Then I guess the legislators must be quite cheap hos if they're cheaper than providing a decent enough internet service that the apathetic voters shrug their shoulders with a "don't give a fuck who gives me my porn".
Actually, as a free market supporter, I can't help but think that certain services that are a requirement to provide goods and services MUST be run either by government or with relevant regulations to ensure a level playing field. Gas, power, water and yes, today internet, are a requirement if you want to open a business yourself and having access to them at the same conditions as some large corporation means that you can actually compete with them. If these services are not available or only available at higher cost, we end up with more monopolies which are by their very nature anathema to a free market.
This company is evil. Have you seen what happens here? Their service is SO crappy that people start to think even a Pinko Commie idea like having the government run something is better than relying on them.
Would you feel better if I had said "if we want to preserve life as we know it" instead?
Then again, considering what we do to this planet while we obviously have no way of getting off it in any sensible way, we don't really give a shit whether we survive another century, how could I expect such a species to care about surviving the Sun going red giant in a few billion years?
It's not about bragging rights. It's more about what the title-tag of the image says: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
Eventually, we will have to leave this planet if we are to survive as a species. Now, you may argue that this day is far in the future, and I can only hope that you'd be right, but at some point we have to take that first step. And let's be honest here, considering the amount of steps it's going to take, we might as well start today.
Fuck, when will people ever get it right. The Twitter Containment Field (or TCF) only creates a snapshot, it does not conserve a state. And even though to the untrained eye the TCF seems to conserve a state, its attention half life is even shorter than what is contained therein, making it even less important than what it contains.
They also offer to pay for any and all damages should (ok, rather, "as soon as") someone finds a backdoor into it and abuses it for industrial espionage?
Found the person who never spent a minute in research.
To give you an idea what you're suggesting: Imagine that for every href-link you wish to follow, you'd have to send the webpage author an email requesting the address of the link, or find the dead-tree edition of it.
You buy the hardware I make, I retain the ability to do whatever I please with it and you can't do jack shit about it.
This is basically what Intel is telling you. No, you needn't pay Intel to do it, but then again, neither can you keep them from doing whatever the fuck they want to your hardware, software and data.
Some of my best workers spend lots of their time goofing off. So what? I want to get work done, not have them stare at a screen. Making them stare at a screen doesn't get me reports and doesn't get security holes fixed. Giving them tasks and wanting them done in a reasonable time frame does.
Should I really penalize the person that can do a 4 hour job in an hour and teach him that it's better for him to make it take 4 hours? Are you high?
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Then I guess the legislators must be quite cheap hos if they're cheaper than providing a decent enough internet service that the apathetic voters shrug their shoulders with a "don't give a fuck who gives me my porn".
Actually, as a free market supporter, I can't help but think that certain services that are a requirement to provide goods and services MUST be run either by government or with relevant regulations to ensure a level playing field. Gas, power, water and yes, today internet, are a requirement if you want to open a business yourself and having access to them at the same conditions as some large corporation means that you can actually compete with them. If these services are not available or only available at higher cost, we end up with more monopolies which are by their very nature anathema to a free market.
But doesn't it make you pause and think when voting for "Communism" makes people richer? Now when has that ever happened?
This company is evil. Have you seen what happens here? Their service is SO crappy that people start to think even a Pinko Commie idea like having the government run something is better than relying on them.
It's time we shut that fifth column down NOW!
Oh please, I'm trying to get a serious discussion and you come with Sci-Fi writers.
No, but the "just a moon"... forget it, jokes don't get better when you start explaining them.
I hold your Star Trek reference and raise you a Star Wars reference.
Oh yeah? And where do Hitler and the Reptiloids live, then, if not inside the hollow earth?
Would you feel better if I had said "if we want to preserve life as we know it" instead?
Then again, considering what we do to this planet while we obviously have no way of getting off it in any sensible way, we don't really give a shit whether we survive another century, how could I expect such a species to care about surviving the Sun going red giant in a few billion years?
Windows 10 reached a market share of about 25% in over 2 years.
Now this would be the moment when you'd have to ask why.
No, that the majority of people don't know what its function is doesn't mean it's evil.
That someone can control my computer without my consent and I cannot turn this "feature" off, does.
It's not about bragging rights. It's more about what the title-tag of the image says: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
Eventually, we will have to leave this planet if we are to survive as a species. Now, you may argue that this day is far in the future, and I can only hope that you'd be right, but at some point we have to take that first step. And let's be honest here, considering the amount of steps it's going to take, we might as well start today.
But it is eight times as zero!
*sigh*
Fuck, when will people ever get it right. The Twitter Containment Field (or TCF) only creates a snapshot, it does not conserve a state. And even though to the untrained eye the TCF seems to conserve a state, its attention half life is even shorter than what is contained therein, making it even less important than what it contains.
Found the strange one.
Wilhuff, will you EVER be happy?
https://xkcd.com/893/
Sadly, he's right. That number will likely come down to zero within our lifetime.
Oddly they're not afraid of it today, even though there is way, way more reason for one.
They also offer to pay for any and all damages should (ok, rather, "as soon as") someone finds a backdoor into it and abuses it for industrial espionage?
Found the person who never spent a minute in research.
To give you an idea what you're suggesting: Imagine that for every href-link you wish to follow, you'd have to send the webpage author an email requesting the address of the link, or find the dead-tree edition of it.
If you don't need remote access to a crashed machine, don't turn it on.
If you know how to turn it off, please tell the world! Hell, I'd pay to know!
Unless you can buy me a new planet, still the US.
Who in their right mind devalues their product just because the competitor was stupid enough to do it? That makes zero sense.
You buy the hardware I make, I retain the ability to do whatever I please with it and you can't do jack shit about it.
This is basically what Intel is telling you. No, you needn't pay Intel to do it, but then again, neither can you keep them from doing whatever the fuck they want to your hardware, software and data.
Some of my best workers spend lots of their time goofing off. So what? I want to get work done, not have them stare at a screen. Making them stare at a screen doesn't get me reports and doesn't get security holes fixed. Giving them tasks and wanting them done in a reasonable time frame does.
Should I really penalize the person that can do a 4 hour job in an hour and teach him that it's better for him to make it take 4 hours? Are you high?