I'm not brave enough for Brave. When it comes to proprietary browsers, I'm a coward. Source or GTFO. Web browsers are too damned important to taste-test some secret sauce
A free-thinking libertarian once gave me a great acid test for weather or not laws should exist: Would the existence of such a law have helped the colonies overthrow King George III or would such a law have helped King George III keep hold of the colonies?
I don't understand. Which condition should the law satisfy in order to exist? Also, what exactly does it mean to "help the colonies overthrow King George III"?
A law that would explicitly enable the revolutionaries to stand up to King George III would be a law that would help the colonies overthrow the King. "We want guns and cannons and stuff!" "Okay. Free guns and cannons for all colonists!" "BOOM BOOM BOOM! We're FREE!"
What about a law freeing the colonies of taxation? "No taxation without representation!" "Okay. No taxes then." "Yaaaay! This king RULES! No revolution!"
What about a law giving the colonies a voice in Parliament? "No taxation without representation!" "Okay. You can have some seats." "Cool. Sounds fair. No need for revolution."
An overly oppressive law could also help the colonies to overthrow the king, by strengthening the resolve and numbers of the opposition. "This king sucks!" "Oh yeah! Well I claim primae noctis on all marriages in the colonies. You also have to pay your own way to England. You can't get married otherwise. We'll kill you if you don't comply." "Let's kill him!"
Does timing matter? Couldn't the same law have different effects during different stages of the revolution? Consider something which, early on, would be non-controversial and "nip in the bud" revolutionary activities. However, if enacted after the colonies were already in revolt, this same law would be seen as oppressive and instead fuel rebellion? "Don't talk to Ben Franklin!" "Ben who?" vs. "Don't talk to Ben Franklin!" "FUCK YOU!"
Is this really a good test? Wouldn't the most oppressive laws imaginable actually pass, because they would incite revolution? Should the gov't really pass crazy laws simply for the purpose of provoking the public?
Oh, and it's "whether"./pedant
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To be honest, the choices for the D candidates is even more pathetic. You have a confirmed liar who has zero actual executive experience and a socialist nutjob who's executive experience is limited to being the Mayor of Burlington VT. I'm not liking where our country is headed.
It had GLES support with no X11 driver, not big-boy OpenGL. This should enable stuff like Blender, hardware compositing in KWin, or running Kodi in a window (rather than full-screen all the time).
This is a huge step forward for the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi.
Yes, most of android devices ship with the play store, but you still have the option to completely ignore it.
No, you don't have that option as long as it's installed. Play store will update apps on your device that it didn't install. Install Firefox from F-Droid, and googleplay will update it. There's no way to remove it. The only way to get rid of Play, is to install a ROM that doesn't have it pre-installed.
A web browser that isn't awful. Anything that can run uMatrix would suffice. The only way to get a decent browser on Android is with a real linux chroot and X11 app (and the X11 app ruins Chromium's built-in touch support). All the native browsers are fucking horrible. FF for Android is arguably the best, and it's still awful, supporting only a tiny subset of FF addons (no NoScript, no uMatrix). Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions at all.
Which is why they cannot use the term theft when talking about pirates because that is libel or slander (depending on the medium) as they would be accusing them of a crime they did not commit.
"Piracy" is the act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. Therefore, calling copyright infringers "pirates" is just as slanderous as calling them thieves.
There is a reason (LiquidVR) Dell/Alienware went exclusively with AMD for Oculus Rift builds, somehow that doesn't matter for SteamOS, eh?
Correct. That doesn't matter for SteamOS. Occulus announced they were dropping Linux (SteamOS) and Mac support back in May.
AMDs GPUs are more than competitive at the moment, stop spreading BS.
Maybe on Windows, but if you RTFA, you'd see that in Phoronix's tests, the $650 R9 Fury X was regularly outperformed by a $120 GeForce GTX 750 on SteamOS.
By all accounts the film is a piece of crap anyway (just like every other Adam Sandler film to date)
Actually, Punch-Drunk Love was an excellent film. It wasn't just a good movie in spite of starring Sandler, he was actually pretty good in his own right.
If we were talking just about source code and binaries weren't a thing at all, then GPL would be this kind of license: "you can copy and distribute this code, so long as you let anyone else copy and distribute any modifications you make to this code if you choose to distribute your modified version".
FTFY.
I also have the choice to distribute nothing. I can run my modified versions of GPL code on my own servers, and even charge people mountains of money to use it, SaaS style. Under the GPL, I don't need to provide source for anything.
This ugly reality is why the FSF created the GNU Affero license.
You still use NoScript? uMatrix is available for Firefox now. Goodbye NoScript. Goodbye RequestPolicy. Goodbye CookieSafe. uMatrix does it all and does it better.
Your web browser is a dog. uMatrix is its leash. It's available for Chrome as well.
Many "real treatments" are actually only moderately better than placebos and come with significant side effects; yet placebos are often much better than no treatment at all.
This is why the Bonkers Institute is recommending that sugar pills be replaced with warfarin:
"One of the most common rodenticides is warfarin, a chemical compound introduced commercially in 1948 and still widely used as rat poison today, sold under brand names like Adios, Dethnel, Kaput, Kumatox, Rat-B-Gone and Warfarat. Scientists discovered that small doses of warfarin, though lethal to laboratory mice, could actually be of therapeutic value to humans. In 1954 the FDA approved warfarin as a human anticoagulant, and today it remains the anticoagulant of choice, commonly prescribed for the prevention of blood clots in patients with a history of heart disease. Brand names include Coumadin and Jantoven. Serious life-threatening side effects are relatively rare in most patients, especially at low doses of 1 milligram or less."...
"Replacing sugar pills with rat poison would have far-reaching implications for the way new drugs are marketed to the public. Claiming that a drug works "better than a sugar pill" is simply another way of saying it's better than nothing. On the other hand, saying a drug is "better than rat poison" may cause patients to think twice before swallowing it. Describing adverse effects as "similar to rat poison," "not as bad as rat poison," or "milder than rat poison" would be a simple yet effective reminder to both patients and physicians that FDA-approved prescription medicines are seldom fatal when taken as directed."...
"The universal adoption of a "rodenticide standard" will mark the dawn of a new medical era. By adopting rigorous new guidelines requiring every drug entering the market to be at least as safe and effective as rat poison, many lives will be saved, litigation avoided, and negative publicity minimized. No longer merely "better than nothing," medicine of the future would actually be superior to nonlethal quantities of a known toxic substance. The bar has been raised from sugar pill to rodenticide."
The only browser I can think of that isn't tied to some other browser is Konqueror but unfortunately I find KHTML to be somewhat awful and even if it wasn't Konqueror is *nix only.
Konqueror works fine on Windows. The last time I tried it on Mac OS X, it worked fine too, but that was back in 2008 or so.
That sounds very much like a gender-based stereotype.
I don't think you quite understand what that word means.
I don't think you quite understand what that word means.
A stereotype is a simplistic model that is held as if it were true of *all* members of some group.
Ok. I'm with you there.
So if I say, "blacks are poorer than whites in the US," that's not a stereotype
I disagree. See your own definition above. You just demonstrated a simplistic model, being held as if it was true for all members of the group. There are some fabulously rich black people in the US. Your statement is not uniformly true.
it's a statistical assertion about differences in economic attainment between groups in aggregate
You didn't assert any statistics. If you had, then it would have been such an assertion. Besides, such an assertion would make a good foundation for a stereotype. (Stereotypes aren't always bad, or unjust. That's just a stereotype about stereotypes.)
But if I say "Blacks are poorer because blacks are lazy," that's using a stereotype because it attributes something inherent to blackness.
No. It's two stereotypes. 1. Blacks are poorer. 2. Blacks are lazy. They are both stereotypes because they are both general simplistic models of a group.
Likewise if I say "Bob can't own that Mercedes because he's black," I'm implicitly stating that all blacks are too poor to own a Mercedes so that's a stereotype.
If you're simply viewing Bob and stating your opinion about him driving his Mercedes, that's prejudice. Furthermore, if Bob does own the Mercedes, your prejudice is also false. It's related to stereotypes, but different. Prejudice is "a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." The basis for prejudice is often stereotypes.
On the other hand, if you're refusing to sell Bob a Mercedes because he's black, that would be discrimination. Discrimination is often the result of prejudice, which is often the result of stereotypes. Discrimination can sometimes be against the law. AFAIK, there are no laws in the US against holding stereotypes or prejudices, so long as you do not discriminate.
I believe It's discrimination to not hire/or fire based on sexual orientation. I do not believe that it is discrimination to refuse to take the money and provide services to someone who wants to you to make a cake for their same-sex wedding.
I believe you don't know the definition of "discrimination".
Discriminate: 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate. 2. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age.
You [wouldn't] even have to look for GPL violations in products anymore, corporations will do that for you in the products of their competitor, hoping to kick them out of the market that way.
Great idea!
I'm concerned my competition is sucking up all of my users with their superior product and marketing. So, naturally, I was wondering: How can I discourage users from using my competitors product?
That's it! I should force my competitor to make his product free! The users will come flocking straight to me. Brilliant!
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I'm not brave enough for Brave. When it comes to proprietary browsers, I'm a coward. Source or GTFO. Web browsers are too damned important to taste-test some secret sauce
I wish there was a way to block ALL shares, and ONLY see original content created by someone I know.
There is a way: FBPurity.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
A free-thinking libertarian once gave me a great acid test for weather or not laws should exist: Would the existence of such a law have helped the colonies overthrow King George III or would such a law have helped King George III keep hold of the colonies?
I don't understand. Which condition should the law satisfy in order to exist? Also, what exactly does it mean to "help the colonies overthrow King George III"?
A law that would explicitly enable the revolutionaries to stand up to King George III would be a law that would help the colonies overthrow the King.
"We want guns and cannons and stuff!"
"Okay. Free guns and cannons for all colonists!"
"BOOM BOOM BOOM! We're FREE!"
What about a law freeing the colonies of taxation?
"No taxation without representation!"
"Okay. No taxes then."
"Yaaaay! This king RULES! No revolution!"
What about a law giving the colonies a voice in Parliament?
"No taxation without representation!"
"Okay. You can have some seats."
"Cool. Sounds fair. No need for revolution."
An overly oppressive law could also help the colonies to overthrow the king, by strengthening the resolve and numbers of the opposition.
"This king sucks!"
"Oh yeah! Well I claim primae noctis on all marriages in the colonies. You also have to pay your own way to England. You can't get married otherwise. We'll kill you if you don't comply."
"Let's kill him!"
Does timing matter? Couldn't the same law have different effects during different stages of the revolution? Consider something which, early on, would be non-controversial and "nip in the bud" revolutionary activities. However, if enacted after the colonies were already in revolt, this same law would be seen as oppressive and instead fuel rebellion?
"Don't talk to Ben Franklin!"
"Ben who?"
vs.
"Don't talk to Ben Franklin!"
"FUCK YOU!"
Is this really a good test? Wouldn't the most oppressive laws imaginable actually pass, because they would incite revolution? Should the gov't really pass crazy laws simply for the purpose of provoking the public?
Oh, and it's "whether". /pedant
*whose
D'oh!
To be honest, the choices for the D candidates is even more pathetic. You have a confirmed liar who has zero actual executive experience and a socialist nutjob who's executive experience is limited to being the Mayor of Burlington VT. I'm not liking where our country is headed.
FTFY
Does this Raspbian OS use systemd?
Of course it does, it's a fork of Debian Jessie, but that's not what this is about.
Hate systemd? This is still good news. This means that the driver is probably in good enough shape for you to build it on Gentoo.
It had GLES support with no X11 driver, not big-boy OpenGL. This should enable stuff like Blender, hardware compositing in KWin, or running Kodi in a window (rather than full-screen all the time).
This is a huge step forward for the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi.
Yes, most of android devices ship with the play store, but you still have the option to completely ignore it.
No, you don't have that option as long as it's installed. Play store will update apps on your device that it didn't install. Install Firefox from F-Droid, and googleplay will update it. There's no way to remove it. The only way to get rid of Play, is to install a ROM that doesn't have it pre-installed.
A web browser that isn't awful. Anything that can run uMatrix would suffice. The only way to get a decent browser on Android is with a real linux chroot and X11 app (and the X11 app ruins Chromium's built-in touch support). All the native browsers are fucking horrible. FF for Android is arguably the best, and it's still awful, supporting only a tiny subset of FF addons (no NoScript, no uMatrix). Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions at all.
Which is why they cannot use the term theft when talking about pirates because that is libel or slander (depending on the medium) as they would be accusing them of a crime they did not commit.
"Piracy" is the act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. Therefore, calling copyright infringers "pirates" is just as slanderous as calling them thieves.
There is a reason (LiquidVR) Dell/Alienware went exclusively with AMD for Oculus Rift builds, somehow that doesn't matter for SteamOS, eh?
Correct. That doesn't matter for SteamOS. Occulus announced they were dropping Linux (SteamOS) and Mac support back in May.
AMDs GPUs are more than competitive at the moment, stop spreading BS.
Maybe on Windows, but if you RTFA, you'd see that in Phoronix's tests, the $650 R9 Fury X was regularly outperformed by a $120 GeForce GTX 750 on SteamOS.
From TFS:
The plague of Justinian from 541 to 543 decimated nearly half the population in the Mediterranean,
So, it killed almost 5% of them? That's strange, I thought it would have been a lot more.
Was it apt that burned you, or Nokia? Was packaging really your biggest problem?
Snappy is Cannical's attempt to get rid of apt because it doesn't work for paid apps.
It seemed to work fine on Maemo 5 Fremantle on my N900 almost six years ago. The Ovi Store used apt.
By all accounts the film is a piece of crap anyway (just like every other Adam Sandler film to date)
Actually, Punch-Drunk Love was an excellent film. It wasn't just a good movie in spite of starring Sandler, he was actually pretty good in his own right.
If we were talking just about source code and binaries weren't a thing at all, then GPL would be this kind of license: "you can copy and distribute this code, so long as you let anyone else copy and distribute any modifications you make to this code if you choose to distribute your modified version".
FTFY.
I also have the choice to distribute nothing. I can run my modified versions of GPL code on my own servers, and even charge people mountains of money to use it, SaaS style. Under the GPL, I don't need to provide source for anything.
This ugly reality is why the FSF created the GNU Affero license.
You still use NoScript?
uMatrix is available for Firefox now.
Goodbye NoScript. Goodbye RequestPolicy. Goodbye CookieSafe. uMatrix does it all and does it better.
Your web browser is a dog. uMatrix is its leash.
It's available for Chrome as well.
Many "real treatments" are actually only moderately better than placebos and come with significant side effects; yet placebos are often much better than no treatment at all.
This is why the Bonkers Institute is recommending that sugar pills be replaced with warfarin:
"One of the most common rodenticides is warfarin, a chemical compound introduced commercially in 1948 and still widely used as rat poison today, sold under brand names like Adios, Dethnel, Kaput, Kumatox, Rat-B-Gone and Warfarat. Scientists discovered that small doses of warfarin, though lethal to laboratory mice, could actually be of therapeutic value to humans. In 1954 the FDA approved warfarin as a human anticoagulant, and today it remains the anticoagulant of choice, commonly prescribed for the prevention of blood clots in patients with a history of heart disease. Brand names include Coumadin and Jantoven. Serious life-threatening side effects are relatively rare in most patients, especially at low doses of 1 milligram or less." ...
"Replacing sugar pills with rat poison would have far-reaching implications for the way new drugs are marketed to the public. Claiming that a drug works "better than a sugar pill" is simply another way of saying it's better than nothing. On the other hand, saying a drug is "better than rat poison" may cause patients to think twice before swallowing it. Describing adverse effects as "similar to rat poison," "not as bad as rat poison," or "milder than rat poison" would be a simple yet effective reminder to both patients and physicians that FDA-approved prescription medicines are seldom fatal when taken as directed." ...
"The universal adoption of a "rodenticide standard" will mark the dawn of a new medical era. By adopting rigorous new guidelines requiring every drug entering the market to be at least as safe and effective as rat poison, many lives will be saved, litigation avoided, and negative publicity minimized. No longer merely "better than nothing," medicine of the future would actually be superior to nonlethal quantities of a known toxic substance. The bar has been raised from sugar pill to rodenticide."
Microsoft advertises windows support for their xbone controllers. They sell a cable for the explicit purpose of using with your Windows PC.
And when it breaks after just a couple days, you're screwed.
They refuse to honor the warranty if you don't also own an xbone.
"Note You must register your Xbox One console to replace a wireless controller thatâ(TM)s under warranty."
Seems like a flagrant violation of Magnuson-Moss to me.
The only browser I can think of that isn't tied to some other browser is Konqueror but unfortunately I find KHTML to be somewhat awful and even if it wasn't Konqueror is *nix only.
Konqueror works fine on Windows. The last time I tried it on Mac OS X, it worked fine too, but that was back in 2008 or so.
That sounds very much like a gender-based stereotype.
I don't think you quite understand what that word means.
I don't think you quite understand what that word means.
A stereotype is a simplistic model that is held as if it were true of *all* members of some group.
Ok. I'm with you there.
So if I say, "blacks are poorer than whites in the US," that's not a stereotype
I disagree. See your own definition above. You just demonstrated a simplistic model, being held as if it was true for all members of the group. There are some fabulously rich black people in the US. Your statement is not uniformly true.
it's a statistical assertion about differences in economic attainment between groups in aggregate
You didn't assert any statistics. If you had, then it would have been such an assertion. Besides, such an assertion would make a good foundation for a stereotype. (Stereotypes aren't always bad, or unjust. That's just a stereotype about stereotypes.)
But if I say "Blacks are poorer because blacks are lazy," that's using a stereotype because it attributes something inherent to blackness.
No. It's two stereotypes. 1. Blacks are poorer. 2. Blacks are lazy. They are both stereotypes because they are both general simplistic models of a group.
Likewise if I say "Bob can't own that Mercedes because he's black," I'm implicitly stating that all blacks are too poor to own a Mercedes so that's a stereotype.
If you're simply viewing Bob and stating your opinion about him driving his Mercedes, that's prejudice. Furthermore, if Bob does own the Mercedes, your prejudice is also false. It's related to stereotypes, but different. Prejudice is "a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." The basis for prejudice is often stereotypes.
On the other hand, if you're refusing to sell Bob a Mercedes because he's black, that would be discrimination. Discrimination is often the result of prejudice, which is often the result of stereotypes. Discrimination can sometimes be against the law. AFAIK, there are no laws in the US against holding stereotypes or prejudices, so long as you do not discriminate.
With regard to your other points, I agree.
Not all Christians are assholes. Such a sign would be counterproductive. Limit your retaliatory actions to the actual assholes.
Just ask every customer, "Do you support the $BILL_WHICH_ALLOWS_FOR_DISCRIMINATORY_PRACTICES ?"
If 'yes':
"I believe your religion is dangerous, and don't want it in my store. Get the fuck out of here. Never come back."
If 'no':
"Welcome to my store! How can I help you?"
If 'I don't know':
"You shouldn't. Welcome to my store! How can I help you?"
I believe It's discrimination to not hire/or fire based on sexual orientation. I do not believe that it is discrimination to refuse to take the money and provide services to someone who wants to you to make a cake for their same-sex wedding.
I believe you don't know the definition of "discrimination".
Discriminate:
1. recognize a distinction; differentiate.
2. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age.
You [wouldn't] even have to look for GPL violations in products anymore, corporations will do that for you in the products of their competitor, hoping to kick them out of the market that way.
Great idea!
I'm concerned my competition is sucking up all of my users with their superior product and marketing. So, naturally, I was wondering: How can I discourage users from using my competitors product?
That's it! I should force my competitor to make his product free! The users will come flocking straight to me. Brilliant!