I personally don't agree with or like Scientology. We should de-fund it. I also don't think Islam should be funded because they are about terrorism and Jihad and killing people it says so right in the Qu'ran. We need to remove tax exemption for Islam.....and what about those stupid christian cults who abuse snakes.. and also Mormons? anyone that beleives in getting bit and magic underwear is insane not religious....and Jews? They cover expansionist stealing of land from Palestinians as being OK according to God. Not something I want my tax $ to go to. lets defund synagogues. What about patriotism and the government telling me what I should think? Isn't that just another belief system and therefore religion? shouldn't we defund democracy? See where I'm going with this?
Interesting that you actually have a functional issue with the nvidia propriatary drivers.
Pretty much every other anti-nvidia driver argument I've seen until now quickly decomposes under pressure into basically just another factess troll (usually from an AMD fanboi), or just another rant about the lack of open source.
I agree with you that intel could be an ideal solution but my current understanding is that their performance for gaming and full hardware decode of various media stream formats still has a way to go to catch up with nVidia. I welcome being corrected though as I haven't had personal experience of their latest GPU tech yet.
Bad analogy. This is exactly the way it already is in the car industry and is going even more so as cars get more and more computierised. Car manufacturers are (ab)using the technlogy in the car to limit access to who can work on it. Its only the branded dealerships and service centers that can even get the special tools and software necessary to talk to the car to diagnose, clear and repair faults properly. ith new cars You can't even replace a major compnent yourself since with many brands, the car won't even start if it sees an unrecognised serial number on the network, which you need a dealer tool to set.
>> they need to apply some inside pressure on AMD/Nvidia to make their shit work at 100% with Linux.
Of course I'd prefer if nVidia's drivers were open, but don't lump nvidia's own binary-only drivers into the same pathetic group as AMD and nouveau.
I have been a Linux user for decades and in all that time havent stopped periodically ttrying different combination of drivers and GPU brands. In all that time my experience has always been the same: nVidia GPUs with nVidias own binary-only drivers are the only solution that gives you full featured, powerful and very reliable operation. Every other combination of drivers and/or GPUs (i.e. nouveau or AMD) have always been and contine to be significantly worse in comparison in features and stability.
Mint used to be my distro of choice but since they stupidly got rid of command line installs and also switched to install nouveau rather than nVidia's binary drivers by default, I can't even install Mint on my laptop now. Even with the latest versions of noveau the install iso still crashes on X startup.
My laptop with an AMD GPU also sucks under Linux since unlike nvidia, AMD still don't make Linux Catalyst drivers that support all their products (including mine).
My only frustration is that its getting increasingly hard to find laptops and tablets with nvdia GPUs. its all intel (which compared to nvidia are relatively underpowered so suck for gaming and media) or AMD with linux drivers that suck for stability and features compared to nvidia.
I guess it comes down to whether you beleive that your vote would actually ever change anything.
I for one think voting is a meaningless sham that at best just serves as a pacifer for the brainwashed masses. When your choice is pre-limited to A and B, and they are both pretty much identical clones of each other, your choice is none. The system has already ensured that you only get to choose between 2 or at most 3 career politicians who by nature had to be inherently corrupt back-stabbing used-car salesmen to just get to be high enough in the party system to be electable in the first place. i.e. The system itself actively prevents uncorruptable, selfless, altruistic people from ever getting the chance to even run for election.
>> And how in the world is giving money to someone, or paying for an advertisement, "corruption"?
paying for something that someone would have had to pay for themselves is basically just the same thing as giving them money. Except maybe more tax-friendly or possibly more untraceable.
When that person you're giving money to is an official and the real reason you're doing so is to get them to do something they themselves wouldn't have already done for free anyway becuase it was clearly the morally/honourably right thing to do, how is that NOT corruption?
Sorry I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of US law/politics, but aren't these republican politicians actually breaking the law by representing the interests of national corps instead of what is in the best interest of their own consituency's voters? (and if not why not?)
Voting alone cleariy doesn't work since if it did, we wouldn't already be in this mess.
Apart from the fact that its not an ongoing process or fine-grained enough, its also before-the-fact in that once politicians get past it, they can and do repeatedly fail with impunity.
This whole thing is just a way for Microsoft to try and generate a smokescreen of FUD around the fact that they are just like Apple, Google and Yahoo in that they actually give the NSA access to whatever they want, and have been doing so since at least December 2007.
Its very depressing that the democratic process can fail badly enough to not only put but keep clearly incompetent judges and politicians in complete control of legislating on stuff like this that they clearly don't understand.
There needs to be an active mechanism in government that weeds incompetence and ignorance out of the system.
EXIF does NOT include a serial number or some such that would uniquely identify the phone that took the photo. It does include the model of device, GPS location and time though.
To be fair it would probably be trivial for government agencies to correlate that data against cell tower records etc in order to make a pretty solid guess, but not actually 100% conclusively prove it was a particular phone.
It is cheap, harder to remotely intercept, doesn't go out when "they" cut the power, and even has built in geo-location of the person you're talking to.
Sure it has a few minor downsides but they are outweighed by the fact that shouting into a cocoa tin makes youi look waaay cool.
>> They don't have to know he accepted the papers.
I'm pretty sure that's not true.
The whole point of "being served" is that its a legal process to ensure the recipient provably received the notice, exactly to prevent them from being able to use ignorance of it as a defence.
I'm fed up with all these whining sexist bitches like Fiorina (one of the richest women in the US) that think they're soooo hard done by because vagina.
She'd be a LOT more credible if she stood up for actual equality and PEOPLE'S rights instead ranting about only women's rights.
>> may not even entitle them to individually graded homework
Since Stanford aren't going to evaluate students work individually any more its clear that getting a Stanford degree is now just all about money.
Stanford should just take this thinking to its logical conclusion. Imagine the expenses they would save by ending the sham of keeping lecture halls and labs open, and just selling degree certificates on the internet.
My phone actually did ring exactly 2 minutes after I read this! it was my boss wanting a status update. Is this some secret code? What does his call REALLY mean?
Why are you suddenly panicking and treating him like an asshole now he has anounced his resignation?
If he had ever had the intention to Do Bad Things(tm) why don't you think he also had the smarts to plan ahead and do it the day before he quit?
And also.. backing up his email in case he deletes his inbox/sentbox? Are you serious? Why don't you require that this should be deleted when he leaves? Most people do that on leaving just for their own personal security purposes. In fact many compnaies specifically require existing employees to explicitly not keep emails beyond some period. His email may well legitimately include personal stuff such as from HR that he should reasonably expect to be kept private, i.e not archived potentially permanently for perusal by IT staff anytime later.
Slashdot Mirror
I personally don't agree with or like Scientology. We should de-fund it. ....and what about those stupid christian cults who abuse snakes.. and also Mormons? anyone that beleives in getting bit and magic underwear is insane not religious....and Jews? They cover expansionist stealing of land from Palestinians as being OK according to God. Not something I want my tax $ to go to. lets defund synagogues.
I also don't think Islam should be funded because they are about terrorism and Jihad and killing people it says so right in the Qu'ran. We need to remove tax exemption for Islam.
What about patriotism and the government telling me what I should think? Isn't that just another belief system and therefore religion? shouldn't we defund democracy?
See where I'm going with this?
Interesting that you actually have a functional issue with the nvidia propriatary drivers.
Pretty much every other anti-nvidia driver argument I've seen until now quickly decomposes under pressure into basically just another factess troll (usually from an AMD fanboi), or just another rant about the lack of open source.
I agree with you that intel could be an ideal solution but my current understanding is that their performance for gaming and full hardware decode of various media stream formats still has a way to go to catch up with nVidia. I welcome being corrected though as I haven't had personal experience of their latest GPU tech yet.
Bad analogy.
This is exactly the way it already is in the car industry and is going even more so as cars get more and more computierised. Car manufacturers are (ab)using the technlogy in the car to limit access to who can work on it.
Its only the branded dealerships and service centers that can even get the special tools and software necessary to talk to the car to diagnose, clear and repair faults properly. ith new cars You can't even replace a major compnent yourself since with many brands, the car won't even start if it sees an unrecognised serial number on the network, which you need a dealer tool to set.
>> they need to apply some inside pressure on AMD/Nvidia to make their shit work at 100% with Linux.
Of course I'd prefer if nVidia's drivers were open, but don't lump nvidia's own binary-only drivers into the same pathetic group as AMD and nouveau.
I have been a Linux user for decades and in all that time havent stopped periodically ttrying different combination of drivers and GPU brands. In all that time my experience has always been the same: nVidia GPUs with nVidias own binary-only drivers are the only solution that gives you full featured, powerful and very reliable operation. Every other combination of drivers and/or GPUs (i.e. nouveau or AMD) have always been and contine to be significantly worse in comparison in features and stability.
Mint used to be my distro of choice but since they stupidly got rid of command line installs and also switched to install nouveau rather than nVidia's binary drivers by default, I can't even install Mint on my laptop now. Even with the latest versions of noveau the install iso still crashes on X startup.
My laptop with an AMD GPU also sucks under Linux since unlike nvidia, AMD still don't make Linux Catalyst drivers that support all their products (including mine).
My only frustration is that its getting increasingly hard to find laptops and tablets with nvdia GPUs. its all intel (which compared to nvidia are relatively underpowered so suck for gaming and media) or AMD with linux drivers that suck for stability and features compared to nvidia.
I guess it comes down to whether you beleive that your vote would actually ever change anything.
I for one think voting is a meaningless sham that at best just serves as a pacifer for the brainwashed masses.
When your choice is pre-limited to A and B, and they are both pretty much identical clones of each other, your choice is none. The system has already ensured that you only get to choose between 2 or at most 3 career politicians who by nature had to be inherently corrupt back-stabbing used-car salesmen to just get to be high enough in the party system to be electable in the first place. i.e. The system itself actively prevents uncorruptable, selfless, altruistic people from ever getting the chance to even run for election.
>> And how in the world is giving money to someone, or paying for an advertisement, "corruption"?
paying for something that someone would have had to pay for themselves is basically just the same thing as giving them money. Except maybe more tax-friendly or possibly more untraceable.
When that person you're giving money to is an official and the real reason you're doing so is to get them to do something they themselves wouldn't have already done for free anyway becuase it was clearly the morally/honourably right thing to do, how is that NOT corruption?
Sorry I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of US law/politics, but aren't these republican politicians actually breaking the law by representing the interests of national corps instead of what is in the best interest of their own consituency's voters? (and if not why not?)
Voting alone cleariy doesn't work since if it did, we wouldn't already be in this mess.
Apart from the fact that its not an ongoing process or fine-grained enough, its also before-the-fact in that once politicians get past it, they can and do repeatedly fail with impunity.
This whole thing is just a way for Microsoft to try and generate a smokescreen of FUD around the fact that they are just like Apple, Google and Yahoo in that they actually give the NSA access to whatever they want, and have been doing so since at least December 2007.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Why didn't your parents step up to the school (and higher if necessary) on this?
More proof that Obama is into bitcoin mining.
Its very depressing that the democratic process can fail badly enough to not only put but keep clearly incompetent judges and politicians in complete control of legislating on stuff like this that they clearly don't understand.
There needs to be an active mechanism in government that weeds incompetence and ignorance out of the system.
I'm all for conspiracy theories but lets stay rational please.
According to Wikipedia on EXIF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
EXIF does NOT include a serial number or some such that would uniquely identify the phone that took the photo. It does include the model of device, GPS location and time though.
To be fair it would probably be trivial for government agencies to correlate that data against cell tower records etc in order to make a pretty solid guess, but not actually 100% conclusively prove it was a particular phone.
>> the ID of that phone or camera is embedded in the video file somewhere
Do you have actual knowledge/proof that phones do this, or is this actually just your own guesswork?
I'd use two cocoa tins and a length of string.
It is cheap, harder to remotely intercept, doesn't go out when "they" cut the power, and even has built in geo-location of the person you're talking to.
Sure it has a few minor downsides but they are outweighed by the fact that shouting into a cocoa tin makes youi look waaay cool.
IANAL but I'm fairly sure the law doesn't change just because someone thinks you're being a dick, or because you're hiding.
>> They don't have to know he accepted the papers.
I'm pretty sure that's not true.
The whole point of "being served" is that its a legal process to ensure the recipient provably received the notice, exactly to prevent them from being able to use ignorance of it as a defence.
....If only they had known about ROT13.
I'm fed up with all these whining sexist bitches like Fiorina (one of the richest women in the US) that think they're soooo hard done by because vagina.
She'd be a LOT more credible if she stood up for actual equality and PEOPLE'S rights instead ranting about only women's rights.
>> may not even entitle them to individually graded homework
Since Stanford aren't going to evaluate students work individually any more its clear that getting a Stanford degree is now just all about money.
Stanford should just take this thinking to its logical conclusion. Imagine the expenses they would save by ending the sham of keeping lecture halls and labs open, and just selling degree certificates on the internet.
>> trillions of dollars worth of damage
Pounds, dear boy. Pounds! We're still not quite just another US state yet.
My phone actually did ring exactly 2 minutes after I read this!
it was my boss wanting a status update. Is this some secret code? What does his call REALLY mean?
Why are you suddenly panicking and treating him like an asshole now he has anounced his resignation?
If he had ever had the intention to Do Bad Things(tm) why don't you think he also had the smarts to plan ahead and do it the day before he quit?
And also.. backing up his email in case he deletes his inbox/sentbox? Are you serious? Why don't you require that this should be deleted when he leaves? Most people do that on leaving just for their own personal security purposes. In fact many compnaies specifically require existing employees to explicitly not keep emails beyond some period. His email may well legitimately include personal stuff such as from HR that he should reasonably expect to be kept private, i.e not archived potentially permanently for perusal by IT staff anytime later.
Yes I agree your argument sounds stupid, but your argument doesn't make the same point that I was making.
my whole point was about not having to wait.