I have an idea for starters. How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable? For example, the kinds of things that Linus Torvalds has said on mailing lists is stuff that would get any employee of a company instantly fired. Yet in his arrogance he thinks that because he's some super-duper-important OSS guru guy that the same code of conduct doesn't apply to him, which is a pretty disgusting way to think.
So yeah, for the foundation, how about stopping harassment and abuse? Because that would be an important, major, and requisite first step to accomplishing even better things, like having OS projects actually seem appealing to women.
As for Autisim Spectrum stuff, I believe that it is very common among all people in this world, male, female, black, white, yellow, green. I don't think that necessarily has any bearing upon whether a person would treat others badly. It may just make them seem a little spaced out perhaps but still a nice/good person. I notice a lot of Japanese dramas have characters who often are in the autistic spectrum and those characters actually make the dramas more interesting and are almost always depicted as being exceptional in more than one way, often with incredible gifts and ability to influence people positively. So I think at least some of the concern/criticism about autism spectrum people is just a cultural take on it.
Why would anyone switch to the disgusting company that forced the supercookie on its users without even telling them, not to mention massive NSA creepy collusion shit?
I pay $50/month for MetroPCS with unlimited calling and 4GB of data. I simply cannot understand why anyone would be stupid enough to ever give money to a company like Verizon.
This is just one more component of the farce that stands for democracy in the United States. These voter lists are part of a dirty system which is essentially a force-feeding ad-campaigns which substitute for actual electoral campaigns in which candidates would normally have things called platforms, and engage in debate and discussion about things like issues.
But instead the farce involves everyone whose registered to vote to have their personal data given away to marketeers who then force-feed them a barrage of the most appalling drivel. Prior to every election one can expect to fill multiple grocery-bags full of the junk mail sent by the marketeers. And if you contact your local board of elections and tell them you want to opt-out, they will reply that the only way to do so is to unregister to vote. So, just by wanting to participate in the farce "democracy", one is already complicit with the BS marketing farce that substitutes for actual campaigns.
It is sick and appalling and there needs to be drastic change. First of all make all voting online. Second EVERY voter must be verified as an actual US citizen and tough crap if someone can't be bothered to walk down to their local department of motor vehicles to get a frikkin ID card, but that is what the Democracts have been crying about as violations of voters' "rights".
Now they are giving IDs to illegals and California just passed a law that ALL people registering for drivers licenses will automatically be registered to vote. Only complete fools fail to see that the real intention of allowing in 20+ million illegal immigrants 3/4 of whom are illiterate has anything to do with humanitarianism or opportunity, but a ploy to get more voters.
I can only say that the only way out of this oligarchic disaster that America has become is: Donald Trump 2016.
Why does she say it was malware? Perhaps that is the business model of the company and they just want to have their app/site or a link to it included on users desktops? If that alone makes it malware, then - excuse me - but just about every major company in Silicon Valley are huge malware distributors because that's all they do: Cram unwanted apps/sites down people's throats.
I would even venture to guess that what this one company is doing is probably highly innocuous compared with the evil shit being incessantly perpetrated by SV companies.
I just had a good conversation the other day with an art director who explained to me that very few if any really talented artists are the type of people who care about convincing others that they are talented. They have better things to concentrate on which, if they did not, they would not be who they are.
Maybe its like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. People who bother to convince others they are intelligent or talented are actually not.
I don't understand why policy makers are *not* technologists in the first place. Shouldn't they be? Why the heck would any sane society deliberately choose people for positions responsible for setting policy who are - blowhards and idiots - as we currently have?
Things are far past the stage where someone making policy could get by with advisers. The level of complexity and types of decision making that need to occur today necessitate people with high levels of technical skill.
Just that there are always vulnerabilities being found in all kinds of software, so it seems unfair to single out Lenovo as if they're doing something particularly wrong.
For example if you run a Linux system and keep it updated you will see a fairly constant stream of updates to packages on the system occurring all the time. Vulnerabilities are a drag but unfortunately they are just part of the landscape of IT infrastructure so I don't think its fair to make Lenovo look bad in this case.
I could go into the changelogs for all the recently updated packages on my Linux systems and give you a long list of all sorts of vulnerabilities that have been fixed with some very major software, but I wouldn't really get upset at them about it unless it was some extremely serious thing that was a result of deliberate negligence or something.
Could one of you guys please recommend to me a solution for a long (10 ft) usb cable (mini to A male)? I need to tether a camera to a PC and the cable + extender cable solution I've tried now with several different cables is not working.
One thing that is totally brain dead about any bookmark sync features I've tried with browsers is that if you delete a bookmark on one device, it will not delete it for all devices. That to me is just stupid. Its like they only half-sync: only added bookmarks, not deleted ones.
Excuse me, but this is on the spectrum of things a rather minor security flaw that was found, no different than the hundreds of other minor flaws with other software components of any system that are constantly being patched. If you don't like flaws, then don't use computers.
This particular one had to do with a rather obscure possibility of escalating privileges when using a system update tool and which would have required an actual account on the computer to even execute.
I'm sick of these people pooing their pants with their reactions in some of the posts here.
What's truly sick is that ephedrine is now illegal. It is one of the most useful herbs for natural energy and has many other important therapeutic uses.
"Story" which got major coverage in multiple, prominent news publications and media outlets, quite disproportionate to his status. It was THE story for a good couple days if you stay up with current headlines.
Sorry, but no: Some one or ones high up decided this would be a story and then there it was being echoed throughout Big Media, with all the talking points intact.
But as for truth it wasn't actually anything other than manufactured, contrived shit that they wanted shoved in Americans faces to make them scared and think that encryption and Edward Snowden are bad.
The level of manipulation of Big Media in the United States is shocking and should alarm anyone. The "news" was filled with stories about how there's now suddenly a big debate about encryption and how Silicon Valley is in the hot seat. Really?!? Completely manufactured bullshit brought to you by the oligarchy which very tightly controls Big Media, controls what the agenda is (and is not), and works overtime to manipulate the public to further its agenda of greed.
Thank God Glen Greenwald pointed this out. I guess that's one thing I'm truly thankful for on this day!
I guess that's why the ex-director is just some dipshit retired moron and not anyone in authority.
Who cares about another Nazi who has no concept of freedom.
I wasn't trying to say that everyone should root their phone but just that rooting should be more accepted by vendors, governments, or others since there are really good reasons for it. Seems like were always under threat against some kind of draconian lockdown imposed by carriers/vendors/governments against having full control over the devices we own and operate. Just because we are purchasing wireless bandwidth doesn't give them the right to deprive us of our freedom.
Wouldn't it be the case that, for people with rooted devices, patching the vulnerability would be as simple as copying a couple library files into/system/lib or somewhere?
Or is it that no one wants to advertise this basic fact because they don't want people to root devices? Obviously if the fix is that simple and straightforward on rooted devices, it screams against the propaganda they want to force everyone to think.
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I have an idea for starters. How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable? For example, the kinds of things that Linus Torvalds has said on mailing lists is stuff that would get any employee of a company instantly fired. Yet in his arrogance he thinks that because he's some super-duper-important OSS guru guy that the same code of conduct doesn't apply to him, which is a pretty disgusting way to think.
So yeah, for the foundation, how about stopping harassment and abuse? Because that would be an important, major, and requisite first step to accomplishing even better things, like having OS projects actually seem appealing to women.
As for Autisim Spectrum stuff, I believe that it is very common among all people in this world, male, female, black, white, yellow, green. I don't think that necessarily has any bearing upon whether a person would treat others badly. It may just make them seem a little spaced out perhaps but still a nice/good person. I notice a lot of Japanese dramas have characters who often are in the autistic spectrum and those characters actually make the dramas more interesting and are almost always depicted as being exceptional in more than one way, often with incredible gifts and ability to influence people positively. So I think at least some of the concern/criticism about autism spectrum people is just a cultural take on it.
Yes I think they are one of the best.
Why would anyone switch to the disgusting company that forced the supercookie on its users without even telling them, not to mention massive NSA creepy collusion shit?
I pay $50/month for MetroPCS with unlimited calling and 4GB of data. I simply cannot understand why anyone would be stupid enough to ever give money to a company like Verizon.
This is just one more component of the farce that stands for democracy in the United States. These voter lists are part of a dirty system which is essentially a force-feeding ad-campaigns which substitute for actual electoral campaigns in which candidates would normally have things called platforms, and engage in debate and discussion about things like issues.
But instead the farce involves everyone whose registered to vote to have their personal data given away to marketeers who then force-feed them a barrage of the most appalling drivel. Prior to every election one can expect to fill multiple grocery-bags full of the junk mail sent by the marketeers. And if you contact your local board of elections and tell them you want to opt-out, they will reply that the only way to do so is to unregister to vote. So, just by wanting to participate in the farce "democracy", one is already complicit with the BS marketing farce that substitutes for actual campaigns.
It is sick and appalling and there needs to be drastic change. First of all make all voting online. Second EVERY voter must be verified as an actual US citizen and tough crap if someone can't be bothered to walk down to their local department of motor vehicles to get a frikkin ID card, but that is what the Democracts have been crying about as violations of voters' "rights".
Now they are giving IDs to illegals and California just passed a law that ALL people registering for drivers licenses will automatically be registered to vote. Only complete fools fail to see that the real intention of allowing in 20+ million illegal immigrants 3/4 of whom are illiterate has anything to do with humanitarianism or opportunity, but a ploy to get more voters.
I can only say that the only way out of this oligarchic disaster that America has become is: Donald Trump 2016.
Why does she say it was malware? Perhaps that is the business model of the company and they just want to have their app/site or a link to it included on users desktops? If that alone makes it malware, then - excuse me - but just about every major company in Silicon Valley are huge malware distributors because that's all they do: Cram unwanted apps/sites down people's throats.
I would even venture to guess that what this one company is doing is probably highly innocuous compared with the evil shit being incessantly perpetrated by SV companies.
I say: Bring it back! Its time to reunite the long lost moon material back to our motherworld where it belongs!
I just had a good conversation the other day with an art director who explained to me that very few if any really talented artists are the type of people who care about convincing others that they are talented. They have better things to concentrate on which, if they did not, they would not be who they are.
Maybe its like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. People who bother to convince others they are intelligent or talented are actually not.
I don't understand why policy makers are *not* technologists in the first place. Shouldn't they be? Why the heck would any sane society deliberately choose people for positions responsible for setting policy who are - blowhards and idiots - as we currently have? Things are far past the stage where someone making policy could get by with advisers. The level of complexity and types of decision making that need to occur today necessitate people with high levels of technical skill.
If it was where I live, the "natives" would build a casino there and sell lots of booze.
Eminent domain the damn land.
Eminent domain it and get on with it.
LOL how cruel! :-(
Just that there are always vulnerabilities being found in all kinds of software, so it seems unfair to single out Lenovo as if they're doing something particularly wrong.
For example if you run a Linux system and keep it updated you will see a fairly constant stream of updates to packages on the system occurring all the time. Vulnerabilities are a drag but unfortunately they are just part of the landscape of IT infrastructure so I don't think its fair to make Lenovo look bad in this case.
I could go into the changelogs for all the recently updated packages on my Linux systems and give you a long list of all sorts of vulnerabilities that have been fixed with some very major software, but I wouldn't really get upset at them about it unless it was some extremely serious thing that was a result of deliberate negligence or something.
Could one of you guys please recommend to me a solution for a long (10 ft) usb cable (mini to A male)? I need to tether a camera to a PC and the cable + extender cable solution I've tried now with several different cables is not working.
One thing that is totally brain dead about any bookmark sync features I've tried with browsers is that if you delete a bookmark on one device, it will not delete it for all devices. That to me is just stupid. Its like they only half-sync: only added bookmarks, not deleted ones.
Excuse me, but this is on the spectrum of things a rather minor security flaw that was found, no different than the hundreds of other minor flaws with other software components of any system that are constantly being patched. If you don't like flaws, then don't use computers.
This particular one had to do with a rather obscure possibility of escalating privileges when using a system update tool and which would have required an actual account on the computer to even execute.
I'm sick of these people pooing their pants with their reactions in some of the posts here.
What's truly sick is that ephedrine is now illegal. It is one of the most useful herbs for natural energy and has many other important therapeutic uses.
LSD is different than cocaine, which is steeped in blood. From a humanitarian point of view, cocaine use is utterly appalling.
Free Leonard Pickard
LOL
"Story" which got major coverage in multiple, prominent news publications and media outlets, quite disproportionate to his status. It was THE story for a good couple days if you stay up with current headlines.
Sorry, but no: Some one or ones high up decided this would be a story and then there it was being echoed throughout Big Media, with all the talking points intact.
But as for truth it wasn't actually anything other than manufactured, contrived shit that they wanted shoved in Americans faces to make them scared and think that encryption and Edward Snowden are bad.
The level of manipulation of Big Media in the United States is shocking and should alarm anyone. The "news" was filled with stories about how there's now suddenly a big debate about encryption and how Silicon Valley is in the hot seat. Really?!? Completely manufactured bullshit brought to you by the oligarchy which very tightly controls Big Media, controls what the agenda is (and is not), and works overtime to manipulate the public to further its agenda of greed.
Thank God Glen Greenwald pointed this out. I guess that's one thing I'm truly thankful for on this day!
Does it have a DSL modem?
I guess that's why the ex-director is just some dipshit retired moron and not anyone in authority. Who cares about another Nazi who has no concept of freedom.
Why is any attention being given to an arrogant, crass, disgusting man who engages in sexual abuse against his co-workers and collaborators?
I wasn't trying to say that everyone should root their phone but just that rooting should be more accepted by vendors, governments, or others since there are really good reasons for it. Seems like were always under threat against some kind of draconian lockdown imposed by carriers/vendors/governments against having full control over the devices we own and operate. Just because we are purchasing wireless bandwidth doesn't give them the right to deprive us of our freedom.
Wouldn't it be the case that, for people with rooted devices, patching the vulnerability would be as simple as copying a couple library files into /system/lib or somewhere?
Or is it that no one wants to advertise this basic fact because they don't want people to root devices? Obviously if the fix is that simple and straightforward on rooted devices, it screams against the propaganda they want to force everyone to think.