So why bother paying M$ for two copies of minecraft, one for at home and one in the class, when pretty simple generic FOSS programs can do the same thing. Why waste that money, not once mind you but again and again and again and, well, you know the drill of the upgrade cycle. Why makes spending 200 million (approximate number of students) times say $50 every couple of years (total 10 billion dollars). So where the hell is the 10 billion dollars of educational worth exactly in this program. Reality is to ensure equal access, when it is used in public education it should be carried out by government and the program distributed freely to all who want it (they could in the most sensible manner possible, subsidise public universities in the production of this kind of software ie paying masters and doctoral students to learn and professors to teach - double plus benefit, you get the software and promote educational development). This all just stinks to high heaven of a desperation bid by M$ to generate profit based upon an unsound investment, creating a whole hidden marketing program.
Why the hell isn't this kind of software produced in a fashion that promotes education (in a public university by teachers and advanced students, a far better place to invest 10 billion dollars every couple of years) instead of just blotivating the profits of a sick privacy invasive corporation, who based upon it's own policies should not be allowed in schools in the first place (the government can not sign off on the right of a corporation to invade the privacy of minors in public schools for marketing purposes, that would be child abuse).
Any action of government that would affect the vote of a citizen should be made public prior to elections. A elected government representative somewhere and at some time signed off on this and their position should be up for review based upon it. As an empathic example, clearly the other commenter had severe issues with this and it clearly would affect their vote and as such under electoral law it should have been made public. The core of any democratic constitution is maintaining that democracy and democracy can not exist based upon ignorance and lies. If it will affect a citizens vote than under the entirety of a constitution that citizen has a right to know. When any so called democratic government uses tax payer funds to keep secrets from it's citizens that they knew would affect the outcome of elections, they have committed electoral fraud and breached constitutional law and should be prosecuted for doing so.
This actually all smells of mis-information. They seem to want to put out the idea that they need this in order to intercept communications, they need to get in the encryption chain. I think they have already pushed past that with corporate support from manufacturers and operating system companies. They are hacking the firmware, getting at the information prior to it being encrypted and sending out two data streams, one to themselves and only encrypting that one to try to hide the traffic. Getting in or corrupted online operating system updates and then using insider bios information and back doors to plant monitoring software deep into the system, clean it and it resets from bios, to restart the infection, back into the OS, even though the original infection came from an OS update (to infrequent to be reliable). So this is all, look over hear, pay no attention to M$ building in all the tools they need to monitor everyone right into the OS (as default apps, they no longer count as suspicious activity, it even generates the required network activity to hide the covert activity) and also pay no attention to the major changes occurring in BIOS. They are not interested in cracking encryption any more, except other governments encryption they are focused in on getting the information prior to being encrypted and this is what they are trying to cover up with talks of back doors in encryption software that they know full well no one will accept, they know it will fail and the only reason to actively pursue it, is as cover for other activities.
Why even bother with a UK standard, they might as well shift talk to NATO standards (North American Territorial Occupation - talking about them apparently is the hot new forbidden subject) for encryption, because that's what all the firmware hacking is about, full spectrum dominance as demanded by the North American Territorial Occupation force and you can not get that with other players handing out encryption keys and not passing them over with demanded, to NATO. Of course if they went quite now, every body would suspect they were up to something else, of course being stupidly noisy tends to do the same thing.
Terrorist will say pretty much nothing digitally and simply arranged meetings and say everything face to face, except of course during actual implementation of the plot and then whether or not it is encrypted it makes no difference. They will rely on doughnut munching lard arses preferring to sit in air conditioning comfort in the office masturbating while getting high on invading everyone's privacy, especially private picks of families (sick people are sick and people who get a kick out of invading other people's privacy are as sick as they cum).
The likes of Hillary Clinton just see thoughts of total control, having all the power, it's a disease, attempt to deny them power and they will attack you, that is their nature, their mental disease. That and covering up their incompetence with lies, attempt to expose those lies and again they will attack you.
Likely they are keeping the code under cover per Googles request, that being the only obvious target for what they are producing. Like an experimental offshot, the explores that possibility sees real opportunity to produce a successful outcome and sell it back to Google in it's entirety, for Google to kick Windows out of the office. M$ attempted to force their desktop OS onto users phones, by trying to force them to adapt to the phone GUI on a desktop and now Google is investigating taking a GUI variant of the phone OS onto the desktop, now that M$ has created an opportunity to lever it off the desktop due to it's hugely perverted privacy invasive policies, destroying trust. No business can safely use the latest version of windows and protect it's own proprietary knowledge, at the same time, simply impossible.
That is really misdirecting comment, nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with the current requirement of crop diversity to prevent crop collapse, a single specific variant can be subject to total collapse should an infection most successful on that variant break out, so the risk is mass death through starvation, millions of people. Another problem shelf life, longer shelf life is indicative of reduced bio-degradaility, why exactly is that food less digestible and what will be the impact of it.
The huge problem with have with out of control corporations is they 'WILL' release products onto the market when they are just barely good enough and often will fail because of greed for more, More, MORE, profits now. That even includes products that knowingly will fail but the profits will be sufficient to cover the costs (civil suits, fines or they can split it off and socialise the losses by letting it go purposefully bankrupt, after sucking out all of the profits first of course), especially when protected by corrupt lawyers, public relations experts (psychological mass manipulators ie really sick people), corrupt lobbyists and the corrupt politicians they feed. Basically in the current psychopath corporate executive climate we are incapable of safely producing GMO crops, a safe GMO crop is more of an accident of design rather than a purposeful outcome.
Current corporations quite simply can not be trusted, from M$ to Monsanto, it makes little difference lie, cheat and steal is just how they deal. As a result they have to be excluded from high risk activities like GMO crop manipulation or data mining the entire internet including end users computers.
Kind of sounds good that logic takes precedence over syntax but reality is coding languages build their own individual logic around their own individual syntax = does not equal = but can ==, $ can mean anything and () or ; do all sorts of stuff and not the same logical stuff across languages. Logic can on be expressed via syntax, so logically coding language rules must be agreed to and uniformly applied just as grammatical rules are agreed to and applied to English. The rules for coding languages should be logical extrapolations of English and maths rules (in a more wordy format but they could also be used in a more compact format as in short hand). The problem we have now is coding languages are only bound to their internal logic (the arbitrary choices of their coders), rather than an overall accepted and applied coding logic, as extensions of English and maths.
Time is the wrong variable, relative change is the right one. Time can occur as fast or as slow as possible in changes nothing, only the relative changes of matter with regard to other matter have significance, how fast or slow is arbitrary and time is just a relative measurement against other changes ie how fast or slow the universe is in totality does not affect it, how it changes relative to itself does.
Well, literally that is exactly what I stated, were you not paying attention, no interaction means they are literally are a fantasy, they can not exist with regard to the implementation of our universe, although logically they still can (not do) exist in infinite variability.
I did not really bother with the article at all because I know full well, my greatest burst of creativity occurs when first given the problem, there in after it wains as I focus on implementation. After years in private that focus on implementation kills creativity because good enough dominates so that new problems can be tackled. That also occurred in school where projects generating no new knowledge were simply fit in to take up minimal time, achieving the required minimum grade and thus sparing as much time as possible for new thought and knowledge. I wish that schools would have offered a choice, do the stupid projects (the boredom of pointlessly regurgitation knowledge in a pretty format, often with greater marks scored for prettiness rather than content) or do the easy exams (easy for some hard for others). So the procrastination does not occur with regard to creativity but the boredom of implementation.
This lack of effective training is of course further crippled by privatisation bullshit. Yep, better learning by allowing private corporations to dominate, each pushing their own coding language, that'll work - not. Could you imagine if that corporate Uncle Tom had been behind achieving greater literacy, privatising that and allowing corporations to create their own private languages - no uniform English, fuck that no profit. Individually languages pushed by corporations tied up in patent fees and copyright to own the content produced by those languages. You need a licence to write or read, to listen or speak, corporations would love it. So in our ABCs no QWEs no ABCs no QWEs no ABCs no QWEs (I hope that is annoying as it should be, still incapable of producing alphabetically keyboards as default even mind bogglingly enough software fucking only ones) world no progress is made because greed driven stupidity.
Artificial intelligence do not belong in portable devices not for any paranoid reason but simply energy efficiency. To be actual artificially intelligent it must be capable of learning and investigating new solutions. So right or wrong cease for all non core functions where better or worse answers dominate. So logical, when queried the artificial intelligence will produce a 'good enough' answer, which is either used or rejected whilst in search for a better answer. Even with the good enough answer is used, the artificial intelligence should use available spare capacity to produce a better answer if possible, until such time as new requests come in or other internal research takes precedence (greater possible benefit or better results being generated). So pretty much AI computers would run at near 100% capacity all of the time, a substantive portion of it being internal algorithm research and generation to provide better solutions. AI should never be blanket AI covering everything but specific appliance based AI covering a particular range of functions only, otherwise it will always end up doing nothing, much the same as overly intelligent people sometimes do;D (lost in the pure thought zone).
Security, nothing should be more secure than say elevator servicing but the cheapest elevator servicing contractors, go up there wipe over some fresh grease and leave, doing nothing else, good luck. Problem with private anything and lowest tenders is, highest profit means trying to get away with doing nothing and when caught blaming others for it. Trusted companies who do good work with high costs, no problem con artists come in with corrupt bank support, buy them out and turn them into cheating shit, inflate profits and then sell them before they implode, leaving behinds trails of death, suffering and bankruptcy. Catch with proper auditing and monitoring it costs lots of money and generates no profit, hence psychopath corporate douche bag executives routinely cripple it to pump up bonuses regardless of consequences.
Now if the next step is Ubuntu on AT&T workstations that will be a huge change but hardly surprising should it be that it was the main reason AT&T went with Ubuntu in the first place. Many Internet companies will change as they baulk at the idea of M$ harvesting the networks for information free of charge and there will be more and more pressure to force out M$'s privacy invasion of the entire internet.
To allow and promote the entire creativity of humanity and assigned to corporate publishers until the end of time. Now M$ will be stealing that right off your hard disk drive with windows 10 the very second you sign them those rights by signing off on the ever changing EULAs.
Reality is there are real physically barriers comprehending the universe. Not our universe, other than constraints of change ie what ceases or changes prior to our ability to observe it but the multiverse the chaos from which our universe differentiated though the function of life bound to our universe. Those other universes are unreachable as they technically no longer exist with regard to the functioning stability of our universe. You can derive order from chaos but add chaos to order and it ceases to be, reverting to the chaos from whence it came.
Updating bios direct from the internet is the very description of insanity. I prefer a motherboard with a hard wired switch which blocks bios changes unless it it physically manually allowed, not on my current gaming browsing board but then that is why it had a little authoritarian visit. Allow M$ access to your bios without manual supervision is just plain nuts, especially with their hugely wildly perverted invasion of everyone's privacy as if they fucking own it. I'll have the 90s back and you can screw the M$ 2010s attempted invasion of every person's privacy on the entire planet (seriously sick and deranged stuff).
The internet inherently magnifies one particular divide, the intellectual one. Just look at the pseudo celebrities with fabricated public personalities who routinely crash and burn when they foolishly expose their true intellect to the public on the internet. Sure they can still attract, well, other idiots but for everyone else, just eww. The intellectual divide becomes really obvious on the internet and oh my don't geeks and nerds have fun with it;).
What is interesting about this review of nuclear energy rules, is it signals a pretty major resurgence of nuclear energy generations, with safer designs slowly coming to fruition. This in conjunction with renewables (renewables in the burbs and nuclear as backup and in commercial, industrial and high density residential). You simply can not do it all with renewables because they a hugely subject to environmental chaos (weather, earthquakes et al) and you don't want you power down for months whilst you attempt to rebuild without power. Nuclear is a 100% requirement in order to achieve near 100% reliability in supply, a demand for any metropolitan area). Fossil fuels are most definitely on the way out.
Technically they stopped just one bit short. They should also require the equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So a policing query signal can be sent to the drone and a response received back of it's registration (it already has transmitters and receivers built in). This unique identifier should tie back to the registered owner. No response and down goes that drone, taking out by a police hunter drone killer drone in a safe manner. If the drone is doing something naughty and a proper response received the registered owner is immediately contacted and either warned or issued a notice. This of course for drones outside of the owners private property, for small ones within the owners property, well, toys can be treated as toys once they reach further than very localised use, different laws need to apply.
Twitter represents the digital infrastructure to allow a horde of mostly mindless feather brains to scream into the void from their digital perches. Twitter does not provide the voice, it purely provides the digital medium for you to hook up your digital device on the digital network you pay for. Policies will never been uniformly applied because Twitter only reacts to a sufficient number of shrill cries from it members. The more feather brains that squawk about something annoying them, the more likely Twitter is to make an adjustment, well, let's be blunt, to stop them squawking on a particular subject.
Seriously who the hell possibly thinks that twitter could ever pay enough people to read and audit every single idiot feather brained squawk on twitter or even every single complain, don't like what twitter writes, stop reading it, I don't. Seriously the birds in my neighbourhood make enough noise every day I don't need to hear any more of it;D.
So what you are saying is, it is OK for M$ to steal people's bandwidth because 'er' 'um' they are stealing from everyone with windows installed and they are 'er' 'um' not stealing that much on a individual basis but in total they are stealing millions of dollars of bandwidth. Mind you they are not stealing once but hugely invading your privacy with the install and stealing all your personal data, monitoring everything you do, key logger, network connections, files, emails, skype, invasively and pervertedly prying into every inch of your private life. As far as they are concerned no choice, bend over, drop your pants and pucker up the windows probe is ready to be inserted, want it or not. There is not defence for this abuse and they should be criminally punished for it.
Careful there the rape in question was not an assault but a very disingenuous attempt to enable conception when empty mutual masturbation was the only intent. Something covered in Swedish law as rape but that can not be considered as sexual assault. There are the additional considerations of increased risk of sexually transmitted disease but as neither pregnancy nor infection resulted from those two particular bouts of voluntary non reproductive mutual masturbation (not choosing to define methods, possible partnerings nor organs of choice), the legal costs expended to placate the US government seem rather foolish. You could just imagine coming out of the Swedish government, "Ohh God, Ohh God, Ohh God, please let it end". Especially now that close association with the US government is not that desirable in Europe any more and distinctly frowned upon (screwing up trade, promoting austerity dicks as suitable politicians, refugee crisis, Ukraine a collapsing state within Europe itself - divide and conquer they smell a rat in the White House and a bunch of them in the US Federal Reserve).
Hey, if M$ had not chosen to use the $ so much in it's coding language of choice then M$ would never have never about. As the string variable denominator M$ is accurate reflection of the various elements of Micro Soft (tiny limp is of course the cheekier expression of their logo), just because you missed out on it's original expression and use does not end that original expression and use nor because of lame arse M$ marketdroids hate it because they believe it makes M$ look bad. Choosing names like Lune or was that Zune or Bing or Silverfish, plus pledging to support products only to drop them, or decades of gross invasions of privacy, starting back with M$ Office (see good variable use, missing some coding punctuation of course), that's what makes M$ wildy uncool and undesirable, want to behave like dicks expect to be treated like dicks. Want to be cool then do cool stuff, protect peoples privacy, enable choice, stick with your products through thick and thin and learn to suck it up when people take the piss because M$ does sucky things all of the time.
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So why bother paying M$ for two copies of minecraft, one for at home and one in the class, when pretty simple generic FOSS programs can do the same thing. Why waste that money, not once mind you but again and again and again and, well, you know the drill of the upgrade cycle. Why makes spending 200 million (approximate number of students) times say $50 every couple of years (total 10 billion dollars). So where the hell is the 10 billion dollars of educational worth exactly in this program. Reality is to ensure equal access, when it is used in public education it should be carried out by government and the program distributed freely to all who want it (they could in the most sensible manner possible, subsidise public universities in the production of this kind of software ie paying masters and doctoral students to learn and professors to teach - double plus benefit, you get the software and promote educational development). This all just stinks to high heaven of a desperation bid by M$ to generate profit based upon an unsound investment, creating a whole hidden marketing program.
Why the hell isn't this kind of software produced in a fashion that promotes education (in a public university by teachers and advanced students, a far better place to invest 10 billion dollars every couple of years) instead of just blotivating the profits of a sick privacy invasive corporation, who based upon it's own policies should not be allowed in schools in the first place (the government can not sign off on the right of a corporation to invade the privacy of minors in public schools for marketing purposes, that would be child abuse).
Any action of government that would affect the vote of a citizen should be made public prior to elections. A elected government representative somewhere and at some time signed off on this and their position should be up for review based upon it. As an empathic example, clearly the other commenter had severe issues with this and it clearly would affect their vote and as such under electoral law it should have been made public. The core of any democratic constitution is maintaining that democracy and democracy can not exist based upon ignorance and lies. If it will affect a citizens vote than under the entirety of a constitution that citizen has a right to know. When any so called democratic government uses tax payer funds to keep secrets from it's citizens that they knew would affect the outcome of elections, they have committed electoral fraud and breached constitutional law and should be prosecuted for doing so.
This actually all smells of mis-information. They seem to want to put out the idea that they need this in order to intercept communications, they need to get in the encryption chain. I think they have already pushed past that with corporate support from manufacturers and operating system companies. They are hacking the firmware, getting at the information prior to it being encrypted and sending out two data streams, one to themselves and only encrypting that one to try to hide the traffic. Getting in or corrupted online operating system updates and then using insider bios information and back doors to plant monitoring software deep into the system, clean it and it resets from bios, to restart the infection, back into the OS, even though the original infection came from an OS update (to infrequent to be reliable). So this is all, look over hear, pay no attention to M$ building in all the tools they need to monitor everyone right into the OS (as default apps, they no longer count as suspicious activity, it even generates the required network activity to hide the covert activity) and also pay no attention to the major changes occurring in BIOS. They are not interested in cracking encryption any more, except other governments encryption they are focused in on getting the information prior to being encrypted and this is what they are trying to cover up with talks of back doors in encryption software that they know full well no one will accept, they know it will fail and the only reason to actively pursue it, is as cover for other activities.
Why even bother with a UK standard, they might as well shift talk to NATO standards (North American Territorial Occupation - talking about them apparently is the hot new forbidden subject) for encryption, because that's what all the firmware hacking is about, full spectrum dominance as demanded by the North American Territorial Occupation force and you can not get that with other players handing out encryption keys and not passing them over with demanded, to NATO. Of course if they went quite now, every body would suspect they were up to something else, of course being stupidly noisy tends to do the same thing.
Terrorist will say pretty much nothing digitally and simply arranged meetings and say everything face to face, except of course during actual implementation of the plot and then whether or not it is encrypted it makes no difference. They will rely on doughnut munching lard arses preferring to sit in air conditioning comfort in the office masturbating while getting high on invading everyone's privacy, especially private picks of families (sick people are sick and people who get a kick out of invading other people's privacy are as sick as they cum).
The likes of Hillary Clinton just see thoughts of total control, having all the power, it's a disease, attempt to deny them power and they will attack you, that is their nature, their mental disease. That and covering up their incompetence with lies, attempt to expose those lies and again they will attack you.
Likely they are keeping the code under cover per Googles request, that being the only obvious target for what they are producing. Like an experimental offshot, the explores that possibility sees real opportunity to produce a successful outcome and sell it back to Google in it's entirety, for Google to kick Windows out of the office. M$ attempted to force their desktop OS onto users phones, by trying to force them to adapt to the phone GUI on a desktop and now Google is investigating taking a GUI variant of the phone OS onto the desktop, now that M$ has created an opportunity to lever it off the desktop due to it's hugely perverted privacy invasive policies, destroying trust. No business can safely use the latest version of windows and protect it's own proprietary knowledge, at the same time, simply impossible.
That is really misdirecting comment, nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with the current requirement of crop diversity to prevent crop collapse, a single specific variant can be subject to total collapse should an infection most successful on that variant break out, so the risk is mass death through starvation, millions of people. Another problem shelf life, longer shelf life is indicative of reduced bio-degradaility, why exactly is that food less digestible and what will be the impact of it.
The huge problem with have with out of control corporations is they 'WILL' release products onto the market when they are just barely good enough and often will fail because of greed for more, More, MORE, profits now. That even includes products that knowingly will fail but the profits will be sufficient to cover the costs (civil suits, fines or they can split it off and socialise the losses by letting it go purposefully bankrupt, after sucking out all of the profits first of course), especially when protected by corrupt lawyers, public relations experts (psychological mass manipulators ie really sick people), corrupt lobbyists and the corrupt politicians they feed. Basically in the current psychopath corporate executive climate we are incapable of safely producing GMO crops, a safe GMO crop is more of an accident of design rather than a purposeful outcome.
Current corporations quite simply can not be trusted, from M$ to Monsanto, it makes little difference lie, cheat and steal is just how they deal. As a result they have to be excluded from high risk activities like GMO crop manipulation or data mining the entire internet including end users computers.
Kind of sounds good that logic takes precedence over syntax but reality is coding languages build their own individual logic around their own individual syntax = does not equal = but can ==, $ can mean anything and () or ; do all sorts of stuff and not the same logical stuff across languages. Logic can on be expressed via syntax, so logically coding language rules must be agreed to and uniformly applied just as grammatical rules are agreed to and applied to English. The rules for coding languages should be logical extrapolations of English and maths rules (in a more wordy format but they could also be used in a more compact format as in short hand). The problem we have now is coding languages are only bound to their internal logic (the arbitrary choices of their coders), rather than an overall accepted and applied coding logic, as extensions of English and maths.
Time is the wrong variable, relative change is the right one. Time can occur as fast or as slow as possible in changes nothing, only the relative changes of matter with regard to other matter have significance, how fast or slow is arbitrary and time is just a relative measurement against other changes ie how fast or slow the universe is in totality does not affect it, how it changes relative to itself does.
Well, literally that is exactly what I stated, were you not paying attention, no interaction means they are literally are a fantasy, they can not exist with regard to the implementation of our universe, although logically they still can (not do) exist in infinite variability.
I did not really bother with the article at all because I know full well, my greatest burst of creativity occurs when first given the problem, there in after it wains as I focus on implementation. After years in private that focus on implementation kills creativity because good enough dominates so that new problems can be tackled. That also occurred in school where projects generating no new knowledge were simply fit in to take up minimal time, achieving the required minimum grade and thus sparing as much time as possible for new thought and knowledge. I wish that schools would have offered a choice, do the stupid projects (the boredom of pointlessly regurgitation knowledge in a pretty format, often with greater marks scored for prettiness rather than content) or do the easy exams (easy for some hard for others). So the procrastination does not occur with regard to creativity but the boredom of implementation.
This lack of effective training is of course further crippled by privatisation bullshit. Yep, better learning by allowing private corporations to dominate, each pushing their own coding language, that'll work - not. Could you imagine if that corporate Uncle Tom had been behind achieving greater literacy, privatising that and allowing corporations to create their own private languages - no uniform English, fuck that no profit. Individually languages pushed by corporations tied up in patent fees and copyright to own the content produced by those languages. You need a licence to write or read, to listen or speak, corporations would love it. So in our ABCs no QWEs no ABCs no QWEs no ABCs no QWEs (I hope that is annoying as it should be, still incapable of producing alphabetically keyboards as default even mind bogglingly enough software fucking only ones) world no progress is made because greed driven stupidity.
Artificial intelligence do not belong in portable devices not for any paranoid reason but simply energy efficiency. To be actual artificially intelligent it must be capable of learning and investigating new solutions. So right or wrong cease for all non core functions where better or worse answers dominate. So logical, when queried the artificial intelligence will produce a 'good enough' answer, which is either used or rejected whilst in search for a better answer. Even with the good enough answer is used, the artificial intelligence should use available spare capacity to produce a better answer if possible, until such time as new requests come in or other internal research takes precedence (greater possible benefit or better results being generated). So pretty much AI computers would run at near 100% capacity all of the time, a substantive portion of it being internal algorithm research and generation to provide better solutions. AI should never be blanket AI covering everything but specific appliance based AI covering a particular range of functions only, otherwise it will always end up doing nothing, much the same as overly intelligent people sometimes do ;D (lost in the pure thought zone).
Security, nothing should be more secure than say elevator servicing but the cheapest elevator servicing contractors, go up there wipe over some fresh grease and leave, doing nothing else, good luck. Problem with private anything and lowest tenders is, highest profit means trying to get away with doing nothing and when caught blaming others for it. Trusted companies who do good work with high costs, no problem con artists come in with corrupt bank support, buy them out and turn them into cheating shit, inflate profits and then sell them before they implode, leaving behinds trails of death, suffering and bankruptcy. Catch with proper auditing and monitoring it costs lots of money and generates no profit, hence psychopath corporate douche bag executives routinely cripple it to pump up bonuses regardless of consequences.
Now if the next step is Ubuntu on AT&T workstations that will be a huge change but hardly surprising should it be that it was the main reason AT&T went with Ubuntu in the first place. Many Internet companies will change as they baulk at the idea of M$ harvesting the networks for information free of charge and there will be more and more pressure to force out M$'s privacy invasion of the entire internet.
To allow and promote the entire creativity of humanity and assigned to corporate publishers until the end of time. Now M$ will be stealing that right off your hard disk drive with windows 10 the very second you sign them those rights by signing off on the ever changing EULAs.
Reality is there are real physically barriers comprehending the universe. Not our universe, other than constraints of change ie what ceases or changes prior to our ability to observe it but the multiverse the chaos from which our universe differentiated though the function of life bound to our universe. Those other universes are unreachable as they technically no longer exist with regard to the functioning stability of our universe. You can derive order from chaos but add chaos to order and it ceases to be, reverting to the chaos from whence it came.
Updating bios direct from the internet is the very description of insanity. I prefer a motherboard with a hard wired switch which blocks bios changes unless it it physically manually allowed, not on my current gaming browsing board but then that is why it had a little authoritarian visit. Allow M$ access to your bios without manual supervision is just plain nuts, especially with their hugely wildly perverted invasion of everyone's privacy as if they fucking own it. I'll have the 90s back and you can screw the M$ 2010s attempted invasion of every person's privacy on the entire planet (seriously sick and deranged stuff).
Make it illegal and when the owner responds that their drone is not active 'er' pick up the pieces and find out whose drone it really is ;).
The internet inherently magnifies one particular divide, the intellectual one. Just look at the pseudo celebrities with fabricated public personalities who routinely crash and burn when they foolishly expose their true intellect to the public on the internet. Sure they can still attract, well, other idiots but for everyone else, just eww. The intellectual divide becomes really obvious on the internet and oh my don't geeks and nerds have fun with it ;).
What is interesting about this review of nuclear energy rules, is it signals a pretty major resurgence of nuclear energy generations, with safer designs slowly coming to fruition. This in conjunction with renewables (renewables in the burbs and nuclear as backup and in commercial, industrial and high density residential). You simply can not do it all with renewables because they a hugely subject to environmental chaos (weather, earthquakes et al) and you don't want you power down for months whilst you attempt to rebuild without power. Nuclear is a 100% requirement in order to achieve near 100% reliability in supply, a demand for any metropolitan area). Fossil fuels are most definitely on the way out.
Technically they stopped just one bit short. They should also require the equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So a policing query signal can be sent to the drone and a response received back of it's registration (it already has transmitters and receivers built in). This unique identifier should tie back to the registered owner. No response and down goes that drone, taking out by a police hunter drone killer drone in a safe manner. If the drone is doing something naughty and a proper response received the registered owner is immediately contacted and either warned or issued a notice. This of course for drones outside of the owners private property, for small ones within the owners property, well, toys can be treated as toys once they reach further than very localised use, different laws need to apply.
Twitter represents the digital infrastructure to allow a horde of mostly mindless feather brains to scream into the void from their digital perches. Twitter does not provide the voice, it purely provides the digital medium for you to hook up your digital device on the digital network you pay for. Policies will never been uniformly applied because Twitter only reacts to a sufficient number of shrill cries from it members. The more feather brains that squawk about something annoying them, the more likely Twitter is to make an adjustment, well, let's be blunt, to stop them squawking on a particular subject.
Seriously who the hell possibly thinks that twitter could ever pay enough people to read and audit every single idiot feather brained squawk on twitter or even every single complain, don't like what twitter writes, stop reading it, I don't. Seriously the birds in my neighbourhood make enough noise every day I don't need to hear any more of it ;D.
So what you are saying is, it is OK for M$ to steal people's bandwidth because 'er' 'um' they are stealing from everyone with windows installed and they are 'er' 'um' not stealing that much on a individual basis but in total they are stealing millions of dollars of bandwidth. Mind you they are not stealing once but hugely invading your privacy with the install and stealing all your personal data, monitoring everything you do, key logger, network connections, files, emails, skype, invasively and pervertedly prying into every inch of your private life. As far as they are concerned no choice, bend over, drop your pants and pucker up the windows probe is ready to be inserted, want it or not. There is not defence for this abuse and they should be criminally punished for it.
Careful there the rape in question was not an assault but a very disingenuous attempt to enable conception when empty mutual masturbation was the only intent. Something covered in Swedish law as rape but that can not be considered as sexual assault. There are the additional considerations of increased risk of sexually transmitted disease but as neither pregnancy nor infection resulted from those two particular bouts of voluntary non reproductive mutual masturbation (not choosing to define methods, possible partnerings nor organs of choice), the legal costs expended to placate the US government seem rather foolish. You could just imagine coming out of the Swedish government, "Ohh God, Ohh God, Ohh God, please let it end". Especially now that close association with the US government is not that desirable in Europe any more and distinctly frowned upon (screwing up trade, promoting austerity dicks as suitable politicians, refugee crisis, Ukraine a collapsing state within Europe itself - divide and conquer they smell a rat in the White House and a bunch of them in the US Federal Reserve).
Hey, if M$ had not chosen to use the $ so much in it's coding language of choice then M$ would never have never about. As the string variable denominator M$ is accurate reflection of the various elements of Micro Soft (tiny limp is of course the cheekier expression of their logo), just because you missed out on it's original expression and use does not end that original expression and use nor because of lame arse M$ marketdroids hate it because they believe it makes M$ look bad. Choosing names like Lune or was that Zune or Bing or Silverfish, plus pledging to support products only to drop them, or decades of gross invasions of privacy, starting back with M$ Office (see good variable use, missing some coding punctuation of course), that's what makes M$ wildy uncool and undesirable, want to behave like dicks expect to be treated like dicks. Want to be cool then do cool stuff, protect peoples privacy, enable choice, stick with your products through thick and thin and learn to suck it up when people take the piss because M$ does sucky things all of the time.