Do you really think that the makers of an operating system which requires 3rd party AV to correct its own security shortcomings devised secure boot to protect users from malware?
For most corporations dealing with IT, your PC, smartphone, electronic device is "territory" to be owned as much exclusively as possible.
Secure boot has been a FUD operation on free OSes, nothing more. I repeat it again, If you want to secure the bios put a jumper before the write pin of the eprom/flash memory/whatever. Those who can't open the case and locate it are surely not qualified for a bios upgrade. I made one firmware upgrade in the last 15 years on my machines, and that upgrade was necessary only if I wanted 64bit linux.
You might also compare a university test from the early 90s, where internet were a luxury for the few, with a current test. Just by looking at it you can tell something. If the internet era seems to correlate with dumber people, I don't see how the cloud can completely reverse the trend.
"but you will be integrated with a super system which will make you smarter stronger faster..."
Yes, the system will be. You will be the disposable, remote controlled larvae on which it runs. Face it, you already stopped being considered a man, you are a human resource, your health spied.
An internet based transparent society is possible, but the guys in charge don't like it at all, and are pushing for a 1984 style panopticon instead.
So they win if we implement it, and they win if we oppose a strong influence of the internet.
Kurzweil could be the kindest person on earth, but he is very useful for this because his vision either scares you or enslaves you. So they promote him all over the media.
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets". I'd consider this as a possibility.
"Sorry, Dave, i can't save the recording you just did with your iphone9: there is a dr who episode on the tv behind you that triggers the DRM agent."
But this is the future. The now is the friggin android phone which doesn't give me root without voiding the warranty, so a 800mhz cpu can't do the things i could do with a 166mhz PC.
I'd go on and guess "the economy" can't correlate meaningfully with CO2 emissions at all. I'd go for the energy consumption in civil transport and industrial systems.
Your sig is not about the whole picture: personal computing was self-sufficient computing: apple has the walled garden, but everybody else wants everything to be dependent on an internet connection, a no-anonymous login...
I'd like the Woz not to avoid the question by referring to the PC form factor.
> That's just handing a line to the commercial publishers to use in opposing such works.
Given the ease of checking out the complete free work, I see more risks for the commercial publisher, if his product is not substantially better than a free offering hacked away in three days.
My take on the matter is that the 3 laws are much publicized because they are conveniently shifting the focus of the robotic revolution to unlikely scenarios. You wouldn't put a 5 year old at the control board of a nuke plant, you wouldn't put unrestrained AI on a robot.
Repeat after me: The problem is not with robots who magically get alive and disobey orders. The problem is with robots who follow them.
Perhaps you should read the whole chapter and tell me where it implies YOU as a christian should do anything about homosexuals, judgement included. God acted. What authority you have to imitate him?
I even have a problem stating that we are talking about homosexuals, or potentially straight people who practices some same gender sex-based rituals.
Sodomites were punished because they were fags or because they were menacing guests?
Then, if Leviticus is saying "kill" against the 5th commandment and the one commandment by that Jesus guy, then consider Matthew 19 and his treatment of the law of divorce.
Believe whatever you want about the Bible, but at least go a lil deep.
1. Analyze a dangerous poison. 2. Modify a crop's genes to be resistant against said dangerous poison 3. Treat modified crop liberally with dangerous poison 4. Dangerous poison spreads and damages neighbourhood. 5. Everybody is forced to switch to modified crops. no "???" phase 6. Profit!!!
As a bonus point, get shares in big pharma and profit from cancer treatment too.
The perfect utopia for sociopathic control freaks is making people dependent from the system for everything, including mere survival, and sociopathic control freaks rise higher in society than people who don't give a damn about ruling others, for obvious reasons. That's why crops are modded not to resist to parasites, as propaganda fed us since the eighties, but to resist to poisons.
Until one day, a presentation sporting some wonderful microsoft fonts gets played on a projector who happens to be hooked to a libreoffice (well it was some time ago, so openoffice) linux laptop, DISASTER.
But wait! we had thought about that, we can run office on the other partition!
A pity that our version of win + office didn't have that font either.
Of course the presenter had no backup pdf X/1-a that would have saved the day, not even a pdf. And there was no time to get an internet key (smartphone tethering was rare) and scour the web for the font. Presenter got a wonderful lesson in open standards.
The guests kinda noticed the alignment problems. You see, they were somewhat high ranking military guys, they are pretty sensitive to misplaced things.
But it's been done before.Lal You see, it was the n-th phonecall from my girlfriend, asking why I wasn't already there to meet her. I had explained the physics of classical motion, speed vs time, and the relatively improbable compenetration of solids, so that being stuck in traffic leads to being late. As the phone was ringing with the dreaded number, I whacked it repeatedly on the wheel, the battery eventually fell out. What did I obtain? guess what, silence.
There, no need to thank me for my little contribution to the advancement of arts and technology.
Lol, behind Linux? Right. Who gets better battery life? Linux, hands down. Unless of course you refer to those laptops sporting intentionally obfuscated power management APIs? There is even an email about ACPI among the halloween docs from the Gates man himself. http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
Personally I achieve more stuff done under linux and less battery life, but if you prefer playing whack-a-mole with popups and nice aero animations for more hours, you can't beat windows.
Actually you can prove that no proof can be given. That's why the accent was put on faith some thousand years ago. Now, you can think such subtlety comes from divinely inspired people, or smart ones. And then you can go on analyzing the motives behind each scenario. But what irks me is that philosophy 101 matters somehow escape both believers and unbelievers in the media. Which makes me conclude that media are trolling us.
It's easy to be a good religious follower, It's easy to be a good atheist, just remember life it is always under Your responsibility and whoever aims to choose for you is not helping you.
But in practice you could do digital audio with a 166mhz MacOs workstation w/o preemptive multitasking, while contemporary PC had problems sequencing MIDI reliably.
In fact the correct attitude is: linux desktopS are mostly fine and I can't stand the windows desktop experience, with double reboots and costant nagging about updates, and that without counting AV. I can't stand the lack of polish of win7, when operating outside modal windows give you pings without a cue towards the window to give attention to (linux does bury windows too sometimes, OK), I can't stand the explorer look where the address bar seeems one of the friggin tabs. Geez a "interface usability for dummies" course would have flagged that as a mistake. And the rearrangement of GUI to operate the control panel. And the mostly unneeded rearrangement of GUI elements in general.
And I use win7 a dozen hours a year to collect all this dissatisfaction, and I'm using libreoffice, thank $DEITY.
Yeah linux is worse. If all you have used is windows. Pretty obvious. Try following somebody going the other way, like I did coming from MacOS, and discover whose desktop's year should come.
I used to recommend apple over windows, even if they cost more. But those had openfirmware. What about the next ones? secure boot?
I don't even go further in this thread. You don't even know if the world exists. All you know is "I exist". The "why" is a concept tied to time, because cause and effects are. It is not a concept which is necessarily defined outside of it, that is outside of reality. The question and the answer is outside reality, in philosophy, in a meta world, in the decisions of a god. You are not able to tell it from the inside, not you, not the greatest minds in the universe.
Exercise for the Christians. When Pilate asks Jesus "QUID est veritas?", what does Jesus answer? He doesn't. The answer is correct.
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Do you really think that the makers of an operating system which requires 3rd party AV to correct its own security shortcomings devised secure boot to protect users from malware?
For most corporations dealing with IT, your PC, smartphone, electronic device is "territory" to be owned as much exclusively as possible.
Secure boot has been a FUD operation on free OSes, nothing more.
I repeat it again, If you want to secure the bios put a jumper before the write pin of the eprom/flash memory/whatever. Those who can't open the case and locate it are surely not qualified for a bios upgrade.
I made one firmware upgrade in the last 15 years on my machines, and that upgrade was necessary only if I wanted 64bit linux.
You might also compare a university test from the early 90s, where internet were a luxury for the few, with a current test. Just by looking at it you can tell something.
If the internet era seems to correlate with dumber people, I don't see how the cloud can completely reverse the trend.
"but you will be integrated with a super system which will make you smarter stronger faster..."
Yes, the system will be. You will be the disposable, remote controlled larvae on which it runs. Face it, you already stopped being considered a man, you are a human resource, your health spied.
An internet based transparent society is possible, but the guys in charge don't like it at all, and are pushing for a 1984 style panopticon instead.
So they win if we implement it, and they win if we oppose a strong influence of the internet.
Kurzweil could be the kindest person on earth, but he is very useful for this because his vision either scares you or enslaves you. So they promote him all over the media.
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets". I'd consider this as a possibility.
"Sorry, Dave, i can't save the recording you just did with your iphone9: there is a dr who episode on the tv behind you that triggers the DRM agent."
But this is the future. The now is the friggin android phone which doesn't give me root without voiding the warranty, so a 800mhz cpu can't do the things i could do with a 166mhz PC.
Strange comment from a low UID.
I'd go on and guess "the economy" can't correlate meaningfully with CO2 emissions at all. I'd go for the energy consumption in civil transport and industrial systems.
Your sig is not about the whole picture: personal computing was self-sufficient computing: apple has the walled garden, but everybody else wants everything to be dependent on an internet connection, a no-anonymous login...
I'd like the Woz not to avoid the question by referring to the PC form factor.
I have another question: tired of slashdot yet? ;)
> That's just handing a line to the commercial publishers to use in opposing such works.
Given the ease of checking out the complete free work, I see more risks for the commercial publisher, if his product is not substantially better than a free offering hacked away in three days.
Except that those telling TV rots your brain were right :D
wildcard vs regex
the struggle continues
My take on the matter is that the 3 laws are much publicized because they are conveniently shifting the focus of the robotic revolution to unlikely scenarios. You wouldn't put a 5 year old at the control board of a nuke plant, you wouldn't put unrestrained AI on a robot.
Repeat after me:
The problem is not with robots who magically get alive and disobey orders.
The problem is with robots who follow them.
> Scorta futuere amo!
Mihi quoque placet mater tua.
Perhaps you should read the whole chapter and tell me where it implies YOU as a christian should do anything about homosexuals, judgement included. God acted. What authority you have to imitate him?
I even have a problem stating that we are talking about homosexuals, or potentially straight people who practices some same gender sex-based rituals.
Sodomites were punished because they were fags or because they were menacing guests?
Then, if Leviticus is saying "kill" against the 5th commandment and the one commandment by that Jesus guy, then consider Matthew 19 and his treatment of the law of divorce.
Believe whatever you want about the Bible, but at least go a lil deep.
Like a Virgin,
Hacked for the very first time,
Like a Viiiiirgin
Feel your host ping
next tooooo miiiiine....
1. Analyze a dangerous poison.
2. Modify a crop's genes to be resistant against said dangerous poison
3. Treat modified crop liberally with dangerous poison
4. Dangerous poison spreads and damages neighbourhood.
5. Everybody is forced to switch to modified crops.
no "???" phase
6. Profit!!!
As a bonus point, get shares in big pharma and profit from cancer treatment too.
The perfect utopia for sociopathic control freaks is making people dependent from the system for everything, including mere survival, and sociopathic control freaks rise higher in society than people who don't give a damn about ruling others, for obvious reasons.
That's why crops are modded not to resist to parasites, as propaganda fed us since the eighties, but to resist to poisons.
Sure sure, it's sour grapes.
Until one day, a presentation sporting some wonderful microsoft fonts gets played on a projector who happens to be hooked to a libreoffice (well it was some time ago, so openoffice) linux laptop, DISASTER.
But wait! we had thought about that, we can run office on the other partition!
A pity that our version of win + office didn't have that font either.
Of course the presenter had no backup pdf X/1-a that would have saved the day, not even a pdf. And there was no time to get an internet key (smartphone tethering was rare) and scour the web for the font. Presenter got a wonderful lesson in open standards.
The guests kinda noticed the alignment problems. You see, they were somewhat high ranking military guys, they are pretty sensitive to misplaced things.
But it's been done before.Lal
You see, it was the n-th phonecall from my girlfriend, asking why I wasn't already there to meet her. I had explained the physics of classical motion, speed vs time, and the relatively improbable compenetration of solids, so that being stuck in traffic leads to being late. As the phone was ringing with the dreaded number, I whacked it repeatedly on the wheel, the battery eventually fell out. What did I obtain? guess what, silence.
There, no need to thank me for my little contribution to the advancement of arts and technology.
Lol, behind Linux? Right. Who gets better battery life?
Linux, hands down.
Unless of course you refer to those laptops sporting intentionally obfuscated power management APIs?
There is even an email about ACPI among the halloween docs from the Gates man himself.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
Personally I achieve more stuff done under linux and less battery life, but if you prefer playing whack-a-mole with popups and nice aero animations for more hours, you can't beat windows.
Actually you can prove that no proof can be given. That's why the accent was put on faith some thousand years ago. Now, you can think such subtlety comes from divinely inspired people, or smart ones. And then you can go on analyzing the motives behind each scenario. But what irks me is that philosophy 101 matters somehow escape both believers and unbelievers in the media. Which makes me conclude that media are trolling us.
It's easy to be a good religious follower, It's easy to be a good atheist, just remember life it is always under Your responsibility and whoever aims to choose for you is not helping you.
Battery life is a rather powerful tool for implementing planned obsolescence, too.
But in practice you could do digital audio with a 166mhz MacOs workstation w/o preemptive multitasking, while contemporary PC had problems sequencing MIDI reliably.
In fact the correct attitude is: linux desktopS are mostly fine and I can't stand the windows desktop experience, with double reboots and costant nagging about updates, and that without counting AV.
I can't stand the lack of polish of win7, when operating outside modal windows give you pings without a cue towards the window to give attention to (linux does bury windows too sometimes, OK), I can't stand the explorer look where the address bar seeems one of the friggin tabs. Geez a "interface usability for dummies" course would have flagged that as a mistake. And the rearrangement of GUI to operate the control panel. And the mostly unneeded rearrangement of GUI elements in general.
And I use win7 a dozen hours a year to collect all this dissatisfaction, and I'm using libreoffice, thank $DEITY.
Yeah linux is worse. If all you have used is windows. Pretty obvious. Try following somebody going the other way, like I did coming from MacOS, and discover whose desktop's year should come.
I used to recommend apple over windows, even if they cost more. But those had openfirmware. What about the next ones? secure boot?
Your statement is illogical, since I actually 'do' things too.
If you bothered with these things, your mistake is called false dichotomy.
"by chance" is a reason.
I don't even go further in this thread.
You don't even know if the world exists. All you know is "I exist".
The "why" is a concept tied to time, because cause and effects are. It is not a concept which is necessarily defined outside of it, that is outside of reality. The question and the answer is outside reality, in philosophy, in a meta world, in the decisions of a god. You are not able to tell it from the inside, not you, not the greatest minds in the universe.
Exercise for the Christians. When Pilate asks Jesus "QUID est veritas?", what does Jesus answer? He doesn't. The answer is correct.
Who should be interested in who I am? Apple or the credit card processor?
I should only enter the CREDIT CARD personal details on the page of the credit card processor, and leave no trace on the pc itself, no reason for it.
We were not discussing your experience with win7 or the market penetration.
We were discussing your definition of Just Works.
For YOUR definition of Just Works, Linux Just Works too.
Rename Ubuntu to NoBuntu, GnomeBuntu to Ubuntu, case closed.