Better question -- why should a government be doing this in the first place? If people want their internet censored, then a company could make a product, sell it, and make money. No government involvement necessary.
I think this lawsuit is related to how the Facebook "like" buttons that are scattered throughout the internet allow FB to track you. Presumably, when you are not logged in, they still track you by cookie/IP/whatever.
It makes pretty much everything take longer to do. It's harder to find programs you're looking for. Its harder to manage your windows. No taskbar? Why? Less cluttered top bar? Since when was that an issue? Searching for applications? Alt+f2, name of executable, enter.
I'd say its as appalling as windows 8. Looks like I'll be using windows 7 and gnome 2 for a long time.
Debian is like having a raw steak and a grill, whereas Ubuntu is more like ordering a steak at a restaurant. And the restaurant only gives you a spoon. You have to go out of your way if you want a fork and knife.
But is that gnome 2 or 3? From that link, it looks like gnome 3.
I wouldn't recommend this, but one time I converted an ubuntu system to debian in-place. Although this was many years ago, so I really don't think it would work any more. Now you should just install debian and be done with ubuntu. They're heading the way of mozilla. They're not just going to make one dumb decision, they're going to keep doing it.
They ARE incorrectly classifying them. They ARE blackmailing them. Spamhaus wanted them to block a huge chunk of IPs belonging to innocent customers, but A2B instead just blocked the single spam IP. Spamhaus thought that this was reasonable grounds for classifying them as spammers, which is complete BS.
Comcast does and I figure many other ISPs do it, especially since a lot of mail servers block mail from residential IP. If you run a mail server on a connection like that, a smarthost is a must.
Isn't the data going to be biased? The GP seems to imply that power users aren't going to be as likely to do customer experience improvement, therefore removing an important chunk of data and giving an unreliable sample.
How is it faster? With that, you have to type in the full name of the executable, whereas with the Win7 start menu search, I only had to type in "ca" and calculator is the top result. So here are the options:
Win+R, c, a, l, c, enter
Win, c, a, enter
Why bother typing more? Also, the search box IS a run prompt, so if you do insist on typing a full executable out, or if you want to give a program arguments, you can just hit Win instead of Win+R.
The problem is that having tons of icons on the taskbar clogs up the taskbar so your open windows get compressed. I use small icons, have only 8 things pinned to the taskbar, and it takes up about 1/5 the width of my 1680px wide monitor. I used to have more, but then there just wasn't enough space for open windows.
Its pretty flexible. For example, if type "moz" or "fir" it will find firefox immediately, and it also works if you type firefox.exe. It won't correct typos like a search engine, but if you only need to type a few letters, its unlikely you'll make a typo.
First of all, its very reliable. There's no "hoping" that windows finds the right program. It works on both the friendly name of the program and the name of the executable. Second, you can just hit enter after typing the name of it, or if there are multiple choices use the keyboard to navigate.
Third, is your typing really that slow and/or your it takes that much effort to move from the mouse to the keyboard and back? I'd rather save time then burden myself by forcing myself to use a mouse for everything when a keyboard is often the better solution.
Of course its harder to use if you insist on navigating through it. Just type what you want in the search box. It even works as a run prompt. Try typing "ping -t 4.2.2.2" or something in it. I don't even remember the last time I actually navigated through the start menu.
If you got it out the door first, then there will be a period where you will be the only one in the market, allowing you to sell it at a non-marginal price.
Also, there are way more disadvantages than advantages. Take this scenario for example: You make something and patent it. I, with no knowledge of your invention, invent the same thing, but since its patented now I have to pay you for some reason
Another example: Lets say I want to make something that is similar to your invention, but I have an improvement I'd like to make. Instead of just improving your invention, I have to go out of my way to reinvent the wheel so that I don't infringe upon your patents. The patent system discourages incremental design, something which is essential for innovation.
Many reasons why they might do that. For one, Innovatio, by suing smaller companies, establishes precedent that their patents are valid, which would make it easier for them to go after the big guys next. However, if a company like Cisco preemptively went to court, they would stand a much better chance since they have more money for lawyers than Innovatio.
Second, even if Innovatio never went after manufacturers, best case this could still hurt sales. Worst case, someone would try to sue them for knowingly selling devices that violate patents.
After filling it with water it's a different story. Although OP is wrong about the electronics. Water, in general, won't do much to powered-off electronics as long as they are sufficiently dried before being turned back on.
why would i want to use another linux box to do this?
Did you not completely read the post? I said you could do it on a linux box OR openWRT. DD-WRT is basically like manufacturer firmware, only with more features. OpenWRT is much closer to a full linux distro than a stock router firmware.
IIRC web interfaces existed for OpenWRT but LuCI was not included until 8. Back when I ran 7 I never installed any web interfaces and used SSH access exclusively.
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I don't think you even RTFS
Better question -- why should a government be doing this in the first place? If people want their internet censored, then a company could make a product, sell it, and make money. No government involvement necessary.
I think this lawsuit is related to how the Facebook "like" buttons that are scattered throughout the internet allow FB to track you. Presumably, when you are not logged in, they still track you by cookie/IP/whatever.
It makes pretty much everything take longer to do. It's harder to find programs you're looking for. Its harder to manage your windows. No taskbar? Why? Less cluttered top bar? Since when was that an issue? Searching for applications? Alt+f2, name of executable, enter.
I'd say its as appalling as windows 8. Looks like I'll be using windows 7 and gnome 2 for a long time.
Debian is like having a raw steak and a grill, whereas Ubuntu is more like ordering a steak at a restaurant. And the restaurant only gives you a spoon. You have to go out of your way if you want a fork and knife.
But is that gnome 2 or 3? From that link, it looks like gnome 3.
I wouldn't recommend this, but one time I converted an ubuntu system to debian in-place. Although this was many years ago, so I really don't think it would work any more. Now you should just install debian and be done with ubuntu. They're heading the way of mozilla. They're not just going to make one dumb decision, they're going to keep doing it.
I'm not going to bother. It's quicker to just install debian, especially since ubuntu is probably going to continue to make brain-dead decisions.
They ARE incorrectly classifying them. They ARE blackmailing them. Spamhaus wanted them to block a huge chunk of IPs belonging to innocent customers, but A2B instead just blocked the single spam IP. Spamhaus thought that this was reasonable grounds for classifying them as spammers, which is complete BS.
Comcast does and I figure many other ISPs do it, especially since a lot of mail servers block mail from residential IP. If you run a mail server on a connection like that, a smarthost is a must.
Or you could install a good desktop environment
Windows key: cmd Even easier. The start menu search is a run prompt. I can say "ping -t 4.2.2.2" in the start menu and it will run it.
Isn't the data going to be biased? The GP seems to imply that power users aren't going to be as likely to do customer experience improvement, therefore removing an important chunk of data and giving an unreliable sample.
How is it faster? With that, you have to type in the full name of the executable, whereas with the Win7 start menu search, I only had to type in "ca" and calculator is the top result. So here are the options:
Win+R, c, a, l, c, enter
Win, c, a, enter
Why bother typing more? Also, the search box IS a run prompt, so if you do insist on typing a full executable out, or if you want to give a program arguments, you can just hit Win instead of Win+R.
The problem is that having tons of icons on the taskbar clogs up the taskbar so your open windows get compressed. I use small icons, have only 8 things pinned to the taskbar, and it takes up about 1/5 the width of my 1680px wide monitor. I used to have more, but then there just wasn't enough space for open windows.
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Its pretty flexible. For example, if type "moz" or "fir" it will find firefox immediately, and it also works if you type firefox.exe. It won't correct typos like a search engine, but if you only need to type a few letters, its unlikely you'll make a typo.
First of all, its very reliable. There's no "hoping" that windows finds the right program. It works on both the friendly name of the program and the name of the executable. Second, you can just hit enter after typing the name of it, or if there are multiple choices use the keyboard to navigate.
Third, is your typing really that slow and/or your it takes that much effort to move from the mouse to the keyboard and back? I'd rather save time then burden myself by forcing myself to use a mouse for everything when a keyboard is often the better solution.
Of course its harder to use if you insist on navigating through it. Just type what you want in the search box. It even works as a run prompt. Try typing "ping -t 4.2.2.2" or something in it. I don't even remember the last time I actually navigated through the start menu.
If you got it out the door first, then there will be a period where you will be the only one in the market, allowing you to sell it at a non-marginal price.
Also, there are way more disadvantages than advantages. Take this scenario for example: You make something and patent it. I, with no knowledge of your invention, invent the same thing, but since its patented now I have to pay you for some reason
Another example: Lets say I want to make something that is similar to your invention, but I have an improvement I'd like to make. Instead of just improving your invention, I have to go out of my way to reinvent the wheel so that I don't infringe upon your patents. The patent system discourages incremental design, something which is essential for innovation.
Many reasons why they might do that. For one, Innovatio, by suing smaller companies, establishes precedent that their patents are valid, which would make it easier for them to go after the big guys next. However, if a company like Cisco preemptively went to court, they would stand a much better chance since they have more money for lawyers than Innovatio.
Second, even if Innovatio never went after manufacturers, best case this could still hurt sales. Worst case, someone would try to sue them for knowingly selling devices that violate patents.
This confused me for a minute until I realized your seasons are different.
After filling it with water it's a different story. Although OP is wrong about the electronics. Water, in general, won't do much to powered-off electronics as long as they are sufficiently dried before being turned back on.
why would i want to use another linux box to do this?
Did you not completely read the post? I said you could do it on a linux box OR openWRT. DD-WRT is basically like manufacturer firmware, only with more features. OpenWRT is much closer to a full linux distro than a stock router firmware.
IIRC web interfaces existed for OpenWRT but LuCI was not included until 8. Back when I ran 7 I never installed any web interfaces and used SSH access exclusively.
I can do that on any linux box (or openwrt) with iftop. Why is this significant?