the USSR is gone, and we just unrestricted trade relations with Russia, and there are no restritctions with most other countries they gave missles too that where pointed at us.
" The used burglary charges instead of trespass so they could take a DNA sample from you to keep on file which they could not do for trespass. Supposedly my DNA samples were all destroyed and are no longer on file but I am often sceptical about this, they are probably just kept secret so only special branch have access to them (I am from the UK)."
thats my point, they are using tactics meant to stop criminals, to stop dissent.
the purpose of these laws is not to ensure law and order, or good governance, but to silence dissent, and track down dissenters.
"Your options become limited if your apps are too closely tied to your DE." not really.
gnome apps still work in KDE, and vice versa, except you pull a lot more libraries.
modern computers with 500GB HDs, where the user never uses more than 100GB typical, and those who care about storage can get 1T or more, very easily.
whats 200MB of gnome libraries?
Name one app that doesn't work on
1. GNOME 2. KDE 3. LXDE 4. Cinnamon 5. Enlightenment.
I have them ALL installed on my computer, and guess what, merely installing them they ALL show up on lightdm, or most other modern DMs.
you windows brownshirts are as dumb as ever, reading of a placard, isgnoring that most theorhetical bugs in linux aren't a problem. Next you'll complain about compiling for diffrent versions of GLIBC, which has been ABI stable since 4.1, which means all modern distros
there is no freedom of "religeon". the claus says "establishment of reliegeon", to infer a "church" or whatever other religeons have as an equiv. It works both ways, that no church can be sponsored or affilated with the state, nor the state prohibit certain churchs.
Its meant to keep politics out of church, and church out of politics, as in Europe of the time. The reason is that churches become little more than political shills, like this, and attract a negative element that wants to govern behind the scenes from the pulpit.
There is dirrect right to "free speech", its impied by a "congress shall make no law", implying that if congress can't make a law it shall not be http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The second amendment is far more clear. http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Elsewhere mentioned is that all males 16-40 are considered unregulated militia. The militia did not keep arms in an armory, they kept them at home.
because its been used in history as reasons to disenfranchise people.
To include the vast amount of "mentally ill" people who exist who are just merely "politically inconvienant serfs", or "politically incorrect", or part of some quota for big phrama.
thats great except there are plenty of horror stories of all of these wonderful safeguards posted by an anonymous poster, with no links to back them, just not appearing in real life.
There is plenty to discuss, Tax payers dollars are used to fund research, which the tax payers have no access. What is doing in the "public good", is kept from the public.
Then comes your "appeal to authority". Because something is currently illegal, its automaticly above debate in MORAL standing. The argument here, is SHOULD what swartz did have been a felony under law. Thats what is up for debate. I am reading a book called "they though they where free", its about german non-resistance to nazi rule. In Germany, conformity and social acceptance carried a higher responsiblity than avoiding terrible authoriarian politics.
We'vve spent the last 30 years trying to smash our own culture of independence and free thinking, critical for protecting ourselves against things like this by ensuring there is always someone to stick up to unjust authority.
its been going on for years, and it needs to stop.
Everytime "treating mentally ill", gets brought up in the news, its always been a highlight after some tragedy, with the implications the treatment was non-consentual, with zero burdern of proof, and no restrictions on treatments, nor any sort of legal, or public oversight.
Its been well known for a long time that if you can label someone "mentally ill", without really specifying, or rapidly chaning diagnosis, you can get most of mainstream society to stop asking questions about their care or how they are treated.
"You Yanks are no different when it comes to emperor Obama" What???
Granted there are plenty of intelectually diminished "leftists", There is a huge diffrence in reaction from the government.
You know
"Anyway, if you go up against the top-dog, you must expect extreme aggro." No, you recive critism, some trolling, and some herp derp butthurt from Obama's follower. You don't get assassinated, or thrown in jail.
There are even people who've hinted at rebellion, or even insinuited shooting the president,(idle empty threats, however), and because most of them are far to derpish to pull it off.
A good percent of the right wing open makes fun of and bashes the president, and none of them are in jail.
I understand that American freedoms are slowly slipping away, and that many people get put on watch lists, and some minor LE intimidation. I understand that the Tea Party and OWS got harrassed by the federal law enforcement aparatus. Few of them recieved long term jail sentances, and none of them any jail sentance simply for speaking. While certainly condemnable, its hardly the same scope or scale.
I do agree we are heading in the wrong direction libertywise, but I disagree with your assesment of how far we've already sunk.
windows phone is going to get a viable share of the market?
thats laughable. at least with linux, SOMEONE wants the phone.
no one wants windows, period.
yes, maemo/meego sold more phones than windows. FACT.
you can bash linux, open source, innovation all you want, but at the end of the day, Windows is not getting results anymore, because there is vialbe competition that is too large for them to sink via other methods.
"It's actually kind of a cool move for a corporation to actually recognize that some people are into making their own accessories or replacement parts."
its a gimmick, for a company on the verge of going under.
want something real like the ability to run 3rd party apps, or an unlocked bootloader.
nokia made a fuckton of money selling windows phones, in fact everyone wants a windows phone, and they are doing well.
windows rt has a giant app store that competes with iOS and android.
Fact: No one ever wants to use windows, peroid. No one ever thought it was cool. They wanted a computer, and it came with the computer, and they thought they had no other choice.
"Annnnnd this is why I stopped giving a shit about Slashdot right here."
because your not looking at the bigger picture.
nokia, as much as 4 years ago, released a wonderful GNU/Linux/X11 phone, the n900, and was hot developing a replacement n950, and n9 phones, which would take linux phones to the next level.
unlocked bootloader, easy to root as installing an app, debian based maemo OS, that was closed to debian than ubuntu, and ran unmolested debian binaries, and shipped with both Qt and GTK libraries which would run existing Qt and GTK apps. Its desktop was open source, and found its way back into debian and other distro repos.
anything that ran on your linux desktop could run, although from a UI/UX standpoint, it was better if you "hildonized", or re-wrote the GUI for a small touch screen, for easiest usage.
Now, after taking microsoftie Steve Elop on board, he shit canned this wonderful project to announce an all windows line up from nokia.
None of us want to run windows phone. windows phones by mandate are locked down, with encryption, so even if you were a windows fanboi looking to take advantage of using a windows phone, like the linux geeks use linux phones, tought shit.
So schematics for a phone casing is nice, but its not unlocked electronics. Its not usefull. Its also in the shadow of a company on the rocks from previously poor decision making that took the products we wanted to buy, and wrecked their company.
On top of this, after a large marketing campaign, much to do, windows phone, along with nokia fails misrably, and they are possibly looking at going out of business. So I don't see many real geeks apt to care.
I think I had this conversation with the would be manufacture of a free hardwre in another story a few months ago, when I he asked for what people wanted, and I told him a GPU.
aparantly MIPS is good enough at numbers crunching it can handle graphics well enough it doesn't need a discrete GPU.
anyway, the linux kernel is very very very modular, and easy to hack. Even from a power user standpoint, its very easy to take things out, put things in, and there is a whole host of code that is not enabled by default, but can be, at compile time.
Its also easy to patch. There are a whole slew of linux derivatives like linux-libre linux-ck linux-pae linux-pf. liquirix, etc... and various combinations of those extensions with small things added and removed from upstream to suit the needs/desires of various hackers and programmers. some have thier own cult following.
Then every distro has their own kernel which is slightly diffrent, along the same lines. Most of these patches are not supported upstream.
the android patch set, is now included in the kernel and supported upstream. Also, version 3.8 will support multi-cpu types in one compiled binary for arm.
They are all compatible. for the most part, they will ALL run vanilla linux binaries.
1999 called and wants their resolution back. not acceptable in 2013 on a 3.5 inch handheld. especially not with a ghz class CPU, MIPS no less.(equiv or around 2ghz x86?)
they are not rare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element
they are called such because outdated naming conventions. They are all over the globe, and very common. They are "rare" because they never occur in any more than trace amounts, and its a great effort to refine them, and tons of dirt to dig to get them
In fact the largest mine used to be in california, before it got shut down for enviromental reasons, like what the chineese are doing now with their mines.
We are now making up political facts that serve no purpose than to make us fear our neighbors, give up our constitutional rights, and harass, intimidate, and disenfranchise .
Why? fighting wars against foreign enemies are too hard, we need an easy scapegoat at home that can't fight back. Good riddance.
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the USSR is gone, and we just unrestricted trade relations with Russia, and there are no restritctions with most other countries they gave missles too that where pointed at us.
" The used burglary charges instead of trespass so they could take a DNA sample from you to keep on file which they could not do for trespass. Supposedly my DNA samples were all destroyed and are no longer on file but I am often sceptical about this, they are probably just kept secret so only special branch have access to them (I am from the UK)."
thats my point, they are using tactics meant to stop criminals, to stop dissent.
the purpose of these laws is not to ensure law and order, or good governance, but to silence dissent, and track down dissenters.
"Your options become limited if your apps are too closely tied to your DE."
not really.
gnome apps still work in KDE, and vice versa, except you pull a lot more libraries.
modern computers with 500GB HDs, where the user never uses more than 100GB typical, and those who care about storage can get 1T or more, very easily.
whats 200MB of gnome libraries?
Name one app that doesn't work on
1. GNOME
2. KDE
3. LXDE
4. Cinnamon
5. Enlightenment.
I have them ALL installed on my computer, and guess what, merely installing them they ALL show up on lightdm, or most other modern DMs.
you windows brownshirts are as dumb as ever, reading of a placard, isgnoring that most theorhetical bugs in linux aren't a problem. Next you'll complain about compiling for diffrent versions of GLIBC, which has been ABI stable since 4.1, which means all modern distros
there is no freedom of "religeon". the claus says "establishment of reliegeon", to infer a "church" or whatever other religeons have as an equiv. It works both ways, that no church can be sponsored or affilated with the state, nor the state prohibit certain churchs.
Its meant to keep politics out of church, and church out of politics, as in Europe of the time. The reason is that churches become little more than political shills, like this, and attract a negative element that wants to govern behind the scenes from the pulpit.
There is dirrect right to "free speech", its impied by a "congress shall make no law", implying that if congress can't make a law it shall not be
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The second amendment is far more clear.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Elsewhere mentioned is that all males 16-40 are considered unregulated militia. The militia did not keep arms in an armory, they kept them at home.
because its been used in history as reasons to disenfranchise people.
To include the vast amount of "mentally ill" people who exist who are just merely "politically inconvienant serfs", or "politically incorrect", or part of some quota for big phrama.
thats great except there are plenty of horror stories of all of these wonderful safeguards posted by an anonymous poster, with no links to back them, just not appearing in real life.
There is plenty to discuss, Tax payers dollars are used to fund research, which the tax payers have no access. What is doing in the "public good", is kept from the public.
Then comes your "appeal to authority". Because something is currently illegal, its automaticly above debate in MORAL standing. The argument here, is SHOULD what swartz did have been a felony under law. Thats what is up for debate. I am reading a book called "they though they where free", its about german non-resistance to nazi rule. In Germany, conformity and social acceptance carried a higher responsiblity than avoiding terrible authoriarian politics.
We'vve spent the last 30 years trying to smash our own culture of independence and free thinking, critical for protecting ourselves against things like this by ensuring there is always someone to stick up to unjust authority.
"They're coming for your guns, what are you going to do when they label you "mentally ill"?"
with no chance for a second opinion, no appeals, no lawyers, no burder of proof on anything.
its been going on for years, and it needs to stop.
Everytime "treating mentally ill", gets brought up in the news, its always been a highlight after some tragedy, with the implications the treatment was non-consentual, with zero burdern of proof, and no restrictions on treatments, nor any sort of legal, or public oversight.
Its been well known for a long time that if you can label someone "mentally ill", without really specifying, or rapidly chaning diagnosis, you can get most of mainstream society to stop asking questions about their care or how they are treated.
have fun in windows 8 with a DE you CAN'T replace.
at least we have a plethra of options to run to when devs decide to fuck us.
you have nothing.
"Support of a company that knows how to create and maintain a software platform"
somone mod this +1 funny.
"You Yanks are no different when it comes to emperor Obama"
What???
Granted there are plenty of intelectually diminished "leftists", There is a huge diffrence in reaction from the government.
You know
"Anyway, if you go up against the top-dog, you must expect extreme aggro."
No, you recive critism, some trolling, and some herp derp butthurt from Obama's follower. You don't get assassinated, or thrown in jail.
There are even people who've hinted at rebellion, or even insinuited shooting the president,(idle empty threats, however), and because most of them are far to derpish to pull it off.
A good percent of the right wing open makes fun of and bashes the president, and none of them are in jail.
I understand that American freedoms are slowly slipping away, and that many people get put on watch lists, and some minor LE intimidation. I understand that the Tea Party and OWS got harrassed by the federal law enforcement aparatus. Few of them recieved long term jail sentances, and none of them any jail sentance simply for speaking. While certainly condemnable, its hardly the same scope or scale.
I do agree we are heading in the wrong direction libertywise, but I disagree with your assesment of how far we've already sunk.
windows phone is going to get a viable share of the market?
thats laughable. at least with linux, SOMEONE wants the phone.
no one wants windows, period.
yes, maemo/meego sold more phones than windows. FACT.
you can bash linux, open source, innovation all you want, but at the end of the day, Windows is not getting results anymore, because there is vialbe competition that is too large for them to sink via other methods.
um not really, the successor the n9 sold more than their flagship much promoted "lumia 900"
if anything the death march was their switch to windows.
But don't let your blind hatred of linux, or GNU distract you from real sales figures, or lack of public intrest.
"It's actually kind of a cool move for a corporation to actually recognize that some people are into making their own accessories or replacement parts."
its a gimmick, for a company on the verge of going under.
want something real like the ability to run 3rd party apps, or an unlocked bootloader.
your right.
nokia made a fuckton of money selling windows phones, in fact everyone wants a windows phone, and they are doing well.
windows rt has a giant app store that competes with iOS and android.
Fact: No one ever wants to use windows, peroid. No one ever thought it was cool. They wanted a computer, and it came with the computer, and they thought they had no other choice.
"Annnnnd this is why I stopped giving a shit about Slashdot right here."
because your not looking at the bigger picture.
nokia, as much as 4 years ago, released a wonderful GNU/Linux/X11 phone, the n900, and was hot developing a replacement n950, and n9 phones, which would take linux phones to the next level.
unlocked bootloader, easy to root as installing an app, debian based maemo OS, that was closed to debian than ubuntu, and ran unmolested debian binaries, and shipped with both Qt and GTK libraries which would run existing Qt and GTK apps. Its desktop was open source, and found its way back into debian and other distro repos.
anything that ran on your linux desktop could run, although from a UI/UX standpoint, it was better if you "hildonized", or re-wrote the GUI for a small touch screen, for easiest usage.
Now, after taking microsoftie Steve Elop on board, he shit canned this wonderful project to announce an all windows line up from nokia.
None of us want to run windows phone. windows phones by mandate are locked down, with encryption, so even if you were a windows fanboi looking to take advantage of using a windows phone, like the linux geeks use linux phones, tought shit.
So schematics for a phone casing is nice, but its not unlocked electronics. Its not usefull. Its also in the shadow of a company on the rocks from previously poor decision making that took the products we wanted to buy, and wrecked their company.
On top of this, after a large marketing campaign, much to do, windows phone, along with nokia fails misrably, and they are possibly looking at going out of business. So I don't see many real geeks apt to care.
desperate move by a company with shrinking market share, in serious trouble with otherwise unselling phones.
case design is great, but what about an unlocked bootloader or porting meego to this thing.
Its not like you didn't spend millions developing meego.
make a phone geeks want to actually use, then we'll worry about the case later.
I think I had this conversation with the would be manufacture of a free hardwre in another story a few months ago, when I he asked for what people wanted, and I told him a GPU.
aparantly MIPS is good enough at numbers crunching it can handle graphics well enough it doesn't need a discrete GPU.
all of those tweaks are mainline as of 3.4
anyway, the linux kernel is very very very modular, and easy to hack. Even from a power user standpoint, its very easy to take things out, put things in, and there is a whole host of code that is not enabled by default, but can be, at compile time.
Its also easy to patch. There are a whole slew of linux derivatives like linux-libre linux-ck linux-pae linux-pf. liquirix, etc... and various combinations of those extensions with small things added and removed from upstream to suit the needs/desires of various hackers and programmers. some have thier own cult following.
Then every distro has their own kernel which is slightly diffrent, along the same lines. Most of these patches are not supported upstream.
the android patch set, is now included in the kernel and supported upstream. Also, version 3.8 will support multi-cpu types in one compiled binary for arm.
They are all compatible. for the most part, they will ALL run vanilla linux binaries.
Has anyone gotten GNU ported to android, so you can run a handheld with GNU and Android apps concurrently in the same userland.
java android apps, and run "real linux" GNU apps.
3.5 inch LCD with 320x240 pixels
1999 called and wants their resolution back. not acceptable in 2013 on a 3.5 inch handheld. especially not with a ghz class CPU, MIPS no less.(equiv or around 2ghz x86?)
wvga
800Ã--480 or better, is the bare min.
mod points when I need one, +1
the onion rocks.
they are not rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element
they are called such because outdated naming conventions. They are all over the globe, and very common. They are "rare" because they never occur in any more than trace amounts, and its a great effort to refine them, and tons of dirt to dig to get them
In fact the largest mine used to be in california, before it got shut down for enviromental reasons, like what the chineese are doing now with their mines.
no, in the case of America, the 1990s are back.
We are now making up political facts that serve no purpose than to make us fear our neighbors, give up our constitutional rights, and harass, intimidate, and disenfranchise .
Why? fighting wars against foreign enemies are too hard, we need an easy scapegoat at home that can't fight back. Good riddance.