My point is that many of you are being too hard on Amazon. You want to fight the real fight in this then fight the government, not the businesses. Businesses make decisions based on their bottom line (most of the time) so will "cave" as you say on what they perceive as a threat to it.
Beat up the government or those in it that make these kinds of threats and/or decisions. Simply put, yelling at the companies for doing what the government tell them to do will get you nowhere (or at least close enough to it).
I think many of you are being way too hard on Amazon for this WikiLeaks thing. Considering the US government considers WikiLeaks a terrorist organization, please name one US company that would have not caved. And then tell me what that company is doing to help WikiLeaks.
The trick with them is to find all they places they are hiding, usually in oddly named folders hidden in the user's area (My Documents and the like). It's not perfect, for sure, but it is a hell of a lot better than sitting back and doing nothing.:p
You could start with the management of the store... then the local newspaper if they refuse to do anything. They like it when crap like this goes public around Christmas time.
There's this weird technology called checks. You deposit money into a "checking account" and then write on these checks to make payments for things. I've tried it. It works.:p
Go into the folder where the program is installed and delete every file you can. Open Task Manager and kill any related processes. Delete more files if you can. Reboot. Repeat until the whole damn thing is dead.
It sucks, but this will kill just about any nasty thing you want off your computer.
The problem, if it can be called that, is that not everyone agrees on the list of things that should and should not be shared with the "public"... and for that matter which things should be shared with which public (a matter of scope). Obviously, most governments want to slant things in favor of themselves and most patriots want to slant things in favor of their own country (not necessarily their government). However, some groups will hurt anyone to further their own agenda and won't follow any "code of conduct" set up by anyone.
To say that it is ending its life is saying there is something ready to replace it, which there isn't. Until there is something out there to replace it, it isn't going anywhere. And even then it will still be used by many.
People hold on to things long after the majority think they are dead and gone, and this will be no different. Except in this case GNU/Linux is a continually evolving product with a lot of mind power behind it. When people stop working on the kernel and the GNU folks stop making updates to their stack THEN you can claim this whole thing to be dying.
Until then, as I said in my original post, neither is going anywhere.
And also custom 1U racks filled with powered memory slots for such drives...
But I seriously think the point to this whole exercise is that with SSD drives we don't have to be tied to any single layout or size... they could be made to go anywhere. They could make them into stackable cubes like Lego's (with sufficient cooling, of course).
As in looking at the world with your head stuck firmly up your ass.
The GNU tool chain isn't going anywhere. The Linux kernel isn't going anywhere. The only thing in flux to any great degree would be the packages contained in the distributions.
If you define "end of life cycle" as the middle of eternity, then sure, GNU/Linux is at the "end" with half-way to go.
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Speak for yourself!
Wait... err... never mind. :p
My point is that many of you are being too hard on Amazon. You want to fight the real fight in this then fight the government, not the businesses. Businesses make decisions based on their bottom line (most of the time) so will "cave" as you say on what they perceive as a threat to it.
Beat up the government or those in it that make these kinds of threats and/or decisions. Simply put, yelling at the companies for doing what the government tell them to do will get you nowhere (or at least close enough to it).
Google has caved to the government on several occasions. What are you smoking?
I think many of you are being way too hard on Amazon for this WikiLeaks thing. Considering the US government considers WikiLeaks a terrorist organization, please name one US company that would have not caved. And then tell me what that company is doing to help WikiLeaks.
The trick with them is to find all they places they are hiding, usually in oddly named folders hidden in the user's area (My Documents and the like). It's not perfect, for sure, but it is a hell of a lot better than sitting back and doing nothing. :p
You could start with the management of the store... then the local newspaper if they refuse to do anything. They like it when crap like this goes public around Christmas time.
There's this weird technology called checks. You deposit money into a "checking account" and then write on these checks to make payments for things. I've tried it. It works. :p
Go into the folder where the program is installed and delete every file you can. Open Task Manager and kill any related processes. Delete more files if you can. Reboot. Repeat until the whole damn thing is dead.
It sucks, but this will kill just about any nasty thing you want off your computer.
How exactly do you define coward in the context of your post?
The problem, if it can be called that, is that not everyone agrees on the list of things that should and should not be shared with the "public"... and for that matter which things should be shared with which public (a matter of scope). Obviously, most governments want to slant things in favor of themselves and most patriots want to slant things in favor of their own country (not necessarily their government). However, some groups will hurt anyone to further their own agenda and won't follow any "code of conduct" set up by anyone.
Nothing should be implicitly trusted, not even the contents of this post. :p
Well, you can implicitly trust that I really am sticking my tongue out at you, but not much else.
So which would make the better acronym?
WAB
WBA
BAW
BWA
AWB
ABW
My vote goes with BAW... it has more potential of being turned into a verb later.
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Will /b/ start posting news? :p
(I jest, much love to /.)
The they should just send Punky Brewster over there to teach them a lesson.
Japan isn't scary.
Have you SEEN the kinds of porn that comes out of Japan???
To say that it is ending its life is saying there is something ready to replace it, which there isn't. Until there is something out there to replace it, it isn't going anywhere. And even then it will still be used by many.
People hold on to things long after the majority think they are dead and gone, and this will be no different. Except in this case GNU/Linux is a continually evolving product with a lot of mind power behind it. When people stop working on the kernel and the GNU folks stop making updates to their stack THEN you can claim this whole thing to be dying.
Until then, as I said in my original post, neither is going anywhere.
And also custom 1U racks filled with powered memory slots for such drives...
But I seriously think the point to this whole exercise is that with SSD drives we don't have to be tied to any single layout or size... they could be made to go anywhere. They could make them into stackable cubes like Lego's (with sufficient cooling, of course).
As in looking at the world with your head stuck firmly up your ass.
The GNU tool chain isn't going anywhere. The Linux kernel isn't going anywhere. The only thing in flux to any great degree would be the packages contained in the distributions.
If you define "end of life cycle" as the middle of eternity, then sure, GNU/Linux is at the "end" with half-way to go.
I figure this will turn HHGTTG into Scripture.
But will it blend?
You might like riding Aunt Mildred...
Check out Notscripts:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
You need to defrag your browser OS. :p
They need to make one that can be fired from an unmanned drone... so the drone can go someplace else and launch.
Next in the headlines, "Packistan starts WW3 after firing a nuclear missile at Iran."
What's the difference? Don't they all wear feathers in their hair and dance around fires?
(Surely I jest)