You've got some seriously dangerous animals who have no human compassion at all in them.
Very true. Do you really want to give them the ability to track you every minute of every day?
Here we see the simplemindedness of the authoritarian. He has no way to conceive that the bad people he is so afraid of might one day control the security apparatus of the city (if they do not do so already). We've already seen how brutally the NYPD has treated a peaceful movement for economic justice, while letting trillions of dollars worth of fraud go unpunished. What reason is there to believe the NYPD has your best interests at heart?
You can't be against public surveillance then complain later when you or your loved ones get mugged/raped/killed.
You can't be for universal surveillance and then complain later when the authorities use it to chill political dissent.
Without probable cause, it's illegal. Cops who break the law are dicks. People like you who encourage the police to go on fishing expeditions are also dicks.
Why would anyone pay for a text editor when there are extremely powerful free alternatives? And regarding jEdit... you really need an entire java environment just to edit text?
Personally, I can't imagine needing more than Vim offers. What compelling features do other editors offer?
Thanks. With that said, I do think we need to reapproach how math is taught. Understanding the why is more important than understanding the how. I'm not exactly sure how to do that though.
I haven't used newsgroups in a long while. How does USENET compare with niche private trackers? Are there newsgroups with cult films, and how does the selection and quality compare with Cinemageddon? Similarly, are there newsgroups that focus on retro games, and how do they compare with UG?
Basically, if I'm not interested in the popular stuff, will I be able to find my niche on USENET?
Even if you never write a proof or solve an integral in your working life, it's important to understand how math works. Life, all of it, is one big word problem. If you don't have a basic understanding for the mathematical nature of the universe, you're simply not going to be able to navigate it as well. If you don't understand how mathematical arguments work, you won't be able to offer useful opinions on the matters of the day.
I'm not sure that everyone needs to know calculus, but everyone needs to know what calculus is and what it's used for. Everyone needs to be numerate.
Our best estimate is that the ObamaCare will cost 11 to 14 cents per pizza, or 15 to 20 cents per order from a corporate basis.
1% of the purchase price goes to health care? That sounds like a bargain to me.
But our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb ObamaCare.
Same with all your other competitors, so no one is at a competitive disadvantage due to PPACA.
The restaurant industry is worried about ObamaCare. The National Restaurant Association notes that the law requires companies which have more than 50 employees to provide affordable health insurance or face steep penalties.
Then they should have lobbied for single payer when they had the chance.
High bandwidth users encourage infrastructure investment which gets you the speeds you have today. You could have made the same argument about MP3s back in the 56K days, and if it prevailed then we'd all still be on dialup speeds.
We should all pay the same for the same access to the network, and we should all use as much of it as we need. If the network isn't sufficient for that, we should all invest in a faster network.
That doesn't solve the real problem, that banks think that these question and answers provide any sort of security whatsoever. What is the difference between this Q&A scheme and a password? Specifically, these security questions are exactly identical to a password that is stored in the clear (no hash, no salt) and is intended to be communicated to humans, and for which an attacker only has to guess one out of 4 correctly?
We know that this is bad practice for passwords. Why do we tolerate it for "security questions"?
1. UEFI Secure Boot is only required for Windows 8 Logo certification.
How many instances of Linux today are running on MS certified hardware? I'd be willing to bet most x86 Linux boxes were sold with XP or W7 stickers. What is going to happen to that segment of the open source ecosystem?
2. Linux is now a multi-billion dollar market. Do you really think hardware makers are really going to stop supporting Linux?
Sure, Linux is a multi-billion dollar SERVER market. Are OEMs selling internet appliances to grandmas going to stop supporting Linux? Hell yes they are.
3. The Secure Boot specification requires that it can be disabled.
For now. When(not if) this changes, I'll be here to say "I told you so".
If you think secure boot is going to take over and prevent people from running the software/OS they want, then you are being paranoid.
If you don't think they're going to try, you're being naive.
Secure Boot is not a DRM scheme, nor it is explicitly a tool for Microsoft lock-in.
No, it's implicitly a tool for Microsoft lock-in.
Remember that on x86 platforms, the end-user can edit the key database, and can disable Secure Boot entirely.
For now.
Just because the technology can be mis-used is no reason to completely boycott it. For my part, I intend to use Secure Boot when it becomes generally available, but only buy parts that allow me to edit the key database.
When Windows 9 comes around, and Microsoft well and truly locks down PC hardware, how much more are you going to have to pay to get unlockable hardware?
When Windows 10 comes around, and your parents decide they want to get off the MS upgrade treadmill, will they have to buy new hardware to do so?
Trademark is not copyright. It is not a right businesses have but a consumer protection
Phrasing it this way makes trademark reform pretty obvious. No holder of a trademark should be able to sue to protect that trademark. Only consumers who were mislead by the misuse of the trademark should be able to sue.
No, there have been studies that have shown that the kind of radiation that is used by some cell phone standards do indeed have non-thermal effects on brain cells in humans and rats, respectively.
No studies have shown that there is any danger from RF so there's no reason to lower the limit. Cell phones seem to work pretty well with the power level we have now, so there's no reason to raise it. Why not just leave well enough alone?
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You've got some seriously dangerous animals who have no human compassion at all in them.
Very true. Do you really want to give them the ability to track you every minute of every day?
Here we see the simplemindedness of the authoritarian. He has no way to conceive that the bad people he is so afraid of might one day control the security apparatus of the city (if they do not do so already). We've already seen how brutally the NYPD has treated a peaceful movement for economic justice, while letting trillions of dollars worth of fraud go unpunished. What reason is there to believe the NYPD has your best interests at heart?
You can't be against public surveillance then complain later when you or your loved ones get mugged/raped/killed.
You can't be for universal surveillance and then complain later when the authorities use it to chill political dissent.
Without probable cause, it's illegal. Cops who break the law are dicks. People like you who encourage the police to go on fishing expeditions are also dicks.
Why would anyone pay for a text editor when there are extremely powerful free alternatives? And regarding jEdit... you really need an entire java environment just to edit text?
Personally, I can't imagine needing more than Vim offers. What compelling features do other editors offer?
This would have been a worthy kickstarter in and of itself. I will save my $100 until Allwinner releases their drivers.
Are these going to have open GPU drivers or not?
Thanks. With that said, I do think we need to reapproach how math is taught. Understanding the why is more important than understanding the how. I'm not exactly sure how to do that though.
I haven't used newsgroups in a long while. How does USENET compare with niche private trackers? Are there newsgroups with cult films, and how does the selection and quality compare with Cinemageddon? Similarly, are there newsgroups that focus on retro games, and how do they compare with UG?
Basically, if I'm not interested in the popular stuff, will I be able to find my niche on USENET?
Logic is math, and EVERYONE needs logic.
Even if you never write a proof or solve an integral in your working life, it's important to understand how math works. Life, all of it, is one big word problem. If you don't have a basic understanding for the mathematical nature of the universe, you're simply not going to be able to navigate it as well. If you don't understand how mathematical arguments work, you won't be able to offer useful opinions on the matters of the day.
I'm not sure that everyone needs to know calculus, but everyone needs to know what calculus is and what it's used for. Everyone needs to be numerate.
You can actually vote for change, should you accept the challenge.
Millions of people took that challenge in 2008, and they got yet another crook. You can vote for change, yes, but you won't get it.
Our best estimate is that the ObamaCare will cost 11 to 14 cents per pizza, or 15 to 20 cents per order from a corporate basis.
1% of the purchase price goes to health care? That sounds like a bargain to me.
But our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company to absorb ObamaCare.
Same with all your other competitors, so no one is at a competitive disadvantage due to PPACA.
The restaurant industry is worried about ObamaCare. The National Restaurant Association notes that the law requires companies which have more than 50 employees to provide affordable health insurance or face steep penalties.
Then they should have lobbied for single payer when they had the chance.
They're still easier to break than your password. They're stored in clear text.
High bandwidth users encourage infrastructure investment which gets you the speeds you have today. You could have made the same argument about MP3s back in the 56K days, and if it prevailed then we'd all still be on dialup speeds.
We should all pay the same for the same access to the network, and we should all use as much of it as we need. If the network isn't sufficient for that, we should all invest in a faster network.
Here's the only security question you need:
"What is your password?"
That doesn't solve the real problem, that banks think that these question and answers provide any sort of security whatsoever. What is the difference between this Q&A scheme and a password? Specifically, these security questions are exactly identical to a password that is stored in the clear (no hash, no salt) and is intended to be communicated to humans, and for which an attacker only has to guess one out of 4 correctly?
We know that this is bad practice for passwords. Why do we tolerate it for "security questions"?
It's a testament to the power of marketing that anyone thinks that Miller is "extremely drinkable".
Uhh, yeah... I rest my case.
1. UEFI Secure Boot is only required for Windows 8 Logo certification.
How many instances of Linux today are running on MS certified hardware? I'd be willing to bet most x86 Linux boxes were sold with XP or W7 stickers. What is going to happen to that segment of the open source ecosystem?
2. Linux is now a multi-billion dollar market. Do you really think hardware makers are really going to stop supporting Linux?
Sure, Linux is a multi-billion dollar SERVER market. Are OEMs selling internet appliances to grandmas going to stop supporting Linux? Hell yes they are.
3. The Secure Boot specification requires that it can be disabled.
For now. When(not if) this changes, I'll be here to say "I told you so".
If you think secure boot is going to take over and prevent people from running the software/OS they want, then you are being paranoid.
If you don't think they're going to try, you're being naive.
Secure Boot is not a DRM scheme, nor it is explicitly a tool for Microsoft lock-in.
No, it's implicitly a tool for Microsoft lock-in.
Remember that on x86 platforms, the end-user can edit the key database, and can disable Secure Boot entirely.
For now.
Just because the technology can be mis-used is no reason to completely boycott it. For my part, I intend to use Secure Boot when it becomes generally available, but only buy parts that allow me to edit the key database.
When Windows 9 comes around, and Microsoft well and truly locks down PC hardware, how much more are you going to have to pay to get unlockable hardware?
When Windows 10 comes around, and your parents decide they want to get off the MS upgrade treadmill, will they have to buy new hardware to do so?
Trademark is not copyright. It is not a right businesses have but a consumer protection
Phrasing it this way makes trademark reform pretty obvious. No holder of a trademark should be able to sue to protect that trademark. Only consumers who were mislead by the misuse of the trademark should be able to sue.
in that a person can lie, and this is protected speech
A lie is protected speech. A lie for profit is fraud.
No, there have been studies that have shown that the kind of radiation that is used by some cell phone standards do indeed have non-thermal effects on brain cells in humans and rats, respectively.
Hate to be cliche, but citation needed.
You know what I'd like to pay someone (a very small amount) to do for me? package emc2 for Debian.
Sounds like it would take a real Einstein to do that.
Once their mind is cleansed of that falsehood, you get to do it all over again with "desktop environments" like kde, gnome, xfce.
And after that, they shove everything into web browsers.
why can't we just have xterm
No one is forcing you to use or install any other terminal. Personally I prefer urxvt, small and fast and highly configurable.
That's not what's meant by "I'm going to go play with my PSP".
No studies have shown that there is any danger from RF so there's no reason to lower the limit. Cell phones seem to work pretty well with the power level we have now, so there's no reason to raise it. Why not just leave well enough alone?