When you consider that their "redesign" is keeping the low power and lousy battery life that played a big role in making said product class unfavorable, and focused on adding an even shittier UI...
No, I guess it's still not confusing. That seems to be the new Tech Company M.O. these days...
If the kids you are referring to don't understand something, why not just ask "why" or "how"? Do they WANT to be ignorant?
Because after the first few dozen times of asking "why" or "how" and being told "you don't need to worry about that" from someone in a position of authority, they believe it, as they haven't developed the cynicism to question it.
. Once I showed a teacher I was actively interested in something, they would begin to show me more and give seriously fun and interesting 'extra credit' work that the rest of the students didn't do(synchrotron experiments in Sophomore year anyone?)
Then you got lucky. Even back when I was in elementary and high school, twenty-*mumble* years ago, it was more common for a "curious" student like that to be branded a troublemaker or a smart-ass, singled out for making the teachers' lives difficult, and having your life made difficult in return (extra make-work assignments for the whole class, 'thanks to Jimmy and Susie, who clearly don't have enough to do.').
I agree, a good teacher can make a world of difference, and I had a couple which managed to be enough to overcome the parade of assholes, but, as I said, I was lucky in that.
Call me cynical, but I think that probably has more to do with the nature of the crime (theft) rather than the quantity or quality of the evidence. An IP address is plenty good enough when someone says something that's a particular type of stupid on a webforum.
The court system is already backed up, could you imagine if every charge when to trial. Nothing would ever get done, and most important people would complain (louder then ever before) about being called for jury duty all the time
Abso-fucking-lutely. Maybe then the courts would spend their time productively, prosecuting actual criminals, rather than for breaking one of the constant stream of bullshit laws we're buried under because of bad business models, idiotic ideologies, and someone's magic sky daddy shaking his finger.
It would be an improvement the courts actually had to weigh the choice of holding a trial for an axe murderer, or the guy with peculiar dietary tastes because dipping your fries in your Frosty is an abomination unto Nuggan.
America's puritanical hypocrisy is hardly a secret, and yet "the rest of the world" as a whole keep slurping this shit up, knowing full well what's waiting for them. We're not talking about USGOV abusing DNS root servers here.
America's not forcing shit on anyone here, and neither is Apple. If "the rest of the world" has so much of a problem with it, I suggest that they stop shelling out for the overpriced, under-featured shiny. Clearly, they just don't give a shit.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered that clusterfsck. The last Belkin device I bought was a Nostromo N52 game pad. I was always worried about what would happen when it gave up the ghost.
Luckily someone else is making them now.
Unfortunately, that "someone" is Razer, so it's got more features and is likely easier on the hands, but it's probably made of spun sugar and leftover wax from a cheese wheel.
Pedantically speaking (and all grammar flames are an invitation to pedantry), your correction should be more contextual. The phrase "a while" is, indeed, two words when used in the noun form such as in the idiom which so efficiently ignited your pique. However, in adverb form, the spelling "awhile" has been in use for at least 8-1100 years (depending on source), so your 'correction' is unnecessarily broad.
Oh, and 3/5 of your post are also malformed sentence fragments.
*pushes glasses up on nose*
(And this is one of the ways I avoid developer burnout.;) )
AFAIK, none of the DEs, and I'm not even sure about X.org itself, are part of Ubuntu server releases, and as such aren't maintained for the 5-year LTS period.
No he's not. He said messages between "Google Users" and "Messages stored on their servers," which seems to pretty clearly put the context on message storage, not transport, which, again, is what SSL does.
And since we're talking about google-to-google communication, there are lots of ways that said encryption could be handled, with various levels of effectiveness against google/government intrusion (none of which really approach "good") with little user hassle.
Which has exactly nothing to do with encrypting the messages themselves. SSL just encrypts the transport, they're still stored in nice, invasion-friendly cleartext.
"No one can conquer giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism when [people] consider machines and computers, profit motives and property rights to be more important than people"
While number 2 is certainly facepalm worthy, I'm not sure about 1. I don't think it's so much "fuck you, consistency" and more "fuck you, the world didn't come into being on 1970-01-01"
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When you consider that their "redesign" is keeping the low power and lousy battery life that played a big role in making said product class unfavorable, and focused on adding an even shittier UI...
No, I guess it's still not confusing. That seems to be the new Tech Company M.O. these days...
If the kids you are referring to don't understand something, why not just ask "why" or "how"? Do they WANT to be ignorant?
Because after the first few dozen times of asking "why" or "how" and being told "you don't need to worry about that" from someone in a position of authority, they believe it, as they haven't developed the cynicism to question it.
. Once I showed a teacher I was actively interested in something, they would begin to show me more and give seriously fun and interesting 'extra credit' work that the rest of the students didn't do(synchrotron experiments in Sophomore year anyone?)
Then you got lucky. Even back when I was in elementary and high school, twenty-*mumble* years ago, it was more common for a "curious" student like that to be branded a troublemaker or a smart-ass, singled out for making the teachers' lives difficult, and having your life made difficult in return (extra make-work assignments for the whole class, 'thanks to Jimmy and Susie, who clearly don't have enough to do.').
I agree, a good teacher can make a world of difference, and I had a couple which managed to be enough to overcome the parade of assholes, but, as I said, I was lucky in that.
They love those. They get to use them to pad thier "sex-offender" bust stats, which are good as gold come budget time.
Call me cynical, but I think that probably has more to do with the nature of the crime (theft) rather than the quantity or quality of the evidence. An IP address is plenty good enough when someone says something that's a particular type of stupid on a webforum.
Fuck you. You're "Prince." Deal with it. ;)
"What you can do..."
"'We The People' petition..."
So then... Not a fucking thing?
Business as usual.
"Visit The US! Now With 30% More 'Not as bad as Somalia!"
I really, really hope you get fired from your job at the Board of Tourism...
You'd never guess to look at it, but the most hardware-taxing game I've played in years has been Minecraft.
I know chunks are deceptively large, but I still wonder if there's not some brute-force coding going on...
The court system is already backed up, could you imagine if every charge when to trial. Nothing would ever get done, and most important people would complain (louder then ever before) about being called for jury duty all the time
Abso-fucking-lutely. Maybe then the courts would spend their time productively, prosecuting actual criminals, rather than for breaking one of the constant stream of bullshit laws we're buried under because of bad business models, idiotic ideologies, and someone's magic sky daddy shaking his finger.
It would be an improvement the courts actually had to weigh the choice of holding a trial for an axe murderer, or the guy with peculiar dietary tastes because dipping your fries in your Frosty is an abomination unto Nuggan.
Bullshit.
America's puritanical hypocrisy is hardly a secret, and yet "the rest of the world" as a whole keep slurping this shit up, knowing full well what's waiting for them. We're not talking about USGOV abusing DNS root servers here.
America's not forcing shit on anyone here, and neither is Apple. If "the rest of the world" has so much of a problem with it, I suggest that they stop shelling out for the overpriced, under-featured shiny. Clearly, they just don't give a shit.
It's trivial to create a backup apk file of just about any installed app, FOSS or not.
TTA sure loved TMBG. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsAiCs66l40
This is definitely the good kind of nostalgia.
The same use as a "limited" copyright duration that extends on demand.
I.e. it's a lot of use to the scumbags that purchase these laws.
Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered that clusterfsck. The last Belkin device I bought was a Nostromo N52 game pad. I was always worried about what would happen when it gave up the ghost.
Luckily someone else is making them now.
Unfortunately, that "someone" is Razer, so it's got more features and is likely easier on the hands, but it's probably made of spun sugar and leftover wax from a cheese wheel.
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
I didn't learn this until I had a date in Constantinople and she was waiting in Istanbul.
8-1100 is common and accepted numerical shorthand for the range 800-1100.
So who's going to donate the infrastructure? There's a good reason Skype smoked all of the direct-connect options way back when.
Understanding the law has part to play in crafting sound bites to sell the boss' position to the people who don't know/care enough to understand it.
Ye flipping gods. I am SO sorry. *backpat* It'll get better soon!
Pedantically speaking (and all grammar flames are an invitation to pedantry), your correction should be more contextual. The phrase "a while" is, indeed, two words when used in the noun form such as in the idiom which so efficiently ignited your pique. However, in adverb form, the spelling "awhile" has been in use for at least 8-1100 years (depending on source), so your 'correction' is unnecessarily broad.
Oh, and 3/5 of your post are also malformed sentence fragments.
*pushes glasses up on nose*
(And this is one of the ways I avoid developer burnout. ;) )
AFAIK, none of the DEs, and I'm not even sure about X.org itself, are part of Ubuntu server releases, and as such aren't maintained for the 5-year LTS period.
Oblig:
<include why_put_gui_on_server_anyway.h>
No he's not. He said messages between "Google Users" and "Messages stored on their servers," which seems to pretty clearly put the context on message storage, not transport, which, again, is what SSL does.
And since we're talking about google-to-google communication, there are lots of ways that said encryption could be handled, with various levels of effectiveness against google/government intrusion (none of which really approach "good") with little user hassle.
Which has exactly nothing to do with encrypting the messages themselves. SSL just encrypts the transport, they're still stored in nice, invasion-friendly cleartext.
Since you invited me to. ;)
"No one can conquer giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism when [people] consider machines and computers, profit motives and property rights to be more important than people"
While number 2 is certainly facepalm worthy, I'm not sure about 1. I don't think it's so much "fuck you, consistency" and more "fuck you, the world didn't come into being on 1970-01-01"