> I would say that the addition of democratic-like elements aren't enough to justify suspension of basic property rights
I would add that rights are those things that cannot be taken away by a simple majority vote. If it can be taken away, it wasn't a right in the first place. Either that, or it's an abuse of power of the kind you find in fascist societies.
In Casa BMO, we have gone through *two* S6s. The first one died and I was horrified by the amount of heat it was generating as it was dying. It really was frightening. And since the battery wasn't removable, it's not like you could yank the fucker out and let it burn in your driveway. So it sat in a Corelle bowl while we *watched* it die completely and cool off.
This problem did not start with the 7.
Our second S6 (warranty replacement) died the blue-light-of-death and simply wouldn't charge anymore.
We had an S3 that had horrible battery life until/that/ got replaced with the supposedly better S6.
We're done with Samsung. We went elsewhere, to a phones that don't overheat and eat batteries and talk unnecessarily to the network.
I thought the whole point of asymmetric keys is that you can send the "encode" key in band and keep the secret "decode" key yourself.
If you're exchanging symmetric keys over IP wouldn't someone in the middle be able to sniff it out?
>if 3DES and Blowfish are symmetric, and they are used over the Internet, someone must have figured out how to exchange the key that I don't know about.
>off to quick research >find out about diffie-hellman key exchange of symmetric keys
I know far too little about cryptography but this sent me in a good direction.
But Finder vs. Windows File Explorer vs. Thunar vs. Nautilus? I'd be curious if anyone can show that the choice has any measurable impact on productivity. It seems to me purely a matter of taste.
Here's what you can do in Dolphin and Konqueror versus all the rest:
There's a guy up there in the thread that is very happy with mc. Mc is visually identifiable at a glance because it has 2 panes and a command line. There is a profile that re-creates mc in Dolphin and Konq, which you cannot do in other file managers because they can't do panes.
Why do this in Dolphin or Konq instead of just running mc in a terminal? Because you can drag-and-drop from/to Dolphin and Konq to other programs.
The point being that windmills have been a fixture on the island itself for going on 40 years/at a minimum./
It doesn't matter if the eggbeater type sucks or not. Windmills have been in use and we have a so-called resident of Adrian Block's island who has his frilly panties and his delicate sensibilities in a twist about them.
He should GTFO the island if that's the case.
BTW, the island makes its money exclusively on tourism and it's likely that he thinks that this is going to affect the tourism negatively. Windmill farms in other parts of the world have shown this o not be the case.
You're bitching that you can fucking see the windmills?
As a former resident of RI who still loves the damn state for all its political and economic faults and the goddamned provincial attitudes and is a former member of the 294/295 telephone exchange:
You, and everyone like you in RI is everything that is wrong with Rhode Island.
Go. Fuck. Yourself. From. Point. Judith. All. The. Way. Across. The. Sound. To. New. Shoreham. And. Then. Fuck. Off. Some. More. Hopefully. Out. To. Sea. Forever.
That's why we have zsh and fizsh with syntax highlighting and all that fun stuff and other interpreters like tcl.
I've used powershell. It's the first thing I install on a Windows system if it's not already there.
It's fucking awful. The only useful thing about it is that the two letter unix commands are aliased, so I don't get a dumb error when I type ls.
The syntax of powershell is un-fucking-readable. You can type it with tab completion and aliases, but man, Looking.At.AlltheObjects.LabeledThis.Way for more than 15 minutes makes my eyes bleed.
Microsoft/could/ put REXX (or tcl!) in as a system scripting language, but since that makes too much sense, they'll never do it. They could do a lot of things that make sense, but we're talking about Microsoft here.
"Step 4: Recruit group of persons who are willing to accept cash and keep their mouths shut to get driven around all day and be told who to vote for."
HAH! Unlikely!
"Three people may keep a secret if two are dead" - Benny Franklin.
People talk. They love to talk and tell stories. They hate being told to shut up, even for money. It usually has to be a lot of money for them to shut up, especially when it comes to a federal crime and they are spotted. They will roll over on you and your scheme to stay out of jail.
$SUFFICIENTBRIBE == At least minimum wage for 24/7 behind bars for a year or two, plus extra for damage to reputation and future earning loss. And you have to/trust/ every last one of these people to keep their word.
Suddenly your "bus full of voter fraud" becomes very expensive, and you're better off just hiring more canvassers.
Voter fraud doesn't happen because it's too much work for the results and the penalty for being caught at it is too high for the risk. Electoral fraud, however, is fucking rampant. Various idiots like to conflate voter fraud with electoral fraud, most likely because "their side" is the side that does the electoral fraud and project on the other side voter fraud.
Why the public just goes along with electronic voting with no paper trail? I don't fucking know. It's not like this hasn't been talked about for the last 20 years, since the introduction of electronic voting machines.
While this is said tongue-in-cheek, the recent events of the last 15 years have given governments around the world the ability to say to their citizens that "The US does it too" as justification. Sometimes even with US technical aid.
"They have not up to this day demonstrated that these intrusive mass spying mechanisms and continuous and ever more severe invasion of privacy has brought any real results. It's as if they're just gathering information of every individual citizen for possible later use. "
It's about instant dossiers for people who become "problems" to the establishment. Proles don't have to worry. They're too busy trying to go along to get along. It's the people who shout words like "change" and "peace" and "corruption is bad" and "the rights of the people" and so on, who try to get a following, or just have a following whether they started it or not.
So they can be discredited/arrested/disappeared. Because terrorists/pedophiles/thinkofthechildrensomethingmustbedone.
It's "collect everything and sift through it with algorithms." Which means that it's not the police/feds/NSA *people* who are doing the surveillance, but a machine. And while a cop needs a warrant, a machine doesn't need one to say "hey, look over here."
I think I might be one of the lucky ones to leave this planet earlier than others (I'm 50). My (step) granddaughters on the other hand...
Whenever someone comes up with the frankenfood argument I always wind up explaining that there are enough problems with GMO food (the ones you listed - i.e., homogenity and IP insanity) that "you don't have to make up new ones out of thin air."
The frankenfood scaremongers are creating a situation where those of us on the sane side are being lumped in with the morons. And I'm tired of it.
*I* don't want to buy GMO food because I am offended by the IP (and associated one-sided contracts) angle/and/ the lack of diversity. I don't want to see what's happening to bananas (they're all clones - thus a single pathogen can wipe out an entire cultivar, which has been happening) happen to other food. I don't need any woo-woo, guys.
Towns and cities have the absolute right to let "third parties use your poles" because your poles exist in the public right-of-ways like along roads, sidewalks, and the municipalities grant you easements over people's property, because they see poles as a public good.
This business of using the public for your private profit and then whining about it when you have to abide by rules made by the public, is poor judgement at best. It's whining. The briefs themselves are subterfuge because they ignore the right of the public to regulate pole use.
So stop lying, Frontier and AT&T and get with the fucking program and let competition on "your" (ours, really) poles.
End the war on drugs. End for-profit prisons. End "third strikes" legislation End mandatory minimums End "increasing sentencing by pi times" Stop using prisons as mental hospitals and actually build mental hospitals and give the people the services they desperately need. Imprison only the "real criminals" and make everyone else do restitution/fines/service work.
This business of making/not even half-hearted/ "reforms" that only actually increase prison populations is not fucking cutting it.
You had your chance to deal with this, Obama. You had 8 years of a potential bully-pulpit for ideas you said you believed in. You never used it. Fuck. You.
The "cost of further litigation" includes what would happen if they appealed and the appeals court found in the plaintiff's favor. Then the generic argument becomes fairly bullet-proof - anyone going to court with that argument is going to win.
It would unleash thousands of cookie-cutter pro-se and cheap-lawyer lawsuits, which they seriously don't want.
They don't have to worry about me, though. I've been MickeySoft free for almost 20 years. I have nobody to sue.
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> I would say that the addition of democratic-like elements aren't enough to justify suspension of basic property rights
I would add that rights are those things that cannot be taken away by a simple majority vote. If it can be taken away, it wasn't a right in the first place. Either that, or it's an abuse of power of the kind you find in fascist societies.
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In Casa BMO, we have gone through *two* S6s. The first one died and I was horrified by the amount of heat it was generating as it was dying. It really was frightening. And since the battery wasn't removable, it's not like you could yank the fucker out and let it burn in your driveway. So it sat in a Corelle bowl while we *watched* it die completely and cool off.
This problem did not start with the 7.
Our second S6 (warranty replacement) died the blue-light-of-death and simply wouldn't charge anymore.
We had an S3 that had horrible battery life until /that/ got replaced with the supposedly better S6.
We're done with Samsung. We went elsewhere, to a phones that don't overheat and eat batteries and talk unnecessarily to the network.
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You know how i know how you really didn't read anything on the site except the word "astrocism" and "slovenian?"
Your post itself.
>my dementia
Is far more advanced than anybody's. It's magic.
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I thought the whole point of asymmetric keys is that you can send the "encode" key in band and keep the secret "decode" key yourself.
If you're exchanging symmetric keys over IP wouldn't someone in the middle be able to sniff it out?
>if 3DES and Blowfish are symmetric, and they are used over the Internet, someone must have figured out how to exchange the key that I don't know about.
>off to quick research
>find out about diffie-hellman key exchange of symmetric keys
I know far too little about cryptography but this sent me in a good direction.
Thanks.
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I'll just leave this here. The ultimate fuck-you song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Other courts have said that an IP address is not a person.
This is why a lot of other cases haven't advanced. Blindly suing people that might not even exist angers courts (Prenda).
>84 john does
"you're making too much work for the court with nonsense" is what's going to happen.
>reasonable doubt
In civil cases, it's preponderance of the evidence a lesser standard.
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This, right here. That's what they're doing. Enhancing radio waves from the computer on the moon.
http://www.bentoandstarchky.co...
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AES is symetrically keyed.
How do you propose the key be sent out-of-band for web browsers?
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But Finder vs. Windows File Explorer vs. Thunar vs. Nautilus? I'd be curious if anyone can show that the choice has any measurable impact on productivity. It seems to me purely a matter of taste.
Here's what you can do in Dolphin and Konqueror versus all the rest:
There's a guy up there in the thread that is very happy with mc. Mc is visually identifiable at a glance because it has 2 panes and a command line. There is a profile that re-creates mc in Dolphin and Konq, which you cannot do in other file managers because they can't do panes.
Why do this in Dolphin or Konq instead of just running mc in a terminal? Because you can drag-and-drop from/to Dolphin and Konq to other programs.
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I'm a Linux user and abuser since the 90s and I've watched all these shenanigans happen over the decades.
My smug cloud is even thicker than an Amiga user's from the 80s.
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BDSM is obviously more fun than W10, isn't it?
One would hope anyway.
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The point being that windmills have been a fixture on the island itself for going on 40 years /at a minimum./
It doesn't matter if the eggbeater type sucks or not. Windmills have been in use and we have a so-called resident of Adrian Block's island who has his frilly panties and his delicate sensibilities in a twist about them.
He should GTFO the island if that's the case.
BTW, the island makes its money exclusively on tourism and it's likely that he thinks that this is going to affect the tourism negatively. Windmill farms in other parts of the world have shown this o not be the case.
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What's hilarious is that I /distinctly/ remember a fucking egg-beater windmill ON THE ISLAND ITSELF IN THE SEVENTIES.
The stupid. It burns.
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You're bitching that you can fucking see the windmills?
As a former resident of RI who still loves the damn state for all its political and economic faults and the goddamned provincial attitudes and is a former member of the 294/295 telephone exchange:
You, and everyone like you in RI is everything that is wrong with Rhode Island.
Go. Fuck. Yourself. From. Point. Judith. All. The. Way. Across. The. Sound. To. New. Shoreham. And. Then. Fuck. Off. Some. More. Hopefully. Out. To. Sea. Forever.
tl;dr:
Fuck You.
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That's why we have zsh and fizsh with syntax highlighting and all that fun stuff and other interpreters like tcl.
I've used powershell. It's the first thing I install on a Windows system if it's not already there.
It's fucking awful. The only useful thing about it is that the two letter unix commands are aliased, so I don't get a dumb error when I type ls.
The syntax of powershell is un-fucking-readable. You can type it with tab completion and aliases, but man, Looking.At.AlltheObjects.LabeledThis.Way for more than 15 minutes makes my eyes bleed.
Microsoft /could/ put REXX (or tcl!) in as a system scripting language, but since that makes too much sense, they'll never do it. They could do a lot of things that make sense, but we're talking about Microsoft here.
Pfui on PS.
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"Step 4: Recruit group of persons who are willing to accept cash and keep their mouths shut to get driven around all day and be told who to vote for."
HAH! Unlikely!
"Three people may keep a secret if two are dead" - Benny Franklin.
People talk. They love to talk and tell stories. They hate being told to shut up, even for money. It usually has to be a lot of money for them to shut up, especially when it comes to a federal crime and they are spotted. They will roll over on you and your scheme to stay out of jail.
$SUFFICIENTBRIBE == At least minimum wage for 24/7 behind bars for a year or two, plus extra for damage to reputation and future earning loss. And you have to /trust/ every last one of these people to keep their word.
Suddenly your "bus full of voter fraud" becomes very expensive, and you're better off just hiring more canvassers.
Voter fraud doesn't happen because it's too much work for the results and the penalty for being caught at it is too high for the risk. Electoral fraud, however, is fucking rampant. Various idiots like to conflate voter fraud with electoral fraud, most likely because "their side" is the side that does the electoral fraud and project on the other side voter fraud.
Why the public just goes along with electronic voting with no paper trail? I don't fucking know. It's not like this hasn't been talked about for the last 20 years, since the introduction of electronic voting machines.
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"Toddler Body Bag"
That's my new band name.
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I was going to say something about a microwave link, then I found out that Ubiquiti stuff is microwave link...
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While this is said tongue-in-cheek, the recent events of the last 15 years have given governments around the world the ability to say to their citizens that "The US does it too" as justification. Sometimes even with US technical aid.
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BMO
"They have not up to this day demonstrated that these intrusive mass spying mechanisms and continuous and ever more severe invasion of privacy has brought any real results. It's as if they're just gathering information of every individual citizen for possible later use. "
It's about instant dossiers for people who become "problems" to the establishment. Proles don't have to worry. They're too busy trying to go along to get along. It's the people who shout words like "change" and "peace" and "corruption is bad" and "the rights of the people" and so on, who try to get a following, or just have a following whether they started it or not.
So they can be discredited/arrested/disappeared. Because terrorists/pedophiles/thinkofthechildrensomethingmustbedone.
It's "collect everything and sift through it with algorithms." Which means that it's not the police/feds/NSA *people* who are doing the surveillance, but a machine. And while a cop needs a warrant, a machine doesn't need one to say "hey, look over here."
I think I might be one of the lucky ones to leave this planet earlier than others (I'm 50). My (step) granddaughters on the other hand...
I am afraid for them.
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Whenever someone comes up with the frankenfood argument I always wind up explaining that there are enough problems with GMO food (the ones you listed - i.e., homogenity and IP insanity) that "you don't have to make up new ones out of thin air."
The frankenfood scaremongers are creating a situation where those of us on the sane side are being lumped in with the morons. And I'm tired of it.
*I* don't want to buy GMO food because I am offended by the IP (and associated one-sided contracts) angle /and/ the lack of diversity. I don't want to see what's happening to bananas (they're all clones - thus a single pathogen can wipe out an entire cultivar, which has been happening) happen to other food. I don't need any woo-woo, guys.
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BMO
If you look in the background, the T in DENTAL is obscured so it looks like DENIAL
That picture is just so /perfect/.
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Towns and cities have the absolute right to let "third parties use your poles" because your poles exist in the public right-of-ways like along roads, sidewalks, and the municipalities grant you easements over people's property, because they see poles as a public good.
This business of using the public for your private profit and then whining about it when you have to abide by rules made by the public, is poor judgement at best. It's whining. The briefs themselves are subterfuge because they ignore the right of the public to regulate pole use.
So stop lying, Frontier and AT&T and get with the fucking program and let competition on "your" (ours, really) poles.
Dipshits.
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End the war on drugs.
End for-profit prisons.
End "third strikes" legislation
End mandatory minimums
End "increasing sentencing by pi times"
Stop using prisons as mental hospitals and actually build mental hospitals and give the people the services they desperately need.
Imprison only the "real criminals" and make everyone else do restitution/fines/service work.
This business of making /not even half-hearted/ "reforms" that only actually increase prison populations is not fucking cutting it.
You had your chance to deal with this, Obama. You had 8 years of a potential bully-pulpit for ideas you said you believed in. You never used it. Fuck. You.
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The "cost of further litigation" includes what would happen if they appealed and the appeals court found in the plaintiff's favor. Then the generic argument becomes fairly bullet-proof - anyone going to court with that argument is going to win.
It would unleash thousands of cookie-cutter pro-se and cheap-lawyer lawsuits, which they seriously don't want.
They don't have to worry about me, though. I've been MickeySoft free for almost 20 years. I have nobody to sue.
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BMO