In my grand unified theory of everything this move is a psychological operation. "Stay away from those firearm nuts, stay away from firearms" is the idea. Soft terrorism. Unsurprising. (Terror is useful for those who already have power, not for those who want to obtain it, see examples that range from the kings, the French revolution, the adverse effect of indiscriminate attacks on the public opinion).
The second reason: mass criminalize everybody first, then pick up the troublemakers and jail them as it suits you, the law is on your side. This is very handy and a symptom of failing democracy.
Fighting crime, not that I am an expert, should be to WEED OUT the innocents, not increase the database of suspects, that's increasing noise. But even if I am wrong and you need the database, the best data is to be gathered at ISP level, FB and GOOG work on subsets. So why not asking them instead.
Some might believe removal of firearms is in the collective good, they might be right, but to me it is just the same old story of powerful interests looking to augment their power by reducing everybody else's. Nothing new under the sun.
Oh wonderful. Mandatory therapy for everybody just to stay alive. Who controls the therapy controls the world, democracy becoming a meaningless term.
Oh wait, I think that it IS the plan already. Through money, drugs and/or pollution. The invariant for our societies, no matter if fascist, democratic, socialist, is that the single man/family has less power and control of his own property. Technological advancement could be used to empower the individual, instead it empowers the system. For economic reasons (which are engineered by the system itself). Orwell was a rookie.
Hey, but nobody wants us to have fast data transfers.
If somebody did, by now we'd have symmetrical DSL instead of reduced upload capacity and the cloud would be about putting some more personal servers somewhere else in the net.
In fact we should be peering instead of dealing with ISPs. The hurdles are legislative, not technical. No amount of google glasses can potentially spy you as much as the ISP can. I guess that theoretically, the ISP can access all traffic but the one encrypted with one time pads or certificates exchanged outside the network.
Therefore Google aims to become an ISP if it really hates us:)
It's interesting how many people are interested in the desktop.
I just care about MY desktop instead. I prefer to edit some configs (which clearly is rocket science) and experiencing some inconsistent look and feel among applications, than using MS or Apple solutions and submit to whatever their management think is a good idea to stick on MY desktop to make their system more difficult to migrate from.
People want to replace xorg (a fork itself)? best wishes, not a problem for me. Problems would arise when xorg replacements are used to introduce incompatibilities, push one distro ahead of the others, render old software/hardware obsolete. It's not easy to pull such stunts by staying free as in GPL, though.
>> Order implies time, time is part of the supposed creation.
>False. O RLY?
>There is no mention of creation of time in any Hebrew creation myth. Non sequitur, and anyway you should be in front of the one who wrote "in the beginning" and ask him clarification. The existence of a time plane independent from the creation, so at a level equal or superior than God's would have required more than 3 words, in my opinion. I also don't blame an author for skipping over the inconceivable (to us) state where time isn't defined.
[Paul, about Christ] "For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."
So, even if the new thing is the mediation of the Christ, there is no special status for Time, or anything else. If this were a departure from the previous held thoughts, wouldn't Paul or anybody else stress that?
>>This is philosophy 101 IMHO. Wake up, creation is not a problem for science, evolution is not a problem for religion. >False. In order to do physics, you have to agree on the metaphysics Strange, people managed to do things basing themselves on axioms, instead of agreeing on theoretical models which are either eventually testable, or outside the field of safe application of logic.
Yea the first day the earth was already there and light was created, of course it was a few days later when the sun was created so where did that light come from?
An omnipotent being created the earth and the rest of the universe, and you're quibbling over how he could create light before the sun? If he can create matter from nothing, surely creating a few photons isn't beyond his powers.
Ummm, guys, photons happened before any star were formed in the most common scientific theory, the big bang.
There is also another problem, from the point of view of a god there is not an order of creation of things. Order implies time, time is part of the supposed creation.
A god can create the end of the world and work out the rest from there.
Or it can create an eternal world in two directions, in the past and in the future, with evolving creatures. It is the same effort that you make calculating an f(t) where t belongs to R.
This is philosophy 101 IMHO. Wake up, creation is not a problem for science, evolution is not a problem for religion.
The performance is just a factor, they can sell if Oracle prices it right, accounting for performance-per-watt of their stack vs. the competing ones.
Sparc being an exotic arch cuts both way, you sure have more trouble with ports, OTOH hackers have to adapt their tools to penetrate those servers, in many cases it's overall a plus.
The main obstacle IMHO is that those servers come from "we are indeed evil" Oracle;)
in fact for sauerbraten swl.me issues a binary anticheat client just before the tournament. Cheaters are also kicked from servers, if you play and join a clan you can ask for admin on the main ones and clean up yourself.
I'd consider cheaters as good bots for practice, the real matches are among clans members and tournaments.
Sure! get a turntable, connect it to the phono input of a mixer, connect the smallish cable to the ground pin near the phono input, connect the output of the mixer to some amplifier or powered speakers.
Put the vinyl on the turntable, put the mp3 player on the floor, climb on the mp3 player and listen.
But I've seen on the net two other organizations, UK and Italy, that produce one-off vinyls. There was also a home vinyl carving station from vestax (vrx 2000) but I guess vynil mastering needs a LOT more care than cd mastering. Unless you like to see needles jumping.
indeed, buy one random laptop or smartphone, and the things between you and "doing what you want with your device" are, in this order: secure boot, android with locked bootloader and no root, iOS.
I don't care whom EU sues. Given that EU actively prevents people with cows to sell milk ("oh you have no auth, find some phantom business whom we gave auth and resells it to you") and people with land to sell a fruit ("oh it may have grown without pesticides but it's not the CORRECT SIZE"). EU has nothing to do with free markets, I was talking about the definition of "anti-competitive". We are so deep in newspeak lately, huh?
Indeed, anticompetitive should not mean "as a carrier I cannot afford to keep this contract and sell other stuff without bias". It should mean "I am actively prevented to sell alternatives". Else whatever contract between supplier and vendor is anticompetitive by creating an unjust advantage (or, technically, even disadvantage) for the products in the contract.
If you want a textbook example of anticompetitive behavior look at Secure Boot instead. Not how it's defined but how it is implemented, as in "laptops shipping with no whatsoever instruction, not even on the vendor website, on how to get to a BIOS screen".
Hopefully, he'd say "the only one capable and motivated to defend the open web in perpetuity is the USER", so mind your own business, literally, by committing your computing infrastructure to tech you have some control over.
It's not news but it explains why a discrete amount of people subjected themselves to windows stuff instead of doing the rational thing: go mac before 2005 and go linux afterwards.
It could well be a false flag attack, but your elephant is a small one.
If the white house thinks: "the threshold for intervention is chemical weapons" (reasonable), and tell it the world openly (this is pure madness or being criminal, choose), and there are interests in doing such intervention (and lots of people have interest in wars) then chemical attacks will occur.
> Microsoft has provided Microsoft Security Essentials for free to all Windows users MSE does not come preinstalled, some other brand AV comes preinstalled the AV expires, flashes a popup. What you have to do next, whatever you choose to do, is one more procedure.
We have had compromised PCs on kaspersky and compromised PCs on MSE plus Win defender, so I agree it works just like a commercial AV.
> What drivers do you need to mess with on a laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed?
All the old peripherals which do not ship with win7 support out of the box, of course. Scanner, copier/printer. Sometimes vendors do not list the driver as available on one part of the site and the driver is there on another part. If the printer is not in the default list but you gotta connect to MS site to download some extended list, you lose 15 minutes waiting. And BTW with linux you wire up a mouse and start moving the cursor, instead of several seconds waiting with win 7 and the popup about the driver being loaded.
>>"the right office license" >Are you saying that you're having trouble pirating software...?
Are you saying you never installed different, original, office products in more than one PC? You (used to) buy the disc with office, which came with a key, after installation office has a serial which is not related to the key. So, if pc X crashes you have to remember from which damn key you had installed it, or risk having two copies authenticated with the same key on the same LAN attached to the same internet which makes you a friggin pirate.
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In my grand unified theory of everything this move is a psychological operation. "Stay away from those firearm nuts, stay away from firearms" is the idea. Soft terrorism. Unsurprising. (Terror is useful for those who already have power, not for those who want to obtain it, see examples that range from the kings, the French revolution, the adverse effect of indiscriminate attacks on the public opinion).
The second reason: mass criminalize everybody first, then pick up the troublemakers and jail them as it suits you, the law is on your side. This is very handy and a symptom of failing democracy.
Fighting crime, not that I am an expert, should be to WEED OUT the innocents, not increase the database of suspects, that's increasing noise.
But even if I am wrong and you need the database, the best data is to be gathered at ISP level, FB and GOOG work on subsets. So why not asking them instead.
Some might believe removal of firearms is in the collective good, they might be right, but to me it is just the same old story of powerful interests looking to augment their power by reducing everybody else's. Nothing new under the sun.
No confusion whatsoever, one is GNU/Linux, the other barely Linux.
Stallman was right AGAIN.
Oh wonderful. Mandatory therapy for everybody just to stay alive.
Who controls the therapy controls the world, democracy becoming a meaningless term.
Oh wait, I think that it IS the plan already. Through money, drugs and/or pollution. The invariant for our societies, no matter if fascist, democratic, socialist, is that the single man/family has less power and control of his own property. Technological advancement could be used to empower the individual, instead it empowers the system. For economic reasons (which are engineered by the system itself). Orwell was a rookie.
Hey, but nobody wants us to have fast data transfers.
If somebody did, by now we'd have symmetrical DSL instead of reduced upload capacity and the cloud would be about putting some more personal servers somewhere else in the net.
In fact we should be peering instead of dealing with ISPs. The hurdles are legislative, not technical. No amount of google glasses can potentially spy you as much as the ISP can. I guess that theoretically, the ISP can access all traffic but the one encrypted with one time pads or certificates exchanged outside the network.
Therefore Google aims to become an ISP if it really hates us :)
This is like saying: "riding an unicycle is easy, because you can put its wheel into a bike and ride that one instead".
It's interesting how many people are interested in the desktop.
I just care about MY desktop instead. I prefer to edit some configs (which clearly is rocket science) and experiencing some inconsistent look and feel among applications, than using MS or Apple solutions and submit to whatever their management think is a good idea to stick on MY desktop to make their system more difficult to migrate from.
People want to replace xorg (a fork itself)? best wishes, not a problem for me. Problems would arise when xorg replacements are used to introduce incompatibilities, push one distro ahead of the others, render old software/hardware obsolete. It's not easy to pull such stunts by staying free as in GPL, though.
>> Order implies time, time is part of the supposed creation.
>False.
O RLY?
>There is no mention of creation of time in any Hebrew creation myth.
Non sequitur, and anyway you should be in front of the one who wrote "in the beginning" and ask him clarification. The existence of a time plane independent from the creation, so at a level equal or superior than God's would have required more than 3 words, in my opinion.
I also don't blame an author for skipping over the inconceivable (to us) state where time isn't defined.
[Paul, about Christ] "For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."
So, even if the new thing is the mediation of the Christ, there is no special status for Time, or anything else. If this were a departure from the previous held thoughts, wouldn't Paul or anybody else stress that?
>>This is philosophy 101 IMHO. Wake up, creation is not a problem for science, evolution is not a problem for religion.
>False. In order to do physics, you have to agree on the metaphysics
Strange, people managed to do things basing themselves on axioms, instead of agreeing on theoretical models which are either eventually testable, or outside the field of safe application of logic.
Ummm, guys, photons happened before any star were formed in the most common scientific theory, the big bang.
There is also another problem, from the point of view of a god there is not an order of creation of things. Order implies time, time is part of the supposed creation.
A god can create the end of the world and work out the rest from there.
Or it can create an eternal world in two directions, in the past and in the future, with evolving creatures. It is the same effort that you make calculating an f(t) where t belongs to R.
This is philosophy 101 IMHO. Wake up, creation is not a problem for science, evolution is not a problem for religion.
The performance is just a factor, they can sell if Oracle prices it right, accounting for performance-per-watt of their stack vs. the competing ones.
Sparc being an exotic arch cuts both way, you sure have more trouble with ports, OTOH hackers have to adapt their tools to penetrate those servers, in many cases it's overall a plus.
The main obstacle IMHO is that those servers come from "we are indeed evil" Oracle ;)
in fact for sauerbraten swl.me issues a binary anticheat client just before the tournament. Cheaters are also kicked from servers, if you play and join a clan you can ask for admin on the main ones and clean up yourself.
I'd consider cheaters as good bots for practice, the real matches are among clans members and tournaments.
sauerbraten, quakelive (freeware), assault cube, armagetron, supertuxkart.
fukgooglebår
Sure! get a turntable, connect it to the phono input of a mixer, connect the smallish cable to the ground pin near the phono input, connect the output of the mixer to some amplifier or powered speakers.
Put the vinyl on the turntable, put the mp3 player on the floor, climb on the mp3 player and listen.
Voila'.
But I've seen on the net two other organizations, UK and Italy, that produce one-off vinyls. There was also a home vinyl carving station from vestax (vrx 2000) but I guess vynil mastering needs a LOT more care than cd mastering. Unless you like to see needles jumping.
Yep you can buy fruit, since the people complained about the law EU passed. But EU passed that law and it did it recently.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/world/europe/12iht-food.4.17771299.html?_r=0
Milk quotas still stand.
http://www.reformthecap.eu/issues/policy-instruments/milk-quota
Was it difficult to google before accusing people of spewing propaganda, fellow EU citizen?
indeed, buy one random laptop or smartphone, and the things between you and "doing what you want with your device" are, in this order: secure boot, android with locked bootloader and no root, iOS.
I don't care whom EU sues. Given that EU actively prevents people with cows to sell milk ("oh you have no auth, find some phantom business whom we gave auth and resells it to you") and people with land to sell a fruit ("oh it may have grown without pesticides but it's not the CORRECT SIZE"). EU has nothing to do with free markets, I was talking about the definition of "anti-competitive". We are so deep in newspeak lately, huh?
>Presumably any post-apocalyptic society will have ample supplies of scrap iron to work with.
*Radioactive scrap iron :P
Indeed, anticompetitive should not mean "as a carrier I cannot afford to keep this contract and sell other stuff without bias". It should mean "I am actively prevented to sell alternatives". Else whatever contract between supplier and vendor is anticompetitive by creating an unjust advantage (or, technically, even disadvantage) for the products in the contract.
If you want a textbook example of anticompetitive behavior look at Secure Boot instead. Not how it's defined but how it is implemented, as in "laptops shipping with no whatsoever instruction, not even on the vendor website, on how to get to a BIOS screen".
Hopefully, he'd say "the only one capable and motivated to defend the open web in perpetuity is the USER", so mind your own business, literally, by committing your computing infrastructure to tech you have some control over.
It's not news but it explains why a discrete amount of people subjected themselves to windows stuff instead of doing the rational thing: go mac before 2005 and go linux afterwards.
It could well be a false flag attack, but your elephant is a small one.
If the white house thinks: "the threshold for intervention is chemical weapons" (reasonable), and tell it the world openly (this is pure madness or being criminal, choose), and there are interests in doing such intervention (and lots of people have interest in wars) then chemical attacks will occur.
Betteridge's Law makes no sense at all.
You can find proof in my essay titled: "Does Betteridge's Law make any sense?"
The problem is that it's as unreasonable as asking people to register before getting the coffee in the morning.
In the USSR you had to register copier machines, right? That's unreasonable for a government of the people.
> Microsoft has provided Microsoft Security Essentials for free to all Windows users
MSE does not come preinstalled, some other brand AV comes preinstalled the AV expires, flashes a popup. What you have to do next, whatever you choose to do, is one more procedure.
We have had compromised PCs on kaspersky and compromised PCs on MSE plus Win defender, so I agree it works just like a commercial AV.
> What drivers do you need to mess with on a laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed?
All the old peripherals which do not ship with win7 support out of the box, of course. Scanner, copier/printer. Sometimes vendors do not list the driver as available on one part of the site and the driver is there on another part. If the printer is not in the default list but you gotta connect to MS site to download some extended list, you lose 15 minutes waiting.
And BTW with linux you wire up a mouse and start moving the cursor, instead of several seconds waiting with win 7 and the popup about the driver being loaded.
>>"the right office license"
>Are you saying that you're having trouble pirating software...?
Are you saying you never installed different, original, office products in more than one PC?
You (used to) buy the disc with office, which came with a key, after installation office has a serial which is not related to the key. So, if pc X crashes you have to remember from which damn key you had installed it, or risk having two copies authenticated with the same key on the same LAN attached to the same internet which makes you a friggin pirate.