"...designed specifically for system administrators and power-users to rapidly automate the administration of multiple operating systems..."
Oh you mean like how Windows has always treated dual-booting multiple operating systems? And support for filesystems of different operating systems? And pretty much any honest-to-goodness, not-embrace-and-extinguish support for *anything* other than M$ products on M$ operating systems, *especially* open-source products of any kind?
As I do see this as a positive move for M$, they will have precisely 30 more years of about-facing until I trust them with my Linux boxen. Until then, I hope they don't screw up.
And I can exhale and say, "Let's finally fucking move on now." It's so obvious what's going on here, it's been obvious since the debates, to me at least.
Purism products offer hardware kill-switches for camera, mic and multiple radios (bluetooth/wifi/...). They are vigilant in defending against shit like what is happening these days, likely not only in China.
"Librem is a line of computers manufactured by Purism, SPC featuring free (libre) hardware and software.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The laptop line is designed to protect privacy and freedom by providing no non-free (proprietary) software in the operating system or kernel,[7][8][9][10] avoiding the Intel Active Management Technology,[11] and gradually freeing and securing firmware.[12][13] Librem laptops feature hardware kill switches[14][15][16] for the microphone, webcam, Bluetooth, & Wi-Fi, and can be purchased air gapped."
If you support these companies the security and privacy bar for all manufacturers will raise.
Just remember, America... when this clown is done being in office, the damage he's done to your international relationships won't be easily fixed. We sure as fuck won't be rushing to make nice with you.
I hope you're talking in the context of American govt and not the citizenry. Most of us are decent, hard working and moral people - just like the rest of the world.
It's the shit-stains that seem to relentlessly crave money, power and ultimately control over others. It's like they're caught in an infinite loop, simply needing more - to fulfill some unfulfillable void that their past had stamped out of them for some reason or another. Neglect, abandonment, regret, what have you.
This. Also, you can buy large quantity packs of 1" power "extension" cords for a single device (works like the octopus power strip but with flexibility to use it on any plug). I use them all the time, I carry a few in my car in fact.
Also, USB power receptacles are gaining in popularity. It's becoming less necessary to have an A/C power adapter to charge a mobile device.
Being "online" most certainly *was* different in the 80s (and 90s when I was mostly on). It was local by requirement because of telco industry/long distance like you said. Every board was an island. Distributed. If you didn't like a board, you didn't call it (or if you REALLY didn't like it you'd hack it =p). It was every board for itself for the most part. It was an awesome time =}
Some of you may not know the glory of anonymity in the BBS (Bulletin Board System) days. But it really was glorious. Everyone had a "handle" or "alias". It was generally encouraged to be anonymous online back then, or at least be something that contrasts who you were IRL. It was part of the fun. It was part of the drive of going online in the first place, it was like role playing.
Many people I knew had complete online alter-egos based around characters they'd play in door games (hence my alias TheDarkener, a character I created when playing L.O.R.D.). I was a young teenager then and it was absolutely liberating to be able to converse with people of all ages and, for the most part, know they only knew of my intellect, my character and not my IRL age (for obviously bias may come into play).
Sure, there were boards that demanded you put in your real name, had a callback verification system so they'd know your real phone number..and those boards were hardly as popular as those who didn't do that.
Remember the movie "Hackers"? When Joey said, "I need a handle, man. I don't have an identity 'till I have a handle!" Man, I miss that. Now there's pressure for online platforms to ensure people are putting in their real names, real birthdays, upload photo IDs for verification, all this crap..what happened to the innocence of imagination? Oh yeah, it got crushed by the Internet becoming a global economic machine, and the money people got their grubby mitts into how it should work.
M$ is moving toward SaaS. They're doing it with Office and Windows is next I suspect. Win10 was "free" for a while IMHO because they've loaded the start menu with ads that they're making money off of. Think about that for a second - think about how many Windows installs there are in the world. Now think about Microsoft getting money every time they click on their start menu. Every time is an impression. I mean, I'm guessing that's their model anyway (per impression) but I could very well be wrong.
Aside from the above rant, Win10 (again, just MHO) is no better than Win7. It just has an updated UI and different methods of accessing the same things. It's no more stable, the updates are far less vetted and less stable and the user privacy issues for even using it makes me vomit in my mouth (and I don't even use it). I honestly don't see how the matador-esque marketing strategy has lasted this long to keep people buying their stuff. They definitely have momentum on their side.
I'm really sorry. I don't want to sound like I'm ungrateful for all of the GOOD things Microsoft has done, I am. They've done things I can't fathom to progress technology as a whole. They've got a lot of great, dedicated devs and there's a LOT to be said for keeping a company so successful for so long. And I'm really happy that they're joining the FOSS train - it's great to see them stop treating it like a competitor, because eventually it would have eventually starved them of air. Their SaaS model shift proves that they understand this, and it's a smart move. I grew up loving DOS just as much as I now love Linux. I just progressed past Microsoft products and onto Linux around 1993 when Windows '95 started putting all sorts of unnecessary junk in the root of my hard drive.
If you like euphoria, you're bad...so don't be bad.
Also, 90210 had an episode where Emily took Brandon to a rave where a guy sold "Euphoria" (a made up drug). Emily told Brandon that she knew he sold it because he had a football jersey with "U4" on it. Damn kids and their drugs
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"...designed specifically for system administrators and power-users to rapidly automate the administration of multiple operating systems..."
Oh you mean like how Windows has always treated dual-booting multiple operating systems? And support for filesystems of different operating systems? And pretty much any honest-to-goodness, not-embrace-and-extinguish support for *anything* other than M$ products on M$ operating systems, *especially* open-source products of any kind?
As I do see this as a positive move for M$, they will have precisely 30 more years of about-facing until I trust them with my Linux boxen. Until then, I hope they don't screw up.
The slashbots are at it again...at least the summary isn't "alarming", it's stating the facts. You are all jumping to conclusions mat.
"Tell your mom I'm just gonna get a little cacner, Stan"
And I can exhale and say, "Let's finally fucking move on now." It's so obvious what's going on here, it's been obvious since the debates, to me at least.
I do this on my current phone, but am always still worried about the microphone. You can't easily muffle a microphone from all sound.
Purism products offer hardware kill-switches for camera, mic and multiple radios (bluetooth/wifi/...). They are vigilant in defending against shit like what is happening these days, likely not only in China.
From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ):
"Librem is a line of computers manufactured by Purism, SPC featuring free (libre) hardware and software.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The laptop line is designed to protect privacy and freedom by providing no non-free (proprietary) software in the operating system or kernel,[7][8][9][10] avoiding the Intel Active Management Technology,[11] and gradually freeing and securing firmware.[12][13] Librem laptops feature hardware kill switches[14][15][16] for the microphone, webcam, Bluetooth, & Wi-Fi, and can be purchased air gapped."
If you support these companies the security and privacy bar for all manufacturers will raise.
I'm not sure the US can survive another 4 years of him.
I'm pretty sure we won't be able to survive the first 4.
Just remember, America ... when this clown is done being in office, the damage he's done to your international relationships won't be easily fixed. We sure as fuck won't be rushing to make nice with you.
I hope you're talking in the context of American govt and not the citizenry. Most of us are decent, hard working and moral people - just like the rest of the world.
It's the shit-stains that seem to relentlessly crave money, power and ultimately control over others. It's like they're caught in an infinite loop, simply needing more - to fulfill some unfulfillable void that their past had stamped out of them for some reason or another. Neglect, abandonment, regret, what have you.
This. Also, you can buy large quantity packs of 1" power "extension" cords for a single device (works like the octopus power strip but with flexibility to use it on any plug). I use them all the time, I carry a few in my car in fact.
Also, USB power receptacles are gaining in popularity. It's becoming less necessary to have an A/C power adapter to charge a mobile device.
Ha, ha!
Being "online" most certainly *was* different in the 80s (and 90s when I was mostly on). It was local by requirement because of telco industry/long distance like you said. Every board was an island. Distributed. If you didn't like a board, you didn't call it (or if you REALLY didn't like it you'd hack it =p). It was every board for itself for the most part. It was an awesome time =}
Callback verification was not employed by all boards. Like I said in OP, those boards, at least in my area, were less frequented because of this.
"CID before you connected to my BBS pretty much ensured"
Unless the caller blocked CID ;}
Some of you may not know the glory of anonymity in the BBS (Bulletin Board System) days. But it really was glorious. Everyone had a "handle" or "alias". It was generally encouraged to be anonymous online back then, or at least be something that contrasts who you were IRL. It was part of the fun. It was part of the drive of going online in the first place, it was like role playing.
Many people I knew had complete online alter-egos based around characters they'd play in door games (hence my alias TheDarkener, a character I created when playing L.O.R.D.). I was a young teenager then and it was absolutely liberating to be able to converse with people of all ages and, for the most part, know they only knew of my intellect, my character and not my IRL age (for obviously bias may come into play).
Sure, there were boards that demanded you put in your real name, had a callback verification system so they'd know your real phone number..and those boards were hardly as popular as those who didn't do that.
Remember the movie "Hackers"? When Joey said, "I need a handle, man. I don't have an identity 'till I have a handle!" Man, I miss that. Now there's pressure for online platforms to ensure people are putting in their real names, real birthdays, upload photo IDs for verification, all this crap..what happened to the innocence of imagination? Oh yeah, it got crushed by the Internet becoming a global economic machine, and the money people got their grubby mitts into how it should work.
Hahaha, sorry - obvious typo, I started dabbling in Linux around 1996 actually. 1993 would have been a *very* early beta of Win95 ;}
M$ is moving toward SaaS. They're doing it with Office and Windows is next I suspect. Win10 was "free" for a while IMHO because they've loaded the start menu with ads that they're making money off of. Think about that for a second - think about how many Windows installs there are in the world. Now think about Microsoft getting money every time they click on their start menu. Every time is an impression. I mean, I'm guessing that's their model anyway (per impression) but I could very well be wrong.
Aside from the above rant, Win10 (again, just MHO) is no better than Win7. It just has an updated UI and different methods of accessing the same things. It's no more stable, the updates are far less vetted and less stable and the user privacy issues for even using it makes me vomit in my mouth (and I don't even use it). I honestly don't see how the matador-esque marketing strategy has lasted this long to keep people buying their stuff. They definitely have momentum on their side.
I'm really sorry. I don't want to sound like I'm ungrateful for all of the GOOD things Microsoft has done, I am. They've done things I can't fathom to progress technology as a whole. They've got a lot of great, dedicated devs and there's a LOT to be said for keeping a company so successful for so long. And I'm really happy that they're joining the FOSS train - it's great to see them stop treating it like a competitor, because eventually it would have eventually starved them of air. Their SaaS model shift proves that they understand this, and it's a smart move. I grew up loving DOS just as much as I now love Linux. I just progressed past Microsoft products and onto Linux around 1993 when Windows '95 started putting all sorts of unnecessary junk in the root of my hard drive.
Spoken like a true spambot.
I'm thankful that the EFF exists. You guys rock, I feel like you're one of the only good guys out there.
Good, that's how big projects start out.
Oh wow, all these years I thought it was one of those funny 90210 made up things. Point taken, thank you for clarifying =p
Yes.
If you like euphoria, you're bad...so don't be bad.
Also, 90210 had an episode where Emily took Brandon to a rave where a guy sold "Euphoria" (a made up drug). Emily told Brandon that she knew he sold it because he had a football jersey with "U4" on it. Damn kids and their drugs
Trojan creating a line of condoms that, "Stops pregnancy and the spread of STDs, all without the pesky euphoria that comes from sexual intercourse!"
Whoever runs Win7 on a Pentium III or below.
Just kidding, I pity whoever runs any version of Windows on any hardware.
why anybody would want to steal this kind of information. It's almost as if they don't want Tesla to succeed.
Agreed