Not the best product. The product most attractive to the largest population. That population consists of people who just want to surf, email, twitter and don't give a hoot what OS they are using. So the $50 locked down motherboard will win over the $100 Free one. It runs windows; check!
Some large percentage of people who buy computers don't care about or even don't want Linux. The few of us who might buy a motherboard that specifically lets us bypass secure boot, or has facilities for signing other OS's will vanish behind them. Computer makers really have little reason to cater to us. They will do whatever they must to create the most sale-able machine
Also many copyright violators bring up libraries as an analog for their sharing activities, but the analog breaker is that when you take a book (or anything else) from a library you are generally expected to return it, you don't get to keep it.
Helpdesk/desktop support: I -could- go to another keyboard, but then when I had to visit a different desk what then?
Oh, and dextr, alphabetically sorted? really? (actually mostly alphabetically sorted so the vowels line up..)
The part I hate about my iPod keyboard is that I have to switch to get to numbers or special chars. passwords become extra painful.
When it found the bad guys in estonia, the FBI had a clean DNS server setup to replace the malicious one. Monday that server is being shut down.
Why didn't the FBI have that DNS server re-direct all page queries to a single page that says "You are infected with DNS changer, you need to do this..."?
What if you can never execute programs directly. You can only open documents, the UI only presents documents. Open a document and it's program is launched. When programs are installed blank documents are also installed in a "stationary store" of some sort, and protected.
Hey Verizon,
My email, tweet, blog post, reply on slashdot, all are my speech. They are what I am saying. They are -not- your speech. And when you throttle them you limit my expression. Treat my packet, his packets, her packets, their packet all the same. They are not your speech.
(Ob disclaimer, I have a different service provider)
Mostly they want to leave most everything else and shut down your AC. In Tulare CA (halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield in the HOT part of CA) the power company wanted to give us a discount if they could install a switch that would let them shut off the AC when they wanted. They promised they would only shut it off for an hour.
In before the "Well I don't have any thing to hide, why should I fear?" crowd. Look at it this way. You may thing your innocent, but it's not what you did but rather what the overactive imagination of some minor nosy official person imagines you might be up to. Extra data about you, collected easily and automatically can be misconstrued to be whatever they are looking for. Isn't that called something like "Observer bias".
You mentioned the public interest in reducing power consumption. The power company could publicize the information saying "Jim here is the power hog of the week, and look, during peek hours he used 400% of the norm! Bad Jim. Shame on you Jim"
With a dumb meter, someone has to come round to read the thing at regular intervals.Probably about the same interval as your billing cycle, say once a month.
Smart meters, on the other hand, can be read as often as desired. If they were reading your smart meter once every minute they would catch on when you turned on and off your major appliances. Since each item in your house draws a slightly different current than others like it, they can guess how many are home, and what they are doing.
They can also read it before and after time periods they call "peak" hours - and charge you differently for that power.
Has anyone seen the problem? Our intrepid mars colonists are just getting the knack of mars living and the ratings start to wane. uh oh no more food, no other colonists coming. They better build it so the colony is self sufficient when the first martians get there.
First they came for the smokers, but I did not smoke. I did nothing.
Then they came for the HFCS soda drinkers, but I was diabetic. I did nothing.
Then they came for the diet soda drinkers, artificial sweeteners supposedly cause cancer, I did nothing.
Then they came for the delicious but makes to too fat foods, I enjoyed salads, I did nothing.
Then they came for the fish eaters, with stories of mercury,
Tonight's dinner: Bread and Water. (And they are looking at the bread suspiciously)
Each food taken, is liberty taken. When they decide for us, we are made children who can not decide for ourselves.
There are companies that demand that you do not smoke, even in your own home on off hours. Perhaps this can be extended to cellphone use. No Canadian teacher may even own a cell phone, or associate with people who do.
Slashdot Mirror
Not the best product. The product most attractive to the largest population. That population consists of people who just want to surf, email, twitter and don't give a hoot what OS they are using. So the $50 locked down motherboard will win over the $100 Free one. It runs windows; check!
Not Obama, the unseen hand.
Some large percentage of people who buy computers don't care about or even don't want Linux. The few of us who might buy a motherboard that specifically lets us bypass secure boot, or has facilities for signing other OS's will vanish behind them. Computer makers really have little reason to cater to us. They will do whatever they must to create the most sale-able machine
..Do I become one with the city with every step I take. With every breath I take and every move I make will Google be watching me?...
FIFY
(insert picture of overly obsessive girlfriend wearing a Google tee shirt)
But it is not the copyright violator's place to decide to convert a possible sale into advertising.
Also many copyright violators bring up libraries as an analog for their sharing activities, but the analog breaker is that when you take a book (or anything else) from a library you are generally expected to return it, you don't get to keep it.
By your logic, no slopes are slippery?
"Is Microsoft (er Apple? Google?) Evil?" ooh look, I made a new verb.
Help me!, Norman Coordinate! Beep beeeb beep beeeeeeeeee....
Helpdesk/desktop support: I -could- go to another keyboard, but then when I had to visit a different desk what then? Oh, and dextr, alphabetically sorted? really? (actually mostly alphabetically sorted so the vowels line up..) The part I hate about my iPod keyboard is that I have to switch to get to numbers or special chars. passwords become extra painful.
When it found the bad guys in estonia, the FBI had a clean DNS server setup to replace the malicious one. Monday that server is being shut down. Why didn't the FBI have that DNS server re-direct all page queries to a single page that says "You are infected with DNS changer, you need to do this ..."?
What if you can never execute programs directly. You can only open documents, the UI only presents documents. Open a document and it's program is launched. When programs are installed blank documents are also installed in a "stationary store" of some sort, and protected.
Hey Verizon, My email, tweet, blog post, reply on slashdot, all are my speech. They are what I am saying. They are -not- your speech. And when you throttle them you limit my expression. Treat my packet, his packets, her packets, their packet all the same. They are not your speech. (Ob disclaimer, I have a different service provider)
What do I pay big electric bills for? Build more power plants!
If you have too much capacity, use the extra to crack water into hydrogen to sell for all our neato hydrogen powered vehicles. /P.
Mostly they want to leave most everything else and shut down your AC. In Tulare CA (halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield in the HOT part of CA) the power company wanted to give us a discount if they could install a switch that would let them shut off the AC when they wanted. They promised they would only shut it off for an hour.
Of course. They are telling the power company how much electricity you are using. What business is that of theirs?
Power Company Truck, Across the street from your house, Binoculars, Clipboard, 24/7... how about now?
In before the "Well I don't have any thing to hide, why should I fear?" crowd. Look at it this way. You may thing your innocent, but it's not what you did but rather what the overactive imagination of some minor nosy official person imagines you might be up to. Extra data about you, collected easily and automatically can be misconstrued to be whatever they are looking for. Isn't that called something like "Observer bias".
You mentioned the public interest in reducing power consumption. The power company could publicize the information saying "Jim here is the power hog of the week, and look, during peek hours he used 400% of the norm! Bad Jim. Shame on you Jim"
And you would feel funny if the power company stationed a worker across the street from your house with binoculars and a clipboard 24/7. Or not?
With a dumb meter, someone has to come round to read the thing at regular intervals.Probably about the same interval as your billing cycle, say once a month. Smart meters, on the other hand, can be read as often as desired. If they were reading your smart meter once every minute they would catch on when you turned on and off your major appliances. Since each item in your house draws a slightly different current than others like it, they can guess how many are home, and what they are doing. They can also read it before and after time periods they call "peak" hours - and charge you differently for that power.
Has anyone seen the problem? Our intrepid mars colonists are just getting the knack of mars living and the ratings start to wane. uh oh no more food, no other colonists coming. They better build it so the colony is self sufficient when the first martians get there.
Until the neighboring cities see what a great success this is and institute their own tax.
First they came for the smokers, but I did not smoke. I did nothing. Then they came for the HFCS soda drinkers, but I was diabetic. I did nothing. Then they came for the diet soda drinkers, artificial sweeteners supposedly cause cancer, I did nothing. Then they came for the delicious but makes to too fat foods, I enjoyed salads, I did nothing. Then they came for the fish eaters, with stories of mercury,
Tonight's dinner: Bread and Water. (And they are looking at the bread suspiciously)
Each food taken, is liberty taken. When they decide for us, we are made children who can not decide for ourselves.
Did you mean "destruction of evidence"?
Using masses of GPUs instead of the slow cpu to do decryption work?
There are companies that demand that you do not smoke, even in your own home on off hours. Perhaps this can be extended to cellphone use. No Canadian teacher may even own a cell phone, or associate with people who do.