yeah, but try moving ikea furniture. some of their pieces are minimalist wood and bolts which is okay, but a large shelf unit of thin particleboard and plastic bolts? it can be done, but you're very likely to break something. it's as close to disposable as furniture can get without collapsing.
and if you're not moving soon? i'd probably get something slightly better than ikea.
yes but if they did that, you'd never know if maybe, just maybe, they were coerced by riaa/fedgov/scientologists/apple/google/microsoft to disappear an unwanted comment. clearly there's no difference between the two since everything on slashdot is black and white.
drone kills generally follow years of intelligence surveillance, so these corner cases have truly negligible probability. but thanks for your thorough categorization.
the only really relevant one is the first, and i'm sure it would be very easy for them to find out. at any rate, it wasn't an issue in this case; they knew.
at least one person "100% known to have American citizenship" has been intentionally targeted and killed by a drone. it took them a month to figure out that they "could" kill him, and then apparently 1.5 years to seal the deal. and then they killed his son, also an american citizen.
also, your formulation is funny. how can the american gov't not be 100% sure whether someone is american or not? it's fairly simple. or are you saying that if i close my eyes and fire into a crowd, that this somehow mitigates my legal responsibility since i didn't really know whether i was shooting anyone?
i see, yes, the "real" solution is to completely alter my workflow. thanks.
it's not that i can't use a minimal wm (i used to run on ratpoison, and i still do 99% of my real work in emacs), but i just don't want to. the mac trackpad has already solved every problem i had with the trackpoint along with adding three-finger swipe functionality which is of marginal utility, but utility nonetheless.
however i'll admit pentadactyl looks cool, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. i'd have to switch back to firefox (ugh) and learn vi bindings (meh); maybe later.
first: drift. this has happened on all three thinkpads i've owned. occasionally the sensor will get stuck on, usually pointing to the lower-right iirc. sometimes jiggling will help, but sometimes not.
second: finger pain and slipperiness. extended use of a trackpoint requires pressure, which leaves a dull ache in my index finger.
the glass mac trackpad is, at least, much better than any trackpad i'd used before so "equally terrible" is just wrong. personally i prefer it to the trackpoint, but if i were doing precise work i guess i wouldn't. then again, if i'm doing precise work i'd probably use a peripheral pointing device anyway.
it's been around forever and it won't go away because of this. geeks know about it, no one else does. i think zimmerman would mostly be happy that you keep doing what you're doing.
normal people (who deserve privacy too) just might care when they can say to their neighbors "this company is taking care of it; they have Secure Servers!", secure in the fact that ex-military folks and a Huge Fucking Bundle of Money (the only thing normal people care about as far as technology goes) are involved. that's how people are.
virgin mobile; it's pretty ghetto in terms of speed and service, but fwiw they turn a blind eye to tethering (you'll probably have to root or even flash one of their phones to do it; but they have at least one choice with an unlocked bootloader), and the price is nice.
i mostly agree with all, except that i don't think that the taliban could have done anything to prevent our attack. and i don't even have a problem with that; i just wish a D had been in office so that we could have had some surgical black ops rather than the boisterous clusterfuck the Rs use to rally votes.
oh, i see the confusion now. what i meant was: that usually the person, Y, who claims "chomsky believes X" is lying, simply because chomsky assiduously avoids stating his personal beliefs explicitly. Y is almost always making an unfounded extrapolation, which often makes me wonder if they understand how to apply logic to political issues at all.
of course, the flip side of the coin is that the left-wing chomsky fans also tend to interpret what chomsky is saying in a much grander scope than what he is literally saying; for example, they'll interpret the rather technical point "no legal evidence against osama" to mean something like "and so, the usa was completely wrong in conducting any military operation in response to 9/11." i'll eat my shoes if chomsky really isn't aware of having this effect, as he sometimes demurely claims.
no, you must be mistaken. only the special snowflake supergeniuses on slashdot could even begin to understand how to replace commodity hardware components...
i don't fully understand and you may clarify your question if you wish, but i find chomsky's appeals to be literally correct which i can't say for truthers. birthers might have a point, but i find that whole business very nasty and distasteful.
more accurately, he says there wasn't, and still isn't, evidence of a legal standard that osama did 9/11, which is of course very different. chomsky's schtick is to generate propaganda mostly without explicit reference to "personal belief," which is partly why he is so effective as a propagandist. it also provides a convenient red flag for identifying right-wing hit pieces; if anyone says "chomsky said that he believes X," chances are good that it's a lie.
now, i personally think that chomsky is sort of pointlessly discrediting himself and the entire anti-war left by focusing on this detail which is of questionable importance, but i still don't feel the need to misrepresent him.
i had an x61s and just could not get the hard drive accelerometer-shutdown working under ubuntu, so yeah, there'd be a case for not honoring a warranty on the hard drive. the devil is, it would cost the company more to research these sort of cases than is really worth on consumer laptops, so in practice it's a blanket yay or nay depending on what they think they can get away with.
if you're going to do non-consumer stuff with your laptop (including installing linux), consider buying business class from a reputable vendor if you can swing it. part of the extra expense is to cover cases like this; businesses roll their own software configurations including linux and need reliability, so they are more generous with redress. lenovo business-class service is amazing; overnighted both ways, total turnaround was 3-4 business days for me.
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i've read their site... what the hell does it actually do? i.e. which service(s) is it scumming the content from?
you don't say... http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin27d.htm
yeah, but try moving ikea furniture. some of their pieces are minimalist wood and bolts which is okay, but a large shelf unit of thin particleboard and plastic bolts? it can be done, but you're very likely to break something. it's as close to disposable as furniture can get without collapsing.
and if you're not moving soon? i'd probably get something slightly better than ikea.
yes but if they did that, you'd never know if maybe, just maybe, they were coerced by riaa/fedgov/scientologists/apple/google/microsoft to disappear an unwanted comment. clearly there's no difference between the two since everything on slashdot is black and white.
hey, wait, where did all this green come from?
drone kills generally follow years of intelligence surveillance, so these corner cases have truly negligible probability. but thanks for your thorough categorization.
the only really relevant one is the first, and i'm sure it would be very easy for them to find out. at any rate, it wasn't an issue in this case; they knew.
thank you, i hadn't thought of it that way before!
at least one person "100% known to have American citizenship" has been intentionally targeted and killed by a drone. it took them a month to figure out that they "could" kill him, and then apparently 1.5 years to seal the deal. and then they killed his son, also an american citizen.
also, your formulation is funny. how can the american gov't not be 100% sure whether someone is american or not? it's fairly simple. or are you saying that if i close my eyes and fire into a crowd, that this somehow mitigates my legal responsibility since i didn't really know whether i was shooting anyone?
fair enough, i didn't consider the finger-path problem.
what's the difference between a pattern unlock and a PIN?
i see, yes, the "real" solution is to completely alter my workflow. thanks.
it's not that i can't use a minimal wm (i used to run on ratpoison, and i still do 99% of my real work in emacs), but i just don't want to. the mac trackpad has already solved every problem i had with the trackpoint along with adding three-finger swipe functionality which is of marginal utility, but utility nonetheless.
however i'll admit pentadactyl looks cool, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. i'd have to switch back to firefox (ugh) and learn vi bindings (meh); maybe later.
yeah, that's because my problems were with the trackpoint (aka nipple mouse, pointing stick, clit mouse, &c.), not touchpads.
two serious problems with trackpoint.
first: drift. this has happened on all three thinkpads i've owned. occasionally the sensor will get stuck on, usually pointing to the lower-right iirc. sometimes jiggling will help, but sometimes not.
second: finger pain and slipperiness. extended use of a trackpoint requires pressure, which leaves a dull ache in my index finger.
the glass mac trackpad is, at least, much better than any trackpad i'd used before so "equally terrible" is just wrong. personally i prefer it to the trackpoint, but if i were doing precise work i guess i wouldn't. then again, if i'm doing precise work i'd probably use a peripheral pointing device anyway.
romans 1:24-27.
are you really saying that the intersection of "legitimate security" and "profitable enterprise" is empty? i mean, come on, it's phil zimmermann.
it's been around forever and it won't go away because of this. geeks know about it, no one else does. i think zimmerman would mostly be happy that you keep doing what you're doing.
normal people (who deserve privacy too) just might care when they can say to their neighbors "this company is taking care of it; they have Secure Servers!", secure in the fact that ex-military folks and a Huge Fucking Bundle of Money (the only thing normal people care about as far as technology goes) are involved. that's how people are.
slashdot can't display a proper ellipsis, just try using … in a comment.
virgin mobile; it's pretty ghetto in terms of speed and service, but fwiw they turn a blind eye to tethering (you'll probably have to root or even flash one of their phones to do it; but they have at least one choice with an unlocked bootloader), and the price is nice.
what the hell is the difference?
yeah, pretty much.
i mostly agree with all, except that i don't think that the taliban could have done anything to prevent our attack. and i don't even have a problem with that; i just wish a D had been in office so that we could have had some surgical black ops rather than the boisterous clusterfuck the Rs use to rally votes.
oh, i see the confusion now. what i meant was: that usually the person, Y, who claims "chomsky believes X" is lying, simply because chomsky assiduously avoids stating his personal beliefs explicitly. Y is almost always making an unfounded extrapolation, which often makes me wonder if they understand how to apply logic to political issues at all.
of course, the flip side of the coin is that the left-wing chomsky fans also tend to interpret what chomsky is saying in a much grander scope than what he is literally saying; for example, they'll interpret the rather technical point "no legal evidence against osama" to mean something like "and so, the usa was completely wrong in conducting any military operation in response to 9/11." i'll eat my shoes if chomsky really isn't aware of having this effect, as he sometimes demurely claims.
no, you must be mistaken. only the special snowflake supergeniuses on slashdot could even begin to understand how to replace commodity hardware components...
i don't fully understand and you may clarify your question if you wish, but i find chomsky's appeals to be literally correct which i can't say for truthers. birthers might have a point, but i find that whole business very nasty and distasteful.
more accurately, he says there wasn't, and still isn't, evidence of a legal standard that osama did 9/11, which is of course very different. chomsky's schtick is to generate propaganda mostly without explicit reference to "personal belief," which is partly why he is so effective as a propagandist. it also provides a convenient red flag for identifying right-wing hit pieces; if anyone says "chomsky said that he believes X," chances are good that it's a lie.
now, i personally think that chomsky is sort of pointlessly discrediting himself and the entire anti-war left by focusing on this detail which is of questionable importance, but i still don't feel the need to misrepresent him.
i had an x61s and just could not get the hard drive accelerometer-shutdown working under ubuntu, so yeah, there'd be a case for not honoring a warranty on the hard drive. the devil is, it would cost the company more to research these sort of cases than is really worth on consumer laptops, so in practice it's a blanket yay or nay depending on what they think they can get away with.
if you're going to do non-consumer stuff with your laptop (including installing linux), consider buying business class from a reputable vendor if you can swing it. part of the extra expense is to cover cases like this; businesses roll their own software configurations including linux and need reliability, so they are more generous with redress. lenovo business-class service is amazing; overnighted both ways, total turnaround was 3-4 business days for me.