OK. And it's possible to have "own cloud" servers that you actually own and control. But that's not the normal state of affairs, and you shouldn't assume that when someone tells you they've stored something on the cloud.
It's not even that. It's "Someone else's computer that you have no control over, and don't even know who owns it or in what country it resides. Or whether it will be on the same one tomorrow.".
Just how would you propose supporting it as a true commons? The only two sources of support I can think of are ads and subscriptions, and subscriptions don't meet much approval. (Possibly when I get a refillable credit card I'll consider supporting a lot of places I approve of, but I don't really trust committing funds over the open web. I need a way to limit my exposure that isn't too inconvenient.)
There was a considerable difference between MSWind95 and MSWind98 for my use case. MSWind98 could not play music at a consistent tempo from the score editing programs that my wife was using. I had to reinstall MSWind95.
I'm not sure how much it's lies, but it left me feeling that there was it was adopted because of some agenda that wasn't being revealed.
Personally, I have seen *NO* advantage in systemd, and as a Debian user I felt the adoption of it was an unpleasant surprise and never justified.
There are several features of it that I do not like, particularly the lack of transparency. With shell scripts I could figure out what was happening, with systemd It's "depend on the developers".
That said, I can see use cases where it is probably a real advantage, they just don't help me, or any other person running a small number of machines. There may be some benefit that's invisible to me, but every justification I've encountered has been either patently false, or not true on experiment, or, at best, dubious. And I've encountered a few times when it was a real problem.
I'm not the kind of person who "fights city hall", so I haven't switched away from debian, but I've sure considered it a few time, and if there were a bsd system with read/write support for ext4, or even ext3, I probably would have. And I'm keeping an eye on Devuan...if they seem to be a stable distribution I may switch.
You sure about that? I thought it could act either way depending on exactly where it ended up, and how it bound to water. But if not, that just makes my point stronger, because it doesn't persist.
I'm rather sure though that I've read that it could cause clouds to turn into rain and clear the air...temporary cooling, but longer term warming.
Change: Actually, when I read the article it sounds as if they do have some no findings, but nothing that wouldn't have been predicted ahead of time. It sounds as if the actual research is valid, but the write-up is hyperbolic shit. to: Actually, when I read the article it sounds as if they do have somenewfindings, but nothing that wouldn't have been predicted ahead of time. It sounds as if the actual research is valid, but the write-up is hyperbolic shit.
Of course volcanic eruptions can cause ice sheet melting. Put soot on snow and it's more likely to melt. They also cause temporary warming. Hydrogen Sulfide is a green house gas. And they can add lots of CO2 to the atmosphere.
BUT The "year without a summer" was caused by a volcano eruption. So don't try to make this a global statement. It depends on the particulars.
If you go back a few centuries volcano eruptions were one of the big driving factors behind temporary climate changes... temporary meaning they didn't last more than 20 years, except for trailing effects, like a lake flooding or a grassland turning into a desert, which tended to persist. Even today there *are* volcanoes that could swamp everything people do. Yellowstone is an example, but not the only one. And that isn't new knowledge.
The feels like somebody rehashed things that everybody knows, and got a reporter to call it news.
Actually, when I read the article it sounds as if they do have some no findings, but nothing that wouldn't have been predicted ahead of time. It sounds as if the actual research is valid, but the write-up is hyperbolic shit.
Sorry, the current level of AI won't but stability in the markets. What they're talking about here is basically trend detection, and that increases instability. To increase stability you need to focus on bubble detection, but nobody makes a lot of money that way. It can prevent loss of money, but the loss it prevents is "other people's money".
While you can't trust those results, they give you good things to look at carefully, and eliminate a lot of things that wouldn't be useful.
This presumes that while you get a lot of false positives, you don't get many false negatives. You can usually set things up that way. When you do, the results are unreliable, but still useful. You just need to properly understand them.
Actually, I do play games. Just not recent ones. Every time I go looking to buy something recent, it isn't acceptable. So I end up running older games under emulation.
Actually, I play less now than I used to, but that's because I've gotten a bit bored with the ones I have. Still, when I really tired, but it's not time to sleep, I'll pull out a game. Civilization is a good one. But I've never activated the last edition I bought, because it demands access to a remote server.
I never trust a game that depends on somebody else's server being accessible. This is another piece of evidence as to why that is proper.
But "Electronic Arts", in particular, has several black marks against themselves in my book. Perhaps I just notice them more, but they seem worse than the average game maker.
I believe, though I'm not certain, that it is illegal for foreign countries to spend money in the US to influence US elections. I'm not sure that this applies to commercial entities, but I'm not sure it doesn't. I'm rather sure it is illegal to accept money from foreign nations to influence US elections.
This doesn't mean I think those laws are ever enforced, but I believe they exist. And it may be that they only forbid foreign governments, but with the degree of control that many governments are able to exert over local corporations, that seems to me to be logic chopping. I.e., it may be technically legal, but only technically and by drawing a totally artificial line (which, admittedly, laws often do).
Be fair. It's not like this is the first time there was presumptive evidence that a voting machine had been corrupted, which mysteriously disappeared before it could be validated. This is probably a bit more important than many of the others, but I believe there was a time or two in Illinois that were equally suspicious, and similarly important.
Despite the accuracy of your assertions about domestic corruption, I think there is reasonable evidence that this time there was also a lot of Russian participation.
What you need is an old fashioned triode amplifier with the gain turned up and no signal fed in. Turn up the amplifier enough and you get thermal noise, to make it nice, compress it a bit and use the middle bytes. (I think most compression algorithms would work for this, all you're doing is making sure that half the bits are on and half off. You could probably do as well though by taking two sample and xor-ing them.)
Sorry, but in the past Amazon has removed books already purchased. I see no reason to trust them now. I'm grant that I'm not sure of the exact nature of how those books were stored, but that reveals a design intent that I don't think any sensible person should trust.
You are free to disagree. My thinking that you aren't being sensible won't do you any harm. Amazon, however...
Actually, before TV most kids were sent out to play if the weather was at all suitable (which included light rain). Or sent to their room to play if it wasn't.
One can argue that TV/Video Games/etc. are better than being sent to their room to play, but it's hard to argue that they're better than being sent outside to play. These days, though, its seen to be too dangerous. I'm not certain whether it *is* any more dangerous than it ever was, but it's definitely seen that way, and occasionally parent's have their kids taken away for not helicoptering. This restricts the choices.
I think I might find a tablet useful, though I haven't bought one yet. I occasionally scan current sizes and prices.
What I'm really after is a good e-book reader. That means the screen needs to be about 8 1/2 X 5.5 inches. Perhaps a bit smaller. It has to be reasonably durable. And the screen has to be readable under bright ambient light. And it needs to work without any internet connection. Also, I don't want it to be a Kindle, because Amazon has proven that they can erase books you've already bought, and sometimes you can't avoid being near an open wifi. I would prefer that it didn't have ANY internet connection, but needed to access any updates via my computer's usb port. Also it needs to be willing to play epub and pdf files...and text, of course. Anything else is extra. (Why would I want a computer that didn't have a keyboard? And I've *got* a laptop, *with* standard usb ports.)
As I said, so far I haven't bought one. But I've definitely thought about it.
Odd. Most places I've lived wild pigs have been edible. I'm not saying they aren't dangerous, just that they are edible and reputed to have excellent taste.
That depends on the kind of investment you make. If you actually buy stock in a company, you don't have any really tangible value. If you don't own more than, say, 5% of the stock you have no effective control, and people have no real reason to pay you anything for your stock...unless it's part of a package where you are combined with other minor investors.
If you buy shares in an index fund your connection is even less tangible. It's *there*, but it doesn't give you any leverage. All you can do is sell out or collect dividends (if there are any).
That said, the time averaged value of an investment in the stock market has, thus far, been better than most other investments. But that's only on an average, and there are lots and lots of particular cases where it didn't work that way at all, at all.
Some of the ICO offering are a bubble. Which ones? What proportion? All???? Are you sure?
Nobody should invest anything in an ICO that they can't afford to lose. Everyone should realize it's a gamble with no insurance. This doesn't mean it's a bad bet, you need to estimate the probabilities and your risk tolerance. And realize that it's an estimate.
P.S.: This comment about estimating risk definitely applies to bitcoins. I consider them riskier than a stock index fund, but I couldn't quantify how much riskier, and they've got a large potential payoff. But at some point they'll crash.
That said, at one point the Senate of Rome printed some "paper money". (Well, OK, officially issued counterfeit money.) Soon afterwards it lost most of it's value, but today if you could find any it would be worth quite a lot. So would an authentic blue triangle stamp. And the number of plausibly generated bitcoins is limited. That they're currently being mined using "other peoples computers/electricity" may indicate that we've passed a point of inflection.
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OK. And it's possible to have "own cloud" servers that you actually own and control. But that's not the normal state of affairs, and you shouldn't assume that when someone tells you they've stored something on the cloud.
Sorry, but that doesn't suffice. You also need backups stored at remote locations.
Got any proof of that? I believe it's closed source, so proving that would be a bit difficult.
It's not even that. It's "Someone else's computer that you have no control over, and don't even know who owns it or in what country it resides. Or whether it will be on the same one tomorrow.".
Github works well from me only because of local copies. But I wouldn't want to use it for email.
OTOH, it works for shared documents, as long as you are willing to use a proper license.
Just how would you propose supporting it as a true commons? The only two sources of support I can think of are ads and subscriptions, and subscriptions don't meet much approval. (Possibly when I get a refillable credit card I'll consider supporting a lot of places I approve of, but I don't really trust committing funds over the open web. I need a way to limit my exposure that isn't too inconvenient.)
There was a considerable difference between MSWind95 and MSWind98 for my use case. MSWind98 could not play music at a consistent tempo from the score editing programs that my wife was using. I had to reinstall MSWind95.
I'm not sure how much it's lies, but it left me feeling that there was it was adopted because of some agenda that wasn't being revealed.
Personally, I have seen *NO* advantage in systemd, and as a Debian user I felt the adoption of it was an unpleasant surprise and never justified.
There are several features of it that I do not like, particularly the lack of transparency. With shell scripts I could figure out what was happening, with systemd It's "depend on the developers".
That said, I can see use cases where it is probably a real advantage, they just don't help me, or any other person running a small number of machines. There may be some benefit that's invisible to me, but every justification I've encountered has been either patently false, or not true on experiment, or, at best, dubious. And I've encountered a few times when it was a real problem.
I'm not the kind of person who "fights city hall", so I haven't switched away from debian, but I've sure considered it a few time, and if there were a bsd system with read/write support for ext4, or even ext3, I probably would have. And I'm keeping an eye on Devuan...if they seem to be a stable distribution I may switch.
You sure about that? I thought it could act either way depending on exactly where it ended up, and how it bound to water. But if not, that just makes my point stronger, because it doesn't persist.
I'm rather sure though that I've read that it could cause clouds to turn into rain and clear the air...temporary cooling, but longer term warming.
Change:
Actually, when I read the article it sounds as if they do have some no findings, but nothing that wouldn't have been predicted ahead of time. It sounds as if the actual research is valid, but the write-up is hyperbolic shit.
to:
Actually, when I read the article it sounds as if they do have some new findings, but nothing that wouldn't have been predicted ahead of time. It sounds as if the actual research is valid, but the write-up is hyperbolic shit.
Of course volcanic eruptions can cause ice sheet melting. Put soot on snow and it's more likely to melt. They also cause temporary warming. Hydrogen Sulfide is a green house gas. And they can add lots of CO2 to the atmosphere.
BUT The "year without a summer" was caused by a volcano eruption. So don't try to make this a global statement. It depends on the particulars.
If you go back a few centuries volcano eruptions were one of the big driving factors behind temporary climate changes ... temporary meaning they didn't last more than 20 years, except for trailing effects, like a lake flooding or a grassland turning into a desert, which tended to persist. Even today there *are* volcanoes that could swamp everything people do. Yellowstone is an example, but not the only one. And that isn't new knowledge.
The feels like somebody rehashed things that everybody knows, and got a reporter to call it news.
Actually, when I read the article it sounds as if they do have some no findings, but nothing that wouldn't have been predicted ahead of time. It sounds as if the actual research is valid, but the write-up is hyperbolic shit.
Sorry, the current level of AI won't but stability in the markets. What they're talking about here is basically trend detection, and that increases instability. To increase stability you need to focus on bubble detection, but nobody makes a lot of money that way. It can prevent loss of money, but the loss it prevents is "other people's money".
While you can't trust those results, they give you good things to look at carefully, and eliminate a lot of things that wouldn't be useful.
This presumes that while you get a lot of false positives, you don't get many false negatives. You can usually set things up that way. When you do, the results are unreliable, but still useful. You just need to properly understand them.
Actually, I do play games. Just not recent ones. Every time I go looking to buy something recent, it isn't acceptable. So I end up running older games under emulation.
Actually, I play less now than I used to, but that's because I've gotten a bit bored with the ones I have. Still, when I really tired, but it's not time to sleep, I'll pull out a game. Civilization is a good one. But I've never activated the last edition I bought, because it demands access to a remote server.
I never trust a game that depends on somebody else's server being accessible. This is another piece of evidence as to why that is proper.
But "Electronic Arts", in particular, has several black marks against themselves in my book. Perhaps I just notice them more, but they seem worse than the average game maker.
I believe, though I'm not certain, that it is illegal for foreign countries to spend money in the US to influence US elections. I'm not sure that this applies to commercial entities, but I'm not sure it doesn't. I'm rather sure it is illegal to accept money from foreign nations to influence US elections.
This doesn't mean I think those laws are ever enforced, but I believe they exist. And it may be that they only forbid foreign governments, but with the degree of control that many governments are able to exert over local corporations, that seems to me to be logic chopping. I.e., it may be technically legal, but only technically and by drawing a totally artificial line (which, admittedly, laws often do).
Be fair. It's not like this is the first time there was presumptive evidence that a voting machine had been corrupted, which mysteriously disappeared before it could be validated. This is probably a bit more important than many of the others, but I believe there was a time or two in Illinois that were equally suspicious, and similarly important.
Despite the accuracy of your assertions about domestic corruption, I think there is reasonable evidence that this time there was also a lot of Russian participation.
What you need is an old fashioned triode amplifier with the gain turned up and no signal fed in. Turn up the amplifier enough and you get thermal noise, to make it nice, compress it a bit and use the middle bytes. (I think most compression algorithms would work for this, all you're doing is making sure that half the bits are on and half off. You could probably do as well though by taking two sample and xor-ing them.)
Sorry, but in the past Amazon has removed books already purchased. I see no reason to trust them now. I'm grant that I'm not sure of the exact nature of how those books were stored, but that reveals a design intent that I don't think any sensible person should trust.
You are free to disagree. My thinking that you aren't being sensible won't do you any harm. Amazon, however...
Actually, before TV most kids were sent out to play if the weather was at all suitable (which included light rain). Or sent to their room to play if it wasn't.
One can argue that TV/Video Games/etc. are better than being sent to their room to play, but it's hard to argue that they're better than being sent outside to play. These days, though, its seen to be too dangerous. I'm not certain whether it *is* any more dangerous than it ever was, but it's definitely seen that way, and occasionally parent's have their kids taken away for not helicoptering. This restricts the choices.
I think I might find a tablet useful, though I haven't bought one yet. I occasionally scan current sizes and prices.
What I'm really after is a good e-book reader. That means the screen needs to be about 8 1/2 X 5.5 inches. Perhaps a bit smaller. It has to be reasonably durable. And the screen has to be readable under bright ambient light. And it needs to work without any internet connection. Also, I don't want it to be a Kindle, because Amazon has proven that they can erase books you've already bought, and sometimes you can't avoid being near an open wifi. I would prefer that it didn't have ANY internet connection, but needed to access any updates via my computer's usb port. Also it needs to be willing to play epub and pdf files...and text, of course. Anything else is extra. (Why would I want a computer that didn't have a keyboard? And I've *got* a laptop, *with* standard usb ports.)
As I said, so far I haven't bought one. But I've definitely thought about it.
Odd. Most places I've lived wild pigs have been edible. I'm not saying they aren't dangerous, just that they are edible and reputed to have excellent taste.
P.S.: They also aren't very fat.
That depends on the kind of investment you make. If you actually buy stock in a company, you don't have any really tangible value. If you don't own more than, say, 5% of the stock you have no effective control, and people have no real reason to pay you anything for your stock...unless it's part of a package where you are combined with other minor investors.
If you buy shares in an index fund your connection is even less tangible. It's *there*, but it doesn't give you any leverage. All you can do is sell out or collect dividends (if there are any).
That said, the time averaged value of an investment in the stock market has, thus far, been better than most other investments. But that's only on an average, and there are lots and lots of particular cases where it didn't work that way at all, at all.
Some of the ICO offering are a bubble. Which ones? What proportion? All???? Are you sure?
Nobody should invest anything in an ICO that they can't afford to lose. Everyone should realize it's a gamble with no insurance. This doesn't mean it's a bad bet, you need to estimate the probabilities and your risk tolerance. And realize that it's an estimate.
P.S.: This comment about estimating risk definitely applies to bitcoins. I consider them riskier than a stock index fund, but I couldn't quantify how much riskier, and they've got a large potential payoff. But at some point they'll crash.
That said, at one point the Senate of Rome printed some "paper money". (Well, OK, officially issued counterfeit money.) Soon afterwards it lost most of it's value, but today if you could find any it would be worth quite a lot. So would an authentic blue triangle stamp. And the number of plausibly generated bitcoins is limited. That they're currently being mined using "other peoples computers/electricity" may indicate that we've passed a point of inflection.