The minority in this case are in the right. Hell, my voice mail used to be: "Hi, my phone is probably on silent again. If you leave a voice mail I'll probably get back to you in a few days."
The boss said "something must be done."
So they did something.
And then called the White House to say that they were able to do something. Everything else of substance left out, since we do not need to know the nature or substance of that conversation - merely that they were acting on their own and that they called - and that we (the office of the president) are not condemning their action under their laws.
This is the best link I can find, this was in the news yesterday.
The current situation is as though every business I walked into had a trash can sitting there with a camera on top. And on that trash can was a friendly google ads logo. Businesses, and I mean website operators, need to learn that there are other ways of operating. They need to be empowered to decide to do things differenlty. We as consumers need to speak up. We need to say that we like our trash cans just being trash cans that do not watch and observe everywhere we go and what trash we put in them.
I hate to say this: but what if that is exactly as intended and that the "industry" wants it this way? What if they give lots of money for this kind of typical preference? After all: it works in politics, and the campaigns to sway public opinion and frame the dialog. Maybe Mr Jimmy thinks that an article on Nuclear Power being commandeered by the industry is the way it is supposed to work - just like everything else.
Tell that to all the people who died of starvation because Goldman saw profits in artificially inflating the hard red spring wheat futures market.
I try to be as bleeding heart as I can be, but how in the world can you make a statement like that? No consumer is owed anything, if they (as a consequence of the markets) cannot afford wheat, then they need to grow/buy/eat something else! Think about what the fuck you just said. Furthermore wasn't there significant wheat problems in Russia recently? Wheat is an amazing crop for "feeding the world" but it isn't perfect, so shouldn't the price be allowed to go up? Those farmers that sat on it in grain bins deserve to be rewarded for the patience, and not just give it away because you think they should.
I do not know if it would work, but there might be a future for bags of "human food". There are newer regulations coming down the pipe that will place stricter food safety regulations on feed mills. I recently read a paper put out on the new Magnolia Feed Mill which exposed me to some of these topics. Some of these processes that make things like feed stock for animals could some day be morphed into less-high-energy food stuffs for humans. (Unlike the hogs in the barn down the road, weight gain per pounds fed isn't supposed to be the goal - contrary to the modern American diet as some consume.) If there were flavors and such added you could make quality food out of barley, wheat, soy, oats, etc... The infrastructure would already be mostly there with most of the needed safety in place. I obviously would not think the current market would go for it if it was executed wrong or marketed wrong but it could be about like eating a soy protein bar.
But although President Obama agreed with Wyden that FISA Court opinions needed to be made public in 2009, not one single opinion has been published since then, and the surveillance state has only grown larger.
Everyone that cares should put an empty box (with holes on two sides) in your yard, near the sidewalk, that says "Police Movement Recorder" and see what happens.
Yep and it is free... Right this moment I could go download the update to Fedora. Free. Or try some other distro. Or install a boatload of applications. Or download some development tools and learn something. I don't think I really need to worry about how you perceive the reputation of what runs on this box. If Mr Amateur Hour has been able to keep Linux limping along with a bunch of shitheads for over 20 years then I'll take it.
I don't hate it, and I do use it. I wish it had: themes, applets/panel apps, and a normal alt- tab behavior. OUT OF THE BOX. I hope you like the colors, and do not miss a neat weather app to tell you the temp outside, and I hope you like using your mouse a lot. Anyways, I just deal with it - I like to be able to install Fedora and mess with as little extra as I can get away with. I am not jumping through hoops to enable what used to be normal Gnome functionality. I can use my machine without those three things but it doesn't mean I like it. The black (top panel) and white/grey (app title bar) contrast in particular is the thing I definitely do not like. It is a sad state of affairs when looking at a Windows 7 box hurts my eyes less than my Linux box with a nicer IPS monitor.
Corporations are people! The supreme court said so. Who are you to say that they cannot ever be evil. They have free speech, they can buy democracy, they can try to sway public opinion. They can take actions ignoring all but profit. They can choose whatever goal statement they wish, and execute it however they wish.
The argument is that it is "Microsoft's" security system* that is part of their ecosystem. I am not trying to say you "shouldn't" (theoretically) have that ability - but under the trusted computing platform isn't there a system of trust that depends on the kind of lock down where the private endorsement key is not set by you? Such that if you did put on your own key Microsoft would no longer want to trust your computer. Someone with more knowledge should weigh in... *Also I think MS would probably argue it wouldn't just be their ecosystem but that others could utilize this chained-system of trust.
I do not understand this stuff all that well, but wouldn't it be a problem if _you_ could be the one in control of what the system started out determining as a securely signed key?
TC is controversial as the hardware is not only secured for its owner, but also secured against its owner.
If Microsoft wasn't in control of the secure boot key, then wouldn't they have to determine that it is not fully trusted and etc etc? Are you arguing to be able to set your own private endorsement key?
Anyways I agree that Secure Boot needs to go as it serves no purpose. If it is there it should be disabled by default.
If I recall correctly - I read the article a day or two ago - he was also arguing for simplicity via readability and understandability. He basically said nothing in the whole article. Complex code can be complex: via some awk example. Whoever that guy is... (I am of course being sarcastic.) but that code that can be simple and easier understood should be.
A particular avenue I have seen this discussion played out is when you encounter heavily "patterned" code. It is "simple" in that specific context but what happens when no one else understands the pattern yet and has to spend time to learn it? I think for some situations this is ok but for others the "cost" is too great.
Nice mode again: It is one thing that your card is a year old, but you should have bought something older or done some more research. I went full ghetto (in early 2010) and bought a 4670 and have had no problems with the setup. And it was cheap, the kind of cheap where you don't care that you are using a potentially slower open source driver.
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The minority in this case are in the right. Hell, my voice mail used to be: "Hi, my phone is probably on silent again. If you leave a voice mail I'll probably get back to you in a few days."
The particular price something is sold at does nothing to adjust copyright, ownership, or the license.
You can make the same arguments about books and printing presses. And you would still be wrong.
This is /. so just head back down to the basement.
The boss said "something must be done."
So they did something.
And then called the White House to say that they were able to do something. Everything else of substance left out, since we do not need to know the nature or substance of that conversation - merely that they were acting on their own and that they called - and that we (the office of the president) are not condemning their action under their laws.
This is the best link I can find, this was in the news yesterday.
The current situation is as though every business I walked into had a trash can sitting there with a camera on top. And on that trash can was a friendly google ads logo.
Businesses, and I mean website operators, need to learn that there are other ways of operating. They need to be empowered to decide to do things differenlty. We as consumers need to speak up. We need to say that we like our trash cans just being trash cans that do not watch and observe everywhere we go and what trash we put in them.
I hate to say this: but what if that is exactly as intended and that the "industry" wants it this way? What if they give lots of money for this kind of typical preference? After all: it works in politics, and the campaigns to sway public opinion and frame the dialog. Maybe Mr Jimmy thinks that an article on Nuclear Power being commandeered by the industry is the way it is supposed to work - just like everything else.
Tell that to all the people who died of starvation because Goldman saw profits in artificially inflating the hard red spring wheat futures market.
I try to be as bleeding heart as I can be, but how in the world can you make a statement like that? No consumer is owed anything, if they (as a consequence of the markets) cannot afford wheat, then they need to grow/buy/eat something else! Think about what the fuck you just said. Furthermore wasn't there significant wheat problems in Russia recently? Wheat is an amazing crop for "feeding the world" but it isn't perfect, so shouldn't the price be allowed to go up? Those farmers that sat on it in grain bins deserve to be rewarded for the patience, and not just give it away because you think they should.
I do not know if it would work, but there might be a future for bags of "human food". There are newer regulations coming down the pipe that will place stricter food safety regulations on feed mills. I recently read a paper put out on the new Magnolia Feed Mill which exposed me to some of these topics. Some of these processes that make things like feed stock for animals could some day be morphed into less-high-energy food stuffs for humans. (Unlike the hogs in the barn down the road, weight gain per pounds fed isn't supposed to be the goal - contrary to the modern American diet as some consume.) If there were flavors and such added you could make quality food out of barley, wheat, soy, oats, etc... The infrastructure would already be mostly there with most of the needed safety in place. I obviously would not think the current market would go for it if it was executed wrong or marketed wrong but it could be about like eating a soy protein bar.
But although President Obama agreed with Wyden that FISA Court opinions needed to be made public in 2009, not one single opinion has been published since then, and the surveillance state has only grown larger.
People should read "Double Deal" for an ironic insight into who did not like Carter.
Everyone that cares should put an empty box (with holes on two sides) in your yard, near the sidewalk, that says "Police Movement Recorder" and see what happens.
Yep and it is free... Right this moment I could go download the update to Fedora. Free. Or try some other distro. Or install a boatload of applications. Or download some development tools and learn something. I don't think I really need to worry about how you perceive the reputation of what runs on this box. If Mr Amateur Hour has been able to keep Linux limping along with a bunch of shitheads for over 20 years then I'll take it.
can not even get a map and weather reports
I don't know how anyone got around before, we must have all just been lost and looking at the sky.
I don't hate it, and I do use it. I wish it had: themes, applets/panel apps, and a normal alt- tab behavior. OUT OF THE BOX. I hope you like the colors, and do not miss a neat weather app to tell you the temp outside, and I hope you like using your mouse a lot. Anyways, I just deal with it - I like to be able to install Fedora and mess with as little extra as I can get away with. I am not jumping through hoops to enable what used to be normal Gnome functionality. I can use my machine without those three things but it doesn't mean I like it. The black (top panel) and white/grey (app title bar) contrast in particular is the thing I definitely do not like. It is a sad state of affairs when looking at a Windows 7 box hurts my eyes less than my Linux box with a nicer IPS monitor.
Corporations are people! The supreme court said so. Who are you to say that they cannot ever be evil. They have free speech, they can buy democracy, they can try to sway public opinion. They can take actions ignoring all but profit. They can choose whatever goal statement they wish, and execute it however they wish.
If he doesn't tear down these rules, then what are his kids going to do? This is a man with a dream!
Haven't you heard? It breaks the internet! Don't you want it to work right for everyone!?
The argument is that it is "Microsoft's" security system* that is part of their ecosystem. I am not trying to say you "shouldn't" (theoretically) have that ability - but under the trusted computing platform isn't there a system of trust that depends on the kind of lock down where the private endorsement key is not set by you? Such that if you did put on your own key Microsoft would no longer want to trust your computer. Someone with more knowledge should weigh in...
*Also I think MS would probably argue it wouldn't just be their ecosystem but that others could utilize this chained-system of trust.
I do not understand this stuff all that well, but wouldn't it be a problem if _you_ could be the one in control of what the system started out determining as a securely signed key?
TC is controversial as the hardware is not only secured for its owner, but also secured against its owner.
If Microsoft wasn't in control of the secure boot key, then wouldn't they have to determine that it is not fully trusted and etc etc? Are you arguing to be able to set your own private endorsement key?
Anyways I agree that Secure Boot needs to go as it serves no purpose. If it is there it should be disabled by default.
If I recall correctly - I read the article a day or two ago - he was also arguing for simplicity via readability and understandability. He basically said nothing in the whole article. Complex code can be complex: via some awk example. Whoever that guy is... (I am of course being sarcastic.) but that code that can be simple and easier understood should be.
A particular avenue I have seen this discussion played out is when you encounter heavily "patterned" code. It is "simple" in that specific context but what happens when no one else understands the pattern yet and has to spend time to learn it? I think for some situations this is ok but for others the "cost" is too great.
Does intel make an HD7850 counterpart? Your comment lacks a lot of perspective.
Full prick mode: Also I wouldn't say that they claim there's a open source driver for it. It is not like they market it that way with a big sticker on the box. There are a lot of missing features yet for the whole south islands series and there are a lot of bugs. This is /. you should know these things.
Nice mode again: It is one thing that your card is a year old, but you should have bought something older or done some more research. I went full ghetto (in early 2010) and bought a 4670 and have had no problems with the setup. And it was cheap, the kind of cheap where you don't care that you are using a potentially slower open source driver.
Zingers are the only important super-disgusting-barely-food I used to care about. After all of this though I plan to not eat another.
I was fairly certain I speeled it wrong but I just did not care.
In fact, I think the military has used (does use?) this and the earlier DTL technologies in its missile computers.
Security Breech!!!