency as the next best thing, as a fabulous investment, wait for the suckers to buy in and then they exit. As seen in the repeated expansions and collapses of bitcoin.
And Litecoin and probably other wannabes. Charitably, people have seen flaws in bitcoin and want to correct them. Less charitably they saw the huge fortunes amassed by miners and wanted to replicate them by rebooting with a new currency.
They'd be better off just buying gold. Legally and securely. Even the gold price tumble of late was a ripple in comparison to the roller coaster ride of bitcoin.
A 1TB drive would require a 1TB pad to go with it. And of course if you wrote more than 1TB of data you'd need to start regenerating new random portions of your pad drive to in order to write to the other drive. And now instead of 1 drive for the feds to read, you have two, which purely by coincidence just happen exactly match up with each other to produce pictures of child porn. It's not like you could even destroy the pad if the feds came knocking because if you had time to destroy the pad then you had time to destroy the original disk rendering the exercise pointless.
A more practical solution would be to use a password protected key for encrypting the data, store it on a micro sd and put it WELL away from the computer in a place that even the feds would be unlikely to discover unless they went through the entire house with a fine toothcomb. Even if they discovered the key they'd have to sweat you for the password to unlock it and they'd have to find the key first. If you were extra smart you might even stash the key in such a way that a clumsy search could easily destroy the contents, e.g. in the hinge of a door where opening the door snaps it, or by storing it behind a reverse threaded screw.
Slightly off the mark there. HSBC's Mexican affiliate is charged with laundering $7 billion of money and there were a range of lesser but still serious charges from other places in the world. And consequently they were slapped with a $2 billion dollar fine which may even be increased.
systems with poor GPUs probably have poor CPUs as well, so LLVM pipe is not going to be fun.
Not necessarily and besides, that's where the other thing I said kicks in - don't use GNOME 3 if your system isn't up to it. Use XFCE or something. I've had GNOME 3 running quite happily on a VM inside a Core Duo with some crappy portable AMD chipset. I've had it running on a 6 year old AMD X2 with some ancient Nvidia card. It's never going to win prizes on the set but neither it is especially intolerable or unusable.
GNOME 3 will work well on pretty much any PC with a GPU from an IGP on upwards. It also has LLVM pipe support for software rendering where the GPU / driver is not up to scratch.
Your PC would have to be pretty arcane to not run it in which case the solution is clear - use a less demanding distribution or window manager.
X11 is so shit since these days because it's basically passing around pixmaps or long sets of xrender instructions. And it's doing that because apps are pushing rich modern UIs that X11 is incapable of supporting through primitives.
As such any advantage it may have had in the past is moot at this point. It's just a bottleneck for local desktop performance *and* for network performance. While it's likely that X11 will live on in a Wayland powered desktop for some time to come, it's likely over time to become less relevant
Most apps run over APIs like GTK, QT, Cairo, Mesa anyway so they don't particularly care what backend they're hooked up to. I expect the libraries themselves could intelligently work out which backend to use for the context and apps will need minimal work to make the transition. The gnarliest are likely to be things like web browsers which host plugins and where the NPAPI on Unix has always been X so they have to shim the worlds in some way.
"The problem is that none of the mythologies make any sense unless you are already a believer." Kindly wish to back that up? Simply repeating ignorant arguments that you've heard like a parrot is meaningless. Including your next bit of ignorance:
It's a statement of fact and demonstrable. Virtually every religious text makes assertions of the supernatural, of things which are not supported by the available evidence, things which are almost by definition contradictory to other religious texts. Often these texts aren't even consistent with themselves and replete with contradictions and absurditites. Websites like the Skeptics Annotated Bible (which has a section on the Quran) list thousands of them should you be in any doubt.
Simply put the Quran, Torah and Christian Bible have as much reason to believe they are the word of god as every other. Which is to say precisely zero. They all require people to buy into the story, in its truth and invest themselves in that story despite the absence of evidence. To have faith in other words. I wonder if there will be people fighting and killing each other in 2000 years over whether Harry Potter, Yoda or Gandalf is the one true lord.
I thought PETA's agenda was to anthromorphize animals into ickle wickle fluffy wuffy Disney characters that we couldn't possibly kill, hurt or utilize. All the while exterminating dogs and cats, and blowing their donations on stupid campaigns and stunts.
There countless animal welfare organisations more worthy of donations that these clowns. Organisations that spend their money improving welfare and reducing cruelty to animals without the dumb moralising or activism.
Of course, the real irony here is we're going after this guy for "laundering" while trillions sit in offshore accounts, untouched and unaccounted for, under massive tax shelters, as everyone in power simply laughs it off as if it were some kind of old-school ringknocker tradition, while the rest of us pay their taxes.
That would be called a "you too" argument. Doesn't mean the original point is wrong. Also, the US (and most governments in fact) have long established money laundering laws precisely to stop criminals moving money around by any means. I assume they are going after liberyreserve.com because it is running afoul of those laws in some way, e.g. by not reporting large or suspicious transactions or actively facilitating them.
There was a well documented email debate between Tannenbaum and Torvalds over micro and monolithic kernels. The gist of it was that Tannenbaum thought microkernels were more stable and easier to understand, Torvalds thought microkernels were more complex, less efficient and the stability wasn't worth it. There are successful microkernels, e.g. QNX so perhaps it could have gone the other way but I suspect Torvalds strongly preferred something that worked over something that was "correct" and chose his path.
More importantly, how feature complete it is. The Apple driver might also have to deal with buggy apps, legacy code, crappy code paths and all the rest which slow it down.
Hurd did not fail, it's right on time. Someday when there is a huge lawsuit against Linux (if there is one, it's just a possibility) you might appreciate the fact that Hurd exsists.
Where "right on time" means half-baked nearly 23 years after the project started. The one and only reason to be thankful is that in 1991, a mere year into the project development was already so moribund, mired in politics and perfectionism that a student called Linus Torvalds got pissed off enough to write his own kernel. Thus demonstrating what happens when a project is motivated by pragmatism over one motivated by politics.
The war is still ongoing. And it will, as long as we still have to use closed software. You are too old to fight, that's all. Calling it GNU/Linux is simply a way to give credit to the people who started all the Free Software movement. Without GNU, there would be no Linux.
Most people recognize that a distribution is the sum of its parts (many of which have nothing to do with GNU or the FSF) and therefore don't elevate any particular group above the others and are quite content to refer to the whole lot as Linux. I suspect that the whole GNU/Linux thing is just some underlying resentment that Linux succeeded precisely for the reasons Hurd failed so miserably - because the FSF is big on ideas, not so big on actually bringing them to fruition in a timely and practical fashion.
More likely they'll flog the tech on to some niche company to support that market the way they did with OS/2. Doubtless they'll cite all kinds of reasons they couldn't possibly open source it and some of them may even be true.
Notes is without doubt the worst software I have ever had the misfortune to use. It's slow to start, extremely unintuitive (even 8.5), unforgiving, buggy as hell, baroque, and employs terminology and idioms which are meaningless in the modern world. It really sucks in every way a piece of software can suck. I probably wouldn't care if I had to run it once in a blue moon but this heap of wank is how I'm supposed to communicate with colleagues and organise my calendar. I cannot fathom how it manages to cling on so tenaciously in certain corporations when it is so awful.
The "so what?" is that governments build tax systems that resembles swiss cheese with loopholes and incentives for companies structuring themselves in certain ways and then act all indignant and outraged when its brought to their attention.
While I am certain that it is very hard to build a fair and equitable system of taxation, particularly against multinationals, I am sure there are certain things governments could do to make it very odious to avoid tax and thereby encourage companies to pay their fair dues.
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Exactly. It's like pyramid schemes. Why join at the bottom when mathematically you're bound to be a loser when you could kick off a new pyramid scheme, populate the top 3 layers with phony / shill names and then cash out with enormous fortunes long before the thing collapses.
They're pump and dump because the early adopters amass a "fortune" in mined coins hype up the currency as the next best thing, as a fabulous investment, wait for the suckers to buy in and then they exit. As seen in the repeated expansions and collapses of bitcoin.
And Litecoin and probably other wannabes. Charitably, people have seen flaws in bitcoin and want to correct them. Less charitably they saw the huge fortunes amassed by miners and wanted to replicate them by rebooting with a new currency.
They'd be better off just buying gold. Legally and securely. Even the gold price tumble of late was a ripple in comparison to the roller coaster ride of bitcoin.
No, just another step in shutting down a massive criminal money laundering operation.
A more practical solution would be to use a password protected key for encrypting the data, store it on a micro sd and put it WELL away from the computer in a place that even the feds would be unlikely to discover unless they went through the entire house with a fine toothcomb. Even if they discovered the key they'd have to sweat you for the password to unlock it and they'd have to find the key first. If you were extra smart you might even stash the key in such a way that a clumsy search could easily destroy the contents, e.g. in the hinge of a door where opening the door snaps it, or by storing it behind a reverse threaded screw.
Slightly off the mark there. HSBC's Mexican affiliate is charged with laundering $7 billion of money and there were a range of lesser but still serious charges from other places in the world. And consequently they were slapped with a $2 billion dollar fine which may even be increased.
systems with poor GPUs probably have poor CPUs as well, so LLVM pipe is not going to be fun.
Not necessarily and besides, that's where the other thing I said kicks in - don't use GNOME 3 if your system isn't up to it. Use XFCE or something. I've had GNOME 3 running quite happily on a VM inside a Core Duo with some crappy portable AMD chipset. I've had it running on a 6 year old AMD X2 with some ancient Nvidia card. It's never going to win prizes on the set but neither it is especially intolerable or unusable.
Your PC would have to be pretty arcane to not run it in which case the solution is clear - use a less demanding distribution or window manager.
Clone chaq veS tagh!
Besides which they should be dubbing it into Klingon first.
As such any advantage it may have had in the past is moot at this point. It's just a bottleneck for local desktop performance *and* for network performance. While it's likely that X11 will live on in a Wayland powered desktop for some time to come, it's likely over time to become less relevant
Most apps run over APIs like GTK, QT, Cairo, Mesa anyway so they don't particularly care what backend they're hooked up to. I expect the libraries themselves could intelligently work out which backend to use for the context and apps will need minimal work to make the transition. The gnarliest are likely to be things like web browsers which host plugins and where the NPAPI on Unix has always been X so they have to shim the worlds in some way.
Breaking decades of backwards compatibility for no good reason.
Run rootless X over the top of Wayland. Oh the humanity.
"The problem is that none of the mythologies make any sense unless you are already a believer." Kindly wish to back that up? Simply repeating ignorant arguments that you've heard like a parrot is meaningless. Including your next bit of ignorance:
It's a statement of fact and demonstrable. Virtually every religious text makes assertions of the supernatural, of things which are not supported by the available evidence, things which are almost by definition contradictory to other religious texts. Often these texts aren't even consistent with themselves and replete with contradictions and absurditites. Websites like the Skeptics Annotated Bible (which has a section on the Quran) list thousands of them should you be in any doubt.
Simply put the Quran, Torah and Christian Bible have as much reason to believe they are the word of god as every other. Which is to say precisely zero. They all require people to buy into the story, in its truth and invest themselves in that story despite the absence of evidence. To have faith in other words. I wonder if there will be people fighting and killing each other in 2000 years over whether Harry Potter, Yoda or Gandalf is the one true lord.
There countless animal welfare organisations more worthy of donations that these clowns. Organisations that spend their money improving welfare and reducing cruelty to animals without the dumb moralising or activism.
Of course, the real irony here is we're going after this guy for "laundering" while trillions sit in offshore accounts, untouched and unaccounted for, under massive tax shelters, as everyone in power simply laughs it off as if it were some kind of old-school ringknocker tradition, while the rest of us pay their taxes.
That would be called a "you too" argument. Doesn't mean the original point is wrong. Also, the US (and most governments in fact) have long established money laundering laws precisely to stop criminals moving money around by any means. I assume they are going after liberyreserve.com because it is running afoul of those laws in some way, e.g. by not reporting large or suspicious transactions or actively facilitating them.
There was a well documented email debate between Tannenbaum and Torvalds over micro and monolithic kernels. The gist of it was that Tannenbaum thought microkernels were more stable and easier to understand, Torvalds thought microkernels were more complex, less efficient and the stability wasn't worth it. There are successful microkernels, e.g. QNX so perhaps it could have gone the other way but I suspect Torvalds strongly preferred something that worked over something that was "correct" and chose his path.
More importantly, how feature complete it is. The Apple driver might also have to deal with buggy apps, legacy code, crappy code paths and all the rest which slow it down.
Hurd did not fail, it's right on time. Someday when there is a huge lawsuit against Linux (if there is one, it's just a possibility) you might appreciate the fact that Hurd exsists.
Where "right on time" means half-baked nearly 23 years after the project started. The one and only reason to be thankful is that in 1991, a mere year into the project development was already so moribund, mired in politics and perfectionism that a student called Linus Torvalds got pissed off enough to write his own kernel. Thus demonstrating what happens when a project is motivated by pragmatism over one motivated by politics.
The war is still ongoing. And it will, as long as we still have to use closed software. You are too old to fight, that's all. Calling it GNU/Linux is simply a way to give credit to the people who started all the Free Software movement. Without GNU, there would be no Linux.
Most people recognize that a distribution is the sum of its parts (many of which have nothing to do with GNU or the FSF) and therefore don't elevate any particular group above the others and are quite content to refer to the whole lot as Linux. I suspect that the whole GNU/Linux thing is just some underlying resentment that Linux succeeded precisely for the reasons Hurd failed so miserably - because the FSF is big on ideas, not so big on actually bringing them to fruition in a timely and practical fashion.
IBM have some OpenOffice commercial variant whose name escapes me.
More likely they'll flog the tech on to some niche company to support that market the way they did with OS/2. Doubtless they'll cite all kinds of reasons they couldn't possibly open source it and some of them may even be true.
Probably because they've bought a site licence. Once they do that, all rational thought about switching to something better goes out the window.
Notes is without doubt the worst software I have ever had the misfortune to use. It's slow to start, extremely unintuitive (even 8.5), unforgiving, buggy as hell, baroque, and employs terminology and idioms which are meaningless in the modern world. It really sucks in every way a piece of software can suck. I probably wouldn't care if I had to run it once in a blue moon but this heap of wank is how I'm supposed to communicate with colleagues and organise my calendar. I cannot fathom how it manages to cling on so tenaciously in certain corporations when it is so awful.
While I am certain that it is very hard to build a fair and equitable system of taxation, particularly against multinationals, I am sure there are certain things governments could do to make it very odious to avoid tax and thereby encourage companies to pay their fair dues.