There are major distros that are systemd free, and not only because systemd was removed from them, but because they never had it (Slackware)... or at least only have it as a non-required option (Gentoo).
There are systemd-free distros of Linux, you know. I can pretty confidently state that it will remain that way unless systemd should start to integrate itself into the kernel.
... because of the potential for abuse, At least fix the editor so that when you submit something with any multi-byte utf8 characters, in it, it will go to a screen that previews it and says there was non-ascii utf8 in the post, and confirm the submission. This will satisfy the people who don't want utf8 in slashdot, and at least give the people who have copy-pasted some text with such characters in it an additional awareness of the issue.
If you can't succeed at doing something how can you say that you "can" do it in the first place? At most all you can say is that you may *try* to do that thing, but the inability to do it successfully would ordinarily mean that you still can't actually do it.
They only throw you in jail because of the assumption that you are lying, but what would they do if circumstances were such that they could not objectively make that assumption because other evidence exists that makes it apparent you literally *couldn't* provide the password for them?
Sure, but it only works if the person you are "unlocking" it for doesn't know about the other passwords. With the mechanism I described, the more that they know about the security mechanisms that you have in place, the more they will realize the futility of trying to obtain the password by any means.
Even assuming the battery lasts twice as long, it's still going to be more than 7 or 8 years before you start seeing a cost savings. Some people don't even own any single car for that long (although that is about average for me).
This is why I was mentioning in previous recent comment that it would be most interesting if wetware became a thing that you could tie your password to, so that you literally *cannot* give out your password, nor unlock your device for any other agent that you do not actually want to cooperate with... and even if you are being artificially induced into wanting to cooperate, such as being under the influence of drugs, etc... because of the duress you are under, you would not be able to unlock it for them.
Of course, this lock would not preclude you from calling emergency services or some such thing, even while under stress or a situation where you couldn't otherwise unlock your device because of the protections in place, but the cops would know that with such measures in place they are literally powerless to compel you to unlock your device, and the only legal recourse would be to make such security measures illegal in the first place.
And I did not even start on the fact that you need to replace the battery of your EV every 7 years or so.... while this works out to be cheaper than filling with gas when amortized over the life of the battery, even after subsidies the difference in purchase price for a leaf vs an otherwise comparable compact sedan still takes about 15 years to see a cost savings over running an ICE for an equivalent amount of time.
The problem with that is that machines can be fallible, and even in a realm where you could be prosecuted for merely thinking the wrong thing, it would still be unjust to prosecute someone for something they are alleged to have been thinking when there is no substantiated proof of it. Ultimately, the only evidence of actual intent that any just court can use to substantiate an allegation is physical action.
The Nissan Leaf is generally comparable to a typical 4-door compact sedan... which as an ICE vehicle you can buy brand new for half the price of what the Leaf *starts* at.
Compact sedans are pretty fuel efficient, probably running at less than a thousand dollars in gas in an entire year. If you are running more, than you are probably doing extensive travelling that an electric vehicle would be inadequate for anyways.
So, with the difference in price between a Leaf and a typical compact sedan being on the order of about $15K, that means it would take about 15 years for the initial expenditure on a Nissan Leaf to pay for itself in terms of gasoline saved by not driving an otherwise comparable ICE vehicle.
Drugs? Possibly... but being drugged up can produce an altered state of mind that would probably be no more difficult to detect than being under any other kind of duress.
I am talking about something entirely different from a duress password... I am talking about a mechanism where they can know absolutely every secret you have about accessing it and still will not be able access the content because the password must still be provided by you, and you must enter it while not under duress of someone you don't actually want to access whatever is being protected by the mechanism. Torturing you wouldn't accomplish anything because all that would do is make the duress even *more* obvious to a detector that reads your state of mind while you provide a password. The *only* way they would be able to make you unlock the system for them is to somehow entirely convince you entirely that your intentions and theirs are in agreement, and to somehow make it so that you have *NO* compunction about giving them access.
That's a duress password, which is wholly different to what I am talking about. If the person happens to know the password you're trying to pass off as legit is a duress password, then that method will not work. The mechanism I am describing is such that if you *TRIED* to cooperate with a request to unlock your system for somebody else that you really didn't want to access your system, then it simply would not work because you were doing so under duress. The only way it would work is you actually wanted to access your system for reasons that you genuinely believed were from your own desire to do so. If a person knows that you have this kind of protection on your data, even if laws exist that force you to comply with their demands, they cannot say you are obstructing any investigation when you do everything that they ask and it doesn't work.
And a person's password can be at least in part defined by what they are thinking about while they provide the password? Even if laws existed to force you to comply with law enforcement when they ask for access to your device, if a computer can read your state of mind, it could potentially be configured to disregard entry attempts if your attempt to access was not sincere (that is, you were doing so only under duress, or compulsion by another party), and I am pretty sure that no law could ever be created that requires you to *think* in a certain way.
Assuming his copyright was violated, what *has* been "stolen" are his rights to exclusively control who may copy his content. Exclusive, by definition, means that nobody else is doing it,. so by infringing on his copyright, they are genuinely depriving him of some of the rights that he had as the copyright holder. Since the work was under the GPL: copy being under his control would entail that everyone has access to his code and all derivatives of it. If someone deprives him of this right of control, then they are preventing people from accessing his code, which if it had been under his control would not be the case.
Even if you want to allege that theft requires depriving the victim of whatever is stolen, a not entirely unreasonable argument can be made that copyright infringement is actual theft. It's just not the case that what the thief is gaining from the theft is the same thing as what the copyright holder loses.
One may argue that intangible things cannot be stolen, but that is ultimately an arbitrary distinction, since the tangibility of something does not necessarily correlate with how much it may be considered to be worth.
Do you define worse as being simply larger in scale, and affecting more people in undesired ways? Or do you define worse as being a larger headache for those who must deal with it?
If the former, I'd agree. Unwanted software certainly affects more people, but if the latter, I'd have to dissent, and suggest that accidentally having malware get into your system is going to pose a much bigger problem for the end user than unwanted software is ever likely to represent.
I'll agree that a majority of teachers do not teach that way... I would argue, in fact, that a majority of teachers do not really teach at all, but are just instructing students on what to do. Any actual learning that might happen to occur along the way is mostly just coincidence unless the teacher is actively pushing the students to think for themselves, as the comp sci prof that I had mentioned above did.
"Academic performance" is only paying attention to that part of the body of knowledge that will appear on the tests on Fridays and the Final.
Not always. Sometimes academic performance is tied to your ability not only to remember the necessary elements that you had read and heard, but the ability to learn how to make intuitive deductions from information that may be wholly new and different from anything that you did in class or may have read if you only read what the prof had instructed. I would argue that the best professors are the ones that challenge their students in that way, because the ones that can pass exams that are so structured have shown that they have more than just a capacity to incidentally remember what they have been taught, but also that they have actually *learned* it. I had one prof like this who taught several different sections in comp sci where I went, and I think there were actually only 2 semesters where I didn't have a class with him. He was easily the toughest prof in the entire faculty where I went to get a decent grade with, but he was also probably the best darn teacher that I ever had.
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There are major distros that are systemd free, and not only because systemd was removed from them, but because they never had it (Slackware)... or at least only have it as a non-required option (Gentoo).
Not a record... but still pretty impressive.
There are systemd-free distros of Linux, you know. I can pretty confidently state that it will remain that way unless systemd should start to integrate itself into the kernel.
... because of the potential for abuse, At least fix the editor so that when you submit something with any multi-byte utf8 characters, in it, it will go to a screen that previews it and says there was non-ascii utf8 in the post, and confirm the submission. This will satisfy the people who don't want utf8 in slashdot, and at least give the people who have copy-pasted some text with such characters in it an additional awareness of the issue.
If you can't succeed at doing something how can you say that you "can" do it in the first place? At most all you can say is that you may *try* to do that thing, but the inability to do it successfully would ordinarily mean that you still can't actually do it.
They only throw you in jail because of the assumption that you are lying, but what would they do if circumstances were such that they could not objectively make that assumption because other evidence exists that makes it apparent you literally *couldn't* provide the password for them?
Sure, but it only works if the person you are "unlocking" it for doesn't know about the other passwords. With the mechanism I described, the more that they know about the security mechanisms that you have in place, the more they will realize the futility of trying to obtain the password by any means.
Bad example. You do not need to unlock your phone or bypass any kind of lock screen in order to call emergency services in the first place.
Even assuming the battery lasts twice as long, it's still going to be more than 7 or 8 years before you start seeing a cost savings. Some people don't even own any single car for that long (although that is about average for me).
This is why I was mentioning in previous recent comment that it would be most interesting if wetware became a thing that you could tie your password to, so that you literally *cannot* give out your password, nor unlock your device for any other agent that you do not actually want to cooperate with... and even if you are being artificially induced into wanting to cooperate, such as being under the influence of drugs, etc... because of the duress you are under, you would not be able to unlock it for them.
Of course, this lock would not preclude you from calling emergency services or some such thing, even while under stress or a situation where you couldn't otherwise unlock your device because of the protections in place, but the cops would know that with such measures in place they are literally powerless to compel you to unlock your device, and the only legal recourse would be to make such security measures illegal in the first place.
And I did not even start on the fact that you need to replace the battery of your EV every 7 years or so.... while this works out to be cheaper than filling with gas when amortized over the life of the battery, even after subsidies the difference in purchase price for a leaf vs an otherwise comparable compact sedan still takes about 15 years to see a cost savings over running an ICE for an equivalent amount of time.
Therein lies the problem. Why bother with a car at all?
The problem with that is that machines can be fallible, and even in a realm where you could be prosecuted for merely thinking the wrong thing, it would still be unjust to prosecute someone for something they are alleged to have been thinking when there is no substantiated proof of it. Ultimately, the only evidence of actual intent that any just court can use to substantiate an allegation is physical action.
The Nissan Leaf is generally comparable to a typical 4-door compact sedan... which as an ICE vehicle you can buy brand new for half the price of what the Leaf *starts* at.
Compact sedans are pretty fuel efficient, probably running at less than a thousand dollars in gas in an entire year. If you are running more, than you are probably doing extensive travelling that an electric vehicle would be inadequate for anyways.
So, with the difference in price between a Leaf and a typical compact sedan being on the order of about $15K, that means it would take about 15 years for the initial expenditure on a Nissan Leaf to pay for itself in terms of gasoline saved by not driving an otherwise comparable ICE vehicle.
It takes even longer on more expensive EV cars.
True, but it only takes 5 minutes to fill up your car with gasoline.
Drugs? Possibly... but being drugged up can produce an altered state of mind that would probably be no more difficult to detect than being under any other kind of duress.
I am talking about something entirely different from a duress password... I am talking about a mechanism where they can know absolutely every secret you have about accessing it and still will not be able access the content because the password must still be provided by you, and you must enter it while not under duress of someone you don't actually want to access whatever is being protected by the mechanism. Torturing you wouldn't accomplish anything because all that would do is make the duress even *more* obvious to a detector that reads your state of mind while you provide a password. The *only* way they would be able to make you unlock the system for them is to somehow entirely convince you entirely that your intentions and theirs are in agreement, and to somehow make it so that you have *NO* compunction about giving them access.
That's a duress password, which is wholly different to what I am talking about. If the person happens to know the password you're trying to pass off as legit is a duress password, then that method will not work. The mechanism I am describing is such that if you *TRIED* to cooperate with a request to unlock your system for somebody else that you really didn't want to access your system, then it simply would not work because you were doing so under duress. The only way it would work is you actually wanted to access your system for reasons that you genuinely believed were from your own desire to do so. If a person knows that you have this kind of protection on your data, even if laws exist that force you to comply with their demands, they cannot say you are obstructing any investigation when you do everything that they ask and it doesn't work.
And a person's password can be at least in part defined by what they are thinking about while they provide the password? Even if laws existed to force you to comply with law enforcement when they ask for access to your device, if a computer can read your state of mind, it could potentially be configured to disregard entry attempts if your attempt to access was not sincere (that is, you were doing so only under duress, or compulsion by another party), and I am pretty sure that no law could ever be created that requires you to *think* in a certain way.
Assuming his copyright was violated, what *has* been "stolen" are his rights to exclusively control who may copy his content. Exclusive, by definition, means that nobody else is doing it,. so by infringing on his copyright, they are genuinely depriving him of some of the rights that he had as the copyright holder. Since the work was under the GPL: copy being under his control would entail that everyone has access to his code and all derivatives of it. If someone deprives him of this right of control, then they are preventing people from accessing his code, which if it had been under his control would not be the case.
Even if you want to allege that theft requires depriving the victim of whatever is stolen, a not entirely unreasonable argument can be made that copyright infringement is actual theft. It's just not the case that what the thief is gaining from the theft is the same thing as what the copyright holder loses.
One may argue that intangible things cannot be stolen, but that is ultimately an arbitrary distinction, since the tangibility of something does not necessarily correlate with how much it may be considered to be worth.
So where's the hotels.com commercial?
"This work contains technological protection measures that may interfere with fair use".
Do you define worse as being simply larger in scale, and affecting more people in undesired ways? Or do you define worse as being a larger headache for those who must deal with it?
If the former, I'd agree. Unwanted software certainly affects more people, but if the latter, I'd have to dissent, and suggest that accidentally having malware get into your system is going to pose a much bigger problem for the end user than unwanted software is ever likely to represent.
I'll agree that a majority of teachers do not teach that way... I would argue, in fact, that a majority of teachers do not really teach at all, but are just instructing students on what to do. Any actual learning that might happen to occur along the way is mostly just coincidence unless the teacher is actively pushing the students to think for themselves, as the comp sci prof that I had mentioned above did.
Not always. Sometimes academic performance is tied to your ability not only to remember the necessary elements that you had read and heard, but the ability to learn how to make intuitive deductions from information that may be wholly new and different from anything that you did in class or may have read if you only read what the prof had instructed. I would argue that the best professors are the ones that challenge their students in that way, because the ones that can pass exams that are so structured have shown that they have more than just a capacity to incidentally remember what they have been taught, but also that they have actually *learned* it. I had one prof like this who taught several different sections in comp sci where I went, and I think there were actually only 2 semesters where I didn't have a class with him. He was easily the toughest prof in the entire faculty where I went to get a decent grade with, but he was also probably the best darn teacher that I ever had.