While I understand that the overlords of commerce like to pretend that nothing could ever be wrong with anything even remotely advertising-related, the reality is that Ubuntu foundation did itself some irreparable damage with that incident.
It's been tough to push myself away from Google, to using (hopefully) less evil and intrusive alternatives like DuckDuckGo and Ixquick. But moves like this will really help me kick the Google habit. Thanks a lot, Google!
If you can't look around the world, at the Web, drones, cell phones, climate change, Amazon, Google, and the TPP (among countless other things) and see that we're living in a cyberpunk dystopia, then you need your brain examined. Would you prefer to have that done via massive applicion of computing power on the datamined records of your virtual presence, via an array of electrodes on your head reading your thoughts, or with a direct computer-brain interface? The former two can be done right now, for the last you'll have to wait for next year.
You'd think that all that Ivy League brainpower would be able to figure out that the FBI's empty posturing is exactly that.
Of course, it's also very possible that its kabuki all the way down.
After a several year break, I decided to come and give Slashdot a try again. And on my second time checking the site, I find *this* crap on the front page? Offensively misleading summary on an article by "anonymous coward". It would be hard to find a less worthwhile "news" website.
Welcome to living in a world where ideas like 'justice' and 'rule of law' are not taken seriously. This is just the market is providing a solution. There's no rule that market solutions will be ones we'll like.
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Something is obviously up. Hayden is a liar with zero interest in the public good.
Because Reason is sock-puppet for billionaires like the Koch Bros. http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...
but I can't ever hear what they're saying, because their mouths are so stuffed with billionaire cock.
Plutonia! Plutonia! God shared his ice on thee
'Move pointer left?'
While I understand that the overlords of commerce like to pretend that nothing could ever be wrong with anything even remotely advertising-related, the reality is that Ubuntu foundation did itself some irreparable damage with that incident.
It's been tough to push myself away from Google, to using (hopefully) less evil and intrusive alternatives like DuckDuckGo and Ixquick. But moves like this will really help me kick the Google habit. Thanks a lot, Google!
Have you tried Pale Moon? It was forked from Firefox before FF went all to hell.
I will guarantee that I can lose at least $2 billion a year in China!
Thank the gods for Palemoon. Without it (and with NoScript, Ghostery, and an ad-blocker running) I find the web is mostly un-useable.
That's why its a _cyberpunk_ dystopia, and not a post-apocalypic one.
If you can't look around the world, at the Web, drones, cell phones, climate change, Amazon, Google, and the TPP (among countless other things) and see that we're living in a cyberpunk dystopia, then you need your brain examined. Would you prefer to have that done via massive applicion of computing power on the datamined records of your virtual presence, via an array of electrodes on your head reading your thoughts, or with a direct computer-brain interface? The former two can be done right now, for the last you'll have to wait for next year.
You'd think that all that Ivy League brainpower would be able to figure out that the FBI's empty posturing is exactly that. Of course, it's also very possible that its kabuki all the way down.
If "None of the Above" wins, all the other candidates are summarily executed.
After a several year break, I decided to come and give Slashdot a try again. And on my second time checking the site, I find *this* crap on the front page? Offensively misleading summary on an article by "anonymous coward". It would be hard to find a less worthwhile "news" website.
Welcome to living in a world where ideas like 'justice' and 'rule of law' are not taken seriously. This is just the market is providing a solution. There's no rule that market solutions will be ones we'll like.