> In more sensible sports, like soccer, the Indians would > have won, because you take the aggregate score.
There were a lot of discouraged Republicans who didn't vote in California and New York, because they knew ahead of time that their votes wouldn't make a difference under the current winner-takes-all system. In a popular-vote election, those Republicans would've had the incentive to go and vote, and the vote count would've been different. Trump could've won the popular vote.
Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin, or some unknown nutcase wants to destroy the US. It's December or January. The weather forecast calls for a major blizzard to hit the US east coast in the evening, followed by a massive Arctic outbreak that'll send temperatures plummeting. Everyone expects to be home from work by then, and to have stopped off at the local store for groceries, in case the snowfall is really bad, and it's a snow day tomorrow.
But spies have found car shutdown codes (via blackmail or whatever). It's not necessary to stop every car. You know how badly a couple of accidents can snarl traffic during rush hour. Now imagine several hundred, or a few thousand, cars simultaneously shutting down in a major city during rush hour... absolute gridlock. After 2 or 3 hours, drivers realize that things aren't going to improve, so they start abandoning their cars and walking to safety. At least the ones who aren't locked inside.
Let's say you're within walking distance of a major store or shopping mall or hotel. So you get to survive the night. Then what?
Oh yeah... the blizzard hits, followed by the cold front, as forecast. With all the abandoned vehicles clogging the roads, food and fuel deliveries are impossible. Electrical and gas utility trucks can't get out to do minor repairs, and minor problems escalate into major problems. The hostile foreign power also uses an IOT DDOS attack to knock out electrical power control centres, causing blackouts.
People start dying from starvation and lack of heat. Martial law is declared...
> Russia stands to gain a lot from Trump's election. Scaling back NATO, > the US looking inward and playing a smaller role internationally etc.
You realize how Reagan destroyed the USSR? He goaded them into a very expensive anti-missile defense race, and the USSR bankrupted itself. The US military industrial complex is threatening to similarly destroy the US economy. Diverting some of the useless overkill into the civilian economy might help the average person.
India declared the 500 and 1,000 Rupee notes invalid. At current exchange rates that US $7.33 and $14.65. Imagine the chaos in the uSA, if all paper currency worth more than a $5 bill was declared invalid.
> I would like to get Emergency Alerts ("flash flooding in your area for the next two > hours") while disabling Amber alerts ("child abducted by parent 500 miles away." > Seriously. The last Amber Alert I got was two months ago for an event 383 > miles away.. which had happened 18 hours earlier). How do I do that?
So you do as you're told, and it's OK today. But the definition of "correct" changes, and you retro-actively become a bad guy. I'm retired. I remember back when I was a kid that people who were against racial discrimination (against black people) were "goddam liberals". Nowadays, people who are against racial discrimination (against white people) are muhf***ing fascist racist nazis... and, even worse, "deplorables".
Brendan Eich made a contribution to a political campaign that was supported by the majority of Californian voters; i.e. Proposition 8 passed in 2008. He was never accused of harrassing homosexuals. Yet, a few years later he was hounded out of a CEO position for that political contribution.
It's ba-a-a-a-a-ck; or at least coming soon. I realize you might be asking the question sarcastically, but anyhow... http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...
> From 'Blue Lion' to ArcaOS 5.0 > > When the Blue Lion project was announced at the American WarpStock in > October 2015, the name was only temporary. Following the close of events at > WarpStock Europe, Arca Noae managing member Lewis Rosenthal noted > in an interview that the final product name for the new OS/2 distribution is > ArcaOS 5.0. The significance of the version number relates to IBM OS/2 4.52 > -- the last maintenance release of the platform released by IBM in 2001. > > ArcaOS 5.0 is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2016, but > Blue Lion remains as a code name, in much the same way "Wily Werewolf" > is the code name of Ubuntu 15.10.
> One concern is that one has is that Jeff Sessions has been made Attorney General, instead > of Secretary of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and USCIS. So whether the US > will be strict or not will depend not on Sessions, but rather, on the guy who heads DHS.
Doesn't the Attorney General have power to prosecute law-breakers? If there is hanky-panky going on with H1B workers, he would be able to make things tough for their employers.
> What's even scarier than fake news is when news is blacked out. Fake news > is not something one would never expect, even if we did not live in a society > in which the mainstream media is controlled to an extremely high degree.
Suppresion of real news makes nutty conspiracies more believable. How many people are aware that JFK was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could hope for? But the lib-left media kept quiet, even though they knew, because JFK was a Democrat. They also kept quiet for Bill Clinton's sexcapades. It was a store clerk (Matt Drudge), with a modem and a website ( http://drudgereport.com/ ) who finally broke the story http://drudgereportarchives.co...
Note that Newsweek knew about the story, but decided to kill it. After the story first broke, Bill Clinton denied, denied, denied. Nowadays, when a nutty conspiracy theory comes out, it's quashed by the MSM and government denies, denies, denies. Maybe this time they're telling the truth. But, like "the boy who cried wolf", they've lost their credibility to fight nutty conspiracy theories. The lib-left big media are to blame for the current state of affirs.
You're not going to see an overnight conversion. A job gets automated here; a job gets automated there; etc, etc. It all adds up. And it's been going on a long while. One one occasion Krushchev visited an American farm in the 1960's during a trip to the USA. He remarked that the American farm was run by 11 people. Meanwhile, a Russian commune with the same acreage needed 11,000 people. That was over 50 years ago.
Farming has already been mechanized/automated to a large extent, and the "low-hanging fruit", i.e. the easiest savings, have already been made. Now it's mostly a matter of scale. A corporate farm with 2000 acres buys out an adjoining 20-acre farm. Technically, we've gone from 2 farms to 1 farm. The combines/milking-machines/whatever from the large farm now run 1% longer, even though "we've lost 50% of the farms and farmers in the area".
> This guy is an idiot. We are talking about WW1 and he is talking about Churchil... sigh!
You want to see an idiot... look in a mirror. Or for that matter at Churchill. As "First Lord of the Admiralty" during the beginning of WW1, he was the guy who convinced leadership to attack Gallipoli. Yes folks, *THAT* "Battle of Gallipoli", in 1915. This included a battle where 500 members of the "Australian Light Horse" got off their horses and charged a Turkish position, on foot. The attack was a failure, and they suffered high casualties. Yes folks, *THAT* "Charge of the Light Brigade". To quote a phrase he later used about a battle, he as "an unmitigated disaster" in WW1.
When Churchill took over from Neville Chamberlain in WW2, the German leadership's only problem was that they almost died laughing, to think that Churchill was in charge of the UK war effort.
Nearly a hundred years ago, an Austrian corporal rose to power in Germany by blaming Germany's loss in WW1 on being "stabbed in the back" by Jews. Let's just say that did not end well.
The Democrats' elite tilted the playing field to ensure Hillary Clinton a victory in the primaries. Given her scandals and political baggage, she was the absolute worst possible candidate they could've picked. Any no-name Democrat representative/senator/governor would've walked all over Trump. But no, they insisted on Hillary, and ran a lousy campaign to boot.
Now the Democrats' establishment is refusing to take the blame, and is going after social media, and the web in general. If you think Chinese web censorship is bad, wait until the next Democrat president in the US.
You're looking for a job. Meanwhile, you receive a Facebook friend request from an old acqaintance that you haven't seen for years. You accept, and continue your job search.
A potential employer gets your resume, and has a contractor check your facebook account. They check everything they can, including your friend list. They discover that one of your Facebook friends is an ex-con, who just got out of prison after doing 3 years for drug possession. Let's just say that won't help your chances of getting hired.
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be > consumed, President Bill Clintonâ(TM)s White House feared that the Internet was > allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers > and access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
Before the internet, the lib-left elite controlled news. Embarressing stories were hushed up. E.g. President Kennedy was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could dream of, but the MSM kept quiet. Similarly, Newsweek refused to publish the Monica Lewinsky scandal story. But an impertinent upstart with a modem and a web site, Matt Drudge, broke the story.
Democrats/Lib-Left don't like free speech. Think Russia, China, Germany, etc. During the recent campaign, the Democrats were openly talking about shutting down Breitbart after the election... http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
> "We've had a conservative media in this country for a while," says the email, sent > Thursday and signed by deputy communications director Christina Reynolds. >"I don't always like what they have to say, but I respect their role and their right > to exist Reynolds' acknowledgment that the regular conservative media > has a "right to exist," though, is used to contrast it with Breitbart, which > apparently has no such right. "Breitbart is something different," she says. > "They make Fox News look like a Democratic Party pamphlet. "
> 1. Get anti virus software, free and subscription to scan a users networks by default. > Find every device and test them with common pw/usernames and see what fails.
Go one step further. Have a government body scan the net and try to pwn and *BRICK* internet-connected everything (IOT/smartphones/tablets/desktop-PCs/servers). If it withstands the break-in attempts, it's secure. If it doesn't withstand the break-in attempts, it had no business being on the net in the first place.
Before anybody starts yelling-and-screaming, compare the options...
1) Your desktop gets pwnd and bricked. You're out several hundred dollars for a new machine, or possibly a few hundred paying a consultant to get your machine working again, and a new OS installed.
2) Police raid your home because your machine is dispensing child-porn, under the control of a foreign bot-herder. Your home gets torn apart by the police "looking for evidence", your name gets dragged through the mud as a "child-porn distributer", and you're unemployable for the rest of your life, even if found not guilty.
I'd take door #1. Make the consequences of having insecure stuff on the net damn expensive, and damn inconvenient. That's the only thing that'll get people's attention.
> No it is not enough. > Some application need absolute guaranteed (provable) latency, > use static bandwidth allocations, make the switches ensure that > the endpoints respect that allocation even in case of failures, etc. > For SAFETY.
In that case, they need their own dedicated network. The public internet cannot guarantee a packet gets from Point A to Point B, let alone gets there in a specified time. All this does is provide an excuse to throttle "less important traffic", i.e. any website that doesn't pay greedy ISPs for higher priority.
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be > consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was > allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and > access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
> "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are > all these competing values... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping > function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" she said.
"Gatekeeping" mentioned in both articles above. And while we're at it, the Democrats claim that Breitbart dot com doesn't have a right to exist...
> Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising > email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist," > and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.
Next thing you know, your new PC comes with a shrinkwrap EULA that requires you to allow MS ads before you're authorized to log in to your computer. Bypass that, and you're committing unauthorized access, and the elite will get you just like they got Swartz. What's that you say? You wiped Windows and installed linux? That constitutes circumvention of DRM, and is a felony under the DMCA.
Jehovah's Witnesses have done this, as have other cults... 1 predict the end of the world... 2 screw up badly on prediction... 3 revise date of end of world... 4 GOTO 1
Replace "end of world" with "end of Arctice icecap", and you get the idea...
Saturday 4 June 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/e... Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see 'an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year'
Monday 17 September 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/en... One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.
Slashdot Mirror
> In more sensible sports, like soccer, the Indians would
> have won, because you take the aggregate score.
There were a lot of discouraged Republicans who didn't vote in California and New York, because they knew ahead of time that their votes wouldn't make a difference under the current winner-takes-all system. In a popular-vote election, those Republicans would've had the incentive to go and vote, and the vote count would've been different. Trump could've won the popular vote.
Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin, or some unknown nutcase wants to destroy the US. It's December or January. The weather forecast calls for a major blizzard to hit the US east coast in the evening, followed by a massive Arctic outbreak that'll send temperatures plummeting. Everyone expects to be home from work by then, and to have stopped off at the local store for groceries, in case the snowfall is really bad, and it's a snow day tomorrow.
But spies have found car shutdown codes (via blackmail or whatever). It's not necessary to stop every car. You know how badly a couple of accidents can snarl traffic during rush hour. Now imagine several hundred, or a few thousand, cars simultaneously shutting down in a major city during rush hour... absolute gridlock. After 2 or 3 hours, drivers realize that things aren't going to improve, so they start abandoning their cars and walking to safety. At least the ones who aren't locked inside.
Let's say you're within walking distance of a major store or shopping mall or hotel. So you get to survive the night. Then what?
Oh yeah... the blizzard hits, followed by the cold front, as forecast. With all the abandoned vehicles clogging the roads, food and fuel deliveries are impossible. Electrical and gas utility trucks can't get out to do minor repairs, and minor problems escalate into major problems. The hostile foreign power also uses an IOT DDOS attack to knock out electrical power control centres, causing blackouts.
People start dying from starvation and lack of heat. Martial law is declared...
> Russia stands to gain a lot from Trump's election. Scaling back NATO,
> the US looking inward and playing a smaller role internationally etc.
You realize how Reagan destroyed the USSR? He goaded them into a very expensive anti-missile defense race, and the USSR bankrupted itself. The US military industrial complex is threatening to similarly destroy the US economy. Diverting some of the useless overkill into the civilian economy might help the average person.
> 1) Enough tax money to pay for many independent news agencies at various levels, local, state, etc.
OPM (Other People's Money) You've just "self-identified" yourself as a lib-leftie.
> 6) For instance, if say 3845 out of 3902 accredited news agencies say
> Trump is a liar, well people have no excuse if they believe the opposite.
If ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC gang up to tell everybody to vote for Clinton... oh wait.
> On top of that you get auto video downloading and that wonderful audio
> API you can't turn off and is mainly used to fingerprint your browser.
A Pale Moon user here. My about:config includes...
media.audio_data.enabled; false
media.autoplay.allowscripted; false
media.autoplay.enabled; false
No problem.
> Until it is outlawed
India declared the 500 and 1,000 Rupee notes invalid. At current exchange rates that US $7.33 and $14.65. Imagine the chaos in the uSA, if all paper currency worth more than a $5 bill was declared invalid.
> I would like to get Emergency Alerts ("flash flooding in your area for the next two
> hours") while disabling Amber alerts ("child abducted by parent 500 miles away."
> Seriously. The last Amber Alert I got was two months ago for an event 383
> miles away.. which had happened 18 hours earlier). How do I do that?
If you want to do that at home, and you live in North America...
* block the messages on your cellphone
* get a weather radio for USA http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/ or Canada https://www.ec.gc.ca/meteo-wea... depending on where you live
They work in standby mode, and come on when the appropriate signal is transmitted.
So you do as you're told, and it's OK today. But the definition of "correct" changes, and you retro-actively become a bad guy. I'm retired. I remember back when I was a kid that people who were against racial discrimination (against black people) were "goddam liberals". Nowadays, people who are against racial discrimination (against white people) are muhf***ing fascist racist nazis... and, even worse, "deplorables".
Brendan Eich made a contribution to a political campaign that was supported by the majority of Californian voters; i.e. Proposition 8 passed in 2008. He was never accused of harrassing homosexuals. Yet, a few years later he was hounded out of a CEO position for that political contribution.
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> OS/2 when you need it???
It's ba-a-a-a-a-ck; or at least coming soon. I realize you might be asking the question sarcastically, but anyhow... http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...
> From 'Blue Lion' to ArcaOS 5.0
>
> When the Blue Lion project was announced at the American WarpStock in
> October 2015, the name was only temporary. Following the close of events at
> WarpStock Europe, Arca Noae managing member Lewis Rosenthal noted
> in an interview that the final product name for the new OS/2 distribution is
> ArcaOS 5.0. The significance of the version number relates to IBM OS/2 4.52
> -- the last maintenance release of the platform released by IBM in 2001.
>
> ArcaOS 5.0 is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2016, but
> Blue Lion remains as a code name, in much the same way "Wily Werewolf"
> is the code name of Ubuntu 15.10.
> One concern is that one has is that Jeff Sessions has been made Attorney General, instead
> of Secretary of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and USCIS. So whether the US
> will be strict or not will depend not on Sessions, but rather, on the guy who heads DHS.
Doesn't the Attorney General have power to prosecute law-breakers? If there is hanky-panky going on with H1B workers, he would be able to make things tough for their employers.
> What's even scarier than fake news is when news is blacked out. Fake news
> is not something one would never expect, even if we did not live in a society
> in which the mainstream media is controlled to an extremely high degree.
Suppresion of real news makes nutty conspiracies more believable. How many people are aware that JFK was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could hope for? But the lib-left media kept quiet, even though they knew, because JFK was a Democrat. They also kept quiet for Bill Clinton's sexcapades. It was a store clerk (Matt Drudge), with a modem and a website ( http://drudgereport.com/ ) who finally broke the story http://drudgereportarchives.co...
Note that Newsweek knew about the story, but decided to kill it. After the story first broke, Bill Clinton denied, denied, denied. Nowadays, when a nutty conspiracy theory comes out, it's quashed by the MSM and government denies, denies, denies. Maybe this time they're telling the truth. But, like "the boy who cried wolf", they've lost their credibility to fight nutty conspiracy theories. The lib-left big media are to blame for the current state of affirs.
You're not going to see an overnight conversion. A job gets automated here; a job gets automated there; etc, etc. It all adds up. And it's been going on a long while. One one occasion Krushchev visited an American farm in the 1960's during a trip to the USA. He remarked that the American farm was run by 11 people. Meanwhile, a Russian commune with the same acreage needed 11,000 people. That was over 50 years ago.
Farming has already been mechanized/automated to a large extent, and the "low-hanging fruit", i.e. the easiest savings, have already been made. Now it's mostly a matter of scale. A corporate farm with 2000 acres buys out an adjoining 20-acre farm. Technically, we've gone from 2 farms to 1 farm. The combines/milking-machines/whatever from the large farm now run 1% longer, even though "we've lost 50% of the farms and farmers in the area".
> This guy is an idiot. We are talking about WW1 and he is talking about Churchil... sigh!
You want to see an idiot... look in a mirror. Or for that matter at Churchill. As "First Lord of the Admiralty" during the beginning of WW1, he was the guy who convinced leadership to attack Gallipoli. Yes folks, *THAT* "Battle of Gallipoli", in 1915. This included a battle where 500 members of the "Australian Light Horse" got off their horses and charged a Turkish position, on foot. The attack was a failure, and they suffered high casualties. Yes folks, *THAT* "Charge of the Light Brigade". To quote a phrase he later used about a battle, he as "an unmitigated disaster" in WW1.
When Churchill took over from Neville Chamberlain in WW2, the German leadership's only problem was that they almost died laughing, to think that Churchill was in charge of the UK war effort.
Nearly a hundred years ago, an Austrian corporal rose to power in Germany by blaming Germany's loss in WW1 on being "stabbed in the back" by Jews. Let's just say that did not end well.
The Democrats' elite tilted the playing field to ensure Hillary Clinton a victory in the primaries. Given her scandals and political baggage, she was the absolute worst possible candidate they could've picked. Any no-name Democrat representative/senator/governor would've walked all over Trump. But no, they insisted on Hillary, and ran a lousy campaign to boot.
Now the Democrats' establishment is refusing to take the blame, and is going after social media, and the web in general. If you think Chinese web censorship is bad, wait until the next Democrat president in the US.
> Lacking that, he really *can't* preimtively pardon him without establishing a pretty bad precedent.
Gerald Ford establish that precedent when he pardoned Richard Nixon.
You're looking for a job. Meanwhile, you receive a Facebook friend request from an old acqaintance that you haven't seen for years. You accept, and continue your job search.
A potential employer gets your resume, and has a contractor check your facebook account. They check everything they can, including your friend list. They discover that one of your Facebook friends is an ex-con, who just got out of prison after doing 3 years for drug possession. Let's just say that won't help your chances of getting hired.
Back in 1995 the Bill Clinton White House was already scared shitless of the net... http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be
> consumed, President Bill Clintonâ(TM)s White House feared that the Internet was
> allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers
> and access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
Before the internet, the lib-left elite controlled news. Embarressing stories were hushed up. E.g. President Kennedy was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could dream of, but the MSM kept quiet. Similarly, Newsweek refused to publish the Monica Lewinsky scandal story. But an impertinent upstart with a modem and a web site, Matt Drudge, broke the story.
Hillary Clinton was unhappy, and mused about "editing function" and "gatekeeping function"
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
Democrats/Lib-Left don't like free speech. Think Russia, China, Germany, etc. During the recent campaign, the Democrats were openly talking about shutting down Breitbart after the election... http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
> "We've had a conservative media in this country for a while," says the email, sent
> Thursday and signed by deputy communications director Christina Reynolds.
>"I don't always like what they have to say, but I respect their role and their right
> to exist Reynolds' acknowledgment that the regular conservative media
> has a "right to exist," though, is used to contrast it with Breitbart, which
> apparently has no such right. "Breitbart is something different," she says.
> "They make Fox News look like a Democratic Party pamphlet. "
> 1. Get anti virus software, free and subscription to scan a users networks by default.
> Find every device and test them with common pw/usernames and see what fails.
Go one step further. Have a government body scan the net and try to pwn and *BRICK* internet-connected everything (IOT/smartphones/tablets/desktop-PCs/servers). If it withstands the break-in attempts, it's secure. If it doesn't withstand the break-in attempts, it had no business being on the net in the first place.
Before anybody starts yelling-and-screaming, compare the options...
1) Your desktop gets pwnd and bricked. You're out several hundred dollars for a new machine, or possibly a few hundred paying a consultant to get your machine working again, and a new OS installed.
2) Police raid your home because your machine is dispensing child-porn, under the control of a foreign bot-herder. Your home gets torn apart by the police "looking for evidence", your name gets dragged through the mud as a "child-porn distributer", and you're unemployable for the rest of your life, even if found not guilty.
I'd take door #1. Make the consequences of having insecure stuff on the net damn expensive, and damn inconvenient. That's the only thing that'll get people's attention.
> So if the community wouldn't pay to license in the past, I take it they are willing now?
Nope. It's just that the mp3-decoding patents have expired, so there is no need for a licence now. https://www.tunequest.org/a-bi...
Some patents for mp3-encoding are still in effect, but they expire by the end of 2017. Expect Redhat to ship mp3-encoders then.
> No it is not enough.
> Some application need absolute guaranteed (provable) latency,
> use static bandwidth allocations, make the switches ensure that
> the endpoints respect that allocation even in case of failures, etc.
> For SAFETY.
In that case, they need their own dedicated network. The public internet cannot guarantee a packet gets from Point A to Point B, let alone gets there in a specified time. All this does is provide an excuse to throttle "less important traffic", i.e. any website that doesn't pay greedy ISPs for higher priority.
1) Bill Clinton...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be
> consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was
> allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and
> access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
2) Hillary Clinton...
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
> "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are ... Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping
> all these competing values
> function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" she said.
"Gatekeeping" mentioned in both articles above. And while we're at it, the Democrats claim that Breitbart dot com doesn't have a right to exist...
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
> Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising
> email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist,"
> and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.
Next thing you know, your new PC comes with a shrinkwrap EULA that requires you to allow MS ads before you're authorized to log in to your computer. Bypass that, and you're committing unauthorized access, and the elite will get you just like they got Swartz. What's that you say? You wiped Windows and installed linux? That constitutes circumvention of DRM, and is a felony under the DMCA.
Jehovah's Witnesses have done this, as have other cults...
1 predict the end of the world...
2 screw up badly on prediction...
3 revise date of end of world...
4 GOTO 1
Replace "end of world" with "end of Arctice icecap", and you get the idea...
Sunday 21 August 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
'Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice'
Saturday 4 June 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see 'an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year'
Monday 17 September 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.
Wednesday, 12 December 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/713... Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'
Rinse... lather... repeat.
> Both are true. The devices are insecure by design, and are not secured in practice.
Insecurely Designed Internet Of Things
Acronym... IDIOT