There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
-- Henry Louis Mencken
Phil Agre is a nut on the level of Timecube's Gene Ray. By his definition, Stalin was a conservative by preserving and elevating an elite at the expense of the masses.
Not quite. For code that must be compiled before installation, there is the need to maintain the code even if nothing changes. Programming standards change and what was once legal may not be so later on.
If you really are an honest historian, you will realize that there have often been notions that everyone knew to be true. If you are so sure of your assertions, you could tell us some of your sources to eliminate doubt. You should also understand that every implementation of socialism has served as a vehicle to totalitarianism when it reached a critical mass of power and influence. The National Socialist German Workers' Party aka the Nazi Party was a ploy for totalitarianism. The same was true for Russia, China, Cambodia, North Korea, and Venezuela among others. Every time god-emperors were installed.
No mention of what System76 considers an Open Source computer. At the very least, I'd want something that uses Coreboot and free/open payloads for the same as well as a means to turn off or reliably block management engine backdoors. Meanwhile there ARE completely Open Source modern computers from Raptor Computing Systems in the form of the Talos series, although they're very expensive.
Let's start off by getting Facebook, Twitter, et al to admit that they're engaging in rampant and heavy-handed censorship. Guns? Censored! Criticism of left-wing? Censored! Praise of neutral to right-wing? Censored!
Bring back IR emitters. Bring back removable batteries. Keep SD card slots. Keep 3.5mm headphone jack. Get rid of rounded edge displays. They're pointless and any gimmicky effect is thwarted by cases. Get rid of the notch. Forget about edgeless displays. Don't lock bootloaders, or at least provide a means for any owner to unlock the bootloader at no charge. Keep the physical home button. Knock it off with Knox.
No connectivity at all should be allowed for any voting machine. At the end of the night, the machines should be shifted into tally mode. From that point on, all they're capable of is to print their tally along with a timestamp, machine ID, and cryptographically secure hash. Scan the sheets and transmit to the election board. There's a bit more stuff in the middle to prevent stuffed tally sheets and other problems; but the math is sound, fraudsters easily detected, and privacy protected.
If any company really wants to make a case that their voting machines are the best, all they need to do is let them be attacked at Defcon, Blackhat, and the like and see what happens.
How well do you suppose a book publisher will get with a clause stating that nobody shall release a review of a particular book without that review first being approved by the publisher?
Maybe Valve could fix Issue #1040 from 2013 once and for all (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1040). The client wants to manage all aspects of the window instead of letting the window manager do it. The practical result is that the Steam client fights with the window manager and semi-unpredictably makes itself unusable or infuriating. There's really no excuse for this.
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.
The original meaning of "The Customer is Always Right" stems from demand for a product, not the parades of boorish people so often seen quoting this adage. More specifically, if customers demand a certain product, then that's the product that should be made. Apple is attempting to cram down the throats of the users something the users don't want.
Does anyone remember how Microsoft played similar games with DR-DOS by deliberately making their programs crash, complain, or do strange things when said programs noticed that the operating system was DR-DOS rather than MS-DOS? It's the same thing but with different players.
The crashing the economy warning is in the context of a command from on high telling the nation (or world) that they will stop using fossil fuels on some timetable.
The economy isn't crashing. The transition from one energy source to another had been incremental, replacing the most expensive fossil fuel plants first.
In general, upgrading infrastructure helps the economy, rather than hurt it.
If collecting income taxes for all states is going to work, there's going to have to be some sort of legislation to rein in the wildly expanding scope of what is/isn't taxable and at what rates. How about this
A one-to-one table of state/territory with a fixed sales tax rate for each. Each "out of state/territory" tax rate is an average of all the rates within that state/territory. No exceptions for any items to avoid quibbles like the candy with/without flour scenario described earlier. Each state/territory tax agency will have an office for collecting and processing incoming and outgoing sales taxes. A online/mailorder seller files a report of sales taxes collected broken down among the 50 states and 6 inhabited territories and pays just that agency. The agency is then responsible for distributing tax monies to other agencies. A retailer must gross at least $100k (adjusted for inflation) for three years before this kicks in, otherwise only the home state gets to share in the booty.
The crashing the economy warning is in the context of a command from on high telling the nation (or world) that they will stop using fossil fuels on some timetable. That's how the loonies wanted things to go. That's how Mao Tse Tung ruined the economy of China and caused the deaths of 55.6 million people in the Great Leap Forward. What is actually happening is companies are selling solar generation equipment such that consumers are buying and using them instead of fossil-fueled generation. It's gradual, but ensures that things are done right.
With various companies over the past ten or so years seeing fit to pick and choose what legal products people will spend their own money on, there needs to be a law telling credit card operators, banks, and companies that pretend to be banks (I'm looking at you Paypal) that they may not disallow users from buying otherwise legal goods and services with their cards or accounts. This always seemed like the way things always should be, but now we have control-freak busybodies taking it upon themselves to decide what the masses should and should not buy.
So, if all we need to run X without being root is to use a relatively small daemon, then use that daemon. There's no need to assimilate it into an ever-growing behemoth of incomprehensibility.
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Take a look at how tobacco smuggling is already going on.
Would someone care to explain how these backdoors got in the code in the first place?
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There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
-- Henry Louis Mencken
Phil Agre is a nut on the level of Timecube's Gene Ray. By his definition, Stalin was a conservative by preserving and elevating an elite at the expense of the masses.
Now we can get even fatter with even less effort!
Not quite. For code that must be compiled before installation, there is the need to maintain the code even if nothing changes. Programming standards change and what was once legal may not be so later on.
If you really are an honest historian, you will realize that there have often been notions that everyone knew to be true. If you are so sure of your assertions, you could tell us some of your sources to eliminate doubt. You should also understand that every implementation of socialism has served as a vehicle to totalitarianism when it reached a critical mass of power and influence. The National Socialist German Workers' Party aka the Nazi Party was a ploy for totalitarianism. The same was true for Russia, China, Cambodia, North Korea, and Venezuela among others. Every time god-emperors were installed.
So, you think slander and libel doesn't have cause injury?
No mention of what System76 considers an Open Source computer. At the very least, I'd want something that uses Coreboot and free/open payloads for the same as well as a means to turn off or reliably block management engine backdoors. Meanwhile there ARE completely Open Source modern computers from Raptor Computing Systems in the form of the Talos series, although they're very expensive.
While Linus is doing this, we need to look at getting rid of Poettering and his groupies.
Knox would be nice if the owners of the phone were allowed to reset it and use their own operating systems (ie, LineageOS)
Let's start off by getting Facebook, Twitter, et al to admit that they're engaging in rampant and heavy-handed censorship. Guns? Censored! Criticism of left-wing? Censored! Praise of neutral to right-wing? Censored!
Bring back IR emitters.
Bring back removable batteries.
Keep SD card slots.
Keep 3.5mm headphone jack.
Get rid of rounded edge displays. They're pointless and any gimmicky effect is thwarted by cases.
Get rid of the notch.
Forget about edgeless displays.
Don't lock bootloaders, or at least provide a means for any owner to unlock the bootloader at no charge.
Keep the physical home button.
Knock it off with Knox.
No connectivity at all should be allowed for any voting machine. At the end of the night, the machines should be shifted into tally mode. From that point on, all they're capable of is to print their tally along with a timestamp, machine ID, and cryptographically secure hash. Scan the sheets and transmit to the election board. There's a bit more stuff in the middle to prevent stuffed tally sheets and other problems; but the math is sound, fraudsters easily detected, and privacy protected.
If any company really wants to make a case that their voting machines are the best, all they need to do is let them be attacked at Defcon, Blackhat, and the like and see what happens.
How well do you suppose a book publisher will get with a clause stating that nobody shall release a review of a particular book without that review first being approved by the publisher?
Maybe Valve could fix Issue #1040 from 2013 once and for all (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1040). The client wants to manage all aspects of the window instead of letting the window manager do it. The practical result is that the Steam client fights with the window manager and semi-unpredictably makes itself unusable or infuriating. There's really no excuse for this.
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.
The original meaning of "The Customer is Always Right" stems from demand for a product, not the parades of boorish people so often seen quoting this adage. More specifically, if customers demand a certain product, then that's the product that should be made. Apple is attempting to cram down the throats of the users something the users don't want.
Does anyone remember how Microsoft played similar games with DR-DOS by deliberately making their programs crash, complain, or do strange things when said programs noticed that the operating system was DR-DOS rather than MS-DOS? It's the same thing but with different players.
In other words, one must also consider malice from the hosting provider when shopping for a hosting provider.
The crashing the economy warning is in the context of a command from on high telling the nation (or world) that they will stop using fossil fuels on some timetable.
The economy isn't crashing. The transition from one energy source to another had been incremental, replacing the most expensive fossil fuel plants first.
In general, upgrading infrastructure helps the economy, rather than hurt it.
That's precisely what I said.
If collecting income taxes for all states is going to work, there's going to have to be some sort of legislation to rein in the wildly expanding scope of what is/isn't taxable and at what rates. How about this
A one-to-one table of state/territory with a fixed sales tax rate for each.
Each "out of state/territory" tax rate is an average of all the rates within that state/territory.
No exceptions for any items to avoid quibbles like the candy with/without flour scenario described earlier.
Each state/territory tax agency will have an office for collecting and processing incoming and outgoing sales taxes.
A online/mailorder seller files a report of sales taxes collected broken down among the 50 states and 6 inhabited territories and pays just that agency.
The agency is then responsible for distributing tax monies to other agencies.
A retailer must gross at least $100k (adjusted for inflation) for three years before this kicks in, otherwise only the home state gets to share in the booty.
The crashing the economy warning is in the context of a command from on high telling the nation (or world) that they will stop using fossil fuels on some timetable. That's how the loonies wanted things to go. That's how Mao Tse Tung ruined the economy of China and caused the deaths of 55.6 million people in the Great Leap Forward. What is actually happening is companies are selling solar generation equipment such that consumers are buying and using them instead of fossil-fueled generation. It's gradual, but ensures that things are done right.
With various companies over the past ten or so years seeing fit to pick and choose what legal products people will spend their own money on, there needs to be a law telling credit card operators, banks, and companies that pretend to be banks (I'm looking at you Paypal) that they may not disallow users from buying otherwise legal goods and services with their cards or accounts. This always seemed like the way things always should be, but now we have control-freak busybodies taking it upon themselves to decide what the masses should and should not buy.
So, if all we need to run X without being root is to use a relatively small daemon, then use that daemon. There's no need to assimilate it into an ever-growing behemoth of incomprehensibility.