Enterprise Linux is a different beast altogether from desktop Linux. When someone can pay for professional support, that's typically what they get. If you think Linux is inherently inconsistent and unstable, it shows your own lack of knowledge of the platform.
Ubuntu shopping lens(es) doesn't try to spy on anyone. And it also can't say hello unless you tell it to search for "Hello." Unless we are making the claim that Canonical is data mining for some unknown purposes.
I think it's even more silly when the facts are taken into account. Canonical wasn't selling data, they gained no income by collecting search information. They WERE given a small commission from sales if the user accessed the Amazon website by clicking on an item in the Dash, and even then ONLY if the user proceeded to buy that product. At this point, Amazon already KNOWS you're on their site, they can directly collect data on that person. They no longer need Canonicals' data. Plus, using the files or applications lens was available by default, if the idea of pressing a button in the privacy settings seemed too tedious.
On top of that, every query that went to a remote web server was sent through Canonical first. The identifying data was encrypted and every query was sent, not just complete searches. That would mean that Canonicals' server would continuously be getting bombarded with random strings of queries from random IP's that they weren't trying to track for any monetary gain. Then, every server that the query goes to afterward gets hit with the same jamble of letters, all from Canonical. If Amazon could make sense of that mess and track down which person was looking for which item then I would applaud them. Canonical didn't care what product or item the user clicked on, either. They only cared about which scope they used, which was used to make their search algorithm more accurate. Manual client-side adjustments to what scopes are available are possible as well. They are trying to supply a service, and whether or not the user enjoyed it, trying to call it "spyware" seems pretty asinine. I didn't fully enjoy the Dash for other reasons, but this debacle was blown out of proportions.
I must say, though I have to endure it by browsing at -1, all of his useless spam does make it MUCH easier to find the posts of the people he is trying to harass. As a result, I have up-modded several posts by Coren22 that I otherwise would never have found. And I am no closer to installing apk's Hosts software, so I don't think he is really having anything resembling the desired effect.
I recognize he might (probably) have a mental condition of some kind that causes him to act in this way, but this kind of preoccupying anger cannot be good for the guy. There has to be a healthier, or more productive outlet to express his stunning hostility. I can't force him to stop, and I won't try, but I have to wonder if there is some professional help he could be getting. The spam is certainly a blight on the comments of this site and I can't imagine a healthy person would do this if he had some other choice.
This is the main reason for why I've been looking for an alternative browser with that feature. Just in case the developer will not/can not adapt to having no xul.
The only replacement I can find with any promise so far is Vivaldi. The only issue is it isn't FOSS, and it's still in beta right now. Not only that, but the tree style tabs extension really does work better than the current tabs implementation in Vivaldi. Their way of stacking tabs, while useful, is not nearly as convenient.
Then there's the fact that it's built from Chrome (surprise), so the interface really isn't the most customizable. That's really unfortunate, but having editable button placement isn't quite as important to me as having vertical tab placement.
Just building a launchpad and fuel storage infrastructure on the moon does make more sense than blasting off from earth every time. The less gravity that the platform has, the more efficient it is to lift off from it.
I guess it might technically be cheaper to launch if you assemble ships using a space ladder and launch from that orbit... but it would likely be easier to make a moon base.
The question then becomes, how to make the fuel on the moon? They could send millions of tons of fuel up there waiting to be spent, but that would cost a huge amount of money anyway. So I'm not sure if there would actually be any savings overall.
So, because they are following a law, we should treat them as ethical? Even if that law isn't really ethical? I don't follow. Laws aren't moral standards. Back in Biblical times you could be stoned for any number of things, and i'm sure people back then said the same sort of thing you are saying. That doesn't make it ethical or moral.
At the same time, we have companies doing shitty things in order to influence the creation of laws as well as how they (the corporations) need to follow them. Enforcement is hardly even-handed in many situations. This sort of thing IS cheating but I don't even need to go further into that, because it's painfully obvious that cheating happens on a regular basis, a business just has huge incentives to HIDE the cheating whenever possible, as doing something unfair and avoiding justice is likely more profitable than just playing by the rules. Not all businesses are cheating all the time, no. But to claim it doesn't happen regularly is to ignore business news.
I'll leave companies out of it for a moment. You are arguing that because some players can game a system, we should not consider them evil or immoral since it is the system they are corrupting? How does that do anything to change how evil someone is being? If I'm competing in a MOBA tournament and bribe a maintenance guy to slide in some code for a massive exploit that gives my characters infinite mana, would you seriously imply that I am not being unethical? I mean yeah, the person taking the bribe should also be to blame, and the game devs should have caught that kind of massive bug. But I would not be getting off scott-free. Absolutely not.
Maybe the bones and skin are saved, but the soft tissue is still mush. For example, in the first Iron Man movie, when the tank shell hits him out of the sky (lol yeah right), he would have been killed ON IMPACT with the shell most likely, but certainly killed when he smashed into the ground. Just because the suit stops his bones from shattering doesn't mean that his organs smashing against the inside of the suit won't still devastate him. One good punch to the head from the Hulk and his brain would squish almost flat. Dead Stark.
Same reason for why (American) football players and bicyclists still get brain injuries so often. Protecting the skull bones and the scalp from impact is all well and good, but if you can't slow the deceleration enough, your brain is getting jostled around a lot. Boxers face a similar problem. Sure their knuckles and skulls are more intact after a match, but their brains, not so much.
Even if the material that they use for domes couldn't be both transparent AND block harmful radiation, (Which it could, making a special glass or even plastic that reduced radiation is not unfeasible. Even water can block radiation, though you probably need about a meter of it to reach earths' background levels when around Mars) All you would really need to do is apply a magnetic field to the dome, and include a material that gets rid of UV radiation, and presto change-o, that could do it.
I would imagine having a mostly sub-surface housing unit with smaller surface domes would be easier to maintain since the ground is better at shielding from the sun as well as space debris and wind storms. But that's beside the point.
I have Windows 10. I like it (aside from the privacy violations and horrible lack of settings). How do i disable and remove the worst of this cruft? I have turned off the Windows Update service (I can turn it on manually if I want to check). Is there a website that can describe the process for me?
Pinta is probably the closest thing to Paint.net available for Linux. I use it often, and I'm thankful it is around. But it is no replacement, even though one of the goals was to be. It simply lacks developer time needed to make it as useful as Paint.net. I hope that changes in the future, but considering how few people are working on GIMP, I find that doubtful.
That is good! I'm sure they are embarrassed about how their air quality is famously terrible, so that's a good motivation to kick non-coal energy production into high gear.
But at least, my point about it not being up to the U.S. still stand true. I doubt we could ever get the to change their mind about something while we are still letting some of our companies hand over a nice bundle of our jobs market. If the coal pollution wasn't literally making people in major cities sick, the "pressure" we've put on them would do nothing to make them invest in anything else.
There's more than enough evidence to place it in the realm of plausible and even probable science. The news media being shitty doesn't refute how much we know about the effects of our dirty energy sources on the climate.
But I agree, the ends can justify the means, even when they too heavy handed at times. It's too bad China (who will easily be out-polluting us in years to come) doesn't give two shits about our energy policy, since current U.S. politicians and companies are working together in order to make us even more dependent upon their labor and goods.
So, because one problem exists, we should ignore even worse ones? (Climate change and the mechanism that is causing it does more than simply warm things up, it also causes things like ocean acidification)
I think this is one of the biggest problems with the debate over climate change. Most of the people (especially the ones who can effect real action toward reversing or limiting the issue) won't be around when things really go into the shitter. They don't care in part because why worry about something they won't ever live through?
People who have children they care about but still deny it, well that's a different story. But those who have a vested interest in keeping things as they are may not care so much what happens when they and most of their investors are long gone. This is our children and our grandchildrens problems, more than it's our own. That's sorta how delayed systems work, as with most forms of pollution humans subject the planet to. People have trouble getting worried when it's not something that happens right away, or something they won't be alive to witness.
HOPEFULLY in the future when more currently old people are gone, things will change and society will have less reasons to shrug it off. It may be too late by then.
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And we are talking about a company who can afford enterprise grade support.
Enterprise Linux is a different beast altogether from desktop Linux. When someone can pay for professional support, that's typically what they get. If you think Linux is inherently inconsistent and unstable, it shows your own lack of knowledge of the platform.
Ubuntu shopping lens(es) doesn't try to spy on anyone. And it also can't say hello unless you tell it to search for "Hello."
Unless we are making the claim that Canonical is data mining for some unknown purposes.
I think it's even more silly when the facts are taken into account.
Canonical wasn't selling data, they gained no income by collecting search information. They WERE given a small commission from sales if the user accessed the Amazon website by clicking on an item in the Dash, and even then ONLY if the user proceeded to buy that product. At this point, Amazon already KNOWS you're on their site, they can directly collect data on that person. They no longer need Canonicals' data.
Plus, using the files or applications lens was available by default, if the idea of pressing a button in the privacy settings seemed too tedious.
On top of that, every query that went to a remote web server was sent through Canonical first. The identifying data was encrypted and every query was sent, not just complete searches. That would mean that Canonicals' server would continuously be getting bombarded with random strings of queries from random IP's that they weren't trying to track for any monetary gain. Then, every server that the query goes to afterward gets hit with the same jamble of letters, all from Canonical. If Amazon could make sense of that mess and track down which person was looking for which item then I would applaud them.
Canonical didn't care what product or item the user clicked on, either. They only cared about which scope they used, which was used to make their search algorithm more accurate. Manual client-side adjustments to what scopes are available are possible as well. They are trying to supply a service, and whether or not the user enjoyed it, trying to call it "spyware" seems pretty asinine. I didn't fully enjoy the Dash for other reasons, but this debacle was blown out of proportions.
I must say, though I have to endure it by browsing at -1, all of his useless spam does make it MUCH easier to find the posts of the people he is trying to harass. As a result, I have up-modded several posts by Coren22 that I otherwise would never have found. And I am no closer to installing apk's Hosts software, so I don't think he is really having anything resembling the desired effect.
I recognize he might (probably) have a mental condition of some kind that causes him to act in this way, but this kind of preoccupying anger cannot be good for the guy. There has to be a healthier, or more productive outlet to express his stunning hostility.
I can't force him to stop, and I won't try, but I have to wonder if there is some professional help he could be getting. The spam is certainly a blight on the comments of this site and I can't imagine a healthy person would do this if he had some other choice.
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This is the main reason for why I've been looking for an alternative browser with that feature. Just in case the developer will not/can not adapt to having no xul.
The only replacement I can find with any promise so far is Vivaldi. The only issue is it isn't FOSS, and it's still in beta right now. Not only that, but the tree style tabs extension really does work better than the current tabs implementation in Vivaldi. Their way of stacking tabs, while useful, is not nearly as convenient.
Then there's the fact that it's built from Chrome (surprise), so the interface really isn't the most customizable. That's really unfortunate, but having editable button placement isn't quite as important to me as having vertical tab placement.
Just building a launchpad and fuel storage infrastructure on the moon does make more sense than blasting off from earth every time. The less gravity that the platform has, the more efficient it is to lift off from it.
I guess it might technically be cheaper to launch if you assemble ships using a space ladder and launch from that orbit... but it would likely be easier to make a moon base.
The question then becomes, how to make the fuel on the moon? They could send millions of tons of fuel up there waiting to be spent, but that would cost a huge amount of money anyway. So I'm not sure if there would actually be any savings overall.
So, because they are following a law, we should treat them as ethical? Even if that law isn't really ethical? I don't follow. Laws aren't moral standards. Back in Biblical times you could be stoned for any number of things, and i'm sure people back then said the same sort of thing you are saying. That doesn't make it ethical or moral.
At the same time, we have companies doing shitty things in order to influence the creation of laws as well as how they (the corporations) need to follow them. Enforcement is hardly even-handed in many situations. This sort of thing IS cheating but I don't even need to go further into that, because it's painfully obvious that cheating happens on a regular basis, a business just has huge incentives to HIDE the cheating whenever possible, as doing something unfair and avoiding justice is likely more profitable than just playing by the rules. Not all businesses are cheating all the time, no. But to claim it doesn't happen regularly is to ignore business news.
I'll leave companies out of it for a moment. You are arguing that because some players can game a system, we should not consider them evil or immoral since it is the system they are corrupting? How does that do anything to change how evil someone is being? If I'm competing in a MOBA tournament and bribe a maintenance guy to slide in some code for a massive exploit that gives my characters infinite mana, would you seriously imply that I am not being unethical? I mean yeah, the person taking the bribe should also be to blame, and the game devs should have caught that kind of massive bug. But I would not be getting off scott-free. Absolutely not.
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Indeed. South-east coast of the U.S. has almost no visible night sky, it seems.
Maybe the bones and skin are saved, but the soft tissue is still mush.
For example, in the first Iron Man movie, when the tank shell hits him out of the sky (lol yeah right), he would have been killed ON IMPACT with the shell most likely, but certainly killed when he smashed into the ground. Just because the suit stops his bones from shattering doesn't mean that his organs smashing against the inside of the suit won't still devastate him. One good punch to the head from the Hulk and his brain would squish almost flat. Dead Stark.
Same reason for why (American) football players and bicyclists still get brain injuries so often. Protecting the skull bones and the scalp from impact is all well and good, but if you can't slow the deceleration enough, your brain is getting jostled around a lot. Boxers face a similar problem. Sure their knuckles and skulls are more intact after a match, but their brains, not so much.
Even if the material that they use for domes couldn't be both transparent AND block harmful radiation, (Which it could, making a special glass or even plastic that reduced radiation is not unfeasible. Even water can block radiation, though you probably need about a meter of it to reach earths' background levels when around Mars) All you would really need to do is apply a magnetic field to the dome, and include a material that gets rid of UV radiation, and presto change-o, that could do it.
I would imagine having a mostly sub-surface housing unit with smaller surface domes would be easier to maintain since the ground is better at shielding from the sun as well as space debris and wind storms. But that's beside the point.
I have Windows 10. I like it (aside from the privacy violations and horrible lack of settings).
How do i disable and remove the worst of this cruft? I have turned off the Windows Update service (I can turn it on manually if I want to check). Is there a website that can describe the process for me?
Pinta is probably the closest thing to Paint.net available for Linux. I use it often, and I'm thankful it is around. But it is no replacement, even though one of the goals was to be. It simply lacks developer time needed to make it as useful as Paint.net.
I hope that changes in the future, but considering how few people are working on GIMP, I find that doubtful.
I want to rewatch this movie again.
Truly a masterpiece of film.
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That is good! I'm sure they are embarrassed about how their air quality is famously terrible, so that's a good motivation to kick non-coal energy production into high gear.
But at least, my point about it not being up to the U.S. still stand true. I doubt we could ever get the to change their mind about something while we are still letting some of our companies hand over a nice bundle of our jobs market.
If the coal pollution wasn't literally making people in major cities sick, the "pressure" we've put on them would do nothing to make them invest in anything else.
There's more than enough evidence to place it in the realm of plausible and even probable science. The news media being shitty doesn't refute how much we know about the effects of our dirty energy sources on the climate.
But I agree, the ends can justify the means, even when they too heavy handed at times. It's too bad China (who will easily be out-polluting us in years to come) doesn't give two shits about our energy policy, since current U.S. politicians and companies are working together in order to make us even more dependent upon their labor and goods.
So, because one problem exists, we should ignore even worse ones? (Climate change and the mechanism that is causing it does more than simply warm things up, it also causes things like ocean acidification)
That is some sound logic I tell ya h'what.
I think this is one of the biggest problems with the debate over climate change. Most of the people (especially the ones who can effect real action toward reversing or limiting the issue) won't be around when things really go into the shitter. They don't care in part because why worry about something they won't ever live through?
People who have children they care about but still deny it, well that's a different story. But those who have a vested interest in keeping things as they are may not care so much what happens when they and most of their investors are long gone. This is our children and our grandchildrens problems, more than it's our own. That's sorta how delayed systems work, as with most forms of pollution humans subject the planet to. People have trouble getting worried when it's not something that happens right away, or something they won't be alive to witness.
HOPEFULLY in the future when more currently old people are gone, things will change and society will have less reasons to shrug it off. It may be too late by then.
There's a thing called nocebo which is similar to that.
Believing a thing will harm or diminish help in some way. Works at least as well as placebo.
I think it's something taking pictures of our probe. Or maybe it's muzzle flash from a shotgun.
We are violating their privacy first, so by all means I think they have the right retaliate.
Bathroom humor is shits and giggles.
There is an Internet law about this, I need to look it up.
(a few moments later)
Found it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...