Not listening to someone because of their style is not the mark of a rational individual, so I would hope that 'most of us' don't just tune him out because of it. Do his arguments make sense? Is he battling idiocy? If so, vitriol is warranted.
Considering the history of the last 20 years, you should assume ALL software to be compromised whether it's still supported or not, and act accordingly.
1. metro is not a useability improvement for desktops. 2. snap is obnoxious for people who actually want more than one window on their screen at a time. Just because a user moves the window to the top doesn't mean he wants it full screen. that's what double clicking the window bar is for. 3. search is a crutch for a crappy interface. The whole point of a gui is to have resources easy to find and arranged in logical order. metro does none of this...even the vista/7 interface is clunky, being full of white space and, compared to 2k/xp, extremely generic descriptions...especially in places like the control panel.
Yes, but what conditions have to be true before you'd consider this country to be the "soviet socialist states of america" or whatever? Asking this question allows a sane conversation because it forces both you and the other to fill in your rhetoric with details and a logical argument...and yes, I am sure that those who disagree with him have their own rhetorical salvos.
good luck enforcing that..and the technology that would enable this per-car would be so invasive in so many ways that the state would use it as a beach head for all sorts of further micromanagement. I guess buying a new car in the future is going to entail ripping out a ton of nannystate electronics and software, which is not too different from the reasons behind wiping the disk on a new OEM computer.
Instead of selfishly demanding that others indulge your stockholm syndrome, why not advocate the removal of the cell towers installed along major highways? I remember the rush to install them back in the 90s and how everyone clamored for them. Just take them out and make service spotty on the road again.. It'll get to the point where most people won't bother. People who want navigation will just have to revert to offline software...and people who want to chat while driving, will just have to deal with down time (which isn't so bad really), and, so will their bosses.
I disagree - playing car games, family singalongs, mom reading us a book (or older siblings reading to younger), impromptu spelling bees, going through math flash cards, etc on long car trips seemed a much better way to spend the time together than having each kid with his headphones on and head buried in his electronic device.
As a kid who spent time rigging his own electronic entertainment for the car back in the 80s, I disagree with this one. God those insipid, idiotic games were boring as shit. They were worse than being bored and not doing anything because now I'd be pouring effort into being bored. It was worse than school. When I was that bored, I'd just sleep or daydream.
We even survived a few car breakdowns without cellphones to call for help - back then, other motorists were willing to stop and help, or at least drive to the next town to send back a tow truck.
Back then, tow truck operators would also listen on CB channel 9, at least in my area.
Sure they were.. They just had different trade offs and they weren't all negative like your fallacy implies. In this case, less safety offered kids a bit more mobility in the car which allowed them more freedom in entertaining themselves. This is true in a lot of places across the freedom/safety spectrum in the past vs today.
1. questioning the true intentions of authority figures is not paranoia. There are ample examples in history showing what happens when we don't. While these people are serving in a public office, yes, I think they should be required to give up most of their privacy. All meeting minutes should be placed in the public domain (hey the tax payer is the one paying for this). Any official caught trying to prevent this should be canned immediately, and depending on the severity, tried for treason and shot. This will encourage the right kind of people to run for office in the first place.
2. What studies? Done by whom? Which americans? 'Greater good' is socialist rhetoric..and no, claiming this is not paranoia either, nor the same thing as an inability to trust. This has to do with being FORCED to trust organizations with irrelevant personal info in order to function in society. Socialists think that people naturally can live in one giant commune and get along just like they can do in small groups, but the reality is that this just doesn't scale. Those little differences between individuals and groups add up real quick, no matter how much the socialist state tries to homogenize the culture. Look what this process did to the soviet satellite states. After 70 years of 'glorious' communism cooked them from the inside, the only thing holding them together was the iron curtain. When it was gone, the societies rapidly devolved. If anything, the reasons behind americans' cynicism and 'paranoia' are similar to the reasons why russian culture now has the same reputation.
3. That's right, they are human. However, only few can handle leadership and not succumb to abuse of power. The authors of the US constitution knew this and that's why it was written the way it was. It has nothing to do with being 'nice.' 'Nice' people have no place in leadership positions: they're too easily compromised. 'Nice' wastes money. 'Nice' plays favorites. 'Nice' gets special favors done in high places at the expense of liberty. Washington culture today is primed and ready to 'compromise' us all right off a cliff, both in domestic and foreign affairs. The last thing america needs is more of that feelings-over-facts, and consensus-over-truth style leadership that runs rampant in socialist regimes.
4. 'Reflection of his whole self'? Rhetorical nonsense. I assume you're talking about the public official? These people need to have skins on their backs.. "Leave britney allonuhh" types have no place in leadership roles. In fact, the feminization of modern culture is breeding more and more of these kinds of people every day, which is a key source of the extreme reactions seen. People need to toughen up a bit, not be 'nicer.'
5. Hey, these officials seem to be saying this is what joe citizen should have to put up with. Why not them too? Of course, the answer is to remove the surveillance, defend the border, and reinstate the bill of rights in full force, but these, too are deemed politically incorrect.. How useful and helpful it is to sympathize with the needs and feelings of illegal invaders over that of tax paying citizens. They call it stockholm syndrome for a reason...or maybe certain political groups are looking for a horde of willing voters (once they get them citizenship).
6. Well, I agree with this one, but it contradicts much of what you said above.
Yes. Every. Single. One. Obama did promise us an 'open government.' Of course, he's as full of shit as george bush was. The fact the IRS and the DOJ apparently consider the US citizen an enemy of the state by default suggests we have a real problem brewing.
, I must be quick to point out that nobody in the media or universities of this dimension praises Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot.
No, they praise marx instead, at least implicitly. Cultural marxism and so-called identity politics have become cornerstones of 'liberal' arts ivy leagues, and has trickled down to pretty much every campus in the country. The media is little different. It acts more and more like the soapbox for the state every day. This kicked into really high gear with george bush's cronies after 9/11, and obama's crew seems content to take advantage of the momentum to push their own policy. It's a lot easier to do what you want when that pesky constitution has a few more hole blown into it.
Before I get negatively moderated for not drinking my koolaid, all I want to suggest is that you shouldn't assume any of these parties are out for your interest or are interested in protecting your liberties or even the liberties of those they claim to be fighting for. They might promise favors every so often (obamacare, gun safety, terror safety), but you can be sure that they are taking away a lot more than they are giving. Without your liberties, nothing else really matters.
Right, like victims never have shares in their own plight? Was she bullied? yes. Did she choose to kill herself? yes. Did the bullies kill her? no. Did facebook kill her? no. Who is responsible for her death? she is. Each side made choices along the way. Saying things that happen to make someone kill themselves is not the same thing as murdering them yourself.
blame the bullies' parents! blame their grandparents! blame zuckerberg!! I tire of this blame chain culture. Soon it'll be too risky to do much of anything in life, but of course, the politicians tell us that the top priority for western culture is to make the soccer moms feel that their kids are safe.
Bottom line: people do stupid shit. No amount of law or police state enforcement will change this. We should be teaching kids the tough realities of life instead of coddling their feelings. It prevents extreme reactions (like suicide or mass murder) to social stressors.
In the past, only the people present at the time of the incident know the facts, and all others had to go on was their say so. This allowed the relative importance of incidents to fade with time. With video footage of everything that proof persists indefinitely, and can be used to judge indefinitely.
At some point, someone will have to maintain the hardware specific driver. Wayland may or may not be a cleaner api, but the work still has to be done for each device.
Things like low level OS frameworks and related drivers, which require low latency, high performance, and sane memory footprints, must be ported to the architecture in a language whose compiler/linker spits out native binaries. No python/java/.NET here, because the lower the hog is in the stack, the greater the impact on latency and performance it has.
Wayland is a perfect example of this as it sits very close to the hardware with a driver between it and each device. This concept will never change because at some point the software must speak to the hardware directly no matter how the hardware is designed. If anything, the decade of sandboxed apis are a big reason why we need gigabytes of ram and microwave clocked CPUs to do basically the same things we were doing with desktops in the 90s with acceptable performance. The current situation on desktops (regardless of OS) is a sloppy waste of cycles that could either go into greater performance or power savings (or both, depending). Clean, efficient code is not, nor should it ever be, passe.
Sorry to break apart your public school taught black and white world, but things are much more complicated than "democrat good 4 change, neocon bad." RMS is anything but a conservative, by nearly ANY definition of conservative, neocon, socialist, communist, or liberal.
Critiquing the new is not the same thing as hating change.. I wish people like you would quit parroting out the old 'hater' fallacy every time something new is bashed. A lot of new things these days deserve the bashing they get.
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Not listening to someone because of their style is not the mark of a rational individual, so I would hope that 'most of us' don't just tune him out because of it. Do his arguments make sense? Is he battling idiocy? If so, vitriol is warranted.
Considering the history of the last 20 years, you should assume ALL software to be compromised whether it's still supported or not, and act accordingly.
1. metro is not a useability improvement for desktops.
2. snap is obnoxious for people who actually want more than one window on their screen at a time. Just because a user moves the window to the top doesn't mean he wants it full screen. that's what double clicking the window bar is for.
3. search is a crutch for a crappy interface. The whole point of a gui is to have resources easy to find and arranged in logical order. metro does none of this...even the vista/7 interface is clunky, being full of white space and, compared to 2k/xp, extremely generic descriptions...especially in places like the control panel.
Yes, but what conditions have to be true before you'd consider this country to be the "soviet socialist states of america" or whatever? Asking this question allows a sane conversation because it forces both you and the other to fill in your rhetoric with details and a logical argument...and yes, I am sure that those who disagree with him have their own rhetorical salvos.
good luck enforcing that..and the technology that would enable this per-car would be so invasive in so many ways that the state would use it as a beach head for all sorts of further micromanagement. I guess buying a new car in the future is going to entail ripping out a ton of nannystate electronics and software, which is not too different from the reasons behind wiping the disk on a new OEM computer.
Instead of selfishly demanding that others indulge your stockholm syndrome, why not advocate the removal of the cell towers installed along major highways? I remember the rush to install them back in the 90s and how everyone clamored for them. Just take them out and make service spotty on the road again.. It'll get to the point where most people won't bother. People who want navigation will just have to revert to offline software...and people who want to chat while driving, will just have to deal with down time (which isn't so bad really), and, so will their bosses.
I disagree - playing car games, family singalongs, mom reading us a book (or older siblings reading to younger), impromptu spelling bees, going through math flash cards, etc on long car trips seemed a much better way to spend the time together than having each kid with his headphones on and head buried in his electronic device.
As a kid who spent time rigging his own electronic entertainment for the car back in the 80s, I disagree with this one. God those insipid, idiotic games were boring as shit. They were worse than being bored and not doing anything because now I'd be pouring effort into being bored. It was worse than school. When I was that bored, I'd just sleep or daydream.
We even survived a few car breakdowns without cellphones to call for help - back then, other motorists were willing to stop and help, or at least drive to the next town to send back a tow truck.
Back then, tow truck operators would also listen on CB channel 9, at least in my area.
They weren't always bad either, compared with today.
Sure they were.. They just had different trade offs and they weren't all negative like your fallacy implies. In this case, less safety offered kids a bit more mobility in the car which allowed them more freedom in entertaining themselves. This is true in a lot of places across the freedom/safety spectrum in the past vs today.
No. He probably lives in the USA or a western european country, where warrantless tracking is setting serious self-justifying precedence.
not if the text box you're typing into is running an inserted javascript routine that tracks keystrokes..
You mentioned the corporates that own the data that should belong to the user, but you forgot the big brother state that wants access. YAY CLOUD!!
1. questioning the true intentions of authority figures is not paranoia. There are ample examples in history showing what happens when we don't. While these people are serving in a public office, yes, I think they should be required to give up most of their privacy. All meeting minutes should be placed in the public domain (hey the tax payer is the one paying for this). Any official caught trying to prevent this should be canned immediately, and depending on the severity, tried for treason and shot. This will encourage the right kind of people to run for office in the first place.
2. What studies? Done by whom? Which americans? 'Greater good' is socialist rhetoric..and no, claiming this is not paranoia either, nor the same thing as an inability to trust. This has to do with being FORCED to trust organizations with irrelevant personal info in order to function in society. Socialists think that people naturally can live in one giant commune and get along just like they can do in small groups, but the reality is that this just doesn't scale. Those little differences between individuals and groups add up real quick, no matter how much the socialist state tries to homogenize the culture. Look what this process did to the soviet satellite states. After 70 years of 'glorious' communism cooked them from the inside, the only thing holding them together was the iron curtain. When it was gone, the societies rapidly devolved. If anything, the reasons behind americans' cynicism and 'paranoia' are similar to the reasons why russian culture now has the same reputation.
3. That's right, they are human. However, only few can handle leadership and not succumb to abuse of power. The authors of the US constitution knew this and that's why it was written the way it was. It has nothing to do with being 'nice.' 'Nice' people have no place in leadership positions: they're too easily compromised. 'Nice' wastes money. 'Nice' plays favorites. 'Nice' gets special favors done in high places at the expense of liberty. Washington culture today is primed and ready to 'compromise' us all right off a cliff, both in domestic and foreign affairs. The last thing america needs is more of that feelings-over-facts, and consensus-over-truth style leadership that runs rampant in socialist regimes.
4. 'Reflection of his whole self'? Rhetorical nonsense. I assume you're talking about the public official? These people need to have skins on their backs.. "Leave britney allonuhh" types have no place in leadership roles. In fact, the feminization of modern culture is breeding more and more of these kinds of people every day, which is a key source of the extreme reactions seen. People need to toughen up a bit, not be 'nicer.'
5. Hey, these officials seem to be saying this is what joe citizen should have to put up with. Why not them too? Of course, the answer is to remove the surveillance, defend the border, and reinstate the bill of rights in full force, but these, too are deemed politically incorrect.. How useful and helpful it is to sympathize with the needs and feelings of illegal invaders over that of tax paying citizens. They call it stockholm syndrome for a reason...or maybe certain political groups are looking for a horde of willing voters (once they get them citizenship).
6. Well, I agree with this one, but it contradicts much of what you said above.
Yes. Every. Single. One. Obama did promise us an 'open government.' Of course, he's as full of shit as george bush was. The fact the IRS and the DOJ apparently consider the US citizen an enemy of the state by default suggests we have a real problem brewing.
, I must be quick to point out that nobody in the media or universities of this dimension praises Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot.
No, they praise marx instead, at least implicitly. Cultural marxism and so-called identity politics have become cornerstones of 'liberal' arts ivy leagues, and has trickled down to pretty much every campus in the country. The media is little different. It acts more and more like the soapbox for the state every day. This kicked into really high gear with george bush's cronies after 9/11, and obama's crew seems content to take advantage of the momentum to push their own policy. It's a lot easier to do what you want when that pesky constitution has a few more hole blown into it.
Before I get negatively moderated for not drinking my koolaid, all I want to suggest is that you shouldn't assume any of these parties are out for your interest or are interested in protecting your liberties or even the liberties of those they claim to be fighting for. They might promise favors every so often (obamacare, gun safety, terror safety), but you can be sure that they are taking away a lot more than they are giving. Without your liberties, nothing else really matters.
Right, like victims never have shares in their own plight? Was she bullied? yes. Did she choose to kill herself? yes. Did the bullies kill her? no. Did facebook kill her? no. Who is responsible for her death? she is. Each side made choices along the way. Saying things that happen to make someone kill themselves is not the same thing as murdering them yourself.
blame the bullies' parents! blame their grandparents! blame zuckerberg!! I tire of this blame chain culture. Soon it'll be too risky to do much of anything in life, but of course, the politicians tell us that the top priority for western culture is to make the soccer moms feel that their kids are safe.
Bottom line: people do stupid shit. No amount of law or police state enforcement will change this. We should be teaching kids the tough realities of life instead of coddling their feelings. It prevents extreme reactions (like suicide or mass murder) to social stressors.
In the past, only the people present at the time of the incident know the facts, and all others had to go on was their say so. This allowed the relative importance of incidents to fade with time. With video footage of everything that proof persists indefinitely, and can be used to judge indefinitely.
At some point, someone will have to maintain the hardware specific driver. Wayland may or may not be a cleaner api, but the work still has to be done for each device.
NIH syndrome, most likely. The opengl performance on X11 is quite good. The nvidia driver shows that it's possible.
Things like low level OS frameworks and related drivers, which require low latency, high performance, and sane memory footprints, must be ported to the architecture in a language whose compiler/linker spits out native binaries. No python/java/.NET here, because the lower the hog is in the stack, the greater the impact on latency and performance it has.
Wayland is a perfect example of this as it sits very close to the hardware with a driver between it and each device. This concept will never change because at some point the software must speak to the hardware directly no matter how the hardware is designed. If anything, the decade of sandboxed apis are a big reason why we need gigabytes of ram and microwave clocked CPUs to do basically the same things we were doing with desktops in the 90s with acceptable performance. The current situation on desktops (regardless of OS) is a sloppy waste of cycles that could either go into greater performance or power savings (or both, depending). Clean, efficient code is not, nor should it ever be, passe.
No, actually, libertarians do not say that, but go ahead, keep getting your information on them from the NYT and MSNBC.
How about the ones linking to youtube vids of someone typing (very slowly) into notepad.. those are my favorites..
I guess it depends how he has it set up. The cool part of those 'archaic' applications is that they can be automated any number of ways.
The modern email client also allows embedding of pictures and scripts which made it one of the primary vectors for viruses.
Sorry to break apart your public school taught black and white world, but things are much more complicated than "democrat good 4 change, neocon bad." RMS is anything but a conservative, by nearly ANY definition of conservative, neocon, socialist, communist, or liberal.
Critiquing the new is not the same thing as hating change.. I wish people like you would quit parroting out the old 'hater' fallacy every time something new is bashed. A lot of new things these days deserve the bashing they get.