If a thief knows you have cash he is more likely to rob you, cards are less useful to a thief, especially less organized ones. A thief will also be happy with your phone or jewellery, and will probably take your wallet and run rather than open it and inspect it in your presence.
What are you immagining, that people go around with cash hanging out of the jaket ? Yes, a thief, will check the wallet in your presence and take whatever that is of value. If there is nothing to take... he/she may get angry. Happens
You instead have the risks of it being lost, stolen or damaged, not to mention forged cash.
You are confused, you use cash to pay, you get it from the bank, it is not forged.
you are noot feeding the bank (2% transaction fee)
Yes you are, businesses pay a lot to banks for the ability to accept cash payments, often more than the transaction fees associated with cards. Banks charge businesses fees for processing their cash deposits, which have to be counted by both the bank and the retailer, the cash has to be transported to the bank and will usually require protection while in transit, banks charge retailers for providing large bags of small change, your insurance liability goes up if you have cash on the premises as it's an attractive theft target or could be destroyed in the event of fire or flood etc.
For the customer, the cost is the same wether paying by cash or card but many cards also offer benefits to the cardholder which they wouldn't get if using cash.
You are even more confused, you probably are a shill, paid by the banks. All plastic transactions pay to the bank and you will pay even more whan cash will be "premium"
It's private if your careful, and also don't have explicit surveillance being carried out against you.
ok, got it, you are just a paid drone. It is ok, real people will understand, the others... are just drones
Where do you live that an attempted robbery ends up in murder ?
Yeah, so, a robber ask you politely, do you have any valuable with you ? You say no... and magically he just goes away You say, here, take this and he kills you
Basically the idea is to do what SELinux does, given to a process the least permissions.
It is useful, the only drawback I can think of is that everything gets so locked down that if anything goes wrong in the "security" mechanism you are basically locked out and cannot retrieve anything.
There are a ton of languages that makes it easy to "start" something, they lack - strong typing - strong debugging support - reliable libraries - reliable refactoring - capability of scaling to large and distributed projects A beginner starts using the language and... it is trapped into it, sunk cost
New languages are just reinventing the wheel, really, they are the result of people forgetting history. The main difference is that a few keystrokes are saved with a resulting code that is impossible to understnd a week after you heve written it.
A pity that Microsoft bashing of Java (to then make Java clone c#) result in knee jerk reactions on the name.
I left reddit since it did not allow me to browse anonymously anymore, had to register to just lookig to it. And now they say that they value being anonymous ? Lie, a plain lie. A verified Email is all it takes to track a user , build a profile and tag it back to a real person. Then, the next step will come in: disappearing articles from your view, your posts will not get upvoted. Nothing new, history is bound to repeat itself, worse.
Someone cannot do basic math: square Km to cover / number of people doing it.
On a side note: basic GIS is something that should be demanded to the government (thae use it anyway) and should be free to use for anybody. Maybe Apple should join with Open Street Map instead, that would be a "think different"
The idea is that it is foolish to have a single producer of CPU, OS, components. Think about it: Where is all the Win 10 telemetry going ? How many "conveniente bugs" do a modern CPU have ? How many ways are there (that we do not know) to "shutdown" a network infrastructure ?
By having country level perople and experts you also enhance the employment... What can you wish more ?
There is a pattern and it is like this - School do not teach anymore why things are done the way they are, the reasons - Students are not interested, have low attention span, generally consider the teaching "old stuff" - Computer science is populated by freshers, you are old at 40
the result is: - Reinventing the same solution, worse
How to stop this total waste of time,money ? - Keep older developer around and when they say that the "new shiny idea" has been done before, listen to them.
A list of already done things: 1) AI (in the current form), it is Neural net, learned 30 years ago, yes, now you have a supercomputer on desk but it is not new tech and has all the same issues it had before. 2) Blockchain, can anybody think of a revision system ? GIT, SVN ? 3) Languages, lots of them, really, are we so dumb that to save a few keystrokes we produce something that is obscure after the third line ? Can we agree that all possible logic and consistency tests should be done at "compile time" ? (no Unit testing is not the same thing)
FInally, a question: How do we get rid of the pointy haired boss ? (See Dilbert) He knows nothing, makes random decisions (on a good day) and sucks half of the budget in bonuses...
It does not make any sense that some people spend time and money replacing what is currently working with some incompatible crap.
Therefore, the only logical alternative is that they are paid (in some way) to break what is working.
Also, if you rewrite tons of systems tools you have plenty of opportunities to insert useful bugs that can be used by the various spying agencies.
You do not think that the current CPU Flaws are just by chance, right ? Immagine the wonder of being able to spy on any machine, regardless of the level of SW protection.
There is no need to point out that I cannot prove it, I know, it just make sense to me.
Working with a friend on something and we need decent professional confidentiality. He was using Win10 and with all the telemetry and "sharing" basically what we do is an open secret, so, I wanted him to migrate to Linux. He managed to install Mint and was reasonably happy (he is not a techie, sales), comes to me and says, computer is not booting anymore. System boot stops at "Welcome to emergency...." I asked what he did and he doesn' t know (normal, I may say) so, I try to find out why it stops there Now, systemd crap all around, useless, confusing Extra commands and parameters to grep boot log , are we serious ? In the end I told him, whatever, I am sorry, you keep Win10 and I will prepare a machine with BSD for you or one with Devuan
I am absolutely convinced that systemd is Microsoft/NSA work to hack Linux, there is no reason at all for such rubbish to be in Linux Oh, and you, parent poster, are so out of touch that you must be paid to write what you wrote
On a side note, any of you thinking that the new "spellcheck" feature in the browser is just a way to send whatever you type to Google ?
Most of today stuff has some "software" in it and "others" will try desperately to assign the "maintenance" of it to you.
Do not fall for it easily: For every bad equipment you have to "handle" state clearly who bought/authorized it and that you cannot support a defective unit.
Keep repeating it in every conversation/email.
Yes, you will be hated, but really, the alternative is worse. (Alternative is: Being blamed for all crappy choices made by others)
Of course the corp and government are all in for cashless
For them it is: - Constant stream of revenue - Easy to destroy whatever opponent life they wish (try buy food / travel in a cashless society without cash...) - Easy to trace you, peasant, wherever you go
For us, peasants, we trade all the above with... - Not to have a few hundered euros in our wallet (quite useful if you get mugged, to simply let the robber get away without hitting you in anger)
Telegram is an alternative to whatsapp or equivalent service from google. Hopefully European politicians will not be so dumb to break it... (look out to fake "save the children" broadcast)
Any person that does any "professional" work must consider the sharing of contacts,documents, communications as a breach of contract with the client.
I am looking at what happens on the cellphone/tablet market and pray/hope that there will be a NON US based company providing some reasonable platform.
The amount of information that an Android phone share with Google by default (same with Apple) is way too much, real big brother on steroid.
How do you know what OS / backdoor is on that laptop/device ? It is already a huge burden to have a minimum level of privacy on "random" devices. A device that is specifically given to foreign visitors is surely going to be snooped upon.
So far, the USB computer on a stick is still the best bet.
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Of the people I know only the worse have remained on Windows, and for the money.
A simple reason, you are just a slave of Microsoft, so, you just work for money.
It used to be that the changes where reasonable and bearable, but really, Win10 is sit
You really want to get better ? Start with replacing 1/10 of the computers that do menial work with Linux + Libreoffice.
It works, and the people dealing with it are better...
If a thief knows you have cash he is more likely to rob you, cards are less useful to a thief, especially less organized ones. A thief will also be happy with your phone or jewellery, and will probably take your wallet and run rather than open it and inspect it in your presence.
What are you immagining, that people go around with cash hanging out of the jaket ?
Yes, a thief, will check the wallet in your presence and take whatever that is of value.
If there is nothing to take... he/she may get angry. Happens
You instead have the risks of it being lost, stolen or damaged, not to mention forged cash.
You are confused, you use cash to pay, you get it from the bank, it is not forged.
you are noot feeding the bank (2% transaction fee)
Yes you are, businesses pay a lot to banks for the ability to accept cash payments, often more than the transaction fees associated with cards.
Banks charge businesses fees for processing their cash deposits, which have to be counted by both the bank and the retailer, the cash has to be transported to the bank and will usually require protection while in transit, banks charge retailers for providing large bags of small change, your insurance liability goes up if you have cash on the premises as it's an attractive theft target or could be destroyed in the event of fire or flood etc.
For the customer, the cost is the same wether paying by cash or card but many cards also offer benefits to the cardholder which they wouldn't get if using cash.
You are even more confused, you probably are a shill, paid by the banks.
All plastic transactions pay to the bank and you will pay even more whan cash will be "premium"
It's private if your careful, and also don't have explicit surveillance being carried out against you.
ok, got it, you are just a paid drone.
It is ok, real people will understand, the others... are just drones
Where do you live that an attempted robbery ends up in murder ?
Yeah, so, a robber ask you politely, do you have any valuable with you ?
You say no... and magically he just goes away
You say, here, take this and he kills you
Always happen
Having some cash with you can also save your life if robbed, a thief will just run away happy with your cash
It is safe (no risk of card skimming)
you are noot feeding the bank (2% transaction fee)
it is private (big brother does not knowwhat you buy)
Think, big brother loves the plastic card for a reason....
Basically the idea is to do what SELinux does, given to a process the least permissions.
It is useful, the only drawback I can think of is that everything gets so locked down that if anything goes wrong in the "security" mechanism you are basically locked out and cannot retrieve anything.
It has been done to avoid all of this.
Support and donate, otherwise the systemd cancer will kill Linux
This was the plan all along
On one side there are people thinking Google is the new Big Brother incarnate and is driven by leftist censorship
On the other side there are pople thinking Trump is lying, always
Interesting reading the number of posting and upvoting in the thread
On a side note: This is how wars start: Bunch of people thinking I am right, other bunch of people thinking.... I am right
So, let's drain the applications around them and force them to go to WIN10 spyware.
If that fail, let's build spyware and troyan systemd in the Linux, that will do.
Really, all company distros switched to systemd at the same time ?
Plenty of man hours to develop a complex, bynary only, piece of SW that literaly take over the machine ?
There is only one answer.
There are a ton of languages that makes it easy to "start" something, they lack ... it is trapped into it, sunk cost
- strong typing
- strong debugging support
- reliable libraries
- reliable refactoring
- capability of scaling to large and distributed projects
A beginner starts using the language and
New languages are just reinventing the wheel, really, they are the result of people forgetting history.
The main difference is that a few keystrokes are saved with a resulting code that is impossible to understnd a week after you heve written it.
A pity that Microsoft bashing of Java (to then make Java clone c#) result in knee jerk reactions on the name.
I left reddit since it did not allow me to browse anonymously anymore, had to register to just lookig to it.
And now they say that they value being anonymous ? Lie, a plain lie.
A verified Email is all it takes to track a user , build a profile and tag it back to a real person.
Then, the next step will come in: disappearing articles from your view, your posts will not get upvoted.
Nothing new, history is bound to repeat itself, worse.
I wish I had moderator points, your post is pure reality
Unless thay think that San Francisco is the world
Someone cannot do basic math: square Km to cover / number of people doing it.
On a side note: basic GIS is something that should be demanded to the government (thae use it anyway) and should be free to use for anybody.
Maybe Apple should join with Open Street Map instead, that would be a "think different"
Creating a zero day so obscure that nobody notices and then you sell it.
Wondering if the price is the same even if you write the bug...
now... let me see the quality of systemd code...
The idea is that it is foolish to have a single producer of CPU, OS, components.
Think about it: Where is all the Win 10 telemetry going ?
How many "conveniente bugs" do a modern CPU have ?
How many ways are there (that we do not know) to "shutdown" a network infrastructure ?
By having country level perople and experts you also enhance the employment...
What can you wish more ?
There is a pattern and it is like this
- School do not teach anymore why things are done the way they are, the reasons
- Students are not interested, have low attention span, generally consider the teaching "old stuff"
- Computer science is populated by freshers, you are old at 40
the result is:
- Reinventing the same solution, worse
How to stop this total waste of time,money ?
- Keep older developer around and when they say that the "new shiny idea" has been done before, listen to them.
A list of already done things:
1) AI (in the current form), it is Neural net, learned 30 years ago, yes, now you have a supercomputer on desk but it is not new tech and has all the same issues it had before.
2) Blockchain, can anybody think of a revision system ? GIT, SVN ?
3) Languages, lots of them, really, are we so dumb that to save a few keystrokes we produce something that is obscure after the third line ?
Can we agree that all possible logic and consistency tests should be done at "compile time" ? (no Unit testing is not the same thing)
FInally, a question: How do we get rid of the pointy haired boss ? (See Dilbert)
He knows nothing, makes random decisions (on a good day) and sucks half of the budget in bonuses...
It does not make any sense that some people spend time and money replacing what is currently working with some incompatible crap.
Therefore, the only logical alternative is that they are paid (in some way) to break what is working.
Also, if you rewrite tons of systems tools you have plenty of opportunities to insert useful bugs that can be used by the various spying agencies.
You do not think that the current CPU Flaws are just by chance, right ?
Immagine the wonder of being able to spy on any machine, regardless of the level of SW protection.
There is no need to point out that I cannot prove it, I know, it just make sense to me.
Real story
Working with a friend on something and we need decent professional confidentiality. ...."
He was using Win10 and with all the telemetry and "sharing" basically what we do is an open secret, so, I wanted him to migrate to Linux.
He managed to install Mint and was reasonably happy (he is not a techie, sales), comes to me and says, computer is not booting anymore.
System boot stops at "Welcome to emergency
I asked what he did and he doesn' t know (normal, I may say) so, I try to find out why it stops there
Now, systemd crap all around, useless, confusing
Extra commands and parameters to grep boot log , are we serious ?
In the end I told him, whatever, I am sorry, you keep Win10 and I will prepare a machine with BSD for you or one with Devuan
I am absolutely convinced that systemd is Microsoft/NSA work to hack Linux, there is no reason at all for such rubbish to be in Linux
Oh, and you, parent poster, are so out of touch that you must be paid to write what you wrote
On a side note, any of you thinking that the new "spellcheck" feature in the browser is just a way to send whatever you type to Google ?
I assume the poster wanted to be funny, right ?
Or is it one of those "black is white", "up is down" orwellian thing ?
Living in interesting times....
Most of today stuff has some "software" in it and "others" will try desperately to assign the "maintenance" of it to you.
Do not fall for it easily: For every bad equipment you have to "handle" state clearly who bought/authorized it and that you cannot support a defective unit.
Keep repeating it in every conversation/email.
Yes, you will be hated, but really, the alternative is worse.
(Alternative is: Being blamed for all crappy choices made by others)
Of course the corp and government are all in for cashless
For them it is:
- Constant stream of revenue
- Easy to destroy whatever opponent life they wish (try buy food / travel in a cashless society without cash...)
- Easy to trace you, peasant, wherever you go
For us, peasants, we trade all the above with...
- Not to have a few hundered euros in our wallet (quite useful if you get mugged, to simply let the robber get away without hitting you in anger)
What a rip off
I am particularly amazed by the 100 working days.
I assume is a 24hr working day and does not include all bureaucrat approvals.
In Italy, you need 100 days just to have the request for planning being considered....
(Yes, this is one of the reasons we are going down the drain)
Looking forward for how this "bet" pans out.
Switch to slackware, devuan, gentoo...
After all Linux is still a few percentage of desktop, no need to install Debian derivative
We are competent admin, are we not ?
Yes, it is painful to see such a great distro being overtaken by such a crap software.
Live long and prosper
Telegram is an alternative to whatsapp or equivalent service from google.
Hopefully European politicians will not be so dumb to break it... (look out to fake "save the children" broadcast)
Any person that does any "professional" work must consider the sharing of contacts,documents, communications as a breach of contract with the client.
I am looking at what happens on the cellphone/tablet market and pray/hope that there will be a NON US based company providing some reasonable platform.
The amount of information that an Android phone share with Google by default (same with Apple) is way too much, real big brother on steroid.
Knowledge is power,this should be clear to everybody by now.
What are we really giving up by providing tons of details about our life to big brother FB ?
On next election day, Zuck (or an equivalent drone) will have the "right message" to get elected and then... we are toasted.
Hopefully in Europe we will be so messed up that there will not be a Zuck here, maybe....
How do you know what OS / backdoor is on that laptop/device ?
It is already a huge burden to have a minimum level of privacy on "random" devices.
A device that is specifically given to foreign visitors is surely going to be snooped upon.
So far, the USB computer on a stick is still the best bet.