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  1. Crouton is fragile on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you enable developer mode then you can tamper with the system, whether installing busybox or a full Linux environment via Crouton.

    Until your roommate turns on your Chromebook in developer mode, presses Space as prompted at the "OS verification is OFF" screen, and then presses Enter as prompted. This begins a wipe, which causes you to lose all work that you haven't yet committed to external version control.

  2. Battery + fixed screen and keyboard on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Traditional PCs include Desktops, Notebooks, and Workstations and do not include Tablets or x86 Servers. Detachable Tablets and Slate Tablets are part of the Personal Computing Device Tracker, but are not addressed in this press release.

    if you are counting PCs, then it makes absolutely no sense to not count Windows-based tablets, which are just PCs with a wacky form factor. That only makes sense if you are counting desktops, but then you also have to exclude Windows notebooks. So, WTF, IDC?

    It makes sense if IDC is defining notebooks as "battery-powered computing devices with a permanently attached screen and alphabetic keyboard suitable for touch-typing". This would include a Windows laptop, a GNU/Linux laptop from System76 or Dell, a MacBook, a Chromebook, or a Remix OS notebook. Is your WTF the fact that IDC treats "mains-powered PCs with a display UNION notebook computers" as worthy of counting?

  3. My definition of PC; several devices evaluated on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    In my opinion, it's a personal computer if the person who owns it can develop and run an application for it. Under this definition:

    • GNU/Linux: PC.
    • Windows (x86 and x86-64): PC because it can run MinGW or Visual Studio.
    • Android with Bluetooth keyboard: PC because it can run AIDE.
    • iPhone or iPad: Not a PC.
    • iPhone or iPad connected to an Xcode appliance: PC.
    • Stock game console: Not a PC.
    • Retro game console connected to a PC with keyboard: PC.
    • Stock Chromebook: Not a PC. All it can do is view web pages.
    • Chromebook with Crouton: PC, but very easy to break. Once a Chromebook's owner installs Crouton, the firmware displays an "OS verification is OFF" screen that begs anyone who turns it on to wipe the drive by pressing Space then Enter.
  4. Re:Not a dumb terminal - Linux with locked down UI on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Chromebooks are Linux with a very locked down UI that is cloud based with a little local storage -- as such they are actually a "personal computer".

    I consider something a "personal computer" if the person who owns it controls what computing is done. One test for this is as follows: Can one practically develop an app for a Chromebook on a Chromebook? Netbooks from 2008 through 2012 were personal computers because they could run GCC.

  5. Find me this "Legal, paid content" on The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Legal, paid content is already available on existing platforms.

    Through which existing platform can a U.S. or Canadian customer lawfully obtain Song of the South, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (the English dub of Les mondes engloutis)? Their publishers refuse to take my money.

  6. DTCP flag set on all channels on The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    CableCard is only a problem when it actually invokes its DRM capabilities

    In other words, CableCARD is only a problem most of the time.

  7. Look at me, I'm in tatters, I'm a shattered on As Streaming Booms, Songs Are Getting Faster and Shorter (japantoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is sex, violence, sex, drugs, sex, violence, sex, and sex.

    Popular music has been about "sex and sex and sex and sex" since 1978 if not earlier, if "Shattered" by The Rolling Stones is to be believed.

  8. Re:I still listen to Meat Loaf on As Streaming Booms, Songs Are Getting Faster and Shorter (japantoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Namely "lie to you", "forget the way you feel right now", "do it better than I do it with you", and "be screwing around". One problem is that the radio edit cuts out a lot of those explanatory lines.

    Further reading: Mr. Loaf explains what "that" is

  9. Butt watt anal cyst?

    But what Anal Cunt released is even faster and shorter than what is playing nowadays on Spoofy. Are we headed toward a grindcore future?

  10. Re: Switch from Windows 10 to what on a subnoteboo on Microsoft Ends Support For Windows Vista; Begins To Roll Out Windows 10 Creators Update · · Score: 1

    but if you're not qualified to slap a copy of Mint on some generic hardware

    Last I checked, Debian and its downstream projects, such as Ubuntu and Mint, have historically had serious problems running on Bay Trail kit, with Bluetooth, audio, camera wireless, suspend, and more broken or missing. It's improved over several years, but a lot is still broken on a T100TA.

  11. You let your smartphone update. Why not your desktop?

    I guess the difference is that major updates to Windows tend to break more functionality on which a business relies than updates to a smartphone operating system.

  12. Switch from Windows 10 to what on a subnotebook? on Microsoft Ends Support For Windows Vista; Begins To Roll Out Windows 10 Creators Update · · Score: 1

    stand up, have a spine. don't use windows 10.

    What is there other than Windows 10, macOS, and Chrome OS? Laptops warranted to run an operating system other than these three aren't shown in showrooms near me. Chromebooks with Crouton have a habit of begging to be wiped (search for "OS verification is OFF"), and System76 currently doesn't offer any laptops smaller than 14 inches. Does Apple deserve a monopoly on compact laptops that run something other than a web browser?

  13. Forrester said the per-worker savings over a three-year stretch would be $404

    says the exact opposite.

    Then I guess the savings are 404 Not Found.

  14. Al-Gore-ists on Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    so the person in question would be an algorist

    I guess that name would be associated with too many inconvenient truths.

  15. Hey, maybe next April we can come up with a guide to Hackers' astrological signs!

    I can see the punchline: Cancer afflicts one in twelve.

  16. Re:Will Twitter drop the "consumer secret"? on Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    a flow without app token.

    And my complaint in comment #54185757 was that Twitter hadn't officially made such a flow available to developers. What am I missing?

    Or username password, but we discussed a scheme, which doesn't expose too much of my account and/or credentials to you.

    I must be missing something. In which comment did "we discuss[]" such "a scheme"? The scheme you mentioned in comment #54192497, which involves "signing it with your app key on your server", fails the moment the developer ceases to operate the server. So how, if at all, is it possible for an installable app distributed as free software to provide all three of password privacy, resistance to app developer insolvency, and compliance with the contractual mandate of non-disclosure of the app key?

  17. Re: Sounds like another lawsuit on Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    the good itself must be excludable

    How excludable is, say, your land while you are temporarily away from home?

    Conveying an idea to someone else -- surrendering exclusive possession -- is what causes the idea to have value. Or conversely, an idea never expressed is inherently worthless.

    Copyright doesn't apply to ideas, only to specific expressions of a particular idea.

    That means expressions of ideas are clearly not excludable and therefore cannot be property.

    United States copyright law distinguishes an idea from particular expressions thereof. This distinction is referred to as the idea-expression divide. One consequence is that if there is only one practical way to express a given idea, you are correct that the merger doctrine rules out copyright in said expression. The trouble with a merger defense comes when the judge thinks the idea is less specific than the alleged infringer thought and rules that key aspects belong properly to a particular expression rather than to the generic idea.

    exclusive right without exclusive possession requires the existence and intervention of a government for enforcement.

    It's hard to define "exclusive possession" for anything that isn't small enough to be carried on your person.

  18. Re:Will Twitter drop the "consumer secret"? on Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    You're asking another question now.

    I'm fully aware that this is a follow-up question. What are practical answers thereto?

  19. Re: Sounds like another lawsuit on Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Copyright is not property.

    Before we can continue this line of questioning, I must first understand your words. What does "property" mean other than "the subject of some exclusive right"?

  20. Re: It's for your own safety, trust us you dumb fu on The iPhone 7 Has Arbitrary Software Locks That Prevent Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The button itself doesn't need to "do[] the pass/fail decoding on the fingerprint" for a successful attack. It need only replay the signals sent by a previous pass.

  21. Re:Will Twitter drop the "consumer secret"? on Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    You would need something to do like getting an token from a user encrypted with the twitter pubkey, then signing it with your app key on your server

    Which requires the developer to operate a server. How is the operation of said server paid for, particularly for an application that's distributed as free software through Savannah, GitLab, or GitHub?

  22. Re:Will Twitter drop the "consumer secret"? on Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, one user of a desktop application can leak the app secret and report to Twitter its having been leaked, causing Twitter to revoke the key for all the application's users.

  23. I thought small channels already had to split a video into several parts under the 15-minute limit in order to earn enough views to qualify for lifting the 15-minute limit.

  24. Re:Will Twitter drop the "consumer secret"? on Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    An application using the Twitter API uses the application secret to obtain a secret that represents the (user, application) pair. The trouble is with distributing an application containing said application secret to the public.

  25. Then do most of your work on an EC2 instance or other virtual private server, and use your computer as a remote desktop terminal. For streaming video, ask your video provider to join T-Mobile's Binge On service, which makes standard-definition streaming video not count against your quota. For Windows OS updates or other bulk uploads or downloads, drive into town and use restaurant or library Wi-Fi. What else sucks multiple GB of bandwidth per month?