China is the last country that would risk targeting US and Canadian diplomats. They have too many diplomats of their own and too much vested monetary interest in stability of relations (for trade) to take even the tiniest risk of the kind of worldwide condemnation that action would bring if discovered. Venezuela is a possibility because they're desperate. But a non-governmental group is more likely.
It can't be a false flag operation, because there's no flag and no clear attempt to implicate a country. It can be a clumsy attempt by extremist elements from Miami to sabotage relations.
I initially suspected Trump's CIA, but the USA hasn't been explicitly blaming the Cuban government or using it as an excuse to break relations. So a Cuban exile group seems more likely now (especially with the targeting of the Canadians, who have friendly relations with Cuba's government).
Trains have much higher density of people, and you don't even have to buy a ticket or come anywhere near a station or cut open a tube to mess with the tracks.
It's impossible to hijack a hyperloop to crash it into a skyscraper. Because it's a very low density form of transit, it's much less appealing to a terrorist than a conventional train too.
It sure is bloated for a desktop whose selling point is being simple and featureless and uncustomizable. At any rate, the problem is that we remember when GNOME was more powerful -- version 1.4, nearly 20 years ago.
They're not stupid. They're rich. They're simply leeches, draining money out of the economy while contributing no productivity whatsoever, not even as much use as the banking and stock leeches (who at least supply money to productive people).
Sounds like he didn't actually register a patent, but simply declared that his idea was public domain. The article isn't clear on exactly how he did so. The patent office won't necessarily count that as prior art, unless it's formally published. To actually prevent a company from monopolizing the idea, the most effective strategy would be to actually patent it and put it under a copyleft patent license... that is, patentleft. Of course the trouble with this is that patents are expensive.
Probably uses a lot more disk space, but that's cheap enough these days that it's probably worth using it to avoid the Linux equivalent of DLL Hell.
Except the last time I remember actually having a problem like that was ~2007. It's really only an issue for proprietary applications that are no longer maintained, and who uses those on Linux?
According to a quick google, the current guess is 1.6 planets per star system in the Milky Way, for a total of 160,000,000,000 planets in the galaxy. And at least 1/6th of star systems are thought to have a terrestrial planet sized similar to Earth.
Who says they haven't? The closest of them listed was over 400 light years away, so obviously they wouldn't have responded to any signals from us yet if we'd sent any strong enough which we haven't. They might well have sent numerous signals to us for millions or even billions of years and never gotten a response, finally giving up.
From Firefox's point of view, their marketshare is now so low that trying to retain their current users doesn't matter -- they have to go after Chrome users. How can they get people to switch from Chrome? Supporting those people's Chrome extensions is a necessary part of that (though they'll have to put something compelling on top of that).
Stalin was already employing people to remove the purged from history and photographs at the time Orwell wrote 1984. He was guided by what was already going on in his present, not the other way around.
The problem with the modern world is that most people form their beliefs from the experience of watching things happen in movies, instead of the experience of reality.
The most important difference between a human and an automatic driver is that when the automated driver gets confused or blinded it will always do the same thing: pull over and stop as soon as it's safe to do so. Humans, unfortunately, are impatient creatures who tend to plow right ahead and hope there's nothing in front of them and hope they'll be able to regain their bearings in time.
The difference is that normally only a runner at second base can steal the catcher's signs, which is why they make the signs more complicated when there's a runner on second. The use of a camera and electronic relay means the signs can be stolen without any real effort and without the other team being aware that there's any danger.
It's hard to get worked up about problems like this when 60-80% of us live paycheck to paycheck (depending on which study you want to believe).
60-80% of residents of the world's wealthiest nation live paycheck to paycheck regardless of the size of their paycheck because all they know how to do is consume ever more. That's also the reason why there's so much plastic for fish to eat. You can solve both problems the same way.
I live in California, one of the most expensive states, and spend $13K a year while maintaining an apartment and car. So don't tell me you have to live paycheck to paycheck on $30K.
If there ever was a foreign entity trying to meddle in the US election, it was Wikileaks. And yet you people give them a free pass. Seize their domain like you did to the Nazis
Nazis are not a foreign entity interfering with US elections, Russia is. Nobody has proposed seizing or eliminating all Russian domain names for it.
It could be one set of aliens at A communicating with another set near A, and we're just catching some stray signals.
The notion that a civilization capable of communicating with power so many orders of magnitude beyond ours is not capable of sending a focused beam is absurd.
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A web browser should do what the end user asks the website to do. Not what the website asks the browser to do to the end user.
I just use a video autoplay blocker extension for Chrome (along with uBlock Origin and javascript switcher).
I don't want youtube autoplaying either. I want to open it up and read the description and other details before deciding when I want to press play.
China is the last country that would risk targeting US and Canadian diplomats. They have too many diplomats of their own and too much vested monetary interest in stability of relations (for trade) to take even the tiniest risk of the kind of worldwide condemnation that action would bring if discovered. Venezuela is a possibility because they're desperate. But a non-governmental group is more likely.
It can't be a false flag operation, because there's no flag and no clear attempt to implicate a country. It can be a clumsy attempt by extremist elements from Miami to sabotage relations.
I initially suspected Trump's CIA, but the USA hasn't been explicitly blaming the Cuban government or using it as an excuse to break relations. So a Cuban exile group seems more likely now (especially with the targeting of the Canadians, who have friendly relations with Cuba's government).
Trains have much higher density of people, and you don't even have to buy a ticket or come anywhere near a station or cut open a tube to mess with the tracks.
It's impossible to hijack a hyperloop to crash it into a skyscraper. Because it's a very low density form of transit, it's much less appealing to a terrorist than a conventional train too.
Cassini is a joint NASA, ESA and Italian Space Agency project. It's what makes humans great, not America.
It sure is bloated for a desktop whose selling point is being simple and featureless and uncustomizable. At any rate, the problem is that we remember when GNOME was more powerful -- version 1.4, nearly 20 years ago.
They're not stupid. They're rich. They're simply leeches, draining money out of the economy while contributing no productivity whatsoever, not even as much use as the banking and stock leeches (who at least supply money to productive people).
Sounds like he didn't actually register a patent, but simply declared that his idea was public domain. The article isn't clear on exactly how he did so. The patent office won't necessarily count that as prior art, unless it's formally published. To actually prevent a company from monopolizing the idea, the most effective strategy would be to actually patent it and put it under a copyleft patent license... that is, patentleft. Of course the trouble with this is that patents are expensive.
I've got a netbook I bought for $295 in 2009, for which the 3D graphics driver was dropped 7 years ago. It has no trouble running kubuntu.
Except the last time I remember actually having a problem like that was ~2007. It's really only an issue for proprietary applications that are no longer maintained, and who uses those on Linux?
The number of ray guns and nuclear reactors found in the ruins of ancient cities is truly proof that aliens were providing the technology.
According to a quick google, the current guess is 1.6 planets per star system in the Milky Way, for a total of 160,000,000,000 planets in the galaxy. And at least 1/6th of star systems are thought to have a terrestrial planet sized similar to Earth.
Who says they haven't? The closest of them listed was over 400 light years away, so obviously they wouldn't have responded to any signals from us yet if we'd sent any strong enough which we haven't. They might well have sent numerous signals to us for millions or even billions of years and never gotten a response, finally giving up.
From Firefox's point of view, their marketshare is now so low that trying to retain their current users doesn't matter -- they have to go after Chrome users. How can they get people to switch from Chrome? Supporting those people's Chrome extensions is a necessary part of that (though they'll have to put something compelling on top of that).
It wouldn't surprise me if some people's pacemakers are controlled by Firefox extensions. Or IE 6 ActiveX controls.
Stalin was already employing people to remove the purged from history and photographs at the time Orwell wrote 1984. He was guided by what was already going on in his present, not the other way around.
The problem with the modern world is that most people form their beliefs from the experience of watching things happen in movies, instead of the experience of reality.
The most important difference between a human and an automatic driver is that when the automated driver gets confused or blinded it will always do the same thing: pull over and stop as soon as it's safe to do so. Humans, unfortunately, are impatient creatures who tend to plow right ahead and hope there's nothing in front of them and hope they'll be able to regain their bearings in time.
The difference is that normally only a runner at second base can steal the catcher's signs, which is why they make the signs more complicated when there's a runner on second. The use of a camera and electronic relay means the signs can be stolen without any real effort and without the other team being aware that there's any danger.
60-80% of residents of the world's wealthiest nation live paycheck to paycheck regardless of the size of their paycheck because all they know how to do is consume ever more. That's also the reason why there's so much plastic for fish to eat. You can solve both problems the same way.
I live in California, one of the most expensive states, and spend $13K a year while maintaining an apartment and car. So don't tell me you have to live paycheck to paycheck on $30K.
Nazis are not a foreign entity interfering with US elections, Russia is. Nobody has proposed seizing or eliminating all Russian domain names for it.
The notion that a civilization capable of communicating with power so many orders of magnitude beyond ours is not capable of sending a focused beam is absurd.