I actually happen to be taking a Java course right now and this news - well it makes me not really want to take Java seriously as a language from now on nor basically want to use anything associated with Oracle, Inc..
One of my main motivations for taking the course was to be able to study Android programming later. I would like to ask you guys a question: Outside of Java, is there any other route to Android programming? My understanding is that Java and Android are inexorably intertwined. I also use custom ROMs and know that when you hear that a ROM is "deodexed" that it means the Java byte code has not been compiled for the apps. It seems like Java pretty much = Android.
Or is there some other way to do Android without Java?
Facebook and Twitter are stupid. Some people try it and figure it out quickly. For whatever reason others do not. Perhaps because corporations have embraced them so much and now actively promote them - but that should be a clear sign of what they really are.
Its kind of like the same thing when you shop for cosmetics. I guarantee you that most of the staff do not really understand 99% of the actual chemical properties of the products they sell. It is a world of almost pure marketing hype. Ok, maybe its fun every now and again to go into that world and try a product or two. But it is not a world to live in. It is not grounded in reality.
Slashdot is very different. It is a forum. I guess it can be a bit addictive at times but then there are times when you're reading through some thread late at night and find a hilarious post that makes you laugh. I think online forums can bring communities closer in ways. "Social media" - what a BS name actually - is more like destroying communities.
Actual translation is: People don't think/believe what the poster wants, therefore screw their rights. People only get rights when they think/believe what the poster thinks!
I cannot believe that you could actually make such an atrocious, sick argument. You are arguing that people should be denied the right to know if their food contains GMOs because they don't think/believe what you think they should think/believe.
We have all this technology to do advanced tracking, consumer prediction, ad-targeting, etc. Advanced. Hyper-advanced.
Yet - watching the primary elections occurring on America - and all elections for that matter - our electoral system is a fucking farce. A complete fucking farce. A throwback to the horse-and-buggy era.
Where is the biometric voter verification? What about advanced electoral forensics and analysis?
Its this way because - because of the massive farce - because the corrupt mostly Democrat-controlled political machines across the country want it that way. They want no voter verification. They want the 20 million illegals who flooded into the country to vote. They don't care about ballot-box stuffing in the precinct centers in the 'hood where the voter turnouts would otherwise be around 10%.
Its time to call BS on America's electoral system.
We have all this advanced technology, and *this* is the voting system we have?!? AYFKM?
I hope one of the things Donald Trump does when he's in office is to start implementing the electoral system that America deserves, not this farce.
For now the thing is to keep writing to companies like Adobe, Steinberg, Native Instruments, MakeMusic, Canon, etc. to ask them to support Linux. In the end, if they don't, then I guess running the necessary apps under a VM with hopefully good graphics performance, under Linux.
Linux is usable but its just a matter of how much is one willing to dispense with to use it? How much convenience, such as putting a laptop in suspend and expecting it to work? Wanting to be able to scan a document wireless from a multi-function printer?
People are still on Windows not because of one big thing, but all the small things which collectively they don't want to deal with.
If you ask people who switched from Linux back to Windows, they may say it was x or it was because of y, but actually its because of x, y, z, etc. Not sure if it will take some entirely different approach to ever make an Open Source OS the primary one used by people in the world, or whether some change of thinking around Linux can do it. However nothing major has happened with Linux after all these years and attempts so I really wonder.
For every person who blocked the construction of the telescope: Then to not be total disgusting fucking hypocrites:
When you have a serious injury and are in need of medical support, please do you partake of the services of a trauma center and the beneficial modern technology which made it possible.
When your loved ones are suffering and dying from some fatal disease, do you partake of advanced medications which could potentially cure them or extend their lives.
Do not drive a fucking car, use a computer, take an airplane, or utilize any other aspect of modern technology.
Because otherwise you are disgusting, full-of-shit hypocrites who deserve to rot.
One other idea that would work for this would be to modify any app that engages in network activity to always append a unique identifier to all its traffic. Then filter software on the router could be trained to either allow or reject traffic from different apps.
So for example all network traffic coming from Firefox on a particular system would be configured to append a unique identifier to all its traffic. When the router sees a packet from Firefox it recognizes the unique identifier, then removes it and transmits it out to the Internet. I think this would probably be easy to do with Netfilter.
With this type of system the router could be set to deny everything except what it recognizes and explicitly allows.
I would actually combine this with the blocklist above for the highest level of safety.
Its funny too because this would kind of take the unique identifier idea - which has been used notoriously to track people - and turn it on its head to provide privacy.
I don't know what you're writing about. My post is about blocking hosts on a broadband router. There are many ways to block hosts. One would at the router. One would be a firewall box that sits between the router and home network.
I think you fundamentally don't understand some of the basic networking concepts involved. You are probably thinking of round-robined hosts. Don't be a dumbfuck.
So I can log into a terminal session on my home router. The router also supports blocking hosts by either IP address or by hostname. Somewhere on it those hosts must be in a config file, and I can probably just edit that file via a console. This means I can run a script. A script that can periodically check for an updated list of hosts to block. Either I or someone else can maintain such a list.
This list puts all their shit out of business. This is the way of the future then. I look forward to the new generation of broadband modems coming out to support blocklist technology exactly for this purpose: To block evil companies from spying on and tracking us.
My guess is, if the author were to carefully track this, that eventually it will be noticed that, following upcoming system updates to Windows, that the hosts he has listed will magically change and there will be new ones. Microsoft and its evil cohorts can easily shuffle around IP addresses in response to this. So running a blocklist filter on home broadband modems/routers is the way to go now for the future of privacy.
Sharp really had it for a while, then lost it. The Zaurus line was so cool and so ahead of everything else at the time. Does anyone remember Ångström distribution, OpenZaurus, and Cacko ROM? I think Angstrom was kind of like a precursor for xda-developers.
A better thing would be to have a bait bike setup with secret cameras and touch sensors on easily-ripoffable parts like the lights and seatpost, and maybe GPS tracking devices in the components. Law enforcement have no shortage of cash to blow on all kinds of draconian shit, you would think they would spend a little pocket change to try to catch the rampant bike thieves in the city with something like that. But hell no.
Off-street parking? Good luck even finding on-street bicycle racks. Mostly you end up having to lock to parking meters and street sign posts. Compared to Europe the situation is laughably inexcusable.
I wonder if a motion sensor would work though? It would mean no using dual bike racks or probably even being close to other racks where an adjacent bicyclist is likely to brush against it while locking their bike. In an urban environment that would rule out most racks. It would not be as good as an AI-based motion-detecting camera that was trained to recognize the patterns of meth head bike thieves trying to steal parts.
Excellent idea! An RFID tag on your vehicle (motor or pedaled) links it with whatever phone number you register it to, and then anyone can message you when necessary.
My bicycle is being constantly tampered with by meth heads in the city, and I think its long overdue that the places I frequent for business should provide this kind of service. Automatically send me a txt when the meth heads are trying to rip parts off it so I can go pepper spray them in the face since the city's law enforcement doesn't ever do squat.
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I actually happen to be taking a Java course right now and this news - well it makes me not really want to take Java seriously as a language from now on nor basically want to use anything associated with Oracle, Inc..
One of my main motivations for taking the course was to be able to study Android programming later. I would like to ask you guys a question: Outside of Java, is there any other route to Android programming? My understanding is that Java and Android are inexorably intertwined. I also use custom ROMs and know that when you hear that a ROM is "deodexed" that it means the Java byte code has not been compiled for the apps. It seems like Java pretty much = Android.
Or is there some other way to do Android without Java?
Facebook and Twitter are stupid. Some people try it and figure it out quickly. For whatever reason others do not. Perhaps because corporations have embraced them so much and now actively promote them - but that should be a clear sign of what they really are.
Its kind of like the same thing when you shop for cosmetics. I guarantee you that most of the staff do not really understand 99% of the actual chemical properties of the products they sell. It is a world of almost pure marketing hype. Ok, maybe its fun every now and again to go into that world and try a product or two. But it is not a world to live in. It is not grounded in reality.
Slashdot is very different. It is a forum. I guess it can be a bit addictive at times but then there are times when you're reading through some thread late at night and find a hilarious post that makes you laugh. I think online forums can bring communities closer in ways. "Social media" - what a BS name actually - is more like destroying communities.
GIGO
wtf did they expect?!?
Wow, despite your fascist, rancid view on life, people have a right to not eat GMOs because they don't want to eat GMOs.
You can poop your pants and have conniption fits all day about it. I'm sure you will. But people have that right and they have that choice.
Actual translation is: People don't think/believe what the poster wants, therefore screw their rights. People only get rights when they think/believe what the poster thinks!
I cannot believe that you could actually make such an atrocious, sick argument. You are arguing that people should be denied the right to know if their food contains GMOs because they don't think/believe what you think they should think/believe.
How appalling.
Your argument boils down to: People don't think/believe/do what you want, therefore they should be denied their right to know.
I think it is you who is sick.
Too bad you can't handle freedom.
We have all this technology to do advanced tracking, consumer prediction, ad-targeting, etc. Advanced. Hyper-advanced.
Yet - watching the primary elections occurring on America - and all elections for that matter - our electoral system is a fucking farce. A complete fucking farce. A throwback to the horse-and-buggy era.
Where is the biometric voter verification? What about advanced electoral forensics and analysis?
Its this way because - because of the massive farce - because the corrupt mostly Democrat-controlled political machines across the country want it that way. They want no voter verification. They want the 20 million illegals who flooded into the country to vote. They don't care about ballot-box stuffing in the precinct centers in the 'hood where the voter turnouts would otherwise be around 10%.
Its time to call BS on America's electoral system.
We have all this advanced technology, and *this* is the voting system we have?!? AYFKM?
I hope one of the things Donald Trump does when he's in office is to start implementing the electoral system that America deserves, not this farce.
I totally agree.
For now the thing is to keep writing to companies like Adobe, Steinberg, Native Instruments, MakeMusic, Canon, etc. to ask them to support Linux. In the end, if they don't, then I guess running the necessary apps under a VM with hopefully good graphics performance, under Linux.
Linux is usable but its just a matter of how much is one willing to dispense with to use it? How much convenience, such as putting a laptop in suspend and expecting it to work? Wanting to be able to scan a document wireless from a multi-function printer?
People are still on Windows not because of one big thing, but all the small things which collectively they don't want to deal with.
If you ask people who switched from Linux back to Windows, they may say it was x or it was because of y, but actually its because of x, y, z, etc. Not sure if it will take some entirely different approach to ever make an Open Source OS the primary one used by people in the world, or whether some change of thinking around Linux can do it. However nothing major has happened with Linux after all these years and attempts so I really wonder.
Not long ago those of us who warned against "upgrading" were being lambasted for being alarmists.
Well. I have something I'd like to say:
HA! HA! HA! HA!
ROFL!
"breadâ(TM),â he said. âoe half the worldâ(TM)s âoe âoe â(TM)."
WTH is that?
WTF are Emshwillerâ(TM)s and McAfeeâ(TM)s ??
For every person who blocked the construction of the telescope: Then to not be total disgusting fucking hypocrites:
When you have a serious injury and are in need of medical support, please do you partake of the services of a trauma center and the beneficial modern technology which made it possible.
When your loved ones are suffering and dying from some fatal disease, do you partake of advanced medications which could potentially cure them or extend their lives.
Do not drive a fucking car, use a computer, take an airplane, or utilize any other aspect of modern technology.
Because otherwise you are disgusting, full-of-shit hypocrites who deserve to rot.
One other idea that would work for this would be to modify any app that engages in network activity to always append a unique identifier to all its traffic. Then filter software on the router could be trained to either allow or reject traffic from different apps.
So for example all network traffic coming from Firefox on a particular system would be configured to append a unique identifier to all its traffic. When the router sees a packet from Firefox it recognizes the unique identifier, then removes it and transmits it out to the Internet. I think this would probably be easy to do with Netfilter.
With this type of system the router could be set to deny everything except what it recognizes and explicitly allows.
I would actually combine this with the blocklist above for the highest level of safety.
Its funny too because this would kind of take the unique identifier idea - which has been used notoriously to track people - and turn it on its head to provide privacy.
I don't know what you're writing about. My post is about blocking hosts on a broadband router. There are many ways to block hosts. One would at the router. One would be a firewall box that sits between the router and home network.
I think you fundamentally don't understand some of the basic networking concepts involved. You are probably thinking of round-robined hosts. Don't be a dumbfuck.
You mean I'm actually expecting you to be able to read?!?
So cute!
So I can log into a terminal session on my home router. The router also supports blocking hosts by either IP address or by hostname. Somewhere on it those hosts must be in a config file, and I can probably just edit that file via a console. This means I can run a script. A script that can periodically check for an updated list of hosts to block. Either I or someone else can maintain such a list.
This list puts all their shit out of business. This is the way of the future then. I look forward to the new generation of broadband modems coming out to support blocklist technology exactly for this purpose: To block evil companies from spying on and tracking us.
My guess is, if the author were to carefully track this, that eventually it will be noticed that, following upcoming system updates to Windows, that the hosts he has listed will magically change and there will be new ones. Microsoft and its evil cohorts can easily shuffle around IP addresses in response to this. So running a blocklist filter on home broadband modems/routers is the way to go now for the future of privacy.
Sharp really had it for a while, then lost it. The Zaurus line was so cool and so ahead of everything else at the time. Does anyone remember Ångström distribution, OpenZaurus, and Cacko ROM? I think Angstrom was kind of like a precursor for xda-developers.
"...in a plea deal with prosecutors both sides said a term of 24 to 30 months is appropriate..."
AYFKM?
Did the prosecutors not comprehend what the hell he was doing?
Actually motor vehicles fit into that category now as well, at least in my city.
A better thing would be to have a bait bike setup with secret cameras and touch sensors on easily-ripoffable parts like the lights and seatpost, and maybe GPS tracking devices in the components. Law enforcement have no shortage of cash to blow on all kinds of draconian shit, you would think they would spend a little pocket change to try to catch the rampant bike thieves in the city with something like that. But hell no.
Off-street parking? Good luck even finding on-street bicycle racks. Mostly you end up having to lock to parking meters and street sign posts. Compared to Europe the situation is laughably inexcusable.
I wonder if a motion sensor would work though? It would mean no using dual bike racks or probably even being close to other racks where an adjacent bicyclist is likely to brush against it while locking their bike. In an urban environment that would rule out most racks. It would not be as good as an AI-based motion-detecting camera that was trained to recognize the patterns of meth head bike thieves trying to steal parts.
Excellent idea! An RFID tag on your vehicle (motor or pedaled) links it with whatever phone number you register it to, and then anyone can message you when necessary.
My bicycle is being constantly tampered with by meth heads in the city, and I think its long overdue that the places I frequent for business should provide this kind of service. Automatically send me a txt when the meth heads are trying to rip parts off it so I can go pepper spray them in the face since the city's law enforcement doesn't ever do squat.