I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a flood of copy-cat incidents. It's now entirely possible to bring the US to a complete standstill just by putting random toys in odd places.
I'll tell you who is undermining it. It's the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, and Homeland Security. They have already demonstrated, unequivocally, that they will happily fuck over every last man, woman and child, not just in the US, but around the entire planet, if they could get away with it. The list of abuses is already long, and at no point have they shown any interest in stopping.
The fact that they are accusing unknown people "trying to undermine" them, and that these people are "fueled by their adversaries" just tells you how completely and utterly out to lunch these dimwits are.
They don't seem to understand that, the tighter they squeeze their fist, the more that squeezes out from between their fingers.
It's a shame that you used the term SJW to describe her. People who are Social Justice Warriors have done important things to help establish rights for people who have been otherwise unfairly marginalized in our society. Unfortunately the term seem to have been usurped by MRAs who use it to describe anyone who disagrees with their (very often bigoted) worldview.
She's NOT a SJW. She's just a self-entitled little bitch throwing a temper tantrum cause not enough people patted her on the head and told her what a special snowflake she is.
doing its small part to forever change the world without a battery, transistor, or tube.
Because of the font, I did a double-take cause I initially misread "tube" for "lube". That certainly forever changed my perceptions of nuclear physics research.:)
Your example is a bad one for one very important reason: Google Chrome doesn't have a monopoly. Microsoft does. You *have* to play Microsoft's game because computers around the world rely on their stuff.
There may be the few outliers that manage to be able to use Linux or Apple for the majority of their work, but the fact remains that ~80% of the world uses Windows, and the Windows tail wags the dog. Need to buy a new machine? Well, you get Windows 10 now.
Now maybe people will start to understand why monopolies are dangerous things. I'm sure Richard Stallman is having a grand old case of the I-told-you-so's right now.
If you google with keywords like windows 7 and telemetry, you should find everything you need. There is also a list somewhere of all the various microsoft servers you need to block access to from your router. (Windows Firewall ain't good enough cause these tools *bypass* Windows Firewall) I can't remember where I saw that list... only that it was shockingly large.
The thing is, it's not just Windows 10. If you regularly update your machines, Microsoft has already added additional telemetry tools to Windows 7 and 8.
What really sucks for me is that I *like* Windows 10. I run it in a VM on my Mac, and I've noticed an immediate performance improvement, especially with boot ups.
But from all the media reports, it looks like Windows 10 is turning into a conspiracy theorists bukake dream. And unless there is very little backlash to this, I can see Microsoft easily porting the rest of their privacy invading tools to their previous OSes.
This is one of the big reasons I switched to Mac a long time ago (Pre Windows 7). I got utterly fed up with Windows being unable to handle suspend/resume. I tried to go to Linux, but the amount of fiddling and script editing I needed to do to make it was was just absurd, and still wasn't guaranteed to work.
I am able to close the lid on my Macbook Pro to suspend, open it to resume, multiple times a day for weeks at a time without ever having to shut down or reboot. (Ocassionally it would die, at which point I would be livid because it would be so unexpected). Whether this is still true or not, I'm not sure, as I haven't needed to do this for a couple years now, but it was true for 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7.
It's depressing that that it sounds like things haven't improved at all on the Linux side... I don't want to go to back to Windows, especially considering all the privacy nightmares I've been reading lately about Windows 10, but I'm equally unhappy with the appliance-ification of computers that Apple is doing... I swear it seems like we're going full circle to go back to the 1980s.
One would have thought that by going the Apple route and focusing on a specific and limited set of hardware, Valve would be able to focus on making sure that that hardware works flawlessly. I believe there are several Linux-certified laptops that are supposed to have done this (I can't remember who at this point... Dell maybe?), but I have no experience with them so I can't say how successful they were.
But rambling aside... Being able to suspend and/or hibernate should be considered a standard feature in almost everything at this point, so a device that can't handle it just seems... sub-par, and makes you wonder what else they've screwed up, or if they're even competent enough to put out a decent product in the first place.
Why would they give a warning? IMO there should be no warnings at all, and just let them be surprised.
By giving warnings, you're indicating where they can and can't pee cause they'll just look for an unpainted wall. If you don't warn, then the gambling effect kicks in and they will be wary of peeing against anything that isn't a toilet or foliage.
Companies have done so much to lower the barrier of entry, that we have huge swaths of 'developers' who are basically walking personifications of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The amount of craptastic software out there is just incredible because people can't be bothered to learn even the most basic fundamentals like de-coupling.
I remember taking a database course in university, aced it without even trying, and constantly asking myself, "What's so difficult about this?" Yet people are flocking to things like MongoDB, not because it's the best tool for the job, but because SQL is too hard.
And yet when looking for a job, these are the nimrods that real developers have to compete against, and have an excellent chance of losing against because they're more skilled at schmoozing than doing a good job.
No, actually, they're not. The democrats now are what the republicans were in, say, the 80s. They're right of centre, but they manage to do some decent work.
Meanwhile, the republicans refuse to believe that debt is an issue, they penalize the poor for being poor, the list is virtually endless. And heck, the *entire* lineup of republican presidential candidates are freaking psychotic, with the most psychotic of the bunch currently in the lead.
While the parent comment is funny, I wouldn't be surprised if republicans actually believed this. They seem to spend all their time focusing on pet conspiracies, while ignoring the real problems facing the USA. The party has successfully reinvented themselves from being "conservative", to "batshit crazy" and their entire existence revolves around defeating the democrats (when they're not attacking each other).
Actually managing the country seems to be very far down on their priority list.
I just want to point out that there's no such thing as 'artificial' vs 'natural' selection pressure. There is simply selection pressure. This pressure can come from *anything*, whether it is chemicals in the environment (as may be in this case), other organisms that affect them in some way (a new predator forces a species to adapt in some way to survive), or even themselves (eg: The females prefer black bees with yellow stripes, rather than yellow bees with black stripes).
These pressures have *always* existed. All humans have done is made things more interesting.
Typical. You can't handle being called out on your ignorance, so you label me as a SJW so you can relax back in your armchair and disregard what I say with undeserved smugness.
But I can understand that point of view. It's pretty uncomfortable to think that one's attitudes cause pain, suffering, and death of others, choosing to be willfully ignorant is a convenient and powerful defense.
The fact that you include transgenderism to be the same as homeopathy, or a white women co-oping black culture, just shows how people like you are part of the problem.
You're an armchair 'expert' who doesn't actually know anything about topics you're discussing, but you think your point of view is valid regardless.
It's depressing that humanity's breadth of knowledge has increased to an unprecedented level, yet instead of educating themselves about the world they live in people prefer to just dig deeper holes to stick their heads in.
The preview I installed (~2 weeks ago) was shockingly unstable and slow. I was appalled at the state of an OS, especially when it is slated for release in July.
(For example, my start... panel... thing... completely hosed itself for no apparent reason, a couple days after I installed the OS, leaving me nothing with a bunch of coloured boxes with class names in them).
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I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a flood of copy-cat incidents. It's now entirely possible to bring the US to a complete standstill just by putting random toys in odd places.
Doing a little more googling, it turns out we're both right. :P Why can't anything in life be easy?
http://english.stackexchange.c...
But it looks like the pejorative version is winning by a landslide so...... I guess I'll drop my point. A shame, really.
I'll tell you who is undermining it. It's the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, and Homeland Security. They have already demonstrated, unequivocally, that they will happily fuck over every last man, woman and child, not just in the US, but around the entire planet, if they could get away with it. The list of abuses is already long, and at no point have they shown any interest in stopping.
The fact that they are accusing unknown people "trying to undermine" them, and that these people are "fueled by their adversaries" just tells you how completely and utterly out to lunch these dimwits are.
They don't seem to understand that, the tighter they squeeze their fist, the more that squeezes out from between their fingers.
It's a shame that you used the term SJW to describe her. People who are Social Justice Warriors have done important things to help establish rights for people who have been otherwise unfairly marginalized in our society. Unfortunately the term seem to have been usurped by MRAs who use it to describe anyone who disagrees with their (very often bigoted) worldview.
She's NOT a SJW. She's just a self-entitled little bitch throwing a temper tantrum cause not enough people patted her on the head and told her what a special snowflake she is.
doing its small part to forever change the world without a battery, transistor, or tube.
Because of the font, I did a double-take cause I initially misread "tube" for "lube". That certainly forever changed my perceptions of nuclear physics research. :)
I found this. Dunno if it's 100% comprehensive, but it's a start.
http://www.hakspek.com/securit...
But but... I need to collect my smurfberries before the timer runs out in 5 minutes!
C'mon! Get your priorities straight!
Your example is a bad one for one very important reason: Google Chrome doesn't have a monopoly. Microsoft does. You *have* to play Microsoft's game because computers around the world rely on their stuff.
There may be the few outliers that manage to be able to use Linux or Apple for the majority of their work, but the fact remains that ~80% of the world uses Windows, and the Windows tail wags the dog. Need to buy a new machine? Well, you get Windows 10 now.
Now maybe people will start to understand why monopolies are dangerous things. I'm sure Richard Stallman is having a grand old case of the I-told-you-so's right now.
I first heard about it here:
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
If you google with keywords like windows 7 and telemetry, you should find everything you need. There is also a list somewhere of all the various microsoft servers you need to block access to from your router. (Windows Firewall ain't good enough cause these tools *bypass* Windows Firewall) I can't remember where I saw that list... only that it was shockingly large.
Visual Cobol... AKA Microsoft Word.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
The thing is, it's not just Windows 10. If you regularly update your machines, Microsoft has already added additional telemetry tools to Windows 7 and 8.
http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
What really sucks for me is that I *like* Windows 10. I run it in a VM on my Mac, and I've noticed an immediate performance improvement, especially with boot ups.
But from all the media reports, it looks like Windows 10 is turning into a conspiracy theorists bukake dream. And unless there is very little backlash to this, I can see Microsoft easily porting the rest of their privacy invading tools to their previous OSes.
You may wanna check your list of updates. Microsoft has already added a bunch of telemetry tools in the guise of "important updates".
This is one of the big reasons I switched to Mac a long time ago (Pre Windows 7). I got utterly fed up with Windows being unable to handle suspend/resume. I tried to go to Linux, but the amount of fiddling and script editing I needed to do to make it was was just absurd, and still wasn't guaranteed to work.
I am able to close the lid on my Macbook Pro to suspend, open it to resume, multiple times a day for weeks at a time without ever having to shut down or reboot. (Ocassionally it would die, at which point I would be livid because it would be so unexpected). Whether this is still true or not, I'm not sure, as I haven't needed to do this for a couple years now, but it was true for 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7.
It's depressing that that it sounds like things haven't improved at all on the Linux side... I don't want to go to back to Windows, especially considering all the privacy nightmares I've been reading lately about Windows 10, but I'm equally unhappy with the appliance-ification of computers that Apple is doing... I swear it seems like we're going full circle to go back to the 1980s.
One would have thought that by going the Apple route and focusing on a specific and limited set of hardware, Valve would be able to focus on making sure that that hardware works flawlessly. I believe there are several Linux-certified laptops that are supposed to have done this (I can't remember who at this point... Dell maybe?), but I have no experience with them so I can't say how successful they were.
But rambling aside... Being able to suspend and/or hibernate should be considered a standard feature in almost everything at this point, so a device that can't handle it just seems... sub-par, and makes you wonder what else they've screwed up, or if they're even competent enough to put out a decent product in the first place.
True, but thanks to the anti-vax movement, cooties are making a comeback.
You're arguing with Ron Swanson.
His entire argument basically boils down to, "There's been a mistake. You've given me food that my food eats."
Why would they give a warning? IMO there should be no warnings at all, and just let them be surprised.
By giving warnings, you're indicating where they can and can't pee cause they'll just look for an unpainted wall. If you don't warn, then the gambling effect kicks in and they will be wary of peeing against anything that isn't a toilet or foliage.
.sd..foasfd89&$#(&*$(@#%*Y$H
Whoa... I didn't know Windows 10 was written in Perl!
Companies have done so much to lower the barrier of entry, that we have huge swaths of 'developers' who are basically walking personifications of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The amount of craptastic software out there is just incredible because people can't be bothered to learn even the most basic fundamentals like de-coupling.
I remember taking a database course in university, aced it without even trying, and constantly asking myself, "What's so difficult about this?" Yet people are flocking to things like MongoDB, not because it's the best tool for the job, but because SQL is too hard.
And yet when looking for a job, these are the nimrods that real developers have to compete against, and have an excellent chance of losing against because they're more skilled at schmoozing than doing a good job.
No, actually, they're not. The democrats now are what the republicans were in, say, the 80s. They're right of centre, but they manage to do some decent work.
Meanwhile, the republicans refuse to believe that debt is an issue, they penalize the poor for being poor, the list is virtually endless. And heck, the *entire* lineup of republican presidential candidates are freaking psychotic, with the most psychotic of the bunch currently in the lead.
While the parent comment is funny, I wouldn't be surprised if republicans actually believed this. They seem to spend all their time focusing on pet conspiracies, while ignoring the real problems facing the USA. The party has successfully reinvented themselves from being "conservative", to "batshit crazy" and their entire existence revolves around defeating the democrats (when they're not attacking each other).
Actually managing the country seems to be very far down on their priority list.
I just want to point out that there's no such thing as 'artificial' vs 'natural' selection pressure. There is simply selection pressure. This pressure can come from *anything*, whether it is chemicals in the environment (as may be in this case), other organisms that affect them in some way (a new predator forces a species to adapt in some way to survive), or even themselves (eg: The females prefer black bees with yellow stripes, rather than yellow bees with black stripes).
These pressures have *always* existed. All humans have done is made things more interesting.
Typical. You can't handle being called out on your ignorance, so you label me as a SJW so you can relax back in your armchair and disregard what I say with undeserved smugness.
But I can understand that point of view. It's pretty uncomfortable to think that one's attitudes cause pain, suffering, and death of others, choosing to be willfully ignorant is a convenient and powerful defense.
http://theconversation.com/no-...
The fact that you include transgenderism to be the same as homeopathy, or a white women co-oping black culture, just shows how people like you are part of the problem.
You're an armchair 'expert' who doesn't actually know anything about topics you're discussing, but you think your point of view is valid regardless.
It's depressing that humanity's breadth of knowledge has increased to an unprecedented level, yet instead of educating themselves about the world they live in people prefer to just dig deeper holes to stick their heads in.
The preview I installed (~2 weeks ago) was shockingly unstable and slow. I was appalled at the state of an OS, especially when it is slated for release in July.
(For example, my start... panel... thing... completely hosed itself for no apparent reason, a couple days after I installed the OS, leaving me nothing with a bunch of coloured boxes with class names in them).