NoScript can speed up web pages loading even more! Too bad some websites have noticed the NoScripters and made their website unusable once your disable JS execution.
If this comment had been modded "funny" I'd have understood the fellow/.'ers. Too bad Bitcoin's bubble has been busted at least a dozen times already and it's still... alive and kicking.
The sentiment for the bubble here at slashdot has never ceased to amaze me. I wonder what you'd have said in the early days of the Internet and dot com's. Both surely seemed to be a bubble. Both have prevailed though a lot of companies didn't make it. But before you compare dot com's to Bitcoin, remember that it started almost 10 years ago -- too long of a time to remain alive, no? Why the hell is this pyramid scheme still going on? Maybe there are forces and things we fail to understand and appreciate at the moment and your kneejerk reaction to everything made by the people without governments, their oversight and total control might not be pertinent any longer?
If they were going to a sustainable level that would be one thing, but like I said what is happening is not sustainable without some really bad consequences.
Your post is the quintessence of modern totally broken global economy: it's sustainable only if population keeps growing indefinitely. This is not what we should strive for. This is not what this planet can provide for us. This is not what it can provide even for the 7 billion of people who already inhabit it. We've already past the point of sustainability even if the population growth stops completely - forests keep shrinking, many ecosystems are dying, we trim the pool of available fruits and vegetables which could lead to massive food crises (universally loved bananas are on the verge of extinction), we observe catastrophic levels of global warming, there's massive population migrations and wars related to it.
The Earth doesn't need 7 billion people. It'd be better off with less than 5 if we are to preserve this planet and our species.
We must readjust and though the cost will be enormous, the benefits will be indisputable.
I wonder if and how much this revocation could affect international visitors who are using USA based web services in case major US ISPs start throttling/prioritizing traffic.
My parents, who are not pranksters or jokers, saw a UFO in the mid 90s (both are very smart people with high IQ). I never really believed their testimony yet they had exactly zero reasons to lie to me. They described an object in the sky which did imaginable things, like staying still for quite some time, then moving at speeds which are impossible for any human made flying apparatus.
Most Linux aficionados have seemingly never run large organizations. Please, show us what good alternatives in the Linux world exist to:
Active Directory
Group Policy/Centralized Software Management
CIFS/Windows File Sharing
Terminal Services, BitLocker, AppLocker
Tight integration between various components
Ability to run your OS for years without reinstallation while retaining the ability to install new software
Ability to open Microsoft Office documents in their original formatting
Excellent compatibility with most modern hardware
Etc. etc. etc.
You can keep creating bespoke alternatives for these items all day long but in the end your development and maintenance costs skyrocket while you keep receiving angry phone calls from your clients who cannot navigate Linux.
Not Linux for every hardware configuration out there.
Not Linux with lots of software titles and games which could be be easily installed in any Linux distro released for the past 10 years.
Just Mint 18.1 with its narrow selection of packages which is not really meant to run any third-party applications and which is not meant to be run for years, while receiving gradual updates to its not-core components.
Let's hear a dozen more success stories of fellow/.'s how $my_linux_distro_X.Y fits their very narrow use case. This is not a testament to a well made OS. This is more like something to be ashamed of.
The best chance Linux has of taking of is when support for Windows 7 ends in 2020. Under this plan they could end up switching to Windows 10 just as Linux begins to gain ground.
Linux has already had far too many squandered chances: when Windows ME, Vista, 8, 8.1, 10 were released. Also, given Windows 10's perpetual state of brokenness I don't see anyone migrating to Linux en masse. You cannot beat even a semi-stable (what Windows 10 now is) software platform with stable APIs/ABIs with something that gets new major releases every three (kernel releases) to twelve months (distro releases).
It's upsetting that the list of major Linux problems has existed pretty much unchanged for almost ten years now and very little of it changes year in and out.
Once we get a stable long term supported Linux software platform along with an equally stable supported kernel, and not dozens of incompatible distros whose versions are not compatible even with themselves, then maybe Linux on the desktop might have a chance. Right now it's a toy, and companies need instruments to work with, not toys. And don't remind me of LSB - it never really took off. The closest to LSB is RHEL but it's not a standard.
I've been an editor for more than ten years already and very few of my edits have been reverted (most if not all of them were questionable). Some of the edits were reinstated later when I started a discussion in Talk.
Also, as an editor I've reverted a number of edits but 90% of them were simply junk (SPAM, vandalism, etc.) and 10% were unsourced (often dubious) information.
Anyways, I only curate technical articles, so I might have been just lucky. I never try to edit anything related to politics, history or current events - those articles are sometimes extremely biased.
Please feel free to share any publically available supporting evidence to support the assertion my mobiles baseband, IntelME and NIC firmware are hacking host systems and covertly exfiltrating data.
How about Intel patches remote execution hole that's been hidden in chips since 2010? That's what known publicly. I guess there are other IntelME "features" which various three letters agencies exploit. Also, spying is now built in Windows 7/8.1/10 which runs most of PCs in the world. Microsoft can use Windows Update services to do whatever they please with your PC. Also various remote vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in a lot of AV products. Have you been living under the rock recently?
Also, it's pretty much common knowledge that most cell phones sold today can be remotely turned into eavesdropping devices using special GSM codes.
Given the fact much more capable hardware AND software is available freely in the form of open source you have control over with hardware 4k/60hz HEVC decoding can be had for less than $50... "NO" becomes an insanely easy to choice to make.
Yeah, less than 0.005% of the population of Earth will certainly follow your advice. Strangely you don't realize it's less than 0.005%. And these open source products of yours cannot (be) run without various firmware which you cannot check for vulnerabilities.
If your smartphone (modem firmware plus tons of closed source software) and x86 computer (IntelME, NIC firmware, closed source software) are connected to the Internet on a regular basis using the same network provider then you've already forfeited your privacy and security.
So, the real question is how much additional data you'd like to share with third parties. I'm thinking your movies preferences hardly constitute something to worry about.
Among a long list of unresolved questions in physics and that's why the creation of AGI is of paramount importance for human kind. Considering the amount of knowledge that we've accumulated so far our biological brains might not be enough to crack the universe. And if it were too simple too understand, it would hardly be able to produce sufficiently intelligent life forms to grok it. But then again we might not be intelligent enough to ever figure it out or create AGI to do the same thing.
./ has always been at the forefront of new technologies, and now crypto currencies get all the flak from the./ crowd. Weird. And Bitcoin has been here since... 2009, so for over 8 years already and it shows no signs of slowing down or dying.
It's kinda sad to see./ falling victim to almost daily assaults on Bitcoins validity and future. I guess many people here are upset that they didn't invest in Bitcoin when it was sold for pennies and they hate it. I didn't buy it when it cost that little back then but I'm pretty calm about it and I won't shout at the top of my lungs that it's a bubble or a Ponzi scheme. It has its place in this world and it has proven its utility.
Eventually everything will pop: you, me, the planet Earth, the solar system and probably the universe itself. And no matter what Wallstreet proclaims there are no risk free investments in this world. None.
They just hate Bitcoin because they don't understand it, yet they hate to miss the boat, yet they are afraid to embark on it.
Not all crypto currencies are created equal but common sense hints that most of them will certainly pop because obscurity will kill them: 1192 are far too many.
There's definitely a market for a Nexus replacement (stock Android, fast updates, medium price ~$400-500 and close to top specs) and I'm curious why companies shun this idea.
The closest we get now is OnePlus but it's not without its quirks.
Slashdot Mirror
Yet another copy of the famous list of major Linux problems - too bad with many crucial omissions.
NoScript can speed up web pages loading even more! Too bad some websites have noticed the NoScripters and made their website unusable once your disable JS execution.
If this comment had been modded "funny" I'd have understood the fellow /.'ers. Too bad Bitcoin's bubble has been busted at least a dozen times already and it's still ... alive and kicking.
The sentiment for the bubble here at slashdot has never ceased to amaze me. I wonder what you'd have said in the early days of the Internet and dot com's. Both surely seemed to be a bubble. Both have prevailed though a lot of companies didn't make it. But before you compare dot com's to Bitcoin, remember that it started almost 10 years ago -- too long of a time to remain alive, no? Why the hell is this pyramid scheme still going on? Maybe there are forces and things we fail to understand and appreciate at the moment and your kneejerk reaction to everything made by the people without governments, their oversight and total control might not be pertinent any longer?
Your post is the quintessence of modern totally broken global economy: it's sustainable only if population keeps growing indefinitely. This is not what we should strive for. This is not what this planet can provide for us. This is not what it can provide even for the 7 billion of people who already inhabit it. We've already past the point of sustainability even if the population growth stops completely - forests keep shrinking, many ecosystems are dying, we trim the pool of available fruits and vegetables which could lead to massive food crises (universally loved bananas are on the verge of extinction), we observe catastrophic levels of global warming, there's massive population migrations and wars related to it.
The Earth doesn't need 7 billion people. It'd be better off with less than 5 if we are to preserve this planet and our species.
We must readjust and though the cost will be enormous, the benefits will be indisputable.
The voice of wisdom.
I commend the Japanese for understanding and taking action on the realization that this planet needs fewer people. Thank you, guys.
We may only hope that other nations (India and China) and continents (Africa and Americas) follow.
You'd probably be interested in this TED talk on population growth and inevitable starvation. And AGW will only make things worse.
I wonder if and how much this revocation could affect international visitors who are using USA based web services in case major US ISPs start throttling/prioritizing traffic.
Define "intelligence" first.
Luckily my thunderbird defaults to text and even when I enable HTML images aren't loaded automatically.
My parents, who are not pranksters or jokers, saw a UFO in the mid 90s (both are very smart people with high IQ). I never really believed their testimony yet they had exactly zero reasons to lie to me. They described an object in the sky which did imaginable things, like staying still for quite some time, then moving at speeds which are impossible for any human made flying apparatus.
Most Linux aficionados have seemingly never run large organizations. Please, show us what good alternatives in the Linux world exist to:
You can keep creating bespoke alternatives for these items all day long but in the end your development and maintenance costs skyrocket while you keep receiving angry phone calls from your clients who cannot navigate Linux.
Not Linux in general.
Not Linux for every hardware configuration out there.
Not Linux with lots of software titles and games which could be be easily installed in any Linux distro released for the past 10 years.
Just Mint 18.1 with its narrow selection of packages which is not really meant to run any third-party applications and which is not meant to be run for years, while receiving gradual updates to its not-core components.
Let's hear a dozen more success stories of fellow /.'s how $my_linux_distro_X.Y fits their very narrow use case. This is not a testament to a well made OS. This is more like something to be ashamed of.
Linux has already had far too many squandered chances: when Windows ME, Vista, 8, 8.1, 10 were released. Also, given Windows 10's perpetual state of brokenness I don't see anyone migrating to Linux en masse. You cannot beat even a semi-stable (what Windows 10 now is) software platform with stable APIs/ABIs with something that gets new major releases every three (kernel releases) to twelve months (distro releases).
It's upsetting that the list of major Linux problems has existed pretty much unchanged for almost ten years now and very little of it changes year in and out.
Once we get a stable long term supported Linux software platform along with an equally stable supported kernel, and not dozens of incompatible distros whose versions are not compatible even with themselves, then maybe Linux on the desktop might have a chance. Right now it's a toy, and companies need instruments to work with, not toys. And don't remind me of LSB - it never really took off. The closest to LSB is RHEL but it's not a standard.
I've watched the video clip and while it looks somewhat beautiful and interesting, it doesn't really convey the significance of this invention.
I've been an editor for more than ten years already and very few of my edits have been reverted (most if not all of them were questionable). Some of the edits were reinstated later when I started a discussion in Talk.
Also, as an editor I've reverted a number of edits but 90% of them were simply junk (SPAM, vandalism, etc.) and 10% were unsourced (often dubious) information.
Anyways, I only curate technical articles, so I might have been just lucky. I never try to edit anything related to politics, history or current events - those articles are sometimes extremely biased.
How about Intel patches remote execution hole that's been hidden in chips since 2010? That's what known publicly. I guess there are other IntelME "features" which various three letters agencies exploit. Also, spying is now built in Windows 7/8.1/10 which runs most of PCs in the world. Microsoft can use Windows Update services to do whatever they please with your PC. Also various remote vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in a lot of AV products. Have you been living under the rock recently?
Also, it's pretty much common knowledge that most cell phones sold today can be remotely turned into eavesdropping devices using special GSM codes.
Yeah, less than 0.005% of the population of Earth will certainly follow your advice. Strangely you don't realize it's less than 0.005%. And these open source products of yours cannot (be) run without various firmware which you cannot check for vulnerabilities.
If your smartphone (modem firmware plus tons of closed source software) and x86 computer (IntelME, NIC firmware, closed source software) are connected to the Internet on a regular basis using the same network provider then you've already forfeited your privacy and security.
So, the real question is how much additional data you'd like to share with third parties. I'm thinking your movies preferences hardly constitute something to worry about.
The snafu begins at 36:46.
Blocked by Adblock (uBlock Origin) - probably that's for the better considering the "usefulness" of this idea.
Among a long list of unresolved questions in physics and that's why the creation of AGI is of paramount importance for human kind. Considering the amount of knowledge that we've accumulated so far our biological brains might not be enough to crack the universe. And if it were too simple too understand, it would hardly be able to produce sufficiently intelligent life forms to grok it. But then again we might not be intelligent enough to ever figure it out or create AGI to do the same thing.
./ has always been at the forefront of new technologies, and now crypto currencies get all the flak from the ./ crowd. Weird. And Bitcoin has been here since ... 2009, so for over 8 years already and it shows no signs of slowing down or dying.
It's kinda sad to see ./ falling victim to almost daily assaults on Bitcoins validity and future. I guess many people here are upset that they didn't invest in Bitcoin when it was sold for pennies and they hate it. I didn't buy it when it cost that little back then but I'm pretty calm about it and I won't shout at the top of my lungs that it's a bubble or a Ponzi scheme. It has its place in this world and it has proven its utility.
Eventually everything will pop: you, me, the planet Earth, the solar system and probably the universe itself. And no matter what Wallstreet proclaims there are no risk free investments in this world. None.
They just hate Bitcoin because they don't understand it, yet they hate to miss the boat, yet they are afraid to embark on it.
Not all crypto currencies are created equal but common sense hints that most of them will certainly pop because obscurity will kill them: 1192 are far too many.
There's definitely a market for a Nexus replacement (stock Android, fast updates, medium price ~$400-500 and close to top specs) and I'm curious why companies shun this idea.
The closest we get now is OnePlus but it's not without its quirks.