I defy anyone to find me a crop we raise that is NOT genetically altered.
Just because we're doing it doesn't mean we should.
Our history in modifying our environment is one of early attempts being disastrous, despite our confidence to the contrary at the time. We are in the very early stages of understanding how our direct modification of crop genes affects us. There is a HUGE difference between interbreeding plant species and letting Nature work it out, and editing genes directly. And given corporate history of unabashedly lying to us about the safety of their products in the name of increased profits, and the potentially devastating results of being lied to about our food supply, I won't be satisfied about the safety of GMO until we've had a couple hundred years of informed consent trials.
Also, I defy anyone to point out a time when Nature has allowed the mixing of tomato and frog genes to produce a superior tomato.
The ACLU has (perhaps not surprisingly) chosen to promote the former, which leaves the public on the hook for paying for it all.
You're missing the obvious, proven solution: the City owns and maintains the infrastructure, while private businesses provide the service on top of that infrastructure. See Ammon, Idaho as a model.
Microsoft could cure Cancer and they'd still be considered the most evil ever around here.
If Microsoft cured Cancer, it would come with a required, expensive subscription. If you tried switching to a cheaper cure, your cancer would come back twice as bad and with a hefty dose of AIDS.
How many more critical systems have to fall victim to this malware/ransomware bullshit before Windows systems are banned for use in anything critical?
How many more times will this happen before I.S./I.T. directors are deemed criminally negligent for this easily preventable and predictable problem? C'mon, putting important stuff on Windows??! How many whacks with the Cluestick are necessary before these people see the blindingly obvious?
So, in 10 years everyone on this planet will have internet access....
That's more likely than Bitcoin becoming the one currency to rule them all. Starlink has tremendous potential to end most (if not all) ground based Internet, but only if reality and theory mesh this time.
My latest phone purchases were two Huawei-based phones, and for simple reasons. Let's compare:
1) Apple is a non-starter because of their walled garden and massively high price bullshit, so I will never buy an Apple product until they change their business practices and dramatically lower their prices.
2) Samsung is overpriced and underperforming. All of their products also come stocked with oodles of bloatware that can't be removed. Samsung has followed the trend of removing the headphone jack and SD card slot. My Samsung tablets and phones are painful to use after experiencing (3) below.
3) The two Honor 6's I bought are priced low (I paid $187 for each), but perform very well (as opposed to my much more expensive Samsung gear). They contain very little bloatware, with only a tiny number of such apps that can't be removed. They have a headphone jack and an SD card slot.
You don't want to enter a cutthroat low-margin market.
That would be fine if Intel's markets weren't shrinking. However, Intel can't maintain itself on its current markets, as they are all shrinking in favor of Mobile and, to a lesser extent, Cloud. Those are both areas where Intel is not terribly strong.
You would think that Intel and Cloud would go hand in hand, but that isn't necessarily true.
Yep. If they had done this 10 years ago, they might have had a fighting chance. As it is, their service got so bad that they overcame people's resistance to change and drove them to the experiment of dropping the service. Now, dropping service has gotten such a good reputation that the rate of doing so is increasing dramatically.
If cord cutting hasn't reached critical mass yet, it is so close as to be nearly unavoidable.
The base model of the noise cancelling headphones will only filter some noise.
I think the base model will induce migraine-level headaches, as noise-canceling headphones are want to do. The Pro model will do the same, but for $300 more, and with an interface that is incompatible with anything you currently own. For an additional $800, Apple will sell you an adapter that will work with exactly one other Apple device -- until the next wave of models is introduced.
So for $1200, you can rent an Apple Experience that does the same thing as the generic device that Walmart sells for $35.
But it's not as if politicians have sworn to uphold the constitution or anything...
Yep, this should be an impeachable offense. They all know it's a violation of the Constitution on numerous levels, but they don't care because there are no repercussions for violating our Constitution.
And yes, I know that most of our lawmakers would be impeached between the start and end of their swearing in, but I don't consider that to be at all a bad thing. Constitutional violations should have sever punishments to deter the type of action in the article.
Todo lists can be viewed as bug lists. Redmine is an issue tracker, and works wonderfully for that task. Its main drawback is that it's written in Ruby. But if you don't want to dig into its internals, it is otherwise great software.
...but just so they've been exposed to concepts and can talk about it in layman's terms.
I don't think that's very likely at all. Like all uninteresting classes I was forced to take in high school and University, I hardly remember anything about them. Ask me even the most basic questions about sewing, statistics, economics, etc., and you will get gobbledygook back.
For 99.99999% of kids forced to go through these "CS" classes, the end result will be similar. They will core dump everything they were forced to memorize the day after their final exams, because they don't give a single shit about the subject. The remaining.00001% will ace the classes, because they already have an interest in the subject that they were pursuing on Google/Youtube/StackOverflow.
...and often you didn't even get CAL's for your Exchange and other servers....
CAL's were my first major indicator back in the late 80's/early 90's that Microsoft's customers really were stupendous morons. They paid a TON of money for software they weren't actually allowed to use in any meaningful respect.
Microsoft: That will be $1200, please. Customer: How many users will your software support? Microsoft: That depends on how much more money you pay us. Customer: What? I just paid you $1200! Microsoft: You paid for the right to pay us, not for right to use the software. Customer: Oh, okay. How much more may I pay you? Microsoft: How much do you make? Send it in. Customer (singing): Everything is Awesome!
And now, the modern subscription scam just reconfirms it all.
These tools may allow a locked phone to be searched after a search warrant is issued.
Or, more likely, allow the FBI/NSA to bypass the warrant entirely by saying, "We didn't do it. A private company, not subject to the constraints of warrants, did it. We just happened to stumble upon the results." They're quite fond of Parallel Construction and its bastard children.
Facebook and Twitter didn't take HTTP and build huge services with it?
Yes, on Open protocols. In fact, none of these massive Internet companies could have ever succeeded without these Open protocols' capabilities. It is those Open protocols that underpinned those companies' runaways successes. The API's you referenced sit on top of the Open protocols, rather than replace them.
During the second era of the internet, from the mid 2000s to the present, for-profit tech companiesâSâ"âSmost notably Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA)âSâ"âSbuilt software and services that rapidly outpaced the capabilities of open protocols.
This is total nonsense, as they did no such thing. When protocols were involved at all, these companies built their services on top of the same open protocols everyone else used (or could have used). Where these companies outpaced everyone else was in throwing obscene amounts of money at the patent system to keep out competitors (both real and imagined), and in building internal processes and technologies to support their rapid growths.
While decentralization matters, Blockchain seems to have utility in a rather narrow set of circumstances. It is certainly not anything even remotely close to the silver bullet its proponents make it out to be.
...and OS vulnerabilities are only a small fraction of how that happens.
You underestimate the power of the dark side's incompetence. The city in which I work has regular compromises, it seems. And every single compromise that I have been made aware of has been traced back to Windows flaws. There has never been a leak that resulted from phishing.
My own company was regularly infected back when we still ran public-facing Windows. After switching to Linux, they all came to a screeching halt.
And then what? A prompt is useless if you don't know what it is, and don't already know BASIC.
Then you open the programming book that came with the computer. When I got my first TRS-80 Color Computer 2 in 1985, it came with a two hundred (approximately) page book describing how to use the computer and program it in BASIC.
Like the C=64, the computer booted, instantly (seriously, a couple hundred milliseconds), into a BASIC-ready command prompt. Then the excellent manual walked through programming it. Nothing since has reached that level of easy. Once IBMicrosoft took over, computers became increasingly newbie-unfriendly.
So yes, the article is correct to a large degree. That being said, though, kids nowadays are born into a technological saturation to the point where most of the things they need to do to begin learning to program come fairly easily to them. It may not be as easy as the Color Computer/C=64/Atari days were, but it's within their reach with a little assistance.
But to drive the point home: back in the 80's, kids could do it all with NO ASSISTANCE WHATSOEVER if they were interested. The whole home computer paradigm revolved around that notion.
Refurbished computers are typically sold to less digitally needy people; people who can barely use Windows as it is.
Those are the people who need one of the desktop Linuxes. They need something that, out of the box, is ready for them to use. These people probably need a good Web browser they don't have to install themselves, and online safety. Windows can't give that to them, but desktop Linux comes this way by default.
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And just work the deal
Or even better, do what we did: Tell Oracle to fuck off, and move everything to PostgreSQL.
I defy anyone to find me a crop we raise that is NOT genetically altered.
Just because we're doing it doesn't mean we should.
Our history in modifying our environment is one of early attempts being disastrous, despite our confidence to the contrary at the time. We are in the very early stages of understanding how our direct modification of crop genes affects us. There is a HUGE difference between interbreeding plant species and letting Nature work it out, and editing genes directly. And given corporate history of unabashedly lying to us about the safety of their products in the name of increased profits, and the potentially devastating results of being lied to about our food supply, I won't be satisfied about the safety of GMO until we've had a couple hundred years of informed consent trials.
Also, I defy anyone to point out a time when Nature has allowed the mixing of tomato and frog genes to produce a superior tomato.
The ACLU has (perhaps not surprisingly) chosen to promote the former, which leaves the public on the hook for paying for it all.
You're missing the obvious, proven solution: the City owns and maintains the infrastructure, while private businesses provide the service on top of that infrastructure. See Ammon, Idaho as a model.
Microsoft could cure Cancer and they'd still be considered the most evil ever around here.
If Microsoft cured Cancer, it would come with a required, expensive subscription. If you tried switching to a cheaper cure, your cancer would come back twice as bad and with a hefty dose of AIDS.
Microsoft could cure Cancer and they'd still be considered the most evil ever around here.
When Jack The Ripper claims he is reformed, and then says he wants to manage the women's shelter, it's prudent to consider past behavior.
How many more critical systems have to fall victim to this malware/ransomware bullshit before Windows systems are banned for use in anything critical?
How many more times will this happen before I.S./I.T. directors are deemed criminally negligent for this easily preventable and predictable problem? C'mon, putting important stuff on Windows??! How many whacks with the Cluestick are necessary before these people see the blindingly obvious?
So, in 10 years everyone on this planet will have internet access....
That's more likely than Bitcoin becoming the one currency to rule them all. Starlink has tremendous potential to end most (if not all) ground based Internet, but only if reality and theory mesh this time.
My latest phone purchases were two Huawei-based phones, and for simple reasons. Let's compare:
1) Apple is a non-starter because of their walled garden and massively high price bullshit, so I will never buy an Apple product until they change their business practices and dramatically lower their prices.
2) Samsung is overpriced and underperforming. All of their products also come stocked with oodles of bloatware that can't be removed. Samsung has followed the trend of removing the headphone jack and SD card slot. My Samsung tablets and phones are painful to use after experiencing (3) below.
3) The two Honor 6's I bought are priced low (I paid $187 for each), but perform very well (as opposed to my much more expensive Samsung gear). They contain very little bloatware, with only a tiny number of such apps that can't be removed. They have a headphone jack and an SD card slot.
You don't want to enter a cutthroat low-margin market.
That would be fine if Intel's markets weren't shrinking. However, Intel can't maintain itself on its current markets, as they are all shrinking in favor of Mobile and, to a lesser extent, Cloud. Those are both areas where Intel is not terribly strong.
You would think that Intel and Cloud would go hand in hand, but that isn't necessarily true.
Linus runs Linux on Mac hardware. He doesn't run OSX.
They're only about 10 years too late.
Yep. If they had done this 10 years ago, they might have had a fighting chance. As it is, their service got so bad that they overcame people's resistance to change and drove them to the experiment of dropping the service. Now, dropping service has gotten such a good reputation that the rate of doing so is increasing dramatically.
If cord cutting hasn't reached critical mass yet, it is so close as to be nearly unavoidable.
The base model of the noise cancelling headphones will only filter some noise.
I think the base model will induce migraine-level headaches, as noise-canceling headphones are want to do. The Pro model will do the same, but for $300 more, and with an interface that is incompatible with anything you currently own. For an additional $800, Apple will sell you an adapter that will work with exactly one other Apple device -- until the next wave of models is introduced.
So for $1200, you can rent an Apple Experience that does the same thing as the generic device that Walmart sells for $35.
But it's not as if politicians have sworn to uphold the constitution or anything...
Yep, this should be an impeachable offense. They all know it's a violation of the Constitution on numerous levels, but they don't care because there are no repercussions for violating our Constitution.
And yes, I know that most of our lawmakers would be impeached between the start and end of their swearing in, but I don't consider that to be at all a bad thing. Constitutional violations should have sever punishments to deter the type of action in the article.
Todo lists can be viewed as bug lists. Redmine is an issue tracker, and works wonderfully for that task. Its main drawback is that it's written in Ruby. But if you don't want to dig into its internals, it is otherwise great software.
...but just so they've been exposed to concepts and can talk about it in layman's terms.
I don't think that's very likely at all. Like all uninteresting classes I was forced to take in high school and University, I hardly remember anything about them. Ask me even the most basic questions about sewing, statistics, economics, etc., and you will get gobbledygook back.
For 99.99999% of kids forced to go through these "CS" classes, the end result will be similar. They will core dump everything they were forced to memorize the day after their final exams, because they don't give a single shit about the subject. The remaining .00001% will ace the classes, because they already have an interest in the subject that they were pursuing on Google/Youtube/StackOverflow.
...and often you didn't even get CAL's for your Exchange and other servers....
CAL's were my first major indicator back in the late 80's/early 90's that Microsoft's customers really were stupendous morons. They paid a TON of money for software they weren't actually allowed to use in any meaningful respect.
Microsoft: That will be $1200, please.
Customer: How many users will your software support?
Microsoft: That depends on how much more money you pay us.
Customer: What? I just paid you $1200!
Microsoft: You paid for the right to pay us, not for right to use the software.
Customer: Oh, okay. How much more may I pay you?
Microsoft: How much do you make? Send it in.
Customer (singing): Everything is Awesome!
And now, the modern subscription scam just reconfirms it all.
These tools may allow a locked phone to be searched after a search warrant is issued.
Or, more likely, allow the FBI/NSA to bypass the warrant entirely by saying, "We didn't do it. A private company, not subject to the constraints of warrants, did it. We just happened to stumble upon the results." They're quite fond of Parallel Construction and its bastard children.
Facebook and Twitter didn't take HTTP and build huge services with it?
Yes, on Open protocols. In fact, none of these massive Internet companies could have ever succeeded without these Open protocols' capabilities. It is those Open protocols that underpinned those companies' runaways successes. The API's you referenced sit on top of the Open protocols, rather than replace them.
During the second era of the internet, from the mid 2000s to the present, for-profit tech companiesâSâ"âSmost notably Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA)âSâ"âSbuilt software and services that rapidly outpaced the capabilities of open protocols.
This is total nonsense, as they did no such thing. When protocols were involved at all, these companies built their services on top of the same open protocols everyone else used (or could have used). Where these companies outpaced everyone else was in throwing obscene amounts of money at the patent system to keep out competitors (both real and imagined), and in building internal processes and technologies to support their rapid growths.
While decentralization matters, Blockchain seems to have utility in a rather narrow set of circumstances. It is certainly not anything even remotely close to the silver bullet its proponents make it out to be.
...and OS vulnerabilities are only a small fraction of how that happens.
You underestimate the power of the dark side's incompetence. The city in which I work has regular compromises, it seems. And every single compromise that I have been made aware of has been traced back to Windows flaws. There has never been a leak that resulted from phishing.
My own company was regularly infected back when we still ran public-facing Windows. After switching to Linux, they all came to a screeching halt.
Yeah, I realized the typo after pressing Submit.
Our biggest cyberthreat is Windows. Until that thread is neutralized, we will continue to be unnecessarily vulnerable.
And then what? A prompt is useless if you don't know what it is, and don't already know BASIC.
Then you open the programming book that came with the computer. When I got my first TRS-80 Color Computer 2 in 1985, it came with a two hundred (approximately) page book describing how to use the computer and program it in BASIC.
Like the C=64, the computer booted, instantly (seriously, a couple hundred milliseconds), into a BASIC-ready command prompt. Then the excellent manual walked through programming it. Nothing since has reached that level of easy. Once IBMicrosoft took over, computers became increasingly newbie-unfriendly.
So yes, the article is correct to a large degree. That being said, though, kids nowadays are born into a technological saturation to the point where most of the things they need to do to begin learning to program come fairly easily to them. It may not be as easy as the Color Computer/C=64/Atari days were, but it's within their reach with a little assistance.
But to drive the point home: back in the 80's, kids could do it all with NO ASSISTANCE WHATSOEVER if they were interested. The whole home computer paradigm revolved around that notion.
Linking to a page is not the same as including a copy of it in your own page.
But that's exactly what happened in this case. Someone merely linked to an existing tweet, and this judge said that was copyright infringement.
Refurbished computers are typically sold to less digitally needy people; people who can barely use Windows as it is.
Those are the people who need one of the desktop Linuxes. They need something that, out of the box, is ready for them to use. These people probably need a good Web browser they don't have to install themselves, and online safety. Windows can't give that to them, but desktop Linux comes this way by default.