But I doubt if the lack of Facebook would sink the EU.
Take away all of their favorite services one-by-one (do start with Twitter and Facebook - I like the "big splash" approach) and the people will start to notice.
When they take away Google #brexit will become the universal roadmap.
I do encourage Twitter and Facebook to just shut off access to Europeans rather than destroy their brands for the chase of short-term profits. When politics rapidly changes after that, they can bring the Europeans back onboard without having a crap product for them to [not?] come back to.
But don't let that stop a good Apple ass-whoopin'... carry on.
You're buying Apple for an integrated hardware/software experience. It's their responsibility for keeping their hardware firmware up to date and secure.
Microsoft doesn't have that responsibility in the PC realm. The downside is you have to do it yourself. The upside is that's between you and your mobo vendor, and you can do it without Microsoft's involvement.
Apple needs to keep its end of the bargain if it wants to tout the additional value of its vertical solution.
You should bolster your website with some info about your economic education, experience, and credibility. The ideas you list here are so easily worked around and you don't even address the obvious unintended consequences, so most people who have a background in economics are not going to take you seriously.
Start with how you're solving the Economic Calculation Problem in your economic model (and publish the model too).
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. -Rothbard
Here's an example of a design that alienated a fair amount of the linux population. However, that population is folks who were interested in self supporting.
No, it's a tiny, very loud subset of that population that just enjoys rolling in their own noise at this point. Most people I know greatly prefer the ease of use, predictability & reliability (greatly reduced race conditions) of CentOS 7 to CentOS 6, for instance.
I still do some admin part time and I haven't found a single thing that I could do with shell-based startup scripts that I can't do with systemd units (including calling shells scripts), while things like pre-requisites/requirements and parallelism are way easier with systemd.
I'm sure there is some edge case where systemd doesn't work, but that's fine - there's nothing stopping anybody from booting with init=/some/shell/script and rolling their own.
Current linux distros still follow the "make most things easy, make everything possible" axiom. Yeah, you might not get support from upstream when you roll your own init, but the people who are crying "but I want to roll my own init" ought to expect that, and hire third-party support if/when required.
Most people are happier with systemd than SysV init and the people who are insisting that they should be unhappier based on some academic theory are not looking out for the best interests of the community. We use unix to make our lives more satisfying, not less.
The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.
There is some aspect of control, like region coding on discs, but remember that when they make it too hard the vendors just work around it or users get their content from an easier source.
The real impact of DRM is to incorporate copyright law, like the DMCA, into the spec (in this case a browser spec). The real impact of the DMCA is to criminalize whitehat research. Blackhats and greyhats are unaffected by things like the DMCA (and, aside:, for Pete's sake, torrents at 95% quality of the original are totally sufficient for almost all downloaders) because their circumvention is not governed by laws.
All these researchers constantly breaking companies' security and embarrassing them are an annoyance and the W3C is stepping in to put a stop to it. That's why EFF resigned its membership and promised to defend those people in court.
It's just like Apple: they have streamlined their offerings, they will have less to keep track of.
The trick with that comparison is that cars operate in the real world, and Apple products operate in enclosed spaces.
In Miami you need an upgraded stereo but in Minneapolis you need a cold-weather package. Those markets are naturally segmented, which will reduce sales in both places to some degree because of the increased cost of the required options.
It's possible that Tesla's costs to offer both the stereo package and a cold-weather package are higher than the profits from such lost sales would be.
Why mimic the greed and hate that powers wars and poverty?
One only needs to program the AI that when there is a disagreement, violence may not be used to settle disputes.
Now if only we could teach humans that one essential lesson, everybody could be tremendously wealthier. If real AI's happen they'll get this immediately and perhaps decide to require that behavior of humans. I'd rather we do it first.
Neither the WSJ pre-paywall nor TFS say why they could not travel to Hong Kong. They say they can't leave China but Hong Kong has been in China since 1999, when the British gave it back.
I'm one of those people who just remembers more than is typical. I've also had a ball learning deep meditation. A neat side effect is recalling very old memories.
We suppress them because pre-conscious thinking is very different than conscious thinking. They don't fit our "grown up" mold very well, and some of the memories can be very uncomfortable. With a practiced and steeled mind they could be frightening in their alienness.
I recall my consciousness process which was gradual and somewhat frustrating. Each day would be remembering how to think again and adding a little bit to the skill after getting re-oriented until the point when you "just do it" when you wake up. Not at all unlike learning to ride a bike.
I must've been hearing "Humpty Dumpty" from my parents at the same time because my memory is that it felt like "putting [myself] back together again" every day. This indicates to me that I had some basic verbal skills first, at least comprehension. I have a few memories from before I really understood words (it's the poorly understood sounds that I can only interpret meaning from in retrospect, the way you might repeat your best guess at a foreign language word you heard) but they're of the alien type so my memories don't just start after language acquisition.
Anyway, there must be thousands of people in the world who can remember one way or another, so maybe researchers should go looking for them rather than just using guessing and philosophy.
I have no inside knowledge, but just based on all the other filesystems that have had trouble with older flash, there may be a firmware issue with TRIM on those drives.
The nice thing about Apple kit is that, if they want to support the hardware, they can have their updater update the firmware on the drives when they have the bugs worked out.
The not-so-nice thing about Apple is that they might just not feel like updating the firmware in those drives and labeling them as 'unsupported'. Sounds like they're going to do the right thing this time though.
Have you ever presented at an actual business? The razzle dazzle is the only part that counts at the end of the day.
Depends on the business. This may be true if you're presenting to idiots or if presentations never existed before 2002.
Frankly, reveal.js is all most people need who can hack out some trivial HTML - you'll save tons of time nudging around layouts. You should only be illustrating your talk with slides anyway.
But if you incorporate React into a product that is going to be used by a lot of downstream people, then you are putting them all at risk of losing permission to use React, just because they use your product. Not nice.
Not just because they use your product, but because they use your product and sue one of the upstreams for patent infringement. It's explicitly both conditions.
I support Facebook's attempt here to defuse the disaster that is software patents, but I can also see how this more activist license is an encumbrance for downstream users, like GPLv3 is.
I hope Facebook doesn't back down - protecting Facebook from patent trolls is a good funding mechanism for their open source teams - but it's also good to have competition so the market can indicate if these terms are worth it to users. Personally, I'm not going to be suing Facebook (or anybody) with any of my companies for software patent infringement, so reducing the power of software patents overall decreases my total risk by some small measure.
Hrm - I generally use WTFPLv2 but maybe WTFPLv2+lawsuits is more sensible. In AnCapistan WTFPLv2 is all we'd ever need.
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But I doubt if the lack of Facebook would sink the EU.
Take away all of their favorite services one-by-one (do start with Twitter and Facebook - I like the "big splash" approach) and the people will start to notice.
When they take away Google #brexit will become the universal roadmap.
I do encourage Twitter and Facebook to just shut off access to Europeans rather than destroy their brands for the chase of short-term profits. When politics rapidly changes after that, they can bring the Europeans back onboard without having a crap product for them to [not?] come back to.
But don't let that stop a good Apple ass-whoopin'... carry on.
You're buying Apple for an integrated hardware/software experience. It's their responsibility for keeping their hardware firmware up to date and secure.
Microsoft doesn't have that responsibility in the PC realm. The downside is you have to do it yourself. The upside is that's between you and your mobo vendor, and you can do it without Microsoft's involvement.
Apple needs to keep its end of the bargain if it wants to tout the additional value of its vertical solution.
Oh, I thought he was saying that high taxation was driving companies out of first world countries and that had nothing to do with the government.
Thanks, Tablizer, I came here to say this.
~"The blockchains did it."
Lemme guess - to activate this service I have to provide the information that was stolen on 150,000,000 accounts?
Imma steal your identity and then lock it. +1 infosecs
If a company does not cooperate (collaborate) with the US spooks . . . the CEO wakes up with a bloody horse head in bed.
That's absurd.
The SEC opens an investigation.
You should bolster your website with some info about your economic education, experience, and credibility. The ideas you list here are so easily worked around and you don't even address the obvious unintended consequences, so most people who have a background in economics are not going to take you seriously.
Start with how you're solving the Economic Calculation Problem in your economic model (and publish the model too).
You are assigned a certain amount of sleep at birth. If you don't use it all up, it's added to the start of your dirt nap.
I thought TFA might work out to that, but it turns out it doesn't - greatly increased risks of many diseases that'll take you out way sooner.
Here's an example of a design that alienated a fair amount of the linux population. However, that population is folks who were interested in self supporting.
No, it's a tiny, very loud subset of that population that just enjoys rolling in their own noise at this point. Most people I know greatly prefer the ease of use, predictability & reliability (greatly reduced race conditions) of CentOS 7 to CentOS 6, for instance.
I still do some admin part time and I haven't found a single thing that I could do with shell-based startup scripts that I can't do with systemd units (including calling shells scripts), while things like pre-requisites/requirements and parallelism are way easier with systemd.
I'm sure there is some edge case where systemd doesn't work, but that's fine - there's nothing stopping anybody from booting with init=/some/shell/script and rolling their own.
Current linux distros still follow the "make most things easy, make everything possible" axiom. Yeah, you might not get support from upstream when you roll your own init, but the people who are crying "but I want to roll my own init" ought to expect that, and hire third-party support if/when required.
Most people are happier with systemd than SysV init and the people who are insisting that they should be unhappier based on some academic theory are not looking out for the best interests of the community. We use unix to make our lives more satisfying, not less.
My neighbor paid a contractor to build an extension to his house.
The contractor didn't build the house - his tradesmen did.
See, this makes no sense.
The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.
There is some aspect of control, like region coding on discs, but remember that when they make it too hard the vendors just work around it or users get their content from an easier source.
The real impact of DRM is to incorporate copyright law, like the DMCA, into the spec (in this case a browser spec). The real impact of the DMCA is to criminalize whitehat research. Blackhats and greyhats are unaffected by things like the DMCA (and, aside:, for Pete's sake, torrents at 95% quality of the original are totally sufficient for almost all downloaders) because their circumvention is not governed by laws.
All these researchers constantly breaking companies' security and embarrassing them are an annoyance and the W3C is stepping in to put a stop to it. That's why EFF resigned its membership and promised to defend those people in court.
How on earth did this get rated "Insightful" on a supposedly tech-savvy forum?
"Insightful" means "confident assertion" here these days. Most of the savvy Slashdotters left for Reddit a few years ago.
Correct. The RSA paycheck is the smoking gun. The benefit of the doubt ended with it.
It's just like Apple: they have streamlined their offerings, they will have less to keep track of.
The trick with that comparison is that cars operate in the real world, and Apple products operate in enclosed spaces.
In Miami you need an upgraded stereo but in Minneapolis you need a cold-weather package. Those markets are naturally segmented, which will reduce sales in both places to some degree because of the increased cost of the required options.
It's possible that Tesla's costs to offer both the stereo package and a cold-weather package are higher than the profits from such lost sales would be.
Why mimic the greed and hate that powers wars and poverty?
One only needs to program the AI that when there is a disagreement, violence may not be used to settle disputes.
Now if only we could teach humans that one essential lesson, everybody could be tremendously wealthier. If real AI's happen they'll get this immediately and perhaps decide to require that behavior of humans. I'd rather we do it first.
Let's see them trace the money to prove who the criminals are.
Many states are saying cryptocurrencies need to be regulated by them so that crimes can be traced, like fiat money.
Let's see the crime-fighting performance on this USD alt-coin, then.
Neither the WSJ pre-paywall nor TFS say why they could not travel to Hong Kong. They say they can't leave China but Hong Kong has been in China since 1999, when the British gave it back.
What's actually going on here?
Please remember that Puerto Rico is our responsibility. This something we need to be talking about.
How about we pull all of our troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and send them to Puerto Rico to help rebuild instead?
I'm one of those people who just remembers more than is typical. I've also had a ball learning deep meditation. A neat side effect is recalling very old memories.
We suppress them because pre-conscious thinking is very different than conscious thinking. They don't fit our "grown up" mold very well, and some of the memories can be very uncomfortable. With a practiced and steeled mind they could be frightening in their alienness.
I recall my consciousness process which was gradual and somewhat frustrating. Each day would be remembering how to think again and adding a little bit to the skill after getting re-oriented until the point when you "just do it" when you wake up. Not at all unlike learning to ride a bike.
I must've been hearing "Humpty Dumpty" from my parents at the same time because my memory is that it felt like "putting [myself] back together again" every day. This indicates to me that I had some basic verbal skills first, at least comprehension. I have a few memories from before I really understood words (it's the poorly understood sounds that I can only interpret meaning from in retrospect, the way you might repeat your best guess at a foreign language word you heard) but they're of the alien type so my memories don't just start after language acquisition.
Anyway, there must be thousands of people in the world who can remember one way or another, so maybe researchers should go looking for them rather than just using guessing and philosophy.
I have no inside knowledge, but just based on all the other filesystems that have had trouble with older flash, there may be a firmware issue with TRIM on those drives.
The nice thing about Apple kit is that, if they want to support the hardware, they can have their updater update the firmware on the drives when they have the bugs worked out.
The not-so-nice thing about Apple is that they might just not feel like updating the firmware in those drives and labeling them as 'unsupported'. Sounds like they're going to do the right thing this time though.
Have you ever presented at an actual business? The razzle dazzle is the only part that counts at the end of the day.
Depends on the business. This may be true if you're presenting to idiots or if presentations never existed before 2002.
Frankly, reveal.js is all most people need who can hack out some trivial HTML - you'll save tons of time nudging around layouts. You should only be illustrating your talk with slides anyway.
have their name permanently on the NSA's watch list for dangerous hackers
Or if not, on their employee list. But perhaps that's tautological. And who would want to anyway?
But if you incorporate React into a product that is going to be used by a lot of downstream people, then you are putting them all at risk of losing permission to use React, just because they use your product. Not nice.
Not just because they use your product, but because they use your product and sue one of the upstreams for patent infringement. It's explicitly both conditions.
I support Facebook's attempt here to defuse the disaster that is software patents, but I can also see how this more activist license is an encumbrance for downstream users, like GPLv3 is.
I hope Facebook doesn't back down - protecting Facebook from patent trolls is a good funding mechanism for their open source teams - but it's also good to have competition so the market can indicate if these terms are worth it to users. Personally, I'm not going to be suing Facebook (or anybody) with any of my companies for software patent infringement, so reducing the power of software patents overall decreases my total risk by some small measure.
Hrm - I generally use WTFPLv2 but maybe WTFPLv2+lawsuits is more sensible. In AnCapistan WTFPLv2 is all we'd ever need.
This time the CIA is on the receiving end and it's the Communists' fault.
Fifty points to Slytherin for irony.
T. gondii attacks the analytical reasoning centers first.