/whoosh -- talk about completely missing the point.
1. Why is it even on in the first place ???
2. Stop moving the goal posts. We're talking about Windows 10 spying./sarcasm Oh I see, "Because everyone else does it that makes it OK in Windows 10" ?!?! NOT.
MS should / could be setting a good example -- not abusing their power.
You apologists crack me up with your stupidity; the rest of us have no issues keeping MS accountable on our machines.
> Windows 10 works just fine if you don't care about being spied on.
FTFY. When even MS admits they Are unable to stop Windows 10 tracking then you've just admitting to being MS's bitch. But I guess you have no respect for yourself since MS sure doesn't have any for you.
Only a complete idiot blindly trusts Microsoft.
The rest of us actually have a pair and don't allow MS to pretend they own our computers, nor our network connections.
> I used Windows 7 the other day, it felt old all of a sudden,
/sarcasm I used the wheel the other day. It felt a few thousand years old. It is now out of date and is just not reasonable anymore -- oh wait, it works.
Ah, that explains it -- just another dumb hipster who thinks "Ooh, shiny!" is somehow more magically stable then something that has been around for a while. Windows 10 == more lines of code == more bugs, but keep on being a shill because Windows 7 works just fine for those of us using it.
But I don't expect an apologist to understand why Microsoft's forced upgrades on Windows 7 and Window 8 users leaves a bad taste with customers and users start looking for alternatives.
For the cops on the front lines of the War on Drugs, the federal government's fixation with marijuana was deeply perplexing. As they saw it, the problem wasn't pot but the drug-related violence that accompanied cocaine and other hard drugs. After the crack epidemic in the late 1980s, police commissioners around the country, like Lee Brown in Houston, began adding more officers and developing computer mapping to target neighborhoods where crime was on the rise. The crime rate dropped. But by the mid-1990s, police in some cities were beginning to realize there was a certain level that they couldn't get crime below. Mass jailings weren't doing the trick: Only fifteen percent of those convicted of federal drug crimes were actual traffickers; the rest were nothing but street-level dealers and mules, who could always be replaced.
Police in Boston, concerned about violence between youth drug gangs, turned for assistance to a group of academics. Among them was a Harvard criminologist named David Kennedy. Working together, the academics and members of the department's anti-gang unit came up with what Kennedy calls a "quirky" strategy and convinced senior police commanders to give it a try. The result, which began in 1995, was the Boston Gun Project, a collaborative effort among ministers and community leaders and the police to try to break the link between the drug trade and violent crime. First, the project tracked a particular drug-dealing gang, mapping out its membership and operations in detail. Then, in an effort called Operation Ceasefire, the dealers were called into a meeting with preachers and parents and social-service providers, and offered a deal: Stop the violence, or the police will crack down with a vengeance. "We know the seventeen guys you run with," the gangbangers were told. "If anyone in your group shoots somebody, we'll arrest every last one of you." The project also extended drug treatment and other assistance to anyone who wanted it.
The effort worked: The rates of homicide and violence among young men in Boston dropped by two-thirds. Drug dealing didn't stop -- "people continued what they were doing," Kennedy concedes, "but they put their guns down." As Kennedy reflected on the success of the Boston project, which ran for five years, he wondered if he had discovered a deeper truth about drug-related violence. If the murders weren't a necessary component of the drug trade -- if it was possible to separate the two -- perhaps cities could find a way to reduce the violence, even if they could do nothing about the drugs.
In 2001, Kennedy got a call from the mayor of San Francisco that gave him a chance to examine his theories in a new setting. The city had experienced a recent spike in its murder rate, much of it caused by an ongoing feud between two drug-dealing gangs -- Big Block and West Mob -- that had resulted in dozens of murders over the years. Could Kennedy, the mayor asked, help police figure out how to stop the killings?
Kennedy flew out to San Francisco and met with police. But as he researched the history of the violence, it seemed to confirm his findings in Boston. Though both Big Block and West Mob were involved in dealing drugs, the shootings were not really drug-related -- the two groups occupied different territories and were not battling over turf. "The feud had started over who would perform next at a neighborhood rap event," says Kennedy, now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "They had been killing each other ever since."
Bullshit. Not every developer is interested in form over function. While there certainly is drama such as This is Phil Fish, there are enough counter-examples:
The Fermi Paradox is based on false _assumptions_.
"First" Contact (sic.) is generally not allowed for lower life forms (such as humans) until the mass consciousness can accept the new reality. i.e. It will force everything to be re-evaluated: Math, Politics, Science, Religion, etc. Advanced species can't go disrupting a still-wet-behind-the-ears species who have barely been here ~250,000 years while we're more concerned about killing one another based on immature greed. Once we start to grow up, spiritually, contact will become more and more open as we shift from our crutch on technology to be more holistically balanced.
First Contact will roughly be _allowed_ to happen by ~2024 because enough people are no longer xenophobic and can handle the truth.
Wanting to get along with others makes someone a nutter?!?!
/sarcasm Oh noes, what we will every do without the stupidity of war! -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
Most people probably agree that love "confined" to the boundaries of adults is a "Good Thing" (TM). A few sicko's want that boundary expanded to include animals and children. Yet other immature people want that boundary shrunk to not include race or religion.
When the FBI spies on you it is called "National Security" When you log data on your own device when others use it that is now called "Violation of Privacy":-)
> You don't have the legal right to snoop on the person they are communicating with,
A parent has the right to protect their children from potential harm. If they are using _your_ devices you have the right to track ALL usage of them regardless of the user. Bad laws are out of touch with the reality.
> and if your under-age kid is sending nudies of themselves, you've just committed a felony - downloading and possession of kiddie porn.
Are the laws really this fucked up?
So you as a parent can give them a bath, but if you catch them sending nudies you are now in possession of child porn?? WTF. Does this mean that any picture that of them without a shirt on, showing a nipple is now "magically" child porn?
> Did you know that you can make your own hydroponic garden using pop bottles, hydroton clay pellets and an 8 dollar aquarium air pump allowing low income families to grow things like chives in their basic current windows even in winter allowing them to supplement their diet with healthy organic food?
Nope. Link to details?
> Did you know that if you purchase a 20 foot long board from rona that you can create a geodesic dome frame out of that by cutting it into at least 2 peices per board with little waste left over. This has advantages over a shipping container in that you cannot get a large truck into certain areas due to power lines and piece meal over time is more practical than lump sum for most people.
Nope. What's the purpose of this? Storage? Sorry, your description isn't quite clear.
> Did you know that by utilizing a fresnel lense you can heat salt to 800 degrees and combined with magnesium and antimony you can create a molten salt battery capable of far outperforming a standard car battery in terms of storage. When combined with a verticlal wind turbine created by cutting a standard plastic barrel in half you can reduce your energy bill radically?
Nope. Sounds like an interesting project. Details?
Microsoft had a ~20 year head start with WinCE and yet Google still managed to beat them in ~ 6 years! (WinCE first shipped on 16 November 1996, Android first shipped on December 6, 2010)
-- Linux on the Desktop didn't "win" compared to Linux Mobile
I was under the impression, anecdotal evidence based on experience, that Firefox leaded memory via it's Flash video player. I found that once I stopped using Firefox for YouTube it seemed to never really leak memory anymore.
But yeah, Chrome's one tab = on process is a smarter design.
So exercising one's freedom of speech is "right wing" now ???
Twitter needs to be treated like the phone system -- common carrier status. The phone company doesn't terminate's account when they talk smack or "hate speech" (sic.) to another person. Twitter should be no different.
Censoring someone just because they have an unpopular view is shitty state of affairs ripe for abuse.
> As far as I know, VMWare has admitted to copying Linux drivers, but they claimed that their kernel "wrapped" the Linux kernel in such a way as to not infringe.
Netflix on the PS3 does a similar thing by providing their own "shim" to call GPL code . Sony's lawyers had a field day trying to determine if Netflix could do this -- their answer was grudgingly yes, since they weren't technically violating the GPL.
It was kind of an interesting run-around / "hack" when you think about it.
> It seems like bad religion has been holding back real global progress, why not a push to take religion in general out of society by replacing it with True religion, compassion, instead?
0. FTFY
1. Yeah, Good Luck with removing religion. Gee, did you forget a small little detail called The First Amendment ???
2. Everyone has faith. If you didn't have faith in your beliefs then why do you even have them in the first place???
3. Trading one evil with another another isn't the solution. i.e. Trading ignorance (Theism) for arrogance (Atheism) is treating the symptom and not the cause. As a mystic the solution is two-fold:
a) "gnosis" or _experiential knowledge_.
b) The fundamental problem is bad behavior towards others. There are nice Muslims, and nice Atheists. Likewise there are asshole Muslims, and asshole Atheists. Your beliefs only become a problem when you are unable to treat others with respect.
Banning something just because _you_ don't agree with it quickly leads to a slippery slope of censorship and rights abuse.
With freedom comes responsibility. Spiritually immature people who wish to harm others have yet to grow up and understand this truth.
-- First Contact in ~2024, proves that the Bible is not _literally_ true.
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> Hipsters don't use Windows. They use Macs.
I guess you missed the last 20 years of Visual Basic, and .NET.
> You are hereby banned from Slashdot for a period of one day.
Considering I've been using /. for ~20 years ... missing a day .. Yeah, that's nice.
--
Old grumpy programmer: Get off my LAN!
/whoosh -- talk about completely missing the point.
1. Why is it even on in the first place ???
2. Stop moving the goal posts. We're talking about Windows 10 spying. /sarcasm Oh I see, "Because everyone else does it that makes it OK in Windows 10" ?!?! NOT.
MS should / could be setting a good example -- not abusing their power.
You apologists crack me up with your stupidity; the rest of us have no issues keeping MS accountable on our machines.
> Windows 10 works just fine if you don't care about being spied on.
FTFY. When even MS admits they Are unable to stop Windows 10 tracking then you've just admitting to being MS's bitch. But I guess you have no respect for yourself since MS sure doesn't have any for you.
Only a complete idiot blindly trusts Microsoft.
The rest of us actually have a pair and don't allow MS to pretend they own our computers, nor our network connections.
> I used Windows 7 the other day, it felt old all of a sudden,
Ah, that explains it -- just another dumb hipster who thinks "Ooh, shiny!" is somehow more magically stable then something that has been around for a while. Windows 10 == more lines of code == more bugs, but keep on being a shill because Windows 7 works just fine for those of us using it.
But I don't expect an apologist to understand why Microsoft's forced upgrades on Windows 7 and Window 8 users leaves a bad taste with customers and users start looking for alternatives.
> If there was a real crackdown on Gangs, crime would decrease for a while,
We actually had that once but it was too successful so it was stopped. WTF!?
Scroll down to 7. The Harvard Man of How America Lost the War on Drugs to see how the power of Name & Shame worked.
> The industry is nothing but hype.
Bullshit. Not every developer is interested in form over function. While there certainly is drama such as This is Phil Fish, there are enough counter-examples:
* Braid
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Path of Exile
* Terraria
* Trine
I don't remember seeing marketing for these games and yet they are some of the best around.
Great games focus on great gameplay. Shitty games focus more on marketing then development, which is ~95% of games and the games industry.
The Fermi Paradox is based on false _assumptions_.
"First" Contact (sic.) is generally not allowed for lower life forms (such as humans) until the mass consciousness can accept the new reality. i.e. It will force everything to be re-evaluated: Math, Politics, Science, Religion, etc. Advanced species can't go disrupting a still-wet-behind-the-ears species who have barely been here ~250,000 years while we're more concerned about killing one another based on immature greed. Once we start to grow up, spiritually, contact will become more and more open as we shift from our crutch on technology to be more holistically balanced.
First Contact will roughly be _allowed_ to happen by ~2024 because enough people are no longer xenophobic and can handle the truth.
Agreed.
Part of the problem is when this "cloud / web" stuff evaporates you have no migration path.
At least a native app (should) continue to work for years and doesn't hold your data hostage.
Wanting to get along with others makes someone a nutter?!?!
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
> The only downside might be disruption of radio astronomy, but we should be doing that from the moon anyway.
We should but we're not. We would rather spend billions on killing others then having a research base on the moon. :-/
> Does "love" (1) of any boundaries?
Most people probably agree that love "confined" to the boundaries of adults is a "Good Thing" (TM).
A few sicko's want that boundary expanded to include animals and children.
Yet other immature people want that boundary shrunk to not include race or religion.
The boundary is based on who you ask.
... sadly Larry Ellison thinks he's God.
Exactly.
When the FBI spies on you it is called "National Security" :-)
When you log data on your own device when others use it that is now called "Violation of Privacy"
> You don't have the legal right to snoop on the person they are communicating with,
A parent has the right to protect their children from potential harm. If they are using _your_ devices you have the right to track ALL usage of them regardless of the user. Bad laws are out of touch with the reality.
> and if your under-age kid is sending nudies of themselves, you've just committed a felony - downloading and possession of kiddie porn.
Are the laws really this fucked up?
So you as a parent can give them a bath, but if you catch them sending nudies you are now in possession of child porn?? WTF. Does this mean that any picture that of them without a shirt on, showing a nipple is now "magically" child porn?
How about a sudden outbreak of common sense here.
OK, I'll bite.
> Did you know that you can make your own hydroponic garden using pop bottles, hydroton clay pellets and an 8 dollar aquarium air pump allowing low income families to grow things like chives in their basic current windows even in winter allowing them to supplement their diet with healthy organic food?
Nope. Link to details?
> Did you know that if you purchase a 20 foot long board from rona that you can create a geodesic dome frame out of that by cutting it into at least 2 peices per board with little waste left over. This has advantages over a shipping container in that you cannot get a large truck into certain areas due to power lines and piece meal over time is more practical than lump sum for most people.
Nope. What's the purpose of this? Storage? Sorry, your description isn't quite clear.
> Did you know that by utilizing a fresnel lense you can heat salt to 800 degrees and combined with magnesium and antimony you can create a molten salt battery capable of far outperforming a standard car battery in terms of storage. When combined with a verticlal wind turbine created by cutting a standard plastic barrel in half you can reduce your energy bill radically?
Nope. Sounds like an interesting project. Details?
> Keep in mind this isn't going in MacBooks, since their hardware architecture people refuse to do anything but AMD
Thankfully there is an eGPU (External GPU) solution. Check out this benchmark! .. it uses all these at the same time:
* Mac Pro 8-Core CPU
* 2x GTX 970
* 2x AMD FirePro
But yeah, it does suck that Apple abandoned nVidia. Hopefully the next generation of MBP will address that.
1. /sarcasm Who knew pointing out the facts makes one a shill! What are you smoking, because I want some of that!
2. I don't use either Microsoft nor Google operating systems on mobile.
> Other than a decent browser and ads what else has Google been real successful at?
Gee, maybe 2 Billion Android Devices:
http://www.itechpost.com/artic...
Microsoft had a ~20 year head start with WinCE and yet Google still managed to beat them in ~ 6 years! (WinCE first shipped on 16 November 1996, Android first shipped on December 6, 2010)
--
Linux on the Desktop didn't "win" compared to Linux Mobile
I mostly concur.
I was under the impression, anecdotal evidence based on experience, that Firefox leaded memory via it's Flash video player. I found that once I stopped using Firefox for YouTube it seemed to never really leak memory anymore.
But yeah, Chrome's one tab = on process is a smarter design.
> No, insisting that people have to listen to ...
You keep using this have to. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
/sarcasm But I guess this "follow just happens automagically.
> if you shout "fire!" in a theatre you will get banned regardless of your rights.
Uh, if ACTUALLY is on fire alerting others isn't a problem.
Context, people.
Please stop with this over-used-often-wrong analogy.
>Start your own right-winger competitor.
So exercising one's freedom of speech is "right wing" now ???
Twitter needs to be treated like the phone system -- common carrier status. The phone company doesn't terminate's account when they talk smack or "hate speech" (sic.) to another person. Twitter should be no different.
Censoring someone just because they have an unpopular view is shitty state of affairs ripe for abuse.
> As far as I know, VMWare has admitted to copying Linux drivers, but they claimed that their kernel "wrapped" the Linux kernel in such a way as to not infringe.
Netflix on the PS3 does a similar thing by providing their own "shim" to call GPL code . Sony's lawyers had a field day trying to determine if Netflix could do this -- their answer was grudgingly yes, since they weren't technically violating the GPL.
It was kind of an interesting run-around / "hack" when you think about it.
Ha! We could only hope.
> It seems like bad religion has been holding back real global progress, why not a push to take religion in general out of society by replacing it with True religion, compassion, instead?
0. FTFY
1. Yeah, Good Luck with removing religion. Gee, did you forget a small little detail called The First Amendment ???
2. Everyone has faith. If you didn't have faith in your beliefs then why do you even have them in the first place???
3. Trading one evil with another another isn't the solution. i.e. Trading ignorance (Theism) for arrogance (Atheism) is treating the symptom and not the cause. As a mystic the solution is two-fold:
a) "gnosis" or _experiential knowledge_.
b) The fundamental problem is bad behavior towards others. There are nice Muslims, and nice Atheists. Likewise there are asshole Muslims, and asshole Atheists. Your beliefs only become a problem when you are unable to treat others with respect.
Banning something just because _you_ don't agree with it quickly leads to a slippery slope of censorship and rights abuse.
With freedom comes responsibility. Spiritually immature people who wish to harm others have yet to grow up and understand this truth.
--
First Contact in ~2024, proves that the Bible is not _literally_ true.
> HP, the destroyer of worlds,
Actually it is more like this old joke:
Q. How do you known when a tech company is no longer valuable?
A. When HP buys it.
*ba dum tsh*