We had more privacy simply because information was limited by a lack of technology. Pre-internet, you could often move away from your past, your drinking escapades weren't posted on somebody's Facebook feed, and when the government wanted to watch you, it required a certain degree of manpower and physical retention that meant it generally wasn't worth it for trivial details.
Except that these are an "M" (for Mobile) series, not a card, but a chip. Also not something you buy individually, but rather what comes with the laptop, and makes the entire thing useless if it burns out. For desktops, you can add cooling to support the OC, and if you do burn out the card it can be replaced. Few laptops support hardware upgrades or replacements for GPU.
Hmm, an underdesigned dam in China initially constructed in the 1950's - with safety features reduced from what was recommended - which had issues that were patched with assistance from soviet consultants. Apparently they were also communicating by telegraph and messages were lost...
That's a lot of deaths, but also in a country with a high population (meaning incidents have higher potential fatalities).
You know, I'm not sure "we thought things were less bad than they were because we didn't even have a proper assessment process" isn't exactly a positive note in their favour.
Well, in this case it would be fear of committing illegal acts against a judge. You probably aren't going to be in such big shit for beating him at golf, possibly not for banging his wife (unless somebody can find charges to hit you with or you've done something else illegal in the act), but get caught directly committing an illegal act against the top echelons of the "justice" system... well that's just fucking stupid.
I think that Ads on FB may be more useful if they can fix some of the context-sensing (right now they're crap).
Last time I was on a PC vendor's site that had google ads. The ads of course work on what I was searching for, so of course they were displaying ads for heatsinks and CPU's AT COMPETING VENDORS (as well as a "you're the 1,000,000 visit, win an iDevice" shit).
Of course, why a decent online retailer (Tigerdirect) needs non-in-house banner ads is beyond me anyhow.
How about in a VM? VirtualBox is free for personal/educational use, and I recommend it for people who still have a few legacy XP needs around. Heck, for one family member I setup her laptop with triple-boot: Windows 7, Linux, and XP (technically Linux with a command-line parameter that tells it to launch the XP VM in full-screen mode at boot).
I noticed that Target - which is pulling out of Canada - has a bunch of 4k 55" Element TV's. These are going for around $500 (less if you're in Canada and get the "liquidation" discount of 20%).
I wasn't able to find a huge amount of info on them, as it appears that Element made them exclusively for Target, but the few reviews I found seem to indicate they're not half bad.
Yup. So it may reduce cases of immoral people stealing somebody's phone because they want a shiny new iDevice/Android (but don't want to pay for it), but doesn't do so much about career criminals who market in stolen goods.
usr - Generally binaries and libraries, stuff that doesn't change much var - Transient/variable files, stuff that changes fairly frequently, cache, package lists, mail messages, logs (/var/log) etc etc - Configuration files, initialization scripts
This is somewhat variable with the use of/opt or/usr/local/xxx but for most part this has been fairly consistent across most *nix systems I've used.
Actually, I can agree with this. Where they talk about "fast boot time" benefits of systemd etc, I don't reboot servers often, and the time it takes to boot the OS is a fraction compared to the bloody raid-controller etc doing their checks.
On a desktop, having fast boot and tying things in might be nicer (although I generally would say boot time with an SSD isn't an issue). There's generally less tinkering with the deep internals of the OS than on a server as well.
The thing with Pulse is... while it probably *did* turn off a lot of people in the desktop arena, it could in some ways be worked around (usually by killing it), and it didn't much affect the server arena where Linux tends to be more popular.
Now... we have RHEL7 etc foisting it upon admins, and when it breaks it breaks badly and is very hard to diagnose. And yes, I personally have experience with this - albeit not on a RHEL machine - after an upgrade made it unbootable for an older kernel which I still had some need for.
I wonder if/when they might get blu-ray support? DVD support has tended to be a gray area for a lot of things, but VLC happily supported it. No such luck for Blu-Ray BD+ yet (I thought it had been cracked, but perhaps not).
I don't know about 65" 1080P, but from forums online the Element 55" 4K monitors that Target had (and still has many of, and are on sale in the Canada liquidation) for $500 were actually not half bad. Couldn't say much about longevity though.
*SHOULD* you be trusting strangers to your house party, hoards of personal information, or various other things? I can think of many people you should be more wary of than the cops. How about when "Bob Burglar" on your FB friends sees you "I'll be gone to Vegas for 2 weeks, can somebody babysit my cat" post?
Yeah, if they wanted to make it easy and cool, why not put in a ring or earring or something? Should be easy enough to do, and then you could have the "one ring to access them all"
Why would they need a claymore? It's not hard to blow things up, and you certainly don't need military hardware for it. That's one of the problems with the "wars" in variou countries, as IED (remember, the "I" stands for Improvised) aren't particularly hard, with the biggest issue being the possibility of blowing oneself up while making one. Hell, the Boston bombing was a household item and some ball bearings.
Materials to cause significant body count aren't at issue, it's that - thankfully - there don't appear to be that many people sick enough to try it on a regular basis. That and/or those that so depraved are lacking even the relatively low skill to make such devices, or they're too afraid for their own skins to try it.
I do recall an incident where a terrorist van apparently blew up enroute because they forgot to calibrate for time-zone differences. That one always made chuckle. If only all terrorists and crazies were so unskillful as to blow themselves up prematurely or set their crotch on fire...
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We had more privacy simply because information was limited by a lack of technology. Pre-internet, you could often move away from your past, your drinking escapades weren't posted on somebody's Facebook feed, and when the government wanted to watch you, it required a certain degree of manpower and physical retention that meant it generally wasn't worth it for trivial details.
I didn't say it rationalizes it, just that it's not all that surprising.
Except that these are an "M" (for Mobile) series, not a card, but a chip. Also not something you buy individually, but rather what comes with the laptop, and makes the entire thing useless if it burns out.
For desktops, you can add cooling to support the OC, and if you do burn out the card it can be replaced. Few laptops support hardware upgrades or replacements for GPU.
Hmm, an underdesigned dam in China initially constructed in the 1950's - with safety features reduced from what was recommended - which had issues that were patched with assistance from soviet consultants. Apparently they were also communicating by telegraph and messages were lost...
That's a lot of deaths, but also in a country with a high population (meaning incidents have higher potential fatalities).
You know, I'm not sure "we thought things were less bad than they were because we didn't even have a proper assessment process" isn't exactly a positive note in their favour.
Out of curiosity, what deaths have hydro caused?
Seems to be a backfire to me. I'm actually happy that they're cautious enough to go offline in such a scenario.
Well, in this case it would be fear of committing illegal acts against a judge. You probably aren't going to be in such big shit for beating him at golf, possibly not for banging his wife (unless somebody can find charges to hit you with or you've done something else illegal in the act), but get caught directly committing an illegal act against the top echelons of the "justice" system... well that's just fucking stupid.
I think that Ads on FB may be more useful if they can fix some of the context-sensing (right now they're crap).
Last time I was on a PC vendor's site that had google ads. The ads of course work on what I was searching for, so of course they were displaying ads for heatsinks and CPU's AT COMPETING VENDORS (as well as a "you're the 1,000,000 visit, win an iDevice" shit).
Of course, why a decent online retailer (Tigerdirect) needs non-in-house banner ads is beyond me anyhow.
How about in a VM?
VirtualBox is free for personal/educational use, and I recommend it for people who still have a few legacy XP needs around. Heck, for one family member I setup her laptop with triple-boot: Windows 7, Linux, and XP (technically Linux with a command-line parameter that tells it to launch the XP VM in full-screen mode at boot).
I noticed that Target - which is pulling out of Canada - has a bunch of 4k 55" Element TV's. These are going for around $500 (less if you're in Canada and get the "liquidation" discount of 20%).
I wasn't able to find a huge amount of info on them, as it appears that Element made them exclusively for Target, but the few reviews I found seem to indicate they're not half bad.
After a certain point, it becomes less about how I could affect/change my life, and more about how I could affect others'
I'm not sure that would be a reason *not* to pick #'s from the cookie.
I'd be happy to have $5m (1/100th of a $500m jackpot)
Yup. So it may reduce cases of immoral people stealing somebody's phone because they want a shiny new iDevice/Android (but don't want to pay for it), but doesn't do so much about career criminals who market in stolen goods.
I've tended to see this as
usr - Generally binaries and libraries, stuff that doesn't change much
var - Transient/variable files, stuff that changes fairly frequently, cache, package lists, mail messages, logs (/var/log) etc
etc - Configuration files, initialization scripts
This is somewhat variable with the use of /opt or /usr/local/xxx but for most part this has been fairly consistent across most *nix systems I've used.
Actually, I can agree with this. Where they talk about "fast boot time" benefits of systemd etc, I don't reboot servers often, and the time it takes to boot the OS is a fraction compared to the bloody raid-controller etc doing their checks.
On a desktop, having fast boot and tying things in might be nicer (although I generally would say boot time with an SSD isn't an issue). There's generally less tinkering with the deep internals of the OS than on a server as well.
The thing with Pulse is... while it probably *did* turn off a lot of people in the desktop arena, it could in some ways be worked around (usually by killing it), and it didn't much affect the server arena where Linux tends to be more popular.
Now... we have RHEL7 etc foisting it upon admins, and when it breaks it breaks badly and is very hard to diagnose.
And yes, I personally have experience with this - albeit not on a RHEL machine - after an upgrade made it unbootable for an older kernel which I still had some need for.
I wonder if/when they might get blu-ray support? DVD support has tended to be a gray area for a lot of things, but VLC happily supported it. No such luck for Blu-Ray BD+ yet (I thought it had been cracked, but perhaps not).
I don't know about 65" 1080P, but from forums online the Element 55" 4K monitors that Target had (and still has many of, and are on sale in the Canada liquidation) for $500 were actually not half bad. Couldn't say much about longevity though.
*SHOULD* you be trusting strangers to your house party, hoards of personal information, or various other things?
I can think of many people you should be more wary of than the cops. How about when "Bob Burglar" on your FB friends sees you "I'll be gone to Vegas for 2 weeks, can somebody babysit my cat" post?
Yeah, if they wanted to make it easy and cool, why not put in a ring or earring or something? Should be easy enough to do, and then you could have the "one ring to access them all"
And it's nineTEEN... which is where "teenager" comes from (13-19)
Thus is the logic of many adult sites.
Why would they need a claymore? It's not hard to blow things up, and you certainly don't need military hardware for it. That's one of the problems with the "wars" in variou countries, as IED (remember, the "I" stands for Improvised) aren't particularly hard, with the biggest issue being the possibility of blowing oneself up while making one. Hell, the Boston bombing was a household item and some ball bearings.
Materials to cause significant body count aren't at issue, it's that - thankfully - there don't appear to be that many people sick enough to try it on a regular basis. That and/or those that so depraved are lacking even the relatively low skill to make such devices, or they're too afraid for their own skins to try it.
I do recall an incident where a terrorist van apparently blew up enroute because they forgot to calibrate for time-zone differences. That one always made chuckle. If only all terrorists and crazies were so unskillful as to blow themselves up prematurely or set their crotch on fire...
Something like, oh busting into the mayor's place and shooting his dog?
Why don't they pursue the operators and arrest them, or at least get them shut down properly?