Lets save our vitriol about cops for when they kill people's granny's, shoot pregnant women, or kill harmless pets for fun.
Or a road-raging off-duty cop who assaults a taxi driver at the airport in full view of 30 other drivers, flashes police ID and behaves like he's above the law, then gets special treatment when other officers arrive on scene.
If her Macbook's out of warranty, the metal keyboard probably costs less than having the built-in keyboard serviced.
And those metal keyboards are so thin and compact you actually can easily carry it with your laptop all the time (assuming it's the one with no keypad).
If You think Time Machine is a safe backup method you are in for a surprise. If you delete or overwrite any file you will lose the deleted and the overwritten file in the history as well.
Have you even used Time Machine?
I demonstrated this to a friend last weekend, I recovered a file from my desktop which I'd deleted six months and countless backup cycles ago.
File changes are also preserved--but at every hour or whatever it's set to, not every time you hit "Save."
The only times a deleted file disappears from TM is if you explicitly tell it to delete all its backups, or your backup drive is running out of space and starts removing older backup sets.
I've taken empty bottles through at least three airports without incident--even the guy at the pre-screening counter who hands out the plastic bags waved me through.
That was over a year ago though. Glad to see the bar on intelligent security policies keep getting lowered.
Just yesterday I experienced the levels of stupidity that airport security has become. My tube of toothpaste had been mostly used up, and rolled up to get at the remaining paste.
It was still confiscated because the label on the tube said it originally held 125 mL. Never mind that what was left in there was far less than 75 mL, or that security had no problems with it on my outbound trip.
How retarded is security theatre going to get? Are they going to confiscate empty 500 mL water bottles now, too?
Except the countries in question, in becoming members of the WTO and NAFTA, agreed to abide by rulings made by whatever judicial panels those organizations set up.
I have some issue when those international bodies rule against private industry in a country, but in this case the rulings were against the government agencies responsible for imposing tariffs on Canadian lumber companies.
It was bad enough when the secretary of Homeland Security said last week the 9/11 terrorists came through Canada. To hear John McCain repeat that lie made me very glad he's not your president. Does he also think Iraq was responsible for the attacks too?
I've said it before: The US government and the IP lobbying groups can go frak themselves ten ways to Sunday on this issue.
In the softwood lumber dispute the US not only flipped the bird at Canada, but refused to accept several judgments against them by the WTO and NAFTA.
If you don't respect international laws and rulings against you, don't expect others to respect the lopsided laws you're trying to force down the throats of more free-thinking countries.
(Sadly, they've come to expect no less; in the end, the newly-elected Conservative government rolled over on the softwood issue, gave the ball to the US, and begged for more. Yes, I'm just as disgusted at the pansies who sold us out)
Sadly, that airport (Kai Tak) actually closed a decade ago, and the new one is a comfortable 30+ km away, but I remember my landings there... always a thrill, and a sure way to wake up after a 13-hour flight.
As far as I know, an F-16 does not carry the firepower to vaporize the several tons of steel that is a Boeing 747. That stuff is going to go down somewhere. Of course, if you can already see it, it's probably not going to specifically crash into you. So why panic?
A very logical, reasonable question. Unfortunately, panic is one of the most basic survival instincts we have, instantly overriding almost all higher reasoning skills. Properly conditioned (e.g. military) sure, you can keep your cool while death approaches at high speed, but the vast majority don't have that training.
Herd instinct (or whatever its equivalent in humans) is similar--if everyone else on the floor is running away in a blind panic, chances are you will too. Instinctively, remaining with the pack increases the odds the predator will chase someone else.
Panic has no concept of the predator blowing itself up and taking out the entire herd, as it were. It's bigger than you, it's coming at you, instinct is to get away from it ASAP.
Obama: "I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, not the other way around,"
Ummm... I personally would rather that science was driving our facts first of all, instead of "facts" driving science...
By putting in quotes "facts" you're equating them to truths.
Maybe "driving" was the wrong word to use, but I think Obama is still correct.
Facts are... well, what actually is, whether there's someone around to observe it or not, and we do want science to base itself around observable, (dis)provable facts. "Truth" is like statistics--an interpretation of that data, or lack thereof.
A perfect example earlier in this very discussion: a bunch of facts about budget spending and US national debt under both Clinton and Bush were used to support two opposing "truths:" That Clinton's administration was more fiscally conservative, or vice-versa.
My work machine got borked through an Adobe Reader 8.1.2 vulnerability two months ago. Based on Slashdot reader opinions, I opted to try Foxit and Sumatra after rebuilding the system.
Sumatra just isn't there yet--it completely messed up the colours on the cover page of one of our PDFs. Probably something to do with RGB vs CMYK, frankly though I didn't care--Foxit displayed it fine, so it stayed.
Once again Apple demonstrates long-term thinking, as we now see the ultimate design goal for Apple designing iPods without replaceable batteries.
Not to slim it down, not to increase battery density, not to drive aftermarket power products... but to keep sand from lodging between battery and casing in desert combat situations, and reap the motherlode as Uncle Sam buys them by the bucket!
(Microsoft's contribution to the war effort? A brown Zune. And even then they couldn't get it right... hint to Redmond, sand is a much lighter colour!)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a trojan doesn't qualify as a "security issue" on the part of the OS.
You're wrong. Anything that compromises the system is a security issue for the OS. Now, I'm not assigning blame or being critical or any of that pejorative stuff. I'm simply pointing out that this is the business of the OS, and it's a security issue.
Uh-huh.
Open a terminal window in OS X or Linux. Now, execute rm -rf on your root directory, using sudo and entering your root password.
Worse than merely compromising your system, you've just destroyed it. Take the example down a notch, so that it merely installs some program with root privileges.
How is the OS supposed to know what you want to actually install/run as root, versus something with similar behaviour but unwanted?
We already have systems that detect "malicious behaviour" and enforces "good behaviour." They come in your DVD and Blu-Ray player, iPhone, and Kindle, and/. readers generally slam them for being overly restrictive and taking too much of our freedom away.
At the supermarket, the display tags already display a wealth of info, including breakdown of price-per-100g and so forth to make comparisons with similar products easier. Including tax info would be no issue.
Smaller shops and retailers might have a little extra work, but when I visited Australia almost all stores had the tax breakdown included in the price tags. Of course, it helped that there was only a single combined federal/state VAT of 10%.
While I'd be all for saving power by hibernating overnight instead of a full shutdown, I think that's the point of this sub-thread--that Windows workstations, for various reasons, won't always reliably come out of hibernation/suspend mode.
My old workstation was a stock IBM/Lenovo tower, no custom hardware, default vendor-supplied Windows. I tried hibernating exactly twice.
Both times it failed to wake up properly. IIRC the error message said it couldn't restore the Windows session, and offered to restart/shut down (maybe there was an "attempt recovery" too, if there was it didn't work).
Now imagine your typical office worker getting that message. Better it just automatically restart and and not give the user a "choice," which they'll just call up IT for anyway. Worse, with the idea that their desktop will be just as they left it yesterday, they might have left unsaved documents open when hibernating it, so those may have been corrupted or lost, too.
Is there an obvious reason this would fail, if actually implemented?
For one, it might actually be illegal to dock pay off of salaried workers. Even if it weren't, HR would raise hell being saddled with yet another variable in their paycheque calculations.
For two, good luck getting people to sign this revision to their contract.
For three, even if they signed, prepare for a bitchfest when they're docked pay.
At our office we actually do shut down most of the workstations overnight, and I'm all for at least hibernating them at larger companies. But I think the implementation headaches and animosity your particular suggestion would cause, would far outweigh the $75/person/year, even for a large organization.
That said, I cannot imagine a user VPN-ing in to access their desktop from a company laptop, this - to me - seems like a waste of resources/computers, and thus money. Apps can be installed on the laptop or TS environment, files are on the server.
Here's one such user: me.
I'm the only developer at a small shop. My normal system is a desktop, which has all my dev tools. The very, very rare times I'm sent on a trip, I get a loaner laptop. Installing the IDE and other tools onto would not only be overkill (the minimal install is several GB), we can't anyway with the IDE's non-floating license.
Accessing and saving files on network drives over VPN is also painfully slow, especially during regular work hours. The RDP session to my desktop, and accessing them as if I was there, is far more responsive, even with the occasional visual delays and screen refreshes.
On top of that, I sometimes work from home, and even ignoring the license issue, I'm not going to partitioning 10 GB of my Mac's hard drive for Boot Camping Windows;-)
There's probably a workaround for every issue I've raised, but bottom line, the fastest, easiest and cheapest solution for us is just to VPN in and RDP into my work desktop.
I don't really get the argument against VAT or similar taxes. It's only "hidden" in the sense that you have to do some math to figure out the pre-tax price, and even if it's outrageous, like 50%, if you perceive it as having enough value you'll pay it anyway. Maybe after some grumbling and complaining, but you'll pay it.
Like gas. I'm pretty sure it was built into the pump price when I visited Florida a couple years ago, and it's like that in Canada--even though in both places, other taxable items (e.g. groceries, computers, services, etc) list the pre-tax price.
Personally, I'd prefer if all the prices I saw were post-tax--as long as the breakdown is shown on the receipts, or even on price tags on display shelves. Hell, on top of that raise the wages of service/wait staff and get rid of gratuities... I loved not having to factor in tips at restaurants when I visited Australia. I've heard that tips in North American restaurants are now pooled anyway, so even if you're extra-generous, your specific waiter/waitress won't see more than a few cents of it.
Then the idiot delivery woman keeps throwing papers in the middle of the street, where they get squashed by passing cars (or disappear completely).
Remember paperboys? Sigh. I'm old enough that I can claim to have been one of the last of that breed.
From what I heard, they phased them out in the years after I stopped doing it (late 80s, early 90s) because kids just weren't reliable about managing themselves. It wasn't that complicated, but it did require commitment to doing the same thing at the same time(s) every day.
I was one. Grade 8-10, I delivered our city's daily paper to about 70 houses in the morning, i.e. woke up around 5:40, and still had to get ready for school afterwards.
I managed myself just fine, but right around the timeframe you mention (early 90s) the company apparently wanted fewer foot carriers, and replaced three of us with someone who had a car.
Not sure what kind of sap figured it was worthwhile to get up at 4:30 to deliver 200 papers for less than minimum wage, and have to pay his own gas on top of that...
The logic of protectionist bureaucracies goes against the common sense and market forces.
Their logic: if we allow English-only sales for six weeks, then by the time the French version is out the bilingual players won't buy it, French sales will be down, which may make the company decide not localize future titles. Therefore, don't allow sales of the English one until both are available, then they'll be on a level playing field.
Reality: Bilingual gamers will buy the English version from out-of-province, or pirate it. Local retail sales of BOTH English and French versions will be less than they could have been. Reduced sales may make company decide not to localize future titles.
Lest you think such protectionist "logic" is limited to Quebec, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) mandates a percentage of Canadian-produced content on almost all national radio and television providers. Some in the Canadian arts community are demanding that the CRTC force Canadian content on internet sites like Youtube, and charge Canadian internet users for the privilege. Using some of the same arguments too, like "level playing field" between old and new media.
I really don't give two hoots. Maybe naming it Serenity would get Joss Whedden off his fat ass and make more of the series the way Gene Rodenberry finally did.
...
I dunno, I say name the toilet after him, name the ship Serenity. It'll be better for everybody. He'll have more fun bitching about it, NASA and him can have little fun rivalry, and in the process, we might just wake up Joss Wheddon from his hybernation (from making GOOD shows/films).
Okay, I can't quite tell if you were a fan of Firefly or a detractor.
Joss Whedon busted his ass getting a Firefly movie on the big screen. He and most fans would've absolutely LOVED if he'd been able to do a continuation on TV instead, but FOX, having totally given the show the shaft during its short run, refused to give up their TV rights to anyone else. The movie Serenity, made not by Fox but by Universal, was permitted under some weird Hollywood rules.
In short: I've no idea why you're slamming Whedon for not continuing Firefly. He outright was prevented from doing so.
Additionally, if people can have all the food, drink and basic shelter they need, there had better be contraceptives added to the water. Otherwise the population would swell until there was no more room on the planet.
You have it exactly the other way. In the developed world today, where we (generally) have all the food, drink and shelter we need, population is either very near stable, or even in decline.
It's developing areas like parts of Africa where too many babies are born for the majority to make it to healthy adulthood.
Anyway, even if population swells in the Star Trek future, why is this a problem? That's what starships and colony worlds are for.
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Lets save our vitriol about cops for when they kill people's granny's, shoot pregnant women, or kill harmless pets for fun.
Or a road-raging off-duty cop who assaults a taxi driver at the airport in full view of 30 other drivers, flashes police ID and behaves like he's above the law, then gets special treatment when other officers arrive on scene.
Allegedly, of course. Allegedly.
If her Macbook's out of warranty, the metal keyboard probably costs less than having the built-in keyboard serviced.
And those metal keyboards are so thin and compact you actually can easily carry it with your laptop all the time (assuming it's the one with no keypad).
If You think Time Machine is a safe backup method you are in for a surprise. If you delete or overwrite any file you will lose the deleted and the overwritten file in the history as well.
Have you even used Time Machine?
I demonstrated this to a friend last weekend, I recovered a file from my desktop which I'd deleted six months and countless backup cycles ago.
File changes are also preserved--but at every hour or whatever it's set to, not every time you hit "Save."
The only times a deleted file disappears from TM is if you explicitly tell it to delete all its backups, or your backup drive is running out of space and starts removing older backup sets.
I've taken empty bottles through at least three airports without incident--even the guy at the pre-screening counter who hands out the plastic bags waved me through.
That was over a year ago though. Glad to see the bar on intelligent security policies keep getting lowered.
Just yesterday I experienced the levels of stupidity that airport security has become. My tube of toothpaste had been mostly used up, and rolled up to get at the remaining paste.
It was still confiscated because the label on the tube said it originally held 125 mL. Never mind that what was left in there was far less than 75 mL, or that security had no problems with it on my outbound trip.
How retarded is security theatre going to get? Are they going to confiscate empty 500 mL water bottles now, too?
Not a problem; much of the content in the last few years haven't been worth remembering anyway.
Except the countries in question, in becoming members of the WTO and NAFTA, agreed to abide by rulings made by whatever judicial panels those organizations set up.
I have some issue when those international bodies rule against private industry in a country, but in this case the rulings were against the government agencies responsible for imposing tariffs on Canadian lumber companies.
It was bad enough when the secretary of Homeland Security said last week the 9/11 terrorists came through Canada. To hear John McCain repeat that lie made me very glad he's not your president. Does he also think Iraq was responsible for the attacks too?
Unbelievable.
I've said it before: The US government and the IP lobbying groups can go frak themselves ten ways to Sunday on this issue.
In the softwood lumber dispute the US not only flipped the bird at Canada, but refused to accept several judgments against them by the WTO and NAFTA.
If you don't respect international laws and rulings against you, don't expect others to respect the lopsided laws you're trying to force down the throats of more free-thinking countries.
(Sadly, they've come to expect no less; in the end, the newly-elected Conservative government rolled over on the softwood issue, gave the ball to the US, and begged for more. Yes, I'm just as disgusted at the pansies who sold us out)
I hope that no one in NYC ever goes to Hong Kong, or they'll be petrified constantly by low flying jetliners.
I assume you're referring to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnokcAu0c4
Sadly, that airport (Kai Tak) actually closed a decade ago, and the new one is a comfortable 30+ km away, but I remember my landings there... always a thrill, and a sure way to wake up after a 13-hour flight.
No doubt gp meant "Reasonably" in the sense of "likely". Location and the historical record are factors.
It's happened before so it could happen again.
And yet the colonials still went ahead and built Cylons...
As far as I know, an F-16 does not carry the firepower to vaporize the several tons of steel that is a Boeing 747. That stuff is going to go down somewhere. Of course, if you can already see it, it's probably not going to specifically crash into you. So why panic?
A very logical, reasonable question. Unfortunately, panic is one of the most basic survival instincts we have, instantly overriding almost all higher reasoning skills. Properly conditioned (e.g. military) sure, you can keep your cool while death approaches at high speed, but the vast majority don't have that training.
Herd instinct (or whatever its equivalent in humans) is similar--if everyone else on the floor is running away in a blind panic, chances are you will too. Instinctively, remaining with the pack increases the odds the predator will chase someone else.
Panic has no concept of the predator blowing itself up and taking out the entire herd, as it were. It's bigger than you, it's coming at you, instinct is to get away from it ASAP.
Obama: "I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, not the other way around,"
Ummm ... I personally would rather that science was driving our facts first of all, instead of "facts" driving science ...
By putting in quotes "facts" you're equating them to truths.
Maybe "driving" was the wrong word to use, but I think Obama is still correct.
Facts are... well, what actually is, whether there's someone around to observe it or not, and we do want science to base itself around observable, (dis)provable facts. "Truth" is like statistics--an interpretation of that data, or lack thereof.
A perfect example earlier in this very discussion: a bunch of facts about budget spending and US national debt under both Clinton and Bush were used to support two opposing "truths:" That Clinton's administration was more fiscally conservative, or vice-versa.
My work machine got borked through an Adobe Reader 8.1.2 vulnerability two months ago. Based on Slashdot reader opinions, I opted to try Foxit and Sumatra after rebuilding the system.
Sumatra just isn't there yet--it completely messed up the colours on the cover page of one of our PDFs. Probably something to do with RGB vs CMYK, frankly though I didn't care--Foxit displayed it fine, so it stayed.
Once again Apple demonstrates long-term thinking, as we now see the ultimate design goal for Apple designing iPods without replaceable batteries.
Not to slim it down, not to increase battery density, not to drive aftermarket power products... but to keep sand from lodging between battery and casing in desert combat situations, and reap the motherlode as Uncle Sam buys them by the bucket!
(Microsoft's contribution to the war effort? A brown Zune. And even then they couldn't get it right... hint to Redmond, sand is a much lighter colour!)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a trojan doesn't qualify as a "security issue" on the part of the OS.
You're wrong. Anything that compromises the system is a security issue for the OS. Now, I'm not assigning blame or being critical or any of that pejorative stuff. I'm simply pointing out that this is the business of the OS, and it's a security issue.
Uh-huh.
Open a terminal window in OS X or Linux. Now, execute rm -rf on your root directory, using sudo and entering your root password.
Worse than merely compromising your system, you've just destroyed it. Take the example down a notch, so that it merely installs some program with root privileges.
How is the OS supposed to know what you want to actually install/run as root, versus something with similar behaviour but unwanted?
We already have systems that detect "malicious behaviour" and enforces "good behaviour." They come in your DVD and Blu-Ray player, iPhone, and Kindle, and /. readers generally slam them for being overly restrictive and taking too much of our freedom away.
Yep, exactly what I was getting at.
At the supermarket, the display tags already display a wealth of info, including breakdown of price-per-100g and so forth to make comparisons with similar products easier. Including tax info would be no issue.
Smaller shops and retailers might have a little extra work, but when I visited Australia almost all stores had the tax breakdown included in the price tags. Of course, it helped that there was only a single combined federal/state VAT of 10%.
While I'd be all for saving power by hibernating overnight instead of a full shutdown, I think that's the point of this sub-thread--that Windows workstations, for various reasons, won't always reliably come out of hibernation/suspend mode.
My old workstation was a stock IBM/Lenovo tower, no custom hardware, default vendor-supplied Windows. I tried hibernating exactly twice.
Both times it failed to wake up properly. IIRC the error message said it couldn't restore the Windows session, and offered to restart/shut down (maybe there was an "attempt recovery" too, if there was it didn't work).
Now imagine your typical office worker getting that message. Better it just automatically restart and and not give the user a "choice," which they'll just call up IT for anyway. Worse, with the idea that their desktop will be just as they left it yesterday, they might have left unsaved documents open when hibernating it, so those may have been corrupted or lost, too.
Is there an obvious reason this would fail, if actually implemented?
For one, it might actually be illegal to dock pay off of salaried workers. Even if it weren't, HR would raise hell being saddled with yet another variable in their paycheque calculations.
For two, good luck getting people to sign this revision to their contract.
For three, even if they signed, prepare for a bitchfest when they're docked pay.
At our office we actually do shut down most of the workstations overnight, and I'm all for at least hibernating them at larger companies. But I think the implementation headaches and animosity your particular suggestion would cause, would far outweigh the $75/person/year, even for a large organization.
That said, I cannot imagine a user VPN-ing in to access their desktop from a company laptop, this - to me - seems like a waste of resources/computers, and thus money. Apps can be installed on the laptop or TS environment, files are on the server.
Here's one such user: me.
I'm the only developer at a small shop. My normal system is a desktop, which has all my dev tools. The very, very rare times I'm sent on a trip, I get a loaner laptop. Installing the IDE and other tools onto would not only be overkill (the minimal install is several GB), we can't anyway with the IDE's non-floating license.
Accessing and saving files on network drives over VPN is also painfully slow, especially during regular work hours. The RDP session to my desktop, and accessing them as if I was there, is far more responsive, even with the occasional visual delays and screen refreshes.
On top of that, I sometimes work from home, and even ignoring the license issue, I'm not going to partitioning 10 GB of my Mac's hard drive for Boot Camping Windows ;-)
There's probably a workaround for every issue I've raised, but bottom line, the fastest, easiest and cheapest solution for us is just to VPN in and RDP into my work desktop.
I don't really get the argument against VAT or similar taxes. It's only "hidden" in the sense that you have to do some math to figure out the pre-tax price, and even if it's outrageous, like 50%, if you perceive it as having enough value you'll pay it anyway. Maybe after some grumbling and complaining, but you'll pay it.
Like gas. I'm pretty sure it was built into the pump price when I visited Florida a couple years ago, and it's like that in Canada--even though in both places, other taxable items (e.g. groceries, computers, services, etc) list the pre-tax price.
Personally, I'd prefer if all the prices I saw were post-tax--as long as the breakdown is shown on the receipts, or even on price tags on display shelves. Hell, on top of that raise the wages of service/wait staff and get rid of gratuities... I loved not having to factor in tips at restaurants when I visited Australia. I've heard that tips in North American restaurants are now pooled anyway, so even if you're extra-generous, your specific waiter/waitress won't see more than a few cents of it.
Then the idiot delivery woman keeps throwing papers in the middle of the street, where they get squashed by passing cars (or disappear completely).
Remember paperboys? Sigh. I'm old enough that I can claim to have been one of the last of that breed.
From what I heard, they phased them out in the years after I stopped doing it (late 80s, early 90s) because kids just weren't reliable about managing themselves. It wasn't that complicated, but it did require commitment to doing the same thing at the same time(s) every day.
I was one. Grade 8-10, I delivered our city's daily paper to about 70 houses in the morning, i.e. woke up around 5:40, and still had to get ready for school afterwards.
I managed myself just fine, but right around the timeframe you mention (early 90s) the company apparently wanted fewer foot carriers, and replaced three of us with someone who had a car.
Not sure what kind of sap figured it was worthwhile to get up at 4:30 to deliver 200 papers for less than minimum wage, and have to pay his own gas on top of that...
The logic of protectionist bureaucracies goes against the common sense and market forces.
Their logic: if we allow English-only sales for six weeks, then by the time the French version is out the bilingual players won't buy it, French sales will be down, which may make the company decide not localize future titles. Therefore, don't allow sales of the English one until both are available, then they'll be on a level playing field.
Reality: Bilingual gamers will buy the English version from out-of-province, or pirate it. Local retail sales of BOTH English and French versions will be less than they could have been. Reduced sales may make company decide not to localize future titles.
Lest you think such protectionist "logic" is limited to Quebec, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) mandates a percentage of Canadian-produced content on almost all national radio and television providers. Some in the Canadian arts community are demanding that the CRTC force Canadian content on internet sites like Youtube, and charge Canadian internet users for the privilege. Using some of the same arguments too, like "level playing field" between old and new media.
I really don't give two hoots. Maybe naming it Serenity would get Joss Whedden off his fat ass and make more of the series the way Gene Rodenberry finally did.
I dunno, I say name the toilet after him, name the ship Serenity. It'll be better for everybody. He'll have more fun bitching about it, NASA and him can have little fun rivalry, and in the process, we might just wake up Joss Wheddon from his hybernation (from making GOOD shows/films).
Okay, I can't quite tell if you were a fan of Firefly or a detractor.
Joss Whedon busted his ass getting a Firefly movie on the big screen. He and most fans would've absolutely LOVED if he'd been able to do a continuation on TV instead, but FOX, having totally given the show the shaft during its short run, refused to give up their TV rights to anyone else. The movie Serenity, made not by Fox but by Universal, was permitted under some weird Hollywood rules.
In short: I've no idea why you're slamming Whedon for not continuing Firefly. He outright was prevented from doing so.
Additionally, if people can have all the food, drink and basic shelter they need, there had better be contraceptives added to the water. Otherwise the population would swell until there was no more room on the planet.
You have it exactly the other way. In the developed world today, where we (generally) have all the food, drink and shelter we need, population is either very near stable, or even in decline.
It's developing areas like parts of Africa where too many babies are born for the majority to make it to healthy adulthood.
Anyway, even if population swells in the Star Trek future, why is this a problem? That's what starships and colony worlds are for.