Cn anyone reasonably argue that having a system highly secure for non-technical users with easy workarounds for actually technical users is a bad compromise? The people who are not technical need all the help they can get.
Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers that are needed for trim? What prevents that?
The problem seems to be that Apple's driver takes over handling of these drives while at the same time refusing to TRIM them. If a third party could circumvent it, it would only mean that Apple's driver signing is useless.
I travelled from Marseilles to Paris last week. Turn up at the station, no security checks, get on train, eat a nice meal, get off at the Gare De Lyon feeling good.
Which means that you're either a tourist, a student, or wealthy. Normal Europeans cannot afford to live anywhere near train stations in Marseilles or Paris. Train travel is expensive, and the reason they survive at all is because of massive subsidies and interference with other modes of transportation.
Most people on this side of the Pond wouldn't even think about driving into major cities.
Neither would most people on this side of the pond. Fortunately, between the Internet, Amazon, malls, and outlets, we don't have to anymore.
Go on, you might even change your mind about train travel.
Europe did change my mind about train travel. For example, the fact that going by high speed train is often slower than going by car once you take into account connections and unpredictability. Or the fact that travel by high speed train often costs several times what a flight costs. Or the fact that countries like Germany for nearly a century provided inter-city bus transport in order to prop up the train system.
Passenger train travel was a necessity in the 19th and early 20th century; these days, passenger rail is a boondoggle for the wealthy and privileged. The US does have the largest and most efficient freight train system, larger than all of Europe combined. In Europe, much of that freight travels on roads, which is polluting, dangerous, and utterly irrational.
The suggestion that the US should invest in passenger rail service is sheer idiocy.
Add the convenience of no boarding issues, and city-centre to city-centre travel, and the case for trains as mass-transport begins to look stronger.
Sure, it looks great if you're part of the elite who lives in "city-centres" and travels to other "city-centres" for your corporate, intellectual, and social functions.
It's not so great for the rest of us whose taxes pay for this, and these things are hellishly expensive.
The set of seeds you can save after Monsanto offers you their patented GMO seeds is exactly the same set you could save before Monsanto made that offer; Monsanto's offer to you hasn't changed your options or harmed you in any way.
Furthermore, plant patents exist on non-GMO plants too, so it's not like this is anything new or anything specific to Monsanto.
I'm also no particular fan of Rand. I'm glad she paid lip service to liberal ideas, but Smith, Hobbes, Jefferson, Locke, Paine, Spinoza, Voltaire, Bentham, Bastiat, de Tocqueville, and others are far more important.
I'm a liberal in the sense of the European Enlightenment: social and economic liberties, equal opportunity, and individual responsibility for one's actions.
Anyway, your naivete is strong if you think the world works the way they taught you in the seventh grade.
Well, in seventh grade, I experienced socialism first hand, followed by the European welfare state and Christian conservative government. So, I suspect I have a bit more first-hand knowledge about "how the world works" than you.
Are you seriously claiming to be unaware of the cases where Monsanto has sued farmers who had nothing to do with GMO seeds, just because they were victims of cross-contamination from their GMO-using neighbor?
In fact, Monsanto has not recovered damages even for intentional use of their patented seed:
This convinced the judge that Schmeiser intentionally planted Roundup Ready canola. Schmeiser appealed. The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Schmeiser had violated Monsanto's patent, but had obtained no benefit by doing so, so he didn't owe Monsanto any money.
And Monsanto doesn't seem to sue for unintentional contamination:
But as far as I can tell, Monsanto has never sued anybody over trace amounts of GMOs that were introduced into fields simply through cross-pollination. (The company asserts, in fact, that it will pay to remove any of its GMOs from fields where they don't belong.)
The contamination itself doesn't cause any harm, Monsanto doesn't seem to sue people for accidental contamination, and courts haven't awarded damages. In addition, it doesn't "contaminate the stock of non-gmo seeds". So your claims have no basis in fact.
Africa is a victim of corrupt resource management. Nothing can be done until that is addressed. GMO won't do it.
You're just spewing platitudes. In reality, Africa's economic status is due to a combination of history, geography, economics, education, disease, and other factors.
And while GMOs won't fix Africa's economic problems singlehandedly, opposition to them is symptomatic of what ails Africa: rich white foreigners imposing their preferences on an entire continent to its detriment. Your beliefs are the modern equivalent of "let them eat cake".
As far as agriculture is concerned, lack of industrial agriculture and lack of access to world markets is certainly part of Africa's economic problems, and Western environmental groups and development agencies are causing more harm than good.
"Seed" can't contaminate the gene pool. Maybe you mean that there is cross-pollination. That sometimes happens, but so what? How does that "screw over" the farmer? How would he even notice?
If farmers do want to go back to normal seeds - *once their contract with Monsanto is up* - they typically have to wait an average of 7 years and use a lot of round-up on the soil before growing non-GMO.
(1) There are a lot of different GMO crops, not just Roundup Ready, so your claim doesn't even make sense applied generically to GMOs. (2) You can save seeds and plant Roundup Ready varieties for free after the patent expires this year. (3) Nothing prevents you from planting non-GMO seeds; the fact that a bunch of anti-GMO-activists think your harvest has the cooties for seven years isn't "lock-in".
Do some research before you make stupid statements that show you don't understand the issue.
Mostly the little generals who rule damn near the whole continent, and the outside meddlers who threaten to invade if the generals don't hand over the goods.
So you're saying that Monsanto's GMO crops are responsible for African shitholes being run by military dictators?
That is the cause of most of the world's poverty today.
The cause of most of the world's poverty is government interference in free trade and free markets, in large part because of idiocy like what you promote.
Of course they only care about the money; that's what corporations are supposed to do.
(I mean, could you please make up your mind whether you want corporations to engage in politics or not? Sometimes you want corporations to get drawn and quartered if they as much as utter a squeak on social or political issues, at other times, you whine and complain that "they only care about the money".)
When you put more effort into sterile plants that require chemicals than towards nutrition and human survival than you should not be permitted to enter the world food market. Its criminal extortion plain and simple.
How is anybody forcing you to buy their plants? If you think that non-sterile, non GMO crops are a better deal, just buy those instead. Where is the "criminal extortion"?
If you check at the "diversity reports" from tech companies and compare them with US demographics, you'll find that whites are underrepresented in IT, while Asians are strongly overrepresented. And a lot of those Asians are Indians (i.e., fairly dark skinned).
How can those demographics possibly be explained by white racism?
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The problem seems to be that Apple's driver takes over handling of these drives while at the same time refusing to TRIM them. If a third party could circumvent it, it would only mean that Apple's driver signing is useless.
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Which means that you're either a tourist, a student, or wealthy. Normal Europeans cannot afford to live anywhere near train stations in Marseilles or Paris. Train travel is expensive, and the reason they survive at all is because of massive subsidies and interference with other modes of transportation.
Neither would most people on this side of the pond. Fortunately, between the Internet, Amazon, malls, and outlets, we don't have to anymore.
Europe did change my mind about train travel. For example, the fact that going by high speed train is often slower than going by car once you take into account connections and unpredictability. Or the fact that travel by high speed train often costs several times what a flight costs. Or the fact that countries like Germany for nearly a century provided inter-city bus transport in order to prop up the train system.
Passenger train travel was a necessity in the 19th and early 20th century; these days, passenger rail is a boondoggle for the wealthy and privileged. The US does have the largest and most efficient freight train system, larger than all of Europe combined. In Europe, much of that freight travels on roads, which is polluting, dangerous, and utterly irrational.
The suggestion that the US should invest in passenger rail service is sheer idiocy.
Sure, it looks great if you're part of the elite who lives in "city-centres" and travels to other "city-centres" for your corporate, intellectual, and social functions.
It's not so great for the rest of us whose taxes pay for this, and these things are hellishly expensive.
The set of seeds you can save after Monsanto offers you their patented GMO seeds is exactly the same set you could save before Monsanto made that offer; Monsanto's offer to you hasn't changed your options or harmed you in any way.
Furthermore, plant patents exist on non-GMO plants too, so it's not like this is anything new or anything specific to Monsanto.
The term "neo-liberalism" is meaningless and refers to lots of different ideologies, all of them bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm also no particular fan of Rand. I'm glad she paid lip service to liberal ideas, but Smith, Hobbes, Jefferson, Locke, Paine, Spinoza, Voltaire, Bentham, Bastiat, de Tocqueville, and others are far more important.
I'm a liberal in the sense of the European Enlightenment: social and economic liberties, equal opportunity, and individual responsibility for one's actions.
Well, in seventh grade, I experienced socialism first hand, followed by the European welfare state and Christian conservative government. So, I suspect I have a bit more first-hand knowledge about "how the world works" than you.
In fact, Monsanto has not recovered damages even for intentional use of their patented seed:
And Monsanto doesn't seem to sue for unintentional contamination:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesa...
The contamination itself doesn't cause any harm, Monsanto doesn't seem to sue people for accidental contamination, and courts haven't awarded damages. In addition, it doesn't "contaminate the stock of non-gmo seeds". So your claims have no basis in fact.
You're just spewing platitudes. In reality, Africa's economic status is due to a combination of history, geography, economics, education, disease, and other factors.
And while GMOs won't fix Africa's economic problems singlehandedly, opposition to them is symptomatic of what ails Africa: rich white foreigners imposing their preferences on an entire continent to its detriment. Your beliefs are the modern equivalent of "let them eat cake".
As far as agriculture is concerned, lack of industrial agriculture and lack of access to world markets is certainly part of Africa's economic problems, and Western environmental groups and development agencies are causing more harm than good.
No, a liberal.
I think I stated it pretty clearly: you're promoting idiocy.
"Seed" can't contaminate the gene pool. Maybe you mean that there is cross-pollination. That sometimes happens, but so what? How does that "screw over" the farmer? How would he even notice?
(1) There are a lot of different GMO crops, not just Roundup Ready, so your claim doesn't even make sense applied generically to GMOs. (2) You can save seeds and plant Roundup Ready varieties for free after the patent expires this year. (3) Nothing prevents you from planting non-GMO seeds; the fact that a bunch of anti-GMO-activists think your harvest has the cooties for seven years isn't "lock-in".
Sounds like you don't understand the issue.
So you're saying that Monsanto's GMO crops are responsible for African shitholes being run by military dictators?
The cause of most of the world's poverty is government interference in free trade and free markets, in large part because of idiocy like what you promote.
How is the repurchase "forced"? How are they "locked in"? They can go back to regular crops at any time they choose.
Of course they only care about the money; that's what corporations are supposed to do.
(I mean, could you please make up your mind whether you want corporations to engage in politics or not? Sometimes you want corporations to get drawn and quartered if they as much as utter a squeak on social or political issues, at other times, you whine and complain that "they only care about the money".)
How is anybody forcing you to buy their plants? If you think that non-sterile, non GMO crops are a better deal, just buy those instead. Where is the "criminal extortion"?
Maybe not attending those colleges is a good thing anyway.
And selling GMO seeds is taking away option #0... how?
Who exactly are you alleging is being "corrupt" here?
Or you can expect our pollution levels to rise as our economy spirals down the drain. Works both ways.
We just need to keep sabotaging our economy, and we can easily do better than that. Bush and Obama both demonstrated how to do that very effectively.
If you check at the "diversity reports" from tech companies and compare them with US demographics, you'll find that whites are underrepresented in IT, while Asians are strongly overrepresented. And a lot of those Asians are Indians (i.e., fairly dark skinned).
How can those demographics possibly be explained by white racism?
No. Should I?
Unsafe at any speed...
That sounds like fun. Unfortunately, instead, they just hand the money to their corporate cronies.
Just because something is called "consumer protection" doesn't actually make it "consumer protection".
Or maybe not. Along with such regulations usually comes immunity from liability lawsuits.