Lets also remember, that the media industry are some of the biggest backers of the government, and pay for quite a few seats in congress on their own right. There are few truely independant news sources.
The fact of the matter is, I've yet to see an intellectual dissent against stallman. The only arguments I've seen amount to nothing more than petty propaganda, and fear mongering about far fetched "what if" situations, while stallman's views can be cited against actual events, at best. At worst, its just name calling, and making fun of his personal flaws. Things that if said about any mainstream politician or celebrity would be out of line.
Truth is:
1. Stallman is well spoken, well written, and articulate. 2. Stallman addresses real issues, and has been, long before most of us knew they were issues.
freedom is slavery war is peace ignorance is strength.
I mean mass survialence, nah, thats some communist fantasy. Companies restricting your access to media, nah, doesn't happen. I mean we can totally trust big brother, its your next door neighbor you need to worry about.
Oh, its not hard, in one fell swoop, you can discredit someone, forcibly restrain them, and then fry their brain and nervous system on really nasty chemicals, so when they get out they "look" and act crazy to the point no one would take them seriously.
however intel has since moved away from the GM500, and moved back to their in house graphics cards, which are far superior, *and* have great FOSS drivers.
I don't think Sarkeesian is hitler though. Lot of things aren't hitler. There are a lot of actual brutal dictators that fall way short of hitler as far as fucked up.
and then Sarkeesian isn't a dictator, she never murdered anyone or sent anyone to jail.
She's obnoxious, thats it. Death threats are a little overboard, but some trolling.
what does systemd break exactly? Its a far more elegant solution than sysvinit. Especially debian's initscripts. It *solves* a lot of problems, such as hung proccessess and inconsistancy of the quality and features of scripts in/etc/init.d/
It forms a cohesive system, it boots faster, and shutdown speeds are an order of magnintued quicker. Stuck proccesses a thing of the past.
It can also be controlled directly with systemctl, unlike init, which cannot. It incorporates with acpi and udev so its hardware aware, making it very plug and play friendly.
before you do say anything, it *is* modular, and udev and acpi support are optional, and udev still works without it.
sytstemd is needed to compete against other 21st century OSs, and is a top tier solution.
> Does pre-paying your road fees at the pump make you happier for some reason
it does actually. Not from any theorhetical reasons, but mostly implemenation reasons.
What I pay at the pump is pure cash, and takes no longer than paying for the gasoline I pay for anyway.
with toll roads you have a giant clusterfuck of toll collection which:
1. uses cameras and surviellence devices to enforce collection. 2. uses and encourages the installation of radio tracking devices for payment. 3. if 2 is not used, then in causes massive traffic jams.
but in any case, there is no implementation that does not lead to a lot of data collection about my whereabouts that can be readily used as surviallence data.
A country with all toll roads is a country where every single vehichle is monitored, at all times. Not because of the ideaology, but because of any current, and likely implemenations.
I'll pay at the pump, and I don't mind if it costs me more.
Somewhere around the time google and facebook threw in with the democrat party, and ever since, all digital rights have been enemies of the republicans.
Its kinda funny, because most of the old school internet libertarians stood shoulder to shoulder with everyone else on the internet being pro-net neutrality.
Kotch is a fucking pig, and anyone who follows him proves however they label themselves is just a label, with no real meaning behind it.
just not liking gays is not an OK position, but its not worth kicking javascript's inventor out of the head slot from mozilla, especially when he keeps his beefs personal.
Somewhat hypocritical when the standard of "total social and political banishment" for the slightest anti-gay sentiment isn't implemented accross the board.
well no. microsoft knows their customer base. Unlike Apple, microsoft doesn't sell products to the end user, and frankly doesn't care, or even know what the end user wants.
microsoft sells products to corporate purchasing managers.
1. in the form of OEM computer distributers 2. in the form of corporate installs.
So, when you want to buy a new computer, your not thinking ZOMG WINDOWS. you like, "look how nice this Dull computer is", or "ZOMG UFOware gaming laptop", or "sick nVidia graphics card".
Windows comes with the mix, and its "oh, your here".
People grit their teeth and bear it, but think "at least its not a mac", and "at least I got a computer".
the average person doesn't know or care enough to do even basic system mantience(i.e. updates defrag, check disk), far less install an Operating System on their computer, any OS, even windows.
As far as people with open minds go. Firefox and Chrome have the market in web browsing. Its as easy as double clicking an Icon after downloading something, so people do it. Even if a web browser comes stock with the computer, they use another one.
failwail of a fucking email client, and a great way to get a virus, and its slow as fucking dogshit. Why in fuck would anyone want to run office? Don't say for exchange server. Thats more fail too. and then we get to the joke of IE, and IIS.
Firefox/Thunderbird + take your pick of postfix, exim4, or qmail(all enterprise grade capable).
microsoft even contributes to the OpenCloud stack.
Germany having Italy was more of a penalty than anything. Italian army was damn inadequate, and folded reall fast when tasked with anything other than invading and holding libya.
Also, the Russian forces where more capable than people think, and US forces painfully inadequate.
Brtain Lost, France Lost.
Britain got a second chance cause of the USA, and the soviets did most of the real fighting, invading from the east.
There will always be trolls. Its impossible to catch them all. By definition a troll only works when at least one person doesn't understand that its a troll.
In all my years reading slashdot, I've never seen an article litterally advocating the type of society as found in 1984. No, this is litterally Oligargial Socialism, i.e. facism, stalinism, and maoism(english socialism, neo-bolshievism, and obliteration of self/death worship, respectively).
except in really large corporations, divisions of the company fight among themselves for the CEO's attention like other companies fight.
Tizen will never land a smartphone, because their biggest competitor is Samsung's Android device. They might get lucky enough to release other devices, such as invehichle consoles with tizen.
Also, since android apps won't run on Tizen, which as a new OS has a chicken and egg problem with apps, its at a major disadvantage.
Given the fact that Samsung is the largest, arguably best manufacturer of android phones, they are litterally competing against another department in the same company.
You have one giant South Korean buerocracy, where they have to compete within the company for the CEO/Board's attention/funding against the companies big money maker.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd like to know where they are.
Lets also remember, that the media industry are some of the biggest backers of the government, and pay for quite a few seats in congress on their own right. There are few truely independant news sources.
The fact of the matter is, I've yet to see an intellectual dissent against stallman. The only arguments I've seen amount to nothing more than petty propaganda, and fear mongering about far fetched "what if" situations, while stallman's views can be cited against actual events, at best. At worst, its just name calling, and making fun of his personal flaws. Things that if said about any mainstream politician or celebrity would be out of line.
Truth is:
1. Stallman is well spoken, well written, and articulate.
2. Stallman addresses real issues, and has been, long before most of us knew they were issues.
me too
freedom is slavery
war is peace
ignorance is strength.
I mean mass survialence, nah, thats some communist fantasy. Companies restricting your access to media, nah, doesn't happen. I mean we can totally trust big brother, its your next door neighbor you need to worry about.
I know, giving rights to users is going to bring the end of western civilization. I mean what assholes, protecting those people.
they did use mental hospitals to silence critics.
Oh, its not hard, in one fell swoop, you can discredit someone, forcibly restrain them, and then fry their brain and nervous system on really nasty chemicals, so when they get out they "look" and act crazy to the point no one would take them seriously.
this times a million.
however intel has since moved away from the GM500, and moved back to their in house graphics cards, which are far superior, *and* have great FOSS drivers.
OpenGL 4.0 is around the corner for them too.
which is why the program to turn seawater into fuel, while ineffecient on land, is going to be awesome on nuclear powered boats.
The energy would have been lost anyway. Now you reduce the supply line.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/13/newser-navy-seawater-fuel/7668665/
all that unused energy.
hitler also did a lot of videos with opinions.
I don't think Sarkeesian is hitler though. Lot of things aren't hitler. There are a lot of actual brutal dictators that fall way short of hitler as far as fucked up.
and then Sarkeesian isn't a dictator, she never murdered anyone or sent anyone to jail.
She's obnoxious, thats it. Death threats are a little overboard, but some trolling.
Well shit, this is the internet.
Its in the 1990s, that many of us got
1. arrested
2. forced into the mental health system
3. harrassed, excommunitcated, or otherwise lost faced
4. bullied
becuase we played video games, and people like her were the ones egging on, or at least suggesting people do 1 through 4.
So to be honest, now she knows what its like to be at the other end of the social justice stick.
systemd fixes a whole lot of problems.
what does systemd break exactly? Its a far more elegant solution than sysvinit. Especially debian's initscripts. It *solves* a lot of problems, such as hung proccessess and inconsistancy of the quality and features of scripts in /etc/init.d/
It forms a cohesive system, it boots faster, and shutdown speeds are an order of magnintued quicker. Stuck proccesses a thing of the past.
It can also be controlled directly with systemctl, unlike init, which cannot. It incorporates with acpi and udev so its hardware aware, making it very plug and play friendly.
before you do say anything, it *is* modular, and udev and acpi support are optional, and udev still works without it.
sytstemd is needed to compete against other 21st century OSs, and is a top tier solution.
> Does pre-paying your road fees at the pump make you happier for some reason
it does actually. Not from any theorhetical reasons, but mostly implemenation reasons.
What I pay at the pump is pure cash, and takes no longer than paying for the gasoline I pay for anyway.
with toll roads you have a giant clusterfuck of toll collection which:
1. uses cameras and surviellence devices to enforce collection.
2. uses and encourages the installation of radio tracking devices for payment.
3. if 2 is not used, then in causes massive traffic jams.
but in any case, there is no implementation that does not lead to a lot of data collection about my whereabouts that can be readily used as surviallence data.
A country with all toll roads is a country where every single vehichle is monitored, at all times. Not because of the ideaology, but because of any current, and likely implemenations.
I'll pay at the pump, and I don't mind if it costs me more.
Somewhere around the time google and facebook threw in with the democrat party, and ever since, all digital rights have been enemies of the republicans.
Its kinda funny, because most of the old school internet libertarians stood shoulder to shoulder with everyone else on the internet being pro-net neutrality.
Kotch is a fucking pig, and anyone who follows him proves however they label themselves is just a label, with no real meaning behind it.
just not liking gays is not an OK position, but its not worth kicking javascript's inventor out of the head slot from mozilla, especially when he keeps his beefs personal.
Somewhat hypocritical when the standard of "total social and political banishment" for the slightest anti-gay sentiment isn't implemented accross the board.
well no. microsoft knows their customer base. Unlike Apple, microsoft doesn't sell products to the end user, and frankly doesn't care, or even know what the end user wants.
microsoft sells products to corporate purchasing managers.
1. in the form of OEM computer distributers
2. in the form of corporate installs.
So, when you want to buy a new computer, your not thinking ZOMG WINDOWS. you like, "look how nice this Dull computer is", or "ZOMG UFOware gaming laptop", or "sick nVidia graphics card".
Windows comes with the mix, and its "oh, your here".
People grit their teeth and bear it, but think "at least its not a mac", and "at least I got a computer".
the average person doesn't know or care enough to do even basic system mantience(i.e. updates defrag, check disk), far less install an Operating System on their computer, any OS, even windows.
As far as people with open minds go. Firefox and Chrome have the market in web browsing. Its as easy as double clicking an Icon after downloading something, so people do it. Even if a web browser comes stock with the computer, they use another one.
when has a microsoft product ever resulted in zero complaints?
ever?
>2014 still using outlook.
failwail of a fucking email client, and a great way to get a virus, and its slow as fucking dogshit. Why in fuck would anyone want to run office? Don't say for exchange server. Thats more fail too. and then we get to the joke of IE, and IIS.
Firefox/Thunderbird + take your pick of postfix, exim4, or qmail(all enterprise grade capable).
microsoft even contributes to the OpenCloud stack.
f''ing lol
MS Office is the definition of bloat
the problem is that germany's concept of "living room" stretched all the way to the arayn mountains, and mabey then some.
How much is enough when you are dealing with a conquering army?
when they decide to stop, thats when,
Germany having Italy was more of a penalty than anything. Italian army was damn inadequate, and folded reall fast when tasked with anything other than invading and holding libya.
Also, the Russian forces where more capable than people think, and US forces painfully inadequate.
Brtain Lost, France Lost.
Britain got a second chance cause of the USA, and the soviets did most of the real fighting, invading from the east.
There will always be trolls. Its impossible to catch them all. By definition a troll only works when at least one person doesn't understand that its a troll.
a good troll might even fool the mods.
so basicly like malware.
In all my years reading slashdot, I've never seen an article litterally advocating the type of society as found in 1984. No, this is litterally Oligargial Socialism, i.e. facism, stalinism, and maoism(english socialism, neo-bolshievism, and obliteration of self/death worship, respectively).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oligarchical_Collectivism
thats what you have to look forward too. Too hell with these newage facists
except in really large corporations, divisions of the company fight among themselves for the CEO's attention like other companies fight.
Tizen will never land a smartphone, because their biggest competitor is Samsung's Android device. They might get lucky enough to release other devices, such as invehichle consoles with tizen.
Also, since android apps won't run on Tizen, which as a new OS has a chicken and egg problem with apps, its at a major disadvantage.
There are other large Android vendors.
Samsung is the large competitor.
Given the fact that Samsung is the largest, arguably best manufacturer of android phones, they are litterally competing against another department in the same company.
You have one giant South Korean buerocracy, where they have to compete within the company for the CEO/Board's attention/funding against the companies big money maker.
Tizen is never going to ship a phone, ever.
because thats a giant "what if" with nothing else to back it up?
I mean, jay-walking and speeding are already illegal. Its best to lock them up before they start robbing banks.
The gateway argument is ridicolous.