what is ill conceive and what has that to do with my demand that developers have basic knowledge about installing/administrating a linux box?
The fact that you can't easily find a PC warranted to run GNU/Linux in North American showrooms. Buy an Android device or Chromebook, and you get Linux but no GNU (at least until Crostini becomes stable). Buy a Windows 10 PC and install WSL, and you get GNU but no Linux. Instead, one ends up playing hardware support roulette if buying a laptop or losing the ability to use it while riding transit if building a desktop from parts.
Because there is always one best way to do things, regardless of scale or domain!
I guess part of it comes from HR evaluating interested candidates at a job fair, wanting new graduates' skills to scale from trade school/university scale and domain to enterprise scale and domain. If some best practice can be shown to work at small and large scales, trade schools and universities ought to be teaching it.
So what if a net filtering tool developer looks like Poppin Fresh? You must not have paid attention to the energy with which Poppin moves around in some of the Pillsbury commercials.
And why is the date of first release important here
Many things in U.S. law related to software are reckoned from the date of a work's first publication.
Windows 10 is 3 years old
Windows 10 is still in mainstream support, and Windows 7 is still in extended support until sometime in 2020. Windows XP left extended support in 2014 and Windows Vista in 2017.
I paid for the cost of the gum as shown on the price tag (a concept foreign to Americans I know).
Is it permissible for a merchant to write "Plus x.xx for small orders" on each price tag, with x.xx being the swipe fee translated into whatever currency is in use? Because that's what merchants will have to add to each price tag as cashless transactions become more common.
Even if your petrol station has a backup generator or a Tesla Powerwall UPS, the ISP's refrigerator box (DSLAM, etc.) might not, or its battery backup might be limited to voice service as opposed to data. I've seen times when my laptop (with its built-in UPS) and my cable modem (connected to an external UPS) stay on during a power outage, but the signal is lost.
Based on this article and other results of Google Search for gdpr public sector, parts of GDPR apply to government agencies; other parts do not. The requirement for entities outside the EU that do business in the EU to hire a representative in the EU pursuant to article 27 is among those that do not apply to the public sector.
The micro cost is a cost for the bank, just like the paper is that they need to send me every month or the card with pincode that they send me when it needs replacement for free.
Where I live, many banks and other businesses charge a monthly surcharge for paper statements as opposed to electronic statements, and banks charge for more than one replacement card per year.
I had a bank account and a debit card when I was 7. What's wrong with that? I needed a parental signature but that's about it.
What's wrong is parents who say "I'm busy; we'll set up your bank account sometime next week" every week, and until then, use the child's lack of a bank account to keep the child in a bubble with no access to earn or spend money. I have seen this happen to a member of a chat server that I'm in.
Back at home I have no problem swiping my debit card for a stick of gum.
When you bought that stick of gum, how much of the transaction did the banks keep as their fee?
[A petrol station] took my details and told me to return and clear the debt when the power was back.
Then perhaps petrol station customers where you live have shown themselves more trustworthy than petrol station customers where I live.
Though I don't fully agree with Humpty Dumpty's claim in Carroll's Through the Looking Glass that a word means whatever the speaker wants, it's possible to give a useful definition for phrases like "hate speech". I'd define "hate speech" as speech that encourages hate crime, and in turn "hate crime" or "bias-motivated crime" is crime that targets a particular protected class of people.
People should be free to express their opinions.
I agree, though people should also keep it civil. Though I am unfamiliar with speech regulation in Vietnam, U.S. courts have ruled that libel and encouragement of imminent violence are not protected free speech. I'd like to see someone back up allegedly hateful claims about protected classes with facts.
The average person in Sweden is 40.9 years old. You picked out a subset of it just to be dense.
I picked a subset through which the average person will have passed. The demographic shift creating too few workers per pensioner is a separate problem.
You are mixing up credit cards and debit cards. One uses a fixed fee and one a percent of the transaction.
Debit cards take a fixed fee and no percentage. But for small transactions (under say 2 USD or 16 SEK), this fixed fee alone can cause the seller to lose money on the transaction.
Also, the cost of handling coins is more than the transaction fee anyway.
I'd be interested to see data backing this up, especially for transactions between individuals. Last I checked, transaction fees were on the order of 0.30 USD, which would be about 2.5 SEK.
The cash-registry required by law to be used to ensure that stores doesn't cheat with their taxes
I was unaware that this existed in Sweden. Are parents required to use this when giving, say, a child an allowance?
If charges for the miniscule amount of data consumed by this are such a concern for you, then I suggest you find a more reasonable carrier.
I currently pay Comcast for 1000 GB/mo of wired Internet at home and T-Mobile USA for zero cellular data. My current cellular plan allows for 30 minutes or texts per month, with overages billed at 10 cents per. This works in many but not all places, as I get data anywhere that has a Comcast hotspot. But for use outside Comcast's Wi-Fi footprint, switching from zero to minuscule would require a substantial cost, which I've estimated at hundreds of dollars per year, to upgrade my plan. Do Swedish carriers have a smaller price difference between zero and minuscule?
The government to see if the money is getting spent legally.
Cash acts as a check on the government's power to shrink over time the set of things on which money can be "spent legally." With the threat of a black market eliminated, what keeps countries from adding 666% more totalitarian restrictions on what can be bought and sold?
In addition, even without electronic payment countries can restrict and have restricted what each part of a paycheck can be used for: see Cuban convertible and non-convertible pesos. That's as if the vast majority of most people's paycheck was paid in scrip (like food stamps) instead of dollars. A shift to completely electronic payment would give the government even more fine-grained (read: intrusive) control over private citizens' private lives. Why is this outcome desirable?
Should a town or community need more time to restore power, banks should be able to move support services in too. As the banks would have to fully support a national digital currency under all conditions.
Sticking with cash as a backup is presumably cheaper for the national government than subsidizing the banks to roll trucks every time there is severe weather.
They would have to learn to use a bank card as they do cash now. Not that much of an extra educational step
Good luck counting the money associated with your card without having to buy, carry without breaking, and keep charged a card reader and subscribe to cellular data service for its connection to the payment network.
The banks can support many new types of bank services for pocket money saving and spending.
At what ballpark level of fees to the individual end user?
Banks would have to follow banking laws and support the movement of many amount of currency. Down to "cents" as thats would be a legal network transaction that has to be supported.
Watch most banks go out of business as they no longer have a source of revenue to handle the computational load of processing a small transaction. Or what means of compensating the payment networks would you propose?
Take some of that collected tax and pay some engineers to look at the grid.
For decades, engineers have concluded, based on having looked at the grid, that especially severe weather is an excuse for an occasional unscheduled failure. How would you propose to design a grid to survive something of a scale comparable to Hurricane Maria that hit Puerto Rico in 2017?
In the most common case, they know why: severe weather or natural disaster broke an unusual number of power lines at once. It may take days, however, for crews to reconnect the lines.
Spending habits can be tracked.
Tracked by whom, and serving what legitimate interest, in the era of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
What is your use case where you can't simply ssh from one box to another and cut/paste into the ssh terminal?
To copy and paste an IP address from one iOS device to another iOS device using the method you suggest, you have to SSH from one iOS device to another iOS device. Is this practical?
And having enough of a reverse-engineering mind to undo the automatic emoticon replacement and adapt instructions intended for one Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series model to another Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series model. And discovering and adapting to the required syntax: exactly one space before name=value pairs, and no blank lines permitted at all. It's not entirely a matter of copy and paste.
What solution do you recommend for synchronizing the clipboard across devices that run Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS?
SSH
Can one run both an SSH client and an SSH server on iOS? It appears to me that one would need to in order to use SSH to synchronize the clipboard between one iOS device and another, with one running the client and the other the server. Or what am I missing?
Even assuming you can run an SSH server and client on the each device, and the SSH server and client can speak mDNS to find each other, one still has to compare server key fingerprints visually when a particular pair of devices are connected for the first time. And these are even bigger than the IPv6 addresses that we're trying to copy and paste from one device to another.
Hardware incompatibilities continue to occur in the 21st century, though not nearly as often or as harshly as before.
I installed Xubuntu 18.04 on a new Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series laptop (Pentium CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD) two days ago, and my Xubuntu partition feels much faster than Windows 10 on the same hardware. But I still had to edit a config file as root to get the Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys to work. The laptop's keyboard controller has a bug such that those four keys send only make (key down) codes, not break (key up) codes. Those keys also have problems in some Windows applications, but compared to X.Org X11, Windows is by and large more automatically tolerant of keys that only make and do not break.
So how do you set the DNS name of a machine without first buying a domain name? Or should every homeowner be expected to buy a domain name under which to give names to the devices on his home network?
Copy/paste is practical within a single device but not, to my knowledge, across devices. What solution do you recommend for synchronizing the clipboard across devices that run Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS?
If we had really "run out", I would have to WAIT to connect to the internet. Or, I'd be stuck behind a NAT device (I'm not), because my ISP had to aggregate clients because they had no free IPs.
Many ISPs already put subscribers behind NAT, particularly mobile ISPs and home ISPs in later-to-develop countries. The only way to get your own IPv4 address from those ISPs is to upgrade to business class service with a static IP.
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what is ill conceive and what has that to do with my demand that developers have basic knowledge about installing/administrating a linux box?
The fact that you can't easily find a PC warranted to run GNU/Linux in North American showrooms. Buy an Android device or Chromebook, and you get Linux but no GNU (at least until Crostini becomes stable). Buy a Windows 10 PC and install WSL, and you get GNU but no Linux. Instead, one ends up playing hardware support roulette if buying a laptop or losing the ability to use it while riding transit if building a desktop from parts.
Because there is always one best way to do things, regardless of scale or domain!
I guess part of it comes from HR evaluating interested candidates at a job fair, wanting new graduates' skills to scale from trade school/university scale and domain to enterprise scale and domain. If some best practice can be shown to work at small and large scales, trade schools and universities ought to be teaching it.
So what if a net filtering tool developer looks like Poppin Fresh? You must not have paid attention to the energy with which Poppin moves around in some of the Pillsbury commercials.
Land that jump dude
Show me your moves
I can dig up more.
There are plenty of other "acrofatic" characters, and you might be able to catch one of them on someone's P***scope stream.
Why is 17 the magic number?
It's not; 95 is.
And why is the date of first release important here
Many things in U.S. law related to software are reckoned from the date of a work's first publication.
Windows 10 is 3 years old
Windows 10 is still in mainstream support, and Windows 7 is still in extended support until sometime in 2020. Windows XP left extended support in 2014 and Windows Vista in 2017.
You're telling me I can't run it on the antikythera mechanism?
If you have one of those, you might want to try Kerbal Space Program on it instead.
I paid for the cost of the gum as shown on the price tag (a concept foreign to Americans I know).
Is it permissible for a merchant to write "Plus x.xx for small orders" on each price tag, with x.xx being the swipe fee translated into whatever currency is in use? Because that's what merchants will have to add to each price tag as cashless transactions become more common.
Even if your petrol station has a backup generator or a Tesla Powerwall UPS, the ISP's refrigerator box (DSLAM, etc.) might not, or its battery backup might be limited to voice service as opposed to data. I've seen times when my laptop (with its built-in UPS) and my cable modem (connected to an external UPS) stay on during a power outage, but the signal is lost.
Based on this article and other results of Google Search for gdpr public sector, parts of GDPR apply to government agencies; other parts do not. The requirement for entities outside the EU that do business in the EU to hire a representative in the EU pursuant to article 27 is among those that do not apply to the public sector.
The micro cost is a cost for the bank, just like the paper is that they need to send me every month or the card with pincode that they send me when it needs replacement for free.
Where I live, many banks and other businesses charge a monthly surcharge for paper statements as opposed to electronic statements, and banks charge for more than one replacement card per year.
I had a bank account and a debit card when I was 7. What's wrong with that? I needed a parental signature but that's about it.
What's wrong is parents who say "I'm busy; we'll set up your bank account sometime next week" every week, and until then, use the child's lack of a bank account to keep the child in a bubble with no access to earn or spend money. I have seen this happen to a member of a chat server that I'm in.
Back at home I have no problem swiping my debit card for a stick of gum.
When you bought that stick of gum, how much of the transaction did the banks keep as their fee?
[A petrol station] took my details and told me to return and clear the debt when the power was back.
Then perhaps petrol station customers where you live have shown themselves more trustworthy than petrol station customers where I live.
There's no such thing as "hate speech."
Though I don't fully agree with Humpty Dumpty's claim in Carroll's Through the Looking Glass that a word means whatever the speaker wants, it's possible to give a useful definition for phrases like "hate speech". I'd define "hate speech" as speech that encourages hate crime, and in turn "hate crime" or "bias-motivated crime" is crime that targets a particular protected class of people.
People should be free to express their opinions.
I agree, though people should also keep it civil. Though I am unfamiliar with speech regulation in Vietnam, U.S. courts have ruled that libel and encouragement of imminent violence are not protected free speech. I'd like to see someone back up allegedly hateful claims about protected classes with facts.
The average person in Sweden is 40.9 years old. You picked out a subset of it just to be dense.
I picked a subset through which the average person will have passed. The demographic shift creating too few workers per pensioner is a separate problem.
You are mixing up credit cards and debit cards. One uses a fixed fee and one a percent of the transaction.
Debit cards take a fixed fee and no percentage. But for small transactions (under say 2 USD or 16 SEK), this fixed fee alone can cause the seller to lose money on the transaction.
Also, the cost of handling coins is more than the transaction fee anyway.
I'd be interested to see data backing this up, especially for transactions between individuals. Last I checked, transaction fees were on the order of 0.30 USD, which would be about 2.5 SEK.
The cash-registry required by law to be used to ensure that stores doesn't cheat with their taxes
I was unaware that this existed in Sweden. Are parents required to use this when giving, say, a child an allowance?
If charges for the miniscule amount of data consumed by this are such a concern for you, then I suggest you find a more reasonable carrier.
I currently pay Comcast for 1000 GB/mo of wired Internet at home and T-Mobile USA for zero cellular data. My current cellular plan allows for 30 minutes or texts per month, with overages billed at 10 cents per. This works in many but not all places, as I get data anywhere that has a Comcast hotspot. But for use outside Comcast's Wi-Fi footprint, switching from zero to minuscule would require a substantial cost, which I've estimated at hundreds of dollars per year, to upgrade my plan. Do Swedish carriers have a smaller price difference between zero and minuscule?
The government to see if the money is getting spent legally.
Cash acts as a check on the government's power to shrink over time the set of things on which money can be "spent legally." With the threat of a black market eliminated, what keeps countries from adding 666% more totalitarian restrictions on what can be bought and sold?
In addition, even without electronic payment countries can restrict and have restricted what each part of a paycheck can be used for: see Cuban convertible and non-convertible pesos. That's as if the vast majority of most people's paycheck was paid in scrip (like food stamps) instead of dollars. A shift to completely electronic payment would give the government even more fine-grained (read: intrusive) control over private citizens' private lives. Why is this outcome desirable?
Should a town or community need more time to restore power, banks should be able to move support services in too.
As the banks would have to fully support a national digital currency under all conditions.
Sticking with cash as a backup is presumably cheaper for the national government than subsidizing the banks to roll trucks every time there is severe weather.
They would have to learn to use a bank card as they do cash now. Not that much of an extra educational step
Good luck counting the money associated with your card without having to buy, carry without breaking, and keep charged a card reader and subscribe to cellular data service for its connection to the payment network.
The banks can support many new types of bank services for pocket money saving and spending.
At what ballpark level of fees to the individual end user?
Banks would have to follow banking laws and support the movement of many amount of currency. Down to "cents" as thats would be a legal network transaction that has to be supported.
Watch most banks go out of business as they no longer have a source of revenue to handle the computational load of processing a small transaction. Or what means of compensating the payment networks would you propose?
Take some of that collected tax and pay some engineers to look at the grid.
For decades, engineers have concluded, based on having looked at the grid, that especially severe weather is an excuse for an occasional unscheduled failure. How would you propose to design a grid to survive something of a scale comparable to Hurricane Maria that hit Puerto Rico in 2017?
Find out why the power is not working?
In the most common case, they know why: severe weather or natural disaster broke an unusual number of power lines at once. It may take days, however, for crews to reconnect the lines.
Spending habits can be tracked.
Tracked by whom, and serving what legitimate interest, in the era of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
An average person in Sweden should be expected to be able to legally open and use a bank account?
Including an average child?
So every bank account would be connected to a real Swedish citizen. A person allowed to be in Sweden who has the correct ID.
In addition to Swedish citizens, "persons allowed to be in Sweden" include citizens of other EU countries and immigrants on a work visa.
No low amount of spending would be blocked.
Good luck with that when both the EFT and credit networks charge several cents per transaction.
Is Sweden expecting the lack of grid power?
This can happen and has happened.
What is your use case where you can't simply ssh from one box to another and cut/paste into the ssh terminal?
To copy and paste an IP address from one iOS device to another iOS device using the method you suggest, you have to SSH from one iOS device to another iOS device. Is this practical?
The fix was creating one copy paste text file.
And having enough of a reverse-engineering mind to undo the automatic emoticon replacement and adapt instructions intended for one Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series model to another Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series model. And discovering and adapting to the required syntax: exactly one space before name=value pairs, and no blank lines permitted at all. It's not entirely a matter of copy and paste.
What solution do you recommend for synchronizing the clipboard across devices that run Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS?
SSH
Can one run both an SSH client and an SSH server on iOS? It appears to me that one would need to in order to use SSH to synchronize the clipboard between one iOS device and another, with one running the client and the other the server. Or what am I missing?
Even assuming you can run an SSH server and client on the each device, and the SSH server and client can speak mDNS to find each other, one still has to compare server key fingerprints visually when a particular pair of devices are connected for the first time. And these are even bigger than the IPv6 addresses that we're trying to copy and paste from one device to another.
Hardware incompatibilities continue to occur in the 21st century, though not nearly as often or as harshly as before.
I installed Xubuntu 18.04 on a new Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series laptop (Pentium CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD) two days ago, and my Xubuntu partition feels much faster than Windows 10 on the same hardware. But I still had to edit a config file as root to get the Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys to work. The laptop's keyboard controller has a bug such that those four keys send only make (key down) codes, not break (key up) codes. Those keys also have problems in some Windows applications, but compared to X.Org X11, Windows is by and large more automatically tolerant of keys that only make and do not break.
So how do you set the DNS name of a machine without first buying a domain name? Or should every homeowner be expected to buy a domain name under which to give names to the devices on his home network?
That's what copy/paste and mDNS are for.
Copy/paste is practical within a single device but not, to my knowledge, across devices. What solution do you recommend for synchronizing the clipboard across devices that run Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS?
If we had really "run out", I would have to WAIT to connect to the internet. Or, I'd be stuck behind a NAT device (I'm not), because my ISP had to aggregate clients because they had no free IPs.
Many ISPs already put subscribers behind NAT, particularly mobile ISPs and home ISPs in later-to-develop countries. The only way to get your own IPv4 address from those ISPs is to upgrade to business class service with a static IP.