And while that may be comforting to progressives, it makes it hard for them to understand why their favorite political candidates or policies don't catch on among Americans in general.
Well, the idea is, while division and hatred are high and while your party has gained a temporary majority in government, to quickly move to "stop the pendulum" so to speak, and seize permanent control. That way you need not worry about what the opposition thinks if they're mostly dead or forced into camps, just about making sure the wood-chipper makers are producing at maximum capacity.
For years they've often made claims that their hardware was custom - in short, I won't believe them until they actually ship something that isn't from an OEM.
Sure, the processor chips will be one of the major brands, but having custom production runs for other makers, franchises, etc is bread-&-butter work for many manufacturing facilities. This is particularly true for many foreign manufacturers.
The new guitar distortion pedal I just bought made in China has a board inside identical to several other brands of distortion pedals. They use a single generic 'type-X distortion circuit' PCB and fill it with the appropriate parts for the features desired for that brand's model. Many name-brand speaker-makers do custom runs for guitar amplifier and PA-system makers made to non-standard specs and/or with non-standard parts & materials.
If you come to a manufacturer like a Lenovo, Samsung, or similar with the prospect of a 10,000-unit or more mid- to high-end laptop order, they're going to be willing to go some ways towards giving you what you want, especially if they believe the orders will continue and even increase. Once the initial setup costs are paid for it's just more profitable production and sales for the contracted manufacturer.
This move by System76 will allow them to keep more cash in-house to further expand with, it will add much-needed jobs, and also return more cash into the US domestic economy.
My concern is that it puts them even more squarely under the thumb of US TLAs and any shenanigans they decide to get up to.
* People are upset because a company associated, with some degrees of separation, with Trump, used the technique to find people to "target," and this is some how a "data breach" and "interference in democracy," but when Facebook gave the same type of data to the Obama or Clinton campaigns, it was "the campaign tactics of the future" and "an excellent use of technology and analytics".
"Donald Trump, Facebook, and Russians! Oh, my!"
The DNC and US Left are still coming to terms with why voters rejected them and HRC. They can't understand why voters didn't do as they were told.
They kept pounding it into people that they were stupid, uninformed, racist, misogynist, and bigoted for disagreeing with anything they said as that's the best way to get people to work together, compromise, and especially vote to elect you, but people just turned away! Imagine! After all, those on the Left are the smartest people in the room, any room. If you don't believe it, just ask them.
All one can do is shake their head, chuckle, and say "daaaaamn!".:)
Maybe you should post stuff when you have actual information rather than bare speculation?
LOLwut?
And kill the 24-hr cable news industry, not to mention wiping out a significant percentage of non-pr0n websites, social media, and creating a massive drop in general internet traffic!?
Predictions of doom from overpopulation have been around for a long time. They've been around for a long time because they keep being proven wrong. Mankind keeps inventing, discovering, and engineering it's way past and beyond old sustainability limits.
And we have barely even begun to tap the resources of space and the possibilities relatively cheap lift vehicles will offer.
Mankind is on the cusp of the richest and most universally prosperous age he has ever known as we tap into the nearly infinite resources waiting to be gathered and used.
We just need to hold on long enough and not turn into some dystopian authoritarian nightmare before it happens.
The world is not a static system. Of course it will warm up. And cool off. And some things will die and others will flourish.
So much this.
The Earth's climate has changed far more radically and far quicker to more extreme states many times in the past and yet here we and all other life are going about living, the silly humans behaving like fleas discussing "what they should do" about their dog in relation to the planet's climate. I would suggest ramping down the irritation you cause before you invite a flea-bath.
Spending time & effort to find a way to run Linux distros inside Windows is like struggling to find a way to mount an Abrams tank on top of a Mini-Cooper.
What's the point outside of a few edge-cases where it may possibly be helpful/convenient?
...it would be a good thing -- countries would lose the ability to wage war and commit genocide.
...And that, my good people, is precisely why they would wage war and commit genocide to prevent it from happening.
Human nature has always been and will always be the biggest cause of human suffering unless humans alter their basic natures and thereby become something else, no longer human as we understand it.
Human nature is a product of survival-driven evolution forced by changes outside human control. Only once.humans are able to control and overcome all those forces will humans be able to change in fundamental ways without serious risk of extinction. Or even worse. The "Revers" from "Firefly"?
Microsoft is not distributing their modified source code so they are not required to display this license in a separate license file, or program documentation, or comments in modified source code. They are not distributing source code because they don't have to. Clause 3 allows the utility to be distributed freely within other software without limitations. If Microsoft open sourced their anti-virus program and published its source code with the included unrar source code, then it would have to include the unrar license in some form as described above.
Yes, but never mind all that "free license" and "it is allowed to include within" unintelligible legal mumbo-jumbo!
This is *Slashdot*!
"Give me six lines of code written by the hand of another included in Windows, and I shall find something within them to convict Microsoft!"
Well, technically energy cannons would have recoil, just not nearly as much as the movies show. If the energy was delivered in laser form for example, the light pressure would cause a small but measurable recoil in the opposite direction [aps.org].
Checkmate atheists.
Indeed, the proof is undeniable.
Light has mass and exhibits Newtonian properties therefor God is real because He is Light.
There are other causes which drive the homicide rate and as most of that rate consists of gangland murders and does correlate with the overall crime rate, that's probably your best place to investigate the primary cause.
This. Making a prediction from data is actually the easy part of machine learning. Making a prediction and explaining in human terms *why* that decision was made is a field known as interpretable machine learning, and it's not even close to a solved problem.
It's a multi-dimensional Venn diagram with 'weighted', 'colored' 'spun, 'polarized' and many other individual characterizations and 'flavors' assigned for each subset with multiple intersectional nodes themselves forming subsets which interact and influence all the other subsets' characteristics. The more data points available, the more granular and numerous the subsets become.
Basically "it's turtles all the way down" in a multidimensional massively interactive Venn universe.
It enables a frightening level of predictive power given sufficient data and processing power, particularly in light of humans being on the cusp of creating true AI, enabling all that information collected on everyone every single day to actually be analyzed and distilled.
In the wrong hands it would be a powerful tool for controlling and manipulating both individuals and entire populations.
...private security companies hired to dig up dirt etc.
This is a distinct possibility. Excellent point.
It would probably be advisable before putting up that ladder to contact the municipal/city agencies, departments, or commissions responsible for regulating utility poles and similar structures and check for permits issued, then track down any obscure entities turned up on the list(s).
If there's nothing listed for them even there as well as anywhere else well then, they officially don't exist, do they?:)
If I had to guess, I'd say that DisplayLink itself is probably a fragile pile of ugly hacks and any change, no matter how small, to the underlying video system in the OS will cause it to break.
I would guess it's almost the opposite. With all the legacy code on top of efforts made in the code and hardware design to protect that copyrighted HD video data, the macos APIs/hooks/etc are likely a shitshow of workarounds in normal macos display operation itself, and the poor devs at DisplayLink mostly "develop" facial tics whenever Apple announces an update to macos.
Cash transactions are also slower than just waving your phone,
"Phone"?
What phone?
Mine is at home. It has AT&T stamped on it. It's plugged into the wall.
Do you mean a "smartphone"?
Can't afford one. Don't want one. I'm not some creature on "Animal Planet" to be fitted with a tracking device. I'm certainly not going to pay to become one.
I guess if/when the US goes "cashless" I'll go "criminal". Hijack a food truck, take what I need, and drive the truck and the rest of the food into the river. Rinse & repeat for clothing and other goods.
I'll be like the "Edgar Friendly" character, one of the "Scraps" from the Stallone film "Demolition Man".
And you all will be the 47 year-old virgins in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and singing "I wish I was an Oscar-Meyer Wiener" and thinking happy, happy thoughts.
What they all have in common is the easy availability of guns, which is fucking stupid. Guns should be banned.
This is easily proved false.
The US has always had lots of guns in civilian hands. It's one of the reasons Japan never invaded in WW2.
We've only started having these problems recently.
Something has changed, and it's not the availability of guns.
Even "the gun violence problem" has not grown worse, in fact dramatically the opposite.
Over the last 25 years gun-related homicides are down over 50%.
Over the same past 25 years, gun violence victimization is down over 75%.
What we do have that nobody on either side wants to discuss or even acknowledge is a public mental health crisis.
Most of the mass-shooters in the last ten years have been either under mental health treatment and medications or were until just prior to their crimes.
Homeless shelters are packed with the mentally ill that used to be institutionalized in order to keep both they and the public safe.
Laws already on the books that should have stopped at least some of the mass shootings were not enforced.
So what happens if you pass more laws and bans and they too are not enforced? Pass more laws?
You've decided that instead of restricting the freedom of mentally ill people you'd rather restrict the freedoms of everyone in order to avoid dealing with the mentally ill.
Plus, you know what happens if a gun ban is actually passed? Look what happened with drugs. The cartels will have a new cash commodity to sell Americans. Even better, these weapons won't have any restrictions. Think of street criminals with fully-automatic weapons, RPGs, grenades, landmines, 'Stinger'-type anti-aircraft rockets, and more.
Stop with the knee-jerk emotional bullshit. Use that lump of gristle 3 feet above your ass for something more than a hat rack.
b0s0z0ku and BlueStrat, please refrain from trying to define exactly what corporatism/fascism/socialism is and then argue from that. It is an exercise that provides no value.
Yes because we all know that when socialism fails as it always does, that good old "no true Scotsman" argument is trotted-out to deny that the failure was a failure of "true socialism(TM)".
I strongly suspect that what actually happened is that they couldn't get anyone domestic they asked to admit to having planted whatever they found, so they're working on assumption that it must be foreign by default.
This is a reasonable conclusion considering DC and the diplomatic activity happening there. Citizens are just swept up in the surveillance.
There's an easy way to find out who owns them, especially as no US government agency claims ownership.
Simply start taking them down, doing "tear-down" videos on YouTube detailing the devices' internal technology, circuitry, software, etc, and sell them on Ebay.
If it's Russian or Chinese spy equipment, you won't hear anything.
If it's US TLA equipment and they try to prosecute you, simply point to the denials mentioned in TFA. We were told they were not US government property.
Doesn't EMP hardening require making things bigger and/or adding bulky shielding? I knew a guy who worked on navy stuff, they had EMP proof Z80s the size of bricks.
In the late-'70s I worked for Harris Semiconductor, Government Services Div. I worked on missile guidance systems including those for Navy weapons systems like ASROC. What you're describing is protection from both EMP and radiation. It's the radiation shielding that adds so much weight. Shielding against inducted voltage spikes takes far less in materials and their required density, therefor weight and volume.
Corporatism IS fascism -- literally corporations in bed with an authoritarian state. The proper response is SOCIALISM, where the government actually acts in the interest of ordinary citizens, not wealthy CEOs.
Yes, look what socialism did for the people of Ukraine during Stalin's reign, or Venezuela today.
No darned corporatism there! Millions starving, sure, economies in ruins and hyper-inflation, yes, but you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, right?
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And while that may be comforting to progressives, it makes it hard for them to understand why their favorite political candidates or policies don't catch on among Americans in general.
Well, the idea is, while division and hatred are high and while your party has gained a temporary majority in government, to quickly move to "stop the pendulum" so to speak, and seize permanent control. That way you need not worry about what the opposition thinks if they're mostly dead or forced into camps, just about making sure the wood-chipper makers are producing at maximum capacity.
Strat
No, their kind needs to be educated as to why they are so wrong.
See, that's where you assume too much.
To far too many people it doesn't matter if those who disagree are right or wrong, or even if they & their own side is right or wrong.
They are simply an enemy, to be destroyed. That tribal instinct at work. When it's active it shuts out other rational cognitive processes.
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Apple doesn't need stickers. They just use glue and impossible manufacturing methods
Come suspended in Carbonite like Han Solo they soon shall be, yes.
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For years they've often made claims that their hardware was custom - in short, I won't believe them until they actually ship something that isn't from an OEM.
Sure, the processor chips will be one of the major brands, but having custom production runs for other makers, franchises, etc is bread-&-butter work for many manufacturing facilities. This is particularly true for many foreign manufacturers.
The new guitar distortion pedal I just bought made in China has a board inside identical to several other brands of distortion pedals. They use a single generic 'type-X distortion circuit' PCB and fill it with the appropriate parts for the features desired for that brand's model. Many name-brand speaker-makers do custom runs for guitar amplifier and PA-system makers made to non-standard specs and/or with non-standard parts & materials.
If you come to a manufacturer like a Lenovo, Samsung, or similar with the prospect of a 10,000-unit or more mid- to high-end laptop order, they're going to be willing to go some ways towards giving you what you want, especially if they believe the orders will continue and even increase. Once the initial setup costs are paid for it's just more profitable production and sales for the contracted manufacturer.
This move by System76 will allow them to keep more cash in-house to further expand with, it will add much-needed jobs, and also return more cash into the US domestic economy.
My concern is that it puts them even more squarely under the thumb of US TLAs and any shenanigans they decide to get up to.
Strat
Endless Trump bashing is the internet thing now. Regardless if he's at fault or not.
Yeah, thanks Obama!
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* People are upset because a company associated, with some degrees of separation, with Trump, used the technique to find people to "target," and this is some how a "data breach" and "interference in democracy," but when Facebook gave the same type of data to the Obama or Clinton campaigns, it was "the campaign tactics of the future" and "an excellent use of technology and analytics".
"Donald Trump, Facebook, and Russians! Oh, my!"
The DNC and US Left are still coming to terms with why voters rejected them and HRC. They can't understand why voters didn't do as they were told.
They kept pounding it into people that they were stupid, uninformed, racist, misogynist, and bigoted for disagreeing with anything they said as that's the best way to get people to work together, compromise, and especially vote to elect you, but people just turned away! Imagine! After all, those on the Left are the smartest people in the room, any room. If you don't believe it, just ask them.
All one can do is shake their head, chuckle, and say "daaaaamn!". :)
Strat
Maybe you should post stuff when you have actual information rather than bare speculation?
LOLwut?
And kill the 24-hr cable news industry, not to mention wiping out a significant percentage of non-pr0n websites, social media, and creating a massive drop in general internet traffic!?
Oh, noes...!
Strat
We're doomed.
Malthusian Fallacy.
Predictions of doom from overpopulation have been around for a long time. They've been around for a long time because they keep being proven wrong. Mankind keeps inventing, discovering, and engineering it's way past and beyond old sustainability limits.
And we have barely even begun to tap the resources of space and the possibilities relatively cheap lift vehicles will offer.
Mankind is on the cusp of the richest and most universally prosperous age he has ever known as we tap into the nearly infinite resources waiting to be gathered and used.
We just need to hold on long enough and not turn into some dystopian authoritarian nightmare before it happens.
Strat
The world is not a static system. Of course it will warm up. And cool off. And some things will die and others will flourish.
So much this.
The Earth's climate has changed far more radically and far quicker to more extreme states many times in the past and yet here we and all other life are going about living, the silly humans behaving like fleas discussing "what they should do" about their dog in relation to the planet's climate. I would suggest ramping down the irritation you cause before you invite a flea-bath.
Strat
Spending time & effort to find a way to run Linux distros inside Windows is like struggling to find a way to mount an Abrams tank on top of a Mini-Cooper.
What's the point outside of a few edge-cases where it may possibly be helpful/convenient?
Strat
...it would be a good thing -- countries would lose the ability to wage war and commit genocide.
...And that, my good people, is precisely why they would wage war and commit genocide to prevent it from happening.
Human nature has always been and will always be the biggest cause of human suffering unless humans alter their basic natures and thereby become something else, no longer human as we understand it.
Human nature is a product of survival-driven evolution forced by changes outside human control. Only once.humans are able to control and overcome all those forces will humans be able to change in fundamental ways without serious risk of extinction. Or even worse. The "Revers" from "Firefly"?
Strat
Microsoft is not distributing their modified source code so they are not required to display this license in a separate license file, or program documentation, or comments in modified source code. They are not distributing source code because they don't have to. Clause 3 allows the utility to be distributed freely within other software without limitations. If Microsoft open sourced their anti-virus program and published its source code with the included unrar source code, then it would have to include the unrar license in some form as described above.
Yes, but never mind all that "free license" and "it is allowed to include within" unintelligible legal mumbo-jumbo!
This is *Slashdot*!
"Give me six lines of code written by the hand of another included in Windows, and I shall find something within them to convict Microsoft!"
Strat :)
Why this condonation in the article?
Probably as a "condom"-ation measure. :P
Strat
That's for 60 tick servers only.
Yes, but hosting 60 ticks is a health hazard.
Not recommended.
Strat
Indeed, the proof is undeniable.
Light has mass and exhibits Newtonian properties therefor God is real because He is Light.
[mic-drop]
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It's a multi-dimensional Venn diagram with 'weighted', 'colored' 'spun, 'polarized' and many other individual characterizations and 'flavors' assigned for each subset with multiple intersectional nodes themselves forming subsets which interact and influence all the other subsets' characteristics. The more data points available, the more granular and numerous the subsets become.
Basically "it's turtles all the way down" in a multidimensional massively interactive Venn universe.
It enables a frightening level of predictive power given sufficient data and processing power, particularly in light of humans being on the cusp of creating true AI, enabling all that information collected on everyone every single day to actually be analyzed and distilled.
In the wrong hands it would be a powerful tool for controlling and manipulating both individuals and entire populations.
Strat
...private security companies hired to dig up dirt etc.
This is a distinct possibility. Excellent point.
It would probably be advisable before putting up that ladder to contact the municipal/city agencies, departments, or commissions responsible for regulating utility poles and similar structures and check for permits issued, then track down any obscure entities turned up on the list(s).
If there's nothing listed for them even there as well as anywhere else well then, they officially don't exist, do they? :)
Strat
If I had to guess, I'd say that DisplayLink itself is probably a fragile pile of ugly hacks and any change, no matter how small, to the underlying video system in the OS will cause it to break.
I would guess it's almost the opposite. With all the legacy code on top of efforts made in the code and hardware design to protect that copyrighted HD video data, the macos APIs/hooks/etc are likely a shitshow of workarounds in normal macos display operation itself, and the poor devs at DisplayLink mostly "develop" facial tics whenever Apple announces an update to macos.
Strat
Cash transactions are also slower than just waving your phone,
"Phone"?
What phone?
Mine is at home. It has AT&T stamped on it. It's plugged into the wall.
Do you mean a "smartphone"?
Can't afford one. Don't want one. I'm not some creature on "Animal Planet" to be fitted with a tracking device. I'm certainly not going to pay to become one.
I guess if/when the US goes "cashless" I'll go "criminal". Hijack a food truck, take what I need, and drive the truck and the rest of the food into the river. Rinse & repeat for clothing and other goods.
I'll be like the "Edgar Friendly" character, one of the "Scraps" from the Stallone film "Demolition Man".
And you all will be the 47 year-old virgins in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and singing "I wish I was an Oscar-Meyer Wiener" and thinking happy, happy thoughts.
Strat
Obvious troll is obvious.
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What they all have in common is the easy availability of guns, which is fucking stupid. Guns should be banned.
This is easily proved false.
The US has always had lots of guns in civilian hands. It's one of the reasons Japan never invaded in WW2.
We've only started having these problems recently.
Something has changed, and it's not the availability of guns.
Even "the gun violence problem" has not grown worse, in fact dramatically the opposite.
Over the last 25 years gun-related homicides are down over 50%.
Over the same past 25 years, gun violence victimization is down over 75%.
What we do have that nobody on either side wants to discuss or even acknowledge is a public mental health crisis.
Most of the mass-shooters in the last ten years have been either under mental health treatment and medications or were until just prior to their crimes.
Homeless shelters are packed with the mentally ill that used to be institutionalized in order to keep both they and the public safe.
Laws already on the books that should have stopped at least some of the mass shootings were not enforced.
So what happens if you pass more laws and bans and they too are not enforced? Pass more laws?
You've decided that instead of restricting the freedom of mentally ill people you'd rather restrict the freedoms of everyone in order to avoid dealing with the mentally ill.
Plus, you know what happens if a gun ban is actually passed? Look what happened with drugs. The cartels will have a new cash commodity to sell Americans. Even better, these weapons won't have any restrictions. Think of street criminals with fully-automatic weapons, RPGs, grenades, landmines, 'Stinger'-type anti-aircraft rockets, and more.
Stop with the knee-jerk emotional bullshit. Use that lump of gristle 3 feet above your ass for something more than a hat rack.
Strat
b0s0z0ku and BlueStrat, please refrain from trying to define exactly what corporatism/fascism/socialism is and then argue from that. It is an exercise that provides no value.
Yes because we all know that when socialism fails as it always does, that good old "no true Scotsman" argument is trotted-out to deny that the failure was a failure of "true socialism(TM)".
My lawn. Off of it get.
Strat
There's an easy way to find out who owns them, especially as no US government agency claims ownership.
Simply start taking them down, doing "tear-down" videos on YouTube detailing the devices' internal technology, circuitry, software, etc, and sell them on Ebay.
If it's Russian or Chinese spy equipment, you won't hear anything.
If it's US TLA equipment and they try to prosecute you, simply point to the denials mentioned in TFA. We were told they were not US government property.
Strat
Doesn't EMP hardening require making things bigger and/or adding bulky shielding? I knew a guy who worked on navy stuff, they had EMP proof Z80s the size of bricks.
In the late-'70s I worked for Harris Semiconductor, Government Services Div. I worked on missile guidance systems including those for Navy weapons systems like ASROC. What you're describing is protection from both EMP and radiation. It's the radiation shielding that adds so much weight. Shielding against inducted voltage spikes takes far less in materials and their required density, therefor weight and volume.
Strat
Corporatism IS fascism -- literally corporations in bed with an authoritarian state. The proper response is SOCIALISM, where the government actually acts in the interest of ordinary citizens, not wealthy CEOs.
Yes, look what socialism did for the people of Ukraine during Stalin's reign, or Venezuela today.
No darned corporatism there! Millions starving, sure, economies in ruins and hyper-inflation, yes, but you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, right?
It's Progress(TM)!!
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