People talk about decentralized, P2P networks but don't understand that current versions (FreeNet, I2P, IPFS, ZeroNet, etc.) are not true P2P. Peers connect to the Internet via ISP, which are part of a collection of star networks. Peers act as hosts or "service" providers when they make connections to several hundred peers and host a copy of their websites on a local HD. Many ISP's ToS forbid such activity. Some ISP's block P2P connections, considering them to be torrents used for illegal activity.
A true P2P would be computers connecting directly to each other via bridging wifi connections, for example, without the need of an ISP. Such networks are called wireless mesh networks. Most are built using special wifi's that extend an Internet connection to an entire house or property. https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/...
Why should he "STFU"? He has as much right to his opinions as you do to yours and also the right to express them just as much as you, which you seem to have no problem doing.
It's similar to the suppression technique Marxist used in the old USSR when gov "Psychiatrists" diagnosed dissidents as mentally ill, sentenced them to "Mental Hospitals", i.e., prisons, to give them mind altering (or destroying) drugs, which effectively ended their intellect.
The technique has carried over to Putin's Russia, where dissidents are treated similarly.
Not FF57. All the comments below which suggest that Mozilla is now a member of the 1984 Ministry of Truth.
Intell released a "Management Engine" in its CPUs in 2008 that cannot be removed. China makes essentially ALL computers on the planet today and they burn the ME code into the BIOS. ME runs at Ring -3, which means that it is below, and controls, everything on your Intel CPU driven computer.
ME is a complete stack, a CPU/BIOS within the CPU/BIOS that you access to boot your OS. That means that every OS on the planet is vulnerable to ME and ME is accessible to about every gov on the planet that threatened to cut Intel's access to their markets.
It no longer matters that BIll Gates gave Windows source code to China as a condition for doing business with 1/3rd of the planet's population, just a year after he claimed in Congress that Windows source had to be kept secret because it was a "National Treasure". And Congress bought it, probably because they were properly lubed.
In order to protect your computer from outside intrusion via ME you'll have to use me_cleaner or coreboot, both of which require to you to burn their firmware to BIOS, overwriting ME. Not 1 in 100,000 computer users know how to do that and most of those don't have the necessary hardware to do it safely and not brick their computer.
Oh, China also controls the kill switch that is in the ME. So, if there is a war with China you can expect most computers in the free world will suddenly die.
Foreign students are not the only ones turning their backs on US colleges and Universities, so are American students. The "inclusive & tolerant" environment created by Leftist Administrators is so toxic to America's freedoms (Bill of Rights) that students are realizing that Marxist propaganda they receive as an "education" is only good for being reporters at MNM, or counselors at high schools, or neighborhood organizers (aka ACORN and such).
What HS grads are doing in increasing numbers is turning to vocational schools to learn trades because most college degrees are overpriced toilet paper.
I closed my GMail account after Google decided that they didn't believe in the 1st Amendment for views which differed from Schmidt's.
The last thing I did before I hit the delete button was to check passwords.google.com. I was stunned to see the login name and password for every website I registered at in the past 10 years, including my wifi admin name and password.
I downloaded the Linux version of FF57 to try out on my KDE Neon User Edition and the first thing I did was to check the search engine. It was set for DuckDuckGo.
I quickly changed it to StartPage.
FF57 automatically carried over my FF settings from the previous version, including links and add-ons. Only one add-on didn't work, but the email button continued to work fine.
If a large vacuum tunnel suddenly ruptured the in rushing air would strike passengers with a force of 15 lbs/sqin. On an average person's chest that would be 6,000 lbs of force, crushing them.
"3. Demand lots of investor money. 4. Demand even more government money. 5. ?????"
Investors are not forced to fund any project. The government isn't forced to fund any project. 5 ????? == lots of hard work, which who think socialism is a free ride don't understand.
and following the same patterns as the "Coming Ice Age", Club of Rome and the Hockey Stick: Point to a world ending calamity - check Claim that "97%" of all scientists agree -- coming soon Propose socialist solutions, mainly dialectical materialism, i.e.m export 1st world wealth to 3rd world Marxist dictatorships -- check
The most popular solution to the "Coming Ice Age" was to spread Carbon black on both poles to melt the ice. Aren't you glad that didn't happen? The Club of Rome was a group of Marxist proposing globalization, of course, to solve all the worlds problems. Not very popular these days. The solution to the Hockey Stick was "Carbon Credits", another name for dialectical materialism, this time redistributing "Carbon Wealth" to China, which is now experiencing a huge pollution problem.
You have to give the Left credit for one thing: single minded devotion to their 19th solutions and their "Brave New World".
I retired from a state dept of revenue. We had been in the process of switching our 30 servers from NetWare to Linux. We used Lotus Notes and its groupware. We had developed over two hundred databases in that app, along with its email and calendar components. All tightly integrated. LN made getting work done easy. Then an election brought in a new Tax Commissioner and assistant TC. The assistant never had any experience with LN or Linux. Only Microsoft products. She immediately order the entire 13,000 state employees to switch to Windows and its apps. That meant that over 10,000 LN licenses were scraped, along with licenses for other non-Microsoft apps. At the same time, 10,000+ licenses had to be purchased for SharePoint, Access, Word and other new Windows apps.
Running under Windows servers access time to files and directories more than doubled. There was no effective or practical way to import LN databases and data into SharePoint, Access and other MS applications, so access to lots of data was lost. Crashes and lost data, which required rebooting and data re-entry, were common.
At about the same time a search for a database and dev tools to replace FoxPro took place. PostgreSQL was suggested but discounted because "there was no PAID support". Yes, it's true. When its taxpayer money at risk expense is no impediment. Since then the state has paid millions for Oracle's database products. The "paid" support? It's so poor and slow a website was formed by Oracle users so they could support each other.
All-in-all, the conversion cost state taxpayers millions, and renewal of license fees continued to add millions to the overall cost.
That RH has not retained qualified Btrfs programmers is their business decision and has little to nothing to do with Btrfs or its usability. https://www.itwire.com/open-sa...
KDE Neon User Edition has zfs-fuse and a version of OpenZFS in its repository. I've played with the fuse version and was unimpressed.
After I tried zfs-fuse I tried Btrfs. I've been using it without a single fault or problem for 2 1/2 years.
I played with zfs-fuse on KDE Neon a couple years ago after reading from its acolytes that it was "more advanced" and "better" than EXT4 or Btrfs. It wasn't. A lot of it is missing in the fuse rendition.
I switched to Btrfs. I have three 750Gb HD's in my laptop. I use one as a receiver of @ and @home backup snapshots. I've configured the other two as a 2 HD pool and then as a RAID1, and then back to a pool again. In 2 1/2 years of using Btrfs I've never had a single hiccup with it.
There are some excellent posts on the KubuntuForums.net website by Oshunluver which describe how to use Btrfs to install many different distros to a single Btrfs installation, and how to use Btrfs in general.
Indeed. I went to Barns School of Business in Denver, CO, in 1959, to learn how to program "heavy iron", i.e., IBM tabulators using banana cords, and using 540 Gang punches, collators, sorters, etc., using 80 column cards. At 18 I looked like I was 14 and no one would hire me.
So, I took an opportunity to go to college. In grad school in 1968 I took Numerical Analysis, which involved programming math equations using a KSR-133 keyboard and yellow punch tape, which was read into a Burroughs 200 computer. The greenbar readout either gave the result of your computations or an error listing.
I began teaching science and math and in 1978 I purchased an Apple ][+ to use in teaching. That led to teaching teachers how to program Apple BASIC, which led to being self employed writing BASIC accounting programs for banks, farmers, feedlots, etc. I wrote a basic shell of a GAAP 9 enterprise accounting program and modified it to fit particular businesses.
I had clients all over the midwest and picked up a private pilot license to make travel to and from their businesses faster and easier. When I was 57 I had a 3 month contract with a state agency. About one month into the contract they asked me to accept a full time job, an offer my wife refused to let me turn down since I was spending weeks on the road at clients businesses.
I retired from that agency at 68 and promised myself I would write the kind of programs I wanted to write. But, I kept putting that promise off because I was having too much fun teaching my grandsons about science, science fiction, fishing, camping, playing Minecraft and generally having a lot of fun.
I am now 76 and have yet to write a single line of code since I retired. I doubt that I ever will (I've been running Linux since 1998 but I don't count simple Linux bash or python scripts as code). The last dev tool I used was the Qt 4.0 API, back in 2004. I've installed later version of Qt several times over the last dozen years but never got around to writing anything. When I installed KDE Neon User Edition I didn't bother installing the Qt API. I've stopped fooling myself.
As I aged I noticed more and more younger men and women entering the programming profession. We older ones merely retired, but those who were younger in 2008 are now a decade older and rapidly becoming "old" programers,
It's very obvious what the Marxists in the EU want to do, and it isn't about "fighting" common criminals. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
It is about muzzling the ordinary citizens who want to speak out against the immigration and political policies of the PES (Party of European Socialists, i.e., the Marxists) who currently rule the country under various pseudonyms. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...
Increasingly, people are resorting to VPNs, Tor and anonymous email accounts to register, browse and post their opinions on line because they know, as China, Russia and the EU has repeatedly proven, that speaking the truth against the EU's new-speak can land them in jail. They are also resorting to end-to-end encryption to send messages and to keep their personal business just that... personal.
The American political environment is progressing toward the George Orwell 1984 state as well, with Twitter, Google, Youtube and the MNM censoring comments from half the political spectrum.
Most of those under 25 are too young to remember when the Left in America pushed the V-chip as a means of controlling what people could watch on American TV. The trial run was blocking "unsuitable" content on children's programming, but if it can block one type of program, and it could, then it could be used to block any type of program, depending on who was in power. TV sets made as recently as 10-15 years ago had a V-chip in them and YouTube is filled with videos showing how to deactivate them. What killed the V-chip was the Internet.
Over the years, various technologies have been explored with the goal to enable authorities to identify the owner of a particular IP address present in a series of IP packets. Microsoft, with its GUID, and its extensive registration database combined with credit card information from point of sale transactions, had the ability to identify connection ownership and China used Microsoft more than once to identify dissidents, in exchange for the "privilege" of doing business in China. However, not everyone used Windows, so Microsoft's power was limited.
The powers that be will, sooner or later, return to a form of the "v-chip" by requiring that ISPs tag each IP packet with a special code identifying the sender of that packet. It will be easier with IPv6 because each device can be assigned its own IP address. Then it won't matter which OS, browser, or even encryption that you use. Your "fingerprint" will be on every IP packet that you send and every packet that you receive will contain the special code of the source of packets sent to you. Even P2P networks and meshes won't stop that monitoring as long as people have to go through central ISP severs to connect to the Internet. When that happens dissidents will return to radio frequency networks and to what the Berkeley campus dissidents in the 1960s used to coordinate protests -- "underground radio". I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover what "underground" means in that context.
Who knew? According to this "news" it took only $100K to destroy Hillary's hope of becoming president. Google poured millions into Hillary's campaign fund but the "Russians" snookered them with a paultry 100G's.
So, according to the Google, Twitter and Facebook it wasn't Hillary's "pay to play" Foundation donations giving access to the US State Department, it wasn't her erasure of 33,000 emails AFTER she received a Congressional subpena to produce them, and it wasn't that she ran the State Dept on her private, unprotected email server, and it wasn't her constantly lying about her past activities and "dodging bullets", or her insider help at the town halls and debates where MNM "reporters" fed her the questions in advance. Nope. It was the "Russians" and their measly $100K that tipped the balance.
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People talk about decentralized, P2P networks but don't understand that current versions (FreeNet, I2P, IPFS, ZeroNet, etc.) are not true P2P. Peers connect to the Internet via ISP, which are part of a collection of star networks. Peers act as hosts or "service" providers when they make connections to several hundred peers and host a copy of their websites on a local HD. Many ISP's ToS forbid such activity. Some ISP's block P2P connections, considering them to be torrents used for illegal activity.
A true P2P would be computers connecting directly to each other via bridging wifi connections, for example, without the need of an ISP. Such networks are called wireless mesh networks. Most are built using special wifi's that extend an Internet connection to an entire house or property.
https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/...
Why should he "STFU"?
He has as much right to his opinions as you do to yours and also the right to express them just as much as you, which you seem to have no problem doing.
It's similar to the suppression technique Marxist used in the old USSR when gov "Psychiatrists" diagnosed dissidents as mentally ill, sentenced them to "Mental Hospitals", i.e., prisons, to give them mind altering (or destroying) drugs, which effectively ended their intellect.
The technique has carried over to Putin's Russia, where dissidents are treated similarly.
http://articles.chicagotribune...
Not FF57.
All the comments below which suggest that Mozilla is now a member of the 1984 Ministry of Truth.
Intell released a "Management Engine" in its CPUs in 2008 that cannot be removed. China makes essentially ALL computers on the planet today and they burn the ME code into the BIOS. ME runs at Ring -3, which means that it is below, and controls, everything on your Intel CPU driven computer.
ME is a complete stack, a CPU/BIOS within the CPU/BIOS that you access to boot your OS. That means that every OS on the planet is vulnerable to ME and ME is accessible to about every gov on the planet that threatened to cut Intel's access to their markets.
It no longer matters that BIll Gates gave Windows source code to China as a condition for doing business with 1/3rd of the planet's population, just a year after he claimed in Congress that Windows source had to be kept secret because it was a "National Treasure". And Congress bought it, probably because they were properly lubed.
In order to protect your computer from outside intrusion via ME you'll have to use me_cleaner or coreboot, both of which require to you to burn their firmware to BIOS, overwriting ME. Not 1 in 100,000 computer users know how to do that and most of those don't have the necessary hardware to do it safely and not brick their computer.
Oh, China also controls the kill switch that is in the ME. So, if there is a war with China you can expect most computers in the free world will suddenly die.
Your previous posts suggested a SJW, BLM or Antifa mentality (i.e., Marxist).
Now you post proof.
You do know that you can turn off the popups in the preferences.
and on my laptop it is at least 2X faster.
Leave it to the Left to blame Trump.
Foreign students are not the only ones turning their backs on US colleges and Universities, so are American students. The "inclusive & tolerant" environment created by Leftist Administrators is so toxic to America's freedoms (Bill of Rights) that students are realizing that Marxist propaganda they receive as an "education" is only good for being reporters at MNM, or counselors at high schools, or neighborhood organizers (aka ACORN and such).
What HS grads are doing in increasing numbers is turning to vocational schools to learn trades because most college degrees are overpriced toilet paper.
I don't think it will be long before Twitter, Google and Facebook use that same excuse to justify censorship on their platforms.
I closed my GMail account after Google decided that they didn't believe in the 1st Amendment for views which differed from Schmidt's.
The last thing I did before I hit the delete button was to check passwords.google.com. I was stunned to see the login name and password for every website I registered at in the past 10 years, including my wifi admin name and password.
I downloaded the Linux version of FF57 to try out on my KDE Neon User Edition and the first thing I did was to check the search engine. It was set for DuckDuckGo.
I quickly changed it to StartPage.
FF57 automatically carried over my FF settings from the previous version, including links and add-ons. Only one add-on didn't work, but the email button continued to work fine.
If a large vacuum tunnel suddenly ruptured the in rushing air would strike passengers with a force of 15 lbs/sqin. On an average person's chest that would be 6,000 lbs of force, crushing them.
"3. Demand lots of investor money.
4. Demand even more government money.
5. ?????"
Investors are not forced to fund any project.
The government isn't forced to fund any project.
5 ????? == lots of hard work, which who think socialism is a free ride don't understand.
and following the same patterns as the "Coming Ice Age", Club of Rome and the Hockey Stick:
Point to a world ending calamity - check
Claim that "97%" of all scientists agree -- coming soon
Propose socialist solutions, mainly dialectical materialism, i.e.m export 1st world wealth to 3rd world Marxist dictatorships -- check
The most popular solution to the "Coming Ice Age" was to spread Carbon black on both poles to melt the ice. Aren't you glad that didn't happen? The Club of Rome was a group of Marxist proposing globalization, of course, to solve all the worlds problems. Not very popular these days. The solution to the Hockey Stick was "Carbon Credits", another name for dialectical materialism, this time redistributing "Carbon Wealth" to China, which is now experiencing a huge pollution problem.
You have to give the Left credit for one thing: single minded devotion to their 19th solutions and their "Brave New World".
Excellent observation.
I retired from a state dept of revenue. We had been in the process of switching our 30 servers from NetWare to Linux. We used Lotus Notes and its groupware. We had developed over two hundred databases in that app, along with its email and calendar components. All tightly integrated. LN made getting work done easy. Then an election brought in a new Tax Commissioner and assistant TC. The assistant never had any experience with LN or Linux. Only Microsoft products. She immediately order the entire 13,000 state employees to switch to Windows and its apps. That meant that over 10,000 LN licenses were scraped, along with licenses for other non-Microsoft apps. At the same time, 10,000+ licenses had to be purchased for SharePoint, Access, Word and other new Windows apps.
Running under Windows servers access time to files and directories more than doubled. There was no effective or practical way to import LN databases and data into SharePoint, Access and other MS applications, so access to lots of data was lost. Crashes and lost data, which required rebooting and data re-entry, were common.
At about the same time a search for a database and dev tools to replace FoxPro took place. PostgreSQL was suggested but discounted because "there was no PAID support". Yes, it's true. When its taxpayer money at risk expense is no impediment. Since then the state has paid millions for Oracle's database products. The "paid" support? It's so poor and slow a website was formed by Oracle users so they could support each other.
All-in-all, the conversion cost state taxpayers millions, and renewal of license fees continued to add millions to the overall cost.
Exactly.
Google is just adopting Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" tactic against its opposition because it has the market share to do it.
That, and Google's attack on free speech, are the reasons why I canceled my Google account.
losers blaming Russians for their own incompetency.
I would say you are wrong.
That RH has not retained qualified Btrfs programmers is their business decision and has little to nothing to do with Btrfs or its usability.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sa...
KDE Neon User Edition has zfs-fuse and a version of OpenZFS in its repository. I've played with the fuse version and was unimpressed.
After I tried zfs-fuse I tried Btrfs. I've been using it without a single fault or problem for 2 1/2 years.
I played with zfs-fuse on KDE Neon a couple years ago after reading from its acolytes that it was "more advanced" and "better" than EXT4 or Btrfs. It wasn't. A lot of it is missing in the fuse rendition.
I switched to Btrfs. I have three 750Gb HD's in my laptop. I use one as a receiver of @ and @home backup snapshots. I've configured the other two as a 2 HD pool and then as a RAID1, and then back to a pool again. In 2 1/2 years of using Btrfs I've never had a single hiccup with it.
There are some excellent posts on the KubuntuForums.net website by Oshunluver which describe how to use Btrfs to install many different distros to a single Btrfs installation, and how to use Btrfs in general.
Indeed.
I went to Barns School of Business in Denver, CO, in 1959, to learn how to program "heavy iron", i.e., IBM tabulators using banana cords, and using 540 Gang punches, collators, sorters, etc., using 80 column cards. At 18 I looked like I was 14 and no one would hire me.
So, I took an opportunity to go to college. In grad school in 1968 I took Numerical Analysis, which involved programming math equations using a KSR-133 keyboard and yellow punch tape, which was read into a Burroughs 200 computer. The greenbar readout either gave the result of your computations or an error listing.
I began teaching science and math and in 1978 I purchased an Apple ][+ to use in teaching. That led to teaching teachers how to program Apple BASIC, which led to being self employed writing BASIC accounting programs for banks, farmers, feedlots, etc. I wrote a basic shell of a GAAP 9 enterprise accounting program and modified it to fit particular businesses.
I had clients all over the midwest and picked up a private pilot license to make travel to and from their businesses faster and easier. When I was 57 I had a 3 month contract with a state agency. About one month into the contract they asked me to accept a full time job, an offer my wife refused to let me turn down since I was spending weeks on the road at clients businesses.
I retired from that agency at 68 and promised myself I would write the kind of programs I wanted to write. But, I kept putting that promise off because I was having too much fun teaching my grandsons about science, science fiction, fishing, camping, playing Minecraft and generally having a lot of fun.
I am now 76 and have yet to write a single line of code since I retired. I doubt that I ever will (I've been running Linux since 1998 but I don't count simple Linux bash or python scripts as code). The last dev tool I used was the Qt 4.0 API, back in 2004. I've installed later version of Qt several times over the last dozen years but never got around to writing anything. When I installed KDE Neon User Edition I didn't bother installing the Qt API. I've stopped fooling myself.
As I aged I noticed more and more younger men and women entering the programming profession. We older ones merely retired, but those who were younger in 2008 are now a decade older and rapidly becoming "old" programers,
Exactly.
It's very obvious what the Marxists in the EU want to do, and it isn't about "fighting" common criminals.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
It is about muzzling the ordinary citizens who want to speak out against the immigration and political policies of the PES (Party of European Socialists, i.e., the Marxists) who currently rule the country under various pseudonyms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...
Increasingly, people are resorting to VPNs, Tor and anonymous email accounts to register, browse and post their opinions on line because they know, as China, Russia and the EU has repeatedly proven, that speaking the truth against the EU's new-speak can land them in jail. They are also resorting to end-to-end encryption to send messages and to keep their personal business just that ... personal.
The American political environment is progressing toward the George Orwell 1984 state as well, with Twitter, Google, Youtube and the MNM censoring comments from half the political spectrum.
Most of those under 25 are too young to remember when the Left in America pushed the V-chip as a means of controlling what people could watch on American TV. The trial run was blocking "unsuitable" content on children's programming, but if it can block one type of program, and it could, then it could be used to block any type of program, depending on who was in power. TV sets made as recently as 10-15 years ago had a V-chip in them and YouTube is filled with videos showing how to deactivate them. What killed the V-chip was the Internet.
Over the years, various technologies have been explored with the goal to enable authorities to identify the owner of a particular IP address present in a series of IP packets. Microsoft, with its GUID, and its extensive registration database combined with credit card information from point of sale transactions, had the ability to identify connection ownership and China used Microsoft more than once to identify dissidents, in exchange for the "privilege" of doing business in China. However, not everyone used Windows, so Microsoft's power was limited.
The powers that be will, sooner or later, return to a form of the "v-chip" by requiring that ISPs tag each IP packet with a special code identifying the sender of that packet. It will be easier with IPv6 because each device can be assigned its own IP address. Then it won't matter which OS, browser, or even encryption that you use. Your "fingerprint" will be on every IP packet that you send and every packet that you receive will contain the special code of the source of packets sent to you. Even P2P networks and meshes won't stop that monitoring as long as people have to go through central ISP severs to connect to the Internet. When that happens dissidents will return to radio frequency networks and to what the Berkeley campus dissidents in the 1960s used to coordinate protests -- "underground radio". I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover what "underground" means in that context.
plan to protect users from itself?
Nice bullet points from "Media Matters", started by David Brock, who is funded by George Soros.
Who knew?
According to this "news" it took only $100K to destroy Hillary's hope of becoming president. Google poured millions into Hillary's campaign fund but the "Russians" snookered them with a paultry 100G's.
So, according to the Google, Twitter and Facebook it wasn't Hillary's "pay to play" Foundation donations giving access to the US State Department, it wasn't her erasure of 33,000 emails AFTER she received a Congressional subpena to produce them, and it wasn't that she ran the State Dept on her private, unprotected email server, and it wasn't her constantly lying about her past activities and "dodging bullets", or her insider help at the town halls and debates where MNM "reporters" fed her the questions in advance. Nope. It was the "Russians" and their measly $100K that tipped the balance.
You must be new to computers and operating systems.
Consult:
http://www.billparish.com/msft...
to bring yourself up to date.