How can the Stasi function if no-one is willing to work for them?
And, given Americans tried that 'vote the bums out!' thing when they elected a Republican Congress and Democrat President and it was clearly a dismal failure, how do you think that doing it again would be any different?
And yet there's any difference if it the D/Rs were reversed?
When the Republicans do something bad, the media print stories about how horrible it is. When the Democrats do the same thing, the media print stories about how wonderful it is and how anyone who thinks it's bad is a right-wing nut who should be executed for treason.
The Stasi weren't just doing their job, and they weren't just cops.
The Stasi secret police were in effect Communist activists suppressing speech, religion, political opposition, political organization, and anything else that was deemed opposition to the communist one-party regime. They were an instrument of totalitarian rule.
Android != Linux. Digitial signature checks are part of the Android runtime, nothing to do with the underlying OS.
There are plenty of embedded Linux systems that are totally insecure -- my webcam, for example, came by default with a telnet port that took you to a root shell -- but that's nothing to do with Linux.
I think that 28 nm is actually a reason why Apple went with TSMC instead of Intel. Samsun is expected to have their 28 nm line up soon so Apple will have two suppliers for their chips.
That's like suggesting Apple go with AMD for their desktops and laptops because they'd have Intel as a second supplier if AMD screwed them around, while Intel were so far ahead of AMD in the CPU market that if they picked Intel they'd have no other choice.
The proof of it is quite simple: look at an x86 block diagram and see how much of the silicon is devoted to decoding the obsolete ISA into something the core can actually use.
The vast majority of the silicon is devoted to cache. I believe a modern Intel CPU uses 1% of the transistors for instruction processing before they get into the RISC core, and that's pretty much a fixed size unless you go back to simple in-order execution like the Atom, because all have to do the same amount of decoding and re-ordering.
That's more important on a low-end CPU where the chip is much smaller so the instruction processing will take up a larger percentage of the transistors, but as ARM chips become more complex, x86 becomes more compeitive.
It has long been held by US courts that the exteriors of letters and other items sent through the mail are not considered private.
And?
Do you really think that if you went back in time and asked the founders who wrote the US Constitution whether having the government keep a record of all mail going through their system would be OK under the fourth amendment, they'd say 'Hell, yeah!'?
Why should it sound crazy? If you've got some parallel computations to make you'd be a fool not to use the GPU.
1. For simple tasks, parallel computing often ends up slower becuase the time taken to transfer data between processors is more than the time taken to do the calculations. 2. If you need teraflops of performance to process your spreadsheet, you're probably like my friend who used to write novels in Excel.
That's why you brake and give them more space. It's still your fault if you don't.
I believe many of the cases of intentional crashes in the UK have been people pulling in front of big trucks and slamming on their brakes. Big trucks tend not to stop quickly and don't want to slow down and have to speed up again.
In Canada (not sure about other places) they often contrast the tossed salad with the melting pot. In a tossed salad, there is distinction without separation (no ghettos yet no assimilation).
And what makes you think there are no immigrant ghettos in Canada?
.. was naming it Windows 8, instead of Windows Tablet Edition, which could also be added to Windows 7 as a Tablet Mode.
Uh, no.
Windows 8 was a desperate attempt to get some kind of prescence on tablets and phones. To do that, they need apps. To get apps, they need to convince developers that they should develop apps for Windows 8. To do that, they had to push the tablet interface on the desktop.
Of course the idea was retarded from the start, which is why it's come around to bite them in the ass. They threw their desktop users under the bus and gained only a minimal number of tablet and phone users.
'Cause when you try to run that graphical program from your Ubuntu server and display the output on Windows, it doesn't work because they've invented Yet Another Graphics System that's incompatible with everything else.
The beauty of X was that you knew an app on SGI Unix would display on OS/2, SunOS, VMS or anything else that supported X in the OS or third-party addons because they all used the same protocol. You still know an X11 app on Ubuntu will display on Windows so long as it doesn't do video playback or other kinds of special cases which are just too damn slow over a LAN.
Maybe there's a boat load of trade secrets in the closed source drivers, but I'd imagine that this is a perfect area for patents to be used against competitors.
You have that backwards. If their drivers are inadvertantly violating a patent owned by Joe's Patent Trolls, Inc, then making the drivers open source makes that violation much easier to spot.
Patents are a huge disincentive to releasing open source drivers. Another issue the company I worked for had was hardware bugs, because having to put bizarre workarounds in closed source drivers was no big deal, but a bit embarrassing in open source.
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So, where does one find the magical non-biased news media?
How can the Stasi function if no-one is willing to work for them?
And, given Americans tried that 'vote the bums out!' thing when they elected a Republican Congress and Democrat President and it was clearly a dismal failure, how do you think that doing it again would be any different?
And yet there's any difference if it the D/Rs were reversed?
When the Republicans do something bad, the media print stories about how horrible it is. When the Democrats do the same thing, the media print stories about how wonderful it is and how anyone who thinks it's bad is a right-wing nut who should be executed for treason.
The Stasi weren't just doing their job, and they weren't just cops.
The Stasi secret police were in effect Communist activists suppressing speech, religion, political opposition, political organization, and anything else that was deemed opposition to the communist one-party regime. They were an instrument of totalitarian rule.
Which was their job.
As long as they do not look into the content of our emails/phone calls, we couldn't care less if they check 'who is talking to whom'.
That's presumably why you're posting anonymously.
Android != Linux. Digitial signature checks are part of the Android runtime, nothing to do with the underlying OS.
There are plenty of embedded Linux systems that are totally insecure -- my webcam, for example, came by default with a telnet port that took you to a root shell -- but that's nothing to do with Linux.
I think that 28 nm is actually a reason why Apple went with TSMC instead of Intel. Samsun is expected to have their 28 nm line up soon so Apple will have two suppliers for their chips.
That's like suggesting Apple go with AMD for their desktops and laptops because they'd have Intel as a second supplier if AMD screwed them around, while Intel were so far ahead of AMD in the CPU market that if they picked Intel they'd have no other choice.
The proof of it is quite simple: look at an x86 block diagram and see how much of the silicon is devoted to decoding the obsolete ISA into something the core can actually use.
The vast majority of the silicon is devoted to cache. I believe a modern Intel CPU uses 1% of the transistors for instruction processing before they get into the RISC core, and that's pretty much a fixed size unless you go back to simple in-order execution like the Atom, because all have to do the same amount of decoding and re-ordering.
That's more important on a low-end CPU where the chip is much smaller so the instruction processing will take up a larger percentage of the transistors, but as ARM chips become more complex, x86 becomes more compeitive.
I dont expect it to be hidden, but i also dont expect LOGGING of everything. Its a terrible road we are going down.
Don't worry. The slippery slope is a logical fallacy, so things can't possibly get worse.
It has long been held by US courts that the exteriors of letters and other items sent through the mail are not considered private.
And?
Do you really think that if you went back in time and asked the founders who wrote the US Constitution whether having the government keep a record of all mail going through their system would be OK under the fourth amendment, they'd say 'Hell, yeah!'?
Why should it sound crazy? If you've got some parallel computations to make you'd be a fool not to use the GPU.
1. For simple tasks, parallel computing often ends up slower becuase the time taken to transfer data between processors is more than the time taken to do the calculations.
2. If you need teraflops of performance to process your spreadsheet, you're probably like my friend who used to write novels in Excel.
Yes. That's why RISC killed the x86 stone dead.
That's why you brake and give them more space. It's still your fault if you don't.
I believe many of the cases of intentional crashes in the UK have been people pulling in front of big trucks and slamming on their brakes. Big trucks tend not to stop quickly and don't want to slow down and have to speed up again.
In Canada (not sure about other places) they often contrast the tossed salad with the melting pot. In a tossed salad, there is distinction without separation (no ghettos yet no assimilation).
And what makes you think there are no immigrant ghettos in Canada?
You're right. Ghettos, no-go areas and riots are much better than assimilation.
Are you Native American? If not, you're a hypocrite.
Do you seriously think the Native Americans don't regret the way they left their borders open to anyone who turned up?
If they could go back in time and build a wall to keep Europeans out, I suspect most would eagerly have done so.
If you don't mind your dev code out in the cloud. What could possibly go wrong?
Look on the plus side. The NSA will be able to let you know whether you have any serious bugs.
How are any of those options "more typing"?
Hint: the idea behind a GUI is that it's a GRAPHICAL User Interface, not a really crappy command line.
.. was naming it Windows 8, instead of Windows Tablet Edition, which could also be added to Windows 7 as a Tablet Mode.
Uh, no.
Windows 8 was a desperate attempt to get some kind of prescence on tablets and phones. To do that, they need apps. To get apps, they need to convince developers that they should develop apps for Windows 8. To do that, they had to push the tablet interface on the desktop.
Of course the idea was retarded from the start, which is why it's come around to bite them in the ass. They threw their desktop users under the bus and gained only a minimal number of tablet and phone users.
Bingo. The whole point of DRM is to 'wall off parts of the web'... it exists soley to prevent people from accessing data, and has no other purpose.
And what do you propose then? No DRM at all? Just <video> tag and that's it?
Sounds good to me. It's not like you can't download all the same videos from pirate sites despite the DRM.
'Cause when you try to run that graphical program from your Ubuntu server and display the output on Windows, it doesn't work because they've invented Yet Another Graphics System that's incompatible with everything else.
The beauty of X was that you knew an app on SGI Unix would display on OS/2, SunOS, VMS or anything else that supported X in the OS or third-party addons because they all used the same protocol. You still know an X11 app on Ubuntu will display on Windows so long as it doesn't do video playback or other kinds of special cases which are just too damn slow over a LAN.
Tomorrow, who knows what will talk to what?
Mint is mostly MATE (aka Gnome 2++) and Gnome 3. So I don't see any reason why they'd have to switch to Mir.
profitable for those MAKING the devices (AMD), not so much for those SELLING the devices (Microsoft/Sony)
And, as I said, what do you think those profit margins are?
They sure as heck won't be anywhere near the margins from selling high-end GPUs or CPUs in the PC market.
Maybe there's a boat load of trade secrets in the closed source drivers, but I'd imagine that this is a perfect area for patents to be used against competitors.
You have that backwards. If their drivers are inadvertantly violating a patent owned by Joe's Patent Trolls, Inc, then making the drivers open source makes that violation much easier to spot.
Patents are a huge disincentive to releasing open source drivers. Another issue the company I worked for had was hardware bugs, because having to put bizarre workarounds in closed source drivers was no big deal, but a bit embarrassing in open source.