You have to remember that the echo chamber MUST be maintained, and denial is one of the last resorts (along with abuse, claiming 'isms and trying to poison the conversation)
The fact that 'our side is at least as bad as their side' is simply not acceptable to their black and white world (lolz, I wonder if they think that one is racist).
The current Bozo and friends are, as expected, foolishly blatant and open about what they are doing. This comes from a lack of political experience, and is actually rather refreshing. The other mod were almost the definition of pure slick politics - where everything was hidden. They only mad a few slip ups that got leaked out and tipped the balance, but they were certainly adept at playing kiss the baby while selling out your freedom.
Having a loudmouth idiot in charge can have benifits, and I would suggest is making the whole system less corrupt, not more, as it is at least being exposed and made obvious.
What he did is the equivalent of walking up to the public documents window (just dream that such a thing exists..) as saying 'could I please have the FOI request number 1' then saying 'could I please have the FOI request number 2'.... until he had 7000 of them.
The fault in that case, and quite obviously in this, would be in the person (or server) that GAVE HIM THE DOCUMENTS WITHOUT ANY ATTEMPT TO VERIFY THAT HE WAS AUTHORISED TO RECEIVE THEM.
Remember, he didnt falsify ANY information, he didnt impersonate anyone, he didnt do anything else but ask the server if it would kindly send him this document, which it did.
So, your position is that asking for a document is breaking the law? Oh dear.
for encryption the government is not a defacto 2nd party. That would imply that you had the intention of sharing the information with them. For communications, the other end of the conversation is the 2nd party. For storage THERE Is NO SECOND PARTY!
The government is a 3rd party, as you had no intention of supplying them with access to this information. They are trying to FORCE people who have committed no crime to make them a default 2nd party. they have also show extreme bad faith in automatically recording and storing information illegally, without any knowledge of the public (whom they claim to represent) and keeping that information because they want it..They only got caught out by accident and did their very best to block that knowledge from the general public.
They have also established secret courts that claim to protect rights, however there is no public discussion of such things, no transparency, even long after the fact, and they have been caught intentionally lying about such things to hide their actions in court, destroying due process (parallel construction).
Is there any surprise that the public feel a need to protect themselves from such actions?
Note however that the government HAS worked to put in place protections for themselves against this, although with limited success, by trying to put in place exceptions for government officials.
That is not democracy, that is a surveillance state where the government wants the ability to dig through peoples history if and when it wishes for whatever purpose it wishes. It would be more democratically correct for the opposite to be in place - so the public has the right to dig through the history of the people asking to be placed in control.
i know you wont, because it doesnt fit your worldview, but have a look at this: http://www.ibtimes.com/white-black-crime-vs-black-white-crime-new-statistics-show-more-killings-between-2424598 Now, imagine what those stats look like if adjusted for total population..
Of course you are going to play silly qualitative games claiming 'but none of those black on white killings are because of race' Believe what you will, however it is pretty common street knowledge that black gangs target whites because they are less likely to resist violently, tend to carry more money, and deserve it more - and that is pretty much racism.
But no, your unverified single anecdote trumps decades of facts, doesnt it.
BTW, Yes, I know quite a few 'real' (maxist) communists, and even a real trotskiest. The more serious 'believers' are very very much in touch with the fact that communism has a fatal flaw in implementation because it centralises power excessively, and they know what that directly leads to.
As you obvious see Stalin and Mao as exceptions, perhaps you would like to point to the happy successful well balanced communist state?
The problem isnt left or right, it is totalitarianism, and anyone screaming for power for THEIR ONE TRUE BELIEF is pretty solidly in that camp from my point of view.
but.. but.. tell me it isnt so! Surely, as we were assured to strongly, because those contributions were NEVER political in nature, then they must be flowing as fast as always. Right?
https://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=5801 (TL;DR, thats a none news, official source documenting the layoff of 22 workers at the Clinton foundation because they shut down their global initiative project.)
Because people are easily led sheep, and have been convinced that these are their betters, and that they should look up to them? It also helps that they own all the media, most of the government (if not all, no one who is not owned will get far), and almost most importantly, the entertainment industry.
This is, I am afraid, the cost of popularist democracy. This is also probably why original democracy was NOT popularist democracy, and had a number of features, now long gone, designed to stop this very development.
We are all busy racing to totalitarianism, with the only real competition being who wants to get there first. Right now the left is showing a more rabid love for it, however the right are playing many of the same games.
While China likes to claim Taiwan is China, Taiwan would beg to differ. And have a reasonably large standing army who would also, Around 1.3% of their population are active military, and close to 8% are reserves.
Or, just perhaps, you could actually look at someone who is presenting INFORMATION, then think about it. I know that is revolutionary, but if you would prefer to live on throwaway one liners in article summaries, then who am I to suggest otherwise.
This guy doesnt TELL you what to think, he is just giving you information, you know, stuff, YOU can think about.
And yes, the information he gives you DOES come from peer reviewed data sources, FWIW, just not the ones the media like to make headlines from.
1 - Unless I am doing it wrong (tm) the parts of their genitals they are likely to touch are not the parts that are likely to contain large numbers of bacteria (unless they are doing something rather odd in the bathroom...). 2 - Genitals are, pretty typically, kept in a reasonably clean place, out of the way of the general rough and tumble of life.
Personally I see a lot of logic in the wash your hands BEFORE going to the toilet way of thinking, because you are more likely to be putting bacteria ON your genitals than taking them off.
Why would I be more worried about bacteria, etc combing from genitals, as opposed to bacteria coming from lets say handling the money they may pay for their meal with? the steering wheel of their car?
Ah, sorry I forgot, you are an American right? such strange people..
Congratulations. You are contributing the the development of stronger strains of bacteria, while doing absolutely nothing positive for your own health. This has been well researched, and hand sanitizers are nothing but detrimental, except to the bank balance of the manufacturers.
a) built to be at least slightly robust, which generally means keeping the glass away from edges, not making things too thin, and using reasonably strong materials. b) are designed to be SERVICABLE, so that when we send them to a repair center for a cracked screen, or when a port bets broken off internally they can be repaired for much less than the cost of a new item.
Got it? And no, such devices cost LESS than ipads - which is why chromebooks are so prevalent in schools now.
However, it seems you are so apple fixated that you cannot comprehend basics.. sad.
This is far FAR from a modular phone, it is a connector/attachment mechanism on the back of a pretty normal phone.
the same could be done with a secondary usb c connector on the back easily enough, or the existing connector with a little work. but why. as you say, most 'mods' are really features the phone should be able to have anyway (alexa? really?), or things that should be external devices because you dont want to carry them all the time.
it is however a pity that wireless usb seems to be dead, as that would be somewhat useful..
Now consider a whole school DISTRICT full of them, with devices they dont own, and probably dont particularly like (because, school...) Any device aimed at schools and NOT specifically designed to be both repairable and robust as hell is a conceptual failure.
This is in fact at least half the reason chromebooks are so successful in schools.. There are a wide range of chromebooks designed to 'take the knocks' (and of course plenty that are crap, but those dont tend to last in market).
And these Ipads are NOT designed to not be broken by children. Not even close.
The rocks are for stonings! Good solid biblical education!
Also useful if they find a woman who has laid with a man who is not her husband.. Or eaten shellfish.. Or using the name of Jeho.... oh dear.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk
Now, I happen to use my CPU for high load database queries, and my GPU is used for offline rendering using a custom OpenGL graphics chain. I am SO pleased that Passmark will accurately determine the relative performance of all CPU/GPUs for me...
Translation: Benchmarks are of limited use as they only represent limited workloads. There IS no one figure that ranks performance of all CPU/GPUs for all workloads, pretty much by definition.
So, SpaceX now seems to have 52 Falcon 9 launches, with one inflight failure (launch 19) (and one preflight testing failure). The Space Shuttle had 135 launches, with one launch failure (and one return failure)
They are not doing too bad, for something not human-rated.
What exact 'performance' figure does dryriver suggest? Raw GIPS/TFLOPS? pretty much meaningless and very easy to get an achievable peak number. SPECINT/SPECFP? with what OS, compiler, flags, version, etc?
Anyone who knows much about cpu/gpu performance knows why this is a very very very silly 'suggestion'. It would be not more meaningful than the numbers they assign now.
The complain should be with the manufacturers - please come up with more sensible naming practices, but in the end, thats their decision.
Marketing is what is being questioned here - nothing technical - and good luck with that.. Market separation/obfuscation through complex naming schemes is seen as a feature by manufacturers, not a problem..
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Its called denial.
You have to remember that the echo chamber MUST be maintained, and denial is one of the last resorts (along with abuse, claiming 'isms and trying to poison the conversation)
The fact that 'our side is at least as bad as their side' is simply not acceptable to their black and white world (lolz, I wonder if they think that one is racist).
Actually, I beg to differ.
The current Bozo and friends are, as expected, foolishly blatant and open about what they are doing.
This comes from a lack of political experience, and is actually rather refreshing.
The other mod were almost the definition of pure slick politics - where everything was hidden.
They only mad a few slip ups that got leaked out and tipped the balance, but they were certainly adept at playing kiss the baby while selling out your freedom.
Having a loudmouth idiot in charge can have benifits, and I would suggest is making the whole system less corrupt, not more, as it is at least being exposed and made obvious.
Except he did not walk in the door.
What he did is the equivalent of walking up to the public documents window (just dream that such a thing exists..) as saying 'could I please have the FOI request number 1' then saying 'could I please have the FOI request number 2'.... until he had 7000 of them.
The fault in that case, and quite obviously in this, would be in the person (or server) that GAVE HIM THE DOCUMENTS WITHOUT ANY ATTEMPT TO VERIFY THAT HE WAS AUTHORISED TO RECEIVE THEM.
Remember, he didnt falsify ANY information, he didnt impersonate anyone, he didnt do anything else but ask the server if it would kindly send him this document, which it did.
So, your position is that asking for a document is breaking the law? Oh dear.
for encryption the government is not a defacto 2nd party.
That would imply that you had the intention of sharing the information with them.
For communications, the other end of the conversation is the 2nd party.
For storage THERE Is NO SECOND PARTY!
The government is a 3rd party, as you had no intention of supplying them with access to this information.
They are trying to FORCE people who have committed no crime to make them a default 2nd party.
they have also show extreme bad faith in automatically recording and storing information illegally, without any knowledge of the public (whom they claim to represent) and keeping that information because they want it..They only got caught out by accident and did their very best to block that knowledge from the general public.
They have also established secret courts that claim to protect rights, however there is no public discussion of such things, no transparency, even long after the fact, and they have been caught intentionally lying about such things to hide their actions in court, destroying due process (parallel construction).
Is there any surprise that the public feel a need to protect themselves from such actions?
Note however that the government HAS worked to put in place protections for themselves against this, although with limited success, by trying to put in place exceptions for government officials.
That is not democracy, that is a surveillance state where the government wants the ability to dig through peoples history if and when it wishes for whatever purpose it wishes. It would be more democratically correct for the opposite to be in place - so the public has the right to dig through the history of the people asking to be placed in control.
i know you wont, because it doesnt fit your worldview, but have a look at this:
http://www.ibtimes.com/white-black-crime-vs-black-white-crime-new-statistics-show-more-killings-between-2424598
Now, imagine what those stats look like if adjusted for total population..
Of course you are going to play silly qualitative games claiming 'but none of those black on white killings are because of race'
Believe what you will, however it is pretty common street knowledge that black gangs target whites because they are less likely
to resist violently, tend to carry more money, and deserve it more - and that is pretty much racism.
But no, your unverified single anecdote trumps decades of facts, doesnt it.
BTW, Yes, I know quite a few 'real' (maxist) communists, and even a real trotskiest.
The more serious 'believers' are very very much in touch with the fact that communism has a fatal flaw in implementation because it
centralises power excessively, and they know what that directly leads to.
As you obvious see Stalin and Mao as exceptions, perhaps you would like to point to the happy successful well balanced communist state?
The problem isnt left or right, it is totalitarianism, and anyone screaming for power for THEIR ONE TRUE BELIEF is pretty solidly in that camp from
my point of view.
God Damn I hate f#!@%! hate speech!
Did I get it right?
but.. but.. tell me it isnt so!
Surely, as we were assured to strongly, because those contributions were NEVER political in nature, then they must be flowing as fast as always.
Right?
https://labor.ny.gov/app/warn/details.asp?id=5801
(TL;DR, thats a none news, official source documenting the layoff of 22 workers at the Clinton foundation because they shut down their global initiative project.)
Because people are easily led sheep, and have been convinced that these are their betters, and that they should look up to them?
It also helps that they own all the media, most of the government (if not all, no one who is not owned will get far), and almost most importantly, the entertainment industry.
This is, I am afraid, the cost of popularist democracy.
This is also probably why original democracy was NOT popularist democracy, and had a number of features, now long gone, designed to stop this very development.
We are all busy racing to totalitarianism, with the only real competition being who wants to get there first. Right now the left is showing a more rabid love for it, however the right are playing many of the same games.
Ah yes, the modern liberal, sees 'disclosure', reads 'will censor anything *I* dont agree with'.
Sad and pathetic, really.
You had better do a little more research I think.
While China likes to claim Taiwan is China, Taiwan would beg to differ.
And have a reasonably large standing army who would also, Around 1.3% of their population are active military, and close to 8% are reserves.
So no, Taiwan is not China.
It will be even more funz when the inventor gets sued into the dirt the first time a child drowns with the system in place.
I hope he has taken a LOT of legal advice over possible legal exposure on such a device.....
Or, just perhaps, you could actually look at someone who is presenting INFORMATION, then think about it.
I know that is revolutionary, but if you would prefer to live on throwaway one liners in article summaries, then who am I to suggest otherwise.
This guy doesnt TELL you what to think, he is just giving you information, you know, stuff, YOU can think about.
And yes, the information he gives you DOES come from peer reviewed data sources, FWIW, just not the ones the media like to make headlines from.
Well, how about looking at a few actual facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFwie-kC8uc
But no, lets just live on headlines, funding funding funding! Sad, really.
You are in the wrong article..
Try again.
1 - Unless I am doing it wrong (tm) the parts of their genitals they are likely to touch are not the parts that are likely to contain large numbers of bacteria (unless they are doing something rather odd in the bathroom...).
2 - Genitals are, pretty typically, kept in a reasonably clean place, out of the way of the general rough and tumble of life.
Personally I see a lot of logic in the wash your hands BEFORE going to the toilet way of thinking, because you are more likely to be putting bacteria ON your genitals than taking them off.
Why would I be more worried about bacteria, etc combing from genitals, as opposed to bacteria coming from lets say handling the money they may pay for their meal with? the steering wheel of their car?
Ah, sorry I forgot, you are an American right? such strange people..
Congratulations.
You are contributing the the development of stronger strains of bacteria, while doing absolutely nothing positive for your own health.
This has been well researched, and hand sanitizers are nothing but detrimental, except to the bank balance of the manufacturers.
Great, we expect out devices to do a MINIMUM of 4 years in service.
Care to tell me how much 4 years of AppleCare+ costs?
Hint: it only EXISTS for 2 years, end of story..
How do you think that makes the TCO equation look? hmmm?
No, I am 'demanding' devices that are:
a) built to be at least slightly robust, which generally means keeping the glass away from edges, not making things too thin, and using reasonably strong materials.
b) are designed to be SERVICABLE, so that when we send them to a repair center for a cracked screen, or when a port bets broken off internally they can be repaired for much less than the cost of a new item.
Got it?
And no, such devices cost LESS than ipads - which is why chromebooks are so prevalent in schools now.
However, it seems you are so apple fixated that you cannot comprehend basics.. sad.
This is far FAR from a modular phone, it is a connector/attachment mechanism on the back of a pretty normal phone.
the same could be done with a secondary usb c connector on the back easily enough, or the existing connector with a little work.
but why. as you say, most 'mods' are really features the phone should be able to have anyway (alexa? really?), or things that should be external devices because you dont want to carry them all the time.
it is however a pity that wireless usb seems to be dead, as that would be somewhat useful..
You dont have children, do you.
Now consider a whole school DISTRICT full of them, with devices they dont own, and probably dont particularly like (because, school...)
Any device aimed at schools and NOT specifically designed to be both repairable and robust as hell is a conceptual failure.
This is in fact at least half the reason chromebooks are so successful in schools.. There are a wide range of chromebooks designed
to 'take the knocks' (and of course plenty that are crap, but those dont tend to last in market).
And these Ipads are NOT designed to not be broken by children. Not even close.
The rocks are for stonings!
Good solid biblical education!
Also useful if they find a woman who has laid with a man who is not her husband..
Or eaten shellfish..
Or using the name of Jeho.... oh dear..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk
Great!
Now, I happen to use my CPU for high load database queries, and my GPU is used for offline rendering using a custom OpenGL graphics chain.
I am SO pleased that Passmark will accurately determine the relative performance of all CPU/GPUs for me...
Translation: Benchmarks are of limited use as they only represent limited workloads.
There IS no one figure that ranks performance of all CPU/GPUs for all workloads, pretty much by definition.
So, SpaceX now seems to have 52 Falcon 9 launches, with one inflight failure (launch 19) (and one preflight testing failure).
The Space Shuttle had 135 launches, with one launch failure (and one return failure)
They are not doing too bad, for something not human-rated.
What exact 'performance' figure does dryriver suggest?
Raw GIPS/TFLOPS? pretty much meaningless and very easy to get an achievable peak number.
SPECINT/SPECFP? with what OS, compiler, flags, version, etc?
Anyone who knows much about cpu/gpu performance knows why this is a very very very silly 'suggestion'. It would be not more meaningful than the numbers they assign now.
The complain should be with the manufacturers - please come up with more sensible naming practices, but in the end, thats their decision.
Marketing is what is being questioned here - nothing technical - and good luck with that..
Market separation/obfuscation through complex naming schemes is seen as a feature by manufacturers, not a problem..
Really?
Because from where I am standing, the whole process has been pretty damn humiliating for the UK from the very start.