My wife is a liberal non-white female who voted for Hillary, hoping to see a female President.
Voting for someone on the basis of their sex is just as stupid as voting for someone on the basis of their race/skin-colour. You should be voting on the basis of their policies — far more complex than some genetic attribute.
Yes, but that does not go so far as monitoring their blood pressure, how full their bladder is,... ie there are limits. So if a teacher (reasonably) says that they can have 5 minutes free time and send email,... the keystroke logger will capture the kids' mail account passwords. Then who knows what will happen to it. The school will doubtless say that they will not scrape passwords, but: * can you trust everyone who can access the logs; * what happens when the next data breach comes along and these logs get sent to china/... ?
I don't think the schools are aware of a potential liability. If they don't want it then don't collect it.
You suddenly find £2,000 gone from your bank account and the bank blames you (as not in this Tesco case). You audit; you are up to date with all virus bashing software, etc,... how else could your data have gone ? You then find that 'telemetry' is being sucked from your machine, Nvidia/Microsoft/... refuse to disclose what they have taken from your machine; they will not say how they protect what they have taken or who they share it with. Can you go after them ?
The fastest way to get elected president of the USA if you don't care about anything in the way of integrity, is to tell people what they want to hear.[in your campain speeches]
Are you talking about Trump or Hillary — or both ?
Don't blame the hardware manufacturers for what the distro writers didn't implement.
Microsoft does not implement a lot of the drivers either. They are sourced by the PC vendor who then integrates them into the MS Windows installation that you get when you buy the box. A vanilla Linux install will, generally, do far better at supporting hardware than a vanilla MS Windows install.
So: the problem is often with the hardware manufacturers who do not make the specs available for Linux people to use.
This would mean that Drone software would have to be closed source - this would remove the ability to do interesting things.
Also: what happens when a new prison is built; or if I buy a drone in Germany ? Will drones have to have, nailed in, the location of every prison (or other no fly zone) in every country in the world ?
I don't know why the parent is moderated troll. If you want to be secure that is the correct assumption to make: be it true or false. The only safe machines are the one that you control - physically; nothing in the cloud can be 100% trusted.
However: there are levels of trust; how much of a target are you, how dangerous/important are your secrets ? For most of us most vendor/... security is sufficient since we are unlikely to be of interest to government spooks. But: get active politically, or in a trade union,... and you become a target.
I am not talking of stupid companies like TalkTalk and Ashley Madison who just don't have a real clue about security or simply can't be bothered.
I am not a mathematical genius, but I know of some who are and that they have looked at the open source code and said that they are happy. This does not guarantee that they have not overlooked something, but is much better than the closed source scenario where only a few have seen the code - and I do not know who those few are or who they work for.
I have bought a couple of these, work very nicely, easy install (BIOS tweaks needed) and all the hardware works. Limited to 2GB RAM, this is plenty for web surfing, word processing & similar (I don't know if you can upgrade).
I bought a 14" one for £159 from Tesco, they were also advertising 11.6" ones for £129 (although the price has now gone up). Beware Acer seems to have several different laptops called AspireOne.
I have one of these - works nicely most of the time (Linux Mint). Not problem free: occasionally, following suspend, there seems to be RAM corruption and some fonts don't work, tool bar applets fail,... Also the in built Wifi fails about once/day-ish. In each case a reboot (30 seconds) fixes it.
Get an inexpensive Windows 10 machine to guarantee that you can run all the software you need, and run whatever distro of Linux you want in a VM.
And have the spyware that comes with MS Windows sniff the keyboard and send all your passwords to only Satya Nadella knows where ?
Anyway: Linux is just much more usable: I have spent some 6 hours installing, then a couple of weeks later: uninstalling and reinstalling printer drivers for an HP printer on a friend's MS Win 10 box. My Linux Mint laptop (Mate desktop) printed a test page on it in about 60 seconds and just works, drivers already there. MS Windows is just user hostile and hard to use.
When Microsoft releases Excel for Linux, you'll know that its time has arrived.
For many corporate users the big thing that they need is seamless interoperation of email -- what they really mean is the groupware (calendaring, etc) that is wrapped up in a proprietary MAPI protocol. A free solution to MS exchange (all of it, not just the easy bits) that talks to MS desktops and free Linux desktop software that talks to MS exchange is long overdue.
Quantum is designed to work on multi-core CPUs; so, presumably, you won't know exactly where parts of the DOM are rendered but know exactly how fast they are rendered -- or is that the other way round ?
the biggest problem that I have is not browser performance, but crap web sites that are badly designed.
* Download insane amounts of JavaScript from third parties (facebook, linked in, google analytics,...) none of which improve my experience
* Have large images or auto start playing some video advert
* Badly written - fail the W3 validator suite
* Javascript that sits in a loop using large amounts of CPU doing nothing (that I can see)
We need a survey for major web sites using metrics like this. The problem is web sites far more than browsers.
Then there is privacy, but that is another issue. How many web sites fail when you run Ad blockers or Javascript blockers.
no matter where or who. OK: Amazon is not there yet, but is heading in that direction. Its size gives it unrivalled negotiating power that will help it to cement its position. Having said that: I don't know what to do about it; suggestions please.
rather than believe their childrens' autism is inherited and that it might be their fault
Having a bad gene is not someone's fault, the best that you can say is 'bad luck'. If it is severe and you know that you have it, then maybe you should think hard before you have children. Some people with genetic problems do do that, or have the foetus tested and aborted if it has the problem. This is not something done (AFIK) for autism.
I don't want to spark a debate on abortion or eugenics, that is not my point.
should have the book thrown at them and end up in jail; they were knowingly attempting to put people at risk just to protect their employer's profits. I doubt that Chinese police/enforcement should have too hard a time finding some legal reason to do this. Their manager should, likewise, spend time in a dungeon.
Why do I want this ? If more individuals become held responsible for the acts that they do on behalf of their employers, the better off that the public will be in all sorts of ways. This applies all the way from top bankers to care home managers.
If you bought it for some $500 to run Linux on it, all of a sudden you had something that was useless to you. So $55 is about 1/10 of the value to you. You presumably also put in some hard work to configure it, etc, all that work wasted -- but no compensation for that.
It is all too late now, but Sony should have been forced to reverse the change back in 2010... if you bought it according to a published specification, Sony should not be allowed to retroactively change it.
I've always assumed the NSA was always listening so they can go ahead and listen to dinner plans. It takes nothing to unplug it. Step into another room.
NSA Operative 1: After 2 days they people at #42 have switched off their echo.
NSA Operative 2: Quick: scan the last 5 minutes of conversation.
Should you be using a desktop OS for 24/7 operation?
I see no reason why not -- if it is stable. The same version of CentOS that I am typing at I have installed on customer servers. But no way would I suggest that anyone use MS Windows for anything that had an uptime or reliability requirement - it is just laughable.
I was at a friend's house today, had dug out an old printer, could I get it to work ? I configured it's wifi, 5 minutes; ran up the Linux Mint printer config tool; I had a test page printed off in a minute; tried the same on Win 10... nothing, had to download 400 MB from HP (5 mins); then run the installer; then the config tool - all in all 20-30 mins.
Why do people say that MS Windows is easier to use than Linux ?
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My wife is a liberal non-white female who voted for Hillary, hoping to see a female President.
Voting for someone on the basis of their sex is just as stupid as voting for someone on the basis of their race/skin-colour. You should be voting on the basis of their policies — far more complex than some genetic attribute.
Yes, but that does not go so far as monitoring their blood pressure, how full their bladder is, ... ie there are limits. So if a teacher (reasonably) says that they can have 5 minutes free time and send email, ... the keystroke logger will capture the kids' mail account passwords. Then who knows what will happen to it. The school will doubtless say that they will not scrape passwords, but: * can you trust everyone who can access the logs; * what happens when the next data breach comes along and these logs get sent to china/... ?
I don't think the schools are aware of a potential liability. If they don't want it then don't collect it.
Or, maybe, he uses an Intel CPU.
You suddenly find £2,000 gone from your bank account and the bank blames you (as not in this Tesco case). You audit; you are up to date with all virus bashing software, etc, ... how else could your data have gone ? You then find that 'telemetry' is being sucked from your machine, Nvidia/Microsoft/... refuse to disclose what they have taken from your machine; they will not say how they protect what they have taken or who they share it with. Can you go after them ?
Excellent idea. Why not start with Microsoft Windows 10. I have not been able to find a way of viewing the data that is sent to NSA ^W Microsoft.
The fastest way to get elected president of the USA if you don't care about anything in the way of integrity, is to tell people what they want to hear.[in your campain speeches]
Are you talking about Trump or Hillary — or both ?
Don't blame the hardware manufacturers for what the distro writers didn't implement.
Microsoft does not implement a lot of the drivers either. They are sourced by the PC vendor who then integrates them into the MS Windows installation that you get when you buy the box. A vanilla Linux install will, generally, do far better at supporting hardware than a vanilla MS Windows install.
So: the problem is often with the hardware manufacturers who do not make the specs available for Linux people to use.
This would mean that Drone software would have to be closed source - this would remove the ability to do interesting things. Also: what happens when a new prison is built; or if I buy a drone in Germany ? Will drones have to have, nailed in, the location of every prison (or other no fly zone) in every country in the world ?
Stupid idea, won't work.
I don't know why the parent is moderated troll. If you want to be secure that is the correct assumption to make: be it true or false. The only safe machines are the one that you control - physically; nothing in the cloud can be 100% trusted.
However: there are levels of trust; how much of a target are you, how dangerous/important are your secrets ? For most of us most vendor/... security is sufficient since we are unlikely to be of interest to government spooks. But: get active politically, or in a trade union, ... and you become a target.
I am not talking of stupid companies like TalkTalk and Ashley Madison who just don't have a real clue about security or simply can't be bothered.
I am not a mathematical genius, but I know of some who are and that they have looked at the open source code and said that they are happy. This does not guarantee that they have not overlooked something, but is much better than the closed source scenario where only a few have seen the code - and I do not know who those few are or who they work for.
I have bought a couple of these, work very nicely, easy install (BIOS tweaks needed) and all the hardware works. Limited to 2GB RAM, this is plenty for web surfing, word processing & similar (I don't know if you can upgrade).
I bought a 14" one for £159 from Tesco, they were also advertising 11.6" ones for £129 (although the price has now gone up). Beware Acer seems to have several different laptops called AspireOne.
I have one of these - works nicely most of the time (Linux Mint). Not problem free: occasionally, following suspend, there seems to be RAM corruption and some fonts don't work, tool bar applets fail, ... Also the in built Wifi fails about once/day-ish. In each case a reboot (30 seconds) fixes it.
Get an inexpensive Windows 10 machine to guarantee that you can run all the software you need, and run whatever distro of Linux you want in a VM.
And have the spyware that comes with MS Windows sniff the keyboard and send all your passwords to only Satya Nadella knows where ?
Anyway: Linux is just much more usable: I have spent some 6 hours installing, then a couple of weeks later: uninstalling and reinstalling printer drivers for an HP printer on a friend's MS Win 10 box. My Linux Mint laptop (Mate desktop) printed a test page on it in about 60 seconds and just works, drivers already there. MS Windows is just user hostile and hard to use.
When Microsoft releases Excel for Linux, you'll know that its time has arrived.
For many corporate users the big thing that they need is seamless interoperation of email -- what they really mean is the groupware (calendaring, etc) that is wrapped up in a proprietary MAPI protocol. A free solution to MS exchange (all of it, not just the easy bits) that talks to MS desktops and free Linux desktop software that talks to MS exchange is long overdue.
Quantum is designed to work on multi-core CPUs; so, presumably, you won't know exactly where parts of the DOM are rendered but know exactly how fast they are rendered -- or is that the other way round ?
the biggest problem that I have is not browser performance, but crap web sites that are badly designed. ...) none of which improve my experience
* Download insane amounts of JavaScript from third parties (facebook, linked in, google analytics,
* Have large images or auto start playing some video advert
* Badly written - fail the W3 validator suite
* Javascript that sits in a loop using large amounts of CPU doing nothing (that I can see)
We need a survey for major web sites using metrics like this. The problem is web sites far more than browsers.
Then there is privacy, but that is another issue. How many web sites fail when you run Ad blockers or Javascript blockers.
no matter where or who. OK: Amazon is not there yet, but is heading in that direction. Its size gives it unrivalled negotiating power that will help it to cement its position. Having said that: I don't know what to do about it; suggestions please.
I do not know if autism is inherited; you assert that it is not. This is may be why genetic testing is not done for autism.
rather than believe their childrens' autism is inherited and that it might be their fault
Having a bad gene is not someone's fault, the best that you can say is 'bad luck'. If it is severe and you know that you have it, then maybe you should think hard before you have children. Some people with genetic problems do do that, or have the foetus tested and aborted if it has the problem. This is not something done (AFIK) for autism.
I don't want to spark a debate on abortion or eugenics, that is not my point.
Nothing says they were trying to put anyone at risk and not do a recall.
If people are not aware that there is a problem with these things then they will be at greater risk than those who know to be wary.
should have the book thrown at them and end up in jail; they were knowingly attempting to put people at risk just to protect their employer's profits. I doubt that Chinese police/enforcement should have too hard a time finding some legal reason to do this. Their manager should, likewise, spend time in a dungeon.
Why do I want this ? If more individuals become held responsible for the acts that they do on behalf of their employers, the better off that the public will be in all sorts of ways. This applies all the way from top bankers to care home managers.
If you bought it for $500 to only run Linux on it you're an idiot. A $200 PC can be bought that will be better.
This was 6 years ago ... you could not have got one for $200 then.
If you bought it for some $500 to run Linux on it, all of a sudden you had something that was useless to you. So $55 is about 1/10 of the value to you. You presumably also put in some hard work to configure it, etc, all that work wasted -- but no compensation for that.
It is all too late now, but Sony should have been forced to reverse the change back in 2010 ... if you bought it according to a published specification, Sony should not be allowed to retroactively change it.
I've always assumed the NSA was always listening so they can go ahead and listen to dinner plans. It takes nothing to unplug it. Step into another room.
NSA Operative 1: After 2 days they people at #42 have switched off their echo.
NSA Operative 2: Quick: scan the last 5 minutes of conversation.
NSA Operative 1: key words: plot fertiliser garden mole.
NSA Operative 2: Oh, they are worried about a spy, plotting to make a fertiliser bomb.
NSA Operative 1: Better send in the SWAT team to check them out.
Should you be using a desktop OS for 24/7 operation?
I see no reason why not -- if it is stable. The same version of CentOS that I am typing at I have installed on customer servers. But no way would I suggest that anyone use MS Windows for anything that had an uptime or reliability requirement - it is just laughable.
I was at a friend's house today, had dug out an old printer, could I get it to work ? I configured it's wifi, 5 minutes; ran up the Linux Mint printer config tool; I had a test page printed off in a minute; tried the same on Win 10 ... nothing, had to download 400 MB from HP (5 mins); then run the installer; then the config tool - all in all 20-30 mins.
Why do people say that MS Windows is easier to use than Linux ?