Rip the guts out of an old think book, and replace with those super-small ARM boards. A cluster in your briefcase. Of course a cluster doesn't work that well for a desktop system, but still the awesomess of it would shine.
You can't remove all shells and have anything work reliably. The way the system launches is something like you desktop enviroment is for your display manager to call the default shell with something like "exec/bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session". You could remove end user access to a shell (disable tty1-6, and not include a terminal emulator if it were installed by an OEM and not have any problems on a few distros. The last time I absolutely had to use a CLI to get something a non-techie would try to work on Ubuntu was 9.04 to compile the UVC drivers. I've also used it to compile non-critical programs (games) that weren't in the repositories. Just about every essential feature can be accessed in Ubuntu through a GUI. Some distros like Gentoo can't be used unless you know your way around a CLI, but Gentoo isn't trying to target the mainstream.
Of course I often use it even when I don't have to for several reasons..
1. It's really fast, I can get an immediate response about my system and settings, instead of waiting several seconds for whatever GUI I need to load.
2. With Tab-Completions and filters I can navigate the filesystem faster than in GUI when I know that I'm looking for.
3. I don't have to wade through options to expose what I want. It's all literally at my fingertips.
4. There are some options and procedures that can only be exposed via CLI. (Have anyone ever been able to come GUI way to do pipes and redirection?) Plus it's much cheaper to put non-obvious or niche features in command line switches only than cluttering up the GUI. For instance with chrome the cache location and size is a CLI only switch. Before v11, to play with WebGL you needed to use a CLI-only switch.
An alien civilization that thinks like that, is more likely just to destroy itself in civil war. It seems unlikely that a race without a large division of labor and generally cooperative attitude could achieve star travel.
Politicians benefit from a complex tax code. Nobody actually knows weather they followed it completely. It provides bureaucratic with greater leverage and leaves everyone doubt of weather they have actually obeyed the law.
I don't believe the crypto is anything fancy, standard PGP techniques and standard hashes used. Such an analysis would be good, but there is no reason Bitcoin is any more or less secure than other things using the same techniques.
You can use a one-off key for every transaction, If you do you, a vendor can't tell whether and exchange with you is a repeat or just a one-off using just the keys provided.
Economics is about the seen and unseen. If relative price starts to decrease it becomes more valuable to use than to keep holding onto. It's an equilibration, not a landslide. And it's not velocity that's important, it's the volume of trade. Bitcoin could work with a 10% velocity. Bitcoin is perfectly countable and all standard accounting procedures may used with it. ( I don't get why you think accounting disproves the idea of bitcoin)
Also sense authorities, especially taxing authorities don't track or use bitcoin, there is an incentive to spend rather than hold. Sense no other currency offters this. it may be that for a while on the the largest value of bit coin is it just being bit-coin, but this bauble is only enticing if you ever plan to actually trade with them. And yes Bitcoin won't be a good environment to offer credit in until it stabilizes, but so what? Nobody is going to be using bit coin exclusively until it is used extensively (and it's much more likely to be a stable market at that point). There is no reason why you couldn't get credit in USD, and invest it into capital in order to make bit-coin. In fact doing so, during the initial expansion phase of bit coin is likely to give you higher returns than receipts in USD, because anything you make above what you needed to make the payment would make more interest keeping it in your pocket than what you are losing by not adding it to your bank payment. In fact this high interest you complain about is a signal that investment into production for that market is disparately desired.
No he wasn't. The vendors were redeeming them at the nominal value, and there were quite a few merchants who accepted it at nominal value. Nowhere was he trying to pass them off as legal tender, just as a possible thing to tender. (He wasn't trying to pay of debts with these, which is the only place legal tender laws apply) Legal tender means if it is tendered (offered) the person you offer it to is legally obligated to accept. No a few people may not have been clear about what exactly they were tendering, but that's not Bernard's fault.
Counterfeit? So how much silver is behind your twenty dollar bill? The truth is that the federal reserve system is counterfeiting writ large.
The coins were set up with the assumption that silver would go up in price. If it increased so much in price, you could turn in the old coins and get new ones at no cost. The face value was for liberty dollars. (Just like any of the other local currencies in use). There were merchants and vendors who were accepted the coins at a 1:1 rate just as if they were a gift certificate or a standard local currency. In fact there were people willing to buy any number of these coins at nominal value. It was in fact only the first sale where there was disparity, after that everything was designed to work at parity. The only thing beside the composition and design that was different from most local currencies is that when silver bullion passed a certain threshold the paper certificates and coins could be exchanged for a new higher nominal value. If you kept a hold on a liberty dollar coin through a flip, you would come out quite more surplus value than the deficit of the original purchaser
Sure the guy made a mistake in his design trying to appeal to the patriot crowd, but nonetheless provided a valuable product (for use in trade) to people who voluntarily decided to buy it. This is more than any bureaucratic can say. The other mistake was trying to mark it with nominal values directly related to USD.
Yes, it's fairly simple. Say the ROM has a remote vulnerability and the malware is complex enough to recognize a RO primary partition. Say it injects an alias for shutdown into the environment when it detects a RO root partition. When a it shutsdown command is issued, because of the alias it also sends a packet to a C&C server saying, hey you need to expoit me again. The C&C can then try to reinfect directly, or command another computer on the LAN to do so when it detects the computer has booted up again.
and mine could only get 500bps on a good day. Some sort of weird voice compression being used that worked great for voice, but absolutely sucked for dial-up connections.
I used to work in Thailand during the 1990s, and indeed I did never hear somebody criticise the king. Two times a day the national anthem (composed by the king himself) is being played, and everybody stops and stands up. A friend of mine who just arrived in the country from Europe, was waiting in a railway station and did not stand up. Immediately a soldier came pushing her with his machine gun to make her stand up, so all these tokens of respect are not that spontaneous.
The only place anything like that happens in the U.S. is a courtroom.
The problem with defending liberty is that you spend most of your time defending scoundrels. However free speech is simply too important to allow an abridgment, even upon scoundrels. The "FIRE!" standard gives penalties where speech results in an immediate and reasonably foreseeable hazard. It is not the speech that is punished, but for creating the hazard that he knew or was reckless in not knowing it would result. There are civil causes in slander, libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress, however the standard for these are really quite high, and rightfully so.
Of course it does, you stupid nigger slut. (It just doesn't go so fare as preventing my boss from firing me if I called her that.) Making up a new offense and sticking an old name on it is in no way substantially different that making up a new name as well. The penalty for this sort of harrasement should be defined in the student handbook... a week of suspension for first offense, expulsion for the second. Don't go crying to the cops, especially when you already have a remedy available.
Yes, charging 100 or a thousand times over cost for data that you have to send and receive anyways is a ripoff, plain and simple.Of course you're going to get undercut by the competition.
It's a privilege. Copyright is a legal monopoly granted solely by virtue of statute. BTW almost no manufacturing process takes money as a input.
Money just allows a ratio between products to be established moment by moment. This indirect exchange allows simplified accounting and is one of the reasons it's preferred over direct exchange. However a copyright statute would not relegate people to indirect exchange. What it would do would be to shift business models for creative content, not end the world as we know it. Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
There is no inherent right for an author or publisher to control an idea they let out to the world. In fact, the very intangibleness of an idea is why once an idea is loosed upon the world you cannot take it back or control it. The only right they are given are through a bargain with the public. That they will be given a short and limited monopoly of their idea in order to profit from it as an incentive to create more ideas. That way people can build upon these ideas..
Why exactly does apple/iOS being evil mean that goggle/android is an angel? What some of the carriers are doing to android is as bad as iOS, and in some ways worse because everyone has thier own proprietary BLOb (Binary Large Object) with a FOSS wedge that links the BLOB into the kernel for thier non-standard device drivers, making it impossible to upgrade your phone and still have it working functionally.
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Rip the guts out of an old think book, and replace with those super-small ARM boards. A cluster in your briefcase. Of course a cluster doesn't work that well for a desktop system, but still the awesomess of it would shine.
You can use a PPA to pull packages straight from Mozilla, but on the flip side that an update may break something horribly,
Nothing stopping you from making a remix.
I'm an occasional Linux user, but what pisses me off more than anything is the bashing and hate that comes from the Linux side.
LOL! like this? #!/bin/bash echo "M$ Sucks"
You can't remove all shells and have anything work reliably. The way the system launches is something like you desktop enviroment is for your display manager to call the default shell with something like "exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session". You could remove end user access to a shell (disable tty1-6, and not include a terminal emulator if it were installed by an OEM and not have any problems on a few distros. The last time I absolutely had to use a CLI to get something a non-techie would try to work on Ubuntu was 9.04 to compile the UVC drivers. I've also used it to compile non-critical programs (games) that weren't in the repositories. Just about every essential feature can be accessed in Ubuntu through a GUI. Some distros like Gentoo can't be used unless you know your way around a CLI, but Gentoo isn't trying to target the mainstream.
Of course I often use it even when I don't have to for several reasons..
1. It's really fast, I can get an immediate response about my system and settings, instead of waiting several seconds for whatever GUI I need to load.
2. With Tab-Completions and filters I can navigate the filesystem faster than in GUI when I know that I'm looking for.
3. I don't have to wade through options to expose what I want. It's all literally at my fingertips.
4. There are some options and procedures that can only be exposed via CLI. (Have anyone ever been able to come GUI way to do pipes and redirection?) Plus it's much cheaper to put non-obvious or niche features in command line switches only than cluttering up the GUI. For instance with chrome the cache location and size is a CLI only switch. Before v11, to play with WebGL you needed to use a CLI-only switch.
An alien civilization that thinks like that, is more likely just to destroy itself in civil war. It seems unlikely that a race without a large division of labor and generally cooperative attitude could achieve star travel.
The probably use a boatload of cacheing proxies. In-fact it's really the only way to handle that amount of content distribution.
Politicians benefit from a complex tax code. Nobody actually knows weather they followed it completely. It provides bureaucratic with greater leverage and leaves everyone doubt of weather they have actually obeyed the law.
I don't believe the crypto is anything fancy, standard PGP techniques and standard hashes used. Such an analysis would be good, but there is no reason Bitcoin is any more or less secure than other things using the same techniques. You can use a one-off key for every transaction, If you do you, a vendor can't tell whether and exchange with you is a repeat or just a one-off using just the keys provided.
Economics is about the seen and unseen. If relative price starts to decrease it becomes more valuable to use than to keep holding onto. It's an equilibration, not a landslide. And it's not velocity that's important, it's the volume of trade. Bitcoin could work with a 10% velocity. Bitcoin is perfectly countable and all standard accounting procedures may used with it. ( I don't get why you think accounting disproves the idea of bitcoin) Also sense authorities, especially taxing authorities don't track or use bitcoin, there is an incentive to spend rather than hold. Sense no other currency offters this. it may be that for a while on the the largest value of bit coin is it just being bit-coin, but this bauble is only enticing if you ever plan to actually trade with them. And yes Bitcoin won't be a good environment to offer credit in until it stabilizes, but so what? Nobody is going to be using bit coin exclusively until it is used extensively (and it's much more likely to be a stable market at that point). There is no reason why you couldn't get credit in USD, and invest it into capital in order to make bit-coin. In fact doing so, during the initial expansion phase of bit coin is likely to give you higher returns than receipts in USD, because anything you make above what you needed to make the payment would make more interest keeping it in your pocket than what you are losing by not adding it to your bank payment. In fact this high interest you complain about is a signal that investment into production for that market is disparately desired.
No he wasn't. The vendors were redeeming them at the nominal value, and there were quite a few merchants who accepted it at nominal value. Nowhere was he trying to pass them off as legal tender, just as a possible thing to tender. (He wasn't trying to pay of debts with these, which is the only place legal tender laws apply) Legal tender means if it is tendered (offered) the person you offer it to is legally obligated to accept. No a few people may not have been clear about what exactly they were tendering, but that's not Bernard's fault.
Counterfeit? So how much silver is behind your twenty dollar bill? The truth is that the federal reserve system is counterfeiting writ large.
The coins were set up with the assumption that silver would go up in price. If it increased so much in price, you could turn in the old coins and get new ones at no cost. The face value was for liberty dollars. (Just like any of the other local currencies in use). There were merchants and vendors who were accepted the coins at a 1:1 rate just as if they were a gift certificate or a standard local currency. In fact there were people willing to buy any number of these coins at nominal value. It was in fact only the first sale where there was disparity, after that everything was designed to work at parity. The only thing beside the composition and design that was different from most local currencies is that when silver bullion passed a certain threshold the paper certificates and coins could be exchanged for a new higher nominal value. If you kept a hold on a liberty dollar coin through a flip, you would come out quite more surplus value than the deficit of the original purchaser
Sure the guy made a mistake in his design trying to appeal to the patriot crowd, but nonetheless provided a valuable product (for use in trade) to people who voluntarily decided to buy it. This is more than any bureaucratic can say. The other mistake was trying to mark it with nominal values directly related to USD.
How? If anything they'd just move whatever servers they needed to run to a different country.
Yes, it's fairly simple. Say the ROM has a remote vulnerability and the malware is complex enough to recognize a RO primary partition. Say it injects an alias for shutdown into the environment when it detects a RO root partition. When a it shutsdown command is issued, because of the alias it also sends a packet to a C&C server saying, hey you need to expoit me again. The C&C can then try to reinfect directly, or command another computer on the LAN to do so when it detects the computer has booted up again.
and mine could only get 500bps on a good day. Some sort of weird voice compression being used that worked great for voice, but absolutely sucked for dial-up connections.
Do you have and Onkyo Reciever and Pansonic TV?
I used to work in Thailand during the 1990s, and indeed I did never hear somebody criticise the king. Two times a day the national anthem (composed by the king himself) is being played, and everybody stops and stands up. A friend of mine who just arrived in the country from Europe, was waiting in a railway station and did not stand up. Immediately a soldier came pushing her with his machine gun to make her stand up, so all these tokens of respect are not that spontaneous.
The only place anything like that happens in the U.S. is a courtroom.
The problem with defending liberty is that you spend most of your time defending scoundrels. However free speech is simply too important to allow an abridgment, even upon scoundrels. The "FIRE!" standard gives penalties where speech results in an immediate and reasonably foreseeable hazard. It is not the speech that is punished, but for creating the hazard that he knew or was reckless in not knowing it would result. There are civil causes in slander, libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress, however the standard for these are really quite high, and rightfully so.
Of course it does, you stupid nigger slut. (It just doesn't go so fare as preventing my boss from firing me if I called her that.) Making up a new offense and sticking an old name on it is in no way substantially different that making up a new name as well. The penalty for this sort of harrasement should be defined in the student handbook... a week of suspension for first offense, expulsion for the second. Don't go crying to the cops, especially when you already have a remedy available.
Yes, charging 100 or a thousand times over cost for data that you have to send and receive anyways is a ripoff, plain and simple.Of course you're going to get undercut by the competition.
It's a privilege. Copyright is a legal monopoly granted solely by virtue of statute. BTW almost no manufacturing process takes money as a input.
Money just allows a ratio between products to be established moment by moment. This indirect exchange allows simplified accounting and is one of the reasons it's preferred over direct exchange. However a copyright statute would not relegate people to indirect exchange. What it would do would be to shift business models for creative content, not end the world as we know it. Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
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There is no inherent right for an author or publisher to control an idea they let out to the world. In fact, the very intangibleness of an idea is why once an idea is loosed upon the world you cannot take it back or control it. The only right they are given are through a bargain with the public. That they will be given a short and limited monopoly of their idea in order to profit from it as an incentive to create more ideas. That way people can build upon these ideas..
In fact the word publish means "to make public"
A lot of the early jailbreaks were just 1.visit this site, 2.install your own rootkit (cydia, or whatever) and 3. Profit?
No, you can install chromium, which will only install free codecs and libraries with the browser. (No EULA needed)
Why exactly does apple/iOS being evil mean that goggle/android is an angel? What some of the carriers are doing to android is as bad as iOS, and in some ways worse because everyone has thier own proprietary BLOb (Binary Large Object) with a FOSS wedge that links the BLOB into the kernel for thier non-standard device drivers, making it impossible to upgrade your phone and still have it working functionally.