we had a standard with X11. The problem with X, is that it was holding linux in GUI space back, and it was hard to work with(makes a port harder, scare new devs), screen tearing, multi-monitor support was hard.
So some people started working on a new standard, wayland, which everyone uses but cannocial.
As for standards that help everyone, low level standards, such as TCP/IP, freedesktop.org, provide just enough compatibility between projects, while not getitng in the way with varying demands.
freedesktop.org is the reason why your settings in XFCE remain in GNOME, and KDE, etc...
Why are we asking how we could have stopped snowden, when we are not asking why we couldn't stop the machinations he revealed.
Really, what is higher priority???
As far as fixing the federal government. First, we'd need a government with any real care about the nation, something I don't think we've seen in a long time. Most people in the government are bureaucrats looking to expand their own interests, often at behest of the state. Thats never really going to change, because, as time goes on, less and less people give a fuck about the state for various reasons.
Corporate sponsers don't give a fuck except pleasing their parent corporation, the biggest and most influentials are multinationals that don't have the USA's best intrest in mind. Just intrest in using the government for their own ends.
The working class often couldn't give a shit about a corporate sponsored government, further than their own careers and retirement funds. They simply couldn't give a shit.
Then you have various conflicting ethnic loyalities, disgruntled employees who simply don't give a fuck, etc...
There is nothing unifying it all, except what people can get out of it, and when the get is out of it, the system will collapse.
So what, Linux has the market share in Servers, Supercomputers, cell phones, and now IVI.
I think the only market left that Linux DOESN'T controll is desktop, and that market is shrinking. I think its plain obvious to anyone at this point, Linux is and will continue to be the dominant OS on planet earth for the next 50 years.
The only place its not dominant is niche platforms, like embedded(strong though), mainframes(dying), and realtime operations.
But when you factor in Free software, that jumps considerably.
we need to end this notion, that if someone does you a favor, or spends money on you, they somehow fucking own you, or control what you do with that favor.
still a $25 dollar ASIC now has the hash rate of a high end video card that costs over $200. the ASIC uses 2.5 watts, plugs into a usb port, is silent, and requires little physical space, and can be run from a raspi.
term limits sounds like a good idea, until you realize there is no term limits for either lobbyists or the office staffers, the real people behind the scenes that run the show.
We need to crack down on the Public Relations industry. We all seem to understand that money buys votes, but we never ask "how", and "how can we stop money from buying votes?". It seems to be fact, and what is and isn't socially acceptable has defined by whatever press release they put out this week, that may or may not contradict last weeks.
1. democratic-republic. Also "Democratic World", has very real conotations to a specific bunch of countries when spoken by a US speaker, regardless of how "democratic" they are in practice. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_United_states_a_democratic_republic
2. niether do you.
3. Vauge, I guess it depends on the country in question, and what is being spied on. Brazil was supposedly a nominal ally, and our spying
4. Technical foul, use of "punk rock" outside discussions of music and subculture.
its not even reefer madness, its the effect of runaway bureaucracy seeking to maintain and expand its own power.
The real goal of a enforcement buerocracy is to make everything illegal, and grant exceptions out as favors, in return for other favors, hence making the bureaucracy a manditory entity to go through.
Also, the more people they arrest, the bigger than numbers are in the presentations to congress, which gives them a bigger budget to arrest more people, and ask for more money. The problem looks like its growing because numbers increase, but in reality its just being more vigorously enforced. At a certain point common sense and decency goes out the window to keep numbers in line.
The result, is that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
So long as google creates profiles based on those searches, they are still accessable to the Feds, either by purchasing them, even through a strawman if needbe, or by force via subopenea, or other legal sanctions.
I wouldn't go that far, but I'd curtail the agency to white hat hacking only, and instead letting them hoarde 0-day exploits, I'd make them post them on all the respective project's bugtrackers.
that would do far more good than any offensive action.
Did you actually read the article, they are doing nothing to break the internet.
1. They are demanding foreign companies keep information on their own citizens in country. Imagine if google was a russian company, wouldn't you want the same?
2. they are beefing up infastructure, building more trunk lines to other south american countries, plus their own line right to europe. this actuallty STRENGTHENS the internet by adding more bandwith and redundancy. The idea is giving data more ways to be routed than through the USA.
There is nothing in the article which suggests they are doing anything the slightest to break the internet.
what audience are they going to feel like targeting?
windows is on the decline, PC and laptop sales are stagnant, partly because of the Windows/Manfuacture stagnation that new PC sales are dropping, and with it, windows is going down.
In the future, the only PC users will be the boutique type, it will be hard to find an off the shelf desktop.
The only people who will have desktops will be the type that build their own, and they are more likely to want linux or a windows alternative than windows, and are no encumbered to take windows by default, and linux is cheaper.
This will grab the attention of the PC game makers, who have to decide what android/iOS/console games they actually want to port to the PC.
since android already runs the linux kernel, and supports things like OpenGL, I imagine it'd be a hair easier.
the tea party and occupy wall street both suffered heavy amounts of arrest and harassment and intimidation by the police, along with infiltration, provocateurs, and other methods of sabotage of all stripes.
Slashdot Mirror
This is very true.
we had a standard with X11. The problem with X, is that it was holding linux in GUI space back, and it was hard to work with(makes a port harder, scare new devs), screen tearing, multi-monitor support was hard.
So some people started working on a new standard, wayland, which everyone uses but cannocial.
As for standards that help everyone, low level standards, such as TCP/IP, freedesktop.org, provide just enough compatibility between projects, while not getitng in the way with varying demands.
freedesktop.org is the reason why your settings in XFCE remain in GNOME, and KDE, etc...
Why are we asking how we could have stopped snowden, when we are not asking why we couldn't stop the machinations he revealed.
Really, what is higher priority???
As far as fixing the federal government. First, we'd need a government with any real care about the nation, something I don't think we've seen in a long time. Most people in the government are bureaucrats looking to expand their own interests, often at behest of the state. Thats never really going to change, because, as time goes on, less and less people give a fuck about the state for various reasons.
Corporate sponsers don't give a fuck except pleasing their parent corporation, the biggest and most influentials are multinationals that don't have the USA's best intrest in mind. Just intrest in using the government for their own ends.
The working class often couldn't give a shit about a corporate sponsored government, further than their own careers and retirement funds. They simply couldn't give a shit.
Then you have various conflicting ethnic loyalities, disgruntled employees who simply don't give a fuck, etc...
There is nothing unifying it all, except what people can get out of it, and when the get is out of it, the system will collapse.
if they ship for $249 as spec'd I buy one
So what, Linux has the market share in Servers, Supercomputers, cell phones, and now IVI.
I think the only market left that Linux DOESN'T controll is desktop, and that market is shrinking. I think its plain obvious to anyone at this point, Linux is and will continue to be the dominant OS on planet earth for the next 50 years.
The only place its not dominant is niche platforms, like embedded(strong though), mainframes(dying), and realtime operations.
But when you factor in Free software, that jumps considerably.
Free software won. now get over it.
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
http://www.h-net.org/~latam/powerpoints/Pullman.pdf
what is next for facebook, paying its workers in script?
we need to end this notion, that if someone does you a favor, or spends money on you, they somehow fucking own you, or control what you do with that favor.
Otherwise all gifts are trojans.
How much money did they spend on this?
I also hope they find and disable the software that is spying on them.
the refrence from my snide comment in case anyone thinks its too tinfoil:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9159278/Pa._school_district_denies_spying_on_students_with_MacBooks
I've been using IRC since 1994 and surfing the WWW since around the same with netscape navigator 2, and mIRC 4.5
how is that going to be like the 1990s, I vividly remember the 1990s
fuck poker, where the fuck do I score this crazy fucking cyber punk uber futuristic sci-fi infrared viewing contact lenses.
I didn't even know this was possible.
still a $25 dollar ASIC now has the hash rate of a high end video card that costs over $200. the ASIC uses 2.5 watts, plugs into a usb port, is silent, and requires little physical space, and can be run from a raspi.
GPU mining, fuck off
term limits sounds like a good idea, until you realize there is no term limits for either lobbyists or the office staffers, the real people behind the scenes that run the show.
We need to crack down on the Public Relations industry. We all seem to understand that money buys votes, but we never ask "how", and "how can we stop money from buying votes?". It seems to be fact, and what is and isn't socially acceptable has defined by whatever press release they put out this week, that may or may not contradict last weeks.
you do realize, in cases of Austraila and the UK, this involves handing information back to their respective governments.
While they do the same to us.
Net effect, we are all being spied on, and regardless of who does the spying, our nations own governments ultimatey get the information.
1. democratic-republic. Also "Democratic World", has very real conotations to a specific bunch of countries when spoken by a US speaker, regardless of how "democratic" they are in practice.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_United_states_a_democratic_republic
2. niether do you.
3. Vauge, I guess it depends on the country in question, and what is being spied on. Brazil was supposedly a nominal ally, and our spying
4. Technical foul, use of "punk rock" outside discussions of music and subculture.
Believe it or not the UK is considerably worse.
the british GCHQ does a "total take" on every piece of data ever, metadata or NOT,
They also have a new chineese style content filtering firewall.
I propose eliminating the DEA, and putting any worthwhile projects under the directorship of the FBI.
its not even reefer madness, its the effect of runaway bureaucracy seeking to maintain and expand its own power.
The real goal of a enforcement buerocracy is to make everything illegal, and grant exceptions out as favors, in return for other favors, hence making the bureaucracy a manditory entity to go through.
Also, the more people they arrest, the bigger than numbers are in the presentations to congress, which gives them a bigger budget to arrest more people, and ask for more money. The problem looks like its growing because numbers increase, but in reality its just being more vigorously enforced. At a certain point common sense and decency goes out the window to keep numbers in line.
The result, is that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
So long as google creates profiles based on those searches, they are still accessable to the Feds, either by purchasing them, even through a strawman if needbe, or by force via subopenea, or other legal sanctions.
To quote Albert Einstiend:
"To repeat the same action and expect diffrent results is madness".
Microsoft is/has gone mad
I wouldn't go that far, but I'd curtail the agency to white hat hacking only, and instead letting them hoarde 0-day exploits, I'd make them post them on all the respective project's bugtrackers.
that would do far more good than any offensive action.
they forgot the time it takes to transfer data onto the SD cards, remove them, and fill the truck. add another 24 hours
Did you actually read the article, they are doing nothing to break the internet.
1. They are demanding foreign companies keep information on their own citizens in country. Imagine if google was a russian company, wouldn't you want the same?
2. they are beefing up infastructure, building more trunk lines to other south american countries, plus their own line right to europe. this actuallty STRENGTHENS the internet by adding more bandwith and redundancy. The idea is giving data more ways to be routed than through the USA.
There is nothing in the article which suggests they are doing anything the slightest to break the internet.
what audience are they going to feel like targeting?
windows is on the decline, PC and laptop sales are stagnant, partly because of the Windows/Manfuacture stagnation that new PC sales are dropping, and with it, windows is going down.
In the future, the only PC users will be the boutique type, it will be hard to find an off the shelf desktop.
The only people who will have desktops will be the type that build their own, and they are more likely to want linux or a windows alternative than windows, and are no encumbered to take windows by default, and linux is cheaper.
This will grab the attention of the PC game makers, who have to decide what android/iOS/console games they actually want to port to the PC.
since android already runs the linux kernel, and supports things like OpenGL, I imagine it'd be a hair easier.
twofish? MD6? WHIRPOL?
""The majority of these grenades were inert, replica, or novelty items"
Good job with security theater TSA.
the tea party and occupy wall street both suffered heavy amounts of arrest and harassment and intimidation by the police, along with infiltration, provocateurs, and other methods of sabotage of all stripes.