Sure thing, remove the feature after all the damage has been already done. This was a calculated move, and everybody knows that. There were voices inside the company who said this was a bad idea, but execs took the Pinto route and calculated the PR damage to be less than the market share gains. Shows us just how crooked they are under all the sweet talk.
My wife was infuriated when her computer suddenly started installing Windows 10. That was the last straw for her, she decided to buy a Mac.
This doesn't really make much sense to me. It seems as if they're making a fork of XBox One that's compatible with earlier game releases, but will certainly have some exclusive games as well. Games that will utilize the "extra power". Reminds me of the whole N64 "expansion" debacle, but even that was mild compared to this. With the expansion modules you could upgrade your existing console whereas with this approach you'd essentially have to buy a new console to get the benefits and/or play the newer games.
Well, if Microsoft wants to shoot themselves in the foot (again), what the hell. Go ahead.:-)
2021 will be the year when the legal issues will be solved and self-driving cars will be available to consumers in most Western countries, except France where Taxi drivers will revolt and cause enough confusion to make them lag behind in development at least a decade. By 2024 self-driving cars will be mainstream in a sense that they make up a significant portion of new cars being sold.
There, said it. I'll put on a reminder so I can visit this prediction toward the end of 2021 and also 2024.
That might be a good idea for now in oppressive countries such as Russia and China. In Western countries, however, it's better to stand up and fight for your rights.
This looks like a clear case of forceful self-incrimination. When the dust settles, he will most likely get a big fat compensation check sometime in the future for this circus.
People objecting to this idea usually think it would mean a complete legalization of hard drugs, free-for-all consumption and massive crime waves. I believe there *is* common ground here between the people who want to legalize several widely used drugs and the opponents of it. It's a fact, and has been for centuries, that people use certain types of drugs whether they're legal or not. Keeping such drugs illegal and their users out of the reach of professional help means it's only feeding criminal activities.
Much like we've successfully started needle exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis, we could start controlled sale of several drugs. Soft drugs, such as cannabis, that have time and time again been shown to be of little harm to its users could be freely grown and used. Hard drugs could be distributed via pharmacies in a more controlled manner by health care professionals. Prices can be kept at high-enough levels not to encourage illegal sale of hard drugs, but also low enough that they don't encourage criminal activity either.
This would in the long term most likely eradicate major drug cartels and gangs that control drug trade today. The governments would be able to tax the sale of drugs and forward the money to helping drug users and other similar areas.
In Nordic Countries it's 25–35 EUR for unlimited data at maximum LTE speeds. People often say this is because these countries are smaller, but I don't really buy that argument as smaller scale also more often than not means more expensive, not to mention the excessive telcom regulations. 100/100Mbps to 1Gbps land connections often range from 10–50 EUR.
Now that I think of it, maybe it's the regulations that keep the prices down. Antitrust laws are quite strict.
That's an excellent addition to any file sharing related discussion. People have become so accustomed to the term 'piracy' and 'theft' in this context that they have forgotten where those terms originated from and why. Another lovely term I've come across in Nordic Countries is 'illegal downloading', often used by local MPAA/IFPI organizations. This despite the fact that in these countries downloading is in fact legal whereas unauthorized sharing is illegal (in most cases, except to your friends and family).
That's why organizations such as EFF need to be actively involved in promoting the technology and we need to be actively supporting them. They have also lobbying power to some degree, which is of course helpful for the cause.
And yes, there are parts of Europe that are pretty bad. Yes, they include people shitting on the street. Err... Quite a bit worse, depending on where are - they can get pretty bad. Try not going to a tourist trap and actually seeing what's behind the curtain. Humans are humans, all the world around. Some have better circumstances than others but, for the most part, we're largely the same.
This is very much true for the countries below the Baltic Sea. Nordic Countries (and Estonia) are the best of Europe and among the best, Sweden is the worst with its 100% immigrant housing estates (mistakes were made in the 70's and 80's by Palme...) France is probably the worst among Western European countries with its (literally) no-go zones run by immigrant gangs.
Eastern Europe has its problems, but they're quite different from the rest of Europe. There's human trafficking and organized crime, but a lot less "crazy people". If you stay out of their way, they mostly stay out of yours.
So yes, Europe has its problems too. However, the most notable difference between Europe and the US I've noticed is homelessness. While some countries in Europe have severe homelessness related problems, like France, in the US you see people living on the street across the country. And not just a few, but an insane amount of people. In the Nordic Countries and Germany, for example, you'd be generally surprised to spot a homeless person actually living on the streets (even the usual drunkards have a home provided for them by the state or city). In the US, you can't take a turn without seeing endless amounts of homeless people.
They had enough of what was once a nice city, that has turned into a bunch of hipster idiots, along with a TON of bums (I deter the term homeless), drug users, illegal aliens.
You pretty much described the original hippie movement there. It came and went, and like the hippies, so will this era be gone one day with most of its problems.
Snowden is referring to Cameron's plea for privacy, as mentioned in the summary and linked tweet. He's merely pointing out the irony since the UK government has been invading ordinary citizens' privacy for possibly decades now. Why would the political elite be allowed special privilege privacy?
If you mean running Windows as a guest, then yes, it works just fine! I haven't used much Windows on KVM lately, but anything non-3D is fluent and should work out of the box without any problems. Using the virtio disk drivers in nocache mode gives also great disk performance, even on Windows (even better on 'writeback' mode, but it's inherently unsafe to use for critical systems).
If you ever want to try KVM the super easy way, just install the virt-manager package on any Linux distro and it's pretty straight forward from there on out.
Hmm, I've always had the GTK-based client on my Linux boxes. I see now that there is one version available in the repos labelled as 'transmission-qt', which I suppose is equally available, but used as a default only on non-XFCE DEs. My comfy knowledge bubble has burst.:-(
If I was paranoid I probably wouldn't let everyone know my email address, for starters. Being paranoid also implies that what I said would be speculation, which it is not if you check out the links. People who are truly paranoid post as AC.
Most people don't want to end up on lists and hence avoid saying anything radical and contrary to mainstream beliefs. We already know that things as mundane as belonging to or associating oneself with a political group or movement get you interest from the FBI. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. What was done in the past to silence inconvenient voices is most likely being done today, too, and probably using even more sophisticated methods.
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Sure thing, remove the feature after all the damage has been already done. This was a calculated move, and everybody knows that. There were voices inside the company who said this was a bad idea, but execs took the Pinto route and calculated the PR damage to be less than the market share gains. Shows us just how crooked they are under all the sweet talk.
My wife was infuriated when her computer suddenly started installing Windows 10. That was the last straw for her, she decided to buy a Mac.
This doesn't really make much sense to me. It seems as if they're making a fork of XBox One that's compatible with earlier game releases, but will certainly have some exclusive games as well. Games that will utilize the "extra power". Reminds me of the whole N64 "expansion" debacle, but even that was mild compared to this. With the expansion modules you could upgrade your existing console whereas with this approach you'd essentially have to buy a new console to get the benefits and/or play the newer games.
Well, if Microsoft wants to shoot themselves in the foot (again), what the hell. Go ahead. :-)
2021 will be the year when the legal issues will be solved and self-driving cars will be available to consumers in most Western countries, except France where Taxi drivers will revolt and cause enough confusion to make them lag behind in development at least a decade. By 2024 self-driving cars will be mainstream in a sense that they make up a significant portion of new cars being sold.
There, said it. I'll put on a reminder so I can visit this prediction toward the end of 2021 and also 2024.
Seems to work just fine on Chrome, Chromium and Firefox on both Linux and Windows. Even on fresh installs with default settings.
It's like cold fusion all over again...
That might be a good idea for now in oppressive countries such as Russia and China. In Western countries, however, it's better to stand up and fight for your rights.
This looks like a clear case of forceful self-incrimination. When the dust settles, he will most likely get a big fat compensation check sometime in the future for this circus.
But it shouldn't be "think", rather "know". Superdelegates/unpledged delegates are the most visible part of it all.
People objecting to this idea usually think it would mean a complete legalization of hard drugs, free-for-all consumption and massive crime waves. I believe there *is* common ground here between the people who want to legalize several widely used drugs and the opponents of it. It's a fact, and has been for centuries, that people use certain types of drugs whether they're legal or not. Keeping such drugs illegal and their users out of the reach of professional help means it's only feeding criminal activities.
Much like we've successfully started needle exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis, we could start controlled sale of several drugs. Soft drugs, such as cannabis, that have time and time again been shown to be of little harm to its users could be freely grown and used. Hard drugs could be distributed via pharmacies in a more controlled manner by health care professionals. Prices can be kept at high-enough levels not to encourage illegal sale of hard drugs, but also low enough that they don't encourage criminal activity either.
This would in the long term most likely eradicate major drug cartels and gangs that control drug trade today. The governments would be able to tax the sale of drugs and forward the money to helping drug users and other similar areas.
In Nordic Countries it's 25–35 EUR for unlimited data at maximum LTE speeds. People often say this is because these countries are smaller, but I don't really buy that argument as smaller scale also more often than not means more expensive, not to mention the excessive telcom regulations. 100/100Mbps to 1Gbps land connections often range from 10–50 EUR.
Now that I think of it, maybe it's the regulations that keep the prices down. Antitrust laws are quite strict.
That's an excellent addition to any file sharing related discussion. People have become so accustomed to the term 'piracy' and 'theft' in this context that they have forgotten where those terms originated from and why. Another lovely term I've come across in Nordic Countries is 'illegal downloading', often used by local MPAA/IFPI organizations. This despite the fact that in these countries downloading is in fact legal whereas unauthorized sharing is illegal (in most cases, except to your friends and family).
The industry would be more scared if people didn't bother downloading them even for free.
That's why organizations such as EFF need to be actively involved in promoting the technology and we need to be actively supporting them. They have also lobbying power to some degree, which is of course helpful for the cause.
And yes, there are parts of Europe that are pretty bad. Yes, they include people shitting on the street. Err... Quite a bit worse, depending on where are - they can get pretty bad. Try not going to a tourist trap and actually seeing what's behind the curtain. Humans are humans, all the world around. Some have better circumstances than others but, for the most part, we're largely the same.
This is very much true for the countries below the Baltic Sea. Nordic Countries (and Estonia) are the best of Europe and among the best, Sweden is the worst with its 100% immigrant housing estates (mistakes were made in the 70's and 80's by Palme...) France is probably the worst among Western European countries with its (literally) no-go zones run by immigrant gangs.
Eastern Europe has its problems, but they're quite different from the rest of Europe. There's human trafficking and organized crime, but a lot less "crazy people". If you stay out of their way, they mostly stay out of yours.
So yes, Europe has its problems too. However, the most notable difference between Europe and the US I've noticed is homelessness. While some countries in Europe have severe homelessness related problems, like France, in the US you see people living on the street across the country. And not just a few, but an insane amount of people. In the Nordic Countries and Germany, for example, you'd be generally surprised to spot a homeless person actually living on the streets (even the usual drunkards have a home provided for them by the state or city). In the US, you can't take a turn without seeing endless amounts of homeless people.
They had enough of what was once a nice city, that has turned into a bunch of hipster idiots, along with a TON of bums (I deter the term homeless), drug users, illegal aliens.
You pretty much described the original hippie movement there. It came and went, and like the hippies, so will this era be gone one day with most of its problems.
Snowden is referring to Cameron's plea for privacy, as mentioned in the summary and linked tweet. He's merely pointing out the irony since the UK government has been invading ordinary citizens' privacy for possibly decades now. Why would the political elite be allowed special privilege privacy?
True, It's a shame that they're using the limited amounts of gibibytes, we should save some for our children and all the children to come!
Ouch, that was cold.
The FBI should be disbanded.
Considering the anti-democratic and privacy violating practices the FBI has been involved throughout its history, I can easily concur.
If you mean running Windows as a guest, then yes, it works just fine! I haven't used much Windows on KVM lately, but anything non-3D is fluent and should work out of the box without any problems. Using the virtio disk drivers in nocache mode gives also great disk performance, even on Windows (even better on 'writeback' mode, but it's inherently unsafe to use for critical systems).
If you ever want to try KVM the super easy way, just install the virt-manager package on any Linux distro and it's pretty straight forward from there on out.
Great, now that seals have insecure IoT devices all over them, how long will it be until polar bears learn how to track them?
Hmm, I've always had the GTK-based client on my Linux boxes. I see now that there is one version available in the repos labelled as 'transmission-qt', which I suppose is equally available, but used as a default only on non-XFCE DEs. My comfy knowledge bubble has burst. :-(
If I was paranoid I probably wouldn't let everyone know my email address, for starters. Being paranoid also implies that what I said would be speculation, which it is not if you check out the links. People who are truly paranoid post as AC.
Most people don't want to end up on lists and hence avoid saying anything radical and contrary to mainstream beliefs. We already know that things as mundane as belonging to or associating oneself with a political group or movement get you interest from the FBI. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. What was done in the past to silence inconvenient voices is most likely being done today, too, and probably using even more sophisticated methods.
For a pun like that you deserve a promotion at work. :-)