Prostitution is the oldest profession in civilization. It probably existed before recorded civilization.
But yeah, lets blame young tech workers for the problem. Lets blame "insensitivity". But lets ignore the politicians and the police, who set policy and can use immigration status to go after sex workers. Lets ignore capitalism, because they're all doing this for free. Lets blame news outlets for not covering this "tragedy" and making it the #1 issue in Seattle, as opposed to housing, infrastructure, law enforcement, and the residents themselves.
Lets blame tech workers again, for using data to create a prostitution map, because their "callousness" and "inappropriate" sense of humor is the "root" of the problem. Where's the community "outreach" to their new residents paying taxes to their community? Ah, well they're Asians and Jews and geeks; who wants them marrying into the family?/s But lets keep pretending illegal immigration is not a problem, because Asian sex slaves are a moral horror, but there aren't taking White American sex slaves' livelihoods, so its not a big deal or relevant to the mechanics of the local trade.
a mission to Mars will imply more than a year in space.
It doesn't have to. Our current presumptions about a Mars mission taking more than a year has to do with current (1960) chemical rocket technology. If you could thrust a habitation payload to a fraction of the speed of light, the trip would be much faster. The cap on maximal thrust has to do with the fact that all the fuel has to be moved into space from the Earth.
What could be done instead is invest in ion engine technology, where instead of a combustion reaction (in vaccuum) propelling the craft, particles are charged to significant energies, and then they are directed in a particular direction, providing thrust. The limitation here is not fuel, but energy generation to propel gaseous atoms.
With enough ionic thrust, it could take a mere 3 months to get to Mars, and may not even need to produce the materials needed to return to Earth.
Apparently, you do not understand what communication satellites are, or how they are serviced. Once a satellite is launched into orbit, it requires zero servicing. What satellite companies are doing after launch is servicing the data that gets transmitted to/from the satellite. You do not need a satellite company to communicate to a satellite. Ham radio enthusiasts have been "communicating" to their ham satellites for years, independent of a satellite company.
As long as the communication to the satellite (for its services) doesn't require encrypted authentication, there's no need for the satellite to be "serviced" by a company. The problem with Asguardia is that most commercial satellites are in LEO, not GEO; so LEO satellites will not stay in orbit indefinitely.
It's not magic, we don't magically get great summaries about great articles.
There's enough real news and submissions in the queue to skip an utterly trivial, unremarkable story. The people who care probably don't even depend upon slashdot as a technical resource.
1) By virtue of reading slashdot, you are a geeky weirdo, not a typical user. You'll never want to move to the cloud, until you become like your parents. You'll be the reason Linux will become the desktop OS of the year (forever actually).
2) You can operate on the cloud with a laptop. Its called a chromebook. Yeah, for those who care, some form of wireless network service will be ubiquitous for urban areas.
Why would I move to the cloud?
To not deal with Microsoft's haphazard software security updates. For your data to be slightly more secure once you move to cloud computing. Because one day a cloud service will offer the average user advantages over standalone OSs, like unlimited, ease of use backup of data, better price for computing services than a standalone PC (which seems to need bimonthly updates), and the whole "system" doesn't go obsolete, requiring repurchasing every few years.
And after the majority of users have moved to cloud services, one day you won't be able to use your credit ID to buy stuff, because the vendors on the internet will only want to sell stuff through the "secure" cloud. The gamers have long ago moved to cloud, because its costs nothing to send a video stream to your screen, while the cloud has preprocessed that gamer stream with its 1M of GPU units per cents of gamer time, and the user will never have to dick around with buying video cards and video card settings. You remember how long ago, EA Sports stopped selling a version of Madden Football to PCs? That'll happen for the cloud as well for other games. Besides, no consumer discrete GPU will be able to manage the imaging for your hologram room, where you'll do all your gaming and visiting distant friends and relatives.
Only neckbeards, survivalist whackjobs, and Alex Jones fans will want to have their own computing box they "control".
In a foreign country with absurd internet costs...
There will always be people who want to go to a shithole and have internet access. Those people will have laptops running linux. Normal (non-rural) people will live at home, and the cloud will be ubiquitous, and they won't even realize that wireless networking services will be required to get their "screen" to work.
Microsoft is motivated to do this, but right now, the business sector is the only customer that really grasps the potential ROI. Once they're on board and datacenters and APIs are in place, Microsoft will figure out cheap ways to absorb the consumer market. If they don't, some company in India or China eventually will.
I do NOT recommend Linux to people. In fact, I say to NOT use it. Why? Cause most people want to play games, browse the web, do their email and watch NetFlix.
There will be no money to be made with standalone PCs with local OSes, and that's when all the businesses will stop putting money into it. Deal with it, bitches.
Anyone who installs linux on their machines understands that Ubuntu is not a corporate vanguard for FOSS hippies or run by a tech "evangelist". They've decided to cease providing service for machines that are over 10 years old, which is what a PC running an Intel CPU older than the Core I-series (or a slightly less recent ARM cpu). If you don't like that, boo-effing-hoo.
I can find drivel like this on reddit. I expect Slashdot to do better job at curation of articles.
I hope Facebook responds by never accepting another Russian funded ad. Not just the Russian propaganda machine will be thwarted in the US, but also Europe, and any other place Facebook has a presence. The Russian audience, by contrast, is minuscule, and Russia is just a big gas station with outdated weapons for export.
Can you name any prominent likable Democrats without deep flaws?
The guy I'd like to see run, provided Trump runs for re-election and actually looks strong, would be Senator Al Franken. He's not an moron, and actually grasps how to talk to voters that don't reside on the coasts.
I wouldn't mind Howard Dean running. My only reservations for Bernie Sanders running is that I consider him "damaged goods", like Hillary Clinton, and they're both too old.
The book was completed before 1995. In May that year, Billy Gates got internet religion, and pretty much made Microsoft pivot hard to the Internet. That's why he offered Internet Explorer for free; to kill Netscape.
I guess for my personal edification, I'd have to see what specific Steam DRM features are they objecting to.
Yes, there is an implied requirement to have working steam/publisher servers to permit installation or allow gameplay, but that can be addressed by backups. If you backup the steam folder, and individually backup each game, you should be able to install/run each game offline (thus indefinitely).
Steam does limit you to three game installs, but you can still remove a game install from a machine, and move it to another (thus install more than 3 times). You can even "lend" your game license through "family mode".
There are instances where Steam will ruthlessly remove your account access, but that doesn't stop you from running your games offline. When those games don't work, its generally the multiplayer online aspect. But if a game is online, it would shutout by the online game server anyway.
So, what specific Steam situations are people objecting to the DRM?
This suggestion won't immediately address your nostalgia issue. But if you want to putter around a little more with games, and don't want to buy a console and stay exclusively PC, install the Steam app/client (its free).
Steam, from a business perspective, is a game management interface/platform. It makes money by acting like a software games store (its a middleman). But besides the client program being free, it can help you access/install free games (and you can google/reddit for lists of free games available through Steam). Every so often, an (oldish) "commercial" title is released for free. Even though I infrequently buy games software, I'm still building up a library of free (dated) games.
Yet hundreds of millions of dollars are counterfeit
The US Treasury has not produced a single fiat dollar, released to the public, which has not been transacted for its face value or declared counterfeit. By definition, a US dollar cannot be counterfeit. Entities outside of the US Treasury can create paper facsimiles for the purposes of theft, but that does not make the US dollar counterfeit. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has enabled perhaps millions of bitcoins "worth" of fraudulent transactions; it is not unique to fiat currency in that sense.
I have been paying for my VPN with bitcoin for years
there is nothing less real about Bitcoin than other fiat currency.
The US dollar is a fiat currency. Suggesting that bitcoin is just as likely to be exchanged for its fiat value as a US dollar only denotes your utter lack to perceive reality. When bitcoin becomes the transactional currency of a top ten international bank, and yet be readily transacted at a street corner, and can trigger military invasions from other countries, that's when you can say bitcoin is as real as a US dollar.
Nope. The kernels have "hooks" specifically to support systemd. Without them, systemd could not work as fascistly as it does. One does not avoid systemd merely by uninstalling the package, and running xfce. Not that systemd support can't be configured out of the kernel.
Any TV manufacturer that advertises a television flat screen will include an ATSC tuner; that is required by federal advertising laws.
A flat screen that does not have a built in ATSC tuner is a monitor or flat screen. They can be used to view "TV" programs, but that does not let vendors advertise them as TVs.
Interesting. Can an argument be made that Gnome 3 is desirable enough to keep using Gnome 3 & systemd?
The kernel developers are still going to support systemd (until the customer base rejects it enmasse). But if people actually hate Gnome 3 so much that no one chooses to use it, how can it keep perpetuating itself?
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Prostitution is the oldest profession in civilization. It probably existed before recorded civilization.
But yeah, lets blame young tech workers for the problem. Lets blame "insensitivity". But lets ignore the politicians and the police, who set policy and can use immigration status to go after sex workers. Lets ignore capitalism, because they're all doing this for free. Lets blame news outlets for not covering this "tragedy" and making it the #1 issue in Seattle, as opposed to housing, infrastructure, law enforcement, and the residents themselves.
Lets blame tech workers again, for using data to create a prostitution map, because their "callousness" and "inappropriate" sense of humor is the "root" of the problem. Where's the community "outreach" to their new residents paying taxes to their community? Ah, well they're /s But lets keep pretending illegal immigration is not a problem, because Asian sex slaves are a moral horror, but there aren't taking White American sex slaves' livelihoods, so its not a big deal or relevant to the mechanics of the local trade.
Asians and Jews and geeks; who wants them marrying into the family?
a mission to Mars will imply more than a year in space.
It doesn't have to. Our current presumptions about a Mars mission taking more than a year has to do with current (1960) chemical rocket technology. If you could thrust a habitation payload to a fraction of the speed of light, the trip would be much faster. The cap on maximal thrust has to do with the fact that all the fuel has to be moved into space from the Earth.
What could be done instead is invest in ion engine technology, where instead of a combustion reaction (in vaccuum) propelling the craft, particles are charged to significant energies, and then they are directed in a particular direction, providing thrust. The limitation here is not fuel, but energy generation to propel gaseous atoms.
With enough ionic thrust, it could take a mere 3 months to get to Mars, and may not even need to produce the materials needed to return to Earth.
Apparently, you do not understand what communication satellites are, or how they are serviced. Once a satellite is launched into orbit, it requires zero servicing. What satellite companies are doing after launch is servicing the data that gets transmitted to/from the satellite. You do not need a satellite company to communicate to a satellite. Ham radio enthusiasts have been "communicating" to their ham satellites for years, independent of a satellite company.
As long as the communication to the satellite (for its services) doesn't require encrypted authentication, there's no need for the satellite to be "serviced" by a company. The problem with Asguardia is that most commercial satellites are in LEO, not GEO; so LEO satellites will not stay in orbit indefinitely.
It's not magic, we don't magically get great summaries about great articles.
There's enough real news and submissions in the queue to skip an utterly trivial, unremarkable story. The people who care probably don't even depend upon slashdot as a technical resource.
why would *I* move to the cloud? I have a laptop.
1) By virtue of reading slashdot, you are a geeky weirdo, not a typical user. You'll never want to move to the cloud, until you become like your parents. You'll be the reason Linux will become the desktop OS of the year (forever actually).
2) You can operate on the cloud with a laptop. Its called a chromebook. Yeah, for those who care, some form of wireless network service will be ubiquitous for urban areas.
Why would I move to the cloud?
To not deal with Microsoft's haphazard software security updates. For your data to be slightly more secure once you move to cloud computing. Because one day a cloud service will offer the average user advantages over standalone OSs, like unlimited, ease of use backup of data, better price for computing services than a standalone PC (which seems to need bimonthly updates), and the whole "system" doesn't go obsolete, requiring repurchasing every few years.
And after the majority of users have moved to cloud services, one day you won't be able to use your credit ID to buy stuff, because the vendors on the internet will only want to sell stuff through the "secure" cloud. The gamers have long ago moved to cloud, because its costs nothing to send a video stream to your screen, while the cloud has preprocessed that gamer stream with its 1M of GPU units per cents of gamer time, and the user will never have to dick around with buying video cards and video card settings. You remember how long ago, EA Sports stopped selling a version of Madden Football to PCs? That'll happen for the cloud as well for other games. Besides, no consumer discrete GPU will be able to manage the imaging for your hologram room, where you'll do all your gaming and visiting distant friends and relatives.
Only neckbeards, survivalist whackjobs, and Alex Jones fans will want to have their own computing box they "control".
In a foreign country with absurd internet costs ...
There will always be people who want to go to a shithole and have internet access. Those people will have laptops running linux. Normal (non-rural) people will live at home, and the cloud will be ubiquitous, and they won't even realize that wireless networking services will be required to get their "screen" to work.
Microsoft is motivated to do this, but right now, the business sector is the only customer that really grasps the potential ROI. Once they're on board and datacenters and APIs are in place, Microsoft will figure out cheap ways to absorb the consumer market. If they don't, some company in India or China eventually will.
No, wait, I remember something earlier than Slackware 96. I think it was called Slackware 4....
Kuell. That was the first linux distribution I could effortlessly get working on a PC.
I do NOT recommend Linux to people. In fact, I say to NOT use it. Why? Cause most people want to play games, browse the web, do their email and watch NetFlix.
You can't watch Netflix on a Mac?
This is the first time I've wanted to mod up an anonymous coward. But you're still more noise than worthwhile signal.
...when all users move to "the cloud".
There will be no money to be made with standalone PCs with local OSes, and that's when all the businesses will stop putting money into it. Deal with it, bitches.
Trump is cunt, and that's why Putin's braindead goons are wasting money on anonymous coward postings.
Now that is a valid concern. But you know that day is coming...
Anyone who installs linux on their machines understands that Ubuntu is not a corporate vanguard for FOSS hippies or run by a tech "evangelist". They've decided to cease providing service for machines that are over 10 years old, which is what a PC running an Intel CPU older than the Core I-series (or a slightly less recent ARM cpu). If you don't like that, boo-effing-hoo.
I can find drivel like this on reddit. I expect Slashdot to do better job at curation of articles.
Gravitational wave??? That's a freaking lame excuse for slashdot to go down!
I hope Facebook responds by never accepting another Russian funded ad. Not just the Russian propaganda machine will be thwarted in the US, but also Europe, and any other place Facebook has a presence. The Russian audience, by contrast, is minuscule, and Russia is just a big gas station with outdated weapons for export.
Can you name any prominent likable Democrats without deep flaws?
The guy I'd like to see run, provided Trump runs for re-election and actually looks strong, would be Senator Al Franken. He's not an moron, and actually grasps how to talk to voters that don't reside on the coasts.
I wouldn't mind Howard Dean running. My only reservations for Bernie Sanders running is that I consider him "damaged goods", like Hillary Clinton, and they're both too old.
Maybe they should run for political office.
The book was completed before 1995. In May that year, Billy Gates got internet religion, and pretty much made Microsoft pivot hard to the Internet. That's why he offered Internet Explorer for free; to kill Netscape.
I guess for my personal edification, I'd have to see what specific Steam DRM features are they objecting to.
Yes, there is an implied requirement to have working steam/publisher servers to permit installation or allow gameplay, but that can be addressed by backups. If you backup the steam folder, and individually backup each game, you should be able to install/run each game offline (thus indefinitely).
Steam does limit you to three game installs, but you can still remove a game install from a machine, and move it to another (thus install more than 3 times). You can even "lend" your game license through "family mode".
There are instances where Steam will ruthlessly remove your account access, but that doesn't stop you from running your games offline. When those games don't work, its generally the multiplayer online aspect. But if a game is online, it would shutout by the online game server anyway.
So, what specific Steam situations are people objecting to the DRM?
This suggestion won't immediately address your nostalgia issue. But if you want to putter around a little more with games, and don't want to buy a console and stay exclusively PC, install the Steam app/client (its free).
Steam, from a business perspective, is a game management interface/platform. It makes money by acting like a software games store (its a middleman). But besides the client program being free, it can help you access/install free games (and you can google/reddit for lists of free games available through Steam). Every so often, an (oldish) "commercial" title is released for free. Even though I infrequently buy games software, I'm still building up a library of free (dated) games.
Yet hundreds of millions of dollars are counterfeit
The US Treasury has not produced a single fiat dollar, released to the public, which has not been transacted for its face value or declared counterfeit. By definition, a US dollar cannot be counterfeit. Entities outside of the US Treasury can create paper facsimiles for the purposes of theft, but that does not make the US dollar counterfeit. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has enabled perhaps millions of bitcoins "worth" of fraudulent transactions; it is not unique to fiat currency in that sense.
I have been paying for my VPN with bitcoin for years
And what is your rhetorical point?
there is nothing less real about Bitcoin than other fiat currency.
The US dollar is a fiat currency. Suggesting that bitcoin is just as likely to be exchanged for its fiat value as a US dollar only denotes your utter lack to perceive reality. When bitcoin becomes the transactional currency of a top ten international bank, and yet be readily transacted at a street corner, and can trigger military invasions from other countries, that's when you can say bitcoin is as real as a US dollar.
Nope. The kernels have "hooks" specifically to support systemd. Without them, systemd could not work as fascistly as it does. One does not avoid systemd merely by uninstalling the package, and running xfce. Not that systemd support can't be configured out of the kernel.
Any TV manufacturer that advertises a television flat screen will include an ATSC tuner; that is required by federal advertising laws.
A flat screen that does not have a built in ATSC tuner is a monitor or flat screen. They can be used to view "TV" programs, but that does not let vendors advertise them as TVs.
Interesting. Can an argument be made that Gnome 3 is desirable enough to keep using Gnome 3 & systemd?
The kernel developers are still going to support systemd (until the customer base rejects it enmasse). But if people actually hate Gnome 3 so much that no one chooses to use it, how can it keep perpetuating itself?