If you're not echoing the echo chamber's talking points, you're not allowed to talk to other Republicans.
That's it in a nutshell. And so we have Romney condemning 47% of the population because some idiot in the WSJ did the calculations, found 50% of the country weren't paying one type of tax, ignored the fact that most of these people weren't paying it because their employers were too cheap to pay them a decent wage, and called them "Lucky Duckies". And he, and others, refused to hear the counter arguments, and he ended up making a fool of himself.
Indeed, we have the entire Republican party convinced that the way to win an election in a recession is to say "Yeah, we know you're feeling really insecure at the moment, so we're going to take your safety net away. Because anyone receiving UI is a moocher."
We have Rove and others absolutely convinced they were going to win the election, because they refused to read the polls.
There's been a lot of discussion after the 6th about the Republicans and why they lost. Sure, they lost because of their policies (well, duh.) But the question remains: how did the Republicans end up with such an absurd ticket, and how did they drag along 47% (interesting co-incidence) of the country to vote for them anyway?
Answer: because they built an echo chamber. If it didn't fit the interests of those funding the Republicans, it wasn't said. People who said the Republicans might be going in the wrong direction were purged. Fox News, the WSJ, and some blogs and radio stations were pretty much seen by Republicans as the only media to read, and because those outlets insisted that anything that wasn't them was "liberal biased" they didn't see the truth, they didn't see what was going on out there, they totally missed the boat.
This firing suggests they still haven't "gotten it", no matter what was said after November 6th.
As long as Apple isn't able to significantly damage Android using dubious lawsuits, etc, there's no reason to consider it "Anti-consumer" in that sense. Right now, saying Apple is abusive for those reasons is like saying MacDonalds is abusive for offering tasteless, expensive, hamburgers (which it does, I think we can agree on that.)
You can always go to Five Guys. You don't have to go to MacDonalds. You don't have to buy an iPhone, and quite honestly, I'm still baffled that platform is so popular, just as I am MacDonalds.
Gang killings are hardly "murder", typically they're classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one week of community service and a fine of not more than $500.
I'm American and I can't imagine a scenario where I would want a gun in my house.
Really? So you're saying that if someone came along, and converted your basement into a kick-ass shooting gallery, so you could let off steam from time to time, or let friends use it for letting off steam and just having a great time, you wouldn't want a gun in your house so you can actually use it?
Oh wait, sorry, I was supposed to come up with a scenario where someone breaks in while you're asleep and overpowers you and your family, doing rotten things to you all, but it's all OK because there's a gun under your pillow that you won't actually get a chance to use.
A capacitor is a capacitor, yes, there's room for capacitors going off spec, but people here are complaining about TVs that stop working after three years, rather than a few days - if the problem was "cheap capacitors" (ie a serious quality control problem at the plant leading to significantly off-spec capacitors) methinks we'd be see complaints about an entirely different issue.
What this sounds like, to me, is a design flaw that's causing capacitors to get overloaded (or something similar) - it's easy for a group of engineers to push this onto an anonymous "PHB" somewhere involved in the buying/selling chain, but design flaws happen, and they seem to fit this instance more than a quality control issue at a supplier.
I have to say that I haven't seen any significant increases in 3D graphics quality since Unreal Tournament 2003(/4) which used to run fine on a single core 800MHz G3 and a cheap Radeon 7500 graphics card. I'm not going to suggest that there have been no improvements since, and I'm aware that engines such as those in GTA 4 and SRTT push things forward in other ways, such as world size, that are necessarily intensive, but I'm having a hard time believing that this CPU is underpowered even for "hardcore shooters".
It seems to be that GPU and the amount of memory available to the GPU is what matters right now. If Nintendo has a decent enough GPU (and I'm not seeing broad criticism of it) then is there really a problem?
If FedEx actively advertises the fact that shipping via them prevents law enforcement from prying into what it is you're shipping, then... may be.
The problem with Tor is its advertised application. It's a network designed to prevent you from being snooped upon, but by and large the (work of mouth) advertising isn't "And this way Google will never be able to select ads that are of interest to you" or "You don't have to worry that your affair will be discovered by your spouse" (to use two extremes) but "The government will not be able to snoop on you!"
And while, yes, there are occasions that the government snoops on people maliciously and illegally, it remains the case, today, that the primary reason why the government snoops on people is, well, because they're enforcing laws. Joe Sheriff doesn't care that much about the fact you voted for Obama or believe Bradly Manning is being treated unfairly, but he sure as hell cares about people sending each other child pornography, or orders for illegal drugs, or even getting copyrighted movies without the permission of the copyright holders and not paying for them, or whatever.
And so you have idealistic nerds saying "I know, let's be the next Amnesty International and provide a way for dissidents to swap messages about how terrible the regimes are that they live under", and you get the idealistic nerds using it, because they know it's not going to work otherwise and, sure, maybe one or two of those dissidents using it, and a few paranoid rednecks who are convinced Obama will take their guns away if they talk about them in public.... and you also get a lot of people using this network that's secure against government snooping for doing the things that governments actually legitimately snoop on, you know, doing stuff illegally. Did I say "A lot of people"? Maybe most, I don't know. It would not exactly be surprising if most Tor users are actually using it for illegal stuff, even if the majority of those Tor users are using it for stuff nerds don't see as wrong, such as trading copyrighted movies without the permission of the copyright holder.
I don't think Tor can work as is. It's a nice, idealistic, concept, but...
I misremembered. I was having a brain fart this morning, I actually intended to put Alan Dershowitz (which I'm 99% sure I've misspelt) instead of Sharpton but couldn't remember his name for anything. At least I got Ms Post's first name right.
I suspect the argument against Bluetooth is that it's today's standard, but not necessarily three-years-from-now's. Hasn't there already been a bandwidth upgraded BT announced, to handle things like uncompressed stereo audio (quadraphonic would be nice too, considering most car audio systems are four speaker...) which nobody has implemented yet?
I hated the OS X updates, it was one of the reasons I moved back to GNU/Linux. Of course, back then each one was $130. But I also didn't like having to choose between running up to date software that only ran on the latest OS, and less up to date software that hadn't been fixed to work on the latest OS.
The version update thing, while overstated, is not helping Android. Indeed, it's a common complaint. Until Google finds a way to push OS-level updates to all phones in a generic, unbypassable-by-the-manufacturer, way it's going to continue to be a negative anti-Android meme. Google needs to find a way to do a kernel freeze, or else implement a kernel-independent HAL, but they don't seem to be going in that direction yet.
iOS, see Android, except Apple has a better PR machine and ensures all phones appear to have the latest UI and show the latest operating system version number even if they're not really running the same OS.
Ubuntu - sufficiently different. In Ubuntu the OS and the applications are all part of the same system, so breakages are relatively rare. If your software was installed via Ubuntu, and you installed it four years ago, guess what, it still works (with the exception of apps that were explicity withdrawn.) If you didn't install via Ubuntu - ie you downloaded a.deb or added a repository, or worse, compiled from a tar ball or git repo, then every upgrade is shakey, you're never sure your software will still work.
None of these cases really make a strong case for Windows climbing aboard the always-updating ocean liner. We're talking about lots of third party software, lots of third party hardware, and lots of potential for things to break. It's not a good thing.
Disregarding anything else, do you deny the much increased difficulty of overturning legislation once passed?
In this case, it's easy. Most bill actually overturn some existing regulations as part of them, very few are exclusively starting with a blank slate, adding new codes without repealing or changinge existing codes. The same bill that introduces some new law about the Internet will overturn this law at the same time.
It's not an art critic, at least, no more one than I am. It's Camille Paglia, a media talking head who at one point was pulled into every cable TV show whenever they wanted a "controversial" opinion. Used to be largely centered around feminism. Think Andrea Huffington or Al Sharpton.
I wouldn't say it's annoyingly different. One of the best parts of IPv6 is that once you have the core infrastructure set-up (ie a NDP-broadcasting gateway with a valid prefix - which is actually much, much, simpler than the IPv4 "NAT router with DHCP server" that everyone is used to) everything "just works".
- You don't have to assign static IP addresses. They're already static.
- You don't have to forward ports. NAT isn't getting in the way any more. Everything sees everything else.
- Discovery takes care of things like default domains.
It kinda reminds me of a story about OS/2's early development. IBM wanted to test the developer-friendliness of the API, so they brought in a group and asked them to do similar tasks under OS/2 and other OSes such as Mac OS. Supposedly the OS/2 development took slightly longer, because the OS/2 developers kept asking questions along the lines of "How do I do this {hack I do under Windows, GEM, and Mac OS}" and wouldn't understand the answer "You don't, it's not necessary, we've eliminated the need to do that hack."
To be fair, while it "just works" it comes at the price of needing to understand that you now, thanks to the fact your network now works properly, need to take care of security. Still, IPv6 includes half the tools (mandatory IPSec support, for instance), and your operating system the others (software firewalls.) All of these are things that you should be doing anyway, but you don't because NAT lulls you into a false sense of security, a sense broken the first time you let someone with a virus infested laptop use your network.
What this is, is Issa, for good or bad, is trying to do something that most of/. would agree with. Stop messing with the Internet
That's not what he's doing at all. If he were proposing that, he'd be proposing the "Repeal all laws governing the Interwebs Act".
Issa is proposing that the status quo meddles exactly the right amount, not less, not more, and also any regulation that's relevent to 2012 is relevent to 2014.
I don't think most of/. would agree with that, leaving aside the obvious stupidity of a law against new laws that's automatically repealed by the next law that comes along.
I think the majority of vendors are avoiding DHCPv6 because it's a hack and doesn't really fit the "Just works" aspects of IPv6. NDP generally does exactly what's needed. Virtually all operating systems support it out of the box.
I'm finding the majority of cheap routers (D-Link $50 Wi-fi + DHCP etc types) I see these days have some level of IPv6 support, usually allowing the setting up of 6to4 etc.
6to4 works on the majority of ISPs too and doesn't require any arrangements with a tunnel broker. I use it myself - originally on Earthlink, now on Comcast, and not had a single problem.
Modern routers (as in the cheap D-Link crap that combines a Wi-fi hub, PPPoE/DHCP client, and local DHCPD server in a $30-50 box) actually support 6to4 out of the box too. Unless you're one of the unlucky few who uses an ISP that actually blocks 6to4 there's not a lot of reason to avoid it.
It's better in the sense that Issa proposing a law to make Sunday "Congressional Ice Cream Day" would be better; it is a complete waste of time however, and it merely re-enforces the fact that Issa is a waste of space.
No, they can repeal the law as part of whatever law it is they're passing that involves "The Internet". Or, you know, just ignore it given the passage of the new law itself implies that the "Ban New internet Laws" thing is a load of crap.
We probably can't adapt, at record population levels, to a sudden reduction in the amount of food available during the gap between large amounts of currently arable land becoming unfarmable, and potentially farmable lands becoming arable. Just saying.
This is a fairly major problem and it doesn't get solved by pretending that once the crisis hits in ernest we'll somehow be able to dig our way out of it, any more than "Waiting until 1st January 2000 and fixing anything that goes wrong" would have been a sane approach to the Y2K problem.
OK, understood, but you did choose the combination of motherboard and CPU. It's perfectly reasonable to want a cheap motherboard with a relatively high end CPU, and vice versa. Multimedia PC? Benefits from a $100 "multimedia" board with built-in H.264 decoders and 5.1 sound and S/PDIF etc, but the CPU can be pretty low end as the CPU's not going to be doing the work.
Games machine? You'll want something with a decent CPU and whatever the fastest bus you'd get a graphics card for is these days (this is embarassing, but I really don't know any more, I used to care about these things) - and maybe that onboard 5.1 set-up, as are soundcards even a thing any more?
File server? Render farm? You get the idea.
Being able to pick two relatively expensive components that are relatively unrelated to one another in terms of application space is probably a good thing.
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If you're not echoing the echo chamber's talking points, you're not allowed to talk to other Republicans.
That's it in a nutshell. And so we have Romney condemning 47% of the population because some idiot in the WSJ did the calculations, found 50% of the country weren't paying one type of tax, ignored the fact that most of these people weren't paying it because their employers were too cheap to pay them a decent wage, and called them "Lucky Duckies". And he, and others, refused to hear the counter arguments, and he ended up making a fool of himself.
Indeed, we have the entire Republican party convinced that the way to win an election in a recession is to say "Yeah, we know you're feeling really insecure at the moment, so we're going to take your safety net away. Because anyone receiving UI is a moocher."
We have Rove and others absolutely convinced they were going to win the election, because they refused to read the polls.
There's been a lot of discussion after the 6th about the Republicans and why they lost. Sure, they lost because of their policies (well, duh.) But the question remains: how did the Republicans end up with such an absurd ticket, and how did they drag along 47% (interesting co-incidence) of the country to vote for them anyway?
Answer: because they built an echo chamber. If it didn't fit the interests of those funding the Republicans, it wasn't said. People who said the Republicans might be going in the wrong direction were purged. Fox News, the WSJ, and some blogs and radio stations were pretty much seen by Republicans as the only media to read, and because those outlets insisted that anything that wasn't them was "liberal biased" they didn't see the truth, they didn't see what was going on out there, they totally missed the boat.
This firing suggests they still haven't "gotten it", no matter what was said after November 6th.
As long as Apple isn't able to significantly damage Android using dubious lawsuits, etc, there's no reason to consider it "Anti-consumer" in that sense. Right now, saying Apple is abusive for those reasons is like saying MacDonalds is abusive for offering tasteless, expensive, hamburgers (which it does, I think we can agree on that.)
You can always go to Five Guys. You don't have to go to MacDonalds. You don't have to buy an iPhone, and quite honestly, I'm still baffled that platform is so popular, just as I am MacDonalds.
Doesn't mean a thing, they could all be DVD Rips of The Phantom Menace.
Gang killings are hardly "murder", typically they're classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one week of community service and a fine of not more than $500.
Really? So you're saying that if someone came along, and converted your basement into a kick-ass shooting gallery, so you could let off steam from time to time, or let friends use it for letting off steam and just having a great time, you wouldn't want a gun in your house so you can actually use it?
Oh wait, sorry, I was supposed to come up with a scenario where someone breaks in while you're asleep and overpowers you and your family, doing rotten things to you all, but it's all OK because there's a gun under your pillow that you won't actually get a chance to use.
(Serious question) I was under the impression that most modern physics engines use the GPU, rather than CPU, is that not the case?
A capacitor is a capacitor, yes, there's room for capacitors going off spec, but people here are complaining about TVs that stop working after three years, rather than a few days - if the problem was "cheap capacitors" (ie a serious quality control problem at the plant leading to significantly off-spec capacitors) methinks we'd be see complaints about an entirely different issue.
What this sounds like, to me, is a design flaw that's causing capacitors to get overloaded (or something similar) - it's easy for a group of engineers to push this onto an anonymous "PHB" somewhere involved in the buying/selling chain, but design flaws happen, and they seem to fit this instance more than a quality control issue at a supplier.
I have to say that I haven't seen any significant increases in 3D graphics quality since Unreal Tournament 2003(/4) which used to run fine on a single core 800MHz G3 and a cheap Radeon 7500 graphics card. I'm not going to suggest that there have been no improvements since, and I'm aware that engines such as those in GTA 4 and SRTT push things forward in other ways, such as world size, that are necessarily intensive, but I'm having a hard time believing that this CPU is underpowered even for "hardcore shooters".
It seems to be that GPU and the amount of memory available to the GPU is what matters right now. If Nintendo has a decent enough GPU (and I'm not seeing broad criticism of it) then is there really a problem?
I was waiting for some idiot to fail to see the difference between "majority of cases" and "All cases", and you didn't disappoint me. Thanks.
If FedEx actively advertises the fact that shipping via them prevents law enforcement from prying into what it is you're shipping, then... may be.
The problem with Tor is its advertised application. It's a network designed to prevent you from being snooped upon, but by and large the (work of mouth) advertising isn't "And this way Google will never be able to select ads that are of interest to you" or "You don't have to worry that your affair will be discovered by your spouse" (to use two extremes) but "The government will not be able to snoop on you!"
And while, yes, there are occasions that the government snoops on people maliciously and illegally, it remains the case, today, that the primary reason why the government snoops on people is, well, because they're enforcing laws. Joe Sheriff doesn't care that much about the fact you voted for Obama or believe Bradly Manning is being treated unfairly, but he sure as hell cares about people sending each other child pornography, or orders for illegal drugs, or even getting copyrighted movies without the permission of the copyright holders and not paying for them, or whatever.
And so you have idealistic nerds saying "I know, let's be the next Amnesty International and provide a way for dissidents to swap messages about how terrible the regimes are that they live under", and you get the idealistic nerds using it, because they know it's not going to work otherwise and, sure, maybe one or two of those dissidents using it, and a few paranoid rednecks who are convinced Obama will take their guns away if they talk about them in public.... and you also get a lot of people using this network that's secure against government snooping for doing the things that governments actually legitimately snoop on, you know, doing stuff illegally. Did I say "A lot of people"? Maybe most, I don't know. It would not exactly be surprising if most Tor users are actually using it for illegal stuff, even if the majority of those Tor users are using it for stuff nerds don't see as wrong, such as trading copyrighted movies without the permission of the copyright holder.
I don't think Tor can work as is. It's a nice, idealistic, concept, but...
I misremembered. I was having a brain fart this morning, I actually intended to put Alan Dershowitz (which I'm 99% sure I've misspelt) instead of Sharpton but couldn't remember his name for anything. At least I got Ms Post's first name right.
I suspect the argument against Bluetooth is that it's today's standard, but not necessarily three-years-from-now's. Hasn't there already been a bandwidth upgraded BT announced, to handle things like uncompressed stereo audio (quadraphonic would be nice too, considering most car audio systems are four speaker...) which nobody has implemented yet?
I hated the OS X updates, it was one of the reasons I moved back to GNU/Linux. Of course, back then each one was $130. But I also didn't like having to choose between running up to date software that only ran on the latest OS, and less up to date software that hadn't been fixed to work on the latest OS.
The version update thing, while overstated, is not helping Android. Indeed, it's a common complaint. Until Google finds a way to push OS-level updates to all phones in a generic, unbypassable-by-the-manufacturer, way it's going to continue to be a negative anti-Android meme. Google needs to find a way to do a kernel freeze, or else implement a kernel-independent HAL, but they don't seem to be going in that direction yet.
iOS, see Android, except Apple has a better PR machine and ensures all phones appear to have the latest UI and show the latest operating system version number even if they're not really running the same OS.
Ubuntu - sufficiently different. In Ubuntu the OS and the applications are all part of the same system, so breakages are relatively rare. If your software was installed via Ubuntu, and you installed it four years ago, guess what, it still works (with the exception of apps that were explicity withdrawn.) If you didn't install via Ubuntu - ie you downloaded a .deb or added a repository, or worse, compiled from a tar ball or git repo, then every upgrade is shakey, you're never sure your software will still work.
None of these cases really make a strong case for Windows climbing aboard the always-updating ocean liner. We're talking about lots of third party software, lots of third party hardware, and lots of potential for things to break. It's not a good thing.
In this case, it's easy. Most bill actually overturn some existing regulations as part of them, very few are exclusively starting with a blank slate, adding new codes without repealing or changinge existing codes. The same bill that introduces some new law about the Internet will overturn this law at the same time.
It's not an art critic, at least, no more one than I am. It's Camille Paglia, a media talking head who at one point was pulled into every cable TV show whenever they wanted a "controversial" opinion. Used to be largely centered around feminism. Think Andrea Huffington or Al Sharpton.
I wouldn't say it's annoyingly different. One of the best parts of IPv6 is that once you have the core infrastructure set-up (ie a NDP-broadcasting gateway with a valid prefix - which is actually much, much, simpler than the IPv4 "NAT router with DHCP server" that everyone is used to) everything "just works".
- You don't have to assign static IP addresses. They're already static.
- You don't have to forward ports. NAT isn't getting in the way any more. Everything sees everything else.
- Discovery takes care of things like default domains.
It kinda reminds me of a story about OS/2's early development. IBM wanted to test the developer-friendliness of the API, so they brought in a group and asked them to do similar tasks under OS/2 and other OSes such as Mac OS. Supposedly the OS/2 development took slightly longer, because the OS/2 developers kept asking questions along the lines of "How do I do this {hack I do under Windows, GEM, and Mac OS}" and wouldn't understand the answer "You don't, it's not necessary, we've eliminated the need to do that hack."
To be fair, while it "just works" it comes at the price of needing to understand that you now, thanks to the fact your network now works properly, need to take care of security. Still, IPv6 includes half the tools (mandatory IPSec support, for instance), and your operating system the others (software firewalls.) All of these are things that you should be doing anyway, but you don't because NAT lulls you into a false sense of security, a sense broken the first time you let someone with a virus infested laptop use your network.
That's not what he's doing at all. If he were proposing that, he'd be proposing the "Repeal all laws governing the Interwebs Act".
Issa is proposing that the status quo meddles exactly the right amount, not less, not more, and also any regulation that's relevent to 2012 is relevent to 2014.
I don't think most of /. would agree with that, leaving aside the obvious stupidity of a law against new laws that's automatically repealed by the next law that comes along.
I think the majority of vendors are avoiding DHCPv6 because it's a hack and doesn't really fit the "Just works" aspects of IPv6. NDP generally does exactly what's needed. Virtually all operating systems support it out of the box.
I'm finding the majority of cheap routers (D-Link $50 Wi-fi + DHCP etc types) I see these days have some level of IPv6 support, usually allowing the setting up of 6to4 etc.
6to4 works on the majority of ISPs too and doesn't require any arrangements with a tunnel broker. I use it myself - originally on Earthlink, now on Comcast, and not had a single problem.
Modern routers (as in the cheap D-Link crap that combines a Wi-fi hub, PPPoE/DHCP client, and local DHCPD server in a $30-50 box) actually support 6to4 out of the box too. Unless you're one of the unlucky few who uses an ISP that actually blocks 6to4 there's not a lot of reason to avoid it.
They're going to implement it just as soon as Slashcode's Unicode support is ready...
It's better in the sense that Issa proposing a law to make Sunday "Congressional Ice Cream Day" would be better; it is a complete waste of time however, and it merely re-enforces the fact that Issa is a waste of space.
No, they can repeal the law as part of whatever law it is they're passing that involves "The Internet". Or, you know, just ignore it given the passage of the new law itself implies that the "Ban New internet Laws" thing is a load of crap.
Yes, it's true, and blatantly obviously true. Congress is entirely capable of repealing any law, ergo any law that attempts to bind it is pointless.
Issa's basically wasting everyone's time for a "feel good" measure that's stupid on every single level.
We probably can't adapt, at record population levels, to a sudden reduction in the amount of food available during the gap between large amounts of currently arable land becoming unfarmable, and potentially farmable lands becoming arable. Just saying.
This is a fairly major problem and it doesn't get solved by pretending that once the crisis hits in ernest we'll somehow be able to dig our way out of it, any more than "Waiting until 1st January 2000 and fixing anything that goes wrong" would have been a sane approach to the Y2K problem.
OK, understood, but you did choose the combination of motherboard and CPU. It's perfectly reasonable to want a cheap motherboard with a relatively high end CPU, and vice versa. Multimedia PC? Benefits from a $100 "multimedia" board with built-in H.264 decoders and 5.1 sound and S/PDIF etc, but the CPU can be pretty low end as the CPU's not going to be doing the work.
Games machine? You'll want something with a decent CPU and whatever the fastest bus you'd get a graphics card for is these days (this is embarassing, but I really don't know any more, I used to care about these things) - and maybe that onboard 5.1 set-up, as are soundcards even a thing any more?
File server? Render farm? You get the idea.
Being able to pick two relatively expensive components that are relatively unrelated to one another in terms of application space is probably a good thing.