especially these days when things in the area of personal computing are growing more closed very quickly.
Hmm... You must be young. The trend is actually quite drastically in the other direction.
As for Stallman's contributions, yes, he's done some good things. Doesn't change the fact that every time he opens his mouth he just comes across as being either a lunatic, or really, really stoned.
I'm sorry, but getting paid for your work, in a world where money is necessary to survive, is NOT morally wrong.
The goal should be to get into a place that is still using what you are great with, that is moving to a newer technology/language,leverage what you know and get the practical experience you need to grow your skill set.
Except for the fact that when you start limiting a job search to such specific criteria, you very quickly reduce the pool of potential employers to zero.
Nope, not running intel drivers since I have AMD graphics. Problem occurs with either the free or non-free drivers. Unity or Gnome. Firefox or Chromium.
A big part of the problem is that there are several similar, but distinct, lockup issues with the latest Ubuntu. So you get people posting one problem, and the discussion is flooded with people offering solutions to a different one. For instance people with AMD or nVidia graphics being told that the solution is to use different i915 drivers. Or being told to ctrl-alt-F1 to a console and restart X, when the machine is completely frozen and it's not possible to switch to a console.
And just for extra fun, the freeze is so immediate that there's not even clues written into the logs.
I hear this all the time, but it's bullshit. The percentage will increase, but there will still be plenty of hands on work that needs to be done. Growing food is a hands on job. Manufacturing furniture is a hands on job. Slaughtering food animals is a hands on job. The list goes on and on. You can't telecommute for any of that.
Automation may reduce the number of people needed for those tasks, but those displaced workers will not simply go get a job as an information worker, because advances in technology will reduce the number of humans needed for those tasks, also.
Result, horrific unemployment.
Why does anybody who deals with nonphysical objects still need to commute to work?
Because managers don't judge your performance by the quality and timeliness of your work, they judge it by how many hours a day they see you sitting at your desk. Technology won't fix idiocy. Ever.
And if they can get displays on glasses that don't look too dorky (or even contacts)
Here's a more likely scenario:
In 15 years 3D television sets will be ubiquitous, with 3D simply being a standard feature on all TVs made. However, there will STILL be nobody watching 3D content because the glasses will still be big, clunky, uncomfortable, and dorky looking.
Yeah, Unity blows hard. Even still, I might be willing to use Ubuntu since you can revert to Gnome.
But, given the fact that the latest release causes my computer to freeze randomly when clicking browser links, my thoughts on donations are running sort of on the low end.
(Complete freeze, power switch required for reboot. And it happens in any browser. And worst of all, it's a pretty common problem with nobody having found a solution yet.)
I have a desktop computer 15 years from now? I even have a desktop 15 yrs. from now?
Sheesh. Bunch of kids posting to this article acting like 15 years is a long time.
In 15 years when Windows 9 comes out, people will be posting on/. about how they refuse to upgrade because Windows 7 still works just fine for them. Cellular data speeds will have increased. Gamers will be drooling over rumors about the upcoming PS5.
No, piracy was, at the very least, well into adolescence.
Not sure when the "infancy" was, but it was way further back than Napster. Requesting the Sysop to put a disc online so you could grab copies of Norton Utilities and Turbo Pascal? Nah, still too advanced. Swapping Apple II games on 5 1/4 floppy, and then bypassing the copy protection with "Locksmith"? Nah, still too advanced.
Hell, Bill Gates used to throw hissy fits back in the day about copies of Microsoft Basic being traded around on paper tape without licensing fees being paid.
Napster was nowhere NEAR the infancy of digital piracy.
If you intentionally leave your wifi open, and someone uses that connection to commit a real crime with real consequences, then why should you, the owner of the router, not take some responsibility for it?
Why should I take any responsibility for it? The person committing the crime is the one responsible. Not just for the "primary" crime, but also for the crime of ILLEGALLY using my wifi connection.
And if I had secured my router, they would have just gone down the street to McDonald's and grabbed some free WiFi there.
If some douchebag steals my shit, that makes me the victim, not the criminal.
In fact, if a person wanted to be really nasty about it, the following would be trivial to do:
1.) I passively monitor your WLAN in the evening. 2.) In the morning you leave for work, taking your laptop with you. 3.) I assign YOUR mac address to my pc and go about my illicit business.
Police come knocking on your door, check log files if your router has them, and right there in the logs is YOUR mac address from YOUR laptop correlated with the illegal activity.
Anyone who understands wireless networking, even a little, should know that the thought of an IP address being considered legal proof of identity is an absolutely TERRIFYING concept.
Some routers/firewalls do log the MAC address, so they COULD trace it back to you.
Bullshit. If I was going to use someone else's Internet connection for illegal activities, don't you suppose it might be a good idea to take 2 seconds to run a script that will switch me to a randomly generated MAC?
The only way to get caught would be for someone to pin down the radio signal while the connection was in process. Once the activities were complete, there would be no traceable evidence to be had.
From the comfort of my living room I can connect to no fewer than 6 access points that don't belong to me. 2 more if I wanted to take 5 minutes to crack a few WEP passwords. If I had a mind to I could use them to download movies, music. If I really wanted to cause trouble there are plenty of worse things I could do.
There would be absolutely no way to trace that activity back to me, and the people taking the blame would be guilty of no other crime than not understanding how networks operate.
Spoofing another person's DNA would be *slightly* more challenging.
Oh, I know tons of people *buy* cases. It's just that after a few days of dealing with the stupid thing, very few people seem to actually keep *using* them.
Not sure I really see the point of them, either. A cell phone is a tool. It baffles me that anyone would give a crap if it gets a scratch or two on it.
If all you need a PC for is your calendar and email, then, sure, your idea sounds great.
At the last company I worked at the engineers all got new workstations. Super high end stuff, basically the fastest desktop machines money could buy at the time. And Autocad performance was still just in the "OK, but meh...." range for the stuff they were working on.
Do you want to be the one who has to explain to them that from now on they're going to be doing their work on a phone?
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Kinda makes ya rethink your priorities, doesn't it?
especially these days when things in the area of personal computing are growing more closed very quickly.
Hmm... You must be young. The trend is actually quite drastically in the other direction.
As for Stallman's contributions, yes, he's done some good things. Doesn't change the fact that every time he opens his mouth he just comes across as being either a lunatic, or really, really stoned.
I'm sorry, but getting paid for your work, in a world where money is necessary to survive, is NOT morally wrong.
Or is he just not allowed to voice it
Oh, he's allowed. It's just that his causes would be better served by not having his nutjob name attached to them.
Stallman's organization maintains a list of approved
The scary part is that there are people who actually *care* if something is RMS approved.
The open source movement would be much better served if that whack-job would keep his lunacy to himself.
LOL It must be the 5-digit UID, signifying grumpy old fart.
ummm.....
Apparently my wife IS right about me....
The goal should be to get into a place that is still using what you are great with, that is moving to a newer technology/language,leverage what you know and get the practical experience you need to grow your skill set.
Except for the fact that when you start limiting a job search to such specific criteria, you very quickly reduce the pool of potential employers to zero.
Nope, not running intel drivers since I have AMD graphics. Problem occurs with either the free or non-free drivers. Unity or Gnome. Firefox or Chromium.
A big part of the problem is that there are several similar, but distinct, lockup issues with the latest Ubuntu. So you get people posting one problem, and the discussion is flooded with people offering solutions to a different one. For instance people with AMD or nVidia graphics being told that the solution is to use different i915 drivers. Or being told to ctrl-alt-F1 to a console and restart X, when the machine is completely frozen and it's not possible to switch to a console.
And just for extra fun, the freeze is so immediate that there's not even clues written into the logs.
most people will be information workers.
I hear this all the time, but it's bullshit. The percentage will increase, but there will still be plenty of hands on work that needs to be done. Growing food is a hands on job. Manufacturing furniture is a hands on job. Slaughtering food animals is a hands on job. The list goes on and on. You can't telecommute for any of that.
Automation may reduce the number of people needed for those tasks, but those displaced workers will not simply go get a job as an information worker, because advances in technology will reduce the number of humans needed for those tasks, also.
Result, horrific unemployment.
Why does anybody who deals with nonphysical objects still need to commute to work?
Because managers don't judge your performance by the quality and timeliness of your work, they judge it by how many hours a day they see you sitting at your desk. Technology won't fix idiocy. Ever.
And if they can get displays on glasses that don't look too dorky (or even contacts)
Here's a more likely scenario:
In 15 years 3D television sets will be ubiquitous, with 3D simply being a standard feature on all TVs made. However, there will STILL be nobody watching 3D content because the glasses will still be big, clunky, uncomfortable, and dorky looking.
Yeah, Unity blows hard. Even still, I might be willing to use Ubuntu since you can revert to Gnome.
But, given the fact that the latest release causes my computer to freeze randomly when clicking browser links, my thoughts on donations are running sort of on the low end.
(Complete freeze, power switch required for reboot. And it happens in any browser. And worst of all, it's a pretty common problem with nobody having found a solution yet.)
I have a desktop computer 15 years from now? I even have a desktop 15 yrs. from now?
Sheesh. Bunch of kids posting to this article acting like 15 years is a long time.
In 15 years when Windows 9 comes out, people will be posting on /. about how they refuse to upgrade because Windows 7 still works just fine for them. Cellular data speeds will have increased. Gamers will be drooling over rumors about the upcoming PS5.
That's probably about it.
No, piracy was, at the very least, well into adolescence.
Not sure when the "infancy" was, but it was way further back than Napster. Requesting the Sysop to put a disc online so you could grab copies of Norton Utilities and Turbo Pascal? Nah, still too advanced. Swapping Apple II games on 5 1/4 floppy, and then bypassing the copy protection with "Locksmith"? Nah, still too advanced.
Hell, Bill Gates used to throw hissy fits back in the day about copies of Microsoft Basic being traded around on paper tape without licensing fees being paid.
Napster was nowhere NEAR the infancy of digital piracy.
Forced entry into a car, the police will likely look at as a stolen car and whatever the crime is.
And today's lesson, kids: Next time you rob a bank, throw a brick through your car window!
Plausible deniability. Good enough for presidents, good enough for us.
So how is McDonald's not legally liable for anything and everything somebody does while on their open, free, unauthenticated WiFi network?
If you intentionally leave your wifi open, and someone uses that connection to commit a real crime with real consequences, then why should you, the owner of the router, not take some responsibility for it?
Why should I take any responsibility for it? The person committing the crime is the one responsible. Not just for the "primary" crime, but also for the crime of ILLEGALLY using my wifi connection.
And if I had secured my router, they would have just gone down the street to McDonald's and grabbed some free WiFi there.
If some douchebag steals my shit, that makes me the victim, not the criminal.
While the MAC address of a NIC can be tedious to alter
1.) Boot a backtrack iso
2.) Run macchanger -r eth0
There you go, you're now operating under a randomly generated MAC address.
Not too tedious, IMHO.
In fact, if a person wanted to be really nasty about it, the following would be trivial to do:
1.) I passively monitor your WLAN in the evening.
2.) In the morning you leave for work, taking your laptop with you.
3.) I assign YOUR mac address to my pc and go about my illicit business.
Police come knocking on your door, check log files if your router has them, and right there in the logs is YOUR mac address from YOUR laptop correlated with the illegal activity.
Anyone who understands wireless networking, even a little, should know that the thought of an IP address being considered legal proof of identity is an absolutely TERRIFYING concept.
Some routers/firewalls do log the MAC address, so they COULD trace it back to you.
Bullshit. If I was going to use someone else's Internet connection for illegal activities, don't you suppose it might be a good idea to take 2 seconds to run a script that will switch me to a randomly generated MAC?
The only way to get caught would be for someone to pin down the radio signal while the connection was in process. Once the activities were complete, there would be no traceable evidence to be had.
From the comfort of my living room I can connect to no fewer than 6 access points that don't belong to me. 2 more if I wanted to take 5 minutes to crack a few WEP passwords. If I had a mind to I could use them to download movies, music. If I really wanted to cause trouble there are plenty of worse things I could do.
There would be absolutely no way to trace that activity back to me, and the people taking the blame would be guilty of no other crime than not understanding how networks operate.
Spoofing another person's DNA would be *slightly* more challenging.
Oh, I know tons of people *buy* cases. It's just that after a few days of dealing with the stupid thing, very few people seem to actually keep *using* them.
Not sure I really see the point of them, either. A cell phone is a tool. It baffles me that anyone would give a crap if it gets a scratch or two on it.
If all you need a PC for is your calendar and email, then, sure, your idea sounds great.
At the last company I worked at the engineers all got new workstations. Super high end stuff, basically the fastest desktop machines money could buy at the time. And Autocad performance was still just in the "OK, but meh...." range for the stuff they were working on.
Do you want to be the one who has to explain to them that from now on they're going to be doing their work on a phone?
Good luck with that.
many years ago back when Nokia was popular here. LIke, *many* years ago.
Yep. Nokia's reign as king in the US died out right along with TDMA, more or less.
since hardly anyone goes caseless.
How do you figure that? I very rarely see phones of any type in cases.
A rugby match got disrupted? Oh the horror....
Oh, and "bear spray" is the same stuff as "real" pepper spray. It's just a much, much bigger canister of it.