Education can help you learn how to disagree with people/governments in a considered and balanced way without the absurd hyperbole and Godwining. Once you become smart enough to understand the real and somewhat valid reasons why many people happily surrender more privacy than they should, you can have a rational discussion in which you can address their points and convince them of why they're wrong. Otherwise you're just spewing your own views into an echo chamber.
Who cares if he's a martyr to some? There's no revolution coming out of it. What matters to the government is that his imprisonment shows future NSA contractors that they can't get away with leaking.
I'd have to say education is a much more important, more fundamental right than phone/internet privacy. The damage done to people and societies by preventing girls from going to school is much greater than the NSA reading their emails.
I see the uncertainty and doubt, but where's the fear? Have they suggested that the whale deaths may have been caused by murderous mutant whales who will soon turn to eating human babies?
I admire your brave offer to have sex with RMS, and wish you the best of luck. Suggest you bring a nose clip and blindfold. Don't think anyone will be joining you though, I'm sure not.
And what about people like me who don't own a TV and don't buy computer games? They need to scratch this whole design and come up with something that isn't a game console, there no sense in anyone making products that neither of us has a use for. Maybe make a domestic robot?
All it has to do is make the malware author worry that they're not 100% sure they'll cover all tracks without making a mistake. Anything that makes evil trickier helps a lot. And of course, if they have to use a stolen credit card I'm sure there are a lot of malware authors or young aspiring malware authors who don't have one because that's not their field of crime. And if they do use a stolen card, the certificate can be revoked later when there's a chargeback.
Wait 10 years, and Gnome 3 will have reimplemented the options from Gnome 2 in the same way Gnome 2 eventually put back the options they yanked out of Gnome 1. Of course, then they'll start Gnome 4. KDE was guilty of this with KDE 4 too, but at least it was for technical reasons and not HCI.
Well it is due for a rename since it's not exactly an Object Model Environment anymore, but let's call it "Desktop". As a bonus, the market share of linux on Desktop PCs will skyrocket.
Spending a small amount of money means there's a buyer on record as legally responsible if the applet turns out to be malware. That does warrant a lot more trust -- the threat of jail time makes it much safer.
WebGL is disabled for slower video cards, but can be enabled with a browser launch parameter. For chrome, launching google-chrome --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist works. Not sure what the firefox equivalent is.
The fact that the 90s car crumples in accidents where the 60s car wouldn't is what makes it safer. They're designed to absorb the force of impact by crumpling to keep you alive. If the car that rear-ended you hadn't crumpled like it did, the driver may have gotten whiplash or worse -- and in a higher speed accident it's the difference between life and death.
Already did, bought my car on ebay. Beats having to haggle with a dealer. It's not like you'll actually find out what's wrong with it on a test drive anyway most of the time, and you can pay for an inspection without being there if you want.
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Supervolcanos don't erupt at 5 km/s. Only impacts eject material at escape velocities.
I'd like to believe you, but the reality is that the majority of people on this planet do not believe in evolution or AGW. Even in the most educated nations, a very large percentage (though minority) of people are young earth creationists. So what can you expect from online comments but a representation of public beliefs? (Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Climate_change_opinion_cause_is_human_by_country_2008-2009.png / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution#Public_support )
Don't knock it. The stupidity of the wealthy stimulates the economy and helps redistribute some of their wealth.
Personally, I haven't had a problem with pulseaudio for a couple years -- after having endless problems before that.
Education can help you learn how to disagree with people/governments in a considered and balanced way without the absurd hyperbole and Godwining. Once you become smart enough to understand the real and somewhat valid reasons why many people happily surrender more privacy than they should, you can have a rational discussion in which you can address their points and convince them of why they're wrong. Otherwise you're just spewing your own views into an echo chamber.
Who cares if he's a martyr to some? There's no revolution coming out of it. What matters to the government is that his imprisonment shows future NSA contractors that they can't get away with leaking.
I'd have to say education is a much more important, more fundamental right than phone/internet privacy. The damage done to people and societies by preventing girls from going to school is much greater than the NSA reading their emails.
Daza setten yous up. Goen through da planet core is bad bombin!!
You could make a lot of money auctioning information about all your neighbors and their valuables and schedules to local burglars too.
I see the uncertainty and doubt, but where's the fear? Have they suggested that the whale deaths may have been caused by murderous mutant whales who will soon turn to eating human babies?
Nonsense, it makes plenty of wrecks.
I admire your brave offer to have sex with RMS, and wish you the best of luck. Suggest you bring a nose clip and blindfold. Don't think anyone will be joining you though, I'm sure not.
And what about people like me who don't own a TV and don't buy computer games? They need to scratch this whole design and come up with something that isn't a game console, there no sense in anyone making products that neither of us has a use for. Maybe make a domestic robot?
All it has to do is make the malware author worry that they're not 100% sure they'll cover all tracks without making a mistake. Anything that makes evil trickier helps a lot. And of course, if they have to use a stolen credit card I'm sure there are a lot of malware authors or young aspiring malware authors who don't have one because that's not their field of crime. And if they do use a stolen card, the certificate can be revoked later when there's a chargeback.
I liked iGoogle as a homepage back when I had a browser homepage, but these days the speed dial is more convenient than having a homepage.
Just out of curiosity, why do you like Dolphin? I've always found it irritatingly limiting and use konqueror instead.
Wait 10 years, and Gnome 3 will have reimplemented the options from Gnome 2 in the same way Gnome 2 eventually put back the options they yanked out of Gnome 1. Of course, then they'll start Gnome 4. KDE was guilty of this with KDE 4 too, but at least it was for technical reasons and not HCI.
Well it is due for a rename since it's not exactly an Object Model Environment anymore, but let's call it "Desktop". As a bonus, the market share of linux on Desktop PCs will skyrocket.
You could try restarting a dormant volcano.
Plants produce oxygen, but they also need oxygen to live in the first place (reference: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=760 ). So you need oxygen to start it off.
Spending a small amount of money means there's a buyer on record as legally responsible if the applet turns out to be malware. That does warrant a lot more trust -- the threat of jail time makes it much safer.
WebGL is disabled for slower video cards, but can be enabled with a browser launch parameter. For chrome, launching google-chrome --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist works. Not sure what the firefox equivalent is.
The fact that the 90s car crumples in accidents where the 60s car wouldn't is what makes it safer. They're designed to absorb the force of impact by crumpling to keep you alive. If the car that rear-ended you hadn't crumpled like it did, the driver may have gotten whiplash or worse -- and in a higher speed accident it's the difference between life and death.
Already did, bought my car on ebay. Beats having to haggle with a dealer. It's not like you'll actually find out what's wrong with it on a test drive anyway most of the time, and you can pay for an inspection without being there if you want.
Self-driven cars can use OCR to read the signs that humans ignore.