Seriously, guys, wake up. I live in France. I was not born here.
Then you should understand the political system a bit better. In multi-round elections you typically end up with a lovely split between parties. The second round will then bring out people opinion for or against one of the two candidates. A vote for FN isn't a vote for their policies but could be a number of things. A vote in their confidence, a vote for their policies, a vote that dislikes the opposition without any knowledge of the FN.
You say 33.9% is their best score yet in a second round? A better way of looking at it would be that it is the second lowest vote from a party in a second round since direct elections were introduced in France, and the only party to ever score was was... themselves in 2007.
That is a phenomenal vote of no-confidence in the party. Out of 96 departments of France she was most popular in only 2. Out of the 18 regions she won 0.
Define Brexit, I hear a lot of definitions around the office:
- We don't want EU MEPs passing laws for us, it's undemocratic because I don't know how the EU works. - We pay money and get nothing in return, because I don't know how the EU works. - The EU took our industry and leaving it will bring it back, because I don't know history. - We don't want EU fishermen in our waters, because we don't want to travel as far as they do to get the same deal. - Bananas are supposed to be bendy, because I get my news from the Daily Mail. - We want our plumbers electricians and builders to be English, but not pay for it, because we don't know how supply and demand works. - My personal favourite: I'm sick of Indian immigrants taking over the country, because I REALLY don't know how the EU works.
That last one is real. I actually heard someone complain about Indians. The ultimate irony is that by leaving the EU it allows the UK to free up the immigration program allowing more people from other places in the world to come in. That guy is going to be royally pissed, like Queen of England going duck hunting style pissed.
Yes there are some racists bastards around, but they are a very vocal minority. Brexit wasn't won on xenophobia, it was won on downright ignorance combined with a really stupidly worded question that ultimately came down to: "I like everything the way it is"
vs "I want something to change, but can't articulate what and at the pub I overheard someone saying maybe this will make that change happen,"
You say this as if it actually matters whether the 1%er screwing you in 2 years will be wearing a red or a blue necktie. If history has shown anything it's clear that even if something was of consequence, it's not going to change by a vote.
If the US is not a democracy then no country is a democracy.
That is a load of shit. There are plenty functioning democracies in the world that haven't devolved into a 2 party system, both beheld by corporate interests, and both forcing through unpopular legislation by riding on critical bills of supply.
You're right the title of democracy doesn't prevent something being bad, but the way the USA is passing bills and the way the election process works are two things that are really stretching the definition.
I'm not sure if that was a typo or really clever. But "proof" noun: a test or trial of something.
Which is exactly what it was. It was a test to eliminate what was at the time an incredibly fucked up Gnome interface. Providing an alternative to that abortion was exactly the opposite of a bad idea. The fact that the Gnome guys came to their senses, and that upstream at that point has something that works makes dropping the project quite the humble move.
Canonical have done this a few times already: e.g. upstart, and mir (although while dropping mir work in the face of Wayland I think this one was resource constricted given that Wayland is not prime time ready and the result was to drop back to X11).
They lost their leading in usuability
Debatable. Typically when I see someone on Slashdot complain that something is unusable it typically means: someone moved my cheese and therefor it must be worse. Usable is in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder is beholding an OS running on a tablet than Unity was pretty much the *only* usable interface.
Yes but what happened. There's a reason the situation ended like you said it did. The fork happened and no one gave a shit. Free money turned out to not exist. Bitcoin cash has 5% of the trading volume of bitcoin which caused it's price to plummet. Not only that, the trading volume is so incredibly small than attempts to cash out would affect the price even further.
It is a prime example of how on a major currency like bitcoin, forking does nothing as it becomes too difficult to get people to use the fork. They literally advertised it as free money and people still start trading with it.
Like I said, you can't fork something like bitcoin to undo a mistake, it's too entrenched.
Guess what? Every competitor has failed or not taken away the marketshare away from Windows and Intel. x86 is here to stay as long as corporations need their applications.
Do you say that as a joke, or out of ignorance, or are you intentionally abusing statistics? The change in the market over the past 20 years has seen meteoric decline in the use of Wintel (remember that name) for what people consider computing.
Windows / Microsoft has a market share online of less than 35% now with the majority taken up by tablet computers. Intel stopped being the largest manufacturer of processors this year overtaken by Samsung.
And both of these stats happen while tablet / phone devices are still being considered toys and people still look to PCs for "real" work. Chromebooks are starting to show the world an alternative way of doing "real work", the only thing that is missing there is the software. And you can be damn sure that the makers of major software are taking note starting to add full blown functionality to not only mobile apps, but tablet dedicated apps too.
Side note: Stifel has downgraded Intel from a Buy rating to a Hold rating yesterday due to expectation that not only the PC dominance is over, but their server market share is going to suffer too with more energy efficient alternatives available from competitors.
Look at how people interact with technology and you'll see Windows and Intel's pittyful marketshare for what it actually is.
Remember this if you are investing real money in Bitcoin
Actually this is something far harder to do with Bitcoin than some tiny no-name currency no one has ever heard of. Hell Bitcoin couldn't even agree on a fork for technical reasons designed to save the currency, do you think such an agreement needed is a possibility because someone gets hacked and wants to roll back the blockchain?
I'll happily bet a BTC that it will never happen, and we've seen some bitcoin heists that make this look like petty theft which hasn't caused such a response.
Autopilot is just a terrible misnomer for what it really is.
And yet it functions in the same way. Just because the reaction situation is slightly different doesn't change the function. Also a few seconds of inattentiveness in a passenger car with autopilot will not kill you. Only when auto pilot is not working does that come into play.
*I was driving next to someone in traffic in Amsterdam who was asleep at the wheel and his Model S was coping just fine. I just hope he woke up before he missed his highway exit.
What is the point to an autopilot if I have to be fully attentive and ready to take over?
The same point as an autopilot in a plane. Just becuase you didn't know what the term meant doesn't mean it has to perform differntly to anything else called autopilot in the world.
*THIS*. It is interesting that they are going after Facebook rather than going after Cambridge Analytica. A company whose registered address is the home of a dodgy used car sales man. This man is listed on their website as the company director yet denies he is, Cambridge Analytica was registered as a business under the name of his trust, and when asked about it he rushed out to de-register the company. Better still all employees in the company in Australia are fake.
It's amazing how much here is directed at Facebook compared to the company that actually did the lionshare of the shady shit.
Yes I'm saying Facebook isn't shady, because being shady implies that people didn't know that Facebook collected huge amounts of data and shared it with every stupid Farmville piece of crap that they clicked on.
There's no requirement for poisoned firmware or for anything to even work after modification. The only requirement here is to get the old chip out of the card and patch up the card in a way that it looks okay. In some cases you could even take a generic blank card and print a picture of the card you stole, you don't even need to modify anything. You just need to fool someone who is unlikely to be paying attention.
Because of the chip+signature garbage in the USA just wait till the card is activated (normally a phone call), and then go on a spending spree.
If Chip+PIN was implimented then it wouldn't be an issue because the PIN is still unkonwn to the attacker.
I'm sure they did - since the issue is government waste, not petty party politics, right?
When was "government waste" part of the net neutrality debate? When was calling out an independent regulator for literally ridiculing the people they exist to protect while ignoring the concerns of a large portion of business and the population to instead favour the vested interests of the very people they should be independently regulating "petty"?
By linking this case to the other two you have done a good job of showing that you have zero understanding of what the issues are.
Yes welcome to the world of threadded conversations. When two people come up with the same arguement in different places you should expect the counter arguement to appear in two places as well, but thanks for admiring my consistency.
It's a nine year old machine.
And? I've got 9 year old machines in my house which still run as good as the day we got them, and several weren't from a permium manufacutrer.
How long do you expect a mechanical device to last without *any* sort of failure?
Depends on what I pay for them and what they are marketed as.
Heck, even the cochlear implant literally - yes, "literally" - installed in my head had a ten year warranty
So your point about computer parts having a short warranty with little manufacturer support and leaving a 9 year old machine without support is to point out that you have electronics that come with a 10 year manfuturer warranty.... I... I don't... I don't think you understand how this debating your point thing works.
Because other brands of computer never have failing components out of warranty?
If I buy a Ford POS I expect the steeringwheel to fall off. If I buy a 7 series BMW I sure as hell expect reliability out of it. Apple *used* to be like this. I expect shit from Dell to break. I also expect to pay half the price for the machine.
Crapware and a system administrator who can't manage to set up a printer?
Show the schools the good ware and they'll reconsider. Also who is the system administrator at home? I thought Apple was so high and everything works mighty that system administrators aren't needed. At least we agree on something.
Google Docs works just as well
I didn't meantion Google Docs, and they sure as fuck didn't replace the tablets with another junk toy. They replaced them with real machines with real software.
I don't know about chem or bio apps, but Pocket CAS [pocketcas.com] is good enough for a math whiz kid to complete Calc I, II, and Linear Algebra from the local university.
Yeah? Did you write entire reports in it?
The entire app ecosystem from both Google and Apple is sheer and utter rubbish for education completely littered with apps so incredibly special purpose that they are completely useless beyond acting as a learning guide for whatever textbook students are reading from.
Yeah store your stuff on thumb drives. You did teach them how to encrypt that stuff right? How about external drives? How many people do you know that are still using the same drive they bought 6 years ago as their only backup. At least it was their only backup until their laptops filled up and they have a copy of the file anyway.
If I audit your mother-in-law I guarantee I'll find a dataloss case waiting to happen, and your solutions are part of the problem. You have presented someone with a thing but without realising that what goes into data safety is not a thing but rather management of things. The cloud takes care of the management part of it for those people who think it doesn't take much expertise.
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Seriously, guys, wake up. I live in France. I was not born here.
Then you should understand the political system a bit better. In multi-round elections you typically end up with a lovely split between parties. The second round will then bring out people opinion for or against one of the two candidates. A vote for FN isn't a vote for their policies but could be a number of things. A vote in their confidence, a vote for their policies, a vote that dislikes the opposition without any knowledge of the FN.
You say 33.9% is their best score yet in a second round? A better way of looking at it would be that it is the second lowest vote from a party in a second round since direct elections were introduced in France, and the only party to ever score was was ... themselves in 2007.
That is a phenomenal vote of no-confidence in the party. Out of 96 departments of France she was most popular in only 2. Out of the 18 regions she won 0.
You have no cause for concern.
In the UK . . . well, a majority voted for Brexit
Define Brexit, I hear a lot of definitions around the office:
- We don't want EU MEPs passing laws for us, it's undemocratic because I don't know how the EU works.
- We pay money and get nothing in return, because I don't know how the EU works.
- The EU took our industry and leaving it will bring it back, because I don't know history.
- We don't want EU fishermen in our waters, because we don't want to travel as far as they do to get the same deal.
- Bananas are supposed to be bendy, because I get my news from the Daily Mail.
- We want our plumbers electricians and builders to be English, but not pay for it, because we don't know how supply and demand works.
- My personal favourite: I'm sick of Indian immigrants taking over the country, because I REALLY don't know how the EU works.
That last one is real. I actually heard someone complain about Indians. The ultimate irony is that by leaving the EU it allows the UK to free up the immigration program allowing more people from other places in the world to come in. That guy is going to be royally pissed, like Queen of England going duck hunting style pissed.
Yes there are some racists bastards around, but they are a very vocal minority. Brexit wasn't won on xenophobia, it was won on downright ignorance combined with a really stupidly worded question that ultimately came down to:
"I like everything the way it is"
vs
"I want something to change, but can't articulate what and at the pub I overheard someone saying maybe this will make that change happen,"
In japan manga comics almost always display borderline pre-teen girls in sexy outfits. Hardly the sign of a heathly hobby.
I'm impressed. Here I thought you were only ignorant of western culture.
a novel implies a substantial, long and complex storyline
And so far there are few novels with as substantion, long and complex storylines as the graphic novels you ignorantly shit on.
What you actually were trying to say is that a novel implies "verbage" which simply is not the case.
Really? Nothing else is of consequence to you?
You say this as if it actually matters whether the 1%er screwing you in 2 years will be wearing a red or a blue necktie. If history has shown anything it's clear that even if something was of consequence, it's not going to change by a vote.
All your US cloud data belongs to the US gov to collect it all globally legally.
Says who? Certainly not the CLOUD Act. Actually the CLOUD Act says quite the opposite.
If the US is not a democracy then no country is a democracy.
That is a load of shit. There are plenty functioning democracies in the world that haven't devolved into a 2 party system, both beheld by corporate interests, and both forcing through unpopular legislation by riding on critical bills of supply.
You're right the title of democracy doesn't prevent something being bad, but the way the USA is passing bills and the way the election process works are two things that are really stretching the definition.
It's a way to proof your bad idea with Unity!
I'm not sure if that was a typo or really clever. But "proof" noun: a test or trial of something.
Which is exactly what it was. It was a test to eliminate what was at the time an incredibly fucked up Gnome interface. Providing an alternative to that abortion was exactly the opposite of a bad idea. The fact that the Gnome guys came to their senses, and that upstream at that point has something that works makes dropping the project quite the humble move.
Canonical have done this a few times already: e.g. upstart, and mir (although while dropping mir work in the face of Wayland I think this one was resource constricted given that Wayland is not prime time ready and the result was to drop back to X11).
They lost their leading in usuability
Debatable. Typically when I see someone on Slashdot complain that something is unusable it typically means: someone moved my cheese and therefor it must be worse. Usable is in the eye of the beholder, and if the beholder is beholding an OS running on a tablet than Unity was pretty much the *only* usable interface.
Is it just me or does "Bionic Beaver" sound awfully similar to "Cybernetic Vagina?"
To keep with the theme I'm sure Ubuntu 22.10 will be called Katya Kazanova.
If they would have used FreeBSD or NetBSD, it has no such requirements to share modified versions.Plus it has great networking and packet filtering.
So far more effort required on their part vs ... just uploading the source code on the web? Yeah I can see why QSDK.
And yet, Bitcoin forked.
Yes but what happened. There's a reason the situation ended like you said it did. The fork happened and no one gave a shit. Free money turned out to not exist. Bitcoin cash has 5% of the trading volume of bitcoin which caused it's price to plummet. Not only that, the trading volume is so incredibly small than attempts to cash out would affect the price even further.
It is a prime example of how on a major currency like bitcoin, forking does nothing as it becomes too difficult to get people to use the fork. They literally advertised it as free money and people still start trading with it.
Like I said, you can't fork something like bitcoin to undo a mistake, it's too entrenched.
Guess what? Every competitor has failed or not taken away the marketshare away from Windows and Intel. x86 is here to stay as long as corporations need their applications.
Do you say that as a joke, or out of ignorance, or are you intentionally abusing statistics? The change in the market over the past 20 years has seen meteoric decline in the use of Wintel (remember that name) for what people consider computing.
Windows / Microsoft has a market share online of less than 35% now with the majority taken up by tablet computers.
Intel stopped being the largest manufacturer of processors this year overtaken by Samsung.
And both of these stats happen while tablet / phone devices are still being considered toys and people still look to PCs for "real" work. Chromebooks are starting to show the world an alternative way of doing "real work", the only thing that is missing there is the software. And you can be damn sure that the makers of major software are taking note starting to add full blown functionality to not only mobile apps, but tablet dedicated apps too.
Side note: Stifel has downgraded Intel from a Buy rating to a Hold rating yesterday due to expectation that not only the PC dominance is over, but their server market share is going to suffer too with more energy efficient alternatives available from competitors.
Look at how people interact with technology and you'll see Windows and Intel's pittyful marketshare for what it actually is.
Given the way my fans spin I would say Bitcoin is generated out of "Thick Air"
without this concept it wouldn't really be a non centralized
They are rolling back the block chain to fix it. Does it sound like Verge is "non-centralised" ?
Remember this if you are investing real money in Bitcoin
Actually this is something far harder to do with Bitcoin than some tiny no-name currency no one has ever heard of. Hell Bitcoin couldn't even agree on a fork for technical reasons designed to save the currency, do you think such an agreement needed is a possibility because someone gets hacked and wants to roll back the blockchain?
I'll happily bet a BTC that it will never happen, and we've seen some bitcoin heists that make this look like petty theft which hasn't caused such a response.
Autopilot is just a terrible misnomer for what it really is.
And yet it functions in the same way. Just because the reaction situation is slightly different doesn't change the function. Also a few seconds of inattentiveness in a passenger car with autopilot will not kill you. Only when auto pilot is not working does that come into play.
*I was driving next to someone in traffic in Amsterdam who was asleep at the wheel and his Model S was coping just fine. I just hope he woke up before he missed his highway exit.
The intentionally misnamed "autopilot"
The only people who think autopilot is misnamed are those who have no idea how the autopilot of a plane works.
What is the point to an autopilot if I have to be fully attentive and ready to take over?
The same point as an autopilot in a plane. Just becuase you didn't know what the term meant doesn't mean it has to perform differntly to anything else called autopilot in the world.
Looks like Facebook is to be the whipping boy
*THIS*. It is interesting that they are going after Facebook rather than going after Cambridge Analytica. A company whose registered address is the home of a dodgy used car sales man. This man is listed on their website as the company director yet denies he is, Cambridge Analytica was registered as a business under the name of his trust, and when asked about it he rushed out to de-register the company. Better still all employees in the company in Australia are fake.
It's amazing how much here is directed at Facebook compared to the company that actually did the lionshare of the shady shit.
Yes I'm saying Facebook isn't shady, because being shady implies that people didn't know that Facebook collected huge amounts of data and shared it with every stupid Farmville piece of crap that they clicked on.
There's no requirement for poisoned firmware or for anything to even work after modification. The only requirement here is to get the old chip out of the card and patch up the card in a way that it looks okay. In some cases you could even take a generic blank card and print a picture of the card you stole, you don't even need to modify anything. You just need to fool someone who is unlikely to be paying attention.
Because of the chip+signature garbage in the USA just wait till the card is activated (normally a phone call), and then go on a spending spree.
If Chip+PIN was implimented then it wouldn't be an issue because the PIN is still unkonwn to the attacker.
I'm sure they did - since the issue is government waste, not petty party politics, right?
When was "government waste" part of the net neutrality debate?
When was calling out an independent regulator for literally ridiculing the people they exist to protect while ignoring the concerns of a large portion of business and the population to instead favour the vested interests of the very people they should be independently regulating "petty"?
By linking this case to the other two you have done a good job of showing that you have zero understanding of what the issues are.
This is your second post along these lines
Yes welcome to the world of threadded conversations. When two people come up with the same arguement in different places you should expect the counter arguement to appear in two places as well, but thanks for admiring my consistency.
It's a nine year old machine.
And? I've got 9 year old machines in my house which still run as good as the day we got them, and several weren't from a permium manufacutrer.
How long do you expect a mechanical device to last without *any* sort of failure?
Depends on what I pay for them and what they are marketed as.
Heck, even the cochlear implant literally - yes, "literally" - installed in my head had a ten year warranty
So your point about computer parts having a short warranty with little manufacturer support and leaving a 9 year old machine without support is to point out that you have electronics that come with a 10 year manfuturer warranty .... I ... I don't ... I don't think you understand how this debating your point thing works.
Because other brands of computer never have failing components out of warranty?
If I buy a Ford POS I expect the steeringwheel to fall off. If I buy a 7 series BMW I sure as hell expect reliability out of it. Apple *used* to be like this. I expect shit from Dell to break. I also expect to pay half the price for the machine.
So you don't actually have have any anecdotes
So you didn't read my post.
Crapware and a system administrator who can't manage to set up a printer?
Show the schools the good ware and they'll reconsider. Also who is the system administrator at home? I thought Apple was so high and everything works mighty that system administrators aren't needed. At least we agree on something.
Google Docs works just as well
I didn't meantion Google Docs, and they sure as fuck didn't replace the tablets with another junk toy. They replaced them with real machines with real software.
I don't know about chem or bio apps, but Pocket CAS [pocketcas.com] is good enough for a math whiz kid to complete Calc I, II, and Linear Algebra from the local university.
Yeah? Did you write entire reports in it?
The entire app ecosystem from both Google and Apple is sheer and utter rubbish for education completely littered with apps so incredibly special purpose that they are completely useless beyond acting as a learning guide for whatever textbook students are reading from.
Yeah store your stuff on thumb drives. You did teach them how to encrypt that stuff right? How about external drives? How many people do you know that are still using the same drive they bought 6 years ago as their only backup. At least it was their only backup until their laptops filled up and they have a copy of the file anyway.
If I audit your mother-in-law I guarantee I'll find a dataloss case waiting to happen, and your solutions are part of the problem. You have presented someone with a thing but without realising that what goes into data safety is not a thing but rather management of things. The cloud takes care of the management part of it for those people who think it doesn't take much expertise.
For everyone else, there's dataloss.