UEFI is much more than secure-boot. There are a lot of "hacks" required right now to make BIOS work properly for modern scenerios. the 4 partition limit is a good example, we have to use "logical" partitions within a bigger physical partition to get around this bullshit at the moment, UEFI fixes that. It also adds a LOT of other functionality such as much more powerful configuration interfaces that can supply graphics (temperature meters, etc), handle mouse input and drive system speakers directly.
Ok, seriously. This is a SMALL piece of a HUGE country and was chosen specifically because it was A) almost 100% uninhabited B) Had high mountains so they wouldn't need as big of a quiet zone C) Out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Maybe the people that moved there and developed there should have thought about whether it was a sustainable place to develop.
I think we need a flying car analogy. Many towns and large cities are currently build near or around airports which all have "no fly zones" that extend into the surrounding developed area (ie: over peoples' homes just like the radio quiet zone). If we suddenly developed a cheap personal flying cars (usable for short-distance flight), should the airport move so that they are not affecting the surrounding houses who's occupants want to fly to work or should people that want to get flying cars move somewhere away from the airport?
Gmail isn't tied to any other services, ISP e-mails are tied to your internet connection. If you need a different internet connection due to speed or reliability issues or you move somewhere that the ISP doesn't cover, you are fucked.
Absolutely. Every free or bundle service will have drawbacks. But Google's drawback of making you email theirs to data mine is the worst drawback there is - if you consider email to be a private medium.
That's why I consider it worthwhile to pay a small amount to have email with my own domain.
They may go through it with a computer program to automatically do general heuristics and add targeting (which I block anyways), but they are much less likely to hand your information over to 3rd parties or the government like most ISPs. Just look at how many times Google has told the government to fuck off compared to the ISPs that basically OFFER the data to them and let them set up their own monitoring system in the building.
When I switch from gmail (which I plan to do in the next year or two), I can set up auto-forward with an auto-response asking the sender to use my new e-mail. That's something NO isp will let you do after you cancel your contract
Of course they'll do it for you. Because it means the account is still live, and they're still data collecting every message that's sent to your gmail address.
Um, no. They'd get (and be able to read) those messages whether the account is still active or not.
Oh, and they're storing every search you do and attaching it to the same ID too. Nice.
See my first point
And they're tracking people with cookies, even when they set their browser not to be tracked.
Enjoy.
I'm going to need a citation before I'll take your word on that one. They may use cookies, but that's about the only way (aside from url-embedded tracking numbers which are even worse) to keep someone logged in.
Yes, and neither does Android. Ubuntu Phone is not being made for the manufacturers, it is being made for the users and promoted to the manufacturers. In fact, right now they have Ubuntu Phone running on the Android kernel, so it is already 100% compatible with most Android phones.
Unless open drivers or specs are provided for the chipsets, the manufacturers are going to be on the hook for driver updates (which are required for kernel updates) no matter WHICH operating system they use.
They allowed development with the understanding that no wireless devices be used. The people that developed knew, and know, full well what they are allowed and not allowed to do there.
Which is why these applications need administrator-level permissions that let you prevent those warning and instead show an error message (without an "ok" button).
Better yet, corporations could wake up and start demanding their software and infrastructure stop requiring the use of flash player to access their services.
It's in the middle of a national park, they DO own the land. When people moved there they damn well KNEW the restrictions. These instruments are not something you load on a truck, they built directly into the mountain!
That won't do enough. It's like the difference between trying to shock-proof a cd player and trying to shock-proof a seismometer. You need a whole new LEVEL of filtering.
Seems like they need to start with the Theory of Texas English, wherein they can analyze all sides of the english language and learn the difference between the words "fairy tale" and "theory."
And when you change your service provider? What then?
And when you decide to change from Google, what then?
The only way you can keep your email address no matter what companies you decide to do business with is to have your own domain. And when you do that, it's easy enough to pick a service that includes email. Yes, you pay. But that's the only way to never have to change your email address whilst not being married for life to some company.
Gmail isn't tied to any other services, ISP e-mails are tied to your internet connection. If you need a different internet connection due to speed or reliability issues or you move somewhere that the ISP doesn't cover, you are fucked.
When I switch from gmail (which I plan to do in the next year or two), I can set up auto-forward with an auto-response asking the sender to use my new e-mail. That's something NO isp will let you do after you cancel your contract
Would you like to see political groups broken up for saying something that an individual would have been fine saying? It's happened all over the world in the past - the "legally elected government" cracking down on opposition parties simply because they oppose them, I'd say protecting the right of any organisation to express rational opposition to another is absolutely a requirement of civilised society.
Could you give an example? I'm finding it difficult to think of one.
"Similar deals have been made with for instance donkeys, dogs, cats and falcons."
Eating your fellow carnivores is in general a bad idea, and that goes for zombies and cannibals. The concentration of poisons go up the higher the food chain you go. A falcon can suffer from eating rats not harmed by eating insecticide-laced insects.
Telus blocks incoming traffic to most low ports unless you pay for a business connection. And paying over $150/month for 15mb/s upload speed is highway robbery. That's not nearly fast enough for a half-dozen people to browse pictures at a decent speed or for 2 or 3 people to stream video simultaneously.
Handset manufacturers can easily add their own repositories just like many of the netbook manufacturers have been doing for years. If they want to upstream their drivers, all the better.
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UEFI is much more than secure-boot. There are a lot of "hacks" required right now to make BIOS work properly for modern scenerios. the 4 partition limit is a good example, we have to use "logical" partitions within a bigger physical partition to get around this bullshit at the moment, UEFI fixes that. It also adds a LOT of other functionality such as much more powerful configuration interfaces that can supply graphics (temperature meters, etc), handle mouse input and drive system speakers directly.
Ok, seriously. This is a SMALL piece of a HUGE country and was chosen specifically because it was A) almost 100% uninhabited B) Had high mountains so they wouldn't need as big of a quiet zone C) Out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Maybe the people that moved there and developed there should have thought about whether it was a sustainable place to develop.
I think we need a flying car analogy. Many towns and large cities are currently build near or around airports which all have "no fly zones" that extend into the surrounding developed area (ie: over peoples' homes just like the radio quiet zone). If we suddenly developed a cheap personal flying cars (usable for short-distance flight), should the airport move so that they are not affecting the surrounding houses who's occupants want to fly to work or should people that want to get flying cars move somewhere away from the airport?
Gmail isn't tied to any other services, ISP e-mails are tied to your internet connection. If you need a different internet connection due to speed or reliability issues or you move somewhere that the ISP doesn't cover, you are fucked.
Absolutely. Every free or bundle service will have drawbacks. But Google's drawback of making you email theirs to data mine is the worst drawback there is - if you consider email to be a private medium.
That's why I consider it worthwhile to pay a small amount to have email with my own domain.
They may go through it with a computer program to automatically do general heuristics and add targeting (which I block anyways), but they are much less likely to hand your information over to 3rd parties or the government like most ISPs. Just look at how many times Google has told the government to fuck off compared to the ISPs that basically OFFER the data to them and let them set up their own monitoring system in the building.
When I switch from gmail (which I plan to do in the next year or two), I can set up auto-forward with an auto-response asking the sender to use my new e-mail. That's something NO isp will let you do after you cancel your contract
Of course they'll do it for you. Because it means the account is still live, and they're still data collecting every message that's sent to your gmail address.
Um, no. They'd get (and be able to read) those messages whether the account is still active or not.
Oh, and they're storing every search you do and attaching it to the same ID too. Nice.
See my first point
And they're tracking people with cookies, even when they set their browser not to be tracked.
Enjoy.
I'm going to need a citation before I'll take your word on that one. They may use cookies, but that's about the only way (aside from url-embedded tracking numbers which are even worse) to keep someone logged in.
Yes, which is why I won't be able to host my own decent-traffic website on my home server in the conceivable future, which was my original point.
Yes, and neither does Android. Ubuntu Phone is not being made for the manufacturers, it is being made for the users and promoted to the manufacturers. In fact, right now they have Ubuntu Phone running on the Android kernel, so it is already 100% compatible with most Android phones.
Unless open drivers or specs are provided for the chipsets, the manufacturers are going to be on the hook for driver updates (which are required for kernel updates) no matter WHICH operating system they use.
They allowed development with the understanding that no wireless devices be used. The people that developed knew, and know, full well what they are allowed and not allowed to do there.
Which is why these applications need administrator-level permissions that let you prevent those warning and instead show an error message (without an "ok" button).
Better yet, corporations could wake up and start demanding their software and infrastructure stop requiring the use of flash player to access their services.
It's in the middle of a national park, they DO own the land. When people moved there they damn well KNEW the restrictions. These instruments are not something you load on a truck, they built directly into the mountain!
That won't do enough. It's like the difference between trying to shock-proof a cd player and trying to shock-proof a seismometer. You need a whole new LEVEL of filtering.
And I believe that BMW and Mercedes ARE working on patches for those issues.
Seems like they need to start with the Theory of Texas English, wherein they can analyze all sides of the english language and learn the difference between the words "fairy tale" and "theory."
FTFY
If that's the best reason, Texas should be a wasteland...
I think he meant they do the same "if at first you don't succeed, change the name and try try again".
Microsoft didn't bring us UEFI, then brought us mandatory* pre-installed secure-boot.
*By mandatory I mean the OEM's have to pre-install it to get the shinny sticker.
And when you change your service provider? What then?
And when you decide to change from Google, what then?
The only way you can keep your email address no matter what companies you decide to do business with is to have your own domain. And when you do that, it's easy enough to pick a service that includes email. Yes, you pay. But that's the only way to never have to change your email address whilst not being married for life to some company.
Gmail isn't tied to any other services, ISP e-mails are tied to your internet connection. If you need a different internet connection due to speed or reliability issues or you move somewhere that the ISP doesn't cover, you are fucked.
When I switch from gmail (which I plan to do in the next year or two), I can set up auto-forward with an auto-response asking the sender to use my new e-mail. That's something NO isp will let you do after you cancel your contract
And Microsoft always keep their promise!
Put simply, why should either country have more or less sun?
Because the U.S. is so much closer the equator for starters. And because it has a significantly lower population density
Could you explain why you think it's not good?
Would you like to see political groups broken up for saying something that an individual would have been fine saying? It's happened all over the world in the past - the "legally elected government" cracking down on opposition parties simply because they oppose them, I'd say protecting the right of any organisation to express rational opposition to another is absolutely a requirement of civilised society.
Could you give an example? I'm finding it difficult to think of one.
"Similar deals have been made with for instance donkeys, dogs, cats and falcons."
Eating your fellow carnivores is in general a bad idea, and that goes for zombies and cannibals. The concentration of poisons go up the higher the food chain you go. A falcon can suffer from eating rats not harmed by eating insecticide-laced insects.
Ummmm, what?
Anthropomorphising is attributing human attributes to animals.
Try looking up definitions before making up your own.
That's the java BROWSER PLUGIN. Different beast entirely.
Telus blocks incoming traffic to most low ports unless you pay for a business connection. And paying over $150/month for 15mb/s upload speed is highway robbery. That's not nearly fast enough for a half-dozen people to browse pictures at a decent speed or for 2 or 3 people to stream video simultaneously.
Handset manufacturers can easily add their own repositories just like many of the netbook manufacturers have been doing for years. If they want to upstream their drivers, all the better.
Ubuntu already has thousands of applications and I'm sure the vast majority of them will run fine on a modern phone.
Software Center -> Amazon Lens -> Uninstall
Feel free to pay me in cookies, I'm feeling peckish