I have seen many many math equations where there is a 0 underscore in a sequence.
Many calculus and discrete operations start at 0 and accumultate to N.
Should exponents start at 1 or at 0?
The zeroth element is extremely convenient in a hardware-facing (compiled) language, as its address offset of of 0 points directly to the first data element in an array.
1-based indexing works fine for 100% logical processing of arrays above hardware/device level, and if you never use X_0 in a calculation then you may go ahead. However modeling algorithms with 1-based indexes necessitates positing the existence of the the end of the collection being a non-data object, an extra.
C++ STL iteration has begin and end iterators for its collections, where end is one past the last element, but iterators are separate values with their own allocation. Special access is required to change begin and end markers of a collection as they are intrinsic and private to the class of container, so algorithms have to get friend status to mess with them. It is a compromise.
The hardware performance hack of having the label of an array at the same address as the first element is worth it for most languages.
The X client cannot run without the X Server, but the X server runs without any clients.
The mental model is short circuited because the X server considers every client as remote, local or across a network. It hands off control of the video stuff to local modules now, for speed, but basically it is a managing container.
Windows and mac users never thought of their display server as a server because it was never presented to them as one.
Similarly, people think of their browser as a client, not as a display server, when these days most of the rendering and live logic is done by the browser in real time.
The trouble comes when something goes wrong. It is hard for a user without privileges and admin experience to diagnose where the problem is with an X session. X has no "wizard" that pops up to help with debugging the connection, just 40 year old error log messages in cryptic terseness.
I have toyed with the idea of an X "connector helper" program to manage the launching of binaries local and remote. It gets out of the way if nothing bad happens and a session is established for the client, but tries to diagnose common problems if not. It could be a pair of programs, running on both machines. Compression X protocol programs used to do this -- ssh/sshd do this.
was a wonderful baby that was born sick and was then strangled in its crib before it could barely walk. I had one as a university admin for the CS department in the 90s, and it was 10 times more reliable than the wintel machines. The alphas were beautifully designed, though not hardware agnostic like the PC clones, you had to shell out big $$ to DEC to get hard drives and expansion cards. DECnet was still a big thing in universities, most campus networks used DECnet or Novell NetWare (IPX) , NT used NetBIOS over NetWare mostly, but we had a bunch of DEC Unix at the CS dept, so we juggled TCP/IP along with all that. The University gobbled up the Community College whole, so inherited a huge VAX/VMS network with it, so integration got really messy, but DEC Unix Alpha was a good bridge there, until all the old KayPro machines got swapped out for cheap Dells and Gateway 2000s running Windows 98 with NT login. The CS dept held out until Win XP machines were cheap and available, and the CS student enrollment tripled after the 2000s.
NT Alphas chugged along for about 8 years before they started dying and you could not get parts or disks, and DECnet networks were just a wind whistling through the digital Graveyard. When NetWare was phased out, Only NT Intel servers existed, Except the VAX mini machine, which carried on for 20 more years! Indeed, it was actually replaced by another mini running OpenVMS around 2010....!
I think you may have hit on something here, but your delivery of your point is too filled with sarcasm and dark emotional aspect to be accepted as technical.
I am not sure I have ever heard of embedded chromium as the attack vector for malware, but I know that Google disavows any responsibility for machine-local attacks. It is the game itself that would have to replace files via downloading, I do not think chromium will do that. It is just good code hygiene not to download executable content and run it before a malware check. Games that do that should have a sandbox system anyway (Don't they?)
Thank you though for bringing This to my attention. I had overlooked it as a "thing" that companies are doing.
I am interested as to how you would go about solving this version and duplication clash problem in a safe way.
Ambulant not ambient. Computing has gone mobile, it has become physically portable. It has grown wheels and legs, and wings, and hands. It has become wireless.
The inevitability that matter will have the power of a mind is manifesting before out very eyes. Right now we consider computers as "smart tools" for our use, but soon that moniker will be put back on us by the machines. We will be the "smart tools" with limited uses for furthering their objectives.
We throw around the term "AI" like a comic book superhero, not having much idea about it. But we need to change AI to Evolving, Adaptive, Responsive, Purposeful, Mobile, Manipulative, or something to more accurately describe the Ambulant and Self-Governing nature of the Semi-Autonomous hypersmart machines in our near future.
Spybots are already here, roaming around electronically scooping up data from fixed locations, and a small percentage can fly or creep around on wheels. Experimental mini spybots are insect-like with legs or snake-like with articulating skeletons and the mechanical equivalent of muscles.
Expectations towards machines are still in the stage where people do not expect a machine to order them around. We are still at the stage where there is almost always a way to get around a machines decisions by talking to a real person with "higher authority" than the computer. But unless we make it a law, and soon, that that will always be the case, it won't always be the case. When there is no way to get around a machine's decision we can't live with, there will be a wake-up call. When a doctor-bot refuses to treat an influential human for some machine-derived reason, there will be hell to pay and a re-think of the machine-man relationship. Hopefully it will not be too late by then.
First is the actual cameras that record the video For movies >2010 this is usually pretty good, But a lot of film conversions to digital are not so great. Live events are all over the place, but 1080p is usually pretty good except for a glare problem of bright lights either directly or reflected of surfaces. Dramatic light shows with swirling colors and so on are hard to render without washing out colors and some tearing and blending. What you want is life-like skin texture on people. But that is also dependent on the makeup they wear. TV shows that are interviews under lights are terrible about this.
There will always be some compression in the transport which leads to "smoothing" of subtle texture changes and exaggeration of sharp lines, especially straight lines, and deepening of shadows with less detail in dark areas.
The settings and capabilities of the device(s) that render the video to final pixels on the screen are mostly about the same quality for the same resolution, though I have found older (2010 - 2016) Vizio units are very clear (to my eyes) compared to Sony or Panasonic or whatever.
Cable boxes HD looks worse than Blu-Ray because of the compression, And American HD TV shows are terrible compared to UK HD.
The test is to take a streamed movie, and a HD 4K movie on Blu-ray, and play them side-by-side on two monitors of the same brand, and if the streamed looks bad, start reducing the res on the Blue-ray monitor output until it looks the same. Try to match the brightness, intensity, and contrast after every change, or put the same signal into both units and fiddle with them until they have the best picture and both look identical. Your mission, should you accept it, is to take notes of everything, take pictures, and report back the results.
The moral Failure is thinking it is OK to do this to "immigrants" because it is OK to abuse immigrants. Every bad thing, every obstacle to life improvement, every hatred-based action will be visited upon ourselves if we allow it to go forward against others.
This kind of antipersonnel tactic may be effective in preventing a few people from going somewhere, but if it is it will be universally adopted to stop anyone and blow back upon the population. Especially in this right wing regime currently remaking the government in its corporate image.
Credit rating is an arbitrary number that is a blunt instrument, based on records with upwards of 80% innaccurate data, that is designed to only hurt consumers of financial services, never to help them. That is you. Your credit rating is a sword of Damocles, only there to scare you, only there to fall on you, and destroy your life.
So the idea is to only let people with money in? Treat people different, with different rights, based on a financial incentive to the banks? Because only the banks get anything from credit ratings. Only banks benefit from denying loans, charging usurious rates for low credit rated customers, etc. It is by definition the most elitist oligarchic plan to limit immigration based on finances.
And let us remember this debate about immigration policy is separate from debates about asylum policy. That is getting lost -- refugees mostly have nothing at all left. This seems like a calculated maneuver to refuse the poor, and people from poor regions.
It is so bad that people even her in the USA look down on people with bad credit like they have the plague or something. I understand credit rating is a factor in a lot of hiring as well -- that should be illegal, or require written permission from the applicant.
To make it a government requirement for services that a rating be at a certain level is a kind of discrimination from an Aldous Huxley book. Because realize the policies perpetrated on the "outsiders" always get turned inward and used on whomever allows them.
Is about the level of understanding here. The Internet and indeed every single piece of computing hardware above a calculator is done in C. So are all the other languages such as Java, Python, etc. This is ridiculous and I know the publishers of/. are NOT THAT DUMB.
Or at least they used to be.
Buffer overflows and Null pointer exploits are avoidable, but eliminating the benefits of direct memory access will cripple everything going on right now in hardware, as well as the entire infrastructure of the internet as it has evolved.
The only significant size difference is the addressing. Hard coded memory locations only make up a tiny portion of a program; the majority of code is instructions (which remain the same size) and things like text, icons, numbers. The 64-bit version of a program is only slightly larger by a few K.
The size of a shared-library has to be divided amongst all the programs on a machine that use it to gauge its bloat/usefulness/space efficiency.
Also there might not be a choice of to use a smaller architecture.
The Ford Mustang was the most popular model for Ford ever at the time and for many years. It vaulted Ford to the leader of the Big 3 automakers and revitalized the industry. Even now the Mustang cachet lives on the mind of the American Male, up there with Steve McQueen and The dream of being a better mechanic than the guy at the shop.
And people seek out vintage versions of Mustangs, not so with software in any great numbers.
Perhaps there is a shadow market in debugged versions of old software -- but it is a shadow market.
Does the Suspect have the right refuse to self-incriminate?
Does the suspect have the right to refuse unwarranted search and seizure of property and personal information?
Are matters of National Security or immediate loss of life or property involved?
It sounds like they caught a killer/rapist and are trying to leverage a way to destroy citizen rights & protections by making the argument that those rights & protections are bad because the bad man has them and bad people shouldn't have rights, so we are going to take them away from everyone, OK?
I feel she will be fine, and I am fairly certain she will have to do the whole stretch. But on the other hand, she did not lie once she was caught She did expose the attacks against our country.
I am curios about these haters and what attacks against the United States by the Russians they do not want the public to know about. Why they are fine with the gross over-classification of subjects that was begun in the Gulf War years and continues unabated.
How are the American people to decided what to do and who to support if they are given false BS and have the truth about really important things like attacks on the voting system by foreign governments and spying and data breaches hidden behind flimsy face-saving security classifications? They can't. We shouldn't have to rely on people willing to risk their careers, reputations, freedoms just to know what is really going in our our own lives. But we do.
She took the risk, she pays the price, she did what what was right in her mind, and she is owning it.
You seem to be arguing for less control of the system by the user.
I disagree with most of that argument.
Microsoft OS has many tools that can forshwangle a system
if used sloppily, including trashing disks and registries, and files and settings.
I'll give you NTFS is nice and stable for the most part, even compared to ext4.
But the registry, the constant hassle , the constant cleanup operations and
never-ending diarreah of security breaches of Windows has no comparison
with any other major OS. period.
For the USAF to boldly declare they are moving to the most attack-able and most attacked and most unstable proprietary Privately-owned desktop OS a major FUBAR for them.
Long ago the Military should have made their own OS instead of relying on vendors to
secure the nations military info infrastructure with buggy-ass consumer hacked up spaghetti-lasagna-meatloaf surprise for the blue-screen special.
You really don't want to live in that world.
The world of absolutes and absolutists
and lethal dogmatic enforcement of rote commands
is a hell the likes of the Kmer Rouge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and The Spanish Inquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The USA has a long history of restrictions on deadly items
and Federal/State intervention in dangerous activities.
Many States will arrest you for having unlicensed lock picking tools
or city blueprints, radioactive isotopes, hacking software, etc.,
much less deadly weapons.
Guns are just another thing Americans cannot be trusted with,
and it is time our laws reflect that. The Fucking > 250 year old
manifesto be damned, this world is beyond that.
Even then at the time the 2nd amendment did not mean
blanket ownership of guns, much less war artillery.
The guns people have these days would have wiped
the British out in a few weeks, you know.
You can only hold the cognitive dissonance of
your personal desire for deadly weapons and the
resulting murder of thousands of innocents apart
for so long without them collapsing into each other.
What you will feel then is not gonna feel good.
I have a FireFox OS phone. I unfortunately can only
use ATT sim because the US Cellular is incompatible.
but the wifi is great and the integrated
Firefox browser is very good (HTML 5.0) , and the screen is small but clear.
The user experience is better than android, but it is
older and the camera is not up to 2017 standards.
There is a whole app store world of stuff that is not
related to Google, because the phone was not
rolled out in USA but in Europe and Asia markets.
You can find them around on ebay and other after-market
sites. OS updates are slow to non-existent.
I pay like $25/month for prepaid, because I have a landline at home
and get less than a call a day.
Christopher Wheeler, 41, is in Hollywood, currently facing child abuse charges. The password he gave to the police did not work.
His argument is that compelling him to give the police the password is moot because he already gave it. The fact that it is wrong
is not his fault for not remembering it correctly. The Judge was not moved and sentenced him to 180 days. The police are giving the explanation for needing the phone because they "suspect he has more abuse pictures on there" -- sounds pretty thin. We don't know.
In Florida , A man was jailed for 10 months, on some charge. His lawyer successfully argued that his client cannot give the password because after 10 months away from his phone he cannot remember it.
These cases show that the law has no idea how to handle encryption. There is an assumption on the part of law enforcement and those in power that the right to privacy is not something to be protected just an obstacle to be overcome, usually by breaking the rules first and justifying it later.
You are supposed to be able to keep your mouth shut. This includes not being forced to reveal documents, recordings, hidden personal belongings, etc.
Apparently many prosecutors feel this is a gray area. It is not. But in this Trumpian world we have today, it seems you can escape the law if it makes some people feel better, or it boosts your popularity.
The politics of it are "If we can show that by violating this person;s rights, we can convict him, then society will turn a blind eye to the violation." This is the plot of every action movie, every TV cop show, every "hero save the day by breaking the rules" plot. But they never get to the point after where after the rule is broken by the hero, it no longer exists. Once we let these guys jail us for not giving the keys, it then happens to everyone not powerful enough to stop it.
We caught a "Child Abuser" so called.
So who needs rights?
The false equivalency of violating accused persons rights is alright depending on what they are accused of is a Soviet-Era ploy old as time.
Old as the story of Robin Hood, which never actually happened, and was a political/religious propaganda story from its origin.
State Power vs Citizen rights is always tested, and the argument is always the same -- the people in power claim moral necessity to initially break the right, then just do it as normal proctice afterwards. Until they are stopped by the people.
Slashdot Mirror
Shame to begging math text that teach the digits
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0.
That is were this crap comes from.
I have seen many many math equations
where there is a 0 underscore in a sequence.
Many calculus and discrete operations start at 0
and accumultate to N.
Should exponents start at 1 or at 0?
The zeroth element is extremely convenient in a hardware-facing (compiled) language, as its address offset of of 0 points directly to the first data element in an array.
1-based indexing works fine for 100% logical processing of arrays above hardware/device level, and if you never use X_0 in a calculation then you may go ahead. However modeling
algorithms with 1-based indexes necessitates positing the existence of the the end of the collection being a non-data object, an extra.
C++ STL iteration has begin and end iterators for its collections, where end is one past the last element, but iterators are separate values with their own allocation. Special access is required to change begin and end markers of a collection as
they are intrinsic and private to the class of container, so algorithms have to get friend status to mess with them. It is a compromise.
The hardware performance hack of having the label of an array at the same address as the first element is worth it for most languages.
The X client cannot run without the X Server,
but the X server runs without any clients.
The mental model is short circuited because
the X server considers every client as remote,
local or across a network. It hands off control
of the video stuff to local modules now, for speed,
but basically it is a managing container.
Windows and mac users never thought of their
display server as a server because it was never
presented to them as one.
Similarly, people think of their browser as a client,
not as a display server, when these days most of the
rendering and live logic is done by the browser in real time.
The trouble comes when something goes wrong.
It is hard for a user without privileges and admin
experience to diagnose where the problem is with
an X session. X has no "wizard" that pops up to
help with debugging the connection, just 40 year old
error log messages in cryptic terseness.
I have toyed with the idea of an X "connector helper"
program to manage the launching of binaries local and remote.
It gets out of the way if nothing bad happens and a session is
established for the client, but tries to diagnose common problems
if not. It could be a pair of programs, running on both machines.
Compression X protocol programs used to do this -- ssh/sshd do this.
was a wonderful baby that was born sick and was then strangled
in its crib before it could barely walk.
I had one as a university admin for the CS department in the 90s,
and it was 10 times more reliable than the wintel machines.
The alphas were beautifully designed, though not hardware agnostic
like the PC clones, you had to shell out big $$ to DEC to get hard drives
and expansion cards. DECnet was still a big thing in universities, most
campus networks used DECnet or Novell NetWare (IPX) , NT used NetBIOS
over NetWare mostly, but we had a bunch of DEC Unix at the CS dept, so we
juggled TCP/IP along with all that. The University gobbled up the Community
College whole, so inherited a huge VAX/VMS network with it, so integration
got really messy, but DEC Unix Alpha was a good bridge there, until all
the old KayPro machines got swapped out for cheap Dells and Gateway 2000s
running Windows 98 with NT login. The CS dept held out until Win XP machines
were cheap and available, and the CS student enrollment tripled after the 2000s.
NT Alphas chugged along for about 8 years before they started dying and you
could not get parts or disks, and DECnet networks were just a wind whistling through
the digital Graveyard. When NetWare was phased out, Only NT Intel servers existed,
Except the VAX mini machine, which carried on for 20 more years! Indeed, it was actually
replaced by another mini running OpenVMS around 2010....!
I think you may have hit on something here, but your delivery of your point
is too filled with sarcasm and dark emotional aspect to be accepted as technical.
I am not sure I have ever heard of embedded chromium as the attack vector
for malware, but I know that Google disavows any responsibility for machine-local
attacks. It is the game itself that would have to replace files via downloading, I do not
think chromium will do that.
It is just good code hygiene not to download executable content and run it before a
malware check. Games that do that should have a sandbox system anyway (Don't they?)
Thank you though for bringing This to my attention. I had overlooked it as a "thing"
that companies are doing.
I am interested as to how you would go about solving this version and duplication
clash problem in a safe way.
Ambulant not ambient.
Computing has gone mobile, it has become physically portable.
It has grown wheels and legs, and wings, and hands.
It has become wireless.
The inevitability that matter will have the power of a mind is
manifesting before out very eyes. Right now we consider
computers as "smart tools" for our use, but soon that moniker
will be put back on us by the machines. We will be the "smart tools"
with limited uses for furthering their objectives.
We throw around the term "AI" like a comic book superhero,
not having much idea about it. But we need to change AI to
Evolving, Adaptive, Responsive, Purposeful, Mobile, Manipulative, or something
to more accurately describe the Ambulant and Self-Governing nature
of the Semi-Autonomous hypersmart machines in our near future.
Spybots are already here, roaming around electronically scooping
up data from fixed locations, and a small percentage can fly or creep around
on wheels. Experimental mini spybots are insect-like with legs or snake-like
with articulating skeletons and the mechanical equivalent of muscles.
Expectations towards machines are still in the stage where
people do not expect a machine to order them around.
We are still at the stage where there is almost always
a way to get around a machines decisions by talking to
a real person with "higher authority" than the computer.
But unless we make it a law, and soon, that that will always
be the case, it won't always be the case.
When there is no way to get around a machine's decision
we can't live with, there will be a wake-up call.
When a doctor-bot refuses to treat an influential human
for some machine-derived reason, there will be hell to pay
and a re-think of the machine-man relationship. Hopefully
it will not be too late by then.
First is the actual cameras that record the video
For movies >2010 this is usually pretty good,
But a lot of film conversions to digital are not so great.
Live events are all over the place, but 1080p is usually
pretty good except for a glare problem of bright lights
either directly or reflected of surfaces.
Dramatic light shows with swirling colors and so on
are hard to render without washing out colors and some
tearing and blending.
What you want is life-like skin texture on people.
But that is also dependent on the makeup they wear.
TV shows that are interviews under lights are terrible about this.
There will always be some compression in the transport
which leads to "smoothing" of subtle texture changes and
exaggeration of sharp lines, especially straight lines, and
deepening of shadows with less detail in dark areas.
The settings and capabilities of the device(s) that render the video
to final pixels on the screen are mostly about the same quality for
the same resolution, though I have found older (2010 - 2016) Vizio
units are very clear (to my eyes) compared to Sony or Panasonic or whatever.
Cable boxes HD looks worse than Blu-Ray because of the compression,
And American HD TV shows are terrible compared to UK HD.
The test is to take a streamed movie, and a HD 4K movie on Blu-ray,
and play them side-by-side on two monitors of the same brand, and if
the streamed looks bad, start reducing the res on the Blue-ray monitor output
until it looks the same. Try to match the brightness, intensity, and contrast
after every change, or put the same signal into both units and fiddle with them
until they have the best picture and both look identical.
Your mission, should you accept it, is to
take notes of everything, take pictures, and report back the results.
The moral Failure is thinking it is OK to do this to "immigrants" because it is OK to abuse immigrants.
Every bad thing, every obstacle to life improvement, every hatred-based action
will be visited upon ourselves if we allow it to go forward against others.
This kind of antipersonnel tactic may be effective in preventing a few people
from going somewhere, but if it is it will be universally adopted to stop anyone
and blow back upon the population. Especially in this right wing regime currently
remaking the government in its corporate image.
Credit rating is an arbitrary number that is a blunt instrument, based on
records with upwards of 80% innaccurate data, that is designed to only hurt
consumers of financial services, never to help them. That is you. Your credit rating
is a sword of Damocles, only there to scare you, only there to fall on you, and destroy your life.
So the idea is to only let people with money in? Treat people different, with different rights,
based on a financial incentive to the banks? Because only the banks get anything from
credit ratings. Only banks benefit from denying loans, charging usurious rates for low credit rated
customers, etc. It is by definition the most elitist oligarchic plan to limit immigration based on finances.
And let us remember this debate about immigration policy is separate from debates about
asylum policy. That is getting lost -- refugees mostly have nothing at all left. This seems like
a calculated maneuver to refuse the poor, and people from poor regions.
It is so bad that people even her in the USA look down on people with bad credit
like they have the plague or something. I understand credit rating is a factor in a lot
of hiring as well -- that should be illegal, or require written permission from the applicant.
To make it a government requirement for services that a rating be at a certain level
is a kind of discrimination from an Aldous Huxley book. Because realize the policies
perpetrated on the "outsiders" always get turned inward and used on whomever allows
them.
Perhaps not so popular after all.
Is about the level of understanding here. /. are NOT THAT DUMB.
The Internet and indeed every single piece of computing hardware above a
calculator is done in C. So are all the other languages such as Java, Python, etc.
This is ridiculous and I know the publishers of
Or at least they used to be.
Buffer overflows and Null pointer exploits are avoidable, but
eliminating the benefits of direct memory access will cripple
everything going on right now in hardware, as well as the entire
infrastructure of the internet as it has evolved.
The only significant size difference is the addressing.
Hard coded memory locations only make up a tiny portion of a program;
the majority of code is instructions (which remain the same size)
and things like text, icons, numbers.
The 64-bit version of a program is only slightly larger by a few K.
The size of a shared-library has to be divided amongst all the
programs on a machine that use it to gauge its bloat/usefulness/space efficiency.
Also there might not be a choice of to use a smaller architecture.
The Ford Mustang was the most popular model for Ford ever at the time and for many years.
It vaulted Ford to the leader of the Big 3 automakers and revitalized the industry.
Even now the Mustang cachet lives on the mind of the American Male, up there with Steve McQueen and
The dream of being a better mechanic than the guy at the shop.
And people seek out vintage versions of Mustangs, not so with software in any great numbers.
Perhaps there is a shadow market in debugged versions of old software -- but it is a shadow market.
We have CHEAP, FAST, GOOD, and SMALL FOOTPRINT.
Pick 1 and for an extra 17% you get 1/2 of another.
In the UK,
Does the Suspect have the right to remain silent?
Does the Suspect have the right refuse to self-incriminate?
Does the suspect have the right to refuse unwarranted search and seizure
of property and personal information?
Are matters of National Security or immediate loss of life or property involved?
It sounds like they caught a killer/rapist and are trying to leverage
a way to destroy citizen rights & protections by making the argument
that those rights & protections are bad because the bad man has them
and bad people shouldn't have rights, so we are going to take them away
from everyone, OK?
100% correct.
I feel she will be fine, and I am fairly certain she will have to do the whole stretch.
But on the other hand, she did not lie once she was caught
She did expose the attacks against our country.
I am curios about these haters and what attacks against
the United States by the Russians they do not want the public to know about.
Why they are fine with the gross over-classification of subjects that was begun
in the Gulf War years and continues unabated.
How are the American people to decided what to do and who to support
if they are given false BS and have the truth about really important things
like attacks on the voting system by foreign governments and spying and data breaches
hidden behind flimsy face-saving security classifications? They can't.
We shouldn't have to rely on people willing to risk their careers, reputations, freedoms
just to know what is really going in our our own lives. But we do.
She took the risk, she pays the price, she did what what was right in her mind,
and she is owning it.
You seem to be arguing for less control of the system by the user. I disagree with most of that argument. Microsoft OS has many tools that can forshwangle a system if used sloppily, including trashing disks and registries, and files and settings. I'll give you NTFS is nice and stable for the most part, even compared to ext4. But the registry, the constant hassle , the constant cleanup operations and never-ending diarreah of security breaches of Windows has no comparison with any other major OS. period. For the USAF to boldly declare they are moving to the most attack-able and most attacked and most unstable proprietary Privately-owned desktop OS a major FUBAR for them. Long ago the Military should have made their own OS instead of relying on vendors to secure the nations military info infrastructure with buggy-ass consumer hacked up spaghetti-lasagna-meatloaf surprise for the blue-screen special.
You really don't want to live in that world. The world of absolutes and absolutists and lethal dogmatic enforcement of rote commands is a hell the likes of the Kmer Rouge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and The Spanish Inquisition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The USA has a long history of restrictions on deadly items and Federal/State intervention in dangerous activities. Many States will arrest you for having unlicensed lock picking tools or city blueprints, radioactive isotopes, hacking software, etc., much less deadly weapons. Guns are just another thing Americans cannot be trusted with, and it is time our laws reflect that. The Fucking > 250 year old manifesto be damned, this world is beyond that. Even then at the time the 2nd amendment did not mean blanket ownership of guns, much less war artillery. The guns people have these days would have wiped the British out in a few weeks, you know. You can only hold the cognitive dissonance of your personal desire for deadly weapons and the resulting murder of thousands of innocents apart for so long without them collapsing into each other. What you will feel then is not gonna feel good.
If the anti-gun lobby was a little more powerful, those kids would be alive.
I have a FireFox OS phone. I unfortunately can only use ATT sim because the US Cellular is incompatible. but the wifi is great and the integrated Firefox browser is very good (HTML 5.0) , and the screen is small but clear. The user experience is better than android, but it is older and the camera is not up to 2017 standards. There is a whole app store world of stuff that is not related to Google, because the phone was not rolled out in USA but in Europe and Asia markets. You can find them around on ebay and other after-market sites. OS updates are slow to non-existent. I pay like $25/month for prepaid, because I have a landline at home and get less than a call a day.
Christopher Wheeler, 41, is in Hollywood, currently facing child abuse charges. The password he gave to the police did not work. His argument is that compelling him to give the police the password is moot because he already gave it. The fact that it is wrong is not his fault for not remembering it correctly. The Judge was not moved and sentenced him to 180 days. The police are giving the explanation for needing the phone because they "suspect he has more abuse pictures on there" -- sounds pretty thin. We don't know. In Florida , A man was jailed for 10 months, on some charge. His lawyer successfully argued that his client cannot give the password because after 10 months away from his phone he cannot remember it. These cases show that the law has no idea how to handle encryption. There is an assumption on the part of law enforcement and those in power that the right to privacy is not something to be protected just an obstacle to be overcome, usually by breaking the rules first and justifying it later. You are supposed to be able to keep your mouth shut. This includes not being forced to reveal documents, recordings, hidden personal belongings, etc. Apparently many prosecutors feel this is a gray area. It is not. But in this Trumpian world we have today, it seems you can escape the law if it makes some people feel better, or it boosts your popularity. The politics of it are "If we can show that by violating this person;s rights, we can convict him, then society will turn a blind eye to the violation." This is the plot of every action movie, every TV cop show, every "hero save the day by breaking the rules" plot. But they never get to the point after where after the rule is broken by the hero, it no longer exists. Once we let these guys jail us for not giving the keys, it then happens to everyone not powerful enough to stop it. We caught a "Child Abuser" so called. So who needs rights? The false equivalency of violating accused persons rights is alright depending on what they are accused of is a Soviet-Era ploy old as time. Old as the story of Robin Hood, which never actually happened, and was a political/religious propaganda story from its origin. State Power vs Citizen rights is always tested, and the argument is always the same -- the people in power claim moral necessity to initially break the right, then just do it as normal proctice afterwards. Until they are stopped by the people.