Only the wealthy can afford to employ the right to be forgotten, because it's a game of whack-a-mole. Consequently people with money will wind up looking "cleaner" than everyone else, and we won't move society forward by taking an honest look at our actual behavior and adjusting our perceptions of norms accordingly.
It does reduce developer freedom, in order to increase user freedom. The users are who the program is for, so their freedom is most important. The developers may also be users; they both gain and lose freedoms by using the GPL. They have a choice to make, whether their rights as a user or their rights as a developer are more important. Of course, if they don't distribute the code to third parties, they don't need a license; if they do, then those other parties would most likely benefit most from use of the GPL, not the BSDl.
Most software is used by multiple parties, and so the GPL preserves more freedom than it impedes.
Many major contributors to Linux have stated outright that they contributed to Linux rather than a BSD specifically because it used the GPL, and as users, they stood to benefit from others' contributions which might never see the light of day under a different license. And lo, Linux is more popular than BSD today.
GPL is the superior license for users, and users outnumber developers, most of whom are also users. GPL produces better results than BSD. QED, GPL is the superior license.
"I completely agree that in the past, some games required patches from AMD to run properly."
Lets be clear here, DnA drivers were third party patched. The fact is that amd was so bad at writing working drivers that they literally could not do it, and it was necessary to get drivers which had been modified by someone else to get the GPU working correctly. Meanwhile Nvidia was putting out fairly regular releases with their own fixes.
Everyone says that amd is much better now, but most of their customers claimed that their drivers worked when they clearly didn't, so now I remain hesitant. Nobody I trust has yet told me that the problems are truly over.
"The people I "automated away" didn't sit there and say "well now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I'm useless". They said "now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I can do these other important things to move the organization forward"."
That's great when there is opportunity to do so. Most managers are shit though, and they not only don't know what to do with that employer, or outright won't let them change things either because they don't understand the change, or don't want any changes they didn't invent to occur. They flail for a while, then they blame the problem on an underling, and fire them. In my last big job I got trained to do a bunch of marketing stuff which we then never did because the marketing manager spent her time sniffing markers, literally. I had mostly automated my job and needed other stuff to do, but it wasn't my responsibility so I wasn't allowed to go outside the box. Then they fired me because it seemed like I had little to do, and finally hired two people to do what I had been doing alone because it wasn't as easy as I made it look.
Most managers I've worked for have been just as incompetent. They don't understand the business, they don't understand what their subordinates actually do, and they have no idea how to improve things. They're just there for a paycheck, like everyone else. On the rare occasion that a competent manager comes along, they are usually hamstrung by management above them.
I built Crystal reports and InDesign templates that made my job easy. Then I got fired due to a conflict with the staggeringly incompetent it manager who was the son in law of the acting CEO, who was actually the CFO. Then they wound up hiring two people to replace me. Acting CEO guy is now gone, of course, he doesn't work there at all any more.
You buy them as industrial/digital signage displays. They have tuners, but no Android device. They still have remotes. They do cost more, but they are also better. They use their highest contrast panels for them.
If we're such innovative geniuses, we should be leading the way on emissions reduction. And if we are the ones that figure it out, we can be the ones to cost-reduce it and then profit by selling it to everyone else. Isn't that what supposedly made America great? Innovation? Problem-solving?
Right, but it's essentially a read-only region of flash. Even if you update the built-in applications, it will revert back to the original version if you do a system wipe.
I have yet to meet an Android device that uses an inherently ro filesystem, they just mount ro. If you root, you can remount rw and make changes. This may have become more fiddly in recent Android versions, I haven't checked in.
That's straight up marketing BS. Reality is, unfixed bugs stay across multiple driver releases with remarkable consistency.
I think you're both right, or at least, in my experience both things are true. nvidia does have more releases that fix my problems, and also in the past I have needed DnA (patched) drivers to get my ATI/AMD GPUs to work correctly.
NVidia is not an option if you need a longer term linux support.
If you buy a modern and mainstream nvidia card, you can be fairly sure that it will be supported on linux from a time near its release (maybe on time, maybe not) to a time some years later. However, some features supported on other platforms will not be supported, and the open source driver will not support all of the functionality and/or performance of the proprietary driver for a long period, if ever. It used to be the obvious choice, but now it's an obviously flawed one. If the AMD platform OSS drivers are as good now as people are claiming they are, it really makes no sense for Linux users to buy anything else. And unless they're getting an amazing deal, it doesn't seem like it makes much sense for most Windows users to buy nvidia any more, either.
Kaspersky has had a stellar reputation in the community for two decades. They've consistently been one of the top cybersecurity researchers in the world.
Their technical competence is not in question, their ability to resist the probable demands of the Russian security apparatus is. I don't mean to imply that this fact differentiates Russia from the USA in any fashion, but Russia is known to be a bit insistent about cooperation with the state.
That being said, who knows, maybe Putin has an office at their HQ, but all this FUD without a shred of evidence whatsoever isn't helping anything.
It would be foolish not to assume that they are compromised, much as major American companies have been compromised. I always pretty much assume that the US, Russia, and China are doing more or less the same stuff... only in differing proportions. And probably more than a handful of others as well, but I don't want to go too far off track. Those, at least, are actors known to behave in such a fashion. Anyone who can afford to engage in espionage does so.
In fairness android tablets and chromebooks (tablets with a dock) are also fairly useless. They are too big to replace a phone and not powerful or functional enough to replace a laptop.
A decent Android tablet with Kodi, VNC, RDP and Moonlight (and maybe an X server, but a good one of those is surprisingly hard to find) can serve as a remote interface for practically anything, and play pretty much any media. I've found that fairly handy. The trick is to get it cheap, yet to get one with decent networking.
It's pretty disingeneous to demand that China, which still has a long way to go in terms of economic development, slashes or freezes its emissions
Economic development is a poor excuse. The environment doesn't care what your goals were, it only cares what you put into it. It doesn't matter how developed your nation is, you should be minimizing pollution.
The environment doesn't give two fucks about per-capita emissions.
Science can be used to explain why the developing world is polluting more in spite of doing more to reduce pollution. You're correct that the total is what matters, but it's not reasonable to expect those nations to change overnight — especially given that the rest of us aren't exactly doing all we can, either. And if we really want them to improve rapidly, maybe we should help them do it, because after all,
That said, efficiency is not the goal. Gainful employment is the #1 goal. #2 is security/stability. #3 (to the majority of people) is doing something meaningful.
If employment is your #1 goal, you need to let go of puritanism. This whole idea that our purpose is to work is ridiculous. Security/stability via meeting needs should be the #1 priority.
It's why you have to sideload it on a Fire Stick compared to just installing it from the Play Store on a Shield.
You do have to sideload it, but having done so, it runs fine. Perhaps it even runs well, so far I've had very good results. And Amazon doesn't make it difficult to do so — you can in fact download a downloader app and a file manager/apk installer app from their app store. And I don't mean ES File Manager, although that spyware is in there too.
As long as you have room for it somewhere vaguely near the TV, it doesn't matter much how big the PC is because you can get long HDMI cables cheaply, e.g. from Monoprice. What matters is noise, and also power consumption. Perhaps one of these new AMD mobile processors coming out?
As noted in TFS and TFA, much of the increase comes from the transportation sector, and increased demand for diesel (and jet fuel, but I repeat myself.) What's needed to make immediate improvements in transportation efficiency and emissions is electrified rail. The specifics of what that would look like vary from place to place, and situation to situation, but in general getting rid of rubber tires and adding electric motivation are things which we not only could be doing now, but could have been doing already.
Mr Zuckerberg has been repeatedly ask to attend meetings in the UK and Brussels to explain the practices undertaken by his company and the way that those practices impact the citizens of the UK and the broader EU.
Which would have produced nothing of value whatsoever, because politicians don't even know what questions to ask. We learned that when he spoke to congress. Even Democrats were dumbfounded.
Of course this is all bogus -- it takes up "zero" user space since it's kept in ROM space,
No, it is NOT. It is kept in Flash. Part of the flash is desigated as belonging to the system, and it is kept there. But that flash partition is like any other partition, it can be of arbitrary size. And it has to be bigger to accommodate additional apps, and that means there's less space available in the user partition.
Who exactly are these largest offenders, that everyone apparently knows about, who aren't getting busted for it? Names, please. And, again, you know, evidence.
Evidence — this is a list of the ones they bothered to go after.
Or your assumptions are not correct. Which is easily the simplest answer to this particular question.
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Only the wealthy can afford to employ the right to be forgotten, because it's a game of whack-a-mole. Consequently people with money will wind up looking "cleaner" than everyone else, and we won't move society forward by taking an honest look at our actual behavior and adjusting our perceptions of norms accordingly.
It does reduce developer freedom, in order to increase user freedom. The users are who the program is for, so their freedom is most important. The developers may also be users; they both gain and lose freedoms by using the GPL. They have a choice to make, whether their rights as a user or their rights as a developer are more important. Of course, if they don't distribute the code to third parties, they don't need a license; if they do, then those other parties would most likely benefit most from use of the GPL, not the BSDl.
Most software is used by multiple parties, and so the GPL preserves more freedom than it impedes.
Many major contributors to Linux have stated outright that they contributed to Linux rather than a BSD specifically because it used the GPL, and as users, they stood to benefit from others' contributions which might never see the light of day under a different license. And lo, Linux is more popular than BSD today.
GPL is the superior license for users, and users outnumber developers, most of whom are also users. GPL produces better results than BSD. QED, GPL is the superior license.
"I completely agree that in the past, some games required patches from AMD to run properly."
Lets be clear here, DnA drivers were third party patched. The fact is that amd was so bad at writing working drivers that they literally could not do it, and it was necessary to get drivers which had been modified by someone else to get the GPU working correctly. Meanwhile Nvidia was putting out fairly regular releases with their own fixes.
Everyone says that amd is much better now, but most of their customers claimed that their drivers worked when they clearly didn't, so now I remain hesitant. Nobody I trust has yet told me that the problems are truly over.
"The people I "automated away" didn't sit there and say "well now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I'm useless". They said "now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I can do these other important things to move the organization forward"."
That's great when there is opportunity to do so. Most managers are shit though, and they not only don't know what to do with that employer, or outright won't let them change things either because they don't understand the change, or don't want any changes they didn't invent to occur. They flail for a while, then they blame the problem on an underling, and fire them. In my last big job I got trained to do a bunch of marketing stuff which we then never did because the marketing manager spent her time sniffing markers, literally. I had mostly automated my job and needed other stuff to do, but it wasn't my responsibility so I wasn't allowed to go outside the box. Then they fired me because it seemed like I had little to do, and finally hired two people to do what I had been doing alone because it wasn't as easy as I made it look.
Most managers I've worked for have been just as incompetent. They don't understand the business, they don't understand what their subordinates actually do, and they have no idea how to improve things. They're just there for a paycheck, like everyone else. On the rare occasion that a competent manager comes along, they are usually hamstrung by management above them.
I've done it, so you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, and can safely go away without decreasing the quality of dialogue on slashdot.
I built Crystal reports and InDesign templates that made my job easy. Then I got fired due to a conflict with the staggeringly incompetent it manager who was the son in law of the acting CEO, who was actually the CFO. Then they wound up hiring two people to replace me. Acting CEO guy is now gone, of course, he doesn't work there at all any more.
Cluster fuckery abounds
You buy them as industrial/digital signage displays. They have tuners, but no Android device. They still have remotes. They do cost more, but they are also better. They use their highest contrast panels for them.
If we're such innovative geniuses, we should be leading the way on emissions reduction. And if we are the ones that figure it out, we can be the ones to cost-reduce it and then profit by selling it to everyone else. Isn't that what supposedly made America great? Innovation? Problem-solving?
Right, but it's essentially a read-only region of flash. Even if you update the built-in applications, it will revert back to the original version if you do a system wipe.
I have yet to meet an Android device that uses an inherently ro filesystem, they just mount ro. If you root, you can remount rw and make changes. This may have become more fiddly in recent Android versions, I haven't checked in.
That's straight up marketing BS. Reality is, unfixed bugs stay across multiple driver releases with remarkable consistency.
I think you're both right, or at least, in my experience both things are true. nvidia does have more releases that fix my problems, and also in the past I have needed DnA (patched) drivers to get my ATI/AMD GPUs to work correctly.
NVidia is not an option if you need a longer term linux support.
If you buy a modern and mainstream nvidia card, you can be fairly sure that it will be supported on linux from a time near its release (maybe on time, maybe not) to a time some years later. However, some features supported on other platforms will not be supported, and the open source driver will not support all of the functionality and/or performance of the proprietary driver for a long period, if ever. It used to be the obvious choice, but now it's an obviously flawed one. If the AMD platform OSS drivers are as good now as people are claiming they are, it really makes no sense for Linux users to buy anything else. And unless they're getting an amazing deal, it doesn't seem like it makes much sense for most Windows users to buy nvidia any more, either.
Kaspersky has had a stellar reputation in the community for two decades. They've consistently been one of the top cybersecurity researchers in the world.
Their technical competence is not in question, their ability to resist the probable demands of the Russian security apparatus is. I don't mean to imply that this fact differentiates Russia from the USA in any fashion, but Russia is known to be a bit insistent about cooperation with the state.
That being said, who knows, maybe Putin has an office at their HQ, but all this FUD without a shred of evidence whatsoever isn't helping anything.
It would be foolish not to assume that they are compromised, much as major American companies have been compromised. I always pretty much assume that the US, Russia, and China are doing more or less the same stuff... only in differing proportions. And probably more than a handful of others as well, but I don't want to go too far off track. Those, at least, are actors known to behave in such a fashion. Anyone who can afford to engage in espionage does so.
In fairness android tablets and chromebooks (tablets with a dock) are also fairly useless. They are too big to replace a phone and not powerful or functional enough to replace a laptop.
A decent Android tablet with Kodi, VNC, RDP and Moonlight (and maybe an X server, but a good one of those is surprisingly hard to find) can serve as a remote interface for practically anything, and play pretty much any media. I've found that fairly handy. The trick is to get it cheap, yet to get one with decent networking.
Adware is an older term. It refers to the sneaky Windows crap we had special malware scanners for back in the early oughts.
We had adware in the current sense back then, too.
Hybrid trains were tested some time ago, and interest has been significantly renewed of late as you might imagine. Bombardier is building precisely the kind of thing you're talking about for a test program in Germany.
It's pretty disingeneous to demand that China, which still has a long way to go in terms of economic development, slashes or freezes its emissions
Economic development is a poor excuse. The environment doesn't care what your goals were, it only cares what you put into it. It doesn't matter how developed your nation is, you should be minimizing pollution.
The environment doesn't give two fucks about per-capita emissions.
Science can be used to explain why the developing world is polluting more in spite of doing more to reduce pollution. You're correct that the total is what matters, but it's not reasonable to expect those nations to change overnight — especially given that the rest of us aren't exactly doing all we can, either. And if we really want them to improve rapidly, maybe we should help them do it, because after all,
Total is all that matters.
That said, efficiency is not the goal. Gainful employment is the #1 goal. #2 is security/stability. #3 (to the majority of people) is doing something meaningful.
If employment is your #1 goal, you need to let go of puritanism. This whole idea that our purpose is to work is ridiculous. Security/stability via meeting needs should be the #1 priority.
Sure, taper them, start out really excited and then slowly grow in disappointment.
As in the product will start out really good, then Google will inevitably ruin it and then eventually cancel it.
It's why you have to sideload it on a Fire Stick compared to just installing it from the Play Store on a Shield.
You do have to sideload it, but having done so, it runs fine. Perhaps it even runs well, so far I've had very good results. And Amazon doesn't make it difficult to do so — you can in fact download a downloader app and a file manager/apk installer app from their app store. And I don't mean ES File Manager, although that spyware is in there too.
As long as you have room for it somewhere vaguely near the TV, it doesn't matter much how big the PC is because you can get long HDMI cables cheaply, e.g. from Monoprice. What matters is noise, and also power consumption. Perhaps one of these new AMD mobile processors coming out?
As noted in TFS and TFA, much of the increase comes from the transportation sector, and increased demand for diesel (and jet fuel, but I repeat myself.) What's needed to make immediate improvements in transportation efficiency and emissions is electrified rail. The specifics of what that would look like vary from place to place, and situation to situation, but in general getting rid of rubber tires and adding electric motivation are things which we not only could be doing now, but could have been doing already.
Mr Zuckerberg has been repeatedly ask to attend meetings in the UK and Brussels to explain the practices undertaken by his company and the way that those practices impact the citizens of the UK and the broader EU.
Which would have produced nothing of value whatsoever, because politicians don't even know what questions to ask. We learned that when he spoke to congress. Even Democrats were dumbfounded.
Of course this is all bogus -- it takes up "zero" user space since it's kept in ROM space,
No, it is NOT. It is kept in Flash. Part of the flash is desigated as belonging to the system, and it is kept there. But that flash partition is like any other partition, it can be of arbitrary size. And it has to be bigger to accommodate additional apps, and that means there's less space available in the user partition.
Who exactly are these largest offenders, that everyone apparently knows about, who aren't getting busted for it? Names, please. And, again, you know, evidence.
Evidence — this is a list of the ones they bothered to go after.
Or your assumptions are not correct. Which is easily the simplest answer to this particular question.
Sure, if you hide your head up your ass.