You cannot just implicitly trust ANY software unless YOU validate it.
For varying values of "implicitly trust"...
The problem is that 99.999999% of the population has no idea how to analyze software for security flaws.
From the AC that you attacked:
... then at least people who really care could go about fixing things themselves, and the rest of you consumer nitwits could at least benefit from their hard work, too.
You either have to inherently distrust everything and base your technology around the concepts of lack of trust (such as the devs of Qubes do) or you accept the risk.
That's true. But here you're kind of just agreeing with the AC.
Having the source code doesn't make an application anymore trustworthy from a security standpoint, unless you can use that source code to prove the software is secure.
But... this statement is self defeating! In the first half you say the source code doesn't help security but then in the next breath you say it could if it could be inspected... but that's what it means to have the source code: you can inspect it! Do you even hear yourself?!
99.999999% of FOSS doesn't do that.
That's what FOSS means: Free and Open Source Software. It means you can just read the code.
Holy moley! Are you low on sleep or are you illiterate or both?
...Trump is calling them liars and unamerican on a daily basis...
Are they not liars? Have they not lied to the American public and kept secrets from the very public they ostensibly serve?
Is it not un-American to spy on everyone at all times and assist in undermining the liberty of the American people?
Why is the Trump administration banning words at all?
Probably because they want straight talk not jargon, political pandering, and woo-woo-look-at-this-gimme-money bullshit.
It sounds like the administration is trying to spend less on things like figuring out the patterns in crested warbler mating calls and more on things like, say, curing cancer or figuring out how to pay off the insane debt we've racked up.
Also, what the hell does "science-based" or "evidence-based" even mean?! These are just weasel words used in an attempt to bullshit some money out of the tax payers.
Personally I disagree with the administration's approach here and I think it's a bad move to ban words at all for any reason. My approach would be to simply cut funding for everything that isn't absolutely required by law and then work on getting the law changed to cut even more (i.e. military, federal healthcare, and social security spending). The national debt is an extremely serious problem-- as in, nation-ending. If there's research that can stack up compared to that (i.e. cure for cancer or HIV) then maybe we could talk about sending a little money that way, but otherwise it's time to tighten the belt.
You're putting out a lot of hand-waving speculation.
Even if everything you're afraid of is true there's much more important things to worry about: like obesity, wars, famine, cost of energy, communism/anarchy/totalitarian states/fascism, meteorite strikes,
and thousand million other things.
But no matter what happens: you are going to die. In the mean time a cell phone is too handy and won't kill you before you die from something else anyway.
I agree with everything you said.
So the real net neutrality should be the restoration of competition among ISPs.
What if Pai and the FCC are really just driving things to a bad place on purpose to get the public pissed enough to actually remove the monopolies? Sort of like reverse psychology on a national level.
If they're barely scraping by then they just won't sign up for the brand new shiny internet service... which they didn't have before anyway and thus won't miss it--- NO HARM WILL BE DONE.
Iknowrite?! Can you believe those greedy assholes are going out of their way to innovate and try to bring internet (and all the knowledge and human connection that entails) to a part of the world that lives in abject poverty? What real stinkers they must be! Screw you, Google, and take your kindness and innovation and everything else and just shove it!
Rural India is probably just happy to have any kind of internet at all. They might not even have access to clean water on the regular. Intermittent internet connectivity probably isn't even something they would consider to be a problem.
Living on the street without a home or a job? Here's some free advice:
1. Get a job. Any job. Minimum wage works just fine. All you need is a couple hundred bucks a month-- that's more than you were making when you didn't have a job isn't it? The harder you work at this job, the more overtime hours you put in, the faster you'll get out of poverty. If it were me I'd pick a job that would allow me to really shine through sheer work ethic. Fast-food is perfect for this because the competition are all teenagers that barely show up for their shift and when they do they act like idiots. You can make manager in a couple of months at these kinds of jobs if you simply keep your nose clean, show up for your shifts, and don't be an asshole to the boss.
2. Get a gym membership somewhere that has a shower. Use this for bathing (every day) and what little recreation you need if you can't stand to work another minute (get some you-time once a week). It shouldn't be more than $20 a month or so. If you have someone you can room-mate with to split your bills you need to seriously consider whether this will be worth it to you just to have a roof, a couch, a kitchen, and a shower. It depends on how much the total rent and bills are and how hard it is to live on the streets (i.e. Winter in New York vs summer in San Francisco). Think about what it is that you really need to live. Remember, you're trying to work your way out of poverty. The good life comes later.
3. If you're living on the street get some camping gear (i.e. a portable stove, some pots and pans). That's right, you're going to do your own cooking and you're never ever going to eat out. You should be able to feed yourself easily if you buy stuff like beans, rice, and veggies and have plenty of money left over. Don't leave trash lying around, clean up after yourself and you probably won't be bothered by anyone because you won't be bothering anyone.
4. Save your money. Put it all into the bank or into an investment account. You can get either or both by just walking into a bank and telling them what you want: an account that you can have your paychecks direct-deposited into and an investment account. If you really want to access this stuff digitally then go to the public library and use their computers for free.
5. Stay off the booze and drugs. This one is going to be hard because, let's face it, this is probably the exact reason you're homeless in the first place isn't it? But this is extremely important. If you can't or won't do this step then you will not succeed in working your way out of poverty.
Give it a couple months and you'll probably have more money in the bank and be physically healthier than half the nine-to-five-rat-race participants in a hundred mile radius. You won't even be paying taxes because you don't have property so you won't pay property tax, and you're making too little so that under the progressive tax system the government will be sending a check to you at the end of the year if you file your tax returns.
Once you've got some money saved up and your investment account is starting to grow at a healthy rate then you can think about buying some luxuries. Here's some ideas:
0. See about moving in with a room mate. Getting a good night's rest is important after all, and a bed in an apartment is much nicer than a sleeping bag under an overpass. It's still a luxury, though, so think carefully about how much it's worth to you.
1. Buy a bike. This basic transportation must not be underestimated for getting around an urban environment. You don't have to buy gas or register it or anything and if you pedal with a modicum of purpose and energy then for short distances you'll get where you're going not much slower than you would if you were driving a car and had to wait on traffic lights.
2. Buy a cheapo cell phone. This is pretty extravagant, but it's hard to really get along in modern society without a phone so that work
If someone did something to deserve it, yeah. You seem to have dropped something: context.
How many serial killers have you heard of that were children or babies or embryos?
...and endless wars.
Yeah, you're right, it's more moral to let dictators rape, steal, and systematically torture and murder their people.
Also, nations have no right to self defense?
Really? There's no such thing as a justified war in your eyes?
They don't want abortion but block practical sex ed to help teens avoid pregnancy and scream about birth control.
That's not hypocrisy. See, it's very simple: just don't have sex outside of marriage.
I know it can be hard in our current culture to restrain oneself when everyone else seems to be "enjoying" themselves. But think of all the children growing up in single-parent households because the value and meaning of marriage has been undermined and all but destroyed today. What about all the people catching life-altering STDs from what they thought would just be a bit of fun?
How is it hypocritical to say that maybe marriage and the permanence of it was a good thing?
Wouldn't marriage and sexual discipline quarantine the population from STDs like HIV? How many millions died from HIV that would have lived if we'd all practiced monogamous sex with and only with our spouses?
How does killing an innocent embryo (human) improve a teenage pregnancy situation? Doesn't it just make it worse?
In chess there's moves that can be made that blunder a piece. Some moves are good and do improve your position but are sub-optimal. Then, of course, there's optimal moves which sometimes require a sacrifice the ramifications of which aren't fully understood 'till much later at which time one is usually very glad to have made the optimal move.
Incorrect. I'll take your nerd badge now. Security will see you out and we will mail your things to you next week. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Society doesn't have an obligation to do a damn thing. You're projecting your values on to others.
I agree with this.
You ever notice how the biggest fucking idiots on Planet Earth always run in with drive by insults but never actually make a point or provide evidence of anything? It's like they know how fucking stupid they are, but their ego doesn't let them admit it to themselves so they just call people names and pat themselves on the back.
So, the speed of light is basically the speed of causality, right?
And the definition of a black hole is that light can't escape it, right?
This means that it's impossible for something inside a black hole to affect anything outside a black hole, right?
So then it's utterly impossible for our universe to ever affect anything outside it, right? Because not even light can escape the Schwarzschild radius of our universe, right?
And the converse would also be true: other universes couldn't affect ours.
So the multi-verse theory is utterly un-scientific because it cannot be proven at all. Right?
This.
Basically there's this little thing called FREEDOM.
If the thought of freedom for yourself or, especially, for others disturbs you then GET OUT OF THE USA!
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Right, because FOSS has never had 20 year old bugs/security flaws.
The AC didn't say that.
You cannot just implicitly trust ANY software unless YOU validate it.
For varying values of "implicitly trust"...
The problem is that 99.999999% of the population has no idea how to analyze software for security flaws.
From the AC that you attacked:
... then at least people who really care could go about fixing things themselves, and the rest of you consumer nitwits could at least benefit from their hard work, too.
You either have to inherently distrust everything and base your technology around the concepts of lack of trust (such as the devs of Qubes do) or you accept the risk.
That's true. But here you're kind of just agreeing with the AC.
Having the source code doesn't make an application anymore trustworthy from a security standpoint, unless you can use that source code to prove the software is secure.
But... this statement is self defeating! In the first half you say the source code doesn't help security but then in the next breath you say it could if it could be inspected... but that's what it means to have the source code: you can inspect it! Do you even hear yourself?!
99.999999% of FOSS doesn't do that.
That's what FOSS means: Free and Open Source Software. It means you can just read the code.
Holy moley! Are you low on sleep or are you illiterate or both?
...Trump is calling them liars and unamerican on a daily basis...
Are they not liars? Have they not lied to the American public and kept secrets from the very public they ostensibly serve?
Is it not un-American to spy on everyone at all times and assist in undermining the liberty of the American people?
Our forefathers fought wars over less.
Here's an alternative approach: the arguments made by politicians on science should be judged on their scientific merit.
And just who, exactly, will do the judging?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Or you could practice what you preach and use Linux.
Why wasn't this modded up?
Why is the Trump administration banning words at all?
Probably because they want straight talk not jargon, political pandering, and woo-woo-look-at-this-gimme-money bullshit.
It sounds like the administration is trying to spend less on things like figuring out the patterns in crested warbler mating calls and more on things like, say, curing cancer or figuring out how to pay off the insane debt we've racked up.
Also, what the hell does "science-based" or "evidence-based" even mean?! These are just weasel words used in an attempt to bullshit some money out of the tax payers.
Personally I disagree with the administration's approach here and I think it's a bad move to ban words at all for any reason. My approach would be to simply cut funding for everything that isn't absolutely required by law and then work on getting the law changed to cut even more (i.e. military, federal healthcare, and social security spending). The national debt is an extremely serious problem-- as in, nation-ending. If there's research that can stack up compared to that (i.e. cure for cancer or HIV) then maybe we could talk about sending a little money that way, but otherwise it's time to tighten the belt.
You're putting out a lot of hand-waving speculation.
Even if everything you're afraid of is true there's much more important things to worry about: like obesity, wars, famine, cost of energy, communism/anarchy/totalitarian states/fascism, meteorite strikes, and thousand million other things.
But no matter what happens: you are going to die. In the mean time a cell phone is too handy and won't kill you before you die from something else anyway.
I agree with everything you said.
So the real net neutrality should be the restoration of competition among ISPs.
What if Pai and the FCC are really just driving things to a bad place on purpose to get the public pissed enough to actually remove the monopolies? Sort of like reverse psychology on a national level.
If they're barely scraping by then they just won't sign up for the brand new shiny internet service... which they didn't have before anyway and thus won't miss it--- NO HARM WILL BE DONE.
Iknowrite?! Can you believe those greedy assholes are going out of their way to innovate and try to bring internet (and all the knowledge and human connection that entails) to a part of the world that lives in abject poverty? What real stinkers they must be! Screw you, Google, and take your kindness and innovation and everything else and just shove it!
Rural India is probably just happy to have any kind of internet at all. They might not even have access to clean water on the regular. Intermittent internet connectivity probably isn't even something they would consider to be a problem.
drive off people whom society has failed
Living on the street without a home or a job? Here's some free advice:
1. Get a job. Any job. Minimum wage works just fine. All you need is a couple hundred bucks a month-- that's more than you were making when you didn't have a job isn't it? The harder you work at this job, the more overtime hours you put in, the faster you'll get out of poverty. If it were me I'd pick a job that would allow me to really shine through sheer work ethic. Fast-food is perfect for this because the competition are all teenagers that barely show up for their shift and when they do they act like idiots. You can make manager in a couple of months at these kinds of jobs if you simply keep your nose clean, show up for your shifts, and don't be an asshole to the boss.
2. Get a gym membership somewhere that has a shower. Use this for bathing (every day) and what little recreation you need if you can't stand to work another minute (get some you-time once a week). It shouldn't be more than $20 a month or so. If you have someone you can room-mate with to split your bills you need to seriously consider whether this will be worth it to you just to have a roof, a couch, a kitchen, and a shower. It depends on how much the total rent and bills are and how hard it is to live on the streets (i.e. Winter in New York vs summer in San Francisco). Think about what it is that you really need to live. Remember, you're trying to work your way out of poverty. The good life comes later.
3. If you're living on the street get some camping gear (i.e. a portable stove, some pots and pans). That's right, you're going to do your own cooking and you're never ever going to eat out. You should be able to feed yourself easily if you buy stuff like beans, rice, and veggies and have plenty of money left over. Don't leave trash lying around, clean up after yourself and you probably won't be bothered by anyone because you won't be bothering anyone.
4. Save your money. Put it all into the bank or into an investment account. You can get either or both by just walking into a bank and telling them what you want: an account that you can have your paychecks direct-deposited into and an investment account. If you really want to access this stuff digitally then go to the public library and use their computers for free.
5. Stay off the booze and drugs. This one is going to be hard because, let's face it, this is probably the exact reason you're homeless in the first place isn't it? But this is extremely important. If you can't or won't do this step then you will not succeed in working your way out of poverty.
Give it a couple months and you'll probably have more money in the bank and be physically healthier than half the nine-to-five-rat-race participants in a hundred mile radius. You won't even be paying taxes because you don't have property so you won't pay property tax, and you're making too little so that under the progressive tax system the government will be sending a check to you at the end of the year if you file your tax returns.
Once you've got some money saved up and your investment account is starting to grow at a healthy rate then you can think about buying some luxuries. Here's some ideas:
0. See about moving in with a room mate. Getting a good night's rest is important after all, and a bed in an apartment is much nicer than a sleeping bag under an overpass. It's still a luxury, though, so think carefully about how much it's worth to you.
1. Buy a bike. This basic transportation must not be underestimated for getting around an urban environment. You don't have to buy gas or register it or anything and if you pedal with a modicum of purpose and energy then for short distances you'll get where you're going not much slower than you would if you were driving a car and had to wait on traffic lights.
2. Buy a cheapo cell phone. This is pretty extravagant, but it's hard to really get along in modern society without a phone so that work
Climate change is climate change.
Tautology detected in an attempt to beg the question. Opinion discarded.
...who advocate the death penalty...
If someone did something to deserve it, yeah. You seem to have dropped something: context.
How many serial killers have you heard of that were children or babies or embryos?
...and endless wars.
Yeah, you're right, it's more moral to let dictators rape, steal, and systematically torture and murder their people.
Also, nations have no right to self defense?
Really? There's no such thing as a justified war in your eyes?
They don't want abortion but block practical sex ed to help teens avoid pregnancy and scream about birth control.
That's not hypocrisy. See, it's very simple: just don't have sex outside of marriage.
I know it can be hard in our current culture to restrain oneself when everyone else seems to be "enjoying" themselves. But think of all the children growing up in single-parent households because the value and meaning of marriage has been undermined and all but destroyed today. What about all the people catching life-altering STDs from what they thought would just be a bit of fun?
How is it hypocritical to say that maybe marriage and the permanence of it was a good thing?
Wouldn't marriage and sexual discipline quarantine the population from STDs like HIV? How many millions died from HIV that would have lived if we'd all practiced monogamous sex with and only with our spouses?
How does killing an innocent embryo (human) improve a teenage pregnancy situation? Doesn't it just make it worse?
In chess there's moves that can be made that blunder a piece. Some moves are good and do improve your position but are sub-optimal. Then, of course, there's optimal moves which sometimes require a sacrifice the ramifications of which aren't fully understood 'till much later at which time one is usually very glad to have made the optimal move.
64 bit only gives you 2x 32 bit
Incorrect. I'll take your nerd badge now. Security will see you out and we will mail your things to you next week. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Thank you for your analysis.
Stop talking sense. Someone might hear you and take you seriously.
If you pledge $40/mo. to one artist you'll pay $1.50/mo. in fees (not unreasonable), but if you make 40 $1 pledges then you'll pay $15.16/mo in fees.
So the fees depends on the number of transactions. Is Patreon being charged a flat rate per transaction by a bank or something?
They're no longer accepting BTC so that they're not stuck holding the bag after the bubble pops-- which will be any day now it looks like.
Or... You could use Linux...
Society doesn't have an obligation to do a damn thing. You're projecting your values on to others.
I agree with this.
You ever notice how the biggest fucking idiots on Planet Earth always run in with drive by insults but never actually make a point or provide evidence of anything? It's like they know how fucking stupid they are, but their ego doesn't let them admit it to themselves so they just call people names and pat themselves on the back.
I also agree with this.
Actual history.
Please don't dodge the question.
Where did you get the numbers from?
I want to believe, but I must see proof.
We've built automated systems that can detect things like nudity, violence, and child exploitative imagery
Considering that all three of those are illegal... how would such a system be built?
So, the speed of light is basically the speed of causality, right?
And the definition of a black hole is that light can't escape it, right?
This means that it's impossible for something inside a black hole to affect anything outside a black hole, right?
So then it's utterly impossible for our universe to ever affect anything outside it, right? Because not even light can escape the Schwarzschild radius of our universe, right?
And the converse would also be true: other universes couldn't affect ours.
So the multi-verse theory is utterly un-scientific because it cannot be proven at all. Right?
This.
Basically there's this little thing called FREEDOM.
If the thought of freedom for yourself or, especially, for others disturbs you then GET OUT OF THE USA!