At a technical level, it isn't. Common-sense security is being applied: No app should have permissions to do something it can't show good need for. The fear isn't about technology, it's about Apple's business model, which is now built upon restricting the capabilities of their products in order to drive the users towards Apple's own supporting services. A successful business model, but one many regard as exploitative, detrimental to the users and a bad thing for the culture built around access to technology.
You can't life in peace with different viewpoints when you live in a democracy. Those different viewpoints vote too. The best you can hope for is that the conflict will be academic and political rather than violent.
Dawkins termed it the 'God of the Gaps,' and pointed out that the gaps have been shrinking throughout history as science explains more and more of the material questions of the universe.
The pope is a 'special creationist.' He's willing to accept the mostly-naturalistic explanations for life, the universe and everything... except man. The official position of the catholic church still says that God had to personally get involved in at least that bit and instill a soul or whatever it is God did in Genesis. Otherwise humans are nothing but smart animals and the whole theological system falls apart.
The 'special' part refers to the place of humans - distinct from everything else in the universe as the only creatures made in the image of God and by him directly.
I view it more in terms of 'if you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' To someone who thinks of everything in life in religious terms, it'd hard to comprehend science as anything but another religion competing for followers.
Because busy prisoners are peaceful prisoners. If they are gaming then they aren't planning riots, organising gangs or maintaining their drug-smuggling networks.
It's not the capabilities of their god, it's the validity of their text. If you accept that the world wasn't made in seven days, when the genesis story says it was, then... how can you trust any of it? How can you be sure there even was a Noah? Maybe the entire Exodus story never happened? Was there really a Samson, or a Solomon, or a David? Just throwing a whole chunk of the faith away and dismissing it as 'just a story' calls everything else into question - the entire old testament at the very least, and given that a lot of new testament theology depends upon revisions to the old, you can't even trust that any more. The options are to believe everything, or to doubt everything - and doubt is not something believers want.
I'm not aware of the bestiality history, but I recall the most recent attempt of the US government to ban internet gambling is to prohibit any US bank from doing business with a non-US gambling (including poker) company, thus making it impossible for their customers to pay. I am also reminded of how Wikileak's fundraising was crippled when no financial company would process payments to them, thus making it near-impossible to donate.
Here in the EU, we're removing all the highest-denomination notes from circulation on the grounds that the only people who need to make such huge transactions in cash are criminals.
It's been working for OPEC for a long time - maintaining prices *just* low enough that countries without such accessible oil struggle to compete as suppliers.
One of my hobby programs does have a sort algorithm I wrote myself. It's a radix sort, unusual only in that it has to read it's data from disk and write back to disk too... because it can be asked to sort about thirty gig. My todo list includes 'rewrite it with a quicksort.'
Possible, but also consider that the handset manufacturers are the ones imposing most of those controls and restrictions. They benefit from the ability to bundle un-uninstallable sponsored apps (including spyware) and can more easily ensure obsolescence and thus future handset sales if they have means to prevent software upgrades. Even if they did use ubuntu, they would probably have to find some means to lock it down. Maybe they'll use a bootloader that only loads signed OS images. They certainly won't be letting the user have root access - that would be a technical support nightmare. Even Android doesn't do that.
Much like Microsoft and Metro. Tablet and PC interfaces just arn't the same - what works on one is painful on the other. Apple hasn't even tried to make the iOS and OSX interfaces look similar.
The obvious method is to steal the drive itsself. If you want to be a purist and steal only the data, you can leave an empty drive of the same model in it's place.
1984 got one crucial element wrong. It assumed that the mass-surveilance and oppression would be at the hands of a government, rather than commercial interests.
If you don't want to work for a bunch of jerks, you've never been long-term unemployed. Once you see the money run out and are reduced to begging your parents to be allowed to move into their basement, you'd work for a jerk and be happy doing so.
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At a technical level, it isn't. Common-sense security is being applied: No app should have permissions to do something it can't show good need for. The fear isn't about technology, it's about Apple's business model, which is now built upon restricting the capabilities of their products in order to drive the users towards Apple's own supporting services. A successful business model, but one many regard as exploitative, detrimental to the users and a bad thing for the culture built around access to technology.
You can't life in peace with different viewpoints when you live in a democracy. Those different viewpoints vote too. The best you can hope for is that the conflict will be academic and political rather than violent.
Dawkins termed it the 'God of the Gaps,' and pointed out that the gaps have been shrinking throughout history as science explains more and more of the material questions of the universe.
The pope is a 'special creationist.' He's willing to accept the mostly-naturalistic explanations for life, the universe and everything... except man. The official position of the catholic church still says that God had to personally get involved in at least that bit and instill a soul or whatever it is God did in Genesis. Otherwise humans are nothing but smart animals and the whole theological system falls apart.
The 'special' part refers to the place of humans - distinct from everything else in the universe as the only creatures made in the image of God and by him directly.
I view it more in terms of 'if you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' To someone who thinks of everything in life in religious terms, it'd hard to comprehend science as anything but another religion competing for followers.
The laptops will be used... as light sources.
Or Program Files (x86) and system32. This problem isn't unique to linux.
Because busy prisoners are peaceful prisoners. If they are gaming then they aren't planning riots, organising gangs or maintaining their drug-smuggling networks.
What one politician considers values, another considers oppression.
It's not the capabilities of their god, it's the validity of their text. If you accept that the world wasn't made in seven days, when the genesis story says it was, then... how can you trust any of it? How can you be sure there even was a Noah? Maybe the entire Exodus story never happened? Was there really a Samson, or a Solomon, or a David? Just throwing a whole chunk of the faith away and dismissing it as 'just a story' calls everything else into question - the entire old testament at the very least, and given that a lot of new testament theology depends upon revisions to the old, you can't even trust that any more. The options are to believe everything, or to doubt everything - and doubt is not something believers want.
I'm not aware of the bestiality history, but I recall the most recent attempt of the US government to ban internet gambling is to prohibit any US bank from doing business with a non-US gambling (including poker) company, thus making it impossible for their customers to pay. I am also reminded of how Wikileak's fundraising was crippled when no financial company would process payments to them, thus making it near-impossible to donate.
Here in the EU, we're removing all the highest-denomination notes from circulation on the grounds that the only people who need to make such huge transactions in cash are criminals.
I believe they are, but only if you water down the religion side so much it's barely a religion at all.
Maybe the problem is that we are trying to solve a geopolitical debate based on where peoples great-to-the-nth grandparents once lived.
I can even imagine some countries actively trying to increase their population to increase their voting power.
It's been working for OPEC for a long time - maintaining prices *just* low enough that countries without such accessible oil struggle to compete as suppliers.
You didn't know what they meant before.
How? It resolves ambiguity.
One of my hobby programs does have a sort algorithm I wrote myself. It's a radix sort, unusual only in that it has to read it's data from disk and write back to disk too... because it can be asked to sort about thirty gig. My todo list includes 'rewrite it with a quicksort.'
That idea is so incredibly stupid, I'm going to assume you are trolling.
NTFS supports the same thing, it's just that hardly anyone ever uses it. Including Microsoft.
Possible, but also consider that the handset manufacturers are the ones imposing most of those controls and restrictions. They benefit from the ability to bundle un-uninstallable sponsored apps (including spyware) and can more easily ensure obsolescence and thus future handset sales if they have means to prevent software upgrades. Even if they did use ubuntu, they would probably have to find some means to lock it down. Maybe they'll use a bootloader that only loads signed OS images. They certainly won't be letting the user have root access - that would be a technical support nightmare. Even Android doesn't do that.
Much like Microsoft and Metro. Tablet and PC interfaces just arn't the same - what works on one is painful on the other. Apple hasn't even tried to make the iOS and OSX interfaces look similar.
The obvious method is to steal the drive itsself. If you want to be a purist and steal only the data, you can leave an empty drive of the same model in it's place.
1984 got one crucial element wrong. It assumed that the mass-surveilance and oppression would be at the hands of a government, rather than commercial interests.
If you don't want to work for a bunch of jerks, you've never been long-term unemployed. Once you see the money run out and are reduced to begging your parents to be allowed to move into their basement, you'd work for a jerk and be happy doing so.