Well just a comment about your previous post, the one where you keep going "FACT", saying "FACT" before everything doesn't make it true you know, in fact facts are very relative but lets not go there, all you achieve saying "FACT" is making you sound like a uter moron.
Anyhow, about updates on Linux, well it so happens that I install software, drivers, updates regularly using a GUI that was provided by my distro (ubuntu) and do all this in a couple clicks, when drivers or kernel components are updated granted I have to reboot, which takes about 30 seconds, 30 seconds reboot out of 100 days chunks of uptime is not that bad. The drivers I have installed work very well and I have no complaint about them, I game (yes I game), I participate in GPU-based computation projects, I code, I surf the intertubes, I pirate shit, and so far really Ubuntu has been quite fair to me.
The other day I installed Vista on another machine so I could copy a few DLLs from it for Wine, well, let me say, I just dont understand how so many people can put up with that crap; first the trackpad driver failed, then norton (it came with norton preinstalled, HP laptop) started being an annoying fuck popping warning messages and update notices and slowing everything down while at it, the hard drive AT IDLE with nothing except Norton loaded was thrashing like mad, 3 gigs of RAM left and yet thrashing the swap, how does that make sense? And of course came the updates for Windows itself, machine takes ages to shut down (I was in a bit of ahurry too) because of it applying updates right when you just want to get your Vista session over with already! I got my DLLs, and promptly expunged that shit from the laptop's hard drive.
You gotta love these "real life gore (c)" speculative sensationalistic "news".
Life != Holywood things happen differently in life, people die some other ways, not holywood spectaculars, most of the time discretly, and THEY NEVER COME BACK; so grow up
travel alot in and out of the US, aside from the long flights, I had (and so did everyone else) to put up with insane waits at immigration and customs along with the most retarded questions I have ever seen ("are you a terrorist?", "are you coming to the US to commit crimes?"); eventually I got a green card, which somehow required a medical visit that i found very invasive of my privacy. somehow the green card didn't make any of stuff any easier. Looking back now, I can't believe I put up with that sort of bullsh*t for as long as I did, I had no real incentive to, I could easily have picked to work in good ol' Europe. This doesn't surprise me at all, forensic'ing laptops and such, I am too numb to America foreign policies by now, just another reason to never set foot in the US again.
Without bumping in odd glitches (especially in multiplayer).
Finally I can roam a cubular world without being scared of being attacked by invisible zombies and I'll be able to see my fellow cubeheads without them disappearing suddenly on next chunk! That will be a brilliant day!
And I'll be able to go on delightfuly amusing adventures with my friends.
Skyrim?? fuck Skyrim, it probably doesn't even run on Linux... Overhyped piece of....
Good thing I dont trust french companies (on top of the list, my ISP) then (I live in the aformentioned country).
Good thing I am not in France to host my data, even though admitedly french hosting prices are going to have to go down to compensate loss of trust after this.
Sarkozy and his goons have no bloody idea what they are doing to the french digital economy, innovation and research; his ludicrous ideas to hand the internet over to the police and big media corps are having a huge NEGATIVE impact on the very people and companies that keep the network running! Sarkozy wants to make France attractive for major tech companies and research in digital innovations (so he claims) BUT what researcher or company is going to want to come to France when they'll feel constantly spyed upon and will have to follow silly rules on a crippled network ?
They are messing with things they have no hope of ever understanding at this rate and it is hurting the economy and people generally.
Sorry but given GoDaddy's abysmal reputation and their tendency to pull outrageous stunts on their customers I do not think they qualify to be trusted with anything.
Who cares if their "roots" are in all major browsers... I bet any dictator on earth could convince browsers to have their roots doesn't make them any more trustworthy.
Im surprised that following the news about Comodo that company still has the guts to sell certificates.
The point is, the sale of certificates is a very profitable racket, a small script to generate certificates, a high price tag (considering the amount of work performed manually, NONE), this is even worse than fees on bank transactions (which are also just scripts). Hell, if I believed that this is in anyway ethical I would have a CA set up in a few minutes with a couple lines of scripting, but sadly I believe it is a fraudulent system, as the recent news have demonstrated.
In my humble opinion certificates have always been a shit idea, sorry but I think there are other ways to do security that don't involve bribing (huge amounts often) a so-called "Certification Authority" into creating a minuscule file (that you could have very easily made at home for FREE) to prove to others that you are nice.
This is just beyond ridiculous.
If they want to keep this fail system at the very least make certificates free and administered by a trustworthy and not-for-profit organization.
in developing office style applications, not high performance ones.
Also it doesn't have its place, indeed, when starting to learn programming; kids need to learn to think "close the metal" to understand why things go wrong, otherwise they will be forever relying on the documentation of some blackbox OO API and understand almost nothing.
When they grow up and understand the "zen of programming/computer science" then yes by all means use OO/Java/C#/C++ whatever to save you time and not reinvent the wheel.
After all you don't learn to drive before you basically understand how an engine works do you? right?... sigh...
That media corporations have completely lost touch with reality. Why should we pity them when they pull this sort of stunt every other day in the name of their falled business?
I haven't read the article but assuming the description is accurate...
What are the processing requirements? do they have tons and tons of machines doing voice recognition on every call, with the possibility of false-positives and negatives? or do they have cubicles with underpaid workers sitting all day listening to phone calls? If they use the automated approach TALK ABOUT SWATING A FLY WITH AN ATOM BOMB! Wouldn't all this processing power be put to better use in some scientific project ?
Could we assume in, say, Europe, or the US, governments could pull this off (if they aren't already) ? In which case we have alot more to worry about than net neutrality, crippled ISP DNS servers and media corporations spying on P2P traffic.
Oh and does this apply to international calls too? because if they do that to international calls (much like they would censor internet traffic) they are defacto violating privacy of foreign citizens.
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Well just a comment about your previous post, the one where you keep going "FACT", saying "FACT" before everything doesn't make it true you know, in fact facts are very relative but lets not go there, all you achieve saying "FACT" is making you sound like a uter moron.
Anyhow, about updates on Linux, well it so happens that I install software, drivers, updates regularly using a GUI that was provided by my distro (ubuntu) and do all this in a couple clicks, when drivers or kernel components are updated granted I have to reboot, which takes about 30 seconds, 30 seconds reboot out of 100 days chunks of uptime is not that bad.
The drivers I have installed work very well and I have no complaint about them, I game (yes I game), I participate in GPU-based computation projects, I code, I surf the intertubes, I pirate shit, and so far really Ubuntu has been quite fair to me.
The other day I installed Vista on another machine so I could copy a few DLLs from it for Wine, well, let me say, I just dont understand how so many people can put up with that crap; first the trackpad driver failed, then norton (it came with norton preinstalled, HP laptop) started being an annoying fuck popping warning messages and update notices and slowing everything down while at it, the hard drive AT IDLE with nothing except Norton loaded was thrashing like mad, 3 gigs of RAM left and yet thrashing the swap, how does that make sense? And of course came the updates for Windows itself, machine takes ages to shut down (I was in a bit of ahurry too) because of it applying updates right when you just want to get your Vista session over with already!
I got my DLLs, and promptly expunged that shit from the laptop's hard drive.
There you go kind sir
or something like that
You gotta love these "real life gore (c)" speculative sensationalistic "news".
Life != Holywood
things happen differently in life, people die some other ways, not holywood spectaculars, most of the time discretly, and THEY NEVER COME BACK; so grow up
travel alot in and out of the US, aside from the long flights, I had (and so did everyone else) to put up with insane waits at immigration and customs along with the most retarded questions I have ever seen ("are you a terrorist?", "are you coming to the US to commit crimes?"); eventually I got a green card, which somehow required a medical visit that i found very invasive of my privacy. somehow the green card didn't make any of stuff any easier.
Looking back now, I can't believe I put up with that sort of bullsh*t for as long as I did, I had no real incentive to, I could easily have picked to work in good ol' Europe.
This doesn't surprise me at all, forensic'ing laptops and such, I am too numb to America foreign policies by now, just another reason to never set foot in the US again.
It is not the hardware I am concerned about, it is the software that's where evil is.
Without bumping in odd glitches (especially in multiplayer).
Finally I can roam a cubular world without being scared of being attacked by invisible zombies and I'll be able to see my fellow cubeheads without them disappearing suddenly on next chunk!
That will be a brilliant day!
And I'll be able to go on delightfuly amusing adventures with my friends.
Skyrim?? fuck Skyrim, it probably doesn't even run on Linux... ....
Overhyped piece of
True thats why they are consumers, they don't know any better.
Oh well they are subhuman anyway, can't save those who don't want to be saved, let them be a good consumer and eat shit for all I care...
Good thing I dont trust french companies (on top of the list, my ISP) then (I live in the aformentioned country).
Good thing I am not in France to host my data, even though admitedly french hosting prices are going to have to go down to compensate loss of trust after this.
Sarkozy and his goons have no bloody idea what they are doing to the french digital economy, innovation and research; his ludicrous ideas to hand the internet over to the police and big media corps are having a huge NEGATIVE impact on the very people and companies that keep the network running!
Sarkozy wants to make France attractive for major tech companies and research in digital innovations (so he claims) BUT what researcher or company is going to want to come to France when they'll feel constantly spyed upon and will have to follow silly rules on a crippled network ?
They are messing with things they have no hope of ever understanding at this rate and it is hurting the economy and people generally.
Not since the stunt they pulled with wikileaks.
"foster greater economic development and prosperity in INTERPOL member countries."
READ: foster greater consumerism and censorship in INTERPOL member dictatorships.
Sorry but given GoDaddy's abysmal reputation and their tendency to pull outrageous stunts on their customers I do not think they qualify to be trusted with anything.
Who cares if their "roots" are in all major browsers... I bet any dictator on earth could convince browsers to have their roots doesn't make them any more trustworthy.
Im surprised that following the news about Comodo that company still has the guts to sell certificates.
The point is, the sale of certificates is a very profitable racket, a small script to generate certificates, a high price tag (considering the amount of work performed manually, NONE), this is even worse than fees on bank transactions (which are also just scripts).
Hell, if I believed that this is in anyway ethical I would have a CA set up in a few minutes with a couple lines of scripting, but sadly I believe it is a fraudulent system, as the recent news have demonstrated.
The current CA-based system needs to change.
The point is that you cannot CONSUME information.
It is a horrible diet indeed, choking on bytes? not for me thanks.
In my humble opinion certificates have always been a shit idea, sorry but I think there are other ways to do security that don't involve bribing (huge amounts often) a so-called "Certification Authority" into creating a minuscule file (that you could have very easily made at home for FREE) to prove to others that you are nice.
This is just beyond ridiculous.
If they want to keep this fail system at the very least make certificates free and administered by a trustworthy and not-for-profit organization.
Are you sure you know the english language?
Can you eat Tweets? I doubt it...
But the real question is, did you get to see her private files ?
Isn't that sort of throttling a failure to respect their peering agreements?
depends for whom.
but i guess you are right, after all, who wants to pollute their mind with garbage?
I say boycott the media, see how the "artists" like it when no one cares about them and they can't be attention whores anymore
in developing office style applications, not high performance ones.
Also it doesn't have its place, indeed, when starting to learn programming; kids need to learn to think "close the metal" to understand why things go wrong, otherwise they will be forever relying on the documentation of some blackbox OO API and understand almost nothing.
When they grow up and understand the "zen of programming/computer science" then yes by all means use OO/Java/C#/C++ whatever to save you time and not reinvent the wheel.
After all you don't learn to drive before you basically understand how an engine works do you? right? ... sigh...
That it might be because everyone is moving to encrypted networks?
If it runs natively on Linux.
Otherwise, i might consider it if it runs flawless in Wine.
If it doesn't forget it have better things to do in life than tweak Wine to play games. and better things to do too than to install Windows.
That media corporations have completely lost touch with reality.
Why should we pity them when they pull this sort of stunt every other day in the name of their falled business?
I haven't read the article but assuming the description is accurate...
What are the processing requirements? do they have tons and tons of machines doing voice recognition on every call, with the possibility of false-positives and negatives? or do they have cubicles with underpaid workers sitting all day listening to phone calls?
If they use the automated approach TALK ABOUT SWATING A FLY WITH AN ATOM BOMB! Wouldn't all this processing power be put to better use in some scientific project ?
Could we assume in, say, Europe, or the US, governments could pull this off (if they aren't already) ?
In which case we have alot more to worry about than net neutrality, crippled ISP DNS servers and media corporations spying on P2P traffic.
Oh and does this apply to international calls too? because if they do that to international calls (much like they would censor internet traffic) they are defacto violating privacy of foreign citizens.
Censorship and greedy media corps!
Of course people are going to set up some darknet or VPNs amongst friends/collaborators if they are constantly spied upon!
The public internet is going to become a shopping mall eventually and the real interesting stuff is going to happen on smaller darknets.
hmm so ?
is that supposed to give him a bad name?
you fail at trolling.
I am not keen on the "search engine that knows my entire browsing history", sounds like google actually and I hate that already enough as it is.