So rather than do the sane thing to reduce attacks (which saves money both in the short and long run!) which is to fix our foreign policy to one of free trade and friendship rather than secret assassinations, embargoes, invasions and occupation that we currently have. We instead decide to spend even more money on useless counter-measures.
A tethered jailbreak is one where you have to re-jailbreak your device every time it boots up. An untethered jailbreak is one that stays jailbroken even when you reboot your device.
Japan. A lot of products that failed in (or failed to make a large impact) in the US were fairly popular in Japan. The Japanese market is a strange one, a country where high-tech reigns supreme and so do... fax machines?
Its taken them this long to realize that the past and the future are very strongly correlated and that those in power haven't learned from their own mistakes? I mean, every war that the US has gone to since WWII has been played out multiple times in history, economies run on the same basic patterns, etc.
Except for a lot of the reason why there's a lot of pollution in Beijing isn't because there's no EPA, but rather because of the property structure in China. In most countries, if you want to build X, you can build it wherever you can buy the land to build X. In China that isn't the case, all the land belongs to the government and all non-urban land is reserved for farming.
Because of this, you've got China which has a lot of land and space for people (they're nowhere near the top of the list of population density) where everyone's crammed into cities like sardines if they want to work a non-agricultural job. And since the government owns the land, businesses can't move out of the cities. Because of this you've got a massive amount of smog because all the businesses are concentrated in such a small area.
Except that Twitter is almost never just 140 characters. Rather, it is 10 words of description and then a shortened URL to who-knows-what. There's very little meaningful information that can be conveyed via video in 6 seconds.
I've never understood the appeal in Twitter or this hype about abbreviated messages, videos, etc.
I mean, 140 characters made sense in an era before widespread smartphones, where the average person only had a phone capable of receiving SMSes and carriers often charged per message.
But its 2013, we've got faster internet connections via mobile networks than what most of us used to have back home ten years ago. With all this added bandwidth you think we'd be overcoming limitations, not adding in more.
Because life is about risk and reward. Do I want to live in a nanny-state where people try to ban toys in happy meals? Where the cost of living is so high that you could make $100,000 a year and only live in a crappy apartment? Do I really need all these "protections" for workers? Or am I smart enough to always be learning and adopt a mind of an independent contractor and not a slave?
1.
a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
2.
any person in a position of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically.
3.
a tyrannical or compulsory influence.
4.
an absolute ruler, especially one in ancient Greece or Sicily.
I think definition 2 fits the US government in its current state. Or do you think secret drone strikes are not oppressive? Or perhaps you think that throwing people in prison for non-violent crimes is perfectly just. Is propping-up right-wing dictators in the middle-east and central America right? What about killing civilians in third-world countries based on lies (WMDs in Iraq, etc.) is that not oppression?
Unlike the oppression in most other countries (Syria, Egypt, China, etc.) the US has taken its oppression global while maintaining lip-service to "freedom" here domestically.
Except, if I recall correctly this is about the laws governing the STATE income taxes, not the federal one. In fact, California could simply abolish its state income tax and sidestep the issue altogether.
...Except that Google is also based in the US and has a legitimate marketing program that is one court order away from being another spying program for the tyrants in power in the US.
Honestly what we need is either a company that is openly hostile to the US government or, ironically, a company hosted in a government openly hostile to the US government to protect US citizen's privacy.
And once the federal government starts making the entire country more business-unfriendly than it already is, expect to see massive off-shoring. Indeed if you were to start up a new online company and could base it anywhere in the world, the US and western Europe would be the last place where I'd host it.
This is why most of the West is doomed. Why the hell would anyone start up a business in California if they pull stunts like this? Indeed, if you've got an online business with no geographical boundaries, why even host it in the US/Europe? Why not host it in a country that actually -wants- productive citizens?
In economic terms, a tax is basically a government's way of saying, "we don't want you to do that". An income tax is basically saying, we don't want you to work. A payroll tax is basically saying, we don't want you to hire people, etc.
Stuff like this will only hasten the demise of the US.
Yeah, I switched to Linux full time (except on my work laptop which runs Windows 7) when Vista was released simply because Vista was awful. In fact I convinced quite a few others to try Linux because of the problems with Vista, anymore though I'd just tell them to stick with Windows because of all the annoying quirks a modern distribution of Linux has. For example a recent Ubuntu install I had to do everything from enabling basic shortcuts (such as ctrl+alt+backspace) to just silly tweaks like editing configuration files to switch the buttons from the left hand side to the right hand side (before giving up with Unity/Gnome 3.x and installing cinnamon), not to mention loads of other stuff...
Yep, and the only way to realize just -how- vulnerable your systems are is test them out yourself (or have someone do it for you). I'm afraid that many CS graduates know nothing about how the "bad guys" are going to get into your system. They might have vague ideas about how a DDOS works, but its unlikely they ever have experienced one first hand. To an average person, indeed even an average CS graduate hacking (in the black or grey hat usage) either consists of just pressing a button or involves many crazy steps that no one can possibly do. A half-assed simulation simply doesn't cut it because it isn't modeled on the real world and so the students think that their actual work will be done in a vacuum and not in the real world of script-kiddies, zero day exploits and 4chan.
Yeah, although I was lucky and never had any Broadcom chips. I forget which brand it was that I had, but it constantly gave me trouble until 7.04 or 7.10 when it started working out of the box.
Recent Linux distros have made me miss the days of Ubuntu 7.10 and the like, back when hardware compatibility finally caught up to Windows (wireless cards actually worked out of the box! No more messing with windows drivers in hopes you could get them to sort of work with the kernel!) and they hadn't completely broken the UI (like Gnome 3.x).
It seems like whenever I wipe and re-upgrade a distro I end up having to take weeks to make it work the way I want it to. Although, I have to say I like it better than Windows 8...
Well, yes but Apple basically says "you can't do that" to a lot of basic things and for some reason Mac users are perfectly OK with it. There always has been a lack of customization on Mac-OS (and iOS!) and then, annoyingly claims that it is doing it in some awesome way that only Apple could have thought of. Such as how the first iPhone could only run web-apps and any calls for a repository of applications to download were flatly ignored by Apple basically saying that they didn't want to/couldn't do that.
Except for the fact that it is the dumbing down of the vast majority of computers. Ever used Windows 8? There's no way to switch back to the start menu without downloading third-party software (such as RetroUI). While Windows 8 is undeniably better than Windows 7 at supporting tablets, it doesn't make much sense to shoehorn a tablet/phone UI on a computer. To use a car analogy its like Microsoft is discontinuing any manual transmission cars and there's no way to get back a manual transmission once you've "upgraded".
Granted, if you use *Nix you can still customize your computer no matter what the idiot developers *cough* gnome *cough* have recently done, but if you use Windows you are out of luck. And if you use a Mac, well, you long ago gave up customization.
You only have to look at Windows 8 to see this trend.
Rather than doing the sane thing and making different views/OSes for phones, tablets, laptops with small screens and full-sized computers, we've come to where we try a "one size fits all" method that doesn't work. It used to be that we had desktop-style OSes, sites and applications on smaller devices, now we have it backwards.
Seriously, I've got a 24 inch screen, I don't need huge boxes for my applications like I might need on my tablet.
What happens in a democracy, not just the US, but in ANY democracy (or republic) is that the masses will inevitably push for higher taxes and more welfare and raid the treasury for their own personal gain. Since democracy at its essence is a popularity contest, the politicians will push for higher and higher taxes and more welfare. When productivity is punished, productive people will go elsewhere (see France) when productive people go elsewhere, the country goes into a decline (such as the Roman Empire/USSR) and eventually collapses.
I am responsible only for the actions and decisions I make. Not my neighbor's, not the government's, but mine and mine alone.
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Because movies based off of games have been awesome! You know like the Super Mario Bros movie...
So rather than do the sane thing to reduce attacks (which saves money both in the short and long run!) which is to fix our foreign policy to one of free trade and friendship rather than secret assassinations, embargoes, invasions and occupation that we currently have. We instead decide to spend even more money on useless counter-measures.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A tethered jailbreak is one where you have to re-jailbreak your device every time it boots up. An untethered jailbreak is one that stays jailbroken even when you reboot your device.
Untethered != wireless.
Is this a hardware exploit (which can't be patched) or a software exploit (which will most likely be patched within the week)?
Japan. A lot of products that failed in (or failed to make a large impact) in the US were fairly popular in Japan. The Japanese market is a strange one, a country where high-tech reigns supreme and so do... fax machines?
Its taken them this long to realize that the past and the future are very strongly correlated and that those in power haven't learned from their own mistakes? I mean, every war that the US has gone to since WWII has been played out multiple times in history, economies run on the same basic patterns, etc.
Except for a lot of the reason why there's a lot of pollution in Beijing isn't because there's no EPA, but rather because of the property structure in China. In most countries, if you want to build X, you can build it wherever you can buy the land to build X. In China that isn't the case, all the land belongs to the government and all non-urban land is reserved for farming.
Because of this, you've got China which has a lot of land and space for people (they're nowhere near the top of the list of population density) where everyone's crammed into cities like sardines if they want to work a non-agricultural job. And since the government owns the land, businesses can't move out of the cities. Because of this you've got a massive amount of smog because all the businesses are concentrated in such a small area.
Except that Twitter is almost never just 140 characters. Rather, it is 10 words of description and then a shortened URL to who-knows-what. There's very little meaningful information that can be conveyed via video in 6 seconds.
I've never understood the appeal in Twitter or this hype about abbreviated messages, videos, etc.
I mean, 140 characters made sense in an era before widespread smartphones, where the average person only had a phone capable of receiving SMSes and carriers often charged per message.
But its 2013, we've got faster internet connections via mobile networks than what most of us used to have back home ten years ago. With all this added bandwidth you think we'd be overcoming limitations, not adding in more.
Because life is about risk and reward. Do I want to live in a nanny-state where people try to ban toys in happy meals? Where the cost of living is so high that you could make $100,000 a year and only live in a crappy apartment? Do I really need all these "protections" for workers? Or am I smart enough to always be learning and adopt a mind of an independent contractor and not a slave?
Tyrant:
1. a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly. 2. any person in a position of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically. 3. a tyrannical or compulsory influence. 4. an absolute ruler, especially one in ancient Greece or Sicily.
I think definition 2 fits the US government in its current state. Or do you think secret drone strikes are not oppressive? Or perhaps you think that throwing people in prison for non-violent crimes is perfectly just. Is propping-up right-wing dictators in the middle-east and central America right? What about killing civilians in third-world countries based on lies (WMDs in Iraq, etc.) is that not oppression?
Unlike the oppression in most other countries (Syria, Egypt, China, etc.) the US has taken its oppression global while maintaining lip-service to "freedom" here domestically.
Except, if I recall correctly this is about the laws governing the STATE income taxes, not the federal one. In fact, California could simply abolish its state income tax and sidestep the issue altogether.
...Except that Google is also based in the US and has a legitimate marketing program that is one court order away from being another spying program for the tyrants in power in the US.
Honestly what we need is either a company that is openly hostile to the US government or, ironically, a company hosted in a government openly hostile to the US government to protect US citizen's privacy.
And once the federal government starts making the entire country more business-unfriendly than it already is, expect to see massive off-shoring. Indeed if you were to start up a new online company and could base it anywhere in the world, the US and western Europe would be the last place where I'd host it.
This is why most of the West is doomed. Why the hell would anyone start up a business in California if they pull stunts like this? Indeed, if you've got an online business with no geographical boundaries, why even host it in the US/Europe? Why not host it in a country that actually -wants- productive citizens?
In economic terms, a tax is basically a government's way of saying, "we don't want you to do that". An income tax is basically saying, we don't want you to work. A payroll tax is basically saying, we don't want you to hire people, etc.
Stuff like this will only hasten the demise of the US.
Yeah, I switched to Linux full time (except on my work laptop which runs Windows 7) when Vista was released simply because Vista was awful. In fact I convinced quite a few others to try Linux because of the problems with Vista, anymore though I'd just tell them to stick with Windows because of all the annoying quirks a modern distribution of Linux has. For example a recent Ubuntu install I had to do everything from enabling basic shortcuts (such as ctrl+alt+backspace) to just silly tweaks like editing configuration files to switch the buttons from the left hand side to the right hand side (before giving up with Unity/Gnome 3.x and installing cinnamon), not to mention loads of other stuff...
Yep, and the only way to realize just -how- vulnerable your systems are is test them out yourself (or have someone do it for you). I'm afraid that many CS graduates know nothing about how the "bad guys" are going to get into your system. They might have vague ideas about how a DDOS works, but its unlikely they ever have experienced one first hand. To an average person, indeed even an average CS graduate hacking (in the black or grey hat usage) either consists of just pressing a button or involves many crazy steps that no one can possibly do. A half-assed simulation simply doesn't cut it because it isn't modeled on the real world and so the students think that their actual work will be done in a vacuum and not in the real world of script-kiddies, zero day exploits and 4chan.
Its already happened. Indeed I have a feeling that XP is going to be the platform that people will get nostalgic about 10-15 years later.
Yeah, although I was lucky and never had any Broadcom chips. I forget which brand it was that I had, but it constantly gave me trouble until 7.04 or 7.10 when it started working out of the box.
Recent Linux distros have made me miss the days of Ubuntu 7.10 and the like, back when hardware compatibility finally caught up to Windows (wireless cards actually worked out of the box! No more messing with windows drivers in hopes you could get them to sort of work with the kernel!) and they hadn't completely broken the UI (like Gnome 3.x).
It seems like whenever I wipe and re-upgrade a distro I end up having to take weeks to make it work the way I want it to. Although, I have to say I like it better than Windows 8...
Well, yes but Apple basically says "you can't do that" to a lot of basic things and for some reason Mac users are perfectly OK with it. There always has been a lack of customization on Mac-OS (and iOS!) and then, annoyingly claims that it is doing it in some awesome way that only Apple could have thought of. Such as how the first iPhone could only run web-apps and any calls for a repository of applications to download were flatly ignored by Apple basically saying that they didn't want to/couldn't do that.
Except for the fact that it is the dumbing down of the vast majority of computers. Ever used Windows 8? There's no way to switch back to the start menu without downloading third-party software (such as RetroUI). While Windows 8 is undeniably better than Windows 7 at supporting tablets, it doesn't make much sense to shoehorn a tablet/phone UI on a computer. To use a car analogy its like Microsoft is discontinuing any manual transmission cars and there's no way to get back a manual transmission once you've "upgraded".
Granted, if you use *Nix you can still customize your computer no matter what the idiot developers *cough* gnome *cough* have recently done, but if you use Windows you are out of luck. And if you use a Mac, well, you long ago gave up customization.
You only have to look at Windows 8 to see this trend.
Rather than doing the sane thing and making different views/OSes for phones, tablets, laptops with small screens and full-sized computers, we've come to where we try a "one size fits all" method that doesn't work. It used to be that we had desktop-style OSes, sites and applications on smaller devices, now we have it backwards.
Seriously, I've got a 24 inch screen, I don't need huge boxes for my applications like I might need on my tablet.
Ideally, its none of us!
What happens in a democracy, not just the US, but in ANY democracy (or republic) is that the masses will inevitably push for higher taxes and more welfare and raid the treasury for their own personal gain. Since democracy at its essence is a popularity contest, the politicians will push for higher and higher taxes and more welfare. When productivity is punished, productive people will go elsewhere (see France) when productive people go elsewhere, the country goes into a decline (such as the Roman Empire/USSR) and eventually collapses.
I am responsible only for the actions and decisions I make. Not my neighbor's, not the government's, but mine and mine alone.
...And the US government has made the world a better place recently?