Lots of Linux and crossplatform applications have been using GPU regardless of the OS for a while now. Blender is a good example. Sometimes all it takes is the right drivers. Please tell me you're not trying to run Maya or something like that when you got Blender?:(
If the point is to stimulate the brain, coffee works too. Caffeine is technically a psychoactive drug. Controlled frying of your brain can't be good for you.
What constitutes as "individual" browsing history? I guess that means we each all have to get our own internet ISP per person. Will they sell "household" information? Digital fingerprinting is a thing, but not as profound just yet enough to even sell "individual" browsing history. You have a MAC address, but that can be spoofed. And of course they're aren't going to sell browsing histories when they have subsidiaries/3rd party companies to do it for them. It's kind of like how "no kill" animal shelters actually take the animals somewhere else to do it. Always be aware of the technicalities.
If they have media boxes with Kodi installed and SuperRepo enabled, but no addons from it installed, is that actually piracy? What makes that any different from having a Linux repository with CD ripping software?
(Deep scifi narrator voice or Morgan Freeman) IN THE YEAR 2000, all audio and video will be ogg vorbis. All documents will be in an open format. Micro$oft will be no more. Artificial Intelligence will be our friend and not the privacy cracking monster it's always been since the 1940s. Cloud computing becomes easy for everyone to do and not just a farce for Silicon Valley to use open source to destroy open source.
I keep trying to think of other reasons why a country would do this, and I have another theory: digital fingerprinting; it's not limited to just your web browsing anymore. People already use cards for just about everything, but making it harder to pay with cash encourages those without out any credit or bank account to place themselves in the system. Anytime you make a purchase with a card, that information is sent to a database and kept forever. You could try paying with a gift card, but that was bought with another card and still has to be activated at the register. A friend could buy it for you but based on your spending habits, logging in to purchase, and smart phone location, even the AI's today could very easily figure out who you are and who you are in contact with. Some people just pay with the phone, making the digital fingerprinting even faster. With quantum computing coming, it could easily be done for everyone. Can you imagine a country in which you have to smuggle in gift cards (like VISA and so forth) payed with cash so people can have privacy where there is no cash? They'll probably just end up making gift cards illegal or non-international at that point.
The point is YOU ALL volunteered to feed the beast and let peer pressure control you. You don't need any of this crap, but they need you to think you do because the faces you post and text you write all contribute towards your digital fingerprint while acting as key information needed to keep our economy rolling. This digital fingerprinting will make encryption a joke in a few years because Artificial Intelligence will know based on your browsing behavior who is actually doing what and can cross-reference that data with social network information and keep building on it, making it more and more accurate every time you do anything on the internet. Facebook cannot go bankrupt nor could its owners ever be able to pull the plug if they wanted to. Someone would end up blackmailed, replaced, or dead. It's the digital version of Fort Knox but instead of gold, it's information; except, Facebook is actually worth more. Only $180 billion in Fort Knox; Facebook's net worth is $190 billion. Fort Knox isn't the only place in the U.S. to reserve gold, but it does hold about half of the gold the U.S. does have. So check this out, 945 million Facebook users access via cellphone; that's roughly 1/10 people (945 million out of 7.49 billion) in the world with an active Facebook account on a smartphone or tablet with a nice little camera to take photos of everything and a microphone caught more than once monitoring your TV. Now let's just say for simplicity sake (some crazy math coming) that Facebook was mobile only. That would make each active account worth about ~$200. The average (world) human being weighs about 136.7 lbs. That comes to about 2187.2 ounces, ergo 9 cents per ounce. Fort Knox gold in April 2016 was worth $1,226.60 an ounce. This means that Facebo
1.) You enjoy the possibility of having your funds cut at anytime because there's no physical currency as proof (think paper trail). If the local version of IRS says you owe us, then there's is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it because it's all controlled by a bank. If you need to buy something in an emergency, but banks are closed or there are server issues, now you can't.
2.) Or, raise your hand if you enjoy being on the phone for hours when creditors screw up.
3.) Or, raise your hand if you believe we are in a world in which bank hacking is impossible or you enjoy having all of your purchases monitored, recorded, and controlled forever and ever amen. This means every condom, tampon, douche, medication, or whatever embarrassing thing you can think of is now on record forever.
4.) Do you like eating? Of course you do. But, have you noticed how much harder it is to grow things thanks to a screwed up climate? How much harder it is to get fruit or veggies with seeds? How much more restrictions and requirements there are on farming? Paying for water? The Future: "If you don't believe what we believe, then you don't get to eat. Your card has been declined and we don't take cash." Limiting the ability to trade only reflects the countries failure to manage its problems and puts people's basic human right to survival and privacy in danger.
I mean seriously, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. You really think they don't already have backdoors? A company that makes money from data you all volunteer all the damn time, be it biometric (facial recognition) or digital fingerprinting (text), when they're not too busy cramming advertisements as news? A company caught repeatedly listening to inauditable signals from your TV to cater to your usage "experience"? That many users and no one has bothered to make a backdoor huh? People get angry at me when I attack FB, but I think it's just because they know I'm right but don't want to be reminded that they started something they can never actually leave. Wikileaks? I and the many other "nut jobs" we're warning people about this stuff 20 years ago. A backdoor sounds fancy and like something the creator has complete control over, but don't think for a second that it cannot be found and exploited. Backdoors don't care who you work for and are often created by exploiting a security flaw. Hasn't the UK done enough big brother bullshit already?
If you have auto fill turned on, your browser may remember your PayPal information. A phishing site could setup in a way to steal the auto fill information without actually showing you a form. Another problem I've realized (maybe a tad off-topic) is that PayPal has allowed users to sign in with TouchID. There are parts of the world in which law enforcement can make you use your finger to unlock your phone; this also includes applications. In other words, PayPal gave law enforcement the keys to many peoples financial information but told everyone it was for convenience.
There is also GNU PSPP as an open source SPSS alternative and Octave as a Matlab alternative. For more stuff: https://theouterlinux.com/rese.... I tried to pick as many cross-platform open source software as I could. Any other suggestions would be awesome.
I rolled my eyes becaus I thought they were talking about cloud computing and swiped it out. Articles on cloud computing and motherboard hard ware really do get kinda old. News vs. advertising. If I can't do something without the internet, then I just don't bother. I'll find an open source desktop (no php, ruby, etc.) version and make it work or build my own.
I use Reddit because Facebook is useless to me and I hate profile sites. All they're doing is attracting more idiots. You're going to see more Tumblr-like high school/middle school girly posts. A bunch of Big Bang Theory fans wanting to be nerds too, but not intelligent enough to reply to posts without trolling (some Slashdotters) or trying to start a discussion when I ask simple question. It's already bad enough. Also, this will completely break a lot of third party open source apps for Reddit, a lot of which haven't been updated in a few years. More code, more bugs, slower site, and the lighter web browsers probably won't load it anymore. I'm also really curious as to what kind of privacy agreement they've cooked up for it, given what a lot of people use Reddit for (it's not all cat pics and gifs) and who's the U.S. fearless leader right now. But, it will be all cat pics and gifs because people need to be "liked" and they'll have a profile to showcase it.
It's bad when you have to jailbreak your tractor. Then again, John Deere is just the Eacalade version of a Yukon in the tractor world; they're both the same under the hood. People often use collective pride to mask mass stupidity. "Proudly Made in the USA" I guess applies here. If this keeps up, Japan and Germany will just start making better products like they did in the 70s and 80s. Your parents called it junk, but it really wasn't.
"VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and that is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a." -- https://veracrypt.codeplex.com.... It says "based on," but it has been around for a while now and nowhere near as vulnerable. Even the TrueCrypt (discontinued) creators say to use TrueCrypt ONLY to decrypt what you have so you can use something else.
They will be hunting for spies and terrorists while putting innocent people at risk only to find nothing or what we already knew about before the witch hunts. Kinda reminds me of what we did a decade ago, but it's cyber instead of sand and everyone is put at privacy and security risk. They'll find something stupid and make it a big deal to get the Wikileaks thing off their back.
Upgraded an iPad 2 to iOS 9. Big mistake. All "upgrading" does on iOS is insure that you'll have to buy the latest device after ever two iOS versions or you're stuck with a slow choppy device that may not even get software updates. I use the term upgrade for system and update for software. It's a Linux thing.
It's not a matter of finding security issues, it's a matter of people knowing that 12.04 LTS works really well on older hardware and why upgrade if you don't need to. Most updates to software are eye candy related, most bugs are 64-bit related, and most vulnerabilities are focussed on the newer hardware. Also, 12.04 is much easier to create custom distros from. Though, I prefer SuseStudio/OpenSUSE.
Though that's means when they're older and therefore forever locked as a "productive member of society," they won't know the difference between a fact or an advertisement, something that people struggle with now. The analystic lingual and literal skills our generation developed to separate the two will be gone. It'll be taught in elite colleges as an elective.
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Lots of Linux and crossplatform applications have been using GPU regardless of the OS for a while now. Blender is a good example. Sometimes all it takes is the right drivers. Please tell me you're not trying to run Maya or something like that when you got Blender? :(
I thought that too at first. If cops are getting death drones, why not at this point? Science!
If the point is to stimulate the brain, coffee works too. Caffeine is technically a psychoactive drug. Controlled frying of your brain can't be good for you.
They may have also noticed a huge spike in VPN related usage and are trying to get people to not use them.
What constitutes as "individual" browsing history? I guess that means we each all have to get our own internet ISP per person. Will they sell "household" information? Digital fingerprinting is a thing, but not as profound just yet enough to even sell "individual" browsing history. You have a MAC address, but that can be spoofed. And of course they're aren't going to sell browsing histories when they have subsidiaries/3rd party companies to do it for them. It's kind of like how "no kill" animal shelters actually take the animals somewhere else to do it. Always be aware of the technicalities.
If they have media boxes with Kodi installed and SuperRepo enabled, but no addons from it installed, is that actually piracy? What makes that any different from having a Linux repository with CD ripping software?
I'm an "Apple Developer." How many apps have I made? Zero. Nice try Micro$oft.
That's what I saw when I read the title. I'll keep that in mind Mr. Government....or not ;)...get it?
(Deep scifi narrator voice or Morgan Freeman) IN THE YEAR 2000, all audio and video will be ogg vorbis. All documents will be in an open format. Micro$oft will be no more. Artificial Intelligence will be our friend and not the privacy cracking monster it's always been since the 1940s. Cloud computing becomes easy for everyone to do and not just a farce for Silicon Valley to use open source to destroy open source.
I keep trying to think of other reasons why a country would do this, and I have another theory: digital fingerprinting; it's not limited to just your web browsing anymore. People already use cards for just about everything, but making it harder to pay with cash encourages those without out any credit or bank account to place themselves in the system. Anytime you make a purchase with a card, that information is sent to a database and kept forever. You could try paying with a gift card, but that was bought with another card and still has to be activated at the register. A friend could buy it for you but based on your spending habits, logging in to purchase, and smart phone location, even the AI's today could very easily figure out who you are and who you are in contact with. Some people just pay with the phone, making the digital fingerprinting even faster. With quantum computing coming, it could easily be done for everyone. Can you imagine a country in which you have to smuggle in gift cards (like VISA and so forth) payed with cash so people can have privacy where there is no cash? They'll probably just end up making gift cards illegal or non-international at that point.
Databases you may of volunteered info to: 43 Things, Academia.edu, About.me, Advogato, aNobii, AsianAvenue, aSmallWorld, Athlinks, Audimated.com, Badoo, Bebo, Biip.no, BlackPlanet, Bolt.com, Busuu, Buzznet, CafeMom, Care2, CaringBridge, Classmates.com, Cloob, ClusterFlunk, CouchSurfing, CozyCot, Crunchyroll, Cucumbertown, Cyworld, DailyBooth, DailyStrength, delicious, DeviantArt, Diaspora*, Disaboom, Dol2day, DontStayIn, Draugiem.lv, douban, Doximity, Dreamwidth, DXY.cn, Elftown, Ello, Elixio, English, Epernicus, Eons.com, eToro, Experience Project, Exploroo, Facebook, Fetlife, FilmAffinity, Filmow, FledgeWing, Flixster, Flickr, Fling, Focus.com, Fotki, Fotolog, Foursquare, Friendica, Friends Reunited, Friendster, Fuelmyblog, Fyuse, Gaia Online, GamerDNA, Gapyear.com, Gather.com, Gays.com, Geni.com, Gentlemint, GetGlue, GirlsAskGuys, Gogoyoko, Goodreads, Goodwizz, Google+, GovLoop, Grono.net, Habbo, hi5, Hospitality Club, Hotlist, HR.com, Hub Culture, Ibibo, Identi.ca, Indaba Music, Influenster, Instagram, IRC-Galleria, italki.com, Itsmy, Jaiku, Jiepang, Kaixin001, Kik, Kiwibox, LaiBhaari, Last.fm, Late Night Shots, LibraryThing, Lifeknot, Linkagoal, LinkedIn, LinkExpats, Listography, LiveJournal, Livemocha, Makeoutclub, MEETin, Meetup, Meettheboss, MillatFacebook, mixi, MocoSpace, MOG, MouthShut.com, Mubi, MyHeritage, MyLife, My Opera, Myspace, Nasza-klasa.pl, Netlog, Nexopia, Ning, Odnoklassniki, OkCupid, Open Diary, Orkut, OUTeverywhere, PatientsLikeMe, Partyflock, Pingsta, Pinterest, Plaxo, Playfire, Playlist.com, Plurk, Poolwo, Qapacity, Quechup, Quora, Qzone, Raptr, Ravelry, Renren, ReverbNation.com, Ryze, ScienceStage, Sgrouples, ShareTheMusic, Shelfari, Sina Weibo, Skoob, Skyrock, Smartican, Snap Chat, SocialVibe, Sonico.com, SoundCloud, Spaces, Spot.IM, Spring.me, Stage 32, Stickam, Streetlife, StudiVZ, Students Circle, StumbleUpon, Tagged, Talkbiznow, Taltopia, Taringa!, TeachStreet, Tender, TermWiki, The Sphere, TravBuddy.com, Travellerspoint, Tsu, tribe.net, Trombi.com, Tuenti, Tumblr, Twitter, Tylted, Uplike, VK, Vampirefreaks.com, Viadeo, Virb, Vox, Wattpad, WAYN, WeeWorld, We Heart, Wellwer, Wepolls.com, Wer-kennt-wen, weRead, Wooxie, WriteAPrisoner.com, Xanga, XING, Xt3, Yammer, Yelp, Yookos, Zoo.gr, Zooppa and I'm sure there are many others.
The point is YOU ALL volunteered to feed the beast and let peer pressure control you. You don't need any of this crap, but they need you to think you do because the faces you post and text you write all contribute towards your digital fingerprint while acting as key information needed to keep our economy rolling. This digital fingerprinting will make encryption a joke in a few years because Artificial Intelligence will know based on your browsing behavior who is actually doing what and can cross-reference that data with social network information and keep building on it, making it more and more accurate every time you do anything on the internet. Facebook cannot go bankrupt nor could its owners ever be able to pull the plug if they wanted to. Someone would end up blackmailed, replaced, or dead. It's the digital version of Fort Knox but instead of gold, it's information; except, Facebook is actually worth more. Only $180 billion in Fort Knox; Facebook's net worth is $190 billion. Fort Knox isn't the only place in the U.S. to reserve gold, but it does hold about half of the gold the U.S. does have. So check this out, 945 million Facebook users access via cellphone; that's roughly 1/10 people (945 million out of 7.49 billion) in the world with an active Facebook account on a smartphone or tablet with a nice little camera to take photos of everything and a microphone caught more than once monitoring your TV. Now let's just say for simplicity sake (some crazy math coming) that Facebook was mobile only. That would make each active account worth about ~$200. The average (world) human being weighs about 136.7 lbs. That comes to about 2187.2 ounces, ergo 9 cents per ounce. Fort Knox gold in April 2016 was worth $1,226.60 an ounce. This means that Facebo
1.) You enjoy the possibility of having your funds cut at anytime because there's no physical currency as proof (think paper trail). If the local version of IRS says you owe us, then there's is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it because it's all controlled by a bank. If you need to buy something in an emergency, but banks are closed or there are server issues, now you can't. 2.) Or, raise your hand if you enjoy being on the phone for hours when creditors screw up. 3.) Or, raise your hand if you believe we are in a world in which bank hacking is impossible or you enjoy having all of your purchases monitored, recorded, and controlled forever and ever amen. This means every condom, tampon, douche, medication, or whatever embarrassing thing you can think of is now on record forever. 4.) Do you like eating? Of course you do. But, have you noticed how much harder it is to grow things thanks to a screwed up climate? How much harder it is to get fruit or veggies with seeds? How much more restrictions and requirements there are on farming? Paying for water? The Future: "If you don't believe what we believe, then you don't get to eat. Your card has been declined and we don't take cash." Limiting the ability to trade only reflects the countries failure to manage its problems and puts people's basic human right to survival and privacy in danger.
I mean seriously, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. You really think they don't already have backdoors? A company that makes money from data you all volunteer all the damn time, be it biometric (facial recognition) or digital fingerprinting (text), when they're not too busy cramming advertisements as news? A company caught repeatedly listening to inauditable signals from your TV to cater to your usage "experience"? That many users and no one has bothered to make a backdoor huh? People get angry at me when I attack FB, but I think it's just because they know I'm right but don't want to be reminded that they started something they can never actually leave. Wikileaks? I and the many other "nut jobs" we're warning people about this stuff 20 years ago. A backdoor sounds fancy and like something the creator has complete control over, but don't think for a second that it cannot be found and exploited. Backdoors don't care who you work for and are often created by exploiting a security flaw. Hasn't the UK done enough big brother bullshit already?
If you have auto fill turned on, your browser may remember your PayPal information. A phishing site could setup in a way to steal the auto fill information without actually showing you a form. Another problem I've realized (maybe a tad off-topic) is that PayPal has allowed users to sign in with TouchID. There are parts of the world in which law enforcement can make you use your finger to unlock your phone; this also includes applications. In other words, PayPal gave law enforcement the keys to many peoples financial information but told everyone it was for convenience.
There is also GNU PSPP as an open source SPSS alternative and Octave as a Matlab alternative. For more stuff: https://theouterlinux.com/rese.... I tried to pick as many cross-platform open source software as I could. Any other suggestions would be awesome.
I rolled my eyes becaus I thought they were talking about cloud computing and swiped it out. Articles on cloud computing and motherboard hard ware really do get kinda old. News vs. advertising. If I can't do something without the internet, then I just don't bother. I'll find an open source desktop (no php, ruby, etc.) version and make it work or build my own.
I use Reddit because Facebook is useless to me and I hate profile sites. All they're doing is attracting more idiots. You're going to see more Tumblr-like high school/middle school girly posts. A bunch of Big Bang Theory fans wanting to be nerds too, but not intelligent enough to reply to posts without trolling (some Slashdotters) or trying to start a discussion when I ask simple question. It's already bad enough. Also, this will completely break a lot of third party open source apps for Reddit, a lot of which haven't been updated in a few years. More code, more bugs, slower site, and the lighter web browsers probably won't load it anymore. I'm also really curious as to what kind of privacy agreement they've cooked up for it, given what a lot of people use Reddit for (it's not all cat pics and gifs) and who's the U.S. fearless leader right now. But, it will be all cat pics and gifs because people need to be "liked" and they'll have a profile to showcase it.
It's bad when you have to jailbreak your tractor. Then again, John Deere is just the Eacalade version of a Yukon in the tractor world; they're both the same under the hood. People often use collective pride to mask mass stupidity. "Proudly Made in the USA" I guess applies here. If this keeps up, Japan and Germany will just start making better products like they did in the 70s and 80s. Your parents called it junk, but it really wasn't.
Window$ 10 adds you.
"VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and that is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a." -- https://veracrypt.codeplex.com.... It says "based on," but it has been around for a while now and nowhere near as vulnerable. Even the TrueCrypt (discontinued) creators say to use TrueCrypt ONLY to decrypt what you have so you can use something else.
https://theouterlinux.com/2016... Yes, it's my website, but there are links on this page to research papers.
They will be hunting for spies and terrorists while putting innocent people at risk only to find nothing or what we already knew about before the witch hunts. Kinda reminds me of what we did a decade ago, but it's cyber instead of sand and everyone is put at privacy and security risk. They'll find something stupid and make it a big deal to get the Wikileaks thing off their back.
Upgraded an iPad 2 to iOS 9. Big mistake. All "upgrading" does on iOS is insure that you'll have to buy the latest device after ever two iOS versions or you're stuck with a slow choppy device that may not even get software updates. I use the term upgrade for system and update for software. It's a Linux thing.
It's not a matter of finding security issues, it's a matter of people knowing that 12.04 LTS works really well on older hardware and why upgrade if you don't need to. Most updates to software are eye candy related, most bugs are 64-bit related, and most vulnerabilities are focussed on the newer hardware. Also, 12.04 is much easier to create custom distros from. Though, I prefer SuseStudio/OpenSUSE.
Though that's means when they're older and therefore forever locked as a "productive member of society," they won't know the difference between a fact or an advertisement, something that people struggle with now. The analystic lingual and literal skills our generation developed to separate the two will be gone. It'll be taught in elite colleges as an elective.