First, read the post I was replying to about Toronto (near where I live) threatening to publish the names of people who didn't cooperate in a similar investigation where people were voluntarily asked to provide DNA.
Second, all of those methods of obtaining DNA are inadmissible in Canada. The police must get a warrant, to get a judge to compel a suspect to provide a DNA sample, only if certain conditions are met. First of all it has to be one of the designated serious offenses that warrant DNA testing for. The police must have DNA evidence from the crime. The police must have other evidence that leads them to believe the accused was party to the offense. They can't just go swab it from an object they think you have handled. That's also inane and subject to error. The DNA at that point is only to be used to match the evidence. Later, after conviction of certain offenses, a judge can order DNA info to be obtained and stored.
I would want my name published, as someone who stood up to that inappropriate request. Once they have your DNA on file, you can't trust them to discard that information.
The thing is, if they take it themselves (e.g. break into people's houses and swab a cup) they can't use that anyway. It was not obtained by lawful means. This means any further evidence they gather based on that, is also unlawful. So they don't do things like that. This is why they formally obtain and store DNA records when someone is convicted of a crime.
They haven't got my fingerprints or my DNA. They can swab their lips when they are finished kissing my ass.
... but then, how does anyone get a job? I was already fairly knowledgeable (self taught, online question answering experience in forums and newsgroups, working on a lot of computers in an unofficial capacity etc.) when I went to take courses, to help me think like a Microsoft man. I'm glad I did, I'd have never wrapped my head around Microsoft's idiotic multiple choice questions, at least the way they were in those days, around 1999/2000. There was the world, and then there was the world according to Microsoft. Anyway, apart from that stuff, I could have taught most of the course material myself. In fact I spent most of my time going around the room and helping others instead of getting my own work done. The instructor kicked back and enjoyed the excellent assistance I provided. He bought my fuckin lunch most days lol
What I did not have was job experience in the field. My existing work experience was in industrial maintenance and as a chemist prior to wanting to change careers. I realized it later but that (of course), plus saying I was "MCSE Certified" meant that no company would even look at me. It had to be that, I applied to a lot of places. I was actually a decent technician, a Windows expert, sporting a certification that in itself represented an undesirable mindset. ("Oh sure, fresh out of the Institute, here to tell us how to run our shop"). They had no way of knowing that, because I never got a chance to demonstrate any skills. (I was quite proficient with Linux and had prior Unix experience too). If I'd have NOT said I had the MCSE, then I'd have had nothing to show for wanting a job in IT. Hobbyist experience, and unofficial, unauthorized hands on experience doing Windows NT stuff. (Nothing I could really put on a resume)
I just said fuck it, and went into business for myself. On site services. Very easy to get started, with very little overhead required. All you need are communication services, a PC or two and a laptop, a vehicle and the calls from customers.
I really hate the games you have to play to get a job these days and I'll never go through that shit again. One thing about me, I absolutely refused to lie or exaggerate on a resume or job application. I actually had an "employment counselor" tell me "You HAVE TO lie! Everybody does!" and when I spoke of being held to it, the answer was to bluff and learn quickly on the fly. (I was done talking to that idiot at that point, by the way)
You should not try to put words in people's mouths. Your personal safety is important to me, but I am not responsible for it. You are the one who signed up for the dangerous volunteer work. I never did understand why anyone would do that... it seems a lot to expect of anyone. I wouldn't if I were you and besides... it's BECAUSE people volunteer that communities get away with not paying a fire department. This is not to say I don't appreciate that people volunteer for fire fighting services, quite the contrary. I appreciate it so much that I think they shouldn't do it. It's a job that should pay well for the danger as well as for being "on call" in the cases where it's not practical to have a regular shift.
I don't think I'd like having a backdoor in my networking equipment that would allow police and fire etc. to use my network. If they were to mandate it, I would just add it to the long list of laws that I defy on a daily basis. Sorry, but you'll need to find a better way to conduct emergency communications. This idea will not work very well even without public resistance to it. Moreover, the very circumstances you are facing when there's a loss of communications could make it impossible. (Power outages, infrastructure damage etc.)
I guess I'm going a bit off topic here, but what a thankless job it is, being a volunteer fire fighter, too. I live in Canada, and I know some volunteers and despite the fact that they devote their personal time, sleep, sanity and safety, the bureaucracy they have to put up with from ignorant municipal administrators is ridiculous. Sometimes the entire volunteer fire department resigns in some towns and I don't blame them.
I am talking about moving dedicated web hosting servers where we are either using the DNS at the domain registrar or the hosting company. If you consider that being an "IT task" then I'll leave you to your idiotic buzzwords. As for ISPs and their DNS caching, the stupidity would be to do nothing and let the forum users suffer. What part about caching for days don't you understand?
Moral of the story: The hosts file behaviour will stand, as a defacto standard, and you really don't matter.
Poor choice of wording, you're right. Let's say "The TCP/IP implementation" then. The hosts file is supposed to be honoured... even smart phone OSes do it.
I have a plenty of clues. Some ISPs ignore the TTL and cache DNS records for much longer. Sometimes days. Also, what makes you think I have control over the TTL setting? I don't run the DNS and when I do have that setting available (e.g. at a registrar) I lower it to 300 seconds for the move and that still doesn't help everyone.
As for the other smart asses who say I'm such a "bad IT person", we remove the hosts file entries after things settle down. It's not random clients either, it's members of forum communities and it works well for us. I've been involved with 3 forums over the last decade and have orchestrated several server moves. In the beginning we had sad users who couldn't reach the forum for days after a move, then we started using hosts so nobody misses a beat.
Making assumptions about the way things work in theory, without considering the way they work in the real world is what's "dumb".
These people defending MIcrosoft's behaviour are just tools... I wouldn't pay much attention to them. Microsoft can't "kill the hosts file off" because the behaviour is part of the IP specification (defined in the RFC's)
We expect implementations of the TCP/IP protocol in clients to behave in established ways and Microsoft has no right to change that.
I make use of the hosts file for various purposes, including getting my forum users set up with hosts file entries to the new server, beforehand, whenever our DNS entries are changing so they can still reach the forum while changes are propagating. THIS is a prime example of why the hosts file still exists and the behaviour should not be fucked with by those assclowns at Microsoft.
Hosts was never meant to be used for blocking sites, but it works well enough as a consequence and the behaviour should be left alone. Whatever the user puts in there, should work as intended. I don't fucking CARE that it's used for malware. Fight malware in other ways.
Ad hominem? I haven't attacked you personally, other than returning a little of your snark. I didn't address your question because it was both rhetorical and sarcastic and you already know what I meant... in 3D effects.
Yes you did claim that... you said the computer would spend more time in idle. It won't be significant.
Xv, XRender and EXA acceleration --- These are the kinds of acceleration that we've had for a long time. Windows already has that kind of 2D acceleration as well and I said that. The improvements in Windows 8 will not console the people that they won't benefit. I have tested Windows 8 and I don't see any benefit whatsoever. I'm not doing torture tests and benchmarks, I'm talking about real world usage on my workstations.
Furthermore, I don't seek approval from the likes of you and I'll say whatever I want. I don't have to "learn" to do anything. I clarified my intent. The fact that you're not accepting it is really your problem.
You're welcome to get the last word, I'll not be reading any more of it.
Very few games compared to those that don't, even new releases and they use very few of the features. With but a few exceptions, they only make use of a few enhancements and most of them have them tacked on after the fact. Big deal, a.1 release of DirectX.
Again, it doesn't justfiy the new version of Windows or the rubbish that it brings.
Some of you sure are acting obtuse here. Rendering text a few milliseconds faster isn't going to translate into finishing your work faster. I doubt you can even wrap your heads around the actual time differences involved. You'll use the device for the same amount of time anyway.
No, I'm not complaining about performance improvements, dullards, I am complaining about the rest of it and I am neither appeased nor impressed by hardware accelerated text rendering that will not benefit me (or most people) in a meaningful way. I think the power saving arguments are tripe as well. I believe the opposite will occur.
Enjoy the regressions in usability and stay impressed by trivial things.
Your mobile device is going to have graphics capabilities that will matter for this? A laptop with higher end graphics will use more battery to render your text and generate more heat. If you want to be "enlightened" go take a physics course.
Do you seriously think you're going to be done with it faster because it renders text a few milliseconds faster?
Even if it does somehow benefit you, why should your usage take preference over mine? I am not interested in mobile devices. One size doesn't fit all, and that's what Microsoft is attempting to do here. It's not going to work.
My point was, they are bragging about crap that is of small benefit compared to the negative aspects of Windows 8.
Those areas aren't really where hardware acceleration is important. We've got overpowered CPUs with cores just waiting for jobs.
Why would I care if text renders in 100 microseconds or 300? There has always been some 2D acceleration for text and scrolling and such. Not everything has to be a video game with graphical effects.
As for DirectX 11.1, just fuck off. Very few games even bother to overlay a few DirectX 10 or 11 effects for those who qualify. No, they use DirectX 9, because Microsoft has alienated previous versions of Windows (and the consoles use DX9 too of course)
A boring, crippled user interface with a seriously insulting attempt to lock people into their application store. THAT is what I see in WIndows 8. I very much despise it and I will actively fight against it.
Police dogs may have to pass such tests during training, but police officers give their dogs a signal to get "excited" when they want to use it as a pretense for a search. It doesn't take much to get a dog excited. "get em boy" under your breath or even just the tone of voice when deploying them will trigger the response and willful ignorance can mistake that for the correct response. Most dogs will react to food smells too and the cop can "mistake" that for a positive detection of drugs. All they have to do is FIND drugs and it will be justified. It's legal for a police dog to walk around the outside of your vehicle and smell, for example.
You're absolutely right though. They'll milk the shit out of that "interference" loophole. It's what they do.
There are already a great many malware removal programs that fail to remove malware. If it was as simple as running a scanning and removal program, malware would not be a problem and technicians would be eating ramen noodles. I highly doubt that this startup is going to have the magic bullet, that the best security products can't seem to find.
Good point... games are no longer driving the computer hardware industry. They are mostly console ports, with, at best, a few DirectX 10/11 effects tacked on after the fact, for the PC. (Often added later with patches, at that).
Graphics card manufacturers (Nvidia and ATI) are cranking out higher numbered products that are mostly just minor design improvements over the same old shit. (The performance improvement, say, between last year's card and this year's iteration with a higher product number wouldn't justify an upgrade if you already had one)
I haven't needed a hardware upgrade in 2 years either. It won't be until some time after the game consoles get a hardware upgrade and game vendors stop writing for the lowest common denominator that there will be any incentive for further innovation.
Not even... he provided a service that allowed people to allow other people to copy stuff that they posted, which may have been infringing on copyright. That's up to the people posting it.
That it's a crime is mostly a U.S. invention (with little Punch and Judy puppets acting it out in other countries within their hegemony as well)
I've seen it said multiple times in multiple discussions that they should "grow up". Indeed... it's pretty silly to think that they are going to stop people from sharing files. Get over your authority complexes and work around it.
What I mostly downloaded from MegaUpload were game maps and mods... nothing infringing about that. Now there are thousands of broken links all over the Internet.
Go and fuck yourself... I'm sick and tired of cunts like you. You're the one running your mouth about things you know nothing about and it's obvious. Condescending twat.
I know how to read and I also actually know something about the situation. I've been using Linux for nearly 2 decades and I have seen major efforts to port game titles (and those games still work natively to this day, better than they ever did in Windows). As recently as 7 years ago, they were doing it but now ignorant people say not to bother trying to game on Linux.
Well, maybe some of us want the situation to improve. Sitting there admonishing people for using Linux isn't useful. I have resigned myself to booting to Windows if I want to play a lot of the games that I like, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to roll over and discount the possibilities or worse... patronize people who try. Things are about to get better, with Valve porting their Steam client and Source Engine to Linux. That doesn't automatically mean more Linux ports of games, but it does provide a viable distribution model.
Besides, who the fuck are you to tell us what GNU/Linux is "meant" for? It's meant for any task that we can imagine and/or implement.
Also, accelerated 3D graphics support ranges from relatively poor to nonexistent in virtualized environments so that's not really a viable solution either.
Well, yes they can get away with patching on the fly for a lot of things, but really the system needs a reboot or it might be unstable. Some things may segfault if libraries get yanked out from underfoot unless they are 100% drop-in, binary compatible. Ever see what happens when a glibc upgrade goes awry? You can't even so much as run "ls". Many times have I had to boot with other media and finish a glibc install by hand. (I soon learned to "make install install_root=/someplace/else" first before running "make install" so I could easily manually install the finished product if the make install failed)
It's a lot easier when a distributor with packaging utilities is just installing same version with patches back ported, because the entry points and symbols and stuff are all the same. But these "offline updates" that happen in a "special mode" (While few daemons are running) will actually give them more freedom to upgrade things.
In addition to being a condescending twat, you also can't comprehend what you read. I said criminal court requires real evidence (difficult to enforce criminal provisions... it wouldn't even get off the ground) and for being sued in civil (kangaroo) court, I just won't show up. I don't have to... judgment would be rendered in my absence. I really wouldn't even have to run, only withdraw. I would just have no money and there's nothing they could do about it as long as I did no banking transactions. This is Canada... I could declare bankruptcy tomorrow and not even have to pay my credit card bills or any other unsecured debt. Lawsuit awarded damages wouldn't go away like that, but it would be rendered moot because I'd never "have money" again..... and fuck you. I've spent most of my life on the fringes of society and can survive very well underground. Here's a concept: You really do know nothing about people you know nothing about.
Since they won't remove the "digital lock" provision from the bill, then we're all just going to ignore the laws like we always do anyway.
Like I really give a fuck what they say I can and can't do. Good luck trying to enforce criminal law... there's such a thing as needing solid evidence in criminal court. Go ahead and try to sue me... I deliberately own nothing and I won't even recognize the authority of the kangaroo court. (Make whatever judgement you want in my absence)
They lie, therefore they can't be trusted. That's always been the pretense of stopping cross border pharmacy sales... the guise of stopping counterfeiting. In most cases the drugs sold are legitimate.
The U.S. drug market commands some of the highest prices in the world. The pharma companies artificially inflate the prices to sell to Americans. Isn't "capitalism" grand? Cross border sales are simply the "free market" coming to the rescue but oh no... there's too much bribe money ("lobbying") for that to happen. Freedom, my ass.
We already know you're a clown, but just so you don't look like a retard, the correct word for the language construct that denotes more than one instance of an object is "plural"
You assfucks who make typographical and/or spelling errors while correcting someone else's posts are funny. It's also quite likely that the person already knows that "virii" isn't correct and is just using it stylishly. Just like the penii that you enjoy sucking the chocolate from.
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First, read the post I was replying to about Toronto (near where I live) threatening to publish the names of people who didn't cooperate in a similar investigation where people were voluntarily asked to provide DNA.
Second, all of those methods of obtaining DNA are inadmissible in Canada. The police must get a warrant, to get a judge to compel a suspect to provide a DNA sample, only if certain conditions are met. First of all it has to be one of the designated serious offenses that warrant DNA testing for. The police must have DNA evidence from the crime. The police must have other evidence that leads them to believe the accused was party to the offense. They can't just go swab it from an object they think you have handled. That's also inane and subject to error. The DNA at that point is only to be used to match the evidence. Later, after conviction of certain offenses, a judge can order DNA info to be obtained and stored.
I would want my name published, as someone who stood up to that inappropriate request. Once they have your DNA on file, you can't trust them to discard that information.
The thing is, if they take it themselves (e.g. break into people's houses and swab a cup) they can't use that anyway. It was not obtained by lawful means. This means any further evidence they gather based on that, is also unlawful. So they don't do things like that. This is why they formally obtain and store DNA records when someone is convicted of a crime.
They haven't got my fingerprints or my DNA. They can swab their lips when they are finished kissing my ass.
That's "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw#Uses" you clod. Oh wait... it's only a threat. :-)
... but then, how does anyone get a job? I was already fairly knowledgeable (self taught, online question answering experience in forums and newsgroups, working on a lot of computers in an unofficial capacity etc.) when I went to take courses, to help me think like a Microsoft man. I'm glad I did, I'd have never wrapped my head around Microsoft's idiotic multiple choice questions, at least the way they were in those days, around 1999/2000. There was the world, and then there was the world according to Microsoft. Anyway, apart from that stuff, I could have taught most of the course material myself. In fact I spent most of my time going around the room and helping others instead of getting my own work done. The instructor kicked back and enjoyed the excellent assistance I provided. He bought my fuckin lunch most days lol
What I did not have was job experience in the field. My existing work experience was in industrial maintenance and as a chemist prior to wanting to change careers. I realized it later but that (of course), plus saying I was "MCSE Certified" meant that no company would even look at me. It had to be that, I applied to a lot of places. I was actually a decent technician, a Windows expert, sporting a certification that in itself represented an undesirable mindset. ("Oh sure, fresh out of the Institute, here to tell us how to run our shop"). They had no way of knowing that, because I never got a chance to demonstrate any skills. (I was quite proficient with Linux and had prior Unix experience too). If I'd have NOT said I had the MCSE, then I'd have had nothing to show for wanting a job in IT. Hobbyist experience, and unofficial, unauthorized hands on experience doing Windows NT stuff. (Nothing I could really put on a resume)
I just said fuck it, and went into business for myself. On site services. Very easy to get started, with very little overhead required. All you need are communication services, a PC or two and a laptop, a vehicle and the calls from customers.
I really hate the games you have to play to get a job these days and I'll never go through that shit again. One thing about me, I absolutely refused to lie or exaggerate on a resume or job application. I actually had an "employment counselor" tell me "You HAVE TO lie! Everybody does!" and when I spoke of being held to it, the answer was to bluff and learn quickly on the fly. (I was done talking to that idiot at that point, by the way)
You should not try to put words in people's mouths. Your personal safety is important to me, but I am not responsible for it. You are the one who signed up for the dangerous volunteer work. I never did understand why anyone would do that... it seems a lot to expect of anyone. I wouldn't if I were you and besides... it's BECAUSE people volunteer that communities get away with not paying a fire department. This is not to say I don't appreciate that people volunteer for fire fighting services, quite the contrary. I appreciate it so much that I think they shouldn't do it. It's a job that should pay well for the danger as well as for being "on call" in the cases where it's not practical to have a regular shift.
I don't think I'd like having a backdoor in my networking equipment that would allow police and fire etc. to use my network. If they were to mandate it, I would just add it to the long list of laws that I defy on a daily basis. Sorry, but you'll need to find a better way to conduct emergency communications. This idea will not work very well even without public resistance to it. Moreover, the very circumstances you are facing when there's a loss of communications could make it impossible. (Power outages, infrastructure damage etc.)
I guess I'm going a bit off topic here, but what a thankless job it is, being a volunteer fire fighter, too. I live in Canada, and I know some volunteers and despite the fact that they devote their personal time, sleep, sanity and safety, the bureaucracy they have to put up with from ignorant municipal administrators is ridiculous. Sometimes the entire volunteer fire department resigns in some towns and I don't blame them.
I am talking about moving dedicated web hosting servers where we are either using the DNS at the domain registrar or the hosting company. If you consider that being an "IT task" then I'll leave you to your idiotic buzzwords. As for ISPs and their DNS caching, the stupidity would be to do nothing and let the forum users suffer. What part about caching for days don't you understand?
Moral of the story: The hosts file behaviour will stand, as a defacto standard, and you really don't matter.
Poor choice of wording, you're right. Let's say "The TCP/IP implementation" then. The hosts file is supposed to be honoured... even smart phone OSes do it.
I have a plenty of clues. Some ISPs ignore the TTL and cache DNS records for much longer. Sometimes days. Also, what makes you think I have control over the TTL setting? I don't run the DNS and when I do have that setting available (e.g. at a registrar) I lower it to 300 seconds for the move and that still doesn't help everyone.
As for the other smart asses who say I'm such a "bad IT person", we remove the hosts file entries after things settle down. It's not random clients either, it's members of forum communities and it works well for us. I've been involved with 3 forums over the last decade and have orchestrated several server moves. In the beginning we had sad users who couldn't reach the forum for days after a move, then we started using hosts so nobody misses a beat.
Making assumptions about the way things work in theory, without considering the way they work in the real world is what's "dumb".
These people defending MIcrosoft's behaviour are just tools... I wouldn't pay much attention to them. Microsoft can't "kill the hosts file off" because the behaviour is part of the IP specification (defined in the RFC's)
We expect implementations of the TCP/IP protocol in clients to behave in established ways and Microsoft has no right to change that.
I make use of the hosts file for various purposes, including getting my forum users set up with hosts file entries to the new server, beforehand, whenever our DNS entries are changing so they can still reach the forum while changes are propagating. THIS is a prime example of why the hosts file still exists and the behaviour should not be fucked with by those assclowns at Microsoft.
Hosts was never meant to be used for blocking sites, but it works well enough as a consequence and the behaviour should be left alone. Whatever the user puts in there, should work as intended. I don't fucking CARE that it's used for malware. Fight malware in other ways.
Ad hominem? I haven't attacked you personally, other than returning a little of your snark. I didn't address your question because it was both rhetorical and sarcastic and you already know what I meant... in 3D effects.
Yes you did claim that... you said the computer would spend more time in idle. It won't be significant.
Xv, XRender and EXA acceleration --- These are the kinds of acceleration that we've had for a long time. Windows already has that kind of 2D acceleration as well and I said that. The improvements in Windows 8 will not console the people that they won't benefit. I have tested Windows 8 and I don't see any benefit whatsoever. I'm not doing torture tests and benchmarks, I'm talking about real world usage on my workstations.
Furthermore, I don't seek approval from the likes of you and I'll say whatever I want. I don't have to "learn" to do anything. I clarified my intent. The fact that you're not accepting it is really your problem.
You're welcome to get the last word, I'll not be reading any more of it.
Very few games compared to those that don't, even new releases and they use very few of the features. With but a few exceptions, they only make use of a few enhancements and most of them have them tacked on after the fact. Big deal, a .1 release of DirectX.
Again, it doesn't justfiy the new version of Windows or the rubbish that it brings.
Some of you sure are acting obtuse here. Rendering text a few milliseconds faster isn't going to translate into finishing your work faster. I doubt you can even wrap your heads around the actual time differences involved. You'll use the device for the same amount of time anyway.
No, I'm not complaining about performance improvements, dullards, I am complaining about the rest of it and I am neither appeased nor impressed by hardware accelerated text rendering that will not benefit me (or most people) in a meaningful way. I think the power saving arguments are tripe as well. I believe the opposite will occur.
Enjoy the regressions in usability and stay impressed by trivial things.
Your mobile device is going to have graphics capabilities that will matter for this? A laptop with higher end graphics will use more battery to render your text and generate more heat. If you want to be "enlightened" go take a physics course.
Do you seriously think you're going to be done with it faster because it renders text a few milliseconds faster?
Even if it does somehow benefit you, why should your usage take preference over mine? I am not interested in mobile devices. One size doesn't fit all, and that's what Microsoft is attempting to do here. It's not going to work.
My point was, they are bragging about crap that is of small benefit compared to the negative aspects of Windows 8.
Those areas aren't really where hardware acceleration is important. We've got overpowered CPUs with cores just waiting for jobs.
Why would I care if text renders in 100 microseconds or 300? There has always been some 2D acceleration for text and scrolling and such. Not everything has to be a video game with graphical effects.
As for DirectX 11.1, just fuck off. Very few games even bother to overlay a few DirectX 10 or 11 effects for those who qualify. No, they use DirectX 9, because Microsoft has alienated previous versions of Windows (and the consoles use DX9 too of course)
A boring, crippled user interface with a seriously insulting attempt to lock people into their application store. THAT is what I see in WIndows 8. I very much despise it and I will actively fight against it.
Police dogs may have to pass such tests during training, but police officers give their dogs a signal to get "excited" when they want to use it as a pretense for a search. It doesn't take much to get a dog excited. "get em boy" under your breath or even just the tone of voice when deploying them will trigger the response and willful ignorance can mistake that for the correct response. Most dogs will react to food smells too and the cop can "mistake" that for a positive detection of drugs. All they have to do is FIND drugs and it will be justified. It's legal for a police dog to walk around the outside of your vehicle and smell, for example.
You're absolutely right though. They'll milk the shit out of that "interference" loophole. It's what they do.
There are already a great many malware removal programs that fail to remove malware. If it was as simple as running a scanning and removal program, malware would not be a problem and technicians would be eating ramen noodles. I highly doubt that this startup is going to have the magic bullet, that the best security products can't seem to find.
Good point... games are no longer driving the computer hardware industry. They are mostly console ports, with, at best, a few DirectX 10/11 effects tacked on after the fact, for the PC. (Often added later with patches, at that).
Graphics card manufacturers (Nvidia and ATI) are cranking out higher numbered products that are mostly just minor design improvements over the same old shit. (The performance improvement, say, between last year's card and this year's iteration with a higher product number wouldn't justify an upgrade if you already had one)
I haven't needed a hardware upgrade in 2 years either. It won't be until some time after the game consoles get a hardware upgrade and game vendors stop writing for the lowest common denominator that there will be any incentive for further innovation.
Not even... he provided a service that allowed people to allow other people to copy stuff that they posted, which may have been infringing on copyright. That's up to the people posting it.
That it's a crime is mostly a U.S. invention (with little Punch and Judy puppets acting it out in other countries within their hegemony as well)
I've seen it said multiple times in multiple discussions that they should "grow up". Indeed... it's pretty silly to think that they are going to stop people from sharing files. Get over your authority complexes and work around it.
What I mostly downloaded from MegaUpload were game maps and mods... nothing infringing about that. Now there are thousands of broken links all over the Internet.
Go and fuck yourself... I'm sick and tired of cunts like you. You're the one running your mouth about things you know nothing about and it's obvious. Condescending twat.
I know how to read and I also actually know something about the situation. I've been using Linux for nearly 2 decades and I have seen major efforts to port game titles (and those games still work natively to this day, better than they ever did in Windows). As recently as 7 years ago, they were doing it but now ignorant people say not to bother trying to game on Linux.
Now go and disappear up your own asshole.
Well, maybe some of us want the situation to improve. Sitting there admonishing people for using Linux isn't useful. I have resigned myself to booting to Windows if I want to play a lot of the games that I like, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to roll over and discount the possibilities or worse... patronize people who try. Things are about to get better, with Valve porting their Steam client and Source Engine to Linux. That doesn't automatically mean more Linux ports of games, but it does provide a viable distribution model.
Besides, who the fuck are you to tell us what GNU/Linux is "meant" for? It's meant for any task that we can imagine and/or implement.
Also, accelerated 3D graphics support ranges from relatively poor to nonexistent in virtualized environments so that's not really a viable solution either.
Well, yes they can get away with patching on the fly for a lot of things, but really the system needs a reboot or it might be unstable. Some things may segfault if libraries get yanked out from underfoot unless they are 100% drop-in, binary compatible. Ever see what happens when a glibc upgrade goes awry? You can't even so much as run "ls". Many times have I had to boot with other media and finish a glibc install by hand. (I soon learned to "make install install_root=/someplace/else" first before running "make install" so I could easily manually install the finished product if the make install failed)
It's a lot easier when a distributor with packaging utilities is just installing same version with patches back ported, because the entry points and symbols and stuff are all the same. But these "offline updates" that happen in a "special mode" (While few daemons are running) will actually give them more freedom to upgrade things.
In addition to being a condescending twat, you also can't comprehend what you read. I said criminal court requires real evidence (difficult to enforce criminal provisions... it wouldn't even get off the ground) and for being sued in civil (kangaroo) court, I just won't show up. I don't have to... judgment would be rendered in my absence. I really wouldn't even have to run, only withdraw. I would just have no money and there's nothing they could do about it as long as I did no banking transactions. This is Canada... I could declare bankruptcy tomorrow and not even have to pay my credit card bills or any other unsecured debt. Lawsuit awarded damages wouldn't go away like that, but it would be rendered moot because I'd never "have money" again. .... and fuck you. I've spent most of my life on the fringes of society and can survive very well underground. Here's a concept: You really do know nothing about people you know nothing about.
Since they won't remove the "digital lock" provision from the bill, then we're all just going to ignore the laws like we always do anyway.
Like I really give a fuck what they say I can and can't do. Good luck trying to enforce criminal law... there's such a thing as needing solid evidence in criminal court. Go ahead and try to sue me... I deliberately own nothing and I won't even recognize the authority of the kangaroo court. (Make whatever judgement you want in my absence)
They lie, therefore they can't be trusted. That's always been the pretense of stopping cross border pharmacy sales... the guise of stopping counterfeiting. In most cases the drugs sold are legitimate.
The U.S. drug market commands some of the highest prices in the world. The pharma companies artificially inflate the prices to sell to Americans. Isn't "capitalism" grand? Cross border sales are simply the "free market" coming to the rescue but oh no... there's too much bribe money ("lobbying") for that to happen. Freedom, my ass.
That's the issue here.
We already know you're a clown, but just so you don't look like a retard, the correct word for the language construct that denotes more than one instance of an object is "plural"
You assfucks who make typographical and/or spelling errors while correcting someone else's posts are funny. It's also quite likely that the person already knows that "virii" isn't correct and is just using it stylishly. Just like the penii that you enjoy sucking the chocolate from.