If this pans out perhaps we can get legal precedence against the horrible online ads that tell you there were 349856 problems detected with your computer.
That said, I am concerned that a lot of basic X11 features are disabled in big distros now. CTRL-ALT-+ used to "zoom in" by reducing the screen resolution while keeping the total viewport the same size.
Shift-NumLock would always activate MouseKeys. Now these features are often hidden behind some shakey framework.
I can see why CTRL-ALT-BKSP would be disabled but the rest were much more useful for end users.
If America keeps bombing Pakistan... is it OK for Pakistan to bomb America? Because the level of "because we're special" which happens here is mind boggling.
Maybe it will be, when militant groups trying to force their religion on the world start kidnapping Pakistanis and holding them in America.
Show me a common laptop that lets me RAID1 two primary storage devices.
Until that happens, they cannot be regarded as more than throwaway novelties since anything on them is either dependent on a single point of failure or in a cloud.
This is not about vaccines, it's about making them mandatory.
Look I'm sure you're comfortable with having such naive trust in anything that has the word "vaccine" attached to it. I choose to be a bit more cautious. Before something is injected into your bloodstream you'd better be damn well sure that it is safe. Because a lot can go wrong with human chemistry. A lot.
You said it yourself in another post:
the greatest authoritarian government, run by the most fascist, megalomaniacal, sadistic person who has ever lived, would find no better tool of absolute control than mandatory hard drug use like meth, cocaine, or especially heroin
Can you not see how such a megalomaniac would use a mandatory vaccination programme to their advantage?
Of course current vaccines are perfectly safe, as they have undergone rigorous testing and refining. Why did they undergo such a process? Because of people who don't think like you do. My point was that at some point malice or error could very easily cause something undesirable to enter your bloodstream.
Blind trust is seldom a good thing. I'm sorry that you don't seem to grasp that, and from your post it doesn't look as if you will be receptive to anything I say here - I just leave this here for the benefit of anyone else following this thread.
It has been established beyond all reasonable doubt that current MMR, DTaP, etc, vaccines are harmless except to those with specific medical conditions, and are effective against the diseases they target.
Current vaccines.
I think, however, that giving the government power to mandate vaccincations in this manner could lead to serious problems in future.
While today's vaccines are fine, there is the possibility that one day a vaccination will be produced that will not be desirable by the people. The NSA for example has proven itself to be insidious and virtually untouchable. At some point in the future they could introduce tracking nano-devices or a behaviour modifying cocktail to some otherwise innocuous vaccine, and the populace would have no legal standing to object. Another possibility is a product being introduced that may not have gone through sufficient testing due to some failure in due process. While the government launches inquiries and debates matters, people who refuse it are subsequently refused healthcare and die.
Vaccines for other conditions exist that have raised legitimate safety concerns: look up the current HPV vaccine for example.
I second this. Personally I use Redshift to accomplish the same thing on my PCs, and the simpler Nightfilter on Android (although the latter doesn't automatically adjust based on your latitude and time of day).
The difference between "night" and day mode is, well, night and day. When I turn if off late at night my eyeballs scream and then heave a sigh of relief when I re-engage it.
I have another solution that has worked well in some places:
3. Include high-capacity batteries with standard solar installations and put them between the panels and the Grid Tie Inverter. That way far less power is put back into the grid (which yields pitiful if any financial returns in many districts) and the home user get to use solar power at night.
Slashdot Mirror
If this pans out perhaps we can get legal precedence against the horrible online ads that tell you there were 349856 problems detected with your computer.
Aww, so it's not quite in the same league as an etherkiller then?
FWIW, WFM on Fedora 20
That said, I am concerned that a lot of basic X11 features are disabled in big distros now. CTRL-ALT-+ used to "zoom in" by reducing the screen resolution while keeping the total viewport the same size.
Shift-NumLock would always activate MouseKeys. Now these features are often hidden behind some shakey framework.
I can see why CTRL-ALT-BKSP would be disabled but the rest were much more useful for end users.
Here's the thing:
I am afraid. Afraid of being right.
I want the climate change deniers to be right, because then the world will continue to be hospitable to our way of life in the future.
Are you just making stuff up?
The method you have described requires root ('admin') access and can only really be described as a misconfiguration rather than an attack.
What the hell keyboard are you using where mistyping ivy bridge results in the word Haskell?
Beautiful.
Mirror is not a good idea because now you're reducing your ultra-fast PCIe SSD to the speed of the lower-end backup SSD.
Are you sure about that? Because that's the kind of thing the --write-mostly flag was designed to avoid.
Damn, and I took the bait. Oh well, you live and learn I guess.
Not quite sure what you mean there. Do you mean removing the Wikipedia links from the maps, or something else?
Now can someone please publish the counter-argument, that Copyright is not in the Public Interest.
Shall we compare them side by side?
Would you buy a computer with the hood welded shut?
If America keeps bombing Pakistan ... is it OK for Pakistan to bomb America? Because the level of "because we're special" which happens here is mind boggling.
Maybe it will be, when militant groups trying to force their religion on the world start kidnapping Pakistanis and holding them in America.
Forgive me for going all pedant on you, but that is not a war, it is a conflict.
The United States of America has not been at war since 1945.
Tomato juice sells well here. Possibly in its usefulness in making bloody marys...
Show me a common laptop that lets me RAID1 two primary storage devices.
Until that happens, they cannot be regarded as more than throwaway novelties since anything on them is either dependent on a single point of failure or in a cloud.
You're an idiot.
Re-read my first post that you responded to. Is there anything there to suggest that I or anyone I am responsible for has not been vaccinated?
Again, this post is not for you, since you are clearly unwell and incapable of reason, but anyone else following this thread.
The homebrew PC market is still booming.
This is not about vaccines, it's about making them mandatory.
Look I'm sure you're comfortable with having such naive trust in anything that has the word "vaccine" attached to it. I choose to be a bit more cautious. Before something is injected into your bloodstream you'd better be damn well sure that it is safe. Because a lot can go wrong with human chemistry. A lot.
You said it yourself in another post:
the greatest authoritarian government, run by the most fascist, megalomaniacal, sadistic person who has ever lived, would find no better tool of absolute control than mandatory hard drug use like meth, cocaine, or especially heroin
Can you not see how such a megalomaniac would use a mandatory vaccination programme to their advantage?
Of course current vaccines are perfectly safe, as they have undergone rigorous testing and refining. Why did they undergo such a process? Because of people who don't think like you do. My point was that at some point malice or error could very easily cause something undesirable to enter your bloodstream.
Blind trust is seldom a good thing. I'm sorry that you don't seem to grasp that, and from your post it doesn't look as if you will be receptive to anything I say here - I just leave this here for the benefit of anyone else following this thread.
tl;dr: Trust, but verify
Disclaimer: I am pro-vax.
It has been established beyond all reasonable doubt that current MMR, DTaP, etc, vaccines are harmless except to those with specific medical conditions, and are effective against the diseases they target.
Current vaccines.
I think, however, that giving the government power to mandate vaccincations in this manner could lead to serious problems in future.
While today's vaccines are fine, there is the possibility that one day a vaccination will be produced that will not be desirable by the people. The NSA for example has proven itself to be insidious and virtually untouchable. At some point in the future they could introduce tracking nano-devices or a behaviour modifying cocktail to some otherwise innocuous vaccine, and the populace would have no legal standing to object. Another possibility is a product being introduced that may not have gone through sufficient testing due to some failure in due process. While the government launches inquiries and debates matters, people who refuse it are subsequently refused healthcare and die.
Vaccines for other conditions exist that have raised legitimate safety concerns: look up the current HPV vaccine for example.
although the latter doesn't automatically adjust based on your latitude and time of day
That should read:
although the latter doesn't automatically adjust based on your latitude, longitude, and time of day
I second this. Personally I use Redshift to accomplish the same thing on my PCs, and the simpler Nightfilter on Android (although the latter doesn't automatically adjust based on your latitude and time of day).
The difference between "night" and day mode is, well, night and day. When I turn if off late at night my eyeballs scream and then heave a sigh of relief when I re-engage it.
buying Galaxy Note tablets for the most part...
Wait, there's phones that *don't* let you listen to FM radio? In 2015?
This is making me seriously reconsider whether I should be upgrading my phone any time soon.
Demand is low at night? Perhaps at the equator.
Here it gets dark at 5pm in winter. Then people come home and start heating their houses. And cooking.
I have another solution that has worked well in some places:
3. Include high-capacity batteries with standard solar installations and put them between the panels and the Grid Tie Inverter. That way far less power is put back into the grid (which yields pitiful if any financial returns in many districts) and the home user get to use solar power at night.