this is a massive problem for desktop linux, and i don't see an easy way around it - the end user doesn't care who's fault it is - if their $300 graphics card doesn't work in linux, but works with other OS, then guess what OS doesn't get used?
Yup, this is how linux will get fixed. Deny there is an issue, call your users stupid and post anecdotal "evidence" that "i have no problem" thus there is no problem.
Its been like this for the past 10 years or so, and hasn't worked so far.
Devaluing the shit out of your currency by printing infinite dollars is almost as bad as not paying. If i promise to give you a dollar in 5 years time that is worth 1 apple today, and then print so many more dollars that they're only worth 1/3 of an apple by the time i repay you, i am not exactly repaying my debt in an honest manner, am i?
Cheers, mental calc fail... and yes, its not astronomical by any stretch. Given that some (admittedly big corp) regional offices here in Perth, WA have > petabytes of storage in their local office storage array.
Oh of course it could be worse. However simply disabling your ability to use currency would be pretty damning and difficult to live with, even if you were to run away from people who were to treat you as an enemy combatant. Not many people know how to live off the land, and there isn't a huge amount of arable, non-settled land left.
And if it is embedded into your skull or in one of your other critical organs? if you can't get money out of your accounts or pay for anything without it? Backyard cranial excavation doesn't sound entirely enticing to me.
Cost to replace can be excessive, depending on where it is located. You don't need to deny the 1% who can afford a black market medical procedure to control 99% of the population quite easily with this.
To clarify, my point was this: you can store a significant amount of useful (for evil) purposes without needing to store every single detail of a person's life. People of interest could have several gig each and you'd still have plenty of space on an appropriately specced government storage array.
Storage required: lets say, 10 billion people. 50k each (plenty, in text form for a lot of info - bank balance, security clearance, red/blue list, shoot on sight flag, etc). we've still got a shitload of room on a 1tb SATA drive. Government SAN storage is much, much larger.
The chips can be blacklisted, which means when currency is 100% electronic, you're fucked. This is the first stage of that. The "oh we can ID people in war" is a diversion.
I'd rather be misidentified than have my ID chip blacklisted. Do something the government doesn't like? They disable your chip... then you're screwed. No thanks.
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Year of the Linux desktop was 1996, you're a little late to the party.
this is a massive problem for desktop linux, and i don't see an easy way around it - the end user doesn't care who's fault it is - if their $300 graphics card doesn't work in linux, but works with other OS, then guess what OS doesn't get used?
GGP is referring to known bugs in the bug tracking system.
edit: make that 20 years. brain fart, getting old and senile, etc...
Your sample size of 1 is statistically insignificant.
Yup, this is how linux will get fixed. Deny there is an issue, call your users stupid and post anecdotal "evidence" that "i have no problem" thus there is no problem.
Its been like this for the past 10 years or so, and hasn't worked so far.
When the search merely consists of "select * from peeps where chipid=X" it isn't that hard.
Devaluing the shit out of your currency by printing infinite dollars is almost as bad as not paying. If i promise to give you a dollar in 5 years time that is worth 1 apple today, and then print so many more dollars that they're only worth 1/3 of an apple by the time i repay you, i am not exactly repaying my debt in an honest manner, am i?
Cheers, mental calc fail... and yes, its not astronomical by any stretch. Given that some (admittedly big corp) regional offices here in Perth, WA have > petabytes of storage in their local office storage array.
Oh of course it could be worse. However simply disabling your ability to use currency would be pretty damning and difficult to live with, even if you were to run away from people who were to treat you as an enemy combatant. Not many people know how to live off the land, and there isn't a huge amount of arable, non-settled land left.
And if it is embedded into your skull or in one of your other critical organs? if you can't get money out of your accounts or pay for anything without it? Backyard cranial excavation doesn't sound entirely enticing to me.
So 100% of people are going to go for back-alley de-chipping if it is implanted into your brain?
Cost to replace can be excessive, depending on where it is located. You don't need to deny the 1% who can afford a black market medical procedure to control 99% of the population quite easily with this.
To clarify, my point was this: you can store a significant amount of useful (for evil) purposes without needing to store every single detail of a person's life. People of interest could have several gig each and you'd still have plenty of space on an appropriately specced government storage array.
Yes, and I'm not using a 10 million dollar storage array for it either.
Storage required: lets say, 10 billion people. 50k each (plenty, in text form for a lot of info - bank balance, security clearance, red/blue list, shoot on sight flag, etc). we've still got a shitload of room on a 1tb SATA drive. Government SAN storage is much, much larger.
The chips can be blacklisted, which means when currency is 100% electronic, you're fucked. This is the first stage of that. The "oh we can ID people in war" is a diversion.
See my other posts. No i do not, i think it is a horrible idea. My point is that it is far WORSE than being able to simply be ID'd by fingerprints.
Ahaha... +1. Who wants to bet that google will be involved, and the chip will be the only way to do transactions using google bank?
Never mind that once everyone has ID chips, they link it to border crossing, banking (no cash, just scan chip - oh, you've been disabled, sorry), etc.
Only if their prints are on file. If everyone is chipped at birth, their chip ID will certainly be on file from birth.
I'd rather be misidentified than have my ID chip blacklisted. Do something the government doesn't like? They disable your chip... then you're screwed. No thanks.
So, do you play DVDs?
I'll bet that maybe 1% of people who used Winzip (beyond the 30 day eval period) ever paid for it. Ditto for Winrar.
Never mind the other piracy, mp3s and videos...
Or, IE, the only browser with easy group policy security zone definitions.