If people want to feed their kids toxic garbage, they should have the freedom.
Wrong. If people want to feed themselves garbage, they should have the freedom. I'll grant you that. But the second you start feeding the same garbage to your children, personal freedom is over. Having seen the kinds of lunches (read as: processed corn) children bring to school, it borders on child abuse in many cases.
Anything found as a result of pulling you over would be inadmissible. Smelling your weed would be irrelevant because the officer would have never been in a position to smell it had the system not flagged you. In the States anyway.
Unless the officer was going to pull you over for some other demonstrable reason (which is likely where the LEO would push) anything found would be originated from the faulty stop.
You're confusing morality with how people will actually behave. Morality describes how people *should* behave and is certainly universal. Your nuclear Holocaust or zombie apocalypse may change people's willingness to perform bad acts but it does nothing to change the moral status of those acts. Cultural relativism is nothing more than moral escapism; a convenient way to ignore atrocities that happen a sufficient distance from "home".
Why not use any of the open filesystems and provide an Autorun driver install. There are existing ext2/3 drivers for Windows and even if there weren't, I doubt that a FS driver is beyond Google's engineering department. FAT wasn't the best decision, it was the easiest.
And before someone complains about usability, complex peripherals (which a phone really is) have been using this technique for ages. If a couple clicks to connect your phone to a computer is too much, then a smartphone is probably not the best choice.
It's a good thing that a government finally stood up to regulate some of these big businesses. I'm glad to see that these big corporations aren't in the pocket book of Indian politicians... too bad this could never happen hear in America, where these companies would just hire lobbyists to prevent this from occurring. This is why we need to completely remove all business influence from American politics.
The sweet, sweet irony of your username is lost on no one.
I could definitely be wrong, but my understanding is that the Microsoft patent racket stems from patents on the FAT filesystem. Android formats its storage as FAT (to include compatibility with Windows, methinks) and MS saw dollar signs.
Kind of incredible that the manufacturers are being charged for the "privilege" of maintaining compatibility with Windows.
3) In the USA I am not aware of ANY websites that are blocked by a court or government order. Even the RIAA and MPAA have not been able to accomplish that one.
I'm sorry that the UK and other European governments have decided to implement thought police, but as an American there's not really anything I can do about it.
Sorry I had to be the one to ruin that rose-colored worldview of yours, but we (the USA) don't even screw around with the blocking part; we seize the domain and pretend the site never existed.
It's kind of a big deal.
And that has been "Invalidating You Argument 101". Don't forget, there's a paper due on "Using 1940's Racial Slurs to Achieve Maximum Irrelevance". I hope to see very creative use of those ridiculous arguments.
A pipe is directing the output of one command into the input for another. This way you can chain a bunch of utilities together and get very robust functionality from very simple "parts". Its part of the unix design philosophy, using a collection of tools that each do one thing very well. For instance, to find a specific package that you know is installed:
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If people want to feed their kids toxic garbage, they should have the freedom.
Wrong. If people want to feed themselves garbage, they should have the freedom. I'll grant you that. But the second you start feeding the same garbage to your children, personal freedom is over. Having seen the kinds of lunches (read as: processed corn) children bring to school, it borders on child abuse in many cases.
I don't think $DEITY means what you think it means. I'll just get you started, the Judeo-Christian god has a lot of competition.
Anything found as a result of pulling you over would be inadmissible. Smelling your weed would be irrelevant because the officer would have never been in a position to smell it had the system not flagged you. In the States anyway.
Unless the officer was going to pull you over for some other demonstrable reason (which is likely where the LEO would push) anything found would be originated from the faulty stop.
You're confusing morality with how people will actually behave. Morality describes how people *should* behave and is certainly universal. Your nuclear Holocaust or zombie apocalypse may change people's willingness to perform bad acts but it does nothing to change the moral status of those acts. Cultural relativism is nothing more than moral escapism; a convenient way to ignore atrocities that happen a sufficient distance from "home".
Why not use any of the open filesystems and provide an Autorun driver install. There are existing ext2/3 drivers for Windows and even if there weren't, I doubt that a FS driver is beyond Google's engineering department. FAT wasn't the best decision, it was the easiest.
And before someone complains about usability, complex peripherals (which a phone really is) have been using this technique for ages. If a couple clicks to connect your phone to a computer is too much, then a smartphone is probably not the best choice.
It's a good thing that a government finally stood up to regulate some of these big businesses. I'm glad to see that these big corporations aren't in the pocket book of Indian politicians... too bad this could never happen hear in America, where these companies would just hire lobbyists to prevent this from occurring. This is why we need to completely remove all business influence from American politics.
The sweet, sweet irony of your username is lost on no one.
I could definitely be wrong, but my understanding is that the Microsoft patent racket stems from patents on the FAT filesystem. Android formats its storage as FAT (to include compatibility with Windows, methinks) and MS saw dollar signs. Kind of incredible that the manufacturers are being charged for the "privilege" of maintaining compatibility with Windows.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Whoosh
3) In the USA I am not aware of ANY websites that are blocked by a court or government order. Even the RIAA and MPAA have not been able to accomplish that one. I'm sorry that the UK and other European governments have decided to implement thought police, but as an American there's not really anything I can do about it.
Sorry I had to be the one to ruin that rose-colored worldview of yours, but we (the USA) don't even screw around with the blocking part; we seize the domain and pretend the site never existed. It's kind of a big deal.
And that has been "Invalidating You Argument 101". Don't forget, there's a paper due on "Using 1940's Racial Slurs to Achieve Maximum Irrelevance". I hope to see very creative use of those ridiculous arguments.
A pipe is directing the output of one command into the input for another. This way you can chain a bunch of utilities together and get very robust functionality from very simple "parts". Its part of the unix design philosophy, using a collection of tools that each do one thing very well. For instance, to find a specific package that you know is installed:
yum list installed | grep somePackage
You seem lost. This is slashdot. The Faux News forums are over there.
You can't be serious. If you don't want your name on your profile, then what's the fucking point? What should go there then, a 404?
I'm saying that placing some anger on an entire country trying to hack our citizens seems like a good outlet for their 'creative energy'.
Anonymous doesn't have citizens.