"Functionally, you need two things to infect a machine. A weakness you can exploit on target machine and a vector through which infection goes in" compromising a system doesn't always leave a trace. for example heartbleed doesn't leave a single logfile of it's infection. it can infect many many computers https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top1000.txt 43 of the top 1000 websites is vulnerable to heartbleed not to mention how many consumer devices aren't safe. because there are humans involved in coding for computers mistakes are made. this is a universal weakness. a vector i am assuming you mean a 'carrier' for the virus and well most people qualify as a vector for virus transmission. NAT is not a protection against the above. and software can't stop a determined cracker once they get any admin power they use scripts and macros they target BIOS maybe. and virus protection or firewalls don't always load prior to everything else, leaving a possibility for infection based on when the service is started. xbox one was cracked by a 5 year old, albeit one who was cracking cellphones at age 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/04/five_year_olds_xbox_live_password_hack/ and yes locking everyone up would make it hard to spread computer viruses. it is not a good idea though, you're claiming you can beat human nature... which is the vector of any real hacking. good luck with that.
a typical gas station and 'pump' between 2-20 cars. 1000 cars is thus 500 to 50 stations. power demand for electric cars 'fast charging' is going to be difficult, replaceable battery packs and smart grid regulated slow and fast charging fixes the problem. but we aren't going to sell a half billion electric cars.
this will never happen. directv was the company that found out people were hacking their hardware to get everything and sent updates to fry the chips inside countless dishes because they were only paying for a small package and getting everything else including ppv for free.
okay a primer here, all money is a debt. from the lowly penny to a 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe. right now about 90% of all wealth is stored in computers, which are just well backed up data files. when people don't have enough money they turn to debt. the greater the need the more debt. which is ironic, since all money is debt, but i am getting sidetracked people like money which is a promissory note that the government will force other people to give you what you want in exchange for essentially worthless paper, in Zimbabwe the government was issuing a lot of money that they couldn't force anyone to accept.
as for people paying for goods well, what is it like right now? people get money to buy cars, houses, boats, travel, etc. and the banks use a magic formula for borrowing to people who will spend decades struggling to pay bills over people who have the money to do stuff, which are in a class of their own and most of those people's money is in the various stock markets, bonds etc, anything to make an elite class who fight to have money without having to work for it. i didn't budget and i 'have a taste' for credit cards, until i bankrupted. i won't repeat my life story here but i just paid off one of my credit cards, and the other one is under $1,000 yes they gave me credit cards right out of bankruptcy if you don't get one then they lower your rating. so really, will people still buy goods if they can get credit lines, but not jobs to repay those debts?
automation is a classic con for how we are gonna get rid of people earning debt in exchange for honest work. thing is, most of the people in my circles want their dollars to be in exchange for honest real work, supporting honest hard working folks. h&r block is the number one temporary work company more so than anyone else. h&r block uses some computers to have less back office people, but they still have their tax workers who provide people with a 'human' to deal with them. some in my circles refuses to enter any key-presses to automated telephone service lines they shout 'human' 'operator' etc and refuse to use a machine where a human being can do the work better in their mind. automation is the cry of a lonely twisted would be dictator. and it has been since the empire state building was built.
in the corporate federation of America, college loans are government guaranteed but the debt themselves can never be bankrupted on and can be garnished with a few small exceptions. but it doesn't worry the rich, because they have millions of dollars and their kids only go to elite schools and if they have student loans it is because of their parents plan to not give them a free ride. and in the corporate federation of America as long as the rich are safe and sound there is no reason to worry.
the thing is anti copyright works for the small artist as well. there are thousands of 'youtube channels' where people get real money for doing youtube content, and google doesn't charge them a dime, but does have a license agreement. google dabbled in a crowd sourced tv channel (it might still be around not sure though) with all we do over the web, why should dinosaurs who refuse to adapt from 'contracts' that give all the profit to copyright holders forever while the artist gets a few perks and a tiny amount of the profit. the system is broken copyright was 10 years originally and that was before computers, and yet publishers thrived, and e-publishing is almost a no brainer with writers using $200-$300 devices to do all their writing and the publisher should be able to make ebooks from that for less cost than real published books. and while ebooks are doing okay, they often sell higher than used books... in a fair world there would be no copyright holders there would be artists and tip jars/royalties from distributors who do things like custom swag and custom cd-r or dvd+--r audio and royalties from corporations but not from individuals and while it sounds scary to the old guard people who actually create content would see massive profits if people actually used them. the record labels were against radio until copyright made it so they could charge radio stations huge fees. and now that anyone can download a movie and put it on removable media. with terrabyte hdds for $70 and dvd-recorders for $20 and dvd blanks for $6 for 25 discs home/indy distribution has never been cheaper... and make no mistake, the tools to create and edit content have never been cheaper or better than they are now, especially with many tools available as foss. we don't need middlemen anymore and it scares them so they have pushed for internet radio and streaming as an 'alternative' to piracy, to take away ownership. and they won't stop there. smartphones are amazing, but people pay more fees for phones than before. they are meant as streaming devices with apis and apps unable it seems to even load a directory on a sd micro chip and build a playlist 'without syncing' and forcing it all over usb... i have a chinese tablet that can auto 'bless' a folder as long as it is the sd/tf drive but none of the android players i've seen are capable of auto detecting and 'blessing' a folder as a feature on my smartphone. so i have to 'sync' the phone to get music to play on it, and the phone has a crap usb chip that makes my 17gb music folder 6 hours to 'sync' when i can add a folder to the sd micro and it takes 30 minutes to copy to that and then no worry about useless DRM that route who can say with 'syncing' that they aren't adding drm to un drmed files as part of 'syncing' the music.
the whole point of the toilet is that it gets rid of waste with 0 water usage. in many regions water is scarce and what little there is is used for drinking water. this is not a kit for people with septic or city sewer, as their water usage is predicted already, with logistics.
as for off the grid living you can blame congress for that. they passed laws so that 99% of the population has to be on grid and with telephone service... as a 'basic' human right. at least that was their logic when they passed the laws.
you seem to be under the impression that space is a hard vacuum it is not, modern observatories including space ones have hinted that there is a lot of space dust that hasn't coalesced into larger bodies. there are a lot of small, medium, and large space debris in the way. without a force shield even if the warp drive disintegrates the small stuff a pool ball sized debris is going to be rather like an atomic blast no force shield no ftl travel. and if people are going onboard they are going to have to do something that hasn't been done in a long time, have a stable pool of healthy reproducing children unless of course we simply use robots up until we 'seed' planets with cloned human beings.
given the age of the universe as measured by xray telescopes it is quite unlikely that life didn't evolve long before humans came around, and that those beings could have developed technology to seed the universe and had their planets freeze up or burn up. as the galactic habitable zone shifted through the years.
you do realize interstellar transport is impossible right? even if you use atomic metals to power it it would take roughly a third the power of the largest atomic bomb to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/34180-energy-needed-to-reach-99-c/. to accelerate and then decelerate from light speed is unrealistic. not to mention the problem of needing working force fields, as hitting anything is the same as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_kill_vehicle without force shields nothing works, and again you'd need all the uranium in the whole solar system to speed and decelerate a small ship with humans on board, or perhaps send machine grown clones at the end of the journey to save on power consumption.
to be fair warcraft iii the frozen throne is discless playback on battle.net all you have to do is run the updater and it runs with no disc. people still play it, and i know i was missing showers, sleeping 4-6 hours a night and playing virtually the rest of the day and night.
unfortunately there is a word which describes what happens when someone broadcasts data they don't hold a piece of paper saying they have a right to distribute. it is called 'piracy' before the nets evolved and after radio was invented something called 'pirate radio' became real, because some people were charging fees to play music over radio, but that signal was able to be recorded and rebroadcast by pirate radio. there is still a thriving pirate radio, despite the cost of equipment and powering it with 150 stations today in the uk alone.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_the_United_Kingdom internet piracy is similar using equipment that is legal. while 'piracy' had a negative connotation it is not the same as theft and hasn't meant theft since pre radio era when nautical piracy was widespread. to some the branding of piracy makes the whole thing worth it. i make copies of files every day, the fundamental ability to copy files is essential for so many things if i spent $120 on dvds wouldn't i want to make some form of backup and store it at a friends in case my house burned to the ground? never mind if insurance can be purchased, what if it is simply impossible to replace the media at all as i purchased the last copy off amazon and it had been sitting in their warehouse for 6 years before they sold the last copy to me? there clearly isn't a market for pressing a new physical run. so why should someone tell me i can't make a copy (drm) or that i am 'stealing' because i mitigated the potential event of my house burning down, doing so with affordable real world tools.
furthermore isn't the whole point of existence to share the good times with others? what kind of backwards system is it that the 'good' things in the world are considered wholly by their value to make unlimited profits? piracy is a good thing it means there are people enjoying and sharing the best parts of life regardless of how miserable others are trying to make it.
i am curious, wouldn't http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs do everything you need? you said mouse less editing, and there are a lot of functions that can be added to emacs, through it's lisp programs. and easily modified nature.
i write in my spare time, but only for my own needs and i use the mouse. i have used emacs for some of it, but i like the bloated office suites a little better and since my time isn't rationed and i don't find and replace much at all.
with today's designer drugs synthetic analogues are easily ODed on because they are chemically pure, unlike street drugs which are cut with fillers, and not every drug addict realizes this once they read online how to order analogues how to dose properly. and synthetic drugs were not long ago being sold in a legal synthetic drug market but he was sloppy, and also sold real drugs which they found out after shutting the place down (local law had to be changed to catch him) the shop was in a way a cover for laundering drug money. but yeah prohibition is stupid you just make drug lords. i have been on addictive anti anxiety drugs and it literally had me just crazy desperate for my next dose, and then mellow nothing wrong in the universe. i guess it is good i have had a strong don't rely on drugs for most of my life because of drug education, though when i was touring the mental health industry i found drugs that were safe and don't create a craving for more drugs like the anti anxiety drug which they took me off of when they realized i was using it daily to get by. drug lords sell the addictive stuff education is better than a drug war.
keep in mind windows 8 live tiles are all front ended with internet explorer. so they are anticipating higher ie traffic to sites that windows preloads so they can sound like they are doing something to compete with open source browsers...
"Legalize everything and fight abuse with proper education, not the duck and cover shit!"
that fails to satiate the power grab of being able to arrest dissenters at any time for having a tiny bit of drug planted on or near them by the Powers That Be.
"so using legal mumbo jumbo a 'mentally unfit' person ill or not can be confined indefinitely based on the court's perception"
having toured the facilities here is what happens. on a first visit you are locked away for a while in a psych unit inside a hospital. this is expensive and not everyone is going to pay for it, due to bankruptcy etc. on first visit they spend weeks on medication based on what you were called in for. usually they will court order your meds for 6 months. after the court order and a short time in the hospital they will transfer you to a full time group-home. depending on how your doc feels you are doing they will then release you and try to get you to safe housing some group-homes specialize in caring for people who are unable or unwilling to leave a group home, usually though this is a different group home and may only have daytime staff. your state may vary.
the tech world is filled with fraud and disinformation. it is all about the money. make bad versions of windows, sell more discs as people downgrade. hardware isn't immune either. how many zilog 80 based game consoles were there through the years as better faster and cheaper to produce chips were 'just a matter of retooling' away. there were some improvements over the years, that required a lot of research to be developed, but in order to maximize profits they made tiny gradual improvements available to end users. this bs is still going on, especially in china. and google is in on it too. i realize that only a few specialized uses require fast pcs, like gaming, image generation, encoding/transcoding, cryptography cracking, research, espionage, etc. and i know linux has a lot of the 'embedded' market where absolute low resources are available, afterall how strong of a processor does a thermostat or a watch really need. so m$ is really just testing how much they can push their garbage os releases between solid and stable releases that big companies require to 'really be usable' vs stuff they could care less about, because apple is high priced and linux has a 'learn command line and mock gui users' mentality that to this day is pervasive because command line scripts are 'holy' to linux devs while 'guis' and the lack of macros (gui scripting) is ignored. i don't use command line unless i am forced to, i was willing to live with windows 95 which was the worst os ever. because windows was what people sold to me at the time. and i tried to not use windows but then linux started breaking down on me, so i am in a hybrid balance where i use both linux and windows depending on the task i am doing. and which does it better.
"some of those would have adware, some would have malware. At least the ones in the FLOSS repositories wouldn't."
repositories are a layer of security. yet malware repos are widely promoted on some websites of so called help doing things like playing back movies configuring firewalls etc, also trusted repos are in fact compromized sometimes like http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/linux-repository-hit-by-malware-attack/2989/ i remember one site no link as i forgot where i found it, was a guide to set up a 'transparent' firewall and it was basically a guide to let all traffic go in both directions and no rules to block anything. as a human i almost spit my soda out my nose at the so called guide. there are people who are not smart enough to realize how bad that info was.
Complete Loss Altogether google is worthless urban dictionary equally so, and it's not in the jargon file. this is classic slashdot, making up acronyms no one can figure out. wikipedia had the best page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLA but i can't figure out how a command line argument is related.
"At the end of the day, open source was made to attract people who can improve code,"
actually 'free software' and 'open software' are two heads of the same dragon. and while an online community with much transparency has been spawned it was not the 'goal' of the developers. free software proponents are looking for a dragon that provides protection of their and their userbases needs from big everything, they don't want laws passed to require binary blobs to use a computer etc. open software typically means that this head of the dragon offers little protection from commercial exploitation and usually uses licenses that are non-free eg are not protected from reuse by closed software places. to confuse the issue people talk liberty and beer and which is free and for what reason. but no people looking for 'free' software do so with the intention of never losing the right to code their own application, their own way on their own hardware. free software is way more important to linux and the rest of the world than anything i can think of. it should be a basic human right to write software on computers. and that is what free software is all about.
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"Functionally, you need two things to infect a machine. A weakness you can exploit on target machine and a vector through which infection goes in"
compromising a system doesn't always leave a trace. for example heartbleed doesn't leave a single logfile of it's infection. it can infect many many computers https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top1000.txt 43 of the top 1000 websites is vulnerable to heartbleed not to mention how many consumer devices aren't safe.
because there are humans involved in coding for computers mistakes are made. this is a universal weakness. a vector i am assuming you mean a 'carrier' for the virus and well most people qualify as a vector for virus transmission.
NAT is not a protection against the above. and software can't stop a determined cracker once they get any admin power they use scripts and macros they target BIOS maybe. and virus protection or firewalls don't always load prior to everything else, leaving a possibility for infection based on when the service is started.
xbox one was cracked by a 5 year old, albeit one who was cracking cellphones at age 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/04/five_year_olds_xbox_live_password_hack/
and yes locking everyone up would make it hard to spread computer viruses. it is not a good idea though, you're claiming you can beat human nature... which is the vector of any real hacking. good luck with that.
a typical gas station and 'pump' between 2-20 cars. 1000 cars is thus 500 to 50 stations. power demand for electric cars 'fast charging' is going to be difficult, replaceable battery packs and smart grid regulated slow and fast charging fixes the problem. but we aren't going to sell a half billion electric cars.
"Back to the discussion..."
the summary is -1 flamebait. it's only link is to another slashdot article, and thus all the 'wtf didn't the editors read the link' stuff.
this will never happen. directv was the company that found out people were hacking their hardware to get everything and sent updates to fry the chips inside countless dishes because they were only paying for a small package and getting everything else including ppv for free.
fine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976
do you feel better now that i posted a wikipedia ref instead?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070824072530AA0GeNF in slashdot a link it worth more than a pile of 'didn't read the license agreement that you made by opening a disc'
okay a primer here, all money is a debt. from the lowly penny to a 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe. right now about 90% of all wealth is stored in computers, which are just well backed up data files. when people don't have enough money they turn to debt. the greater the need the more debt. which is ironic, since all money is debt, but i am getting sidetracked people like money which is a promissory note that the government will force other people to give you what you want in exchange for essentially worthless paper, in Zimbabwe the government was issuing a lot of money that they couldn't force anyone to accept.
as for people paying for goods well, what is it like right now? people get money to buy cars, houses, boats, travel, etc. and the banks use a magic formula for borrowing to people who will spend decades struggling to pay bills over people who have the money to do stuff, which are in a class of their own and most of those people's money is in the various stock markets, bonds etc, anything to make an elite class who fight to have money without having to work for it. i didn't budget and i 'have a taste' for credit cards, until i bankrupted. i won't repeat my life story here but i just paid off one of my credit cards, and the other one is under $1,000 yes they gave me credit cards right out of bankruptcy if you don't get one then they lower your rating. so really, will people still buy goods if they can get credit lines, but not jobs to repay those debts?
automation is a classic con for how we are gonna get rid of people earning debt in exchange for honest work. thing is, most of the people in my circles want their dollars to be in exchange for honest real work, supporting honest hard working folks. h&r block is the number one temporary work company more so than anyone else. h&r block uses some computers to have less back office people, but they still have their tax workers who provide people with a 'human' to deal with them. some in my circles refuses to enter any key-presses to automated telephone service lines they shout 'human' 'operator' etc and refuse to use a machine where a human being can do the work better in their mind. automation is the cry of a lonely twisted would be dictator. and it has been since the empire state building was built.
this article applies to the uk, but it is cruel and unusual punishment i think.
in the corporate federation of America, college loans are government guaranteed but the debt themselves can never be bankrupted on and can be garnished with a few small exceptions. but it doesn't worry the rich, because they have millions of dollars and their kids only go to elite schools and if they have student loans it is because of their parents plan to not give them a free ride.
and in the corporate federation of America as long as the rich are safe and sound there is no reason to worry.
the thing is anti copyright works for the small artist as well. there are thousands of 'youtube channels' where people get real money for doing youtube content, and google doesn't charge them a dime, but does have a license agreement. google dabbled in a crowd sourced tv channel (it might still be around not sure though)
with all we do over the web, why should dinosaurs who refuse to adapt from 'contracts' that give all the profit to copyright holders forever while the artist gets a few perks and a tiny amount of the profit. the system is broken copyright was 10 years originally and that was before computers, and yet publishers thrived, and e-publishing is almost a no brainer with writers using $200-$300 devices to do all their writing and the publisher should be able to make ebooks from that for less cost than real published books. and while ebooks are doing okay, they often sell higher than used books...
in a fair world there would be no copyright holders there would be artists and tip jars/royalties from distributors who do things like custom swag and custom cd-r or dvd+--r audio and royalties from corporations but not from individuals and while it sounds scary to the old guard people who actually create content would see massive profits if people actually used them. the record labels were against radio until copyright made it so they could charge radio stations huge fees. and now that anyone can download a movie and put it on removable media. with terrabyte hdds for $70 and dvd-recorders for $20 and dvd blanks for $6 for 25 discs home/indy distribution has never been cheaper... and make no mistake, the tools to create and edit content have never been cheaper or better than they are now, especially with many tools available as foss.
we don't need middlemen anymore and it scares them so they have pushed for internet radio and streaming as an 'alternative' to piracy, to take away ownership. and they won't stop there. smartphones are amazing, but people pay more fees for phones than before. they are meant as streaming devices with apis and apps unable it seems to even load a directory on a sd micro chip and build a playlist 'without syncing' and forcing it all over usb... i have a chinese tablet that can auto 'bless' a folder as long as it is the sd/tf drive but none of the android players i've seen are capable of auto detecting and 'blessing' a folder as a feature on my smartphone. so i have to 'sync' the phone to get music to play on it, and the phone has a crap usb chip that makes my 17gb music folder 6 hours to 'sync' when i can add a folder to the sd micro and it takes 30 minutes to copy to that and then no worry about useless DRM that route who can say with 'syncing' that they aren't adding drm to un drmed files as part of 'syncing' the music.
the whole point of the toilet is that it gets rid of waste with 0 water usage. in many regions water is scarce and what little there is is used for drinking water. this is not a kit for people with septic or city sewer, as their water usage is predicted already, with logistics.
as for off the grid living you can blame congress for that. they passed laws so that 99% of the population has to be on grid and with telephone service... as a 'basic' human right. at least that was their logic when they passed the laws.
you seem to be under the impression that space is a hard vacuum it is not, modern observatories including space ones have hinted that there is a lot of space dust that hasn't coalesced into larger bodies. there are a lot of small, medium, and large space debris in the way. without a force shield even if the warp drive disintegrates the small stuff a pool ball sized debris is going to be rather like an atomic blast no force shield no ftl travel. and if people are going onboard they are going to have to do something that hasn't been done in a long time, have a stable pool of healthy reproducing children unless of course we simply use robots up until we 'seed' planets with cloned human beings.
given the age of the universe as measured by xray telescopes it is quite unlikely that life didn't evolve long before humans came around, and that those beings could have developed technology to seed the universe and had their planets freeze up or burn up. as the galactic habitable zone shifted through the years.
you do realize interstellar transport is impossible right? even if you use atomic metals to power it it would take roughly a third the power of the largest atomic bomb to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/34180-energy-needed-to-reach-99-c/. to accelerate and then decelerate from light speed is unrealistic. not to mention the problem of needing working force fields, as hitting anything is the same as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_kill_vehicle without force shields nothing works, and again you'd need all the uranium in the whole solar system to speed and decelerate a small ship with humans on board, or perhaps send machine grown clones at the end of the journey to save on power consumption.
to be fair warcraft iii the frozen throne is discless playback on battle.net all you have to do is run the updater and it runs with no disc. people still play it, and i know i was missing showers, sleeping 4-6 hours a night and playing virtually the rest of the day and night.
i have it on good authority that the answer to life the universe and everything is 42.
unfortunately there is a word which describes what happens when someone broadcasts data they don't hold a piece of paper saying they have a right to distribute. it is called 'piracy' before the nets evolved and after radio was invented something called 'pirate radio' became real, because some people were charging fees to play music over radio, but that signal was able to be recorded and rebroadcast by pirate radio. there is still a thriving pirate radio, despite the cost of equipment and powering it with 150 stations today in the uk alone.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_the_United_Kingdom
internet piracy is similar using equipment that is legal. while 'piracy' had a negative connotation it is not the same as theft and hasn't meant theft since pre radio era when nautical piracy was widespread. to some the branding of piracy makes the whole thing worth it. i make copies of files every day, the fundamental ability to copy files is essential for so many things if i spent $120 on dvds wouldn't i want to make some form of backup and store it at a friends in case my house burned to the ground? never mind if insurance can be purchased, what if it is simply impossible to replace the media at all as i purchased the last copy off amazon and it had been sitting in their warehouse for 6 years before they sold the last copy to me? there clearly isn't a market for pressing a new physical run. so why should someone tell me i can't make a copy (drm) or that i am 'stealing' because i mitigated the potential event of my house burning down, doing so with affordable real world tools.
furthermore isn't the whole point of existence to share the good times with others? what kind of backwards system is it that the 'good' things in the world are considered wholly by their value to make unlimited profits? piracy is a good thing it means there are people enjoying and sharing the best parts of life regardless of how miserable others are trying to make it.
i am curious, wouldn't http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs do everything you need? you said mouse less editing, and there are a lot of functions that can be added to emacs, through it's lisp programs. and easily modified nature.
i write in my spare time, but only for my own needs and i use the mouse. i have used emacs for some of it, but i like the bloated office suites a little better and since my time isn't rationed and i don't find and replace much at all.
with today's designer drugs synthetic analogues are easily ODed on because they are chemically pure, unlike street drugs which are cut with fillers, and not every drug addict realizes this once they read online how to order analogues how to dose properly. and synthetic drugs were not long ago being sold in a legal synthetic drug market but he was sloppy, and also sold real drugs which they found out after shutting the place down (local law had to be changed to catch him) the shop was in a way a cover for laundering drug money. but yeah prohibition is stupid you just make drug lords. i have been on addictive anti anxiety drugs and it literally had me just crazy desperate for my next dose, and then mellow nothing wrong in the universe. i guess it is good i have had a strong don't rely on drugs for most of my life because of drug education, though when i was touring the mental health industry i found drugs that were safe and don't create a craving for more drugs like the anti anxiety drug which they took me off of when they realized i was using it daily to get by. drug lords sell the addictive stuff education is better than a drug war.
keep in mind windows 8 live tiles are all front ended with internet explorer. so they are anticipating higher ie traffic to sites that windows preloads so they can sound like they are doing something to compete with open source browsers...
"Legalize everything and fight abuse with proper education, not the duck and cover shit!"
that fails to satiate the power grab of being able to arrest dissenters at any time for having a tiny bit of drug planted on or near them by the Powers That Be.
"so using legal mumbo jumbo a 'mentally unfit' person ill or not can be confined indefinitely based on the court's perception"
having toured the facilities here is what happens. on a first visit you are locked away for a while in a psych unit inside a hospital. this is expensive and not everyone is going to pay for it, due to bankruptcy etc. on first visit they spend weeks on medication based on what you were called in for. usually they will court order your meds for 6 months. after the court order and a short time in the hospital they will transfer you to a full time group-home. depending on how your doc feels you are doing they will then release you and try to get you to safe housing some group-homes specialize in caring for people who are unable or unwilling to leave a group home, usually though this is a different group home and may only have daytime staff. your state may vary.
the tech world is filled with fraud and disinformation. it is all about the money. make bad versions of windows, sell more discs as people downgrade. hardware isn't immune either. how many zilog 80 based game consoles were there through the years as better faster and cheaper to produce chips were 'just a matter of retooling' away. there were some improvements over the years, that required a lot of research to be developed, but in order to maximize profits they made tiny gradual improvements available to end users. this bs is still going on, especially in china. and google is in on it too. i realize that only a few specialized uses require fast pcs, like gaming, image generation, encoding/transcoding, cryptography cracking, research, espionage, etc. and i know linux has a lot of the 'embedded' market where absolute low resources are available, afterall how strong of a processor does a thermostat or a watch really need. so m$ is really just testing how much they can push their garbage os releases between solid and stable releases that big companies require to 'really be usable' vs stuff they could care less about, because apple is high priced and linux has a 'learn command line and mock gui users' mentality that to this day is pervasive because command line scripts are 'holy' to linux devs while 'guis' and the lack of macros (gui scripting) is ignored. i don't use command line unless i am forced to, i was willing to live with windows 95 which was the worst os ever. because windows was what people sold to me at the time. and i tried to not use windows but then linux started breaking down on me, so i am in a hybrid balance where i use both linux and windows depending on the task i am doing. and which does it better.
"some of those would have adware, some would have malware. At least the ones in the FLOSS repositories wouldn't."
repositories are a layer of security. yet malware repos are widely promoted on some websites of so called help doing things like playing back movies configuring firewalls etc, also trusted repos are in fact compromized sometimes like http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/linux-repository-hit-by-malware-attack/2989/
i remember one site no link as i forgot where i found it, was a guide to set up a 'transparent' firewall and it was basically a guide to let all traffic go in both directions and no rules to block anything. as a human i almost spit my soda out my nose at the so called guide. there are people who are not smart enough to realize how bad that info was.
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google is worthless urban dictionary equally so, and it's not in the jargon file. this is classic slashdot, making up acronyms no one can figure out. wikipedia had the best page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLA
but i can't figure out how a command line argument is related.
"At the end of the day, open source was made to attract people who can improve code,"
actually 'free software' and 'open software' are two heads of the same dragon. and while an online community with much transparency has been spawned it was not the 'goal' of the developers. free software proponents are looking for a dragon that provides protection of their and their userbases needs from big everything, they don't want laws passed to require binary blobs to use a computer etc. open software typically means that this head of the dragon offers little protection from commercial exploitation and usually uses licenses that are non-free eg are not protected from reuse by closed software places. to confuse the issue people talk liberty and beer and which is free and for what reason. but no people looking for 'free' software do so with the intention of never losing the right to code their own application, their own way on their own hardware. free software is way more important to linux and the rest of the world than anything i can think of. it should be a basic human right to write software on computers. and that is what free software is all about.