That's why if you want to do any serious terrorist plotting or organised crime, you do what the KGB has started doing, and that is going back to pen and paper (and typewriters). If it's not electronic, it can't be easily tapped or hacked.
I'd define certain MS products as crapware, not malware. When they charge you $100 extra with the Ultimate editions of windows for a glitzy interface and a few features you could get for free from other vendors, that's crapware, but the underlying core of Windows (and the win32/RT API) certainly isn't.
Adobe apps for instance. Yes, I could run them on an overpriced mac, that is an option, if I do not mind being locked into the most obviously nefarious corporate slime in existence.
And Microsoft is sooooo much better? You know, the same Microsoft that completely broke 98% of the worlds workflow and took more than a year to say "we fucked up, we're going to fix it soon"?
How is a device on which I can install CyanogenMod locked-in to Google? Please explain.
They're locked-in to Google by default. The majority of Joe Public are not going to install Cyanogenmod on their phone. Heck, even i'm scared to do it, and i'm more than capable.
Android phones have Google lock-in, iPhones have Apple lock-in, Blackberry's have Blackberry lock-in. It's hard to find a consumer electronic device that doesn't contain some form of vendor lock-in, be it in the form of apps, search engines, messaging clients, online services etc etc. And ofc to use any of these services require giving up some personal details, such as mobile phone numbers, date of birth, credit card details, email address mothers maiden name, favourite colour etc...
Firefox OS phones are hardly real smartphones. All FF OS provides is calling, texting, a camera and a web browser. All stuff my £30 Nokia dumbphone had back in '07. Granted, the web browser wasn't anywhere near as good as Gecko (or IE5 for that matter), but it still worked.
for all I care it could be made by FB, MS or CommieNaziIncorporated, as long as it's affordable, working and free of any baggage that tries to push me towards it manufacturer.
This implies that OP doesn't like any form of lock-in from any manufacturer. To use Google Play, you have to use, err, Google services. To use the Apple App Store you have to sign up for an Apple ID. Each manufacturer has various ways of tying you into their own ecosystem...
Intelligence means nothing in the face of hatred and prejudice. Even the smartest minds in the world can make dumbass decisions (Manhattan Project).
On a slightly unrelated note, if life can survive in the waters of Lake Hodgeson, or survive the devistating results of the imacto f a meteor six miles across, i doubt Man has the capability to completely wipe out life on this planet
DVD's are a tangible thing. It's not a secret that most consumer laws in America (and most of the world) were written waaaaay before the internet or even before computers. Because of this, the majority of consumer laws are geared towards real "tangible" things, or non-tangible services. For example, trading a goat for 5 chickens involves trading one tangible thing for 5 others. Same goes for when i go down the mall and buy a DVD with a $20 bill. Going and getting my car washed is a non-tangible service. I can't go down the shop and pick up a "car wash" because it's a service, that's why there's a line drawn between good and services.
Now when credit and debit cards were introduced, that brought up a whole new problem, as you could now pay for tangible goods and non-tangible services using a piece of plastic. There's no direct transfer of cash, but the funds get debited out of your account and credited to the person providing the goods and services. The laws were changed to accomodate this small, but powerful addition to payment methods. Bearing in mind that the check system had been used since the 17th century, and credit cards are just a quicker form of the same idea.
Then Apple, Google, Netflix etc come along with digital downloads, which are essentially just a stream of 0's and 1's, which are definitely not a tangible thing, and a whole hodge-podge of legal issues comes along. Can you pass 0's and 1's to your next-of-kin? Can to transfer these 0's and 1's to a different device? Can you resell these 0's and 1's to someone else? These sorts of legal issues don't apply to DVD's or CD's because they're physical objects containing a stream of 0's and 1's, and existing laws on the trading of goods apply to these objects. Digital downloads, on the other hand, are a very new thing, and consumer laws just haven't caught up yet.
That's why the DVD will never die, and likely one of the reasons Netflix still mail out physical DVD's
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Linux was beaten as the first by a long shot. Haiku has had this for 1 3/4 years.
People were probably saying the same thing half a century ago when barcodes were introduced
That's why if you want to do any serious terrorist plotting or organised crime, you do what the KGB has started doing, and that is going back to pen and paper (and typewriters). If it's not electronic, it can't be easily tapped or hacked.
At $3500 a pop, I expect it's the NSA (or another 3-4 letter agency) who've bought most of these phones.
At $3500 a pop, i'm sure the NSA is likely the one's who've bought the majority of the "100,000+" sold.
I'd define certain MS products as crapware, not malware. When they charge you $100 extra with the Ultimate editions of windows for a glitzy interface and a few features you could get for free from other vendors, that's crapware, but the underlying core of Windows (and the win32/RT API) certainly isn't.
Belief is the root of all these problems. Knowledge is the only cure.
Is that some variation of Folding@Home for Linux distro development?
Adobe apps for instance. Yes, I could run them on an overpriced mac, that is an option, if I do not mind being locked into the most obviously nefarious corporate slime in existence.
And Microsoft is sooooo much better? You know, the same Microsoft that completely broke 98% of the worlds workflow and took more than a year to say "we fucked up, we're going to fix it soon"?
Windows 8.x when it gets it's start menu back
That's a really unfair analogy. Jar Jar Binks was never that annoying.
April Fools was yesterday.
How is a device on which I can install CyanogenMod locked-in to Google? Please explain.
They're locked-in to Google by default. The majority of Joe Public are not going to install Cyanogenmod on their phone. Heck, even i'm scared to do it, and i'm more than capable.
Android phones have Google lock-in, iPhones have Apple lock-in, Blackberry's have Blackberry lock-in. It's hard to find a consumer electronic device that doesn't contain some form of vendor lock-in, be it in the form of apps, search engines, messaging clients, online services etc etc. And ofc to use any of these services require giving up some personal details, such as mobile phone numbers, date of birth, credit card details, email address mothers maiden name, favourite colour etc...
Firefox OS phones are hardly real smartphones. All FF OS provides is calling, texting, a camera and a web browser. All stuff my £30 Nokia dumbphone had back in '07. Granted, the web browser wasn't anywhere near as good as Gecko (or IE5 for that matter), but it still worked.
for all I care it could be made by FB, MS or CommieNaziIncorporated, as long as it's affordable, working and free of any baggage that tries to push me towards it manufacturer.
This implies that OP doesn't like any form of lock-in from any manufacturer. To use Google Play, you have to use, err, Google services. To use the Apple App Store you have to sign up for an Apple ID. Each manufacturer has various ways of tying you into their own ecosystem...
I'm guessing you don't own a smartphone then...
Intelligence means nothing in the face of hatred and prejudice. Even the smartest minds in the world can make dumbass decisions (Manhattan Project).
On a slightly unrelated note, if life can survive in the waters of Lake Hodgeson, or survive the devistating results of the imacto f a meteor six miles across, i doubt Man has the capability to completely wipe out life on this planet
If it means i don't have to deal with Google+
Main issue with open source software: Stuff only gets written if someone wants to write it.
Main issue with proprietary software: Stuff always gets written even if the programmer is incompetent
In my experience they make the world feel survivable even when you know everything is going to shit. Seems to sum up Microsoft pretty well.
It's nothing "new", i grant you that. It's a problem that's existed since the internet. 20 years and the copyright laws still haven't caught up...
DVD's are a tangible thing. It's not a secret that most consumer laws in America (and most of the world) were written waaaaay before the internet or even before computers. Because of this, the majority of consumer laws are geared towards real "tangible" things, or non-tangible services. For example, trading a goat for 5 chickens involves trading one tangible thing for 5 others. Same goes for when i go down the mall and buy a DVD with a $20 bill. Going and getting my car washed is a non-tangible service. I can't go down the shop and pick up a "car wash" because it's a service, that's why there's a line drawn between good and services.
Now when credit and debit cards were introduced, that brought up a whole new problem, as you could now pay for tangible goods and non-tangible services using a piece of plastic. There's no direct transfer of cash, but the funds get debited out of your account and credited to the person providing the goods and services. The laws were changed to accomodate this small, but powerful addition to payment methods. Bearing in mind that the check system had been used since the 17th century, and credit cards are just a quicker form of the same idea.
Then Apple, Google, Netflix etc come along with digital downloads, which are essentially just a stream of 0's and 1's, which are definitely not a tangible thing, and a whole hodge-podge of legal issues comes along. Can you pass 0's and 1's to your next-of-kin? Can to transfer these 0's and 1's to a different device? Can you resell these 0's and 1's to someone else? These sorts of legal issues don't apply to DVD's or CD's because they're physical objects containing a stream of 0's and 1's, and existing laws on the trading of goods apply to these objects. Digital downloads, on the other hand, are a very new thing, and consumer laws just haven't caught up yet.
That's why the DVD will never die, and likely one of the reasons Netflix still mail out physical DVD's
Since Facebook is buying it, any hope of me buying a Rift just evaporated here and now...
That implies it uses GNU.