It's funny how right-wingers can't imagine that someone might actually take their oath to uphold and defend the constitution seriously, and reveal information that is beneficial to the public interest. A vow to protect against enemies, both foreign and domestic, which does involve blind obedience to those currently in power.
It's incredible to assume that Snowden would even have a chance to see the inside of a courtroom. Not when there is an example to be made.
It not a right or left wing issue. It is a authoritarian vs libertarian issue. Politics is not a one dimensional slide with conservatives on one side and liberals on the other it is more a n-dimensional space with lots on nuanced positions. trying to over simplify that into a binary lib v con paradigm is what makes American politics the devise social hellscape we have had for the last decade and a half.
None of them get my data huh? Then how is Gmail supposed to show me my email, that is data. How is google play supposed to know what apps i have paid for, that is data? "Well they only get the data they need to do their particular job then." Okay, so does search or youtube get to know my history of when I searched "blender tutorial" and clicked on the youtube video? Does gmail or the google telecom branch get google voice? so where are my text messages as they show up in gmail? They don't need killed just because they are big and successful.
I will use self checkouts when the stores pass their savings onto me. I'm doing free work for the store and getting nothing in return. Knock 5% off my bill for starters.
I find it is faster to use them, so the savings is my time.
You've never seen how half of the corporate stuff comes into existence. It starts as an amalgamation of whatever the most tech-savvy employee managed to piece together. They pieced it together on whatever they run on their desktop.
I've seen 32-bit servers kept around to run something that has an ancient emailer program embedded in it that won't cooperate with 64-bit operating systems. It's not that there aren't any 64-bit email clients, it's that no one has the time to figure out how to replace an internal part of this ball-of-mud that runs the company.
I've seen Windows XP in data centers because some ancient piece of software that runs the door locks hasn't been updated in twenty years and it has a driver that doesn't play well with anything newer.
Slightly off topic, but similar, was the time when we had trouble buying a server because the software specs were written in 2001 and stated a minimum processor clock frequency of 3.2GHz, but the world had moved on to the Core architecture and clock speeds went way down (but performance went way up).
At a place I used to work we had a computer setting in the back running windows 3.11 it ran some software automation of satellite tuners and dish steering. Eventually the hardware died and we finally cobbled together a solution to get it to run on Windows XP as thats the newest OS it would run on. This was after XP was end of life'ed. Fortunately we had enough old XP keys in the files from old installs no longer in use. The developer for the software is out of business and the current owner of the copyright is unknown (adandonware), and the equipment is to expensive to replace so they have a shelf in the back with backup box with that same hardware configuration and a clone of the harddrive just waiting in case the current dies.
Then why are we not seeing Intel rule the mobile world then? I disagree.
Several reasons. 1.) Battery draw. AMD_64/x86 is a big power-hog and eats battery like no tomorrow. 2.) As a corollary to 1.) thermal output is insane no one wants to hold a flat-iron to their face to make a call. Thermodynamics is a nasty bitch all of that battery draw has to go somewhere mostly as heat. 3.) Inertia, arm has been in use for embedded devices including dumbphones and feature phones long before smart phones where a thing. Then iPhone. (no not Cisco Systems iPhone, the fruity one) Apple was the only game in town that people wanted (yes blackberry and palm were first but no one wanted them) and it only came in ARM. Then Android came out in ARM, (Sure support for other platforms was there eventually but damage was done) and it abstracted it all away behind a Java virtual machine. 4.) Local debuging. Cloud servers are off-site and not something you can sit next to a diagnoses locally by their nature. While I can plug a mobile phone into my desktop/laptop and debug it over usb with it in my hands.
I have and continue to find Ubuntu in commercial products that is has no business being in though. I've seen full building security systems that would be best served by an embedded OS and web interface run on top of full Ubuntu, GNOME and all running on an ATX motherboard in a metal box bolted to the wall. The system is completely headless but it has a GUI. The only reason I can think of why is because Ubuntu is what the developers were familiar with.
I went into McDonald's the other day to get coffee and saw their menu screens reboot a terminal popped up with $user@ubuntu.
Already been done. Get yourself some Brave Browser and enjoy.
Just because I want a independent browser does not mean I want one with associated shady micro transaction processor and cryptocurrency bolted on thank-you very much. I think I will stick with Firefox for a truly independent browser that at least tries to respect my privacy between ill-conceived attempts by their corporate overlords to shoot themselves in the foot.
Have it write a day worth of Slashdot style stories, and associated responses - then let us compare a day of Slashdot to this supposedly dangerous bot.
Or maybe just let the bot write all front page articles for Slashdot on April 1st and so how it does. Can't be any worse than what we already get.
To be fair it could easily pass as a -1 mod'ed drunk ac post.
This is a major issue for government document rentention. Not being able to open 40 year old files and have them print properly could get people sued (land deeds and legal contracts) or killed (maps of old hazerdous waste dumps).
then maybe if the documents are important enough to need them decades latter we should use a well documented open file format, instead of a closed format owned by one company that even then will only render properly on certain version of their product because the company in question thought it would be a good idea to have there "document" files just be dumps ram of the state of the word processor. (early word was really bad)
How long until we have some HTML5/CSS/JS hardware accelerated chip to do the actual rendering and just pass the display information to a 'thin client'?
At some point it's going to be faster to x11 forwarding/VNC to a bigger machine somewhere else to handle the latest JS framework.
I think it was either oprea mini or opera mobile actually did this to run a their browser at reasonable speeds on early feature phones it would render the web pages on their servers and send the output compressed to the phone were it would decompress it and show the rendering.
I miss the clean thin top and bottom panels with some nice effects from Compiz.
That is why I use Mate Desktop fork of Gnome 2. I do miss compiz though. Desktop environments peaked in 2010 and have been shooting themselves in the foot since. The want to be the environment for phones that will not support them or be touch accessible to the touch screen desktops that no one buys because mouse and keyboard function better for PC.
The world is really a group of overweight and unemployed incels. 4chan is a troll farm full of powerless young "men", nothing more.
A abundance of horny poor young "powerless" men, have historically been the main source of revolutions be it; American Revolutionaries in Boston protesting against Britains millitary occupation and taxes, Russian peasants in the Red October revolution, or young Arab men in Egypt on Blackberries With Arab Spring.
Hyperthreading is at least partly to blame for the serious security flaws in nearly every processor produced over the last two decades. The 9900K still has it because some people value speed over security.
no that was speculative execution where it would guess what the code was going to do do it then throw it away if it was wrong but want actually trowing away and would reach into restricted parts of memory. hyper threading is more like task switching.
This suggestion checks out in a world where rich people dont steal, and yet...
But do they steal at a lower rate than the poor? If the rate of theft is lower, and savings from shrinkage and reshipping costs is still higher than wages then is it economical viable to do so?
It's not the talking to the cashier that I don't like. It's the waiting in line to get to the cashier in the first place... especially since so many stores cheap out and staff an inadequate number of cashiers these days... that I hate with a burning passion. Frankly, I'd take any of the solutions: enough cashiers to handle the customers in a timely manner, self-checkouts that aren't flakey as hell with scales that are out-of-calibration and always need an override, or totally cashier-less stores.
Wal-marts self checks have gotten worse with time. It used to work fairly well never had any problems. But then they updated to what looks like a shitty electron app and it has been buggy as hell since. I swear user interfaces peaked 8 to 10 years ago and have gotten worse ever since.
I agree. There was an electronics store that had a security guy at the exit demanding... something. I just told him to piss off. But for some reason, I put up with Sam's club exit checkers. Is this hypocritical?
No since you probably signed contract when getting you membership that said that required to let them check you on the way out in exchange for shopping there. While best buy or whoever has no such stipulation and just try to any way.
Railroads aren't the answer. That was decided in the 50s and no one wants your stupid light rail graft projects (except, yanno, the beneficiaries of said graft). How many Amtrak cars are even close to capacity? How is that CA light rail from/to nowhere project going? How much is that costing taxpayers? Of course, your plan is to tax them onto the trains...weird how history repeats itself in effect if not in execution.
Amtrak problem also has to do with how much it cost to ride. I live half way between Portland OR and Seattle WA, I wanted to go to Seattle for the day once last year to go to see a ball game I did not want deal with my driving my car so I went to Amtrak’s site to price out tickets for two people there and back it was more expensive than gas + parking so I drove, now that I have a kid I would need three tickets its not worth the cost for me. I would love to be able to sit back and relax and let the train take me. I could use mass transit the whole way from my home to the stadium but it is to damn expensive.
Great! While this might possibly scare off a burglar, I think it's more likely to scare neighbors into thinking there's a domestic disturbance. Police arrive and pound on the door and the argument continues without anyone answering the door. What next? Police break down the door, find the whole fight is a recording, and then cite the homeowner for wasting police time. So you're out the cost of fixing the door, a fine, and your name on the police department's shitlist for pulling stunts that waste their time.
wouldn't they cite the person that called them for a non issue, This would be like swatting a house only when the occupent isn't home.
Sounds like fingerprint readers need to be repurposed into "reset to factory default" buttons, just use a pin all of the time when the cop forces you to "unlock" the phone he instead wipes it back.
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It's funny how right-wingers can't imagine that someone might actually take their oath to uphold and defend the constitution seriously, and reveal information that is beneficial to the public interest. A vow to protect against enemies, both foreign and domestic, which does involve blind obedience to those currently in power.
It's incredible to assume that Snowden would even have a chance to see the inside of a courtroom. Not when there is an example to be made.
It not a right or left wing issue. It is a authoritarian vs libertarian issue. Politics is not a one dimensional slide with conservatives on one side and liberals on the other it is more a n-dimensional space with lots on nuanced positions. trying to over simplify that into a binary lib v con paradigm is what makes American politics the devise social hellscape we have had for the last decade and a half.
Is that how much you paid to use search engines before Google? Or were you not alive in the late 90s?
no but they where shit. there is a reason everyone uses google and not altavista today.
None of them get my data huh? Then how is Gmail supposed to show me my email, that is data. How is google play supposed to know what apps i have paid for, that is data? "Well they only get the data they need to do their particular job then." Okay, so does search or youtube get to know my history of when I searched "blender tutorial" and clicked on the youtube video? Does gmail or the google telecom branch get google voice? so where are my text messages as they show up in gmail? They don't need killed just because they are big and successful.
I will use self checkouts when the stores pass their savings onto me. I'm doing free work for the store and getting nothing in return. Knock 5% off my bill for starters.
I find it is faster to use them, so the savings is my time.
You've never seen how half of the corporate stuff comes into existence. It starts as an amalgamation of whatever the most tech-savvy employee managed to piece together. They pieced it together on whatever they run on their desktop.
I've seen 32-bit servers kept around to run something that has an ancient emailer program embedded in it that won't cooperate with 64-bit operating systems. It's not that there aren't any 64-bit email clients, it's that no one has the time to figure out how to replace an internal part of this ball-of-mud that runs the company.
I've seen Windows XP in data centers because some ancient piece of software that runs the door locks hasn't been updated in twenty years and it has a driver that doesn't play well with anything newer.
Slightly off topic, but similar, was the time when we had trouble buying a server because the software specs were written in 2001 and stated a minimum processor clock frequency of 3.2GHz, but the world had moved on to the Core architecture and clock speeds went way down (but performance went way up).
At a place I used to work we had a computer setting in the back running windows 3.11 it ran some software automation of satellite tuners and dish steering. Eventually the hardware died and we finally cobbled together a solution to get it to run on Windows XP as thats the newest OS it would run on. This was after XP was end of life'ed. Fortunately we had enough old XP keys in the files from old installs no longer in use. The developer for the software is out of business and the current owner of the copyright is unknown (adandonware), and the equipment is to expensive to replace so they have a shelf in the back with backup box with that same hardware configuration and a clone of the harddrive just waiting in case the current dies.
Then why are we not seeing Intel rule the mobile world then? I disagree.
Several reasons.
1.) Battery draw. AMD_64/x86 is a big power-hog and eats battery like no tomorrow.
2.) As a corollary to 1.) thermal output is insane no one wants to hold a flat-iron to their face to make a call. Thermodynamics is a nasty bitch all of that battery draw has to go somewhere mostly as heat.
3.) Inertia, arm has been in use for embedded devices including dumbphones and feature phones long before smart phones where a thing. Then iPhone. (no not Cisco Systems iPhone, the fruity one) Apple was the only game in town that people wanted (yes blackberry and palm were first but no one wanted them) and it only came in ARM. Then Android came out in ARM, (Sure support for other platforms was there eventually but damage was done) and it abstracted it all away behind a Java virtual machine.
4.) Local debuging. Cloud servers are off-site and not something you can sit next to a diagnoses locally by their nature. While I can plug a mobile phone into my desktop/laptop and debug it over usb with it in my hands.
I have and continue to find Ubuntu in commercial products that is has no business being in though. I've seen full building security systems that would be best served by an embedded OS and web interface run on top of full Ubuntu, GNOME and all running on an ATX motherboard in a metal box bolted to the wall. The system is completely headless but it has a GUI. The only reason I can think of why is because Ubuntu is what the developers were familiar with.
I went into McDonald's the other day to get coffee and saw their menu screens reboot a terminal popped up with $user@ubuntu.
Already been done. Get yourself some Brave Browser and enjoy.
Just because I want a independent browser does not mean I want one with associated shady micro transaction processor and cryptocurrency bolted on thank-you very much. I think I will stick with Firefox for a truly independent browser that at least tries to respect my privacy between ill-conceived attempts by their corporate overlords to shoot themselves in the foot.
Have it write a day worth of Slashdot style stories, and associated responses - then let us compare a day of Slashdot to this supposedly dangerous bot.
Or maybe just let the bot write all front page articles for Slashdot on April 1st and so how it does. Can't be any worse than what we already get.
To be fair it could easily pass as a -1 mod'ed drunk ac post.
I still write new VB6 code for customers on daily basis.
What circle of hell are you in? Do you work in the same floor as Sisyphus and Tantalus?
This is a major issue for government document rentention. Not being able to open 40 year old files and have them print properly could get people sued (land deeds and legal contracts) or killed (maps of old hazerdous waste dumps).
then maybe if the documents are important enough to need them decades latter we should use a well documented open file format, instead of a closed format owned by one company that even then will only render properly on certain version of their product because the company in question thought it would be a good idea to have there "document" files just be dumps ram of the state of the word processor. (early word was really bad)
How long until we have some HTML5/CSS/JS hardware accelerated chip to do the actual rendering and just pass the display information to a 'thin client'?
At some point it's going to be faster to x11 forwarding/VNC to a bigger machine somewhere else to handle the latest JS framework.
I think it was either oprea mini or opera mobile actually did this to run a their browser at reasonable speeds on early feature phones it would render the web pages on their servers and send the output compressed to the phone were it would decompress it and show the rendering.
Gnome 2 was awesome.
I miss the clean thin top and bottom panels with some nice effects from Compiz.
That is why I use Mate Desktop fork of Gnome 2. I do miss compiz though. Desktop environments peaked in 2010 and have been shooting themselves in the foot since. The want to be the environment for phones that will not support them or be touch accessible to the touch screen desktops that no one buys because mouse and keyboard function better for PC.
Red Hat is pleased to announce its new desktop environment... systemd
you joke now but I could so see a DesktopD being released by them they will then remove support for other environments from SystemD.
The world is really a group of overweight and unemployed incels. 4chan is a troll farm full of powerless young "men", nothing more.
A abundance of horny poor young "powerless" men, have historically been the main source of revolutions be it; American Revolutionaries in Boston protesting against Britains millitary occupation and taxes, Russian peasants in the Red October revolution, or young Arab men in Egypt on Blackberries With Arab Spring.
Hyperthreading is at least partly to blame for the serious security flaws in nearly every processor produced over the last two decades. The 9900K still has it because some people value speed over security.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
no that was speculative execution where it would guess what the code was going to do do it then throw it away if it was wrong but want actually trowing away and would reach into restricted parts of memory. hyper threading is more like task switching.
This suggestion checks out in a world where rich people dont steal, and yet...
But do they steal at a lower rate than the poor? If the rate of theft is lower, and savings from shrinkage and reshipping costs is still higher than wages then is it economical viable to do so?
Since when did the "summary" section become so long on the front page? Especially when it's basically an advertisement.
I think they are trying to trick us into actually reading the articles by putting it all in the summery.
It's not the talking to the cashier that I don't like. It's the waiting in line to get to the cashier in the first place... especially since so many stores cheap out and staff an inadequate number of cashiers these days... that I hate with a burning passion. Frankly, I'd take any of the solutions: enough cashiers to handle the customers in a timely manner, self-checkouts that aren't flakey as hell with scales that are out-of-calibration and always need an override, or totally cashier-less stores.
Wal-marts self checks have gotten worse with time. It used to work fairly well never had any problems. But then they updated to what looks like a shitty electron app and it has been buggy as hell since. I swear user interfaces peaked 8 to 10 years ago and have gotten worse ever since.
I agree. There was an electronics store that had a security guy at the exit demanding... something. I just told him to piss off. But for some reason, I put up with Sam's club exit checkers. Is this hypocritical?
No since you probably signed contract when getting you membership that said that required to let them check you on the way out in exchange for shopping there. While best buy or whoever has no such stipulation and just try to any way.
Railroads aren't the answer. That was decided in the 50s and no one wants your stupid light rail graft projects (except, yanno, the beneficiaries of said graft). How many Amtrak cars are even close to capacity? How is that CA light rail from/to nowhere project going? How much is that costing taxpayers? Of course, your plan is to tax them onto the trains...weird how history repeats itself in effect if not in execution.
Amtrak problem also has to do with how much it cost to ride. I live half way between Portland OR and Seattle WA, I wanted to go to Seattle for the day once last year to go to see a ball game I did not want deal with my driving my car so I went to Amtrak’s site to price out tickets for two people there and back it was more expensive than gas + parking so I drove, now that I have a kid I would need three tickets its not worth the cost for me. I would love to be able to sit back and relax and let the train take me. I could use mass transit the whole way from my home to the stadium but it is to damn expensive.
Great! While this might possibly scare off a burglar, I think it's more likely to scare neighbors into thinking there's a domestic disturbance. Police arrive and pound on the door and the argument continues without anyone answering the door. What next? Police break down the door, find the whole fight is a recording, and then cite the homeowner for wasting police time. So you're out the cost of fixing the door, a fine, and your name on the police department's shitlist for pulling stunts that waste their time.
wouldn't they cite the person that called them for a non issue, This would be like swatting a house only when the occupent isn't home.
And if Faraday Cage is not available, you can try to get Nicolas Cage.
yeah he will do anything...
https://youtu.be/eExfV_xKaiM?t...
You don't need to be dead for the cops to force you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint.
Sounds like fingerprint readers need to be repurposed into "reset to factory default" buttons, just use a pin all of the time when the cop forces you to "unlock" the phone he instead wipes it back.
Who in their right might shares PINs with anyone? You may trust your roommate or grandfather, but where I come from, security means security.
I know my parents pin number, and my wife in theory knows my pin number. degrees of trust.