I'm willing to listen if you're willing to describe a modern society without the concept of identity. Or did I just remove your ability to describe such a society by using the term "modern". That probably does make it hard cause "modern" basically means "like today". Let's see:
credit checks
age requirements
certification (eg, drivers license)
income tax
How do we do those without the concept of identification? I'm sure one or more of us would love to do without one of more of these. If you live in a small town where everyone knows everyone you obviously don't need identification documents - but the concept of identification still exists.. your identity exists in the minds of those who know you. Bob at the bank won't give you a home loan because he knows you don't have a good paying job. Steve at the pub won't serve you beer because he knows you can't hold it, or that your mother would tell him off if he does. Tony the police man knows you to throw you in lockup for the night if you drive through another red light because he warned you last week not to do it again and similarly he knows who can and can't drive because he tested most of the people in town himself. As for income tax, well I suppose local taxes are pretty easy to collect because the bean counters on the local council can easily see who has paid and who hasn't. So great, we have a system where people don't need documents for identification. But how does it scale? It doesn't.
The government can make requirements of you because you want them to give you money. If you are not trying to claim disability or the dole you don't need one of these new cards.
Can you actually make an argument please? If you're asking the government for money you need to prove who you are. If the government makes requirements of you, like attending career training or handing in a form once a fortnight, surely there should be some means to prove that you are the person who is supposed to be doing that.
Right, which is about maximizing the number of users with freedom. BSD-like licenses are an attempt to make developers more free to do what they want with a piece of source code they come across. It's an admirable goal, but it falls down because 99% of us are not developers. The end goal of the BSD license is a sort of guild where developers are free to use any other developer's code to exploit users.
I tell this to every sysadmin that turns on 100% of the annoying features of enforced password change policies:
"You have to balance security with convenience."
Otherwise people will just circumvent your security by changing their password twice (or 10 times), resulting in the same password they started with, or just write their password down.
the laws that make it illegal to posess works you had no part in creating? The laws that make it trivial to be arrested and possibly incarcerated because you make enemies with the wrong guy on irc?
"treat like idiots" == don't assume you know how to use the command prompt and offer you help. Geeks get mad at anyone who doesn't treat them like a God by default.
I think the real crime is that car manufacturers are even allowed to offer non-warranty after sales service. I know that must sound kinda crazy. I mean, who knows better how to fix the car than the manufacturer right? But if car owners are willing to allow them to charge for after sales service, I hardly think they can complain when the manufacturers diliberately hide flaws in the vehicle and information that can be use by third party repairers. Think about it, if car owners were to refuse all non-warranty after sales service from the manufacturer, the manufacturers would be forced to release as much information about their vehicles as possible. They would have to work with third party repairers to ensure they offer good service to owners of the cars made by that manufacturer. Fair Trade laws should ensure that the manufacturer has to give all third parties the same information, not just favour particular third parties, ensuring competition and driving down the price of third party repairs.
Similarly, open source does the same thing for software. Sure, we don't need "repairs" but we all have our own special needs for software, and third party customization should be a much bigger market than it is now.
That's what I thought. Sometimes you do go through all the 1 billion results, but only if you're desperate. What a total nullo article. Kind reminds me of this.
There's these portable computers now called Laptops.. and some of them are made by Apple. They all have one fuckin' trackball/scratchpad button. So yeah, you can use an external mouse, or you can use the equipment you fuckin' paid a fortune for.
If you have a single button mouse, like most Mac users, you'll need to:
1. Press Start 2. Select Control Panel 3. Select Accessibility Options 4. Select the Mouse tab 5. Select the check box Use MouseKeys 6. Press ok. 7. You can now close Control Panel. 8. Press the - key on your numeric keypad. 9. Point your mouse cursor at the window or icon where you want to right click. 10. Press the 5 key on your numeric keypad.
At present I'm not aware of any apps that you can get that will convert Apple+click to a right click. But I'm sure there'll be one available from the Apple web site soon, they seem to be doing everything in their power to make running windows on a Mac as painful^H^H^Hless as running it on any other x86 hardware.
When people donate to "OpenBSD", they have to make cheques payable to "Theo de Raadt". Now maybe if they were told the money was going to be used for something and Theo went and spent it on something else they could claim a breach of contract but I'm pretty sure there isn't a court in the land that would uphold it cause if you're stupid enough to write a significant cheque to someone instead of an accountable organisation.
Lies. They donated the money to Theo de Raadt. If he wants to buy old hats with it he is free to do so. Although it's more likely he'll buy lots and lots of noodles or cola with it.
As in the case of all employees, there's good ones and there's bad ones. What determines whether or not you get a good manager is corporate culture. If there's a bunch of good managers all working to drive the company to profit they are likely to hire other good managers (and fire bad ones) to keep that trend going. If, however, you work in a company where everyone is just trying to get pay cheque each month and avoid as much work as possible while sucking up to the boss so they can get promoted, the management will typically hire other morons who won't rock the boat.
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How do we do those without the concept of identification? I'm sure one or more of us would love to do without one of more of these. If you live in a small town where everyone knows everyone you obviously don't need identification documents - but the concept of identification still exists.. your identity exists in the minds of those who know you. Bob at the bank won't give you a home loan because he knows you don't have a good paying job. Steve at the pub won't serve you beer because he knows you can't hold it, or that your mother would tell him off if he does. Tony the police man knows you to throw you in lockup for the night if you drive through another red light because he warned you last week not to do it again and similarly he knows who can and can't drive because he tested most of the people in town himself. As for income tax, well I suppose local taxes are pretty easy to collect because the bean counters on the local council can easily see who has paid and who hasn't. So great, we have a system where people don't need documents for identification. But how does it scale? It doesn't.
The government can make requirements of you because you want them to give you money. If you are not trying to claim disability or the dole you don't need one of these new cards.
Can you actually make an argument please? If you're asking the government for money you need to prove who you are. If the government makes requirements of you, like attending career training or handing in a form once a fortnight, surely there should be some means to prove that you are the person who is supposed to be doing that.
National ID cards are not there to trample individual rights.
Compulsory national ID cards that you are required to carry with you at all times are!
Right, which is about maximizing the number of users with freedom. BSD-like licenses are an attempt to make developers more free to do what they want with a piece of source code they come across. It's an admirable goal, but it falls down because 99% of us are not developers. The end goal of the BSD license is a sort of guild where developers are free to use any other developer's code to exploit users.
I tell this to every sysadmin that turns on 100% of the annoying features of enforced password change policies:
"You have to balance security with convenience."
Otherwise people will just circumvent your security by changing their password twice (or 10 times), resulting in the same password they started with, or just write their password down.
the laws that make it illegal to posess works you had no part in creating? The laws that make it trivial to be arrested and possibly incarcerated because you make enemies with the wrong guy on irc?
Does anyone really believe child molestation videos are made for the money?
The ability to fork software away from bureaucracy is one of the greatest strengths of open source. I wish I could do that at my place of work.
Maybe you've heard of it. That's what us open source developers do, have fun. If you don't want to use our software, fine, don't.
What's the difference between open source software an proprietary software?
Open source software is made by engineers.
Proprietary software is made by managers.
hate to tell you this, but wankers who sit on irc != "the people behind ubuntu".
"treat like idiots" == don't assume you know how to use the command prompt and offer you help. Geeks get mad at anyone who doesn't treat them like a God by default.
I think the real crime is that car manufacturers are even allowed to offer non-warranty after sales service. I know that must sound kinda crazy. I mean, who knows better how to fix the car than the manufacturer right? But if car owners are willing to allow them to charge for after sales service, I hardly think they can complain when the manufacturers diliberately hide flaws in the vehicle and information that can be use by third party repairers. Think about it, if car owners were to refuse all non-warranty after sales service from the manufacturer, the manufacturers would be forced to release as much information about their vehicles as possible. They would have to work with third party repairers to ensure they offer good service to owners of the cars made by that manufacturer. Fair Trade laws should ensure that the manufacturer has to give all third parties the same information, not just favour particular third parties, ensuring competition and driving down the price of third party repairs.
Similarly, open source does the same thing for software. Sure, we don't need "repairs" but we all have our own special needs for software, and third party customization should be a much bigger market than it is now.
Anywhere you can pick up lose women is bound to be popular.
That's what I thought. Sometimes you do go through all the 1 billion results, but only if you're desperate. What a total nullo article. Kind reminds me of this.
There's these portable computers now called Laptops.. and some of them are made by Apple. They all have one fuckin' trackball/scratchpad button. So yeah, you can use an external mouse, or you can use the equipment you fuckin' paid a fortune for.
If you have a single button mouse, like most Mac users, you'll need to:
1. Press Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Select Accessibility Options
4. Select the Mouse tab
5. Select the check box Use MouseKeys
6. Press ok.
7. You can now close Control Panel.
8. Press the - key on your numeric keypad.
9. Point your mouse cursor at the window or icon where you want to right click.
10. Press the 5 key on your numeric keypad.
At present I'm not aware of any apps that you can get that will convert Apple+click to a right click. But I'm sure there'll be one available from the Apple web site soon, they seem to be doing everything in their power to make running windows on a Mac as painful^H^H^Hless as running it on any other x86 hardware.
While it's unlikely console will be pulled from shelves, it's one way to generate some publicity.
Jesus dude.
and if you try to remove them they explode!
Harsh.
When people donate to "OpenBSD", they have to make cheques payable to "Theo de Raadt". Now maybe if they were told the money was going to be used for something and Theo went and spent it on something else they could claim a breach of contract but I'm pretty sure there isn't a court in the land that would uphold it cause if you're stupid enough to write a significant cheque to someone instead of an accountable organisation.
Lies. They donated the money to Theo de Raadt. If he wants to buy old hats with it he is free to do so. Although it's more likely he'll buy lots and lots of noodles or cola with it.
"free" as in "a freebie from a crack whore". i.e., you'd probably pass on it anyways cause it's not like that's worth very much.
meh, then VMWare will just add support for this hardware to their product. They'll still win.
As in the case of all employees, there's good ones and there's bad ones. What determines whether or not you get a good manager is corporate culture. If there's a bunch of good managers all working to drive the company to profit they are likely to hire other good managers (and fire bad ones) to keep that trend going. If, however, you work in a company where everyone is just trying to get pay cheque each month and avoid as much work as possible while sucking up to the boss so they can get promoted, the management will typically hire other morons who won't rock the boat.